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Kim Newman's Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews
October 7, 2017 Carl Doherty	Leave a comment
2017, Titan Books
Author: Kim Newman
I once told a student I was reading a Kim Newman novel, to which they replied "he does try, bless him." At the time I found that remark funny, but reading Video Dungeon, a collection of Newman's celebrated horror reviews written as part of his ongoing Empire column of the same name, I must admit that I felt a recurrent pang of guilt for encouraging said mockery.
Sure, I've been an appreciator of Newman's Empire feature for many years, as well as his "would be definitive if it wasn't so bloody hard to find" horror handbook, Nightmare Movies. But what Video Dungeon does so well is summarise the career of a distinct critic defined by his enthusiasm, taste and integrity. Newman's sharp wit has always balanced by his unquestionable love for the horror genre, with all its fondest tropes and most unforgivable clichés. He's a fan that will give the lowest budget amateur offering his undivided and unbiased attention, but is more than willing to call a turd a turd.
This collection is categorised into rather unique chapters, with the usually brief critiques divided into such groups as 'Confinements and Dangerous Games', 'Serial Killers and Cops' and 'Famous Monsters'. The two sections that brought me the most joy were 'Wildlife', featuring all the gigantic shark and crocodile action you could possibly want (Sharknado, Sharktopus, Ghost Shark, Robo Croc and about fifty others), and the affectionately titled 'Weird Hippy Shit', which contains such unclassifiable oddities as Tobe Hooper debut Eggshells and Forbidden Zone.
There are also a few more mainstream entries (Room, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), which stand out from the B-movies, cult classics and overlooked foreign language films, but demonstrate Newman's role as a curator of not just horror or fantasy but any genre movie that refuses to adhere to the conventions of mainstream cinema. I've often felt that Kim Newman's reviews are too concerned with recounting the plot, but given that I'd not heard of the vast majority of the movies selected, here this approach is most fitting. These aren't films I'm likely to watch beyond the trailer, yet there's undeniably something compelling about such fodder, which calls back to the days of staring wide-eyed at airbrushed VHS covers on the shelves of an eighties video rental store.
I rarely review a book before reading it to completion, but I feel no shame in admitting that I read about a third of Video Dungeon's 550 pages. This isn't a book you'd want to read from beginning to end; its pleasures come from sitting down and picking an entry at random. Some of Kim Newman's reviews reminded me of quality efforts that had slipped from memory (13 Tzameti, Fermat's Room). Others informed me of undervalued works of which I felt ashamed to be ignorant (Soviet Agatha Christie adaptation Desyat Negrityat). And of course, the book isn't without its wealth of duds and B-movies of the most misguided kind (though I admired Newman's defence of Troll 2). Then there's the rarest entries (the Jim Caviezel-starring Unknown) that I only began to recollect on reading the review, movies so mediocre that I recall the poster better than a single damn scene.
Kim Newman's Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews is a real treat, then. Not just for those familiar with the venerable aficionado, or even just horror fans, but for all movie buffs whose tastes will forever veer towards the obscure.
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Q: Github-api get commits Can someone explain me or give some tutorial to get all the commit details for a particular in github. I saw this and I didn't understand how to use that.

A: You can check my article about this:
http://ondrek.me/articles/how-to-parse-github-API-in-nodejs/
This is NodeJs way
(for client js change require("https") to client ajax JSON - code is very simular)
Quick sample link for repo MDOWN of user ONDREK
https://api.github.com/repos/ondrek/mdown/git/refs/heads/
How to make a request to Github API
var options = {
    user : 'ondrek',
    repo : 'favicon-blog',
    branch : 'master'
};

function getHttpRequestJson(customPath, callback){
    require('https').request({
        hostname: 'api.github.com',
        path: customPath,
        method: 'GET'
    }, function(res){
        var data = '';
        res.on('data', function (chunk) {
            data += chunk;
        });
        res.on('end', function () {
            callback(JSON.parse(data));
        });
    }).end();
}

How to get user details json from Github API
(inject previous code)

var url = '/repos/'+options.user+'/'+options.repo+'/git/refs/heads/'+options.branch;
getHttpRequestJson(url, function(userJson){
    var lastCommitUrl = userJson.object.url;
    getLastCommit(lastCommitUrl);
});

How to get last commit json from Github API
(inject previous code)

function getLastCommit(url){
    getHttpRequestJson(url+auth, function(lastCommitJson){
        var treeUrl = lastCommitJson.tree.url;
        getTree(treeUrl);
    });
}

How to get tree of last commit from Github API
(inject previous code)

function getTree(url){
    getHttpRequestJson(url+auth, function(treeJson){
        var treeArr = treeJson.tree;
        getOnlyPages(treeArr);
    });
}

How to get specific folder of last commit from Github API
(inject previous code)

function getOnlyPages(treeArr){
    treeArr.forEach(function(ele){
        if (ele.path==='blog') { getArticles(ele.url); }
    });
}

function getArticles(url){
    getHttpRequestJson(url+auth, function(treeJson){
        var treeArr = treeJson;
        parseMarkdownArticles(treeArr.tree);
    });
}

