El Mundo Orizaba nonchalantly posted the lineup earlier today. Overall, the only way you'd know it was a major show is because they've got a title match and it's Perro's first match. Otherwise, it's a normal TV taping, one that could fit in a single taping. We haven't missed a whole lot of build; it's just a lot of matches. This would not have been a good card for Arena Monterrey.
Instead of doing the Silver King vs Vampiro match for the title shot, they go straight to the three way. The #1 conteder's match probably would've ended up there too, so this just saves us one Vampiro match. A recent WON explains Vamp's TripleMania performance was bad because of cardio issues – I guess he's had bad cardio for many years now? Anyway, I'm not sure how not having any matches until Verano will actually improve his cardio, but maybe they'll be hide it in a three way.
Everything else is marking time, as if they're eight weeks from a major show and are waiting to do even the major angles for it. And that show is Heroes Inmortales. This is a major show in name only.
This is WCW booking, so Hernandez likely defeats the Cruiserweight champion. They did actually set up the Metal/Electroshock feud, and I suspect it'll follow on here Metal continuing to get destroyed. Apaches and Aerostar are there as foils to whatever they're doing with the rudo trio.
Alan Stone on the rudo side gives away a storyline yet to happen. Chris is probably turning on Elegido at Sunday's Lucha Libre Expo taping, and Alan and Chris are probably teaming with Decnnis in Puebla. They thought ahead enough to list Decnnis' partners as mystery men for that taping, it's a slip up not to do the same here.
The only fly in is Nosawa, and that probably was agreed to at TripleMania, before whatever happened. They don't appear to be bringing in any Perros besides Perro Jr., Halloween, Damian and Super Crazy. Everyone else might be done after the Expo.
Oh no! What will AAA do without Nozawa??? Try to push Decnis as a credible rudo? Finally turn Super Fly and have him feud with Evans for the belt? Follow-up on Relampago's now non-existent Triplemania rudo turn? BZZT. Time to find a new foriegner to waste money on and fly in. What's Chasyn Rance up to these days?
At what point this year does Konnan intend to start phasing in the promised push of new blood?
This lineup stinks. It's just flat out garbage. If you have no ideas and just want to do a throwaway show, by all means – go for it. But at least make the matches good on paper so the fans know they'll get a solid show. How many of these matches are you looking forward to as possibly being fun to watch cubs? I count 1 of 6 and it happens to be the feud that will still be going on next year b/c this company never elevates anyone.
I'll make the same guarantee I made when I said L.A. Park is not losing his mask in AAA – nobody is getting pinned clean in this main event and Perro Jr. is not getting the big win. Neither Konnan nor Roldan have the balls to tell any of those tecnicos to do the job for Perrito. Ciber would flip out, Mesias has no reason to take a pinfall for a guy who will never give it back and Parka Jr. is coming off being humiliated at Triplemania. There's gonna be a huge brawl, maybe a surprise appearence and somewhere in the mess Parka Jr. will go over Damian 666 who is the only one of the six that knows what the word 'professional' means. Although I don't blame any of them b/c they aren't working for a company that has any authority figures capable of controlling things.
Acutally this is completely WCW Mexico now. Nobody gets elevated, the stars won't do jobs, the supposed man in charge is too busy focusing on his own storylines rather than doing his job and overall business takes a backseat to random surprise appearences and pointless fly-ins.
1. How about those Clowns? Still undefeated, still not booked for major shows. Is it written into their pretend contracts? I guess it'd make no business sense to have 3 young guys shockingly end the win streak?
2. Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo in a straight up singles match for the belt doesn't work? We saving it up for the Pena Memorial show where every mini will be in a scaffold match?
holy sh*t rob just completely spazzed out on AAA *applause* nicely done sir.
I don't think I could watch another AAA's minis match since they are all the same.
The only matches that seem interesting are the first 2.
Damn, this card is horrible. Infact the lineup for this show, reminds me of a terrible hangover that won't go away. I would go into detail about my distain for current AAA, but Rob basically summed up my opinion on AAA's current direction of the company.
@Calabcd44: rob should have a podcast!
This looks more like a minor card than what is one of their bigger shows for the year.
So whatcha gonna do when Cibermania won't lay down for you?
@Rob: If Parka was gullible enough to take the pin at TripleMania, I believe it can happen again.
Second match looks like it could be good. Opener could go either way. Otherwise, everything else is there for the bad entertainment provided.
Someone posted a picture of the poster outside the arena and it says the segunda will have both the Reina De Reinas and Mixed Tag Titles on the line.


