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Google Stadia will only have 12 games at launch (Update: 22 games)
Corbin Davenport
2019/11/17 9:38pm PST Nov 17, 2019
Update 1: 2019/11/17 9:45pm PST
On the eve of Stadia's launch, Google has nearly doubled the amount of games that will be available on day one. Here are the new entries: Attack on Titan: Final
Most recent game platforms have shipped with a decent amount of games available on day one. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One both had 23 titles at release, but if you were hoping for as much variety from Stadia, you'll have to wait a few months.
In a blog post today, Google revealed the list of games that will be available on Stadia's release date of November 19th. Only 12 titles have made the cut, though some of them (like Red Dead Redemption II) are long enough games that most players probably won't mind.
Destiny 2: The Collection
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
The good news is that Stadia subscribers won't have to wait long for the catalog to expand. There are only two months left in 2019, but Borderlands 3, Farming Simulator 19, Final Fantasy XV, Football Manager 2020, GRID, Metro Exodus, RAGE 2, and others will arrive on Stadia before the year's end.
Update 1: 2019/11/17 9:45pm PST by Corbin Davenport
On the eve of Stadia's launch, Google has nearly doubled the amount of games that will be available on day one. Here are the new entries:
Attack on Titan: Final Battle 2
Also, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint will now arrive on Stadia before the end of the year, instead of next year as previously planned. Doom: Eternal, Watch Dogs: Legion, Gods & Monsters, and Cyberpunk 2077 have all been confirmed for a 2020 release on Stadia.
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Isichthys henryi ist ein afrikanischer Süßwasserfisch aus der Familie der Nilhechte (Mormyridae). Er kommt in zwei getrennten Verbreitungsgebieten in Westafrika vor. Das eine umfasst küstennahe Flüsse in Guinea, Sierra Leone und Liberia, das andere liegt im Stromgebiet des Niger und reicht über Kamerun und Gabun bis zum Kouilou in der Republik Kongo.

Merkmale
Isichthys henryi wird maximal 28,7 cm lang und besitzt einen aalartig langgestreckten, seitlich leicht abgeflachten Körper. Der Rumpf ist einfarbig in der Farbe von Bitterschokolade gefärbt, der Kopf ist gelbbraun, die Flossenstrahlen dunkelbraun, die Flossenmembran transparent. Die Körperhöhe entspricht 5,9 bis 11,9 % der Standardlänge, die Körperbreite 70 % der Körperhöhe. Rücken- und Afterflosse sind lang, die Rückenflosse, die 44 bis 48 % der Standardlänge erreicht, beginnt deutlich vor der Afterflosse. Sie wird bei der Population aus dem Niger und Niederguinea von 42 bis 49 Flossenstrahlen gestützt, bei der Population aus Oberguinea sind es 37 bis 44 Flossenstrahlen. Die Afterflosse erreicht 39 bis 41 % der Standardlänge und besitzt 40 bis 48 bzw. 36 bis 44 Flossenstrahlen. Von den ebenfalls langgestreckten Brienomyrus-Arten – und einigen langgestreckten Mormyrops-Arten – kann Isichthys henryi durch die lange Rückenflosse unterschieden werden; bei Brienomyrus und Mormyrops ist immer die Afterflosse die längste.

Die Bauchflossen stehen bei Isichthys henryi näher zur Afterflosse als zu den Brustflossen. Der Schwanzflossenstiel ist kurz und erreicht nur 8 % der Standardlänge. Er ist 1,7 bis 3,3 mal länger als hoch und von 16 bis 20 Schuppen umgeben, die allerdings manchmal unregelmäßig stehen, so dass es schwierig ist, die Schuppenanzahl zu bestimmen. Entlang der Seitenlinie zählt man bei der Population aus dem Niger und Niederguinea 120 bis 130 Schuppen, bei der Population aus Oberguinea sind es 135 bis 145 Schuppen.

Der Kopf ist 1,75 bis 2 mal so lang wie hoch. Die "Schnauze" (Region vor den Augen) macht 21 bis 25 % der Kopflänge aus und endet in einem abgerundeten "Knollenorgan". Das Maul ist unterständig und im Oberkiefer mit fünf bis sechs, im Unterkiefer mit sechs zweispitzigen Zähnen besetzt. Auf der Unterkieferaußenseite sitzen Elektrorezeptoren. Die Augen sind klein, ihr Durchmesser erreicht die halbe Schnauzenlänge. Rund um die Augen befinden sich vier weitere große Elektrorezeptoren, deren Durchmesser dem der Nasenöffnungen entspricht.

Wie alle Nilhechte ist Isichthys henryi zur Elektrokommunikation und Elektroorientierung fähig. Elektrorezeptoren befinden sich am Kopf, Rücken und an einigen Teilen des Bauchs. Sie fehlen an den Seiten und auf dem Schwanzflossenstiel, wo das elektrische Organ zu finden ist. Das elektrische Signal von Isichthys henryi ist von niedriger Frequenz und bei Weibchen und Männchen unterschiedlich.

Systematik
Isichthys henryi ist die einzige Art der Gattung Isichthys. Obwohl es Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Populationen in Bezug auf die Flossenstrahlenanzahl und die Schuppenreihen gibt, gelten sie als nicht ausreichend, um die Art in zwei Arten spalten. Isichthys ist die Schwestergattung von Brienomyrus.

Literatur
 Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Guy G. Teugels, Carl D. Hopkins: The Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of Lower Guinea, West-Central Africa. Band 1. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle / Musée royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Paris / Tervuren 2007, ISBN 978-9-0747-5220-6 (PDF; 66,6 MB).

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 Isichthys henryi Gill, 1863

Nilhechte
Mormyridae

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Melo slams tanking as 'bad mentality to have'
6yIan Begley
Donovan: Young Bulls 'don't know how' to win yet
5hRoyce Young
Giannis' plan to fix free throw issue: Shoot more
'We can do better': Even when Steph Curry is on, Warriors struggling to find their rhythm
1dNick Friedell
LeBron gets laugh out of his hilarious 'reaction' to Harden trade
1dKelly Cohen
The Rockets created a culture that gave James Harden all the power
3dTim MacMahon
Game postponements, news and updates for the NBA and its COVID-19 protocols
Tanking games not on Melo's mind
Ian BegleyESPN Staff Writer
Covers the New York Knicks for ESPNNewYork.com
PHILADELPHIA -- Some New York Knicks fans want to see the team tank the season to land a top pick in the NBA draft.
But to star forward Carmelo Anthony, that is a "bad mentality to have."
"I don't know how to have that mindset," Anthony said Wednesday night after the Knicks beat the Philadelphia 76ers 98-91 to improve to 7-36. "Having that mindset as a basketball player, as a competitor, it's just hard to do unless you don't care about the game, what happens and your performance. To say that we're going to go out there and we want to lose a basketball game, I think that's a bad mentality to have."
"I don't know how to have that mindset ... It's just hard to do unless you don't care about the game, what happens and your performance. To say that we're going to go out there and we want to lose a basketball game, I think that's a bad mentality to have."
Carmelo Anthony, on tanking games
The Knicks have won two straight for the first time since Nov. 2 but still have the NBA's worst record.
The team that ends the season with the worst record has a 25 percent chance of landing the top pick in the draft. It is guaranteed to pick no lower than fourth. The team that finishes with the second-fewest wins has a 19.9 percent chance of landing the top pick; the third-worst team has a 14.7 percent chance.
New York is percentage points behind the Sixers (8-34) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (7-34).
Knicks president Phil Jackson essentially pulled the plug on the season when he traded J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert for a 2019 second-round pick and two trade exceptions earlier this month. So the focus for the Knicks has turned to free agency and the upcoming draft.
One other storyline for New York is the health of Anthony's left knee.
Anthony has played in two straight games since sitting out six straight due to knee soreness. On Wednesday, he scored a game-high 27 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to lead New York.
"I think the most important thing is just a matter of how much work I've been able to put in with my overall body these two weeks," Anthony said before the game. "So that's kind of what's getting me through right now, not having to compensate my knee, and everything else is feeling good."
Surgery is still a distinct possibility for Anthony. The 30-year-old said earlier this month that surgery is "going to be his only option" at some point.
It is unclear at this point when Anthony will have surgery. Jackson has said that playing in the All-Star Game, which will be held at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 15, is important to Anthony.