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Trumpazoids Threaten to Murder Muslims
More white-wing idjits and nutcases…
North Carolina Tea Partiers prepare to 'start killing the hell out of' Muslims to stop Sharia law
A group of tea partiers and other conservatives riled up by Facebook conspiracy theories gathered last week at a North Carolina seafood restaurant to discuss their plans to violently oppose Sharia law.
Nearly two dozen participants, some of whom claimed membership in right-wing militia groups, expressed fears that the Muslim minority have already imposed their religious beliefs on other Americans, reported Triad City Beat.
Presenter Tom Jones sketched out a conspiracy theory involving the Muslim Brotherhood and the "progressive left" to build mosques and Islamic schools, which he warned will then be used to undermine democratic and Christian institutions.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is behind all that terrorism and violent acts, but they're also here operating in America in a very stealthy mode," Jones said, according to the newspaper. "They've infiltrated the judiciary. They have judges that are elected to the bench. These judges are expected to make rulings from the bench here in America according to Sharia law even though it's not a Sharia court. If you've got a Muslim judge he's required to try you under Sharia law. These people are in high positions of influence often behind the scenes in government, academia, medicine, the media."
Conservative media frequently warn about Sharia law, which loosely describes both a personal moral code and the general religious law used in majority Muslim nations, and some states — including North Carolina — have moved to ban its influence on courts.
"Do you have any recommendations as to how we could stop this?" said Frank del Valle, of Winston-Salem. "Because my only recommendation is to start killing the hell out them."
Del Valle, whose Facebook page shows he's a Latin musician and former federal employee, said he'd watched his native Cuba fall to the communists and wasn't willing to see the same thing happen in the U.S.
"The Muslims are doing the exact same thing, so I am very aware of that," del Valle said. "I have been talking about that for a long time."
Another participant, a former field director for the Koch-backed Americans For Prosperity and an activist with Faith and Freedom Coalition, told the gathering that one of the Women's March organizers, Linda Sarsour, wanted to impose her Islamic beliefs on the U.S.
"All those women who showed up in D.C. who appear to be mainstream and supported her, raved about how she's so great don't realize that she's the same one who agrees with Sharia law and will be person who stands beside them and also the same person who slices their neck," said Robert Watkins, the conservative activist.
Jones, the presenter, warned that Muslim Brotherhood had been operating "training centers" in the U.S. since the early 1980s — which motivated a Tea Party activist from Tennessee to plot a violent attack on a New York village identified by conservative media as a terrorist training camp.
That conservative activist, 65-year-old Robert Doggart, was convicted last week on several federal charges in connection with that violent plot.
The crowd gathered at Captain Tom's Seafood, in Kernersville, N.C., fretted about the growing number of mosques and foreign-looking doctors they've seen in recent years, and Jones urged them to start making preparations for what he saw as an inevitable conflict.
"I don't know how you say 'deep doo-doo' in Arabic, but we're in it," Jones said. "We're in deep doo-doo, ya'll. This is serious stuff. This is not games. These people do not play. If I put a gun to your head and ask you what you believe, you may not be able to tell, but I guarantee you these people can tell you what they believe."
Del Valle, who the newspaper pointed out was the only attendee to specifically endorse violence, took the bait.
"I'll shoot them before they can ask me," he said.
Posted by btx3 on February 21, 2017 in Domestic terrorism, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks, The Definition of Racism
Tags: Domestic terrorism, militia, Muslims, Racism, racist, sharia, tea party, trump
Van Jones Destroys Chumph's "Muslim Profiling"
The truth of the matter of Domestic Terrorism…
The vast majority of mass murder, mass shooting, and serial murders committed in America are by young white men. Removing inner city Drug wars as the motivation, a shocking 90% of all mass shootings/murders are done by white males, frequently due to right wing political motivation, racial animosity, and family issues. So…If you are going to racially profile – you would have to look for a white male in their 20's, typically with right wing leanings, and socialization issues.
Now we know, from Police experience in stopping innocent black folks in the cities, that stopping every white male under 30 wearing cammies would be pointless. At my home in the country, come fall there is nothing unusual about white folks running around in camouflage T-shits, coats or pants – especially in the fall and winter. The vast majority of these folks are not criminals (other than having a 6 times greater probability than a black person of having a little meth or heroin in their pocket), and pose no threat to run around shooting their neighbors at the local WalMart.
Which is why profiling, when used as a method of "Broken Windows" policing is such an abject failure.
Posted by btx3 on June 21, 2016 in Domestic terrorism, Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks, The Definition of Racism, The New Jim Crow
Tags: chumph, fail, mass shooters, Muslims, race, racial profiling, Racism, Republican, right wing, tea party, trump, white males
Yet Another Tea Bagger Trumpazoid Busted
Another typical lowlife Teabagger criminal. Just like the Chumph – who is now looking down the barrel of a possible Felony Fraud charge for stiffing his various "charities". Maybe he will get to share a cell with the Chumph…
Tea Partier who nearly destroyed Kentucky's libraries busted for selling opiates
A Tea Party activist who frequently argues against anti-drug measures at government meetings has been arrested for illegally selling prescription drugs.
John "J.R." Roth was arrested Thursday night in Highland Heights, Kentucky, and charged with felony trafficking in a controlled substance after police said he sold 10 oxycodone pills to an informant, reported the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The 60-year-old Roth, who is a Donald Trump supporter and promotes "birther" conspiracy theories, is a fixture at local government meetings in Campbell County, where he complains about government spending for almost anything.
He was one of three plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit in 2012 to repeal the property tax that funds the county's libraries.
Roth and two other members of the Northern Kentucky Tea Party hired a lawyer the year before, when the county library was considering a plan for a new branch, to investigate whether the library board was violating a state law regarding its debt level.
The lawyer determined the library had not exceeded its debt limit — but he found another statute that appeared to prohibit the library board from raising taxes without voter approval.
Roth filed a lawsuit, along with Erik Hermes and Campbell County Commissioner Charlie "Coach" Coleman, seeking to repeal the property tax that funds libraries in Campbell County.
Similar lawsuits were filed in other counties throughout the state.
