Well, here we are again. Camps have started and we fantasy junkies will retreat to our 'nerderies' to attempt to determine which round to take a quarterback, what third-tier running back will provide the most value to our teams this year, and whether last year's breakout performers will repeat or not. This is what we do. We take the available data/evidence/information/stats and we make educated guesses based on what we've seen in the past and how we would expect things to go in the future. It is once again the time to beg the question: What did we learn … about quarterbacks?
It's a big two, not a big three.
My contention is that there are just two top-tier quarterbacks: Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady. In my book, Drew Brees is a cut below them. Rodgers is coming off one of the truly incredible statistical seasons we've seen, posting 45 touchdowns and just six interceptions. Keep in mind he did that in 15 games, as he sat out the regular season finale. Brady put up more than 5,200 yards, he had one of the most explosive offenses in the league, and he just added a true No. 1 receiver in Brandon Lloyd and an old offensive coordinator in Josh McDaniels. The same McDaniels who had him throwing 50 touchdowns in a season just a few years ago. Brees is good, but he's lost Robert Meachem and Carl Nicks, and losing Nicks will hurt. I think he'll come up just a bit short of last year's numbers, which is still fantastic, but I think the absence of head coach Sean Payton is going to be a bigger deal than some believe. Don't get me wrong; he'll still be the No. 3 fantasy quarterback, but I'm taking Rodgers and Brady before him, and probably won't land Brees on any of my teams.
I, like many others, have a Top 5 consisting of Rodgers, Brady, Brees, Matthew Stafford and Cam Newton. Stafford and Newton each added their names to this list with remarkable 2011 seasons. Stafford threw for more than 5,000 yards and managed to stay healthy all season, while Newton burst onto the scene as a true double-threat quarterback, seemingly right out of a video game. But however you slice it, and regardless of your personal preference after that Top 5, the dropoff is huge. The next five look something like: Tony Romo, the Manning brothers, Michael Vick and Philip Rivers (this is how I'd rank them). But I can poke holes in every one of them. My advice: get a Top 5 signal-caller. If you miss out, wait until number nine or 10. You can stockpile value elsewhere and still get virtually the same quarterback. And even then, my 11th and 12th quarterbacks are Matt Ryan and Ben Roethlisberger. Not bad, right?
Take it from a guy who had Tom Brady in 2008 and figured, I'll start Brady every game and can just grab someone off of waivers. Three quarters into the season, my fantasy team was as reliable as Brady's blown knee. I chalk that particular hit up to being a fluke, but if you've got a guy with injury risk like Stafford or Peyton Manning or a running quarterback like Newton or Vick, draft a backup like Jay Cutler or Matt Schaub in the middle rounds.
Palmer is a quarterback sleeper. Once Palmer arrived in Oakland and got back into the swing of things, he really had a pretty good season. After his Week 8 bye, Palmer put up an average of 15 points per game the rest of the season, which is more than serviceable. Are there safer bets? Of course, but Palmer might be getting a look as a late round value on a few of my teams.
I hesitate to invoke his name, but … Tim Tebow.
Say what you want about the non-stop coverage of a quarterback who is still learning to throw spirals, but Tebow is a gamer. Typically, "gamers" don't provide all that much from a fantasy perspective. If you can't measure it, assess it or add it up, I can't use you on my fantasy team. Tebow, however, has found a niche as a throwback quarterback, with a Tyrannosaurus Rex arm and bruising running skills. As I said time and time again last year, you can put him in your lineup, but under no circumstances should you watch the game. His throws are hideous, and he takes too many hits. But at the end of the day, you can't debate his fantasy production.
Tebow will get snaps at the beginning of the season, and Mark Sanchez is not good enough to hold him off for long. Sanchez will get an improved Buffalo Bills defense in Week 1, then play at Pittsburgh, at Miami, and host the San Francisco 49ers. Don't be surprised if Tim Tebow is the starting quarterback for the New York Jets by their Week 5 tilt against the Houston Texans … on Monday Night Football.
Drew Magyar is a FantasySharks.com staff writer and can be reached at drewmagyar@gmail.com. The "What Did We Learn?" column will be posted on Tuesday mornings throughout the regular season.


The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising motorists to exercise due caution when using the Howard Cooke Bridge, located near the Dump Up Beach in St. James.
Community Relations Officer at the NWA's Western Region, Janel Ricketts, explains that the expansion joints along a section of the bridge have been compromised, and is now in need of repair. She says that the Agency will, in short order, commence the works necessary to correct the problem and this will necessitate the closure of the affected section of the roadway.
Ms Ricketts says that the NWA is currently finalizing the contractural arrangements for undertaking the project, as well as finalizing a traffic management plan to mitigate any congestion that may arise from the closure.
Until repairs are effected, motorists who must use the bridge should take due care when doing so or they should use alternate routes, where possible.


The German Chess Bundesliga took place from October 10th 2012 until April 7th 2013. This is the most important long-term club event in the world. This is the last weekend of the season, as three rounds were scheduled for this weekend. The first one, played today, is already over, and the favorite team of Baden-Baden has already secured first place in the standings, according to Fide chess news.
Baden-Baden played against SG Trier and tried to avoid any surprises by showing some solid chess in most of the boards. The first five match-ups finished in draws, but the favorites squeezed two victories in boards 5 and 8 to get a 5-3 winning score.
Peter Heine Nielsen defeated Hungarian IM Miklos Galyas with the white pieces in a very complicated game where the decisive mistake by Galyas came just before the time control. Baden-Baden's strength is shown by the fact that they can get a 400-rating difference on the last board. This time, GM Phillip Schlosser (2579) defeated Lev Yankelevich (2178) to secure overall first place for the team.


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BREAKING: Ukraine Passenger Flight Was Shot Down By Iran, Say Officials
Posted By Wayne Dupree On January 9, 2020 @ 11:55 am In News | No Comments
By Missy Crane | January 9, 2020
CBS is reporting that the Ukraine passenger flight carrying 170+ people was shot down by Iran.
Iran claimed that t was "technical difficulties" but then refused to turn over the black box.
Home video of the flight showed the aircraft catching on fire mid-air, as it careened to the earth below. Officials now say that it was not "technical difficulties" and that Iran shot the plane down.
#BREAKING [1]: @CBSNews [2] has learned U.S. officials are confident that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner in the hours after the Iranian missile attack on U.S. targets.
176 people were killed, including at least 63 Canadians. pic.twitter.com/g149hAcui0 [3]
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) January 9, 2020 [4]
President Trump commented on the crash.
"President Trump on Ukrainian plane crash: "I have my suspicions… It's a tragic thing when I see that, it's a tragic thing. But somebody could have made a mistake on the other side."
JUST IN: President Trump on Ukrainian plane crash: "I have my suspicions… It's a tragic thing when I see that, it's a tragic thing. But somebody could have made a mistake on the other side." https://t.co/XFrqZJEPns [5] pic.twitter.com/pm4npge5xV [6]
The fake news media must be sad. They've been rooting for Iran since the whole thing started.
This piece originally appeared on WayneDupree.com [8] and is used by permission.
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David Gordon may refer to:

Academics
David Gordon (economist) (1944–1996), American economist
David Gordon (philosopher) (born 1948), Ludwig von Mises Institute senior fellow

Businessmen
David Gordon (software entrepreneur) (1943–1996), American computer game publisher
David Gordon (television executive) (born 1942/3), British businessman

Performers
David Gordon (choreographer) (1936 - 2022), postmodern dancer, choreographer, and theatrical director
David Gordon (tenor) (born 1947), American concert and opera tenor

Politicians
Sir David Gordon (Australian politician) (1865–1946), South Australian politician who served in federal and state parliaments
David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1908–1974), British peer and soldier
David Gordon (Ontario politician), member of the Natural Law Party and yogic flyer
David Alexander Gordon (1858–1919), Canadian politician
David F. Gordon, Head of Research at Eurasia Group, former Director of Policy Planning at the US Department of State
David William Gordon (1832–1893), Canadian politician

