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100 Top Photography Websites
By Geoff Harris • September 3rd, 2012
We need your help! We've taken up the challenge of identifying world's 100 greatest photography websites.
We've done the first fifty, and are continuing over the next few weeks to add the next fifty to make the definitive 100 greatest photography websites in the world which will then be sent to the press.
We've come up with a scoring system based on unique visitors to the website, design, content provision, rankings by Google and various other metrics. However, a bit like choosing your favourite photos, there's always a sprinkling of subjectivity in there.
So these sites don't necessarily have to be immediately well known – we all start somewhere. And we'd love your help to uncover those secret gems waiting to be found in the furthest corners of the internet.
How to Recommend a Great Photography Website
To recommend yours, or a great gardening website you know- please use the comments box below, in the next two weeks, and simply provide us with a brief description of why the website should be included, with a link.
The definitive list will be published finally in mid August and released to the press wires globally. We know we've already uncovered some real treasures, and have probably also missed some – so please get recommending!
This is cool. Meet the World's Largest 360° Panoramic Photography Community.
Analog Photography Users Group
APUG is the world's best source for information on analogue/film photography, alternate process, printing, etc. Yes there's still plenty of you out there fighting the tidal wave of the digital plague
BBC News In Pictures
Does what it says on the tin. Being the BBC, it's very well done. Conservative perhaps. But great quality new photos.
Blipfoto
An amazing community of people all of whom share one photo a day. An interesting concept; with an interesting insight into lives through photographs.
Center for Fine Art Photography
Promoting the art of photography by supporting the growth of creative artists through exhibitions and educational programs.
Choose Film
An online community dedicated to the art and technique of film. The concept is simple – ChooseFilm.com aims to unite the traditional film industry. The scheme is supported by Fujifilm Professional and is a one-stop portal for all users of film, irrespective of brand. Subscription to ChooseFilm.com is free, and once photographers have signed-up they can enjoy a host of benefits.
Cool Photo Ideas
Quite like this site. Usually things that describe themselves as cool -aren't. But this one is. Lots of quirky stories on here - like the wedding couple who've hired iPhone photographers, and the new species of lacewing identified through a Flickr photo.
Deleted Images
This is a photography junkyard. What a great idea. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. DeletedImages.com is the Junkyard of Art. This is the place where unfocused, blurry and un-sharp images come back to life. Have another look at your camera and look at those images you would normally delete. Those images can be very beautiful.
DA is a huge multi-discipline arts community, with a massive photography element to it, too. Many people have graduated from DA to Flickr these days. But if you're into cartoons and anime - lots on here.
Advanced digital Photography techniques. Includes topics such as Exposing For RAW, Light Lessons, Fast Lenses On Sub-Full-Frame, Sensors, D-SLRs For The Professional, Megapixels: How Much Is Enough? Good for detail junkies amongst you.
Side-by-side comparisons, sample images, and reviews of different camera brands and models. Great to have a high quality kit review site to hand.
This is probably the most well known photography blog (and certainly one of the most highly trafficked) on the web. It deserves its solid gold reputation, and is constantly being improved and updated by Darren Rowse, blogger extraordinaire and founder. A great resource and definitely worth a visit. And worth contributing to as well.
ePHOTOzine
I first came across ePHOTOzine whilst I was developing the photography category at eBay (that was some time ago!). It is a fabulous community of experts though. And definitely deserves its place as one of the top photographic resources and community sites on the web.
File Magazine
A collection of unexpected photography. We like this because it's challenging. It takes you out of your comfort zone. File Magazine publishes images that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, unconventional observations, odd angles -- the photographs in the collection reinterpret traditional genres. The pictures say this better than we can.
FlakPhoto
Celebrating contemporary photography. FlakPhoto.com is an online art space + digital photo publication that celebrates the culture of 21st century image-making. The site is produced by Andy Adams and site highlights new series work, photobook projects and gallery exhibitions from a global community of contributors.
Flick has to be in this list really. Even though Pinterest and Instagram (and others) are hot on its heels in terms of world dominating photography community sites. It's the original leading in posting and sharing photography. And still has some fabulous photo sharing groups and sub-communities going.
Fuel Your Photography
There are a lot of sites telling you how to take a picture, but none of them can give you the Fuel Your Photography experience. FYP is a site for photographers and photography lovers. This online magazine is written for photographers by photographers, sharing their experiences and adventures while spanning every aspect of the photography world to help you better understand the craft
Great Photojourhlism
Work from professional photojournalists. There are quite a lot of photojournalist sites out there. But this is probably one of the best we think.
Guardian Eyewitness
The Guardian Eyewitness app, which launched in April 2010 to coincide with the release of the iPad, is one of the top photojournalism apps, with nearly a million downloads worldwide. The app brings you the world's most striking and beautiful photographs, as selected each day by the Guardian's picture editors.
I Love Photo Blogs
ILPB will review your photography blog for you. It's a great portal into the world of photography blogs. This site was designed to give photographers and photography enthusiasts a place to showcase their wonderful photography and to view outstanding works of others.
Instagram is a free photo-sharing program and social network that was launched in October 2010 (now bought by Facebook). The service allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it with other Instagram users they are connected to on the social network. Instagram currently has 80 million registered users. Pretty impressive. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.
iPhone Photography Awards
A place to share and enjoy iPhone photos. Also features iPhone events, workshops and lectures
Morguefile is a lovely idea. It's free photos for creatives; by creatives. And the quality is very good. They're also up to something new and exciting. "Something big is coming, a new morguefile site coming right at you this Oct 1st, 2012. Stay tuned!" PS in case you didn't know: A morgue file originally was the paper-folders containing old files and notes that were kept by criminal investigators, and old article clippings kept by newspaper reporters in case they became of later use as a quick-reference.
Backup your photos! Yes you do need to. Mosaic allows you to backup your photos to the cloud and access them anywhere. This is online Storage For Serious Photographers. Mosaic provides affordable, offsite, online, and redundant storage custom-tailored for photographers. Back up your RAW photos easily.
MyPhotoSchool
That's Us!
National Geographic Photography
Tips and galleries from the magazine known for its stunning photographs. Known for surfacing some of the best wildlife photography in the world. Annoying poppy uppy advert - for such an amazing site.
Nature Photographers dot Net
This site has a little bit of everything. It's educational, has a thriving community and also does a good job on product reviews. Articles range from aerial to street to wedding photography to landscapes. There are free and paid subscriptions that allow users to create accounts and upload portfolios and request critiques from fellow members.
Once Magazine
This is a cool site. It's an iPad app with incredible photojournalism. Once Magazine is a new kind of magazine that strives to create compelling narratives that are not possible with print or web. Each month they publish three long photo stories paired with audio, video, text essays, and infographics. Typically journalistic, their stories range in topic from retirement communities in Arizona to the Libyan revolution. Each one is created specifically for the iPad. Nice work and definitely worth a visit.
Outdoor Photographer
A useful site including information on gear, how-to guides, and weekly technology tips. In addition, there are columns by photographers and information articles about favourite outdoor locations along with workshops to hone your skills.
Panoramio
Photo-sharing community. Discover the world through photos. Connected to Google World
Paws Pet Photography
Award winning UK pet photographer, Paul Walker, practices creative pet photography throughout the UK and internationally of dogs, cats, horses or other animals best described as a pet. Author of internationally selling "Pet Photography Now" and MyPhotoSchool tutor.
Photo.net
Photocompetitions.com
If you're into photography comps, you could do a lot worse than checking out this site – to pick which competitions to enter. Not glamorous - but a good resource site.
The Photographic Society of America (PSA) is a worldwide organization for anyone interested in photography. The society includes casual shutterbugs, serious amateurs, and professional photographers.
A great community site. With a buzzing community, and some very thoughtful tips and tricks. We actually think this is one of the best community photography sites, and MyPhotoSchool contributes content from time to time based on this premise. Run by Alex Schult. Good guy.
This is almost certainly one of the key gateways on the web for anyone interested in starting out in photojournalism. It's been around since 1996, and is run by Mark Hancock, an acclaimed photojournalist from Dallas.
Photopreneur exists to identify the new opportunities that technological advances are churning up for professionals, hobbyists and for camera-owners who want to earn from their photography. A text driven site - with some great tippets of advice.
Pimpyourcam
Er some of you will hate this. I quite like it. An undeniably unique and interesting website. You can customise your own camera shell using special airbrush techniques. Over to you…
The fastest growing photographic social network in the world. If you don't know about it yet - you probably should do! We love it. But be aware of your legal position when you share stuff. There are definitely some grey areas still.
Pixiq is a beautifully designed site as well as being content rich. Many of MyPhotoSchool's tutors are also Pixiq contributors. It's high-end, and more aimed at semi-pros and enthusiastic amateurs, rather than beginners. A really well thought out site with first class quality content.
PixyBlog
Photo sharing community.
We can't not mention the RPS (being British as we are). The Royal Photographic Society is an Educational Charity promoting both the art and science of photography. Membership is open to all, whatever level of experience or knowledge. No qualifications are required to join, just a passion and love for one or more of photography's myriad of genres, technologies and applications. Most of our members join to further their own photography and to embrace the challenge of working towards our world recognized Distinctions (LRPS, ARPS and FRPS) and Imaging Science Qualifications (QIS, GIS, AIS and ASIS).
ShutterCal
Another good idea. ShutterCal is a calendar-based daily photography project. You can use it to document your life and improve your photography with one daily photo. Leaves you with a life calendar. We like!
SmugMug? It's a subscription-based, online photo-sharing website that provides unlimited photo uploads, safe back up, easy sharing, customization, image protection and privacy features
A site detailing how to use off-camera flashes to illuminate subjects… In ridiculous detail.
The Album Café
Photoshop templates for photographers.
The Online Photographer (TOP) is a daily news website for photo enthusiasts, in blog format. Contributors number more than 50 writers, including professional photographers, several photography magazine veterans, and writers from other fields who have a special interest in photography.
We like their mission: to help connect today's photo enthusiasts to photography's culture: its tradition, history, industries, best practices, accomplishments, literature, theory, legal issues, and current events.
TinEye
Reverse image search engine. See who is using your photos. Seems like a pretty intelligent site to us. TinEye finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version. Nice!
Weatherscapes
We like this site. Not just because of the interesting niche subject matter, but because Harold Edens has a lovely self effacing way of running things. He photographs lightening, clouds, atmospheric optical phenomena, astronomy, and everything else related to weather and science. The site has information on weather and nature photography such as shooting lightning, clouds, and the moon.
Now it your turn!….Tell Us which sites we have missed
Geoff Harris
I am a photography journalist and photographer and currently work as the Deputy Editor of Amateur Photographer (AP) the oldest weekly photographic magazine in the world. Before that I served as the editor of Digital Camera, Britain's best-selling photography magazine, for five years. During my time as editor it became the UK's top selling photo monthly and won Print Publication of the Year at the 2013 British Media Awards. As well as being lucky enough to get paid to write about photography, I've been fortunate to interview some of the greatest photographers in the world, including Elliott Erwitt, Don McCullin, Martin Parr, Terry O'Neill, Steve McCurry and the late Mary Ellen Mark. This has been a wonderful learning experience and very influential on my photography. Beyond writing, I am a professional portrait, travel and documentary photographer, and reached the finals of the 2016 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition. I am a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society and hope to take my Associateship whenever I can find the time.
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Description: A large 18mm handmade Bellabead is attached to a sterling silver key chain or three 10mm beads with colorful tassel. The square charm measures 20 x 20 and can be monogrammed on both sides.
Other information: This key chain requires 6-8 petals to create (rose size is a good reference). If you have flowers with smaller petals such as hydrangea, mums, monkshood, etc., send at least two blooms.
If you are sending ashes, we need ½ teaspoon (ashes not used in your jewelry design will be returned along with your completed order).
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Promising the saga of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill continues in earnest through next month, Pastor Martin Ssempa, who's been one of the bill's most vocal backers, is planning something of a million man march to rally public support. (Uganda's population: 31.6 million.) Backed by his lunatic organization Uganda National Pastors Task Force Against Homosexuality, Ssempa's goal is to show lawmakers the people support further criminalizing homosexuality — a necessary tactic, given President Yoweri Museveni is reportedly "distancing" himself from the bill.
Museveni never officially endorsed the bill, but his support for attacking gays was made clear as recently as November. There was word that he promised to veto the bill, but even that fail-safe approach might not be enough if enough legislators approve the measure.
But now, as international criticism grows, Museveni is putting more space between his administration and David Bahati, the lawmaker who proposed the bill, saying Bahati was not, according to the BBC, "following government policy." Except "distancing" and "rebuking" are two very different things, and the president has yet to do the latter. Instead, in his first public comments since the bill's formal drafting in October, he told party leaders the bill "must take into account our foreign policy interests." Namely, foreign aid, investment, and oil. Which makes pressure from world leaders — already initiated by Canada and the U.K. — all the more critical.


