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Police Rescue One of Kidnapped RCCG Pastors
Eric August 3, 2019
The Ogun Police Command said it has rescued one of the five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God who were abducted on Thursday around J3 forest on Ogbere road, in Ijebu-East local government area of the state.
The Police said the only woman among the five victims, identified as Mrs. Ibelegbo Chidimma, was rescued early Saturday morning and would soon be taken to the convention ground.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Saturday to newsmen.
Oyeyemi said, "The Ogun State Police Command wishes to inform the general public that one of the kidnap victims, Mrs. Ibelegbo Chidimma, the only woman among them, has been rescued unhurt.
"The woman, who is a deaconess of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, regained her freedom in the early hours of today, 3rd of August, 2019, and she is currently at the Command's headquarters in Abeokuta, where arrangement is being made to take her to the Redemption Camp."
Speaking on the fate of the remaining victims ,Oyeyemi said "efforts are on top gear to rescue the remaining victims as the kidnappers who kept them in separate locations were changing their locations from time to time within the forest.
"The command hereby wishes to assure members of the public that the remaining victims will soon be rescued"
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As a busy book blogger, I receive many review requests on a daily basis. Most are polite, many are obvious just 'feeling' out the process. I try to answer each and every one.
Also, like most busy book bloggers, I have a Review Policy clearly stated on my blog.
Today I got an email that I found unsettling.
Please take the time to read my Review Policy.
Perhaps in future you would be better served by 'asking' permission before sending along an Amazon gift voucher. Many bloggers, such as myself, are very busy. Right now I have close to 200 review commitments. I can only read around 100 titles a year, so that puts me TWO YEARS behind. I hope you understand.
I appreciate that you sent along an Amazon gift voucher, but I will not be redeeming it. Perhaps you could get it refunded and send it to another reviewer who really wants to read your book.
Thanks for your email, but I found it rather presumptuous.
A simple "no" would suffice.
Oh, the trials and tribulations of being a book blogger. Am I wrong to expect authors and publishers to read my Review Policy? Should I just have replied 'no', as this author suggested? I thought I was being polite by explaining myself. Looking back at my reply, it does sound a little terse. That's what happens when you are taking the time to write your sixth 'no' in one sitting.
Do YOU get unsolicited review requests?
Do YOU answer each and every one?
Should I grow a thicker skin?
Should I have just not answered him?
What about Amazon Gift vouchers? Do you just accept them all?
Oh, the mighty power of words.
All support and/or constructive criticism greatly appreciated.
You went above and beyond – most authors )I hope) do not have such an entitlement attitude.
Thanks for your understanding Greg.
I'm really bad at responding to review requests, and most of the time don't respond at all. Many times I'll get a request that sounds like an interesting read, but they want a review too soon, or I'm too backed up with reviews. When I do respond with a no, I try to make my emails as brief and direct as possible. I feel like I'm being rude, but I don't want to give the author false hope, and I don't want to have to deal with multiple emails about a book I have no intention of ever reading.
I really loved your response and thought it was great!
Wow, that actually happens? I'm really new to the game and haven't had the "privilege" of that yet. I hope it does some day so I can turn them down as tactfully as you did! I really enjoyed your post! Thanks!
Honestly, I'm hit or miss on whether or not I reply. The thing is, I never want to be rude, but every time I reply with a "I'm afraid I just don't have time", it opens up a conversation where I wind up having to repeat myself or I end up giving in with no intent of ever reading it. I have a hard enough time saying no the first time (just because "no" is a hard thing for me). So, I frequently just don't reply.
The 'no reply' approach seems to be a popular one with book bloggers it seems. I do try to reply and have several standard replies that I copy and paste (cheating I know). However, that being said, as the requests are now coming in fast and furious, I think I might choose the 'no reply' method myself.
Where DO people like that find their confidence?? They should bottle it and sell it from a market stall, they'd make a killing. I respond to every review request, but I always make a point of asking them why they think their book would be a good fit for my blog – the ones who are spammy and self-interested either don't answer, or come up with a vague "Well, because you like books", and that settles that. I rarely take review requests, but I'm far more inclined to agree to one where the person has politely and genuinely reached out, having read my blog and clearly understanding my approach.
Thanks Sheree – I like your style. I don't think a lot of authors have even a remote idea of what a book blogger puts into a book review. There is not only the time reading (which should be enjoyable so some people say that doesn't count), but also the time spent writing the review, then polishing it, then publishing it, then posting the review on NetGalley, Edelweiss, Amazon, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, etc. etc.
YES! thank you and amen. I get many review requests as well and as a rule none have read my review policy page, specifically regarding genres I will NOT read. I've also gotten the presumptuous ones. I do, however, save them so I can sit down and really read their notes, particularly if they are polite. As you, there is no way I can read them all, nor do I have any interest in reading all new authors all the time. There is occasionally one that piques my interest, but I try to answer all requests (and nice when I get a polite response). Ones like this one? They obviously didn't learn a thing, did they.
Your empathetic comment is very much appreciated Virginia.
Yes Beth, this is one of few aspects of blogging that I dislike. Perhaps I'm getting jaded. I'm sure that at one time I might have been flattered that an author was sending me their book, now, especially when their approach is one like this one, I'm feeling more used than flattered.
I hate getting emails titled "Dear Reviewer". It would be nice for authors to try to put as much time into finding out information about me and my blog before I put in a huge time commitment to their book.
I've never had an unsolicited review request. I think my blog will have to be a bit more popular first.
I assume offers like this to be a "phising" expedition for me to click on a fake link, and consign them to the spam folder. I also took down my review policy, and no longer actively seek to review. I got tired of being inundated by idiots who've written an ebook that isn't even properly formatted, especially since in my Review Policy I said NO ebooks.
Interesting Alexandra. You are the second person to comment that they have taken down their review policy. Having NO review policy is I guess preferable to having one that people don't read. LOL I have just updated mine and hope that most folk will take the time to actually read it.
I have seen a few requests or emails from authors that have left me shocked. That one is shocking. lol We only reply to the requests we accepted and I feel no obligation to answer the ones we are not interested in. I don't know if that is right or nice or not. I always feel like I only need to know what people are interested in not what they are not.
The one that we received that shocked me the most was an author asking the Traveling Sisters to review her book and she send us a link to purchase it on Amazon. I deleted it and ignored it.
Ha, ha. I think I got that same email. Actually I think I've received three different ones that included a link to Amazon so that I could buy it myself and then review it. Gobsmacked! The presumptuousness of some people!
I answer almost all my requests in a polite way … except for one. The author asked me to review a book I had reviewed. I didn't bother to send him the links but I did send him a recommendation to at least be aware of reviews he had received. He replied by saying I should be aware of how busy he was. It took a lot of effort to resist being sucked into a discussion spiral that might have gone nasty.
No one has sent me an unsolicited voucher and I would have been offended to receive one. Even if the book interested me, I would not review it because I don't like the feeling that I had been "forced by kindness" to do it.
Next project: A review policy. I like it and can't believe I haven't done it yet.
Thanks Ron. I loved your term "forced by kindness". I feel we often feel pressured into reviewing books we really don't want to read or review for this very reason. As to your author who you had ALREADY reviewed – sometimes you do have to just stand back and not pursue the discussion further. Well done you!
Good luck with composing your new Review Policy and thanks for your comment.
As an independently published author, I'm sorry you had to deal with this. Authors should be rewarded for professionalism and the quality of their work, not how pushy they can be. I don't think you need to give him another thought. I would encourage you to forget about it and get back to the parts of your blogging that bring you joy.
I just don't reply anymore. My review policy clearly says I'm not accepting review requests just now and that if they want a guest slot and I don't reply within 48 hours, I don't have space or their book doesn't appeal. I used to feel bad mannered not replying but if people haven't bothered to read the policy or have just ignored it, well too bad.
Sounds very healthy Joanne. I guess I'll just have to silence my little guilt gremlins. I would have most probably have clicked the delete button on this one were it not for the Amazon gift.
Ugh, some people! Seriously, what's wrong with them?
Oh dear!!! Perhaps I'm too accessible?
I think you have more patience than i do for sure!
That amuses me Norrie as I thought my reply was bordering on terse. Thanks so much for your support.
I have received a few like that. Also, I get "Dear Reviewer" which I can't stand. It is a commitment on both sides of the equation. At least look up my name first, it is not like it is hard to find.
Either Dear Reviewer or no salutation whatsoever like my email – they are both inadequate in my opinion. What they are asking for is a commitment of time. We might get a free book, but if it is one we have no desire to read, a blogger would not be true to themselves if they spent 6 hours reading it, then another couple hours writing the review, then more time promoting the review on social media. Would THEY do all that work for someone who couldn't even be bothered to find out who they are? At the very least they can find out who we are and what our review policies say.
Exactly. I am happy to help, and I am happy to read new stuff. All I ask is that you know my name and read my policy.
I don't have a review policy posted and am currently declining requests for review from new to me authors, though I will do blog tours. I send a short and direct decline and that seems to work effectively. However, I do not respond to requests that are not sent to me using my name (they tend to be blast emails to lots of people) or through my blog contact form.
As for that Amazon gift? If you have no plans to read the book, definitely don't accept it. And, I wouldn't worry about his issues in redeeming it. You didn't ask for it and didn't accept it. His problem.
I took down my contact form on my blog and the emails I still get (through Amazon although I thought my email address was not public) are mostly for genres that are completely not the type of novels I read. I sometimes reply but sometimes don't, it depends on how nice and personal the mail is. If I see it's a standard thing I don't really bother.
Thanks for sharing! It's always interesting and helpful to know how other review bloggers handle these issues!
Yes thanks Carol. I've already learned a lot from the comments to this post.
How awful and pushy! Sorry you have had that experience.
I don't state anywhere that I accept requests, nor do I have an email address on my blog. I've had 2 DMs on Twitter and I just replied that the books were not the genre I read (which was true).
I don't think there was anything wrong with your reply at all, in fact he was being very presumptuous. I have a review policy and fortunately don't get too many requests these days.
I get so many every day! Just assuming you want to read their book. Now I have a auto answer that just says "We are not accepting review requests at this time, please have your publisher contact us after 2019". The ones who just sent you the book to download, I just delete. I get thousands of emails a day and I don't have time for people who really just batch mail out requests.
If they queried agents, in the same manner, my guess is, they self-published. I've read wonderful, carefully crafted fiction by self-published authors, but the remainder . . .
I agree. This author needs to hone his method of approaching potential reviewers, publishers, etc.
I'm currently not accepting new review requests and have this stated on my review policy page. Thankfully, most authors seem to take notice of this and I get few requests these days, although like you I do try to respond to each of them if only to politely decline (unless they're clearly generic in which case I just delete). As well as being presumptuous, sending an Amazon voucher seems most unwise on the part of the author since I would think it would fall foul of Amazon's community guidelines by suggesting payment for the review and a connection between you and the author.
I agree Cathy. Unwise and somewhat inexperienced in my opinion. Hope he can get a refund – I'm not sure how that works.
So sorry you had to face this.
The author was way out of line, and it would have been ok to simply not respond.
I don't know why people forget that the same courtesies we extend offline, need to followed online.
Thanks. Courtesy means everything to me because it denotes respect. I think I would just have deleted it were it not for the Amazon gift included.
Yes. We need to give and expect respect in online life just as we do offline.
I recently wrote about how strangers friend me on Facebook and then immediately DM to ask for likes and to buy their jewelry, books, etc. No attempt at interaction, and then they do not request, they order to you to do stuff for them.
Your post resonated with me. I hope these authors, who give others a bad name, stop doing this.
Well, there's an author who sounds like a total spoon! I confess I haven't applied to a review blog in years, mainly because these days the best ones are so busy – as you demonstrate – that it's all a little too similar to the trad querying process, but I do follow review blogs and have discovered many good reads from them and hugely appreciate the time and effort people like you put in. I despair at the behaviour of some of my fellow authors. Is it so difficult for them to follow the guidelines? And to be so pissy after you sent a very reasonable reply.
Ho hum. Idiots are everywhere.
God my fat thumbs hit the wrong button before I'd finished.
If a request comes via my blog I tend to ignore, unless it's an author I've read before. If a direct email I do occasionally respond and decline.
I always tt to be polite even though my basic point on reviews has been ignored.
Why take it down Yvonne? It sounds like a sound idea to me.
I think we all get them, wrong genre, wrongly addressed, not bothered to read review policy. I used to feel bad and try and answer them all, now it's only to those who have taken the trouble to be relevant. I thought your reply was fine.
Oh thank you! I was wondering if I came off a bit terse/rude. It has been my experience that rude breeds rude, though most of the time I try to rise above it, I often fail.
Your email was perfectly polite! Polite, but firm. It's an email I would send, honestly. We don't get many review requests here, but I get them all over my various platforms. It's flattering, but annoying.
True. Thanks for your support.
I always reply. I would never accept a gift voucher. If it's not my kind of read, I say so and suggest the check out The Book Blogger List if they are looking for reviewers/blogger. The vast majority reply with a 'thank you'.
Agreed, there are some polite requesters out there. Thanks.
Yes, I also receive unsolicited review requests. I do reply to them all. Sometimes, the book piques my interest and I say that I will read and review but will not commit to a timeline. If that is okay with them, then send it along. Sometimes I say no with a brief reason, such as not my genre choice, too many commitments already etc. I have not received unsolicited kindle vouchers though. I think your response was fine. This author needs a thicker skin. Enjoy the rest of your day Lynne.
Thanks Carla. And here's me thinking I needed a thicker skin. I guess I just objected to his presumptuous tone.
That would definitely get my dander up as well.
YES Carla, he did come across as pushy.
I get quite a few unsolicited requests, it does irk me when some don't even take the time to find out what my name is and address the email to Dear Hooked. I think personally that the best thing to do is just to ignore the ones that aren't of interest, or who clearly haven't taken the time to read the review policy. An email that shows that the author has taken time to find a bit about us certainly does go a long way, and I will always try and reply to those ones. I've been threatened by an author in the past when I've responded to a review request that I'm not interested in so it isn't something I do any more, and I'm very careful now about who I respond to.
Threatened… really? How awful! Makes my little problem pale into insignificance. I think I might have just clicked the delete button on this one if it hadn't been for the Amazon gift link included. I imagine getting your self-published book reviewed is quite challenging, but I do think the author needed to hone his requests with a little background research and some courtesy.
I was shocked myself when it happened. I definitely agree with you and I don't think there was anything wrong with your reply in the slightest, particularly if the author has spent their own money by sending you a voucher.
I'm so impressed that you answer every unsolicited (arg!) submission and email, and I thought your answer was not only as honorable and correct as it could possibly be, but also more gracious than such a presumptuous "gift" deserves. In this era of time and attention being the most precious commodities in all our lives, that author's message was the equivalent if those loud, annoying video ads that pop up in the middle of the thing you're reading!
Thanks. Ha-Ha Jonelle, I loved your analogy. That is almost exactly what it felt like.
I have to say I thought your email was polite, you COULD have just said no. You took your precious time for someone who clearly couldn't be bothered to respect yours.
I get very few unsolicited review requests. In fact, I think I've gotten only one from a marketing department who saw I reviewed a previous book from an author and offered me an ARC. I am not loud enough or big enough or whatever you need to be. LOL.
Thanks so much. It is heartening to hear from another author. Authors such as yourself who both write and review books by other authors seem to have a deeper empathy for us lowly bookbloggers.
I've got a review policy but I still get a lot of requests that fall outside my interests. I've lost count of the number of 'clean romance' or 'romcom' books I've been asked to review. I never read romance novels – ever. I am polite and respond if people are polite to me. Thankfully I've never received a rude or assuming email!
Lucky you! It seems that reading Review Policies is not something routinely done before submitting review requests. Alas….
I do get unsolicited emails like these, although my blog clearly states I'm not accepting review requests. Sometimes I'll reply, sometimes I don't. Once in a blue moon, I actually even make an exception. I try to be polite when I do reply and have luckily never received a reply like the one you have. That's just rude and most definitely for me a reason never to work with that author.
I get a lot of unsolicited requests and to be honest, don't have time to answer them all. An less than no inclination to answer ones which aren't even addressed to me. To be honest, I wrote in my review policy that I can only respond to requests I am going to accept so if they bother to read that then they will know. If they keep pestering, I know that they haven't read my policy in which case I don't feel remotely guilty about simply deleting the email.
Maybe that sounds harsh but I work full time as well as blog so just don't have time for hours of blogmin on top of everything else. I think you've been very polite and I do hate those – here is my book/link – emails as they are so rude. They get deleted without consideration as how do you know the link doesn't contain a virus?
I wouldn't worry too much and just keep doing what you do. It's more than enough.
Yes, I guess I have to learn to not take this stuff too personally. I'll have to learn how to press that trusty 'delete' button more frequently.