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Golden opportunity for Yuvraj Singh to cement place in Test side
Posted by Syed Khalid Mahmood at 3:39 PM .
Labels: Indian Cricketer, Yuvraj Singh
The resumption of England's tour to India has gladdened the hearts of millions of cricket enthusiasts all over the world but one man to whom this could mean he most is none other than the mercurial Yuvraj Singh.
The enterprising left-hander, who has had an outstanding ODI series, has been rewarded by the selectors as he has found his way in the Test squad for the two-Test series against England starting on December 11.
It's a golden opportunity for Yuvraj, having phenomenal record in the limited overs games, to cement a place in the Test side. He has been deemed as the natural successor to the now retired former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly.
There are quite a few similarities between Yuvraj and Ganguly. Both of them believe in taking the attack to the opposition. India certainly needs an explosive matter at number six following the grafters of the caliber of Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman all of whom are experts in playing long innings.
Yuvraj hasn't enjoyed yet the kind of consistency that was being expected from him in the limited opportunities having coming his way. To be fair with him, he was not given a long enough run to settle in the team.
Obviously it was not easy to walk into the middle-order already having four world class batsmen. He was drafted in the playing even only when one of the fabulous four was struggling for form or fitness.
With Ganguly having now retired, Yuvraj should not have the pressure of being there just for an interim period. If he fires in the Test matches in the manner he has done in One-day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals there is no reason why he should be a regular member of the Indian Test team for a number of years.
There are two major factors in Yuvraj's favour now and he should make the most of them. Number one the retirement of Ganguly takes the press off his head. He can be assured of a place in the Test side now if he keeps scoring prolifically.
Number two he has been in exceptional form during the past few weeks. He was absolutely magnificent in the one-dayers having blasted back to back hundreds. He finds himself in a very good position now to carry this terrific form into the Test matches. He should fancy his chances of dominating the same set of England bowlers in the two Tests as well.
It's just a matter of putting things together for Yuvraj. If he plays his natural aggressive cricket without losing his composure he looks all set for big scores in Test cricket too. He has tremendous potential and he needs to improve his Test record. He deserves better figures than 1050 runs in 23 games spread over a period of five years.
The kind of attacking cricket the Indians have been playing lately Yuvraj fits perfectly in their plans. He has a great opportunity to prove to the world that he has the talents to succeed in the longer version of the game too.
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SPECIAL UPDATE:
THE SILVERIDGE STORM
"Yes, we've had a run of bad luck with the monsoon storms;
but, on the other hand, we were truly lucky that no one got hurt.
Now we're going to rebuild and make things better than ever."
-Al LaCanne
When the phone rings at 1:30 at night, what are the odds that it's good news? The Publishers Clearing House is not calling at 1:30 to tell you what you won. No, that late call is going to be rough, and that's exactly what GM Rhonda Ciacco experienced earlier this month. The call was to tell her the roof at the Silveridge clubhouse was collapsing under the weight of a Noah-worthy storm, 3.7 inches of rain in an hour, along with howling winds.
After getting that 1:30AM call, Rhonda jumped into action. By 7AM the insurance adjuster was onsite, a man who impressed Rhonda with his knowledge – after all, he'd worked both Katrina and Sandy. By 8AM the restoration company arrived and started their work. Meanwhile the team from GDS managed to make the adjustments necessary to get the cable and internet back up.
Rhonda offered this assessment of the damage: "With everyone working long hours, we managed to minimize the immediate impact. But the offices were flooded, along with the ballroom, billiard room, card room and library."
The restoration work continues. Meanwhile, the folks at The Resort are pitching in. As Rhonda put it, "We always call them 'sister parks,' and this is a situation where the sisters help each other."
A mobile home outfitted as offices is on the way to Silveridge, but in the interim, Silveridge offices are temporarily operating out of The Resort.
All The Resort amenities — the pool and other facilities — are open to Silveridge residents.
Look for updates on the restoration work in upcoming editions of The Silveridge Sun.
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Homelessness Action Week profile: Larry Yargeau
Dec 20 2017, 1:53 am
In recognition of Homelessness Action Week October 11 to October 17, Vancity Buzz will be featuring profiles and interviews with former residents of the Downtown East Side, organizations trying to make a difference, and the history of one of Vancouver's most notorious neighbourhoods.
This series is presented in partnership with the Union Gospel Mission, which offers support, programs, and resources for people looking to overcome their addictions, reenter the work force, and take back control of their lives.
On Saturday, October 17, 2015 UGM invites you to learn about the DTES community through the Hello Neighbour Project, which offers neighbourhood walks and a community plunge at Oppenheimer Park. For more info visit www.ugm.ca/haw
More information on the Union Gospel Mission can be found online.
Larry Yargeau
The path of Larry Yargeau's life has put him through some of the worst things Metro Vancouver has to offer, but it was a long and challenging path that got him there.
Born in Regina Saskatchewan, Yargeau was taken from his parents when he was just a few months old. He spent the next fives years in the Canadian foster system, bouncing from family to family, experiencing abuse at the hands of people he was told to trust. At five-years-old, he was adopted by a family in Calgary, being treated to more of the same. Finally, at 12-years-old, he'd had enough.
"I ran away from home," he says. "I started drinking and smoking weed, and progressively got into cocaine, drinking, and partying."
Cutting off all contact with family and friends, Yargeau became embroiled in a life of gangs and crime, which would see him in prison for 12 of the next 14 years of his life.
While incarcerated at Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba, Yargeau reconnected with family members also serving time. Speaking with his uncle, Yargeau realized he had to try and make a change in his life.
"He told me that my mum wouldn't have wanted to see me like this," says Yargeau. "At that point I just decided that I wasn't going back. I wasn't going to go back to jail, and to this day I haven't."
But that didn't stop Yargeau's path of addiction. He continued to drink, continued to do cocaine, and things only got worse from there. Following the death of his much-loved aunt, Yargeau went to a friend's house and did crystal meth for the first time. It wasn't long before the drug took total control of his life.
"I had two kids, I had a great life, a good job, had a house, but none of that could keep me from using meth," he says.
He hid his addiction from everyone he knew, doing meth in secret for two a half years. When he began selling meth, Yargeau became a feared figure in his community, using his position as a dealer to do more drugs than ever.
"Seven grams of meth in two or three days," he says. "Which is a lot. It kills most people that do that much."
It was around this time that Yargeau's ex-girlfriend offered him an ultimatum: go to recovery or never see your kids again. While he completed a program in Alberta, it was only weeks later Yargeau was back to using. In an attempt to escape his negative influences, Yargeau accepted a job in Vancouver, and tried his best to stay clean.
"That didn't last very long either," he says.
With his days spent working, using meth, and hanging out with addicts, dealers, and criminals, what finally broke Yargeau's spirit was a roommate. Yargeau woke one day to find one of his roommates – an alcoholic – had defecated on the floor of the living room.
"I just walked away. I called to talk to my kids, because when I talk to them I just forget about everything else," he says. "My ex wouldn't let me talk to them, because I was so mad."
With nowhere to go and no one to talk to, Yargeau walked to the Pattullo Bridge, ready to end it all. While contemplating the jump, Yargeau had a vision.
"I looked over the side of the bridge and I saw my two kids' faces. I didn't see any water, no boats," he says. "That's when I asked God, and said I needed help."
From the bridge, Yargeau walked all the way to Union Gospel Mission facility in New Westminster, and immediately enrolled in their Alcohol & Drug recovery program. Following his completion, he began working at UGM Hastings on the maintenance crew, but again the stresses of life would push him back to drug use.
"I got paid on a Friday from here. A thousand dollars," he says. "I came back on Saturday broke. I didn't spend anything on food, rooms, anything – it was all spent on crystal meth."
UGM sent Yargeau to a recovery house in Abbotsford, after working his way to house manager, he accepted a position as house manager at another house in Burnaby. Yargeau and his friend began abusing this position of authority, continuing to use meth, safe in the fact that they couldn't get kicked out.
"There was no way we were getting kicked out," he says. "I was the one doing everything."
The guilt of running a recovery house while still getting high began to get to Yargeau. Taking another opportunity to start fresh, Yargeau moved to Duncan on Vancouver Island with a woman he'd met online. Within a month he was drinking and using meth again. While texting his dealer, Yargeau instead texted a friend of his in Vancouver, whom he had completed the UGM Alcohol & Drug program.
"He said 'Don't do anything, don't go anywhere' and I said 'Well, if I'm around,'" he says. "What I meant at the time was I was thinking of going to live with a friend in Port Alberni… He took it more seriously and thought that I was doing to kill myself. Looking back, I probably would have."
Yargeau's sponsor phoned him, and talked Yargeau in to returning to the Alchohol & Drug program.
"I didn't want to. The last thing I wanted was to come back here and go through six months again," he says. "Not only that, but being ex-staff, and knowing pretty much all the staff that work in the building, and having them see me come in again. But I did it."
Like many people who have completed UGM's Alcohol & Drug recovery program, Yargeau spent more time working on who he is, instead of just getting over the physical aspects of his addiction.
"This time around I did a lot of work on the inside, as opposed to last time, it was everybody else," he says. "This time it was all about me."
It's been almost nine months since Yargeau has had a drink or used drugs. With steady employment and his feet under him, things are looking better by the day.
I've got things in my life now. I get to help my friends that are still out there, because they want what I have," he says. "It's good to be that kind of light for other people in life, because I definitely wasn't this guy two years ago. I was the polar opposite."
Yargeau has began to reconnect with his ex, with his children, with his family, making amends and mending relationships where he can.
"For the longest time I didn't love anybody," he says. "Now, there are lots of people that I care about. Even people that have made me mad, or people that I dislike, if something bad happened to them I'd feel bad. I've never had those feelings before."


