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Jon R. Osborne
About Jon R. Osborne
Jon R. Osborne is a veteran gamemaster and journalism major turned science fiction and fantasy author. The second book in the Jon's The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, "A Tempered Warrior", was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is also a core author in the military science fiction Four Horseman Universe, where he was first published in 2017.
Jon resides in Indianapolis, where he plays role-playing games, writes science fiction and fantasy, and lives the nerd life. You can find out more at jonrosborne.com and at https://www.facebook.com/jonrosborne.
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William Alan Webb
Christopher Woods
Casey Moores
Mark Stallings
Kacey Ezell
Pete Aldin
Nick Cole
Charles E. Gannon
John E. Siers
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Jamie Ibson
Benjamin Tyler Smith
Rick Partlow
Doug Dandridge
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Eric S. Brown
Jason Anspach
Kevin Steverson
Mark Wandrey
Marisa Wolf
Quincy J. Allen
P.A. Piatt
Nick Steverson
Jason Brannon
J. P. Chandler
David Alan Jones
Mike Massa
Christopher G. Nuttall
Kal Spriggs
Jamie McFarlane
Terry Mixon
William Joseph Roberts
Josh Hayes
Terry Maggert
Joshua Dalzelle
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Titles By Jon R. Osborne
A Reluctant Druid (The Milesian Accords Book 1) Oct 30, 2017
by Jon R. Osborne
What if you could bring back magic?
Centuries ago, the followers of the new gods defeated the old gods and the folk of legend, banishing them from the world of man. With their departure, magic faded from the land.
The Milesian Accords had provisions for a new challenge, though, and the Exiled Gods have sent their minions back to our world to seek out a champion to fight for them and a druid able to wield the magic needed to fulfill the challenge.
A descendant of the druid who participated in the original challenge, Liam Knox doesn't know anything about the Accords or his ancestors, but those seeking to maintain the status quo are hunting him, and the beings of myth are doing their best to convince him to help the Exiled Gods return to the world of man, bringing magic back with them.
Liam is faced with a choice he doesn't want, and if he chooses wrong, he risks more than his own life—he could end the world as we know it. And he's running out of time to decide.
Through the Gate: More Tales from the Salvage Title Universe (The Coalition Book 3) Jun 9, 2020
by Chris Kennedy, Kevin Steverson, Brad R. Torgersen, Christopher G. Nuttall, Jake Bible, Quincy J. Allen, Robert E. Hampson, Jon R. Osborne, Christopher Woods, Ian J. Malone, Marisa Wolf, Alex Rath, David Alan Jones, William Joseph Roberts, Brisco Woods, Nick Steverson
Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again, to get there. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine Competition. They brought back a battlecruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they ultimately founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.
Salvage System is a beacon of hope, and a number of other races continue looking toward it as an inspiration for how to live and govern themselves, and—in some cases—for assistance in defending themselves and throwing off oppressive regimes.
But the galaxy is a big place, and many of the races in it aren't friendly. Would these forces like to take over Salvage System and acquire its resources? Absolutely.
Fifteen incredible authors take you further into the Salvage Title universe, giving you looks at some of the beacons of hope…and some of the malevolence that has yet to show its face. Can Harmon Tomeral and his friends hold out against it? Take a look inside and find out!
With stories by:
Jake Bible
Brisco Woods
The House Between Worlds (The Milesian Accords Book 4) Oct 21, 2021
The Milesian Accords have fallen, but their shadow remains.
As magic returns to the mundane world, so do supernatural creatures. A federal agent seeking answers, a spurned Nephilim searching for his fae-blood wife, and a primeval goddess hungering for power all seek Liam Knox, the First Druid of the Accords.
New allies and old foes appear as paths converge on a nexus between realities. No longer a simple farmhouse, the druid's home has become a pathway between worlds and a locus of power.
Can Liam protect his family? Can he shield those who have no other place to go? And can he keep magic from destroying this world?
It Takes More Kinds (The Coalition Book 11) Oct 29, 2021
by Kevin Steverson, Chris Kennedy, Nick Steverson, Mark Wandrey, Matt Novotny, Jon R. Osborne, William Joseph Roberts, Jamie Ibson, P.A. Piatt, Casey Moores, Brisco Woods, Dan Bridgwater
It Takes Even More Kinds…Of Aliens!
Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine Competition. They brought back a battlecruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they ultimately founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.
The galaxy is a big place, though, peopled with thousands of races, and most haven't graced the pages of a Salvage Title book…until now.
"It Takes More Kinds" contains twelve all-new stories showcasing even more of the aliens in the Salvage Universe, and helps give a wider view of the galaxy as events continue to transpire in The Coalition series. No matter the odds, though, Harmon Tomeral will be there to stick up for the little guy. From humans stuck being the freak show in an alien carnival to a battle that hinges on a salad, anything is possible. But is making friends with the Squilla and trusting them with your life just too much to ask?
Inside are potential allies for Harmon Tomeral and his friends…as well as some of the adversaries who are lining up against Salvage System. Who are these new races? Take a look inside and find out!
Dan Bridgwater
A Tempered Warrior (The Milesian Accords Book 2) Apr 17, 2018
2018 Dragon Award Finalist – Fantasy Category
Centuries ago, the followers of the new gods defeated the old gods, and the folk of legend were banished from the world. With their departure, magic faded from the land. However, the Milesian Accords provided for a new challenge, and its time rapidly approaches.
The descendant of the druid who participated in the original challenge, Liam Knox, must forge the sword for the Champion to wield, and write the next set of Accords. Time is running out, though, and the minions of the new gods will stop at nothing to ensure he fails in his tasks.
The descendent of the legendary hero Cu Chulainn, Erin Donnelly, has gone to Dunos Scaith, a fortress out of time and space, to train for the Challenge to come. Interruptions and distractions abound, though, including the potential for new love…and she is being hunted as well.
Both Druid and Champion are running out of time as the Challenge approaches—a challenge that could end the world as we know it—and neither is likely to be ready in time. They must trust in each other and their friends…but what if that trust is misplaced?
A Tangled Fate (The Milesian Accords Book 3) Apr 17, 2019
The Challenge approaches!
Centuries ago, the followers of the new gods defeated the people of the old gods in a challenge of champions. The folk of legend were banished from the world, and magic faded from the land. The Milesian Accords, however, provided for a new challenge, and the time for that challenge is running out.
Erin Donnelly, the proclaimed Champion of the Exiled Folk, is marooned in the otherworldly Glaswold after an assassination attempt. The fortress Dunos Scaith vanished, and Erin's daughter disappeared with it. She has to find her daughter, finish her training, and make it back to the World of Man before the deadline.
Liam Knox, the Druid of the Accords, faces tests both domestic and mystical in rural Illinois. Liam must rally his allies in the wake of loss, mentor a son who has discovered magic, and deal with supernatural entities meddling in his life. All the while, Liam's enemies circle closer, hunting the druid, his family, and his friends.
Only together can the Druid and the Champion face the Challenge and survive. If they fail, more than their lives hang in the balance. If they win, it could change the world as we know it. But first they must master their tangled fate.
A Fistful of Credits: Stories from the Four Horsemen Universe (The Revelations Cycle Book 5) Jun 29, 2017
by Chris Kennedy, Mark Wandrey, Terry Mixon, Doug Dandridge, Jason Cordova, Kevin Ikenberry, Kacey Ezell, Jon Del Arroz, Brad R. Torgersen, Christopher G. Nuttall, Charity Ayres
Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen extraordinary stories. One bestselling universe.
It's the Twenty-Second Century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. There's just one catch: we are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain.
Enter the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Enter a galaxy not only of mercenaries, but also of Peacemakers, bounty hunters, and even a strung out junkie in the way of a hired assassin.
Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy, "A Fistful of Credits" includes all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet. The fourteen authors take on various aspects of the universe, giving you additional insight into a galaxy that isn't at war…but definitely isn't at peace. There's only one thing for sure—anything's possible for a fistful of credits!
Inside you'll find:
Foreword by Dr. Charles E. Gannon
"The Last Alpha" by Mark Wandrey
"Breach of Contract" by Terry Mixon
"Paint the Sky" by Jason Cordova
"Surf and Turf" by Jon R. Osborne
"Stand on It" by Kevin Ikenberry
"Lost and Found" by Jon Del Arroz
"Gilded Cage" by Kacey Ezell
"Legends" by Christopher Woods
"With the Eagles" by Doug Dandridge
"Dead or Alive" by Paul Corcoran
"Hide and Seek" by Christopher Nuttall
"Information Overload" by Charity Ayres
"Enough" by Chris Kennedy
"CASPer's Ghost" by Brad R. Torgersen
Want to keep up with the Four Horsemen universe? Visit Chris Kennedy Publishing and subscribe to the mailing list!
Set the Terms (Rise of the Peacemakers Book 3) May 26, 2020
by Mia R. Kleve, Kevin Ikenberry, Mark Wandrey, Chris Kennedy, William Alan Webb, Qunicy J. Allen, Kevin Steverson, Marisa Wolf, Jon R. Osborne, Terry Mixon, Casey Moores, Jamie Ibson, Peter J. Aldin, Matt Novotny, Marie Whittaker, Mark Stallings
Peacemakers. The Galactic Union's most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union's citizenry.
Being a Peacemaker isn't easy. They're charged with setting the terms and doing anything which needs to be done—even if it personally costs them everything. They must learn to honor the threat to all life, and, in the end, they must stand or fall, based on their own convictions.
Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by Mia R. Kleve and bestselling author Kevin Ikenberry, "Set the Terms" includes fourteen all-new Peacemaker-themed stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet.
From pigs flying to cats landing on their feet, "Set the Terms" shows Peacemakers at work from the origin of the guild to present day. Journey with a Lumar Peacemaker as he tries to complete his first mission and watch as a Phidae Peacemaker tries to complete his final one. They will have to use their wits as well as their weapons if they hope to remain standing at the end of the day.
Are you ready to set the terms? If so, then step inside!
Kevin Ikenberry & Peter J. Aldin
Marie Whittaker
An Axe To Grind (The Guild Wars Book 4) Mar 25, 2020
The Omega War may have ended, but neither Earth nor the galaxy are at peace. Bjorn Tovesson III, commander of Bjorn's Berserkers has returned to Earth. Bear Town is a smoldering ruin, and the Berserkers' reputation is in the gutter. As Bjorn tries to chart a course for the Berserkers' future, ghosts from the past haunt him.
Meanwhile, the Information Guild and the Union Credit Exchange clash over the future of the Galactic Union's economy. The Information Guild seeks to eliminate the red diamond standard, giving it sole control of the currency system, but the Union Credit Exchange harbors ambitions to become a guild in its own right. Both sides wage battle by weaponizing politics, piracy, and disinformation.
While Bjorn hunts the aliens responsible for murdering his father and slaughtering many of the Berserkers trapped on Earth during Peepo's invasion, he receives an offer too good to pass up. Despite the Mercenary Guild suspending contracts, Bjorn could make the credits needed to bring his plans to fruition.
Can Bjorn put aside the past? Who will control the galaxy's economy? The Omega War may be over, but everyone still has an axe to grind.
Luck is Not a Factor: More Stories from the Four Horsemen Universe (Four Horsemen Tales Book 6) Oct 30, 2018
by Chris Kennedy, Mark Wandrey, Jon R. Osborne, Paul E. Cooley, Joseph Capdepon, Christopher Woods, Thomas A. Mays, Jamie Ibson, Rob Howell, Lee Dunning, Brad R Torgersen, Jon Del Arroz, Michael Ciaravella, Philip Wohlrab, T. Allen Diaz, Terry Maggert, Terry Mixon, Kacey Ezell, JR Handley
Nineteen outstanding authors. Nineteen extraordinary stories. One bestselling universe.
What do you do when the odds are stacked against you? Mercs plan, strategize, and sometimes even scheme, but there is one thing they all believe—luck is never a factor.
Unless it is.
Enter the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Chris Kennedy and Mark Wandrey, "Luck is Not a Factor" includes all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet. The nineteen authors take on various aspects of the universe, giving you additional insight into a galaxy that isn't at war…but definitely isn't at peace. There's only one thing for sure—anything's possible for a fistful of credits!
Inside, you'll find:
Preface by Chris Kennedy
"Luck is Not a Factor" by Mark Wandrey
"Jury-Rigged" by Paul E. Cooley
"Hunting Trip" by Jon R. Osborne
"To Sell Your Cloak" by Joseph Capdepon, II
"Sattara" by Christopher Woods
"Test and Devaluation" by Thomas A. Mays
"The Humans Inside" by Jamie Ibson
"A Sword for Striking" by Rob Howell
"Confluence" by Lee Dunning
"Hell Hath No Fury" by Brad R. Torgersen
"All's Fair in Love and Mercs" by Jon Del Arroz
"The Price of Devotion" by Michael Ciaravella
"A Simple Recon Mission" by Philip Wohlrab
"Three Gladiators" by T. Allen Diaz
"Target of Opportunity" by Terry Maggert
"Scooping the Competition" by Terry Mixon
"A Token of Affection" by Kacey Ezell
"To Save the Earth" by Chris Kennedy
"CASPer's Widow: The Last Goodbye" by JR Handley
Songs of Valor (Libri Valoris Book 2) Mar 16, 2021
by Chris Kennedy, Rob Howell, David Weber, Glen Cook, Sarah A. Hoyt, Larry Correia, Jon R. Osborne, Kevin Steverson, Quincy J. Allen, D.J. Butler, Benjamin Tyler Smith, Melissa Olthoff, Jamie Ibson, Casey Moores, J.P. Chandler
Fifteen tremendous authors. Fifteen extraordinary stories. One outstanding anthology.
It is a time of high adventure! A time for heroes to say "No!" to the evils that will befall their families and friends if they don't rise to the task at hand…even if they don't want to! If they won't take up arms and spells on behalf of their people, civilization will fall.
Fifteen exceptional authors have spun tales of reluctant heroes—people often like you and me, who didn't think they were worthy, needed, or even "the right one for the job." Sometimes all they have going for them is that they're the wrong person at the wrong time. When there's no one else, though, a hero must do what's necessary, whether that's fighting demons, the undead, or an unconquerable enemy.
Songs of Valor focuses on heroes rising to the challenge presented them. An untrained human facing an ancient dragon. A necromancer fighting a demon in the land of the elves. A dragon rider well past her prime coming back to protect the ones she loves. An over-the-hill fighter who does what he must to stem the tide of evil.
Inside are fifteen incredible stories of heroes rising to the occasion. Their willingness to brave the peril, though, doesn't guarantee their success. If their valor should fail, all indeed will be lost! Will they succeed? Step inside and find out!
Glen Cook
Sarah A. Hoyt
Larry Correia
D.J. Butler
Melissa Olthoff
J.P. Chandler
The Good, the Bad, and the Merc: Even More Stories from the Four Horsemen Universe (The Revelations Cycle Book 8) Nov 14, 2017
by Chris Kennedy, Kacey Ezell, Jason Cordova, Terry Mixon, Terry Maggert, Kal Spriggs, T. Allen Diaz, Stephanie Osborn, Christopher L. Smith, Philip Wohlrab, Robert E. Hampson, Eric S. Brown, Marisa Wolf, Jon R. Osborne, Mark Wandrey
Even more authors and stories. Still the same bestselling universe.
It's the Twenty-Second Century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races, environments, and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, our position is readily apparent—we're at the bottom of the food chain.
Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. While some of the stories inside deal with mercenaries, others introduce readers to the other guilds, organizations, and races that make up the landscape of the Four Horsemen universe, as well as providing additional insight into the characters of the mainline novels. What's it like to be a medic on the beach or to learn how to kill from a mother not your own? Come find out!
Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy, "The Good, the Bad, and the Merc" includes sixteen all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet. In a galaxy this big, you'll find that some of the races are good and others are bad, but only the best are mercs!
Foreword by David Drake
Argonaut by Kal Spriggs
Shell Game by Terry Mixon
The Last Dragon by Terry Maggert
Hero of Styx by T. Allen Diaz
The Beach by Philip Wohlrab
Velut Luna by Christopher L. Smith
Keep the Home Fires Burning by Jason Cordova
Vvremya by Mark Wandrey
The Last Guardsman by Stephanie Osborn
Unto the Last–Stand Fast by Robert E. Hampson
The Demon of Ki-A by Eric S. Brown
Under the Skin by Marisa Wolf
Inked by Mark Wandrey
Angels and Aliens by Jon R. Osborne
Life by Chris Kennedy
Lessons by Kacey Ezell