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'use strict';

var should = require('should'),
	request = require('supertest'),
	app = require('../../server'),
	mongoose = require('mongoose'),
	User = mongoose.model('User'),
	Archive = mongoose.model('Archive'),
	agent = request.agent(app);

/**
 * Globals
 */
var credentials, user, archive;

/**
 * Archive routes tests
 */
describe('Archive CRUD tests', function() {
	beforeEach(function(done) {
		// Create user credentials
		credentials = {
			username: 'username',
			password: 'password'
		};

		// Create a new user
		user = new User({
			firstName: 'Full',
			lastName: 'Name',
			displayName: 'Full Name',
			email: 'test@test.com',
			username: credentials.username,
			password: credentials.password,
			provider: 'local'
		});

		// Save a user to the test db and create new Archive
		user.save(function() {
			archive = {
				name: 'Archive Name'
			};

			done();
		});
	});

	it('should be able to save Archive instance if logged in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Archive
				agent.post('/archives')
					.send(archive)
					.expect(200)
					.end(function(archiveSaveErr, archiveSaveRes) {
						// Handle Archive save error
						if (archiveSaveErr) done(archiveSaveErr);

						// Get a list of Archives
						agent.get('/archives')
							.end(function(archivesGetErr, archivesGetRes) {
								// Handle Archive save error
								if (archivesGetErr) done(archivesGetErr);

								// Get Archives list
								var archives = archivesGetRes.body;

								// Set assertions
								(archives[0].user._id).should.equal(userId);
								(archives[0].name).should.match('Archive Name');

								// Call the assertion callback
								done();
							});
					});
			});
	});

	it('should not be able to save Archive instance if not logged in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/archives')
			.send(archive)
			.expect(401)
			.end(function(archiveSaveErr, archiveSaveRes) {
				// Call the assertion callback
				done(archiveSaveErr);
			});
	});

	it('should not be able to save Archive instance if no name is provided', function(done) {
		// Invalidate name field
		archive.name = '';

		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Archive
				agent.post('/archives')
					.send(archive)
					.expect(400)
					.end(function(archiveSaveErr, archiveSaveRes) {
						// Set message assertion
						(archiveSaveRes.body.message).should.match('Please fill Archive name');

						// Handle Archive save error
						done(archiveSaveErr);
					});
			});
	});

	it('should be able to update Archive instance if signed in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Archive
				agent.post('/archives')
					.send(archive)
					.expect(200)
					.end(function(archiveSaveErr, archiveSaveRes) {
						// Handle Archive save error
						if (archiveSaveErr) done(archiveSaveErr);

						// Update Archive name
						archive.name = 'WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO MEAN?';

						// Update existing Archive
						agent.put('/archives/' + archiveSaveRes.body._id)
							.send(archive)
							.expect(200)
							.end(function(archiveUpdateErr, archiveUpdateRes) {
								// Handle Archive update error
								if (archiveUpdateErr) done(archiveUpdateErr);

								// Set assertions
								(archiveUpdateRes.body._id).should.equal(archiveSaveRes.body._id);
								(archiveUpdateRes.body.name).should.match('WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO MEAN?');

								// Call the assertion callback
								done();
							});
					});
			});
	});

	it('should be able to get a list of Archives if not signed in', function(done) {
		// Create new Archive model instance
		var archiveObj = new Archive(archive);

		// Save the Archive
		archiveObj.save(function() {
			// Request Archives
			request(app).get('/archives')
				.end(function(req, res) {
					// Set assertion
					res.body.should.be.an.Array.with.lengthOf(1);

					// Call the assertion callback
					done();
				});

		});
	});

	it('should be able to get a single Archive if not signed in', function(done) {
		// Create new Archive model instance
		var archiveObj = new Archive(archive);

		// Save the Archive
		archiveObj.save(function() {
			request(app).get('/archives/' + archiveObj._id)
				.end(function(req, res) {
					// Set assertion
					res.body.should.be.an.Object.with.property('name', archive.name);

					// Call the assertion callback
					done();
				});
		});
	});

	it('should be able to delete Archive instance if signed in', function(done) {
		agent.post('/auth/signin')
			.send(credentials)
			.expect(200)
			.end(function(signinErr, signinRes) {
				// Handle signin error
				if (signinErr) done(signinErr);

				// Get the userId
				var userId = user.id;

				// Save a new Archive
				agent.post('/archives')
					.send(archive)
					.expect(200)
					.end(function(archiveSaveErr, archiveSaveRes) {
						// Handle Archive save error
						if (archiveSaveErr) done(archiveSaveErr);

						// Delete existing Archive
						agent.delete('/archives/' + archiveSaveRes.body._id)
							.send(archive)
							.expect(200)
							.end(function(archiveDeleteErr, archiveDeleteRes) {
								// Handle Archive error error
								if (archiveDeleteErr) done(archiveDeleteErr);

								// Set assertions
								(archiveDeleteRes.body._id).should.equal(archiveSaveRes.body._id);

								// Call the assertion callback
								done();
							});
					});
			});
	});

	it('should not be able to delete Archive instance if not signed in', function(done) {
		// Set Archive user
		archive.user = user;

		// Create new Archive model instance
		var archiveObj = new Archive(archive);

		// Save the Archive
		archiveObj.save(function() {
			// Try deleting Archive
			request(app).delete('/archives/' + archiveObj._id)
			.expect(401)
			.end(function(archiveDeleteErr, archiveDeleteRes) {
				// Set message assertion
				(archiveDeleteRes.body.message).should.match('User is not logged in');

				// Handle Archive error error
				done(archiveDeleteErr);
			});

		});
	});

	afterEach(function(done) {
		User.remove().exec();
		Archive.remove().exec();
		done();
	});
});

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Q: No labels in sjplot tab_df I am trying to build a table with sjplot and the tab_df function but fail to get the label names in the table:
library(sjPlot)
library(stargazer)

Region<-c("Berlin", "Hamburg", "Berchtesgarden")
Sensor<-c("Riegl ", "Riegl ", "Riegl ")
Platform<-c("Aircraft", "UAV", "Helicoper")
Acquisition_Year <-c("2002", "2002", "2002")
Month<-c("August", "September", "July")
Flight_Height<-c("400-600m AGL","400-600m AGL","400-600m AGL")

LidarAcq<-as.data.frame(cbind(Region, Sensor, Platform, Acquisition_Year, Month, Flight_Height))
LidarAcq

attr(LidarAcq$Region, "label") <- "Region"
attr(LidarAcq$Sensor, "label") <- "Sensor"
attr(LidarAcq$Platform, "label") <- "Platform"
attr(LidarAcq$Acquisition_Year, "label") <- "Acquisition Year"
attr(LidarAcq$Month, "label") <- "Month"
attr(LidarAcq$Flight_Height, "label") <- "Flight Height"

tab_df(LidarAcq, title = "Lidar Acquisition Parameters" , file= "~/LidarAcq.doc")

As I understand, sjplot is supposed to automatically recognise the labels...
So what am I doing wrong?

A: I also cannot get sjplot to recognize the label for each column. You can use col.header and a character vector ("labels") to name your columns instead.
labels <- c("Region", "Sensor", "Platform", "Acquisition Value", "Month", "Flight Height")

tab_df(LidarAcq,
title = "Lidar Acquisition Parameters" ,
col.header = labels,
file= "~/LidarAcq.doc")

