large planet that embodies the worst aspects of hell, and is ruled by the embodiment of evil Darkseid and his kin.
Supreme ruler of the Planet Apokolips and it's inhabits.
Collection of New Gods, and others, who are Darkseid's most highly favored servants, completely loyal to his wishes.
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Consort of Darkseid, as well as a member of his Elite.
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Massively strong being able to project both fire and ice.
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A chaotic and unpredictable woman from Apokolips who facilitated Batman and Superman's first meeting in the New 52.
One of Darkseid's most favored generals and servants, he is a member of Darkseid's Elite but remains an underling of Granny Goodness.
Alianna Hubbard is an earth-based ally of the Apokoliptian New Gods and the only human to ever be trained as a Female Fury.
One of Darkseid's Female Furies.
Leader of Darkseid's Female Furies.
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One of Darkseid's Female Furies. A ruthless thrill-seeker.
Finest of the Female Furies who joined Cadmus Industries as a financial consultant to keep a close eye on Kevin Kho.
A 6-member team created by Darkseid only for terrorism. All are fish-like and can breathe underwater. They additionally have super strength. It is known that Darkseid can revive them in Birthing chamber.
Gole come from Apokolips and is a darkseid's agent He was part of the Deep Six team. He is a fish-like alien who always wear a complete helmet and a sword.
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Kurin is a member of the Apokolips team called the Deep Six. Like his teammates, he has super strength and can breath underwater. He often uses a trident.
A member of the Deep Six, send on Earth by Darkseid, master of Apokolips.
Shaligo is a member of Deep Six a team of half-humanoid creatures. At the bidding of their master, Darkseid, the Deep Six seemingly exists for the sole purposes of combat and terrorism in his name.
Slig is a member of Darkseid's elite aquatic force, the Deep Six.
Trok is a member of Deep Six a team of half-humanoid creatures. At the bidding of their master, Darkseid, the Deep Six seemingly exists for the sole purposes of combat and terrorism in his name.
In the DC Universe, a boom tube is an interstellar portal used by residents of New Genesis and Apokolips.
An Apokoliptian version of a Mother Box. Among other things, it can be used to summon hush tubes, a variant of boom tubes.
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/ Human rights center slams Israel for barring int'l figures from entering Gaza
Human rights center slams Israel for barring int'l figures from entering Gaza
The Palestinian center for human rights strongly denounced the IOA for preventing 100 multinational human rights activists from entering the Gaza Strip through the Beit Hanoun crossing to participate in the international conference on mental health to be held by the Gaza community mental health program (GCMHP) in cooperation with the world health organization (WHO).
In a statement received by the PIC, the center said that this Israeli action comes in the context of the policy of collective punishment imposed on the Gaza people, adding that it is aimed to bar the international delegations from conveying aspects of the humanitarian tragic and daily suffering in the Strip to their countries.
The GCMHP and the WHO are the organizers of the conference on the effects of the siege on mental health which will kick off today and conclude on Tuesday.
The statement underscored that Israel does not only make a serious violation of freedom of movement, but it also infringes on the right to get academic knowledge and on the freedom of expression.
The statement called on the international community especially the contracting parties to the fourth Geneva convention to urgently intervene to pressure Israel to allow the international participants to enter Gaza.
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THE RACIAL MANTRA
I'm very busy with business issues today. But what time I have had to look at web sites dealing with the Zimmerman verdict, shows me that the mantra of our racial hucksters, leftist groups, and media which are either sympathetic to their position, afraid to go up against it, or both, is that an innocent young child was shot and killed for no reason. And that this individual verdict in this individual case, proves Black people, most especially young Black males, are "not safe", "in the crosshairs", that "there are 12 year olds crawling into bed with their parents", and assorted other unbelievable gooey BS.
A reminder: Whether or not you like the verdict, this was one case in one place, with one defendant. It is not - repeat, not - a metaphor for all young Black men, any more than it is a metaphor for all young mixed-race men who volunteer for neighborhood watch patrols.
And another reminder: It is now 505 days after Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. Since, according to 2010 FBI figures, about 15 Black people are murdered every day by other Black people, this means that, after the Martin shooting, about 7,575 Black people have been murdered by other Black people.
Every one of those 7,575 are just as dead, and were just as Black, as Trayvon Martin. Do these race-hucksters and leftists give a damn about any of them? If so, they sure have an anonymous way of showing it.
For people who care about the carnage being visited upon Black people - who are not just interested in using Trayvon Martin's shooting as an opportunity to scream RACISM with no good reason (i.e. there is no evidence that George Zimmerman was a racist...but plenty to indicate he was anything but) - those victims should be as significant as Trayvon Martin is.
But for people whose interest is solely in treating this as strictly a racial issue? They will ignore those 7,575.
Or pretend there is no such thing as a Black-on-Black crime problem.
Or use it as an opportunity to whine out one racial/ethnic generalization after another.
And they call other people racist? Yeah, right.
MORE ON THE ZIMMERMAN AFTERMATH
All day the left wing loonies on MSNBC - and others as well - have been doing everything in their power to make sure the Zimmerman verdict continues to be racialized in every way possible.
And that goes double for the disgusting excuse of a man we have as our Attorney General.
The protests have already turned violent. A jogger was beaten by Black men in Mississippi who told him "this is for Trayvon".
This is purposely, intentionally being worked into a racial firebomb. And when it explodes - which it already is starting to do - the damage, the blood, is on their hands.
I hope they're good and damn happy with the carnage they are aiding, abetting and orchestrating.
free` Bob, The Great and Powerful Obama has spoken, Ken reported it here along with his commentary. www.hopelesslypartisan.com/item_14834.htm (07/16/13)
BOB W It is amazing to me that our idiot president spoke out with his foot in his mouth withhis idiotic statement that if he had a son-he would have looked like TRAYVON. But now he is silent as riots, looting and civil unrest are running wild in California. AMAZING! (07/16/13)
TRAYVON MARTIN AND PROFILING
In watching media coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting, I have continuously seen/heard Black interviewees answer the question of why, if Trayvon Martin felt threatened, he did not simply call the police, by explaining that young Black males fear the police may not treat them the same way as they would treat a young White male they would be looked on with suspicion, their side of the story would not be believed, and the police would simply assume they were up to no good.
And, though the extent to which this happens may be less now than during other eras, they have a point. There is little doubt that police have a history of profiling young Black males.
But what never seems to be asked, is why: what's their explanation?
Maybe this will help.
According to 2010 FBI statistics, 50% of all murders in the United States were committed by Blacks, and 70% of those murders were committed by young Black males (under 30 years of age). Therefore, young Black males, who comprise maybe 4% of the total population, account for about 35% of all murders.
Just as sadly, the data for other serious crimes, such as rape and robbery, show similar patterns.
Does this mean that all young Black males are murderers, or rapists, or robbers? Of course not.
Does it mean that all young Black males are suspicious characters who deserve to be intensely scrutinized? Of course not.
But it does mean that there is a basis for doing such profiling beyond simple racial hatred.
To the mothers of Black males - the ones who anguish over the fact that their children, through absolutely no fault of their own, might be more of a target than non-White males - I would suggest that the focus of their anger might, at least in part, be directed toward the young Black male predators who have created the above statistics.
Let me end with a question: suppose a young Black male, maybe wearing a hoodie, walks into a Black owned convenience store. Do you have any doubt that he will be scrutinized by the store owner just as carefully as he would be by a White store owner?
That's worth thinking about.
THE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Today's quote comes from the redoubtable Alan Dershowitz, who is more than a little upset by the awful job Florida State Attorney Angela Corey did in, among other things, charging George Zimmerman with second degree murder.
Speaking on last night's Huckabee show on Fox, Mr. Dershowitz had this to say:
"She submitted an affidavit that was, if not perjurious, completely misleading. She violated all kinds of rules of the profession, and her conduct bordered on criminal conduct. She, by the way, has a horrible reputation in Florida. She's known for overcharging, she's known for being highly political. And in this case, of course she overcharged. Halfway through the trial she realized she wasn't going to get a second degree murder verdict, so she asked for a compromised verdict, for manslaughter. And then, she went even further and said that she was going to charge him with child abuse and felony murder. That was such a stretch that it goes beyond anything professionally responsible. She was among the most irresponsible prosecutors I've seen in 50 years of litigating cases, and believe me, I've seen good prosecutors, bad prosecutors, but rarely have I seen one as bad as this prosecutor, [Angela] Corey."<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Yep, exactly. Quote Of The Day honors well earned.
Heck, I doubt that a better summation of Angela Corey could be made, even from a famous Harvard Law Professo....oh, wait..
MSNBC BEING MSNBC
I just put on my TV for a moment, to see how the Zimmerman verdict is being handled.
I tuned into MSNBC, and am being treated to a "panel" of four hard-leftists, a hard left host (Alex Wagner), all complaining bitterly that justice was not served - i.e. the verdict didn't go the way they wanted it to go.
At the point when Karen Finney whined that, hard though it may be, it's about time we had a national conversation about race - as if this conversation has not been going on continually for her entire life - I gave up and the TV is now off.
Isn't it nice when things stay in a prescribed order, and you don't have to wonder about surprises? Javert, the relentless pursuer of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, sang about it, and committed suicide when things changed for him.
Tell you what, though: if Javert was waiting for MSNBC to give serious consideration to more than one side of this, or just about any other, issue...he'd still be with us.
RACIAL FLAMETHROWING BY THE MEDIA (CONT.)
Did you watch any media coverage of the Trayvon Martin aftermath this morning?
The same media which, largely on the basis of lies and deceptions, built this into a racial firebomb for the last year and a half, are gleefully doing it all over again now.
To watch the reports, you would swear that the only people in the USA with any opinion about the verdict believe George Zimmerman was guilty, Trayvon Martin is a hero and all Black people are under siege.
Maybe they'll get lucky, and convince a few of the more volatile protesters to go over the top and start beating and/or killing White people "for Trayvon". It has already happened, and there is no doubt, if the envelope is pushed, it can happen again. Then they'll have a nice big story to report.
The "journalists" doing this have no professionalism, no integrity, no ethics and no shame.


