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Posted: Wednesday 19th June 2013 in Paid Media, Thought Leadership.
This month, the last of Google's Free Product Listings moseyed on out of town, to be fully replaced by Product Listing Ads (PLAs). The days of free Shopping Comparison traffic are now behind us. For those that have chosen not to launch PLAs or simply cannot afford it, a vital traffic source has now left for good.
As anticipated Cost per Click for PLAs initially shot up in the weeks after 13 February, when the migration to a fully paid model began. We have seen this drop over time as retailers optimise bids down. The average CPC for clients at Summit has now returned to around 17p, compared to 24p at its peak.
At Summit we have seen Click Through Rates for PLAs gradually increase for our clients, starting out at an average of 2.65% in early February and creeping up to over 3% in late May. This shows that more relevant ads are being served for related product searches. Optimisation both through bidding, targeting and use of negative keywords have all contributed to this improvement.
3. Marketplaces still paying to advertise?
Unlike in US, where Amazon pulled out of the new commercial Google Shopping, in the UK we have still seen PLA units dominated by both Amazon and eBay. My prediction at the start of the year is that Amazon would pull out. Whether this happens now that all listings are fully paid is yet to be seen.
Whilst the major changes have taken place on the Google Web Search page, with the old "free" shopping search results removed, to be replaced by PLA Units, the Google Shopping Page itself remains relatively untouched. There is still a mish-mash of comparison links, amongst stand-alone retailer links, mixed in with Google Places results. I would expect this to be the next area to receive cosmetic treatment from Google.
From March, for the first time, PLAs were made available on Smartphones, recognising the importance of Shopping Comparison on the go. Mobile strategy and the clarity of your product images are now more important than ever.
If you still want your Products live on Google Shopping, then you now have no other choice than to sign up for PLAs.
Retailers need to start spending more time managing and optimising product feeds.
Improving your data will lead to better relevancy and in turn will lower your CPCs.
Consider how your Marketplace Strategy fits with your Google Shopping strategy. Are you paying twice for PLAs to appear?
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Police: Guard Tried To Sneak Drugs Into Prison
NORFOLK, Mass. (AP) - Police have charged a Massachusetts prison guard with trying to smuggle drugs into the facility to sell to inmates.
Steven Frazer, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, was arrested Monday and charged with conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
Prosecutors say the MCI-Norfolk corrections officer met with a cooperating witness.
Police say the witness gave Frazer 40 Suboxone strips, 24 packs of synthetic marijuana and $2,500 in cash Sunday in Attleboro. Prosecutors say investigators recorded the meeting before Frazer was arrested.
His public defender did not return a call for comment.
Another MCI-Norfolk guard was sentenced earlier this year for smuggling drugs.

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New HSR Thresholds Announced for 2018
By Michael Wise & Noah Pinegar
It's that time of year again—the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has announced its 2018 jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the "HSR Act"). These thresholds are revised each year based on the gross national product. The increased thresholds were published in the Federal Register on January 29 and will become effective 30 days later, on February 28, 2018. The new thresholds will apply to all covered transactions that will close on or after that date.
The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976
The HSR Act provides that, where certain jurisdictional thresholds are met, parties intending to merge or make acquisitions must (absent any applicable exemptions) furnish the Premerger Notification Office of the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice with prescribed information regarding their respective businesses and the proposed transaction, and wait a specified period of time before consummating the transaction. The statutory "waiting period" stays consummation of the transaction for a minimum of 30 days (15 days in the case of bankruptcy or cash tender offers), absent a grant of early termination.
Revised Thresholds
The 2000 amendments to Section 7A of the Clayton Act mandate annual adjustments of the HSR Act thresholds for each fiscal year that are based on changes in the gross national product. The revised jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds for this year increase the dollar amount limits for the size of transaction and the size of person at which parties to a transaction are required to make an HSR filing, as well as the filing fee thresholds. Many of the other filing requirements related to dollar amounts in the HSR Act have similarly been increased to remain consistent with the revised jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds.
New Jurisdictional Thresholds
Under The New Jurisdictional Thresholds, A Transaction Will Be Reportable If:
Old Thresholds
Size of Transaction Test
The Acquiring Person will hold, as a result of the transaction, an aggregate total amount of voting securities, assets and/or interests in noncorporate entities of the Acquired Person valued at in excess of $84.4million; AND
Size of Person Test
The Acquiring Person or the Acquired Person has annual net sales or total assets of $168.8 million or more, and the other person has annual net sales or total assets of $16.9million or more; or
$161.5 million
Transactions that are greater than $337.6 million are reportable, regardless of the size of person test above.
New Filing Fee Thresholds
Filing Fee
The New Filing Fee Thresholds Are As Follows:
If the aggregate amount of voting securities, assets and/or interests in noncorporate entities to be held as a result of the transaction is greater than $84.4 million but less than $168.8 million.
If the aggregate amount of voting securities, assets and/or interests in noncorporate entities to be held as a result of the transaction is equal to or greater than $168.8 million but less than $843.9 million.
If the aggregate amount of voting securities, assets and/or interests in noncorporate entities to be held as a result of the transaction is equal to or greater than $843.9 million.
Subsequent Acquisitions of Voting Securities
The FTC also adjusted the HSR Act thresholds for subsequent acquisitions of voting securities. The FTC treats acquisitions of voting securities on a cumulative basis. That is, prior acquisitions of voting securities of the same party are included in the valuation of future transactions between the same parties. Whether an HSR filing is required in a subsequent acquisition between the same parties depends on the cumulative value of those voting securities that the buyer will hold post-transaction, whether the parties made HSR filings in their prior transaction, and whether the parties now cross a higher HSR threshold than that of their prior filing.
Note that any prior transaction where an HSR filing was made that involved an acquisition of 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, there is no further filing obligation, period. In other situations where a prior filing was made, if a new transaction between the same parties crosses a threshold above that of the prior filing, a new filing may be required. Below are the relevant revised 2018 thresholds on this subject.
As Now Revised, The New Notification Thresholds Are:
Voting securities valued at $168.8 million or more;
Voting securities constituting 25% of the issuer's securities if valued at more than $1,687.8 million; and
$1,615.0 million
Voting securities constituting 50% of the issuer's securities if valued at more than $84.4 million.
Section 7(A)(g)(1) of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
The Clayton Act provides that any person, or any officer, director, or partner thereof, who fails to comply with any provision of the HSR Act is liable for a civil penalty for each day during which such person is in violation. The maximum amount of civil penalty is $41,484 per day.
The FTC (the agency responsible for administering the HSR Act) has often stated that it takes compliance with the HSR premerger notification requirements seriously, that it will not hesitate to seek significant civil penalties from violators, and indeed it has backed this up in recent years with enforcement actions against a variety of defendants (including both companies and individuals). It is therefore important that all parties to a merger, acquisition, or joint venture follow adequate measures to ensure compliance with the HSR Act.
This Week in Washington for January 29, 2018
Noah Pinegar
Associate, Litigation Department
Michael S. Wise
Partner, Litigation Department


This program celebrates the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 65 "Architecture On Screen and Off" with a special screening of works featured in the issue. The title refers to recent moving-image artists' considerations of the built environment and its connection with character, politics, social norms, class, race and gender.


