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It's a reflection of whisky history and themes that North British is the last sole remaining distillery based in Scotland's capital city. Once upon a time Edinburgh played host to several distilleries but these have been lost during the notable attrition that removed many from urban areas such as Glasgow and Inverness.
It's a reflection of whisky history and themes that North British is the last sole remaining distillery based in Scotland's capital city. Once upon a time Edinburgh played host to several distilleries but these have been lost during the notable attrition that removed many from urban areas such as Glasgow and Inverness. Whilst plans are afoot for Edinburgh to bring back distilling single malts, Glasgow is already one step ahead. For now, with the Holyrood Park Distillery still some way off, North British remains the bastion of capital distilling.
Except that North British is actually a grain distillery and does not offer tours to the public. This makes it all the more remarkable that a grain distillery has survived within the city limits that are home to speculators and an endless stream of developers. Grain distilleries by their very nature are more industrial in size and scope, requiring a constant supply of raw ingredients to sustain their epic levels of output. Yet North British has stood the time since 1885 on the west side of the city whilst others such as the Caledonian distillery – itself of epic proportions – closed in 1988 and has been since converted into residential accommodation.
North British was founded by the foursome of John Crabbie, William Sanderson, Andrew Usher and James Watson. What brought these businessmen together was the craft of whisky and as blenders the requirement to find an alternate source for their recipes. Forming the North British Distillery Company, this independent venture was an attempt to break free from the shackles imposed by the Distillers Company Limited. Known as DCL, this group were comprised of 6 Lowland distilleries and effectively operated as an oligopoly controlling prices for whisky. In the competitive and potentially hugely profitable realm of blended scotch, such a practice was very damaging for its competitors.
Edinburgh was already an important whisky destination with its port of Leith playing host to many blending firms and spirit merchants. The location of North British was founded in the Gorgie area of the city and offered access to its train network and the nearby Union Canal. The site at the time was less populated than it is today and offered the potential for growth and expansion. Production commenced in September 1887 and by the following year its annual production had reached 3.6 million litres. Demand was so high for its spirit that changes were implemented shortly afterwards and its production capacity doubled.
The upward curve continued even with the harsh economic conditions of the 1920's and 1930's with the notable gaps due to the onset of both World Wars. By 1961, North British was producing area 13 million litres thanks to further improvements and additional warehousing was built to house its growing inventory. A remarkable feat was that the ownership of the site did not change until an amalgamation with International Distillers & Vintners that created Lothian Distillers in 1993. Further change descended in 2002, when given the pressures locally on its sizeable footprint, Lothian Distillers decided to sell off chunks of its real estate to residential developers. This accounted for the Maltings and Warehouses on Slateford Road, before in 2003 the Westfield warehousing site was also sold. Seeking a new site for the majority of its warehousing and maintenance requirements, a new facility was established outside the city at Muirhall, which is approximately 24 miles away.
Grain whiskies divide opinion and in recent times there has been a move to centralise production with the closure of many longstanding and distinctive grain distilleries. Many of these produced an older more characterful style of grain whisky and arguably the last remnant of this style is North British itself. There has been much speculation in recent times that the distillery will be switching from its core maize ingredient to the cheaper wheat alternative and that some of its character will be lost. At the time of writing, August 2017, this has not yet taken place due to the price variations between these 2 types of grain. Any changes would be only revealed after a sizeable period of maturation so it's a wait and see approach.
Thankfully whilst the majority of North British's output goes towards blends, the single grain market is considerable enough to warrant a series of independent bottlings that vary hugely in terms of price and age statement. It is via this realm you can truly discover the richness that North British offers with a density of honey, caramel and vanilla flavours with hints of oak and all-spice. The quality of its spirit and therefore whisky is a testament to its enduring legacy.
Lowland (1)
The Vintage Malt Whisky Company (1)
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A Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura (UNESCO) propôs um plano de proteção aos bens culturais do mundo, através do Comité sobre a Proteção do Património Mundial Cultural e Natural, aprovado em 1972. Esta é uma lista do Patrimônio Mundial existente na Europa Ocidental, especificamente classificada pela UNESCO e elaborada de acordo com dez principais critérios cujos pontos são julgados por especialistas na área. A Europa Ocidental, formada por nove Estados-parte, é uma das sub-regiões classificadas pela UNESCO, sendo parte integrante da região Europa e América do Norte.

Para a definição da UNESCO, a Europa Ocidental é composta pelos Estados-parte: Áustria, Bélgica, França, Alemanha, Liechtenstein, Luxemburgo, Mônaco, Países Baixos e Suíça. A sub-região abriga sítios localizados em 9 países, sendo Alemanha e França os Estados-parte com maior quantidade de bens listados pela UNESCO, com 46 e 45 sítios classificados respectivamente. Por sua vez, Liechtenstein, Mônaco e as Dependências da Coroa Britânica da Ilha de Man, Guernsey e Jersey não possuem sítios listados pela UNESCO. A região conta ainda com doze sítios compartilhados entre os Estados-parte dentro e fora da Europa Ocidental. O primeiro bem da região a ser incluído na lista foi a Catedral de Aachen, na Alemanha, em 1978, ano da primeira sessão do Comitè do Patrimônio Mundial.

Sítios do Patrimônio Mundial
A região da Europa Ocidental conta atualmente com os seguintes lugares declarados como Patrimônio da Humanidade pela UNESCO:

Europa Ocidental

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Elsword gets Lanox dungeon and events
Check out the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 trailer
Black Ops 3 Beta Review
Steam Controller Review
Nintendo Podcast Episode 9
Halo is the "Star Wars of video games" according to Microsoft
Stephen Wright
There's no denying the huge impact that Halo has had on the video game industry since its inception way back in 2001. Heck, any franchise that warrants its own remastered collection and is considered a system-seller is likely to have a lot going for it, but is it the Star Wars equivalent of video games, as Aaron Greenberg – head of global marketing at Microsoft – recently suggested?
In a recent interview conducted by Gamespot, Greenberg had this to say on the matter…
"What's really so special about Halo, and people will feel it the moment they start playing the campaign, is just the richness of the universe and the story and it's very much like what Star Wars is to movies, Halo is to games. You have that special sauce–it's unlike anything else."
That's certainly a bold claim considering the overwhelming success that Star Wars has achieved in the film industry. Nevertheless, it's exciting to have both franchises back on the map, with Halo 5 Guardians hot off the shelves and Star Wars Episode VII releasing on December 18th.
But would you consider one to be bigger than the other? Let us know.
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Save Your Children
All about how the Government and Child Rights NGOs are eyeing your kids
Category: Norway
A new BBC documentary on Norwegian child protection by Marianne Haslev Skånland
An analysis of the documentary and news and expert reactions in Norway.
Public health for children: care or control? by Lars-Toralf Storstrand
Parents in the world's leading welfare states are increasingly facing disagreement, hostility and suspicion from public services over their children's medical treatment.
A case exposing the double standards of Norway's CPS by Jan Simonsen and Marianne Haslev Skånland
A top Norwegian child protection expert, member of the exclusive 14-member national Expert Commission on Children, Jo Erik Brøyn, is found guilty of possessing and sharing about 200,000 pictures and 4000 hours of video showing children subjected to brutal sexual abuse. But the system appears to be very lenient on the question of this child psychiatrist's two young children to whom he is the single parent. Is Norway's child protection establishment reluctant to go after one of "their own"?
Children as State Property in Europe: An Ancient Legacy by Kaustav Bhattacharyya
This article startlingly anticipates the bizarre and tragic drama that unfolded in April 2018 in Britain in the case of Baby Alfie Evans. It would appear that children as state property has an ancient legacy in Europe.
Norway's Barnevernet, wrongly taking children by Tomáš Zdechovský, Czech Member of European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament writes about Norway's Orwellian system of "child protection".
Mistaken experiments in child-raising outside the family by Lars-Toralf Storstrand
A case for abandoning utopian communitarian ideals in child welfare for a balanced approach that gives due consideration to family and love in child-raising.