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Sistrah-armaturen är en tysk teknisk belysningsarmatur som konstruerades av C F Otto Müller i samarbete med Light Technology Institute vid Karlsruhe tekniska högskola. Armaturen lanserades av Sistrah-Licht GmbH år 1932.

Produkten är tillverkad av metall, klarglas och opalöverfångsglas i flera storlekar och utföranden. Bland annat som takpendelarmatur, bordsarmatur och väggarmatur. Den tekniska produktfördel som främst lyftes fram var att Sistrah-armaturen var helt bländfri.

Sistrah-principen byggde på en idé om att täcka ett brett spektrum av belysningsproblem med ett fåtal armaturmodeller. Användningsområden var exempelvis belysning i butiker, restauranger, kontor, fabrikslokaler, skolor och föreläsningssalar samt tillämpningar för utomhusbelysning och för specialistyrken som tandläkare.

Sistrah-principen var patenterad i Tyskland och flera andra europeiska länder. Från start skötte företaget Müller & Zimmer GmbH & Co försäljningen via dotterbolaget Sistrah-Licht GmbH. Senare slogs företagen samman och Müller & Zimmer övertog rättigheterna. Varumärket Megaphos användes för export. Generalagent för Megaphos i Sverige var Einar Bäckström metallvarufabrik i Malmö.

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"As Co-Chairs of the United States Senate's India Caucus, we fully appreciate and support your efforts to address a host of market access issues facing American businesses in India.
On March 4, 2019, Congress was notified of USTR's intention to terminate India's designation as a beneficiary developing country under GSP due to a lack of compliance.