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Phoenix Pollution Control has been helping communities with their pollution control and emergencies since 2001. Here, you can find reports from our ship-to-shore emergency services for the Battleship Texas, an example of our HAZWOPER refresher training, and emergency spill response in Slapout Gully.
Phoenix dispatched a Hazmate team and a 70 barrel vacuum truck to set up oil skimming operations inside of the massive ship to prevent oil from being released into the Houston Ship Channel during the water pumping operations. Watson escorted the PIC and Safety Compliance Manager down four decks to the engine room to inspect and establish a safe and efficient approach to removing the oil. All though the battleship had good air flow on the upper decks, the engine room, where the work would be taking place was approaching 100 degrees in temperature. The first Job Safety Awareness task identified was the potential of heat exhaustion and was later addressed during the site safety meeting that occurred top side prior to beginning the project. Another potential hazard was slips, trips and falls due to the cramped conditions throughout the ship. Response crew members had to be safety aware for themselves and for the visiting public's safety as well.
The Response Team laid out vacuum hose and added a Frac Tank to pump the oil into. Then Phoenix hooked the tank up to a 130 barrel vacuum truck so as to pull from the tank and transport to an authorized disposal facility.
News crews from all over the State were sending out reports about the sinking monument and the emergency response to fix the leak. The visitors continued with there exploring of the battleship while not knowing they were on a sinking ship!
The Battleship Texas has had leaks in the past and have been repaired using this same approach; 1. Pumping off the oil from the ship. 2. Pumping the water out of the ship. 3. Divers locating the damage causing the leak. 4. Utilizing underwater welders to repair and patch the damage.
Phoenix Pollution Control and Environmental Services was honored to be a part of the Emergency Response team of contractors that played a part in saving the Battleship Texas. For more information on the services we offer please call 281-838-3400.
CHANNELVIEW, TX The K-Solv Chemical Storage and Blending facility located in Channelview, Texas recently conducted an emergency spill response drill and training for site personnel. The training scenarios began with a leaking drum located in the warehouse. The training participants downed level B personal protective equipment and began Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) ops to contain and clean up the spilled product. Absorbent boom placed around storm drainage areas to prevent down stream migration of the product was the first line of containment. Next, absorbent pads were placed directly on the product throughout the contaminated area for safe removal and proper disposal of the product.
The second drill scenario was deploying containment boom on the waterway. This drill required the expertise of Phoenix Pollution Control and Environmental Services, Inc, an emergency response company specializing in land and waterway spill response. The responders from Phoenix trained the K-Solv personnel on the safe and proper procedures of deploying containment boom from the shoreline and dock in the case of product reaching the water. As the boom boat pulls the one hundred foot sections of boom in the water, the shoreline responders attach more sections to each end until there is enough boom to contain the spilled product and prevent further migration down stream.
The final training scenario was on deploying and operating barrel skimmers that are used to pick up the spilled product from the water and the type of equipment found in a spill response trailer in the case of an emergency.
For more information on the services provided by Phoenix Pollution Control and Environmental Services, Inc, call 281-838-3400.
Phoenix Pollution Control and Environmental Services recently assisted in emergency spill response operations to stop the flow of a petroleum based product down Slapout Gully and reaching the marsh lands of Burnett Bay and into the Houston Ship Channel.
BAYTOWN, TX Phoenix Pollution Control and Environmental Services, Inc. (Phoenix) recently conducted emergency spill response operations involving a petroleum based product that had made it's way through the storm drainage system of an industrial complex and into a near by creak. The creek feeds into Slapout Gully that then feeds into Burnet Bay and the Houston Ship Channel.
Phoenix response crews began immediate booming operations on the mouth of the gully and working their way up stream as another crew was conducting HAZMAT operations at the source of the spill and booming the creek, working down steam. Hard plastic boom was used to stop and collect the product and absorbent boom was used to capture the product and suspend in the absorbent material.
Down stream from the source, Phoenix built a dam using earth and eight inch pipe as a way to raise the water level, slow the migration of the product and skim the light petroleum sheen from the water. "Our goal is to prevent the product from entering the marsh area of the bay and contaminating the wetlands in the area and from entering the Houston Ship Channel," said Randy Watson, Project Manager, Phoenix Pollution Control. "We are currently gathering water samples for lab analysis to determine what percentage, if any, of the product made it past our preventative measures and into the Bay," He continued.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) was conducting an investigation and was the on scene coordinator for the response.


