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By Dane Moorefield | January 19, 2018
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The market for water is booming, but many in West Texas worry about the depletion of groundwater. But there are new market developments that could meet the demand for frack water and mitigate environmental concerns at the same time.
It takes an average of 500,000 barrels of water to frack a single oil well, according to Joshua Adler, the Founder and CEO of a startup called Sourcewater, an online marketplace for frack water.
"We're a marketplace for water logistics, so it's kind of like Expedia," explains Adler.
So, if you're in the business of fracking and need water, you simply go online, type in your location and browse nearby listings. That same user could also sell their water. The majority of the budding startup's users are in West Texas. "Our competition isn't really other technologies," says Adler. "It's the old way of doing things."
By the "old way of doing things," Adler means direct negotiations between oil and gas companies and ranchers, like Schuyler White.
"All the ranchers out here sell water if the oil companies come in and start drilling," says White.
Standing on the edge of a freshwater spring on his property in Pecos County, White recalls what happened when his neighbors started cashing in on groundwater a few years ago. "In 2014 the price of oil was really high and they were pumping a tremendous amount of frack water out west of here and that completely dried this spring up."
It's windy and overcast, but serene nonetheless. Longhorn cattle graze in the distance, and birds swoop down across the surface of the water.
"Most of the public doesn't realize how precarious our water situation is out here," says White. "They seem to think that they can keep pumping the water until there's not anymore left, but the reality is that I think we're a lot closer to running out of water than what people think.
But White's concern for groundwater is no match for the incentive to sell it. He's sold water from other properties and says he'll probably sell water from this spring as oil and gas companies expand south from the heart of the Permian Basin into other parts of West Texas.
"They're gonna get their water somewhere, and in this business you can't pass up a revenue stream because it's so hard to make a living," says White.
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Drought and consolidation have made traditional ranching activities like raising cattle increasingly difficult for small producers, and groundwater has the potential to bring in millions of dollars.
But new players, like Adler of Sourcewater, could reduce the use of groundwater in fracking."The typical oil well produces about ten times as much water as oil every day all day."
Its called produced water, and it comes from layers of rock far below the aquifers that feed springs like the one on White's property. Adler says that all that water has to go somewhere and it costs companies a lot of money. "The cost of moving around and getting rid of the water is a majority of the total cost of every barrell of oil produced."
Recycling produced water is attractive to oil and gas companies, but it comes with its own set of environmental concerns, namely groundwater contamination. Still, Texas regulators see it as an elegant market solution to growing concerns over groundwater supplies. The state started allowing recycling and transfer of produced water without a permit in April of 2013.
"Produced water, which has traditionally just been a waste stream turns into something more like a commodity that you can use for energy instead of fresh water," says Adler.
Whether it's produced water or water from the same aquifers the public relies on, Sourcewater is part of a young industry that's poised for tremendous growth.
Bluefield Research estimates a total of $136 billion dollars will be spent on supply, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of water over the next ten years. Almost 40% of that spending will come from the Permian Basin.
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Chris Carter's Millennium is about as old as the Y2K bug panic, but it hasn't been forgotten — not by the cast and crew, and not by Troy Foreman, the world's undisputed biggest fan of the show. Foreman, a network engineer-by-day/producer-by-night, recently paid homage to the 1996-1999 series by creating a documentary, Millennium After the Millennium. It's currently showing at film festivals and has so far won two film awards.
The road from fan to documentarian wasn't nearly as mysterious as the show.
For those of you who don't remember it, Millennium had a pitch-black premise: It's about a former FBI profiler who can see through the eyes of serial killers. In fact, the series was so dark, its protagonist is named Frank Black.
Foreman loved it from the premiere. "It was incredible. I was hooked on the show from that moment on," he told SYFY WIRE. "The reason Millennium resonated with me is that it was the first show that really dealt with the darkness of humanity. It still resonates."
When Millennium was canceled, he quickly purchased the DVDs.
Several years later, before yet another rewatch, he decided to search the internet for other fans. There, he found a fan campaign called Back to Frank Black—a fan effort to reignite Millennium for the 21st century, which ultimately failed. But through the campaign, met another fan, James McLean, and together they decided to create a podcast dedicated to their favorite show.
Foreman wanted to make the podcast as professional as he could, so instead of interviewing fans, he reached out to the cast and crew. "Our very first interview was Marshall Bell, the judge from the fourth episode. Once I got one under my belt, it gave me the courage to keep reaching out to other people," he explained. During their 2007-2010 podcast run, Foreman and McLean eventually interviewed almost every principal actor and crew member of the show.
