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Students Are Not Supposed To Stop School Because Of Election – Jackye Madu
Celebrity News By David F. Jan 20, 2023 No Comments2 Mins Read
Ex-BBNaija housemate, Jackye Madu has come out to throw shades just after Paul Okoye took to Twitter to call out the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the timeframe for PVC collection while students are still in school. She recently has her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.
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Paul wrote, "Out of the 74 million youths eligible voters, 26 million of them are students and they are all back in school, most of them registered during the ASUU strike."
"It's 10days remaining for collection, @inecnigeria why are students still in school by now?"
Jackye reacted, "Where in the world are students asked to stop school because of election?"
"Some of these celebs really be trying to incite people. So not cool………."
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Ebuka, the most popular housemate for several weeks into the show and widely believed to emerge the winner was the seventh housemate to be evicted; many viewers blame the Joe's Fan Club (JFC) for his eviction. Joe himself was soon evicted from the show.
Big Brother added another twist to the game on day 79 by cancelling the day's scheduled nominations and making the housemates believe they will instead be evicted based on their performances on assigned tasks while in reality no more evictions were held and viewers began voting for the winner who turned out to be 26-year-old Katung Aduwak.
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Netherlands to ban burqa
January 28, 2012 06:07:27 pm
[JURIST] The Cabinet of the Netherlands announced on Friday that a ban on burqas [JURIST news archive] in the Netherlands will go forward later this year. The ban, proposed in September [JURIST report] and heavily supported by Geert Wilders' [personal website; JURIST news archive] anti-Islam Freedom Party, is aimed at prohibiting burqas and other face coverings. Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Verhagen [official profile, in Dutch] denied that the ban was meant for religious clothing [Reuters report] and noted that the ban will also include motorcycle helmets and balaclavas when they are worn in inappropriate locations. The proposed legislation will not prohibit face coverings in mosques. Verhagen said the purpose behind the ban is to stop people from being able to commit crimes and remain undetected by concealing their identities and covering their faces. The Liberal-Christian Democrat coalition, the majority party in parliament, has agreed to propose a modified ban next week which would impose fines on people who violate the ban. The ban must still pass both houses of parliament in order to be enacted as law.
If enacted, the Netherlands will become the second European country, after France [text, in French], to ban the burqa. A French court in September first enforced its own ban [JURIST report] when it fined two Muslim women for violating the controversial French law. Although more than 90 women were previously cited by police, the fines are the first time a French court has enforced the law passed in April. The Netherlands is not the only country to follow France's lead by attempting to ban face coverings. In August, an Italian parliamentary commission approved a draft law [JURIST report] that bans women from wearing full-face veils in public. In July, Belgium implemented a law banning women from wearing the burqa [JURIST report] in public, with violators facing the possibility of fines or up to seven days in jail.

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FIGURE 1. Locality map of Dubrovino site and similar-age late Pleistocene deposits from the West Siberian Plain. 1, Dubrovino; 2, Tyurseda-Khadyta; 3, Kul'egan-2247; 4, Bun'kovo; 5, Kalistratikha; 6, Novaya Surtaika.
FIGURE 2. Stratigraphic diagram of the Dubrovino section on the Ob River.
FIGURE 3. Subfossil beetle fragments from the Dubrovino assemblage; pronotum (1-4, 6, 10-12), head (5), and elytron (7-9, 13-15). 1, Elaphrus cf. riparius (Linnaeus, 1758); 2, Pogonus punctulatus Dejean, 1828; 3, Pterostichus cf. brevicornis (Kirby, 1837); 4, Cymindis cf. arctica Kryzhanovskij et Emetz, 1979; 5, Aphodius multiplex Reitter, 1867; 6, Cymbiodyta marginella (Fabricius, 1792); 7, Trechus cf. compactulus Belousov et Kabak, 1996; 8, Bembidion dauricum (Motschulsky, 1844); 9, Olisthopus sturmii (Duftschmid, 1812); 10, Pterostichus macer (Marsham, 1802); 11, P. mirus (Tschitschérine, 1894); 12, Amara aurichalcea Germar, 1823; 13, Porcinolus murinus (Fabricius, 1794); 14, Morychus ostasiaticus Tshernyshev, 1997; 15, Poecilus cf. ravus (Lutshnik, 1922). Scale bars are 1 mm increments. Figure parts 1-9 and 10-15 correspond to upper and the bottom scale bars, respectively.
FIGURE 4. Subfossil beetle fragments from the Dubrovino assemblage; elytra (1-2, 7, 11, 13, 17), pronotum (3-4, 6, 8, 15), head (5, 9, 14, 16), and rostrum (10, 12). 1, Otiorhynchus altaicus Stierlin, 1861; 2-3, O. obscurus Gyllenhal in Schoenherr, 1834; 4, O. pullus Gyllenhal in Schoenherr, 1834; 5-6, O. politus Gyllenhal in Schoenherr, 1834; 7, O. beatus Faust, 1890; 8, Stephanocleonus eruditus Faust, 1890; 9, S. isochromus Suvorov, 1912; 10, S. favens Faust, 1884; 11, Pissodes insignatus Boheman in Schoenherr, 1843; 12, Trichalophus biguttatus (Gebler, 1832); 13, Tychius albolineatus Motschulsky, 1860; 14, Phyllobius femoralis Boheman in Schoenherr, 1842; 15, Metadonus distinguendus (Boheman in Schoenherr, 1842); 16, Notaris aethiops (Paykull, 1792); 17, Tournotaris bimaculata (Fabricius, 1787). Scale bars are 1 mm increments.
FIGURE 5. Late Pleistocene and modern ranges of Stephanocleonus favens Faust, 1884.
FIGURE 6. Late Pleistocene and modern ranges of Stephanocleonus isochromus Suvorov, 1912.
FIGURE 7. Late Pleistocene and modern ranges of Otiorhynchus janovskii Korotyaev, 1990.