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A Life in Recovery: From feeling unlovable to finding the love to fill the void
Rachel Lawler always felt empty, that she was 'unloveable.' On the outside, she looked like a lucky kid, but the inside was another story.
A Life in Recovery: From feeling unlovable to finding the love to fill the void Rachel Lawler always felt empty, that she was 'unloveable.' On the outside, she looked like a lucky kid, but the inside was another story. Check out this story on burlingtonfreepress.com: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2019/07/01/opioid-addiction-life-recovery-rehab-story-vermont-rachel-lawler/1341076001/
Ryan Mercer, Burlington Free Press Published 10:00 p.m. ET June 30, 2019 | Updated 6:14 p.m. ET July 1, 2019
For years, Rachel Lawler suffered from opioid addiction that nearly killed her. Now she works in the Howard Center's Community Outreach Program, responding with police on calls for people experiencing a mental health crisis, addiction and more and connects them with help. (Photo: RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS)
Rachel Lawler grew up in a comfortable middle-class home in Cheshire, Connecticut. On the outside, Rachel's parents were successful professionals. They could afford to send her to a private school, give her violin lessons and equipment for sports. They could provide her with things that would help her thrive.
But looks can be deceiving.
Rachel said she grew up around two things that damaged her: mental illness and alcohol abuse.
By the time she graduated from college in 2008, Rachel was pulled into the grips of opioid addiction, fueled in part, she said, by years of family dysfunction. Jump to 2018 and more than 8,000 people in the state sought out recovery treatment for opioid addiction. In the past four years, that number saw a 47 percent increase according to the Vermont's most recent data.
When the trouble started: Feeling unlovable
"There was a lot of me as a child trying to take care of the people who were my parents," Rachel said.
Among Rachel's earliest memories of her mother, Cathy, is getting tucked into bed at night, getting a hug and a kiss from her. Rachel knows her mother loved her.
As time went on, things deteriorated. Cathy increasingly suffered from paralyzing depression that she said was a result of living in a dysfunctional relationship with her husband, David.
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Cathy said things got so bad that she started using alcohol to cope, just to get through the time between coming home from work and waking up the next morning to leave the house again.
Rachel remembers her mom would often just shut down. Sometimes it was Rachel trying to get her mother to bed instead of her being tucked in.
Her father David was the opposite, she said. He would get angry, yell, sometimes throwing things. He would often drink too much, Rachel said, and remembers him threatening to leave one night and then storming out of the house. She recalls wondering if he'd ever come back.
Other times, Rachel said she would leave the house with her mom to escape his alcohol-fueled rage and stay away for hours.
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Rachel's parents tried to fix things between each other. David and Cathy spent more than a decade in counseling. But they both said it just didn't work for a lot of reasons.
"It was difficult to get on the same page... difficult for all of us," David said. He acknowledged most of what Rachel describes, that sometimes he drank too much, and that the drinking turned into anger.
It had all become a vicious cycle, David getting angry, Cathy drinking to cope, making him even more angry. And the cycle went on and on, trapping Rachel in its wake.
"We didn't do her much justice as parents as a teenager," David said.
At 10 years old, Rachel remembers first realizing how she felt, sad all the time and overwhelmed by a deep sense of dread. By the time she was a teen, Rachel had embraced a core belief: she was unloveable.
This belief was cemented by the the fact that she was adopted. Rachel's parents had brought her from South Korea when she was 4 months old. When she was old enough to understand — Rachel isn't sure when exactly — she was told that her biological mother had loved her so much, she left her.
Watching her parents fight, she sometimes wondered when they would do the same.
And for years, she buried it all deep, deep down.
The descent: Trying to erase her feelings
By the time Rachel entered St. Michael's College in Colchester in 2003, her sense of self-worth was nearly nonexistent. She was accustomed to being miserable, she welcomed it in fact. Because being that way was easy, it was familiar. But given a choice, Rachel said she would have rather felt nothing at all.
So she tried to find a way erase her feelings.
Despite being allergic to alcohol, Rachel says she started drinking. A lot. And every time, she'd get sick almost immediately. She'd barely even get "drunk" before throwing up, she remembers. But Rachel drank anyway, trying to numb her feelings. It didn't work very well.
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In 2008, a trip to the dentist introduced her to something that did: Oxycontin.
She had gotten a prescription after having her wisdom teeth pulled and knew right away that the powerful opioid pain killer was exactly what she wanted.
"It instantaneously took away all my insecurities and all of my fears and for the first time in my life made me feel OK," she said.
Faces of recovery
Melissa Cohen's art work, and the art she helps other women in recovery create, is much more than paint on canvas or a photograph or a sketch. It's a conduit through which Cohen reconnects to life after drug addiction cut those connections. RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS
Michael Lowe finishes his daily workout at Snap Fitness in Berlin on Tuesday morning, April 30, 2019. Lowe's struggles with addiction exploded into the public's view in 2009 while serving at the Vergennes Police Chief. After years of struggling with opioid addiction that led to Lowe abusing other drugs as well as alcohol, he says he's finally in a healthy place and now works with people suffering from mental health issues. RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS
Teilya Brunet lives in an old farmhouse down a winding Vermont country road in New Haven, far out of reach from the past haunts she used tofrequent when using. Her recovery from opioid addiction brought her here, partly for more affordable rent, but the remote location insulates her from places and the memories they hold that could pull her back into using. RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS
Emily Welch lives at Mandala House in Rutland while she serves out a sentence for selling the heroin that caused her sister to die from an overdose. She is learning how to live an adult life that includes regular employment, living on her how and paying bills. JESS ALOE/FREE PRESS
For years, Rachel Lawler suffered from opioid addiction that nearly killed her. Now she works in the Howard Center's Community Outreach Program, responding with police on calls for people experiencing a mental health crisis, addiction and more and connects them with help. RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS
She remembers saving two pills from her first prescription and setting them aside to use later. That marked the first time she used opioids to get high. Her teeth no longer hurt by then, but her feelings did, feelings that had been hurting for as far back as she could remember. The pills numbed them to the core.
Rachel tried to fill another prescription with her dentist, but they wanted her to come in for a visit first. It was most likely a safety precaution to prevent patients from abusing the drug.
And it worked, Rachel didn't try to find more. Not yet.
Rock bottom: A syringe-full of heroin
That same year, Rachel graduated college and watched her friends enter careers, start families and do all the things that, for Rachel, felt daunting, even impossible. She did manage to land a job in the legal field and planned to go to law school, still playing the part of a successful person raised in a good family with everything going for her.
But that good family was falling apart.
In 2009, Cathy left David. Rachel said that, despite the fighting, the dysfunction, the pain, the idea of belonging to a family as an adopted kid was one of the few sure bets in her life. And now it wasn't.
The emptiness that had developed inside Rachel as a child was now a massive void and she had no idea how to fill it. Alcohol wasn't working. So Rachel thought back to what did work: those two pills from the dentist.
Street shopping was easy and, for months, she got what was she was looking for and slipping deeper and deeper into addiction.
"I started to have consequences," she said. Rachel's friends started to notice, people at her job too. She saw what was coming and tried to get out. She was scared.
Rachel Lawler shows a photo of her arm from a decade ago, riddled with self-inflicted cuts, and track marks from heroin use. She holds on to the photo from a very dark time in her life to remind herself of how far she has come. It took her nine tries at rehab and failed MAT treatment before she got sober and, for the past 6 years, Rachel has slowly rebuilt her life. (Photo: RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS)
Rachel checked herself into rehab for the first time in December of 2009 at Valley Vista, a 97-bed inpatient addiction treatment program in Bradford. She managed to stay sober for about three months, but then relapsed.
Rachel's addiction was now being reinforced by the guilt of not being able to stop, of her parents' divorce, of the feeling that her life was flying apart. Pills were becoming harder to get. The street price was getting more expensive. And so was Rachel's addiction. A single Oxy pill was costing her $80 to $100. She was getting desperate.
But then Rachel found a solution, an even more powerful and cheaper opioid: heroin.
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Whatever had survived of Rachel's normal life outside of her alcohol and Oxy abuse quickly died by a syringe-full of heroin. Her employer, who had been understanding up to that point because of her efforts at rehab, had run out of patience. She quit rather than wait to be fired.
