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Q: Emitter follower regulator with sziklai pair, transistor heating up! I have a wireless chip esp8266 that requires input voltage of 3.3V and can draw current up to 500mA.
Unfontunately at the moment I don't have any 3.3v regulator IC's or buck converters or any 3.3v voltage source, so as a temporary measure (until my ordered stuff arrive from China) I made the following design using voltage divider to limit output voltage and sziklai pair to boost the current output:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Now I'm using a bunch of LED's in parallel with 100ohm resistors as the testing load, and by drawing only 40mA the PNP transistor started to heat up considerably and I'm worried it would blow up if i draw more than a 100, also I'm concerned that the increased temperature might change the output voltage considerably due to decrease VBE according to Ebers-Moll module.
The 2N3906 datasheet says that the max Ic current is -200mA, so why is it heating up at 40? and also I need more than the double of that to drive the wifi chip.
What can I do to fix these problems and make a stable voltage source with 0.5A output?

A: You have a load where you want \$3.3V_{DC}\$ and a compliance current of up to \$500mA\$. The design is linear and sources its power from a \$12V_{DC}\$ supply. It's not clear to me (because I may have missed reading it, or for other reasons) if this is a lead acid battery operating in a car or a laboratory power supply on a bench. You have some questions about \$V_{BE}\$ as a function of temperature and its impact on the circuit you are considering. You have a all-too-hot PNP BJT. You have BJTs, no MOSFETs. You are currently using a resistor divider to set your output voltage.
Let me start by just thinking out loud about the design you already show. \$Q_2\$ will be sourcing most of the current. Luckily, it's not operating saturated, as \$V_{CE} > 1V\$. So you can expect \$\beta \ge 50\$ for the PNP and a reasonable base current. Unluckily, it's not operating saturated, with \$V_{CE} > 8V\$, so its dissipating like crazy -- likely at more than 4W. That's probably more than a TO220 package will well do into air. So that's a problem identified. Remember it for later. \$Q_1\$ is just providing base current to \$Q_2\$. That's likely to be \$I_{C_{Q1}} < 10mA\$. And luckily, \$Q_1\$ is also not operating saturated, so once again you can expect \$\beta \ge 80\$ for the NPN and a very reasonable base current that is probably \$I_{B_{Q_1}} \le 150\mu A\$. Not a bad load current drawn away from something setting the voltage (resistor divider.) But this does reflect on your resistor divider, if you intend on keeping it, in terms of stiffness and you need to carefully consider the implications. (You could also consider a zener here, of course. But I'll stick with your resistor divider.)
So let's pencil out a design and ignore heating problems for now. You'd do something like this:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Well, there's a rough idea. You can see a lot of power in the PNP BJT.
Now, you don't actually have to burn off all that power in the PNP. You can distribute it somewhere else, if you want. It does have to be burned somewhere. But you can insert a resistor. It turns out that an easy place would be in the collector leg of the PNP (the \$V_{CE_{Q_1}}\$ stays the same then.) That PNP only needs about \$2V \le V_{CE} \le 4V\$ in order to keep both itself and the NPN out of saturation. And a TO220 package probably can dissipate 2W into air. So let's split the difference and figure \$V_{CE_{Q_2}} = 3V\$, so that \$Q_2\$ is burning only 1.5W or so, and shove the rest into some other resistor.
The new schematic looks like this:

simulate this circuit
\$R_3\$ will dissipate about \$3W\$, worst case. (The above circuit is really targeted for a maximum of \$485mA\$, but I figured you would be okay with that in order to get a standard resistor value there.) \$Q_2\$, as predicted, will be about \$1.5W\$.
If the current is, let's say, \$250mA\$, then what happens? Well, the PNP BJT will stretch out its collector and will have to drop another \$3V\$, for a total of about \$6V\$. But the current is now only \$250mA\$, too. So it will still dissipate about \$1.5W\$. The resistor will reduce its dissipation, though.
In either case, you can get away with a small signal NPN. You just need to get a TO220 packaged PNP and these are fairly cheap and easy to get.
Regulation isn't all that good, still. We did, after all, allow \$200mV\$ range for the divider in the calculations. You could go even stiffer for the resistor divider. But another approach would be to use a zener. (Of an appropriate value.)
Where did I get the 4.025V node value for the divider?? Well, the NPN BJT is a small signal device. Stuck in my head is that they have \$V_{BE} = 0.7V\$ when \$I_C = 4mA\$. So I figured \$3.3V + V_{BE} = 3.3V + 700mV + 60mV\cdot log10(\frac{10mA}{4mA}) = 4.025V\$ and that's where the number came from.

A: R2 should be a 3V9 zener or voltage reference because your 12V battery is nominally 12V but it could be say    14.4V  while on charge or say 11.5V while stationary if the wiring is droopy.The proposed Zener improves your LINE regulation.The transistor is getting hot due to power dissipation .This power dissipation is common to all linear regulators.Use a gruntier PNP transistor like a BD140 on a heatsink .If your overheating transistor fails it will probably go short circuit taking out all your 3v3 digital stuff .If you place a resistor of say 6R8 5W   in the emmitter of the PNP transistor you will get some some short circuit protection making the system more idiot proof.

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The 2N3906 datasheet says that the max Ic current is -200mA, so why is
  it heating up at 40? and also I need more than the double of that to
  drive the wifi chip.

Short answer:
The heating is due to power dissipated by the transistor which is the product of the voltage across and current through:
$$V_{EC2} = (12 - 3.3)\mathrm{V} = 8.7\mathrm{V} $$
$$I_{C2} = 40\mathrm{mA}$$
$$P_{Q2} \approx 8.7\mathrm{V} \cdot 40 \mathrm{mA} = 348 \mathrm{mW}$$
That's not insignificant.  Further, according to the 2N3906 datasheet, the maximum dissipation is \$625\mathrm{mW}\$

and so, you're over halfway there at \$40\mathrm{mA}\$.


 Off-Grid Hydro Power: Too Much Power!
This off-grid hydro power system has a major problem; too much power. Jeff has stumbled upon a small clan of off-grid homeschoolers and discovers that their power system is a major source of angst.
Their stream engine produces around 1200-1300 Watts continuously and their load controller must get rid of any excess power by dumping the power into a hot water tank. Image the struggle to use copious amounts of hot water!


BETHESDA, Md., May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) ("AGNC" or the "Company") announced today its estimated net book value of $25.12 per share of common stock as of April 30, 2015. The estimated net book value of $25.12 was calculated after deducting the Company's April 2015 dividend of $0.22 per common share and May 2015 dividend of $0.20 per common share, which were declared on April 13, 2015 and April 27, 2015, respectively, to common stockholders of record as of April 30, 2015 and May 29, 2015, respectively. The Company's estimated net book value per common share as of April 30, 2015 would be $25.32 after deducting only the April 2015 common stock dividend, and not the May 2015 common stock dividend, which was declared one month early.
The estimated net book value per common share is the Company's total estimated stockholders' equity, less the preferred stock liquidation preference, divided by the number of common shares outstanding as of period end. The estimated net book value per common share is unaudited and has not been verified or reviewed by any third party. The Company's current net book value may also be materially different from its estimated net book value as of April 30, 2015. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise its estimated net book value.