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Movie Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets – Starring Nicolas Cage
Jason of New Movie Friday Dec 21, 2007 0 comments
Movie: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (PG)
Released: December 21st, 2007
Runtime: 2 hr. 4 min.
Ticket Price: $5.00 Early Matinee
Refreshments: Gummy Bears
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel & Bruce Greenwood
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Rating: Worth a Full Price Ticket
Synopsis: A missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth is found and it looks like Benjamin Franklin Gates' great-great grandfather may have been involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Ben is determined to un-tarnish his family lineage. This sends him on a journey to Paris, London and then America. His quest reveals some surprising results and could unlock many treasured secrets from the past.
Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets is just flat out, a whole lot of fun. It does what a movie is supposed to do, entertain you. It is two hours of action packed cinema. If you liked National Treasure , you will definitely enjoy its sequel.
For big budget action, you usually can't do better than a Jerry Bruckheimer produced film. This is definitely one of those occasions. It looks like they have found themselves another blockbuster franchise. Except in this case, the second one may in fact be better than the first. That was not so much the story with the second and third movies in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
The people behind this film and its predecessor have done a great job of blending fact and fiction. Weaving real historical events and people, urban legends, conspiracy theories and more into a globetrotting mystery adventure that will keep you glued to the screen.
Nicolas Cage (Con Air, The Rock) is well suited in the role of action hero. His action movies may not always be that good, but he is usually good in them. Unlike his previous two outings this year in Ghost Rider and Next, this one is actually worth seeing on the big screen.
Cage's cast mates from the first film are all back with the editions of Helen Mirren (The Queen, TV's Prime Suspect) as his character's mother, Ed Harris (Gone Baby Gone, Apollo 13) in the adversary role and Bruce Greenwood (Déjà Vu, TV's John From Cincinnati) as the President.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets is well worth a full price ticket. You won't be disappointed, as many of the 200+ people in the packed theater I saw it in, broke into applause when the credits started to roll.
This is the 54th movie to be seen this year, 51 of them at the first or second showing on their opening day. Yet, this is only the third time that I recall being joined by so many fellow moviegoers, the last one being The Bourne Ultimatum. But, more than that, out of all the movies seen so far this year, this is one of the few that elicited a palpable positive reaction from the audience. You could just tell that most, if not all, had a great time.
What about another sequel? Well, the first one was never really meant to have one. They even changed the originally filmed ending after test audiences thought they were just trying to setup a sequel. But, in the case of Book of Secrets, they definitely left it open for a third film. I want to know what is on "Page 47," don't you?
Let us know your thoughts on National Treasure: Book of Secrets in the comments.
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Tonight for the first time I realized that all my posts to JRoller and Blogger are all just present on their respective websites, but not as a copy on my local machine or some other backup. While I have full trust in Google's engineers to keep Blogger up and running as well as my data safe, it is never a bad idea to make a copy of your stuff.
So I just googled for "Blogger Backup" and found just that: A Blogger Backup tool. It is a .NET based tool that utilizes Google's C# data access libraries. Probably it would have worked with Mono, but as I had a VirtualBox'ed XP instance up anyway I used it there.
Once I had downloaded and installed the tool, it was just a matter of a few clicks to get all my posts saved in Atom/XML files locally. One thing has to be noted though: Make sure your blog feed is set to "Full posts", not just the summary. I first got this wrong, so all the backup files just contained at most the first paragraph.
As for JRoller I so far have only found some special template based backup ideas, however none look really too appealing. Maybe I will just use a website grabber to snapshot the whole thing as HTML.


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Q: Didn't find class "android.view.layout"  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.view.layout" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/base.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_dependencies_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_resources_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_0_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_1_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_2_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_3_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_4_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_5_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_6_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_7_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_8_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/split_lib_slice_9_apk.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/mzz.work.login_signup-MmKrHS_eKGNcUeNOjZ3Bqg==/lib/arm64, /system/lib64]]
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        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:606)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:723)
        at com.android.internal.policy.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:68)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:740)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:808)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:750)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:883)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:844)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:515)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:423)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:374)
        at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:469)
        at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:140)
2020-01-21 21:39:19.510 18902-18902/? E/AndroidRuntime:     at android.databinding.DataBindingUtil.setContentView(DataBindingUtil.java:303)
        at android.databinding.DataBindingUtil.setContentView(DataBindingUtil.java:284)

at mzz.work.login_signup.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:31)

import android.animation.Animator;
import android.animation.AnimatorListenerAdapter;
import android.content.Context;
import android.databinding.DataBindingUtil;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.view.View;

import mzz.work.login_signup.databinding.ActivityMainBinding;

import mzz.work.login_signup.login.LoginFragment;
import mzz.work.login_signup.login.SignUpFragment;

import static android.view.View.INVISIBLE;
import static android.view.View.VISIBLE;
import static mzz.work.login_signup.FlexibleFrameLayout.ORDER_LOGIN_STATE;
import static mzz.work.login_signup.FlexibleFrameLayout.ORDER_SIGN_UP_STATE;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private static final String TAG = "MainActivity";
    private ActivityMainBinding binding;
    private boolean isLogin = true;
    Context ctx = this;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        binding = DataBindingUtil.setContentView(this, R.layout.activity_main);

        LoginFragment topLoginFragment = new LoginFragment();
        SignUpFragment topSignUpFragment = new SignUpFragment();
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                .replace(R.id.login_fragment, topLoginFragment)
                .replace(R.id.sign_up_fragment, topSignUpFragment)
                .commit();

        binding.loginFragment.setRotation(-90);

        binding.button.setOnSignUpListener(topSignUpFragment);
        binding.button.setOnLoginListener(topLoginFragment);
        binding.button.setOnButtonSwitched(new OnButtonSwitchedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onButtonSwitched(boolean isLogin) {
                binding.getRoot()
                        .setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(
                                ctx,
                                isLogin ? R.color.colorPrimary : R.color.secondPage));
            }
        });

        binding.loginFragment.setVisibility(INVISIBLE);
    }

    @Override
    public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus) {
        super.onWindowFocusChanged(hasFocus);
        binding.loginFragment.setPivotX(binding.loginFragment.getWidth() / 2);
        binding.loginFragment.setPivotY(binding.loginFragment.getHeight());
        binding.signUpFragment.setPivotX(binding.signUpFragment.getWidth() / 2);
        binding.signUpFragment.setPivotY(binding.signUpFragment.getHeight());
    }

    public void switchFragment(View v) {
        if (isLogin) {
            binding.loginFragment.setVisibility(VISIBLE);
            binding.loginFragment.animate().rotation(0).setListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter() {
                @Override
                public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
                    super.onAnimationEnd(animation);
                    binding.signUpFragment.setVisibility(INVISIBLE);
                    binding.signUpFragment.setRotation(90);
                    binding.wrapper.setDrawOrder(ORDER_LOGIN_STATE);
                }
            });
        } else {
            binding.signUpFragment.setVisibility(VISIBLE);
            binding.signUpFragment.animate().rotation(0).setListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter() {
                @Override
                public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
                    super.onAnimationEnd(animation);
                    binding.loginFragment.setVisibility(INVISIBLE);
                    binding.loginFragment.setRotation(-90);
                    binding.wrapper.setDrawOrder(ORDER_SIGN_UP_STATE);
                }
            });
        }

        isLogin = !isLogin;
        binding.button.startAnimation();
    }

}

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        compileSdkVersion 29

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Recently updated my bios to the latest version, boots to windows just fine.
I just got my liquid cooler and was looking to OC my cpu more.
Yesterday I restarted and pressed "f2" to get to my bios, I got the Windows Boot Manager screen.
I did another restart, pressed "esc" this time, got Windows Boot Manager.
If I press "f8" with a windows disk in or usb it will boot to it... but I'm not given any options to choose.
I reset my cmos (twice now). Nothing.
Any help would be awesome because I'm feeling pretty helpless at this point.
Have you tried tapping the Delete key during boot? Most motherboard default to Delete key along with any other key that they make available. Try booting up while tapping the delete key.
Certainly one of those moments when I feel like a complete dunce.