For the next two years, all Rachel cared about, day and night, was shooting up. Her father, despite knowing what was going on, continued to support her the only way her knew how. He paid her rent, her bills, paid for rehab and an onslaught of emergency-room and hospital bills. David estimated that he spent tens of thousands of dollars in what he characterized as a fight to keep his daughter alive. But when Rachel would ask for money, he would send it, providing her the very means by which she was slowly killing herself.
More and more, Rachel was surrounded by unsafe situations, unsafe people, all in the name of getting high.
Rachel said she was raped.
It happened more than once. Each time, Rachel defended herself in the only way she knew how. She shut down just like her mother had, she detached, turning off every sense she could in order to survive. She never called police. The addiction didn't care about being violated. It only cared about the needle in her arm.
Fighting back: Rehab, relapse, repeat
"I overdosed a few of times and ended up in the hospital," Rachel said. "By that point, I didn't think I would live past 30."
She checked herself into rehab. After a two-week stay, like many suffering from opioid addiction, she quickly relapsed. Another time, Rachel enrolled in medication assisted treatment, was prescribed Suboxone, but relapsed again.
During a brief period of sobriety, she asked her father to stop sending her money when she asked.
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She would attempt rehab over and over with roughly the same results. The onslaught of emotions when she was sober, even for a short time, was so painful that Rachel said she tried to kill herself. One way or another, she thought, it was all going to end.
Then, on the ninth attempt, it did.
Rachel Lawler marks May 4, 2012, as the day she got sober and stayed that way.
Working for the Howard Center's Community Outreach Program, Rachel Lawler works with police department in Shelburne, South Burlington, Winooski, Essex and Colchester and Williston, responding with police to calls involving mental health crisis, addiction and more, helping connect people with services. (Photo: RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS)
For the first time, Rachel said, she sat with her emotions and started, little by little, to work through them, gaining a small sense of peace each time.
She found a sponsor and started going to meetings. She started talking about the years of trauma growing up and, for the first time, confronted those feelings instead of numbing them with drinking or Oxy or heroin.
Her thoughts of suicide diminished.
David said that year was a really good time. Rachel came to visit and for the first time they didn't fight.
Rachel started processing a lifetime of grief, of guilt, of hating herself, blaming herself. Through that process, she started to create a positive image of herself. But those breakthroughs created something else. She became more open, and more vulnerable.
Then, she met a man.
At first, Rachel says the relationship was caring, loving, everything that was missing in her parents' marriage. That long-standing belief that she was unloveable suddenly wasn't true anymore.
They got married and had a daughter.
But Rachel started to realize that something wasn't right. What she thought had been love was twisting into something else, she said. Control, confinement, isolation, even threats.
It was her parents' relationship all over again, but now it was hers. And she was not about to relive her parents' mistakes.
The example of her mom leaving her dad gave Rachel the courage to do what she did next.
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Rachel filed for and was granted a relief from abuse order from a judge. She divorced, was awarded custody of her daughter, and in the months to come fought off her ex-husbands attempts to bring her back under his control.
For months, when Rachel would come home after picking up her daughter from school, she would make her wait outside and search their home to make sure her ex hadn't broken in and was waiting inside for her.
"I didn't want her to see him hurt me," she said.
Rachel survived her parents' relationship, survived her addiction, survived her recovery and an abusive relationship that threatened to take it all away.
She had protect herself, protected her daughter, and even re-established a relationship with her mom, who was now living in Ohio. Cathy married her high-school sweetheart, Kevin Whitby. After losing touch for more than 40 years, they reconnected and picked up right they left off, she joked.
They were all happy, and not just on the outside.
For the first time in years, Rachel started thinking about her career. But she feared that her lack of job experience or professional accomplishments, her history with addiction, with failed recovery attempts, would look less than impressive of a resume. She feared that her past would be considered a liability.
What she didn't realize was that one employer would look at her experiences with mental health challenges and addiction as an asset.
Howard Center on South Winooski Avenue in Burlington. (Photo: Free Press File)
In February 2018, the Howard Center hired Rachel as a member of the Community Outreach Program.
Inspired by Burlington's Street Outreach model, the Community Outreach Program connects people facing mental health, substance use, homelessness, or other social-service challenges with help. The program partners with police departments in South Burlington, Colchester, Williston, Winooski, Essex, and Shelburne.
Rachel works alongside officers, responding to calls when someone is suffering a mental health or addiction crisis, domestic abuse and more.
Shelburne Police Chief Aaron Noble said that, before the program, officers would go back time and time again to the same call for the same person suffering from the same problem.
"We were putting bandaids on things and that was a good as we could do," he said. "More often than not, we knew we'd be back dealing with the same people."
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Now, Rachel and other outreach staff are able to connect those same people with the services they needed and follow up with them later to make sure everything is going ok. Chief Noble says that the number of repeat calls for the same person in Shelburne has dropped significantly.
Although she continues to work on her own recovery, Rachel said she sometimes see herself in the people she helps. That, she said, reminds her that no one is alone. There's help out there.
"It feels like my way of flipping my role in the community, from being someone who was in a mode of self destruction and hurting a lot of people along the way, to trying to help others who are in a similar situation," Rachel said.
Recovery: 'Anything can be walked through in sobriety'
Looking back on it now, Rachel doesn't blame her parents for what happened. They were both fighting their own battles, she says, and that they did the best they could.
"I used that as an excuse for a very long time for the choices that I made," Rachel said of her fall into addiction. "It was much easier to blame other people rather than take responsibility for myself."
Shortly after they reconnected, her mom was diagnosed with cancer. Rachel was devastated. After everything her mom had been through, after all the things Rachel had been through, now this. It's the kind of thing that triggers relapse in some. But not for Rachel, not anymore.
"Anything can be walked through in sobriety," Rachel said, a phrase she uses frequently.
For now, Cathy is stable and said she is doing well. But there have been a lot of close calls and as painful as it is to watch, Rachel is thankful for so many things in her mom's life.
Rachel does not have a relationship with her father anymore. She said that, in many ways, David was a good dad. But he also had his own demons. After she got sober in 2012, things were good for a while, she said, but then the old patterns came back. To take care of herself, Rachel said she just couldn't be around him.
In 2013, Rachel called the police on her father. She said he was threatening to shoot himself. David disputes that. He was admitted to the hospital and called her from there, leaving her a voicemail that she provided to the Free Press:
"If you ever, ever, ever call 911 on my behalf again, I will shoot you. This is ridiculous, I am not self injurious... leave me alone, thank you very much. I do love you."
Opioid addiction: Mothers in recovery face a unique set of barriers
Now, when Rachel puts her own daughter to bed, she calls on memories of her mom, remembering how she felt when she kissed her goodnight. Happy memories from before things got bad. She recreates those moments for her daughter, who frequently asks for bonus hugs at bed time, when one — or three — aren't enough.
Rachel takes comfort in the fact that her mom has found happiness.
Cathy said she is incredibly proud of her daughter and everything she has overcome. At 71 years old, David said he only has a few good years left and hopes that, maybe someday, Rachel with reconnect with him. But he knows that the scars are still there for both of them. Still, David said he has never stopped loving his daughter.
Looking at her daughter, that empty space that Rachel grew up with, the one that her addiction tried to fill, is occupied by other things now. A love for her child, for her mom and her dad too.
And maybe most important of all, a love for herself.
Looking for resources?
If you have concerns about the addiction, here are some agencies that can help:
Vermont 211: Call or text 2-1-1. The United Ways of Vermont run a 24-hour referral and information hotline that connects people with treatment, recovery and harm reduction resources.
Vermont Recovery Network: 802-738-8998. Recovery centers across the state help people who have struggled with addiction find and maintain recovery through peer support and sober community.
Al-anon/Alateen: 802-651-1550. A free support group for people whose lives have been affected by a problem drinker or a drug user.
Vermont Department of Health: 802-651-1550. The Alcohol and Drug Abuse program has created guides to seeking treatment for each county in Vermont. Each guide on their website lists contact information for residential programs, treatment hubs and preferred providers.
Turning Point Center of Chittenden County: 802-861-3150. A safe place for people in recovery to seek various types of support, including coaching, job help and a myriad of different groups and activities.
Howard Center: Call 802-488-6000 for the general line or 802-488-7777 for the center's always-open crisis line, First Call. The Howard Centers offers several treatment and recovery options, including addiction medication through the Chittenden Clinic, counseling and detoxification through Act One and Bridge.