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Anthony Geraci and The Boston Blues All-Stars – Fifty Shades of Blue | Album Review
Anthony Geraci and The Boston Blues All-Stars – Fifty Shades of Blue
Delta Groove Music
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13 tracks/54:10 minutes
Surely Anthony Geraci was born to play the blues, and to improvise so wickedly that he masters any style of blues. When he was four-years-old, Geraci told his parents he needed a piano; they bought him an old upright, but he soon was pounding it out on a baby grand. At the same time he was taking lessons at the Neighborhood School of Music in his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut, he was skittering over the ivories, improvising and following his own sharp musical instincts. Although his formal musical education came in the studios of Boston's Berklee College of Music, his real schooling came when he and his friend, guitarist Ed Cherry, listened after school to blues records of artists such as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and Jimmy Rogers. Over the years, Geraci has recorded with Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner, Otis Rush, Big Mama Thorton, Hubert Sumlin, and Jimmy Rogers, among others. A founding member of Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, he's also a founding member of Sugar Ray and the Bluetones.
An all-star cast of musicians joins Geraci on Fifty Shades of Blue, including, among others, Norcia, who provides vocals and harmonica on six tracks, Monster Mike Welch on guitar, Michael "Mudcat" Ward on bass, Marty Richards on drums on all but two tracks, with Michelle "Evil Gal" Willson on vocals on two songs, and Toni Lynn Washington on vocals on one song.
The album lives up to its title as the gathered faithful tear it up through country blues, pop-inflected blues, jazz, ragtime, and driving rock and pure gut-wrenching power blues. "Too Late for Coffee" kicks off with a spare piano roll that's joined by Norcia's vocal lament that it's been too long since he's seen his woman; since it's "too late for coffee and too late for beer," the singer declares, he wants to hold his lover tight since it's been about a year. Jaunty and humorous, the song delivers a story of love-too-long-gone for which nothing will substitute; it's a country waltz with a blues riff woven tightly into it.
A pop-inflected, jazz standard, "Don't Keep Me Waiting," carries us back to the crooning tunes of the late '50s and early '60s, with Geraci providing a Vince Guaraldi-like piano cascade on the bridge. Languorous and wistful, the tune floats dreamily on the rolling waters of Geraci's piano, punctuated by Richards' brushes, and Norcia's smoky vocals.
The album kicks off with Welch's stinging guitar leads and Darrell Nulisch's growling vocals on "Everything I Do is Wrong." Welch's haunting guitar work recalls B.B. King's own on "The Thrill is Gone" as well as Peter Green's guitar in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and in the early days of Fleetwood Mac. The album's title track features a down and dirty blues romp, with a call and response between Norcia and Willson. Funky and fresh, "Fifty Shades of Blue" playfully spins off the "Fifty Shades of Gray" phenomenon: "you bring the blindfold/I'll bring the wine/let's get together and have a good time/handcuffs on the bureau/the temperature's rising/I got no place to go."
On "Sad But True" Norcia moans straight up blues, with Welch's slide guitar and Norcia's own harmonica weaving under and around his vocals; it's a mean old blues sandwiched between the playfulness of the title track and the New Orleans-inflected jazz blues of "Heard That Tutwiler Whistle Blow." On the latter tune, Geraci's rousing piano rolls and trills provide the foundation on which the straight ahead harp and vocals of Norcia play off.
These songs, and these players, are all stars indeed. There's not a track on this album that won't take you out of yourself to moan, clap, cry, or laugh, and you'll want a partner near you most of the time since Geraci and the All Stars deliver a soundtrack for the art and act of seduction.
Reviewer Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. writes about music and music books for No Depression, American Songwriter, Country Standard Time, and Wide Open Country.
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Weekend Grinds 11.5
November 5, 2012 · by J Owen Shroyer · in Sports. ·
You know it's a grind when the "Kartrashians" make it in. A former Cardinal gets a lot of money to leave Los Angeles, as a Cardinal legend heads there. A dingleberry from the Mizzou game that no one is talking about, and I have decided my most hated player in the NFL.
James Franklin "The Turtle" was miserable Saturday. Mizzou should have beat Florida. Unfortunately they got nothing out of the most important player on the field. Mizzou receivers got open, but Franklin missed them.
It didn't take much for Florida QB Jeff Driskel to outperform Franklin. One touchdown on 100 passing yards, and a 50% completion rate was more than enough. Despite 51 passing attempts, Franklin had 0 touchdowns. Don't use the Bradford excuse, because he has plenty of solid receiving options. Don't use the injury excuse, because last I checked you don't throw the football with your knee, and he looked fine when he was running scared from defenders.
6'2, 225 pounds, and he cant throw the ball farther than 25 yards. Are you sure you didn't take a cortisone shot James? Because your arm looks numb.
You can't put it all on Franklin; someone decided to put him on the field. How about how Gary Pinkel has displayed NO ability to make second half adjustments in his entire coaching career?
One adjustment Pinkel will make: Jared McGriff-Culver will not see the field again. He had one assignment on Saturday, to block the edge-rusher on field goal protections…he didn't lay a finger on anyone. Good season son.
The "real" refs suck too; I won't go down the list of uncovered blown calls but what is this fumble call on Roethlisberger?
The NFL needs review this. Technically, if the quarterback loses control of the football before the arm is moving forward, it's a fumble. But what happens when you lose the grip, but not control? Because it didn't affect the outcome, my guess is the NFL won't say anything. Had that happened during a crucial situation (such as when the 'tuck rule' came of age), we would have an updated NFL rulebook next week.
The player I hate the most in the NFL is Robert Griffin III. You are a rookie; stop acting like you're a grown man in this league. You want to keep acting like you've proven something, then you will keep getting crunched by defenders, and wind up on the gurney (which I wouldn't mind seeing). During a pummeling at the hands of the Carolina Panthers (2-6), RGIII ran into the end zone, and then did a foolish jig with an infantile grin on his face. Meanwhile, the play was negated thanks to a holding call. Carolina cornerback Josh Norman made RGIII aware of the penalty and the score by pointing towards the jumbotron while he was celebrating a non-TD run in the closing seconds of a loss. Thank you Josh, next time slap him in the face.
Meanwhile, as RGIII receives all the hype and attention, Andrew Luck is quickly becoming one of the best QBs in the league. You think Sam Bradford has no one to throw too? Luck, outside of Reggie Wayne, is throwing to no name rookies, and the Rams' reject Donnie Avery. He set a rookie record throwing 433 passing yards against Miami.
Two things I will enjoy the rest of the year:
1. Watching Luck lead the Colts to the playoffs, keeping hope among a franchise and fan base that saw its franchise player leave and then had its head coach diagnosed with leukemia.
2. Watching RGIII lose, cry, and give the Rams a better draft pick next summer.
Throwback Jerseys: Throw them back.
Lamar Scrodom. Here is a guy, Odom, who went from 6th man of the year in the NBA, to 6th man of the Kardashian family. Have you seen him lately? I thought it was Chloe who was pregnant…Lay off the candy.
Odom returned to a very good Los Angeles Clippers team, after an embarrassing dismissal from the Dallas Mavericks last season. Far more embarrassing was his 20-pound heavier frame, and his new hair-do featuring two stars shaved into the back of his head. Good look for you Lamar, can't wait to see your new McDonald's ads.