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Psychic is a broad term describing a person who uses one of the "Clairs" as a tool and/or any combination of different media to communicate with energy. These are the tools I employ as a Psychic.
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What if I want to know about the future?
If I see future information in the consultation, I will mention it. If not, I won't go searching. I only communicate information that is ready for communication. I do this out of deep respect for the individual's timeline process for growth and healing.
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If you see something I don't like, can I change it?
Yes! Information communicated in a consultation is a trampoline of knowledge empowering you to create the life you want. Make changes and adjustments, explore your free will, and have the discipline to control your trajectory in life.
Out of all the information you see, how do you choose which information to share?
I choose to communicate information that is relative to your growth and healing in the present moment. I consider all other information as neutral and released for utilization at a more appropriate time.
What is better for a consultation, in person or over the phone?
I read energy and communicate with spirits in a manner that is not dependent on location. Therefore, the quality of connection and information provided is as thorough over the phone as in person. I have formed very enriching relationships with clients located around the world. As my Testimonials will support.
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Normally clients schedule consultations between 1-4 times a year, depending on their planning and growth needs. When clients are moving through change, they will normally schedule a couple times a month during that period. At that time, I usually recommend my Mentorship program as it offers continued support and tools that empower the client to trust themselves and their trajectory.
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First question, is your friend/partner/loved one open to the experience? Gifting a consultation is not a good energetic match to someone that does not want to be involved in the experience. Therefore, ask the person if they would like a consultation first before volunteering them.
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My job is to communicate what I see in the consultation. Your job is to take that information and make it work for you to the best of your ability. Will there be information I miscommunicate? That is entirely possible as I am human and fallible just like everyone else. However, my intention is to work hard for every client by communicating as efficiently and accurately as possible.
Why do different psychics communicate different information?
As every individual is different, so is every psychic. We each have our unique manner of communicating information and interpretation of the information we are receiving. Normally though, if you were to go to a few reputable psychics and ask the same questions each time, there would be similar themes in how the questions were answered.
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A hearty bowl of sweet potatoes, caramelized onions and spinach topped with 2 sunny-side up eggs and your choice of breakfast meat.
Shiitake mushroom cream gravy served over two open-faced biscuits, comes with 2 eggs any style and your choice of breakfast meat.
Three griddle pancakes served with 100% Vermont maple syrup, 2 eggs any style and your choice of breakfast meat.
Yogurt topped with our house-made granola, with dried mango, banana chips and candied lime zest.
A rich, creamy crab dip with pepper jack cheese and lump crab meat. Served with plantain chips.
Our salty and sweet fries smothered in our house-made cheese sauce, topped with Applewood smoked blue cheese and scallions.
Cuban pork, cheese, brown gravy, and black pepper aioli.
Crispy brussel sprouts tossed in a citrus vinaigrette with toasted almonds and dried mango.
2 crab cakes on a bed of dressed greens topped with sofrito.
Spinach, roasted beets, avocado, feta, toasted almonds, and red onion with charred citrus vinaigrette.
Mixed greens, red onion, shredded carrots, avocado, diced tomato, bell peppers, and shredded cheese with fresh herb ranch.
House-made Cuban bread, 14-hour roasted pork, ham, Swiss cheese, dill pickles and French's mustard all pressed to perfection. Served with plantain chips.
Not your conventional "veggie burger" this plant-based meat is for meat lovers and vegans alike. Served with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle and cheddar, Swiss or vegan cheese.
Locally sourced premium ground chuck and brisket patty, served on seeded bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle and cheddar or Swiss. Served with fries.
Premium ground chuck and brisket patty topped with Applewood smoked blue cheese, caramelized onions, and 2 strips of bacon. Served with fries.
Our dairy-free take on classic chicken salad made with avocado, roasted chicken, red bell pepper, and lime. Served with potato salad.
Your choice of white or wheat bread piled high with roasted chicken, 2 strips of bacon, fried egg, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion. Served with potato salad.
Cheddar, Swiss and American cheese on white or wheat bread. Served with fries or soup of the day.
Yellow rice, black beans, fried plantain wedges and vegetable of the day.
A premium beef patty smothered in brown gravy, mushrooms and sauteed onions, over mashed potatoes. Served with peas and pearl onions.
We proudly serve cage-free eggs in all our dishes!
2 pieces of your own choice.
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Lie #3: U.S. corporations need a tax break in order to be globally competitive. Baloney. The "competitiveness" of American corporations is becoming a meaningless term because most big U.S. corporations are no longer American companies at all. The biggest have been creating way more jobs abroad than in the U.S.
A growing percent of their customers are outside the U.S. Their investors are global. They do their R&D all over the world. And they park their profits wherever taxes are lowest — another reason they pay so little in taxes. (Don't be fooled that a "tax amnesty" that will bring all that money back to America and generate lots of new investments and jobs here — see item #2 above).
Corporations want corporate tax reduction to be the centerpiece of "tax reform" come the fall. The President has already signaled a willingness to sign on in return for more infrastructure investment. But the arguments for corporate tax reduction are specious.
You want to preserve our AAA bond rating and rescue our crashing economy? Simple: spend less and sharply reduce taxes. The more we reduce taxes, the stronger and faster our economy will grow. The US has one of the highest corporate tax rates of all industrialized nations.
Almost all taxes would come way down with the below listed plan. And all else is rhetoric! Forget about the Democrat's pie in the sky "investments" in health care, high speed rail, solar, wind and biofuels. These are but big government, Chicago type pay to play scams!
To revitalize our crushed economy, we must sacrifice the sacred cows. The sacred cows being the phony war on drugs, the phony wars in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and the corrupt Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs.
• Repeal Obamacare, immediately….why spend a trillion dollars to buy health care for the 32 million Americans who are currently receiving it for free right now? The looming taxes to support Obama's socialization of American medicine have sent a negative message to small businesses and financial markets alike. The repeal of Obamacare would send a positive message to these entities.
•	Give current Medicaid and Medicare recipients vouchers and let them purchase whatever health insurance fits their needs…this would cut the cost of these corrupt programs by an amazing 70%…and, would lower the health care costs for the rest of us by a whopping 50%! It's called "cost shifting" and is the reason your health care costs are currently so high.
• Enforceable, meaningful deductibles and co-pays would return Medicare and Medicaid patients to the real world medical marketplace! And would simultaneously cut the cost of commercial health insurance for the rest of us by 50%.
• Recognizing the BCBS scam that Kathleen Sebelius and her lawyer pals ran in Kansas and in most other states, for years: issue a federal mandate that would allow patients to cross state lines, in order to purchase more competitive health insurance.
•	Sell all the government hospitals…Army, Navy, Air Force, VA, US Public Health Service…sell all the government hospitals to the highest bidder…and instead, give this group of patients commercial health insurance vouchers. In many cases, these patients would end up using the same doctors, nurses and hospitals but in more polite, goals oriented, professional settings.
•	Scrap the phony trillion dollar Medicare prescription drug program that Cheney, Rice and the rest of the Bush Crime Family left us with. . Instead, let the seniors buy the safer, much less expensive generic drugs.
• Scrap the (Chinese) wind farm and gasohol programs. These programs are not, and never will be, cost effective. If economically viable, let them stand on their own…without any government subsidy.
• Tell OPEC where to get off by imposing an adjustable energy import tax. The less you charge us, the less we tax your products. And vice versa…..
• Open up the Dakotas, west Texas and elsewhere for more horizontal drilling, in order to tap our nation's vast untapped natural gas and petroleum reserves.
• Structure gasoline and diesel road taxes so as to encourage the use of our abundant natural gas resources for surface transportation.
• Abolish redundant, counterproductive programs: Departments of: Homeland Security, Education, Labor, Energy, Commerce, ATF, IRS, TSA and Federal Courts.
• Remove all unions from all mass transit in America. Tell transit workers that efficient, privately run mass transit, free of unions, is a matter of national survival.
•	Begin war crime trials for those who corruptly got us into these unconstitutional foreign entanglements. Specifically the Bush Crime Family and the Clinton Crime Family Send such people a message: no more foreign wars when our strategic national interests are not at stake. We can no longer afford to be the world's policeman.
• Call a halt to the phony war on drugs and the corrupt judicial-prison industry that it supports. It's a war on our own citizens. The war on drugs has several purposes, but the main reason is an excuse to beef up the police into a paramilitary force. It's a total scam. The politicians want to claim they're tough on crime. We all know, the fact that drugs are illegal drives the price up. High prices create crime.
Do these things and, bingo, our economy self rights itself almost overnight. Or continue with the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama pie in the sky programs and we are cooked.
Okay Professor, how can this message go outbound to the masses? Because the money is in the corporate coffers to continue to drown out the truth, do we to need stand on every corner so that people on the ground can get educated?
The moment Citizens United was decided, our United States Congress, Supreme Court and Military-Industrial Complex were sold to the highest bidder and all principles, rules or beliefs that governed our behavior were abandoned. Now, our children are facing a future of economic and social chaos, unless their elders are willing to stand-up like the adults, we are suppose to be.
Okay, the Prof's voice represents a sober assessment; people like me are informed. But what's next? I feel more hopeless because politics are played by who has power and they will do best to make sure board and majority share holders are happy (meaning more luxury spending for them). What's your view, Prof? What can we do? Go on 'Occupy', or be part of the band wagon to be as corrupted as they are, and one day live in a Hillsborough house thinking that once I was on the side of the Prof?