The tax repeal would have dramatically cut library funding and would have resulted in branch closures, reduced hours and services, and the loss of jobs.
Tax opponents argued that library patrons wouldn't miss much because books and movies are readily available online sellers such as Amazon — although many patrons rely on libraries for free computer and Internet access.
The lawsuit ultimately failed, after the Kentucky Court of Appeals reversed two circuit decisions last year that had found library districts in Campbell and Kenton counties had improperly raised taxes for decades.
The appeals court ruled that libraries may raise taxes without voter approval as long as the amount does not bring in 4 percent more revenue than the previous year.
Roth, who has been previously cited for animal cruelty and accused of domestic violence, was released from jail on bond.
If convicted, the Tea Party activist faces up to five years in jail.
Posted by btx3 on June 20, 2016 in Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks, The Clown Bus
Tags: busted, crimes, dealing, drugs, felony, kentucky, libraries, prescription, prison, supporter, Taxes, tea party, trump
Obama Hating Trumpazoid…Busted for Welfare Fraud!
What goes round, comes round…When the Teabag hits the fan!
Tea Party diner owner who trashed 'Dictator Obama' on his menu busted for welfare fraud
A Diner owner in New York who became locally famous for trashing President Obama on his menus has pleaded guilty to, of all things, welfare fraud.Syracuse.com reports that Michael P. Tassone was sentenced last month to a one year conditional discharge after pleading guilty to defrauding the government out of more than $23,000 in welfare payments.
"It was Medicaid fraud," explained Senior Assistant District Attorney Michael Kasmarek. "They had failed to disclose income on their application. As a result they obtained Medicaid benefits they weren't entitled to, from May 1, 2009 to April 30, 2011."
Tassone was featured on Fox News earlier this year because his diner's menu featured items such as the "Dictator Obama/NYS Special (King Cuomo)," which is a plate of eggs and toast that costs $3.59, plus an exorbitant "tax" of $27.99. Other menu items include the "The Anti-Michelle Obama Don't Tell Me What To Eat Or Feed My Kids Burger," and the restaurant itself is adorned with Tea Party "Don't Tread On Me" flags. The menu also encourages patrons to lawfully carry weapons while in the diner.
It seems Tassone didn't hate the government enough to not fraudulently try to acquire Medicare benefits, however, and he actually had a more serious felony welfare fraud charge dropped against him in exchange for his misdemeanor plea.
Posted by btx3 on June 3, 2016 in Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks, The Clown Bus
Tags: anti-obama, convicted, crook, fradulent, stolen money, tea party, theft, welfare fraud
Is the Tide Turing Against the Wild-Eyed Witless Right?
One can only hope this is the proverbial Canary in a Coal Mine for the panderers of PT Barnum conspiracy stories, and salacious lies.
Candidate Who Called Obama a Gay Prostitute Loses Education Board Race
In a stunning comeback, State Board of Education hopeful Keven Ellis won Tuesday's District 9 Republican primary runoff over Mary Lou Bruner, who drew national attention for social media posts touting far-right conspiracy theories and other fringe views.
The East Texas Tea Party activist and former schoolteacher had been favored to succeed in the race after nearly winning the March 1 primary outright and accumulating heavy support from influential conservative groups that typically hold big sway in low-turnout runoff elections. But Ellis, a Lufkin chiropractor who presides over the local school board, maintained a double-digit lead over Bruner throughout Tuesday night, and that lead widened as vote returns rolled in.
He ended the night 18 points ahead of Bruner, with the final vote showing Ellis hauling in 36,842 votes, 59 percent, to Bruner's 25,420, according to complete but unofficial returns.
Ellis' victory all but ensures his ultimate election to the 15-member state panel that reviews and approves textbooks and sets curriculum standards for the state's more than 5 million public school students. District 9, a 31-county swath spanning northeast Texas, is a deeply conservative Republican stronghold. (Democrat Amanda Rudolph, a Stephen F. Austin State secondary education professor who was unopposed in her primary, will appear on the general election ballot in November.)
The 45-year-old's win comes after Bruner nearly won a three-way GOP primary race March 1, falling less than 2 percent and a few thousand votes short of the 50 percent mark. (Ellis got 31 percent of the vote.) Her strong showing came despite extensive media coverage of her then-public Facebook posts, one of which said she had heard from a reliable source that President Obama worked as a gay prostitute while in his 20s to fund a drug habit.
With Texas GOP runoffs typically drawing the most conservative voters, Rice University political scientist Mark Jones had previously named the 69-year-old from Mineola a favorite to win the runoff while acknowledging a scenario where educators turned out in droves to vote against her.
"It would appear that a perfect storm occurred to defeat Bruner," Jones said in an email Tuesday night. "Superintendents and teachers (and their friends and families) across the district rallied against her due to disagreement with her positions on education policy, the belief she would not be a good representative of the district's interests, and the embarrassment they felt her election would bring to the region."
Ellis said he felt "really confident that the educators turned out and voted."
"They saw the importance of this," he said. "They saw who I was and they saw who my opponent was and they made the right decision."
Bruner did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Jones also noted the possible impact of a recent decision by an influential Tea Party group, Grassroots America — We the People, to withdraw its previous endorsement of Bruner, who worked in East Texas schools for 36 years, citing inaccurate statements she had made on the campaign trail and an apparent unwillingness to issue a statement correcting them.
In a recent speech to East Texas superintendents, for example, Bruner claimed that half of all public school students were in special education. It was the first time the group has ever rescinded support for a candidate, according to Executive Director JoAnn Fleming.
"Texas escaped an education train wreck tonight," said Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, a left-leaning group that monitors the State Board of Education. "If Bruner had ultimately won election to the board, she would have instantly become the most embarrassingly uninformed and divisive member on a board that already too often puts politics ahead of making sure our kids get a sound education."
Posted by btx3 on May 25, 2016 in Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks
Tags: fanatic, freak, loses, primary, right wing, School Board, tea party, texas
Scientists Confirm Tea Bagger Racism
Confirming the obvious, scientists studied the motivation being Tea Party and Republicans. The conclusion?
Fear of a black President. It's the Racism – Stupid!
Scientists confirm what conservatives always deny: Tea Party driven by fear of a black president
Researchers at Stanford University found that when they showed white subjects photos of President Barack Obama with darkened skin, those people became more likely to support right-wing political organizations like the Tea Party.