Rescue Pink had our second meeting on Monday with the women in the business training course in Medak. ALL the women returned this week, even after explaining to them last week they would need to attend every week for a year and it would be three months of classes at least before they received their loans, and they had to complete all of their homework assignments. We are so happy to hear this news! The women had a great time.
Their homework to bring to class this week was for each woman to present the businesses that were currently in their area and businesses that they believed were needed in their area. They were taught the importance of having hope and building a vision and were taught the process of our lending program.
Each week the ladies study a good character trait for business owners. This week they studied about being trustworthy. Lalitha and Sangetha led them in a trust fall.
See the woman on the chair and the other lady is there to catch her. Part of the micro lending process is that the women are loaned money in lending circles.They each have their own business and their own loan, but they are responsible to each other in groups of 5-10. If someone in your group doesn't repay their loan, then the rest of the group is responsible. This builds peer pressure to succeed, but also accountability and a great support system. Most importantly it facilitates community and helping one another when the other is down.
Another exercise in the lesson of hope (which is the main focus of what we do in this whole training and micro-lending process)...the women took a sheet of paper and on one half they were to draw something to them that expressed hopelessness and the other side a drawing of something hopeful. Some women drew happy faces and sad faces. One woman drew a man's face for feeling hopeful and a woman's face for hopeless. We know this view of hers is about to change! We are excited to watch her and all these ladies in that process.
The ladies had a great time, many of them have never been to school so drawing on paper with pencils and crayons was a first for them!
Afterwards each woman presented their drawings to the class as they discussed it together. Overall it was a great session.
Next week they come back with their homework where they explain about their big hope for their business.
Be thinking about them this week as they are dreaming and thinking, and as that tiny seed of hope is planted.
Thank you for helping plant hope!


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New story details erupt on that upcoming God of War feature film
Jeff Spry
Tag: god of war
Tag: Kratos
Tag: video games
Last month, we gave you word on Universal's and Atlas Entertainment's big-screen plans for Kratos and crew. Screenwriters Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton chime in with an update on the script and the Greek word is good.
In an interview with IGN, the Piranha 3DD and Saw franchise writing duo delved into the adapted screenplay's structural plan and the mortal origins of the Kratos character:
"In the same way that Batman was grounded with Christopher Nolan's rendition, we were attempting to do that with Kratos," they said. "So that when we meet him -- like they're doing in this newest game, which is sort of a prequel to the original -- we're seeing him before he became the Ghost of Sparta, when he was just a Spartan warrior and he had family and kids.
"In the game...there's that attack from the barbarians and Kratos has to call upon Ares to help him. Really, that's going to be our first act break. Before then, he's going to be mortal, and he's going to have his family. We're going to learn about him and understand how he operates. So it's potentially 30 minutes -- give or take -- of building up this character so that, when he does turn and becomes the Ghost of Sparta, we understand him as a human and we understand the journey that he's going to take. We're emotionally invested, so that it could go beyond just this one movie."
Ares, the major antagonist, will also evolve into a greater, more proactive presence in their story.
"In the game, you know, he's immortal, and he doesn't really do much besides raid Athens. ... So we're trying to build him up a bit more so that he can become a true villain."
So, think the Saw scribes can wrestle this monstrous mythology and deliver a decent God of War draft? Or does their top-heavy resume just not make the cut for you?
(via You Bent My Wookie)

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Members of DanceSyndrome were delighted to give The Mayor of Preston a sneak preview of two of their new performances ahead of Edinburgh Fringe.
Coun Trevor Hart was invited to UCLan Media Factory for an exclusive howing of their new Edinburgh Fringe performance piece Lit aDrift. He was also impressed when he watched their dance development rehearsals at Plungington Community Centre.
A total of 15 disabled and non-disabled dancers will be performing at the Fringe next month.


Apprenticeship Standard Update A new Apprent-kit to help learners undertaking the new level 2 apprenticeship standard for healthcare support worker is being launched by Highfield Products.
Developed to support learners through a number of different delivery models – whether that's direct delivery, distance learning or blended learning – the Apprenticeship Standard (Level 2) Healthcare Support Worker comes complete with everything needed to help learners, employers and tutors throughout the apprenticeship journey.
The Apprenticeship Standard (Level 2) Healthcare Support Worker is available for pre-order now. Just contact Highfield on either 0845 226 0350/01302 363277 or sales@highfield.co.uk.
For further information on how Highfield Assessment performs against its competitors, please visit here.
Healthcare employers looking to make the most of the new apprenticeship levy will have help on hand from one of the UK's leading awarding organisations.
Highfield Qualifications has been approved by the government to provide end-point assessment (EPA) services for the new healthcare assistant practitioner, healthcare support worker and senior healthcare support worker standards – which are currently being introduced throughout the sector – and will be offering healthcare employers a full range of support services to make the most of their potential apprenticeship levy payments.
The changes are some of the biggest ever to training in the UK, and will see new apprenticeship standards use EPAs instead of continuous assessment, meaning individual apprentices will have their work and competence assessed towards the end of their learning against criteria established by healthcare employers.
There has also been the introduction of the apprenticeship levy from May 2017, with larger employers paying into a central fund that must be used for apprenticeship training, while smaller employers will see 90 per cent of their costs covered by the government.
Chris Sprenger, Highfield MD, said, 'With our recognition by the government as an apprentice assessment organisation (AAO), Highfield is in a position to provide specific assessment services for those organisations already taking on healthcare apprentices.
We can also offer consultancy and advice to any organisation still trying understand the changes and make the most of them – whether they are looking to take on apprentices for the first time, wanting to have their existing in-house training recognised, or searching for services and resources to ensure they claim the full share of their funding entitlement'.
He added, 'Apprenticeships are great for businesses and can provide a welcome boost to staff development and productivity when it is most needed, but it's vital that organisations understand from day one how to make sure the changes are of benefit to them and their employees'.
Highfield's apprenticeship services are being offered through its Highfield Assessment brand. To see how Highfield Assessment stacks up to its competitors, simply visit here.
You can also contact Highfield at info@highfieldassessment.com or by calling 0845 2260350.
Highfield Qualifications has been approved by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) as an apprentice assessment organisation (AAO) for the provision of end-point assessment services for the healthcare assistant practitioner, healthcare support worker and senior healthcare support worker standards. Highfield's apprenticeship services are delivered through its Highfield Assessment brand.
Highfield Qualifications is one of the UK's top five awarding organisations (AOs) and winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2016, offering over 250 qualifications covering a wide variety of industries including retail, health and social care, rail, food safety, security, catering and hospitality, and logistics.


Show your appreciation for the man from Argentina who has lit up world football. this junior's Messi Icon t-shirt from adidas is an eye-catching way of showing your support for the footballing legend. In a lime and white colourway. with Messi's number 10 to the front and his name and number to the back in fluid brush stroke patterning. reflecting Messi's freeflowing. smooth playing on the ptich.


An original Victorian carved surround in statutory marble. Carved detailing beneath the shelf depicts narcissi and sunflower head motifs. A leaf surmounts the jamb on either side and a claw design rests upon the block ends.


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Q: Error: ORA-00925: missing INTO keyword] { errorNum: 925, offset: 6 } i've query for insert if exist :
 MERGE TB_M_USER i USING ('TEST' as user_id, 'tes' as USER_NAME) d ON
 d.user_id = i.USER_ID WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT INTO (USER_ID,
 USER_NAME)  VALUES (d.user_id, d.USER_NAME)

but i got error:

[Error: ORA-00925: missing INTO keyword] { errorNum: 925, offset: 6 }

even though I have added INSERT INTO to the query before

A: It usually helps if you don't invent your own syntax, but follow the official one.
MERGE INTO tb_m_user i
     USING (SELECT 'TEST' AS user_id, 'tes' AS user_name FROM DUAL) d
        ON (d.user_id = i.user_id)
WHEN NOT MATCHED
THEN
   INSERT     (user_id, user_name)
       VALUES (d.user_id, d.user_name);

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WHAT SICK MAN SENDS BABIES TO FIGHT ME???
I have a professional sound recording setup for voice work, and also retain a bit of notoriety for my voice acting. I'd love to know how I could get in contact with Sir Loin if they are at all interested in a demo reel - all volunteer, of course. When I say professional, I mean cradle-to-grave including mastering.