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Route reference: Part 1 application posted on 2 April 2013
Ottawa, 10 June 2013
Shaw Television G.P. Inc. (the general partner) and Shaw Media Global Inc. (the limited partner), carrying on business as Shaw Television Limited Partnership
Winnipeg and Minnedosa, Manitoba
Application 2013-0477-4
CKND-DT Winnipeg and its transmitter CKND-TV-2 Minnedosa – Licence amendment
1. The Commission approves the application by Shaw Television Limited Partnership1 to amend the broadcasting licence for the English-language conventional television programming undertaking CKND-DT Winnipeg in order to add a digital transmitter to replace its existing analog transmitter CKND-TV-2 Minnedosa. The Commission did not receive any interventions in connection with this application.
2. The new transmitter CKND-DT-2 Minnedosa will operate on channel 9 with a maximum effective radiated power (ERP) of 30,500 watts (average ERP of 17,900 watts with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 374 metres).
3. The Commission reminds the licensee that pursuant to section 22(1) of the Broadcasting Act, this authority will only be effective when the Department of Industry notifies the Commission that its technical requirements have been met and that a broadcasting certificate will be issued.
4. The transmitter must be operational at the earliest possible date and in any event no later than 24 months from the date of this decision, unless a request for an extension of time is approved by the Commission before 10 June 2015. In order to ensure that such a request is processed in a timely manner, it should be submitted in writing at least 60 days before that date.
5. The Commission expects the licensee to broadcast public service announcements and to inform viewers of the existence of the new transmitter by way of its website in a manner consistent with the requirements set out in sections 3 and 4 of the appendix to Regulations for the digital television transition, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-198, 18 March 2011. Furthermore, the Commission expects the licensee to do this for a period of at least three months from the day this authorization is issued and before the licensee ceases to broadcast in analog or changes channel, whichever is sooner.
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[1] Shaw Television G.P. Inc. (the general partner) and Shaw Media Global Inc. (the limited partner), carrying on business as Shaw Television Limited Partnership

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The Ninth Annual Focus Group sponsored by the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is Saturday, April 29, from 9 am to 12:30 pm at VDDHH, 1602 Rolling Hills Drive, Henrico, 2nd floor. This year's theme is: "A Most Confusing Wearable – The Hearing Aid".
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Do all hearing aids work the same way? ● How can I find out if I need a hearing aid?
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What is a telecoil and why do I need one? ● Is Bluetooth really that important?
For more information or to RSVP email Christine.Ruderson@VDDHH.Virginia.gov or 804-662-9710 V/TTY. Details about VDDHH visit https://www.vddhh.org/index.htm.