The Myth of Scandinavian "Happiness" and How Children Pay the Price For Radical Feminism by Mrutyuanjai Mishra
Regardless of where you stand on child protection agencies, with thousands of children being torn annually from their parents in Scandinavian countries, they can hardly claim to be the "happiest" in the world. Do we really have in Scandinavia a unique and historic case of parental dysfunction? Or are parents being misjudged by their system?
In this article, Denmark-based Indian journalist Mrutyuanjai Mishra claims that Scandinavia's social welfare agencies are causing a human rights crisis with the systematic wrongful removal of children from parents. He argues that this state-sponsored child snatching is driven by an aggressive version of feminism that views the family as an outdated patriarchal institution which oppresses children who need to be "saved" by being removed from their parents. But the result has been the unfair targeting of the poor, the uneducated, migrants and, recently, fathers in general.
Scores of Latvian Children Deprived of their Families in Foreign Countries (Part II) by Julija Stepanenko
Latvian Member of Parliament Julija Stepanenko describes the ground-breaking work by Latvia to regain children of their citizens unjustifiably confiscated by foreign child protection services.
"Stay Strong To Every Loving Parent, Anywhere," Vaclav Klaus, Jr., Czech MP
Czech MP Vaclav Klaus Jr.'s strong message of support in the struggle against increasing unjust interference in the biological family by the State.
Latvian Ministry of Justice Issues Guidelines on Harsh Foreign Child Protection Rules for Families Travelling Abroad – 25 February 16
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Home Unlabelled HTC One Max launched!
I have one word to describe the phone, HUGE.
It's running on HTC Sense 5.5 and Android 4.3 and a huge upgrade on their blinkfeed.
I personally think it is a little too large(of course you can always go with HTC One or One mini) and the stylus (which is sold separately) seems super cool but there is no where you can keep it within the phone and it doesn't do what the Note 3 does.
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Mirror - Vol. 20, No. 16 - March 07, 1996
FairfieldMIRR©R Volume 20, Number 16 Thursday, March 7, 1996 The Image of Fairfield
Conference addresses needs of Oates to
Kristen Sullivan
A conference titled,
"The Meaning of
Multiculturalism & Diversity for
Catholic Higher Education," was
held on Friday March 1 and
Saturday March 2 to increase
awareness and diversify the
campus.
welcomed students and faculty
from other academic institutions
such as Notre Dame University,
Trinity College, and Villanova
University. Approximately eight
to ten representatives were sent
from each university. Forty
academic papers were presented
by speakers from thirteen
different colleges.
President Aloysius
Kelly, S.J. opened the
conference with a welcome
address. He was followed by
special guest speaker, Fr.
Gregory Chisholm S.J. of the
University of Detroit who also
spoke on multiculturalism
Friday evening.
Fr. Michael Himes of
Boston College delivered the
keynote address on Saturday.
Himes, an associate professor of
theology, has co-authored
"Fullness of Faith: The Public
photo by Nicole Rivard
Fr. Richard Stanley and Dr. Ellen U mansky extinguish the candles as part of the Multicultural Faith Service
in the Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius Loyola.
Significance ofTheology," for
which he was awarded the
1994 Catholic Press
Association Book Award.
The format of the
conference included panels,
workshops and a luncheon.
The conference, open to all
students and faculty on
campus, was sponsored by the
Office of the Academic Vice
President. Organizers for the
conference included Dean of
Students, Dr. Gwen Vendley;
Associate Academic Vice
President, Dr. Mary Frances
Malone; Director for the Center
ofMulticultural Relations, Larri
Mazon; and professor of Politics
Department, Dr. Alan Katz.
As the Conference
Chair of Registration, Mazon
noted that the conference was a
success. He received about fifty
positive comments on the
conference, which encourages
him to strongly recommend that
the conference become an annual
event. Mazon felt that there were
many positive elements that
helped make the conference a
success. Proposals for
presentations were submitted
from speakers as far away as
California and many universities
were responsive to sending
representatives to the conference.
"I am extremely
pleased with the outcome and all
that was achieved. The
conference spoke to the needs of
multiculturalism. Wemust create
a stronger presence for students,"
Mazon said.
Ann Fudge, accomplished businesswoman,
to be honored at Awards Dinner
Cheryl Wozniak
Ann Fudge, one of the
most powerful female executives
in America, will be honored guest
and keynote speaker at the 1996
Fairfield Awards Dinner on
Monday, April 15, at the Hyatt
Regency in Greenwich. Fudge,
who is president of the Maxwell
House Coffee Co. and executive
vice-president of Kraft Foods, Inc.
is among the top twenty women in
American industry.
Bom on April 23,1951 in
Washington D.C., Fudge received
her bachelor's degree from
Simmons College in 1973. After
earning her MBA in 1977 from
Harvard University Graduate
School of Business, she spent nine
years at General Mills, Inc., rising
from marketing assistant to
marketing director.
In 1986, Fudge joined
General Foods Corp., which later
merged with Kraft Foods, as
associate director of strategic
planning. This position launched
a meteoric career which enabled
someone who was not only
female, but a minority as well, to
enter into an executive position.
In addition to her
extensive work with Maxwell and
Kraft, Fudge is also a trustee of
Simmons College and the
American Graduate School of
International Management. She is
on the Board of Directors at Allied
Signal Inc., Liz Claiborne, Inc.
and Catalyst; is a member of the
New York Women's Forum; and
serves as president of the Executive
Leadership Council.
Along with her many
prestigious positions in the executive
world, Fudge has appeared in Who's
Who of American Women, and has
received awards from the National
Coalition of 100 Black Women and
the Corporate Women's Network.
The Awards Dinner has
raised over $900, 000 for AHANA
(students of African American,
Hispanic, Asian, and Native
American Descent) scholarships.
Currently, the fund is providing need-based
awards for six students, who
otherwise would not have the
opportunity to attend Fairfield.
Tickets for the dinner are
$300 each and may be reserved by
calling Donna Byrnes, dinner
coordinator, at the Fairfield Awards
Dinner office 661-2387.
speak at
Christine Hamei
One of America's
leading and most versatile
writers, Joyce Carol Oates will
speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Quick
Center on Tuesday, April 2.
The lecture is free and open to
the public. Oates will also
speak earlier that day to a class
in advanced fiction writing.
"Students are thrilled
that she will be here to read and
discuss her writing. I have
found that students are always
interested in her style and the
way she holds an audience. I
wrote to her at Princeton
University and she was very
gracious in responding almost
immediately," Dr. Kim
Bridgford, associate professor
of English, said. Bridgford is
organizing the program.