Sportsmen
David Gordon, former Boston College kicker who kicked the winning field goal against #1 Notre Dame in 1993 (see Holy War)
Davy Gordon (1882–1963), Scottish football player and manager

Writers
David Gordon (novelist) (born 1967), American mystery writer
 a pseudonym of Randall Garrett (1927–1987)

Characters
David "Gordo" Gordon, fictional character from the TV series Lizzie McGuire, played by Adam Lamberg


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Arch Coal Temporarily Suspends Production at West Elk Mine
Somerset, Colo. (November 1, 2005) - Arch Coal's Mountain Coal subsidiary conducted a precautionary evacuation of its West Elk mine in Somerset, Colorado, late last week after elevated readings of combustion-related gases were detected in a mined-out area of the mine. West Elk notified the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) of the evacuation immediately, and MSHA and West Elk personnel are working closely and cooperatively at the site.
West Elk was in the process of moving its longwall equipment to a new "district," or reserve area, when the elevated gas levels were detected. West Elk is currently pumping nitrogen, foam and water into the affected area.
The longwall equipment is currently isolated from the affected area by permanent and temporary seals.
MSHA and West Elk personnel are working together to address the incident and to determine when it will be safe to re-enter the mine. Following the recovery of the remaining longwall equipment, West Elk will permanently seal the old district where the elevated gas levels were detected.
"Our first priority will be to ensure that the mine is safe for re-entry," said John W. Eaves, Arch's executive vice president and chief operating officer. "Once that is accomplished, we expect the longwall move to be completed in a safe and efficient manner."
At this time, a protracted mine outage is not anticipated. Because of the planned longwall move, West Elk was already shipping coal from its inventory at the surface. That will continue until mine operations resume.
Mountain Coal Company's West Elk mine produces more than six million tons of low-sulfur bituminous coal annually. Most of the coal is sold to utilities and independent power producers, who use the coal to generate electricity.
St. Louis-based Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE:ACI) is the nation's second largest coal producer, with subsidiary operations in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Through these operations, Arch provides the fuel for approximately 7% of the electricity generated in the United States.
Forward-Looking Statements: Statements in this press release which are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements within the "safe harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to, and expectations and assumptions deemed reasonable by, the company. Because these forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those projected in the statements.


The final meeting of the clubs' season was taken up by the AGM and presentation of trophies. Our committee and members present reflected on a successful season, with reports from committee members and re-election of officers ( with some members changing duties ). Going forward, a discussion ensued regarding the possibility of a change of name given that the club no longer met in South Reading! The second half of the evening was taken up with the presentation of trophies and certificates to those members who had been successful in the various competitions held during the past season.
The club runs a summer programme, with visits to local areas of photographic interest, meeting on Fridays with the occasional longer trip on Sundays.
If you would like more information about our club ( or the winners in our various competitions ) visit our website – www.southreadingcameraclub.org. Our new season starts on September 12th with a social " meet & greet " evening – a date for your diary!


A constant curiosity creates the need for me to draw daily in my sketchbooks, with my creative practice forever evolving. With the quest to never work to a formula, always seeking the new, the process, the journey, the inner struggle as a painter is as important in my practise as the final product. My regular dose and connection with nature, provides a constant source of imagery and inspirations, I seek a personal interpretation of the landscape rather than a representational one, leaving the viewer an opportunity to be open to a speculation of what they are seeing, finding their own story.
Upon taking these drawings into the studio the magic really begins. The landscapes evolve when I draw from the drawing working them into lush layered oil paintings on board. Through these colourful artworks you are taken to a place to connect with all of nature's positivity and healing.
In this fast paced modern world, we are losing our connection with the natural world. When being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, it has been proven to reduce anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings.
My aim is that my landscape paintings recreate that connection with nature, a joyous one that heals, soothes and restores. My landscapes are escapes into a quiet world where reality dissolves and you can live in the moment. You can almost feel the sun on your back and taste the salt from the sea.


Tiber is a full-service Marketing, Technology and Media Placement company with three locations. The Tiber Group is committed to a culture based on respect, accountability, and a drive for self-improvement for our company, our clients and our employees.
This position reports directly to the Chief Technology Officer and will work with a small team of mid and senior developers locally, as well as remote legacy developers. Our team works with clients to offer a full menu of marketing solutions ranging from branding and identity to custom web development, media buying and everything in between. We are looking to add a Front-End Developer to our team in order to offer even more to our clients. This position requires a person who enjoys a collaborative, flat-hierarchal team where each person is expected to communicate and complete their tasks independently and on time. If this sounds like your kind of spot, please apply!
Communicate and work well with team members in other departments of the company: designers, media buyers, admin, etc.


An artist's illustration of one concept for NASA's planned Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, a potentially powerful space observatory.
Using a donated spy-satellite telescope would improve the science capabilities of a high-priority potential NASA mission, but such gains could come at a significant financial cost, a new report concludes.
The report, unveiled Tuesday (March 18) by the U.S. National Research Council (NRC), looked into the impacts of a proposed redesign for NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which the NRC deemed the top-priority large space mission in its 2010 astronomy and astrophysics "decadal survey."
But NASA started thinking bigger in 2012, when it received from the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office hardware for two 7.9-foot (2.4 m) space telescopes — the same size as the agency's iconic Hubble Space Telescope.
"The opportunity to increase the telescope aperture and resolution by employing the 2.4-m AFTA mirror will signficantly enhance the scientific power of the mission, primarily for cosmology and general survey science, and will also positively impact the exoplanet microlensing survey," they wrote.
However, they added, the risks of cost growth are considerably higher if the AFTA hardware is used. For example, a WFIRST/AFTA mission would likely cost around $2.1 billion, compared to $1.8 billion for an earlier design similar to the baseline WFIRST idea.
The evolution of space telescopes is sparking innovation in space observatory design. See some far-out space telescope concepts of the future in this Space.com infographic.
The price tag would likely increase even more if WFIRST/AFTA includes a coronagraph, an instrument that blocks out a star's light to aid in the study of dim orbiting exoplanets. But it's hard to say just how much costs would increase, since there has been little study about how a coronagraph would be accommodated on the mission, the report states.
The report's authors therefore recommend that NASA should work hard to mature a coronagraph design and come up with reliable estimates about the technology's cost, performance and development schedule.
"Upon completion of this activity, and a cost and technical evaluation of WFIRST/AFTA with the coronagraph, an independent review focused on the coronagraph should be convened to determine whether the impact on WFIRST and on the NASA astrophysics program is acceptable or if the coronagraph should be removed from the mission," they wrote.
The report does not recommend which design NASA should choose for the WFIRST mission.


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Q: Am I right in database design scheme for mysql database? I have customers and performers in the system. Customer can create task to do and performers obviously can execute them.
The main problem is that I have to ensure scalability and consistency in the system. And i should design this database in case when every table lies on dedicated server (so I can't do any transactions and joins between this tables).
I think that it would be nice to store operations in one table (let's name it operations table) such as Create task, Execute task, Delete task, Pay in and Pay out and every user's action which interacts with money (because create task blocks some monies on his acc) will be stored in this table.
And of course we have to make responses for list of tasks with offset and current amount of monies on user's account. For this two types of request I think we should make some kind of caching tables and there is the main weakness of this schema is that for every request for table of tasks and every request for user money account we should select last added to operations table for updates in case we lost something.
Am I right in design of database?
Is there any other techniques which helps to avoid non consistent state of distributed database?

A: If your tables are so large each must reside on its own server, that is One Big Database. It would rival anything the NSA might have.
You may get there some day. But in the meantime, at least start down where 99.99% of databases exist.
If you can't have transaction and joins between tables, you also can't have mundane features like foreign key constraints. In a growing database, this spells disaster. For any database, no matter how small or large, the overriding principle that cannot be ignored is data integrity. If you can't maintain that, you'll end up with a whole lot of data and very little information.