When you stay at Best Western Premier - Prestige Oceanfront Resort in Sooke, you'll be connected to the convention center and convenient to District of Sooke Municipal Hall and Sooke Region Museum. This eco-friendly hotel is within the region of Tugwell Creek Honey Farm and Meadery and Mercurio Gallery.
Make yourself at home in one of the 122 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring refrigerators and plasma televisions. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed, and all rooms are furnished with double sofa beds. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while iPod docking stations and cable programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and rainfall showerheads.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, including an indoor pool, a spa tub, and a 24-hour fitness center. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access and wedding services.
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and a computer station. Planning an event in Sooke? This hotel has 14174 square feet (1276 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center, conference space, and meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Bassel Baaklini wasn't happy about the state of waste and waste disposal in Lebanon. "Each year we generate over 1.5 million tons of garbage," he notes, adding that the country's population grows and landfills are becoming scarce making the need to deal with the ever growing quantities of garbage more critical.
"In 2010, Contra International Waste Management Team developed ZERO WASTE ACT® within the Lebanese institutions to address Lebanon's solid waste disposal dilemma and lessen the demand upon our natural resources," Baaklini says of his initiative.
He highlights that by doing so, ZWA promoted an integrated waste management hierarchy emphasizing on the three conventional R's – Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle – but also introducing another set of R's; Respect, Responsibility, and Recognition.
"The centerpiece of ZWA is a country-wide coordinated effort to divert waste streams away from landfills and towards waste processing plants," he notes.
ZWA's targets vary from private schools and universities, to the corporate sector, and the municipalities. "The initiative established a comprehensive and carefully coordinated approach to waste management. That approach recognizes the importance and interrelationship of all parties while encouraging the development of new waste management technologies," Baaklini remarks.
According to the Lebanese entrepreneur, ZWA started in schools in an attempt to create respectful and responsible citizens. "As the students grow up, they get more and more familiar with their own problem which is managing waste," he explains.
"Going to university, and later at work, they carry all that they learnt and apply it in their daily life. So waste management becomes their new way of life rather than it being an obligation," Baaklini adds. At its inception, ZWA had an audience of one million students and teachers which grew exponentially to over 2.5 million citizens, residents, and refugees. The waste diverted from the landfills is processed and then sold to plants as raw materials.
Mainly located in Badaro, Beirut, ZWA also has satellite facilities in Sin el Fil and Jbeil. And, despite the financial hardship, Baaklini and his team are still going for they are strong believers in their cause. "Every penny spent on acquiring assets, equipment, real estate or human resources was out of our own pockets," he says.
The fundamental purpose of ZWA is to serve as a catalyst for generating practical ideas in waste management based on what is feasible without too much intrusion on time and budget," Baaklini says of reaching out to the public.
Amongst the many ways ZWA spreads its values and vision, they go on in TV and radio shows, print material, social media. "It does not necessarily mean that people practice what we preach immediately though. That is why, our yearly events like "Eco-Challenge" and "Art Waste Contest" act as catalysts in spreading the idea of good and clean citizens," Baaklini adds.
Follow ZWA on Facebook or their website.


What Day Of The Week Was October 20, 1992?
October 20, 1992 was the 294th day of the year 1992 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 72 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.
A person born on this day will be 26 years old today. If that same person saved a Quarter every day starting at age 4, then by now that person has accumulated $2,054.75 today.
Here's the October 1992 calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1992 calendar.
Who was born on October 20, 1992?


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I came through a big cereal box only after I made cereal box baskets for easter. For a moment I sighed thinking I would have made a big basket instead of a smaller one but then I remembered one of my friend in our community center got a bunch of jewelry from India to sell and she had displayed them in just a plain cardboard piece at the office room . There was a lot of jewelry remaining to display so I thought why not a jewelry display from this big cereal box.I was always amazed by the rotating displays at store and I thought it would be interesting if I made it as a rotating display. So I decided to use some found recyclable items at home to make this Jewelry display. Wanna know how? Let's see.
Cut the top part of the cereal box and cover the whole box with contact paper.
Take the paper towel roll and trace it in the bottom center of the cereal box and cut it out using craft knife.
Now cut a cardboard piece which is bigger than the empty painter's tape roll. Use E6000 and glue one end of roll to the cardboard piece.
Fill the paper roll with some weight. I used stones here. Cover the top with any desired scrap book paper of your choice. Also cover the entire paper roll and cardboard piece using scrapbook paper and Mod Podge. I used silver washi tape and covered the paper roll. But it is your choice to cover/mask them with whatever you have in hand. You can also use paint.It is totally up to you. I also covered the painter's tape roll in scrapbook paper. If you don't have any empty cardboard roll like the one used here, you can cut a long piece of cardboard and glue it or you can also use bigger diameter pvc pipe for this purpose.
Now glue the painter's tape roll on to the cardboard base.Allow it to dry. Take the cereal box and insert it into the paper roll . You now have a rotating box around the paper roll.
As this display is going to be in a public setting, I wanted to close the top part of the jewelry display so that it is safe and can also be used as storage for extra jewelry items. For this, use any extra cereal box or any box of that kind and make a top lid measuring the length and width. Cover it with contact paper and glue it to the box. Use binder clip to secure the lid to the box till the glue dries.
Based on the purpose and kind of jewelry you are going to display, you can customize this box. I will share ideas for storing/displaying each type of jewelry, based on that you can DIY and complete the jewelry storage.
For Earrings: This display is used mostly for earrings, so I measured and marked the areas and poked holes using push pins for the earrings. I planned in such a way that the stud type of earrings goes on top as it needs to be secured on the other side and the hanging types on the bottom.
Take a piece of vinyl( or fold clear tape/duct tape if you don't have vinyl) and cover one side with a piece of same contact paper you used to cover the cereal box. Now take another side and stick it on a piece of velcro(Loop side) halfway and stick the velcro to the cereal box. Stick another piece of velcro(hook side) to the contact paper side of the vinyl to form a loop. You can now add any circular form of jewelry to these loop for storage/display. You can also see how these loop hold watches too. You can also use them for bracelets or metal cuffs kind of jewelry.
This is as simple as that. Use command hooks to hang necklaces and bracelets. Instead of command strips, I used glue dots to stick them to the cereal box. You can also spray paint the hooks to match the contact paper you are using.
This is how the inside of the box looks after storing the extra jewelry and once the earrings are hung.
Hope you like this nifty idea of making a jewelry storage/display using the things lying around your house. This display is great even for your vanity or closet. So do try it an d let me know how it turned out. I have also attached a short clip of how the rotating feature works.
If you like this instructable, please vote for me and for more DIYs like this, visit www.vikalpah.com.


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Q: Pandas: Insert a missing weekday (not based on dates) and populate it with zeros I am working on a dataframe as follows and I am trying to insert the missing weekday and populate the corresponding bin values to zeros.

Problem is I am not working with dates as such, so I don't have the date information apart from this table.
My code:
pivoted = df.pivot(index=['id', 'day_of_week'], columns='bin', values='freq')
pivoted = pivoted.fillna(0)

I am trying to add 'Monday' and set the corresponding bins to zeros but wondering how to proceed. Is there a way to do this?

A: You can reindex your output to add back any missing days and at the same time sort the days too.
It looks like the output of your pivot table yields a multi-index, so we'll need to use pd.MultiIndex.from_product
pivoted.reindex(pd.MultiIndex.from_product([
                    pivoted.index.levels[0],
                    ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday']]),
                fill_value=0)


Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
McConnell is a contemporary poet who, in this work, imagines receiving relationship advice from the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who, as we know, faced her own set of romantic upheavals—she counted Diego Rivera, Isamu Noguchi, and Josephine Baker among her lovers. But despite the specificity of its title, this poem could just as well have been written for any woman who has ever left a relationship behind in order to open herself up to better, truer possibilities. A good reminder to us all—whether we're years beyond our last break-up, or still freshly reeling.