The other team in L.A., yes, the other team, is struggling early. Not that I expect the Lakers to have a bad year, but losing Steve Nash hurts. If the Lakers offense operates the same without Nash, which it has, then the acquisition was pointless. The Lakers have a lot of work, I no longer have them locked into the finals as I did before. Perhaps a coaching change is in order.
Dan Haren got $3.5 million from the Los Angeles Angels to leave. Does this bother anyone else? Those agents sure are sneaky. The Angels are a hot mess, and Haren is a free agent.
Mark McGwire is leaving the Cardinals for the Los Angels Dodgers. This makes me terribly sad. WHY BIG MAC?! WHY!? Say what you want about his coaching abilities (I thought he was great), losing Big Mac hurts me deeper. This man is a St. Louis idol, seeing him sporting the iconic #25 in the Cardinals dugout still brought a warm feeling to my heart. Cheers to you Mark, I will sincerely miss you. RETIRE 25!
Keep grindin'
Tags: Andrew Luck, Carolina Panthers, Los Angeles, Mark McGwire, National Football League, NFL, Robert Griffin III, Sam Bradford
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There is no consensus—in academia, law, or common usage—on when an attack is more than just a crime.
Updated at 9:45 a.m. ET on October 26, 2018.
Recent mornings have brought a series of fast-breaking reports, one after another, of pipe bombs mailed to prominent figures, from Democratic politicians to the actor Robert De Niro. Suspicious packages kept coming on Friday, including an explosive device addressed to Democratic Senator Cory Booker. But according to CNN's Jake Tapper, a spokesperson for the National Counterterrorism Center told the network earlier that officials didn't see a nexus to terrorism.
If that isn't terrorism, what is?
Though terrorism has likely been around since before organized warfare, there is still no consensus—in academia, law, or common usage—about how to define it. "Terrorism" depends on the attacker's motives, which in many cases (and certainly in the absence of a suspect here) are murky.
Read: When do we get to call someone a terrorist?
The NCTC's mandate is to focus on acts with some connection, even if it's only ideological, to a designated foreign terrorist organization; this is what the NCTC spokesperson was referring to. But whether it's international or domestic, there are hundreds of definitions of terrorism in scholarship and common usage.
Within U.S. law alone, Nicholas J. Perry, a lawyer at the Department of Homeland Security, has found more than 22 definitions or descriptions of terrorism.
The one common feature of most definitions of terrorism today is that it requires a political motive.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had it partly right in a press conference Wednesday. Cuomo said that the intent of terror was to terrorize, and the pipe-bomb mailings were clearly intended to terrorize, ergo, they must be terrorism. But there are many other kinds of violence—from mass shootings to domestic abuse—that terrorize without quite being terrorism.
The political motive looked clear to anyone observing the pattern of the pipe-bomb mailings this week. After all, they weren't just targeting random public figures, but specific ones who happened to be prominent Trump critics.
But what if the attacker was mentally disturbed in some way?
The anthrax mailings of 2001 appeared to have an obvious, if confusing, political motive. Those letters were mailed to media and Democratic figures, accompanied by notes saying "Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great." As investigators closed in on the civilian Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins, who killed himself in 2008 before being charged, the picture became more complicated with reports that he had suffered from severe mental illness. This raised the question: Was his goal in sending a bioweapon through the mail really to coerce a political outcome? Or was it the product of some delusion?
The Orlando nightclub shooting, in which Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people in an attack claimed by ISIS, raised similar questions. The shooter, who was killed by police, had also reportedly suffered from mental-health problems. Could ISIS really credibly claim the actions of a disturbed man as their own?
These examples illuminate the larger point: "Terrorism" is fundamentally about motivation, which is often unknowable.
As the terrorism scholar Martha Crenshaw told me in 2015, you could look at the same crime—say, the assassination of a political figure—and your categorization of it would change depending purely on what was in the attacker's mind. Did he want to overthrow the regime? Or was he nursing a long-standing grudge from knowing the political figure during his school days?
Terrorism in one case, crime in the other, far-reaching consequences regardless.


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Distribution, population size and conservation of the Cape gannet Morus capensis
Published in: South African Journal of Marine Science
Volume 1, issue 1, 1983 , pages: 153–174
DOI: 10.2989/025776183784447458
Author(s): R. J. M. Crawford, P. A. Shelton, J. Cooper, R. K. Brooke
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The Cape gannet is endemic to the southern African coast where it currently breeds at six islands: Mercury, Ichaboe and Possession off South West Africa and Bird (Lambert's Bay), Malgas and Bird (Algoa Bay) off South Africa. Previously, breeding also occurred at Hollams Bird, Halifax and Seal (False Bay) Islands. Equivocal records for Marcus, Dassen and Dyer Islands are not accepted. Off South West Africa, gannets were breeding at Hollams Bird, Mercury and Ichaboe Islands at least as early as 1828, but they only occupied Halifax and Possession Islands sometime between that date and c. 1885, possibly as a result of displacement of gannets from Ichaboe Island during exploitation of accumulated guano deposits in the early 1840s. Gannets bred at Hollams Bird Island until at least 1938, but had ceased breeding at Halifax Island by 1928. Off South Africa the earliest records of breeding are 1648, 1687, 1755 and 1912 for Malgas, Seal (False Bay), Bird (Port Elizabeth) and Bird (Lambert's Bay) Islands respectively. Gannets have not been reported at Seal Island since the late 17th century. On the west coast of Africa the Cape gannet is a regular nonbreeding winter visitor as far north as 4°20′N 6°00′E, but west of 6°E it is rare. On the east coast of Africa it is a common winter visitor as far north as Delagoa Bay, but farther north it is rare. Within its normal range the Cape gannet seldom occurs farther off shore than 100 km; it hardly ever moves inland. Aerial censuses of Cape gannets at breeding islands in 1967, 1969, 1978, 1980 and 1981 are compared with an aerial census conducted in 1956 and other published estimates of abundance. Between 1956 and 1980 the estimated number of breeding pairs at all colonies decreased from c. 150 000 to c. 80 000 and numbers decreased at all three extant gannetries off South West Africa. These decreases are attributed to a greatly diminished food resource following the collapse of the South West African pilchard stock after the late 1960s. The number of gannets decreased at Bird (Lambert's Bay) and Malgas Islands between 1956 and the late 1960s but subsequently increased, trends that are related to performances of the Western Cape pilchard and anchovy resources respectively. At Bird Island (Algoa Bay) gannets were up to 3,5 times more abundant in the late 1970s than in 1956. Other marine resources located east of Cape Point have shown similar large increases in recent years. Rates of increase of gannets at islands off South Africa during the 1970s would have required an unrealistically high survival for the first year had other population parameters remained constant. It is possible that birds emigrated from the South West African Islands. Few gannets have been reported oiled, and conservation of the species seems to be mainly affected by greatly reduced prey availability and injudicious guano harvesting. Human exploitation of juvenile gannets off the West African coast is difficult to assess.
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An incredibly important one, that's what role it plays! Of course, regular readers of our blog know that there is a lot more information coming below—we just wanted to get that basic answer to the question posed in the title out there right away. Refrigerant plays an integral role in the overall cooling process, which relies on heat transfer, that allows your air conditioner to keep your home comfortable even as temperatures soar outside.