According to the Washington Post, sociologist Robb Willer and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments from 2011 to 2015 in which they demonstrated that some white voters may be driven by unconscious racial biases against people with darker skin.
The study came about when Willard found himself pondering why racist hysteria has ratcheted up in this country since the election of President Obama in 2008. The ranks of white supremacist groups swelled after Obama entered the White House and watchdog groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center report that hate groups have become more active in recent years.
In Republican politics, right-wing extremist Tea Party candidates ran longstanding GOP officials out of office as conservatives in this country doubled down in opposing the president and his policies.
"That left a lot of analysts slack-jawed, wondering: What was this latent force that drove the emergence of this movement?" Willer told the Post.
The research team interviewed volunteers who they separated into two groups. One group was shown photos of celebrities which included a photo of Obama with digitally lightened skin. The other group saw the same photos, but with an image of Obama with darker skin.
Among 255 white subjects, people shown the darkened picture of Obama were almost twice as likely to say that they support the Tea Party when questioned by researchers.
"The result suggests that some white Americans are more likely to oppose Obama solely because of the shade of his skin," wrote the Post's Max Ehrenfreund. "For them, the reality that someone with a dark complexion occupies the nation's highest office could be a source of unease."
The study group published the results of their work this week on the Social Science Research Network. The findings coincide with previous studies which have shown that racism has been an essential factor in Republican electoral victories.
"Polls consistently show that Republicans are more likely to hold racial prejudices, and not just in the South," the Post reported in March. "Nationally, almost one in five Republicans opposes interracial dating, compared to just one in 20 Democrats,according to the Pew Research Center. While 79 percent of Republicans agree with negative statements about blacks such as the one about slavery and discrimination, just 32 percent of Democrats do, the Associated Press has found."
Posted by btx3 on May 14, 2016 in The Definition of Racism
Tags: proof, race, Racism, racist, Republican, Scientific, survey, tea party, trump
How Republicans Have Derailed the New South's Emergence
North Carolina's Research Triangle and the Charlotte/Cary area are hotspots for tech an other development. The US Government supplies over $1.5 billion a year in research grants to the state's public universities, money that has helped drive the growth of the Universities in the state from decidedly mediocre to competitive powerhouses. This has spurred massive growth, as the combination of a realistic cost of living, easy access to recreational activities in the mountains and shore, as well a good school systems have individualized both corporations and employees to flock to the state.
Unfortunately, like Virginia, the back woods redneck religious bigots haven't quite dissipated yet, and with the election of a Republican majority in the state house – pushing extremist social conservatism which is an anathema to the high-tech and banking industries.That growth roll may be in for a screeching halt.
You want to keep that growing Gov McCrory, you need to cut the "Culture War" bullshit fast.
The fact is, major corporations don't give a shit about Republican tax breaks, they do about being able to attract the best and brightest as employees, and having a stable government which isn't going to do something stupid to hurt their business. They need good schools, which are producing students in the fields that relate to their businesses, who are willing to stay in-state after they graduate. (As an example, the collapse of what was once referred to as "Silicon Valley East" here in northern Virginia, was in good part due to the major University in the area being taken over by conservative donors. The school produces Economists and right wing Federalist Lawyers – but not STEM Graduates needed by the local industries to grow, or to establish the sort of incubators which create the next Google. Instead we have the Antonin Scalia Law School, which is fornicating useless, both as the symbol of higher education in the fields in demand, as well as in attracting students that want to be in a top program in the Sciences, Engineering, or technology.)
They want to be able to attract experienced workers and executives. To get those people, the potential employees need to feel comfortable moving their families into the State. The sort of "Culture Wars" and racism being promulgated by the right, destroys that.
This isn't just an issue about Transgender people, it is an issue about the future viability of the State as a business center.
Back during the South Carolina confederate flag imbroglio, one of my clients was a foreign auto company looking to put a plant there. Took one of the Senior Staff folks down there behind the proverbial woodshed, and explained to him that foreign companies, unlike their US counterparts are not willing to go into an environment where discrimination and harassment lawsuits chew up 10-15% of their profits. And as such, were looking for a place which supported a harmonious workforce, over cheap rent. The differential between labor costs between Detroit and Charleston disappears really fast paying lawyers at $500/hr over racial bullshit. They got that message apparently from more than one prospective company. American companies have finally started to get a clue about this as well.
Too bad the white winger Tea Baggers haven't.
TRANSGENDER RIGHTS AND THE END OF THE NEW SOUTH
Monday, two North Carolinians squared off over the state's controversial House Bill 2, which requires transgender people to use the bathroom matching their "biological sex" in public schools and government buildings and invalidates local laws protecting transgender people from discrimination. Both Pat McCrory, the governor of North Carolina, and Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney General, grew up partly in Greensboro, a site of anti-segregation sit-ins in 1960, and Lynch recalled that history by comparing H.B. 2 to Jim Crow laws. "Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight," she said, as she announced that the Department of Justice is suing North Carolina, claiming that H.B. 2 violates federal laws forbidding sex discrimination.
Earlier that day, McCrory's office had filed its own federal lawsuit, which attempted to protect the state from federal anti-discrimination action against H.B. 2. "North Carolina does not treat transgender employees differently," according to the lawsuit. "All state employees are required to use the bathroom and changing facilities assigned to persons of their same biological sex, regardless of gender identity, or transgendered status." Such bland assertions of neutrality have an infamous place in the law. Before the Supreme Court established a right to same-sex marriage, in 2015, North Carolina forbade gay and straight alike to wed members of the same sex. Before the Court invalidated laws against racial intermarriage, in 1967's Loving v. Virginia, the state forbade both black and white people to marry someone of the other race. All these laws were defended on the grounds that they treated everyone alike. So, for that matter, were the original Jim Crow segregation laws. In 1896, upholding separate-but-equal accommodations, the Supreme Court held that, if "the enforced separation of the races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority," this was "solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction on it."
