I live in florida & i wish to stock up on "emergency" canned food(s) for one person. What canned food can i purchase from walmart, etc that will not perish for two years? The cans will be placed in a cupboard. There is also the possibility that my air conditioner could fail from one to five days because of an electrical outage.
Marco, the short answer is almost anything and everything. Most canned food will easily go two or more years if kept at room temperature. The key thing is to buy stuff that you'll eat, and to eat through and rotate your stock. In other words, "store what you eat, eat what you store."
+1 On what he said. I like to keep canned meats (ie. spam, vienna sausages, canned chicken, canned tuna). In a disaster you really don't have to heat these up or anything, you can just open and eat. This gives you more time to focus on either preparing for the disaster, or cleaning up afterwards.
I have found few canned foods that will not last YEARS BEYOND expiration dates. Avoid bent,dented cans and little will grow for a long,long time. I lean towards spaghettis and such with tomato as the acid environment all but prevents any chance of growth.
There is the possibility that "if" my AC stops working the canned food will not be at room temperature. More likely 90 Deg. F.
Then 90 degrees WILL be room temperature...They just don't want temps to FREEZE or top 110 degrees , either will damage or limit stability of food in cans.
The Danger Zone. Potentially hazardous food that stays in the temperature "danger zone", 40-140 °F (4-60 °C), for more than 2 hours should be discarded. Potentially hazardous foods are those foods that spoil most easily, such as unshelled eggs, raw meats, fish, shell fish, dairy products, almost all cooked foods.
I've moved away from normal canned goods to a large degree. I just found I don't eat enough canned goods on a regular basis to make rotation work very well. Instead, I do a lot more storage of pasta, rice, and oats as my foundation, and fill in with dehydrated or freeze dried meats and veggies. The pasta, rice and oats have a longer shelf life than canned goods and they're easier to incorporate into my daily diet with fresh meats and veggies. The freeze dried meats and veggies are stable for 10-25 years, so I have them for emergencies and backpacking.
Just a different approach that might work better for you... Or not.
Oh that's not a problem. It's the *months*and*months* at high temperatures that's a problem. So storing food in a hot attic or garage or car trunk for years is out. A couple of weeks with the AC off with it hitting 100deg inside is no particular problem. At least, not for the food; you may feel otherwise.
Dont forget to stock a manual can opener.
Thanks to everyone for your reply. Very informative.
Do you mean that "room temperature" will be 90 Deg. F.? Do you mean to say that if the AC stops working that room temperature will be 90 Deg. F?
What situation where you live would cause electricity to be off for 5 days? If it were, how would you cook the canned food? Would you have water? Have you considered other methods of storing "emergency" food? And do you plan on rotating these cans of 'emergency' food? In other words would you be storing what you eat? Would you be stocking canned goods that you already consume?
There are many things that can cause a power outage of up to 5 days. I have had power out for this long just due to power lines down in a storm. Maybe power doesnt go out much where you live. I was amazed when the big storms happened in New Jersey a couple years ago, I talked to a family member there and she said it was the first time in her life she had had power out for more than an hour. Amazing. So, just because it hasnt happened yet, it is something to prepare for that could happen.
The original poster may have a gas stove. It is always prudent to have multiple ways to heat up or cook food, in case of emergency and the gas or electric being out. Camp stove/fuel, woodstove, many choices and ways. I like having warm food, especially when the power is out.
Most people have some canned goods in storge, and it is often a first thing to store, for new preppers, as it is familiar.
I had WOLF BRAND CHILI yesterday,I know....lots of people eat chili....but the date of expiration was FEB 2007!
though the nutrition may not be as good.If it looks and smells good...me and the dog will eat it.
The reason I ask why a power outage at all is to know what conditions caused it that would affect food preparation. A power outage in Florida I would assume would be due to tropical weather storms, but would it include flooding? In the northeast it would be due to an ice storm, or a nordeaster, most likely in colder weather. I'm not too concerned about my family in New Jersey when they have days long power outages in the winter as they have wood and oil heat and very little essential need for electricity. I am more concerned however about family in Florida as it is electrical cooking, no basements and crowded garages = very few people have generators. But they do have camping equipment. So my question to Marco, and all Marco's, is do you have an alternative means of cooking in a prolonged electrical power outage? And canned food is the preferred choice for emergency rations in my opinion. You can easily get by on a lot of canned food without cooking. Relying on frozen or refrigerated food in a power outage in Florida would not be a good idea. But if you are storing canned food as an emergency option in Florida, I would put them in a sealed five gallon bucket that could easily be grabbed and loaded in your get-away vehicle.
cold and I have often done so when tired or when chemo makes it hard to stand and cook.


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Strategy Analytics said in a statement January-March shipments fell to 334.6 million devices from 345 million in the same period a year earlier, as major markets such as China matured and concerns about the global economy weighed on consumer sentiment. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd remained the world's top smartphone maker, but saw shipments fall by 4.5 percent to 79 million, Strategy Analytics said. The firm's market share dipped slightly, to 23.6 percent from 24 percent a year earlier.
Apple Inc remained in second place, but saw shipments fall 16 percent to 51.2 million from a year earlier as Strategy Analytics cited what it called "iPhone fatigue". Apple's market share dropped to 15.3 percent from 17.7 percent a year earlier, the researcher said.
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I joined the Windows 8.1 user experience team at the onset of the product cycle and was given two responsibilities. First, the limited settings in the PC Settings app were turning Windows 8 tablet users to the desktop environment, which was terribly frustrating to use with touch. I was asked to investigate all international settings—date, time, region, language and input—to design and build the essential ones into PC Settings. Second, airplane mode behaved differently from conventions, leading to a quirky experience. My job was to amend how radio management worked—airplane mode and all the wireless communication switches—so users could confidently use Wi-Fi in flights.
Our challenge was both a design and engineering one. 25 years old, the Windows Control Panel had a vast legacy with tens, if not hundreds, of settings. How might we design, build and ship a quality settings experience—one that is both modern and relevant for tablet users—within a year?
How might we bring the essence of the rich Control Panel to Windows tablets?
Our work made Windows tablets truly global—enabling personalization based on lingual, typing and regional preferences. Users can change the language seen across Windows and apps UI. Languages that do not ship in-box can be downloaded and installed. To type in a different language, users can add a keyboard; change its layout, and adjust handwriting and spellchecking settings. East Asian users can add and change settings for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean IMEs, which enable typing in languages that have more characters than can fit on a keyboard. Other settings enable the surfacing of region-relevant apps in the Store, and adjusting the date and time on the device. The Verge gave Windows 8.1 a rating of 8.8.
PC Settings brings the essence of Control Panel to Windows tablets in a clean user interface.
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Regional variants, of languages such as German, are also supported.
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Gabriel Mitchell June 2020
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On Tuesday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will do something pretty unusual in the age of COVID-19 — travel overseas. Mitsotakis will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel to discuss the resumption of commercial flights between their countries, as well as regional energy politics — two things which have been dramatically disrupted by the pandemic. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades is also expected to visit Israel later this month.
The discovery of offshore hydrocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean over a decade ago has sparked intense diplomatic activity. Hoping to maximize the sea's riches, many of the region's governments have proposed ambitious projects that would transport the natural gas to Europe via undersea pipelines. Encouraged by U.S. administrations that saw energy development as a vehicle for strengthening ties between its allies, the rough edges of a new regional framework for cooperation slowly took form in January 2019, when the governments of Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority established the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum, a multinational body tasked with developing a regional gas market and mechanism for resource development.