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OLMC brings home double volleyball championship
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Elementary School has double the reason to celebrate.
The school recently served up two gold medal games thanks to the Jr. and Sr. Boys' Volleyball teams.
On May 4, the junior team headed out to Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School to compete against the best teams in the city for the championship title.
"Last year, the boys took the top spot in Junior Division II, so the expectations were high," said Coach Philip Daly.
After beating St. Margaret Mary in the semi-final game, the boys were off to the finals against Immaculate Heart of Mary. The boys were down by 5 points in the first set, but after a quick time-out and motivational speech, they returned to win the set.
"The momentum from the battle in the first set carried on for the rest of the game, and the boys emerged victorious!" Congratulations to the Junior Boys' Volleyball Team on an undefeated season and a second championship!"
"Can we three-peat in 2020?"
On the senior side, the boys found themselves on an uphill fight.
"After going down 2 games to none in the quarter finals, the boys found their spiking ability and battled back to win 3 games straight over a very competitive team from Immaculate Heart of Mary," said Daly.
This victory advanced the team to the semi-final game against St. Luke, where they won 3-0.
"The championship game had our boys playing Our Lady of Peace. Again, Mount Carmel never doubted their victory, commanding leads in every game. Mount Carmel defeated Our Lady of Peace 3-0 to win the Division II Championship."
Congratulations to both teams!
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The 2020 Olympic Games are set to be the most equal Olympics yet, and by that, I mean that there will be more gender equality in terms of events offered at the Olympic Games than ever before.
Throughout the history of the modern Olympic Games, gender equality has always been an issue, but it's not an issue that is solely attributed to the Olympic Games or the International Olympic Committee themselves, but more toward the wider societal perceptions of sport in reflection of gender roles overall. This can be seen all throughout the history of the games. For example, despite the first games taking place in 1896. The first females to participate at the Olympic Games was in 1900 where 22 women took part in Tennis, Golf, Sailing and Croquet.
Despite being a male dominated event, women's participation at the Olympics continued to grow in number of participants as well as different sports and events. However, most women were limited to compete in sports that would be considered more "feminine" and often times prohibited in competing in sports deemed more "masculine." It wasn't until 1984 that a female division of the Olympic marathon was added, 2000 when women could compete in weightlifting, 2002 for bobsled, 2004 for wrestling and 2012 for boxing. In certain sports such as Swimming and Athletics there have been different events for men and women, however for 2020 this gap is slowly closing. Specifically, in swimming where the women's 1500m and the Men's 800m will be contested for the first time as well as the Mixed Relay which is a relay event consisting of 2 male and 2 female swimmers. These events have long been part of other large international swimming events including the World Championships but never before at the Olympic Games themselves.
While there are still many gender differences within all sports at the Olympics, with many events contested specifically for one gender but not another. For most of the history, the focus on gender equality in sport has been focused on building female participation in sports traditionally considered "masculine" and dispelling a lot of stereotypes and pseudoscience that have held women back from taking part. At the 2016 Olympic Games, women could take part in every sport that men could even if the events within that sport aren't fully equal. However, there are still two sports on the entire Olympic program that are exclusive to one gender. Rhythmic Gymnastics and Synchronized Swimming. These sports are open to women, but men are banned from competing because of the perceived "femininity" that is exclusive to these sports.
We are still on the road toward gender equality at the Olympic Games. Where men have been discouraged to take part in certain artistic sports that are traditionally more feminine. In sports such as gymnastics and figure skating, the men's competition is significantly different than the women's to try and diminish the "femininity" of the sport. This is why you have events like the Pommel Horse, Rings and Parallel Bars for men but not for women. Even the women's floor routine is more artistic with elements of dance added in whereas the men's routine rarely utilizes music at all. You might argue that is because physiologically women have less upper body strength. Yet, women's events such as the uneven bars and vault still require a strong and trained upper body that female gymnasts already have.
Even in Figure Skating, there is a reason why completing a Triple Axel is a guarantee medal in the women's competition whereas it won't even get you into the top 10 for the men's. In a sport that emphasizes femininity, the men's division has been driving to be more athletic rather than artistic.
Men were first allowed to compete at the Synchronized Swimming World Championships in 2015 in the Mixed Duet Division where USA Athlete Bill May with his partner Christina Jones and Aleksandr Maltsev with his partner Darina Valitova became the first men to win a gold medal in synchronized swimming at the world championships. Men were not allowed to compete in any solo or male only events. At the 2017 World Championships, there was a Mixed Duet and a Mixed Teams division only. One of the few places where Men can fully compete in all synchronized swimming events is currently at the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics recognized and sanctioned events, including the Gay Games which have helped build male participation in the sport.
Sport is a form of self-expression for the dedicated athletes who put in the time, money and effort to train to be their best. Expressing yourself in sport is showing the world a part of who you are and what you are capable of achieving. Being an athlete however, doesn't define you or limit you to a certain standard. Athleticism is the desire of an individual to express themselves through a physical capability, just as a singer or musician would express themselves through music. This form of self-expression isn't defined by anybody else but the individual themselves. Thus we shouldn't limit people to strict definitions of something that they may not choose to represent.
It is time that we stop looking at gender divisions as solely masculine or feminine but recognize and accept that men can be just as much feminine as women can be masculine. There is nothing wrong with either and we shouldn't define our skill set and athleticism on the grounds of gender roles. It is time to add a men's division of Synchronized Swimming and Rhythmic Gymnastics to the Olympic Program.