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Q: Add space before values in xticklabels (MATLAB) I'm new to MATLAB and really struggling with their datatypes / conventions compared to other programming languages.
For instance, I have created a simple plot (e.g. using the peaks command) and simply want to include a padding space before all xticklabels. My MATLAB/pseudocode solution is thus:
labels = xticklabels;    # Get labels
newlabels = xticklabels;  # Create new array
i = 1
for label in labels   # Loop through all labels
    label = ' ' + label   # Add single character pad
    newlabels(i) = label  # Update new labels array
    i = i + 1

set(gca,'XTickLabel', {newlabels})  # Set plot to use new array

How can I achieve this please? I feel like it should be possible quite simply
Thanks!
PS, I have found the pad command in MATLAB2017, but not all my xticklabels are equal length and hence, I only want to add one trailing space, not fix the total string length using pad

A: The simplest way, given a cell array of strings, is to use strcat:
labels = {'1','2','3','4'};
newlabels = strcat('x',labels);   % append 'x' because it's more visible

Result:
newlabels =
{
  [1,1] = x1
  [1,2] = x2
  [1,3] = x3
  [1,4] = x4
}

Alternatively, you could loop through the cell array and concatenate to each char array:
newlabels = cell(size(labels));   % preallocate cell array
for k = 1:numel(labels)
   newlabels{k} = ['x', labels{k}];   % concatenate new char to existing label
end

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In my quest to clean up my diet, I've been contemplating foods I can eat to satisfy my sweet tooth without turning to refined sugars. As someone who has a growing list of healthy dessert recipes, I came across a recipe for a wonderful chocolate truffle from one of my favorite vegan food blogs, The Minimalist Baker.
These truffles are so freakin' delicious and super easy to make. But I would caution that when melting the chocolate, to use a double boiler and melt over low heat. The longer you let the chocolate set in the boiler, it can thicken and clump and that's what you don't want. Remove as soon as the chocolate is as smooth as liquid and then proceed with dipping the truffles.
1. Place pecans and walnuts in a food processor or high speed blender and process until it reaches the consistency of a meal. Set aside for now.
4. Once you have a dough that's easy to form into balls, scoop out 1 Tablespoon amounts and roll/carefully form into balls. Set on parchment paper and place in freezer to chill – you should have about 14 truffles.
5. In the meantime melt chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave in 30 second increments. Be careful not to overheat. Once melted, stir in coconut oil to help the chocolate thin and ease the dipping process.
7. Repeat until all truffles are dipped. Let set at room temperature.