Why is the Cross Harbor Freight Program needed?
What are the goals of the Cross Harbor Freight Program?
What areas are included in the study?
What is the Scoping Process?
What alternatives will the program study?
How will the public be involved in the Program?
How can I submit feedback about the Program?
1. Why is the Cross Harbor Freight Program needed?
In 2007, an estimated 1.1 billion tons of freight were moved by truck through the New York City and Long Island region, including northern and central New Jersey, western and southern Connecticut, and portions of southern New York and eastern Pennsylvania. By 2035, this demand is projected to increase to more than 1.5 billion tons as a result of forecasted growth in employment, personal income, and economic activity, creating unprecedented pressure on the region's transportation infrastructure.
The region's ability to serve its markets is increasingly threatened by its heavy reliance on trucking goods over an aging and congested roadway network, while non-highway freight modes, particularly rail and waterborne, remain underdeveloped and underutilized. In addition, the flow of freight in the region is complicated by the historic physical barrier of the Hudson River and New York Harbor, which separates the large consumer markets of New York City, Long Island, and New England (east of the Hudson River) from the nation's major centers of agricultural and industrial production, and the region's major freight facilities and distribution centers (west of the Hudson River).
Given the existing system, forecasted increases in freight demand translate directly into increased truck traffic in the freight distribution network. This will result in serious highway congestion, particularly on a number of regionally important and heavily used network connectors including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island, and the George Washington Bridge between Manhattan and New Jersey.
2. What are the goals of the Cross Harbor Freight Program?
Reduce the contribution of Cross Harbor trucks trips to congestion along the region's major freight corridors.
Provide Cross-Harbor freight shippers, receivers, and carriers with additional, attractive modal options to existing interstate trucking services.
Expand facilities for Cross Harbor goods movement to enhance system resiliency, safety and security, and infrastructure protection.
Improve regional and local environmental quality.
Support development of integrated freight transportation/land use strategies.
3. What areas are included in the study?
The Cross Harbor Freight Program includes 54 counties in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut with a focus on the regional and local freight corridors in the tri-state metropolitan area.
4. What is the Scoping Process?
To assure that the full range of issues related to the proposed action is addressed and all significant issues are identified, the project will include an extensive public scoping process that will solicit the public and affected agencies to provide comments on the scope of the environmental review process. A Draft Scoping Document will be prepared that outlines the project purpose and need, the primary and secondary study areas, alternatives that will be studied in Tier I of the EIS, and the methodologies by which environmental impacts will be assessed. Public outreach activities during the public scoping process will include a series of meetings to discuss the Draft Scoping Document and the proposed scope of the EIS. Public scoping meetings will be held in New York and in New Jersey.
5. How does "Tiering" work?
"Tiering," is a staged process, applied to the environmental review of complex projects. A tiered EIS will allow the lead agencies to focus on broad, overall corridor issues, such as mode choice, general alignment, logical termini, and regional effects, within the Tier I EIS.
6. What alternatives will the program study?
7. What is the timeline for the Study?
Tier I of the Cross Harbor Freight Program concludes with the Record of Decision (ROD). The project timeline expects to have the ROD in August 2011.
8. How will the public be involved in the Program?
The public has an important role in the project, particularly during scoping, in providing input on what issues should be addressed in an EIS and in commenting on the findings in project documents. The public can participate by attending public meetings and by submitting comments.
9. How can I submit feedback about the Program?
Comments and feedback can be made by emailing feedback@crossharborstudy.com or at any scheduled public meeting.


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Q: How to make rotate animation smooth? I am trying to move a needle image on meter with the help of RotateAnimation.
I am using the following code
mNeedleAnimation = new RotateAnimation(mTransformedDegree, mTransformedDegree + degreeToRotate,x, y);
mTransformedDegree += degreeToRotate;
mNeedleAnimation.setAnimationListener(this);
mNeedleAnimation.setDuration(200);
mNeedleAnimation.setFillEnabled(true);
mNeedleAnimation.setFillAfter(true);
mNeedle.startAnimation(mNeedleAnimation);

Problem with this code is that needle jumps directly from 1 value to other. But i want the needle movement to be smooth. I also tried to use the setInterPolator as linear for the animation but it didn't worked as expected.
Can anyone help me for the same?
Updating the needle view code
final ViewTreeObserver viewTreeObserver = mNeedle.getViewTreeObserver();
viewTreeObserver.addOnPreDrawListener(new OnPreDrawListener() {

    @Override
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        mNeedleHeight= mNeedle.getHeight();
        mNeedleWidth = mNeedle.getWidth();

        return true;
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});

A: You can use animation interporlators and instantiate any sub-class and set it to the animation.
mNeedleAnimation.setInterpolator(new AccelerateDecelerateInterpolator());

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rotanim = new RotateAnimation(
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        rotanim.reset();
        rotanim.setDuration(400);
        rotanim.setFillAfter(true);
        imgNeedle.startAnimation(rotanim);

and it works good for me..

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When Martin D. Sellers co-founded a health-care consulting firm 15 years ago in Philadelphia, he didn't give much thought to being a gay-owned business.
"We said, 'We are who we are and let's go with it,'" Sellers recalled recently.
He said in some places it was great to be a gay CEO and in others it received some raised eyebrows.
Again, Sellers said he and his co-founder Brian Dorsey held to the philosophy that they would operate openly.
About 100 people applauded as Sellers Dorsey and Associates received the first Business Integrity Award June 27. The Independence Business Alliance and Integrity Staffing Solutions partnered to present the award, which came with two paid registrations to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce conference in Palm Springs, Calif., in August.
Sellers told PGN it's important to have thriving LGBT chambers of commerce.
Sean Montgomery, COO of Integrity Staffing, said the review committee picked Sellers Dorsey for the award because it "represents the true spirit of the Business Integrity Award based on their hiring practices, their management policies, their community involvement and their philanthropic activities.
"This firm also provides a multitude of pro bono consulting services to many LGBT organizations and nonprofits," Montgomery added, noting the Sellers Dorsey Foundation that works to improve health outcomes in the LGBT community with education and grants.
Rich Horrow, president of the IBA board, commended the partnership between the local LGBT chamber of commerce and Integrity Staffing, a member business. He noted the 19-year-old staffing company started with three employees in Delaware. It now has more than 500 fulltime staffers working in over 100 locations in 25 states. In 2015, Integrity staffed over 140,000 positions at places like Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Target. Revenues exceeded $550 million.
"They are, by far, the largest LGBT-certified business in this nation," Horrow said.
He also confirmed seven board members who are returning for two-year terms and inducted seven new board members who will start their terms July 1.
The IBA will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year. In the past year, the board hired its first full-time staffers: Zach Wilcha as executive director and Jess Gregan as administrative assistant. The chamber also moved to its own office at 230 S. Broad St. from a shared space at 13th and Walnut streets.


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Q: Wire to board connector for Test Jig What's the best way to quickly connect/disconnect ~22 AWG wires to a test jig pcb? I would like to use a spring loaded connector that can easily release the wire after I'm done testing. Currently have these

However they're expensive and don't hold the wire the best. I would like something similar to a fuse clip like this.

Does anyone know of any connectors that can accommodate this?

A: If you need a good hold for the wire you will need some clamping.
Have you considered speaker connectors?