McCrory's suit looks more like political theatre than a serious attempt to preserve H.B. 2. On April 19th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes North Carolina, adopted the Obama Administration's interpretation of federal sex-discrimination law to invalidate a local school-board policy that assigned students to bathrooms by "biological genders." The court accepted the federal government's argument that the prohibition on sex discrimination in Titles VII and IX of the Civil Rights Act includes discrimination on the basis of gender identity, and that "biological" bathroom assignments are just this sort of discrimination. (The Fourth Circuit reported that, in public hearings on school-bathroom assignments, the plaintiff in the case, a transgender boy, had been called a "freak" and "compared to a person who thinks he is a 'dog' and wants to urinate on fire hydrants.")
That McCrory would seek out this wrong-side-of-history position reveals a lot about the fractured and desperate state of the Republican Party. The governor took office in 2013 as the consummate country-club Republican. He had spent fourteen years as the mayor of Charlotte, a banking capital, where he presided over robust growth and—unusual in the South—the construction of a light-rail system. He was a candidate in the "New South" tradition, a political manner that is also a development strategy. In the sixties, as other parts of the white South dug in against desegregation, North Carolina's politicians found a different formula: accept the national consensus on civil rights and attract employers with low wages, weak unions, and business-friendly laws. The state's population more than doubled between 1960 and 2010, as a formerly rural, agricultural state developed national centers of technology and finance. The previous New South governors were Democrats, but many saw McCrory as their natural successor in a state that narrowly supported Barack Obama in 2008 but in 2010 handed control of the legislature to Republicans for the first time since Reconstruction.
Since taking office, McCrory has mostly been back on his heels as a Tea Party legislature, installed with decisive support from the activist donor Art Pope (whom Jane Mayer wrote about in 2011), has set the state's agenda. McCrory has signed laws restricting abortion access, cutting back on early voting and requiring voter identification, slashing unemployment benefits, and repealing the state's Racial Justice Act, which commuted the death penalty for people sentenced in racially inequitable jurisdictions. North Carolina is one of nineteen states that have refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (and the fourth-largest, after Texas, Florida, and Georgia). The advocacy group Families USA estimates that 593,000 North Carolina residents lack health insurance because of the state's refusal.
The Tea Party has shared McCrory's deregulatory, tax-cutting economic agenda, but it has led with culture-war issues. The year McCrory won the governorship, the legislature put forward a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which passed with sixty per cent of the vote. This blend of tactics defined most state-level Republican parties in the Obama years, when the Republicans took power in statehouses across the country, and McCrory seems to have made his peace with it. Polls showed him lagging in a tight reëlection race when he called North Carolina's part-time legislature into emergency session in late March. Both houses passed H.B. 2 on March 23rd, and McCrory signed it that night. The only local anti-discrimination statute that it overrode was one passed a month before in Charlotte, where McCrory had served seven terms as mayor.
Now the New South elements of McCrory's governing style are falling to pieces. H.B. 2 may have seemed an ordinary measure of culture-war politics when the governor signed it, but the consensus position on L.G.B.T.Q. rights has changed so fast that it may secure his place as the Orval Faubus of public bathrooms. McCrory's Democratic opponent, Roy Cooper, the state's attorney general, who has announced that his office will not defend H.B. 2 against legal challenge, has led McCrory in every poll since the law was passed. Since H.B. 2 became law, PayPal and Deutsche Bank have scrapped expansion plans for North Carolina, the N.B.A. and N.C.A.A. have suggested that they may not hold future events in the state, and a caravan of entertainers have cancelled shows, including Bruce Springsteen and Cirque du Soleil. New South governors measure themselves by the investments they attract. When the cultural divisiveness of Tea Party politics drives out business and entertainment, it becomes New South kryptonite….More Here…
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Quesnel, B.C. – Hot chocolate, cinnamon buns, fresh snow in the face and magical turns all day. Think this sounds too dreamy to be real. It's not. Welcome to Troll Ski Area, just east of Quesnel, B.C.
This is a place where people get together, share stories, make turns, and live an enviable outdoor life based on the mantra: 'Keep skiing, or you get old,' proudly shared by the ski area owners, Hildur and Len Sinclair.
This place is a lot bigger than you think. Pulling into the quaint and cozy base area, dotted with log cabins, the centrepiece is a hand-hewn log day lodge. Step inside and you'll be greeted with the smell of home-cooked meals. Awwww! The aroma of fresh-baked cinnamon buns pretty much sums up the cosy, down-home feel of this place, but you can sample those later.
Right now you're here to ski!
"Top to bottom runs will amaze you," says Hildur, as she takes off down through the trees with a big ear-to-ear grin. She's right; this is thigh-burning fun. Note to self: you'll need to take a couple breaks on your way down because this place has a whopping 1,729 vertical for your sliding enjoyment.
You can enjoy any type of skiing you like here. From perfectly spaced gladed tree skiing to machine groomed runs for those carvers who love to let it roll. Then there are the long fall-lines, a terrain park for play-time, and a dedicated area for beginners with its own lift and run to make those early turns easy.
"We are bigger than you think," Hildur says, as she shares some of the slack-country skiing and riding options off the Silver Lift. You can ski powder all day long here, she says, as we enjoy another run of dry, fluffy powder - and better yet not a soul around.
The easily accessible backcountry is just one more reason to head up to Cariboo Country this winter. Load the roof rack and discover the secrets of this winter-loving region and the people like Hildur and Len who will help you explore their little slice of paradise that is their backyard.
Troll is found around the middle of the Barkerville Highway. On your way, you'll go through the City of Quesnel. Learn more about what adventures can be found there too, by checking out the website.
Troll, Quesnel, the District of Wells and Barkerville are destinations along the famed Barkerville Highway (aka Highway 26) – all within the Cariboo Regional District.