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As a writer and artist publishing for the last three decades, Stephen Mead has finally gotten around to getting links to his poetry still online at various zines available in one place: http://stephenmead.weebly.com/links-to/poetry-on-the-line-stephen-mead His latest Amazon release is entitled "Our Spirit Life"", a poetry/art meditation on family heritage, love, and the evanescence of time.
In my mind's eye floats a photograph. The photograph, in turn, is also the memory of an actual door. This is how the mind can function as both microscope and telescope; moving in, drawing back, knobs turning lenses from blurriness to magnified clarity. Writing this makes the whole business sound detached. Would it be too sentimental, but also more accurate, to say that this invisible mechanism exists in my heart, the entire DNA and cells of my being?
Photo of Stephen and his brother in front of the porch.
The door is made of sturdy metal and shimmers as if with an invitation to a magpie or crow. Due to being connected to a central spring it squeaks with a metallic rubber band sound when opening and closing, but the central spring prevents a slam. This is the front porch door to the house I grew up in, and the photograph is actually of a shadow of the lower part of the door which creates a cursive M on the white-washed wall adjacent. The M stands for Mead and I can see it forming as if via filigree and mercury, the intricate scrollwork of soldering creating, against the glass it rests upon, a pleasing design of positive and negative space.
I am maybe eighteen, nineteen, or in my early twenties, when I take this photograph with a wonderfully compact 110 camera. I am undergoing some creative stage of unconscious instinct, obsessed with shadows and reflections, their dreamy capacity to create secret, through-the-looking-glass messages; to become worlds unto themselves. I get lost from moments to hours at a time with this 110 camera which also, here, now, helps me remember other details of the porch. In another photo from this time period there are flowers my sister got from a then-current beau. I bring them out to the greenhouse light of the porch and photograph the rose and lily petals of their actuality with the vase wrapped in the swirl of a mustard-colored wool coat from the 1940s. Again I also photograph their shadows splayed against the aged white interior of yet another door which leads directly into the kitchen of the house.
These doors, these memories, are like Russian nesting dolls. Under the vase is a long moss-emerald green runner with black fuzzy threads marbling the weaving. I love the earth tones of this runner both against the yellow wool texture of the coat, but also on their own, especially when captured by squares and rectangles of sun. I love the warmth of those rectangles where the frames of the porch windows are projected. I would like to be a cat curled in up that buttery warmth. At the end of the runner is a black rubber welcome mat and on top of that another mat of rubber ribbon coils set in grids to wipe mud off. Ingeniously, my mother has decided that under this mat is a good place to hide the front door key.
Along the walls by the front door I can picture galoshes and also boots with bread bag-linings set on top of newspapers. The dryer vents, with a long-ribbed white hose, across the gray poured concrete of this porch and out the propped metal door with the M in its bottom pane. The porch shelters the original white shingled exterior of the house, becoming insulation, though of course, depending on the season, drafts or summer heat still leak past. This porch is a truncated L-shape, and between the four original windows of the house on the interior and the series of windows which line both sides of the exterior, the radiance housed can be a glorious honey-butterscotch.
Some days I can smell the dust and dryer lint of it which still manages to come across as misty but clean. Other days we do not use the dryer but make use of the clothesline the length of the front. Sometimes we use both but in either case the smell of wet fabric drying is comfort.
On not-too-cold, rainy days, for something to do, go out on the porch with jacks, marbles and a small easily-squeezed, red rubber ball. It doesn't matter if you don't know the rules. The game is Pretend; spiral the jacks like miniature ballerinas in pirouette; spin the smooth cat-eyes, watch them become worlds. Don't forget the "Bowl A Strike!" game; setting up the plastic pins in a perfect triangle and letting the lightweight black plastic ball, complete with indentations for holes, set sail! Remember, at Christmas, hang that large Santa head, a print glued on cardboard and only flaking off slightly as the years go by. Tack him to the top of the front center window lined up with all those other old little tack holes from Decembers past. There he is: beard of curls, red sleeve of fur trim, red gloved hand with index finger to lips as he winks. On the other interior windows are pinecones painted with glitter, strung with green velvet ribbon. At night their glitter shimmers with reflections pouring from the Christmas tree lights.
Later you are old enough to help with porch maintenance: sweeping, mopping the cool gray concrete, chasing out the spiders, vacuuming the occasional cobweb with its mummified flies. Every few years there is also re-painting, learning how to use a putty knife, scrape away cracked chunks around panes, layer in just-the-right-amount of fresh adhesion with a downward swipe. Develop a rhythm for this. Use a ladder and also help change the windows for screens. Remember to hose them out front before hooking in place. Wash the winter windows with vinegar before propping against the wall, your hands puckered with news ink. What is the antique window glass made of that, though clear, seeing-through it is to notice slightly miniature ripples, a slight bluish greenish tint, as if the material is similar to that of the glass insulators on telephone poles? Press head or hands against glass or mesh. It is meditative but also sometimes a symptom of intense boredom. Take note of the trumpet vine, the wisteria flowering to the far right, its bark twisting thick as grape vines. Occasionally a humming bird buzzes; a reverie of rarity.
Not a lot of drama occurs on this porch, though occasionally the front door key is not under the mat and a little panic stirs until my brother figures out how to sneak in through a basement window. Then of course there are the usual calls of hello and goodbye, the family standing along the porch waving at the vehicle crunching up the gravel driveway.
One late purple afternoon of January winds a hobo huddles on the front porch, stands by the circular silver dryer outlet. My Mother and I can see the bulk of his shape from the living room and are afraid, but both go out. "Feel my hands," he keeps saying to my mom, holding out what looks like thickly veined and roughened ham hocks. "They are so cold." This is what pain, pity and pathos looks like.
Mom finds Dad who drives the hobo to the railroad station a few miles off. Apparently there is something like a canteen there where he can get a hot meal and coffee. This is the story I am given anyway and also how Dad's Mom, during the Depression, like many a farmer's wife, fed the hobos passing from the trains; how occasionally they would help with a chore or work the fields then be on their way.
On July nights the porch sparkles with fireflies teeming in the meadows. Peepers and cicada make a racket amid the intermittent squeal and clang of the rails. Moths dance like snowflakes, flutter against screens along with giant grasshoppers climbing. We are used to this bug life.
In the winter when the moon is full, reflecting on snows, the porch is polar too, and the house feels far away from everything. There is a porch light however, under a thick chalk-pale shade that has a gothic acorn shape. We leave the light on when the whole family is out somewhere, maybe the drive-ins, and also only when one or two of us might not be home. There is a sense of loneliness or being disowned if that light accidently gets switched off or the bulb burns out, but in my mind's eye I can still see it now shining through the distant darkness, giving a glow to all the front porch windows; a melancholy balm for homesickness, a beacon which whispers like a lullaby: home safe, safe home.