Eventually, the podcast played itself out. "There's not much more you can do or say about a show that had been gone for almost 20 years," Foreman said. "We decided to end it."
But Foreman and McLean's enthusiasm still was not sated.
Foreman had enough energy for one final fan campaign. At that point, his creative partner McLean tapped out. "He wanted to go back to school, so he stepped back. I totally understood that."
So what does a network engineer know about making a documentary? Absolutely nothing. But he did know filmmaker Jason D. Morris, who had created his own Millennium fan film series, Millennium Apocalypse. With Morris' filmmaking know-how and Foreman's prior relationship with most of the cast and crew—along with help from writer Joseph Maddrey—they were able to create a tribute to the show they loved.
The film was in production for two years. "Both of us work full time," said Foreman. "[Morris] has a family with two kids." Working around their schedules and budgets, Foreman and Morris spent one year on cinematography and one year on post-production.
It was worth their time and effort. Foreman said, "I'm 100 percent thrilled with what we come up with. Fans of sci-fi and horror are going to love it. it will give you a reason to watch the show, and it won't spoil the series for you."
If the film isn't coming to a festival near you, you can purchase it online. You can also find it at some conventions: Lance Henriksen recently made space at his table for it at Horror Hound.


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Starting from absolute freedom, I arrive at absolute tyranny. —Dostoyevsky, The Devils
The unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates, but users of social media are increasingly discovering that the too-closely examined life is not worth living either; or at least, others try to make it not worth living unless one is possessed of a rhinoceros hide.
Which of us older ones would like our every past deed or utterance exposed to public view, so that people who wish us ill may use one, several, or many of them to destroy us or our careers? Is there anybody alive who does not blush to remember what he once did or said? Now, alas, people are so egotistical that they wish to commit or expose their fleeting thoughts and emotions to the public sphere. Not "I think therefore I am," but "I am observed therefore I am," seems to be the premise of modern philosophy.
A young man called Kyle Kashuv had his offer of a place at Harvard withdrawn when unnamed persons informed Harvard that two years earlier he had placed racist remarks on social media. The young man apologized as abjectly as any alleged miscreant at a Soviet show trial or during the Great Cultural Revolution in China, but it did not save him. The decision, apparently, was final.
There were undercurrents to the story. Kashuv was the pupil of a school in Florida at which a massacre took place. Thereafter, Kashuv and another pupil, David Hogg (both of whom were accepted by Harvard, though Hogg's academic qualifications were considerably below those of Kashuv, and below those normally required by Harvard), campaigned respectively for and against the right to carry a gun. Thus Harvard's decision to admit Hogg but not Kashuv could be, and of course was, interpreted as little more than an expression of political bias.
A great deal has been written about Harvard's decision. The whole situation might have been avoided if Harvard admitted students strictly according to their score on tests, in which case what Kashuv wrote two years previously would have been irrelevant; on the other hand, such strict adherence to admission by test results would, or might, result in cohorts of test-passing automata.
The most significant thing about the whole wretched episode, however, is the way in which young people seem to be creating a totalitarian environment in which they denounce one another, as Kashuv was denounced. Thus the social media that were originally going to set opinion free and give voice to everyone will end by stifling expression and creating fear.
"The social media that were originally going to set opinion free and give voice to everyone will end by stifling expression and creating fear."
Indiscretions such as Kashuv's can never be effaced, and it surprises me that so many public figures have not yet realized this and post comments that are certain to bring anathema down on them. It appears the world is full of people like Madame Defarge, who knitted the names of aristocrats at the base of the guillotine, contemplating their beheading with sadistic malice.
Denunciation is, of course, a great pleasure. It combines the delights of self-righteousness with those of revenge, sadism, and the contemplation of the discomfort or worse of other people. It requires no courage and is within the capacity of all. In Nazi Germany and Occupied France people wrote denunciations of their neighbors and others by the millions, often for the sheer pleasure of doing so and usually in the hope that they would have serious consequences for the persons denounced. The motives behind the denunciation of Kashuv are unknown—envy, revenge for some minor insult—but they are unlikely to have been glorious. It is not as yet known whether any other college will offer him a place, but it is perfectly conceivable that none will, given the sheeplike conformity that seems to have overtaken our educational institutions.