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Since 2015, when she made her debut on the CBS news magazine and TV program 60 Minutes, Sharyn Alfonsi has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in reporting and reportage. Her discussion of the nation's most important issues, from tough reporting on politics, lifestyle, pop culture, business, health, and science, has gained her recognition in the nation and beyond. Alfonsi is also a journalist and has worked with stations such as KHBS-TV, WVEC-TV, KIRO-TV, WBZ-TV, and ABC News.
Sharyn Alfonsi – Bio
The renowned journalist, born Sharyn Elizabeth Alfonsi, arrived in Mississippi, United States, on June 3, 1971. There is no information available about her early life or family background. Furthermore, Alfonsi seems to agree to promote only her career and not her private life. Neither the names of her parents nor her siblings, if she has any, are known. However, it is known that she belongs to a white ethnic group and has American citizenship.
After her high school education in McLean, Virginia, she enrolled at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Journalism Studies in 1994.
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Her Career
After completing her studies, Alfonsi began her career as a radio journalist, first at KHBS-TV, Fort Smith, Arkansas. There she had quite a lot to do; she worked as a news reporter, editor, weekend weather presenter, and also a photographer. In 1995 she joined WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Virginia, where she worked as a general-purpose reporter until 1997.
Then she moved to Washington in 1998, where she worked as a reporter and alternate host for KIRO-TV. During this time she covered the riots at the World Trade Organization. In 2000 she left the station and until 2003 she pitched her tent in Boston at CBS-owned WBZ-TV.
Her career took another turn when she was appointed network correspondent for CBS News in New York in July 2004. There she hosted the evening news and covered both national and international topics such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the conflict in Israel, Hurricane Katrina, and the Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia. She has also been a freelance correspondent for the weekend edition of CBS Evening News, Up to the Minute, and CBS Newspath. She left the station in 2006, but not without appearing on the CBS Public Eye Blog in August, a month before she left.
Alfonsi joined ABC News in January 2008 as a correspondent for World News and Good Morning America based in New York. During the five years she spent there, she was a regular correspondent on all the network's platforms. Together with another ABC correspondent, David Muir, Sharyn Alfonsi hosted the Made in America franchise for the network. During her first assignment at CBS, Alfonsi was baptized by one of her colleagues, Bob Schieffer, as a true treasure of the station. In 2012, she returned to her valuable base, CBS News.
This time she joined the cast of 60 Minutes Sports. On March 1, 2015, she made her debut on 60 Minutes with "The Storm After the Storm". The feature examines the fraudulent technical reports after Hurricane Sandy. It led to an investigation by Congress, which in turn earned her a Writers Guild Award for the best news – analysis, feature or commentary – television. In the 2016-2017 season, she became a regular, appearing in several stories that received both great recognition and national attention. These include the abuse of prison informants in Orange County, California, which drew national attention to a scandal in the criminal justice system.
She has also created several sports profiles on stars such as golfer Bubba Watson and the poignant portrait of Harry Parker. Currently, in her fifth season of 60 Minutes, she continues to bang on stories that make her viewers want more.
At the program's premiere in the 2018 season, Sharyn Alfonsi was featured in an insightful interview with Beatle Sir Paul McCartney that attracted over 13 million viewers. Also in the same season, she reported from Midway Island, where she took an in-depth look at the problem of plastics in the ocean. In the article, she reported that much of the plastic in the United States is never recycled.
Sharyn Alfonsi is not only a journalist but also a public speaker. In May 2013, she gave the opening address at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, and her speech caught the attention of NPR, which called her one of the best opening speeches ever.
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Husband (Matt Eby)
She enjoys marital bliss with her husband, Matt Eby. The duo has been married for over a decade and has two lovely children; a son named Wyatt and a daughter named Flynn. She lives with her family in Austin, Texas.
Her husband co-founded Tengram Capital Partners, a consumer goods private equity firm, in 2010. He is also a managing partner of the firm. Previously, he served as Chief Investment Officer of JAWS Estates Capital, Barry Sternlicht's Private Family Investment Office, and the Sternlicht family. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 2002, he was also an associate of Morgan Stanley.
Apparently, in keeping with her culture, Sharyn Alfonsi has chosen to keep her wedding date, location, and other details of her wedding a secret. Nor does she seem to need a headline dedicated to her children by the tabloid press. However, she does share pictures of her husband and children on her official Instagram account.
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When he was 17 years old, Roger Anderson joined the York New Salem fire company as a firefighter. Over the years (he's now 59), Anderson would run with various fire companies in York County including Lincolnway and West York.
Today, Anderson serves as the newly-elected president and "chief engineer" of the Eastern York County Forest Fire Crew.
By all means, the department is a modest one.
Housed in a garage-like structure on Calvary Church Road in Wrightsville (a long stone's throw from the Susquehanna River), the company like most in York County is run by volunteers.
In terms of apparatus, the department has two brush trucks (dated to 1967) and a service truck, which has an all-terrain vehicle strapped in the bed of the pickup.
There are 18 people on the current roster, but as Anderson put it, only about half of them go on fire calls. "Most of the guys have families," he said earlier this month.
Anderson said Eastern York County Forest Crew was organized in 1973 with 20 people. The next year, the company was incorporated and got off to an even more modest start with one pickup truck, some rakes and Indian tanks.
The company serves to assist York County's fire departments on forest fire-type calls. Think leaf fires, or brush fires on a hillside which may have been sparked by a cigarette thrown out the window of a moving truck on the interstate.
"It's not a glory trip for us," Anderson said on a recent Saturday. "We're here to help these guys."