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My Love. My Way. is an album by Iowa hardcore quintet Modern Life is War. The album was originally released via Martyr Records; Deathwish Inc. now handles all Modern Life Is War reissues. The reissued and remastered version of My Love. My Way. contains two additional songs from the M.L.I.W. 7" E.P.

Track listing

Personnel
 Tyler - Drums
 Matt - Guitar
 Jeff - Vocals
 John - Guitar
 Chris - Bass

Album information
 Recorded in March 2003 at Atomic Recording Company in Brooklyn, N.Y.
 Dean Baltulonis – Audio Engineering
 Bob Strakele – Audio Engineering
 Matt Henderson – Audio Engineering
 Bice - Assistant Engineering
 All songs written by Modern Life Is War
 Reissue remasted by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance
 House Photography - Christopher Cannon
 Original Design and Art Direction - Christopher Cannon and Jacob Bannon

2003 albums
Modern Life Is War albums
Deathwish Inc. albums
Albums with cover art by Jacob Bannon


Argentina issued a stamp honoring a man who saved up to 24,000 Jews during World War II, and later became pope. The stamp issued July 2 honors Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who was the Vatican delegate to Turkey and Greece during World War II. The Raoul Wallenberg Foundation launched the initiative for the stamp commemorating Roncalli, who became Pope John XXIII in 1958.


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Bagel shop tip jar thief caught after returning to shop the next day to buy food, cops say (UPDATE)
Updated: Dec. 04, 2021, 9:42 a.m. | Published: Dec. 03, 2021, 8:52 a.m.
Hackettstown theft Dec. 2, 2021
By Tony Rhodin | For lehighvalleylive.com
UPDATE: Town police say the woman who they were looking for in connection with this theft returned to the business on Friday morning to purchase food. She was identified as a 71-year-old Allamuchy Township resident. She was charged with theft and released pending a court appearance. Some of the money was recovered.
ORIGINAL POST: Hackettstown police are trying to identify a woman they say who stole a tip jar Thursday morning from a town business.
The woman was in Hot Bagels Abroad just before 11:45 a.m. at 150 Mountain Ave. when video catches her taking the jar and walking out, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hackettstown Police Department at 908-852-3302 or 908-852-3300.
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Der Dolmen Palet-de-Gargantua (auch Dolmen brisé oder Dolmen von Torcé-en-Vallée genannt) liegt auf einer Wiese zwischen der Rue du Dolmen und der Rue de la Paix in Torcé-en-Vallée, nordöstlich von Le Mans im Département Sarthe in Frankreich. Dolmen ist in Frankreich der Oberbegriff für Megalithanlagen aller Art (siehe: Französische Nomenklatur).

Der Dolmen Palet-de-Gargantua ist ein zusammengebrochener Dolmen vom Typ angevin. Erhalten ist die große Deckenplatte von etwa 7,0 × 6,0 × 0,5 m, unter der die verstürzten Tragsteine liegen.

Der Dolmen ist seit 1969 als Monument historique eingestuft.

Gleichnamige Dolmen liegen in Alluyes im Département Eure-et-Loir und in Brizay im Département Indre-et-Loire.

Anmerkungen

Siehe auch
 Les Palets de Gargantua, Dolmen bei Loches im Département Indre-et-Loire

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 Beschreibung und Bild (englisch)

Kultplatz
Megalithanlage im Département Sarthe
Monument historique im Département Sarthe
Palet-de-Gargantua
Monument historique seit 1969
Grabbau in Europa
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Europa
Dolmen
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Advocates press economic case for climate action
Source: Amanda Reilly, E&E reporter • Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Climate advocates are urging President Obama to use his final State of the Union address today to make a strong economic case for renewable energy amid Republican criticism of the administration's climate agenda.
White House aides have promised a "nontraditional" speech, laying out a broad vision for the future of the country rather than specific policy provisions.
That means the president will be likely to tout last month's major international agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, in which the administration played a leading role in bringing China and India to the table (E&E Daily, Jan. 11).
Some of the toughest critics of Obama's climate and environment agenda in Congress are preparing for disappointment and pre-emptively pushed back against the president's likely remarks.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced he would bring a former coal miner to the speech to show the effects of what he calls the president's "war on coal."
Climate advocates say they're looking for Obama to rebut the likes of McConnell by stressing jobs and wealth creation that could stem from global and domestic efforts to address climate change.
Van Jones, the president's former green jobs adviser, argued that an economic message would resonate with the greatest number of Americans.
"This is an opportunity," said Jones, who founded the group Green for All, "for him to underscore to the public the importance of this issue, not only for the planet in the abstract — though that's important — not only for future generations — that's important — but for people who are looking for work, and wealth and health in an economy that is still in recovery."
Tom Steyer, the billionaire California environmentalist and political donor, said yesterday that he also expected the president to make a strong statement on climate and the economic benefits of renewable energy.
Obama needs to "make sure that the move we've made is decisive and irrevocable," Steyer said during a conference call with reporters.
"He obviously is not going to get significant climate legislation through by the end of his administration … but he can build on the things that have already happened," said Steyer.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest yesterday touted the international climate agreement among a list of administration achievements. Those wins, he said, will remain relevant after the speech and throughout the upcoming elections.
'Take victory lap'
In an interview yesterday, former New Jersey Gov. and former U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican, argued that "the less he says, the better" about climate change during the speech, given the likely Republican criticism it will spawn.
With Republicans, Whitman said, "anything he says is going to be inherently bad, and it goes to the base, so it's worrisome."
Whitman, an advocate of nuclear energy industry for the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, expressed hope of seeing Obama find common ground by pushing nuclear energy as an economic stimulator and an issue she said could "appeal to both sides."
"I really would love to have him talk a lot about it because it's going to take leadership moving forward, and to point out these areas where we can have a meeting of the minds," Whitman said, "but I don't see that happening. I don't think he's going to dwell on that for a long time. He's going to want to take the victory lap."
McConnell, who has led Senate opposition to EPA's Clean Power Plan, the cornerstone of the administration's climate push, is using his guest, fourth-generation coal miner Howard Abshire, as a symbol of dissent. Abshire works in eastern Kentucky removing mining equipment from closed mines after losing his own mining job.
"The president's war on coal has devastated coal country and unfortunately contributed to the loss of thousands of jobs in Kentucky, one of which was Howard's," McConnell said in a statement yesterday.
McConnell predicted during separate Senate floor remarks that Republicans would be broadly disappointed with the president's message: "Based on what the White House has been saying in the media, it's unlikely we'll hear a unifying message for our country tomorrow. That's really unfortunate."
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said he expected Obama to brag about the Paris climate deal but downplayed the significance of the agreement.
"He will [brag], which is pretty humorous because absolutely nothing happened," Inhofe told E&E Daily.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) said he planned to bring to the speech Jason Small, a leader of a local boilermakers union chapter, to protest what he called a "devastating anti-coal, anti-energy agenda that threatens hardworking Montana families, union workers and tribal members."
The White House, on the other hand, announced over the weekend that first lady Michelle Obama would bring Washington, D.C., businessman Mark Davis, who trains people to perform green-tech-related jobs, as a guest.
Climate change is an "important subject, so I expect it'll be part of his discussion," Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said. "As he says, he's looking more into the future, but climate change is clearly one of the future issues."
In a floor speech yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) praised Obama's commitment to renewable energy among a slew of policy accomplishments during his administration.
"It's important to remember how far we've come through the leadership of President Barack Obama," Reid said, adding, "As we look back over seven years of the Obama presidency, one thing is clear: Republicans have failed in their radical crusade against him."
Reporter Geof Koss contributed.