I am greatly blessed to have a teenage daughter who has remained a voracious reader, however we run into the problem of finding enough books for the girl to read. Amber adores historical fiction from almost any time period, but prefers her books to be a series where she can spend time with familiar characters. Every year I start a new quest for fiction books to supplement our history studies.
Recently, we were given the fantastic opportunity to review a book of our choice from the six book Our America series by Susan Kilbride. This theme fits perfectly with our history study for the year and we were already a fan of Susan Kilbride's Science Unit Studies for Homeschoolers and Teachers. Amber chose to start with the very first book in the Our America series, The Pilgrim Adventure.
For the purpose of the review I received the Kindle edition of The Pilgrim Adventure. It also is available as a paperback book from multiple book sellers. As a bonus, if you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, this book is part of that service!
The Our America series books are designed for children ages 10 through 13, however at age 13 Amber says she would definitely be able to enjoy it for at least several more years. It was not a difficult read for Amber, yet she said it was comparable to most other books written to her age group. She read the book on her iPad using the Kindle app and completed the 156 page book in approximately 2 hours.
The first book in the series, The Pilgrim Adventure, sees the main characters, twins named Finn & Ginny, back in time at the Mayflower. They are searching for their parents who have become lost in time. However, their time machine will eventually send them home, so they travel through American history on borrowed time searching for their lost parents.
The Pilgrim Adventure weaves accurate historical facts through a fictional story with mystery elements. Amber says the book was intriguing and she so loved the mix of fictional story and factual information. It was interesting enough to keep Amber's attention, but not so long and overly detailed to lose her interest. Although each installment in the Our America series could be read as a stand alone book, Amber feels most readers will want to select The Pilgrim Adventure first in order to better understand the characters.
Despite having studied the pilgrims several times in the past and currently studying them again, Amber discovered The Pilgrim Adventure to include numerous details and smaller events in the pilgrims' lives which she had not read in any other book. She found it refreshing to see a new perspective on the pilgrim existence, while the hint of mystery over the twins' parents kept the fictional aspect of the story going well. Although I did not personally read the book, I know most of plot intricacies due to Amber's enthusiastic descriptions.
Each book in the series also has a free PDF of hands-on activities related to the time period available at the Funtastic Unit Studies website. We enjoyed working on the family tree project from The Pilgrim Adventure activities and I finally learned how to play Quoits. The activities are all fun and appropriate for the target age of the books.
The Pilgrim Adventure is a great start to what we hope is an equally intriguing series. After finishing the book, Amber immediately asked for the rest of the series. She said it reminds her of a grown-up style Magic Tree House book. We all lamented the day when it became clear she was too old for the Magic Tree House series, so of course I will be downloading the rest of the Our America series shortly.
My daughter adores this series!


It is easy to get access to Secret Dev Test QA Area in Fallout 4. Want to know how you can get access to this secret area in Fallout 4? The good news is that the console command "coc qasmoke" from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim works in Fallout 4 and it gives player access to the Secret Dev Test QA area. Those who are unaware of how to access or activate this "CONSOLE", all you need to do is press the TILDE KEY next to 1 and use this "coc qasmoke" command.
Want to know what exactly this Secret Dev Test QA contains: "access to different Crafting stations: all bottleheads, all consumables, all scrap, all Holotype games, all books, all weapons including the rarest one, all different armor, all power suits" and many other stuffs. Check out the video below for more details. Have you discover any other Fallout 4 Console Command? if yes, let us know in the comment section below.


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•	Following last week's visit of the "Hebridean Sky" Scrabster harbour welcomed another cruise ship to port this week, with the arrival of the "Pacific Princess" which can carry up to 820 passengers, plus crew. Once again a number of passengers came ashore to visit local attractions, some taking advantage of the ongoing shuttle bus service made possible through CNSRP partner Highland Council. Next week sees the two final scheduled visits of what looks like being a good season for cruise ships at Scrabster. The visits of the "Amadeus" and "Oriana" could bring a potential 2,500 passengers (plus crews) into Caithness!
•	We had a productive meeting this week on the subject of developing career skills for young people. Colleagues from CNSRP partner Skills Development Scotland and Marcus Mennie from Caithness Chamber of Commerce took part, and we focused on how the Developing the Young Workforce initiative was making inroads into some key issues. It is good to see that the Chamber's initiative is making good progress, and even providing some best practice for other areas of the country. We also looked at specific elements where SDS activities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands may offer useful lessons.