So let's take a look at precisely what the refrigerant in your AC does for your system—as well as the trouble that may ensue if you have a low refrigerant charge in that system. While we are at it, why not also talk about why you may have a low refrigerant charge to begin with? All that, and more, after this brief message from our—oh, sorry. We got a bit carried away there. Just keep reading, and remember to contact us when you need air conditioning service in Hanford, CA.
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The last thing that you want to do is go into another long, hot summer season unprepared. What does preparing for the summer mean? Different things for different people. Maybe you've got a lot of trips planned out, or you just want to play it mostly by ear. One step of preparation that everyone in this area should take, though, is scheduling routine air conditioning maintenance in Hanford, CA. The benefits of doing so and the risks of not doing so are too great to overlook.
Annual air conditioning maintenance will only be as beneficial as possible to you, of course, if you remember to schedule this vital service with skilled, trained professionals. That is why we urge you to leave your AC tune-ups to a member of our team. Be sure to give us a call before the heating season really sets in. That way, your air conditioner will not be caught off-guard when the hottest weather of the year arrives.
New AC—Is This the Year?
Spring is a very pleasant time of the year in this part of the country. Cool nights, warm but not oppressively hot days—what's not to like? Don't let the pleasures of spring lull you into a false sense of security, though. Temperatures can turn very hot very suddenly, which means that your air conditioner needs to be ready to go at a moment's notice.
While routine AC maintenance will definitely help to keep your air conditioner in great fighting shape, you have to keep in mind that your air conditioner, regardless of make or model, is not going to last forever. Is the year to replace your air conditioner in Hanford, CA? If so, then now is the time to get the job done!
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While California is certainly more well known for its seemingly limitless sunshine than it is for its winter weather, the fact of the matter is that temperatures can and do drop well below comfortable levels around here. That is why it is so important for homeowners to have great heating systems installed in their homes, one of the most popular of which is the furnace. While modern furnaces are typically very reliable, you need to remember that no heater will ever be 100% reliable.
There are a number of problems that you may encounter with your furnace that could put your heating in Hanford, CA in jeopardy. While we cannot give you some magical ability to completely eliminate the risk of encountering such issues in your home, we can give you some helpful information regarding common furnace problems. These issues are not normal, and you should not ignore them just because it seems as though your furnace is still operating decently.
Are There Cold Spots in Your Home?
Just because our winters are not as cold as those in other parts of the country is no reason to overlook the fact that they are certainly cold enough for discomfort. When your home is chilly and drafty, there is no way in which you are going to be able to live in the level of comfort that you desire and, we believe, deserve. That is why you should do whatever it takes to eliminate cold spots in your home.
But why might cold spots pop up, anyway? Well, as is the case with most heating problems, there are a number of reasons why you may encounter cold spots in your home. The Hanford, CA heating professionals on our team are here to help, though. When we investigate the situation, we'll give you the proper diagnosis the first time around. From there, we can advise you as to how you can best go about resolving the problem and live more comfortably.
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If your washing machine left a puddle on the floor, or your water heater sprang a leak, you probably would not be confused by the development. Annoyed, yes. Aggravated, sure. It makes sense that these systems might develop such a leak at some point, though, because these systems use and contain water. Your air conditioning system does not, though, so the development of a water leak is something that catches many homeowners off guard.
While your air conditioner does not use water in its operation, and this water may not be the result of a "leak" in the way that you may be thinking of one, it is still entirely possible for your AC to be the source of the water on the floor surrounding it. Today we'll look at a few potential problems that could be behind this perplexing symptom. Read on, and remember that we are here to assist you with any necessary AC services in Hanford, CA.
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Why Upgrade Your Thermostat This Summer?
To answer the question posed in the title of this post very quickly: to save energy, reduce cooling costs, and live even more comfortably while doing so. Now, we know that this may sound too good to be true, but we are here to tell you that simply upgrading your thermostat in Hanford, CA can actually offer you such major benefits.
Just remember that, while a thermostat may not seem all that complex, only trained professionals can guarantee that your new thermostat is installed properly and integrated into your AC system at large correctly. Don't waste your money on a new thermostat if you are not going to schedule the quality services that that thermostat needs to excel in its operation. Work with us, and you need have no such concerns.
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AC FAQ: Is It Time to Replace?
We've already had some fairly warm days in the past week. Chances are that you may have already run your air conditioner a bit this year. If you have, and you have not been impressed by the results, and you've already had your system tuned up, then you may want to start thinking about replacing your AC before the weather gets any hotter. The same goes for those systems that failed to impress during the last cooling season. If you are ready for an AC replacement in Hanford, CA, just give us a call.
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Two radiators. Open fire to chimney breast. Television point. Coving to ceiling. Exposed floorboards. Double glazed bay window to front aspect.
Radiator. Coving to ceiling. Exposed floorboards. Double glazed French doors to rear garden.
Single drainer sink unit with mixer tap over and cupboard under. Further wall and floor mounted cupboards with work surfaces over and tiling to splash back areas. Space for tumble dryer. Plumbing for washing machine. Ceiling extractor. Door to garage.
A two piece suite comprising low flush w/c and wash hand basin with tiling to splash back areas. Radiator. Tiled floor. Obscure double glazed window to side aspect.
Two radiators. Picture rail. Double glazed window to rear aspect.
Radiator. Picture rail. Double glazed window to rear aspect.
Radiator. Double glazed window to front aspect. Door to bathroom.
A three piece suite comprising shower in fully tiled corner cubicle, wash hand basin inset to vanity cupboard and low flush w/c. Tiling to splash back areas. Ladder style radiator. Tiled floor. Spotlighting to ceiling. Wall extractor. Obscure double glazed window to front aspect.
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By Tim Edwards
From the January 2016 Issue
A letter from Senator Nick Sibbeston used to sit above the coffee machine at the Yellowknifer newspaper offices, congratulating publisher Jack "Sig" Sigvaldason on a lifetime achievement award and cryptically mentioning a 1980s session of the territorial council, precurser to the legislative assembly, and an incident involving a coffee mug. I'd heard the story when I worked there as a reporter, as well as one involving fisticuffs, but never in as much detail as Sibbeston lays down in his newly-published memoir, You Will Wear a White Shirt: From the Northern Bush to the Halls of Power.
After Sibbeston had dramatically taken off his suit, vest and tie in the middle of a council meeting and donned instead a moosehide vest, complaining about the adoption of foreign governance symbols in the North, some other members of the council wanted to get back to budgets and legislation. From the book:
I spoke about the racism toward the Native people in this part of the North, and how white people had imposed their system on us. In frustration, I declared, "I am serious to the point of crying on this issue." Tagak Curley, who was sitting two seats away from me, interrupted. "Cry! Cry tears!"
I turned on him. "You had better watch out or I will go and give you a punch." As I began speaking again he continued making rude remarks, and I lost my temper. I stalked over and hit him on the side of the head with my fist.
Sibbeston was expelled from the house for the day, and apologized for his conduct the next. But he kept pressing the point—to the annoyance of some of his colleagues—that aboriginal people were coming from the bush without the education and knowledge to get government jobs, which often went to southerners.