Alexandra Lee is in the 5th grade and participates in AYF's Running Group at Magellan Elementary. Alexandra was nominated by her coaches because she is always putting forth a great effort during running club and works cooperatively with coaches and other runners! Alexandra has participated several times in the Vern's 5K run and her personal record is 28.57, and currently her best mile time is 7.38.
Aside from running, Alexandra participated in gymnastics for five years, two of those years competitively. She is also a strong skier who can even ski the black slopes.
Alexandra's favorite thing about school is getting to be creative and getting to be with friends. She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows up, but enjoys cooking, creating art, and can speak Spanish and is learning Chinese.
Alexandra's favorite thing about running club is running around and getting to end running club with a fun game!
William Bucher is in the 1st grade and participates in AYF's Running Group at Baranoff Elementary. William was nominated by his coaches because he is a strong runner and he loves to participate in running club. William started running a few years ago and has been running races ever since. William ran in the Daisy Kids Mile, the Super Hero Run, and the Gingerbread Run. Aside from running, William likes most sports like football, basketball, baseball, soccer, and hockey, and he's looking forward to starting swim team.
William's favorite thing about school is getting to learn new things. When he grows up, William wants to be a runner because he loves to run!
William's favorite thing about running club is that he gets to run! He really likes the races and the games played at running club.
Anneliese Crawford-Honea is in the 3rd grade and participates in AYF's Running Group @ NYOS. Anneliese was nominated by her coaches because "she gives 100% every time, she's a great team player, is attentive and loves to run!" Anneliese has participated in two 5K races previously, and is currently getting ready for the NYOS 5K in April. She has also hiked over 10 miles at the Grand Canyon and 13 miles at Yellowstone National Park on family vacations. Aside from running, Anneliese really enjoys yoga with Mobile Athletics as well as loves to swim any time she can and hike on the weekends.
Anneliese's favorite thing about school is getting to learn new things. When she grows up, Anneliese wants to be an artist or write.
Anneliese's favorite thing about AYF is all the fun running activities as well as the different games we play.
Samuel Seif is in the 1st grade and participates in both AYF's Running Group @ Casis and Beginner Biking Group. Samuel was nominated by his coaches because he always has that smile on his face, he works really hard, and is a good, encouraging friend to others. Samuel regularly rides to school with his dad on a ride-behind bike, as well as rides to Westlake to visit friends. Sometimes those rides will be over 15 miles! Aside from AYF, Samuel is part of the Casis Chess Club, he's participated in Lego summer camps, he plays flag football and basketball at WAYA (also plays basketball at the YMCA), and played i9 summer flag football.
Samuel is not sure what he wants to be when he grows up, but he wants to work on computers like his mommy and daddy. He also says, "Being a football player would be nice too!"
Samuel's favorite thing about AYF is, "That I learned to bike on my own bike and now I don't need training wheels. I can now bike with my mom to Mozart's. And Coach Alli is very nice and fun."


