The New River Gorge region crawls with off-road trails. Contact a local outfitter for rentals and guided trips through the wilderness! While ATV use is not permitted in the park, Little Beaver State Park is the perfect place to unwind after an exciting day on the trails!
Bring your bike for a different perspective on the many scenic trails. Pick up a map of the trails at the park office before you head out!
Rent a boat and explore Little Beaver's 18-acre lake. Stand-up paddle boards, kayaks, canoes, paddle boats, and row boats are available seasonally.
Little Beaver State Park's campground has 16 sites with water hookups and 30 with electric and water. The campground features a large bathhouse with laundry facilities, a central dump station, wireless Internet access at the camp store, picnic tables and grills. Firewood and ice are available for purchase upon your arrival. West Virginia State Park campground reservations are available from Memorial Day through Labor Day each year. Campgrounds are open on a first-come, first-serve basis after Labor Day. A campsite reservation application is available here.
Little Beaver State Park also has a large, primitive group camping area that can accommodate up to 50 guests. There is a per-night rental fee with rentals available on a first-come, first-served basis with check-in prior to set up.
The 18-acre lake at Little Beaver State Park offers bass, channel catfish, crappie, bluegill and trout fishing. But before you head out, make sure you purchase a current West Virginia fishing license, available at www.wvfish.com.
Can't live without golf? Twin Falls Resort State Park is the place to go. Challenge yourself on the 18-hole championship green or tackle the tricky 9-hole course. Cart rentals and lessons are available.
Breathe in the fresh air on a hike through 17 different trails at Little Beaver State Park! You'll feel de-stressed and refreshed in no time.
Get out on the lake and enjoy the feel of real mountain bliss. Paddleboats, rowboats, canoes and kayaks are available for rent.
The New River Gorge teems with world-class whitewater. Contact local outfitters for guided trips on mild—or wild—rapids.
Little Beaver State Park was established in 1972 as a day-use park, but the site had been a recreational attraction for 4-H campers and anglers since the 1940s when the damming of Little Beaver Creek created an 18-acre lake. In 2011, the park was upgraded with 46 camping sites, expanding opportunities for this popular family reunion and vacation destination.
Many seasonal wildflowers and a stand of virgin pine and oak are features of this trail that encircles a portion of Beaver Creek. The trail runs above the lake.
This is a challenging bike trail full of rocks and steep inclines.
A wooded trail perfect for bikers and hikers.
Very rocky and challenging trail with steep terrain.
An open trail with changing terrain. The trail changes from an open field to a steep wooded incline.
Starts off moderate and then becomes very steep.
This trail is wooded with moderate changing terrain.
This trail cuts through a stand of hemlocks.
This trail is 2.6 miles and is the second longest trail in the park. It follows the park boundary along Country Club Road and is an easy to moderate walk with changing scenery.
A loop trail that follows the lakefront.
This trail has an incline, sometimes steep, that follows the ridge above the lake.
This trail features scenery ranges from deep woods to open meadows. The trail has a gentle loop that follows Laurel Run Creek.
This trail is the longest in the park. It follows the park boundary with extreme terrain challenges to bikers and hikers.
Rocky and steep wooded trail with changing terrain.
This rocky trail is a moderate to extreme trail for bikers.
A short rocky trail that runs along a ridge spur.
This wooded trail features changing terrain.
Choose Little Beaver State Park for your next get-together! There are five picnic shelters and other picnic areas with tables and grills that can accommodate family reunions, birthdays and other gatherings. Playgrounds are available for the little ones as well.
Come to Tamarack for "The Best of West Virginia". Located at Exit 45 near Beckley, this is a must-see stop for its uniquely West Virginian crafted art, gifts, food products and more.
Located in Ghent, on Raleigh County's Flat Top Mountain, Winterplace is West Virginia's southernmost ski resort. This popular winter attraction has 90 acres of slopes, and is a short drive off Interstate 77.
Located a few miles from Interstate 64 and 77, Glade Springs Resort offers a variety of recreational activities, like golfing, skiing, fly-fishing and horseback riding. It also has a full-service spa, state-of-the-art conference and meeting facilities and lodging accommodations all at your fingertips.
Go back in time at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine! Visitors may tour an underground mine, coal camp, and museum. The hands-on exhibitions and underground coal mining tour offer wonderful opportunities for visitors to learn, explore and interact with West Virginia's history.
Located about 10 miles from Beckley and part of the New River Gorge National River, Grandview is a peaceful place to relax and unwind while enjoying outstanding views.
Theatre West Virginia offers dramas and musicals in an outdoor amphitheater with the dramatic views of the New River Gorge serving as its backdrop. The amphitheater is located near Grandview in Beaver, and is open during the summer.
Visit Twin Falls Resort State Park, one of West Virginia's 10 lodge parks! The park offers hiking and mountain biking trails, as well as golfing and tours of a pioneer farm.
Babcock State Park's famous Glade Creek Grist Mill is just 21 miles southeast of Hawks Nest State Park on U.S. Route 60. It offers a lake for fishing and boating, hiking trails, and campgrounds and cabins.
This 276-acre park with a lodge and restaurant is known for its scenic overlooks of the New River Gorge. Visitors can ride the aerial tramway to the bottom of the gorge and ride a jetboat to the base of the New River Gorge Bridge.
Bluestone State Park is best known for its variety of water-oriented activities on Bluestone Lake, West Virginia's third largest body of water. One day out on this lake will have you returning for many more!


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Singer-Songwriter Glenn Frey Dies At 67, Sending Shockwaves Throughout the Music World
Posted by Jessica Brandon on Tue, Jan 19, 2016 @03:01 PM
The music world has lost a legend: Glenn Frey, 67, a co-founding member and guitarist of The Eagles, died on Monday in New York City of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia, sending shockwaves through the music world.
The Eagles had been scheduled to be part of last month's Kennedy Center Honor ceremony (December 6th) along with singer-songwriter Carole King. However with Glenn Frey's health problems last month, it forces Eagles to defer their Kennedy Center Honor until this year in 2016. Frey has had a recurrence of "previous intestinal issues last month, which will require major surgery and a lengthy recovery period." Those issues date back to the 1980s, when Frey spoke about the damage he believed he had done to his body during the band's heyday, when drugs and alcohol flowed freely. In 1986, he missed a reunion with his longtime bandmate Don Henley – the band had broken up for the first time in 1980 – at a benefit concert in California because of an intestinal disorder. An attempt to reform the Eagles in 1990 was put off, in part, because of surgery to remove a large part of Frey's intestine. And in 1994, their "Hell Freezes Over" reunion tour was interupted by Frey's bout with diverticulitis. It resumed the following year.
With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California (Sold more than 32 million copies worldwide), were ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stone 's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the band was ranked number 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The Eagles are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 150 million records.
Frey is credited with co-writing many of The Eagles' best-known songs, including "Hotel California," "Heartache Tonight". "New Kid in Town", "Best of My Love" and "One Of These Nights", all hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts for the band. "Hotel California" has been a staple for all cover bands all over the world, the guitar solo is known as one of the best guitar solos of all time, by Guitar World magazine.
The group's first best-of collection, Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, is among the best-selling albums of all time, having sold more than 26 million copies. It was the first album to be certified platinum (1 million sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America, which introduced that classification in 1976. They released four consecutive No. 1 albums between 1975 and 1979. ... They sold more albums in the '70s than any other American band. Moreover, though the band was inactive in the Eighties, their back catalog steadily sold 1.5 million copies a year."
The Eagles, founded in 1971 in Los Angeles, is one of the best-selling American rock bands of all time, notes the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted The Eagles in 1998.
Glenn Frey has written (or co-written) a staggering 22 songs that have hit Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts, including songs that are a staple of Classic Rock Radio stations all over the world:
Hotel California (#1 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
Heartache Tonight {#1 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
New Kid in Town (#1 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
Best of My Love (#1 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
One of These Nights (#1 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
Lyin' Eyes (#2 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
The Heat Is On (Solo hit, #2 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
You Belong to the City (Solo hit, #2 on Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
Take It to the Limit (#4 on the Billboard Hot 100)
The Long Run (#8 on the Billboard Hot 100)
I Can't Tell You Why (#8 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Life in the Fast Lane (#11 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Take It Easy (#12 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Smuggler's Blues (Solo hit, #12 on the Billboard Hot 100)
True Love (Solo hit, #13 on the Billboard Hot 100)
The One You Love (Solo hit, #15 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Sexy Girl (Solo hit, #20 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Seven Bridges Road (#21 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Peaceful Loving Feeling (#22 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Get Over It (#31 on the Billboard Hot 100)
I Found Somebody (Solo hit, #31 on the Billboard Hot 100)
Already Gone (#32 on the Billboard Hot 100)
To enter the 21st Annual USA Songwriting Competition, go to: http://www.songwriting.net
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Q: How to check if parts of a string are found into an array, but a more intelligent version? I am writing a simpe code that finds if at least one word of a string is found on an array, like below:
The array
$the_array= array("first","second","third");