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A Bane By The Spear's Blade
I shall walk before the Lord in the land of the living...
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his godly ones.
Psalm 116:9, 15
Abigail got her wish. Between Earth and Sky, being sorely neglected for some time between editing Adamantine and other idle scribbles, has succeeded in jogging my elbow and getting in a word or two recently. Like a caterpillar it has been hard at work eating vast quantities of dubious plot ideas and, hopefully, having spent some time in its chrysalis state, it will begin to emerge with some semblance of What It Ought To Be.
But don't count on that.
Here, for those of you who care to peep, is a little bit of what I have been working on. Enjoy!
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Wing got up and stalked away, his flame-coloured mantle askew in the wind and the beaded ends of his braids flashing with the blowing light. Rede watched him go, a splendid, set-apart figure, then turned back to the burnishing of the spear that was in his hands.
It was a fine spear-head, heavy but thin, shaped like a shooting star with its fanning tail scrolled and etched in beautiful eddying patterns. The white light played wildly along the edges of the thing, and the sky, up-turned and watered blue, plunged into the blade-sides of it until it seemed he was polishing the empty blue and the clouds themselves.
"It is like the sky, and yet another sky."
He looked up to see Red Branch watching him idly over the methodical movement of her needle, the fierce eyes gone soft under the long mare's lashes. It was his hands that she watched, and it was all that he could do not to check them self-consciously, and to keep going. "Yes, my lady. I was thinking that too."
She gave a half-moon smile and attended to her own work. "Sometimes I well believe, when I see my lord the Skylord at his burnishing, that it is another sky like ours, but where the blues are bluer, and the white clouds are whiter, and the gods walk there in country places far sweeter than our own. Yes." She paused, lifting her head and gazing narrowly into the edge of the wind. It lifted the heaviness of her ginger hair and blew it softly round her face, and more than ever Rede thought with a pang of longing of his own mother.
"Yes," she said, "it is the gods' country, and the window into it." She looked fondly on the spear's head. "Fitting, I should think, that the window to the gods' country should be the instrument of death."
As the sea breaks on the rocky cliffs, the wind broke on the citadel of Ins, breaking and rushing upward in an angry roar, whipping up the grasses and the berry-beaded plants of the garden. Instinctively Rede braced against it, turning his head as Red Branch turned her head, away from the wind into the hollow of it where all things caught in a gale go to hide. If it had not been for the wind, he thought, and the horse-wise swinging into the hollow of it, he wondered if he would have considered her words seriously. The wind passed, the quiet settled again, but though the Dragon Lady took up her sewing again as if nothing had happened, he found himself staring into the up-turned sky in his hands, and wondering. It was quiet and blue and still in that reflection between blade and flat, the iron borderland between the living and the dead, as the back of the wind was quiet and blue and still—and perhaps it was mere marshlight fancy, but he thought it seemed familiar.
A strangely uneasy shudder ran through him that was very cold, and he hastily set to work furnishing the spear with its collar of heron's feathers. It was ticklish work, threading the tiny beads onto the tiny cat-gut string, and threading the cat-gut through the miniscule slits of the feathers' quills while the feathers jigged in the slightest wind; but as the thing came together it began to look beautiful under his hand, and the uneasiness wore away, replaced by a sense of satisfaction at a job being well done. Wing would be pleased, and that would please Rede.
They were both very quiet, and very intent on their work, so Rede was startled when Red Branch suddenly put aside her sewing and leaned down to take the spear from his hands just as he tied off the last knot of the thread. He gathered himself up, poised on the balls of his feet, watching her face as she swung the thing into the light and gazed at it, watching the leeward blow of the feathers. The half-moon smile was still there, but the softness had gone out of her eyes. The lashes shaded the eyes from the sun, but far down in their depths an amber light, like the amber light that played in her earrings, flickered like a cat's tail.
"She is very beautiful, Rede," she said finally, lowering it back into Rede's waiting hand. "You have put the magic of yourself into her. She will answer to you now."
Rede frowned. "She—it—the spear is Wing's, my lady."
"Oh." Her arched look belied her surprised tone. "But it was you who polished the sky into her, and gave her the heron's feather for swiftness and surety of flight."
"Any man can trim a spear."
"True. But not any man can trim it with the sky and the bird of the sky as you have done. It is more than an oiled rag and a handful of blue-grey feathers that you have put to the thing. You have," she added, taking up her sewing into her lap again, "the way of it." And then, with a more cunning glance, she added, "I think you know the sky and the sky's bird more than you let on."
Perplexed, Rede flashed his most disarming smile. "Do I have wings, my lady? I am as human as you, or Wing, or that man down there in the marsh." He gestured with the spear at a solitary figure, far down among the purple and blue shadows of the flats, trekking along with a bundle of net over one shoulder. It was a strangely pathetic, human image: a man toiling about earning his daily bread. Rede could think of nothing more earthly than that.
"So, and yes," said Red Branch patiently. "And you are serpent-cunning, but even a serpent cannot deny he has flown in heaven."
This was rather more than Rede liked to deal with, and he frowned again, drawing back within himself, making as if to tend to the knots in his thread. To his surprise, Red Branch murmured, "I have upset you," and she seemed genuinely distraught.
"No, my lady," he said quickly. "That is—no, my lady." And they fell into an awkward quiet. An angry wrestling began in Rede. He hated that he had denied Red Branch an answer, but of all people she was the least easy to speak with. Conory, Seamrog, even Wing, could take truth's blow with equanimity. But his human ache struggled with his compassion, and almost he denied her an answer for the sake of keeping her comfortable; but he knew that, loath as he might disrupting the serenity of a lady, he loathed still more his cowardliness. So, with an odd little gasp, as if he had been stung, he said, "No, my lady, you are right—in a way. The sky is not unknown to me."
Her eyes quickened with a strange excitement. "So… So! But you are not of my lord the Skylord's house. You come from east over sea, from the Eagles' country. Is it that the Eagles teach you how to fly in heaven?"
He quirked a smile and tried to hide it. "No, my lady. The eagle-people, they have had their wings clipped and they do not fly in the east over sea anymore. Here." He held out the spear between them so that she could see the sky's reflection in it. "It is this way. Suppose the reflection of the sky, as we call it, really were a world, the country of a god, where blues are bluer and the white clouds are whiter than they are here. Must that not be upward, and this sky—" he gestured overhead "—be downward? Perhaps it is we, and not the mirror of the spearhead, that are upside-down."
She followed his words and his movements with a gravity of countenance, neither childlike as one might absorb any curious thing, nor sceptical as Wing might have been. She listened, and she weighed, and the eyes she turned on him at last were full of a serious fear.
"I suspected," she said in a low, husky tone, "but I did not realize the depth of my suspicion. It is not mere heaven that you have flown in, Rede Wingsman—is it that heaven." She touched with trembling lightness the blade of the spear. "It is the gods' heaven you have been in. Little wonder…" And her voice trailed away. She stared at him fixedly for a long time while the cool wind played with the tendrils of her hair, teasing them in auburn curls across her cheeks. As caught in stone as she, Rede bore up under that searching, motionless gaze, feeling the desperation of her search as she struggled to peer into him. And as one thinking aloud, she said presently, "But you are firm, firm as earth. In all my years I have not known a soul as set as yours. You have come out west over sea from your land into a land you do not know and you are as though all earth were home to you, and a firmness for your feet. You know both the gods' heaven and the footstool of their feet that is my earth." The lashes splayed wide about the eyes, letting a wild, unchancy light into their depths. Rede knew them to be almost frightening, and yet the fear did not touch him. "You are like the heron, who fishes and who flies, and hangs between earth and sky. You walk among us as one who has passed through the valleys and sky-temples of the gods." Of a sudden she jerked forward, earrings swinging with the violence of her movement, and almost clasped him by the arm. "Tell me!—are you dead?"
A giddy laughter shook loose inside Rede and very nearly escaped before he recovered himself. "Oh, my lady," he said, and he had to crush his eyes shut a moment to quell the heady shining that was beginning to obscure the edges of his vision. "Oh, my lady, where do I begin? You have asked me the questions of everything, and I am afraid you have asked too much for me to tell in a single sitting."
"But tell," said she, drawing back into her seat, grave as one who is about to die herself. He saw that his hesitance confirmed for her the suspicion that he was dead, or at least had died—for was the blade and the death of the blade not the window to that other country, after all? And if he knew the upturned sky, he must know the blade that took one there. So she was grave, and quiet, and perhaps a little fearful, and his heart went out to her.
He settled back and folded his arms close across his chest, searching a moment for his words. "I will tell you, but you must listen to me as you were listening to words that are more alive than other words are alive, even as that sky in the spear's blade is bluer than this sky above is blue. These are upside-down things, things out of God's country, and they will not look quite as things from this country do, though they are similar."
She passed her hand in a silent, inexplicable gesture through the air, and was still again.
His courage wavered, he gathered himself, and began. "It is true, I have passed through what you call earth, and through what you call sky. And I pass through them still. Here," he waved his own hand, "it is a hard thing. It was not always through the spear's blade that a man reached God's country. There was a time when there needed to be no mirror-window, when country and country overlaid each other as the thin stuff of your mantle overlays the thicker. But man thought, 'I will tear off the thick stuff, and I will keep just the thin, for God does not need anything, does he? He will not deny me the finer country, where the blues are bluer and the white clouds whiter than they are here.' So he tried it, and he tore it. He did no damage to the thin stuff, for the things of God's spirit are not damaged by any hand. But well he tore the thicker stuff, and lost the thin altogether, and so he won for himself a bane by the spear's blade, for having undone what God had made so beautiful."
"It is a large and unwieldy needle, the spear," said Red Branch quietly, "with which to stitch up thin and thick together again."
Rede gave back the other half of her moon-smile. "The little dark thinking folk from east of the Eagles' eyries tell stories of men lost in Hell condemned to do tasks that they can never finish. There is a truth in that, if you care to look for a truth in that place. Man tore the cloth, and man had to stitch it up again, but man's hands had learned to do the killing thing and could not learn to heal. It was impossible. So the spear-angel came for man, and many a man went away into the dark void between the thin and the thick where there is nothing but anger and regret and leanness of spirit, and no God's-light nor hope of light."
She inclined her gaze to the spear again. "And the window?" she asked. "The glimpse of heaven's country? If you have been there, surely the glimpse does not mock—unless you are a god yourself."
"It mocks and does not mock." He held up the spear and let the blades of it catch the light. "By one side the spear-angel takes away hope forever, and by one side the spear-angel gives it. Divinity—that is a story for another day. But it was only divinity that could stitch up this ravelling cloth, though it was man whose task it was to do it. A high light is mercy, and a high deed to be merciful; so God, whose cloth all this is, took on himself the nature of man, and took on himself the bane of the spear's blade: so that the two cloths might be stitched up in his body by his own hand, so that man's task might be done, so that God might be honoured, and so that the thin and the thick might once more be put to right."
He fell quiet, his throat gone suddenly thick itself, and the feeling in his brain alarmingly thin; it was Red Branch's voice that brought him back. "It mocks and does not mock… How is it, if the thin and the thick have been stitched together again, that one blade is still the hopeless blade?"
"Because he divides—God divides—by mercy and by justice, and is honoured in both. It honours God—is that not answer enough?"
"It is answer enough."
She looked away from him, and looked far away, he judged, by the way the darkness played idly in her eyes and under her brows, far into the north and the wind and the things which he had said. The ache came again, jangling like a physical wound, and he did not know why but that it was a desperate sort of ache.
"So," she said, and did not look round as she said it. "Your thread has gone down into the thickness of earth, and into the thinness of heaven, and you have been stitched up with the spear-needle into the rightness of things. You have tasted death and seen the face of a god—which is death—and you are not dead." A shudder ran through her, and she said, "What have we done…!"
Rede dropped his eyes. The light played with the wind in gold and amber, silver and blue, and they tasted like sadness to him. The ache had become a strange desolation, so it was like a blow when Red Branch said, softly, "I think that my son Wing must need you now." And he could not argue, but he had to pick up his finished spear and go, leaving the Dragon Lady behind—the wind in his ears, the hardness of the spear-shaft in his hand, and a cold pit in his stomach.
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Ajnos August 31, 2011 at 6:45 AM
Hey. I just wanted to let you know that I gave your blog a special mention on mine. I didn't want to re-award the Liebster Award to people who had already been given it, so I made a separate post acknowledging blogs by my friends that had won the award previously. Here's a link:
http://hedgepickle.blogspot.com/2011/08/previous-winners.html
Love Ajjie >'.'<
Dad September 1, 2011 at 9:21 PM
Wow. This was incredible. When I read this I can envision the Parousia, and long for the unveiling of Christ's Kingdom - ever present, yet hidden. Oh that we had the grace to live each day 'between Earth and Sky.' Thank you for this. I do hope that it is the Lord's will to bless many people with this vision of reality as it is in Christ - which is to say, as it is.
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Steve Francis turns himself in for Florida car burglary. For second time.
By Kurt HelinDec 12, 2016, 8:10 PM EST
Former NBA Rookie of the Year and three-time All-Star Steve Francis has been spending a lot of time with the police this season. And not in a good way.
He was arrested recently for a DWI and marijuana possession in Houston. At the time, police in Manatee, Florida, wanted to talk to Francis about a car burglary back in June — one where Francis already turned himself in. At the time Francis broke into a car outside a bar and restaurant, taking a wallet, gold jewelry, cash and more. A couple of days later, Francis turned himself and the goods in, the police filed a report, but did not arrest him at the time.
Now they have, according to TMZ.
As we previously reported, the ex-NBA star was wanted by cops in Manatee, Florida after he allegedly ransacked a stranger's car back in June and stole over $7k in stuff….
According to jail records, Francis turned himself in early Monday on a burglary of an unoccupied conveyance charge — a 3rd degree felony that carries up to 5 years in prison. His bond is set at $1,500.
Francis played in just more than eight NBA season and earned more than $103 million in salary in that time.