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More Rioting Erupts at Jails
By Megan Garvey and David Pierson
Nearly 500 inmates fought Wednesday in racially charged melees at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, marking a fifth day of violence in the Los Angeles County jail system and underscoring officials' inability to stop unrest tied to street conflicts between Latino and black gangs.
The toll in recent days has been high: one dead, at least 28 hospitalized and nearly 90 injured in rioting in the nation's largest jail system.
12:00 a.m. Feb. 10, 2006 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Friday February 10, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 3 inches; 104 words Type of Material: Correction
Jail riots -- An article in Thursday's Section A about rioting at Los Angeles County jails said that sheriff's officials had been forced to transfer 1,000 inmates from the East Facility of the Pitchess Detention Center to the center's North Facility. The inmates were transferred to the nearby North County Correctional Facility. The article also said that the North Facility population had grown from 3,500 to 4,100 medium-high to high-security-risk inmates. That population increase occurred at the North County Correctional Facility. Also, the article said that more than 1,000 Pitchess inmates had been involved in fights through Wednesday. The actual number is about 2,800.
More than 1,000 inmates at Pitchess have taken part in the disturbances, throwing bunk beds from balconies and using their fists and legs to fight each other, officials said.
Fights during the day Wednesday injured 19 inmates. Four were sent to hospitals, one with a serious head injury.
Another fight occurred late Wednesday, resulting in superficial injuries to a few inmates, authorities said. Order was quickly restored and the facility was locked down, said Sheriff's Deputy Oscar Butao. As a precaution, he said, all of the county's other jails also were locked down.
The large-scale racial fighting spread Wednesday to at least one other county facility: Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, where 40 inmates battled, injuring 10 and sending four to hospitals, according to a Sheriff's Department document. Deputies used pepper balls to break up that fight.
The unrest has festered despite lockdowns and emergency racial segregation in large part because the system's available beds require nearly all inmates to live in dormitory-style housing, officials said. With only about 1,000 single cells available in a system that houses 21,000 people, jailers said, even in times of crisis it is impossible to separate all inmates.
The facilities nearly all predate the explosion of gang-related crime in Los Angeles County and are ill-equipped to handle increasingly violent inmates, officials said.
"Now we're in essence a mini state prison," said Sgt. Mark McCorkle, an aide to Sammy Jones, chief of the sheriff's Custody Division. "It's no longer the drunk drivers and the misdemeanors and the petty thieves. The type of inmate we house is typically a hard-core felon, and an increased number of those have a desire to make their [reputations] before going on to state prison, and that often breaks down to racial attacks."
Though racial tensions have always been high in the county jail system, officials said, in recent years the domination of Latino gangs has shifted the jail power structure and left African Americans particularly vulnerable to attacks.
Because of demographic shifts in the county, officials said, Latinos outnumber blacks in the dormitories, which legally cannot be segregated along racial lines except in emergencies.
The inmate who was seriously injured Wednesday at Pitchess was black, officials said.
So was the prisoner beaten to death Saturday at Pitchess' North County Correctional Facility. Wayne Tiznor, 45, was a convicted rapist in jail on a parole violation for failing to register as a sex offender. .
Investigators traced Saturday's riot to Mexican Mafia prison gang leaders, who they say greenlighted Latino jail inmates to attack blacks. The riot was planned as retaliation for an attack on one of their associates that they said was committed by a black gang member in Los Angeles, said Chief Marc Klugman, head of the sheriff's Correctional Services Division.
The recent organized attacks by Latinos on blacks in county jails reflect long-standing racial conflicts made worse by interracial street battles that were rare until the early 1990s.
The change in street culture was originally driven by the prisons, with Mexican Mafia prison leaders ordering Latino gang members on the outside to take over black-controlled neighborhoods and drug trade, said Wes McBride, a Sheriff's Department gang investigator for many years and now president of the California Gang Investigators Assn.
The direct ties between street conflicts and racial tensions in the jail are difficult to combat, given the ever-changing jail population, which includes a wide range of offenders, from petty criminals to homicide suspects, awaiting trial, officials said.
Jail officials said racial allegiances in the jails have long taken precedence over street gang ties -- with a strict code among Latinos and blacks to defend their own, regardless of whether they would be rival gang members on the outside.
Still, jail officials said that when inmates are segregated along racial lines in emergency situations, their intra-racial street rivalries and gang affiliations reemerge quickly -- something that occurred among segregated inmates in recent days at North County Correctional Facility at Pitchess.
The recent riots and fights took place although jail officials had intelligence, which they took seriously, indicating that Latino-on-black racial violence was brewing at Pitchess. Officials at the complex said Saturday's riot occurred only an hour after an emergency response team had checked the dormitories for anything out of the ordinary.
"They out-waited us," said Capt. Ray Leyva, who runs the North Facility. Unrest continued over the next few days. More than 80 inmates rioted Monday in Leyva's building, leaving one prisoner with minor injuries.
"I had deputies dressed in riot gear standing outside the door, and that didn't stop them," he said. "I could have had a deputy in front of every dorm and that wouldn't have stopped them."
The rolling fights that broke out Wednesday at the East Facility at Pitchess occurred in the span of about an hour in four separate dormitories that house racially mixed inmates.
Despite going to lockdown after deputies used tear gas and sting balls to stop 120 inmates from battling in the first fight, which started about 12:15 p.m., racial altercations soon broke out among hundreds of other prisoners in other parts of the building, officials said.
With so many problems in recent days, area rescue personnel said, they were not surprised to be called back again.
"It is like we are expecting it every day now," said Doug LaCount, a Los Angeles County fire captain at a station near Pitchess.
He said that although the inmates undergoing treatment have been cooperative with rescue personnel, concerns remain about patients fighting other patients.
Until Wednesday, the East Facility, which normally houses about 2,000 medium-high- and high-security-risk inmates, had not been the site of any of the recent rioting. In fact, on Friday a water main break that left part of the facility without working toilets, showers or drinking water had forced the transfer of 1,000 inmates from there to the nearby North Facility.
The prisoners were moved although officials believed that a racial attack was being planned by Latino gang members against blacks.
Officials said they had no choice but to relocate the men. McCorkle said the transfer meant that the North Facility's population had grown from 3,500 to about 4,100 medium-high- to high-security-risk inmates at the time of Saturday's rioting.
But officials said that given staffing shortages and available beds, they had no choice but to move those inmates to the nearby facilities, despite concerns about violence at the complex.
This week, Sheriff Lee Baca said he will begin using Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles to hold "level eight and nine" inmates -- the most violent rankings of prisoners in the jail system -- next month.
Baca had said that until now he could not afford to house violent inmates at Twin Towers because of higher personnel costs.
The state-of-the-art building was designed to handle the most violent inmates, but has been used instead for female offenders and prisoners with mental health problems since partially opening in the late 1990s.
County Supervisor Mike Antonovich said Wednesday that he and other supervisors have warned for years that keeping women in Twin Towers while placing dangerous felons in dormitories at Pitchess would lead to increased violence in the jails.
Times staff writers Sam Quinones, Sharon Bernstein, Richard Winton and Stuart Pfeifer contributed to this report.
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Soma Gold Announces Financial Results for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2020
REVENUE OF $11.1 MILLION, NET PROFIT OF $668,000 AND ADJUSTED EBITDA(1) OF $3.5 MILLION FOR THE QUARTER
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 25, 2020 /CNW/ - Soma Gold Corp. (formerly Para Resources Inc.) (the "Company" or "Soma") (TSXV: SOMA) (WKN: A2P4DU) (OTC: PRSRF) is pleased to announce that the Company has produced its first quarterly net profit.
Highlights of the Three and Nine Months to September 30, 2020
Tons mined in quarter of 33,267 tons against plan of 38,064 tons and Tons milled of 36,920 tons against plan of 37,141 tons
Revenue of $11,056,402 made up of quarterly gold sales of 4,427 ounces at an average price of US$1,874 per ounce against the 2020 forecast of 3,530 ounces at an average price of US$1,400 per ounce.
Net income for the quarter of $667,691
Adjusted EBITDA(1) for the quarter of $3,499,849
2,957 meters of diamond drilling to expand the resource
Working capital swung from negative $8,043,792 as at December 31, 2019 to positive $648,143 at the end of Q3
Cash at the end of the quarter of $4.8 million
The full Q3 Financial Statements and Management Discussion and Analysis are available on SEDAR via the following link: https://bit.ly/3nVdVXv
Geoff Hampson, Soma's Executive Chairman, states, "It is very gratifying to see that the acquisition of Operadora, which was completed in June of 2020, has performed better than anticipated. The purchase price of US $5.5 million now represents approximately six months of current Adjusted EBITDA(1), and production numbers continue to improve. We expect that trend to continue into 2021 and 2022 as the operations move into a higher-grade zone in the mine."
The Company also announces that it has finalized and signed a new Union Agreement at its Operadora operation in El Bagre, Colombia. The current contract was set to expire at the end of 2020 and has now been extended for 2 years. The highlights of the renewal are as follows:
Transportation bonus
50% SOAT coverage (Required by law transit insurance)
Bonus for employees laboring December 24th, 25th, 30th and January 1st.
15 scholarships for COP$2,000,000 (US$550.00) each to be assigned.
Medical copayment fee recognition for medical appointments.
Javier Cordova, Soma's President and CEO, states, "We are very pleased to have resolved all issues to the mutual benefit of our employees and the Company. The Union and the Company negotiated in good faith and transparency, establishing trust and respect. The Company looks forward to continuing a good relationship with its employees' union."
Refer to the Non-IFRS Financial Performance Measures disclosure included in the Company's MD&A for a description and calculation of these measures.
ABOUT SOMA GOLD:
Soma is a junior gold mining and exploration company. The Company owns two adjacent mining properties in Antioquia, Colombia, with a combined milling capacity of 675 tpd. The El Bagre mine is currently operating and producing, and the El Limon mine and mill are scheduled to begin operating in Q1 2021. Internally generated funds will be used to finance a regional exploration program.
The Company also owns an exploration and development property near Tucuma, Para State, Brazil.
"Javier Cordova Unda"
All statements, analysis and other information contained in this press release about anticipated future events or results constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "expect" and "intend" and statements that an event or result "may", "will", "should", "could" or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are subject to business and economic risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results of operations to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and opinions of management at the date the statements are made. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements even if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable laws. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Soma Gold Corp.
Company Codes: Frankfurt:8PR1, OTC-PINK:PRSRF, TorontoVE:SOMA