Or banana binding posts (but they're expensive)

A: IMO those are overkill for a 22AWG wire. use a header pin and a single piece connector or a test point (lots of version here):
https://www.digikey.com/products/en/test-and-measurement/test-points/616?k=keystone%20test%20point
I personally like the Keystone 5000-5009, they're color coded, you can clip a scope probe to them, or a Pomona style grabber/hook:
https://www.digikey.com/products/en/test-and-measurement/test-clips-grabbers-hooks/620?k=pomona%20clip

A: Or Screw terminal. This is a Phoenix brand "wire to board" terminal for 12 to 26 AWG wire with 5mm pitch pins

A: How about some lever/pressure activated terminal blocks:

Or even ZIF sockets (not their intended use, I know, but you could probably use it to plug and unplug some wires quickly):


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Soft on crime? How about serving four decades and counting
Leader-Post columnist Barb Pacholik examines the case of Saskatchewan's longest-serving dangerous offender.
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Is the system "soft on crime?" Maybe not so much when you've served more than 40 years. Photo by Don Healy /-
"Slap on the wrist," "soft on crime," "got off scot-free" — they're the common refrains among critics of the justice system, especially when horrific cases hit the headlines.
And there are certainly examples of some offender-run-amok who commits a horrendous deed while out on early release or who receives what appears to be an all-too-short sentence to the armchair judge who follows the case in 140-character bites on Twitter.
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But there are also those cases at the other end of the spectrum, which very often don't make news, when the door has swung shut and remained very firmly closed.
When you think the system is "soft on crime," consider the case of Leslie Harold Klassen. His is a little-known case in Saskatchewan's crime annals, but one with huge consequences for him. Klassen has the distinction of being the longest-serving dangerous offender from Saskatchewan.
He's now aged 74, according to his last report from the parole board which recently landed on my desk. He has lived behind bars for 43 years, and will in all likelihood die there someday.
Klassen was 33 years old in 1976 when he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison for criminal negligence causing the death of a 15-year-old Saskatoon girl in February 1974. (Klassen always maintained her death was an accident that occurred in the midst of the two having sex when she fell backwards and struck her head on concrete, which is why the plea to something less than murder was accepted.) Added to the time he was already serving for a raft of offences, mostly for indecent exposure, and the total sentence came to 10 years and 10 months.
Ordinarily, Klassen likely would have been walking the streets again by the early 1980s.
But in May 1977, he was designated a dangerous sex offender or DSO — the predecessor of the dangerous offender law which replaced it in October of that year. And with a history for sex-related crimes stretching to 30 offences — primarily as a flasher and exhibitionist — and a pattern of escalating behaviour against acquaintances and strangers alike, Klassen fit the bill and became a DSO, receiving an indeterminate sentence.
According to the federal government's most recently published statistical report, released this fall, Klassen is one of 18 DSOs and four habitual offenders (a term which also predates the legislative change in 1977) who were still alive and serving time as of last year. (There are another 681 dangerous offenders, designated post-1977, in the federal system, about 86 per cent of them serving indeterminate sentences subject to periodic review by the parole board, as is Klassen. Release is statistically rare.)
I first encountered his case in the 1990s when I was probing the dangerous offender law, and its use in this province. At the time, Klassen, then in his 50s, told me he still held out some prospect for freedom, some day.
But his parole assessments through the years have been far less positive, citing little treatment progress and a risk that remains "moderate-high" to this day. We corresponded again in 2010, when I was once more writing about the dangerous offender law and its evolution through the years.
Nothing had changed for Klassen, other than his various prison cells. He had stopped attending his parole hearings years ago, concluding it was pointless. I asked him back then if he believed he'd served enough time. "We do not get to decide the length of our sentences for our crimes," he responded. "We can only hope the judge will impose a sentence proportionate to the seriousness of the crimes."
His parole board reports repeatedly say he has refused to participate in treatment programs. He was seeing a psychiatrist for a while, but that too fell off at some point. His letters and the parole reports are clear that he's become institutionalized and an institutional fixture.
Klassen has served more time than some multiple murderers, indeed, even more time than many lifers. And I'm not suggesting he should or shouldn't have served that much time or more or less. That's a different discussion.
But as for the question of a system "soft on crime?"
"Denied." The word has been stamped on every one of Klassen's parole reports he's received over the course of four decades.
Barb Pacholik is the Leader-Post's city co-ordinator. Her column appears weekly.
bpacholik@postmedia.com