The day cannot be far off, one imagines, when people will viscerally understand the danger to themselves of saying certain things on social media and will censor themselves automatically. If this continues long enough, certain things will not only become unsayable but unthinkable, for habit eventually is transformed into character. This is the whole point of political correctness: It aims at the most radical of dictatorships, that which requires the enforcement of no police because everyone is incapable of breaking the rules.
In the meantime, the appetite for public expressions of contrition is insatiable. It is not contrition itself that is wanted, but the humiliation inflicted upon those who are forced to express it. The enjoyment is in the spectacle of the squirming of the wrongdoer. This must be so, for it is intrinsically impossible to know whether publicly expressed contrition is genuine, at least where it is or might be productive of advantages for the allegedly contrite. That is why the demand that prisoners express remorse for their crimes before they are granted parole is so wrong. It is, in effect, the demand that they be prepared to tell lies, and rewards talented liars who are most able to act contrite to our satisfaction. I have no access to Kashuv's inner state and therefore am unable to know whether his apology for his remarks, so vilely, maliciously, and perfidiously passed on to Harvard by someone to whom they were addressed, was genuine or opportunistic. Remorse and repentance are dishes best eaten in private.
The logic of the combination of social media and a taste for burning witches at the stake will reduce us to a strange state of malice and blandness. The ambitious will refrain from saying anything that could offend anyone; the blind will not lead the blind, but the bland will lead the bland. At the same time, any deviation from current orthodoxy will be punished with vengeful vituperation or worse. Moreover, the orthodoxy to be adhered to will change (just as the enemy changed during the two-minute hate sessions in Nineteen Eighty-Four) as a test of the obedience and loyalty of the population. One thing may be predicted with confidence: The politically correct will find new orthodoxies to enforce, new locutions to prescribe or proscribe, to keep decent society in a state of subliminal fear.
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13 U.K. Castles That Have Had Starring Roles in TV and Film
Lauren Cocking | July 1, 2019
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PHOTO: Brian Miller/Flickr
See the place where Kevin Costner butchered the English accent for yourself.
British and Northern Irish castles have been gracing our screens for decades, as backdrops to historical dramas, irreverent comedies, and cult-favorite British and American TV shows. Pop culture kudos aside though, mostly-magnificent U.K. castles (plus a stately home here, and a fortified manor house there) are typically worthy of a visit in their own right. But if you're dead set on tracing the footsteps of your favorite large and small screen stars (it's the second-best option, after meeting them in the flesh, right?), here are the U.K. castles to add to your vacation wish list.
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Alnwick Castle ('Harry Potter')
WHERE: Northumberland, England
Close to the Scottish border, Alnwick Castle—aka Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry—is one of Britain's most famous filming locations and the second largest inhabited castle in England. Explore the courtyard where Harry took his first flying class and snap photos of the Inner Bailey where Ron and Harry crash-landed in Chamber of Secrets. However, while Alnwick Castle is most strongly associated with the magic of Harry Potter, TV shows such as The Virgin Queen and Blackadder also filmed there.
INSIDER TIPIf you want to visit a less well-known Harry Potter filming location, the ruins of the Lochaber Rural Complex, once an important Scottish castle, were used in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
PHOTO: Nick McCann
Bamburgh Castle ('Ivanhoe')
The 11th-century Bamburgh Castle complex, now a Grade I listed building, is a stalwart of pop culture with references dating back to 13th-century literature. Flash forward to the present day though, and the castle is best known as a prolific filming location used for both King Arthur (starring Keira Knightley) and Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, as well as the 1980s epic Ivanhoe.
PHOTO: Highclere Castle
Highclere Castle ('Downton Abbey')
WHERE: Hampshire, England
In the southern county of Hampshire, England lies the appropriately regal Highclere Castle, better known as the home of Lord and Lady Grantham in ITV's Downton Abbey. It's said that the creator Julian Fellowes actually wrote Downton Abbey with Highclere in mind and scored a filming slot there—as you do—by being friends with the occupants, the Carnarvon family. Comedy fans will be equally well-served at Highclere too, as Jeeves and Wooster (the Steven Fry-Hugh Laurie TV series which ran from 1990 to 1993) was also filmed there.
INSIDER TIPHighclere Castle only opens to the public for roughly 70 days out of the year, so plan your trip accordingly. Alternatively, stop by Lincoln Castle, the "prison" in which Mr. Bates is locked away.