COVID-19 has scuttled this momentum. The pandemic's impact on the global energy market has damaged the conditions for Eastern Mediterranean states to profitably export their gas, and has caused a massive rethink amongst policymakers about how to make the most out of the circumstances. Although regional actors may no longer be bound to building pipelines, energy still has the potential to propel greater regional cooperation in the coming decade. American diplomatic support and engagement would go a long way to turning this opportunity into a reality.
Israel's Stake in the Eastern Mediterranean
This is a bitter pill for all of the region's actors to swallow, but perhaps none more so than Israel. Historically bereft of fossil fuels, the discovery of the Tamar and Leviathan fields (in 2009 and 2010, respectively) were seen as a potential game-changer for the Jewish State. The Netanyahu government committed to the concept of gas exports as a strategic boon to Israel, and aggressively pursued a regional policy that embraced partnerships with Greece and Cyprus, as well as export deals with Jordan and Egypt. Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz spent most of the last five years promoting the "East Med pipeline" — a 1,900-kilometer undersea pipeline that would link Israel to Italy via Greece and Cyprus.
However, the East Med pipeline — which upon completion would be the longest undersea pipeline in the world — was always more of a political project than a serious commercial endeavor. Not only did the path of the proposed pipeline run through disputed waters between Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus, but also active geological fault lines and deep trenches. These geopolitical and technical challenges could theoretically be overcome, yet industry experts argue that the biggest obstacle to the East Med pipeline is its commercial feasibility. With an estimated $7 billion price tag, there are doubts that Israeli and Cypriot gas would remain competitive by the time it arrived in Europe. For several years the European Commission has been exploring the possibility of committing to the pipeline, but at this stage is unlikely to back it financially.
The collapse of global energy prices brought on by the combination of an oversupplied market, warmer-than-average winter, and the coronavirus pandemic, has buried the East Med pipeline and put Israel in a serious quandary. Committed to a contract with Tamar and Leviathan's developers that no longer meshes with the current economic circumstances, Israel is paying three times the global average for its own gas. The price discrepancy is so sharp that the Israel Electric Corporation is buying imported liquid natural gas at half the price of domestic supply. It is no wonder, then, that Steinitz began his second term in office with declarations that Israel would accelerate its construction of solar energy infrastructure.
The Position of Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey
Israel is not alone in this predicament. Almost the entire Eastern Mediterranean is wrestling with similar questions.
The vanishing prospects for the East Med pipeline are as disconcerting for Greece and Cyprus as they are for Israel. Both countries are essential partners in the project. In January 2020, leaders from the three states met in a public demonstration of their commitment to the pipeline (they reportedly signed an agreement but this document has not been made public). Cyprus hoped to link its modest offshore discoveries to the East Med pipeline, and Greece was eager to function as a conduit to Europe. The important difference is that Cyprus' natural gas fields are not yet operational. In early May, Italy's ENI, France's Total, and ExxonMobil announced a year-long suspension of drilling activities in Cyprus' waters. There are no guarantees that the developers will return with the same interest as they once did, and the remaining export options are costly.
Even operational energy partnerships are facing tough choices. For example, Jordan's energy arrangement with Israel (45 billion cubic meters over 15 years at an estimated $10 billion) is deeply unpopular because it normalizes ties with a country seen by most Jordanians as a belligerent. With a global energy market that is driving liquid natural gas prices to historic lows, the monarchy is under mounting pressure to find cheaper alternatives. If Israel continues with its plans to partially annex the West Bank, Amman may sacrifice the deal as a symbolic gesture of disapproval even if the underlying causes are economic. Jordan might hope that it could fall back on the United States, as a guarantor in the deal, to cover its debts.
Egypt hoped that offshore discoveries would transform it into a regional energy hub, converting Israeli and Cypriot gas at its liquid natural gas facilities in Idku and Damietta and then shipping them off to Europe. Today, Egypt is struggling to find buyers, has frozen activity at one of its liquid natural gas sites, and cut production at Zohr field. While the Egyptian domestic market is diverse enough to absorb some Israeli imports, this isn't the long-term arrangement the two parties envisioned some 16 months ago.
No matter where you turn, the Eastern Mediterranean energy picture is bleak. Debt-ridden Lebanon was dismayed by news in late April that initial explorations failed to uncover a meaningful gas field. Politicians in Beirut dreamed that offshore discoveries would deliver an instant economic windfall. But with energy companies announcing a suspension of activities in Cyprus's waters just a week later — the same companies exploring Lebanese waters — the Lebanese government will have to search elsewhere for a financial bailout.
Meanwhile, Turkey appears to be taking advantage of the regional turmoil by continuing to send exploratory and drilling vessels into Eastern Mediterranean waters. However, these vessels' purpose is more political than commercial. Spurned by the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum and with no resolution to the Cyprus conflict in sight, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has positioned his military — on land and at sea — to protect Turkish claims to the continental shelf and break what is perceived as strategic containment of Turkey by the region's actors. Turkish intervention in the Libyan civil war is at least partially driven by Ankara's desire to break the will of its neighbors and force them into direct negotiations. Not only has this strategy put Turkey at loggerheads with longtime rivals Greece and Cyprus — with whom Turkey shares a long history of maritime boundary disputes — but other actors as well, including the United States.
In the long run, low liquid natural gas prices could become the norm. Some forecast that the present gas glut may continue for nearly a decade as other projects come onto the market. International projects that require costly infrastructure are going to find it difficult to compete with existing liquid natural gas providers and a growing renewable energy industry. Although COVID-19 appears to have undone significant progress in the Eastern Mediterranean, it ironically may have rescued Eastern Mediterranean states from shortsighted investments. Policymakers have benefited from a rare mulligan and can now reassess their regional prospects.
Post-Pandemic Energy Strategy
The first, and most obvious, post-coronavirus strategy, is to keep the gas local. Rather than prioritizing export markets in Europe, the challenge for Eastern Mediterranean states is to diversify their domestic infrastructure and economies to be more gas friendly. This is especially relevant for Egypt, whose domestic demand is only going to increase as its population grows. Emphasizing the regional market will require intense discussions between the main developers and governments to find the appropriate contractual language that suits the involved parties.
But would organizing a regional market assume that all actors can benefit? Over the last decade, offshore hydrocarbons were as much as cause for confrontation between Eastern Mediterranean states as they were an incentive for cooperation. Now that it is clear the gas bonanza won't arrive as quickly as anticipated, perhaps the region's actors will consider a recommitment to regional diplomacy and conflict resolution. From the ongoing Libyan civil war to the maritime disputes between Greece and Turkey, there is no shortage of opportunities for those willing to decouple their energy aspirations from their interest in creating a functional regional space.
This is where the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum comes into play. Whereas the forum's original purpose was to deal with matters pertaining to natural gas, post-COVID it could serve as a platform for discussion on a host of issues, from tourism to environmental protection to pandemic support to alternative energy cooperation and security. If a global pandemic instructs states about anything, it is that neighbors remain neighbors regardless of the boundaries placed between them. In short, it behooves Eastern Mediterranean states to support one another.