The code
if(0 < count(array_intersect(explode(' ', $input_string), $the_array))) {
  echo 'found';
  break;
} else {}

So if my input_string is
$input string = "hello here is my first sentence";

or
you get now my second question
or
find my first and second sentence here
the code will echo found.
My desired solution is to check strings like
find my first and second sentence here
against an array like below
$the_array= array("first second","third");
and echo found. But because there are words between the string first and second it will not do it.
Is there any way of achieving something like this? A more "intelligent" version?

A: Not sure if it's the best solution or not, but it could be one of the solutions to your problem. The solution is:

*

*First use explode() function to split your $input_string string.
$string_components = explode(' ', $input_string);

*Maintain a boolean $flag to check whether part(s) of a string is found in the array or not.
$flag = false;

*Loop through $the_array array, and in each iteration, check whether the search item from the array(a single word or multiple words) is present in the original string or not.
foreach($the_array as $search_val){
    $search_components = explode(" ", $search_val);
    if(count($search_components) == count(array_intersect($search_components, $string_components))){
        $flag = true;
        break;
    }
}

*Finally, check whether part(s) of a string is found in the array or not.
if($flag){
    echo 'found';
}else{
    echo 'not found';
}

Here's an example:
$the_array= array("first second","third");
$input_string = "find my first and second sentence here";
$string_components = explode(' ', $input_string);

$flag = false;
foreach($the_array as $search_val){
    $search_components = explode(" ", $search_val);
    if(count($search_components) == count(array_intersect($search_components, $string_components))){
        $flag = true;
        break;
    }
}

if($flag){
    echo 'found';
}else{
    echo 'not found';
}

A: Edit with some testing ;)
 $stringArray = explode(" ","hello here is my first second sentence");
 $compareArray = ["first","second","third"];

 echo count(array_diff($stringArray,$compareArray)) != count($stringArray) ? 'found' :'not found' ;


Hi Rob, DON'T GIVE UP!!, your shoot reports give people like myself, disabled, who have to choose very carefully the sites we can attend, a veiw of whats going on over the country, and see the beautiful photos of woodland that we maybe will never get to shoot, your comments are honest and true, so don't be disheartened by their negative responce, shorly it's better that more archers can hit and score at these shoots than just a few, make them shorter and let more people go home happy, keep it up Rob, best wishes, Mark.
Thanks Mark for your support and comments on this issue. I hope to meet you one day on a shoot.
Hi Rob, firstly don't give it up. On giving comments on courses, what you write in your blog is quite obviously your opinion. I'm of the view that if people have a different opinion then perhaps they should read someone's blog. On discussing courses and course laying on the day. If a marshall asks me what I think, I'll tell them, honestly. They can either take on board my comments or dismiss them, it is their choice. Should they choose to be hostile about it (I've not had one yet) and they were to leave me feeling intimidated three things will happen. One – I'd report them to the shoot organiser and the NFAS. Two – probably tell quite a few of our fellow archers about it and, three – never go to that shoot again. If they don't want my answer don't ask the question. Simple really. As it stands at present there is only one shoot on the calendar that I will never shoot again. I've shot it twice, first time it was poorly laid, given a second chance and that one was down right dangerous (bad enough that I took photos of the archers on the next peg, in my line of sight from the red peg – I jest not!). Would your opinion make me less likely to go to a shoot that wasn't very good – of course it would, that's what happens when people value an opinion. On the other hand I'm grown up enough to decide who's opinion I choose to value and why.
Incidentally don't let other put you off course laying, I've shot targets you've laid. No complaints here – far from it in fact.
Thanks for your supportive comments on this and I'm glad you've enjoyed shots I have done in the past.
We've not met at shoots but i quite often read and enjoy your reports. It would be a pity if you were to down tools. Opinions are just that so chin up. You never know if you carry on we might see the back of 20 yard squirrels and the like.
Hi Andy. Thanks for the the supportive comments. I too would like to see the back of the 20 yard squirrel shot.


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Юрий Иванович Шамурин (1888—1918) — русский искусствовед и историк.

Биография
Родился приблизительно в середине 1880-х годов в семье Ивана и Надежды Шамуриной. Вскоре после этого на свет появился его младший брат Евгений (1889-1962) — книговед и литературовед, а также сестра Зинаида, с которой он впоследствии выступал в соавторстве. Семья постоянно переезжала из-за смены места работы отца (6 городов). Окончил историко-филологический факультет КазГУ, в 1910 году переехал в Москву. Во время начала Первой мировой войны он ушёл добровольцем на фронт, в мае 1915 года попал в плен, и 2 года и 1 месяц находился в Германии. В июне 1917 года он вернулся в Российскую империю в качестве инвалида.

Трагически погиб в 1918 году.

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Stormfront's thread on the incident, page 49, or thereabouts.
Here is another plausible explanation for Rounder's actions yesterday - going off anti-depression medication.
If you want to find out, just write Glenn a letter.


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In an interview with Focus on the Family, Os shares a view of freedom rooted in Hebrew ideas of mercy, justice, and atonement, which offer peace for a society in chaos. He encourages listeners to think deeply and critically about the sources of our culture's ideological assumptions.
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PHOTOS of women posing sexily as nuns have caused outrage among religious groups in Spain. Obscenity, an exhibition of 50 provocative images, includes Spanish actress Rossy de Palma in a black and white habit and see-through corset with a rosary between her teeth. Other images include Alaska, a well known singer in Spain, dressed as a sexy saint in black with a communion wafer on her tongue. The controversial show, at the Fresh Gallery in Madrid, has led to calls from Catholic groups including the Eucharistic Ministry for demonstrations 'against blasphemy'. The organisation said the protest would be held 'in defence of our Christian roots and the Catholic faith'. The Francisco Franco Foundation, a group created to preserve the memory of the former dictator, called the exhibition 'a virulent and morbid attack on the Catholic religion'. Meanwhile conservative campaign group, Make Yourself Heard, wrote on its website that 'blasphemous provocation threatens again'. However the exhibition's creator, controversial Canadian artist Bruce LaBruce, defended the show. "The lives of the saints are full of ecstatic acts of sublimated sexuality," he said. "Obscenity presents a series of portraits that illustrate this most holy convergence of the sacred and the profane."