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Lockheed to Upgrade Sonar Systems for U.S. Navy and Allies
Rich Smith, The Motley Fool
Thursday was a busy day at the U.S. Department of Defense, as the Pentagon announced no fewer than 27 separate contract awards -- quite possibly a record, or at least a recent one. The contracts totaled $766 million in combined value, and one company, Lockheed Martin won three of them.
Lockheed's biggest contract win, a $37.3 million contract modification, calls upon the company to supply MK48 Mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System (CBASS) functional item replacement (FIR) kits to the U.S. Navy and its allies. Lockheed will also provide engineering support on the CBASS FIR kits, and provide the Navy a warranty on the equipment. About 23% of this contract's value is destined for foreign military sales, to the Netherlands and Canada in particular. Performance on the contract should be complete by July 2017.
Lockheed also won a contract modification worth $7 million, this one being for upgrade work on Visual and Joint Precision Airdrop systems on training system devices for C-130J maintenance workers and aircrew. This contract runs through Dec. 31, 2014.
Finally, Lockheed won a $6.9 million firm fixed price contract to supply the Navy with an unspecified number of "smart multi-functional displays" by June 2016.
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August 21st, 2015 James Shotwell
Dear UTG Readers –
Today is a very good day for our site. After five years of headaches, confusion, and restraint we are beyond excited to tell you we are no longer associated with Buzz/Spin Media. We thought joining a giant digital company who claimed to have our best interests in mind would be the key to making UTG the international entertainment destination we believe it should be, but we were wrong. Very, very wrong.
Due to a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo I won't get into here, there isn't much more we can say on the topic of leaving Spin Media other than the fact we are thrilled to finally have control of UTG back in the hands of the people who run it. We have been unable to update the site's theme, play any role in advertising, or even get the people backing us to promote us for over five years, but that time has come to an end. A new chapter is beginning here at UTG, and we want all of you to be involved.
What does this mean? To be honest, we're still working it out. As it stands now, UTG is run by a small team of individuals who are entirely unpaid for their continued contributions to this blog. We pay for everything out of pocket, including all costs associated with event coverage, as well as the hosting fees that come with keeping a site as large as ours online. We do this because we love what we do, and we believe many of you enjoy our work as well.
You may have noticed that UTG is not what is once was in terms of who and what we cover, and there is a good explanation for that. I (James Shotwell) launched UTG from my college dorm room when I was just barely 20 years old, which is almost a decade ago at this point. I will be 28 in a few months, and for the first time in our site's history I think I can safely proclaim the average age of our contributor base to be right around 25. A few of our writers may be in college, but most are not. Some of our writers still love the alternative scene we have covered from day one, which we will always cover, but others have evolved into entertainment consumers with incredibly diverse tastes. We have always encouraged our contributors to write about what they are passionate about, so we have repeatedly changed our editorial direction as more and more contributors saw their own entertainment preferences begin to change. Most of the time these changes have been for the best, and when they weren't we made sure to correct our errors as soon as possible.
Today, UTG is an entertainment hub that focuses far more on original features, including editorials, reviews, and interviews, than on the type of disposable news blurbs you can find on seemingly any music news site that is active today. We have big plans to expand on these efforts, including the potential for a podcast, as well as a resurgence of our numerous recurring editorial columns, but we are still taking things one day at a time. With essentially all of our staff needing employment outside of UTG in order to keep working on UTG however, we can only do so much every week, which is why we're making this announcement today.
UTG has just launched a Patreon page so that those who believe in our work and want to see it continue can help by supporting the people who keep UTG alive day in and day out. The idea is simple: People who wish to contribute to UTG pledge to donate a small amount of money every month to our continued existence. Our goal is $2 per reader per month.
As far as how the money will be used, it's all about promoting the future of UTG. The first $50 generated each month will pay the site's hosting fees, which will allow us to continue operating. The rest of the money will be divided up amongst the site's various contributors. That way, every person who donates will know their money is putting food on someone's table or gas in their car. Your donations will not be used for parties or pointless expenses, but rather to reinforce the idea that good writing deserves to be rewarded. The entire team at UTG puts in hundreds of hours a month and see no return for their work. That fact has always driven me crazy, and I would hope it drives some of you crazy as well. Together, we can make a change.
In other monetization plans, we do plan to offer site sponsorships to bands, labels, and industry professionals seeking to promote their latest event or product. More information about that will be made available in the near future.
I know this is getting long, but before I go I just want to thank each of you for 7.5 years of continued support. When UTG launched I had no plans for it to ever become something more than a means to free music, but it quickly developed into something much bigger than myself or anyone associated with this site could have imagined. We have so much we still want to do, but at this point the only way we can see to ensuring that happens is by asking you to help us out. As I said above, the link will be available soon. If you cannot support us financially, don't fret. We know not everyone can give.
That's it for now. Thank you for everything.
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Amazing news. I actually just realized yall were owned by spin in the last month or so and it broke my heart a little. Haha. I love the variety of genres and entertainment that is covered on this site and am very excited to see where the site goes from here.
Much love from a 29 year old father & faithful reader.
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First supporter! Much love.
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Really excited to see where you go now that you have our freedom back. The podcast idea sounds awesome!
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Justin "Jake" Bodily, district manager for FANUC America Corporation sees their technology as an innovative job creator. He tells a story about a furniture factory in Utah, who had previously sent jobs to China to save costs, and this year brought jobs back to the U.S. to employ 58 people. This insurgence of jobs for that community was possible because the company brought in 50 robots to help automate manufacturing. The staff at that factory were trained to safely operate the new FANUC robots in production.
This could be why the FANUC Corporation of Japan, which headquarters in Michigan, just built a new 14,000 square foot showpiece facility in Auburn, Washington. The company operates with Integrator Partners throughout the U.S.; that is, companies that have expertise in their trade that are using the automation technology. These partners help to test, educate and integrate the technology into other like-minded companies.
The new facility in Auburn is a training facility and demonstration lab with 15-16 robots from the smallest pick-and-place robot, M1, to the largest M2000 robot which is 3,747 pounds and serves as a high-precision lift assist robot.
FANUC will bring in customers to be trained on their new technology at the Auburn facility.
Regarding the future employees within an automated facility, there are community and technical college programs in Washington at 11 schools that teach Mechatronics. This role would start with basic programming and preventative maintenance.


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Visa Will Shift To 100% Renewable Energy Next Year
By Adnan Farooqui, on 03/01/2018 09:11 PST
Global payments giant Visa has made a major commitment to renewable energy by pledging to use 100 percent renewable electricity across global operations by the end of next year. Visa has joined a global initiative called RE100 which includes some of the top companies globally and they're all committed to shifting their energy needs to renewable sources. Some of the other members of this initiative include Apple, Microsoft, and HSBC.
"For Visa, this announcement is an example of our longstanding commitment to operate as a responsible, ethical and sustainable company, while fostering economic growth," said Visa CEO Al Kelly in a statement issued to the press.
This commitment is part of several initiatives that Visa has taken to improve its environmental credentials. They include a composting and recycling program as well as the use of more efficient lighting. It's also trying to offset its transportation impact by rely more on virtual meetings, employee shuttles, and public transport subsidies.
Almost 35 percent of Visa's global electricity consumption currently comes from a mix of renewable energy sources while three quarters of its greenhouse gas emissions originate from its office buildings and data centers.
Visa will now invest in renewable sources of energy particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom where four of its facilities account for 80 percent of its global electricity use.
Filed in Green. Read more about Renewable Energy and Visa. Source: theclimategroup.org
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Bali Sports Foundation (BSF) to celebrate the opening of their Seraya ,Karangasem branch will hold a Charity Martial Arts event at the historic Ujung Water Palace on Saturday, 11th December .
This unique event in amazing setting starts at 4 pm and will feature an evening of exhibition bouts between visiting international MMA & Kickboxing team as well as Bali Sports foundation's own junior self defense programs.
All are welcome- Ujung Water Palace (Taman Soekasada Ujung) is about 5km east of Amlapura.VIP tables are available.
All proceeds go to fund the foundations sports programs that include sport in orphanages,swimming for disabled children and taking talented Balinese kids on overseas sports tours.


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Multiple jeweller F. Hinds has reported an increase in turnover and profits for the financial year ending 25 March, 2018.
In accounts filed with Companies House this week, the family-owned business reported a modest increase in profits to £2.58m.
The document also shows operating profits for the year grew to £3.16m, while turnover rose from £61.43m to £62.07m in the 12 months.
"Despite the increasingly challenging environment faced by many retailers, the directors are happy with the current positioning of F. Hinds in the retailer jewellery market, and regularly monitor performance of individual stores and product categories to quickly adapt to changing sales patterns, customer demands and expectations", Cornwall said.
Looking ahead the report states that F. Hinds will continue its strategy to open new stores in locations where it believes an opportunity to generate profit exists, and an emphasis remains on refurbishing stores to make them brighter and more appealing.
Cornwall continues: "Business rates based on historical high rents continue to be detrimental to many town centres and are a factor as to why no new shops were opened this year. If the level of business rates reflected the true current level of rents in certain towns, then the company would undoubtedly have been able to open shops and create more employment.
During this financial year the company says the Brexit process has not yet made a significant impact on the business, but the directors anticipate that it could affect price stability as many products have exposure to overseas currency somewhere in their supply chain.
Brexit could also reduce the speed of delivery of products from the EU, and certain shops in agricultural areas with big EU populations may suffer a downturn in trade if citizens can't remain.