Sponsored by a grant
from the University's
Humanities Institute, the event
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Department, the College of
Arts and Sciences, the
American Studies Program, the
Honors Program, Women's
Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, the
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SearchData The FairfieldMIRR©R Volume 20, Number 16 Thursday, March 7, 1996 The Image of Fairfield Conference addresses needs of Oates to multiculturalism Kristen Sullivan Staff Writer A conference titled, "The Meaning of Multiculturalism & Diversity for Catholic Higher Education," was held on Friday March 1 and Saturday March 2 to increase awareness and diversify the campus. The conference welcomed students and faculty from other academic institutions such as Notre Dame University, Trinity College, and Villanova University. Approximately eight to ten representatives were sent from each university. Forty academic papers were presented by speakers from thirteen different colleges. President Aloysius Kelly, S.J. opened the conference with a welcome address. He was followed by special guest speaker, Fr. Gregory Chisholm S.J. of the University of Detroit who also spoke on multiculturalism Friday evening. Fr. Michael Himes of Boston College delivered the keynote address on Saturday. Himes, an associate professor of theology, has co-authored "Fullness of Faith: The Public photo by Nicole Rivard Fr. Richard Stanley and Dr. Ellen U mansky extinguish the candles as part of the Multicultural Faith Service in the Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius Loyola. Significance ofTheology," for which he was awarded the 1994 Catholic Press Association Book Award. The format of the conference included panels, workshops and a luncheon. The conference, open to all students and faculty on campus, was sponsored by the Office of the Academic Vice President. Organizers for the conference included Dean of Students, Dr. Gwen Vendley; Associate Academic Vice President, Dr. Mary Frances Malone; Director for the Center ofMulticultural Relations, Larri Mazon; and professor of Politics Department, Dr. Alan Katz. As the Conference Chair of Registration, Mazon noted that the conference was a success. He received about fifty positive comments on the conference, which encourages him to strongly recommend that the conference become an annual event. Mazon felt that there were many positive elements that helped make the conference a success. Proposals for presentations were submitted from speakers as far away as California and many universities were responsive to sending representatives to the conference. "I am extremely pleased with the outcome and all that was achieved. The conference spoke to the needs of multiculturalism. Wemust create a stronger presence for students," Mazon said. Ann Fudge, accomplished businesswoman, to be honored at Awards Dinner Cheryl Wozniak Staff Writer Ann Fudge, one of the most powerful female executives in America, will be honored guest and keynote speaker at the 1996 Fairfield Awards Dinner on Monday, April 15, at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich. Fudge, who is president of the Maxwell House Coffee Co. and executive vice-president of Kraft Foods, Inc. is among the top twenty women in American industry. Bom on April 23,1951 in Washington D.C., Fudge received her bachelor's degree from Simmons College in 1973. After earning her MBA in 1977 from Harvard University Graduate School of Business, she spent nine years at General Mills, Inc., rising from marketing assistant to marketing director. In 1986, Fudge joined General Foods Corp., which later merged with Kraft Foods, as associate director of strategic planning. This position launched a meteoric career which enabled someone who was not only female, but a minority as well, to enter into an executive position. In addition to her extensive work with Maxwell and Kraft, Fudge is also a trustee of Simmons College and the American Graduate School of International Management. She is on the Board of Directors at Allied Signal Inc., Liz Claiborne, Inc. and Catalyst; is a member of the New York Women's Forum; and serves as president of the Executive Leadership Council. Along with her many prestigious positions in the executive world, Fudge has appeared in Who's Who of American Women, and has received awards from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and the Corporate Women's Network. The Awards Dinner has raised over $900, 000 for AHANA (students of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American Descent) scholarships. Currently, the fund is providing need-based awards for six students, who otherwise would not have the opportunity to attend Fairfield. Tickets for the dinner are $300 each and may be reserved by calling Donna Byrnes, dinner coordinator, at the Fairfield Awards Dinner office 661-2387. speak at Quick Center Christine Hamei News Editor One of America's leading and most versatile writers, Joyce Carol Oates will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Quick Center on Tuesday, April 2. The lecture is free and open to the public. Oates will also speak earlier that day to a class in advanced fiction writing. "Students are thrilled that she will be here to read and discuss her writing. I have found that students are always interested in her style and the way she holds an audience. I wrote to her at Princeton University and she was very gracious in responding almost immediately," Dr. Kim Bridgford, associate professor of English, said. Bridgford is organizing the program. 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KIT REVIEW
AvantGarde Model Kits #88008 MiG-31B/BS
Since 2013, Macau-based AvantGarde Model Kits (AMK) has been releasing a sequence of kits in 1:48 scale, such as the Kfir, L-29, and CM.170. These were all small jet aircraft, but AMK established a well-earned reputation for producing interesting subjects, excellent injection molded detail, and smart engineering. In late 2015, they released their first large-format kit in 1:48 scale: the MiG-31 BM/BSM. That model was widely lauded and landed a strong range of accolades including more than a few proclamations that it was the "kit of the year." In 2016, AMK released their second Foxhound in 1:48 scale that represents the B and BS variants. In this review, we'll take a serious look at AMK's second MiG-31 kit.
U.S. reconnaissance overflights of the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1950s by Lockheed U-2s, demonstrated the need for a high-flying Soviet interceptor, and as airplanes such as the B-58 Hustler, XB-70 Valkyrie, and the SR-71 Blackbird came on the scene, the Russians also saw the equal need for something that pushed the envelope in terms of outright speed. The Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau began work on designs in 1959 that would eventually culminate in the famous MiG-25 Foxbat that first flew in 1964. This interceptor was capable of Mach 3.2 at 68,000 feet, but only under certain conditions for a short time. The Foxbat also possessed relatively poor maneuverability and low-altitude performance. Work on a follow-on aircraft was initiated in 1965, and the MiG-31 (NATO reporting name: Foxhound) flew in 1975.
Superficially similar to the MiG-25, the MiG-31 was virtually a new airplane. Its advanced radar possessed look-up and look-down/shoot-down modes, the ability to simultaneously track multiple targets such as low flying cruise missiles and bombers, and could attack four targets simultaneously using the R-33 long-range air-to-air missile. These capabilities were relatively on par with the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. Depending on their tactics, a flight of four MiG-31s could monitor and defend a chunk of airspace around 550 miles wide. The Foxhound was considered to be a very threatening opponent in a shooting war inside Soviet airspace. A former FB-111 pilot described to me that his best hope in avoiding Foxhounds was for any ICBM/SLBM laydown to have degraded the Soviet air defense system to the point where there would be lots of holes to get through,. But if a MiG-31 found them, certain tactics involving violent maneuvering would have to be tried to break the Foxhound's radar lock.
MiG-31 production began in 1979 and ended in 1994, with a total of 519 of the big interceptors rolling off the production line at Gor'kiy across six variants. The MiG-31's structure is nearly half arc-welded steel, and each of the D30-F6 engines produce 34,171 pounds of thrust. That gets the MiG-31 up to about Mach 1.23 at low altitude, and at high altitude, Mach 2.83 is the limit. While the Foxhound can indeed exceed Mach 3, any higher airspeed risks damaging the engines while Mach 3+ aerodynamic heating poses a threat to airframe life and integrity.
The MiG-31B emerged from the second production run of Foxhounds beginning in 1990. A certain urgency underscored the development of this new version. A Russian engineer spying for West passed along the secrets of the Foxhound's avionics and armament in 1985; the Soviets considered this breach far worse than Victor Belenko's defection with the MiG-25 about a decade earlier. This new MiG-31 was fitted with significantly upgraded avionics including an entirely new fire control system based around the Zaslon-A phased array radar, new ECM and EW gear, and various datalink capabilities. The airplane also carried the upgraded RS-33 missile system and featured an in-flight refueling probe. A number of the earlier, first-production run MiG-31 01DZs were converted to B standards and were redesigned MiG-31BS.
Today, further upgrades have led to the MiG-31BM and BSM, which represent yet further increased capability with the more powerful Zalson-M radars capable of acquiring targets more than 250 miles away and can serve in a limited AWACS and SEAD role. Enhanced lethality comes in the form of the most recent versions of the R-33 and R-37 missiles which are capable of shooting down targets more than 200 miles distant. More upgrades are planned, and the Russian Defense Ministry plans on the Foxhound serving as Russia's premier air defense interceptor until at least 2030.
To learn more about the MiG-31, I recommend Mikoyan MiG-31 Interceptor by Yefim Gordon and Dmitry Komissarov (published by Pen & Sword books in 2015).
AMK's MiG-31B/BS comes in large and deep box for a 1:48 scale kit, and it's packed to the brim. The parts are distributed on 26 grey injection molded sprues that contain 228 parts. Panel lines and rivet/screw details are all recessed. Another two sprues contain a total of 26 clear parts. One photoetch metal fret holds 27 metal detail parts. The instruction booklet is printed in full color and construction proceeds through 27 steps. Two decal sheets cover markings for three aircraft and also include extensive airframe stencils, missile stencils, ejection seat stencils, and canopy frame seals for one jet. The three Foxhound schemes in the box are:
MiG-31 BS, "16 Blue," Russian Air Force, Chelyabinsk-Shagol AB, 2014
MiG-31 BS, "23 Red," Kazakstan Air Force, 2012
MiG-31 B, "73 Blue," Savasleyka AB (no date)
Strengths: Cutting right to the chase: the AMK MiG-31 will take your breath away. All of the amazing attributes and qualities you heard about the first MiG-31 kit are represented here just as well, though some notable new features have been added in this second issue. My test fitting of the nose, fuselage parts and wings suggest that the fit is so perfect that you won't need seam filler for these major assemblies. Talking to scale modelers who have built this kit confirms this observation.