When so much of what you own comes with extensive strings attached, do you really own your property, or are you merely a feudal tenant?
Automakers don't want you repairing your own cars. That's for them, or their licensed agents, to do. No one else is allowed. Coffee-machine makers won't let you use whatever coffee you like. It's got to be their brand, in their cups, with no other varieties allowed. That gauge on your propane tank? It's spying on you. And let's not forget your thermostat, which is also spying on you. Your computer, of course, has been spying on you all along; its latest trick is to prevent you from using hardware or software that the OS maker doesn't happen to like. You can eat that food – we sold you the permission to eat it – but you're not allowed to photograph it. A popular Tweet holds that "In a few years there'll be enough computers in your home that getting hacked and being haunted will be functionally indistinguishable." And maybe so.
To which I might say: Close, but not quite. To explain what's wrong here, let's imagine two basic types of society. Both have private property, of a kind. But they're quite different, and increasingly we may have to choose between them.
The first type of society is dominated by fee simple property. Fee simple is the arrangement that the typical American thinks of when he or she hears the phrase "private property." Fee simple property is alienable with no residuum. Simply put, there are no strings attached. You may use it, or you may let it sit unused. You may gift it. You may sell it. You may exchange it. You may take out a loan and designate your property as collateral, if you can convince a lender to agree. When you die, you may will the property to anyone you like. And when you've sold it, or gifted it, or traded it away, you no longer have any interests in it. It's not yours anymore.
The point here is that in a fee simple system, strings are few in number. They have to be justified by some very important reason. They are never simply presumed to exist. And they are not generally inheritable: If my father signed a contract, it's not binding on me. If a property is sold, its former owner no longer has much to say about how it's used.
The result is a regime of tinkering. Property can be modified. Agreements can be modified. New types of property, and new types of agreements, can both be devised. The dead hand of a former owner almost never gets in the way. Fee simple property allows individuals to respond to particular circumstances with a flexible mix of creativity and common sense.
In the second type of society, the exceptions to fee simple have eaten the rule. These exceptions are numerous and varied. People still own things, as mentioned, but the nominal owners' use is severely constrained, typically by conditions laid down by the former owner: Only certain crops may be grown, and only in particular ways. From them, a ground rent is due. Houses may be built here, but not there; in this style, but not that. You may bake, but only in particular times, only according to certain recipies, and only in set quantities. When you die, the property you hold reverts to the lord, and when he dies, the property he holds reverts to his lord. And when he dies, he can't give it to anyone other than his eldest son. When payments fall due, they shall be made in labor, and not in cash. If anyone higher up on the great chain of hierarchical title dislikes what you're up to, they can probably put a stop to it.
There's a name for this second type of society. It's called feudalism.
Abandoning feudal property in favor of fee simple is one of the things that helped the world get modern. And yet, more and more we seem to be sneaking back to the fedual system. As software smears across the fabric of everyday life, the intellectual property that comes with it is making the use of everyday objects look more and more like a strange form of corporate feudalism.
In describing feudalism above, many of my examples came directly from the French Old Regime. And yet many of them apply equally well in our own world. Some of them are true almost without modification as regards commercial activities, and our noncommercial property isn't far behind. In place of the local lords stand corporations, armed with extensive and invasive intellectual property rights. (We also have increasingly powerful HOAs, planning commissions, and zoning boards, which represent other dimensions of essentially the same problem.) In place of the king we have the federal government, which is about as responsive as Louis XIV ever needed to be, when a peasant had a dispute with his local lord.
Markets, though, have often helped, and there has been some successful pushback. Keurig, for example, backed down from its proprietary approach and has allowed individual owners to brew whatever coffee they like. In general, though, the exceptions are chomping away heartily at the rule, and the ability to tinker is indeed disappearing, in favor of carved-out intellectual fiefdoms that extract rents and limit choices much like the old ones did.
The fact that we have surrendered voluntarily may satisfy the purists, and yet one ought perhaps to ask just how far the trend will go, and how – if at all – it might be limited. The person who signs himself into serfdom may have cause to regret it, even if he volunteered at the time.
That may seem like a strange worry to have. And it might even seem like nothing too serious to worry about: Again, you did agree to this stuff. Beyond this objection, though, lie some strong libertarian concerns about the nature and extent of intellectual property. The fact that it is coming increasingly to resemble a system that stifled free enterprise – rather than encouraging it – should be a sign that something's badly off track here.