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Poor social functioning is associated with cognitive decline in older adults. It is unclear whether social functioning is also associated with subjective memory complaints (SMC). We investigated the association between social functioning and incident SMC and SMC recovery.
A population-based sample of 8762 older adults (aged ≥65 years) with good objective cognitive functioning at baseline (MMSE ≥26) from the LifeLines Cohort Study were followed for 1.5 years. Self-reported SMC were measured at baseline and after 1.5 years follow-up. Aspects of social functioning included marital status, household composition, social network size, social activity, quality of social relationships, social support, affection, behavioral confirmation, and status.
Thirteen percent (513/3963) developed SMC during follow-up (incident SMC). Multivariate logistic regression analyses (adjusted for age, gender, education level, physical activity, alcohol use, smoking status, depression, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, heart failure, stroke) showed that participants with better feelings of affection, behavioral confirmation and stable good social support had a lower risk of incident SMC. Thirty-four percent (1632/4799) reported recovery. Participants with good social functioning at baseline on all determinants reported more SMC recovery. People who remained stable in a relationship, stable in good quality of social relationships or increased in quality of social relationships more often report SMC recovery.
Good social functioning is associated with less incident SMC and more SMC recovery over a follow-up period of 1.5 years. Albeit future confirmative studies are needed, we argue for targeting also social functioning when designing multidomain interventions to prevent or slow down cognitive decline. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Williams-Mystic Associate Professor of Geosciences Lisa Gilbert to Lead Community Workshop for Earth Educators
"The act of coming together could result in a lot of smaller projects that add up to something big. Sometimes when we talk about something being at a national scale, what we're talking about is a bunch of little things that share a vision."
At Williams-Mystic, students from a wide range of majors come together to discuss some of today's most pressing environmental challenges — and to explore, as they go through the semester together, how we can address these challenges. Underlying this approach is the belief that, simply by bringing these students together as part of a close-knit community centered on a single topic, new ideas and approaches can emerge that might never occur otherwise.
A similar philosophy undergirds The Earth Education for Sustainable Societies Community Workshop, a project led by Lisa Gilbert, Associate Professor of Geosciences and Marine Science at Williams-Mystic, in collaboration with Cathy Manduca (Carleton College), Rachel Teasedale (California State University, Chico), Felicia Davis (Clark Atlanta University), Margie Turin (Columbia University) and others.
"I see it as a way to, on a national scale, get a lot of different people with different perspectives sharing together about the future of the planet, and the role education has" in that future, Gilbert said of the workshop.
Held at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota on October 14 to 16, the workshop will welcome educators from a wide variety of institutions: museums, school districts, outreach organizations, colleges, and more. It will be funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation totaling nearly $100,000. Gilbert is the Principal Investigator (PI) on the grant, with Manduca as her co-PI. The workshop will be free to participants, and lodging, meals, and select travel costs will be covered as well.
With funding secured, Gilbert and her collaborators are now exploring how to reach a wide variety of educators in advance of the August 5 deadline for applying for the workshop. As part of this effort, Gilbert and her collaborators on the project will hold a town hall during the 2019 Earth Educators Rendezvous, a gathering co-hosted by Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee on July 15–19, 2019. The town hall will take place on Wednesday, July 17 at 5:30–6:30 pm.
The goals of the workshop itself, Gilbert said, are intentionally open-ended. Bring educators together who might not otherwise have met, she believes, and ideas will result that might have been impossible to predict in advance.
"People live in silos and don't have many opportunities to come together around the shared goal of equipping students to build a more sustainable future", Gilbert said. Small-scale partnerships around sustainability education are already happening, but "what would that network look like if we could set it up?"
It's an approach that comes from Gilbert's own experiences, both as a geosciences educator and at Williams-Mystic.
As Gilbert worked on projects seeking to encourage students from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue geosciences, for instance, it became clear to her that such efforts also had to begin earlier than college; these projects had to involve educators working with students throughout their lives, and had to think broadly about how to make students aware of the many forms that careers in sustainability can take.
At the same time, Gilbert herself experienced the power of coming together with a variety of sustainability educators by attending the Earth Educators Rendezvous, a gathering open to a wide range of educators. The Rendezvous began in 2015 as an outgrowth of InTeGrate, another NSF-funded project led by Manduca, along with a large leadership team including Gilbert, that provides tools to sustainability educators. The idea for the community workshop, in turn, arose at the Earth Educators Rendezvous, as attendees discussed how to build on the success of InTeGrate.
"Through my involvement in that project, I started working with more K-12 teachers," Gilbert said. "InTeGrate has been very successful and that model could be reimagined at a bigger scale."
Indeed, Gilbert sees Williams-Mystic as a good example of a model that could be applied elsewhere — particularly the model of situating an experiential higher education program at a sprawling, world-class museum.
"In the past week, I've had meetings in Education, in Exhibits, and at the Sailing Center about different ways in which science is important to a museum. That sort of connection between higher education and the public interface with how we think about the ocean is a really cool model for things that need to be happening at a bigger scale."
For Gilbert, scaling isn't necessarily about taking a program that works well at a local, community level and expanding it to a single program with a national reach. Rather, scaling means providing the opportunity for educators to come together, coordinate with one another, and share successful approaches.
"The act of coming together," as she put it, "could result in a lot of smaller projects that add up to something big. Sometimes when we talk about something being at a national scale, what we're talking about is a bunch of little things that share a vision."
At the end of the day, for Gilbert, the most exciting aspects of the workshop are also those that are the hardest to predict in advance.
"I'm trying to not have a specific idea for how this will go," she reflected. "It's a very process-centered outcome of new relationships developing between people and new and unexpected ideas that we can then turn into something coming out of it. I don't know what those ideas are, I don't know what those little or large communities are going to look like. What I'm hoping for is inspiration and connectedness, and that those two things together are going to bring out a bunch of new, actionable ideas."
The Earth Education for Sustainable Societies Community Workshop will be held at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota on October 14–16, 2019. It is open to anyone with interests in sustainability education. There is no registration fee and lodging, meals, and some travel costs are covered. Applications for the workshop are accepted July 1 through August 5, 2019. For more information and to apply, visit https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/sust_societies/overview.html.
The Town Hall related to the community workshop will take place at 5:30–6:30 pm on Wednesday, July 17 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Town Hall is part of the 2019 Earth Educators Rendezvous; more information can be found at https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2019/program/itg_townhall.html.
Author williamsmysticPosted on July 16, 2019 July 16, 2019 Categories Faculty Research, Staff and Faculty StoriesTags earth education, earth educators, earth educators rendezvous, geoscience education, geosciences, InTeGrate, national science foundation, nsf grants, sustainability, sustainability educationLeave a comment on Williams-Mystic Associate Professor of Geosciences Lisa Gilbert to Lead Community Workshop for Earth Educators
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As I have mentioned so many times in various posts, sometimes simple is the best way to go. It's almost as if nature intended things to be this way. For example, ripe summer tomatoes tossed with fresh basil, buffalo mozzarella, Italian basil, olive oil, and sea salt is perfect. A salad caprese. Nothing else, with the exception of very good quality aged balsamic, is necessary. Nothing. It is completely complete.
Pesto is another 'complete' condiment, or sauce. I call it a condiment, because when made correctly, it should be thick and spreadable, not pourable. Pesto, an old word for 'to crush', as in a mortar and pestle. Modern times, we of course use a food processor, though I'm sure if you were to grind the ingredients by hand with a mortar and pestle, your finished product would be incredible.
It only has 5 ingredients. Italian basil, toasted pine nuts, Parmesan Reggiano cheese, garlic and extra virgin olive oil. Normally, the cheese is salty enough, but once in a while you will need to add a little good quality sea salt, for balance. Like a salad dressing or vinaigrette, pesto should be a little salty and intensely seasoned; the idea is that a little goes a long way and you really don't want mild and subtle flavor. Pesto needs to be pronounced. Ingredients can, however, be substituted. Arugula, mint, walnuts, and so on, depending on what you want to achieve in the end. Leg of lamb stuffed with mint pesto can be excellent..
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Have a bowl of ice water and paper towels ready. Very quickly blanch the basil. To do this, submerge the basil in the boiling water for about 5 seconds and immediately transfer to the ice water. As soon as it's cold, remove it from the ice water and place on the paper towel. Dry as best you can without squeezing the basil.
In a food processor, add the blanched basil, cheese, pinenuts and garlic. With the machine running, drizzle the olive oil until a thick pasta emerges. You will probably need to scrape down the sides a few times. If necessary, season with a little sea salt, but it probably won't be necessary. Pesto is done.