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On May 30, 2005 my niece called to tell me that they were taking mom to the hospital. It sounded very serious, so I took it to God in prayer. My mom walked into the emergency room in Monroeville, Al. with the vital signs of a person on her way to the spirit world. The Doctor asked her "who brought you here to the hospital"? When my mom started to tell the Doctor what family member drove her there the Dr. interrupted and said, no; I want to know who brought you here into the emergency room? I walked in myself my mom replied. My mom's vital signs were so low that the Doctor must have said to himself, "dead woman walking".
Mom's heart rate was 23. The Doctor later told her that if she had fallen asleep, she wouldn't have a-waken. Mom was admitted to the critical care unit, and was later diagnosed with third degree heart block. I spoke to the nurse that was caring for mom, and asked that she make arrangements for mom's transfer to Mobile, AL. where they specialized in cardiac care. I knew that mom would need a pacemaker. The nurse said that I would need the approval of other family members. I called my niece Aretha, my sister Gloria and my brother Jimmy. I told them what my plans were.
Of the two hospital names that I had been given, Jimmy said that the Providence was the better one. He didn't think that I should transfer mom. I reminded him that his business was Stanton's Collision, and my profession was cardiac nursing. Other words, I wasn't trying to tell you about cars, so trust me I said, to know more about the heart than you. We agreed to transfer mom to Mobile, AL. I called up some prayers warriors: Rev. Jeddie King, my new husband and my sister Selena Lambert. I told them the situation about mom, and I asked them to stand with me in prayer.
We poured out our hearts to God in tears that night. I think that we covered mom during her entire trip to Mobile, AL. I reflected on all the years that I had been away from home, and when I did move closer to home; my job kept me from being home on holidays with mom and the family. I recently retired, and this was my chance now to spend more time with mom. I couldn't accept what my physical ears heard.
During the trip from Monroeville, to Mobile, AL. My mom had a near death experience. She said the last thing that she heard when she got into the ambulance was "y'all coming" and a voice that sounded like her daughter Mary. Mary said that "we'll be right on". As the ambulance speeded on its way to the Providence Hospital, my mom said that she saw herself floating in a big pond filled with black water. Her body was floating back and forth. Lord, she said; if my time is here please let me go in peace. "I am willing to give everything to follow you" she said. Then she heard a voice that said "LOOK UP AND LIVE". This is when she opened her eyes to the most brilliant light that she had ever seen.
In that beautiful light, she saw "TWO HEADS". Mom asked the two heads that was in this beautiful light to come and go with her to the hospital. She then prayed to God to take over and guild the Doctors that would be taking care of her, so that they wouldn't do ANYTHING WRONG. Mom was putting God first in all of her circumstances that she was facing. Mom said she believed that the "TWO HEADS" went with her to the hospital.
She made a safe trip there where she was taken care of, and prepared to receive a pacemaker the next day. I called my sister Janie Stewart to let her know what had happen, and that mom was in the hospital in mobile. I had been up all night praying. I tried to lie down to get some rest before I headed for a four and a half hour trip from my home in Birmingham, AL. to Mobile, AL. Needless to say, I couldn't sleep. All of the family were there on my arrival.
I went in to see mom, and told her that when she didn't see me, please know that we were holding her up in prayer to make sure her trip there was safe. Once the pacemaker was inserted, the Doctors discovered that mom had another problem with her thyroid glands. After several tests, the Doctors wanted to do surgery on her glands during her hospital stay; nothing they tried to do worked out. Mom said it was because God wouldn't let them do ANYTHING WRONG. I stayed with mom in the hospital every night during the week that she was in the hospital.
My sister Janie Stewart came up every day from Mississippi, and we were there all day. We were there waiting in line each time the doors were open for visiting. As I prepared to leave that week-end, my other sister Gloria McCorvey came down from Greenboro, Alabama. to stay over at the hospital with mom. Mom was there for ten days. She was discharged on thyroid medication, and went to Mississippi where she stayed a week to recuperate with my sister Janie Stewart. My sister Janie who is also a nurse took care of mom in her home.
June 15, 2006 mom was back in her own home, and sleeping in her own bed. On July 5, 2006, mom made another trip to Mobile, AL. for a check –up on her thyroids. Her Doctor told her that there were no changes, and that she needed to continue to take the medication for her thyroids.
A nurse from the Doctor's office called the next day July 6, 2006, and told mom that she didn't need to take any more thyroid medication because her tests were all normal. God sees things in its fulfillment . He saw this very day more than one year ago. Mom walked by faith, and not by the situation she saw before her.
God wouldn't let the Doctors "DO ANYTHING WRONG". She can now look back and see the beautiful pattern her footsteps can make when she put God first in her life. Mom started to share her testimony of her near death experience with anybody who would listen. She searched to find out if anyone she knew ever had an experience where they had seen " TWO HEADS" a big head and a little head, but no one ever had. She asked me and I told her I didn't know. Someone told her maybe it was God and Jesus' head. She kept asking the questions over, and over. I said one day to her maybe it was Little baby's and big baby's head. (an inside family thing).
This truly was a question that only she could answer. The Holy Spirit told my mom one day to open up an envelope that I had sent her. In the envelope I had sent my mother a picture of TRUE PARENTS and THE PEACE MESSAGES OF TRUE PARENTS.. When she open up the envelope, and pulled out the picture of TRUE PARENTS, SHE SAID: THE HEADS JUST LIT UP WITH THE SAME BEAUTIFUL LIGHT THAT SHE HAD SEEN THAT NIGHT IN THE AMBULANCE. She called me on the phone to share her story with me. She said " THESE ARE THE TWO HEADS"!!!
The Big head and the little head!! TRUE PARENT'S HEADS!I was so happy that she had finally found the answer to her question. July 28,2006 was a Great Day. I blessed my mother and most of my family members with the HOLY WINE and prayed for them .God later gave mother a song for that miracle night in her life. March 27, 2008. My husband and I are back to Alabama for my mom's birthday celebration. We blessed so many more family members as well as friends my mother had made a list of that wanted the Holy wine Blessing.
Mom was reading the Peace Messages to her friends on the phone. The house was filled with family and friends as my mom sang the new song God gave her. It was long, but she remembered every word. She left out True Parents in her song. I knew why she did it. It was because of fear of persecution from some family members. I told her that if she was ashamed of True Parents before the family, they would be ashamed of her before the Heavenly Father. March 27, 2010 mom couldn't remember her song. March 27, 2011, mom couldn't sing her song. May 31, 2011 mom's house caught on fire. Everything was destroyed. But because of TRUE PARENT'S TEACHINGS, I KNOW THE VALUE OF FAMILY, AND HOW MUCH WE NEED TO RECORD CERTAIN EVENTS FOR HISTORY.
I had my mother call me on September 24, 2008, and I recorded her beautiful song plus another one she had written. I also wrote down her story. This birthday March 27,2012 she will be 92 years old. I will present a gift: Her song on a CD with background music by Mr. Noel Blair, my keyboard player. However, when they hear her sings about the "TWO HEADS" this time, these heads will be identified with my voice saying "THE TWO HEADS WERE TRUE PARENTS". This song is now completed. I will share her music with the family and friends as well as her beautiful testimony.
Many thanks to TRUE PARENTS for helping me make a different.