America's Role in the Region
The United States should play a central role in this process. Not only is Washington the preferred mediator for many of the region's conflicts, but American support for the development of offshore hydrocarbons and regional cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean has been a rare point of bipartisan consensus during both the Obama and Trump administrations, who saw the region's gas as way to strengthen the position of its Eastern Mediterranean allies while also reducing European dependency on Russian gas. Continued engagement with Eastern Mediterranean actors will allow the United States to guide its partners towards a more cooperative future, help develop deconfliction mechanisms, and discourage interference from outside actors like Russia, Iran, and China.
This should happen in a number of different ways. First, the United States should reengage Eastern Mediterranean states in the process of maritime boundary delimitation. This issue a priority for all of the region's actors, including European heavyweights France and Italy. In particular, Turkey's signing of a maritime boundary agreement with Libya's Government of National Accord in November 2019 sparked considerable protest throughout the region and entangled the ongoing civil war in the Eastern Mediterranean's energy politics. While the Libyan civil war isn't the source of all of the region's tensions, American mediation between the aggrieved parties — notably NATO member states Turkey and Greece — on the issue of maritime boundaries would start rolling back tensions and create a more constructive environment for future negotiations between Turkey and Cyprus. The signing of a maritime boundary agreement between Italy and Greece on June 9 was widely seen as a maneuver to check Turkey's advance. U.S. diplomats should also encourage Israel and Lebanon to resolve their outstanding maritime issues, which would allow foreign companies to feel more comfortable exploring in Lebanese waters whenever they decide to resume activities. A semi-enclosed maritime space like the Eastern Mediterranean requires delimitation agreements in order to avoid conflict. Ideally, the United States would bring all region's actors to the negotiating table simultaneously. However, the present conditions necessitate a flexible, hands-on approach to certain disputes.
Additionally, the United States can empower the nascent Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum by investing more diplomatic resources in the organization, and incentivizing collaboration between members states. One way of doing this is by expanding the language of the 2019 Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act (also known as the Menendez-Rubio Bill) in a manner that offers potential avenues for participation by Eastern Mediterranean actors not mentioned in this legislative package, specifically Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, and Turkey. The United States-Eastern Mediterranean Energy Center described in the Menendez-Rubio Bill could be a conduit for multinational research and development in the myriad topics that are directly and indirectly impacted by offshore hydrocarbon exploration. This could open channels of communication between American and Eastern Mediterranean industries, strengthening both economic, cultural, and strategic interests.
For the better part of the last decade, it was expected that energy would transform the Eastern Mediterranean. However, the pandemic's aftershocks have disrupted the prospects for regional cooperation. A collective pivot — with American support — away from the uncertain promises of energy could be a blessing in disguise. It provides regional states the opportunity to embrace a shared future that emphasizes energy diversification, multinational cooperation, and conflict resolution.
Although the United States appears committed to reducing its presence on the global stage, it should preserve and expand energy-centric multilateral diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean that enjoys bipartisan support. The region is rich with American partners — a lasting foreign policy legacy would be finding a formula that would allow them to settle their own disputes and find new ways to cooperate.
(originally published in "War on the Rocks")
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Q: Styling a xul scrollbar XUL makes when loading a scrollbar in the richlistbox. I want to style this scrollbar, I've tried everything but nothing helps.
Can anyone help me?

A: In order to make CSS style changes to portions of an XUL element you need to assign the CSS to the underlying elements when they are contained within the primary element. In order to determine what elements are within which (i.e. what elements make up a <scrollbar>). You will probably end up using a combination of the DOM Inspector, examining the .xml file which define them, and the CSS used to style them. The files which define the XUL elements are .xml binding files. These, and the .css files for their styles, are normally contained within the omni.ja files that are within the Firefox install directory tree. omni.ja files are just regular .zip files which have been renamed with a different extension.  You can copy such a file and rename it to omni.zip to get convenient access.
Specifically for scrollbars, these appear to be scrollbar.xml and scrollbars.css which are located in the main omni.ja.  You may also want to look at the floating-scrollbars-light.css or floating-scrollbars.css files in the browser/omni.ja file.
However, you want the scrollbar inside <richlistbox>.  To find out how to style those scrollbars, you need to find what makes up a <richlistbox>;. That file is richlistbox.xml (styled in richlistbox.css) in the main omni.ja. In that file it appears the scrollbar is implemented by a <scrollbox> element which is defined in scrollbox.xml (styled in scrollbox.css), also in the main omni.ja. The element(s) you want to style may be contained within several layers of other elements. You will need to keep digging and experimenting to find the right CSS selector for the element(s) you want to style.
You may already be using the <richlistbox> in your own XUL window, but you might also be just adding one somewhere to the browser (You did not say). For experimenting, in addition to the development setup, I would suggest a separate XUL window, which specifies a separate .css file, which you can open easily by clicking a button. This could just be the options dialog. Using a separate XUL window for experimenting allows you to have a separate CSS file called by just that window. When such is the case, the .xul file for that window (and the .js and .css files called only from that .xul) are re-read each time it the window is opened. Doing this makes testing changes possible with just closing and re-opening the window rather than having to re-start Firefox. If it is a completely separate widow, rather than the options dialog, you can open multiple copies of the window and do side-by-side comparisons between changes.
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Through this partnership, Study.com will donate 100 licenses in comprehensive, cost-free materials and resources to aspiring Support Professionals enrolled in PEF's Teacher Pathway program to help them prepare and pass their teacher certification tests. The 100 teacher test prep licenses will be distributed to Teacher Pathway mentees who, historically, face obstacles passing the PRAXIS exam.
"PEF appreciates Study.com's commitment to social impact and its philanthropic efforts via their Pledge 1%, Keys to the Classroom aims to ensure Clark County School District support professionals of all backgrounds and ethnicities can access the teaching profession," said Grant Hanevold, PEF Chief Education Officer . "This partnership with Study.com will also allow PEF the opportunity to continue to advance its recruitment, development, and retainment efforts across our state, provide opportunities and access that mitigate educational disparities, and accelerate the certification process for many prospective teachers."
The national teacher shortage has become a crisis during the pandemic as teachers have dealt with the burden of online/hybrid instruction, increasing social-emotional needs of students, increasing concerns about school safety, and more "other duties as assigned" that come along with a workforce shortage. The problem is particularly acute in the Clark County School District (CCSD), which currently has more than 1,400 teacher openings, affecting at least 45,000 students. There is no expectation that the crisis will end without intensive intervention.
PEF is teaming with partners throughout the community on a "Grow Your Own" community wide initiative called Teacher Pathway that will increase the number of teachers in Nevada's classrooms by cultivating a diverse, motivated, and local cohort of teacher candidates. This program will lift participants out of poverty and fill classrooms with qualified teachers. Targeting diverse candidates who look more like the students they will serve is a priority for the Teacher Pathway. We recognize our participants experience a myriad of challenges that come with living in poverty and juggling the priorities of people several years into their careers (families, living situations, etc.). The Teacher Pathway mentorship program will pair teacher candidates with master educators who will work with them to overcome the barriers to becoming teachers. These support professionals are overwhelmingly diverse, invested in our community, and understand (and look like) the student population we serve.