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Q: Why isn't transform: scale(0) working on animated element? Why isn't transform: scale(0); working on a animated element?
@keyframes spin {
    0% { transform: rotate(0deg); }
    100% { transform: rotate(360deg); }
}
#box {
    width: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    background: red;
    animation: spin .5s infinite linear;
    transform: scale(0);
}

I guess its because the keyframe take over transform, but even with !important after transform: scale(0) its still not changing.
http://jsfiddle.net/yun0xu8t/1/

A: You need to move transform: scale(0); to @keyframes
To rotate and scale together
@keyframes spin {
0% { transform: rotate(0deg); }
100% { transform: rotate(360deg) scale(0); }
}

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**Instructions: ** Define each of the following Git concepts.

* What is version control?  Why is it useful?

  Version control allows you to take snapshots of your work as you make changes on a project. It's useful because you can revert your work back to an earlier version if your latest updates create bugs or errors. It also serves as a back up of your work.

* What is a branch and why would you use one?

  A branch is a copy of the master version of your project. It's useful because it enables you to work on a new feature in a safe way. The master version is not affected by any changes you make on the feature branch, until you merge the feature branch back into master. At that point, if any errors or conflicts are found, they can be resolved before being merged into the master branch.

* What is a commit? What makes a good commit message?

  A commit takes a snapshot of your project as it is now. A good commit message is written in present tense and explains what specific changes you've made. A good commit message is written in present tense and explains what specific changes you've made.

* What is a merge conflict?

  A merge conflict is when two branches have changed the same part of a file. For example, if two developers branch off master and are told to fix the error on line #12, they might fix the error in two different ways. Then, when they both try to merge back into master, Git won't know which version it should use and will throw a merge conflict error. At that point, the reviewer will be able to see the two version and will have to choose one to be used for the merge.


Confidence – As adults, we know the importance of being confident in your abilities. Having a healthy level of self-confidence helps us achieve our goals, make friends, pursue a career and many other things. Building confidence starts at a young age and child beauty pageants are a great vehicle for toddlers to start building self-confidence.
Social Skills – Child beauty pageants also help children improve their social skills as they learn how to make new friends with other kids their own age. Children competing in child beauty pageants will also learn how to effectively communicate with adults as well.
Good Sportsmanship – Learning how to be a good sport is something every child should be taught how to do. After all, no one ever wins everything in life…we all fail at some point and have to learn how to get back up. Child beauty pageants teach children this lesson as not every contestant will go home with a trophy. The good thing is that young contestants learn that with hard work and determination they can earn a trophy, and when they do, the win is that much more valuable to them.
Prizes – Of course there are prizes given out at child beauty pageants. While they shouldn't be the sole reason for entering these competitions, they are considered benefits. Young children can win anything from trophies and crowns to modeling lessons, trips and iPods. However, if a child continues to compete in beauty pageants in the college, there are often monetary prizes that can help one pay for a college education.
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Owner of fishing vessel in fatal 2017 sinking off Tofino gets probation, must take marine training
Two deaths reported in COVID-19 outbreak at Nanaimo long-term care home
Lifestyle Markets workers seek hazard pay, firm cites rules
Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist
41 members of Lifestyle Market's staff say they want hazard pay of $3 per hour, retroactive to March 15, and six paid sick days for all staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photograph By Adrian Lam, Times Colonist
Citing heavy workloads and stress, some front-line workers at Lifestyle Markets health-food store are demanding hazard pay and paid sick days for working through the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement issued by the Retail Action Network, a Victoria-based workers' rights organization, 41 members of Lifestyle's staff said they wanted hazard pay of $3 per hour, retroactive to March 15, and six paid sick days for all staff.
The group, which signed a letter sent to Lifestyle general manager Carmine Sparanese on March 30, went public with their demands after not getting the response they wanted by midday on Wednesday.
Retail Action Network said Lifestyle's staff are now deemed to be providing an essential service, yet are increasingly frayed by heavy workloads, a shortage of staff and the stress of working around health hazards during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Network director Eric Nordal said it got involved to ensure workers have their voices heard. "Our role is to support workers when in dispute with their employers or even in changing the narrative," he said.
In a statement issued through its legal counsel on Thursday, Lifestyle Markets, which has three locations in the region, said it has been an important part of the community for 25 years and would not be where it is without its dedicated staff, many of whom have been with the company from the early days.
"Lifestyle has continued to serve its community in the midst of this unprecedented global crisis; however, at this time, bargaining is under way," it said, adding the Labour Relations Code precludes it from altering hourly rates of pay when that has started.
"In a newly certified bargaining unit, collective bargaining is initiated when either the union or the employer serves the other party with a notice in writing to commence bargaining. Once such notice has been served, the employer is not entitled to increase or decrease the rates of pay of employees or to alter any other term or condition of their employment until four months after certification or until a collective agreement is negotiated, whichever occurs first," the statement said.
Workers at Lifestyle Markets voted to unionize and join the United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 1518 in February.
Asked if the Retail Action Network had contacted the union before acting, Nordal would only say it was there to support the workers.
"Our priority is ensuring workers get the pay and respect they deserve," he said.
Eva Prkachin, press secretary for UFCW 1518, said the union has pushed grocers to improve the support given to retail workers who have become front-line workers overnight.
"They are facing challenges that they never thought they would have to face," she said, noting the union has asked grocers to take steps including restricting the number of shoppers, providing safety gear and hazard pay for workers, and banning reusable bags.
"We hope that this campaign will encourage Lifestyle Market to introduce hero pay and sickness benefits. This gesture would help to reset what has been a difficult relationship between store management and the union," she said.
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Q: Text Overlay Image with Darkened Opacity React Native I am attempting to overlay a title over an image - with the image darkened with a lower opacity. However, the opacity effect is changing the overlaying text as well - making it dim. Any fix to this? Here is what is looks like:

And here is my code for the custom component (article preview - which the above image is a row of article preview components):
//component for article preview touchable image
/* will require the following
- rss feed and api
- user's keyword interests from parse In home.js
- parse db needs to be augmented to include what they heart
- parse db needs to be augmented to include what they press on (like google news)
*/
var React = require('react-native');
var {
  View,
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  Image,
  TouchableHighlight,
} = React;

//dimensions
var Dimensions = require('Dimensions');
var window = Dimensions.get('window');
var ImageButton = require('../../common/imageButton');
var KeywordBox = require('../../authentication/onboarding/keyword-box');

//additional libraries

module.exports = React.createClass({
  //onPress function that triggers when button pressed
  //this.props.text is property that can be dynamically filled within button
  /* following props:
    - source={this.props.source}
    - onPress={this.props.onPress}
    - {this.props.text}
    - {this.props.heartText}
    - key={this.props.key}
    - text={this.props.category}
    - this.props.selected
  */
  render: function() {
    return (
      <TouchableHighlight
        underlayColor={'transparent'}
        onPress={this.props.onPress} >
          <Image
            source={this.props.source}
            style={[styles.articlePreview, this.border('red')]}>
                  <View style={[styles.container, this.border('organge')]}>
                      <View style={[styles.header, this.border('blue')]}>
                          <Text style={[styles.previewText]}>{this.props.text}</Text>
                      </View>
                      <View style={[styles.footer, this.border('white')]}>
                        <View style={[styles.heartRow, this.border('black')]}>
                          <ImageButton
                              style={[styles.heartBtn, , this.border('red')]}
                              resizeMode={'contain'}
                              onPress={this.onHeartPress}
                              source={require('../../img/heart_btn.png')} />
                          <Text style={[styles.heartText]}>{this.props.heartText + ' favorites'}</Text>
                        </View>
                          <KeywordBox
                              style={[styles.category, this.border('blue')]}
                              key={this.props.key}
                              text={this.props.category}
                              onPress={this.props.categoryPress}
                              selected={this.props.selected} />
                      </View>
                  </View>
          </Image>
      </TouchableHighlight>
    );
  },
  onHeartPress: function() {
    //will move this function to a general module
  },
  border: function(color) {
      return {
        //borderColor: color,
        //borderWidth: 4,
      }
   },
});

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  heartText: {
    color: 'white',
    fontSize: 12,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    alignSelf: 'center',
    marginLeft: 5,
    fontFamily: 'SFCompactText-Medium'
  },
  heartRow: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
    justifyContent: 'space-around',
    alignSelf: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  heartBtn: {
    height: (92/97)*(window.width/13),
    width: window.width/13,
    alignSelf:'center',
  },
  category: {
    fontFamily: 'Bebas Neue',
    fontSize: 10,
    fontWeight: 'bold'
  },
  header: {
    flex: 3,
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'space-around',
    marginTop: window.height/30,
  },
  footer: {
    flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'row',
    justifyContent: 'space-between',
    alignItems: 'center',
    margin: window.height/50,
  },
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: 'black',
    opacity: 0.6,
  },
  articlePreview: {
    flex: 1,
    height: window.height/3.2,
    width: window.width,
    flexDirection: 'column'
  },
  previewText: {
    fontFamily: 'Bebas Neue',
    fontSize: 23,
    color: 'white',
    alignSelf: 'center',
    textAlign: 'center',
    margin: 5,
    position: 'absolute',
    top: 0,
    right: 0,
    bottom: 0,
    left: 0
  },

});

A: Instead of applying the opacity to entire ImageBackground element, implement it on the image itself  Eg.
<ImageBackground style={styles.imageContainer}
                 imageStyle={{ opacity: 0.5 }}
                 source={require('../assets/images/background.png')}>
                <View style={styles.welcomeContainer}>
                    <Image source={require('../assets/images/zeptagram-logo.png')} style={styles.welcomeImage} />
                </View>
            </ImageBackground>

A: Opacity will affect the entire view. Try having 2 views instead. One that's absolutely positioned with the image contained. Another with your text and button content.
You can absolutely position a view using position : "absolute", top: 0, left: 0

A: I solve my work with Background inside Image tag and It works fine.
like this
<Image source={require('./img/2.jpg')} style=
              {{height:deviceRowHeight,width:deviceWidth}}>
    <View style={{backgroundColor:'rgba(0,0,0,.6)',
                 height:deviceRowHeight,width:deviceWidth}}>
         <Text> Test Text </Text>
    </View>
</Image>

A: Try changing the container's style to
container: {
 flex: 1,
 backgroundColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,.6)'
},


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JetBlue Is Launching Routes to Paris Next Summer months
Tourists wanting for cheap flights to Europe received a dose of good information on Thursday: JetBlue announced that it is launching new routes from the East Coastline to Paris in summer season 2023.
The airline designs to initial start flights to Paris from its house-base in New York, traveling nonstop from John F. Kennedy International airport into Paris's Charles de Gaulle. Later on, JetBlue also programs to include nonstop flights from Boston Logan Intercontinental airport to Charles de Gaulle.
With the debut of the Paris flights, JetBlue will mark its 2nd transatlantic location. In 2021 it released considerably-predicted routes to London, also from New York and Boston. The marketplace for flights involving the U.S. and France is the second largest in the environment, according to a release from the airline, and France is on track to see 75 million visitors by the conclude of 2022.
The new flights are confident to be a boon to offer-looking for fliers on the East Coast, where by usually several economical Paris route alternatives exist. "JetBlue is featuring one thing absolutely exceptional to what you get from the major world-wide legacy airways on these routes—where a single substantial-fare joint enterprise operates approximately three-quarters of the traveling," Robin Hayes, JetBlue's CEO, claimed in a assertion on Thursday. "The reaction to our London assistance is evidence that combining excellent support with minimal fares functions." Though rates haven't been released nonetheless, fares on the airline's route from New York to London ordinarily start at around $599 spherical-trip for standard economic system.
In addition to reduced fares, JetBlue's signature in-flight perks will be out there on the route, employing Airbus A321 extended-range plane to function its flights to Paris. The planes will characteristic JetBlue's revamped "Core" course, an overall economy cabin with 114 seats that offers the airline's signature benefits like no cost in-flight Wi-Fi and absolutely free dwell Tv, ability outlets at each and every seat (AC and USB-C), extra-large overhead bins, roomy seats that are 18.4 inches large, and a new establish-your-have-meal food stuff assistance wherever vacationers can customize their food from their seat-again display screen, mixing and matching their entrees and facet dishes as they see suit.
Of class, vacationers searching for a much more quality practical experience can ebook into JetBlue's Mint company-course cabin, which functions 24 particular person suites with entirely closing doors, lie-flat seats with a foam mattress address and bedding from Tuft & Needle, and that gives hand-crafted cocktails and tapas-style appetizers from New York's Tasty Hospitality Team, the restaurateurs behind well-liked Manhattan restaurants like Charlie Bird and Legacy Data. Two of the suites are Mint studios—mega suites with excess-substantial beds and ample area for passengers to dine with a visitor through meal provider.
The airline, which is the U.S.'s sixth greatest carrier, says the Paris routes are aspect of a bigger strategy to enhance its relevance in the Northeastern U.S., as well as section of a system to service common routes that its consumers most usually request. Tickets for the new Paris flights will go on sale in the coming months.
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package com.bazoud.elasticsearch.river.git.jgit;

import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ProgressMonitor;
import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.ESLogger;

/**
 * @author Olivier Bazoud
 */
public class LoggingProgressMonitor implements ProgressMonitor {
    private ESLogger logger;

    public LoggingProgressMonitor(ESLogger logger) {
        this.logger = logger;
    }

    @Override
    public void start(int totalTasks) {
    }

    @Override
    public void beginTask(String title, int totalWork) {
        logger.info(title);
    }

    @Override
    public void update(int completed) {
    }

    @Override
    public void endTask() {
    }

    @Override
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The Air Cargo Community Frankfurt e.V. is an association of companies, institutions and organisations with the clear objective of promoting the airfreight location of Frankfurt. Its total of more than 50 members includes representatives of all areas of the air cargo supply chain. The association has five competence groups "Temperature-controlled Transport", "Processes & Infrastructure" and "Location Marketing & Community Building", as well as various specialist groups which represent the entire range of services offered at the airfreight community of Frankfurt. The prime objective is that Frankfurt Airport will, also in future, continue to clearly be Europe's No. 1 in the air freight business and, as the leading cargo hub, significantly enhance its competitiveness compared with other airports in neighbouring countries. The location of Frankfurt, today with nearly 2.2 million tons of air cargo (freight and mail, 2018) and 14,000 employees in the cargo area, should also continue to grow significantly in the coming years and, in doing so, capture an even larger share of global freight volumes for itself.