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Live review: Dan Deacon at Richards on Richards, Vancouver
April 29, 2009 Darren Ressler 1 Comment
Since the release of new album Bromst, it seems everyone wants to be Dan Deacon right now. And this was no exception for most of the crowd at Vancouver's Richards on Richards. My head started to spin from all the crazy colored shirts and two-inch thick granddad spectacles that were surrounding me and making me see a thousand replicas of Mr. Deacon himself. Once my sight was clearer, and after an hour of meticulous stage set up, at least 15 people shuffled onto the already cramped Richards stage. Included in that group of people was the main man himself. With one arm wrapped across his chest in a sling, Dan Deacon looked around, pushed his oversized glassed up his nose and informed us tonight will be an "interesting one." Standing behind his rainbow table of colored tape and a thousand knobs and buttons, he blasted through "Get Older," "Of The Mountains" and "Red F" while his glowing, neon green skeleton head bounced next to him.
Everyone obliged and for the next ten minutes, arms and legs were waving and kicking all over the place as the crowd let everything loose.
The crowd was eager to join in on the party as Dan leapt off the stage and used his one-armed power to make the crowd form a circle and propositioned them to a huge dance off in the middle of the floor. Of course, everyone obliged and for the next ten minutes, arms and legs were waving and kicking all over the place as the crowd let everything loose. Instructions soon followed to find a partner, put your hands together and form a huge arm bridge for the whole crowd to conga under. They did just that and danced their way up stairs, passed the bar, behind the bar, down the fire escape and back at the foot of the stage.
As Deacon and his crew bashed drums and tapped xylophones under the burning flashes of light, they finished the night with even more craziness with "Snookered," "The Crystal Cat" and no encore—probably because the clock was closing in on 1am for a Sunday night. As hair stuck to shiny foreheads and cheeks flushed pink, boys and girls arrived looking for a party and tonight, Dan Deacon proved this was where the party's at.
Words and images: Lauren Keogh
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Big Shot's Next Cover Star: Dan Deacon
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After making a name for himself on the indie dance scene thanks to a raucous debut, Spiderman of the Rings, and even wilder live shows, Baltimore's Dan Deacon heads down a new path with his latest album, Bromst, due in March. In this exclusive story, Deacon talks about his new sound and determination not to rest on his laurels. Stay tuned for more info on BS26 which will be out in a hot minute.
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BSTV: Dan Deacon
January 30, 2009 Darren Ressler Leave a Comment
Dan Deacon's new album, Bromst, is out in March. If you're not familiar with Deacon's music, he produces some of the strangest and most refreshing "dance" music on the planet. Bromst is a major artistic leap forward, and we caught up with the bespectacled genius (who told us he was mistaken for a homeless person by a security guard at Circuit City not too long ago!) and asked him for the lowdown on the upcoming album and upcoming tour.
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Matt Mitchell
Queta lifts Utah St. over San Diego St. 57-45
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Neemias Queta tallied 14 points and 16 rebounds to lead Utah State to a 57-45 win over San Diego State on Thursday night, the Aggies' ninth...
Pulliam's layup at the buzzer helps SDSU past Nevada 69-67
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Matt Mitchell had 20 points and Trey Pulliam made a layup at the buzzer to help San Diego State narrowly beat Nevada 69-67 on Saturday night. ...
Mitchell scores 20 to lift San Diego St. over Nevada 65-60
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Matt Mitchell had 20 points and 10 rebounds as San Diego State held Nevada scoreless over the final 2:16 for a 65-60 win on Thursday night. ...
Schakel carries San Diego St. over Colorado St. 78-65
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jordan Schakel hit 8 of 11 3-pointers and scored a career-high 28 points as San Diego State got past Colorado State 78-65 on Monday night. ...
Colorado St. stages furious rally to down San Diego St.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — John Tonje scored 11 points, and his four-point play with 12.3 seconds left helped carry Colorado State to a 70-67 win over San Diego State on...
Mensah carries San Diego St. past Saint Mary's 74-49
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Nathan Mensah recorded 18 points and 13 rebounds to lead San Diego State to a 74-49 win over Saint Mary's on Tuesday night in a...
BYU beats No. 18 San Diego St despite Mitchell's 35 points
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Schakel leads San Diego St. over Pepperdine 65-60
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Johnson leads San Diego St. over UC Irvine 77-58
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Home Ideas Government & Politics County supervisors seek budget funding for Mitchell Park Domes plan
County supervisors seek budget funding for Mitchell Park Domes plan
Committee approves plan to seek private hemp clone grower at Domes greenhouse
Lauren Anderson
The Mitchell Park Domes
Milwaukee County supervisors want to add funding in the county budget for the plan to redevelop the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Domes.
The board's finance and audit committee on Tuesday approved a proposal to set aside $108,000 in the county budget for the continued development of a long-term plan to repair and preserve the Domes and revitalize Mitchell Park. The full board will consider the budget amendment on Nov. 12.
"The Domes are a beloved cultural institution that we have made a commitment to repair and preserve," said Theodore Lipscomb, co-sponsor of the amendment. "It is important that we continue to make real progress at the Domes in 2020."
In August, the Domes Task Force recommended a $66 million plan to restore the Domes and redevelop Mitchell Park. Funding for the plan, developed by Montana-based consulting firm ArtsMarket, Inc., would come from public and private sources, including $13.5 million raised through a private sector campaign; another $13.5 million from Milwaukee County; $26 million from historic tax credits; and $12 million from opportunity zone funds.
The plan also calls for the creation of a new nonprofit entity, the Mitchell Park and Domes Conservancy, that would partner with Milwaukee County to operate the park.
That plan follows a study released last year by ConsultEcon and HGA that presented several options for the future of the Domes, ranging from doing nothing to tearing the Domes down to re-envisioning the Domes as a destination education, conservation and recreation attraction. In March, another firm put forward a plan to integrate the Domes experience into a new 284,000-square-foot Milwaukee Public Museum building on the site of the current Domes.
Supervisor Sheldon Wasserman voted against the budget amendment Tuesday, saying it would mean "spending good money on a bad project."
"We're spending $100,000 to study the proposal of the consultants," he said. "We're hiring consultants to analyze the previous consultant's analysis of the previous consultant's analysis. At what point do we make a decision? … We are wasting money."
The amendment calls for redirecting money from within the proposed budget; it wouldn't involve additional tax levy.
Separately, the county's Parks, Energy and Environment Committee on Tuesday considered a plan from supervisor Sylvia Ortiz-Velez to lease one of Mitchell Park's six greenhouses to a private operator to propagate hemp clones. She said the plan could bring in as much as $1.6 million annually for the county parks, based on a report from Boulder, Colorado-based consulting firm R.B. Mack Consulting Inc.
Her resolution, approved in a 4-1 vote by the committee, called on the parks department to issue an RFP for a private entity to lease one of the greenhouses for hemp clone propagation.
Ortiz-Velez said clean, certified clones grown in the county's greenhouse would meet a need among farmers statewide. Cloning involves taking a cut of a stem or taproot of a mother hemp plant to cultivate new plants.
"Clean, certified clones are valuable to hemp industry in our state," she said. "They can provide high quality consistent plants that can be grown in sustainable methods. Hemp farmers in Wisconsin buy them in bulk and often they are purchased from out of the state."
However, Jim Tarantino, director of recreation and business services for the county, said the greenhouses are currently "heavily utilized" for growing flowers for the Show Dome, suggesting there isn't capacity to rent out the space.
Supervisor Marcelia Nicholson, who voted in favor of the proposal, said the county needs to think of creative solutions to fund the Domes.
"This seems somewhat like a catch 22," she said. "We have these greenhouses growing show flowers, but if we don't figure out a sustained revenue source for our Domes, there's a real chance we won't have any greenhouses to grow any show flowers."
In April, a study commissioned by the county board determined that the county's greenhouses were too small to accommodate a successful industrial hemp growing operation. Ortiz-Velez claimed there were numerous flaws with the report, including its of data that predated the 2018 Farm Bill.
Lauren Anderson, former BizTimes Milwaukee reporter.
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Milwaukee County supervisors want to add funding in the county budget for the plan to redevelop the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Domes. The board's finance and audit committee on Tuesday approved a proposal to set aside $108,000 in the county budget for the continued development of a long-term plan to repair and preserve the Domes and revitalize Mitchell Park. The full board will consider the budget amendment on Nov. 12. "The Domes are a beloved cultural institution that we have made a commitment to repair and preserve," said Theodore Lipscomb, co-sponsor of the amendment. "It is important that we continue to make real progress at the Domes in 2020." In August, the Domes Task Force recommended a $66 million plan to restore the Domes and redevelop Mitchell Park. Funding for the plan, developed by Montana-based consulting firm ArtsMarket, Inc., would come from public and private sources, including $13.5 million raised through a private sector campaign; another $13.5 million from Milwaukee County; $26 million from historic tax credits; and $12 million from opportunity zone funds. The plan also calls for the creation of a new nonprofit entity, the Mitchell Park and Domes Conservancy, that would partner with Milwaukee County to operate the park. That plan follows a study released last year by ConsultEcon and HGA that presented several options for the future of the Domes, ranging from doing nothing to tearing the Domes down to re-envisioning the Domes as a destination education, conservation and recreation attraction. In March, another firm put forward a plan to integrate the Domes experience into a new 284,000-square-foot Milwaukee Public Museum building on the site of the current Domes. Supervisor Sheldon Wasserman voted against the budget amendment Tuesday, saying it would mean "spending good money on a bad project." "We're spending $100,000 to study the proposal of the consultants," he said. "We're hiring consultants to analyze the previous consultant's analysis of the previous consultant's analysis. At what point do we make a decision? … We are wasting money." The amendment calls for redirecting money from within the proposed budget; it wouldn't involve additional tax levy. Separately, the county's Parks, Energy and Environment Committee on Tuesday considered a plan from supervisor Sylvia Ortiz-Velez to lease one of Mitchell Park's six greenhouses to a private operator to propagate hemp clones. She said the plan could bring in as much as $1.6 million annually for the county parks, based on a report from Boulder, Colorado-based consulting firm R.B. Mack Consulting Inc. Her resolution, approved in a 4-1 vote by the committee, called on the parks department to issue an RFP for a private entity to lease one of the greenhouses for hemp clone propagation. Ortiz-Velez said clean, certified clones grown in the county's greenhouse would meet a need among farmers statewide. Cloning involves taking a cut of a stem or taproot of a mother hemp plant to cultivate new plants. "Clean, certified clones are valuable to hemp industry in our state," she said. "They can provide high quality consistent plants that can be grown in sustainable methods. Hemp farmers in Wisconsin buy them in bulk and often they are purchased from out of the state." However, Jim Tarantino, director of recreation and business services for the county, said the greenhouses are currently "heavily utilized" for growing flowers for the Show Dome, suggesting there isn't capacity to rent out the space. Supervisor Marcelia Nicholson, who voted in favor of the proposal, said the county needs to think of creative solutions to fund the Domes. "This seems somewhat like a catch 22," she said. "We have these greenhouses growing show flowers, but if we don't figure out a sustained revenue source for our Domes, there's a real chance we won't have any greenhouses to grow any show flowers." In April, a study commissioned by the county board determined that the county's greenhouses were too small to accommodate a successful industrial hemp growing operation. Ortiz-Velez claimed there were numerous flaws with the report, including its of data that predated the 2018 Farm Bill.