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Q: how to add text before output field how i add the text before the output of field ?
the code is :
<?php
global $current_user;
echo '
DATI DI FATTURAZIONE
';
echo pmpro_formatAddress(
$current_user->first_name . ' ' . $current_user->last_name,
$current_user->pmpro_baddress1,
$current_user->pmpro_bcity,
$current_user->pmpro_bstate,
$current_user->pmpro_bzipcode,
$current_user->pmpro_bcountry,
$current_user->pmpro_bphone,
    $current_user->company
);
?>

i would for example :
name : name lastname
now is :
name lastname
thanks everyone

A: Edit
$current_user->first_name . ' ' . $current_user->last_name,

To
'Name : '.$current_user->first_name . ' ' . $current_user->last_name,


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using NSpec;
using SampleSpecs.Model;

class describe_VendingMachine : nspec
{
    VendingMachine vendingMachine = null;

    void before_each()
    {
        vendingMachine = new VendingMachine();
    }

    void when_stocking_vending_machine_with_chips()
    {
        act = () => vendingMachine.AddInventory("chips");

        it["should contain chips with count of 1"] = () => vendingMachine.Inventory("chips").should_be(1);

        context["multiple chips added"] = () =>
        {
            act = () => vendingMachine.AddInventory("chips");

            it["should increment chip inventory with count of 2"] = () => vendingMachine.Inventory("chips").should_be(2);
        };
    }

    void when_buying_an_item()
    {
        context["vending maching has inventory"] = () =>
        {
            before = () =>
            {
                vendingMachine.AddInventory("chips");
                vendingMachine.PricePoint("chips", .5);
            };

            act = () => vendingMachine.Buy("chips");

            it["should decrement inventory"] = () => vendingMachine.Inventory("chips").should_be(0);

            it["should increment cash in machine"] = () => vendingMachine.Cash.should_be(.5);
        };
    }
}

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JLR believes batteries are not suited to SUV models
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) believes battery power is not the best solution for its largest SUV models as the carmaker moves towards its zero-emission future.
SUVs from all manufacturers have been some of the biggest sellers in the automotive market in recent years as drivers choose them for their size, stability and safety. However, the heavier platforms underpinning SUVs create a problem when building electric versions as they require a bigger battery pack. Similarly, their larger bodies create greater wind resistance.
′The larger the vehicle, the larger the aero challenge. If you're not careful, you end up with such big batteries, and you make the vehicles so heavy that as you race down the autobahn, the range disappears,' Nick Rogers, JLR head of engineering, said at an event held at the company's recently overhauled UK engineering and design centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire.
Jaguar offers the I-Pace SUV battery electric vehicle (BEV) and Land Rover is adding plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models to its range, but has yet to commit to a BEV.
The concerns over batteries and body shape, especially when it comes to Land Rover's range, which has never been overly aerodynamic, will potentially bring other technologies to the company's attention, according to Rogers. He suggested that hydrogen fuel cells would be ′something to look at.'
JLR appointed a head of hydrogen and fuel cells in March this year but has not yet announced any research initiative using the technology.
Rogers described hydrogen as a ′fantastic' solution because of its rapid fill-up times but said it remained problematic in terms of emissions. ′It only makes sense if you're creating the hydrogen with renewable energy,' he said.
Earlier this year, JLR entered into a partnership with BMW, the two companies collaborating on electric drive units. The German carmaker is also collaborating with Toyota on fuel cells and will launch a test fleet of models based around the X5 and X7 SUVs in 2021.
Toyota is a leader in fuel-cell technology, recently announcing the second generation of its Mirai hydrogen model and the work it is doing with BMW could be of benefit to JLR.
Enhanced premises
JLR has unveiled new facilities at its Gaydon site, which has been designed to encourage collaboration throughout the entire vehicle development process. It includes a new design studio that brings Jaguar and Land Rover design together for the first time.
The enhanced Gaydon site forms part of the company's ′Destination Zero' mission. The focus is on achieving a future of zero emissions, zero accidents and zero congestion – across JLR's facilities as well as through its products and services.
′At Gaydon, we have invested into the future and an inspiring environment for our people. We have created the prerequisites that Gaydon can design and engineer the next generations of outstanding cars in highest quality. We have consciously invested with a ″Destination Zero″ attitude,' comments Ralf Speth, CEO of JLR.