Las Vegas's Molasky Group of Companies will construct a $100 million, four-story San Diego headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Ironies abound. The Molasky Group of Companies was founded by Irwin Molasky and now run by his children. The elder Molasky and three others, including notorious bootlegger and owner of illegal casinos, Morris (Moe) Dalitz, developed La Costa in North County.
Dalitz was grilled by the Kefauver committee's organized crime committee in the 1950s. Dalitz was one of the kingpins of the Cleveland mob during Prohibition. After that era ended, he ran illegal casinos in Ohio and Kentucky, and ultimately ended up in Las Vegas, where he was generally known as the peacemaker who kept the various mob groups from attacking one another. A story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal related Dalitz's life in the mob, and in reputable businesses.
Dalitz was a partner with Molasky in a hospital, too. The bank controlled by the late C. Arnholt Smith made the interim loans on La Costa, and the notorious Central States Teamsters Fund would then assume the loan, according to a former official of Smith's long-defunct U.S. National Bank.
Not long after La Costa was built, Penthouse Magazine published an article saying that the resort had been built and was frequented by gangsters. Then ensued a lengthy lawsuit. Eventually, Penthouse issued a statement that it did not mean to imply that Molasky and another partner, Merrv Adelson "are or were members of organized crime or criminals." Dalitz was not included in the statement. Molasky and the Molasky Group of Companies are highly respected in Las Vegas. So, too, was Dalitz, now deceased. As recently as 2008, Dalitz's daughter lived in Rancho Santa Fe. The Molasky company has built a number of FBI buildings.
My thanks to Matt Potter for alerting me to this story. It ran in the Union-Tribune yesterday (Jan. 14) without any mention of this history.
And in the same mold have you heard that the HQ of homeland security is going to be based in an insane asylum? They're already employing the inmates by the look of it.
http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/image/Coast-Guard-HQ.jpg Perkins + Will has designed a new headquarter for the Coast Guard, the first piece of a new Department of Homeland Security complex at the former St. Elizabeths hospital.
The groundbreaking also commemorated the awarding of a $435 million design-build contract to HOK and Clark Design Build for the first phase of construction on the site of a new 1.18 million-square-foot Coast Guard headquarters designed by Perkins + Will. The overall project, which will include 6.2 million square feet of historic preservation and adaptive reuse as well as new building, has been a cause of concern for preservationists who feel that Homeland Security's particular needs will destroy the landmark.
Sited on a bluff in Anacostia overlooking central D.C., St. Elizabeths was established by Congress in 1852. Though it once housed as many as 7,000 patients, including inmates such as Ezra Pound and John Hinckley, Jr., the facility's relevancy diminished along with the decline in popularity of large mental institutions. By 2002, the hospital had moved its remaining residents to its smaller east campus, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation put the site with its extensive ornamental landscape on its list of 11 most endangered places.
The Center Building (1852) at St. Elizabeths, designed by Architect of the Capitol Thomas U. Walter.
In 2004 the GSA took control of the west campus, invested $15 million for emergency repairs to save the historic buildings from demolition due to neglect, and began looking for an appropriate tenant. Homeland Security, then looking for a location to house 14,000 workers currently spread throughout 33 offices in the area, seemed to fit the bill. Not only did the site, the largest federally owned tract of land in D.C., promise enough space for its vast operations, but the campus already provided the 100-foot setbacks required by post-9/11 mandates for high-security agencies.
"We couldn't find any other federal need for St. Elizabeths," explained Les Shepherd, head architect of the GSA. He also pointed out that no private developer would touch the site because of the massive scale of its revitalization needs, which could cost as much as $3 billion, combined with the constraints of working within an historic landmark.
Nell Ziehl, program officer for the trust, seconded that opinion. "We were happy that the GSA wanted to take over the site, but DHS is incompatible. They're going to cordon it off. We think it should be accessible for all Americans," she said.
After years of decay, St. Elizabeths was recently rescued by the GSA, and now it awaits its new tenants.
While all of the existing buildings are required to go through the National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 process, which requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their activities on historic properties, the new Coast Guard headquarters, scheduled for occupancy by 2013, is particularly troubling to preservationists.
In its current design, the facility's ten floors step down the slope of the bluff overlooking the Anacostia River. Though many alterations have been made to sink it further into the hillside, break up the mass with courtyards, cover it with green roofs, and otherwise disguise it with green screens, the massive building and its parking garage will undeniably make a visual impact on the landscape.
The Commission of Fine Arts approved the Coast Guard headquarters and DHS consolidation in 2008, but the project has yet to clear every hurdle that stands between it and the commencement of construction. To handle the expected increase in traffic, the GSA wants to add a new access road off of Interstate 295, a passage that will take it through National Park Service land.
And in the same mold have you heard that the HQ of homeland security is going to be based in an insane asylum?
You genuinely couldn't make this stuff up could you.
Perhaps the electroshock suites are still en place and we can help the budget by recycling them at HS. :hitler: I don't think they'll be showing the movie 'King Of Hearts' there anytime...... Someone send this one to the Daily Show!
San Diego and area have a LONG history of development and visitation/domiciles of Gangsters. Some are mentioned in the short article. Others include the racetrack in Del Mar and the Hotel Del Charro in La Jolla, where J Edna Hoover went several times per year....and so many others. The more I look at things the less difference I see between the Government and the so-called 'Mob'. They are one in business and ethics and work together; perhaps those in Government have had a few years more university....though they learned nothing other than to look and talk more 'educated'.
Whether applying economic Shock Therapy to the masses, or actual ECT to anyone who protests too loudly, Volkland Security wants those electrodes close at hand.