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Q: OpenLayers GetFeatureInfo Error in Geoserver I was advised in a previous post to ask this question again using a small data sample
My base layer is a postgis vector dataset in WGS84
When I click on the map I get the following an error in the nodelist could somebody help
part of the error is here
        X and Y incorrectly specified Details:
        org.geoserver.platform.ServiceException: X and Y incorrectly specified at org.geoserver.wms.featureinfo.GetFeatureInfoKvpReader.read(GetFeatureInf
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My openlayers code is generated from a perl script the code below is the result of right click View Page Source.

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="http://localhost:8080/geoserver/openlayers/theme/default/style.css"/>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost:8080/geoserver/www/scale/scalebar-fat.css"/>

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OpenLayers PostGis Layers

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Update New Error
The above works if suggestions by iant are used however if an additional layer is added and the veiwparams in the GetFeatureInfo are altered to incorporate this new layer an error similar to 3 layers selected but 2 veiwparams occurs when you click on the map.
Please advise
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                "5678",
                "http://localhost:8080/geoserver/cite/wms",
                {
                VIEWPARAMS: 'kathy:5678',
                LAYERS: 'cite:Q_Results',
                transparent: 'true',
                isBaseLayer: false
                }
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Viewparams: 'kathy:10654,5678',

A: Have a look in firebug to see what the actual request that is sent looks like - my suspicion is that your x and y (or i an j) are being sent as reals not integers.
If so a quick fix would be to change:
params.x = e.xy.x;
params.y = e.xy.y;

to
params.x = Math.floor(e.xy.x);
params.y = Math.floor(e.xy.y);

A: OpenLayers.loadURL is deprecated. It is not neccessary to build GetFeatureInfo request manually, use WMSGetFeatureInfo control. I've wrote post about using WMSGEtFeatureInfo in OpenLayers. Try to modify your script accordingly this post.

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Art City Elementary school's Chess Club had the opportunity to compete in the State Chess Tournament that was held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 13, 2016. Students have been working hard, competing on the school and District level since October. Students are taught on their level of skill and progress through harder lessons as the year progresses, getting them ready for tournaments. Thank you all for your help and support through the past four months. The following are individual and team results: Art City Individual results: Kindergarten: Spencer Wilson 2nd; First-grade: Tyson Tanner 2nd; Kaylee Elzinga 3rd; and Celeste Jenkins 35th. Second-grade: Jacob Rawle 6th; Gabriel Balzotti 7th; Willie Carter 11th; Thomas Wilson 15th; River Jenkins 28th and Jarom Smith 36th; Third-grade: Carther Tanner 32nd. Fourth-grade: Tommy Carter 9th; Zachary Walton 18th. Fifth-grade: Travis Gervais 4th; Dylan Martin 7th; Caleb Smith 11th; Jason Marcum 40th. Sixth-grade: Jason Elzinga 3rd; Paul Carter 12th; Logan Tanner 22nd; Kimball Snapp 30th.
Nebo School District Team Results: Art City Elementary School 3rd Place; Hobble Creek Elementary 11th; Reagan Academy 9th.
The team earned 20 points which reflects an amazing team effort. Everyone on the team contributed to this result, by challenging each other and learning together throughout the year. Congratulations to everyone in the Art City Elementary Chess Club! Thanks to all the parent volunteers and coaches who helped over the last several months.