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UW-Platteville discontinues language program
Complications with visas decrease entry into the United States.
Abbey Pignatari, [email protected]|April 25, 2019
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After being a part of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus for about six years, the English Language Program will be discontinued at the end of this semester due to multiple governmental, political and economic factors.
The ELP began at UW-Platteville in 2014 in response to a demand from the Brazilian government's scientific mobility program.
"In about 2013, we started getting a lot of students coming through a government program from Brazil, and they were sending students who were majoring in STEM fields to study for two semesters of academic coursework plus a summer of internships. A lot of them needed intensive English language studies in order to engage in the coursework at the level they needed to be at," director of International Programs Donna Anderson said.
According to the UW-Platteville ELP webpage, the mission is to "provide international and domestic students and academic scholars English language courses and resources in listening comprehension, speaking communication, reading, writing and intercultural understanding needed to improve English Language proficiency to achieve academic goals and professional success."
Many of the students who have participated in this program have been degree-seeking students who needed intensive English language courses to be at the level needed to follow along in coursework, students from partnering universities in countries like China and spouses of individuals seeking degrees.
The ELP has helped to give international students a sense of community, place and independence while they are studying at UW-Platteville.
"This is my first semester at UW-P[latteville]. I am here seeking a degree, but my first step is to be able to understand what instructors say. I hope to get the ability to communicate with Americans, including communicating with professors and classmates. I enjoy this program. [It] allows us to use everyday life. How can I buy something from the Student Center or look through a book from the library, how can I express my thought? This program is very useful for foreign students," ELP student Zexin Liu said.
The university has seen enrollments in this program of up to twenty-five students during a given semester, but these numbers have started to drop.
"The Midwest was particularly hard-hit because when international student populations decline, they tend to decline first in the middle of America and last on the coasts. That is where you have most of the concentration of international students – California, Washington state, New York state," Anderson said.
There have also been more issues coming about when students try to apply for visa. The process has become very unreliable, and it can take months for students to get approved for a visa. This creates issues within the program because less students are able to gain access to a visa.
"The visa issues are leading to smaller numbers of participants in the ELP programs," ELP teaching academic staff Rebecca Gottlieb said.
Some of the main factors that influenced this decline were local market values, local government scholarship funding, economies of key markets, exchange rates, the political climate and competition from other programs.
Due to the current political climate, there has been a significant decrease in students who are interested in coming to the United States to study. Instead, individuals are choosing to attend universities in Canada and other Western European countries.
"With the Trump administration, there is a certain amount of anti-[Muslim] rhetoric occurring, so we see, if not a direct correlation in students that are coming to the U.S., there is certainly a perception that the U.S. maybe is not as welcoming as it once was," Anderson said.
The discontinuation of this program will not have a large impact on undergraduate or graduate requirements for degree-seeking international students, but it will place limitations on the flexibility in spouses, locals or partner universities who are interested in studying in the U.S.
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The engine that drives his confidence comes in the form of electric vehicles.
Judge revoked an interim order that prevented the company from relocating graves present at its Platreef platinum group metals mine, in Limpopo Province.
Article implies that the company engaged in illicit practices to obtain the necessary permits for its Platreef mine in South Africa.
Locals were protesting the imminent construction of Platreef platinum mine.
The miner has hit exceptionally high-grade silver, zinc and copper at its Kipushi mine in the DRC.
South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources has finally approved the miner's Platreef platinum project.
It has given 20% to 20 local groups, 3% to black entrepreneurs and managerial employees, and another 3% to historically disadvantaged South African staff.
The strategic review will focus on the potential introduction of third-party strategic investors or joint-venture parties for the Kamoa and Kipushi copper projects in the DRC.
The Kamoa and Kipushi projects make up 83% of the Ivanhoe's net asset value.
Africa-focused Canadian miner Ivanplats Ltd, founded by billionaire Robert Friedland, raised over Cdn$300 million ($305 million) in its initial public offering in Toronto on Tuesday, after selling shares at $4.75 each, on the lower end of the marketed range.