One barrier for aspiring teachers is passing their teacher certification tests, such as the PRAXIS. In fact, according to a 2019 report from the National Council on Teacher Quality, half of teachers fail their first certification exam and a quarter never pass, as compared to 92% of teachers who used Study.com's test prep resources and reported passing their test on the first try.
Keys to the Classroom will provide resources to reduce the teacher shortage, while emphasizing a strong commitment to diversifying the teacher pipeline in CCSD. The importance of recruiting and retaining local teachers who understand and represent the diversity of the students we serve is paramount. Studies show that students from diverse backgrounds perform better on standardized tests, have improved attendance, and are suspended less frequently when they have at least one same-race teacher. Yet teacher education programs pose particular challenges to low-income students. The cost of tuition, the loss of wages during student teaching, and the fees associated with college applications, tutoring, testing, and fingerprinting effectively bar access to the teaching profession for most low-income people. Study.com and PEF will aim to address these issues through partnering with statewide education organizations committed to diversifying the teacher pipeline.
"Representation in the classroom is critical, as studies show that students are more likely to succeed when they have teachers who look like them," says Study.com's VP of Social Impact Dana Bryson. "Our goal with bringing Keys to the Classroom to PEF and CCSD is to diversify the teacher pipeline and help reduce the teacher shortage by removing some of the barriers to becoming a teacher."
For more information on Study.com's Keys to the Classroom scholarship, please visit https://study.com/blog/study-com-s-keys-to-the-classroom.html.
Current PEF Teacher Pathway participants, please check your email for a code to access your free Praxis study materials!
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Автор: Cornwell Patricia
Книга: All That Remains
All That Remains, стр. 1
A Scarpetta Novel
Saturday, the last day of August, I started work before dawn. I did not witness mist burning off the grass or the sky turning brilliant blue. Steel tables were occupied by bodies all morning, and there are no windows in the morgue. Labor Day weekend had begun with a bang of car crashes and gunfire in the city of Richmond.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon when I finally returned to my West End home and heard Bertha mopping in the kitchen. She cleaned for me every Saturday and knew from past instruction not to bother with the phone, which had just begun to ring.
"I'm not here," I said loudly as I opened the refrigerator.
Bertha stopped mopping. "It was ringing a minute ago," she said. "Rang a few minutes before that, too. Same man."
"No one's home," I repeated.
"Whatever you say, Dr. Kay."
The mop moved across the floor again.
I tried to ignore the disembodied answering machine message intruding upon the sun-washed kitchen. The Hanover tomatoes I took for granted during the summer I began to hoard with the approach of fall. There were only three left. Where was the chicken salad? A beep was followed by the familiar male voice. "Doc? It's Marino…"
Oh, Lord, I thought, shoving the refrigerator door shut with a hip. Richmond homicide detective Pete Marino had been on the street since midnight, and I had just seen him in the morgue as I was picking bullets out of one of his cases. He was supposed to be on his way to Lake Gaston for what was left of a weekend of fishing. I was looking forward to working in my yard.
"I've been trying to get you, am heading out. You'll have to try my pager…"
Marino's voice sounded urgent as I snatched up the receiver.
"I'm here."
"That you or your goddam machine?"
"Take a guess," I snapped "Bad news. They found another abandoned car. New Kent, the Sixty-four rest stop, westbound. Benton just got hold of me - "
"Another couple?" I interrupted my plans for the day forgotten.
"Fred Cheney, white male, nineteen. Deborah Harvey, white female, nineteen. Last seen around eight last night when they drove off from the Harveys' Richmond house, on their way to Spindrift."
"And the car's in the westbound lane?"
I inquired, for Spindrift, North Carolina, is three and a half hours east of Richmond.
"Yo. Appears they was heading in the opposite direction, back into the city. A trooper found the car, a Jeep Cherokee, about an hour ago. No sign of the kids."
"I'm leaving now," hold him.
Bertha had not stopped mopping, but I knew she had picked up every word.
"Be on my way soon as I finish up in here," she assured me. "I'll lock up and set the alarm. Don't you worry, Dr. Kay."
Fear was running along my nerves as I grabbed my purse and hurried out to my car.
There were four couples so far. Each had disappeared, eventually to be found murdered within a fifty-mile radius of Williamsburg.
The cases, dubbed by the press as The Couple Killings, were inexplicable, and no one seemed to have a clue or credible theory, not even the FBI and its Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or VICAP, which featured a national data base run on an artificial intelligence computer capable of connecting missing persons with unidentified bodies and linking serial crimes. After the first couple's bodies were found more than two years ago, a VICAP regional team, comprising FBI Special Agent Benton Wesley and veteran Richmond homicide detective Pete Marino, was invited by local police to assist. Another couple would disappear, then two more. In each instance, by the time VICAP could be notified, by the time the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC, could even wire descriptions to police department across America, the missing teenagers were already dead and decomposing in woods somewhere.
Taming off the radio, I passed through a tollbooth and picked up speed on I-64 East Images, voices suddenly came back to me. Bones and rotted clothing scattered with leaves. Attractive, smiling faces of missing teenagers printed in the newspapers, and bewildered, distraught families interviewed on television and calling me on the phone.
"I'm so sorry about your daughter."
"Please tell me how my baby died. Oh, God, did she suffer?"
"Her cause of death is undetermined, Mrs. Bennett. There's nothing else I can tell you at this time."
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"All that remains is his bones, Mr. Martin. When soft tissue is gone, gone with it is any possible injury…"
"I don't want to hear your medical bullshit! I want to know what killed my boy! The cops are asking about drugs! My boy's never been drunk in his life, much less taken drugs! You hear me, lady? He's dead, and they're making him out to be some sort of punk…"
"CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER BAFFLED: Dr. Kay Scarpetta Unable to Tell Cause of Death."
Undetermined.
Over and over again. Eight young people.
It was awful. It was, in fact, unprecedented for me.
Every forensic pathologist has undetermined cases, but I had never had so many that appeared to be related.
I opened the sunroof and my spirits were lifted somewhat by the weather. The temperature was in the low eighties, leaves would be turning soon. It was only in the fall and spring that I did not miss Miami. Richmond summers were just as hot, without benefit of ocean breezes to sweep the air clean. The humidity was horrible, and in winter I fared no better, for I do not like the cold. But spring and fall were intoxicating. I drank in the change, and it went straight to my head.
The I-64 rest stop in New Kent County was exactly thirty-one miles from my house. It could have been any rest stop in Virginia, with picnic tables, grills and wooden trash barrels, brick-enclosed bathrooms and vending machines, and newly planted trees. But there was not a traveler or a truck driver in sight, and police cars were everywhere.
A trooper, hot and unsmiling in his blue-gray uniform, walked toward me as I parked near the ladies' room.
"I'm sorry, ma'am," he said, leaning close to my open window. "This rest area's closed today. I'm going to have to ask you to drive on."
"Dr. Kay Scarpetta," I identified myself, switching off the ignition. "The police asked me to come."
"For what purpose, ma'am?"
"I'm the chief medical examiner," I replied.
As he looked me over, I could see the skeptical glint in his eyes. I supposed I did not look particularly "chiefly."
Dressed in a stone-washed denim skirt, pink oxford cloth shirt, and leather walking shoes, I was without the accoutrements of authority, including my state car, which was in the state garage awaiting new tires. At a glance, I was a not-so-young yuppie running errands in her dark gray Mercedes, a distracted ash-blonde en route to the nearest shopping mall.