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In Texas, if you're renting an apartment, townhouse, or small home, you need affordable electricity that fits your lifestyle, budget, and lease term. That's why it's smart to shop for an electricity plan designed especially with renters in mind. Apartment electricity plans have better prices at lower electricity usage levels and shorter available contract lengths so that you can stay flexible and stay in budget.
Around 85% of Texas residents must choose an electricity provider. Utility companies transmit and distribute electricity to customers. But that electricity doesn't come from a utility—it comes from companies known as Retail Electric Providers. These providers offer competitive plans based on electricity pricing, term length, renewable sourcing and more.
More than two dozen electric cooperatives provide power to rural customers and residents of many South Dakota towns. Each customer is a member and owner of the co-op. The business of the co-op is directed by its general manager and governed by a board of directors, elected by its membership. Three power cooperatives – Basin, East River and Rushmore – are generation and transmission cooperatives. These organizations provide electricity to their member co-ops that, in turn, deliver the power to their customers.
If you would rather have a steady rate and not think about twice about starting a load of laundry at 6:30pm versus 7:30pm, Direct Energy's standard, 12-month, fixed-rate plan Live Brighter runs at an affordable 7.99 cents per kWh. Again, using 1,000 kWh per month would add up to a yearly total of $958.80 — higher than both Free Nights and Free Weekends, but also a lot simpler.
Even though customers in deregulated Texas markets routinely pay more for electricity, there is a bright spot. The gap between the average price paid for electricity between deregulated and regulated market has shrunk to 8.8 percent. In 2006, customers in deregulated cities were paying nearly 47 percent more for electricity than their counterparts in regulated cities.
The takeaway here is simple. As is the case in Washington and Iceland, if a state or country has an abundance of natural resources, it should take advantage of them to drive down the price of a kWh to attract businesses. Diversification is especially essential where possible. Without businesses and industries paying to draw power from the electrical grid, the local economy stagnates.
A lot of these financial structures ultimately boil down to being a form of government guarantee, which means that they can't be scaled up to "solve" countries' power problems because the governments cannot carry all the liabilities. Countries try to introduce the private sector into power generation precisely to reduce such guarantees, which then end up returning through the back door in the form of government support.
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Ryan's decision comes a week after Democrats disrupted House activities with a nearly 26-hour sit-in demanding action on gun control. It's unclear whether Ryan's proposal would include the broad "no fly, no buy" proposal Democrats have supported or a more limited version endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office said Ryan may well offer the NRA-backed version, which puts the burden on the government to prove that someone on a terror watch list should not have a gun.
"House Democrats will keep up our efforts to push for the majority to allow a vote on gun violence legislation, but bringing up a bill authored by the NRA just isn't going to cut it," said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Pelosi.
The NRA-blessed version failed to secure enough votes in the Senate last week, but so did a Democrat-supported measure that banned sales to suspected terrorists unless they could prove they didn't belong on the watch list.
On the call, Ryan said it was common sense that suspects on terror watch lists should not be able to buy guns, but the Wisconsin Republican wants to be sure that any provision protects due process for people who may mistakenly be added to such lists.
Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer office said the Democratic caucus was looking forward to reviewing Ryan's proposal.
"We will also be urging the Speaker to allow for an open process that provides House Democrats with a chance to file amendments and have a vote on the bipartisan 'No Fly, No Buy' bill," said Mariel Saez, a spokeswoman for Hoyer said.
With Democrats vowing to continue their protests , House GOP leaders are considering their options on how to proceed, Ryan said on the phone call.
Ryan told his colleagues that they are getting recommendations from the sergeant-at-arms and the parliamentarians, and that House Republicans will take any actions they deem necessary, according to the source on the call.


This is a great example of how pasta can be tossed with any number of yummy things and then rounded out with oil and Parmesan cheese to make a really satisfying and easy meal.
The original recipe called for spaghetti, but as much as I like spaghetti with tomato sauce, I didn't like it here; it makes it hard to toss well enough to fully integrate everything, plus all the good stuff (tomatoes, artichokes, olives) fall to the bottom of the dish. So, despite the photo we have here, I prefer a medium-sized pasta for this.
We had this last weekend, along with a spring salad of greens and grilled asparagus topped with Parmesan cheese.
Cook pasta until al dente. Drain, reserving a cup of pasta water.
In a large skillet, heat onion and garlic with ~1 tablespoon olive oil over medium-high heat. Season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally until browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Add wine and cook until evaporated, about 2 minutes.
Stir in artichokes and cook until starting to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Add olives and half of the tomatoes; cook until tomatoes start to break down, 1 to 2 minutes. Add pasta to skillet. Stir in remaining tomatoes, ~1 T oil, cheese, and basil. Thin with some of reserved pasta water if necessary to coat the spaghetti. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with extra Parmesan cheese.


Click the link below to learn how yoga can make you healthier and other health facts. Have you tried yoga? Do you love it or hate it? Share your opinions with us in the comments field below.
Many people are attracted to yoga as a way to keep their bodies lean, supple and fit. Some try it in order to get relief from stiffness, pain and tension.
September is National Yoga Month. If you are new to yoga, start slowly and take your time to learn the poses.
Yoga is popular for rejuvenating minds, bodies and spirits in today's fast-paced society. Most traditional yoga styles don't raise the heart rate high enough or long enough to be a substitute for cardio exercise, but yoga is a natural complement to both cardio and strength workouts.
Yoga can provide a deeper stretch than traditional stretching moves. With age and overuse, hips, hamstrings, ankles, knees and even feet need more attention. The gentle, low-impact yoga postures will help stretch and tone muscles, relieve muscular tension, increase elasticity, lubricate joints and keep ligaments healthy.
Not only does yoga enhance flexibility, but it also teaches deep breathing techniques that calm and cleanse the body and mind. When paired with poses, yoga breathing techniques expand your lung capacity and improve the flow of energy within the body. This can improve circulation, help you gain strength and build endurance.
Since yoga is also a stress fighter, practicing it naturally lowers cortisol levels and increases a sense of self-esteem.
Globally, newborn deaths decreased from 4.6 million in 1990 to 3.3 million in 2009, but fell slightly faster since 2000. More investment into health care for women and children in the last decade when the United Nations Millennium Development Goals were set, contributed to more rapid progress for the survival of mothers (2.3 percent per year) and children under the age of five (2.1 percent per year) than for newborns (1.7 percent per year).
Endorphins released during cardiovascular exercise will naturally elevate your mood and increase your energy levels.
Cardio-based workouts kick up your metabolism rate so weight loss will be easier to achieve.
Cardio exercise helps reduce symptoms of anxiety, stress, depression and tension, and it allows for better quality of sleep.
2: Two doses of the human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix were found to be as effective as the current standard three-dose regimen after four years of follow-up, according to researchers from the National Cancer Institute. Worldwide, about 250,000 women die from the disease. Even in wealthier countries such as the United States, few adolescent females complete the entire course of three vaccinations.
Updated flu vaccine recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics stress the importance of getting a new flu shot this season – even for children who received one last year. The 2011-12 flu vaccine protects against the same three influenza strains as last year's vaccine. But because a person's immunity drops by as much as 50 percent 6-12 months after vaccination, it's important to receive another dose this year to maintain optimal protection. This is only the fourth time in the past 25 years that the composition of the trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine has remained the same for a second year.
Nearly 70 percent of people being treated for rheumatoid arthritis experience pain, stiffness or fatigue on a daily basis. However, many patients don't realize that better communication with their rheumatologist could lead to improved care. Studies have shown that earlier treatment of RA can limit joint damage, which can limit loss of movement.
"Talking to your doctor and effectively communicating how RA affects your life are keys to improving the management of your disease," says Dr. John H. Klippel, CEO of the Arthritis Foundation. "Patients need to recognize that the rheumatologist has the very same goal as they do - to understand how RA affects their life and to develop a plan to manage their disease."