The fidelity of detail is outstanding, whether one considers the surface detail of the exterior airframe, landing gear, wheel wells, cockpit, and even intake trunking. Attention to other details, such as providing parts for the interior of the canopy frames, wheel hubs as separate parts from the tires, and finely injection molded rear-view mirrors as part of the canopy frame parts (usually such mirrors are provided as fine photoetched metal parts) just add to the appeal of this kit. Flaps, slats, and the rudders are all separate parts. The underside speedbrakes can be deployed open or closed, intake ramps can be positioned open or closed, and the in-flight refueling probe and infrared search sensor can built extended or retracted.
The kit design and parts breakdown is smart and creative, including the one-piece lower wing structure that ensures the builder has both the correct and equal dihedral on both wings. Parts for both D30-F6 jet engines are included. While all but the compressor faces and exhaust nozzles are hidden from view in the built model, the inclusion of the complete engine certainly gives one ideas for dioramas.
Slide molds were used to produce a single-piece nose for the Foxhound, and the completed cockpit slides in from the back on rails. Slide molds were also used to make the R-33 Amos (x4), the R-40 Archer (x2) and the R-60M Aphid B (x4) missiles. While we've seen this approach in the molding of missiles before, such as with the Great Wall Hobby 1:48 scale F-15 and MiG-29 series, this is the first time AMK has done so. The detail AMK achieved on these missiles must be seen to be believed. The rivet detail on the R-33s and -40s is beautifully executed.
In the past, my reviews have been a little critical of AMK kits for their indistinct or "soft" details on their cockpit instrument panels and lack of seatbelt parts on their ejection seats. On both points, AMK has produced their best and sharpest detail on the MiG-31 instrument panels and shoulder restraints and lap belts come as photoetched parts. Right on!
Aside from the decals for the three B/BS jets, a few other features make this kit distinct from AMK's first MiG-31. First, two identical clear parts sprues are included, but one is tinted to achieve the more accurate shade of glass seen on the real jet. The exterior and interior of the MiG-31's windscreen and canopy glass is sealed to the surrounding steel frames by an off-pink color putty. Scale modelers lamented that these details were omitted from the first kit. AMK listened and this issue of their Foxhound has the canopy seals represented as decals. Sprue N has the appropriate parts for the instrument panels for the B/BS variant, and generally nails it in terms of accuracy (but see below).
Weaknesses: I can only offer the most minor of quibbles in the evaluation of this kit. First, in my references, the edges of those off-pink canopy seals are shown to be often rough and irregular, and I understand that they are applied on the real jet by hand using a putty knife. For some builders, the clean and regular edges of the canopy seal decals might be considered to be just a little too perfect, but in 1:48 scale, I think you can get away it.
While I am almost completely in love with the cockpit, the throttle quadrants are surprisingly crude (just raised knobs) and comparison of the kit's pilot instrument panel with my references suggests some very minor inaccuracies regarding switch number and placement, especially on the HUD controls. But again, I must emphasize that you really have to look deeply to find these little irregularities.
While the rudders are separate pieces, their locating tab allows you to fit them only straight in, so if you want to defect the rudders, the builder will need to remove those tabs. And while I am not terribly familiar with the D30-F6 jet engine, its external detail seems simplified. If the scale modeler were to somehow display it, a rare opportunity exists here for extra detailing in terms of piping and wiring.
AMK keeps raising the bar not just in terms of their kits, but for the entire world of 1:48 scale injection molded plastic kits. The AMK MiG-31B/BS is one of the best kits scale modelers could ask for in terms of detail, engineering, and interesting subject matter. Previous 1:48 scale MiG-31s, such as kits by Lindberg and Ace Hobbies, cannot be compared in a fair manner, and while the Collect-Aire resin 1:48 scale MiG-31 was a very accurate kit, it is now quite hard-to-find, significantly expensive, and challenging to build. AMK has produced the best MiG-31 in this scale, surpassing their first Foxhound with the new parts and decals.
This really is a scale modeler's kit: it's a thoroughly engaging model just sitting in the box, it is fairly straightforward to build, and it is filled with the kinds of details that make this hobby so enjoyable for so many of us. Out of the box, it's in the top three kits of 2016 (so far), and an increasing range of aftermarket products, from metal and resin parts by Eduard to decals by Begemot, Authentic Decals, and Furball Aero-Designs provide even more options for the scale modeler.
Sincere thanks to AMK for the review sample. You can find them on the web at http://amkhobby.com/home/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/avantgardemodelkits.


This is an Aussie take on a traditional Middle Eastern dessert. Do not substitute margarine for the butter.
Gently boil the oranges in water for 2 hours. Cool and puree, skins included (remove as many seeds as possible before pureeing).
Beat eggs and caster sugar until sugar has dissolved. Add pureed orange. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
Mix together almond meal and baking powder. Folk through the orange-egg mixture. Pour into a greased ring tin. Bake 1 hour and allow to cool.
Combine sugar, orange juice, peel, cinnamon stick and star anise in a non-reactive pan. Simmer gently until a smooth syrup is achieved (about 15 mins). Remove cinnamon, peel and star anise and stir through the butter. Serve cake dusted with icing sugar on a pool of citrus sauce.


Blending the old and the new seems like a good idea.
Being the lazy sort that I am, I don't usually blog on Saturday, but there's something in the works that requires comment today. I think this is potentially very significant in the evolution of media planning, and that means it could have profound implications for television downstream.
MediaPost, the folks who bring us the online MediaDailyNews and a host of other wonderful online media resources, also publishes Media Magazine. They produce two different versions, one for traditional media, the other for interactive (online). These two advertising silos have existed since the earlier days of the web, and there has always been talk about merging the two. The idea seems to make sense, but does it really?
The fact that Media Magazine continues to publish a "traditional media" edition and an "online media" edition, perpetuates the "silo" mentality that our industry has been working so hard to eliminate. Digital media should be viewed as a valuable part of an overall communications plan, not a stand‐ alone entity. The longer that we keep our industry shrouded in a cloak of complexity and exclusivity, the longer we'll remain the 3% solution.
As interactive media practitioners, we must have a vested interest in the news, issues, and developments taking place in the traditional media and marketing world. Online media and marketing does not exist in a vacuum. It is important for online and traditional media practitioners to understand the overall context within which we all operate. Insights into the challenges facing marketers from an overall media perspective can give us a better sense of which areas we can complement an overall communications program (i.e., "Having some trouble in the upfront? Hey, did you know that there are millions of video streams available online?").
Conversely, I speak to traditional planners and buyers all the time who are looking for the best resources to stay on top of the rapidly changing interactive landscape. Anyone who lives in the world of advertising and marketing understands that there are shifts of epic proportions occurring in the way that media is consumed. It is a seamless blend of platforms and content, which regularly cross the analog‐digital border.
Like it or not, our worlds are inextricably linked and rushing closer and closer each day.
Let's assume for a moment that this were to happen and then let's further assume that what follows is one happy family of traditional and interactive marketers. Who runs things? The traditionalists who are already entrenched in power? Or the newbies that the article assumes are just dying to dine at the table of the adults?
As a part of Universal McCann, Mr. Cohen's opinion springs from the top of the marketing heap, and the view from there is multi‐directional and includes the status quo. I'm one of those who believes the age of mass marketing is drawing to a close, and the Internet is making that happen. The status quo has a great deal to gain in a Borg‐esque assimilation of the new into the old, and I'm just not sure that's in the best interests of the baby. I could be convinced otherwise, but the idea gives me pause. Sitting with the grown‐ups is fine, but there comes a time when the children become the grownups.