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No nationalism but Terry Nationalism
To Switch a Witch
Forest of IllusionsBayonetta, Bayonetta 2, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch2
With the re-release of her first two games on the Nintendo Switch, a third on the way and her creator already musing ideas for a fourth, Bayonetta is in the news again. And, as is typically the case with Bayonetta, she's drawn quite a crowd and her fair share of controversy and anger. But of course, you can't be a powerful, confident and self-assured woman and not.
Bayonetta is the modern day evolution of the archetype pioneered by Lara Croft and Rayne, and is the most honed, polished and refined version of that concept. She is an overwhelming, overclocked, unstoppable, inescapable feminine force of nature, and that confuses and frightens lesser people. The protagonist of an eponymous series of action games created by Hideki Kamiya and his studio Platinum Games (formerly Capcom Clover Studios), known for Resident Evil, Viewtiful Joe, Devil May Cry and Okami, Bayonetta is a witch who carves out her own niche in the war between Heaven and Hell by laying waste to legions of angels and demons as a one-woman mercenary army. She is pure magick, and, like all witches, she is liminal figure who stands outside of social norms and conventions. She makes the existing order profoundly uncomfortable because her very existence is an affront to their worldview and long-held assumptions.
From a video game history perspective, the best point in Platinum's oeuvre with which to compare Bayonetta is the Devil May Cry series. A hallmark of the sixth generation, those games featured platforming and puzzle solving elements as a loose framework to show off their combat: An action system involving a complex mixture of light and heavy attacks triggering breathtaking combo moves. There was exploration, but the game generally progressed through a linear series of arenas where protagonist Dante would have to square off against wave after wave of enemies. The Bayonetta games are a spiritual successor to Devil May Cry and play the same way, but that's not the only way they're comparable: Devil May Cry's story, and especially Dante, were known for being deliberately excessive camp parodies of melodramatic narrative.
Calling Bayonetta "over the top" is a horrible cliché that does not in any way convey the extent to which she absolutely revels in exaggerated camp. She is a magickally-infused exotic dance battler dominatrix who wears pistols for stiletto high-heels and summons Eldritch Abominations and medieval torture devices made out of her own hair. Hair that she also wears as a backless jumpsuit, and without which she is entirely naked. Bayonetta is the woman who codifies the phrase "orgasmic combat" par exemplar, she knows it, and she loves it: She spends every battle moaning and grunting in very specifically suggestive ways, her finishing moves all involve punishing her enemies in exactly the way you're thinking and one of her in-game taunts involves her lying on her back, spreading her legs wide and shouting "Come On!". And that's not even just the beginning.
Obviously sexuality is a primary theme in the Bayonetta series.…