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This is cinema at its most un-cinematic. Or is it?
You, the Living by Roy Andersson. Image Roy Andersson.
The films of Roy Andersson break every cinematic convention we associate with cinema, and yet his productions are considered works of art. Be prepared to have your idea of what is cinematic turned on its head.
We talk a lot about cinematic imagery, and manufacturers promise technology that will bestow upon us the beauty of cinema. But what if I told you there was a filmmaker who has won the Jury Prize at Cannes and the Golden Lion at Venice who breaks every preconception we have of what makes a 'cinematic image'?
Shallow depth of field? None. Totally deep focus – everything in the picture is needle sharp. Gimbals, Steadicam, drones, remote heads? No – his camera remains completely static, it doesn't even pan or tilt. Dramatic lighting? No, his frames are flat and shadowless. Editing? Nope – every scene in the film consists of just one locked-off shot. Digital effects? None. Sophisticated grading? Not really – his films have a very particular, painterly look, but that is largely to do with production design, costume and make-up. Welcome to the bizarre world of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson.
The art of dullness?
A niche, arty filmmaker? Maybe, but, as well as six features, Andersson has made over 300 commercials during his 50 year career. Andersson's movies are certainly not for everyone. Unattractive, awkward characters sombrely perform pointless tasks with little joy, but a surreal, dark humour, somewhere between Monty Python and Samuel Beckett, pervades everything. The films look like nobody else's, and resemble paintings rather movies. They are predominantly filled with subtle pastel tones – blue-greys, green-greys, yellow-greys, pink-greys, but mostly greys. Even skin tones look grey, which on first sight seems like some artful grading, but then you realise it is actually make-up.
The lighting is flat and even – not a shadow in sight – and, apart from the ever present window or overhead light fitting, the tonal range is entirely dependent on costume and production design. The resulting image looks nothing like anyone else's work but is, in its own way, surprisingly beautiful.
The sets, which, each take a month to build in Andersson's studio in his Stockholm town house, look curiously real and artificial at the same time. His technique is surprisingly low-tech; although Andersson uses green screen, much of the effects are based on trompe d'oeil 3D miniatures suspended in front of the camera and painted backdrops. His ingenuity is immense; there is a dream sequence in his 2007 film You, The Living where a room turns out to be on board a train; the convincing scenery that passes by the window was done solely with elaborate moving models.
To get an idea of what I am talking about, have a look at this trailer for You, The Living.
What does Roy Andersson film on?
Most of Andersson's work was shot on 35mm, moving to a Red for his last two films, but this has made little difference to his style. We are so used to associating great cinematography today with soft backgrounds and creamy bokeh that deep focus can be a revelation. There is something very refreshing in seeing a wide shot where everything is sharp, where viewers can cast their eyes on all the details of the frame as the story unfolds. Often it is in the background where crucial things are happening – like a 18th century army marching to and from battle seen through the windows of a 21st century bar. I'm a big fan of deep focus (in the right place) and now seems a perfect time for revival as resolutions get higher and screens get bigger.
Do his films have stories? Well, sort of. They consist of a series of self-contained, single shot vignettes, but characters and themes follow through from one episode to another. This tableaux approach is not unique – the early films of Jim Jarmusch and Terrence Davies make use of it – but it is Andersson who has taken it to the limit. It may sound like filmed theatre, but the performances are precise and understated, totally lacking in theatrical flourishes.
All of his characters seem to have drawn the short straws of life, like the two glum, painfully unsuccessful novelty salesmen in A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), whose merchandise comprises solely of vampire teeth, a laughing bag and a mask of a one-toothed man. Or the man who performs a disastrous dinner table trick – attempting to remove the tablecloth beneath a very lavish dinner, resulting not only in disaster but revealing the swastikas on the table beneath. Yes, there are serious undertones beneath the drole absurdities – a preoccupation with the horrors of war and colonialism runs through Andersson's work.
A lot of people will take a instant dislike to Andersson's films, and I wouldn't suggest for one minute that you should try to emulate his style (you won't be able to), but it is really worth looking at to challenge what we take for granted: that shadows, differential focus and camera movement are essential elements of great cinematography and that story telling is constructed through editing. Sometimes, perhaps, we need to just slow down and watch the world.
Roy Andersson's films are available online in the UK through Curzon and MUBI. There is also a fascinating documentary on his work, About Being Human, trailer for which is here.
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WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD…
'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin Slaughter
'I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' The Times
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world – arguing that we need them now more than ever.
From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling?
Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential reading for anyone trying to write or understand fiction. Child teaches us how these stories still shape our minds and behaviour in an increasingly confusing modern world, and with his trademark concision and wit, demonstrates that however civilised we get, we'll always need heroes.
Lee Child:
Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction, the International Thriller Writers' ThrillerMaster, and the Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award.
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Publication Date Nov 26, 2019
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MEGAL pipeline system
The MEGAL pipeline system is provided with a bi-directional cross border point at the German-Czech border in Waidhaus, at the German-French border in Medelsheim as well as at the bi-directional cross border point at the German-Austrian border in Oberkappel. A further crossing point – Gernsheim – joins Gaspool's market area since January 2014. The MEGAL pipeline system consists of two pipelines: the MEGAL Nord (North) pipeline and the MEGAL Süd (South) pipeline which are connected via a connection line between Schwandorf and Rothenstadt that has a length of 40 km.
The MEGAL Nord pipeline comprises two parallel pipelines with a respective length of 460 km. The MEGAL Nord is connecting the two cross border points Waidhaus and Medelsheim as well as the market area crossing point Gernsheim. Four compressor stations are currently required for its operation. These compressor stations enable a bi-directional gas flow. The pipeline is operated at a pressure of maximum 84 bar between Waidhaus and Renzenhof and maximum 80 bar between Renzenhof and Medelsheim.
The MEGAL Süd pipeline consists of two pipelines. The first pipeline has a length of 169 km and is connecting Oberkappel at the Austrian border and Schwandorf in Bavaria. The pipeline is operated at a pressure of maximum 67.5 bar. The parallel pipeline between Windberg and Schwandorf has a length of 72 km and was exposed in 2012. The parallel pipeline is operated at a pressure until 100 bar. The two compressor stations that are operated enable a bi-directional gas flow.
Annual peak load and withdrawn capacity in MWh (Update 21.11.2019)
Simultaneous hourly annual peak load in MWh in 2018: 60.425 (09.08.2018, 10:00)
Withdrawn annual capacity in MWh in 2017: -340.219.982
Thereof to downstream system operators in MWh in 2017: -220.335.734
Simultaneous hourly annual peak load in MWh in 2005: 50.880* (14.11.2005, 15:00)
Withdrawn annual capacity in MWh in 2005: -90.987.256*
* GRTgaz Deutschland has occupied the position of TSO since October 2005. Therefore, the data refer to the period between October and December 2005.
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Cyber-Safe
FBI wasn't able to unlock iPhone, even with a 'fingerprint unlock warrant'
by Jose Pagliery @Jose_Pagliery May 12, 2016: 10:24 AM ET
Cellebrite helped open my dead son's iPhone
A judge recently took the controversial step of letting the FBI force a woman to unlock an iPhone with her fingerprints. But it didn't work.
CNNMoney has learned that the FBI was unable to open an iPhone in Los Angeles.
It's an important detail when debating how new technology -- and new police methods -- affect Americans' Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
And it shows that while the FBI unlocked the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone 5C, law enforcement still has trouble getting into most iPhones.
The present case sparked nationwide attention when it was highlighted by the Los Angeles Times last month. It concerned a recent criminal case in California involving Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan, the girlfriend of an accused Armenian gang member.
On Feb. 25, she showed up at a state courthouse to be sentenced to jail for identity theft, according to court records. That very same day, on the other side of town, a federal judge signed off on a warrant forcing her to push her finger on an iPhone. The iPhone had been confiscated at the Glendale home of her boyfriend, Sevak Mesrobian.
The LA Times article posed a pivotal question: If a person can't be forced to unlock their phones by revealing their passcode, why is a judge forcing a person to unlock a phone with her fingerprints?
As it turns out, the method didn't work anyway.
"They forced her to use all 10 fingers to unlock the phone. But it didn't unlock the phone," said George G. Mgdesyan, the attorney who represented the couple.
When that didn't work, FBI agents tried an alternative route, he said.
"They asked for a password. She said, 'It's not my phone,'" Mgdesyan explained.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, which handled the case, provided a copy of the search warrant. But officials declined to comment.
Bkhchadzhyan's case marks the second time -- known to news reporters -- that law enforcement was able to get this type of warrant.
The other case involved David Charles Baust, a Virginia man accused of strangling a woman in his bedroom (and later found not guilty).
The victim told police Baust recorded everything on his iPhone 5S, so police wanted to search through his device. They obtained a judge's permission for a fingerprint unlock.
But they weren't able to unlock the phone either.
The police had the phone in their custody for about six months, according to Baust's defense lawyer, James Broccoletti. And as it turns out, when a person hasn't unlocked their iPhone using the Touch ID feature for 48 hours, the device will demand their passcode as a security measure, according to Apple.
In his ruling about the iPhone search, Virginia Circuit Court Judge Steven Frucci made a novel distinction. The judge said it's okay for police to force suspects to use physical characteristics, like a fingerprint, to unlock a phone. But they can't force someone to "disclose the contents of his own mind," like a password.
Frucci's ruling relies on a Supreme Court ruling that police can indeed obtain your fingerprint, photo, height -- or even your blood. On the other hand, giving up your password is like being forced to speak against yourself, which violates the Fifth Amendment.
It's an odd split in logic, because fingerprints and passcodes now do the same thing: unlock information.
"Sometimes the law gets too cute. We shouldn't leave common sense out of the equation," said David Oscar Markus, a high-profile defense attorney in Miami. "The process is the same thing. You're getting access to someone's most private information by forcing someone to give you the key."
Broccoletti, the lawyer in the Virginia case, said, "It's going to be our job to educate the judges. A print isn't just a print."
Susan Brenner, a University of Dayton law professor who focuses on technology, explained why.
"By putting my finger on the reader, I effectively 'testify' that this is my laptop -- or I have control over the laptop that belongs to someone else. And by unlocking the data, I also effectively 'testify' that this is my data," she said.
CNNMoney (New York) First published May 12, 2016: 9:53 AM ET