This is one of those times, an era of epochal change in our culture. Marketing isn't changing it. People are, everyday folks who are tired of being manipulated and herded for the sake of somebody else's economic gain. Markets are conversations, and therein lies the power of the Web. Do the traditionalists have to come along? Absolutely not! The 3 percent solution of today is tomorrow's 5 percent solution, and so on. The point is that the future is interactive. It is the engine driving the change, and only if a combined magazine approached it from that perspective would it get my vote.
Whether there becomes a blended marketing universe or not, it has implications for television. If it were to happen, I think the downward spiral of ad dollars for TV would rapidly accelerate, because more traditionalists would embrace the power of the Web at the agency level. If the Interactive marketing world remained an independent silo, the erosion will still continue, but it would be driven at the advertiser level, not from the agencies. The latter is trouble for the traditional marketing industry, and that's what Mr. Cohen's suggestion is really all about anyway.
This is an interesting issue to watch.


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Skaičiuotuvas Iskra 111 (rus. Искра 111) – buvo gaminamas įvairiose Sovietų Sąjungos gamyklose nuo 1972 metų. Skaičiai atvaizduojami dėka viduje esančių 12-os nixie lempučių.
Iskra 111 is a Soviet calculator produced since 1972, but it is structurally reminiscent of calculators manufactured 10 years ago in western Europe and in the USA. The machine is built without using elements of large scale integration, which have already been used frequently. It should also be remembered that a year earlier appeared on the market the first system called "calculator on a chip", thanks to which the size of desktop calculators drastically decreased. But this is another story… A characteristic feature is the use of nixie tubes, which in the 1970's were already out of use. The most interesting element, however, is the memory used in this counting machine. This is an acoustic memory with a delay line and this solution makes the calculator an interesting item for collectors.


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Chiropractor targeted by FTC for selling vitamin D, zinc to fight the coronavirus speaks out
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, June 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Amidst an atmosphere of sweeping censorship by Big Media and Big Tech, along with a smattering of government intimidation, a highly accomplished chiropractor has pledged to defend himself in a lawsuit levied by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which claims he and his company, Quickwork LLC, have participated in deceptive marketing practices regarding the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
(Article by Patrick Delaney republished from LifeSiteNews.com)
"I'm not just standing up for myself, I'm standing up for my patients, I'm standing up for other doctors who have been oppressed and suppressed," Dr. Eric Nepute told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview. "I just cannot let my children [and grandchildren] … grow up in a world where medical tyranny rules."
The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of the FTC charges Nepute with violating the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) which was passed last December and renders it illegal "to engage in deceptive marketing related to the treatment, cure, prevention, mitigation, or diagnosis of COVID–19," according to an FTC statement.
The FTC claims Nepute and his company deceptively marketed "products containing vitamin D and zinc as scientifically proven to treat or prevent COVID-19," and as being "as, or more, effective than vaccines that are currently available."
Thomas Renz, who was also part of the interview and has been the lead attorney in several major cases across the country related to COVID-19 lockdowns, mask mandates, business closures, and more, responded directly citing the website of the National Institute of Health (NIH) which itself acknowledges the relationship between zinc and a healthy immune system in several places. As stated here, the NIH website affirms that zinc "deficiency depresses both innate and adaptive immune responses."
Also from the website, Renz read, "Vitamin D has other roles in the body, including … [proper] immune function."
Pointing out how NIH reportedly owns half of the patent for the Moderna injections, Renz asked, "Why do you think that they're promoting the vaccine and suppressing what people like [Nepute] are saying? It's on their website, that vitamin D affects the immune system. It's on their website that zinc affects the immune system. And yet they're going to say that [Nepute] shouldn't be saying that zinc and vitamin D might affect your immune system in a positive way?! They're saying it! How is it a violation of the law for him to say it?! It's not. They just want to suppress anything they can with this because they need to push this stinking poison [the experimental vaccines] into as many people's arms as they can… this is one of the most corrupt, egregious violations of rights I've ever seen."
With regards to the FTC's charge that Missouri-based primary care provider encouraged others to not receive the gene-therapy vaccine due to its not stopping the spread of COVID-19, Nepute said, "The vaccine doesn't stop the spread of COVID-19. It says it in the EUA [Emergency Use Authorization]. It says it in Moderna's papers, it said it in Pfizer's papers. COVID-19 are symptoms. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. It doesn't attack the virus. It only attacks the spike protein."
'The federal government is trying to put a gag order on me'
In this first legal action under the new CCPA, the FTC is seeking to "to impose monetary penalties on Nepute and Quickwork, and to grant a preliminary injunction against the defendants," including prohibiting their "making such health claims unless they are true and can be substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence. The Commission also seeks to bar the defendants from falsely claiming to have scientific evidence about the effects of vitamin D and zinc on COVID-19."
"I would love to talk about the science, the journals, the medical papers that support my claims. But right now, the federal government is trying to put a gag order on me so that I can't discuss that stuff," Nepute said.
"The things the federal government are accusing me of are absolutely unbelievable. When you look at the science," he said. "We are pushing back so that we can actually get the science out to the people."
With a touch of irony, Nepute highlighted that "everything we've talked about … from the beginning of COVID-19 has completely become true, totally true, [based on] science and not opinion. But the other side is basing their decisions off of the opinions of other people."
"We could easily do a walk away, take a settlement that they offered and just take a slap on the wrist … [and] act like nothing ever happened," he shared prior to recording. "But we can't do that."
"[With our legal defense] we will be able to prove without a shadow of a doubt that the-powers-that-be weaponized the federal government to suppress, silence and censor doctors," he said. And, therefore, "the goal is to stop censorship. Censorship literally kills people. 'Without knowledge, My people will perish,'" Nepute said, referencing Hosea 4:6.
In April, Dr. Peter MCullough testified that had censorship not occurred regarding effective early treatments such as ivermectin, zinc, and vitamin D for COVID-19, 85 percent of the "over 500,000 deaths in the United States" could have been saved. Dr. Simone Gold from America's Frontline Doctors concurred with Nepute's conclusion on this matter affirming that over the last year, it's a demonstrable that, "Censorship kills."
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"There are well over three hundred plus documented hospitals and facilities across the country that use [vitamin] D, zinc, ivermectin, etc. in their protocols," Nepute said in defense of his recommending the same. "And the Department of Defense also uses it in the VA systems across the country. I don't know how you back-out of that fact."
FTC lacks legal authority: Supreme Court
After giving his opinion that the FTC's lawsuit was – based on its merits – "terrible" and "heading into the toilet if you're the federal government," Renz said that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that the FTC does not have authority to seek the enormous monetary penalties they are levying against Nepute and Quickwork.
A week following FTC's April 15 announcement charging Nepute with violating of the CCPA, the U.S. Supreme Court issued their 9-0 decision on AMG Capital Management LLC v. FTC, which ruled that the law does not permit the Commission to seek such fines from businesses.
"They've come after us for almost eight million dollars," Nepute explained. "That's ridiculous that they're trying to come after us for that. And by the way, all because there's two paragraphs that was passed in this omnibus law [in December], five thousand plus pages that nobody read the whole thing."
Trying to make an example of him
"I mean, they're doing so many things to scare doctors, to not talk about [these important heath issues]," he said.
When asked if he thought the federal government was simply trying to intimidate and silence doctors with this lawsuit, Renz said "Absolutely, in my opinion, they are absolutely doing that. I think what they're doing is nothing more than trying to make an example out of him [Nepute]."
In 2012, an Obama administration official, Al Armendariz, was forced to resign after proposing that his agency, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), should adopt a policy of "crucifying" random citizens in order to terrorize the population into compliance with harsh regulations.
Armendariz said, "The Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really easy to manage for the next few years."
As one commentator observed, this "official's rant confirms what many of us already knew about the Obama Administration: they imagine themselves to be the rulers of conquered territories populated by restless barbarians who must be subjugated at any cost, complete with indiscriminate and severe exemplary punishments."