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Q: Cordova camera doesn't rotate the pic to correct orientation on Samsung S3     var onSuccess = function(imageUri){
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            saveToPhotoAlbum: true,
            encodingType: navigator.camera.EncodingType.PNG,
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        });
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I am building Cordova 3.5.0 on Samsung S3 with Android 4.3. The camera.capturePhoto function always ignore correctOrientation set, so the pic did not rotate to correct orientation. But it works fine on HTC Butterfly with Android 4.4. BTW, encodingType not work on android either. Any idea?

A: In some cases, setting navigator.camera.EncodingType.JPEG helped.
encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
mediaType: Camera.MediaType.PICTURE,
correctOrientation: true


The following is the full prepared text of the speech delivered by Martin McGuinness to the John Joe McGirl Commemoration, Ballinamore, County Leitrim, on Saturday 17th August.
When people mention the town of Ballinamore, the inevitably mention John Joe McGirl.
He also knew about our past - but he was never a hostage to it.
He didn't fear carrying the Republican message of freedom and justice and peace into political institutions - indeed it was John Joe and people like him who led the way for the people like me coming behind him.
When Republicans make agreements - we implement them.
It is a mistake not just because it jeopardises much needed investment and jobs, but also for the message it sends to the vast majority of people -nationalist and unionist - who are rock solid behind the peace process.
The Orange State that I grew up in is gone - and most sensible unionists realise that is a good thing - it is time that political unionism woke up to this reality.
So the choice for unionism is very clear - come a share power on the basis of equality and real partnership - and when you do that you will find genuine nationalist and republican partners - or pander to rejectionists who abhor equality, fairness and parity of esteem.
The best way for the people of Leitrim to honour the memory of John Joe McGirl is to work harder to deliver on what he worked for - a real Republic, a united Ireland based on the principles of equality and social justice for all. For counties like Leitrim and towns like Ballinmore, all-Ireland cooperation is key to economic development and job creation.
For the republicans of Leitrim, I would say that if you wish to ensure John Joe McGirl's legacy is maintained and built upon you need to build and organise Sinn Fein throughout this county and increase the party's representation at all levels.
There are Local and European elections next year. This provides a real opportunity to increase the Sinn Fein representation on Leitrim County council and to elect a Sinn Fein MEP in the north west constituency.
I would call on the people of Ballinamore and of Leitrim to get behind the Sinn Fein EU candidate Matt Carthy. It's time to put a voice into Europe that will stand up for the ordinary people of this region.
Go raibh maith against go leir.


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Mom's Choice GOLD Award Winner The Look Cookers!
by Jim Malloy
Illustrated by Hannah Stephey
Text ©2015 by Jim Malloy
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About the book --
Matthew is a normal boy in every way but one. He's a secret agent. But not just any kind of secret agent. Matthew is an eye spy! The enemy: The Look Cookers! The mission: The first day of school! The goal: Make it to school without being 'cooked'! In fact, Matthew is shy. He does not like eye contact. In his lively imagination, he envisions that anyone who looks at him has special powers - they are The Look Cookers. And he has a name for each type of Look Cooker: Peek Seekers, Glance Dancers, Blink Drinkers, Stare Darers, Gawk Stalkers, Gape Scrapers, and Sight Biters (the worst of the bunch!). Join Matthew on his mission, experience the Look Cookers first hand and discover how he overcomes his fear of eye contact and succeeds in the end. This is the first in a series of adventures penned by this powerhouse new team: the sensitive story written by Jim Malloy and illustrated boldly by Hannah Stephey will inspire children ages 6 to 10 to overcome their fears - and delight children of all ages with its message and imaginative style.
Jim Malloy began telling stories to his young children, James and Sara, as a way to entertain them at bedtime. With every new nighttime opportunity, yarns like The Misadventures of Baseball Bear, The Continuing Saga of Blue Bob and Yellow Bob, and The Little Girl Named 'Pots and Pans' sprang to life from his active imagination. Jim overcame shyness as a child and today enjoys a career that often requires public speaking - and eye contact. It is from those experiences, both as a child and an adult, that The Look Cookers emerged.
About the Illustrator --
Hannah Stephey is an illustrator and graphic designer from Pennsylvania where she has her own illustration studio, Superjellyland. While this is her first book for children, she is a lifelong artist. Hannah loves lattes, her pug Mikey and finding ancient relics from the 90s on the Internet. These and other works can be found on her website, hannahstephey.squarespace.com.


"Let me pause for a moment and speak a word to those starting over after some kind of death.
The world, oddly enough, does not take kindly to resurrections. The risen dead are tolerated only as long as they are careful not to look too obviously raised. The trouble with Lazarus had to have been that he refused to be discreet about being alive. Had he gone to just one or two small dinner parties and done a respectable revived-corpse act, [the authorities] might have put up with him. But no. Instead, he dined regularly six nights a week, ate like Diamond Jim Brady, drank Calvados til two in the morning, and laughed all night at his own dialect jokes.
You will be asked, sometimes politely but always firmly, not to look too alive: Lazarus at a dinner confuses the troops. And yet, what is there to do? Act as if you were still in the grave? Carry a little flacon of eau de tombeau in your purse? Of course not. You have been given a new life: flaunt it. Sadness and guilt are facts; but forgiveness must always be the largest fact. Embarrassment at the riches of your own existence is a loser.
Creativity–commitment to the creative spirit–is medicine.
Discipline is the path to freedom.
Giving is what we are starving for; not getting.
If you want to have loving feelings today, do some really loving things.