The pressure on truck capacity is coming from all angles.
A shortage of qualified drivers could be the most serious concern. The American Trucking Associations estimates the industry will need 890,000 new drivers over the next decade – an average of 89,000 per year – to replace those who will be retiring and to keep pace with freight growth.
Transportation companies wield pricing power, as freight demand is outstripping capacity. The DAT North American Freight Index was up 18% year over year in June. Monthly spot market rates in DAT's network of load boards increased 29% and contract rates were up 19% for vans during the same period.
Raising prices is not the only solution to capacity shortages, however. To create more capacity from available resources, transportation companies are pulling new levers by using business intelligence, route planning, and asset management technologies.
Truckload refrigerated carrier Navajo Express is focused on growing its dedicated and regional operations by increasing asset utilization and home time for drivers. Currently, about 50% of its refrigerated business is dedicated and the remaining half is split evenly between regional and over-the-road operations.
In April of 2018, the company implemented a new business intelligence tool from MapGraphiX to give office staff key metrics and data visualizations to make load planning decisions that positively impact driver retention and network profitability.
According to Don Digby Jr., President of the Denver-based company, which operates more than 1,000 trucks and 3,100 trailers, Navajo Express has done a better job of breaking down their numbers with the help of tools. People want to do the right thing, but they need to know how to do the right thing.
The company decided to invest in the technology after enforcement of the electronic logging device (ELD) rule had leveled the playing field. Navajo Express has been running electronic logs since July 2008.
MapGraphiX creates map visualizations by pulling data and insights from multiple sources. One is its Netwise application from TMW Systems, which forecasts where the company's trucks and loads will be in the next five days based on historical shipping patterns.
Says Tim Staroba, Navajo Executive Vice President, the information is used to understand if the company is putting too much or too little capacity in certain markets. The system is able to tell what capacity will look like in the future based on customer patterns and current freight in the systems and where trucks will be landing.
The MapGraphiX software also extracts dwell times at customers and other relevant data from the company's mainframe Innovative Enterprise Software (IES) platform, also from TMW Systems.
Since April, Navajo Express has improved its operating ratio by four points and reduced driver turnover. Going forward, Digby says the technology will be helpful to strategically match customers to its network in terms of driver friendliness, transit times, dwell times and other important criteria.
GPS-based breadcrumb reports have been a staple in fleet management technologies for years, but the utility of these reports is limited to assessing past performance. To identify where and when capacity will become available requires tools that deliver forward-looking information.
New route-planning technology can accurately predict arrival times at planned stops. This information is useful for identifying loads that will be late and for eliminating guesswork and manual data entry in the trip-planning process for drivers.
As part of the load planning process, fleets typically require drivers to send macro messages to update their projected time available (PTA). Drivers make PTA estimates by considering future transit times, hours-of-service breaks, fuel stops and detention times for loading and unloading.
According to Ray West, Senior Vice President and General Manager of TMW Systems' transportation management software (TMS) product lines, load planners and dispatchers use the driver PTA estimates to assign work. If the PTAs are inaccurate — and they often are — carriers miss opportunities to assign drivers an extra pickup or delivery that have available time.
Without a solid ETA, dispatchers and load planners are hesitant to make a load assignment by not knowing if a driver will make it for not he says adding, their reluctance may be contributing to turnover. For drivers, one of the most frustrating things is waiting for the next load.
TruETA is an integrated cloud-based planning tool from TMW Systems that accurately and automatically calculates ETAs for loads and driver PTAs, he says. The tool does this using locations and hours-of-service data from mobile communication units and trip details from carriers' TMS systems — stops, average dwell times and more.
West explains that the tool recalculates ETAs continuously for locations on a truck route with every position update from the mobile communication system; with the most recent version of TMW TruETA, customers can save time money by detecting out-of-route and out-of-corridor events.
To make the most of available capacity, fleets are also using advanced systems that simultaneously evaluate all possible combinations of driver, equipment and loads in a network and factor in all capacity constraints.
TMW Systems offers MatchAdvice, an automated load planning software for truckload carriers. The software determines optimal driver and capacity resources for loads to deliver the best solution for the entire network. For truckload operations, the software will free up capacity otherwise undetected. For companies with multi-stop routes, the TMW FinalMile software finds the optimal route plan and sequence of stops that maximizes use of available capacity.
Transervice, an asset-based third-party logistics provider based in Lake Success, New York, uses TMW FinalMile software to create consistent schedules for drivers and cost-saving solutions for customers, says Tom Poduch, the company's Senior Director of Logistic Design and Technology.