A call for Christian unity and help to stop a government takeover of medicine
Reflecting on Nepute's situation, Renz said, "it's scary when someone like the federal government who has infinite money and infinite resources says, 'I'm coming after you, I'm going after you, and I'm going to after you hard.' That's scary. I mean, you know, I feel terrible for what he's dealing with. It's absolutely horrendous."
"He took an oath to do no harm. He is doing what he believes is right. He's doing what he believes is moral. And I'm going to tell you the courage it takes to stand up against this" is enormous, he said.
"For a non-attorney to stand up to these guys the way that he is and to say, 'Listen, I've got to stand for what's right for my patients, for my people,' [is extraordinary]. I beg everyone listening to this, please support this guy," said the Ohio attorney. "This has to be a line in the sand. This has to be! If our doctors are not capable of taking care of our health without political interference, without buyoffs, without corruption, where are we left?"
"The issue here is the takeover of medicine, the politicization of your health, the fact that your life is no more than an opportunity for someone to earn a few extra bucks. We have got to take a stand. We have got to support each other. We've got to come together," Renz stressed.
Assessing his predicament, Nepute said, "What I've got that's powerful is God on my side. There's no question about it. And we've got facts and we got faith. We're going to win with that. But the federal government has unlimited resources. They literally just print more money to go after us. And what they'll do is they'll try to drag this out into court for years and years and years and just try to drain us dry from it.
"So [for] people that want to help support, here's what you can do. We have a website. It's real simple: StopMedicalTyranny.com. They can go there. They can learn how to donate," he said.
"And if we get to that point and everybody watching can help support this and help us stop this medical tyranny, we're going to be able to get this information to the masses. And what's going to happen when people find out the absolute truth of what's really going on, is literally the whole house of cards is going to crumble," he concluded.
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I walked with Dennis Noble through the Five Points neighborhood of Denver. He and his wife, Shelley, started ministering in the area shortly after he graduated from Denver Seminary in 1972. As their first ministry to the community, the Nobles started a Christian, summer day camp. That same summer, Dennis was appointed as a missionary with Missions Door. After three summers of day camps and three years of raising support, Dennis and Shelley started the Church of the Risen Lord. Today their ministry is simply and exhaustively living life with a variety of inner city people in and around the Five Points area: sharing meals, homes, time, and the love of Christ with their neighbors. The Nobles' heart is to give urban, problem-plagued, and dearly loved people a chance to know Christ through the church.
As Dennis and I continued through Denver's only "historic, cultural" neighborhood, he pointed at the old, brick homes and recounted stories of families that had lived there. These stories were not separate from the Nobles; they were also a part of their story. For example, after several hardships, one family allowed their son to move in with the Nobles from middle school all the way through college. While that is an exceptional example, the Nobles' lives are intertwined with this community in much more subtle ways as well. Dennis often walks the blocks around his home to chat with his neighbors, but admits he runs into many of them at the Safeway supermarket. He asks about their lives, their families and their stories.
When the Nobles moved to the neighborhood, they bought two houses side-by-side. One was to be their home and the other, their church. That "church building" is now used as a sort-of halfway house for members of their church or others in the community who need transitional housing. Dennis shared that a man, a friend of his, who had been previously incarcerated, is currently living there. Forty-one years later, the Nobles still live in the same house, but the church has moved… all the way across the street.
Upon entering the church, smiling faces of church members greeted us on two large corkboards filled with photos. Dennis gestured at each one and shared who they were. "This is Latoya. She is learning to drive right now. Look how photogenic she is…" Then, "This is José. He lives just down the street from us. We invited him to church when he was younger, but he left for awhile and then came back…" and so on.
In their home, I sat across the table from Dennis and Shelley as they shared countless stories of friends and neighbors who had entered, and sometimes exited, their lives. Some were success stories and others ended sadly. They worried over a young teen who would appear in criminal court the next day, but they beamed about a single mother who often serves in their church and also helped Shelley immensely through her recent back issues.
The Nobles recognize that each of these people have a story that is deeper than the face value of their situation. They understand that the circumstances people are in, the trials they face, or even the mistakes they make do not make them broken. It is simply a part of their story. Dennis knows this reality personally.
When Dennis was born, his biological father abandoned him and his mother. His mother tried to raise him but could not take care of him on her own. They moved in with other family members, but Dennis was soon "adopted" by relatives. In his short life to that point, Dennis experienced life being abandoned by a parent, with a single-parent, and in an adopted family. He reminisced about growing up this way, with different families, and attending church with a neighbor before accepting Christ as his personal Savior and heavenly Father. His circumstance, the beginning to his story, gave Dennis an understanding of what some might call a "broken" family or life; however, the Nobles do not use the word "broken".
Through his early experiences, Dennis gained the ability to communicate with compassion and respect to others in similar circumstances. He knows that they, their families, and their homes are not "broken". Instead, he is understanding of their story, a story that needs a Savior. The Nobles and their church seek to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in the Five Points neighborhood. From working with single-parents and pro-life organizations to the homeless population and people in trouble with the law, from children to the elderly and all those in between, the Nobles want to introduce the hero, the protagonist, Jesus, into the story of their community—not a broken community, just one waiting on a Savior.
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Rome was founded in 1834, after Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, and the federal government committed to removing the Cherokee and other Native Americans from the Southeast. It developed on former indigenous territory at the confluence of the Etowah and the Oostanaula rivers, which together form the Coosa River. Because of its strategic advantages, this area was long occupied by the historic Creek. Later the Cherokee people expanded into this area from their traditional homelands to the east and northeast. National leaders such as Major Ridge and John Ross resided here before Indian Removal in 1838.
The city has developed on seven hills with the rivers running between them, a feature that inspired the early European-American settlers to name it for Rome, the longtime capital of Italy that was also built on seven hills. The American Rome developed in the antebellum period as a market and trading city due to its advantageous location on the rivers. It shipped the rich regional cotton commodity crop downriver to markets on the Gulf Coast and export overseas.