It was as if I were invisible. There was just stony silence on the other side where the ministers sat. Emotionally drained, frustrated and upset, I picked up a coffee cup from my desk and threw it in the direction of the chairman. The cup came crashing down on the floor in front of him and broke into pieces. Everyone fell silent, aghast at what had happened. I was surprised myself. Then I stood and walked to the exit. "If that's all you care about the things I said, stick this council up your ass. I resign!"
At the urging of his colleague John Parker, Sibbeston didn't resign. He instead returned to his home in Fort Simpson for a rest, worried about what his reception would be.
I shouldn't have worried. In the stores, in church and on the streets, people greeted me like a hero. They found it amusing that I had thrown a cup in the assembly. I soon realized that what had seemed like a serious incident in Yellowknife was not seen that way at all by the people. Some said, "It's about time someone shook things up in Yellowknife" while others said, "You should have thrown more cups."
He'd go on to become government leader, and in 2001 Prime Minister Jean Chretien appointed him as senator. We caught up with him as he got ready to return to a very different Ottawa from the one he left.
How have things changed in the North since you began your career?
Initially the communities were very small, living in log houses and hunting and trapping, living that kind of a life—the settlements have really changed. They have become modern. In places like Fort Simpson, my hometown, when I first started in the '70s people were going to outhouses, and that isn't the case any longer. People have modern houses.
I was in some southern First Nations communities a couple of summers ago on a senate study of housing and infrastructure, and some communities in Northern Ontario and Manitoba, they really had bad housing. They had a lot of mould—and just basically no housing, you know? Materials were brought in the summer and people do the best they can but there just isn't the money to provide adequate housing, and I just felt when I was there, doesn't anybody care? Isn't anybody accountable? Don't they have an MP? Don't they have an MLA? Here in the North we have local government and housing associations and education boards, so the short of it all: I think in the North the situation is so much better for native people than it is in the Northern [provinces].
People live very well. The other night I was in Fort Liard and I slept at my friend's cabin along the highway. It isn't a palace by any sort, but it's an adequate cabin. He's got all of the things he needs and he's happy to live out in the bush along the highway. When he wants to, he goes out to the highway and thumbs a ride to town. So just the fact that you don't have much doesn't mean that you are poor, or that you're pitiful. You live freely, you live as you wish, and you can go to town and get all the amenities and the things that you need and come back to live where you will, and I think that's the case with a lot of people in the communities.
Is it possible to improve living conditions in the Northern provinces?
I don't know. The situation is so severe. You have a lot of boil water situations. I think having reserves makes it difficult. We have remote communities but we have programs to provide housing, to provide proper water, to provide good schools and so forth. I think native people in the North are fortunate because they've been able to become involved.
The relations between native and non-native people is much better in the North than it is in the northern parts of the provinces. Native people are kind of segregated onto little enclaves, reserves [down south]. They're isolated and it just makes it more difficult.
In the North, is there a difference in the types of people in the territorial government nowadays than when you first got into politics?
Well, when I was in government there were hunters and trappers, bush pilots, ex-RCMP members, businesspeople, the odd lawyer, the odd reporter. I'm thinking of back in the '70s. I think now you have to be fairly educated. It's difficult for a hunter and trapper to just come out from the bush and be a candidate, but in the '70s that was possible, and we had a number of Inuit members that just knew their own language, didn't know any English at all.
When you look back at your scuffle with Tagak, the coffee cup—that wouldn't happen nowadays, would it?
At the time I was able to be quite passionate about issues. I just feel that I had a great opportunity and I was able to do all of this and express some of my real concerns and feelings, and—unfortunately or whatever—it got taken up with a lot of passion. But I've always said that's what it takes in order to get change. Nothing happens by writing nice, kind, soft letters. You really have to pound the table and become really active. That's how changes come about and it certainly did in my time. Tagak Curley just got an Order of Nunavut. I sent him a letter congratulating him.
That was around the time you were lobbying for more traditional culture to be integrated into government ceremony.
I was so afraid that we were going to inherit or grow into an Alberta or Ontario style of government. We in the North are unique—let's develop and accept something that's really identifiable to the people of the North that makes sense to them. Even the Speaker's chair—why do you bow to something? What is there, something magical or a spirit in there? If you're going to do it, let's do it with something we identify with and know.
What do you make of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
He's been in the region and down the Nahanni. I think he'll be reasonable. I think he'll be good to the North. Already he's been good to the North—look at the Inuk he's appointed, Hunter Tootoo, to be minister of fisheries. I'm pretty impressed with the way he moulded the cabinet. A very diverse group of people. We have an aboriginal person that's in charge of Justice. That's pretty amazing.
And that's Jody Wilson-Raybould of the Kwakwaka'wakw.
I think it's great. Obviously, not all the positions of the federal government will change, in terms of dealing with First Nations, but at least the Minister of Justice will have an understanding of native issues and the constitutionality of aboriginal rights.
Are you expecting a different mood in Ottawa?
I'm excited about going back because it had been a terrible place to be for the past few years under the Harper regime because in the Senate itself, there was a lot of manipulation. There was an attempt by the prime minister's office to control the Senate, the Conservative members, in terms of just passing its legislation, and it's been real caustic, not a very nice place to be.
But I think things will change. I really look forward to going back to Ottawa now, with a new government. In the Senate I know that the Liberals are somewhat independent, we're not part of the Liberal caucus—and the Senate really needs to be independent, less partisan, and really be good sober second thought. Oftentimes legislation is passed hastily in the House of Commons under political maneuvering, so the Senate has a chance to review it in a calmer, less partisan way.
Now the independent Liberals will I think represent the government in the Senate, and the Conservatives that had been representing the [former] government will sit in opposition. They're more numerous—there's about 60 of them—but they've already indicated that they're going to be cooperative. They're not going to be blocking legislation. I have a feeling that a certain amount of rationality and civility will come to the Senate.
The Harper government gained praise for apparently paying more attention to the North than any other previous government.
Well, he came more often. He didn't pay attention. He didn't meet with any people. It was all very controlled; a photo opportunity. Sure, he's probably been North more than any other prime minister, but he never really engaged with Northerners in a real, meaningful way. And [the Conservatives'] view is to militarize the North and I've always thought well, that's fine, but really the best way to recognize sovereignty is the people living there. Engage with them and have them happy.
What can the government do to make it such that the people in the North are really happy, comfortable, at ease?
That's the challenge. There's things that the federal government can do: making sure that the territorial government has enough money for housing; money for hospitals and healthcare. It's very expensive because there's no adequate hospital services [in most of the communities] so people have to be flown to the bigger centres or to the south.
Do you have a wishlist for the federal government?
I'd love to see the government build a highway down the Mackenzie Valley. What a difference a road would make. It changes lives everywhere there's a road. The government has slowly been building bridges over the creeks and rivers. It'll take millions of dollars, but it'll do wonders for the North. It'll open up the area for development, lower the price of food and provide a better quality of life because people then can drive out.
The NWT itself is changing pretty rapidly, not only with devolution but with the momentum from self-government agreements—the Tłi¸cho¸ have theirs, Délı¸ne's has been signed, others are in negotiation. How might this change how the territory operates?
You already have a government in place with the territorial government. It's a baby government because it just came about in '68, but it's progressed a lot to the point where it's typical of any responsible government in the south. Now with devolution, it has control over lands and resources, so it's come a long ways.