PHOTO: Leeds Castle Foundation
Leeds Castle ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age')
WHERE: Kent, England
Leeds Castle—which is, confusingly, situated in the southern county of Kent rather than the northern city of Leeds—is a stalwart on the filming location scene, having featured in The Moonraker (1958) and a retro 70s episode of Doctor Who, "The Androids of Tara." In recent years though, Castle Leeds served as one of the (many) British filming locations for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
INSIDER TIPLeeds Castle's tagline is, rather charmingly, "The Loveliest Castle in the World," thanks to a quote from historian Lord Conway.
PHOTO: Powderham Castle
Powderham Castle ('The Remains of the Day')
WHERE: Devon, England
Adapted from a Kazuo Ishiguro novel of the same name and starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, the award-winning film The Remains of the Day (1993) used many Powderham Castle interiors. Keep your eyes peeled for the master bedroom, staircase, and sweeping hallway, as well as the music room of this fortified manor house the next time you re-watch the post-war classic—or just visit them for yourself!
PHOTO: ©English Heritage
Dover Castle ('The Other Boleyn Girl')
WHERE: Dover, England
Serious Shakespearean dramas (like Mel Gibson's Hamlet), as well as slapstick comedies and historical romances, have all been filmed at Dover Castle over the years, with the imposing edifice most commonly serving as a stand-in for the Tower of London. In fact, that was exactly the case in The Other Boleyn Girl, although it wasn't the first film to engage in such location deception at Dover Castle, as Kevin and Perry Go Large got there first.
PHOTO: © 2014 Mike Blythe
Eilean Donan Castle ('Highlander')
WHERE: The Scottish Highlands
You may never have heard of it, but Eilean Donan Castle—situated on an island at the meeting point of Lochs Duich, Long and —is prolific in the filming world. Not only did it serve as the Clan MacLeod home in Highlander, as well as an MI6 location headquarters in the Bond film The World is Not Enough, it was also the groom's home in Made of Honor and Fotheringay Castle in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Perhaps most surprisingly of all though, this Scottish Highlands castle even showed up as a backdrop in Bollywood film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998).
PHOTO: Mike Kipling Photography/CastleHoward
Castle Howard ('Brideshead Revisited')
WHERE: North Yorkshire, England
While Castle Howard is technically a stately home—and a huge one at that—it's got "castle" in its name, so we'll let it slide. Most famously used in the 1980's TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, Castle Howard was then used again in 2008 for the Emma Thompson fronted film of the same name. Visitors to this one-time cult favorite "castle" can now wander the grounds and enjoy afternoon tea.
PHOTO: Visit Scotland
Doune Castle ('Outlander')
WHERE: Stirling, Scotland
Outlander—the Scotland-set historical drama that took the world by storm when adapted for TV in 2014—has also spawned more Game of Thrones-esque filming location tours than you can shake a stick at. However, you can go it alone to Castle Leoch, the home of Jamie's uncle, Colum Mackenzie, aka the 14th-century Doune Castle in Stirling, Scotland. Before Outlander became the series to associate with Doune Castle though, parts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as well as Ivanhoe (1952) were also filmed there.
INSIDER TIPOutlander used more than one Scottish castle during filming. Stop by the ship-shaped, 15th-century fortress Blackness Castle—"Black Jack" Randall's Fort William base—or get a closer look (from the outside only) at "Lallybroch" at Midhope Castle on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Arundel Castle ('Wonder Woman')
WHERE: Sussex, England
Established on Christmas Day 1067, damaged in the English Civil War, and most recently restored in the 19th century, Arundel Castle is also somewhat surprisingly the site of a few Wonder Woman (2017) scenes, including the moment Gal Gadot's Diana Prince arrives at the ball, a sword between her shoulder blades.
PHOTO: Dun.can (CC BY 2.0)/Flickr
Belvoir Castle ('The Da Vinci Code')
WHERE: Leicestershire, England
While Dan Brown, Ron Howard, or The Da Vinci Code fans may be more interested in exploring the French filming locations of the blockbusting 2006 film—like the Louvre—UK-based explorers should stop by the Grade I Listed Belvoir Castle. After all, it's not every day you get to explore the Pope's summer residence—or rather, the castle which stood in for Castel Gandolfo on the silver screen.
INSIDER TIPBelvoir Castle was also used in Young Sherlock Holmes and The Young Victoria.