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UKIP councillor defects to join Brexit Party, becoming first at Bolton Council
Bolton UKIP councillor joins Brexit Party with MP ambitions
By Joseph Timan josephtiman Local Democracy Reporter
A COUNCILLOR has defected from UKIP to join the Brexit Party.
Cllr Mark Cunningham has followed in Nigel Farage's footsteps by joining the political leader's newly-formed party. He becomes Bolton's first Brexit Party councillor and one of the first in Greater Manchester.
The Kearsley councillor also told The Bolton News that he has put himself forward to become the Brexit Party candidate in Bolton South East at the next general election.
He said: "I've been unhappy with the direction of travel for some time. There have been many issues, changes in personnel both leaders and members of the NEC. We've had a very controversial party in many ways and I don't think it's particularly helpful in delivering my ultimate goal which was to get a clean, true Brexit which was what the people of Bolton overwhelmingly voted for.
"I believe that UKIP has lost it's way and will struggle to elect any MPs and possibly any further councillors. I see my clear way to achieving my original goal of Brexit, representing my country, my hometown of Kearsley and the wider Bolton community as my priorities and I believe that standing as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Brexit Party will allow me the potential to fulfil these."
UKIP is now down to two councillors, with the total number of parties in the council chambers reaching seven.
Group's leader Sean Hornby said he was sorry to see Cllr Cunningham go, but also raised concerns about the party in recent years.
He said: "UKIP need to wake up and get back to basics. I made no bones about it in the election campaign."
Cllr Cunningham was elected in Kearsley as the UKIP candidate a month before the EU referendum in 2016.
His seat is up for re-election in May 2020.


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More COVID school closures spell the end of teachers unions empire
DeVos: Children in urban areas being harmed by teachers unions
Former secretary of education Betsy DeVos assesses how teachers unions are damaging city students during the COVID pandemic on 'The Story.'
Imagine being a second grader in a major city right now. If you entered kindergarten during the 2019-20 school year, COVID first closed your school in March, potentially offering "remote learning."
As you prepared to enter first grade the following fall, you were one of more than half of students nationwide for whom the school doors were still shut, again having access to remote instruction only.
A "closed" sign in front of a public elementary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan in March 2020. Michigan closed all schools in an effort to thwart the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Incredibly, as you entered second grade, the 2021-22 school year, the district superintendent bows down to the powerful teachers union and shifts back to "virtual learning."
Another teachers group, National Educators United, is now pushing for a nationwide closure of schools for at least "two weeks." Yeah, like that worked out so well last time. In reality, you've hardly been in what could pass for "school" since COVID began. Even the days you had access to in-person instruction, learning to read was made harder through masks, your short lunches were spent socially distanced from your friends, and you couldn't play on the playground equipment during recess.
This scenario has been playing out for millions of children across the country since March 2020. And now, as students return from winter break, school districts across America—including Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Newark—have regressed to remote learning once more, foreclosing access to in-person instruction for nearly 200,000 students.
These unnecessary closures will have profound negative consequences on children. As Jan Crawford recently said on CBS's Face the Nation, children "will be paying for our generation's decisions the rest of their lives"—decisions largely being driven by teachers' unions.
Chicago—where union leaders effectively just voted to strike—is the third largest school district in the country, enrolling more than 340,000 students, and spending over $27,000 per student, per year. Just 23 percent of Chicago public school students can read proficiently. Meanwhile, average Chicago private school tuition is only about $11,000 per student each year.
Detroit Public Schools (reading proficiency rate a staggering six percent) have shuttered in-person classes from at least Jan. 3–5 due to "COVID spread placing employees, students, and families at risk along with excessive staff shortages." The kicker? The district informed families there would be no in-person nor online learning available. "We simply cannot go online districtwide …because all of our students do not have laptops."
One has to wonder what the district did with the additional $1.3 billion in federal COVID relief funding it received last year—equivalent to $26,400 per student—according to the Mackinac Center.
In Massachusetts, the head of the state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers is pushing for a return to remote instruction, wrongly arguing that returning to school for in-person learning "will inevitably make the [COVID] crisis much worse."
According to a school tracker maintained by Burbio, as of early December, just 336 schools were closed. That figure now stands at over 3,200.
The CDC found all the way back in 2020 that in-person learning was rarely a source of outbreak. More recent findings published in Nature Medicine on school closures in Japan found that closures did not reduce the spread of COVID-19. And a metanalysis of ninety studies published in the Journal of Global Health found that children and adolescents had a lower chance of catching COVID in schools than they did in the community, demonstrating once again that school closures are not an effective mitigation strategy.
But it's not just that these closures are counterproductive when it comes to reducing the spread of COVID; the damage done to children will not be easily fixed. As some have quipped, "two weeks to slow the spread" has turned into "two years to flatten a generation."
The academic, social, and emotional costs to young children—to those whose families are beholden to a monopolistic government-run school system—will appear soon, and in shocking fashion—in the data. And let's not forget the older students who have missed numerous proms, homecomings, and sporting events in recent years. Remember how much those meant to you at that age.
The only way out of this mess is to free families from the clutches of the teachers' unions. Funding students directly would empower families to access educational alternatives. The good news is that the unions' political games could further the movement to fund students instead of systems, which already enjoyed significant growth in 2021.
Corey A. DeAngelis is National Director of Research at the American Federation for Children and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute.
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With their zero tolerance policy on drunken louts, the Fiji Police Force will be closely monitoring all night clubs in Namaka and Nadi during New Year's celebration.
This comes after the operating hours for nightclubs in Namaka and Nadi were extended from the normal time of 1am to 5am.
Police spokesperson Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri said not all night clubs in the western division would have extended operating hours.
"In the west, the only towns authorised to extend their operating hours are the ones in town boundary. The ones outside boundary will close at its normal time.


We'll start off creating a new StatusBarBehavior class and inherits from DependencyObject and implements the IBehavior interface.
For this behavior, we will not need to hook into the associated dependency object. However, it's important to note that we could get and store the StatusBar object within the Attach method. We'll want to add dependency properties to the behavior that will control the visibility, foreground and background colors and the opacity of the status bar. When creating a behavior to wrap existing functionality it is important that the default values of your properties match the default values of the functionality you are wrapping. This is because we want our PropertyChangedCallback methods to be called when the value is changed and function accordingly. Each of the properties we implement will need to account for these default values.
This should look very similar from the behavior to control the progress indicator. Next we'll create a property for the opacity of the background. Unlike in Windows Phone Silverlight Apps, the opacity defaults to 0. Our property should also default to 0.
Nullable<Color>. When we created the ProgressBehavior, we found that when we tried to create a dependency property in our behavior that it had some issues. We have issues again, but now they are different. Based on the last post, create the ForegroundColor property as you think you would with a nullable Color property.
Notice that we can set the default value to null (weird). The BackgroundColor will require a little extra work. Because the BackgroundOpacity defaults to 0, setting the BackgroundColor will do nothing unless the opacity is changed as well. We could take two approaches with the behavior, either force the use of the opacity property, or set the opacity if the background is set. I like the latter option. If the background is set, then obviously they want to see it!
Now we have a complete behavior that is very similar to the Windows Phone Silverlight SystemTray.
Download a sample to play with the behavior, or just download the behavior.


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NHL ROUNDUP : Hull Gets Three Goals, Leads Blues Past Stars
From Associated Press
Brett Hull has so much firepower that sometimes he simply turns it off.
Hull, however, didn't do it Saturday night until he had scored three goals, giving him a league-leading nine in eight games, as the St. Louis Blues beat the Dallas Stars, 7-4, at St. Louis.
Hull has 22 hat tricks, tied for third-highest among active players with Jari Kurri. Wayne Gretzky holds the NHL record with 49.
"I guess I didn't really do a lot in the third," said Hull, who took only one shot in the period. "I kind of sat back."
Denis Chasse scored twice and Esa Tikkanen also had a shorthanded goal for the Blues, who trailed three times and had a goalie switch before pulling away from Dallas in a three-goal second period that put them ahead, 5-3.
Pittsburgh 6, Tampa Bay 3--Tomas Sandstrom had two goals and two assists to help the Penguins remain the league's only unbeaten team, at Pittsburgh.
The Penguins' 7-0 record matches their 1986-87 team for the best start in the franchise's 28-year history. The Toronto Maple Leafs set the NHL record with a 10-0 start last season.
Calgary 4, Toronto 1--German Titov scored three goals for his first hat trick in leading the Flames past the Maple Leafs.
Trevor Kidd contributed 37 saves for Calgary.
Boston 5, Hartford 4--Jozef Stumpel finished a three-on-one breakaway with his first goal of the season, giving the Bruins the victory at Hartford, Conn.
Adam Oates had two goals and an assist for the Bruins, who peppered Sean Burke with 53 shots.
Philadelphia 4, Buffalo 2--Eric Lindros scored his fourth goal of the season and assisted on the Flyers' three other goals while stopping the Sabres at Philadelphia.
Quebec 2, New Jersey 0--Jocelyn Thibault, in his first start this season, earned his first shutout with a 25-save effort as the Nordiques beat the Devils at Quebec.
Montreal 4, N.Y. Islanders 2--Mike Keane scored two goals and set up another to help the Canadiens end a scoring drought in stopping the Islanders at Montreal.
N.Y. Rangers 2, Ottawa 1--Nick Kypreos and Sergei Nemchinov scored as the struggling Rangers beat the Senators at Ottawa.
Washington 3, Florida 2--Calle Johansson scored a rare Washington power-play goal with 6:29 left, lifting the Capitals past the Panthers at Landover, Md.
San Jose 3, Winnipeg 3--Todd Elik scored two goals, including the tying one in the third period, at Winnipeg.


