MADISON — As the second half approached during No. 5 Starkville's 21-17 win over No. 7 Madison Central on Friday night, Starkville running back Rodrigues Clark paced his sideline.
Starkville (7-1, 3-1 region) trailed the Jaguars (6-2, 3-1) by three points. Quarterback Luke Altmyer had thrown two first-half interceptions. One was returned for a touchdown.
Starkville, which entered the season with dreams of an undefeated season culminating in a state championship, needed a win. Not just for obvious reasons, but to restore its confidence after a loss to Northwest Rankin two weeks ago. So Clark spoke to his teammates.
"We gotta win the game bruh," Clark said.
Eight minutes of game time later, the Yellow Jackets still trailing, Clark lined up in the backfield, his team three yards from the end zone. He had twisted his ankle during the first quarter but refused to leave the game.
Clark took a handoff and ran across the goal line, scoring his second touchdown of the game and giving the Yellow Jackets their first lead since the first quarter.
Starkville and Madison Central exchanged punts and crushing tackles for another quarter until, with 1:49 left in the game, the Jaguars lined up at their 2-yard line, trailing 21-17.
The Jaguars peppered Starkville with short passes to the sideline to methodically move down the field. They passed midfield after seven plays, then quarterback Jimmy Holiday shed a would-be sack on fourth down and sprinted to the 16-yard line.
On the ensuing play, Holiday tossed a pass into the end zone for wide receiver Myles Hopson, who caught a 41-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Holiday grabbed the ball. Madison Central thought it had taken the lead.
"I thought we caught the ball," Madison Central coach Anthony Hart said.
Except referees ruled an incomplete pass, and on third down, with 18 seconds now on the clock, Starkville defensive end Zach Edwards sacked Holiday.
Edwards ran to midfield, thinking he had won the game. Starkville's coaches feared referees would throw an unsportsmanlike penalty. At the same time, Madison Central lined up in a hurry, hoping to run one more play. The clock ticked toward zero.
As Edwards and some of his teammates hustled back to the line of scrimmage, Jones called timeout. He didn't want a flag to give Madison Central another chance. Starkville's players didn't see the timeout. They went berserk as the clock hit zero.
Referees put nine seconds back in the game after Jones' timeout.
"I almost made a mistake by calling a timeout," Jones said.
The final play of the game, Holiday, who ran for 131 yards and passed for another 165, tossed a pass into the end zone. It fell incomplete. Starkville resumed its celebration, tossing cups of water into the sky.
In a game tied 14-14 near the end of the first half, Madison Central running back Duke Arnold ripped off a 21-yard run on fourth down to put the Jaguars two yards from the end zone.
Arnold reached for the goal line at the end of the run, but referees ruled his knee hit the ground before the ball crossed the plane.
Hart screamed at the officials. Madison Central's fans were irate.
The Jaguars rushed twice, once for a loss of one yard and again for no gain. Under pressure, Holiday threw a pass out of the end zone on third down.
With four seconds left before halftime, kicker Cale Nation, who missed a 37-yard field goal earlier in the second quarter, sent a 20-yard attempt through the uprights. The Jaguars walked into their locker room leading 17-14. They did not score again.
Starkville grabbed a much-needed win in a region that held four top-10 teams before Friday's games. The Yellow Jackets refocused after a loss to Northwest Rankin two weeks ago, and they pulled even with the Jaguars at 3-1 in their region.
Region play will continue next week. Madison Central travels to Provine, and Starkville hosts Murrah.


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[UPDATE] Sources Say Bojangles' Chamblee Finally On Track
Over two and a half years after ToNeTo Atlanta first announced their plans, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bojangles' is finally about to start construction on a location on Buford Highway in Chamblee, according to sources close to the development. The new, approximately 3,400 square foot freestanding restaurant would be built in an outparcel of Crossroads Village shopping center on Buford Highway near its intersection with Clairmont Road. A Maaco collision repair facility previously occupied the parcel in question, but was demolished years ago.
The new Bojangles' would be constructed in the abandoned lot below the billboard
It's not entirely clear what the hold-ups were in 2015, but this document from earlier this year indicates that the interpretation of an amendment to Chamblee's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) threw a wrench in the restaurant's development plans. At issue was both the height of the proposed restaurant, as well as its use of a drive-thru.
Sources indicate that a building permit has been requested from the City of Chamblee and is currently being reviewed.
When reached for comment this week, a Bojangles' representative at the company's Charlotte area headquarters said they could not confirm a Bojangles' restaurant at this location. Bojangles' has maintained a similar stance for the past two plus years as ToNeTo Atlanta continued to monitor the project.
If all goes well from here on out, the Chamblee location should open some time during the first half of next year.
The Chamblee Bojangles', like those in Tucker, Doraville and most recently Duluth, among others, will be corporately owned.
A franchised Bojangles' location planned for Memorial Drive near the old Avondale Mall-turned-Walmart in Decatur has been indefinitely shelved, according to sources at the restaurant.
Built about ten years ago, Crossroads Village previously had an El Pollo Loco restaurant which opened in the center in 2008, but closed in 2011 amidst the chain's struggles in the Atlanta market. The freestanding restaurant building later operated as an urgent care facility but today is vacant. A Burger King also opened in an outparcel of the center, and continues to operate.
Crossroads Village is anchored by an Aldi grocery store, but also features over a dozen inline retailers and restaurants. Earlier this year, Havana Sandwich closed its location in the center to focus on its original location at North Druid Hills Road and Buford Highway in Brookhaven. The former Havana now operates as "Cuba Mia," another Cuban eatery.
Are you excited for the addition of a new Bojangles' to Chamblee? Where would you like to see Bojangles' open next? What would you like to see open in the former El Pollo Loco?
Please share your thoughts below.
I've been waiting on this Bojangles since it was reported here....unfortunately, I may not be in the area when it opens but it would be nice as the current fastfood fare in the area is Burger King,McDonalds and KFC(which I am not a fan of)
The former El Pollo Loco space is now an office for a construction company. It is not vacant, but feels like a lower use of the space.
The old maaco location is the proposed site.
good to hear that new food businesses are populating CrossRoad. There are some new family food businesses there presently. It seems that Middle Eastern, Eastern European businesses are populating this area. Good food!
I was at Clairmont and Buford Highway today to check on the status of the new Bojangles..............it looks completed, but no notice of when it will open.
It is absolutely one of my favorite places to eat, especially their gravy biscuts, yum, yum.

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Lisa has a great blog. Yes, she uses it to actively market her art and her teaching. But she shares so much along the way and she often gets me thinking. In this piece Lisa talks about the things we can all do to push ourselves beyond average and sites working in series as the mechanism she uses to grow and develop. And I couldn't agree more. For me the great advantage of working in series is that you don't have to try and resolve all your good ideas in a single piece. Before making a conscious decision to work in series I would often feel paralysed and unable to even start work because I could not see how to get all my ideas and thoughts into one piece. Or I would get disheartened half way through working on a piece when I realised that it would have more energy if I had used turquoise instead of moss green. Knowing that you're going to make lots of pieces around a theme or an inspiration is wonderfully liberating. The development of ideas from one piece to the next is a form of continuous improvement that prevents us getting stuck on the Okay Plateau.
So in the spirit of sharing I will let you into a secret - the first piece I made in my Hidden Message series is better known as No Time for Tea and bears absolutely no resemblance to the pieces that followed. I knew that I wanted to say something about modern Chinese society and how weird it is that the population aspires to a Western lifestyle whilst living in a country with single party politics and rampant censorship. The piece didn't have the gravity I was aiming for but it did contain elements that I wanted to develop further. In one sense it was a failure but I love it anyway!