Wardour Castle ('Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves')
WHERE: Wiltshire, England
Built for Lord Lovel in the 14th century, Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, England would eventually become "Locksley Castle" in a movie with one of the most infamously terrible English accents ever—Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Thanks, Kevin Costner! It took some clever camera angling to make this castle look somewhat intact though, given that it's been damaged since the 17th century and is very much considered a ruin.
PHOTO: gareth.j0nes/Flickr
Broughton Castle ('Jane Eyre')
WHERE: Oxfordshire, England
More a medieval fortified manor than a true turrets-and-all castle, Broughton Castle is now a Grade II Listed building which opens to the public in the summer months. However, a decade or so ago, it was used as the filming location for Jane Eyre (2011) movie, where Broughton Castle exteriors stand-in for Lowood School. Meanwhile, some of the interiors were used for Thornfield Hall.
INSIDER TIPShakespeare in Love, the film that won Gwyneth Paltrow an Oscar, also used exterior shots of Broughton Castle.
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The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority (NHHFA) has a program that can save many home buyers thousands of dollars in federal income taxes during the life of their loan. The program is called the Home Start Homebuyer Tax Credit Program.
It provides participants with a "home buyer tax credit"… also known as a Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC).
Participation is available to eligible first-time homebuyers, as well as existing home owners who purchase properties that are located in certain designated communities.
What do applicants have to do to start saving?
Assuming the applicant meets the program eligibility requirements, the next question is: how does the program work?
The program actually provides the participant with a dollar-for-dollar tax credit against the mortgage interest being paid… up to a maximum of $2,000 annually. So it is not a tax deduction, where you would reduce the income you claim by $2,000 and realize a tax savings of, say, $500… this program will actually put $1 back in your pocket for every $1 you pay in mortgage interest, to a maximum of $2,000/yaer.
An added benefit to this particular program is Home Start participants do not have to wait until the start of the subsequent year (when they file their federal tax return) to realize the benefits of this program. The program allows participants to adjust their payroll tax withholdings – in that way they are able to increase their weekly "take-home pay". The increased earnings allows participants to qualify more readily for a mortgage, and for a larger mortgage than they might otherwise qualify. Participants can then use the extra money to help make the mortgage payment.
Disclaimer: I am neither a tax advisor nor an attorney. Consumers are urged to speak with their attorney, their tax advisor or their mortgage broker about the program and how they may benefit from it.


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Semple faces questioning over policy proposal
Abigail Semple (left), Raz Moayed (middle), and Will Palauskas (right) discuss Semple's policy proposal at joint session. Christopher Van Buskirk / Beacon Staff
By Andrew Brinker, Senior Investigative Reporter
The Student Government Association clashed on Tuesday over Executive Treasurer Abigail Semple's funding proposal that would prohibit student organizations from charging admissions or submissions fees for events.
The joint session meeting, which comes in advance of the Financial Advisory Board's scheduled Thursday vote on the proposal, featured an intense 25-minute discussion regarding the policy.
Semple's proposal caused intense scrutiny in the weeks after its introduction at the beginning of the semester, as it would remove a key source of funding for multiple student organizations. The proposal states that if an organization receives funding through the appeals process they cannot charge any sort of participation fee.
The EVVYs raises more than any other organization from participation fees—around $25,000—according to the organization's Executive Technical Producer Leo Duch Clerici.
Each year, the EVVYs appeal for around $30,000 to put on the annual awards show. Should Semple's policy be enacted, the organization would be forced to appeal for approximately $55,000.
Semple said she could not guarantee that SGA would fully compensate any organization losing money from her proposal.
The policy could, therefore, leave some organizations underfunded.
Other organizations that could lose funding as a result of the policy include the Musical Theater Society, The Emerson Green Gala, EBONI, and Ribbons on the Runway.
Presentations from both Semple and Executive Vice President Will Palauskas headlined Tuesday's meeting. Semple advocated for the policy with her presentation while Palauskas outlined the dangers of the proposal
"I think that this policy blindsides organizations that depend on us," Palauskas said. "They rely on us to provide them that funding and give them those appeals that they need to put on these great, sometimes nationally recognized events."
Following Palauskas' presentation, members began questioning some of the specifics of the policy, including a line of questions regarding whether or not SGA could afford to fully fund organizations after the loss of ticket sales.