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Cornelia Tesch ist eine frühere deutsche Eiskunstläuferin, die für den TuS Stuttgart Eissport startete. 1982 wurde sie Junioren-Vizeweltmeisterin. Ihr Trainer war Karel Fajfr.

Erfolge/Ergebnisse (Einzellauf)

Olympische Winterspiele
 keine Teilnahme

Weltmeisterschaften
 1984 – 18. Rang – Ottawa

Juniorenweltmeisterschaften
 1981 – 5. Rang – London (Ontario)
 1982 – 2. Rang – Oberstdorf

Europameisterschaften
 1984 – 10. Rang – Budapest
 1986 – 12. Rang – Kopenhagen

Deutsche Meisterschaften
 1983 – 3. Rang
 1984 – 2. Rang
 1985 – 3. Rang
 1986 – 2. Rang

Andere Wettbewerbe
 1981 – 1. Rang – Nebelhorn Trophy, Oberstdorf
 1985 – 1. Rang – Nebelhorn Trophy, Oberstdorf

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Eiskunstläufer (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert


I was poking through the Dining & Wine section of the Times a little while ago and stumbled across a recipe for Andean Bean Stew with Winter Squash and Quinoa. I really liked the quinoa-bean-squash idea, so I adapted it to use up things I had in my kitchen. In the end I changed almost every ingredient, but I love anything that sits in a big pot and gets better every time you reheat it.
The flavors turned out really well. I especially like the coconut flavor... it's not sweet and it doesn't hit you over the head. The quinoa-lentil mix was quite tasty, and it's surprisingly quick to throw together for something that seems like it should take hours too cook.
1. In a large pot, saute the onion in olive oil for a few minutes until it's soft. Then add the chopped garlic and saute for just a minute so it doesn't burn.
2. Add the sweet potatoes, paprika, oregano, bay leaf, cayenne and saute for another few minutes.
3. Add the tomato and cook until the tomato is reduced and thick.
4. Add the quinoa, lentils, coconut, water, and a big handful of parsley.
5. Cover and cook on low heat until the quinoa is translucent, and the lentils and sweet potatoes are soft. Season with salt.
Yumm and such a pretty color! Are you bringing leftovers for our dinner tonight?!! love ya.
Can I use veggie broth instead of the bouillon cube and 2 cups water and regular lentils instead of red lentils? Thanks! Love your blog by the way. I just discovered it.
Absolutely! I used the bullion because the cabinet space is limited in my little kitchen, but veggie broth would work great too. Since regular (brow) lentils are a little larger than red lentils they might take a bit longer to cook and might need more liquid. I'd start with the 2 cups of veggie broth and if the lentils aren't tender when that liquid is absorbed you can add a little more until you like the texture.
Thanks for your comment and thanks so much for reading!
I just checked out your blog - love it! And it made me realize that we should add a gluten-free label to Two Blue Lemons! I'm in the process of tagging posts that are gluten-free. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi. When i do add coconut? Thank you. Looks really yummy.
Sorry about that oversight! You'd add the coconut when you add the quinoa and lentils, but since this is a pretty rustic stew I don't think you can go wrong! You could add it when you add the tomatoes as well. The post should be corrected now.
Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for your comment and thanks for visiting the site!
Estrid, Thanks so much for your comment! I'm so glad you enjoyed the recipe! I love to hear how people but their own spin on things! Thanks so much for visiting and for sharing your thoughts with us!
Thank you so much for your comment and for visiting Two Blue Lemons! How exciting that you are also an INN grad! It's actually my sister Sarah who went to INN (we co-author the blog), but I am the vegan half of Two Blue Lemons (Sarah is vegetarian half) so I'm excited to hear about your daughter's vegan experiment. I would love to hear how it goes for her and if she likes (or dislikes!) any recipes that she might try.
Thanks again for getting in touch! And I wish your daughter the best of luck in healing. I'm sure she feels lucky to have such a caring mother!


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Study Reveals the World's Top 5 Plastic Surgery Hotspots
And what they're requesting.
By Danielle Fontana Dooley, Senior Digital Editor · Jul 11, 2017
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New data published by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS) finally lets us tap into information we've been dying to know: which areas of the world are the most plastic surgery heavy, and what the people there are requesting. The report reveals which countries rank where on the global plastic surgery leaderboard, and the results may not be what you originally thought.
According to the study, the top five countries responsible for almost half of all identified plastic surgery procedures in the world are the United States, Brazil, Japan, Italy and Mexico.
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The United States comes in at number one for the number of procedures overall (4.2 million), but when calculated by per-capita figures, this equals 13 people per every thousand—significantly less than other spots around the globe, according to Business of Fashion.
Brazil accounts for more than 2.5 million of the world's plastic surgery procedures last year alone, second only to the U.S. When calculated per-capita, however, both Brazil and Colombia (ranked at number 11) come in at 12 people per thousand, which is very high when the population of both countries are taken into account (many citizens are living below the poverty line). Brazil's most popular requests are centered around body sculpting, including the improvement of the breast, abdomen and buttock areas (a predictable choice for the seaside country).
Japan is accountable for 1.1 million procedures (eyelid surgery, aka blepharoplasty, is the country's most common surgical procedure); Italy for just over 955,000; and Mexico for 923,000 (both Italy and Mexico count liposuction as their top procedural choice).
To see which other countries rank highest, as well as the full breakdown of procedures, injectables and number of plastic surgeons in each region, you can view the entire published study here.
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Das Post- und Fernmeldemuseum Luxemburg ("PostMusée") befindet sich in Luxemburg (Stadt). Es zeigt die Geschichte der Post und des Fernmeldewesens von Luxemburg.

Öffnungszeiten
Das von Post Luxembourg unterhaltene PostMusée ist im Untergeschoss des historischen "Accinauto-Gebäude" gegenüber vom Hauptbahnhof untergebracht. Der Eingang führt durch die "Téléboutique". Es kann regelmäßig kostenfrei besucht werden. Nach vorheriger Anmeldung wird für Gruppen von fünf bis 25 Personen eine kostenlose Führung angeboten. Darüber hinaus gibt es spezielle Programme für Schulklassen.

Exponate
Die Sammlungsexponate lassen sich grob in drei Bereiche einteilen.
Fernmeldewesen / Telekommunikation: Hier können alte Telefone und andere seltene Kommunikationsapparate besichtigt werden. Des Weiteren werden ein funktionsfähiger Morseapparat, manuelle und elektromechanische Telefonzentralen sowie die Rekonstruktion einer Fernmeldebaustelle gezeigt.
Postwesen: Ausgestellt sind eine Postkutsche von 1880, ein Original-Postschalter von 1912 und ein Poststationsbüro. Darüber hinaus sind alle seit 1852 herausgegebenen luxemburgischen Briefmarken und alte Druckplatten zu sehen. Eine Sammlung von Uniformen und Objekten aus dem Postbetrieb runden den Bereich ab.
Postbankwesen: Anhand von alten Objekten und Apparaten werden auch die Anfänge des Postchèque dargestellt.