Contact Ryan Mercer at rmercer@freepressmedia.com or at 802-343-4169. Follow him on Twitter @ryanmercer1 and facebook.com/ryan.mercer1.
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what happened to kat? can anyone link anymore of her vids other than the 5 or 6 that seem to be around. Surely there must be a few more out there?
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Labh Singh Ugoke Wiki, Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More
Labh Singh Ugoke is an Indian politician. In March 2022, he contested the assembly elections of Punjab on the ticket of the Aam Aadmi Party and was elected as a Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from the Bhadaur Vidhan Sabha constituency.
Assets/Properties
Labh Singh Ugoke was born in 1987 (age 35 years; as of 2022) in Bhadaur, Barnala, Punjab. In 2014, he completed his senior secondary school education from Punjab School Education Board. [1]My Neta
His father's name is Darshan Singh, who is a driver. His mother's name is Baldev Kaur, and she is a sweeper at a government college in Punjab.
Ugoke's wife Veerpal Kaur (centre) and his mother Baldev (right)
His wife's name is Veerpal Kaur, and the couple has two children named Abhijot and Armanjot. [2]The Indian Express His wife does stitching work at home.
Baldev Kaur and her husband Darshan Singh, along with their daughter-in-law Veerpal Kaur and grandsons
He belongs to the scheduled caste community. [3]My Neta
In 2013, Labh Singh Ugoke became a volunteer member of the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab, India. Soon after joining the Aam Aadmi Party, in the Barnala district, he was appointed as a member of the Monitoring Committee named DISHA. Later, in the same district, he was appointed as District President of SC Wing. Labh Singh Ugoke contested the Assembly elections in March 2022 from the Bhadaur constituency and won the elections after defeating his opponent and the Chief Minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi, who contested from the same constituency on the ticket of the Indian National Congress. In the same elections, Channi was also defeated by another AAP candidate who contested from the Chamkaur Sahib constituency.
Movable Assets
Cash: Rs. 1,34,300
Deposits in Banks: Rs. 17,690
Motor Vehicle: Rs. 42,000
Jewellery: Rs. 1,71,500 [4]My Neta
As of 2022, Labh Singh Ugoke's net worth was Rs. 3,65,490 lakhs. [5]My Neta
Apart from being a politician, Labh Singh Ugoke also runs a mobile repair shop in his village. He did a diploma in mobile repairing soon after finishing his school studies. However, Labh Singh Ugoke closed his mobile repair shop in 2019.
After winning the assembly elections in Punjab in March 2022, Labh Singh Ugoke stated in a press conference that his father worked as a driver, and his mother was a sweeper in a government college in Punjab.
According to an affidavit that he filed at the Election Commission of India, Labh Singh Ugoke owns only a Hero Honda motorcycle that he purchased in 2014.
Labh Singh Ugoke claimed before the assembly elections in Punjab in March 2022 that he would surely defeat Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, and the election results showed that Charanjit Singh Channi was defeated by Labh Singh by a huge margin of 37,558 votes.
The family background of Labh Singh Ugoke is very humble. In one of his interviews with the media houses, he claimed himself a common man and stated that Charanjit Singh Channi was wearing a mask of a common man, who even did not know the names of the villages that came under his constituency. He said,
There are 74 villages in my constituency and I know the problems of every village. For me, Bhadaur is not a 'halqa' (constituency) but my family. Channi sahab does not know the names of even 10 villages of Bhadaur seat."
Labh Singh Ugoke alleged that Charanjit Singh Channi overlooked the problems that were faced by the people of the Bhadaur constituency, and Labh Singh added in the same conversation that Channi was living a king-size life. He said that Channi was just seeking national media attention and not working on ground level. He stated,
Channi sahab is not an 'aam aadmi'. Even though he is from a Dalit family, he is living the life of a king. The only difference I saw after Channi jumped into the fray from this seat is that the attention of the national media is towards me for taking on the CM."
Labh Singh Ugoke speaking during a political rally
Labh Singh Ugoke regularly posts pictures and videos of his political rallies on social media. More than 74k people follow his Facebook page.
Before the assembly elections of Punjab in 2022, Labh Singh Ugoke mentioned in the election affidavit that he lived in a two-room house with his wife and two children. Considered a quick learner, Labh Singh Ugoke won the 2022 Punjab assembly against the Chief Minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi from the Bhadaur Vidhan Sabha constituency. [6]The Indian Express
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Tag: Joerg Haider
Austrian far-right leader Haider dies in road accident
Outspoken Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, who sparked international outrage with comments praising Nazi policies, died on Saturday when his car veered off the road. Haider, 58, suffered serious head and chest injuries when his car flipped over several times and died en route to hospital, police said. Tributes were paid by Austrian politicians of all sides despite his notoriety. Haider grabbed international attention after his anti-immigration, anti-EU party won more than a quarter of the vote in a 1999 general election and became part of the government. The governor of Carinthia province and leader of the Alliance for Austria's Future (BZOe) party was driving his official car on a road south of the provincial capital, Klagenfurt, when the accident happened. He had just overtaken another vehicle when his car came off the road for unknown reasons, according to police quoted by the APA news agency. Haider was to have attended a family celebration Saturday for his mother's 90th birthday. "For us this is the end of the world," BZOe deputy leader Stefan Petzner said. Austria's President Heinz Fischer called Haider a "politician of great talent" who had "aroused enthusiasm but also strong criticism".
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 11th October 2008 Categories AustriaTags Alliance, APA, Austria, Haider, Heinz Fischer, international, Joerg Haider, Outspoken Austrian, police, right
Euro-2008 poisoned with Nazi remarks against Russia and Turkey
The 2008 UEFA Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro-2008, a sports event, has found itself involved in dirty politics. Austria's notorious politician, Joerg Haider, set out his indignation about the participation of Russia and Turkey at the European Championship. He was particularly concerned about Turkey's success. Haider's open self-promotion at Euro-2008 uncovered a very serious political problem for the European Union – future relations with Turkey and a huge Turkish community in the EU countries. Euro-2008 continues for three weeks already. Fortunately, football has not been dragged through the mud of politics. However, hardly had Russian and Turkish national teams made their way to the semi-finals, when one of Europe's most scandalous politicians, Joerg Haider, released a political statement on the matter. He was particularly angered with the success of Turkish footballers at the Championship. Mr. Haider said he did not understand why Euro-2008 semi-finalists Turkey and Russia had been allowed to play in the tournament. I wonder what these two nations have to do with Europe, Haider, the governor of the Austrian state of Carithia was quoted as saying in an interview with Die Presse newspaper. Haider is known for his comments on Nazi concentration camps, which he described as labor and punishment camps. When his party became a part of the ruling coalition in 2000, 14 EU countries considerably diminished their cooperation with Austria and introduced sanctions against the country. Haider was strongly against the expansion of the European Union, as well as against Austria's incorporation in it. The politician believes that it would be better to unite Austria with Germany – a remark, which made many draw a parallel between Joerg Haider and Adolf Hitler, since Hitler was the last person in the world to touch upon such an idea.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 26th June 2008 Categories AustriaTags Austria, EU, Europe, European Union, Haider, Joerg Haider, political, Russia, Turkey
Gaddafi son said hopeful over Austrian hostages
A son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is mediating in the case of two Austrians held by al Qaeda in north Africa and believes a release could come within hours, an Austrian politician said on Saturday. Saif al-Islam, who heads the Gaddafi Foundation charity, was in touch with the kidnappers in Mali, a spokesman for Carinthia governor Joerg Haider told Reuters. "Our information from Libya is that the negotiations in Mali have reached a decisive phase and … in the next few hours there could be a decision in this matter … a release," the spokesman quoted Haider as saying. But he said it could take longer. "It could be tomorrow or the next day," he said. The mediation of Gaddafi's son, who has studied in Austria and is a friend of right-wing populist Haider, raised some hopes for the release of the two Austrian tourists who were seized in Tunisia last month and are reported to be held in northern Mali. Austrian foreign ministry spokesman Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal said a meeting of the crisis team dealing with the hostages on Saturday evening had not been informed of any imminent release. "The crisis team has had no indication of that kind of dramatic development," he told Reuters. Tiemoko Diallo repots.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 22nd March 2008 Categories AustriaTags Africa, foreign ministry, Gaddafi Foundation, Haider, Joerg Haider, Mali, Muammar Gaddafi, Peter Launsky Tieffenthal, Tiemoko Diallo
Provincial parliament demands ban on mosque construction
Vienna – The provincial parliament in the southern Austrian province Carinthia called on its provincial government to prepare legislation banning the construction of mosques or minarets. The province's governor, the populist former leader of the rightist Freedom Party, Joerg Haider, had repeatedly called for anti- Muslim measures along those lines.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 25th October 2007 Categories AustriaTags ban, construction, Freedom Party, Haider, Joerg Haider, minarets, mosque construction, parliament, Vienna