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National Crime Agency
Rise in school cyber crime attacks sparks NCA education drive
A new initiative to divert young people away from criminality has been launched after cyber attacks designed to block access to schools' networks or websites more than doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Data from the National Crime Agency's National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) shows there was a 107 per cent increase in reports from the police cyber prevent network of students as young as nine deploying DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks from 2019 to 2020.
Many referrals into the NCCU's Prevent team are for children of secondary school age, with the median age at 15 and the youngest at nine.
Now the NCA and Schools Broadband, part of the Talk Straight Group, have launched a new initiative aimed to educate students who search for terms associated with cyber crime on school computers.
Instead of reaching an access denied 'block' page, students will instead see a warning message and suggested redirection to the Cyber Choices website (www.cyberchoices.uk), which aims to educate children of all ages about the Computer Misuse Act, cyber crime and its consequences.
Often referrals involve the use of stresser or booster services. These services cause DDoS attacks, denying access to a network or website of an organisation, and can cause major disruption to schools and colleges.
The initiative, which has been in trial stages, has shown a significant reduction in stresser and booster searches over a period of four weeks.
It will now go live in excess of 2,000 primary and secondary schools ahead of a roll out to further schools and colleges across the country.
John Denley, Deputy Director of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit, said:
"Education is a key pillar in preventing crime and these messages highlight the risks and consequences of committing cyber offences, which can result in a criminal record.
"Law enforcement plays a critical role in tackling cybercrime and keeping the country safe. School outreach is important to educate a younger audience and this initiative will continue to help divert young people away from criminality.
"This is a great example of the private sector helping us deliver the Cyber Choices message."
Damian Hinds, Security Minister, said:
"Tackling cybercrime is at the heart of the Government's new National Cyber Strategy.
"We need to equip this generation with the best digital skills and to assist them in making the right choices online.
"It's great to see cooperation between law enforcement and the private sector in delivering important initiatives like this one to prevent students from getting involved in cybercrime."
David Tindall, CEO of Talk Straight, said:
"By working in partnership with the National Crime Agency, we are helping to make the online world a more secure place. We're building not just safety into our web filtering, but education too, helping combat potential criminal activity proactively instead of tackling it afterwards.
"If we can educate children and inform them that these activities are dangerous and can result in criminal prosecution, we can potentially prevent a future cyber criminal.
"This is our contribution, to prevent a ripple effect of online criminality, that has the potential to be felt beyond the individual and go nationally, and even globally."
Channel website: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/
Original article link: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/rise-in-school-cyber-crime-attacks-sparks-nca-education-drive
Most Wanted fugitive arrested in Morocco
A man wanted over a drive-by murder in Essex has been arrested in Morocco.
HIVE takedown: NCA in international operation to shut down $100m ransomware threat
An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has taken down a ransomware service used by cyber criminals to attack and extort businesses across the globe.
NCA targets crime group suspected of operating slave labour cannabis farms
Officers from the National Crime Agency have carried out a series of raids across London as part of an investigation into an organised crime group suspected of using victims of modern slavery to operate cannabis farms.
Operation Stovewood: Two men charged with abuse offences following investigations by the NCA
Two men have appeared in court charged with sexual abuse offences after two separate investigations by the National Crime Agency's Operation Stovewood team.
Four jailed in France over fatal 2020 small boat crossing
A French court has convicted and sentenced four men over their roles in an attempted small boat Channel crossing which led to the deaths of an Iranian family.
Suspicious Activity Report (SARs) Annual Report 2022
The NCA has today (24 January) published the 2022 Suspicious Activity Report (SARs) Annual Report, which features statistics covering the years 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Wanted Kurdish people smuggling boss arrested at Manchester Airport
The head of a Kurdish people smuggling ring has been arrested after going on the run prior to his sentencing.
Child rapist convicted after decades long catalogue of abuse
A National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation has seen a Lincolnshire man convicted of raping and sexually assaulting children as young as seven over a 20-year period
NCA issues warning after further arrests made from Los Angeles-London flights
National Crime Agency officers are issuing a warning to potential drug smugglers after a series of cannabis seizures were made from passengers flying from Los Angeles in the United States.