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Mr. Joe Olen Gilbert
November 5, 1932 - July 13, 2020
On Monday, July 13, 2020, Joe Gilbert passed away in Bartlesville, Ok. According to him, he was 87; but according to his baby sister, who has his birth certificate, he was actually 89. Everyone agrees Joe Olen Gilbert was born on November 5, but whether that was in 1932 or 1930, we're not sure. He was born in Buffalo, Missouri, to Frank and Delphia (Shackelford) Gilbert. Joe was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Fred Gilbert and Bill Gilbert. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Gilbert of Barnsdall, his sister, Jean Lockerby of Lusby, Maryland, and several nieces and nephews The memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 18, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. on the Barnsdall High School Football Field. He will be interred at Ethel Reece Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be sent to American Heritage Bank, PO Box 529 Barnsdall, OK 74002 to fund repairs and upkeep on his second home, the Joe Gilbert Fieldhouse. Joe Gilbert lived a rich and active life. After graduating high school at sixteen Joe joined the Air Force. There is rumor that he altered his birth certificate to be able to join which has led to the discrepancy of his true age. He served one year at Larson Air Force Base in Washington, which was originally named Moses Lake Army Air Base. Joe played baseball and football for the Air Force. He had never played football before because his high school in Buffalo didn't have football. When his year was completed, he signed a contract to play professional baseball for the Cleveland Indians. He visited with his mother before reporting to the Indians to tell her of this opportunity. Joe's mother had to quit school when she was in third or fourth grade to get a job after her family lost their house to a fire. She was a very intelligent woman who had missed the opportunity for an education. So, while she was very proud of Joe's athletic abilities, she encouraged him to go to school. Joe contacted the Indians and told them to tear the contract up, he was honoring his mother's wishes and would be accepting an athletic scholarship at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. While at Northeastern, Joe lettered in football, basketball, baseball, and track. He was one of very few students to ever accomplish this feat. Many times in his life he downplayed his academic abilities. Not only was he a four sport collegiate athlete, but he also earned a Bachelors of Science in Education Degree in 1954. Some people say after hearing about a teaching/coaching position in Barnsdall, Joe hitchhiked from Tahlequah to Barnsdall for the interview. We find this easy to believe because his sister, Jean, said while in college he often would have to hitchhike from the Missouri state line to the campus in Tahlequah. They only had one car and if they both happened to be home at the same time, she'd drive him to the state line and he'd walk from there. There was an Oklahoma State Trooper that often picked him up and took him the whole way. While it was a form of transportation he frequently had to use, he told Jean never to hitchhike, and never pick up a hitchhiker. She never did. Barnsdall Public Schools hired Joe Gilbert in the fall of 1954 and he officially became "Coach Gilbert" or "Gilb" to the students of BHS for the next 66 years. After a ten year courtship, Coach Gilbert married Joyce Infield, a player from his first team as a Panther Coach on June 4, 1964 in Nowata, Oklahoma. Coach Gilbert and Joyce made their lifetime home in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. In 1973, Coach Gilbert went on to earn his Masters in Education from NSU as he continued to coach several sports at the varsity level. In addition to his coaching and teaching duties at Barnsdall Public Schools, Coach Gilbert was a fixture in the community. He spent quality time teaching kids to swim at the swimming pool where he was a lifeguard, taking kids to water ski at the lake, coaching little league baseball teams, and playing tennis where he could pretty well beat anyone. Throughout his legendary career he amassed 3,912 wins as a high school coach in several different sports. He was proclaimed "high school sports winningest coach" with the most wins of any coach in national high school history. His teams earned state titles in baseball in 1980 and slow pitch softball in 2013. In baseball his teams were state runner ups in 1989, 1990, and 1991. The Barnsdall Panther softball teams were state runner ups eight different times. Coach Gilbert was inducted into Northeastern State University Athletics Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma High School Softball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Oklahoma High School Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Oklahoma High School Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Oklahoma High School Slow Pitch Softball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. In 2018 he was honored at the Tulsa World All World Awards with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2019 he was inducted into the National Federation of High School Associations National High School Hall of Fame. If you asked Coach Gilbert how many games he had won in his career, he'd say "none...the kids did." He was a humble man who was embarrassed by the label The Legend. He would have preferred to be known as a man who loved his job, loved coaching, and loved the people and students of Barnsdall. What he achieved as a coach in the win/loss column was unheard of but the impact he had in the hearts and lives of his students and players was truly legendary. The world is a sadder place without him in it, but will forever be a better place because of the many lives he touched. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations be made to the Joe Gilbert Fieldhouse repair account at the American Heritage Bank in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
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Kylie Cosmetics is dropping a serious haul of new products on Thursday, Jun. 15. You will be left with empty pockets, especially if you are all about highlighters and glow. The Kylie Cosmetics Summer 2017 Vacation Edition Collection features three highlighter sets. There's Skinny Dip, Ultra Glow, and The Wet Set, the latter of which inspires the most curiosity and glam thrill. What's the difference? And how do you use these glow-getters? What exactly is The Wet Set and how do you apply it?
Let's start out by clarifying what its sister Summer products are (and aren't!).
The Skinny Dip is a two-pan pressed powder palette for the face, with a highlighter and bronzer because #layering. The Ultra Glows are loose powder highlighters in three shades and their own containers. They will impart serious shimmer on skin.
And what about The Wet Set? That's the most unique of the trio, IMO. It boasts four pans of dry powder, but the powders have a silky, wet feel when applied to skin, per Jenner, who swatched the products on her Snapchat during the big reveal. The Wet Set shades are meant to be worn during whatever summer activity you engage in and they buff and blend beautifully, per Jenner during the swatching.
The Wet Set is also not meant solely for the face. It was designed to be swiped on other parts of the body, like arms, legs, shoulders, and décolletage.
The Wet Set powders are named Privacy Please, Unbothered, Do Not Disturb, and Get-A-Way.
Shimmer. Glow. Metallic tones. You can totally swipe these on other body parts for a little eye-catching glimmer. Swatches of all the Kylie Cosmetics Summer 2017 Vacation products are straight fire, BTW.
If you are going to a wedding or an event this season and your dress or outfit shows some skin, you can grab a big fluffy brush and swipe any or all of The Wet Set shades wherever you want the eye to fall and catch some shimmer. The best thing about this sort of highlighter is that you can diffuse color and layer several together and it'll look seamless.


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Former Foes Libya and Chad Restore Ties
From Times Wire Services
N'DJAMENA, Chad —
Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi and Chadian President Hissen Habre, bitter enemies in a long desert conflict, restored diplomatic relations between their nations Monday and agreed to solve their differences peacefully.
A statement issued in both countries said the move is effective immediately and that the two governments will set up full diplomatic missions in each other's capitals by the end of October.
Chad and Libya agreed in September, 1987, to observe a cease-fire brokered by the 50-member Organization of African Unity (OAU), ending fighting in northern Chad. Earlier phases of the conflict were dominated by Libya's involvement in a long and tangled Chadian civil war.
The agreement came a year after Habre's forces, in a series of lightning battles, drove the Libyans out of northern Chad after years of occupation in support of Chadian rebels.
Silent on Disputed Area
Monday's statement did not mention the disputed Aozou Strip, a 44,000-square-mile band of territory along the northern border of Chad that was seized by Libya in 1973. Rival claims to the Aozou Strip, said to contain iron ore and uranium deposits, go back to a 1935 agreement between France and Italy, the prewar colonial powers in Chad and Libya respectively.
In an interview last month, Kadafi said he was willing to negotiate the status of the Aozou.
The statement said the two governments had reaffirmed their willingness "to scrupulously abide by the Sept. 11, 1987, truce and to settle their land dispute peacefully, respecting the United Nations and OAU charters."
Thousands of Chadians and Libyans have died in the war, in which Chad was supported militarily by France and also received U.S. military supplies.
A Shift for Kadafi
While not unexpected, Monday's announcement represented a dramatic U-turn for Kadafi, who has long felt threatened by the U.S.- and French-backed government on his southern border.
Diplomats in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, said the Chad-Libya rapprochement was part of a wider bid by the Libyan leader to break out of his diplomatic isolation.
They said the war with Chad had proved devastating for the Libyan military, unpopular at home and a burden on an economy already hit by recession caused by falling oil revenues.
For years, Libya had given military and political support to the government of rebel Chad leader Goukouni Oueddei, who still contests the leadership of President Habre.
The diplomats said the turning point came in September, 1987, when Chadian troops, after recapturing most of the Libyan-held north, launched a devastating raid on a major air base inside Libya.
Heavy Losses
Chad said at the time that nearly 2,000 Libyans were killed and millions of dollars in military equipment--including six Soviet-made MIG-23 fighters--were destroyed or seized.
The diplomats said the surprise raid on the Matan as Sarra air base and battles leading up to it had a profound impact on the Libyan army and ordinary Libyans.
Previously, Libyan mercenaries and Chadian rebels had borne the brunt of the fighting. But after the air base raid, a Tripoli-based diplomat said, "People started seeing funeral caskets in Tripoli for young men killed in Chad. It was something most Libyans were not prepared to accept."


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Maggie's List Announces Eight New Endorsements for The 2022 Election Cycle
Washington, D.C. - Maggie's List, a federal political action committee (PAC), today announces eight new endorsements for candidates for federal and state office during the 2022 election cycle. The organization is proud to stand behind these strong, female candidates who support conservative principles.
Maggie's List officially endorses the following candidates:
Katie Britt for U.S. Senate (Alabama)
Amanda Adkins for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District
Jaime Herrera Beutler for Washington's 3rd Congressional District
Vivian Childs for Georgia's 2nd Congressional District
Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Oregon's 5th Congressional District
Jeanette M. Nuñez for Lieutenant Governor of Florida
Sara Hart Weir of Kansas State Treasurer
Kim Owens for Arizona Corporation Commission
"We are proud to endorse this diverse group of candidates who are working hard to champion the principles of fiscal conservatism, smaller government and personal responsibility at the state and federal levels. The 2022 elections present an incredible opportunity to build upon the progress made in the 2020 election cycle, which brought us the largest class of freshman, female conservative members of congress in history. Whether at the state or federal level, we are standing behind our endorsed candidates as they fight against the radical left's disastrous agenda for the American people," said Maggie's List Chairman Sandra Mortham.