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Guidance Procedures in High School
Some Recommended Procedures Based Upon a Survey of Present Practices in Minnesota
C. Gilbert Wrenn and Willis E. Dugan
Guidance Procedures in High School was first published in 1950. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This volume is number 1 in the Modern School Practices series; established in 1950 by the College of Education at the University of Minnesota, and the Bureau of Educational Research. The series is designed as a replacement to two earlier series: the Series on Individualization of Instruction and the Modern School Curriculum series.
This monograph presents some recommended practices within the framework of a comprehensive and balanced program proposed for student personnel services in high schools. Topics discussed include: organizing and developing guidance services; orientation of new students; understanding the student through the individual inventory; counseling students; learning from group experience; health services; placement in jobs and in further training; and checking on effectiveness of the guidance program.
82 pages, 6 x 9, 1950
C. Gilbert Wrenn and Willis E. Dugan were professors of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota.


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When you're making sales to customers in Arkansas, there are several factors you need to consider in determining if you must register to collect and remit sales tax to the state. For businesses located in Arkansas, that calculation is straightforward enough, but sellers not based in the state must determine if a combination of other factors creates a nexus for them. Additionally, you'll need to know if what you're selling is taxable in Arkansas, as well as what rate to collect sales tax at based on the applicable jurisdiction for each individual sale.
The state tax rate in Arkansas is 6.5%, and cities and counties can each impose their own local taxes as well. That makes the applicable rate in any given part of the state the total of the state, county and city rate. This total varies from one part of Arkansas to another, with the highest combined rate at 11.25% in Anthonyville, Earl, and Marion, AK. By contrast, the effective rates in Little Rock and Fayetteville, two of the largest cities in the state, are 9% and 9.75% respectively.
The total sales tax rate you charge your Arkansas customers will depend on either the physical retail location you operate or the final destination of shipped goods. For instance, if you run a clothing store in Fort Smith, you'll charge each customer the 9.75% rate applicable at that location, regardless of where in the state they live. If you're shipping goods, however, whether from in-state or out-of-state, you'll charge your customers the rate in effect at the final delivery address.
If you use fulfillment by Amazon, you may be aware that the presence of an Amazon Fulfillment Center in a state generally triggers a nexus condition for you since your goods are in all likelihood stored there. Arkansas does not have a fulfillment center at the moment, however, and so that particular situation does not apply.
Shipping and handling charges are taxable assuming the item being shipped is taxable, but not otherwise, and regardless of how it's listed on the invoice or receipt.
Arkansas has a state sales tax holiday on the first Saturday and Sunday in August. During this period, school supplies, school art supplies, clothing, and instructional materials are free of state and local taxes. All retailers and other sellers are required to participate in this event.
In order to begin collecting sales tax on purchases made by your Arkansas customers, you first need to register your business with the state. This can be done online, by mail, or in person at your local Arkansas Department of Finance office. There is a $50 fee to register, and no matter how you choose to submit your registration, the actual filing of your returns must be done online.
Because Arkansas is a member of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), you can register through that website for an Arkansas sales tax permit at the same time that you register to collect sales tax in all of the other states that are party to the agreement. If you're only interested in registering in Arkansas at this time, however, you can go through the online Arkansas Taxpayer Access Point.
Depending on the volume of taxable sales you've previously made or expect to make in the state, and so your estimated annual sales tax liability, you will be assigned a filing frequency at the time of registration. This may be monthly, quarterly or annually, and regardless of the frequency, returns and payments will be due on the 20th of the month following the close of the period in question.
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Healthy Jarrett eager for All-Star shot
Kurt Snyder
NEWARK - Kaleb Jarrett has the opportunity to play with the state's best, and he was not going to let it pass him by.
The Newark senior missed the basketball season after undergoing surgery for a torn meniscus. He, however, has completed a successful rehabilitation and will be one of two South quarterbacks in Saturday's Division I-III North-South Game at 4 p.m. at Massillon's Paul Brown Tiger Stadium.
"As I got closer to being cleared, there became a chance of me actually playing in it, so it was something I really wanted to do," said Jarrett, who will share the position with Reynoldsburg's Nate Barko. "It definitely gave me motivation that if I push myself and go a little bit harder instead of taking my time, it definitely was in the back of my mind. I definitely had my eyes set on it."
Newark kicker Jed Quackenbush will join Jarrett on the South team, and Newark's Mike Kopachy is on the coaching staff.
"It's just a huge honor to be recognized and playing with some of the best in the state," Jarrett said. "Having my name being thrown in with theirs is just a huge honor in my eyes. I can't wait to play with them and play with the (talent) that both sides have. It's something I couldn't even believe when I was a little kid. It's crazy."
Newark Catholic's Kyle Gibson and Mason Peddicord and Johnstown's Justin Franklin and Hunter Alley are scheduled to play for the South in the Division IV-VII Game at noon.
Despite playing the final two games with his injury, Jarrett, a Walsh signee, piled up 1,671 passing yards and 17 touchdowns against just five interceptions in leading the Wildcats to a 5-5 season, the program's first non-losing season since 2006. Quackenbush, a Ohio Dominican signee, was perfect on 31 extra points and made 8 of 12 field goals in earning All-Ohio honors.
The teams had an introductory practice a couple weeks ago, and they will have a couple more practices at the end of this week before Saturday's kickoff.
"It's repetition, going over stuff mentally," Jarrett said. "Not necessarily going over it physically but seeing the plays, and if anybody has any questions, I can help them in the huddle. Just the mentality that you have to bring and the maturity you have to have to be able to learn and process it quickly is something that will be huge."
Gibson, a Findlay signee, and Peddicord, an Ashland signee, had senior seasons to remember.
Gibson had the third-best rushing season in NC history in leading the Green Wave to the Division VI state semifinals. Peddicord was one of the Green Wave's top receivers, top cornerbacks and also contributed on special teams, including a blocked field goal against Bishop Ready.
"I am very humbled and blessed for this opportunity," Gibson said. "I am very thankful for all of our coaches for putting us out there. We did the dirty work on the field and finally get a good opportunity to show how good we really are with the best talent in Ohio."
Franklin will be attending Toledo, and Alley will be playing lacrosse at Lake Erie.
ksnyder@newarkadvocate.com
Twitter: @newarkurt