"I'll need some identification."
Digging inside my purse, I produced a thin black wallet and displayed my brass medical examiner's shield, then handed over my driver's license, both of which he studied for along moment I sensed he was embarrassed.
"Just leave your car here, Dr. Scarpetta. The folks you're looking for are in back."
He pointed in the direction of the parking area for trucks and buses. "Have a nice one," he added inanely, stepping away.
I followed a brick walk. When I rounded the building and passed beneath the shade of trees, I was greeted by several more police cars, a tow truck with light bar flashing, and at least a dozen men in uniforms and plain clothes. I did not see the red Jeep Cherokee until I was almost upon it. Midway along the exit ramp, it was well off the pavement in a dip and obscured by foliage. Two door, it was coated with a film of dust. When I looked in the driver's window I could see that the beige leather interior was very clean, the backseat neatly packed with various items of luggage, a slalom ski, a coiled yellow nylon ski rope, and a red-and-white plastic ice chest. Keys dangled from the ignition. Windows were partly rolled down. Depressed tire tracks leading from the pavement were clearly visible in the sloping grass, the front chrome grille nudged up against a clump of pines.


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WHO Expands Scientific Collaboration, Monitoring Of Emerging Variants Of SAR-Cov-2 –Officials
By Muhammad	 January 13, 2021 No Comments
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks next to Michael J. Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme during a news conference after a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has begun expanding its scientific collaboration and monitoring of emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
WHO, in a statement posted on its website, stated the agency had met with scientists globally to discuss critical knowledge gaps and research priorities for emerging variants of the virus.
It stated that WHO convened a day-long virtual meeting of scientists from around the globe which brought together more than 1, 750 experts from 124 countries to discuss emerging variants of the virus.
The statement quoted Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, as saying: "Science and research have played a vital role in responding to the pandemic since day one and will continue to be the heartbeat of everything WHO does.''
The consultation was structured around six thematic areas covering epidemiology and mathematical modelling, evolutionary biology, animal models, assays and diagnostics, clinical management and therapeutics and vaccines, the statement said.
"Scientists noted the importance of research to detect and understand early on the potential impact of emerging variants on diagnostics, treatments and vaccines.
"There was a consensus on the importance of integrating the new SARS-CoV-2 variants research into the global research and innovation agenda, while enhancing coordination across disciplines.''
The statement also quoted Dr Ana Henao Restrepo, Head of WHO's Research and Development Blueprint, as saying, "Our collective goal is to get ahead of the game
"It is our goal to get ahead of the game and have a global mechanism to quickly identify and study variants of concern and understand their implications for disease control efforts.''
She noted that it was normal for viruses to mutate, but the more the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads, the more opportunities it has to change. High levels of transmission mean that we should expect more variants to emerge.
"Of the significant variants reported so far, some are associated with increases in transmissibility but not disease severity. Research is ongoing to address whether the changes impact public health tools and measures.
"Genomic sequencing has been critical in identifying and responding to new variants.''
Similarly, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Technical Lead on COVID-19, says: "so far an astounding 350, 000 sequences have been publicly shared, but most come from just a handful of countries.
"Improving the geographic coverage of sequencing is critical for the world to have eyes and ears on changes to the virus.''
Accordingly, WHO says increasing sequencing capacity across the world be one of its priority research area.
"Better surveillance and laboratory capacity to monitor strains of concern needs to be accompanied by prompt sharing of virus and serum samples via globally agreed mechanisms so that critical research can be promptly initiated each time.
"Scientists highlighted the importance of national data platforms to document critical clinical, epidemiological and virus data that facilitates the detection and assessment of new SARS-CoV-2 variants,'' it stated.
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Many of you may be aware that Holocaust documentary filmmaker Eric Hunt is no longer making any of his movies since last year, February 2017. Eric did an excellent job with his films, exposing the lies about the holocaust in a very engaging and entertaining way. His last documentary, "Questioning the Holocaust Part 1" is excellent, and it is too bad he never finished Part 2. There has been much discussion about Eric's surprising 180 degree change in his views on the CODOH forum here.
Eric started his revisionist career by grabbing Elie Wiesel's arm in an attempt to find his tattoo, but ended up going to jail for it. After that key event, he began his research and started making his documentaries, beginning with "The Last Days of the Big Lie". Sometime at the beginning of last year, he recanted his revisionist research, stating that the Jewish gas chambers were real, and at least 2 million Jews were gassed and/or shot. You can read the full article here, and a great rebuttal by Jim Rizoli here. Now, Eric is going around to places like Youtube and Castle Hill Publishers and trying to get his videos removed and shut down because of "copyright infringement". However, you still can view his videos on Youtube (see below), but Youtube has put their harshest restrictions on the viewing of these videos (you can not view them from this website, there is a viewer discretion block at the beginning, no comments are allowed, and if there is a part 2 or 3, good luck finding it.) Soon, these videos will be gone or blocked, so you should definitely go to archive.org and download as many of these titles as you can. Youtube is rapidly censoring videos challenging the official story of the holocaust at such a rapid pace, soon they will most likely all be banned, similar to what Amazon did to over 100 book titles on the holocaust.
No one knows for sure who or what made Eric change his mind, but it is very strange indeed, and too bad, because he not only did original research, but was a skilled documentarian. Before he left the public scene, he debated Frederick "Fritz" Berg who has a website called Nazigassings.com . You can listen to the recorded version of the debate on Youtube, which is segmented into about 16 parts, or it is also on archive.org, where you can download it. In my opinion, Fritz wins the debate, primarily because Eric never provides any evidence of how the Jews were gassed, offers no description of what the gas chambers may have looked like, and simply because the holocaust is the most indefensible topic in history. Given that I have seen all of Hunt's videos, and listened to many interviews, I find it very difficult to believe that Eric now believes in the fake gas chambers. In the debate, Fritz Berg discusses how much of the Nazi testimony is unreliable due to the fact that many top Nazis were tortured mercilessly until they "confessed" of their crimes. For example, Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz was tortured for 3 day before British interrogators threatened to ship his entire family to the Soviet Union. After this threat, he finally confessed to being aware of the non-existent gas chambers. Perhaps (((they))) cut a similar deal with Eric? Eric states in the debate that he was going to use his website questioningtheholocaust.com to start to "tell the truth" about the gas chambers, starting with his essay, "End of the Line". However, given that Eric lost the debate with Fritz, his plans seemed to have changed since his website is no longer up. Apparently stopping his video productions was enough payment for the powers that be.
That last paragraph about Eric debating Fritz has me scratching my head and wondering if in places the names have been accidentally reversed as to who was espousing which position.
But, to your main point, it is strange how a revisionist went 180 degrees off the rails and we do not know why he did this.
Great article! Couldn't find the link you had to my comment on your link so I will put it here.
Most people that do 180's do it because they have been physically threatened.
David Cole was one who had a hit put on him by JDl'r Irv Rubin, who went to jail and was killed there.
But that was what did it for David Cole and I'm sure many others.
So this is what I suspect here. It's pretty hard to go back to the lies when the truth is so telling.