Win W Dew is a nice all-around cow. She raises nice calves and her dark brown speckled hide is unique and beautiful. She raised our best heifer in 2009, RMCC Pearl, who was sired by Drag Iron, the great DCCI sire. Her sire is over a ton and 71"+ T2T and her mother is a big, beautiful Senator daughter. She is one of our heaviest milking cows.
She currently has the second-most horn T2T of all our cows and her heifers are all targets for retention. She is red brindle and white, a beautiful cow with an awesome disposition. She is exceptionally thick, and herd calves are very marketable.
This is a great young cow that we purchased at the 2011 West Coast Texas Longhorn Sale with her beautiful little heifer "RMCC Issa's Daphnee." She is colorful and over 76" during her eighth year, and comes from some great new genetics for us. She is as good a longhorn cow as you can find for a total package female.
Her dam is a BIG framed Winchester daughter and she got some beautiful paint coloring from Bladizm. Her dam is pretty flat-horned, and should be in the 60's someday. She is packing a ton of awesome genetics from Winchester to Shadowizm and beyond. Her light brown brindle and white coloration is very appealing. Her disposition is superior.
She was the first of Hypnotic's calves not to come out pure white at birth. Her dam is a beautiful multi-colored grulla/blue roan/white/red speckled cow who is one of a kind and you have to see to believe. One grandsire for this calf is Victory Lap, the other is Shadowizm...she's stacked. Her full sister RMCC Buttons is also a foundation cow in our herd. She has the best disposition in our entire herd and her first bull calf sold as a trophy steer and was halter-broken in only a few days.
We purchased Daphnee at the 2011 West Coast Texas Longhorn Sale with her dam, K.C. Tenille. She is very colorful and a promising young cow. Her dam is well into the 70's and we are seeing her follow her in that trend. She is getting darker every day, and may end up black like her sire. She has a great deal of backwards horn growth which could produce some exciting results.
This Diablo (88" T2T) heifer has the potential to be one of the wider horned solid black cows you will find. Her disposition is great and she is packing on a lot of horn early.
An excellent yearling heifer with the most horn base of all the 2015 heifers we have. She is a growthy heifer who should produce very well.
This Red and White heifer has a huge upside. Her sire is exceptionally thick for a longhorn bull and her dam is one of the fastest growing horned cows we have. Excellent disposition here. Great early horn.
This heifer is THICK in person. Her calves will have more going for them than most in the pedigree department.
This Clear Win daughter is splashy, correct, and has a whole lot going for her. We are breeding her to the right out-crosses...should be great results!
This large-framed Cowboy Chex granddaughter is packing on the horn and rolling out now. She is getting more impressive everyday.
This beautiful silver roan/grulla cow has an outstanding disposition and truly is the total package in so many ways. She is broke to lead, knows her name, and is very pleasant to be around. When paired with RMCC bulls in years to come...watch out, the calves will be special!
This young cow has outstanding horn growth. She has everything going in the right direction. Watch for her calves from RMCC sires beginning in 2019.
For more information on any of these cows or their offspring check out our other pages on this website or contact us.
Riff-Raff is another cow we purchased from DCCI in 2008. She raises thick bulls, and her heifers possess many of her same qualities. She is another great mother. Her bulls are almost always among the first to sell.
Hypnotic possesses one of the most unique Longhorn colors, blue roan. She has one of the best dispositions of all of our cattle and her calves grow out HUGE! Her sire, Victory Lap is a well known sire who passes on excellent beef and carcass qualities. Her 2009 bull, Hipster was our biggest calf of the year, and her 2010 heifer, RMCC Buttons was one of our later calves born, and still the biggest heifer we had in 2010! Her very nice red and white speckled heifer sired by Bladizm born in 2011 is halter-broke and has been retained as a foundation cow as well. Her 2013 Iron Man heifer was HUGE at birth, and is being retained as a foundation cow.
Tarva is a beautiful black and white cow sired by Winchester. She also raises large calves and she is a large cow. She's a black Winchester daughter and we are very happy to have her in our herd. She has produced seven bull calves in seven years, we are hoping for a female soon, but she hasn't thrown anything less than a sire prospect yet either.
She is 12 times line-bred to Don Quixote. You don't get much more black genetics in the Longhorn breed than that. She had her first calf, RMCC Switch Blade, who sold as a herd sire, in March 2010, sired by Bladizm. Her 2011 bull sold as a bull also. Her dam is half-sister to Over Kill (80" T2T). Her 2013 bull sold as an elite trophy steer prospect but could have made a bull in either a registered or a commercial herd too, same for her 2014 bull. Her 2012 Heifer was sold to a registered breeder, and her 2015 and 2017 Heifers will likely be retained.
Pearl is one of the biggest and best cows in our herd. Her horn isimpressive and she is a big cow. She is out of Win W Dew, one of our best cows, and sired by Drag Iron. Drag Iron is now over 84" T2T and we feel very fortunate to have a heifer out of his first batch of calves. She is a rich red brindle with a full-figured makeup as a young cow. Contact us directly if you are interested in any of her future calves. Drag Iron is phenomenal...period. Her grandsires are Jamakizm and Win Win, talk about horn AND beef. Her 2014 bull calf sold to Guy and Vicki Packer is the real deal...sired by Grey Ghost.
She is a very thick cow. Her mother raises really big calves every year, and she has started strong as well. She is roaning out smoky blue under the white hide and is a beautiful cow. She was the first heifer born out of Bladizm. She is a prime example of what a Victory Lap daughter can produce when crossed with a good sire. This is a 60"+ true blue roan.
Chex is a beautiful young white cow with striking black points. She raises a large calf and we are excited to add her to our herd. Her calves consistently out-produce her and her milking ability is impressive.
Ricky's Girl was the first Iron Man heifer born. She is HUGE framed for a longhorn cow. She has an excellent disposition like both her dam and sire. She belongs to our 4-year old, so her bull calves are offered for sale, her and her heifers are not at this time.
Iron Maiden is a solid foundation cow for us. She is a granddaughter of Drag Iron and Win Win. Her size is impressive and her dam is one of the heaviest milking longhorns you will find. She has inherited this wonderful trait as well.
Diablo's Gal is a very exciting young cow. The largest horned of our 3 Diablo daughters (88"+ T2T), she has the potential to be the largest horned cow in our herd. She has a great pedigree with Overhead influence on her dam's side.
Thick-horned cow who raises thick calves. Her 2015 Clear Spin (by Clear Win) heifer is VERY nice. Great producing cow who has a lot of good years left in her.
This heifer was retained for the permanent herd when she hit the ground. Her dam is over 70" T2T and one of the best total package longhorn cows you will find. This will be an elite longhorn cow at maturity.
This young cow is just now getting the black horn out of her head at 34 months! She's going to start packing it on even more now. She's on pace to outgrow her dam (check her out).
Another excellent Powerstroke daughter. She has excellent maternal horn and growth.
This is the most colorful Powerstroke daughter in our herd. Her horn is exceptional, her maternal traits are stellar, and she is a great total package female.
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Can a union drive stop the Gannett-GateHouse Frankenstein? Probably not, but it might be fun to watch 'em try.
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Stephen Lemons | July 26, 2019 | 7:00am
Update, Monday, August 5: Gatehouse Media and Gannett officially announced their merger, with Gatehouse acquiring control of the new company, which will be called Gannett.
Our original story begins here:
As yet another rapacious hedge fund considers devouring the Arizona Republic's corporate parent, Gannett, the Rep's journalists, or at least some of them, may be considering the benefits of organized labor.
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One day after a Wall Street Journal article reported that Gannett, the No. 1 newspaper conglomerate in the country, was close to a merger with the No. 2 newsprint empire, GateHouse Media, Matthew Benson, a former Republic reporter-turned-PR consultant, chimed in with a curious tweet. He suggested that the Rep's scribes may soon be doing their own live re-enactment of the classic pro-union film Norma Rae.
"The biggest untold story in Arizona media?" Benson teased. "A concerted, behind-the-scenes push by [Republic] staff to unionize the state's newspaper of record. Supporters seek a vote by late summer/fall. The newsroom is divided on the effort, which comes amid merger talks & rumored layoffs."
Talk about a potential bombshell. Arizona, despite the recent Red for Ed movement, is a notoriously anti-labor, right-to-work state. And the Republic itself was run for decades by conservative newspaper magnate Eugene C. Pulliam, who was quoted once that the two things he despised most were "taxes and unions."
Fortunately, Pulliam, a great believer in the power of a free press, didn't live to see the Republic gobbled up in 2000 by the sterile bean-counters at Gannett, whose short-term corporate greed and lack of vision are emblematic of why the Fourth Estate flounders in its own obsolescence these days.