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California Legislature fails us on climate change
Opinion // Editorials
Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, discuss changes to SB350 that reduce the reach of the climate change legislation.Melody Gutierrez
California just suffered a big setback in its fight against climate change. This week, two closely watched bills failed to earn enough support in the now-finished legislative session.
A key portion of SB350, touted by Gov. Jerry Brown and state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, was gutted after weeks of intense opposition from the petroleum industry. SB350 would have required a 50 percent reduction in petroleum use by 2030.
While the rest of the bill's regulations will remain intact — the state will still be required to increase the proportion of electricity derived from renewable resources and increase energy efficiency in buildings — the gasoline regulations were both controversial and critical.
Though Brown insisted that "California is not going to miss a beat" in a press conference following the setback, this was by far the best year to get the petroleum reduction enshrined in law.
This is Brown's final term as governor, and next year, state legislators who are facing election battles will be even less likely to take tough votes.
Another bill, SB32, also failed to muster enough support for passage through the Assembly this week.
SB32 would have made the state's long-term targets for carbon emissions reductions, currently set by executive order, a matter of law.
Its targets included a 40 percent emissions reduction rate (below 1990 levels) by 2030 and an 80 percent emissions reduction rate by 2050. The bill was rejected by the Assembly, 30-32.
SB32's author, Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills (Los Angeles County), said that the bill will return next year.
"Unfortunately, the state Assembly and the administration were not supportive, for now, and we could not pass this important proposal." said Pavley in a statement. When the bill returns, it won't include the 2050 target.
The editorial positions of The Chronicle, including election recommendations, represent the consensus of the editorial board, consisting of the publisher, the editorial page editor and staff members of the opinion pages. Its judgments are made independent of the news operation, which covers the news without consideration of our editorial positions.
It's a rare setback for Brown, who's been a master at getting legislative approval for his most important priorities during his second go-round in the governor's chair. Even though California has been a global leader in the fight against climate change, there are still enough legislators who are worried about whether doing the right thing will cost the state too much in the long run.
If they need more convincing, they don't need to look any further than California's own data on jobs and economic growth. When state legislators were considering AB32, they were lobbied incessantly by those who claimed that California couldn't combat climate change and roll back fossil fuel use without incurring drastic economic results. In the years since then, California's economy has expanded, its private sector job market has gone from strength to strength, and its dependence on fossil fuels has declined.
The Legislature had a chance to continue that progress, and it punted. It needs to do better next year.


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The only way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem : By Farid Zikria , Washington Post.
It has been the same way for decades. Every time violence between the Israelis and Palestinians erupts, governments around the world urge de-escalation, a cease-fire agreement is reached, and experts warn that the situation cannot continue like this. But it has, and it will. Ultimately, this is not a problem that can be resolved through power, whether political or military. It can only be resolved through moral persuasion.
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My Comments :
Yes I agree with Farid Zikria that : Palestinian issue can only be resolved through persuasion but "moral persuasion" is for human being it does not work for blood thirsty hounds!
This persuasion will be through the barrel of guns & missiles. Israel is a great military and economic power, it is difficult to defeat it militarily in conventional war by bunch of divided selfish puppet Arabs rulers, but May 2021 war proves that Hamas if adequately provided with modern weapons ( Missiles, Drones, Anti Aircraft, Anti Tank Missiles, satellite surveillance and intelligence system) it will make the life of Israeli population miserable, persuading their government to settle and resolve the issue.
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Now Continue with Farid Zikrya's Column ….
The recurring pattern of violence obscures a seismic shift that has taken place over the past few decades. Israel is now the superpower of the Middle East. A strategic studies institute at Bar-Ilan University recently laid out the disparities. Israel's per capita GDP dwarfs that of its neighbors: it is 14 times that of Egypt, eight times that of Iran, nearly six times that of Lebanon, and nearly double that of Saudi Arabia. Israel has built an industrial and information-age economy that excels in highly sophisticated arenas such as artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, aviation and biotechnology. It spends 5 percent of its GDP on research and development, more than any country. It has built up foreign exchange reserves of more than $180 billion, placing it at No. 13 in the world, just ahead of Britain. For a nation of 9 million people, these are stunning numbers.
A military comparison between Israel and its neighbors is even more lopsided. Israel beat a combined Arab force in 1967 in six days. Today, the contest would be over in hours. Israel has a larger defense budget than Iran and enjoys both a quantitative and qualitative edge in crucial areas such as air power — even though Iran has almost 10 times the population. And, of course, Israel has the only nuclear arsenal in the region, estimated at almost 100 warheads.
Israel is powerful compared to its neighbors, but it is close to invulnerable compared to the Palestinians. The economic gap is a chasm; the military gap is too large to describe. You can see this in the comparative casualty numbers from the latest conflict or any recent conflict with the Palestinians: for every Israeli killed, there are 20 to 30 Palestinian deaths. Moreover, the Palestinians are politically weak and divided. They are led in Gaza by Hamas, a group despised even by Arab states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In the West Bank, the 85-year-old Mahmoud Abbas runs an administration widely considered corrupt and dysfunctional, and he has postponed elections for 11 years.
In short, Israel doesn't have any practical reasons to make a deal with the Palestinians. It doesn't fear for its security. While the rocket attacks are unnerving and terrifying to civilians, they do not inflict much damage on the country. Israel's ferocious and effective security services, aided by the construction of a wall along the West Bank and the creation of the Iron Dome air-defense system, have virtually eliminated fatalities from terrorism. Economic boycotts of any significance will not happen. Israel's economy is too strong, diversified and advanced. Its trade and technology ties to countries have grown by leaps and bounds in the past two decades; countries such as Russia and India, once wary of Israel, now eagerly court the country and its tech industry. The reason that Arab countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized relations with Israel has much to do with economic opportunities.
What is left is morality.
Israel — a powerful, rich and secure nation — is ruling over nearly 5 million people without giving them political rights. This is an almost unique situation in a post-colonial world. Israeli leaders can marshal valid excuses: The Palestinian leadership has rejected serious offers in the past; they are divided and vacillating. But, ultimately, that does not change the reality that the Palestinians live in conditions that are demeaning and degrading. They are denied self-determination, which is now a universal right.
Over the past two decades, Israel has moved toward a more and more intransigent position on the Palestinian issue. The government today is far more extreme than previous right-wing governments — from Begin to Sharon to Olmert — all of which made concessions for peace.
But the country remains a liberal democracy. It was founded by people who believed deeply that their new country should embody not just nationalism but also justice and morality. There are many in Israel who argue passionately that it can find a way for Israel to have security and Palestinians to have dignity. The only hope — and right now it looks remote — is that those forces will gain strength and one day lead the country to give the Palestinians a state of their own. That would finally fulfill Israel's historical mission to be, in the words of Isaiah, "a light unto the nations."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/20/only-way-solve-israeli-palestinian-problem
Max Boot: This is a war Israel can't win
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/18/israel-can-never-be-normal-country-long-palestinian-conflict-smolders/
#Zionism #AlQuds #Palestine #Israel
The End of Israel's Illusion
By Shlomo Ben -Ami (ex Israeli Foreign Minister )
The prevailing consensus among Israelis that Palestinian nationalism had been defeated – and thus that a political solution to the conflict was no longer necessary – lies in tatters. And even as the violence escalates, it has become clear to both sides that the era of glorious wars and victories is over.
TEL AVIV – The sudden eruption of war outside and inside Israel's borders has shocked a complacent nation. Throughout Binyamin Netanyahu's 12-year premiership, the Palestinian problem was buried and forgotten. The recent Abraham Accords, establishing diplomatic relations with four Arab states, seemed to weaken the Palestinian cause further. Now it has re-emerged with a vengeance.
Wars can be triggered by an isolated incident, but their cause is always deeper. In this case, the trigger, the eviction of Palestinians in favor of Israeli nationalists in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, touched all the sensitive nerves of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem, its humiliating control of access to the Al-Aqsa mosque, the ever-present memory of the 1948 Nakba (the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians when Israel was founded), and the grievances of Israel's Arab minority are all fueling the current flare-up.
The prevailing consensus among Israelis that Palestinian nationalism had been defeated – and thus that a political solution to the conflict was no longer necessary – lies in tatters.
And even as the violence escalates, it has become clear to both sides that the era of glorious wars and victories is over.
TEL AVIV – The sudden eruption of war outside and inside Israel's borders has shocked a complacent nation. Throughout Binyamin Netanyahu's 12-year premiership, the Palestinian problem was buried and forgotten.
The recent Abraham Accords, establishing diplomatic relations with four Arab states, seemed to weaken the Palestinian cause further. Now it has re-emerged with a vengeance.
It may be true that the contested real estate in Sheikh Jarrah did belong to a Jewish family before 1948. But Palestinians saw the incident as part of Israel's unrelenting drive to "Judaize" Jerusalem, and a striking injustice, because the state of Israel was built partly on the abandoned properties of Palestinian refugees. While Jews are entitled to reclaim property they owned before Israel's founding, Palestinians may not. Those facing eviction in Sheikh Jarrah cannot recover the homes in Jaffa and Haifa that they once owned.
On the face of it, the latest escalation of violence is following the template of all inter-ethnic wars. Muslims observing Ramadan shouted nationalist slogans and clashed with Israeli right-wing groups chanting "Death to the Arabs." The Israelis haughtily marched with their national flag on Jerusalem Day, marking Israel's capture in 1967 of East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, the site of the biblical Second Temple, and of Al-Aqsa, completed in the year 705. Battles in and around the Al-Aqsa compound erupted, with worshipers inside throwing stones at the Israeli police, who responded by firing rubber-tipped bullets and other projectiles, wounding hundreds.
But the young Arab protesters could claim victory, for they forced the postponement of an Israeli Supreme Court ruling on the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. They also forced the police to change the route of the Jerusalem Day march away from the Muslim Quarter in the Old City.
The flare-up spilled over into pre-1967 Israel, where Islamist groups incited young Israeli Arabs. Mixed Jewish-Arab cities that were supposed to be exemplars of coexistence, such as Acre, Ramla, Jaffa, and Lod, erupted in an orgy of violence and vandalism. Lod was practically taken over by gangs of young Arabs. This was a pogrom, said Jewish residents. An old Jewish woman spoke of memories of Kristallnacht. The mayor of Lod drew the same comparison.
But Jerusalem has emerged as the crucible of conflict. It offered Hamas a golden opportunity to assert its predominance over Israel's collaborators in the West Bank's Palestinian Authority and sweep away PA President Mahmoud Abbas's moribund leadership.
Under Israeli pressure, Abbas had just canceled legislative elections for fear that Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2006, would win and extend its control to the West Bank.
Abbas framed his decision as a protest against Israel's refusal to allow the Palestinians in East Jerusalem to participate in the elections. But the truth is that the PA's presence in East Jerusalem had practically vanished, with the vacuum filled by a mostly secular young Palestinian generation that turned the Temple Mount (Haram Al-Sharif to Muslims) into the symbol of their resistance to Israeli occupation.
In the current eruption of violence, Hamas connected all the dots needed to gain primacy in the Palestinian national movement. It positioned itself as the protector of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, as the spearhead of the Palestinians' national and religious struggle against the Israeli-Jewish occupier, and also as the voice of the Arab minority in Israel proper.
Israelis and their complacent government were caught off guard. Hamas conducted an unprecedentedly massive missile attack on Israeli cities. They even launched salvos at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, sending half the country's population to shelters. Israelis were left to wonder how their vulnerable home front could withstand a war with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia across the border in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has an arsenal of 150,000 missiles many times more lethal than Hamas's.
To make its case, Hamas was willing to pay a high price. Israel's punitive airstrikes on Gaza have been devastating, targeting Hamas military commanders with brutal efficiency. But Hamas knows that in the asymmetric wars of this era, a militia hidden among two million civilians in one of the world's most densely populated areas has practical immunity from defeat.
Hamas also knows that the war's reverberation throughout the region will force neighbors like Egypt and Hamas's patron, Qatar, to mediate a ceasefire.
From the debris of Gaza, Hamas will then claim victory, not necessarily on the battlefield, but in the minds of its people.
At that point, Hamas will have achieved its main objectives: an utterly discredited PA and heightened prestige as the ultimate protector of Islam's holy shrines in Jerusalem.
Paradoxically, Netanyahu has no interest in destroying Hamas. Quite the contrary: he has struck an unwritten deal with it against Abbas's PA, which his governments have consistently done all they could to weaken and humiliate.
A Hamas Islamic state in Gaza offers Netanyahu the ideal pretext to reject peace negotiations and a two-state solution. Netanyahu even allowed Qatar to keep Gaza functioning by paying the salaries of Hamas's functionaries.
Israel certainly cannot claim victory. The fragile coexistence between Jews and Arabs within its borders has been shaken. The prevailing consensus among Israelis that Palestinian nationalism had been defeated – and thus that a political solution to the conflict was no longer necessary – lies in tatters. And even as the violence escalates, it has become clear to both sides that the era of glorious wars and victories is over.
Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, is Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace. He is the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
By Project Syndicate
This is a war Israel can't win
The peace movement slogan "War is not the answer" is not always right. Sometimes — as in the struggle against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan — war is the only answer. But that bromide certainly applies to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas. However long Hamas continues rocketing Israel, and however long Israel continues bombing the Gaza Strip….》》》》
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chrome-linkedin-oauth
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**chrome-linkedin-oauth** demonstrates how to call LinkedIn APIs inside a Chrome application using **OAuth2**. Here is how we have implemented the auth flow:

### Step 1:

Go to LinkedIn Developer Network (https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer), create new application and generate consumer key and secret. use the callback URL in the following form:
https://CHROME_APP_ID.chromiumapp.org/ANYTHING_HERE
e.g. I've used this:
https://nlifplmndmkebhmmbbnipoiojlmbnnio.chromiumapp.org/linkedin_callback
Note: Path param ANYTHING_HERE is used to distinguish it with redirect URIs from other providers.

### Step 2:

Prepare data to launch web auth flow:

```
var apiKey = '75h1mayvrvgg53';
var redirectUri = 'https://nlifplmndmkebhmmbbnipoiojlmbnnio.chromiumapp.org/linkedin_callback';
var state = "sdfiugsdfhkionmdndsfjksd"; //random string

var options = {
    'interactive': true,
    url:'https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/authorization?response_type=code'
        +'&client_id='+apiKey
        +'&scope=r_basicprofile'
        +'&state='+state
        +'&redirect_uri='+redirectUri
}
```

### Step 3:

Get the token:

```
chrome.identity.launchWebAuthFlow(options, function(redirect_url) {
    console.log('launchWebAuthFlow completed', chrome.runtime.lastError, redirect_url);
    processResponse(redirect_url);
});
```

### Response:

![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnujaK/chrome-linkedin-oauth/master/assets/screenshot1.png "Access Permission")

![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnujaK/chrome-linkedin-oauth/master/assets/screenshot2.png "Token")

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One of mankind's natural mindset is that sometimes, it wants more than what's available on hand; there is never enough. We witnessed how prehistoric men used stone tied to a stick as a hammer; now, different kind of hammers exist. From the ones that are also doubled as nail-puller, to the ones made from hardened rubber. This mindset have pushed us to the borders of human capabilities, each and every time.
Every man-made product always have a story of progression behind it. All-alumunium monocoque body would be questionable decades ago, yet here we have it today, residing inside a luxury SUV which is also equipped with air suspension. These are the kinds of features never heard before on an SUV decades ago.
A really far cry from its ancestor, the 4th-gen Range Rover is truly an all-terrain-capable luxury chariot. With plenty of features underneath its sleeve that could pamper its passengers, whether it'd be off-road or on-road, the Range Rover is even more lavish than your average luxury sedan.
Owning a factory-mint ultra luxury SUV may be enough for others, but not for today's owner. His desire for standing out among the others led to a daring combination of Rotiform SPF Monolook 3-piece wheels (most often found fitted to sedans!) with Nitto Invo 285 tires on all four corners, and then wrapped up with Overfinch Big Brake Kit. The result? A Range Rover unlike any other.
A well-known brand in the realm of luxury limo, its long-lasting heritage makes Range Rover one of the primary destinations for wealthy SUV buyers. Quite a sight to behold, with its successful modern-interpretation of classic designs. Tremendous off-the-beaten-path ability also makes this car a gem to keep.