I think it will be interesting to see how the aboriginal governments come and interface and interact with the territorial government—because, at the moment, the territorial government provides all the services, all the programs.
But in these land claims, these self-government agreements, there's provisions for these aboriginal governments to take over certain functions: education, social programs, housing, justice. It's going to be decades and decades before these aboriginal governments are mature and developed enough to take on these functions, but the provisions are there for them to take on a lot of the functions that the territorial government is presently providing.
It's like the Northwest Territories is becoming a federation of its own.
That's right, because you have the central territorial government and you have the aboriginal governments in different parts of the North. You're eventually going to have all these governments develop and grow and become functional and interface with government. In 20, 30, 40 years from now, the situation will be quite different. Everything will not be handled out of Yellowknife, as it is now. All these aboriginal governments will be functional, little entities unto themselves. You'll have aboriginal government—truer, more realistic than it is now. Now it's aboriginal government in name and in theory, to an extent. In the next 20, 30 years they'll come unto themselves, they'll develop and they'll become functional.
Hopefully they've been designed well enough that it will all work. Because the notion of self-government is significant. You're not going to be governed from afar, even Yellowknife. I think when people govern themselves and take responsibility, there can be more accountability and kind of a truer government, more independent.
At the moment I think everyone in the North is so used to government. Money comes from government. Without government there wouldn't be any money, it almost seems. There isn't much industry otherwise. Through time, hopefully, as these self-governed entities develop, they'll also have to deal with the reality of the economy. How are they going to provide jobs? How are they going to be self-supporting, to a certain degree? And they're going to have to look and see what is on their land that can be developed, maybe mines, maybe oil and gas. Some, if they're fortunate, could have the resources just like Alberta and be very well off, and others that don't have the resources will have a more difficult time. It's like a microcosm of Canada, in a sense—the different regions, the way they can develop and be economically sound, it's just all dependent on resources.
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Q: What is the best way to implement generic Repository pattern based on JSON.NET and returning IQueryable? For example we have simple interface for generic repository:
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Its necessary to implement this using JSON.NET. What is the best way to do this? Should we use some data types from .NET to store collection in memory, e.g. System.Data.Linq.Table?

A: I enjoy the setup of this guys repository pattern. Though I feel it is getting a bit heavy now. You could take the parts you like and strip out the rest like I have done. Mainly look at the Repository implementation.
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Leon Edwards has been campaigning for a showdown with fellow British fighter Darren Till, in their native country, and the welterweight isn't a fan of Jorge Masvidal now doing the same.
"I think he thinks he matches up better stylistically with Masvidal. Coming off a loss he wants to get a win. If a man was calling me out, he was saying 'Let's go' and it made sense, I would do it. I can't tell you what's in his head or what he's thinking, but as I said, I'm ready for that fight. I'm training towards that fight, but if I don't get it I will take a fight against someone else who's going to push me towards the title," added Edwards.
Till is coming off a submission loss to champion Tyron Woodley in September, while Edwards hasn't fought since last June, when he earned a decision win over Donald Cerrone.
Edwards is currently riding a six-fight winning streak.


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The only thing I hated about Persepolis Rising is how long it's going to make me wait for the next book.
I always come away from an Expanse novel reeling. Sometimes from massive events, but often just from the profound depth of character. This series continues to illustrate what it is to be human and I can't help feeling deeply affected by the sentiment within each novel. A short interaction between two characters in this book (maybe 3 pages worth?) had the power to become one of the most memorable moments of the series for me. It's those little moments made bigger by the depth of their history and meaningfulness of the nuances that makes this series so stellar. Needless to say, I'm a fan.
As far as "stuff happening," the lack of which was my only issue with Babylon's Ashes, Persepolis Rising delivered on plot advancement and regained much-needed momentum for the series. I've been trusting the authors to evolve it into something, well, expansive at some point, and they're delivering with flair. Other than a segment in the middle (where I had an oddly difficult time concentrating), Persepolis Rising offered a snowball ride to a great story climax that has me almost angry that I can't pick up the next book immediately.
Recommendations: The Expanse is easily my favorite space opera/science fiction series on the market. The series has a lot of action, great characters (like, really great), and tons of memorable moments. I'd hand it to people looking to get into the genre. But at this point I would beat longtime scifi fans over the head with the first tome if they haven't given it a try yet.


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PDF is a read-only format that prevents editing, and they can be secured with passwords on a document level.
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PDF documents are the preferred file format for the U.S. federal government, since they have greater security advantages and control features, which image files do not use. Converting graphics into PDFs can help you prevent unauthorized edits and maintain the integrity of your data. There are a number of free and inexpensive apps for the iPad that allow you to convert image files into PDFs, such as Image to PDF Converter, To PDF, Image PDF HD, and Genius Scan.
This iOS application can be purchased from the App Store for $0.99, as of November 2013 (link in Resources). This app is extremely basic, with menu options to create PDFs out of existing images on your camera roll, or new ones taken with your iPad camera. Once the app has finished the conversion process, you have the option of sharing it via email or as a Web link.
To PDF
This application can be downloaded for free from the App Store (link in Resources). Not only does this software support image to PDF conversion, but you can also turn other types of documents, such as Microsoft Office file formats, into PDFs with this app. To PDF has a built-in Web browser function, which allows you to quickly screenshot Web pages within the app, and turn these graphics into PDF documents.
Image PDF HD
You can find this software in the App Store priced at $2.99, as of November 2013 (link in Resources). The main benefit of this app is that you can create multi-page PDF documents with customizable text additions. This makes it an ideal solution for creating school or work documents, since you can add captions describing each image within the app.
Genius Scan
This application can be downloaded from the App Store for free (link in Resources). Genius Scan is a compelling software solution, because it was developed to mimic scanner functions. For example, if you take a photo of a document, then Genius Scan will reduce the noise and help you trim the graphic to fit the borders of the image. These files can then be saved as PDF documents, exported to cloud storage or shared via email.
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Jen Cordwainer has been writing technology, business and entertainment articles for seven years. She has three years of experience working in enterprise technology. Cordwainer has a bachelor's degree in English.
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In DC Coffman Jailed With Molotov Cocktails As Man Who Punched Capitol Police Is Freed
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FEDERAL COURT, Jan 9 – Three days after in the US Capitol among other things Mark Leffingwell stuck a Capitol Police officer repeatedly with a closed fist (and was freed), an affidavit was unsealed about still detained Lonnie Coffman, with a detention hearing next week. It says:
..."two US Capitol Police officers observed the handle of what appeared to be a firearm on the front right passenger seat of a red GMC Sierra 1500 pickup truck with Alabama license plate 52HJ703 vehicle was registered to Lonnie L. Coffman of Falkville, Alabama...
"the Bomb Squad responded to the location of the Red GMC Sierra Pickup truck. One black handgun was recovered.. During the search of the cab of the truck, officers recovered, among other things, one M4 Carbine assault rifle along with rifle magazines...
"officers recovered in the bed of the pickup truck (i) 11 mason jars containing an unknown liquid with a golf tee in the top of each jar, (ii) cloth rags, and (iii) lighters.... consistent with components for an incendiary device known as a "Molotov Cocktail." Here's a summertime Molotov song.