Having recently fought off a takeover bid by media bottom-feeder Digital First Media, Gannett's proposed merger with the hedge-fund-staked GateHouse would lead almost inevitably to yet more belt-tightening and redundancies to the point of absurdity.
As a result, Pulliam's ghost might applaud from the grave any newsroom rebellion, whether or not it staves off a bloodletting.
Look for the Union Label
Benson declined to comment on his July 19 tweet, but my sources have indicated that his assertion is generally correct, and that there has been a move among some in the newsroom to sign up as many prospective union members as possible in order to trigger a vote among the Rep's employees under the National Labor Relations Act.
According to the folks I've communicated with — none of whom wish to be quoted, natch — the union drive was organized by younger Republic employees. My sources also say the newsroom is indeed split between those who think the newspaper industry is a goner with or without union representation and those who see a union as the only thing standing between them and a gig delivering vittles for GrubHub.
All this said, I have not spoken with anyone directly involved in this organizing effort, nor have my calls and emails to Gannett and GateHouse's corporate offices, and to the Republic's executive editor, Greg Burton, been answered. But were the Rep's newsroom to organize, it would join a wave of newsrooms unionizing in both digital and legacy media over the last few years. Those include news sites such as Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, as well as older outlets such as the New Yorker magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the Hartford Courant.
In 2018, the news staff at the Los Angeles Times voted overwhelmingly to form the LA Times Guild, which is part of the DC-based NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America. A spring 2019 article in the industry watchdog, Nieman Reports, saw the unionization trend as a reaction to the news business' volatility. The article credited the successful union campaign at the Los Angeles Times with forcing its owner at the time, the much-hated media company Tronc (now rebranded as Tribune Publishing), to sell the paper that same year to a billionaire physician, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.
One of the leaders of that effort, LA Times Guild co-chair Carolina Miranda, told me that she believes the nearly 400 staff members at the paper are better off with the union, even though the guild is still negotiating a contract with the paper's new ownership. She said journalists can no longer be fired without cause and that the union has secured an extended pregnancy leave for employees.
"We're working right now on negotiating severance in the event of layoff or buyouts," she said. "You know, all the protections that the LA Times did not have before for its journalists."
She conceded that management can still lay people off if it wants. In one infamous example, when the digital media outlets DNAinfo and Gothamist voted to unionize in 2017, their billionaire owner, Joe Ricketts, closed down both sites, canning 115 employees in one fell swoop.
Experts say that if the Gannett-GateHouse deal goes through, carnage is guaranteed. Industry analyst Ken Doctor, writing for the Nieman Journalism Lab's website, which like Nieman Reports is part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, observes that the merged company would include "265 dailies with a combined daily print circulation of about 8.7 million," giving it ownership of one out of six daily papers in the country.
"This isn't about building a digital news juggernaut ready and eager to blaze a new chapter in American journalism," Doctor warns.
Rather, it will buy the resulting media Goliath "two or three years" until the top dogs at the company "figure it out," meaning how to make profitable newsprint's transition to digital.
Part of making the new company profitable will involve cutting. The only paper that GateHouse owns locally is the Arizona Capitol Times, a niche publication that focuses on the Legislature and state government for a narrow audience of lobbyists, politicians, and assorted insiders.
Certainly, there is some overlap in content between the Cap Times, as it's often referred to, and the Republic. But as the Cap Times' former editor Jim Small pointed out to me recently, the publication has "premium subscription products," which some readers pay a bundle for, like its gossipy-wonky newsletter, the Yellow Sheet.
Still, why couldn't those things just be absorbed locally by the Republic? Small, who is now the editor of a digital news startup, the nonprofit Arizona Mirror, said that he believes the two entities could continue to coexist and compete. Although, I would argue that stifling competition is what media mergers are all about.
As for the idea from some quarters that a GateHouse-Gannett merger might be a short-term fix for the industry, Small was dismissive of the idea that bigger is better.
"It's just a matter of time until that business model fails completely," he said. "And in the meantime, their short-term goals are to service the needs of their stockholders, right? Not to service the needs of their employees, not to service the needs of readers."
Small Is Still Beautiful
Dylan Smith, founder of a scrappy, independent news site, the Tucson Sentinel, was equally skeptical that a Gannett-Gatehouse Frankenstein monster will "figure it out," as Doctor claims.
"These companies don't care about making it work for the long run," he said. "They care about what the stock price is today, what the quarterly report looks like, how much profit they're able to ship away to their hedge fund. ... And what the bonus is going to be for every third vice president of dithering."
So true. Would a union change things? Smith doesn't think it will offer much of a speed bump to the private-equity-bankrolled GateHouse, which reportedly will be in charge if a merger is inked.
Moreover, both GateHouse and Gannett have union shops in their chains already. One more won't kill 'em.
"I wouldn't say don't do it," Smith said. "It's not going to hurt anything as far as the staff goes. I just don't know how much good will go with it."
I find myself in the same camp. I can't say that a union has ever given me a job. In fact, quite the opposite.
But if the prospect of one gives corporate behemoths like Gannett and Gatehouse heartburn, and if the Rep's young Turks have the stones to make it happen, I'll have my popcorn buttered, ready to watch the fight.
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Stephen is a former staff writer and columnist at Phoenix New Times.
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We're continuing to make games on PS Vita… we just launched a game called Freedom Wars in Japan, it's a big title dedicated to PS Vita, and it's received very well in Japan – we'll bring that to Europe and US as well. And we're making that JRPG, a very, very beautiful JRPG called Oreshika as well. And games made in Europe – Murasaki Baby is a dedicated PS Vita title that got many awards at E3.
If you're wondering what that Fat Princess PS Vita game is, it's a free-to-play title launching later this summer called Fat Princess: Piece of Cake. Already available on the Canadian App Store, Piece of Cake "takes the comic medieval battle royale to the next level with a brand-new strategic match-3 free to play puzzle game." As a bonus, when you reach level 15, you'll unlock a code to download the original Fat Princess on PS3 for free.
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La Dolce Vita University (LDVU) is the perfect sampler for anyone curious about (or already in amore with) Italy and its remarkably rich cultural gifts, both past and present. True to its lighthearted name, La Dolce Vita "U" is all about pleasurable learning, or what we prefer to call "edu-tainment." Its dozens of entertaining yet authoritative mini-essays on a wide assortment of intriguing topics encourage random dipping at the reader's pleasure. Even the most erudite Italophile will discover fun new facts and fascinating new insights in the pages of La Dolce Vita U.
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Q: how to stack two columns I have a df as this:
                                 C  CF
NO FROMNODENO TONODENO
1  1          2         582.551074   0
   2          1         809.018213   0

and I would like to obtain this:
                                   new value
NO FROMNODENO TONODENO new index
1  1          2        C          582.551074
   2          1        C          809.018213
   1          2        CF           0.000000
   2          1        CF           0.000000

Note that there could be more columns at the beginning and some of them should not change. How to do it? And how to set the name of the new index the values of which come from the labels of the stack indices?

A: Use DataFrame.rename_axis for rename last level with DataFrame.stack, for one column DataFrame use Series.to_frame:
df = df.rename_axis('new index', axis=1).stack().to_frame('new value')
print (df)
                                   new value
NO FROMNODENO TONODENO new index
1  1          2        C          582.551074
                       CF           0.000000
   2          1        C          809.018213
                       CF           0.000000

A: Can stack and unstack. Rename columns as may be appropriate
df.stack().unstack(level=0).rename(columns={1:'new value'}).reset_index()


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The decision to break up Microsoft may have been thrown out, and the judge thrown off the case, but most legal observers familiar with the strongly worded, unanimous decision in United States v. Microsoft Corp. are calling it a compelling win for the government. And many think that Microsoft is still on shaky antitrust ground.
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