Weblinks

http://www.postgroup.lu/de/le-groupe/culture (deutsch)
http://www.visitluxembourg.com/de/ansicht/museum/postal-museum-luxembourg (deutsch)

Einzelnachweise

Postmuseum
Postwesen (Luxemburg)
Museum in Luxemburg
Bauwerk in Luxemburg (Stadt)
Kultur (Luxemburg, Stadt)
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Lazarus of Bethany (local commemoration in Cuba)
O antiphon (Catholic Church)
Olympias the Deaconess
Wivina
Accession Day (Bahrain)
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Kurdish flag day (Global Kurdish population)
National Day (Bhutan)
Pan American Aviation Day (United States)
Wright Brothers Day, a United States federal observance by Presidential proclamation
National Maple Syrup Day
Wright Brothers Day
Pan American Aviation Day
First Flight, December 17, 1903,
John T. Daniels, photographer,
Prints & Photographs Division,
On the morning of December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took turns piloting and monitoring their flying machine in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Orville piloted the first flight that lasted just 12 seconds and 120 feet. On the fourth and final flight of the day, Wilbur traveled 852 feet, remaining airborne for 59 seconds. That morning, the brothers became the first people to demonstrate sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine under the complete control of the pilot.
They built their 1903 glider in sections in the back room of their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop. That afternoon, the Wright brothers walked the four miles to Kitty Hawk and sent a telegram to their father, Bishop Milton Wright, back home in Dayton:
Success four flights thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from level with engine power alone average speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 seconds inform Press home Christmas.Telegram, Orville Wright to Bishop Milton Wright, announcing the first successful powered flight, December 17, 1903.
Through their own research and experimentation, and by studying the attempts of other would-be pilots, the Wright brothers knew that heavier-than-air flight was possible. They corresponded frequently with engineer Octave Chanute, a friend and supporter of their work. On May 13, 1900, Wilbur wrote a letter to Chanute expressing his ambition to fly:
For some years, I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.Letter, Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute, concerning the Wright brothers' aviation experiments, May 13, 1900. Octave Chanute Papers.
Wilbur and Orville Wright with their Second Powered Machine,
Huffman Prairie, Dayton Ohio,
May 1904.
Glass Negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
The U.S. Army saw potential in the new technology and signed a contract with the Wright brothers in 1908. Their new Military Flyer was successfully tested in 1909. The Library of Congress is rich in resources on flight.
See The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress for a look at digital images that document the lives of the Wright brothers including correspondence, scrapbooks, drawings, and their own collection of glass-plate photographic negatives.
The Octave Chanute Papers reside in the Library of Congress. View the finding aid for more information on this collection in the Manuscript Division.
Read Alexander Graham Bell's June 26, 1906, letter to Mabel Hubbard Bell on "the flying machine of the Wright Brothers of Dayton Ohio."
See artifacts of America's history of flight in the Library of Congress' exhibitions:
Search on aviation in the collection Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years to read related documents.
American Memory collections have numerous images of airplanes–ranging from early planes to World War II aircraft. Search, for example:
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 holds many views of Dayton that were taken during the years that the Wright brothers resided there.
Learn more about one of Orville Wright's high school friends, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Read Americans' stories of flying by searching on airplane in the collection American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 – 1940. See, for example, the 1939 interview "An Air-Minded Family" in which Mrs. Edwards describes her family's obsession with planes sparked by her husband's passion for flying.
Search on airplane or flight in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog for a wealth of images.
Willard Frank Libby and the Radiocarbon Revolution
On December 17, 1908, Willard Frank Libby was born on a farm in Grand Valley, Colorado. Libby, a physical chemist, won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the technique known as radiocarbon dating. This technique uses the decay of an unstable isotope of carbon, radioactive carbon-14 (C14), to determine the age of organic materials—anything composed of matter that was once living. Carbon-datable items, generally ranging from a few hundred to 60,000 years old, can be as varied as the sole of an ancient sandal, glacial ice cores, the Dead Sea Scrolls, or mummies from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb. Radiocarbon dating has had such a profound impact on many branches of the human sciences—including archaeology, geology, history, geophysics, and preservation—that its discovery has been called "the radiocarbon revolution."
Sandal A, 1st century B.C.E.-1st century C.E.
Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship
St. Vrain Glacier, Colorado,
Ed Tangen, photographer, 1921,
Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991
By the 1940s, researchers already knew that when cosmic radiation enters the earth's upper atmosphere it collides with the gasses present there to produce neutron showers. They also knew that a few of these free-floating neutrons are in turn absorbed by nitrogen atoms, which in the process are transformed into C14 (the more common isotope is carbon-12). C14 is unstable and will decay back to nitrogen over time—the emission of beta particles during this second transformation is the process that makes it radioactive.
Libby's achievement was to recognize that C14 moves from the atmosphere to the biosphere through a series of additional steps:
newly produced C14 oxidizes to form carbon dioxide (CO2), a common component of the atmosphere;
plants absorb carbon dioxide molecules through photosynthesis, converting the carbon atoms into sugar while releasing the oxygen back into the air;
plants, directly or indirectly, are digested by all living organisms.
Therefore, Libby concluded, all living organisms contain a small amount of C14. But he also recognized that carbon uptake ceases when an organism dies. Because C14 decays over time, organic items that are no longer living contain increasingly smaller percentages of C14 the older they get. Libby was able to compare the amount of C14 remaining in an item to the amount originally found in the atmosphere to determine that item's age.
The Enoch Scroll
Parchment, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority,
ca. 200-150 B.C.E.
During the 1950s, Libby and others built increasingly sensitive Geiger counters to measure the radioactivity of organic objects. Age calculations were based on the half-life of C14: after 5,730 years about 50 percent of the original amount of C14 will still be present in an object. Among the items that Libby tested and successfully dated were prehistoric sloth dung, charcoal from Stonehenge, and the parchment wrappings of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Libby was able to further verify his theory by performing radiocarbon tests on items whose date was already known from other sources.
Willard Libby received a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1933 and stayed on to teach there until joining the Manhattan Project when the U.S. entered World War II. Following the war, Libby became a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, where he conducted his groundbreaking research; his book Radiocarbon Dating was published in 1952. Libby was appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954. Shortly before winning the Noble Prize, he returned to teaching and research at UCLA; he died in 1980.
Jesse Younger in the Chemistry Lab. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.,
John Vachon, photographer,
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
With additional research, scientists have continued to refine the techniques of radiocarbon dating. In reality, C14 levels in the atmosphere have been similar, but not fully constant, over time. Changes in the magnetic fields of the earth and sun can affect the intensity of cosmic radiation, while carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere also fluctuate naturally or due to the burning of fossil fuels. Nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and early 1960s raised the amount of C14 in the atmosphere to a high of almost twice its natural level. To account for such fluctuations, calibration curves based in dendrochronolgy (tree ring dating) have been created, going back thousands of years.
Developed in the 1980s, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a method that separates the atoms of a sample of carbon by atomic weight. This means that the percentage of C14 in a sample can be measured directly, rather than on the basis of radioactive decay. AMS permits the measurement of very small samples, which allows for the dating of museum and library objects without destroying them.
Search across the American Memory pictorial collections using the terms chemistry or chemical for images such as manufacturing plants and laboratories, including the Chemical Laboratory at the House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Built in America: Historic Building Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present documents a wide range of building types and engineering technologies including, for example, the Thomas A. Edison Laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey. Search the collection on chemistry and chemical for more examples.
Visit the online exhibition Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship for a description of the scrolls and their historical context, including the Qumran community from where they may have originated, and the story of their discovery 2,000 years later. Learn more about the background of the Library's exhibition by reading "'Scrolls from the Dead Sea': The Library's Exhibition Opens" and "Conserving History: LC and IAA Join on Scrolls Project"in the Library of Congress Information Bulletin. Search the archive on Dead Sea Scrolls for additional articles.
View Science Subject Guides on topics such as chemistry and Tracer Bullets on topics such as Science Projects in Biology—resources created by the Library's Science, Technology & Business Division—for additional science-related information.