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Environmental Activism
Dancing With Wolves
The Bush Administration is relying on falsehoods when making its case for opening up Alaska to drilling.
By Alexander Cockburn
When it comes to oil politics and Alaska the Bush Administration and the environmental movement are already treading the measures of a familiar dance. President Bush is insisting on the urgency of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He points to a supposed oil shortage that has somehow darkened homes and businesses up and down the West Coast. The environmental movement is already ramping up its national mail campaign rallying supporters for the battle to save the Refuge.
The actual game is bigger and more sinister.
Let's start by disposing of some myths. Start with the ludicrous claim of the Bush crowd that California's energy crisis can be solved by oil drilling in Alaska. Nationwide, oil provides only 3 percent of the source fuel used to generate electricity. In California the figure is less than 1 percent.
Bush is offering California exemptions from its supposedly onerous clean-air rules, claiming that once freed from such red tape the state's utilities and power producers could build a new generation of plants powered by fossil fuels. The Wildlife Refuge's oil won't be of much help here, since government officials estimate that even on an expedited schedule, oil couldn't flow from the Refuge until the year 2015.
Nor is the oil companies' problem in Alaska a shortage. Recall that back in 1995 British Petroleum, ARCO and Chevron entreated President Clinton to cancel the twenty-two-year ban on export of crude oil from Alaska to other countries. Congress had made such a ban a condition for permitting construction of the Alaska pipeline. The intent of the ban was to insure that Alaska's oil would help stave off any West Coast oil shortage. The companies wanted the ban lifted because they had a glut on their hands and required new markets.
Clinton dutifully assented, and the oil companies began exporting Alaskan crude forthwith to Japan, South Korea and China. The extremes to which they went in using Clinton's waiver to bilk US consumers came to light in January when The Oregonian won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, gaining access to 4,000 pages of documents in the Federal Trade Commission's files concerning the merger of BP-Amoco with ARCO.
An FTC economist had concluded that BP-Amoco was selling oil to Asian refineries at prices lower than it could sell to US refineries on the West Coast, in order to manufacture a US shortage. As evidence the FTC had e-mail traffic passing between BP managers who talked about "shorting the West Coast market" in order to "leverage up" the prices there. Another BP manager gloated that this scheme was a "no brainer." The FTC reckoned that this ploy allowed BP to hike prices at West Coast pumps by as much as 3 cents a gallon.
So the oil companies' strategy is to exploit the electricity crisis to seize at last a number of long-sought objectives: not just access to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which would be a great symbolic victory, but also tax breaks worth billions for oil and gas extraction from wells across the country.
The big prize for the oil companies in North America isn't the Refuge but sites off the Alaska coast and the Gulf of Mexico: "Deepwater," says Geoff Kieburtz of Salomon Smith Barney, "is where the real pure exploration activity is going on in this country." Here we come to one of the lesser-known legacies of the Clinton era. Under the encouragement of Bruce Babbitt's Interior Department, deepwater drilling operations nearly doubled in the Gulf of Mexico in the year 2000 alone.
Among those roaring their protests at this activity is Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, who three days after his brother's inauguration implored the new team to place a moratorium on deepwater wells in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, saying that "Florida's economy is based upon tourism and other activities that depend on a clean and healthy environment."
Right now the Interior Department is looking at 688 lease applications that piled up in the Clinton years for new offshore oil development in the Beaufort Sea, and from the Gulf of Alaska's Copper River Delta (perhaps the greatest remaining salmon fishery in the world), the Cook Inlet (flanked by the Katmai National Park and the Kenai Peninsula), Bristol Bay and the Chukchi Sea up by Point Hope, the entire coast of Alaska is in play.
At the national level the big environmental groups are focused entirely on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is indeed in peril. But they would be advised to learn the history of that very Refuge. It was originally set aside in 1957 by President Eisenhower. In the same package Ike's Interior Secretary, Fred Seaton, opened up 20 million acres of Arctic coastline to oil development.
There are local groups–from the Gwich'in trying to save the Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve west of Prudhoe Bay, to the Inupiat Eskimos defending their whale hunting grounds against oil derricks in the Beaufort Sea, to the Northern Alaska Environmental Center in Fairbanks–taking on the oil companies' grand plan. They understand the stakes more clearly than the national green groups, with the laudable exception of Greenpeace.
As for the Wilderness Society, National Audubon and the others, rapt in their fixation on the Refuge, they seem to be ceding without a fight the rest of the Alaska coast, the Gulf of Mexico and maybe even the Rocky Mountain front. Just listen to Deborah Williams, executive director of the lavishly funded Alaska Conservation Foundation. She recently journeyed to the Refuge with Lesley Stahl of CBS's 60 Minutes and vowed that not one oil rig would ever rise on the plains of the Refuge.
But at the same time Williams told the New York Times that she supports oil drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is eight times as large and just as pristine as the Refuge, because "I drive a car and use petroleum products. We all have to be responsible and balanced." Williams, it should be added, was working for Bruce Babbitt at the Interior Department as his Alaska specialist when he OK'd test drilling in that very part of the Alaskan tundra.
Alexander CockburnAlexander Cockburn, The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist and one of America's best-known radical journalists, was born in Scotland and grew up in Ireland. He graduated from Oxford in 1963 with a degree in English literature and language. After two years as an editor at the Times Literary Supplement, he worked at the New Left Review and The New Statesman, and co-edited two Penguin volumes, on trade unions and on the student movement. A permanent resident of the United States since 1973, Cockburn wrote for many years for The Village Voice about the press and politics. Since then he has contributed to many publications including The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and the Wall Street Journal (where he had a regular column from 1980 to 1990), as well as alternative publications such as In These Times and the Anderson Valley Advertiser.
He has written "Beat the Devil" since 1984.
He is co-editor, with Jeffrey St Clair, of the newsletter and radical website CounterPunch(http://www.counterpunch.org) which have a substantial world audience. In 1987 he published a best-selling collection of essays, Corruptions of Empire, and two years later co-wrote, with Susanna Hecht, The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (both Verso). In 1995 Verso also published his diary of the late 80s, early 90s and the fall of Communism, The Golden Age Is In Us. With Ken Silverstein he wrote Washington Babylon; with Jeffrey St. Clair he has written or coedited several books including: Whiteout, The CIA, Drugs and the Press; The Politics of Anti-Semitism; Imperial Crusades; Al Gore, A User's Manual; Five Days That Shook the World; and A Dime's Worth of Difference, about the two-party system in America.


NORTH London Irish organisation Olsgeire is preparing for its tenth Irish Bike Ride for charity, on May 24-27.
This year eighteen participants will take part in the three-day cycle around Wexford and Wexford to raise money for the Haringey Irish centre Welfare Fund.
Their aim is to raise up to £8,000 for the fund, which helps the elderly and vulnerable.
Day 1 will see the cyclists cover the 62 miles from Rosslare where they set off to Kilkenny. On Day 2, they will cycle from Kilkenny to Dunmore East, a total of 53 miles and on Day 3 they will finish up by covering the 60 miles from Dunmore East to Rosslare.
Donate online at https://www.justgiving.com/olsgeire-haringeyirishcentre. For more on Olsgeire, see http://olsgeire.com.


I met Stace when he graciously allowed the Cisco Writers Club a regular monthly spot on Good Morning, Texas! on 97.7 KATX. The CWC has been on each month, for several months, and I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Stace Gaddy on behalf of the Cisco Writers Club for the Rendezvous with Writing weekly column for Eastland County Today.
Tell us about you. What is your "day job"? What is your favorite part of your day job?
Current day job: KATX 97.7, Eastland. Operations Manager / Host, "Good Morning Texas." From originally creating and developing "The Midday Mix" to re-shaping and developing "Good Morning Texas," I enjoy all aspects of my job. I like the challenge of creating an informative and entertaining show every day, and I thoroughly enjoy interviewing local and national guests. I also take pleasure in doing production work—audio editing and writing, voicing, and producing ads, promos, and segments.
When did you discover you were interested in writing, particularly in writing screenplays and musicals? Do your write all the music for all the instruments? Tell me about that process and your current works.
My original training and passion was as an actor/singer. I was blessed with a high level of success as a performer, but, as a Christian, I increasingly found myself at odds with the content in most of the modern theater. I got my MA Degree in Dramatic Theory & Analysis / Playwriting in order to deepen my understanding of both the theory and practice of writing for the stage and screen. I continued that journey at the Doctoral level—receiving a Ph.D. in Speech Communication, with special emphasis in Phenomenology, Ontology, and Epistemology—applied to the field of dramatic writing in its various forms. My goal, and, more specifically, my call was to utilize this intensified training to create and produce plays, musicals, and screenplays that are both artistically and spiritually unadulterated—without compromising my Christian faith nor artistic excellence—in order to employ the performing arts and media as a vehicle for the Great Commission.
Yes, for my full-length musical called, Conundrum, I composed, arranged, and orchestrated all of the music. I also wrote the lyrics. Normally, this would be a collaborative effort between several people, but for this particular project, I wanted to do all of it. I doubt that I will do it again. It is extremely time-consuming, and people exist that are stronger in certain areas of the process than I am. My musical preference would be to compose the music and lyrics and collaborate with a separate arranger/orchestrator for the final score—or vice-versa, to orchestrate someone else's composed/arranged music.
In God's Creation—His universe, his earth, His human beings. My base-line philosophy and theoretical standpoint and approach is to apply God's creative genius to my feeble creative attempts. As part of my Doctoral studies, I developed a form of drama that I call, "Designism." The fundamental idea is that to create truly enlightened works of art, in any of its various forms, I must thoroughly study and emulate the Master's work—His Design. Specifically where playwriting is concerned, He is, after all, the greatest story-teller in eternity. Let us not forget, too, that Jesus as well is the "Author" and finisher of our Faith. These are two very basic examples of the idea, but the concept of applying God's techniques to my work has no end. Dramatic structure is at the heart of God's creation. Simply, on top of traditional educational training, I ask the Holy Spirit—the best Teacher of all—to instruct me, to give me insight. I study the Master Builder and try to do what He does.
When do you feel most creative during the day?
Most certainly a night person. No matter how hard I try to re-set myself to "early to bed, early to rise," left unchecked, I always revert to hoot-owl tendencies.
Wow—impossible to choose. A) Seemingly infinite pool of beautiful, evocative words – and in so many languages. B) I don't know them all. One that pops into my head as I write this is, "indefatigable." Fun to say, lots of poetic rhythm, and powerfully communicates its meaning. The key to excellent writing is to pick the "right" word – not necessarily the fanciest. The word that entirely and clearly captures–intellectually, poetically, and evocatively—the precise "thing" that the writer wishes to communicate.
Well, I am a literary sinner. I must admit that I do not read much fiction, nor novels of any kind. The pace is too slow for me. I do, however, read copious amounts of everything for informational purposes—articles, journals, etc.—and I'm a news junky. In general, I'm a knowledge addict. I am a bit compulsive about it. When I encounter a word, concept, or event with which I am unfamiliar, I instinctively research it.
I am praying for the Lord to open the doors for the final, big-league, fruition of Conundrum. It has been tested Off-Broadway, revised, re-revised, and is "finished." I'm constantly waiting and watching to find some Christian investors with vision and faith to finance the screenplay—to eternally affect millions of people with the Hope of Christ. To set a new standard of excellence in Christian theatre and film, befitting the Savior.
Much of the story-telling skill is similar from one type of writing to another – plot, conflict, characterization, etc. What is your advice to aspiring authors?
Train. Train. Train. Study the craft—really study it. Too many people have a gift and desire to write but don't do the heavy lifting. Technique is absolutely crucial. Learn all of the theories surrounding it—then, and only then, can a writer add his or her new voice to the field.
Do not do what has been done before. Easier said than done, I know, but make it your imperative to be unique. Don't use other people's phrases nor rhythms nor approach—use your own. Influence is inevitable, but avoid imitation at all costs.
In essence, put on paper what in reality you are—one of a kind, never before, nor hence, existing.
A native Texan, Stace has spent the last several years working professionally as a performer, director, and producer in theatre, music, film, and radio/television in New York City. Now back in Texas to be nearer to family and friends, he is excited to be a part of the KATX family!
A member of the Actors' Equity Association, Gaddy has been blessed with over 50 professional performance credits, ranging from national and international tours to regional and Off-Broadway theatrical work to concert performances at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, as well as Carnegie Hall.
Stace is also an accomplished writer/composer and director/conductor. His original plays and musicals have enjoyed successful runs in Houston, Chicago, and Off-Broadway, and he has conducted several classical and sacred choral/orchestral concerts at various venues in NYC.
In related fields, Gaddy was honored to be the Chairman of the Arts Committee for the final Billy Graham Crusade in Central Park. He has also served as the Director of Development for Promise Productions in Glen Rose, and as the Director of the A.D. Players Theatre Arts Academy in Houston. In addition, Gaddy has six years of university teaching experience as an instructor for Acting, Opera Workshop, Voice and Movement, Introduction to Theatre, and Humanities.
Stace holds BA/MA Degrees in Theatre and Dramatic Theory/Playwriting from Texas State University, and the Ph.D. in Speech Communications from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Psalm 150!