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What is the Deep Impact of Plant Domestication?
Figure 1. Multiple centers and areas of plant domestication arose, although most staple crops are found in the Mediterranean basin and in Asia.
Plant domestication, which led to agriculture, arguably has had among the deepest or most profound impacts on modern societies relative to all other human innovations. Not only did it lead to greater availability of food, allowing societies to grow in population, but it enabled a large labor force to be freed to pursue other specialties. Additionally, technologies related to agriculture, even today, continue to have profound consequences on all societies, for better and worse. Finally, with domestication, the plant's environment has also profoundly changed.
Initial Impact on Societies
Plant domestication was initially thought to have first appeared in the Fertile Crescent, with later societies in the Nile, Yellow River, and Indus valleys also adopting domesticated plants. However, now it has become evident that various societies have independently discovered how to domesticate given plants for food production. These plant staples have included wheat, barley, rice, lintels, beans, millet, corn/maize, and others (Figure 1).[1]
Several results ultimately developed with the domestication of these plants. First, the benefits of plant domestication was to increase food supplies and make them more predictable. Although plants, as they become domesticate, are susceptible to disease and other detrimental results, over time genetics of plants begin to alter. For wheat, barley, and other grains, these developments can take hundreds of years before fully domesticated varieties form. However, once domesticated varieties form, they now require societies to more fully invest in them. This includes removing weeds, providing fertilizer, and harvesting at appropriate times so that yields are not lost. Thus, one of the first major impacts of domesticated plants is how they required societies to be settled, where labor began to focus on the care of grain production and other domesticated plants. Greater dependence on plant domestication ultimately makes societies live in villages, towns, and even cities. This change led to a change in gender roles, often leading to the emphasis of men being more focused on production and creation of food resources, while women became caretakers of the home. Previously, women likely spend much of their time collecting food for human societies. In effect, domestication led to a major cultural evolution and not just a new mode in obtaining food.[2]
The other major development evident in New and Old World societies is the freeing up of labor. While plant domestication can be labor intensive, the greater output of food allows larger populations to form. Most or if not all settled societies show evidence of families becoming larger, where even social norms and systems evolved so that women began having more children. Once labor increased, then more people were able to focus on other activities, including the production of other goods that supported agriculture. Innovations often lead to other innovations to support them. Agriculture led to many secondary innovations that helped to support it. This included new technologies such as plows, the need for mathematics to calculate field areas, and eventually writing became one result in some societies that needed to account for agricultural goods being produced.[3]
While we often see these impacts, particularly as they spread across different agricultural regions, as having beneficial results for societies, the reality is much more mixed. One major result of domesticated agriculture is that the environment has been greatly altered, to the point where scientists today call the period after plant domestication as the Anthropocene, or when human societies began to have major impact on the plant. Plant domestication leads to the need for clearing more land, including burning of fields to fertilize them and clear them. This, already beginning by 10,000 years before present, began to have an impact on societies and even likely global temperatures through the release of carbon dioxide and methane. While we think global warming has been a modern effect of industry, agriculture arguably helped to create the first significant wave of human-induced climate change or at least increased emissions into the atmosphere.[4]
Intensification of Agriculture
Figure 2. Irrigation and other agricultural technologies have led to a scaling up of population and often led to major social change.
After the initial innovation of plant domestication in many parts of the globe between 12,000-5,000 years ago, the next major wave of development occurred in how plant domestication enabled large cities to develop. Initially, plant domestication and agriculture allowed towns and villages to flourish. However, with increased accumulation of agricultural resources by fewer individuals, cities encouraged greater labor migration to them so that people could work in the new economies that had agriculture at their core. This is evident in the place that first had cities, southern Mesopotamia, but also appears to be the case in the Indus and the New Word. In these cases, social inequality in wealth distribution was closely associated with the rise of cities. However, that wealth was based on unequal ownership of agricultural holding. In effect, domestication helped to create our modern economic institutions that also created more wealth inequality across societies.[5]
Technologies also became more complex as the need to feed larger cities developed further after 5000 years ago. Large-scale irrigation networks, spanning hundreds of miles are found in the Old World, were required to intensify agriculture (Figure 2). These irrigation works not only required large labor forces, but they also required larger control of territory. One goal of now a new form of states, that is empires, was to control the food production process, where the control of water resources became paramount in some of the earliest empires from the 3rd millennium BCE to the 1st millennium BCE. This only continued and intensified in later states and empires. Technologies, on the one hand, enabled larger populations to grow, but they also created new social problems, as they required new social adaptation to enable them. In the case of irrigation technologies, intense labor and upkeep of major irrigation works, including canals, qanats, and aqueducts, required an enormous amount of labor but also led to state control of these resources because of their enormous investment required. The power of governments over people's lives subsequently increased as agriculture and irrigation of domesticated plants became ingrained.[6]
Continued Modern Impact
We think of agriculture and plant domestication as an old technology or development. However, as earlier waves of development have shown, with population increase, new needs arise. Over the last two hundred years, human population has grown at unprecedented scales, as modern medicine, another innovation made possible by agriculture, has allowed people to live much longer. The now much higher populations globally led to the drive in the 1960s to develop new types of fertilizers and hybrid and genetically modified plants. The so-called "Green Revolution" was one development that has led to increased productivity. However, just like the innovation of agriculture had negative effects on the environment, Green Revolution fertilizers and production have led to increased water and air pollution. Some of the productivity by Green Revolution innovations have also not proven to be as sustainable, leading to collapses in productivity or an inability by poorer farmers to maintain the high costs associated with agriculture, in particular the need for petroleum and fertilizers.[7]
Genetically modified plants are also another recent development. These have become controversial in places because it is not clear what the long-term impact of these plants might be. Many such modified plants have similar or the same genes. This potentially makes domesticated crops susceptible to plant disease that can kill many plants. If genetics are similar, and there is a lack of genetic diversity, then hunger could be a result of a major crop-killing disease.[8]
Globally, agriculture is a more than 3.0 trillion dollars industry, where domesticated plants makeup a large-bulk of this business. While agriculture has freed up many people for other pursuits, it is also a major employer around the world, we more than a billion people are involved in agriculture in some way.[9]
Few developments have affected our societies, cultural development, and environment as much as agriculture. Plant domestication has not only allowed many of us to pursue other interests, as we are freed from the daily need to forage for food, but it has also meant we have chosen a lifestyle we were not initially evolved to. We have become mostly sedentary societies that have increasingly focused on developing technologies to solve many of our problems and enhance our lives. However, this has also made us vulnerable to environmental damage, all the while global population continues to reach record levels. Nevertheless, all of our major technologies and social developments today would have not been possible without plant domestication. Everything from the way we structure our families, to how we build our homes, and even pass on our possessions to our children is dependent on how agriculture became the dominant lifestyle. Agriculture has made it possible for scientists and others to spend their time on endeavours that would have been unthinkable in our early, mobile societies. Today, it is the ever increasing need to develop new technologies or products to increase productivity of agriculture that continue to drive technical and social change, similar to how plant domestication and agriculture did more than 10,000 years ago.
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↑ For more on the background to plant domestication, see: Spielvogel, J. J. (2015). Western civilization (Ninth edition). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, pg. 6.
↑ For more on the labor involved in agriculture and how that fundamentally changes society, see: Peterson, J. (2002). Sexual revolutions: gender and labor at the dawn of agriculture. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
↑ For more on innovations based on agriculture, see: Mays, L. W. (Ed.). (2010). Ancient water technologies. Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; London ; New York: Springer.
↑ For more on environmental impact of agriculture and plant domestication, see: Balter, M. (2013). Archaeologists Say the "Anthropocene" Is Here--But It Began Long Ago. Science, 340(6130), 261–262. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.340.6130.261
↑ For more on the origins of urbanism and how it was shaped by plant domestication, see: Bridge, G., & Watson, S. (Eds.). (2000). A companion to the city. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass: Blackwell.
↑ For more on the relationship between technology, government, and how this affects people's lives, see: Mollinga, P. P. (1998). On the waterfront: water distribution, technology and agrarian change in a South Indian canal irrigation system.
↑ For more on the Green Revolution, see: Lowe, B. (2009). Green revolution: coming together to care for creation. Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Books.
↑ For more on genetically modified foods, see: Roller, S., & Harlander, S. (1998). Genetic Modification in the Food Industry: a Strategy for Food Quality Improvement. Boston, MA: Springer US.
↑ For more on the modern industry of agriculture, see: Miller, F. P., Vandome, A. F., & McBrewster, J. (2009). Industrial agriculture: factory farming, livestock, aquaculture, agribusiness, monoculture, agroecology, organic farming, urban agriculture. U.S.A.; U.K.; Germany: Alphascript Pub.
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Earning high dollar wins in high profile races last week, two virtuoso drivers were the classes of their fields in a pair of events as dfferent as night and day.
On Wednesday, Danny Johnson dominated the Super DIRTcar Series race at the three-eighths mile dirt Albany-Saratoga (NY) oval by setting a blistering pace that blistered tires. Not his tires, but his competitors'.
On Saturday, Anthony Sesely rebounded from a mid-race spin, and a late-race flat tire. A tangle in front him on the last lap that took out the top two drivers was the bit of luck he needed to win the 'Summer Sizzler' at Wall (NJ) Stadium.
Johnson's win, worth ten grand, was easy. Sesely's, worth half that, was a slam bang affair.
The common thread is the newsworthiness of their winning rides, stellar drives to triumph.
Danny Johnson and Anthony Sesely made news by winning big.