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Islamist attack on hotel in Somali capital kills 25: police
By Yomna Yasser	 On Oct 29, 2017
An Islamist attack on a hotel in the Somali capital ended on Sunday after 25 people had been killed in a near 12-hour siege, police said, underlining the insurgents' ability to carry out deadly attacks in the heart of the city.
"The death toll rises to 25 people including police, hotel guards and residents. The death toll may rise. We suspect some other militants disguised themselves and escaped with the residents who were rescued," police officer Major Mohamed Hussein told Reuters.
"Three militants were captured alive and two others blew up themselves after they were shot," he added.
The attack began around at 5 p.m. on Saturday with a car bomb. Gunmen then stormed the building after the bomb had destroyed its defenses. The siege ended on Sunday morning.
A Reuters witness saw seven bodies lying inside the hotel.
The explosion destroyed the front of the three-storey hotel and a next door hotel was also damaged. Many Somali officials live in fortified hotels because they offer better security from attack.
Islamist group al Shabaab claimed the attack on Saturday. They want to overthrow the weak, U.N.-backed government and impose a strict form of Islamic law.
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Tropical Storm Philippe strengthens, bears down on Cuba and the Bahamas


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To view the list of legislative candidates who have accepted California's voluntary campaign spending limits, go to www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_cand_stat.htm.
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Eliza Dushku Expecting First Child With Husband Peter Palandjian
"It's been a big year but a great year."
By Cole Delbyck
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"Buffy The Vampire Slayer" alum Eliza Dushku is expecting her first child with husband Peter Palandjian.
The actress revealed she's "very excited" about the upcoming addition to her family at a screening of her new film "Mapplethorpe" about the groundbreaking American photographer in New York City on Thursday.
"I've been really excited about what I'm doing with my life these days," Dushku told Us Weekly. "We just got married in August. It's a special year for us."
The "Bring It On" star, 38, wed the real estate mogul and former professional tennis player, 54, in her hometown of Boston in August 2018 a year after announcing their engagement with a sweet snap on Instagram.
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Palandjian is already a father to four children from a previous relationship.
While Dushku has appeared steadily in film and TV roles since she was a child, the actress has taken time away from Hollywood as of late to fulfill her lifelong dream of attending college. She's now in her final year at Suffolk University where she is reportedly pursuing a sociology degree.
"I've been living in Boston. I'm about to be a senior in college. I'm studying holistic healing and addiction and trauma. And I'm newly married and I'm just so excited about this next chapter in my life," she told Us Weekly. "You know, I've been acting since I was 9 years old and I'm sort of finding these new things that I'm really excited about. It's been a big year but a great year."
The actress, who celebrated her 10-year sober anniversary in 2018, has been a fierce advocate for addiction prevention ever since revealing her own secret battle with drugs and alcohol in a heartbreaking speech at the New Hampshire Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness.
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Michael Weatherly and Eliza Dushku on "Bull."
Dushku's most recent recurring TV gig was on the CBS drama "Bull," but she was abruptly written out of the series after claiming co-star Michael Weatherly made multiple sexually inappropriate comments about her in front of cast and crew members.
CBS later secretly reached a $9.5 million settlement with Dushku to ensure her silence about the alleged sexual harassment, which was disclosed in a New York Times report in December.
Dushku broke her silence on the matter with powerful op-ed for The Boston Globe, in which she called for a "culture change" at the network.
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Entertainment Writer, HuffPost
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static void init_shared_arr(void)
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uint8_t get_dev_status(uint8_t dev)
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static void init_shared_state(struct capref cap, uint32_t sz)
{
    printf("USBD: %s \n", __func__);
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}