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Rare Gunther's toad sighting highlights farms as biodiversity hotspots
by Arathi Menon on 13 July 2020
Mongabay Series: Beyond Protected Areas, Eco Hope
The sighting of the rare Gunther's toad in the rock pools of farmlands in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh puts the focus on the presence of diverse species in farmlands.
An informal village committee plays a crucial role in biodiversity conservation through community-level decisions taken with all stakeholders in mind.
Experts say that considering the rich biodiversity seen in agricultural lands, it is time that these lands are seen as systems that contribute to ecology than just areas for food production.
"Forests are protected areas in name only. Sometimes we see better protection of biodiversity in the adjacent agricultural lands," said C.S. Saneesh, a research fellow at Spatial Interaction Ecology Research Group at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He drew this inference from a recent sighting of a rare toad – the Duttaphrynus hololius or Gunther's toad – in the rock pools of the 200 square km farmlands in the Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh.
Saneesh, along with his colleague Anil Sarsavan, was doing an amphibian survey for the Foundation for Ecological Security, to assess the impact of the watershed activity by NABARD (National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development) at the Somrajkunta village in Anantapur.
Range-restricted, Gunther's toad, also called Malabar toad or rock toad, is endemic to the Deccan Plateau and the Eastern Ghats. This sighting was surprising considering this amphibian is a lesser-known species. Shy and elusive, these toads are nocturnal and are picky of their habitats. They breed only in the undisturbed rock pools exposed to direct sun. "Even a slight disturbance to their habitat would send them scurrying," said Saneesh. Any trees or shade around the pool are not preferred. The pools where the researchers spotted the toad were on the rocks about 10 metres above the ground — an ideal habitat for the toad.
These sightings were significant for various reasons. For one, Saneesh spotted about 30 of these toads in the farmlands while he couldn't spot even one in the forest (Kadiri Reserved Forest) nearby.
The rare Gunther's toad or rock toad, a lesser-known species, in rock pools amidst farmlands in Andhra Pradesh. Photo by C.S. Saneesh.
"In the name of protection, a lot of work was going on in the forest which was not ideal for these toads to breed," he said. Upon talking to the villagers, he understood that those rocks on the farms have been kept undisturbed by the villagers just so the toads and other creatures dependent on that habitat, survive. "The villagers have taken a conscious decision to forego additional income from using harmful agricultural methods like tractors that would destroy these rock pools. Instead, they use the native Hallikar cows whose maneuvering, according to villagers, 'will only awaken the soil, not slaughter like a tiller'," Saneesh said.
These semi-arid, savannah grasslands are community managed. The informal village committee has taken many decisions for the betterment of all stakeholders, including animals and birds. Mostly small landholders, they use sustainable farming methods and maintain a diversity of crops. Seasonal farming is done to minimise the use of pesticides and water. These decisions are taken at the community level. "It's an informal committee of villagers who have taken smart decisions to maintain certain traditional ways of doing agriculture," Saneesh said.
Farmland with a backdrop of rock formations, that provide shelter to Gunther's toad. Villagers and informal committees follow farming practices and even forego additional income to ensure that rocks are left undisturbed for the toad and other organisms to survive. Photo by C.S. Saneesh.
India needs its farmers to protect its biodiversity
One of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world, India contributes to eight percent of the world's biodiversity. In protecting this biodiversity, India has so far taken good strides. With a string of legislations favouring conservation, India protects close to five percent of its land while approx 15 percent of global land is protected.
However, nature conservation is often seen through the narrow lens of protected areas and follows a paradigm that any kind of human interaction is detrimental to conservation. This theory has constantly been punctured by stories from outside protected areas where local communities not only cohabit with animals and birds that make these lands their habitats but also facilitate species conservation through community-level decisions that favour it. This is apparent from examples around the country like the Bishnoi community in Rajasthan that fiercely protects the blackbucks and chinkaras or the Kokkare Bellur village in Karnataka that takes care of spot-billed pelicans.
Agricultural lands across the country form ideal habitats for various species, mostly amphibians, and birds. "In theory, wherever there are more humans and more anthropogenic activities, there are fewer species to be found. But our work around ponds and wetlands, which are unprotected areas, has shown a contradiction to this. We have found more than 400 species of birds, the largest population of nilgai, foxes, wild cats and more, in farmlands in Uttar Pradesh (UP), which are not agroforestry. Gujarat and Rajasthan too have shown similar results," said K.S. Gopi Sundar, a scientist at Nature Conservation Foundation and the global co-chair of the IUCN Stork, Ibis, and Spoonbill Specialist Group.
"Wetland management in India suggests removing humans from that area but in reality, human presence has found to have a positive effect on species presence and diversity. From our survey of unprotected wetlands in U.P., we have found western U.P. to have the highest bird diversity of any cereal farmlands of the world," he added. Woolly-necked stork population, thought to have a global population of 35,000, is about 2,00,000 in South Asia, said Sundar.
A spot-billed pelican in Kokkare Bellur village, Karnataka. The people here came together to protect bird heronries in agricultural areas. It is a mutually beneficial relationship where the potassium nitrogen-rich droppings of the bird make an excellent fertiliser while the villagers protect the nesting birds. Photo by Aksheeta Mahapatra.
Traditional belief systems favour species protection
At the root of these local conservation efforts are traditional, local knowledge experiences and systems that have been passed down through generations. Many studies have been done on how communities come together to protect birds heronries in agricultural areas like Kokkare Bellur, Koonthankulam, Teelinilapuram, etc., said T. Ganesh, senior fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).
"Some of these have become community reserves or sanctuaries. Basically, villagers conserve these species because there is some belief that they bring prosperity in the form of good rains and they also show a great sense of pride in protecting them," he said. Gopi Sundar recounts an incident where he had to face a group of angry villagers with sticks when he ventured into a wetland to count the nests and eggs of sarus cranes revered in U.P. due to its mention in Mahabharata as Krounca. "They feared I was stealing eggs," he said.
During her research on the coexistence of leopards and humans in villages of Hamirpur district in the Himalayas, conservation psychologist at Wildlife Conservation Society, Dhee, found that the villagers relate to wild cats as "thinking beings" with whom they can "negotiate" space with, a language that's not used often in modern conservation. But recognising an animal as a person or a being is a traditional practice in India that has survived the test of time and rationality.
Locals take up conservation for various reasons that range from the revival of a natural resource and an affinity for a particular species to watershed management or simply for ecological benefits. Sundar narrates that when shallow wetlands in some areas in U.P. dry up during summer, villagers congregate around them to remove the topsoil that makes for excellent clay. "It may seem to a third party as a damaging act but in reality, this tradition helps these wetlands bounce back to full life the next season," he said.
In Anantapur village, the village committee has asked shepherds to lop the trees in such a way that the branches are not fully removed from the tree but are let to hang on the skin. This is done so branches don't dry out completely and can still bear leaves that could be fodder for other animals and organisms. "If there are four trees on the farm, one is left untouched for pollinators and seed dispersers to do their duties. Only the other three are lopped," Saneesh said.
In the community-managed farms in U.P., small patches of land are left crop free which eventually become bird habitats, added Sundar.
A leopard Shongi, Himachal Pradesh. Researchers found that in the villages of Hamirpur district, people relate to wild cats as "thinking beings" with whom they can "negotiate" space with, a language that's not used often in modern conservation. Photo by Himachal Pradesh Forest Department.
Time to redefine farmlands' worth in conservation
Experts believe that considering the rich biodiversity seen in agricultural lands, it is time that these lands are seen as systems that contribute to ecology than just areas for food production. Accepting that the Indian countryside is unique and that local hands play an important part in keeping them that way will also help us understand biodiversity conservation better in the Indian context.
Ganesh feels that India is strong in its policies but needs proactive governance inclusive of people concerned. "In many places where heronries have been protected by people for centuries, state takes control, promising benefits but rarely do these trickle down to people. This can make people indifferent to biodiversity," he said. According to him, there is a need to build greater awareness even in villages where there has been a tradition of protection. "The newer generation does not often pay attention to village elders but if a third party says the same, it has better results. Long-term engagement of local NGOs with these issues is essential," he said.
From her studies, Dhee has come to the conclusion that before any external agency gets involved in conservation in these rural lands, they need to have a good understanding of the local sentiments towards the animals that they share space with instead of assuming what their attitudes could be.
Since the existing local institutions and associated laws are strong, Sundar feels a need for the enforcement to be strong and to weed out corruption. "For 'habitats' that are important to both birds and farmers, renewing the old panchayat system where traditional common lands are inviolate from commercial schemes is vital. Enforcing this existing law, that has been strengthened by multiple court judgments, will help the most marginalised people while ensuring that birds continue to enjoy living amid farmlands," he said.
Read more: There are Sarus cranes in my paddy fields: changing community perceptions to conserve the threatened bird
Black-breasted weaver flock on a farm in Uttar Pradesh. Photo by Gopi Sundar.
Banner image: A pair of sarus cranes in a wheat field in Uttar Pradesh. Photo by Gopi Sundar.
Article published by sahana
Biodiversity, Community based conservation, Conservation


Obituary for Walter William Jackson | Herald & Stewart Home-Funerals, Inc.
Walter William Jackson, husband of Jennifer Jouett Jackson, of Mt. Sterling, passed away Friday. He was a 67 year old native of Montgomery County, son of the late Walter Burns and Nancy Jackson Hampton, a retired employee from the Department of Transportation, and member and deacon of High Street Christian Church.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Bryan S. Jackson, and a daughter, Kathryn L. (Robert) Elliott, both of Mt. Sterling, a grandchild, Madison Brooke Elliott, and 3 sisters, Wanda (Donnie) Scott, Jacqueline (Darrell) Hayden and Linda Ashby.
His funeral will be 1:00 Thursday at Herald & Stewart Home for Funerals with burial in Olive Hill Cemetery. Visitation is 11-1:00 Thursday.