On January 8, Leffingwell was released to fly back to him home in Seattle, no GPS monitor, no bond.
Inner City Press covered the case. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey held the detention, or really non-detention, proceeding. Inner City Press live tweeted it here: (then, song here)
Now in Federal Court in DC, hearing of detained Mark Jefferson LEFFINGWELL who "attempted to push past me and other officers. When he was deterred from advancing further into the building, LEFFINGWELL punched me repeatedly with a closed fist."
Assistant US Attorney is *not* asking for detention . He'll be allowed to travel back home to Seattle.
AUSA: We'll be requesting strict conditions... A stay-away from DC... A curfew. Judge: You say he works. What is it? Lawyer: A packaging plant called Panacea in Everett, Washington. 30 to 40 hours a week.
From the complaint: "I was struck in the helmet that I was wearing and in the chest. Working with other officers, I was able to gain control over LEFFINGWELL, who attempted to struggle while being detained. I transported LEFFINGWELL to US Capitol Police HQ."
Judge Harvey: Believe it or not, I have a lot of these case. Pre-Trial should find out about GPS in the Districts where these folks come from. I released someone else yesterday. Defense: GPS is not necessary. He has 2 children.
Defense: He wants to go to church on the weekend. No need to be on a GPS. We'll take a stay away. He's never been to DC before.
Mrs. Leffingwell: I'm an insurance agent. We have a son, Noah, and Nicholas. Judge: I am going to release Mr. Leffingwell.
Judge: You can turn in your guns to a police station. You must call pre-trial once a week and keep working [at the packaging plant.] Stay away from DC except for court. Our proceedings will be remote, you probably won't have to come.
Judge Harvey: I don't see the point of putting him on a curfew if we're not going to do GPS. Defense: He needs his ID to fly back to Seattle.
AUSA: We have nothing.
Defense: He passed his phone to one of his friends. I think they have his license.
AUSA: A third party? I can look for it. Which agency.
Defense: He was brought to 1-D-1, next to the baseball field, then the cell block.
Judge Harvey: I am going to release Mr Leffingwell. He must stay away from Washington DC. [That seems to be the main focus]
Judge Harvey: You'll have to Zoom in to the preliminary hearing... We've got the phone number, no worries, Mr. Leffingwell.
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December 12, 2017 4:17 PM ET
Medhanie Haile is one of several journalists arrested after the government summarily banned the privately owned press on September 18, 2001, in response to growing criticism of President Isaias Afewerki. Eritrean authorities have never accounted for the whereabouts, health, or...
Truth about jailed journalists is locked away in Eritrea
April 9, 2010 4:43 PM ET
In the reclusive Red Sea nation of Eritrea, the fate of 10 journalists who disappeared in secret prisons following a September 2001 government crackdown has been a virtual state secret—only occasionally pierced by shreds of often unverifiable, secondhand information smuggled...
September 18, 2001, in Eritrea: A memory that never fades
It feels like it happened just yesterday. It was 7 a.m. on an average day in September in Asmara, Eritrea. My brain was still reshuffling the information I had gathered about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center...
Attacks on the Press 2007: Eritrea
February 5, 2008 11:25 AM ET
Eritrea remained the leading jailer of journalists in Africa, with as many as 14 writers and editors held incommunicado in secret locations. At least one journalist died in state custody, sources told CPJ in February. The only country in sub-Saharan...
2007 prison census: 127 journalists jailed
December 1, 2007 1:34 PM ET
Detailed accounts of each imprisoned journalist....
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December 1, 2007 12:00 AM ET
German media aid to Eritrea raises concerns
Dear Minister Wieczorek-Zeul: The Committee to Protect Journalists notes that the German government has decided to fund the training of journalists working for Eritrea's state-controlled media while the nation's independent press remains shut down and more than a dozen publishers and editors continue to be held incommunicado, many since September 2001.
ALGERIA: 2 Djamel Eddine Fahassi, Alger Chaîne III IMPRISONED: May 6, 1995 Fahassi, a reporter for the state-run radio station Alger Chaîne III and a contributor to several Algerian newspapers, including the now-banned weekly of the Islamic Salvation Front,...


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A Thousand Years of Division.
The village of Kirkby Sutton is a conglomerate and an enigma. Formed by the merging of two villages that had outgrown their ability to remain separate as an entity, it nevertheless retains two extremely different and specific identities. One half, as its name suggests, is built around the church and is a, (mainly), well-to-do, haven of respectability, with its Georgian Manor, leafy, wide-verged streets, lined with large, detached houses, driveways, off road parking and a library. There is also a small 1960s estate, a mix of private, three bedroomed, privately-owned houses, with an enclave of housing association tenants bolted on for political expediency.
Down the hill, the other half of the village contains a higgledy-piggledy, hotchpotch of stone cottages, modern, town houses and rows of Victorian terraces, originally built for the employees at the local lace factory, brewery and estate workers, who made the short trip up the road, to toil on the farms of Lord Beresford on the other side of the village. Nowadays, the descendants of those workers still live in the red brick terraces, but are employed by industries in the nearby cities of Nottingham and Derby.
The rivalry of its residents compares to any found in much larger towns and cities. You would be hard pressed to find as much animosity at a local Derby football match in Liverpool or Manchester. The annual village fair, which includes a fiercely fought, tug-of-war competition, held on a boozy bank holiday weekend, regularly turns violent. For years, a police sergeant from the small town of Higton, was paid to referee the event, but when the ageing sergeant retired and the police station was closed down to save money in the 1950s, the residents were left to sort out their own mess, so a committee, made up of the vicar's wife and a group of teetotal residents from both sides, sat in sober judgment over the proceedings. To this day, the committee still rules on complaints and accusations made by one side against the other. Most of the grievances are easily dismissed, but on a few occasions, a vote has to be taken with the chairperson, a lady with no connection to either side of the village, holding the casting vote.
Sutton is the older part of the village and dates back to Saxon times. Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon term for South town, (village, or enclosure.) It was built on the plain at the bottom of a long slope, on the bend of a fast-flowing stream. They built a timber church, which, in bad winters, became a flood plain. Sick of paddling to church for their religious instruction, they erected another one, higher up the slope, using the soggy timbers from their original construction.
A hundred or so years later the Danes arrived, but instead of rape and pillage, the Vikings merely appropriated the land around the church and began to farm it. This community became known as Kirkby, or, the settlement by the church. Over time, the Danish intruders, became Christianised, improved the church building, and appointed one of their own number, a man from the nearby town of Derby, as priest. They reluctantly allowed their near neighbours to attend religious ceremonies, in an effort to re-Christianise the local population, who had, by now, become almost universally, heathen.
The church was rebuilt in stone during the thirteenth century, when the new Lord of the Manor, a distant relative of King Henry 111, was granted all of the lands around the area. Residents of Sutton sent emissaries to their new lord demanding a church of their own. The lord's response was to add an extra tax on the ungrateful villagers, a tax that the residents of Kirkby were excused. The Sutton inhabitants were outraged and set about building a church of their own on the site of the original timber church, but on the eve of its consecration, it mysteriously burned down. A second attempt was made a year later but with the same result. Suttononians smelled a rat, and protested outside the stone church at Kirkby before Evensong. The parish priest dismissed their grievances and told them in no uncertain terms, that both instances of arson, were acts of an angry God, and if they didn't start attending his sermons, they would be branded heretics and burned at the stake.