Park Creek Senior Living Community has been hosting Unyts blood drives every year since 2011. Since 2013, Theresa "Peggy" Winiham has been looking forward to participating in those drives.
"When Unyts stops in, I know that making an appointment to donate is just the right thing to do," Peggy explained.
This year, Peggy celebrates her 96 birthday and believes that if you are healthy enough to keep giving then you should make an appointment to donate today. "It's pretty simple, I have something that can help people; that people need so I make the appointment."


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THE OUTSIDERS, by S.E.HINTONThe Author:Susan Eloise Hinton wrote the novel The Outsiders when she was 16 years old. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was a publishing author by the age of 17. She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders. When she wrote this book the publishers suggested that she use her name as "S.E. Hinton, so that readers wouldn't know that a woman had written a book about boys and gangs. That book was her first novel and brought her a lot of publicity fame and also a lot of pressure.The settings:The story happened in the 1950s in the US and lasted a few days. The author usually describes every part of the day of the young Ponyboy. The story has...
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I had never appreciated Tequila in my life until I tried the real one in Mexico. I can assure you that it is totally different from the one you may have tried in Europe or in other parts of the world.
As a new Tequila fan, I tried to gather as much information about this new discovery.
I found out that this beverage is among the biggest Mexican prides, and that it is produced mostly in its homonymous town Tequila and in some other places in the Jalisco state, processed from "Jimadores", name for experts people who harvest it.
Tequila is distilled from the blue agave, a plant that was already popular among the indigenous for its healing properties, especially to cure wounds. And there might be something true in this theory: nowadays Mexicans believe it that Tequila is really efficient against flu.
I hope I will be able to test this belief and share it with you later on.
I wouldn't mind having to turn into a real Mexican by using whatever excuse to have a shot of this fabulous drink in a "caballito", a dedicated small glass for tequila.
I found this new discovering quite interesting, and even more interesting is the fact that with alcohol, as well as in life it is nice to find out that our tastes change at all times, or better everything changes, like "my philosophy" says: panta rei.
I tried Tequila with the classic salt and lemon, with fresca – a mexican soda- and I also tried it with chile, upon suggestion of Pablo or Daniel, one of our neighbours.
And frankly it was really good, until I decided to bite the chile which was not really a good idea.
Tequila is widely used also as a cocktail called "Paloma": tequila, soda, grapefruit and lime juice and some salt on the glass.
I am sure it will be my favorite drink from now on, it is super fresh and tasty.
I loved it in every variant but I am sure this taste will remind me from now on of a cold, "Antarctic" flavor. I had it during three nights in a row starting from my birthday, living a dejavu every night and never getting to sleep with the dark.
I would have never imagined my birthday weekend like that in Ihuatzio, a town where there is anything but dogs, frogs and few "cabanas" and the closest sign of civilization is at 20 minutes away. Life is a continuous surprise!
Later that day me, Zitaima, Elizabeth, Daniela and Luis headed to Janitzio, an island situated in the lake of Patscuaro, a magical and emblematic place where big celebrations happen for the day of the dead.
Janitzio was full of tourists but mostly Mexican, we actually barely saw any Europeans apart from a group of Catalan guys on the boat. But i enjoyed the fact to be in an authentic Mexican spot.
We drove to the embarcadero, the pier, and hop on a boat that took about 30 minutes to get to the island.
It was quite dark and cold but it was nice to see the bow of the boat getting closer and closer and see thousands pf little lights spread on the island shining incessantly. The only unpleasant fact were the very dirty and stinky waters.
From the launch you could see a huge statue of Jose Maria Morelos, situated on the top of the hill, representing one of the most important Mexican patriots having been fundamental for the independence from the Spanish.
Once arrived to the island of Janitzio, we saw flowers everywhere and you could immediately perceive a smell of burnt meat and corn, as well as listening to traditional music and loud voices.
Celebrations were about to end but you could still live that magical atmosphere. Of course we visited the famous cemetery, a must see during the popular holiday of the day of the dead.
There were many puestecitos – stalls in spanish – with drinks and food, there was even the "agua loca", a very sweet punch made with sugarcane, mezcal or tequila mixed with "aguas frescas" (normally agua de Jamaica – hibiscus tea – or horchata – a tradtitional drink made of almonds, sesame seeds, rice and barley).
I looked fascinated at all of those typical products but my attention was on female vendors, not only for their magnificent folcloristic clothes but above all for their long black hair-braids linked one to the other with laces.
After the deserved refreshment we came up to the top of the island and we layed there for a little while.
We sat on the stairs underneath the Morelos´statue and on the way down to the pier me and Elizabeth enjoyed a ride on a swing while having a quick chat far from the crowd. We agreed on the fact that swings make you feel free and young in such a simple way and that it would be a great anti stress having one at home.
The stairs were definetely better downhill, but it was funny to bump into some of the many begging kids of the island.
" Un pesito por una tortilla" – literally one peso (coin) for a tortilla, was the one i most remember but when one of them decided to turn to Zitaima and say: "Doña" – which in spanish means "lady" we all started to laugh.
Luis made fun of that to that advising the kid that it would be more succesful if he direct to a young lady calling her señorita instead.
I am glad that that he didn't call me "lady" just on the day I was turning 31; I don't really mind my age but I realized one those days that I was the oldest of the whole group.
We gave some pesos to the kids and took one of the last boats to the mainland.
We first had a wine at home and then went to say hi to the neighbours.
That night also my gipsy doll Dora the explorer found a nice company at Ihuatsio; we called it Juan Gonzales ( a more mexican name impossible) : a traditional mexican male doll, a tall and thin guy with not even a shadow of moustaches (how stereotyped we all are sometimes, we would imagine a typical mexican as a chubby, small and with moustaches mariachi).
Juan first offered a Tequila( what else otherwise?) to Dora, then they started to "placticar", lighted a cigarette and my little innocent doll ended up spending the night with him. Pablo even found a red drape for them so they could get their intimacy.
This story might sound childish but the picture I have on my mind is hilarious. And the one I have in my i-phone, even more.
While Juan and Dora were "placticando" and enjoying, we all danced on every surface of the house, on the Jacuzzis, on the chairs, and with a wide range of cool music. If there is something we were not missing at all that night, it was good music.
If there is an official music playlist for that holiday in Patzcuaro, it would be the one below, enjoy it!