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Royal Utermöhlen
Royal distinction
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Wolvega, January 30, 2018 - Last week, the acquisition of the activities of Royal Utermöhlen was completed. The activities of Utermöhlen, known from the A-brands HeltiQ and ByeBites, will be continued under the guidance of Piet Bandell and Martin Pereboom from the familiar current location in Wolvega. The plans of the national and export oriented company will continue to focus on delivering high quality products in wound and sport care, maternity care and over-the-counter products for minor skin ailments.
Going forward, the company will continue to expand the current markets in the Netherlands, Europe, North America, Middle East, Australia and Asia. Among others, new applications are being developed in the area of freezing skin ailments ('cryo-technology'). If you want to stay informed, check out www.royalutermohlen.com.
In the Netherlands, Utermöhlen is well known for wound and sports care, maternity care and self-care products under the brand HeltiQ. The range of ByeBites products is for preventing and treating insect bites and stings. The Utermöhlen professional brand is still the leading brand if it comes to first aid sets and boxes. All these products are sold through the professional and retail channels.
The former owner of Royal Utermöhlen, Don T. van der Vat, who has been active in the company for the last 30 years, says farewell to Utermöhlen. In 1998 Mr Van der Vat acquired the company and became independent from the former owner OPG.
From left to right Don van der Vat, Martin Pereboom, Renate van der Vat-Borchers and Piet Bandell
Don van der Vat: "I am pleased that I can now leave Utermöhlen in the hands of Martin Pereboom and Piet Bandell. The long history of Royal Utermöhlen, since 1880, deserves a good future on a worldwide market. Piet and Martin are able to take the company to a higher level with their experience and insights. "
Piet Bandell: "We are pleased with the trust we have received from Don and Renate and look forward to meeting our suppliers and customers to design further plans for the future with them.."
Martin Pereboom: "Piet and I are driven to create new history with Royal Utermöhlen. Thanks to the knowledge, expertise and experience of the people, we can build on a long tradition."
For more information, please contact Joost Steppé, Business Development Manager, Royal Utermöhlen, telephone number: + 31 (0)561 69 33 73.
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9 – Spend all the time you need in perfecting yourself, but leave no time to criticize the others.
11 – Always have a positive opinion about yourself and tell it to the world, not through words of vanity but through benevolence.
12 – Have the strong belief that the world is beside you if you keep true to what is best within you.
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Uganda's Vice Presidents over the years: John Babiiha
Following the abolition of traditional institutions in 1967, John Babiiha found himself at the centre of mainstream poli ...
Following the abolition of traditional institutions in 1967, John Babiiha found himself at the centre of mainstream politics as Uganda's first Republican Vice President
#John Babiiha
April 1966 to January 1971 John Babiiha was born on April 17, 1913, in Toro, western Uganda He was Vice President, under the Uganda Peoples' Congress (UPC) government led by Apollo Milton Obote.
The Vice President, Mr. John Babiha delivers a speech at Uganda College Kyambogo 07.12.68
He also served as the Minister of Animal Resources from 1967-1971 in the same UPC regime.
John Babiiha, Felix Rwambarari, Milton Obote, Sam Odaka and others were the founding members of the UPC party in 1959.
The Vice President Mr. John Babiiha accompanied by ex-service man Mr. Kusambiza (extreme right) in a parade as part of remembrace day ceremony in Kampala 12.11.67
Following the abolition of traditional institutions in 1967, John Babiiha found himself at the centre of mainstream politics as Uganda's first Republican Vice President replacing the Kyabazinga, William Wilberforce Nadiope.
Vice president Mr. John Babiiha at kololo 08.09.1969
On December 19, 1969, when President Obote was injured in an assassination attempt, John Babiiha temporarily assumed control of government and declared a national state of emergency.
L-R, John Babiiha, Milton Obote, Basil Bataringaya
Babiiha died in March 1982.