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Tabarz é um município da Alemanha localizado no distrito de Gota, estado da Turíngia.

Municípios da Turíngia

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Lampranthus N.E.Br, 1930 è un genere di piante succulente appartenente alla famiglia delle Aizoacee, diffuso in Namibia e Sudafrica.

Etimologia
Il termine generico Lampranthus deriva dalle parole greche lamprós (lucente) e ánthos (fiore), ed è quindi traducibile in "fiore lucente", in riferimento ai colori tipicamente vivaci e brillanti che assumono i fiori di queste piante.

Descrizione
Le specie appartenenti al genere Lampranthus presentano solitamente delle foglie lisce e allungate, dalla forma triangolare o cilindrica. Essendo piante succulente, riescono inoltre ad immagazzinare grandi quantità di acqua, che amministrano sapientemente nei periodi di siccità.

I fiori sbocciano a partire dal periodo primaverile e ricoprono una vasta gamma di colori, tra cui rosso, arancione, giallo, rosa e magenta. Possono essere anche variopinti e tendono a rispondere al calare del sole o ai cambi di temperatura chiudendosi su se stessi, esibendo un atteggiamento chiamato nictinastia.

Tassonomia

Il genere comprende le seguenti specie:

 Lampranthus acutifolius (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus aduncus (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus affinis L.Bolus
 Lampranthus alboroseus Klak
 Lampranthus antonii L.Bolus
 Lampranthus arenarius H.E.K.Hartmann
 Lampranthus arenicola L.Bolus
 Lampranthus aurantium (Haw.) Schwantes
 Lampranthus aureus (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus bicolor (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus borealis L.Bolus
 Lampranthus brachyandrus (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus brownii (Hook.f.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus caudatus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus ceriseus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus coccineus (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus conspicuus (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus convexus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus coralliflorus (Salm-Dyck) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus curviflorus (Haw.) H.E.K.Hartmann
 Lampranthus debilis (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus deflexus (Aiton) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus densifolius (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus densipetalus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus diffusus (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus disgregus N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus diutinus  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus dregeanus (Sond.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus dubitans (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus dulcis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus dyckii (A.Berger) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus ebracteatus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus edwardsiae (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus elegans (Jacq.) Schwantes
 Lampranthus emarginatoides (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus emarginatus (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus erratus N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus esterhuyseniae L.Bolus
 Lampranthus explanatus (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus falcatus (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus falciformis (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus fergusoniae L.Bolus
 Lampranthus filicaulis (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus flexifolius (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus flexilis (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus foliosus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus formosus (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus francesiae H.E.K.Hartmann
 Lampranthus fugitans L.Bolus
 Lampranthus glaucoides (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus glaucus (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus glomeratus (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus godmaniae (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus gydouwensis L.Bolus
 Lampranthus haworthii (Donn ex Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus hiemalis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus hoerleinianus (Dinter) Friedrich
 Lampranthus holensis L.Bolus
 Lampranthus imbricans (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus intervallaris L.Bolus
 Lampranthus laetus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus lavisii (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus laxifolius (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus leipoldtii (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus leptaleon (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus leptosepalus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus lewisiae (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus liberalis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus littlewoodii L.Bolus
 Lampranthus marginatus (L.Bolus) H.E.K.Hartmann
 Lampranthus mariae (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus montaguensis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus multiradiatus (Jacq.) N.E.Br. - specie tipo
 Lampranthus multiseriatus (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus mutatus (G.D.Rowley) H.E.K.Hartmann
 Lampranthus nardouwensis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus otzenianus (Dinter) Friedrich
 Lampranthus pakhuisensis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus pakpassensis H.E.K.Hartmann
 Lampranthus pauciflorus (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus paucifolius (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus peacockiae (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus peersii (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus perreptans L.Bolus
 Lampranthus plautus N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus pleniflorus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus pocockiae (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus polyanthon (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus praecipitatus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus procumbens Klak
 Lampranthus productus (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus profundus (L.Bolus) H.E.K.Hartmann
 Lampranthus promontorii (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus proximus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus purpureus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus reptans (Aiton) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus rupestris  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus scaber (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus schlechteri (Zahlbr.) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus sociorum  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus sparsiflorus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus spectabilis (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus spiniformis (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus staminodiosus Schwantes
 Lampranthus stanfordiae L.Bolus
 Lampranthus stayneri  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus stenopetalus  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus stenus (Haw.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus stephanii (Schwantes) Schwantes
 Lampranthus stipulaceus (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus suavissimus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus sublaxus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus subrotundus L.Bolus
 Lampranthus swartbergensis  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus swartkopensis Strohschn.
 Lampranthus tenuifolius (L.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus turbinatus (Jacq.) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus uniflorus (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus vanheerdei L.Bolus
 Lampranthus vanzijliae  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus verecundus  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus vernalis (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
 Lampranthus violaceus (DC.) Schwantes
 Lampranthus watermeyeri  (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
 Lampranthus zeyheri (Salm-Dyck) N.E.Br.

Una delle specie più note, per il suo utilizzo come pianta ornamentale, è Lampranthus aurantium, dai fiori di uno vivido colore arancio.