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Storming the corporate castle
Progressives have a game-changing strategy in shareholder activism
By Theo Anderson
Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, the shareholder activist organization behind a resolution—endorsed by British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell—for the oil companies to become more environmentally friendly.
Photo courtesy of Climate One
Theo Anderson originally wrote this piece for In These Times.
These are strange days indeed for shareholder activism. By some measures it's experiencing a surge. Progressive groups have used the strategy since the early 1970s, but the past few years have seen an increase in its frequency, sophistication and success.
In December, for example, the defense contractor Northrup Grumman announced that it would immediately end its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a key player in the push to privatize education and a purveyor of climate-change denial. The move came in response to a shareholder resolution filed by an activist group that owned stock in the company. More than 100 companies have withdrawn from ALEC over the past four years, many under shareholder pressure.
Shareholders also have been a critical part of the broad coalition that has taken on Walmart for practices ranging from low pay to unfair demands on pregnant workers. Walmart adamantly denies that the work of activists has any influence on its decision-making, but in February it announced that its base pay rate would increase to $9 this spring and to $10 early next year. The company also has promised to accommodate pregnant workers.
Shareholder activism is premised on the idea that capitalism contains the seeds of its own reform. Owning stock gives shareholders a voice in deciding a company's policies—and since most shareholders are passive, a highly motivated minority can have an outsized influence.
Sixteen such resolutions were aimed at Walmart in the past decade—out of about 350 "human capital management" resolutions in all, according to Reuters—and they appear to be escalating in number. Shareholders already have proposed several in 2015, including one from Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier asking Walmart to tie executive incentive pay (which is based on performance) to the happiness and productivity of its low-wage workers.
Conservatives have noted the tactic's power and potential, and they are sounding the alarm. In a 2011 report on "Activist Investing in Post-Citizens United America," the right-wing Center for Competitive Politics warns that shareholder activists "see for-profit corporations as their political enemy, and seek partisan or ideological advantage by squelching corporate political speech."
In 2013, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce took another tack. It released a study suggesting that union-backed shareholder activism punishes "the millions of individuals who rely on these investments for retirement," including union members, because it doesn't increase the value of a company's stock.
Laura Berry is the executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, which introduced a successful resolution to halt predatory lending at Wells Fargo.
But for all the reaction it provokes among conservatives, some progressives doubt the power of shareholder activism to deliver genuine structural changes. After all, it relies on pragmatism and "constructive engagement" in dealing with corporations whose core mission progressives often oppose. And there are other limits to its appeal. It doesn't have the visibility of mass marches and protests, and doesn't usually achieve quick results.
It is one of the more interesting questions of this political era whether progressives will continue to expand a promising strategy that is successful enough to cause concern among conservatives, but sometimes cuts against the grain of their own beliefs.
It's all about the image
The resolution that motivated Northrup Grumman to withdraw from ALEC in December was proposed by a politically progressive congregation of Catholic sisters in Fond du Lac, Wisc. If the resolution had actually gone to a vote by shareholders, it probably would have failed. Only 21 percent of shareholders vote in favor of resolutions, on average.
But the point is not to win a majority. That threshold has little meaning, since resolutions are nonbinding. The point is to win enough votes to get the attention of the company's leaders and move them to make reforms. The tipping point varies widely from case to case. Sometimes it's 10 percent. Sometimes a majority isn't enough.
"The power we have is the reputational risk," said Laura Berry, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), which engages with corporations to promote more sustainable and just practices. ICCR's nearly 300 member organizations have both a moral and financial stake in corporate behavior. They consist mainly of religious institutions (such as the Fond du Lac nuns), but also include pension funds, socially responsible investment firms, unions and academic institutions.
"Companies don't like these issues being brought to the attention of all institutional shareholders," Berry said. "They will often agree to make change so that we will withdraw our proposal and it will not appear on the ballot. And that's where you see the power of shareholder activism."
In 2011, for example, the Oakland-based shareholder activist organization As You Sow filed a resolution asking McDonald's to replace its foam beverage cups with more eco-friendly paper cups. The resolution went to a shareholder vote and got nearly 30 percent approval. In 2012, As You Sow filed the same resolution—but withdrew it when the company took steps toward adopting the policy. A year later, McDonald's announced that it would begin using paper cups in its 14,000 U.S. stores.
When proposals do go to a vote, proponents can make a presentation at the company's annual shareholder meeting, which "can sometimes be an uncomfortable moment for the company," Berry said.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) employs this strategy aggressively. It holds stock in more than 80 companies and makes graphic presentations at shareholder meetings about the abuse of animals. When SeaWorld made an initial public offering in 2013, PETA bought shares, promising to "educate stockholders about how marine parks tear orcas and dolphins away from their homes and families and imprison them in minuscule concrete tanks." Last year, it filed a resolution proposing that SeaWorld retire its animals to sanctuaries in the ocean.
"It's big news when companies divest," says Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for New York governor in 2014.
Illustration by Tom Parsons
Sometimes, rather than either resisting a resolution or conceding quietly to avoid a shareholder vote, companies endorse it and send it to a vote. But the motivation is often unclear: Is it genuine reform or a marketing ploy?
This year, for example, both Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum (BP) endorsed resolutions that require the companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, invest in renewable energy and "stress test" their business models against the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Achieving that goal will mean that much of the oil companies' assets will be left untapped, or "stranded"—with profound consequences for their long-term business models.
As You Sow was part of the coalition that filed the resolutions. Its CEO, Andrew Behar, said, "This is the beginning of the 'supermajors'—the biggest oil companies in the world—realizing that they need to be part of the future. We'll see what they actually do. But if they just remove themselves from blocking political change, that's huge."
Shell and BP reaped a windfall of positive media coverage for their decision to proactively embrace the proposal. But there is good reason for skepticism about the depth of their commitment. BP in particular has a history of casting itself as eco-friendly while pursuing distinctly anti-environmentalist policies. And conceding to a resolution often requires little from companies in terms of enacting actual reforms.
Consider the case of the oil company ConocoPhillips. It has been targeted by shareholder activists since the early 2000s, and it has consistently indicated its commitment to addressing climate change by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Setting actual targets toward that goal, however, has been another story. In 2014, As You Sow filed a resolution noting that "no targets for reductions have been established after all this time, and there appears to be no timeline for setting one."
"The company told us in 2003 that it intended to set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to this day they have not set a company-wide target, and in fact, now openly disavow that approach," said Shelley Alpern, director of social research and shareholder advocacy with the investment advising firm Clean Yield Asset Management. Alpern helped file resolutions that targeted ConocoPhillips in the early 2000s.
"Engagement succeeds when we can make a persuasive case that change will enhance shareholder value [or] reduce business or reputation risk," she recently wrote, reflecting on her experience with oil companies. But "as engagement with tobacco companies demonstrated, it will not work when the goal is to change the core business model of a company."
Taking on polluters and dirty money
The use of shareholder resolutions by progressive groups dates to the early 1970s, when a federal court ruling prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin allowing socially and politically oriented shareholder resolutions, which it had previously rejected. Founded in 1971, ICCR was a pioneer of the practice, which it used as a tool against apartheid in South Africa. Calvert Investments was the first mutual fund to use the strategy, filing a resolution relating to a labor dispute in 1986.
Progressive shareholder activism has evolved rapidly in the past decade, and the number of resolutions has grown steadily. There were a record 454 socially and environmentally focused resolutions filed in 2014—about 50 more than in 2013, according to the nonprofit Sustainable Investments Institute.
More than half of the resolutions filed last year targeted investment groups and pension funds. Environmental issues and getting corporate money out of politics were the highest priorities by far. Last year, nearly 40 percent of the resolutions related to climate change, sustainable governance, renewable energy and other environmental issues, while 30 percent had to do with corporate political activity.
These issues sometimes intersect. Investors asked 24 companies to disclose their ties to ALEC, for example, and some resolutions—like one targeting Google—argued that ALEC's climate-change denial contradicted the company's support for renewable energy.
Google opposed the resolution, which received only 8.6 percent of shareholder support. But last September, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said on NPR's Diane Rehm Show that ALEC was "literally lying" about climate change and "making the world a much worse place so we should not be aligned with such people." Schmidt did not say whether the resolution factored into Google's decision to withdraw from ALEC.
About 40 percent of filed resolutions are withdrawn—mainly because the target concedes or agrees to negotiate. But, by and large, corporations are more likely to give way on environmental issues than on challenges to their political activity. About 43 percent of environment-related resolutions were withdrawn between 2011 and 2013. Only 25 percent of those focused on corporate politicking were withdrawn.
Ease of entry is one reason for the rising tide of shareholder activism. An individual or organization needs to own just $2,000 worth of a corporation's stock for a year to file a resolution. Companies can appeal to the SEC for a ruling on whether the resolution is relevant to its business, but the majority are ultimately approved.
Shareholder activism is also gaining momentum because it does actually create reforms—though, as with the oil companies, the process can be slow and vulnerable to co-optation.
Anecdotal evidence of its power has been supplemented by an emerging body of scholarly work on the ways that activism changes corporate behavior. For example, recent research by business professors at Northwestern, Stanford and Georgetown universities drew on ICCR's archive of shareholder resolutions, as well as a database of boycotts. They found that corporate reform is a fluid, long-term process, in which pressure on companies gradually opens up new opportunities for activists to exploit.
It does so by motivating companies to create tools to respond to the activists' demands. These tools often include, for example, a committee on social responsibility and a report on the company's commitment to sustainability, which slowly bring the perspectives and presence of activists into the culture—and transform the company.
Nike is the classic example. Activists targeted it for relying on sweatshop labor through much of the 1990s. The company fiercely resisted, but high-profile protests on college campuses in the late 1990s motivated it to initiate reforms, including a code of conduct and factory inspections to ensure compliance. In 2001, Nike established a corporate responsibility committee and began issuing reports reviewing its own labor and environmental practices. Openness to shareholder activism and pursuit of a sustainable business model gradually became key elements of the company's identity. Ethical Consumer, a British watchdog organization, recently gave Nike its highest rating in the category of supply chain management, though it noted that violations of workers' rights were still common in some of its factories.
The same sort of long game is now going on at Wells Fargo—and there, shareholder activists are playing a high-profile role. The bank made headlines in 2012 for blocking certain shareholders from entering its annual meeting in San Francisco, citing space concerns. The activists, many of whom were part of the Occupy movement, had targeted the bank for its lending and foreclosure policies, among other concerns. Some were arrested.
Wells Fargo moved its 2013 meeting to Salt Lake City in the wake of that public-relations disaster. The same year, ICCR members filed a resolution asking for a report about the impact of the bank's "Direct Deposit Advance"—a product similar to a payday loan—on customers. Wells Fargo challenged the proposal, and the SEC ruled in its favor. But in November 2013, ICCR members submitted an amended proposal, asking Wells Fargo to prevent predatory lending by changing its policies. In January 2014, the bank agreed to discontinue Direct Deposit Advance. The ICCR members withdrew their resolution.
The victory was typical of shareholder activism. It took years to bear fruit, it helped motivate a major corporation to make a concrete reform, and its larger import is open to debate. Perhaps it amounts to little more than one company ending one policy. On the other hand, perhaps it signals momentum toward broad reform within a major corporation, with wide-ranging implications that are still unknown.
To invest or divest?
Right-wing organizations are not the only voices of protest against the growing use of shareholder activism by progressive groups. In a speech last spring, SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher lamented that the shareholder proposal process had been "hijacked" by people with "idiosyncratic and often political agendas." He quipped that perhaps the threshold for submitting a proposal should increase from $2,000 worth of stock to $2 million to solve the problem.
And some progressives have reservations about shareholder activism's incremental method, because it doesn't have the same impact as outright divestment.
"It's big news when companies divest," said Howie Hawkins, an activist based in Syracuse, N.Y., who was the Green Party candidate for governor in 2014. "When there's a shareholder resolution, you don't see that in the news, so it doesn't have the same political impact."
Alpern, of Clean Yield, believes that the urgency of addressing climate change means that "the time for polite conversation [with the oil companies] is over."
"We need them to turn on a dime," she said. "And all of their pronouncements are based on their premise that world demand for their products will continue increasing for several decades. And none of them recognize that they will need to delay or not produce the majority of their reserves.
"I rarely advocate for divestment, because it's often possible to succeed in encouraging incremental but meaningful improvements. But incremental change on this issue is no longer good enough."
For those who still believe in the power of engaging with oil companies, Alpern advocates near-divestment— owning just enough stock to file resolutions and attend annual meetings.
That strategy likely will not score the victories equal to the task of addressing climate change, and it is a fair question whether total divestment packs the most powerful punch. But advocates for shareholder activism see little tension between the two courses. They ask: Given the scale of the challenges, why not use every option available?
"We're not the kind of activists who are just here to make noise," said ICCR's Berry. "And those activists are very important, let me say. But we are folks who do our homework and just plug away and plug away. It's not for everybody, but we think it's an important tool in a multilateral approach to changing some of the world's most intractable problems."
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Tell me a story: Genomics vs. Indigenous Origin Narratives
Tell me a story: Genomics vs. Indigenous Origin Narratives Kim TallBear, author of NATIVE AMERICAN DNA, writing for Gene Watch. https://www.upress.umn.edu/press/press-clips/tell-me-a-story-genomics-vs.-indigenous-origin-narratives https://www.upress.umn.edu/logo.png
By Kim TallBear
GeneWatch
On April 13, 2005 the Indigenous Peoples' Council on Biocolonialism issued a press release[1] opposing the Genographic Project, which aimed to sample 100,000 indigenous and other traditional peoples to "trace the migratory history of the human species" and "map how the Earth was populated."[2] IPCB critiques Genographic, and the Human Genome Diversity Project before it, as the contemporary continuation of colonial, extractive research. The analysis is also a fundamental historical examination of Western science. IPCB foregrounds the intellectual and institutional authority that science, a powerful tool of colonizing states, has to appropriate indigenous bodies - both dead and living - material cultural artifacts, and indigenous cultural narratives in the service of academic knowledge production.
Native American DNA How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA


I have a big farmhouse kitchen. I love my china cabinet. I bought the table about 5 yrs. ago so there would be enough seating for our young adult children with spouses. I would like to have a stand that would work for the cages of both my bird Buttercup and my hamster Chewie. I'll have to keep looking in the thrift stores. I've thought of discarding the freestanding cabinet, although it matches the kitchen cabinets. I could move the stuff into the butler's pantry cabinet. My family isn't onboard with that idea; traditionally it's our dessert counter. I won't be discarding any of our kitchen furniture. This room needs painted, the carpet removed, and the woodwork refinished.


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Search on after Japanese island 'disappears'
On a bad day, you might lose your wallet or keys, but it's a lot harder to lose an entire islet.Howev...
Posted: Nov 3, 2018 11:01 PM
Updated: Nov 3, 2018 11:01 PM
On a bad day, you might lose your wallet or keys, but it's a lot harder to lose an entire islet.
However the Japan Coast Guard is planning a search mission after an uninhabited islet called Esanbehanakitakojima seemingly disappeared off the northern coast of the country.
Continents and regions
International relations and national security
Territorial and national borders
The small outcrop was previously found some 500 meters off a village called Sarufutsu on the northern tip of Hokkaido island, Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun reports.
Its absence was noticed by author Hiroshi Shimizu, who produced a picture book on hidden islands and had traveled to the area in search of inspiration.
Puzzled, Shimizu asked local fishermen what had happened. An elderly local confirmed that there used to be an island in the vicinity, according to Asahi Shimbun, but it can no longer be seen from land or from nearby boats.
However, other fishermen said that Esanbehanakitakojima shows up as an islet on navigation systems.
Authorities are concerned about its whereabouts as the islet is used to mark Japanese territorial waters in the Northern Territories, an area that is also claimed by Russia. Known to Russians as the Kurils, the islands were taken over by Soviet forces shortly after the end of the World War II.
In 2014, the Japanese government officially named 158 uninhabited islands to demarcate its waters.
Beneath the waves?
According to international law, nations can only claim waters around islands that are visible above the sea surface at high tide.
A 1987 survey showed that Esanbehanakitakojima protruded 1.4 meters above sea level, and a 1988 sea chart from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan described it as an islet.
"There is a possibility that the islet has been eroded by wind and snow and, as a result, disappeared," Tomoo Fujii, a senior coast guard official, told Asahi Shimbun.
If Esanbehanakitakojima has sunk beneath the waves, Japan will lose 500 meters of territorial waters.
Japan also has a long-running territorial dispute with China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea.
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import { expect } from 'chai'
import { indexOfRegex, lastIndexOfRegex } from '../../lib'

describe('string tests', () => {
  describe('indexOfRegex', () => {
    it('finds the first index of a regex in a string', () => {
      expect(indexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /m/)).to.equal(8)
    })

    it('supports the start parameter', () => {
      expect(indexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /m/, 9)).to.equal(11)
    })

    it('returns -1 when no occurrences are found', () => {
      expect(indexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /\d/)).to.equal(-1)
    })
  }) // end indexOfRegex

  describe('lastIndexOfRegex', () => {
    it('finds the last index of a regex in a string', () => {
      expect(lastIndexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /m/g)).to.equal(14)
    })

    it('supports non-global regexes', () => {
      expect(lastIndexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /m/, 9)).to.equal(8)
    })

    it('supports the start parameter', () => {
      expect(lastIndexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /m/g, 9)).to.equal(8)
    })

    it('supports out-of-bounds values for the start parameter', () => {
      expect(lastIndexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /m/g, -999)).to.equal(-1)
    })

    it('returns -1 when no occurrences are found', () => {
      expect(lastIndexOfRegex('are you my mommy?', /\d/g)).to.equal(-1)
    })
  }) // end lastIndexOfRegex
})


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Bratislava I is een district (Slowaaks: Okres) in de Slowaakse regio Bratislava. Het district bestaat uit het volgende stadsdeel van de stad Bratislava:
 Staré Mesto (de oude stad)

Bevolking

Religie
In de okres Bratislava I vormen personen zonder religieuze overtuiging de grootste groep: 19.948 van de 46.080 inwoners had geen religie (oftewel: 43,29% van de totale bevolking). Daarnaast werden er 15.008 leden van het rooms-katholicisme geregistreerd (oftewel: 32,57% - laagste percentage in de regio Bratislava), gevolgd door de Evangelische Kerk van de Augsburgse Confessie in Slowakije (2.341 leden; 5,08%), de Grieks-Katholieke Kerk (458 leden; 0,99%) en de Oosters-orthodoxe kerken (319 leden, oftewel 0,69%). Daarnaast had het district relatief gezien het hoogste aandeel religieuze joden in Slowakije: deze gemeenschap telde 245 leden, oftewel 0,53% van het district. Tot slot werden er ook overige religies geregistreerd, die elk minder dan 0,5% van de bevolking uitmaken.