Good point about David Cole, he disappeared as well, good parallel. I love your interview with Benton Bradberry: https://youtu.be/4uic1tUn2Fc. That book was a "red pill" for me on the Holohoax. Instead of attacking the holocaust head on he first builds a case for the integrity of the German people while exposing Jewish atrocities against Germans and others. Then it begins to make sense that the Holocaust was just atrocity propaganda, brilliant!


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City College Student's Odyssey From Foster Care to Success
Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local
Jessica Allen, right, with her daughter Neveah Kelly.
This week, Jessica Allen headed off on a vacation, her first in many years. It is, in fact, a joint Spring Break trip with her daughter; both are students and both could use the time off.
Allen, 29, is currently enrolled at City College and will transfer to a state school in the fall. Her daughter, Neveah Kelly, is a 14-year-old high school freshman.
So, you can do the math there.
A trip like this is the upside of having a baby at 15, as Allen did. There were, to put it mildly, plenty of hurdles to overcome. But, to a remarkable degree, Allen overcame them. She has, already, achieved more than many people following a less meandering, more conventional path who were blessed with advantages she did not have.
And, now, she's going to finish her degree.
Or, perhaps, degrees, plural. Her overarching goal is to become a civil rights lawyer. It was this week announced that, this summer, she will be one of 10 students nationwide to attend an all-expenses-paid Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship in London.
"I'm so excited. I'm going to get to go to school! I worked so hard to get to this place," she says while seated in the living room of the Excelsior District home where she's lived for the past eight years. "But I would not change my experience."
Allen arrived in San Francisco at age 10 and was in foster care by age 14. She had her daughter at 15. But she attended Hilltop High School in the Mission, an establishment designed to meet to the needs of teenage parents, with childcare on-site. She actually graduated young, at 17, and was her class valedictorian.
She also became a registered doula — a birth coach — by age 17, and worked with many of her high school colleagues; she has since assisted on more than 100 births.
As an 18th birthday gift, Allen found herself abruptly emancipated from the foster care system. This was a challenging time: She was on her own, raising a toddler, and enrolled in junior college. Soon, and not for the last time, she would be forced to withdraw from school and work full-time.
But, unlike so many young people armed with a degree — and crippling school debt — who are forced to settle for workaday employment, Allen's jobs tended to be more meaningful. Before she had even turned 20, she was a case manager at the Vera Casey Teen Parenting Program, operating under the aegis of the City of Berkeley.
"I was very young and a case manager — it was wild to me," she recalled. "That set me up for my next decade of work in the community."
Allen subsequently became a case manager working with previously incarcerated mothers navigating substance abuse programs; counseled families and youth in foster care or at risk of entering foster care; helped formulate policy and trained San Francisco staff for treatment of the city's transitional-aged youth (TAY) population; and assisted LGBTQ children interacting with the court system.
She first enrolled at City College in 2011 and, in some years, worked 40-plus hour weeks, took night courses, and also parented her daughter. She is not subsidized in her Excelsior District home, and notes that she has been financially on her own for these past eight years.
"There are a lot of people who can't find a job with a degree. But I have a decade of experience," she says with a smile. "Now I just have to get that degree."
Allen's decade of on-the-ground experience was meaningful, and she helped people — but it also taught her that she'd like to get off the ground. She identifies as a queer Afro-Latinx, and would like to uplift any and all of these marginalized communities. But on an overarching basis.
As a case manager "I felt like I was scratching the surface," she says. "To me, I saw burnout. And a culture of billing — 'these are Medi-Cal patients; we need to bill these hours.' I felt like this job was not sustainable. I decided I wanted to make an impact through the law."
Allen has applied to a handful of UC and CSU schools; she's been accepted to San Francisco State, San Jose State, Cal State East Bay and Cal State Los Angeles. She's waiting on UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and UC Berkeley.
Depending on where she is accepted, she may well be leaving San Francisco. And that's difficult.
"Oh, I'll be back," she says. "Just with more superpowers."
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With official data stating over 330,000 Moldovans working abroad, unofficially it may even be up to a million people.
Moldova is fast gaining a reputation as the world's fastest shrinking country.
An estimated 21 per cent of Moldovan children under 18 have at least one biological parent living abroad, while for 5 per cent of children, both biological parents have emigrated.
This mass exodus of adults, combined with declining birth rates, has earned Moldova the title of the fastest shrinking country in the world.
The exodus is purely driven by the need to work and earn money. The majority of work in Moldova is in farming and agriculture, predominantly subsistence farming, which means many parents seek work abroad.
For the children who can afford it, having a mobile phone connected to the internet is their way of staying in contact with their parents working abroad. Even in remote villages broadband seems to be more and more available to Moldovans. This does appear to be a god-send and with so many parents working abroad it's become the new norm – digitally communicating with parents.
Whereas with even poorer families, the children do not get the chance to communicate with their parents. And with the declining birth rate (see above chart) – this all raises serious questions for long-term sustainability.


Bobby Petrino and Lamar Jackson lead Card March into Cardinal Stadium on a day that began as early as 4:30 a.m. for some fans, especially those who wanted to participate in ESPN's Game Day programming at Belknap Campus (Cindy Rice Shelton photos).
Sunday was supposed to be a day following the University of Louisville's first win over Clemson, a time to celebrate another milestone, breaking into the nation's top 10, and igniting talk of college playoff possibilities all over again.
Seems like some disillusion and wishful thinking now following a 47-21 beating in which Clemson dominated Louisville in all phases of the game before a crowd of 55,582 fans at Cardinal Stadium, the second largest attended game in UofL football history.
Lamar Jackson finds some rare running room in the third quarter (Cindy Rice Shelton photo).
Quarterback Lamar Jackson scrambling and hemmed in most of the night, unable to connect with his favorite receivers when it counted. Throws to Jaylen Smith bouncing off his fingers or his chest much of the night. Des Fitzpatrick covered up, hard to find. Both would eventually score but not before the game was well out of reach.
None of those exciting way-down-the-field passes for Jackson in this game. The only thing that seemed to work, and dismally at that, were numerous sideline passes, resulting in only three or four yards at best. One is in trouble when that is the best available option.
The crowd of 55,580 was the second largest in UofL football history (Cindy Rice Shelton photo).
Reggie Bonnafon still struggling to gain any traction at running back, seemingly running in slow motion. Forget about reckless abandon for Bonnafon, and he's not a point of emphasis for opposing coaches. Managing only 17 yards in his four carries. Malik Williams clearly the better option, picking up 39 yards in six run and 36 more on three pass receptions. But Bobby Petrino is sticking with Bonnafon until he is forced to make a change.
Reminiscent of days of old, Clemson making it look so easy. Louisville's passing defense has been abused since the opening game against Purdue, and it's only getting worse. Mindful of the Kragthorpian days with opposing quarterbacks getting all the time they need to find open receivers all over the field.
The one-sided loss capable of robbing fans of much of the optimism for the season. The immediate outlook ho-hum with noon kickoffs against Kent State and Murray State over the next two weeks. No disrespect but it's pretty hard to get excited for the no-names, whether one is a fan or a player.
Making UofL football fun again has to begin sometime. There are five weeks before the Cardinals line up against Florida State in Tallahassee. Lots of time to get better, make the season meaningful again.
The ESPN hype train arrives in Louisville on Friday, making Papa John's Cardinal Stadium the center of the college football universe, at least for the weekend. A major intersection, a crossroads for UofL football program. Maybe still another milestone.