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Karen Madej
Passionate about climate change and living a debt-free, sustainable life. Determined to learn how to and build an adobe house or Earthship. The goal is to live off-grid and off the land. Energy for heat and to power electrical devices and appliances will use solar, wind, and hydro-powered electricity. No trees will die to make my home.
https://twitter.com/wrtwrds
Corkcicle, Orlando Florida, ingenious ideas for ice, coffee, and water
Karen Madej 2021-05-10
Photo Courtesy of Corkcicle Media Pack
Do you ever wonder when someone invented something cool to solve those niggling every day needs? Like a superior cup of java for instance. Think, for a moment, about coffee and its transformation from Camp chicory essence and Nescafe instant coffee granules.
What happened to coffee also happened to all the paraphernalia that accompanies the ritual of making and drinking that perfect cup of joe.
Corkcicle, based in Orlando, FL, caters to folks who adore practical, innovative, and attractive drink ware. They offer canteens, tumblers, kids cups, coffee mugs and much, much more. Their designs are desirable.
Although coffee shops have existed for centuries, they didn't really catch on for all social classes until Starbucks opened theirs and they spread from the USA to the UK and Europe.
In 1998, most of us were still boiling the kettle and pouring the water over soluble granules of coffee extracted from beans.
My first proper coffee maker looked like this.
Image by TeeFarm from Pixabay
Now compare those to a scrumptious roasted, freshly ground, and brewed shot of java. Espresso, cappuccino, latte, Americano. The list goes on. And mocha, my favourite. Before real coffee caught on, I made do with an instant coffee and hot chocolate combination.
The quality and variety of manual and digital coffee makers is incredible. Our demands for coffee have changed astronomically over the last twenty-two years!
In the 1920s, Brazilian bankers asked Nestle for a solution to their surplus coffee bean problem.
Brazilian bankers asked Nestlé to help find a way to increase coffee consumption and decrease the enormous surplus of coffee production in Brazil.
Nestle invented freeze-dried coffee in 1938. But it didn't see popularity in the US until 1956 when commercial television hit viewers' homes. Folks in the UK were still brewing a pot of tea before and after public service TV programmes in 1936, but they beat the US to commercial TV with ITV in September 1955.
Instant coffee took off in the US when commercials appeared. The breaks were too short to brew a cuppa, so they switched to instant coffee. Nestle and General Foods took full advantage of this and advertised their instant coffee during the commercial breaks!
In 1946, Achilles Gaggia introduced his first espresso machine. This gorgeous model found at a bar in a small village in Eritrea, Italy.
By Lucia Tarantola - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Britain benefitted from Gaggia's revolutionary machine in the 1950's when he opened a mocha bar in London.
Starbucks first appeared in the UK in 1998. But really took off in the naughties. The British, in true competitive spirit, came up with their version. Costa Coffee.
Much like Starbucks, Costa Coffee started as a wholesaler of beans and branched out into coffee shops all over Europe.
Today's Big Coffee
Big coffee corporations also create, manufacture and sell their own branded accessories. I own two Starbucks flasks and a winter colour-change cup.
Photo Author's Own
Of course, coffee machines have come a very long way. Joining hands with technology to make the most technically correct and delicious coffee. Any self-respecting cafe, bistro or restaurant will have their own techno masterpiece of a machine.
Image by Karolina Grabowska from Pixabay
Meanwhile some coffee afficionados go a step further. Offering demonstrations of the various methods customers can buy and take home to use themselves.
Photo by Sabri Tuzcu on Unsplash
Let's look at how far Nescafe and technology have come together. They realised in the late 90s that coffee was very much in the public eye. People walking down the street carrying their Starbucks or Costa Coffee cup advertising their and their favourite coffee shop's ingenuity.
By 2006 Nescafe had their own marriage with technology in the form of the Dulce Gusto coffee machine with its accompanying space age pods.
By Stanislav Wald - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
For industrial uses NESCAFÉ Alegria & Milano Commerical Coffee Solutions.
Getting back to Corkcicle, Orlando, FL
They sport an amazing, innovative array of drinkware.
Coffee mugs. There's currently 20% off sets of two double walled glass mugs.
After you've drunk all that coffee you'll need water. Corcicle have the most gorgeous selection of hydration-ware imaginable.
Please tell me, who wouldn't want a Unicorn Magic Sparkle canteen? The company currently has an up to 40% off sale on selected items .
Pop on over to their website.
More from Karen Madej
Opinion: Should everyone making over $400,000 per year pay their fair share of tax?
Affordable healthcare.Photo by Kampus Production from Pexels. US Whitehouse representative Pramila Jayapal is optimistic that the democrats can get Build Back Better done without the republicans and the wealthy paying their fair share. Those who earn over $400,000 per annum will see their taxes increase, while anyone earning less than $400,000 will not pay a cent more tax.
Opinion: Is Lady Liberty a welcoming beacon or a warning to immigrants?
The Statue of Liberty has graced the skyline of New York since 1886. What is its true meaning? At first glance, tourists will stand in awe of her beauty and presence. They wonder as they climb up inside her to see through her eyes if freedom is what she offers. Her torch lights the way to the American Dream.
Opinion: Wildlife crossings save endangered lives and reduce the cost of vehicle collisions on US highways
US Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Work starts this month on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. Last year, the Annenberg Foundation sponsored the largest spanning overpass of its kind - 210 feet over ten lanes of the 101 Freeway at Liberty Canyon to the tune of $25 million donated to the National Wildlife Federation's #SaveLACougars campaign.
Opinion: given a choice of anything you wanted, what would you do with your life?
We don't have to do jobs we don't like these days. If we decide we want to do something different we can find some free or paid courses to learn how to do what we love. And then work towards our dream job. In the US in Q3 2021, there were 10,721,666.66667 unfilled job vacancies.
Opinion: What price will American families pay if Senator Manchin rejects the progressive Build Back bill again?
I have to admit when I read about Joe Manchin's stance, I thought he was in the wrong party. The Guardian reported the Democrat voted no on Sunday 19 December. At the time, it looked as though the $1.75tn Build Back Better plan would fail.
Opinion: studies show expectations of buying stuff, long-term relationships, and dieting are misconceptions
You know all that stuff you buy? A twenty-year study by Nickerson et al. (2003) showed that a materialistic lifestyle does not make you happy. Consumerism harms your mental health.
Opinion: is it right we go into debt at Christmas to satisfy our families, friends, and neighbors for tradition?
VISA, Mastercard, and other credit card companies know how to catch you and keep you paying. Usually, the minimum amount every month with little to no chance of ever paying the whole amount off. Not unless a rich relative leaves you their fortune.
Mi Vecino is hiring; it wants everyone, especially first-time voters, in Florida to vote; and they need your help
Mi Vecino has a mission, and it's possible to feel their positive energy and determination in the Tweets and their website. The grassroots Florida nonprofit is registering and empowering black, brown, and other minorities. They have a goal for December 2021 of 1500 first-time voter registrants. Its main focus is first-time voters and giving people the tools to help themselves.
Opinion: society demands we take daily showers; why would we go without them?
In addition to washing my hands with antibacterial soap approximately fifty times a day (probably not that much in reality - but I do drink a lot of water), I shower or have a bath once a week, and my skin rewards me with perfect hydration. No dryness. A non-itchy, naturally oiled skin is why I choose not to shower every day.
Buy Nothing this Christmas, gift what you don't need, reduce clutter, and touch the brakes on climate change
Two friends Rebecca and Liesl started Buy Nothing when they realized the Pacific Northwest beach they were sitting on with their children was littered with plastic. All shapes, sizes, and color.
Why walk away from a life of instant hot or cold air, light at the touch of a button, and safe to drink running water?
A log cabin similar to the house in the story.Photo by Mary Winchester on Unsplash. The majority of Westerners live in urban settings, comfortable, secure, surrounded by neighbors. There's safety in numbers and economies of scale for local councils to provide water, energy, and refuse collections. Many other services exist in our communities. All we need to do is Google or visit them in person.
The Story of Solutions compares how we consume more of everything rather than choose better for us and the planet
The Story of Solutions presented by Annie Leonard takes us through the story of more. Firstly, the ability of humans to solve the problems of productivity. This started with the Industrial Revolution when Sir Richard Arkwright borrowed design ideas from others to create weaving machines. But that was later.
Swap SheIn cheap fast-fashion disposable clothing for ethical and sustainable slow-fashion brands
Ethical slow fashion companies like Patagonia and Pact Apparel have been planet-friendly for decades! The Good Trade lists 35 Fair Trade & Ethical Clothing Brands. Let's look at some of the reasons you might like to consider buying from them and other sustainable slow-fashion brands.
Sustainability is about noticing how much unnecessary stuff we consume and reducing it where we can
In a recent article, so many folks' wrote negative comments about the title: The U.S. consumes the equivalent of five planets; for one U.S. resident, that's about 17 U.S. football fields, caused me to wonder what made them so angry.
The U.S. consumes the equivalent of five planets; for one U.S. resident, that's about 17 U.S. football fields
Did you know the US consumes the equivalent of five planets?. The UK and EU consume around three to four planets worth of food and other products. The average Ecological Footprint for a U.S. resident (as of 2005 data) is 9.4 global hectares (23.5 acres), or about the size of 17 U.S. football fields. If everyone in the world lived like an American, it would take almost five planets to support humanity. Global Footprint Network.
Will you help Greta, Vanessa, Dominika, and Mitzi end all fossil fuel uses immediately and keep the 1.5°C goals alive?
People reject climate change because of money, and they believe that stripping a planet of ecosystems and habitats for profit has nothing to do with global warming. These are the very people who we have tasked with the actions. Greenwashing exists.
Would you spend $300 or $4000 on a temporary or permanent Airstream, earthbag, or hobbit house?
If you are thinking of building your own home, a good place to start is with a temporary place to live on site. Unless you are rich and paying professionals to build your mansion or a grand design, you will need a roof over your head.
What's America's reason for a shortage of delivery drivers?
Longhaul, truckload drivers benefitted from higher pay as a result of sky-rocketing online ordering in 2020. They stopped driving for weeks at a time and went to work for companies that paid them more. Some drivers were offered higher pay and local routes. Many drivers took advantage of extra pay and reduced their hours to spend more time with their families.
Montana State 2021-10-28
A young couple live debt-free in an off-grid house made from muddy straw using their hands and feet in Montana
Gerry Thomasen from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0 - Not the actual house featured in the story. About 14 years after seeing a cob house and ten years of researching and dreaming up designs for one, a young couple built their own straw bale cob house in Bitterroot Valley, Montana.
How can you save money while earning barely enough to live on?
According to a 2018 survey of 2,000 Americans by MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU), men want to earn $445,000, and women desire $279,000 per year. We need to pause for a reality check here. The average middle-class salary checked in at $61,372. Boom! There goes that dream.