Bratislava I
Bratislava (regio)
Geografie van Bratislava


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Q: Expandable ListView inside 4_level expandable listview I would like to know if it is possible to put an Expandable ListView as one child of one element of another Expandable ListView like that i want 4_level of expandable listview.
Thanks

A: Check this github repo for n-level expandable listview :
  Polidea treeview

A: Yes it is possible. You need to implement child expandableListView in its parent's adapter. Check out this example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20609153/2065418


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package org.apache.camel.component.disruptor.vm;

import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.Processor;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.apache.camel.component.mock.MockEndpoint;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotSame;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;

/**
 * Unit test to verify continuing using NOT same thread on the consumer side.
 */
public class DisruptorVmShouldNotUseSameThreadTest extends AbstractVmTestSupport {

    private static long id;
    private final ThreadLocal<String> local = new ThreadLocal<>();

    @Test
    void testNotUseSameThread() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint mock = getMockEndpoint("mock:result");
        mock.expectedBodiesReceived("Hello World");

        template2.sendBody("direct:start", "Hello World");

        MockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(context);
    }

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            public void configure() {
                from("disruptor-vm:foo").process(new Processor() {
                    public void process(Exchange exchange) {
                        assertNull(local.get());
                        assertNotSame(id, Thread.currentThread().getId(), "Thread is should not be same");
                    }
                }).to("mock:result");
            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilderForSecondContext() {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            @Override
            public void configure() {
                from("direct:start").process(new Processor() {
                    public void process(Exchange exchange) {
                        local.set("Hello");
                        id = Thread.currentThread().getId();
                    }
                }).to("disruptor-vm:foo");
            }
        };
    }
}


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As usual, I've also posted this review in my FP blog.
A good review and I like this ink a lot too. I've a few other similar Noodler's colours and they all have their 'personal' slant on the same sort of colour. Even I can tell the difference!
Thanks for the review. I have been thinking about getting a bottle of 54th Mass., and your review convinced me. Your review is very complete and it also was fun to read. Thanks.
As much as I loved the Noodler's Liberty's Elysium ink, I wasn't 100% happy with its non-fully waterproofness, so last December I decided to continue my quest to find the perfect blue ink.
After watching a video about <a href="http://www.inknouvea... 54th Massachussets at Goulet Pens, I passed an order of a bottle of 54th M. and another of Noodler's Polar Blue. I will review the Polar Blue another day, today I wanted to speak about this wonderful and beautiful blue-black ink.
The only thing I don't fully love is color, a bit to dark for me. It's very (very!) saturated, with little shading, I guess I'm going to dilute it a bit next time to reduce saturation and see if it does some shading and a bluer color. It doesn't feathers, even on bad paper, and that's a big positive point for me (and Polar Blue and its Black sister, aren't great on that area). It's waterproofness is really stunning, as usual in Noodler's bulletproof inks (besides Liberty's Elysium). It flows good on my Noodler's Konrad, I had read it was somewhat dry or hard-starting, I haven't found it so.
As usual, I've also posted this review in my FP blog.
I have 6 different bottles of Noodler's including 54th Massachusetts, Liberty's Elysium, Ottoman Azure and Upper Ganges. I am kind of disappointed with Upper Ganges because I find it tend to fade to a lighter shade of blue after putting it on paper. Does anyone have similar experience with it? Try it and let us know what you think.
Thanks a lot for the compliment! Glad you liked it!
Edited by heymatthew, 05 January 2013 - 14:49.
I'm a big Noodler's fan too. If want a little more blue in your blue-black, try Noodler's Bad Blue Heron. I really love that color too. I have both 54th Mass, and Bad Blue Heron. I like them both. The Blue Heron is a great bulletproof blue-black blend with more blue's than the 54th. Nice color. I also have Noodlers's Liberty's Elysium and their Polar Blue. I'm not crazy about the Polar Blue. It tend to go on a really nice blue then dries to an ash blue with heavy feathering.
I've got a sample of the 54th Mass. I love the color and the waterproofness. It did not like my Pilot 78G right away, though. It took a fair amount of cleaning to get this ink to flow decently. It works very well now.
I love seeing reviews like this where you can't even tell that water was applied to this ink. Really amazing stuff.
Just today I received a bottle of 54th and a white Safari 1.1 Inked it up (after flushing with distilled water and a drop of dish soap), wrote a bit and water tested it. Could not be happier. Terrific color, nice flow and very water resistant - to the point that the printed lines on an Ampad gold tablet rubbed off but the ink stayed clear as a bell.
If you like this color, I don't think you will be disappointed.
I'm another fan of this ink. I like the color as it provides a bit of character that a black or blue would not offer.
I've been using this ink for the past month and like it very much. The combination of 54th Mass and a Pilot Metropolitan is hard to beat. I was traveling over the holidays and wrote all my postcards with this. Zero problems.
I also had it in a Monteverde Invincia with a stub nib. The first load of ink went through that pen fine, but with the second the pen had hard start problems. This could very well be the pen - I've flushed it and will load another ink to see if its the Monteverde feed that's acting up.
Have you tried Bad Belted Kingfisher? Bluer and waterproof,too.
Good review. But I would like a more blue ink. So, I have mixed 54th with Bad Blue Heron in various ratios ranging from 3:1 Bbh:54th to 2:1 54th:BBH. All ratios resulted in color that I liked better than either 54 th or BBH. So far I have not encountered any problems with these blends, and they are all waterproof.
This is one of my favorites, too. I need to get a bottle.
Edit: Say, has anyone tried mixing a little of this with some Liberty's Elysium? That might give a more blue cast with slightly better waterproofing?
Edited by MyDarnSnakeLegs, 22 January 2013 - 00:42.
Edited by LostInBrittany, 22 January 2013 - 09:12.
I bought this ink, partly based on your review. My preliminary tests show that it's a decent ink in terms of flow, resistance to feathering and bleed-through, but it's just so opaque, especially when dry, it looks like dry mud. Your scans show that it has more color (greenish, blueish), but mine is dark, chalky gray. I am a little disappointed.
Your scans show that it has more color (greenish, blueish), but mine is dark, chalky gray.
I do think the color is quite muted, and the first scan shows this clearly, IMO. In general I've noticed that my scanner shows blues as more vibrant than they appear to my naked eye. To get a hint of what my scanner shows, I have to use a magnifier and view the ink under full-spectrum white light like the ambient light in my window office during the day (rather than at night with the compact-fluorescent that I use on my desk lamp--note to self: think about a desk lamp that will let me see ink colors better at night). The scan of the ink just above on Rhodia using a music nib on a Platinum 3776 is showing you some of the variation that is inherent with different pens and paper. What color there is in this ink shows up where it is deposited more thinly, so a pen which delivers a wide but not over-wet line will show the most color, whereas a pen which delivers a very wet, saturated line will show the color very sparingly. I had a writing sample with it using a relatively wet pen, and I showed it to a couple of folks who didn't know what it was. I simply asked them to identify the color of the ink. One said (dark) green. The other said bluish-greenish. In both cases I'm certain they came to a conclusion only by looking at the parts of strokes that were least saturated.
I have a bottle of 54th and use it every day. I've inked up my Lamy Safari, Cross Townsend, and most impressively in writing terms, my Parker 51 (all fine nibs). I get great shading and pretty quick drying time, even on my Rhodia R-series paper. It gives great character to my writing and is much "cooler" than the black my colleagues use in their ball points or Pilot G-2s.
What I also love about so many of Noodlers' inks are the incredible art work on the labels. It really makes you want to show them off on your desk. 54th has great art work as does Noodlers Libtery's and even Purple Heart.
P.S. Nathan Tardif's and Brian Goulet's video review are great too if anyone out there wants more.