The Global Small Business Blog: Dollar Rally?
Currency war? Dollar rally? Need for more U.S. economic stimulus? You decide.
The dollar hit fresh lows against several currencies Thursday, raising pressure on global leaders to address worsening tensions among countries vying to keep their currencies weak and exports competitive.
The US needs to create about 200,000 jobs a month in order to keep up with population growth, let alone bring down the unemployment rate, and the weakness of the labour market since the spring has been one of the most troubling signs that the economic recovery has hit a soft patch.


Acclaimed rawhide braider Vince Donley grew up in Ohio, which may seem a strange place to develop a love of custom cowboy gear. However, his father (also from Ohio) had spent some time cowboyin' around the West before being drafted for Korea. Thankfully, he returned home to Ohio, but didn't make it back out West again. Apparently, no matter how short-lived it was, the lifestyle was in the blood enough for Vince to inherit a cowboy bone.
During his cowboyin' days, Donley's father had been around guys that did custom braiding and bought young Vince a book by the renowned braider, Bruce Grant. That one gesture was all it took. Vince started teaching himself to braid rawhide at 14 years old.
"I was interested in horses. We had some saddle horses around, but I was the only one interested in being a cowboy," Donley said, adding that his brothers didn't cowboy at all.
That interest eventually took Donley out West as well, where he also did some cowboyin', and naturally, he made his own good rawhide gear. By the 1970s, he and wife Judy had moved to the Sheridan, Wyo., area and lived there until they moved to Parkman, Wyo., about seven years ago. Most of that time, Donley worked construction and focused on braiding during the winter layoffs. But as of 1997, he's made a full time living at it and works out of the house there in Parkman.
At times, it's been a family affair. Oldest son Keene, now 22, and younger brother Chad, 17, have done quite a little here and there, and Judy holds down the fort, amongst other things.
"It's hard to keep the boys from going off and doing their own thing, but Keene can build reatas and Chad builds everything," Donley explained. "Keene has been working in the gas fields up to 60 hours a week. He makes too much money to stay home and braid," he laughed. "We home school Chad. He cowboys in the summer and still braids on the side some. Judy keeps me lined out, does the books, errands, braids a little, and keeps me honest!" he added.
But mostly, it's a one man band, so Donley doesn't go crazy on custom orders, trade shows, or Web sites—in fact, he shies away from such. On occasion, he braids for collectors or a rare custom order, but by referral only. He describes things as being on an "even keel" business wise, and he's perfectly content with that. He keeps braiding gear for the shelves of his two oldest customers—King's Saddlery in Sheridan, Wyo., and the Custom Cowboy Shop in Cody.
Beautiful 12-plat fine grade reins and romal.
Donley also mentioned that Sara Hagel and Houlihan Horse Gear, started by Mary Brannaman, also carry his gear.
"Buck [Brannaman] has used quite a bit of my gear, but I was the one around about 20 years ago when he was comin' on, and there wasn't much choice!" he joked.
Nowadays, Donley admits there's more selection of quality gear to choose from. But, there's also more imported gear that people should be aware of. He believes that his "good usin' stuff" sets him apart from many other artisans, as does the high quality of his work—always in demand from good horsemen and women. Donley creates work grade, mid grade and show grades of his gear, but as Sara Hagel mentions—make no mistake that the "show quality" gear stands up just dandy to everyday use.
"I've always been around, and I've looked up to Jack Shepherd's stuff around here, and I try to emulate that consistency," Donley said. "You don't see much mass production with rawhide, but we are seeing some imports now from Mexico, Chile, and South America. You run into quality problems with those. If you want to buy cheap, you can buy cheap, but the imports often have things like a cable inside the bosal," he explained. "Most horsemen would rather do without than work with sorry gear. Most guys I know take care of their gear, guard it jealously, and are really careful with it," he added.
One would think that would damper repeat business, and it does to some extent. But it's also a matter of pride and the mark of a great craftsman to build gear that should last a lifetime with proper care—such as a good quality bosal. They are also his favorite to produce, being the base of the whole California system he grew up on.
"I don't have too many repeat customers with those if they are taken care of, but the dogs and mice keep me in business," he laughed.
As for total pieces per year that he braids—he's not sure. But he goes through 50 hides a year, one hide a week. He no longer braids reatas, but sticks mainly to bosals, reins, romals and hondas.
"Hondas are in high demand, but they get used up. I probably do 500 to 600 a year of those," he said. "Reins and romals tend to wear out too, so I have some repeat customers for those. And, everybody likes different bits, so they need additional reins or romals, or a different size of bosal according to the horse's stage of training," he added.
These days, Donley said they keep three or four horses around, "just enough to help the neighbors." He isn't into attending clinics, but likes to watch one now and then. Mostly, he rides for fun and "saddles up to go agitate the neighbors again" when he needs a day off.
For more information, or to view Donley's products, visit www.houlihanhorsegear.com, www.mecates.com, www.3forkssaddlery.com, www.kingssaddlery.com, or www.customcowboyshop.com.
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April 12, 2017- My work with federal budgeting and accounting began in 1992 when I started to volunteer for the Concord Coalition, a nationwide, non-partisan, grassroots organization advocating generationally responsible fiscal policy. The Concord Coalition was founded by the late former Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), late former Senator Warren Rudman (R-N.H.), and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson.
My most enjoyable times with Concord were organizing its interactive exercises, which brought together citizens to work through the federal budget. I was always amazed how we would put total strangers in small groups and they would enthusiastically, but civilly debate the various options and come up with a balanced budget.
This is why I am excited to announce the Concord Coalition and my Congressman, Brad Schneider, are hosting a federal budget workshop at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 17 at Lake Forest College. Space is limited due to the workshop format.
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This is just a small bug-fixing patch :), I was not even planning to release one until GoodGuy found that critical bug with Editor not saving non-latin characters to games.
EDIT: found solution here (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=41817.msg553695#msg553695) (not tested). Weird. It used to work before with the default black background.