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Founded in 1955 by a group of families affected by rubella, Sense developed specialist skills and knowledge in supporting people to communicate, express themselves and grow in independence. This experience now enables Sense to help people with a much wider range of disabilities.
Our specialist services are built around the wishes and needs of the individual, supporting people to be as independent as possible. Our services include a range of housing options, resource centres, educational support, short breaks and arts, sport and wellbeing programmes.
Gifts in Wills are vital to Sense. Currently they account for around a quarter of our fundraised income and help us to secure the future of our work.
However big or small, a gift in your Will can leave a lasting legacy of helping children and adults who are deafblind or who have complex communication needs to be all that they can be.
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The Deafness Resource Centre
The Deafness Resource Centre is a Registered Charity (charity number 1128148) offering specialist services to D/deaf people throughout St Helens, Halton and the wider region.
Our mission is to challenge inequalities, advocate best practise and enable greater participation, by creating an environment in which D/deaf people have access to services and opportunities that facilitate informed choices and decisions, increased independence, and respect.
We currently offer:
Advocacy Service
Communications Service
After-School and Youth Club
Befriending Scheme
Sign Language Training
Deaf Awareness Training
Tinnitus Support Group
Hard of Hearing Club
Deaf Club
Social groups including a church group
Room Hire for community groups and meetings
We invest in our staff and volunteers and have been awarded Investor In People three consecutive times.
Our funding is from a number of different streams including service level agreements, grants, donations, legacies, sponsored events, gift aid, regular donors and supporters, rental from room hire, spare change boxes and chargeable services (such as Deaf Awareness Training). However, our constant battle is to raise enough money to cover our core costs such as cleaning, water rates, gas, electric, insurance etc. …without which, there would be no services to run.
We appreciate every penny which is donated to the charity and are registered to claim for Gift Aid for eligible money.
For further information on donating to this charity tel 01744 238870 or visit their website at www.deafnessresourcecentre.org/fundraising/legacy-donations
FitzRoy is a national charity supporting over 560 people with learning and physical disabilities through registered care homes, supported living services, support at home as well as day and community centres.
Our aim is to help each individual lead an independent life by listening to them, and giving them real choice and opportunities.
Our vision is a society where people are treated as equals, regardless of their disability and we follow our values today in the same way as when the charity was established over 50 years ago.
Every legacy or donation that FitzRoy receives helps us to transform the lives of the people we support. Gifts have helped us to build new care homes, refurbish current accommodation and day centres, and also supported individuals to have a voice through service user forums.
If you would like further information on FitzRoy, or if you are considering supporting us with a donation or legacy, please telephone Jan Deane on 01730 711107 or visit our website at www.fitzroy.org


Lighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness is a personal goal I have adopted for several years. It was not so for many decades before. I was like most other people who are quick to criticize, not from malice, but from simply seeing something that is wrong. Criticism had also been expressed in quite private settings, usually in intimate or friendly settings. Barbershop talk, kwentohan, chismisan.
Many can still remember how it was before the internet and social media. We talk about anything and everything only in physical proximity. Those who are even older remember how the dictatorship made rumor-mongering punishable by law. Because even in an authorization state, people talk, people criticize, people go rumor-mongering. When people are intimidated to limit their freedom to speak their mind, resentment brews very quickly. The frustration builds up and it's only a matter of time before an implosion, or explosion.
It is sad when the only options left for concerned citizens is fearful silence or violent rebellion. But for a long time, that was all we had, hemmed in by a conservative society or worse – an authoritarian regime. I remember the implosion and explosion, the People Power revolution and the freedom off the press. From being reined in tightly to often licentious freedom, the pendulum exploded in a wild swing.
It will never be quiet in a society that had both struggled with a central authority and resigned to it from a history of submission. It cannot be quiet when the inner spirit is gasping for air, so to speak. It is not the new generations of Filipino, it is the new generations off the world. Where the young generations have been allowed and supported by their home countries, their technological advances are light years ahead of ours. Where countries and their authorities clamp down hard on the creative and technical dynamism of their young, militant dissent has been the patterned response.
As peoples and nations go through their respective transitions from centralized to democratic, from conservative to liberal, from fear to aspiration, each will experience the traditional holding on for continued control, or for dear life if changed has already taken root. Some move very fast while others seem as not moving at all. But whatever the pace of change, real change is happening. It is not driven by personality although some may be more known than others. Rather, it is driven by the new and emerging generations. It is change whose time has come and nothing can stand in its way and win. It is aided by attrition, by older generations fading fast and new generations continuously coming on stream.
It is important that we understand how evolution expresses itself. It does not mean that we, collectively, cannot influence how evolution unfolds. Of course, we can. Yet, even as we participate, we are not in total control. There is a direction towards which life moves. There is a manner by which it moves from era to era. We dance with evolution. We do not dictate to it nor it to us. We have to recognize, though, that evolution is about life, and life is bigger than all of us human beings on earth. If we do not appreciate this, we can unwittingly go against a tidal wave and end up a broken loser, ending up following the pace and tenor of evolution after all.
I address myself to those who are holding on to dreams of a bright or brighter future. I want to tell them that dark clouds often hover above us, often blocking out the sunlight. But dark and heavy the clouds may be, sunlight is there and sunlight will emerge. Our journey is towards the light, not away from it. If the light is blocked by incidents or personalities, it is temporary. There is a bigger game in town, the game of the future, a future that seeks the light and will force open the clouds that block it. It is the era of knowledge, of freedom, of innovation. Change is not a passive blob, it is a dynamic dragon.
The only ones who can reverse the trend are the new generations who will collectively allow themselves to abdicate their mandate and instead submit to their parent generations. This is, in my opinion, unthinkable, as if they will go against their nature. That is why I will gamble, anytime, on the direction of the younger generations whatever distractions, political, economic or otherwise, get in the way. I know there are many of them. At the same time, there have been, in the Philippines, at least, all these distractions but they never succeeded in becoming a serious block to evolution led by the fresh thinking of the young, expressed most graphically by technological advances and more radical mindset.
What I see is a strong bias for a bright future. All the more when I see the ugliness and darkness in our surroundings, I see only a desperate struggle of the fading past to maintain dominance and control. I am not even unduly optimistic, simply endowed with a context of the past which contained even more ugliness and darkness. I see also a process by which change transformed the past, transforms the present, and surely will bring about a future that is closer to the human angst for relief from pain, the human dream for that which is better. Perhaps, I see in my children and grandchildren what I had often wished for myself. How else, then, can there be no bias for the future?


Joshua runs the Jarvis Team and has been a Realtor for over 10 years. In those years, Joshua has ranked consistently in the top 2%. In 2013, the Jarvis Team sold over 100 homes and continues to be a leader in the toughest real estate transactions known, short sales. It's actually that dedication to informing his clients (as seen in Atlanta Short Sales) that caused him to create Mill Creek Homes.
After reviewing the data and finding out that many of his friends and clients in the area had no idea how poorly the homes were marketed or how buyers found homes, Joshua didn't just set out to create a marketing strategy, he wanted to educate the home owners to make better decisions.
Joshua is a graduate of Georgia Tech, but don't hold that against him! He uses his geeky background to completely dominate the internet. He was recently notified that his profile was viewed in the top 5% of all of Linkedin. The Jarvis Team websites consistently rank on the first page of Google and he currently has over 1800 followers on twitter.
Joshua is a speaker and trainer in Real Estate and Leadership. He's been asked to speak at the Xplode! Conference for his technological prowess.
In addition, when Joshua isn't selling real estate, he can be found champion causes, which you can read about his event, Heroic Event.
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Sony Ericsson head developer 'in favor of rooting if we do it right'
Alex Dobie
Simon Walker, developer program head at Sony Ericsson, has made an interesting series of tweets suggesting the manufacturer may be about to change its stance on rooting and custom ROM development. Just as Motorola is looking at compromises on the issue of locked bootloaders, Sony Ericsson's developer boss says he's "actually in favor" of rooting "if we do it right."
One possible example of this might be the introduction of Xoom/Nexus S-style unlockable/relockable bootloaders, though Walker didn't mention any specifics, instead saying he needs to take the discussion inside Sony Ericsson before anything is decided. Still, it's promising that someone at a senior position at SE has come out in support of rooting. Hopefully he'll be able to convince his colleagues to see the light. [@simon_a_walker]
Time to tinker
People into rooting and modding should check out these Android phones
If you're looking ahead and know you'll want to change something on your next phone that requires custom software or root access, these phones are the best options.