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IntroductionProfessor Michael Porter's (1990) work onCompetitive Advantage of Nations is greatly influential yet tendentious (Daviesand Ellis, 2000) which evoked considerable interest and eager debates that weremet with contrasting views. This essay will find out why so much emphasis wasplaced on the diamond framework by concluding the concept of Porter's Diamondalongside his theory and framework, and lastly the academic criticism thismodel has attracted. Porter'sCompetitive Advantage of NationsPorter's"national diamond" which recognized a set of six factors—factor conditions; demand conditions; relatedand supporting industries; and firmstrategy, structure and rivalry; chanceand government; and cluster (Davies and Ellis, 2000)—is a framework to analyzewhy some nations and industries are more competitive than others (Lynn andWang, 2013). Instead of striving to the become a conqueror in all industriesand eventually exhibiting weakened results, nations can reach globalcompetitiveness by concentrating firstly on the industrial sectors, which offerthe ideal possibility of success (Porter, 1990). Factor ConditionsGodfrey (2015) statesthat factor conditions are the nation's key position in factors of production—skilled labour or infrastructure, requiredto engage in a particular industry. These conditions can additionally be splitinto two groups—basic factors (e.
g. climate,natural resources and location); and advancedfactors (e.g. graduate engineers and, information and communicationsinfrastructure). According to Porter (1990), the outcome of an all-out effortinstead of succeeded by nations are known as advanced factors, and they are themost irreplaceable production factors in today's knowledge economy. Demand ConditionsAccording to Porter (1990), home demand is decided by three keycharacteristics—the toolsthat transport domestic preferencesto foreign markets; their scope and growth rate, and their mixture (mix ofcustomers' needs and wants).
The pace and character of development and transformation by anation's firms can be createdby demand conditions inside a nation. It is the character of the home demand rather than the sizethat makes a difference.Home demand conditions impact the forming of a particular factor conditions and are the key toglobal prosperity. Related and Supporting IndustriesThe existence or absenteeism in the nation ofglobally competitivesupplier and related industriesis a crucial factor. Advantages may be ushered by one globally successful industry to other insupporting or correspondingindustries.
Globally competitive supplier industries in a nation assist firms to recognize new opportunities and techniqueto register advanced technology,frequently through existing coordination instead of just supplying early,efficient, swift and sometimes advantageous entrance to the most cost-effectiveinputs. Firm Strategy, Structure and RivalryFirm strategy, structure and rivalry involvedthe stress onorganizations to innovate and invest, which emerge from aggressivedomestic competitiveness; and a match between the objectives of the workers, managers and ownersand the sources of competitive advantage in a specific industry (Huggins andIzushi, 2011/2012). Geographicconcentration—in Porter's (1990) view, enhances the intensity of domestic competitiveness.
The dispositionof domestic competitiveness and rivalries has an elementary influence on the globalcompetitiveness of a nation's organization. Chance and Government Chance events are discontinuities that permitshifts in competitive position. Unconventional establishments allowed in newplayers who take advantages of the opportunities surfacing from a reshapedindustry framework, which are outside the control of governments and organizations (e.g.
wars, radical innovations, unexpectedoil price rises, and revolutions). Short-term benefits provided throughprotection and subsidies from government intervention only generate an additionalrequest for government aid in the industry. The government has insufficientpower to generate advantages on its own although it can increase the odds of acquiring a competitiveadvantage.
ClusterAccording to Porter (2000), a cluster refers to ageographically proximategroup of affiliated establishments and interconnected corporations in a specific field, connected bycomplementarities and commonnessserving individual segments of an industry. From Porter's view, the fourelements of the Diamond is a coherent productive structure, which is the most efficientand noticeable in acluster (Snowdon and Stonehouse, 2006). Cluster impact competitiveness in various wayswhich boost competitivenessand innovation. Moreefficient access to the workforce, information, and specialized suppliers are permitted through the geographical concentration ofbusinesses. CriticismIn accordance with Michael Porter's work of competitive advantage alongside the'diamond' concept and his thoughts regarding how nations ought to compete, there werevaried responses.Numerous authorshave scrutinized his thesisand disprove a number ofhis ideas.
Porter's diamond model does not includeinternational business activity in the form of multinational enterprises(MNEs). This absence has been criticized by numerous authors, of whom Dunning appears to have best apprehendedthe key ideas.According to (Dunning, 2001),MNEs activities in a nation or business do differ over time, in which it will affectthe elements of the Diamond.
The capabilities of MNEs couldbe affected by the positioning of diamonds of the foreign nations in which theymanufacture, which could ultimately impact the capabilities of the homecountries and competitiveness of the resources (Dunning, 1993). According toDunning, the domestic influences on the diamond should be deemed as only anexceptional case ofthe global influenceswhich is the other way around from Porter's, as he is left with the perceptionthat Porter regards the global influences on the diamond as an 'add-on' to thedomestic influences.Porter's Diamond failedto apprehend that forsmall, open tradingeconomies, theirown home Diamond is less relevant than the Diamond of their target markets, asbusinesses earn most of their revenues outside their home country (Rugmanand D'Cruz, 1993).
As quoted from Brouthers and Brouthers (1997), "theDouble-Diamond and Multiple-Diamond methods of calculating a country'scompetitive advantage are superior to Porter's Single-Diamond method" for smallcountries.Porter claimed that domesticfirms experience a procedure of market share destruction and decrease due tothe lack of ability to safeguard their own markets, in which inbound foreign directinvestment (FDI) does not increase domestic competition exceptionally. However, China's present-daydevelopment deduced that the country's success has been accredited to inward FDI—according to Liuand Song (1997), who adopted Dunning's (1995) extension of the Porter model, which adds 'multinationalbusiness activity' as a factorof competitive advantage. A further disagreement of Porter framework is concerned with his beliefthat outward FDI is an indication of competitive strength in a country's industrywhereas inward investment suggests that 'the procedure of competitiveup-grading is not completely healthy' (CAN, p. 671). Accordingto Reich (1990) and Waverman (1995), the diamond and its four corners are so extensive and sogeneral that it tries to describeall features of competition and trade, and incorporate everything which might contribute to success, but ends up recognizingalmost nothing ofimportance and explaining nothing. In contrary to Porter's theory, the nationstate no longer represents the base for a MNEs or business, and there areno specific grounds on why a multinational require a home base.
Nationalclusters have already evolved into transnational ones—where firms can sourcefactors, seek related and supporting industries, and meet demand and rivalry in"clusters" that cross national borders (Rugman, 1992, 1993). Critics argued that the significance of geographic vicinity mightbe more restrictedthan proposed and has been overemphasized in the model (Penttinen, 1994), partiallydue to thegeographical scale of production which differs amongst industries and is bound to cross national bordersand not fixed (Jacobs,1995). As mentioned by Krugman (1991), it is stated that countries do not compete globally asthey are not like firms, rivalling with competitors in the global market place.Daly (1993), in commonwith Eilon (1990), Gray (1991) and Waverman (1995), adopted the market share illustrationof competitiveness, and has applied export shares as the dependent variable, backingby Porter's own practice. They refute Porter's opinion that wages and exchange rates and are insignificantin the determination of competitiveness and found proof to back up the idea that export shares areaffected by exchange labour costs.
Developing countries can disregard all fourstages illustrated byPorter as they can mimic or bring in the business system and technology which thusfar exists in other developed nations. For an instance, due to the favourable exchangerates policy and low wages, China was able to benefit and gain a cost advantage strategy and expandtheir capacity by managing new products in their home country. ConclusionTo conclude, the six attributes of Porter'sDiamond either obstruct or promote the forming of competitive advantages of nations,firms and clusters. All conditions need to be existent and beneficial for anindustry within a country to achieve global dominance. Developments in nationaleconomies have a very powerful impact on a firms' competitiveness, and there isno competitive national economy without competitive firms, there is very littleconnection between the two (economics and firms) lines of research (Chikan,2008). According to Krugman (1994), countries, however, "do not go out of business", whichmakes the whole idea of national competitiveness "elusive". The obsessionwith competitiveness is both undesirable and dangerous, and competitiveness isan insignificant word when administered to national economies. ReferencesA.
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Kane Brown Making Grand Ole Opry Debut During TV Special
Cillea Houghton
Cillea Houghton Published: February 6, 2021
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Making your Grand Ole Opry debut is special for any artist, and Kane Brown is marking that country music milestone in a unique way.
The upcoming special Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of Country Music not only highlights memorable moments in the venue's more than 90-year history, it also marks Brown's official Opry debut. Additionally, Darius Rucker surprised Lady A with an invitation to join the Opry while taping their rendition of "Forever and Ever, Amen" for the show.
Blake Shelton and Brad Paisley, who are celebrating their 10 and 20 year anniversaries as Opry members, respectively, will co-host the special, which is a retrospective of the hallowed hall's history and features an all-star performance lineup including Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, Trisha Yearwood, Rucker, Shelton, Paisley and more.
In addition to Lady A's cover of the Randy Travis classic, Kelsea Ballerini will deliver Alison Krauss' "When You Say Nothing at All," while Dierks Bentley and newly inducted Country Music Hall of Fame member Marty Stuart unite on Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson's 1983 hit "Pancho & Lefty." Alongside the performances, the special will also showcase archival footage, interviews with Opry members and more.
"This special is going to capture so much of what makes the Opry a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. 10-year Opry member Blake and 20-year member Brad guide us through a powerful Opry debut, an Opry membership invitation given to one of country's most awarded vocal groups, performances of some of today's chart-topping hits and timeless songs that have rung out from the Opry stage for decades, and a look back at cherished members of the Opry family and musical moments that have come to define the Opry we know today," Opry Vice President and Executive Producer Dan Rogers previews in a press release.
Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of Country Music airs on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 9PM ET on NBC.
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