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Pussy Riot members jailed over social media posts
Masha Alekhina and Lucy Shteyn, who have previously served prison terms, were sentenced to 15 days following charges of "propaganda of Nazi symbolism"
Masha Alekhina and Lucy Shteyn Image: Artists at Risk
Pussy Riot members Masha Alekhina and Lucy Shteyn have been arrested yet again in Moscow, this time on charges of "propaganda of Nazi symbolism", and sentenced to 15 days in prison.
Alekhina, a lead member of the group who spent nearly two years in prison for a performance, wrote in an Instagram post shortly before being detained: "Right now I will leave the apartment building, I will be detained, taken to the police department and given 15 days. What for? For nothing? For a post with [Aleksandr] Lukashenko in 2015."
Her lawyer told MediaZona, a prisoners' rights news site, that the charges were based on her 26 November Instagram stories repost of a 2015 image of the Belarusian dictator surrounded by swastikas. A screenshot on MediaZona shows the image but blurs the swastikas, since showing them could lead to charges against the publication.
Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova founded MediaZona after their release from prison following their 2021 "punk prayer" performance against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
"I am thinking about Lukashenko being a pure fascist, already no one doubts it after the past year," wrote Alekhina in her Instagram post as she anticipated arrest. "So I'll go to the detention centre with a clear conscience."
Shteyn, who is a municipal legislator in a central Moscow district, was detained shortly before Alekhina. In a tweet, she posted the image for which she was charged, in which she herself is denounced as a "fascist" and depicted in a Nazi officer's cap. She described it ironically as "someone's fan art" and said she had posted it in 2018 after screenshotting it from YouTube.
Shteyn and Alekhina, who became a couple in 2020, both spent months under house arrest awaiting trial on charges of encouraging violation of Covid-19 restrictions at a 23 January demonstration in support of Aleksei Navalny, the jailed opposition leader.
Following a September verdict, Alekhina is awaiting the formal start of a year-long sentence of severe restrictions to freedom of movement. Shteyn received the same sentence in August, and was detained on Thursday when heading to register with the corrections service according to the terms of her sentence. Several members of Pussy Riot left Russia in 2021 under increasing pressure of arrest.
In her Instagram post, Alekhina accused the authorities of stalling with the official start of her sentence in a "new spiral of hell" and a "kind of Kafkaesque piling on of additional months of restriction of liberty."
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Tyton Partners Launches Center for Higher Education Transformation
Press Releases|Sep 23rd, 2020
BOSTON, MA (September 23, 2020) – Colleges and universities are experiencing never-before-seen levels of change, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher education institutions of all types and sizes face a barrage of pressures to improve outcomes and sustainability despite a declining and evolving student population. Tyton Partners has launched its Center for Higher Education Transformation and added two seasoned executives with deep experience in the field to support institutional leadership teams as they face strategic choices of lasting impact.
Michael Goldstein, Managing Director, will be working in both the investment banking and strategy consulting practices as a co-creator of the Center. He has a distinguished career spanning more than forty years in the postsecondary education sector. A former university administrator and recipient of multiple awards for innovation in higher education, Goldstein was the founder and senior counsel of the Higher Education Practice at Cooley LLP before joining Tyton Partners.
Greg Finkelstein, Senior Advisor, will also be working across Tyton Partners' investment banking and strategy consulting practices at the intersection of institutional strategy development, the online education market, and innovative partnership models. Finkelstein was formerly the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at Zovio, an education technology services company and also served as Managing Director and Senior Vice President for Wiley Education Services.
In the past two years, Tyton Partners has completed scores of transactions and strategy engagements in higher education while supporting a very diverse client base across the entire education ecosystem. The Center for Higher Education Transformation applies this expertise with greater focus and creativity for institutions with service offerings that enable mergers and affiliations, revenue growth and diversification, transformative partnerships and capital access.
"We are pleased to bring Mike and Greg onboard to share their expertise with our clients," said Gates Bryant, Partner at Tyton Partners. "They join our knowledgeable team of advisors who are at the forefront of helping higher education institutions navigate uncharted waters."
"The Center reflects an example of what we set out to offer the field when we launched the Tyton platform," noted Tyton Partners co-founder Chris Curran. "Marry unparalleled domain expertise and differentiated service capabilities drawing on banking, consulting, and operating acumen to help institutions, as well as other organizations and investors, to catalyze and accelerate positive transformation."
Learn more about Tyton's Center for Higher Education Transformation at www.tytonpartners.wpengine.com or visit the Tyton Partners' virtual booth at the upcoming ASU + GSV Summit, Sept. 29-Oct. 1 and Oct. 8, 2020, and the P3-EDUconference on Oct. 20-21, 2020.
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Tyton Partners is the leading provider of investment banking and strategy consulting services to the global knowledge sector. The firm has offices in Boston and Stamford (CT), and an experienced team of bankers and consultants who deliver a unique spectrum of services from mergers and acquisitions and capital markets access to strategy development that helps companies, organizations, and investors navigate the complexities of the education, media, and information markets. Tyton Partners leverages a deep foundation of transactional and advisory experience and unparalleled level of global relationships to make its clients' aspirations a reality and catalyze innovation in the sector. For more information visit www.tytonpartners.wpengine.com or follow us @tytonpartners.
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I had my first go at focus stacking this evening – that is to take a macro shot that is in focus throughout the image. It's my wife's birthday today and she got (amongst many other things) a Moth Orchid or Phalaenopsis Orchid to give its proper name which was the perfect subject to start on.
This image is made up of 8 shots all stitched together in Helicon Focus 5.2. It was taken with my Nikon 105mm macro lens with a 32mm extension tube. The original composition was rubbish so it's been heavily cropped and I had to photoshop out the obligatory cat hairs that had somehow got in there!
Maybe I'll take a normal picture of the flower tomorrow.