Note

Altri progetti

Aizoaceae
Piante succulente
Flora dell'Africa


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AJ Bramah transfers to Arizona State
AJ Bramah has transferred to Arizona State
By Austin Bechtold, Contributor
The Bull has found a new ring for his final season of eligibility heading into the 2021-22 regular season as things are heating up in the desert.
Former star Robert Morris men's basketball forward AJ Bramah has officially announced his decision to transfer to Arizona State, per his Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/ajbramah/status/1375583948609216512
Arizona State, lead by head coach Bobby Hurley, finished the 2020-21 season 11-14 overall, 7-10 in Pac-12 play, and ninth in the conference this season, falling to Oregon 91-73 in the second round of the Pac-12 Tournament. Before the pandemic shutting down the remainder of the 2019-20 season, the Sun Devils compiled a 20-11, 11-7 mark with a dominating 13-3 record.
After originally announcing his top three destinations on March 17, with St. Bonaventure, Western Kentucky, and Nevada the final teams in the running for the former Horizon League top scorer, Bramah posted a new update on March 22 including Arizona State as a fourth team the 6'7'' playmaker will debate between joining for next season.
UPDATE: I appreciate every Univeristy that took their time to recruit me. These are my FINAL 4 schools and I will be committing on Friday March 26. pic.twitter.com/vVKim9QT2p
— A.J. (@ajbramah) March 22, 2021
Before entering the transfer portal on February 12, Bramah, who has one year of eligibility remaining, led Robert Morris with a team-high 21 points and conference-leading 11.4 rebounds in Horizon League action this season.
pic.twitter.com/bTGwFPniP2
— A.J. (@ajbramah) February 12, 2021
After transferring from Sheridan College in Wyoming, Bramah posted 13.4 points and 8.2 rebounds-per-game for the RMU in 2019-20, helping the program win their final NEC game in the 2020 NEC Championship at the UPMC Events Center. Bramah averaged 15.4 points and 8.7 rebounds-per-game in 45 career games as a Colonial, starting 24 of them.
Coming into the season, Bramah significantly worked on his jump shot, resulting in instant improvements to stretch his game from the block to also include jumpers from the elbow and wing.
After being paused from team activities for RMU's January 29-30 matchup against defending conference regular-season champion Wright State and 2019-20 Horizon League Player of the Year Loudon Love, Bramah left the team only hours before Robert Morris was set to host Oakland for a two-game set, with Bramah stating the day before on his Snapchat story his intent to battle it out and earn a victory.
Robert Morris finished the 2020-21 season 4-15 overall and 3-12 in their first Horizon League season, finishing 1-5 since Bramah departed the program including three straight losses to Detroit Mercy, with the final defeat coming in the conference tournament.
Austin Bechtold, Contributor
Austin Bechtold is a junior Sports Communications major and a contributor for Colonial Sports Network. He also has a double minor in Business and Sports Management. Austin is from the pride of Baldwin High School in Pittsburgh and got his start with Baldwin's student newspaper, The Purbalite. He is the host of the Pittsburgh sports radio show, Baldwin in the Burgh.


Great forum and thanks for the tips over the years. Unfortunately, doing a clear out and the joggler just isn't being used any more.
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Paul , you wouldn't be able to do a copy of your Linux Mint for me please would you .
Hope it sells , I would buy just for Mint but I have too many Jogglers already and am skint this month ha ha .
For the sale, I flashed it to the latest openpeak image. There's a small chance there's a mint image on my old NAS - I just need to remember where I put the thing! I'll have a scrounge over the next few evenings.
Cheers Paul much appreciated I'm also after JoliOs if you find that , I would like them for archive purposes and have been after mint in particular for ages .


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U.S.Open Champions since 1968
2014 U.S. Open Day Fifteen
Cilic Captures First Grand Slam, def Nishikori in Straight Set Final
#USOpen2014 Marin Cilic @cilic_marin Wins U.S. Open, def #KeiNishikori in Final 63 63 63 http://t.co/cLwJfdSxRQ pic.twitter.com/z3c99WpDsS
— ITS Tennis News (@itennisschool) September 8, 2014
usopen.org September 8, 2014 by Clair Maciel New York USA - Not since the 2005 Australian Open had there been a major final contested without one of the ATP's Big Four. But the 2014 US Open final broke that trend, as giant-slayers Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic blitzed their way past top seeds and fan favorites to set up an unlikely final that not many could have predicted.
But when the smoke had cleared and the greats had long been gone, it was No. 14 seed Cilic who proved he was the best player at this event, cruising through a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 win in just under two hours to capture his first Grand Slam title. Cilic is now the first Croat to win a major title since compatriot and coach Goran Ivanisevic won Wimbledon in 2001.
Cilic had earned his spot in the US Open final in convincing form, dismissing both No. 6 seed Tomas Berdych and No. 2 Roger Federer in straight sets prior to the final. He continued his dominance against 10th-seeded Nishikori, playing in the zone with a relaxed, loose and consistent game that Nishikori struggled to keep up with.
Cilic opened the match serving well, using his serve as a weapon to put the pressure on Nishikori and set the tone early. Unfortunately for Nishikori, the fearless play he employed in taking down No. 5 Milos Raonic, No. 3 Stan Wawrinka and No. 1 Novak Djokovic to reach the championship stage simply was not present against Cilic.
Though the Japanese star pushed Cilic in long baseline rallies, he was not as consistent with his shots, which allowed the Croat to take the first break of the match for a 4-2 lead. A strong hold at love three games later gave him the set.
As the match wore on, Cilic had the better movement and more aggressive play, covering the court with ease, while Nishikori was left scrambling, his unforced errors piling up. After four breaks of serve in the second set, three of which came on Nishikori's serve, Cilic secured a solid grip on the match with a two-set lead just an hour and 10 minutes in.
Down a break midway through the third set, Nishikori nearly had a chance to get back in the match when he held two break points in the 4-2 game. But after Cilic erased both chances with two solid serves, he was able to hold on and come within one game of the championship.
In his final service game, Cilic fired two unreturnable serves and a backhand cross-court winner to claim the trophy.
U.S. Open Men's Singles Final Monday Sept 8
Marin Cilic beat 10-Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-3 6-3
Watch Live IBM Slam Tracker
Official Website Live Scores
Men's Singles Men's Doubles
Mixed Doubles Schedule of Play
Nishikori vs Cilic: Who will capture their first career Grand Slam title?
#USOpen2014 Men's Final @keinishikori vs Marin @cilic_marin 5:00 PM Arthur Ashe Stadium http://t.co/cLwJfdSxRQ pic.twitter.com/A9PZ0K1wSp
usopen.org: September 7 2014 by Mark Preston New York USA - The 2014 US Open today comes to a close with a men's final that brings together a pair of surprise finalists, each of whom has reached this day by reaching—and maintaining—an incredibly high level of play across these last two weeks.
On the tournament's final day, No. 10 seed Kei Nishikori faces off with Marin Cilic, seeded No. 14, for the US Open men's singles crown. The pair of double-digit seeds has each been singularly sensational over this Flushing fortnight, playing with a fire and a focus that pushed them past some of the biggest names in the game and put them on a collision course with each other. Though it's not the matchup we all figured we'd get on this day, it is a matchup of the two guys who've played the best tennis over the course of many days. And in the end, it's your game—not your name—that wins you tennis' toughest title.
Just last month, Nishikori underwent foot surgery, which sidelined him for the better part of the summer hard-court circuit. He didn't even pick up a racquet and start hitting balls again until days before the start of this event, stating publicly that he'd be surprised if he advanced beyond the first round here. He must be stupefied now. The 24-year-old has displayed an incredible combination of talent and toughness in becoming the first Japanese player—man or woman—ever to reach a Grand Slam singles final.
It's hard to overstate just how remarkable Nishikori has performed in this tournament. Though much has been made these two weeks of Caroline Wozniacki training for the New York City Marathon, Nishikori has, in fact, run a marathon of his own over the course of the six matches he's played.
He's had a starring role in two of this event's three longest matches, following a five-set, 4-hour, 19-minute fourth-round win over No. 5 seed Milos Raonic with a five-set, 4-hour, 15-minute victory over No. 3 seed Stan Wawrinka in the quarters. And somehow, he still had plenty left in the tank to take out five-time US Open finalist and seven-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic—this tournament's top seed—in the semis. Continue...
2 become 1 on Monday but which 1 will win Grand Slam title number 1? #Cilic #Nishikori #usopen http://t.co/HLWRJMNpw9 pic.twitter.com/s7tCJ4nLeC
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 8, 2014