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Q: How reinstall the /bin/echo in my debian? Something wrong for my /bin/echo command.
sudo ls -al  /bin/echo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root utmp 0 Nov 11 18:05 /bin/echo

method1 to fix it:
I knew that /bin/echo is in coretils.
Remove coreutils first then reinstall it again.
sudo apt-get remove coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

I can't remove it ,it is no use to remove it and reinstall coreutils?
method2 to fix it:
compile the echo.c.
cd  /tmp
sudo apt-get source coreutils
cd  coreutils-8.26
/tmp/coreutils-8.26$ ./configure
./configure: line 3492: config.log: Permission denied
./configure: line 3502: config.log: Permission denied

Let me config it with sudo.
sudo ./configure
configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check)

How to fix the /bin/echo in my debian?

A: Get a proper .deb file:
mkdir ~/dummy
cd ~/dummy
apt-get download coreutils

Unpack it:
sudo dpkg-deb -x *.deb ./

(Note: dpkg-deb can run without sudo but it's easier to unpack as root to obtain the echo file with proper ownership from the beginning).
The executable you seek is ./bin/echo. Replace /bin/echo:
sudo mv ./bin/echo /bin/

Remove the directory:
cd ~/
sudo rm -rf ~/dummy

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BEVERLY PEPPER
12 December- 28 February 2003
American artist Beverly Pepper was born in New York in 1922 and has been living between New York and Todi -Italy- for more than 50 years. Her monumental sculptures are made with such different materials as bronze, cast iron and steel.
Gallery Pièce Unique, wishing to pay homage to this great artist on the eve of her 80th birthday, has chosen to present sculptures from the 70's which have never been shown before in Paris.
At the end of the 60's Beverly Pepper started to move toward geometrical shapes in polished stainless steel with a mirror finish, shapes whose voids appear solid, while the mirror-finished elements reflect the surroundings, kind of frames being at the same time mirrors capturing emptiness and reflecting it through the different pitches of the surfaces.
In the small sculptures, there is a more intimate and contemplative dimension, inviting the viewer to enter into an inner world filled with memory.
PIECE UNIQUE will exhibit in the rue Jacques Callot gallery "Bracciano", a wooden sculpture of 1970 and at PIECE UNIQUE VARIATIONS, rue Mazarine, small sculptures in stainless steel .


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Strange Brigade Review – Feeling Strangely Fine
Competent, campy co-op action.
Posted By Will Borger | On 30th, Aug. 2018 Under Article, Reviews | Follow This Author @will_borger
The first time you play Strange Brigade, you're probably going to be surprised that it's a new IP. It just feels like it's one of those things that should have happened by now, you know? You'll look at it and think, "We had to wait until 2018 for someone to make a co-op shooter inundated with 1930s pulp that has you kill hordes of undead while you try to put an ancient Egyptian witch-queen back in the ground? How had nobody thought of this yet?" Seems obvious, right?
Well, it wasn't to everybody but Rebellion, who went about making this strange hybrid child of Indiana Jones, The Mummy – the Brendan Fraser ones. The good ones. Not the one with Tom Cruise – and Left 4 Dead a reality. Rebellion is probably best known for letting you murder the hell out of Nazis with supremely glorious, gruesome bullet physics in the Sniper Elite series and their take on the popular Alien vs. Predator franchise, but this kind of campy, pulpy co-op adventure, filled to overflowing with British humor, feels like the game the studio was made for.
"The cast looks like they sprang from the pages of a '30s pulp novel. There's Frank Fairburne, a former mercenary and ace shot who's in it for the money; Professor Archimedes De Quincy, a fussy academic out for redemption; Nalangu Rushida, an African demon hunter; and Gracie Braithwaite, a factory worker and former boxer from Northern England."
Strange Brigade's story is relatively simple. The aforementioned Egyptian witch-queen, Seteki, was so evil that, when she died, the ancient Egyptians put her at the bottom of a deep, deep hole, hoping that the world would forget about her (think Imhotep from The Mummy). Unfortunately, a meddling archaeologist digs her up. Like any good undead witch, Seteki brings her minions along for the ride, and then she's off to destroy the world. Standing in her way is the Strange Brigade, a secret arm of the British Department of Antiquities, who are hoping to put her back in that hole.
The story doesn't get much more complicated than that and is wonderfully unobtrusive. The only real cutscenes are black-and-white efforts that mimic old serials, complete with wonderfully British narrator that comments on what's going on in real time, generally in hilarious fashion. The rest of the game's storytelling occurs through traditional means like collectible journal entries, hidden treasures, and the ever present voice in your ear who provides mission objectives. You can read it if you want to – it maintains Strange Brigade's light, fun, campy atmosphere fairly effortlessly – but it's there as an option, not a requirement. You just wanna put together a team and turn some mummies to dust? Go for it.
The cast looks like they sprang from the pages of a '30s pulp novel. There's Frank Fairburne, a former mercenary and ace shot who's in it for the money; Professor Archimedes De Quincy, a fussy academic out for redemption; Nalangu Rushida, an African demon hunter; and Gracie Braithwaite, a factory worker and former boxer from Northern England. They're largely the same, but there are a few differences: Frank, for instance, can take more damage than anyone else and when he headshots an enemy, that enemy explodes. Nalangu, on the other hand, moves faster and has a vampiric strike. These differences are minor, in the grand scheme of things, but the larger ones (exploding headshots, vampiric strike, etc) make each character feel unique and actively reward you for a specific style of play that feeds into the character's backstory. It's a nice touch.
"The game's combat is also impressive. Enemies are varied and numerous, and new enemies are constantly introduced, usually with a mini-cutscene and a bad pun explaining how they'd like to kill you."
After you choose who you're going to roll with – after giving everyone a fair shake, I opted for Frank. Exploding headshots were too good to pass up – you have to choose how you're going to play. Strange Brigade can be played solo or in co-op, and both work well. There are no AI teammates in solo mode, so you're free to explore the game's lush jungles, spooky tombs, and ancient cities at your leisure. It's worth doing: Rebellion's attention to environmental design are more than worth taking in. The levels are incredibly impressive, and many manage to toe the fine line between feeling like a level in a video game and a real place you could explore. That level of detail does have a downside, however. Environmental destruction is limited, usually involving little more than pottery and the odd destructible door, and there are invisible walls that keep you out of parts of the environment you feel like you should be able to explore. The levels work despite this, but it's disappointing when everything else about the game's level design is so good.
The game's combat is also impressive. Enemies are varied and numerous, and new enemies are constantly introduced, usually with a mini-cutscene and a bad pun explaining how they'd like to kill you. The generic mummies with run right at you, hoping to claw your face off, but later enemies are more subtle. There are assassins that teleport around the environment with blazing speed, scorpions that burrow underground, swarms of bugs that overwhelm the screen, and armored enemies that toss projectiles and require accurate shots to take down. In large combat arenas, there can often be dozens of enemies on-screen at a time, so you'll have to manage each enemy type while using your resources – ammo, explosives (which recharge on a timer), any special weapons you might have, the one potion you can carry at any given point – wisely.
While each character's abilities mean they naturally gravitate towards a certain type of gun – Frank's exploding headshots makes single shot rifles a natural fit, and Gracie's melee focus means she probably wants a shotgun – there aren't any limitations to who can equip what. Each character has a primary weapon and a sidearm, plus any special weapon you find throughout the level. The first two can be swapped at any supply cache throughout the level, and you can use the treasure you find as you play to buy better ones, which carry across to every character. Better still, the ammo packs scattered throughout the level will replenish any weapon you choose, giving you the freedom to use what you want, when you want. Special weapons, however, must be purchased in the levels themselves. These weapons – an extraordinarily powerful blunderbuss or automatic rifle, for instance – deal tremendous damage, but you can't get more ammo for them unless you buy a new one. Once they're done, they're done.
"Killing enemies will also charge up your amulet, which grants each character one of four specific powers. Frank, for instance, can punch enemies so hard they fly backwards and explode, while Professor De Quincy shoots bolts of energy at foes."
Killing enemies will also charge up your amulet, which grants each character one of four specific powers. Frank, for instance, can punch enemies so hard they fly backwards and explode, while Professor De Quincy shoots bolts of energy at foes. Some feel more useful than others, but most compliment the playstyles of their characters and add a lot to the game's already fun combat. There's also environmental taps that drop spiked logs, activate spinning blades, and unleash jets of fire on your enemies. Many of these can be activated multiple times after a short cooldown, but some can only be used once. Using them effectively is paramount when the game starts throwing large numbers of enemies at you, so you'll have to lure enemies to them and position yourself just right to shoot them at the right time. They're easily one of the best parts of Strange Brigade, and combat improves significantly when they're involved.
Of course, it isn't all shooting the undead. You're also doing a lot of looting. In addition to the piles of coins and treasure chests lying around the level, Strange Brigade also features puzzles to solve. In general, they're pretty simple. You might be asked to move shafts of light between crystals to open a door, connect a series of pipes, find and shoot a series of targets in a short time, play a memory game, or find the combination to a door elsewhere in the level. None of these are particularly hard, but they break allow the game to breathe and provide just enough challenge to remain engaging. This is good, since the game isn't very forgiving. Mess one up three times, and that room, and the treasure inside, will be locked off until you replay the level.
Better still, there's active reason to do them. In addition to the monetary rewards you find, which allow you to buy more guns, you'll also find relics and gems. Completing a specific set of relics will reward you with skill points, which reward new amulet techniques. Gems, on the other hand, allow you to upgrade your weapons. Some might allow you to fire faster, while others will imbue your weapon with lifesteal or elemental abilities. These systems add to the feeling of discovery and mysticism Strange Brigade tries to convey while making the optional areas worth your time.
"Strange Brigade really shines in co-op and Rebellion makes things tricky by making sure the puzzles change, too. A puzzle that only required one person to step on marked tiles in solo mode will require more people in co-op, and there are more options in combat, as well, allowing you to set up in the environmental traps in ways a lone player simply can't."
Strange Brigade really shines in co-op and Rebellion makes things tricky by making sure the puzzles change, too. A puzzle that only required one person to step on marked tiles in solo mode will require more people in co-op, and there are more options in combat, as well, allowing you to set up in the environmental traps in ways a lone player simply can't. Loot also isn't shared, so you'll want to get puzzles done quickly to beat your friends to the goods. The campaign itself is a probably around 12 hours, depending on how you play, but there's also a horde mode and a score attack mode if you want more monster-killing to do.
As good as parts of Strange Brigade are, however, it is still a fairly flawed game. The lack of environmental destruction and presence of invisible walls are very noticeable, and can detract from the game's theming and level design. What's worse, however, are the gameplay flaws. While it's satisfying to blow a large group of mummies up with a stick of dynamite or get a series of perfect headshots, the game's moment to moment gunplay often feels pretty weak. Weapons sound muted, which weakens the feedback loop, and the melee attack are clunky and inaccurate unless they're tied to an amulet ability. There's also the always disappointing decision to have boss fights that consist of waves of enemies that you need to kill in order to damage the boss itself, and while some might like the competitive aspect of not sharing money in co-op, it seems out of place considering the game is so built around teamwork. The worst flaw, however, is that the game has no local co-op. While I understand that local co-op is (unfortunately) becoming more rare and many view it as an outdated feature, Strange Brigade is at its best with other people, and it's heartbreaking that there's no option to play it on your couch with your friends. These aren't gamebreaking flaws, as everything else about Strange Brigade works quite well, but they do detract from the game's highs.
What will make or break your time with Strange Brigade is how well you jive with the game's style and tone. Personally, I loved it. A lot of this is due to the narrator, who constantly quips about everything you do. He'll cheer for you when you set off a huge explosion, or burst into a fit of alliteration when a new enemy appears. He even has a number of remarks for pausing the game. The characters aren't any slouches in this regard, either, and this, paired with the game's devotion to its setting, make Strange Brigade stand out in ways it probably otherwise wouldn't. It's a flawed game, yes, but also a damn good one, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to see the Strange Brigade again down the road, when some knucklehead opens yet another cursed tomb.
This game was reviewed on the Xbox One.
Beautiful, varied levels. Lots of enemies to fight. The characters feel distinct. Collectibles actually matter. Fun puzzles that break up the action and improve pacing. Lots of environmental traps to use. Gun upgrades are a lot of fun. Puzzles and combat are balanced for solo and co-op play. The narrator is fantastic. Tongue-in-cheek British humor and a great use of the '30s pulp setting.
The gunplay can feel pretty weak. Environmental destruction is limited and there are many invisible walls. Melee attacks are clunky and inaccurate. No option to share loot in co-op. The lack of local co-op is a huge missed opportunity.
A number of small flaws keep Strange Brigade from greatness, but its style, humor, and core gameplay make for a satisfying romp solo or with friends.
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(GM Watch) The reasons Monsanto gives for its outrage are especially ludicrous. Monsanto's chief technology officer Robb Fraley accuses the IARC of "cherry-picking" data in order to reach its conclusion and of doing so in a non-transparent process.
This is pure hokum, as is evident from a glance at the system for regulatory approval of every GMO and pesticide in the world.
Approvals are based solely on a set of safety data provided by the GMO or chemical company that manufactures the product and stands to profit from its approval. Independent studies — which are far more likely than industry studies to find risk — do not get a look in.
Epidemiological studies and other studies by independent scientists, which generally do not conform to the outdated protocols designed decades ago for industry toxicology studies, are excluded from the risk assessment as irrelevant and unreliable.
Industry's own safety data on its pesticides are a commercial secret. Independent scientists and the public are not allowed to see them.
What's more, when independent studies are carried out on GMOs and pesticides, they are necessarily done after the product has been on the market for years – as scientists cannot get access to a product prior to approval, when it's still viewed as in development and a commercial secret. So independent scientists are always playing catch-up with the multitude of toxins that we're exposed to.
Eventually, in the case of a few selected pesticides and chemicals, independent scientists manage to catch up and do genuine research using study designs sensitive enough to find harmful effects.
Then, as with a range of substances from Roundup to the plastics chemical bisphenol A, we are subjected to the unedifying spectacle of a massive pile of studies by independent scientists showing harm from a product, while industry and regulators insist it's safe based on a few secret studies that we are not allowed to see.
If that's not cherry-picking data in a non-transparent process, we don't know what is.
In contrast, IARC based its verdict on published studies and publicly available government reports. This is how real science is done – when findings are published, other scientists are free to build on the work and refute or confirm it.
Monsanto should learn from the IARC review process and the studies that the IARC considered, and start to do some real scientific testing on its products prior to commercialisation. Apparently, however, it prefers bullying to science.
NOTE: A superb and clear scientific analysis of the IARC report, by Drs Maewan Ho and Nancy Swanson, has been published on the Science in Society website.