Members also questioned whether the new policy would still leave the leftover $25,000 that SGA used last year to create a scholarship for students with financial need. It is unclear whether or not they would be able to do so.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Semple noted in an interview with The Beacon that the proposal was subject to change during Thursday's FAB meeting—highlighting the potential of a cap on ticket prices instead of a total ban on admission fees.
When asked about her confidence in the proposal's ability to pass, Semple remained optimistic.
"Fundamentally, the issue is that when students pay a student participant participation fee, that is their fee to participate in campus events," the executive treasurer said. "I think that everybody on FAB fundamentally agrees that we should make it as free and as, as accessible as possible."
Raz Moayed, SGA's executive president, told The Beacon that while she disagrees with the contents of the proposal, it has generated an important conversation within the organization.
"I think that a really big issue has been brought up with this policy change, and it's simply that students want to be a part of events—and that's so valid," Moayed said. "I think the conversation just needs to change into how can we get more students to join events without creating a policy for a year that students can't really play with and just get bombarded into."
Thursday's vote is expected to be decided by three of the five voting members of FAB, with Semple serving as a tiebreaker.
Andrew Brinker, Senior Investigative Reporter
Andrew Brinker graduated in 2022. He previously served as the paper's news editor, directing coverage of Emerson's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He's also worked as The Beacon's Deputy Express Editor, Senior SGA reporter, and Assistant Enterprise Editor. Brinker is a working freelance journalist. He dearly loves his cat Mittens, learning to cook, soup dumplings, and walking the city of Boston.


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UFC bantamweight figher Francisco Rivera has been punished severely by USADA after testing positive for Clenbuterol.
Following a hearing late last year, USADA has now officially announced that Rivera has been slammed with a four-year suspension from the sport, retroactive to July of 2016 when the fighter was first flagged after the illegal substance showed up in a urine test.
Rivera had attempted to argue that he'd inadvertently ingested the substance due to tainted meat while vacationing in Mexico – a defense that other fighters such as Augusto Montano and Li Jingliang have previously managed to use in order to avoid being suspended.
USADA also claimed that, "several pieces of evidence presented by Rivera to USADA and the arbitrator had been falsified to support the athlete's claims that the substance had originated from contaminated meat in Mexico," which has led to his punishment being even more severe than it might otherwise have been.
Rivera holds a 4-6-1 record in the UFC, but given that he's not out until August of 2020, by which stage he'll be 39-years-old, it now seems highly doubtful that he'll get the opportunity to add to that in the future.


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I think what I love about Primary the most is that the clothes are classics–they don't need glitter and glitz and sassy sayings splashed across the front that are going to be really tired come three months from now. They are well-made basics that provide the foundation to a smart wardrobe for your kids. They are well-made, well-fit and long-lasting. And season after season, you'll still love them. And as if that wasn't enough, everything in their shop is under $25.
Could you share a few of your best tips for putting together a fall wardrobe for kids?
· Update their warm weather favorites with layering pieces in simple bold colors. Bring that fave printed sundress into fall with a navy cardi and bright leggings. Top his lived-in shorts (that he wants to wear year round) with a henley or get fancy and layer a button up collar shirt over it.
· You just need a few key breakout pieces in the mix that reflect their personal style, and then a foundation of simple, solid styles that are easily mix and matched. Everything goes!
· We never start a new year without a new hoodie. The classrooms and buses seem to go from freezing cold to boiling hot regardless of the temperatures outside, so our kids have a hoodie either on their back or in their backpack at all times.
· You don't need to completely refill the closet and it doesn't have to happen overnight. Take the pressure off!
What trends or styles are you loving for kids this fall?
· Color mixing – any color goes together and they don't have to be muted and dark to say fall. Rich tangerine pairs perfectly with grass green. Tomato with spruce green, or purple with golden rod yellow, are perfect compliments.
· Bright accessories – colorful printed socks, bright bags, and vibrant printed sneakers add the right amount of fun.
What about Primary makes shopping easier and more convenient for parents?
With our classic styles in great solid colors, there are no bad choices, and everything goes together. This makes for easier morning-time routines and getting out the door without a fuss or argument! Our styles are evergreen which means parents can count on them season after season, year after year, as kids grow and closets need to be restocked. No more frustration with not being able to find something again that you liked before! We even save your past purchases in a convenient My Closet feature that lets you easily buy more colors or size up. We also make it easier to figure out the best size for your child by showing every style and size photographed on a child, with their height and weight noted, on our site. We work hard to offer high quality fabrics and styles at prices that make sense for kids clothes – to us that means everything under $25. We hope that takes some of the stress out of shopping.