Loretta Lynn, Miranda Lambert & Sheryl Crow perform "Coal Miner's Daughter" at the 2010 CMA Awards in Nashville. While all of "The 45th Annual CMA Awards" nominees for Musical Event of the Year including Alan Jackson, Kelly Clarkson, Alabama, and Grace Pottercome from different walks of life, one featured artist in particular stands out, the "First Lady of Country Music," Loretta Lynn. Lynn's integral contribution to the country music format paved the way for every female artist since her first hit single "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl" in 1960. She was CMA's first Female Vocalist winner (1967) and the first woman to win Entertainer of the Year (1972). With a career-spanning 54 studio albums, 15 compilation albums, and 23 No.1 singles, Lynn has more than deserved a 39thCMA nomination for her collaboration with two of country's most prominent stars Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow on "Coal Miner's Daughter." Both of Lynn's collaborators have been previously nominated in the category – twice for Sheryl Crow in 2003 and 2006, and once for Miranda Lambert in 2010. The modern collaboration is the centerpiece of the commemorative album Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn which was released in November 2010 to celebrate Lynn's 50th anniversary in the music industry.
Lynn released her autobiographical single "Coal Miner's Daughter" in 1969 and rereleased it the next year to great critical acclaim. The signature song quickly became one of country music's most widely revered pieces. With the No.185 spot on RIAA's list of Songs of the Century, No.13 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music, and a recent inclusion in the National Recording Registry earlier this year, "Coal Miner's Daughter" is indisputably a staple song in country music history.


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Swampy SWAMP creatures: FISA court appoints conflicted anti-Trump attorney to "oversee" FBI reforms
Monday, January 13, 2020 by: JD Heyes
Tags: corruption, David Kris, deep state, FBI, FISA court, inspector general, insult, Justice Department, justice system, Michael Horowitz, President Trump, Spygate, treason
(Natural News) The insults to the American people and our system of government by the Deep State following its "Spygate" coup attempt against President Donald Trump just keep on coming — and they aren't going to stop until Attorney General William Barr indicts some of them.
The most recent smack in the face has come from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, the secretive collective of judges that hear national security evidence and decide whether to allow the government to spy on Americans.
Most of those warrant applications are approved; very few ever get rejected, which has led critics over the years to charge that the court was nothing more than a rubber stamp for Uncle Sam's spy agencies.
It's hard to refute that allegation, especially after an appointment the court made in recent days as part of the FBI's "reform" following their Spygate outrage.
After Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz identified scores of incidents where FBI agents purposefully defrauded the court with phony "evidence" contained in a fabricated "Russia dossier," the chief judge ordered the bureau to make some "reforms" to ensure that they were never fooled again.
Yes, this is what passes for reform in official Washington: Ignore actual criminal behavior, call for some ineffective action that you claim will 'do the trick,' and move on.
Except this time the 'action' taken was really just a double-down on the original infraction. As reported by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson on Friday, the FISA court posted an order instructing lawyer David Kris to "assist the court" in analyzing the bureau's response to the earlier ordered fixes to the Spygate abuses identified by Horowitz.
The issue: Kris is a known political opponent of President Trump.
After Horowitz testified to Congress last month that the FISA surveillance process should be fixed "from top to bottom," the court appoints Kris, who — on social media — has called GOP Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) "a politicized, dishonest [Intelligence Community] overseer who attempts to mislead."
Nunes, in fact, has been in the lead in exposing the Deep State players who targeted the president for removal from office.
"The Nunes memo was dishonest," said Kris. "And if it is allowed to stand, we risk significant collateral damage to essential elements of our democracy." (Related: 'The crazies were right, and I was wrong': Former federal prosecutor speaks of 'rogue' FBI & FISA court abuses.)
What a disgusting appointment this is
There's more, as Zero Hedge reports:
He tweeted that Trump and his advisors should be "worried" that the "walls are closing in on him" regarding the Mueller probe. Kris also bought into the now-disproven conspiracy theory about Trump colluding with Russia and Putin. But even more importantly, since that time, Kris has advocated for President Trump's removal. Kris's vocal opinions on President Trump and his politics present numerous, obvious conflicts of interest.
Regardless, however, America is now faced with a very stark choice: do we want to be a country in which elected officials can use their governmental power to attack political opponents? If not, it's pretty simple: Trump has to go. 5/5
— David Kris (@DavidKris) October 3, 2019
Unreal. This is the guy who is supposed to ensure that a crooked FBI who targeted Trump…doesn't do it again.
In addition, Kris writes for the anti-Trump blog "Lawfare," and called Lawfare's chief, Benjamin Wittes, "incisive."
Wittes, by the way, is the man who wrote of the need for an "insurance policy" against Trump prior to Trump's election:
[O]ur democracy needs a health insurance policy…The courts have a few obvious advantages, starting with hundreds of independent judges of both parties whom Trump cannot remove from office and who don't have to face his supporters in forthcoming elections.
Wittes also pals around with fired FBI Director (and one of the Spygate ringleaders) James Comey, who was referred for criminal charges for his mishandling and leaking of government information (the DoJ under Barr passed up charges though, saying Comey didn't mean any harm).
President Trump took notice of this travesty on Saturday, remarking on Twitter as he always does that "you can't make this up."
You can't make this up! David Kris, a highly controversial former DOJ official, was just appointed by the FISA Court to oversee reforms to the FBI's surveillance procedures. Zero credibility. THE SWAMP! @DevinNunes @MariaBartiromo @FoxNews
If the people responsible for Spygate are allowed to get away with it, our system of justice no longer exists.
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Swampy SWAMP creatures: FISA court appoints conflicted anti-Trump attorney to "oversee" FBI reforms