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Every year. Every year I tell myself "don't get started on any new TV shows until after exams" and every year I do it.
When I was back at home, it wasn't so bad. I had Lord of the Rings playing on repeat, sometimes throwing Harry Potter into the mix just so I didn't get too bored of hearing the same 3 scripts over and over and over and over. Then I got to university and found myself blasting through the multiple episodes of 24. I saw enough of it during that exam season that I could tell exactly what episodes would have plot twists, what would be happening to Jack, and when it got to episode 3 of each series, and CTU thought they'd stopped the terrorists, I was rolling my eyes and shouting at the screen that they were all thick – I had another 21 episodes to get through before they were finished!
The following year, I blasted through How I Met Your Mother during the Christmas exams, and then restarted The West Wing for the summer exams. If you've forgotten how well that worked out for me I should probably redirect you to my posts from this time last year via the sidebar. I ended up with resits to do, and found myself watching Pretty Little Liars.
So then we reached this year. At Christmas, all anyone was talking about was a Netflix Original that was apparently very well done. And so I started watching The Crown over that one week of exams. But for once it just about worked! I swore to myself then and there that there would be no new TV until 19th May. Well I messed that one up…
During a couple of sleepless nights, I ended up getting back into Nashville. Mary had recommended it a few months back, and before Easter I started watching it. Then, over the easter break I decided to just finish the first series. Big, big mistake. I won't ruin it for you but there was a massive cliffhanger in the last 2 minutes and then I had to go pick Rachel up from a friend's house. So I suppose I did quite well, waiting 2 weeks to pick up again with season 2, but I also managed to get through it in 2 days…. whoops. And I'm now up to date with it all…
The great thing about Nashville, however, is that a lot of the plotline happens through the songs and so I really don't need to be watching it. And if you're a fan of country music the way I am then it's actually really good if you're in the mood for something light! So what's it all about?
The show takes us through the lives of multiple fictitious country music singers in Nashville, and stars Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, a legendary country music superstar, whose fame is beginning to fade, and Hayden Panettiere as rising young star Juliette Barnes. They both belong to the same label, and so see a lot more of each other than either of them would like. Rayna's perfect little family isn't so perfect (although her two kids are just adorable!) and Juliette's life isn't so great either. While I love them both, my two favourite characters are Deacon and Scarlett. Deacon used to work with Rayna and then changes over to working for Juliette for a while, and Scarlett is his talented niece. So we get a wide variety of performances and styles of music throughout each episode and that's what I love.
My favourite songs from the show include A Life That's Good, Black Roses, and Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet, which can be seen below!
Have you seen Nashville? Is it something you've absolutely no interest in?
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I love Nashville! I know what you mean though, I'm the same! I would start new series all at the wrong time. I watched how I met your mother throughout first and second year as I started it and then left it for a prolonged length of time before I finished it. It's just too hard to resist watching the newest thing on Netflix!
Tiffany Rawling (@TiffanyRawling)
I've been wanting to start this for so long but just haven't got round to it! I have so many other shows I'm watching at the moment so definitely need to start this afterwards 🙂 x
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ktkinnes
Let me know when you get started on it, I could really do with someone to fangirl about this with! 😍 the second half of season 5 is starting in less than a month and I'm so excited! xx
lolitambonita
I have always wanted to watch this but been so unsure! I may try it out now! x
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Was the Cold War good for the world?
Posted on October 19, 2015	by Charles Davis
Was the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the many hot proxy wars it spawned in Asia and the Americas, a good thing for mothers and their children and other living things? That's what Patrick Cockburn, long-time war correspondent argues in a recent piece intended to show that yet another escalated proxy war between major powers could, in fact, be great for the long-suffering people of Syrian.
A go-to expert on world affairs for center-left news organizations and British lawmakers alike — last month he encouraged the latter to quit worrying and join the increasingly crowded war on terror in Syria's skies — the latest column from "our respected commentator," as his employers at The Independent describe him, should call into question whether he is fact worthy of respect from those on the left. Titled, "Syria crisis: Let's welcome Russia's entry into this war," Cockburn argues that the bombs being dropped by the Russian state should be welcomed by those of his readers outraged by the thousands of bombs dropped by the U.S.-led coalition over the last year.
The crux of Cockburn's argument is that what the war in Syria needs is to become even more of a war by proxy between the world's most powerful nations. He quotes U.S. President Barack Obama pledging not to let that happen — and then he proceeds to make what he believes is his killer point.
"But the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, and the global competition that went with it, had benefits for much of the world," Cockburn asserts. "Both superpowers sought to support their own allies and prevent political vacuums from developing which its opposite number might exploit," he writes. "Crises did not fester in the way they do today."
That Cockburn, a respected commentator, could write the above and agree to have it published in a public forum where others can read it calls into serious question whether he is in fact worthy of respect, from those on the left and/or those familiar with the history of the world, as someone who comments on things for a living. From his comfortable perch in Britain, aided by the comforting distortion of nostalgia, Cockburn can look back on his 20s with his fondness, the Cold War characterized by bad-ass action flicks and those halcyon days of no-string college hookups.
For developing countries, though — for much of Asia and the Americas, or rather: the world — the friendly competition between the globe's leading imperialist powers was a festering sore that promoted the forces of reaction wherever its influence was felt ("left" as well as right) and often enough led those who fought for progress and social justice to a mass grave.
The extinguishing of millions of lives was directly linked to an imperial desire not to extinguish the merest chance that people in one country might side with another. The U.S. may have cynically deployed the rhetoric of anti-communism to dispatch with anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan, but the Pentagon Papers, the classified account of the U.S. war in Indo-China, revealed that U.S. policymakers were as stupidly paranoid as their policies made them seem.
In the late 1940s, State Department officials declared in an internal memo that they had discovered evidence of a "Kremlin-directed conspiracy" in "virtually all countries." The one glaring exception: Vietnam, the country where U.S. intelligence had itself funneled arms to the Vietnamese communist, Ho Chi Minh, to aid his fight against imperial Japan. That lack of evidence of a Soviet connection to a former U.S. ally, however, was taken as all the more evidence that such connection existed. Indeed, "It may be assumed," the department asserted, "that Moscow feels Ho and his lieutenants have had sufficient training and experience and are sufficiently loyal to be trusted to determine their day-to-day policy without supervision."
Well over a million non-British, non-Russian, non-U.S. citizens died in Vietnam as a result of this festering competition in deranged paranoia. And it wasn't just the U.S., of course, that killed because of it, though it does enjoy the ignoble privilege of scoring the highest body count.
In 1956, workers in Hungary, dissatisfied with the USSR's shift from war communism to state capitalism, demanded a return to the Soviet-system that prevailed at the dawn of the Bolshevik revolution: workers in councils making decisions, democratically, rather than receiving dictates from an unaccountable party above. The subsequent uprising led to Hungary's exit from the Warsaw Pact — and then the Soviet Union sent in the tanks, unwilling to lose what it saw as a defensive buffer between it the free-market capitalist West, the demands of the proletariat be damned. Hundreds were killed and thousands more detained, the workers who ought to form the basis of a workers' state, and who if listened to may have prevented the Soviet Union's eventual collapse, dismissed as the product of capitalist subversion.
In the name of preserving relations with the West, however cold, the Soviet Union also turned its back on internationalism, urging revolutionaries in the developing world to embrace a go-it-slow approach to socialism. In Nicaragua and Cuba, for instance, armed insurrections launched by the Sandinistas and the 26th of July Movement against U.S.-backed dictators were discouraged and succeeded despite the early opposition of Moscow's loyal Communist branches.
And when success did come in spite of Soviet opposition? The USSR's "opposite number" swooped in to support the forces of counter-revolution, helping kill 50,000 Nicaraguans — backing a deposed dictator's Contras in the name of democracy — and embargoing Cuba for more than half a century. At least 70,000 died in El Salvador because the U.S. preferred a military-run regime to the prospect of someone on the center-left assuming the title of president.
This is what Patrick Cockburn wishes for Syrians: For imperial powers to compete, and in effect collude, and determine the future of millions of people whose wishes and mere existence is too insignificant to note in his columns focused exclusively on the great powers and their statecraft. This sort of thinking, I would say, typifies the privilege of one for whom conflicts that kill a quarter-million people are merely fodder for columns in a British newspaper — and it belongs in a graveyard.