Hi ha coses que m'emprenyen, i quan estic emprenyat parlo en anglès.
TeraCopy is a nice program. But it has a problem: The developer, the programer is not honest.
I don't recommend buying this software, I did sometime ago and the development is dead, there are bugs that aren't fixed.
and he closed comments so he doesn't have to stand them, and we, users, realize the problems.
And now you can read this comment by Proberbial on Jan 22, 2011 13:07 that was posted in the post of the latest release (2.2 Beta 3), right next to this other comment.
any hope for releasing a bugfised version next time???
It seems that there are many additional problems with 2.2beta3, so please first concentrate on the bugfixes of previous – pro versions instead of always announcing "will be released next month".
And this one was deleted, again.
The developer keeps adding useless features like languages or eject USB, but then the program keeps making mistakes on copying files.


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Public Backlash Spurs Komen to Renew Ties with Planned Parenthood
Facebook and Twitter helped stir up public outcry over Planned Parenthood's loss of funding from Komen.
By Alice Park Feb. 03, 2012
Andy Kropa / Getty Images
Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood.
Top Komen Official Resigns in Protest Over Grants Cuts MSNBC
Komen's Decision to Aid Planned Parenthood Again Sparks Reactions The Los Angeles Times
Komen Reverses Decision on Funding Planned Parenthood USA Today
Saying that she had "never seen anything catch fire like I have the outpouring [of support] from people of all walks of life" for Planned Parenthood, the organization's president Cecile Richards told reporters she was "relieved and grateful" for Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to reinstate funding to Planned Parenthood.
Richards credited social media with creating and sustaining a wave of outrage over Komen's decision to terminate funding for breast screening services to Planned Parenthood affiliates around the nation. Komen officials cited Planned Parenthood's current investigation by Congress for allegedly improperly using federal dollars to fund abortions, and Komen's new grant policy preventing it from supporting organizations under Congressional inquiry, for its controversial decision, but many immediately suspected political pressure from conservatives behind the pulling of funds.
Breast cancer patients and survivors, as well as current and former patients of Planned Parenthood clinics, took to Facebook and Twitter to voice their discontent with Komen's decision. The public outcry was picked up by members of Congress, who expressed their dismay at the cut in Planned Parenthood's funding, as well as by individual donors including Dallas philanthropists Lee and Amy Fikes, who donated $250,000, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also pledged $250,000 in matching funds to Planned Parenthood. "All of these things were self-generated," Richards said. "I've been doing this kind of work for a long, long time and I've never seen anything catch fire like I have the outpouring from people from all walks of life."
All told, Planned Parenthood has raised $3 million in the past three days and gained 10,000 or so new financial supporters over the controversy, which Richards says will be directed "100% to not only maintain but expand our breast care work for women." Planned Parenthood's doctors and nurses provide more than 170,000 women with breast care every year, which includes clinical breast self-exams as well as referrals for mammography and follow up care.
Richards said she learned of Komen's decision online, and has not yet spoken to anyone at the breast cancer charity despite putting in a call. As she has since Komen's decision to pull its funding was first announced Richards again lashed out at conservative groups that have for the past year targeted Planned Parenthood for its reproductive health services, which include distribution of condoms and provision of abortions services. "The message in this for anyone running for public office is that women's health is not a political issue," she said. "Women and men made the point clearly that we cannot allow politics to interfere with women's health care. I do think it's a watershed moment of women and men standing up and saying we are not going to stand by while some groups politicize health care. That's political bullying, and folks are saying that's enough."
Richards is hoping the momentum behind this latest clash will keep public support of Planned Parenthood going, and in particular serve as a warning to political groups hoping to impose conservative views on health care that Americans won't tolerate such a hijacking. "What people want in this country is folks to focus on solving problems, judging less and caring more," she said.
For now, Planned Parenthood is back on track to continue its Komen-partnered programs in breast screening, and for the time being, it's in an even better position financially to expand some of those services. But Richards realizes that the politicization of health care won't go away soon; Komen, as other organizations are, could become vulnerable to political pressures again. But for now, Richards said "I feel very positive and relieved that we can focus on women's health again."
Alice Park is a writer at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @aliceparkny. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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Q: How can i catch errors only if there is an error? Axios catch an error even if the response is success.
I tried to check the error but in my opignion, it doesn't make sense.
Is there something wrong in the code in my vuex acion:
export const store = ({ dispatch, state, commit }, { payload, context }) => {
    return axios.post('/api/projects', payload).then((response) => {
        commit('addProject', response.data)
        commit('setProjectData', response.data)
    }).catch(function (error) {
        if (error)
        context.errors = error.response.data.errors
    })
}