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Press Release: Priceless, Yet Under Threat
Written by Scot Quaranda, February 2nd, 2018
Priceless, Yet Under Threat
New Report Quantifies the Values that Wetland Forests Provide the Communities of the Southern US
Asheville, North Carolina – On World Wetlands Day, a new report from Dogwood Alliance, "Treasures of the South: The True Value of Wetland Forests," highlights and places values on the important services that forested wetlands provide to protect and build communities across the Southern US. Conservative estimates place the value at over $500 billion in the 14 state region stretching from Virginia to Texas.
Examining the important services that wetlands provide to the people of the region including protection from flooding and extreme weather events, clean drinking water, recreation, tourism and many more, researchers were able to determine the overall value including a state by state breakdown.
Since colonial times, over 80% of forested wetlands in the region have been lost, and now only 35 million acres remain with only a strikingly inadequate 10% protected. Climate change, continued conversion to agriculture and tree plantations, logging, and other damaging impacts threaten the future of these vital places.
"Our wetland forests are truly priceless and should be protected and restored," said Dr. Sam Davis, Research Director at Dogwood Alliance. "We hope that placing a price tag on all of their values will help local, state, and national politicians find the will to preserve these national treasures rather than continuing to blindly support their destruction."
Investing in wetland forest conservation and restoration, rather than logging for short-term profit, would dramatically increase all of the important services that wetlands provide. By shifting the focus of management from timber production to native ecosystem health, wetland forests increase over 15 fifteen times in value from about $1,200 per acre to $18,600 per acre. And more acres protected, expanded riparian buffers, and improving forest management practices could add nearly $50 billion in value to our region.
Two of the world's most expensive natural disasters in 2016 occurred in the South. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, in late 2017, are both expected to cost over $100 billion in damages each by the time recovery efforts are complete. Without investing in our wetland forests, the result may be reducing our communities' abilities to flourish economically and thrive in a changing climate.
"From Houston, Baton Rouge, the Florida Keys, the Upstate of South Carolina and the North Carolina coast, communities have been inundated by extreme weather event," continued Davis.
"The huge price tag associated with disaster recovery after major hurricanes and flooding over the last several years should be reason enough to rally for greater protection."
To download a pdf of the full report, go here.
To view new, interactive webpages with information on wetlands across the South, including a state by state breakdown, go here.
Based in Asheville, NC, Dogwood Alliance mobilizes diverse voices to protect Southern forests and communities from destructive industrial logging. One of the founders of the Wetland Forest Initiative, whose mission is to conserve, restore, and improve Southern wetland forests to strengthen our communities through science-backed actions, diverse partnerships, and citizen and landowner engagement. Follow Dogwood Alliance on Twitter – @DogwoodAlliance
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odot is a really simple checklist command line tool. It's pretty dumb, but I'll work on it. It makes todoing very comfortable through short commands.

### Installation
```
$ npm install -g odotlist
```

### Usage
```
Usage: odot <command> <item>

  Commands:

    list|=              List your current list
    add|+ <item>        Add an item to your list
    remove|- <item>     Remove an item to your list
    filter|*            Remove finished items from your list
    check|! <item>      Check an item on your list
    stats|s             Print your stats
    clear|0             Clear your list
    idea|? [item...]    Adds an idea to the list
    yes|y [item...]     Adds an idea to the todo list
    no|n [item...]      Removes an idea from the list

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number
```
Commands ```-``` and ```!``` also work with numbers (ex.: ```odot ! 1``` will check the first item on the list) or without any paremeters.

#### Examples
```
$ odot + Make examples
```
Adds "Make examples" to your list

```
$ odot ! Make examples
```
or
```
$ odot ! 1
```
Checks "Make examples"

```
$ odot - Make examples
```
Removes "Make examples" from the list

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$ odot =
```
Prints the list

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$ odot *
```
Remove finished items from your list

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$ odot s
```
Print your stats

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$ odot ? This is an idea
```
Adds "This is an idea" to the list

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$ odot yes This is an idea
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Adds "This is an idea" to the list from idea list

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$ odot no This is an idea
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Removed "This is an idea" from idea list


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VARSITY INSIDER BLOG
Schedule and column on the 2016 Slam Dunk Tournament
Josh Thomson
jthomson@lohud.com
Let's start with this: Happy holidays everyone! Naturally, there are no games scheduled the next two days, so it will be very quiet on this front. If you missed it, you can find all of this week's results on our scoreboard page.
The basketball season continues in full force on Monday. This year's Slam Dunk Tournament will be held at the County Center from Dec. 26-29 with 11 boys games and nine girls games on the schedule.
For local basketball fans, the most anticipated game of the week might be Wednesday night when Byram Hills, the No. 4 team in our rankings, competes against No. 1 Iona Prep. For Byram Hills, it might be the biggest challenge during a season with high expectations; the Bobcats reached the Class A state semifinals and hope to play deep into March yet again.
THOMSON: At Slam Dunk and beyond, Byram Hills chasing high standard
Byram Hills and Iona Prep have some similarities. Both teams are very big throughout the lineup and have two of the area's best starting fives. Neither team is particularly deep, so Byram's biggest issue might be contending with Iona Prep's superior athleticism.
We will have plenty of updates and stories on the boys side of the Slam Dunk beginning Monday night. Mike Zacchio will have complete coverage of the girls draw on his blog.
Slam Dunk Tournament schedule
Girls challenge game: North Rockland vs. Albertus Magnus, 12 p.m.
Girls semifinals
Cardinal Spellman vs. Somers, 1:45 p.m.
Irvington vs. Monroe-Woodbury, 3:30 p.m.
Boys semifinals
Cardinal Hayes vs. Ossining, 5:15 p.m.
Monroe-Woodbury vs. White Plains, 7 p.m.
Girls consolation: Semifinal losers, 12 p.m.
Boys consolation: Semifinal losers, 1:45 p.m.
Boys challenge game: Somers vs. Sleepy Hollow, 3:30 p.m.
Girls championship: Semifinal winners, 5:15 p.m.
Boys championship: Semifinal winners, 7 p.m.
Bishop Loughlin vs. Ursuline, 12 p.m.
Ossining vs. Baldwin, 1:45 p.m.
Boys challenge game: Briarcliff vs. Ardsley, 3:30 p.m.
Uniondale vs. Mamaroneck, 5:15 p.m.
Iona Prep vs. Byram Hills, 7 p.m.
Boys challenge game: Spring Valley vs. Rye, 3:30 p.m.
All games will be played at the Westchester County Center. Tickets are available for $5 per day.
Twitter: @lohudinsider


Yesterday, Nintendo managed to surprise and please fans with a brand new game announcement. They are bringing a new Legend of Zelda to the Nintendo 3DS, only this one will be set in the same universe as A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo.
Following their presentation, which you can view right here, they collected a few screenshots for fans to peruse through. Find them at the head of this post.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is my favorite game in the franchise, right next to Wind Waker. This hopefully wonderful sequel of sorts will release this upcoming holiday. We'll have more on it as it comes.


WHOA like the bold, are you double clicking/opening 2 firefox windows at the same time? that can cause profile problems, some distros default were it only takes 1 click to open something (a departure from M$) if you open 2 instanced of firefox then you will have odd profile problems.
Right now I don't have any instances of Firefox running, and when I click to get one up, it gives me the profile thing.
i can't understand why it says you to choose profile.i had the same problem when i tried to open 2 firefox windows.so firstly check with ps -elf|grep firefox if it is running and if not check the options in firefox..
it means that firefox is running..it looks like as root.... odd, but if you create 2 profiles, the just use the one that doesnt give you the error.
First of all, use normal font size, or else it's too hard to help. That looks like you found grep running, with the parameter firefox.
4)first run may ask about creating a profile I don't know.
5)If you just run "firefox" multiple times it will popup about your profile. You can have multiple windows, just do it within firefox.
firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL(about:blank , new-window)"


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