A game pitting the No. 13 University of Louisville football against third-ranked Clemson, featuring Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson against the defending national champion. Against a team and a coach that believed former CU quarterback Deshaun Watson was more deserving on the Heisman award.
UofL badly needs to get its first win over Clemson in four tries, after falling short, knocking on the door at the end, losing all three games by six points or less over the past three seasons. Leaving the field with their offense in the shadow of the goalposts each time, knowing they could have, probably should have won each of those games.
Former UofL assistant Vance Bedford once urged Louisville fans to get on board the train. And they will be Saturday night, upwards of 55,000 fans or so, probably setting another all-time attendance record for Cardinals' football.
Make no mistake, much at stake here for Louisville football. Win and the program will take a monumental leap in national respect. Lose and the journey just gets harder and longer, postponing the inevitable into an uncertain future.
Blow the horn, stoke those coals, fan the flames, darken the skies with black smoke. Louisville football, time to go.
Dan McDonnell earns his 500th win and a share of the ACC's Atlantic Division title (Cindy Rice Shelton photo).
Lots of base runners for Clemson, but 16 of them left in waiting on the base paths.
One of those long, long games, this one three hours and forty-nine minutes, with the outcome always in doubt. The kind of game that ages college baseball coaches prematurely.
Happy ending, however, with still another milestone for Dan McDonnell. His University of Louisville baseball team chalking up an important 4-2 win at Clemson in the first game of a three-day series. No. 500 for McDonnell, coming in the 50th game of his 11th season at UofL.
He is, of course, the winningest coach in the program's history, averaging 45.6 wins per season. He entered the season ranked fifth among active coaches in winning percentage. The win improves UofL's record to 44-6 with six games remaining in the regular season.
Few of those wins more challenging than the one the one on Thursday, not with left hander Brendan McKay loading the bases in the first and second innings. His pitch count was well over 50 by the end of the third, but he still managed to hold Clemson scoreless through five innings. He's now 8-3 on the season.
Clemson would tap Louisville reliever Sam Bordner for three hits and a couple of walks in the sixth, sending two runs across the plate. With the Cardinals clinging to a two-run lead, junior Lincoln Henzman toss two shutout innings of relief to earn his 15th save of the season.
Colby Fitch, moving back to second in batting lineup, got things off to a positive start with a home run over the right field wall in the first inning. Drew Ellis was 3-for-4 with his 17th double while raising his batting average to .392. Josh Stowers chipped in with a single, one walk and one run scored.
The win earned at least a tie for first place for Louisville in the ACC's Atlantic Coast Division. The Cardinals need one more conference win to clinch their third division title since joining the conference three years ago.
Donovan Mitchell would not be denied in the first half, letting his teammates take over the second (Cindy Rice Shelton photo).
An understatement to say things weren't going well for the University of Louisville basketball team, and they were getting worse.
There sat Quentin Snider on the bench, with a forlorn look on his face, dejected and unavailable. And for more than nine minutes, Clemson was having its way with UofL, jumping off to a 7-0 start, slamming the ball in the basket every other play, and extending the lead to 21-12.
At that point something happened, happened after Coach Rick Pitino called a 30-second time out. Something that could only be described as the Pitino effect. No other explanation. Someone other than Donovan Mitchell would start making baskets.
Deng Adel jumper. Jaylen Johnson layup. another Deng Adel jumper. Anas Mahmoud free throws. Deng Adel with a 3-pointer. Donovan Mitchell on a layup.
The Deng Adel everybody had been waiting for showed up when he was needed most, scoring 18 points. (Cindy Rice Shelton photo).
Less than five minutes later, Louisville had taken a 24-23 lead. The Cardinals would never trail again, smacking the daylights out of Clemson 92-60 before a crowd of 21,436 at the KFC Yum! Center. One of the most impressive in-game turnarounds in recent Pitino history.
Deng Adel, without a doubt playing his most complete game ever as a Cardinal, contributing 18 points, including two 3-pointers and three out of four free-throw attempts, and a couple of assists. This may have been the night that lit the switch for him.
Donovan Mitchell setting the tone in the first half, making all eight of his field goal attempts, including two 3-pointers, for all of his 18 points in the game. What was so encouraging, however, was that his "offensively-challenged" teammates picked up the slack in the second half while he was missing all seven of his shots and making zero points.
Pitino relieved and reinvigorated afterwards, but cautious about going to Florida State Saturday following a late night game and only day to prepare for the 2 o'clock encounter.
Always got that Pitino effect, however. It will be needed Saturday.


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Democratic congressional challenger in competitive Houston district raises $1 million in 2nd quarter
The 7th District has been a target for Democrats since Hillary Clinton narrowly won it in 2016 with 49 percent of the vote.
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher gives an acceptance speech during her election night party at Buffalo Grill on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 in Houston. Fletcher was in a runoff to be the Democratic candidate for Texas' 7th Congressional District against Laura Moser. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)(Elizabeth Conley / AP)
By Camille Caldera
3:16 PM on Jul 5, 2018 CDT
WASHINGTON — Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, the Democratic challenger in one of the Texas congressional seats that Democrats hope to flip in November, reported more than $1 million in contributions in the second quarter.
Fletcher is running against longtime GOP Rep. John Culberson in the 7th Congressional District in Houston. Culberson — who was first elected to Congress in 2000 and served on the House Appropriations Committee — has not yet released his second-quarter campaign financial report. His campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Fletcher's second-quarter contributions bring her total to more than $2 million. Her campaign currently has almost $800,000 in cash on hand.
After the first quarter, Culberson reported just over $1.5 million total in contributions and about $920,000 in cash on hand. The reporting deadline for the second quarter is July 15.
The 7th District has been a target for Democrats since Hillary Clinton narrowly won it in 2016 with 49 percent of the vote. Clinton was the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the district since 1967.
Fletcher is part of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Red to Blue" program, which provides fundraising and organizational support to Democrats trying to flip Republican districts.
The race between Fletcher and Culberson has been rated a "toss up" by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report — as has the race between Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions and Colin Allred, his Democratic challenger. Allred is also part of the DCCC's Red to Blue effort.
"Our campaign is powered by people in this community, who have seen John Culberson choose Washington politics over people here in Houston," Fletcher, an attorney, said in a statement. "The momentum we are creating, coupled with the broad coalition we continue to build, will help switch this seat and bring TX-07 the representation we deserve in Congress."
#TeamLizzie is proud of our work over the last quarter and so appreciative to those who helped. We're ready to take on John Culberson and #SwitchThe7th!
ICYMI… https://t.co/yYJt1PTL5S
— Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (@Lizzie4Congress) July 5, 2018
Fletcher won a competitive primary, including a closely watched runoff election in May against writer-activist Laura Moser — a progressive who was criticized by the DCCC for being a "Washington insider."
"Lizzie Fletcher will give Houstonians the chance to elect a representative they can count on to fight for their community," Cole Leiter, a DCCC spokesman, said after her second-quarter contributions were announced.
"National Republicans have been ringing alarm bells about Congressman Culberson being woefully out-of-touch with Houstonians and Lizzie Fletcher's strong, locally focused, grass-roots campaign proves they are right to be concerned," he said.
Three quarters of Fletcher's second-quarter contributions came from within Texas, with over 68 percent coming from Houston-area residents.