This threat worked to a degree, but there was always an undercurrent of hostility inside the parish.
Sutton attempted to build their own church on no less than twelve occasions over the following two hundred years with the same fiery result. When, at last, an Abbey was built on their half of the divide in the late 15th century, their joy was unbridled. That joy was soon to be bridled again, however, as in 1538 under instructions from Henry V111, the building was demolished and the land and possessions, seized by the crown.
Sutton decided that God really didn't intend them to have a church and reluctantly fell in with their Kirkby hosts, which was a good job really, as a hundred or so years later, administrators decided that it was too much of the job administering two villages, so they combined them in a covenant and changed its name to Kirkby Sutton. The villagers only found out about it at the next census, and by then it was too late to do anything about it.
The villages expanded in the 18th century to accommodate the newly built mill on the Sutton side of the boundary, and the mill owner's needs on the Kirkby side. New dwellings to house the relatives and administrators of the fledgling industry were built in Kirkby, whilst rows of stone cottages were erected in Sutton, meaning the dividing line between the two halves became ever closer.
When the mill closed in the mid-Victorian era, it was turned into a lace factory. Next door, the new owners also built a tannery. These budding entrepreneurs were soon followed by Barton's Brewery, who took the crystal-clear waters of the stream to make their distinctively flavoured ales. Four streets of terraced housing were built on the southern edge of Sutton. The dwellings came complete with individual, outdoor lavatories and a series of communal water pumps. The larger houses of Kirkby, in general, became equipped with their own water supplies, albeit fed from a pump in the kitchens. This led to a near riot one summer, when, fuelled by a small outbreak of cholera in Sutton, the residents crossed the border, (a line of skinny, pine trees,) and begged their richer, and less smelly, neighbours for clean water. The gentry refused, so fuelled by the cheap, but strong, ale, supplied by the new Barton's Brewery public house, the Suttononian men, invaded the North and smashed up the main pumping station that fed the privately-owned houses. The newly-formed, Borough Police Force were summoned, the riot was quelled and a raid was made on 'suspect' houses in Sutton. Several arrests were made, including that of a wheelchair bound lady of 75 years who hadn't left her home in a decade.
During the first world war, an uneasy peace ensued with both sides of the village losing men in the fields of Flanders. When the war was over, it was decided that a small cenotaph would be built. The Kirkbyans wanted it to be outside the church. The Suttonians, outside the Tannery. A compromise was arrived at and the stone cenotaph was built on the dividing line between the two halves of the village. By now, this line was imaginary, as houses had been erected on both sides, and a tarmac road ran straight through the middle, connecting to a main road at the top end of Kirkby. An uninformed, outsider, would never have known the villages had ever been separate.
Typically, a row ensued over which side of the construction the names of dead would be carved into, so, sensibly, for once, the Sutton names were carved, facing the south and the Kirkby ones facing the north. Every year, on armistice day, the residents line up on either side of the tribute to remember their own. Villagers divided, even in death.
This story begins in the early 1950s.
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Huge thanks to Amaka Gessler for inviting me to the Entrepreneur Networking with a Twist Meetup last night. I promised to share my slides and have also pulled together a listof all the other material I shared. Here's Amaka's notes from the talk.
As promised, here are my slides and links to additional material we discussed on the night.
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Here I was asked to provide an opinion on a recently published article on '"a 2010 white plague outbreak in the Virgin Islands, (where) researchers analyzed the viruses present in diseased and healthy corals." by Joseph Castro, LiveScience Contributor.
Read the whole article in the link provided below.


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The urgency of the matter was not argued in court on Monday. Instead the lawyers for the two parties both said they would be filing their heads of argument later – on Monday for AfriForum and on Tuesday in parliament's case.
In a media statement on Sunday, parliament argued that AfriForum was deliberately trying to frustrate the legislature's legislative processes and that the report, which the committee adopted and will be referring to the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces for consideration, was an interim step, similar to a bill.
"It is not final in effect. It may be accepted or it may not," it said.
"In essence, AfriForum wants to interdict parliament, at this stage, because it alleges the committee should have considered each submission, including those that it admits are duplicate submissions.
"The committee did not exclude any submissions except where those were enquiries, unrelated, blank or repeats. AfriForum does not deny that the committee has considered the substance of those duplicate submissions," read the statement from parliament.
Parliament said the constitutional review committee had embarked on an extensive public participation process – at public hearings in each of the nine provinces and meetings and workshops at parliament. This was an additional pre-legislative step before the process of introducing a bill, it said.
"Thousands of South Africans joined the national conversation about land and its role in building our democracy and redressing the wounds of our past," it added.


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We All Love "The Fearless Girl." But What About Fearless Women?
Christina Wallace
But somewhere on the road through adolescence and into womanhood we are told to put those akimbo arms down by our sides, lest we make a mess like a bull in a china shop.
I just wish she could have been Fearless Woman.
Three days ago McCann New York and its client State Street Global Advisors installed a new statue in the financial district of Manhattan. Staring down the 28-year-old Charging Bull, "The Fearless Girl" has her chest out, chin up, and arms akimbo in a state of power posing that would make Harvard professor Amy Cuddy proud. Created by sculptor Kristen Visbal, the installation also includes a plaque at her feet with the inscription "Know the power of women in leadership. SHE makes a difference."
The "Fearless Girl" statue faces Wall Street's charging bull statue, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in New York. The statue was installed by investment firm State Street Global Advisors to highlight efforts to get more women on corporate boards. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
SHE is the name of State Street's new ETF (exchange traded fund) that invests only in companies with women in leadership. While this is a brilliant piece of advertising, it is advertising after all.
Still, there are now countless studies (like this one from McKinsey) that show that diversity in leadership (both gender diversity and ethnic diversity, I might note) lead to significant measurable increases in financial performance of a firm. As McCann copywriter Tali Gubiner told AdWeek, the project needed "to change the perception of what a successful company is made of."
The statue was unveiled on International Women's Day and was an immediate hit. Tourists shifted their focus from selfies with the Charging Bull's private parts to power posing alongside Fearless Girl.
A woman poses for a photo with 'The Fearless Girl' statue across from the iconic Wall Street charging bull statue. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
I will admit, I love Fearless Girl. I love her confidence in taking up space. I love her sneakers and ponytail: cute and yet totally functional for the adventure she has ahead. I love that girls have a representative to face off with the hyper-masculine bull as an image for business and leadership. But there is something nagging under the surface as I look at Fearless Girl with so much pride.
That nagging is the recognition that the world supports fearlessness in girls. But somewhere on the road through adolescence and into womanhood we are told to put those akimbo arms down by our sides, lest we make a mess like a bull in a china shop. It is suggested that we should take up less space, soften that defiant look into a more amenable smile, and trade those sneakers for heels, because heels are considered polished and professional, even when painful and wholly counterproductive for getting things done.
As a society we are perfectly happy to support initiatives to get more girls excited by business and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) but much less interested in understanding the subtle pressures that push them out once they become women.
Fearless Girl is a beautiful piece of art and I hope she becomes a permanent part of the financial district.
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