//Unhandled Promise Rejection: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'error.response.data')

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ACCESS' NetFront™ Browser Integrated in NEC Handsets offered by AT&T Wireless
Tokyo, Japan / Fremont, CA, USA – August 12, 2003 – ACCESS (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813), a global provider of mobile content delivery and access technologies, announced today that its NetFront® v3.0 browser has been integrated in NEC America's 515 High Definition Mobile+ (HDM) handset. AT&T Wireless will be the excusive U.S. carrier of this NEC handset.
NetFront v3.0 is the latest version of the most widely deployed and actively used embedded Web browser in the world. NetFront is a modular, scalable, feature-rich, WAP 2.0-compliant embedded browser that supports a wide variety of non-PC Internet devices ranging from mobile phones and PDAs to automobile navigation systems.
"NEC and ACCESS have a long history of collaboration in the mobile marketplace and we consider NetFront browser technology one of the best available, so it was not difficult to decide to work with them for this deployment," said Noboru Sakata, general manager of the Wireless Engineering Division at NEC America. "We look forward to additional mobile deployments with ACCESS in the United States."
"I am very pleased that our browser has been embedded in the NEC 515 mobile phone for AT&T Wireless' service," stated Toru Arakawa, president and CEO of ACCESS. "Internet access from mobile phones is practically ubiquitous in Japan and is getting close in Europe and the rest of Asia, and we expect the United States to experience significant growth in that direction as well. This deployment is proof of ACCESS' commitment to help build a fully networked and mobile society."
About NetFront
NetFront v3.0 supports the WAP 2.0 specification as well as the latest W3C specifications, including support for HTML 4.01, XHTML (XHTML Mobile Profile), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and SSL v3.0 (Secure Socket Layer). NetFront v3.0 also provides unique features such as Smart-Fit™ rendering, a display technology that intelligently renders Web pages to fit the narrow screen widths of mobile devices, eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling while enabling an uncompromised mobile browsing experience.
ACCESS Co. Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813) is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has subsidiaries in Fremont, California, Oberhausen, Germany, and Beijing, China. ACCESS is a global provider of mobile content delivery and access technologies for information appliances. ACCESS' embedded NetFront® and Compact NetFront® browsers power 244 different commercial products worldwide including mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, game consoles, PDAs, car navigation systems, web phones, kiosk terminals and intranet terminals. ACCESS' Compact NetFront microbrowser is most widely deployed in phones for NTT DoCoMo's popular i-mode® service. To date, over 92 million ACCESS software licenses have shipped from more than 80 major Internet device manufactures (As of May, 2003). ACCESS was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market on February 26, 2001. More information is available at www.access.co.jp/english/ or www.access-us-inc.com.
ACCESS is a registered trademark in Japan. NetFront is registered trademark of ACCESS Co., Ltd. in Japan. NetFront is a registered trademark of NetFront Communications, Inc. in the United States and is used under license. i-mode is a registered trademark of NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
+HDM (High Definition Mobile) is not meant to imply compliance with any HDTV (High Definition Television) or similar high definition standards.
ACCESS Co., Ltd., Japan Kazunori Takahashi
81 (3) 5259-3685 prinfo@access.co.jpcom
China Contact:
ACCESS China Inc. Delia Liu
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Posts on new approaches to aid, reflecting my research at both Oxfam and LSE. These included what peace and conflict mediation can teach the Thinking and Working Politically crew; More of my thoughts on Adaptive Management and Exfamer Chris Roche gets nerdy on its link to MEL.
A lot of the aid rethink is coming from work in fragile states: check out an interview with DFID governance guru Wilf Mwamba on aid's blind spot on non-state actors like tribes, armed groups and faith leaders; my piece on aid and FCAS for a new OECD report and me slagging off reviewing the recent report of the LSE-hosted Commission on Fragility, Growth and Development.
Other stuff from the humanitarian side: Ajoy Datta on lessons from the Nepal earthquake while Ed Cairns gets all reflective on what restrains extreme violence – culture or the law?
Couple of book reviews: Matthew Spencer on Factfulness, by the Roslings; me on Navigation by Judgment, by Dan Honig.
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Mercedes-AMG is going electric: all you need to know
May 17, 2021 by Ryan Hirons
Yes, that's right, Mercedes-AMG is going electric. It's not quite as straightforward as that sounds, though. Read on to find out why…
Yep, you read that right. Mercedes-AMG — the kings of snarling great V8s that make for ridiculous burnout machines — is going electric.
Before you grab your torches and pitchforks though, it's not suddenly doing away with performance brutes and making ultra-efficient commuter fridges though.
Rather it's using electric power to make its machines even better in a time where petrol looks to be going extinct and performance cars as we know are on the way out of the door. Read on to find out just how they're doing that…
Remind me again, what is Mercedes-AMG?
AMG is the in-house tuning division of Mercedes-Benz. For the most part, they take the regular cars from Mercedes' production lines and shove whopping engines in them to give them loads of performance as well as messing about with the chassis to make sure the handling matches too.
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Take the Mercedes-AMG A45 S, for example. It's an A-Class with a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine there, which seems usual — until you find out it has 421hp hiding away in there.
421hp in a mass-produced hatchback? Madness
That's more than a Ferrari 360 Modena. In a hatchback.
The real Mercedes-AMG hallmark at the moment though is its 4.0-litre, twin-turbocharged V8 engine. This sits in everything from its take on the C-Class, the 476hp C63, right through to its own-built Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series with a monstrous 730hp.
So is it doing away with those engines for batteries?
Fortunately, Mercedes-AMG isn't suddenly dropping its brutal engines for battery power. Rather it's combining the two for some cars.
It does mean the big V8s will be reined in a little — boo, we know — with some of its cars getting a petrol-electric hybrid setup.
Six-cylinder cars like the E53 already have mild-hybrid tech, but AMG is taking that even further
Not a mild-hybrid either, like it already does for six-cylinder cars like the E53 and CLS 53, rather linking petrol engines, which will be smaller in most cases, to electric motors for proper plug-in hybrids.
Wait, plug-in hybrid Mercedes-AMGs? I'm relighting that torch…
Hang on, before you reach for the lighter, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Take a look at the new upcoming Mercedes-AMG flagship for example, the AMG One hypercar.
The AMG one uses a hybrid setup ripped straight from Formula One
That's using the same 1.6-litre V6 petrol-electric hybrid setup you'd find underneath any of Lewis Hamilton's championship-winning F1 cars since 2017. Not a heavily detuned, half-baked version either — rather ripped straight out with just enough changes to make it road legal and not require a pit crew to start it.
Read more on the AMG One
That should mean more than 1,000hp. From a car with a 1.6-litre engine.
That technology will then creep into the upcoming Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door 73e too. This will retain the V8 found in the 63 but use a 6.1kWh battery to take power up from 638hp to 816hp.
Expect to see the AMG GT 4-Door 73e revealed in full pretty soon
The V8 is set to be culled from the Mercedes-AMG C63 saloon, though. This will instead see the 421hp engine of the A45 S boosted even further to 449hp, and linked up to batteries and a motor. That will take the total power output well north of 600hp.
Ok, now I'm interested. Won't hybrid power make them feel less fun, though?
Ah, you see, Mercedes-AMG still wants its cars to be fun as well as ultra-fast, so it's doing more than strapping some batteries to powerful engines and calling it a day.
The C63 (rendered here) will use a 449hp four-cylinder engine linked to an electric motor, good for more than 600hp
In the case of the C63, a new electric turbocharger is designed to do the trick. It has its own little motor which spools it up instantly when you hit the throttle, so you should get any lag between the instant torque from the car's motors and the engine kicking in.
Read more on the upcoming AMG C63
With the extra power though, it looks as though the hybrid Mercedes-AMGs will be going from rear-driven to all-wheel-drive though to help its cars make the most of its newfound grunt. That said, it should have a 'drift mode' built-in that will still allow for big skids and burnouts if you're that way inclined.
So Mercedes-AMG is keeping some petrol power but also bringing in some hybrids for now. Got it. What about electric cars?
Ok so we've covered the hybrids, but there's another thing to mention — and that is a new all-electric Mercedes-AMG car.
It won't be its first, though. Remember the Mercedes SLS, that V8 brute with the gullwing doors? Well, it briefly had an electric version.
Honestly, there was an electric SLS…
Simply called the SLS AMG Electric Drive, it used four motors to produce 750hp. It was more of a proof of concept limited production car rather than a full-blown effort at building an EV supercar, though.
It could only do 160 miles on a charge, and cost well north of £300,000. Only a handful of them were made too, and command an asking price of nearly £1 million when they very rarely appear on the used market.
This render gives you an idea of how the Mercedes-AMG EQS could look…