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Teresa Hintz age 91 of Quincy and formerly of Dixon died Saturday March 24, 2018 at Sunset Nursing Home in Quincy. She was born June 5, 1926 in Dixon the daughter of J. Raymond and Martina (Wolf) Brechon. She had been a licensed beautician for many years prior to her retirement. Teresa married Robert E Hintz June 24, 1950 in Dixon. He preceded her in death Feb. 21, 1996. She was also preceded in death by her daughter Debra Major, daughter in law Cheryl Burket Hintz and her brother Frank Brechon. She is survived by her son Rob (Julie Cross) Hintz of Quincy, 5 grandchildren, Andrew J. Hintz, Ryan E. (Ayrin) Hintz, Alex R. (Schyler) Hintz, Bronte B. Major and Aijan D. Major; 5 great grandchildren, Cade, Lily, Murphy, Everly and Raymond Hintz. Mass of Christian Burial will be on Wednesday March 28, 2018, 10:30 AM at St Patrick Catholic Church in Dixon. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery in Dixon. Visitation will be on Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:15 AM at the church.
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Night and silence – Julie Replays Dragon Age Pt. 5
The big header of Act 2 could also be "People Making The Wrong Choices". Everything is slowly but definitely going wrong.
Did I not tell you that the Qunari would be trouble? Aye, they are. But not because of something they do, not yet at least. However, that does not hinder a certain someone from making trouble for them. And she's been a very naughty girl indeed.
Say "Hello" again to Sister, excuse me, Mother Petrice.
Her dislike of the Qunari is nothing new and that she's willing to kill if it gets them out of the city, neither. For a while she is pretty good at it as well. Until she takes a step too far.
After having handled the Qunari situation with some sort of success, the Viscount asks for our help in trying to find a delegation of Qunari which disappeared literally from the Viscount doorstep. After the first diplomatic attempt ever. Perfect timing. Not. It turns out that Mother Petrice misused Grand Cleric Elthina's seal to authorize a Templar strike against the Qunari, taking them prisoner and torturing them – nothing that connects her with these horrid deeds, of course, but through her "former" bodyguard, Ser Varnell. When we find him, Adriene tries to tell him that she wants the Qunari as much out of the city as he (which is actually true) but he does not believe her and, before attacking her, kills the three delegates. The ensuing fight leaves more people dead than alive but the deed is done: every diplomatic attempt to deal with the Qunari have been cut short. Nobody can prove that Petrice has anything to do with it and so she stays where she is… which proves to be the worst thing that could happen.
When shortly afterwards the Viscount's son Seamus openly converts to the Qun and nearly immediately vanishes as well, Adriene fears the worst. When we arrive at the Chantry, we only find him dead. "A repentant human killed by the Qunari" seemed like a good plan to Petrice to finally and openly turn the masses against the Qunari – it really does not matter to her how many people will die in such a war. However, for once, Elthina takes action and dismisses Petrice from the Chantry – just before the Qunari kill Petrice for killing one of their own. It is the first accumulation of death. It will not be the last.
Before I focus on the main story, I remain with my companions for a while, doing this and that. We help Fenris kill his former master's apprentice, Hadriana, and come to terms with it afterwards. It's the first time he acknowledges that this might be what friends are for and oh my heart goes out for him. I so love his character.
We go with Merrill back to her clan to help her get the arulin'holm, an ancient carving tool with which she hopes to be able to repair the Eluvian she brought with her. This quest always makes me angry with Marethari, her clan's Keeper. When we arrive at Sundermount, Marethari gives us a quest we have to fulfill before we are deemed worthy to receive the arulin'holm and during that quest, we meet Pol. Pol is a city elf who fled to the Dalish and of course knows Merrill. This time, however, he is scared to death by her sheer sight and nothing we can do or say makes him calm down. He flees us and is killed by a viscious creature – in fact, the creature we were sent to kill. When we come back to Marethari after completing her quest, we ask her about what happened with Pol and she tells us that it was "her duty as a keeper" to, well, paint Merrill as a monster who will bring the Taint into the Dalish by working on that mirror. Which of course makes everyone horribly afraid of Merrill. What. The. Hell. Marethari. Basically in the same sentence she says Merrill can come back any time and by then I wanted to slap her. Seriously. Making everyone super creeped out will totally help reintegrating Merrill if she actually chose to go back. Ugh! Merrill is of course upset, repeating how she never harmed anyone in her clan, never did anything to harm the clan and that she only wishes to fulfill her duties as a Keeper (or First): to gain back knowledge about her people. This is why she tries to repair the Mirror. Adriene can completely understand that and because she knows that Merrill can be trusted, and watched her be in control of something as dangerous as blood magic for years now, she gives Merrill the arulin'holm after discussing it with her. And she tells Merrill how it was definitely no mistake leaving her clan.
Remember how I talked about how hard it was to get somewhere with Anders when you're not flirting and not completely agreeing with him? Well, I know that one has a certain option in his personal quest only with 50 or more friendship/rivalry and I was nowhere near that. So I cheated and used the console to make that happen. It worked just fine so far, but a bit later on I realized that I bugged the game when I used the console earlier on for activating the Fenris romance and wasn't able to go back to the Isabela romance. Which annoyed the HECK out of me. So I deleted the last seven hours of gaming and went back to a point where I hadn't activated the Fenris romance yet. Which made me able to try and push Anders' friendship before doing his personal quest without using the console – and it worked.
His personal quest is very intense, both on a character level and a plot level. We chase after a Templar named Alric who supports the "Tranquil solution" – a plan to make all mages, regardless of their mental status or whether they passed their Harrowing, tranquil. And as we see, not for "safety" reasons. If you walk around in the Gallows a bit, you meet a Tranquil woman who is approached by a devastated fellow mage, asking her what happened. She answers that she can no longer see him, because "I am now Ser Alric's". And when we catch up with Alric, he is with a young mage, telling her:
It's no wonder that both Anders and Justice completely lose it, Adriene basically loses it as well. I mean, that's someone supposed to CARE FOR HER SISTER!
Fuck the Templars, seriously.
Anyway, it's only when the girl we're trying to protect is afraid of Justice (rightly so) that everything threatens to go horribly wrong – and here it's important to be on Anders… well, any side. Only then you can manage to calm him down, otherwise he kills her. Or rather, Justice kills her. Fortunately, Adriene can keep him from harming the mage and when we meet her afterwards, we tell her to go quickly and safely AWAY from here before we go and talk to Anders. Who is horrified by what he nearly did.
The truth of the Tranquil Solution, despite having been rejected by the Chantry and Meredith, makes it clear that something is going very, very wrong. And that the Mage-Templar problem is on everybody's mind.
The conflict simmers but has not broken out openly. And when the message comes that Bartrand is back in town, nothing can keep Adriene and Varric from looking him up. Which leads to one of the most hilarious scenes in the whole game, breaking the borders of it and making it abundandly clear that the whole story, the whole game is told by Varric.
Fighting everyone by himself.
He fights the whole troops all by himself – then Cassandra chimes in and the group gets to do the whole fight again. We find Bartrand who has become seriously mad and murderous, obsessed with that lyrium idol we found in the Deep Roads. Which he sold. And now wants back. He is so clearly out of his mind, suffering, begging for death, that we give it to him. We came for answers, we found only suffering. And no. This isn't the last death either.
We hear from Emeric, the Templar who already pursued the murders of Ninette and several other women in Act 1, that the killer is still at large. He took the evidence he found to the Guard but evidently (pun intended) it was too "random" to make any of it. He suspects a certain Gascard DuPuis which the Guard followed up (and found nothing) but was reprimanded afterwards and thus cannot continue his investigation. Aveline thinks it's all bullshit coincidence but for once we do not listen to her, as Emeric's research did turn up evidence three years ago already. And it does again. Other than the Guard, we find not only Gascard at his mansion but also a very frightened woman and lots of Shades protecting Gascard. However, Gascard is not the murderer. He claims his sister fell victim to the same murderer years ago and tries to protect the woman with him, Alessa – who does not know in what kind of danger she is. She, as all the victims before her, received white lilies. She runs away when we confront Gascard who explains the whole thing to us. We're not exactly thrilled that he's a blood mage but his explanation satisfies us and we let him go. Which is helpful later on.
When we come back home, Gamlen awaits us, anxiously asking if we know where Leandra is. Despite him not being a really likeable man, his concern for his sister is heartbreaking. Even more so when we see what has been brought to her.
Gamlen goes looking for Leandra on Lowtown while we manage to find Gascard again, who had taken some blood from Alessa which he can now use to find her. Cue overdosed bloodmagic effect.
We make our way into Darktown, looking for and finding more-than-creepy clues. Notes, taking about "preservation methods", about finding certain women – or rather women's parts, a letter from an "O." from the Circle who sent books, a sort of "home" with a portrait of a woman of uncanny resemblance with Leandra, and:
True enough, we find the Necromancer and are, certainly enough betrayed by Gascard who was the Necromancer's student and now wants to learn again. We kill them both and all of their Shades, Demons and Corpses they resurrect, but we are, however, too late for Leandra. She dies in Adriene's arms and it's the second time I cry in the game.
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Rahmanian, who can be a landlord, says he prefers a tenant with a credit score rating above 600, however he says he at all times takes an in depth have a look at an applicant's full credit score report.
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This can be bothersome, however asking a member of the family (keep in mind to choose somebody with good credit score) to co-sign your lease or act as a guarantor might help when you have weak credit—and no, this doesn't imply they should stay with you.
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