Here are the Points for installing cgiirc.
Please Read the Guidelines on Apache Vhosts and Vhost setup before Configuring Apache2.
//We want apt to try and have packages easily updatable.
Make sure you have read the above Guidelines for Apache2 Vhosts.
After authing against apache and pam, we force cgiirc to show username@server in IRC, instead of a hash of the clients UP.
Link to the cgiirc mods in SVN to make life easier.
AuthName "Skynet Web IRC (please use your skynet username and password)"
Tips and suggestions for people installing cgiirc.
Make sure your apache vhost is correct. If stuff doenst work - this is the reason.
Be careful where to place the Auth section. Because of the iframe, Auth needs to be on the iframe target, and not the index.html container page. I chose to place auth details directly in the apache vhost in sites-enabled, rather than AllowOverride and having unnecessary htaccess files.
If it helps - forget about the container and go straight to host.skynet.ie/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi and test.
Becareful of Updating. Proper diffs will be created.


International school of wine and spirits based in Bordeaux.
CAFA Wine School / CAFA Formations is the first wine school in France based in Bordeaux in Aquitaine and is proud to be a program provider approved by the French government.
Wine Consultant Diploma / Conseiller en Sommellerie is registered in the RNCP (National Directory of professional certifications). This basic program on the knowledge of wine, spirit and spirit of the Sommelier.
The International Wine and Spirits School created by CAFA in 1986.
Our school based in « Chartron » the heart of the historical wine merchant quarter in Bordeaux offers courses in wine and spirits certification, and workshops that are ideal for amateurs and professionals in the wine and beverage industry.
Whether you want to learn wine or spirits or do business, our certification courses, workshops and tastings are perfect for you.
Our school combines the incomparable knowledge and passion of our instructors with a friendly and accessible style.
More than an art of living, wine is a passion. Of this passion, our teachers, experts in oenology, put all their know-how to work in order to pass it on to you. The CAFA Wine school team is made up of individuals who are certified with high ranking diplomas in Oenology and Sommellerie / Wine Stewardship and who have solid professional experience in the International Wine Industry. Our teachers' main desire is to pedagogically share their passion and skills with you as best they can.


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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe "feedbacks/show", :type => :view do
  before(:each) do
    @feedback = assign(:feedback, Feedback.create!())
  end

  it "renders attributes in <p>" do
    render
  end
end


With newer 1-2 µm diameter particle packing materials, HPLC column technology is pushing the pressure limits of standard fittings. To meet this need, Upchurch Scientific® designed a new line of Ultra-High Performance Fittings that are rated to 28800 psi (1930 bar). These specially designed 10-32 stainless steel fittings work in standard 10-32 coned ports, with ferrule options for both 1/16" and 1/32" OD tubing.