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The PAETEC integration, more telecom mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and higher taxes on dividends all have the potential to derail Windstream going forward.


SEE THE LIGHT WITH NEON!
African Americans who eventually go blind usually go blind from glaucoma. It is the leading cause of blindness with the African American population. It is seven times more common in African Americans than in Caucasians. Caucasians in the age group of 45 to 65 have 17 times less of a chance of getting glaucoma than African Americans in the same age group. African Americans usually experience the most common form of glaucoma known as open angle glaucoma. Over 16% of African Americans don't even know what glaucoma even is.
Less than half of the adult population have their eyes examined bi-annually with a dilated eye exam. This is the most effective way to detect glaucoma and many people are not comfortable with the technique. Almost 10% of the Caucasian population in the United States are not familiar with what glaucoma is.


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Julio Gassette, (Caracas, 2 de febrero de 1946), es un actor, humorista, presentador de televisión, productor y actor venezolano cómico de la televisión venezolana famoso por su personaje, Boberto y "Nino Frescobaldi" desde 1971. Ha actuado en shows de humor como Él y Ella , Bienvenidos, Cheverísimo (en 2002) y Fábrica de comedias.

Fue actor de televisión que comenzó con su personaje como Nino Frescobaldi en el programa Él y Ella;  Adquirió notoriedad con entrevistas en los canales a nivel de toda Venezuela, por Radio Caracas Televisión. El nombre Boberto le vino en el famoso programa de televisión de nombre Bienvenidos (Venevisión) y de allí por más de cincuenta años en Televisión.

En Radio Caracas Televisión Estuvo en el  programa de televisión llamado Él y Ella. Este programa incluía, comedia, canciones y entrevistas. Igualmente dentro del elenco estaban el productor y director Miguelángel Landa y su esposa para el momento Mirla Castellanos. Posteriormente nació el programa "Bienvenidos" en Venevisión, canal 4 de Venezuela. Este programa adquirió una gran popularidad en Venezuela, Colombia, Perú, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Estados Unidos y en otros países.

Tras la salida de Bienvenidos de Venevision al canal Televen, Gassette junto a su compañera Gabriela Fleritt pasarían a integrarse al elenco del programa Cheverísimo donde estuvo en 2002.

Participó como actor en la película Domingo de Resurrección donde encarnó a un policía. Dirigió

Boberto también grabó discos de chistes llamado "Boberto y sus amigos" el cual fue distribuido a nivel internacional, logrando con el show de "Bienvenidos" éxito arrollador en varios teatros de Los Estados Unidos. Además apoyó las carreras de otros artistas como Víctor Cámara, Horacio Bocaranda, Ana Carolina Dafonseca, Carolina Cristancho y Pedro Lander, actores destacados a nivel mundial a través de las novelas de Venezuela.
Como director y actor trabajo en alrededor de 32 obras de teatro, recorriendo países como Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, San Salvador, República Dominicana, Panamá, Nicaragua,  España, y los Estados Unidos.
Ahora como productor y actor para programas de televisión en Miami (Estados Unidos) en su nuevo programa "Divertidos". En su país se ha desempeñado como actor de varios programas de entretenimiento.

De 1982 a 2001 formó parte del elenco del programa humorístico de Venevisión Fue productor actor y guionista del programa ¡A que te ríes! durante un año. Actualmente trabaja en algunas novelas de Telemundo en Miami. Produce el Programa "Un latino suelto por el mundo" y "El Show de Julio Gassette" donde vive trasladándose de Europa a Estados Unidos en la realización de "Un latino suelto por el mundo"

Películas

 "Cuando Quiero Llorar No Lloro" (1973) Dirigido por Mauricio Walerstein
 "Pandemonium, la capital del infierno" (1997) Dirigido por Román Chalbaud
 "Domingo de resurrección" (1982) Dirigido por César Bolívar
 "Un Lío En Dólares" (2014) Dirigido por Francis Disla Dos compadres y una yola. 2016

Cultura popular

En Venezuela es de uso común coloquial la frase "Estas Boberto", que significa "estar tonto". La frase deriva de "Atontado", que tiene la misma connotación.

Discografía
 ''Boberto y Sus Amigos Vol. I" (2004).

Enlaces externos
 Julio Gassette
 Julio Gassette en su programa Venezolanismos
 Julio Gassette en su programa Cámara Viajera
 Gassette en Facebook
 Boberto y Sus Amigos.
 IMDb.

Presentadores de televisión de Venezuela
Caraqueños
Actores de televisión de Venezuela
Actores de cine de Venezuela
Humoristas de Venezuela
Payasos
Actores masculinos de Venezuela