Fortunately, the next one should be a lot cheaper and much more attainable. Set to be based on the upcoming Mercedes EQS saloon, it's effectively going to be the electric equivalent of the S65 AMG.
It'll have 761hp, perhaps not coincidentally identical to the Porsche Taycan Turbo S, and take on some aggressive styling tweaks to make it look the part too.
Read more on the upcoming AMG EQS
I think I'm sold on the Mercedes-AMG EQS. When can I get one?
Well, the Mercedes-AMG EQS is still some way off yet — don't expect to see it revealed until at least 2022 — so you may want to hold onto that spare wad of cash behind the sofa for now.
Fair enough, can I get a plug-in hybrid Mercedes-AMG before then?
Almost certainly, yes. It looks as though the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door 73e will be revealed in full in the coming months, having been extensively teased, and could well be on sale before the close of 2021.
The C63 should then follow with a reveal later this year, perhaps going on sale early next year.
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Harry Silver is Counsel in the firm's Healthcare, Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations practice groups. He has 40 years of experience advising clients on healthcare issues and handling complex litigation at trial and on appeal. Mr. Silver's practice includes defending healthcare companies and government contractors in government investigations and litigation stemming from allegations of fraud and abuse; representing healthcare providers in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement litigation before federal and state agencies and trial and appellate courts; and advising providers on compliance and reimbursement issues. Mr. Silver also brings expertise advising government contractors on a variety of compliance and contracting issues. He has represented government contractors in bid protests and contract disputes before administrative tribunals and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as reviewing and negotiating government contracts and preparing contract bids and proposals.
Advise clients on contracts with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), including advising retail pharmacies and long-term care pharmacies on issues involving their PBM contacts.
Advise employers on privacy/HIPAA, employment discrimination, and other legal issues involved in the implementation of employee wellness programs.
Conduct and supervise regulatory due diligence in the acquisition of healthcare providers and suppliers, particularly the acquisition of retail and long-term care pharmacies.
Advise clients that devise and administer corporate wellness programs on their contracts with employers.
Handled numerous internal investigations, bid protests, contract disputes, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement litigation, and regulatory due diligence projects in connection with corporate acquisitions.
Briefed and argued appeals in 10 of the 12 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, written briefs and cert. petitions in the U.S. Supreme Court, briefed and argued appeals in various state appellate courts.
Spacesaver Systems, Inc. v. Adam, 2014 WL 4216024 (Md. Aug. 27, 2014). Secured a unanimous ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals (the highest court in Maryland) that an employee was wrongfully terminated because her employment contract provided that she could be terminated "for cause," despite Maryland's strong presumption that all employment is "at-will." While the Court agreed with the employer that the contract did not meet the prerequisites of a "lifetime" employment contract, it characterized the agreement as a "continuous for cause" contract, much like tenure.
U.S. ex rel. Woodruff v. Hawaii Pacific Health, 560 F.Supp.2d 988 (D. Hawaii 2008), aff'd, 2010 WL 5072191 (9th Cir. 2010). Successfully defended qui tam (whistleblower) action that alleged that a hospital's Medicaid claims were fraudulent, with the Ninth Circuit affirming the district court's determination that the claims were not misleading, and therefore, were not false claims.
U.S. ex rel. Lockyer v. Hawaii Pacific Health, 490 F.Supp.2d 1062 (D. Hawaii 2007), aff'd, 2009 WL 2700321 (9th Cir. 2009). Successfully defended healthcare provider in another qui tam action alleging that an outpatient clinic submitted false claims to Medicare, with the Ninth Circuit affirming the district court's ruling that a regulation negates the scienter necessary to establish a violation of the False Claims Act.
U.S. ex rel. Crews v. NCS Healthcare, 460 F.3d 853 (7th Cir. 2006). Represented long-term care pharmacy in a qui tam action that alleged that the pharmacy defrauded Illinois Medicaid by dispensing misbranded pharmaceuticals to Medicaid beneficiaries. The court ruled that the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act could not be enforced through the False Claims Act and that statistical probabilities alone were insufficient to prove that the misbranded pharmaceuticals had been dispensed to Medicaid beneficiaries.
U.S. ex rel. Quinn v. Omnicare, 382 F.3d 432 (3d Cir. 2004), successful defense of a qui tam action alleging that a long-term care pharmacy accepted the return of pharmaceuticals paid for by New Jersey Medicaid, and billed Medicaid a second time when the same pharmaceuticals were redispensed. The Third Circuit ruled that in order to establish a violation of the False Claims Act, it was necessary to prove that Medicaid paid twice for the same pill, and that statistical probabilities alone were insufficient to carry this burden.
Obtained a federal court injunction preventing the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ("Joint Commission" or "JCAHO"), a private nonprofit tax-exempt accreditation organization, from issuing a non-accreditation determination against a major health system.
American Lawyer Media, Top Rated Lawyer in Healthcare Law, 2013
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Listed in Who's Who in America (1994-2010), Who's Who in American Law (1987-1991, 2002-2010), Who's Who in the East (2002-2010) and Who's Who in the World (2006-2009).
Publications and Speeches
Author, "The Kane decision: A flawed interpretation of the 60-day rule," Compliance Today (January 2016).
Co-author, "New HIPAA Rules Regarding Genetic Information Affect Employers, Group Health Plans, Health Insurers and Healthcare Providers," Duane Morris Alert, February 25, 2013; republished by American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Health Lawyers Weekly (March 15, 2013).
Co-editor, AHLA Healthcare Compliance, Legal Issues Manual, Third Edition.
Author, False Claims Act chapter, AHLA Healthcare Compliance, Legal Issues Manual (all four editions).
Co-author, "Legal Considerations and Compliance," chapter in AHLA Healthcare Compliance, Legal Issues Manual, Third Edition.
Author, "Fundamentals of Fraud and Abuse Laws," chapter in AHLA Deciphering Codes: Fraud & Abuse for Coders and Coding Insight for Healthcare Lawyers.
Author, chapter on Medicare and Medicaid compliance contractors, The California Hospital Association Compliance Manual, 2011 edition.
Selected Speaking Engagements
"The Changed Enforcement Environment," Healthcare Financial Management Association Region 2 Conference, Greensboro, Georgia (February 22, 2012).
Moderator, "The New Rules of Engagement: New Weapons in the Government's Enhanced Enforcement Arsenal" DC Bar (November 29, 2011).
"ZPICs are Coming: Will You be Ready?" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii (October 20, 2010).
"Providers Beware: Operating Under Heightened Government Enforcement" presented at Breakfast Briefings (June 24, 2010, Houston, TX; June 22, 2010, Honolulu, HI).
"Fraud Enforcement, Compliance and Integrity in Health Reform: Meeting the Challenge When the Government Ups the Ante" (Webinar, June 10, 2010).
"A Fresh Look at the Amended FCA" (Webinar, July 28, 2009).
"Failure to Have an Effective Compliance Program Can be Reckless" presented at the annual meeting of Managed Health Care Associates (February 2009, Las Vegas, NV).
Submitted an amicus brief, in Holmes v. Louisiana, Sup.Ct. No. 08-1358, seeking Supreme Court review of whether an individual born with fetal alcohol syndrome should have been subject to the death penalty.
Successfully filed suit against the owner of an apartment building who refused to accept HUD housing vouchers.
Successfully filed suit against a retail chain for failure to make its stores accessible to persons with disabilities.
News, Events & Insights
Potomac Law Launches Appellate & Critical Motions practice Group
CMS's Final 60-Day Rule Emphasizes Need for Proactive Self-Audits
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The First Judicial Interpretation of the ACA's 60-Day Rule Increases Uncertainty and Risk for Health Care Providers
PLG's Harry Silver edits new edition of the Health Care Compliance Legal Issues Manual
In Victory by Potomac Law Maryland High Court Rules That a "For Cause" Provision in Contract Negates Presumption of At-will Employment
Potomac Law's Counsel Harry Silver Named as Top-Rated Lawyer
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Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination, located in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to Hạ Long City, Cam Pha town, and part of Van Don district. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. Ha Long Bay is a center of a larger zone which includes Bai Tu Long bay to the northeast, and Cat Ba islands to the southwest. These larger zones share similar geological, geographical, geomorphological, climate, and cultural characters.
Ha Long Bay has an area of around 1,553 km2, including 1,960 islets, most of which are limestone. The core of the bay has an area of 334 km2 with a high density of 775 islets. The limestone in this bay has gone through 500 million years of formation in different conditions and environments. The evolution of the karst in this bay has taken 20 million years under the impact of the tropical wet climate. The geo-diversity of the environment in the area has created biodiversity, including a tropical evergreen biosystem, oceanic and sea shore biosystem. Ha Long Bay is home to 14 endemic floral species and 60 endemic faunal species.


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