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This Brazilian Guy Has Avoided Rent for 22 Years - By Living In A Sandcastle!
Marcio Mizael Matiolas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is known by locals either as 'King Marcio' or 'Sandcastle King.' For the past 22 years, the 44-year-old man has avoided paying rent and other bills by building and living in a sandcastle on the Barra de Tijuca Beach.
Often spotted wearing a toy crown and holding a DIY staff, Marco says he's pretty much satisfied with his unique dwelling place.
"I grew up in the Bay of Guanabara, I always lived on the beach.
Moreover, he also shared that maintaining the sandcastle requires constant work as he always needs to water the walls and turrets to prevent them from crumbling. Despite its majestic exterior, the sandcastle only has a 3-square-meter bedroom for King Marcio where he sleeps and keeps a few of his personal possessions such as his books, fishing rods, and golf clubs.
He makes money as tourists stop by to take pictures with him and/or the castle. On top of that, he earns some extra bucks by selling books, asking buyers to give "whatever price they feel is reasonable," a CultureTrip feature tells us, plus a local mall sometimes commissions him to do decorative sand displays.
The only downside, according to Marcio, is the temperature can go up to 40 degrees Celsius during the summer months which forces him to stay at a friend's house. Also, he has to rebuild the sandcastle from scratch whenever a tropical storm hits the area.
Despite that, Macio is determined to stay in the area as a local celebrity of sorts. Besides, he is the first one to make a sandcastle home on the beach and some are pointing out its a testament as to how expensive housing costs currently are for people in Rio de Janeiro.
There is little doubt that abortion is already a controversial topic. However, one woman has sparked new debates with her viral rant about who is to blame for making the procedure necessary. The mother of six explained why men are responsible for all unwanted pregnancies.
Gabrielle Blair is an author and a blogger who is currently raising six children. Being a Mormon, she is against abortion. However, Blair is interested in making sure people are aware why it is sometimes necessary and can easily be prevented. How does Blair propose to stop unwanted pregnancies from happening? By making men aware that they are "100% responsible" for it in the first place.
Blair took Twitter by storm with her blistering rant about unwanted pregnancies.


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Agency has returned more than $1 billion in refunds to consumers over the last four years
By Federal Trade Commission
Four Local and Minority-Owned Businesses Receive Microgrant Funding
Helping PA Save for Retirement
Governor's prolonged shutdown devastated Pennsylvania employees
Customers Bank's Elsie Maduro named Top Individual Mortgage Originator
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joe Simons released a summary of the agency's 2019 Annual Highlights today, calling attention to the Commission's ongoing efforts to protect consumers and promote a competitive marketplace.
The Highlights note that FTC actions have led to more than $232 million in refunds to consumers across the country, with $136 million sent directly from the FTC. Over the last four years, consumers have cashed more than $1 billion in FTC refund checks. The Highlights also note that the Commission continued its efforts to challenge harmful mergers and stop anticompetitive business conduct. For example, the Commission took enforcement actions to preserve competition in health care and consumer products markets and established a new Technology Enforcement Division to investigate potential anticompetitive conduct in digital platform markets.
"We continued to advance our aggressive enforcement agenda in 2019," Simons said. "In addition to the record-breaking privacy settlements with Facebook, and Google/YouTube, the FTC challenged a host of anticompetitive mergers and conduct, and took action to stop consumer fraud and deception in the marketplace."
The FTC's Highlights report promotes some of the agency's most significant enforcement actions, policy and advocacy initiatives, and education and outreach programs in the past year.
Certain statistics are available in the Stats & Data 2019 infographic. Archives of past FTC Annual Highlights and Reports also are available online.
A copy of the full report can be found here.


Spottsville is located on the Green River about eight miles from its junction with the Ohio. Court records show that a ferry was licensed to operate at the mouth of the Green River in 1799; people and produce must have been in sufficient abundance to produce revenue.
No general development of this site took place until 1822, when Major Samuel Spotts of the U.S. Army bought a plat of the Richard Henderson grant containing 1406 acres, originally assigned to John Williams. During the period from 1822 to 1829, Major Spotts visited the site several times to study his holdings and to decide what developments he wanted to make, but work did no begin until after he bought 142 acres along the river from James Clark from St. Louis.
In 1829 he induced his two nephews, John and George Spotts of Wilmington, Delaware, to come west and build a grist and a saw mill. They were built on a flat under the hills and back toward the bluff. My 1830, he wrote to relatives that the mills were completed and in full operation. He named the town by simply heading his letters, "Spottsville, Henderson County, Ky. - Steam Mills." It did not become official until a post office was opened in 1858.
Since water transportation was the only means of carrying produce, it was important to make Green River navigable. Locks and dam at Spottsville were completed in 1842 and opened the way for a line of passenger and freight boats.
In 1832 the nearest school was at Race Creek, which was three miles away. Major Spotts urged his niece, Lydia Scott to organize a small school. Its fame spread until pupils were sent to board in the Scott home to attend the school. In 1833 the school closed after Miss Lydia married James M. Barbour, but reopened in 1835, after her husband's death.