void map_init(void)
{
    printf("USBD: %s \n", __func__);
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        assert(dev_toggle_arr == NULL);
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    }
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US Coast Guard Offloads Cocaine Located by LEDET from HMCS Saskatoon
June 14, 2021 – Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma offloaded more than 7,500 pounds of cocaine in Port Everglades, an estimated street value of $143.5 million, Monday, after three interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
A maritime patrol flight spotted a vessel on April 16, and a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment team on the HMCS Saskatoon apprehended five suspects and nearly 4,000 pounds of cocaine from the low profile vessel.
The vessel was destroyed as a hazard to navigation
A maritime patrol flight spotted a vessel on April 20, and Tahoma's law enforcement team apprehended four suspects and 2,400 pounds of cocaine from the low profile vessel.
The vessel was destroyed as a hazard to navigation.
While on patrol, a Tahoma crewmember found cocaine bales floating in the water on April 23. The bales were recovered totaling nearly 1,200 pounds of cocaine.
On April 1, U.S. Southern Command increased counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs. Numerous U.S. agencies from the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security cooperated in the effort to combat transnational organized crime. The Coast Guard, Navy, Customs and Border Protection, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with allied and international partner agencies, play a role in counter-drug operations.
The fight against drug cartels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea requires unity of effort in all phases from detection, monitoring and interdictions, to criminal prosecutions for these interdictions by United States Attorney's Offices from the Middle District of Florida, the Southern District of Florida and the Southern District of California. The law enforcement phase of counter-smuggling operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is conducted under the authority of the 11th Coast Guard District, headquartered in Alameda. The interdictions, including the actual boardings, are led and conducted by members of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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But I keep finding instructions for installing WP on a subdirectory and building the new WP site there and then pointing the domain name to the subdirectory.
I thought I could build the new site in WordPress in a local environment and somehow install it on the domain name when it was time to take it live. But I haven't found instructions on how to remove the HTML pages that are on the domain and install WordPress and a new theme in its place.
2. Do a fresh install of WordPress onto a brand new database with the same domain name?
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4. Then just make sure the wp-config file matches the new database information.
At this point, I'm thinking that the HTML version of the website would still be live because it is linked to its separate database. But couldn't I just delete its database and all of its HTML files once the WP version was up and running?
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When you get the site done and the client likes it, use FTP to delete the static HTML site (well, after making a backup and putting it someplace save), then migrate your site into the live environment.
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Venezuela Weekly: Human Rights Do-Si-Do4 min read
By David Smilde and Dimitris Pantoulas, Oct. 3
Oct 3, 2019 | Venezuela Update
On Friday, September 27, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution creating an independent investigative body to look into human rights violations and crimes taking place in Venezuela since 2014 (extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and torture). The Lima Group proposed the resolution and it received 19 votes in favor, 7 against, and 21 abstentions (Mexico and Uruguay abstained).
International and national civil society organizations have welcomed the resolution (see the statements of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch). Venezuelan human rights group PROVEA called it historic, suggesting it was made possible "by the courageous efforts of human and social rights organizations in Venezuela, the struggle of the victims and their families, and the strong support of the international community." Venezuela thus becomes the first Latin American country investigated by the UNHRC. Maduro's government rejected the resolution and said they would not cooperate.
This rejection came one week after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Maduro government and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, which would allow for the visitation of special rapporteurs. Countries supportive of the Maduro government passed a competing resolution in the UNHRC supporting this memorandum of understanding and requesting that "both the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the opposition to continue to advance down the path of genuine political dialogue to reach a peaceful, democratic and constitutional solution"
Human Rights Watch said this resolution does not facilitate accountability in Venezuela and regretted that Mexico and Uruguay backed it. Uruguay said they voted in favor of it because they think it better contributes to the work of the high commissioner and that the other proposal was more political in nature.
Uruguay and Mexico's convergence on Venezuela issues was not confined to the UNHRC. During a bilateral meeting, Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa and Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced a relaunch of the "Montevideo mechanism" (MM) in the first week of November in Mexico. They hope for participation by Venezuela's two conflicting political forces.
Mexico and Uruguay first launched the MM in Montevideo the night before the creation of the International Contact Group (ICG) consisting of European Union and Latin American countries including Uruguay. While the MM sought to facilitate a "dialogue" with an open agenda, the ICG promoted a "negotiation" with a specific agenda: new elections (see David Smilde and Geoff Ramsey's review here). Uruguay's return to collaboration with Mexico in a more neutral stance on Venezuela, would seem to be a result of its displeasure with the use of the Rio Treaty (TIAR) to pressure Venezuela. It is yet to be seen how this might affect their involvement in the ICG.
Both the Maduro government and opposition National Assembly have been positioning themselves around the issue of resuming negotiations.
Maduro expressed his willingness to resume negotiations mediated by Norway. Furthermore, despite the recent decision of the EU to sanction more Venezuelan officials, Maduro ordered the Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, to meet with the diplomats of the European Union in Venezuela and to "establish a relationship of respect."
The National Assembly approved a resolution of support for the proposal that Guaidó and his aides presented to the Maduro government during the suspended negotiation process. The proposal leaves open a return to the Norwegian-facilitated negotiations.
But the opposition's departure from the Barbados round of negotiations in September and invoking the TIAR has created significant political costs for returning to the table. The document voted on in the AN generated significant rejection from opposition radicals who expressed their disdain that the resolution neither mentions the "end of usurpation," nor makes any mention of the TIAR. And the same day, AN Deputy Julio Borges, exiled in Colombia, said the Norwegian-facilitated negotiation was definitively over.
Xenophobic attacks on Venezuelan migrants have intensified in Peru and Ecuador, generating alarm. Viral video footage showing a Venezuelan women being beaten by Peruvian police led to expressions of solidarity by some politicians, but also declarations by a congresswoman that she would request all Venezuelans be deported.
The Maduro government said the Peruvian government was violating its international obligations by allowing acts of this kind. For its part, the Peruvian government condemned xenophobia and rejected Maduro's allegations. Later Peru and representatives of Guaido announced that they would coordinate actions related to Venezuelan migration and xenophobia.
A recent poll published by the UN High Commission for Refugees reveals that 62% of Venezuelans in Peru feel discriminated against.
The Maduro government's announcement of a census of vacant real estate has alarmed many Venezuelans who fear the government will confiscate the property of those who have moved abroad.
Nicolas Maduro said his government is ready to renegotiate Venezuela's $60 billion in defaulted debt, saying they have ways to work around U.S. financial sanctions.
The Maduro government continues to service its debt with Russia.
International efforts to address Venezuela's humanitarian emergency continue to struggle for funding. The UN said that so far it has received just 9% of its US$ 223 million Humanitarian Response Plan for Venezuela.
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Why is Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi still alive?
Eight years after the September 11 terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center, severely damaged the Pentagon and killed three thousand people, the lessons of 9/11 are fading and have been forgotten by many. The world should have learned on 9/11 that appeasing terrorists has never worked, does not work and will never work.
Scottish "Justice" Secretary Kenny MacAskill decided to release infamous terrorist, war criminal and mass murderer Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on "compassionate" grounds, since al-Megrahi is dying from cancer and has a few months left to live. Shockingly, al-Megrahi has only served eight years in prison after being convicted in 2001, less than a dozen days for each person he murdered when he blew up Pan Am 103 in 1988.
This is not compassion, it is depravity. MacAskill might as well have defecated on the graves of all 270 people murdered by al-Megrahi in 1988. MacAskill, effeminate wimp that he is, blathered that al-Megrahi's lack of compassion "is not a reason for us to deny compassion to him and his family in his final days." MacAskill also said "our belief dictates that justice be served but mercy be shown." How can serving a dozen days for each murder possibly be characterized as anything close to justice? Where is the justice for al-Megrahi's victims?
The people blown out of the sky on that fateful day in December of 1988 never got the chance to say good-bye to their families. They were innocent victims, having done nothing to deserve the war crime perpetrated by al-Megrahi. There was no compassion for their families. Instead of being released, al-Megrahi should have been subjected to a very public execution, both to serve justice for war crimes and as a warning to other Islamic terrorists what is in store for them. That should have been happened years ago.
The Geneva Conventions state that "making the civilian population or individual civilians the object of attack" and/or "launching an indiscriminate attack affecting the civilian population" are classified as war crimes. The bombing of Pan Am 103, committed as part of a war Islamic terrorists had declared on the west, certainly qualifies as a war crime and al-Megrahi qualifies as a war criminal. Releasing a man who targeted hundreds of civilians for death is no different from releasing a Nazi concentration camp guard on "compassionate" grounds.
Appeasement never works. Islamic terrorists understand only violence and death, and they have no idea what compassion is. Islamic terrorists will take this as a sign of weakness, and al-Megrahi's release will encourage more terrorism, more bombings and more murders. The only way to deal with Islamic terrorists is to slaughter them like animals, making it very clear that terrorism will be met with severe consequences. The idea that we can win a war against Islamic terrorists by winning "hearts and minds" would be laughable if it were not so deadly.
The next time that the United Kingdom is attacked by Islamic terrorists, we should all point our fingers in Kenny MacAskill's face and say "You did this. You enabled this act of terrorism. This is your fault. We hold you responsible for this, and the blood of the victims is on your hands." Releasing al-Megrahi is a huge defeat in the global war on terror.


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Germany creates Robo-Beethoven in its Culture Lab
A 21st-century take on the legendary composer's music is among the highlights of the Germany Pavilion's cultural programme
Music played by robots was not a concept even dreamed about when Ludwig van Beethoven was born almost 250 years ago – but at the Germany Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, visitors will be able to catch a futuristic take on the legendary composer's work.
As part of its cultural programme, the pavilion's Culture Lab is bringing to life Beethoven's music via classical, rock, acoustic and electronic performances by robots.
The centuries-crossing attraction will be one of the top draws in an array of German cultural must-sees showcased across 173 days of fun, with the stage in the pavilion's atrium boasting performances on every day of the Expo.
The line-up will also include sports – both physical and virtual, with weekly eSports competitions – games, visual arts, performers and dance, in collaboration with German universities, academies, ensembles and institutions.
The Culture Lab is part of a wider lesson of a lifetime at the Germany Pavilion, designed around a campus theme that also includes The Energy Lab, The Future City Lab and The Biodiversity Lab.
Germany is one of 192 countries that will showcase its culture, history and future at the most international World Expo to date, set to run from 20 October 2020 to 10 April 2021.
Explore Germany pavilion
Expo Story
'The World's Greatest Show in the Making' tour fully booked within hours
More than 3,300 seats to Expo site preview tour snapped up by the public within three hours.
Managing the movement of millions of Expo visitors with the help of the RTA
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will ensure a pleasant journey for the hundreds of thousands of Expo 2020's daily visitors.
Expo invites UAE public to join 'The World's Greatest Show in the Making' tour
Be among the first to see the Expo 2020 Dubai site as it nears completion with bus tours departing from across the UAE
Calling all creatives: Design the sabeel of tomorrow at Expo 2020
Competition invites the UAE's original thinkers to imagine the look of Expo's drinking fountains


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Sharpton, Gingrich push Obama's school reforms
By eSchool News
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is joining forces with two unlikely allies, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to push cities to fix failing schools, the Associated Press reports. The trio will visit Philadelphia, New Orleans and Baltimore later this year. They plan to add more stops as their tour progresses.
"These are cities that have real challenges but also tremendous hope and opportunity," Duncan told reporters on a conference call Thursday.
The idea came from a meeting they had with President Barack Obama in May at the White House. Education is high on Obama's priority list. He is seeking to boost achievement, keep kids from dropping out of high school and push every student to pursue some form of higher education. The president has vowed to make the United States the world leader in the number of people who graduate from college. He argues that students who do better in school will help themselves in a work force that increasingly depends on high-skilled jobs, and that the country will benefit as well…


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