Republicans have looked outside of Texas for the source of Fletcher's fundraising success, tying her to House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
"Nancy Pelosi bought and paid for Lizzie Fletcher, dragging her through the Democratic primary and anointing her as Washington's choice," said Jack Pandol, the National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman.
"Even as Pelosi funnels thousands to Lizzie's campaign account, there's no amount of money that can fool Texas families into supporting this far-left trial lawyer over their results-driven Congressman John Culberson," he said.
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(CelebrityAccess) – The Rolling Stones' 60th Anniversary will forever be remembered as the Royal Mail is releasing a stamp collection in celebration. The Stones are the fourth rock band to be honored with their own stamp collection in the United Kingdom (UK). They now join The Beatles (2007), Pink Floyd (2016), David Bowie (2017), and iconic rock band, Queen (2020).
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"Few bands in the history of rock have managed to carve out a career as rich and expansive as that of The Rolling Stones. They have created some of modern music's most iconic and inspirational albums, with ground-breaking live performances to match." ~ Royal Mail Director, David Gold in a press release
Charlie Watts (Photo Courtesy: The Royal Mail)
The Stones came together in 1962 and have been active for six decades. They've graced us with masterpiece songs such as, "Angie", "Start Me Up", and "Harlem Shuffle". They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, won Worlds Greatest Touring Band at the World Music Awards in 2005 and won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. Their latest effort, 2018's "Blue & Lonesome" won the Grammy for Best Transitional Blues Album.
Mick Jagger, frontman for the Stones has not ruled out more touring in 2022 in celebration of the anniversary. Mojo Magazine asked Jagger if the current, "No Filter" tour will be their last. "I don't know, I mean, anything could happen. You know, if things are good next year and everyone's feeling good about touring, I'm sure we'll do shows. I'm just trying to concentrate on this tour now."
The No Filter tour was dedicated to Watts, their longtime drummer and collaborator. Jagger, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times described what he sees in the audience for this go around. "They hold up signs saying, "We miss you, Charlie", and I miss him too."
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Through dance, veterans hope to recover some of what they left behind on the battlefield
The Los Angeles-based dance company Diavolo, Architecture in Motion's troupe of veterans and professional dancers will perform Sept. 21 at Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts.
Dancers with the dance company DIAVOLO rehearse at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
PUBLISHED: September 15, 2019 at 10:06 am | UPDATED: September 20, 2019 at 12:56 pm
When someone thanks Marine veteran Ivan Sharudo for his service, he said he wonders if they get what it meant for him to sign a contract to serve the United States.
"What matters the most is that people recognize that when we signed a contract, we gave up our life," he said. Even post-service, "you are back physically. You never are back mentally."
Members of the the dance company DIAVOLO rehearse at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The dance company DIAVOLO rehearses at Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dancers with the dance company DIAVOLO rehearse at Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Richard Bryant, left, executive director of Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts speaks the the dancers from DIAVOLO during a rehearsal at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dancer LaShaunda Johnson, left, rehearses with other dancers from the DIAVOLO at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dancer Alex Chevrier, right, rehearses with fellow dancers from DIAVOLO at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dancers with the dance company DIAVOLO, from left, Evan Turner, Steven Eatmon, and Alex Chevrier rehearse at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dancers with the dance company DIAVOLO, from left, Alex Chevrier, Evan Turner and Steven Eatmon, rehearse at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dancer Evan Turner, left, listens to the instructions of Jacques Heim, founder and artistic director of DIAVOLO, during rehearsal at the Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Diavolo dance company will kick off the Musc Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season with "Voyage," inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, and a new piece featuring Orange County veterans. (Photo by George Simian)
Jacques Heim founder and artistic director of DIAVOLO gives instructions to dancers during a rehearsal at Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jacques Heim, left, founder and artistic director of DIAVOLO, makes adjustments to the head position of dancer Karli Jo List during a rehearsal at Partridge Dance Center at Chapman University in Orange on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. DIAVOLO partnered with Chapman University to bring The Veteran's Project, a project that uses dance and movement to "help restore veterans' physical, mental, and emotional strengths," to Orange County. DIAVOLO will launch Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts' 2019-20 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Diavolo's Veterans Project gives its veteran participants new victories in their post-service lives. The military service members perform onstage with professional dancers. (Photo courtesy of Diavolo)
So, a few weeks ago, he joined the Southern California cast of the Veterans Project, a program of the Los Angeles-based dance company Diavolo, Architecture in Motion. Through dance, Sharudo wants to help people to understand his story – and perhaps get back at least little of what he left abroad.
Sharudo, a Menifee resident, is one of eight former service members working with Diavolo's leaders and professional dancers to craft pieces based on the veterans' military experiences that will be performed Sept. 21 at Chapman University's Musco Center for the Arts. They have been rehearsing at the school's Patridge Dance Center in Orange for several weeks.
Artistic Director Jacques Heim founded Diavolo in 1992. For a long time, he wanted to work with the veteran community, he said. "It needs all the help from all of us, not just the government,"
In 2016, Heim created the project's first troupe in Los Angeles. Since then, he's worked with veterans in Tampa Bay, Florida and Manhattan, Kansas.
"What they are doing is real," Heim said. "They are presenting themselves in front of us and saying this is who they are."
The veterans in Heim's troupes are not doing the traditional moves one would see in a production such as "The Nutcracker." Here, they are jumping and rolling and sliding and falling. Heim pushes them to go fast – sometimes making several moves within seconds.
"Behind the movement of Diavolo, you can't hide. The work is too intense," Heim said. "Therefore, I see what they need. Their strength and their weakness, and I work on them."
Pulling off those moves is intense and rigorous, Sharudo, 42, said, especially for an older guy like him who never learned to dance. Sharudo said he had to tell other members he couldn't do some moves because he was afraid of what may happen to his body.
Still, dancing has been "a very liberating experience," he said. "I never thought I would be able to do something like this."
And through the rehearsal process, he said he has built camaraderie with his fellow troupe members. That, Sharudo said, reminds him of the "best part of the military" – without any of the war-time trauma.
"The sense of unity is something that really heals me right now," Sharudo said. "This reminds me of what I want to remember."
The veterans involved are of all ages and backgrounds. Some were deployed to Vietnam during the 1970s, others, such as Sharudo, were in Kosovo in the 1990s.
But Heim said they all share a common thread: Feeling they have given so much, yet have been abandoned. Feeling they don't have a purpose in their lives.
Sharudo, born in Russia, received a green card through a lottery, then joined the Marines. He saw serving in the military as his duty to the country that welcomed him, he said.
During his time in the Marines, he toured 11 countries, including Kosovo and Japan. He helped the Pentagon recover from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack. But he would not call himself a hero.
Sharudo said he struggles with from post-traumatic stress disorder and has gone through intensive therapy.
He said he hopes people can understand through the dance not necessarily what he did on the battlefield, but the physical, emotional and mental sacrifices he had to make for years after he signed up to be a Marine.
"You do not want to know what I saw," he said. "I'm doing this to say no one has to see what I saw."
If You Go:
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21
Where: Musco Center for the Arts, 1 University Drive, Orange
Tickets: $38 to $68, available on Chapman's website, tickets.chapman.edu. Free parking is available in the Lastinger structure at 481 N. Orange St.
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