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Rescued N.B. dog in desperate need of help
CTV Atlantic Published Friday, August 14, 2015 11:23AM ADT
Money is being raised for Maggie, a New Brunswick dog who has already overcome so much, but still has a long way to go.
Maggie was rescued by Nicole Thebeau, who rescues animals in New Brunswick's Kent County. Thebeau was responding to a call of two neglected dogs about a week ago, when a third dog appeared.
"My friend said, 'oh my god, look at your left,'" she says, "and there was this dog coming to my left and she was dragging herself on her chest, pretty much on her front leg trying to come to us."
"Her eyes were just pleading for help."
Maggie was taken to the Riverview Animal Hospital where it was confirmed the injuries were fresh.
"The hind leg is inoperable – it needs amputation," says veterinarian Francis Arsenault. "The front leg is paralyzed so it will never use the leg."
Maggie went into surgery on Thursday for a double amputation.
"We seldom amputate legs because we can fix them and that's our priority," says Arsenault. "If we have to amputate one leg, most cats and dogs do great. But when you talk about a double amputee, that's not something we see very often."
Several discussions have already happened about what Maggie's quality of life will be post-surgery.
"Those are very difficult discussions because we certainly have to focus on the patients and what's best for the patient," says Arsenault. "She is a great girl and has a great attitude."
Thebeau says money has been raised to help fund Maggie's surgery.
"I want to try and teach her how to walk again so if that's not possible, we'll have to go with the wheelchair," she says.
A sad story that many, including Maggie, hope will have a happy ending.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Nick Moore.
Maggie went into surgery on Thursday for a double amputation at Riverview Animal Hospital.
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I have realized it's been quite some time since I wrote a proper National Novel Writing Month post. I pseudo-participated the last 2 years and might do the same this year just because I'm trying to finish a draft and I do so love a wordcount graph, but this post is mostly a refresher about NaNo and me and my opinionated opinions.
NaNoWriMo is an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
It was started in 1999 by Chris Baty, who is an excellent human being.
This is my official NaNoWriMo Pep Talk from 2011.
This is a long post from 2010 about NaNo and drafts. It has a lot of bird analogies.
This is a much more recent post by my friend Chuck Wendig on why you should and shouldn't participate in NaNoWriMo.
The Night Circus did indeed begin as a NaNoWriMo project.
To be specific: The Night Circus began as an unplanned tangent in the middle of a different NaNo project. I got bored & sent my characters to a circus. The circus was much more interesting than anything else that was happening.
I then spent an additional two Novembers worth of NaNo time on what eventually turned into 100k+ of long, sprawling, very rough first draft.
When I say rough I mean rough. I mean those rocks you use to scrub the dead skin off of your feet rough. I mean it had no plot and Celia wasn't in it.
That NaNoWriMo version of The Night Circus bears little resemblance to the finished book. It was heavily revised and rewritten both before and after it was sold.
My NaNoWriMo profile informs me that I've been a member for more than 12 years which is making me feel both nauseated and old. I skipped a few years and I can't tell you which ones because the site doesn't believe in keeping my entire history anymore, but of those 12 Novembers I've probably participated during more of them than not.
I didn't really write much before NaNoWriMo. I thought about writing, which is different than actually writing. (This is one of the great lessons of writing: you have to get the words out of your head and onto paper or screen.) I would write a page and hate it and stop, which is not a good way to get better at anything. I'd write little scraps of things and bury them under self-doubt and insecurity.
NaNoWriMo helped me get better. It took awhile, my first several NaNovembers worth of writing are terrible things that will never see the light of day but the later ones have some good bits here and there that could potentially be excavated. You learn a lot writing page after page after page and not having the time to go back and worry over how awful that one particular page was because there are so many more to write. It's also probably one of the reasons I'm a binge writer and not a write-every-day writer, but that works for me.
NaNoWriMo is not for everyone. That's okay. I still maintain that the word "draft" should be involved somewhere. It can be a very helpful first step but there are plenty of other steps. That "the world needs your novel" on the top of the official site that I'm pretty sure wasn't always there raises my skeptical eyebrow. I'm not sure the world needs your novel but I think maybe you need to write it, if you want to. When I started NaNo-ing back in the dark ages it seemed (to me) much more of a personal challenge and not a means to a publishing-based end. Really I think it's a writing tool. A crazy, autumnal whirlwind of a writing tool that you can use however works best for your own writing or not use at all. There is no one way to write, after all.
To those about to NaNo, I salute you. I wish you electrifying ideas and caffeinated beverages and I hope you discover things before November 30th that you didn't expect to find on November 1st.
We went apple picking on Friday and did not intend to look for pumpkins but then there was the Most Perfect Pumpkin and it had to come home with us. Not even going to carve it, it is too perfect in its perfect pumpkinyness.
I am so glad it is finally fall. September was a lying month filled with 90-degree days but October seems to have its act together. I have socks on. This is better.
I keep forgetting to blog because I'm writing and when I'm not writing more typing seems like silliness when I should be resting my fingers, or doing little finger exercises. I've been knitting, trying to finish the scarf I started in July (um… July 2014, that is), and I suppose knitting is finger exercise.
I read Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic and loved it. I like books on creativity and this one is a fairly quick read but packed with very big ideas. It feels like it took up more space in my brain than it did on the page which is a neat trick.
Adam took some lovely photos of me during Friday's apple picking perfect pumpkin excursion. I do not know what's going on with my hair.
Okay, I do know what's going on with my hair: I cut it wrong last time I did it (I always cut my own hair) so I've been putting it up in shame ponytails when there is not quite enough of it to pony.
I am trying to think of what's new or what's news and there is no news and not much is new besides pumpkins and pounds upon pounds of apples (I am going to bake an apple crisp of some sort this week). Still writing. Still throwing things out and rewriting. Still trying to figure out where this book is going though it is finally consenting to being almost book-shaped. Almost.
But it is a winter book, so it is sorting itself out more now that there is a chill in the air, pulling up a blanket and sitting next to me on the couch and hopefully once I ply it with enough warm beverages it will tell me the rest of its secrets.
Still on Twitter hiatus, likely for at least the rest of the year. Still not doing any public appearances until this draft is done. Still obsessed with Dragon Age, still trying to figure everything out, still over-using the word still.


Mining of minerals has gone on in Wales since before the Romans, who were attracted to its gold, copper and lead, and it is thought that coalmining also took place during their time.
There is evidence of coalmining in mediaeval times and along with waterpower and canals, it was a major driving force of the Industrial Revolution with both static steam engines in mills, factories and the winding house engines for mining, mobile steam engines to power threshing machines and draw ploughs in the start of the mechanisation of agriculture, and railways.
Cardiff and Barry developed as ports to export coal, and the South Wales mining villages and towns grew up because of the demand for coal. In the First and Second World Wars, collieries were placed under government control and on 1 January 1947 the coal industry was nationalised by the UK government and put in the control of the National Coal Board.
With increasing competition from oil, UK government subsidy of the coal industry diminished by the 1960s and an emphasis was placed on keeping the most productive pits and closing the others.
The coalfields in South Wales Wales extended from Torfaen in the south-east through to Pembrokeshire in the south-west.
There was also in North Wales a coalfield area running from around Wrexham northwards into Flintshire right up to the Point of Ayr where there was a mine and winding house right on the coast with it shafts going underneath the sea. This mine closed in the 1990s and its winding house and any other visible remains were demolished. A similar policy was carried out on most of the other coalmines when they closed.
By the 1990s this was one of only a handful of large working mines that were left, still run by British Coal Corporation (formerly known as the National Coal Board) which ran a support network of regional mine rescue units.
Under the UK government elected in 1992, ownership of these then passed in 1994 into private hands, and Tower Colliery (near Hirwaun in South Wales), which had both a deep shaft (using a winding house to access vertically the deep coal veins, and a drift mine (boring horizontally into a mountain or hill to extract the coal) was run as a miners cooperative from 1994 until 2008. The neighbouring Aberpergwm colliery continued working, supplying coal to the Port Talbot steelworks, until it was mothballed in 2015.
Now only a few small-scale private coal mines remain working, and the major form of producing coal is from opencast mining.
To the present day the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has actively supported miners, and The 1926 UK General Strike lent its support to the NUM which was already on strike. In 1984 to 1985 the NUM had a UK Strike to save the rapidly diminishing number of mines, which diminished further after the strike.
A major legacy of the NUM was that its miners made a donation out of their weekly pay towards the erection and maintenance of Miners Welfare Institutes and in both North and South Wales these were very substantial buildings which were a vital community hub servicing the social and educational needs of the miners and their families, including large theatres and cinemas and libraries.
Sadly several important buildings were demolished at the end of the 20th-century, but seearoundbritain did an extensive photographic survey of these before they were lost, and these can be seen in the photo gallery of this Key Facts, as well as other social buildings and landscape associated with the mining towns and industry. Many of these photographs [which can be enlarged by clicking on them] have still to be added to this gallery.
· Senghenydd Colliery in Senghenydd, Glamorgan in 1913.
· Gresford Colliery near Wrexham, in North Wales, in 1934.
And at Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, over 100 people, mainly children, were killed in 1966 when a coal spoil tip collapsed and its slurry moved on to a primary school below it.
In the Tredegar area (in Blaenau Gwent) was a pioneering cottage hospital grassroots health service which was an inspiration for the creation of the U.K.'s National Health Service in 1948 under the Minister Of Health, Aneurin Bevan. Bevan had been a miner and the son of one in Tredegar and had been chairman of the Cottage Hospital Management Committee.
buildings of the Bersham Colliery, South of Wrexham, are now incorporated into the Bersham Industrial Estate.
The South Wales Miners' Museum at Cynonville at the Afan Forest Park Visitor Centre, near Cymmer, north-east of Port Talbot.
ruined mines at Nant Bwlch-yr-haearn, in Gwydir Forest, Snowdonia, Conwy, on a minor road. There is a circular "Miners Trail" route marked with information boards.