3 things that are inspiring you right now?
· Currently obsessed with the #dresstherainbow challenge created by the house lars built.
· We're reading Amy Poehler's book Yes Please which is funny and inspirational. We love that she does moon hunts with her kids – of course we think these should be done in Primary PJs!
Thank you so much Christina and Gayln! I really love the advice to build your kid's wardrobe slowly. Sometimes, when the seasons change I think I have to go out and get EVERYTHING. Take the pressure off and put it together slowly and carefully. Smart.
Thanks so much to Primary.com for sending Elizabeth a few pieces for fall. All opinions in this post are my own.


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Jets DL Nathan Shepherd 'Not Satisfied' with His Rookie Year
Among the members of the Jets organization who were on hand to greet new head coach Adam Gase last week was defensive lineman Nathan Shepherd, the third-round selection in last April's draft.
"It was great to meet him," Shepherd said. "I know he's ready to get to work, and I'm getting ready to get to work. My initial reaction is he's a guy that wants to have his office door open. Luckily for me I'm going to be in the building during the offseason, so I'm looking forward to getting to know him."
Shepherd is a thoughtful, studious fellow who came to the Green & White with all those life experiences from growing up in Canada, playing at Simon Fraser University, leaving football and college for a few years to pursue factory and construction work, then returning to the game he loves at Division II Fort Hays State in Kansas.
He had a realistic take on his first season in the pros.
"I would definitely say that I'm not satisfied," Shepherd said. "I have made some good progressions throughout the season, just watching all the tape and stuff like that. But it was definitely not enough for me. I'm nothing more than motivated going into the offseason."
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It was a fairly quiet first season with the Jets, yet one that had some interesting numbers down in the trenches.
For starters, Shepherd was a starter in his first pro game, the Monday night opener at Detroit, and made five starts in all, over the first 10 games. He was always available, having been listed as full-go for every practice, on the injury report for only two weeks, and playing in all 16 games to the tune of 343 defensive snaps.
He did contribute 6.5 tackles for loss/no gain and five QB hits. He also had a very good penalty profile. He was flagged just once all season, for illegal use of hands in the home game against New England, but he drew five holding penalties plus an unsportsmanlike conduct at Tennessee against opposing offensive linemen.
At the end of the season, he had just started devising an offseason workout plan, but he had a general idea of what the coming months would hold for him.
"I know I'm going to the NFLPA Summit, and the NFL is putting on a few programs again in personal finance and business.," he said. "Aside from that, we're looking forward to having my family come and visit me. And I'll be training out here because I'll be in New Jersey for the offseason."
He'll also continue to apply the lessons he said that former head coach Todd Bowles had imparted to him and the Jets before he moved on at the end of the season.
"One thing that Coach Bowles prepared us for is facing adversity, not quitting for sure, and being able to think on the fly and adjust and adapt," he said. "So that's something that moving forward, we're all going to look to do for whatever challenges we have ahead."


Reminiscent of an bibimbap's lesser known name, Hwaban (translate to flower pot), as the presentation invokes the imagery of flowers. Bibimbap Salad is a sophisticated and colorful dish topped with a crispy tuile.
South Korea's iconic dish bibimbap is back with a modern twist: a sofisticated 'bibimbap salad' which comes with a crispy tuile. Bibimbap is a dish so famous and so popular worldwide that even Korea's major airline companies have decided to serve the dish during inflight meals. In old Korean cookbooks Bibimbap was hailed as the 'blooming rice' as its presentation looked similar to the form of a flower. The new Bibimbab Salad is full of wellbeing vegetables and made with local specialty ingredients such as buckwheat. This new dish is a rethinking of the traditional bibimbab into a modern and harmonious combination of many local ingredients. Delicious, nutritious and beautiful. The bibimbap salad will impress the palates of people all over the world.


Stack-based buffer overflow in SafeNet SoftRemote 10.8.5 (Build 2) and 10.3.5 (Build 6), and possibly other versions before 10.8.9, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a (1) TREENAME or (2) GROUPNAME Policy file (spd).
This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in SafeNet SoftRemote Security Policy Editor <= 10.8.5. When an attacker creates a specially formatted security policy with an overly long GROUPNAME argument, it is possible to execute arbitrary code.


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