Leading PAC for Conservative Women Backs Eight Additional Candidates for Office


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Another tax
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans claim that California taxpayers are unfairly being subsidized by all other states because we pay too much in state and local taxes, and have too many federal income tax deductions. Somehow we are still a donor state and receive less back in federal funds than we pay in federal taxes.
Therefore, I think California should lower state and local taxes by taxing oil production instead. That is what almost all other oil production states do to lower their residents individual taxes. While prior attempts in the Legislature have failed, I think an initiative measure on the June 2018 ballot would be timely in light of the obvious federal tax increases for Californians in the GOP Tax Increase Bill.
Gerald R Adams,
Don't lie to us
I'm urging Rep. Doug LaMalfa not to support the tax bill currently in reconciliation. This bill is bad for your constituents for a number of reasons and will not provide tangible tax relief for the working and middle class you claim to represent. But beyond that, it goes against the very principles you stand for.
On your website, you state: "Families and business all across the country are forced to live within their means and it is time for our federal government to do the same." You go on to decry the growing national debt and irresponsible spending. And yet, the tax bill you are supporting will increase the deficit by $1.4 trillion. It is unconscionable that you would vote for legislation that will destroy opportunities for our children. When you say this tax bill is good for the people of Northern California, you are lying to us, but worst of all, you are lying to yourself!
Katherine Post, Chico
Re "Governor calls special election for Conyers seat" (sacbee.com, Dec. 8) The American people should not be surprised by the number of corrupt politicians and industry leaders. We have let them get away with all kinds of corruption for far too long. Besides sexual harassment cover-ups, the members of the Congress and the executive branch that continually vote to eliminate health care from as many as 25 million Americans and voted to give a huge tax break to the very rich to repay them for funding their re-election must also be expected to resign in disgrace. The American people must vote to take our nation and government back. Vote for candidates that support and are committed to making all Americans better off and are committed to a united country that really has justice for all.
Darrell O. Sullivan, Galt
Re "Sen. Al Franken to resign amid accusations of sexual misconduct" (sacbee.com, Dec. 7): Today this country saw a true grown-up speak his mind and soul in front of Congress. Al Franken never trained to be a politician, yet today in his resignation speech, he displayed a politician's greatest strength – deep-seated, sincere honesty. How refreshing is that in the Senate's chambers?
Franken knew he had to be a sacrificial lamb for the women seeking equal treatment and respect (at long last) in the workplace and everyday life. He became the scapegoat piled high with the sins of countless men abusing and denigrating women, and he was sent into the desert to atone. I salute him, his courage and integrity – rare things indeed these days. The Senate has lost a good man who could have done great things. Perhaps he still will.
Marcella Lorfing, Davis
Re "Does innocent until proven guilty still matter in the age of #MeToo?" (Marcos Breton, Dec. 8): It may be uncomfortable to talk about, but the main practice that has shielded abusers, molesters and criminal behavior is that incidents weren't reported when they occurred. No matter the reason, when people don't report what happened to them until years later, their perpetrators have been shielded and more people become victims.
John Hightower,
Re "Trump gives away public lands to special interests" (sacbee.com, Dec 5): Trump is not "giving away" anything. Contrary to what the article in The Bee states, Trump is correcting Obama's misuse of the 1906 Antiquities Act for his million-acre expansions of two national monuments in Utah. Trump is in full compliance with the act, which requires protecting antiquities with the smallest area possible, and he is not restricted by the 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act, as is stated in the article, as it only describes the Bureau of Land Management operations. Read them for yourself.
Bill Jurkovich,
Re "Why are Sacramento student transit fares among the nation's highest?" (sacbee.com, Dec. 8): If a business in the private sector saw, during a 13 year period, a trending price increase of 120 percent and, for the same period, a trending sales drop of 75 percent; that business would know that something has to change. This is why there should be no difference between how you run a government or private business that sells a service. The data in the article is from Sacramento Regional Transit, so there should have been no surprises. I would say there are some market-challenged personnel at RT.
Bill Walters, Carmichael
Advance Peace
Re "Sacramento hopes program will persuade 50 'shooters' to change their violent ways" (sacbee.com, Dec. 1): In the past year, there has been an increase in gun-related crimes and it is important to find a solution. People's lives are at risk, families relationships are at risk and entire communities are at risk. A newly proposed solution is to use the Advance Peace program, which would cost upward of $15 million and require a minimal contract of 2 years. Not only would this cost a considerable amount of money, but it seems like it will make little to no impact on Sacramento as a whole, only within a few neighborhoods. It is unfair to isolate those neighborhoods and families when this is a citywide issue.
Ann Feletto, Sacramento
Re "Trump declares Jerusalem Israeli capital, smashing U.S. policy" (sacbee.com, Dec. 6): I may have missed it in all the coverage regarding the move of the embassy to Jerusalem, but shouldn't someone be mentioning that the Battle for Jerusalem is one of the seven events prophesied to be necessary to bring about the end of times? That's when all us non-believers will vanish behind the wheels of our BMWs. Donald Trump may not have a clue, but I am guessing Steve Bannon and Mike Pence do.
Bill White, Sacramento
Re "Detentions spike, border arrests fall in Trump's first year" (sacbee.com, Dec. 5): It amazes me that the Trump administration can attribute arrests of undocumented immigrants from Mexico to those escaping environments rife with drug-related violence, while simultaneously threatening to cut off remittances that afford these cash-strapped communities an alternative source of income. The logic does not stand.
Trump seems bent on spending taxpayer dollars to beef up Border Patrol but has yet to suggest cost-effective solutions to help Mexican officials mitigate the economic crisis behind their country's mass exodus. If lawmakers want an immigration policy that works, they should invest our tax money in a way that benefits everyone. U.S. sponsored programs in Mexico and Central America that provide opportunities for gainful employment reduce the draw of illicit dollars and risky border crossings. Pandering to hardliners neither addresses the lack of rehabilitation services needed to shrink our nation's demand for drugs, nor brings us closer to achieving a clean Dream Act.
Robert Cabiness,
Re "Why young people hate capitalism" (sacbee.com, Dec. 5): Ms. Goldberg attempts to indict capitalism by citing excesses of government, as if the two are the same. Her implicit message is that more of the same (socialism) is the answer to the problems of social inequality and unfairness. In fact, a robust private sector creating wealth in the hands of private citizens has proven to be the only effective counterweight to abusive government in the modern era. Without that counterweight, made possible only be capitalism, government becomes tyranny. Just ask Venezuela.
Michael L. Hanks,
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Easy road to retirement for North Haven's X Lotto winner!
Tuesday 25 August 2015 - An SA Lotteries player who purchased their Saturday X Lotto entry in Adelaide's north-western suburb of North Haven will be shifting down a few gears after winning a first division share in the weekend's draw!
The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, came forward late on Monday afternoon to claim their division one prize worth $235,440.11.
"I'm certainly not disappointed!" the man laughed.
It's the second division one winner for North Haven Pharmacy this year and comes less than two months after a woman from Taperoo won $1 million in Monday & Wednesday Lotto in early July.
Kathy Reynolds is the store manager of North Haven Pharmacy and said that she was thrilled that the outlet had sold a division one winning ticket again!
"I feel like we're on a roll here with division one wins!" Ms Reynolds exclaimed.
Across Australia, there were 18 entries that each won a division one share worth $235,440.11 in Saturday X Lotto's estimated $4 million division one prize pool on Saturday 22 August. Along with the winning entry sold in South Australia, there were six winning tickets purchased in Victoria, five in Queensland, three in New South Wales, one in Tasmania, and two in Western Australia.
The winning numbers in Saturday X Lotto draw 3557 on Saturday 22 August, 2015 were 27, 30, 13, 18, 4 and 36. The supplementary numbers were 5 and 32.