Where possible, the company sends drivers work assignments and routes in advance. On a quarterly basis, the company will eliminate all existing distribution, delivery point or resource constraints and perform "what if" scenarios. The resulting analysis will evaluate different cost-saving scenarios, such as having more flexible time windows for pickups and deliveries, and share the results with customers.
Poduch indicates there is a desire to share all of findings, results and data with clients to help client partners succeed, and identify potential gaps that can be filled.
Transportation providers also use advanced software to increase capacity by consolidating loads and using all transportation modes and routing options.
The 3Gtms software system is primarily used by freight brokers and third-party logistics firms. A feature in the system consolidates inbound and outbound orders from multiple shippers at consolidation points, such as a local warehouse, and routes the orders in larger volume shipments, says Chuck Fuerst, Vice President of Marketing for 3Gtms.
When making deliveries, drivers often lose productive time unloading or searching for empty trailers to take to their next load appointments. If no empty trailers are available, office personnel may begin cold calling other customers in the area to locate empty trailers.
Some motor carriers and logistics providers are keeping drivers moving to create more capacity by effectively managing trailer pools.
U.S. Xpress equips its trailers with a tracking system from SkyBitz with cargo sensors. One of the nation's largest truckload carriers, the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company is using the information to predict when trailers will be unloaded and ready for pickup, says Aaron Woods, the company's Manager of Trailer Management.
The SkyBitz system is integrated with U.S. Xpress' custom transportation management system and with a mapping software tool from ESRI. With the ESRI software, Wood sets up geofences for tracking arrivals, departures, turnaround times and trailer inventories by customer location and by geographical planning regions.
Woods stresses that the big thing that bites any carrier is having loaded trailers going into markets with no loaded freight out.
The company is managing trailer counts in each planning region to maintain the balance of trailer capacity in its freight network. At times, U.S. Xpress will use secondary carriers and railroads to reposition its trailers in its network, he says.
In the three years U.S. Xpress has been using the SkyBitz trailer tracking system, its trailer count has gone from 17,000 to approximately 14,000 by increasing efficiency and capacity in its network, Wood says.
With the SkyBitz system, U.S. Xpress can also identify trailers at locations that have not moved for an extended period. These events signal possible mechanical defects on trailers that cause drivers to not hook up. U.S. Xpress is also increasing trailer capacity by monitoring their use by the third-party carriers and shippers that have interchange agreements.
The system tracks where trailers are picked up, dropped and how many miles they moved. With this information, the U.S. Xpress can efficiently bill carriers for authorized or non-authorized use of its trailers.
Current market conditions make it easy for transportation companies to raise rates, but some are chasing a bigger opportunity. Navajo Express, for instance, is using its technology to identify customers, freight and lanes that are strategically aligned with its network to improve efficiency and driver satisfaction.
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A good diet, exercise and great friends are the key ingredients in making it to 108 years old, according to Marjorie Kinne.
She said when she turned 100, she never dreamt she would go on for another eight years.
But now at 108 she still walks to the shops, goes to church and does the crossword in the i newspaper everyday. And she 'has a better social life than most of us'.
The 108-year-old who was dressed elegantly and looked years younger said she felt 'blessed' on her birthday yesterday (August 1).
She was surrounded by family and friends at Joan Nightingale House in Haywards Heath – the sheltered housing where she lives.
She told the Middy: "I feel a bit overwhelmed. I feel very happy, I am very fortunate, I think I have been blessed.
Reaching 100 – that was wonderful, I never dreamt I would go on another eight years.
Marjorie said she has had a 'fulfilling life'. She had a 'very happy marriage' to her late husband Cecil, who died in his 80s.
Marjorie was born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, and moved over to Haywards Heath when her husband Cecil retired.
The couple had three daughters; Myra, now aged 83, Cecile, 81, and Denise, 78. They had six grandchildren, who are in their 50s, and nine great-grandchildren.
Having lived through two world wars she still remembers the soldiers marching past the house she was in during the First World War.
Her son-in-law David Neilson, 82, said: "She is amazing. She does the crossword in the i newspaper everyday. I used to think that it was the quality scotch whisky she liked to have!
"But really it is the fact that she is still interested. She has always been very into politics and current affairs. She watches news programmes.
"She is also conscious of her appearance, she is impeccably dressed every day.
Marjorie's granddaughter Claire Barnes, 57, said her nanna was always told by her grandmother to eat the vegetables first on her plate. "She has always been conscious about eating healthy," she said.
"Seeing her at 108 it makes me feel young! I never feel like I am getting old and think I have still got 50 years to sort my life out!
Marjorie, who was born on August 1, 1910, worked in retail. Her first job was at a fish shop when she was 14, her family said.
Manager Linda Pither has looked after Marjorie at Joan Nightingale House for three years. She said: "It is amazing really, she is just so active and independent.
"She is one of two of our oldest tenants. Another lady is coming up 109, it is lovely to have both of them here. Marjorie is fantastic, she has a better social life than most of us!
Oldest in Britain website says it is believed there are around 75 people in the country aged over 108.
Marjorie is among the oldest in the county.


Turbo Roaster is the new way to cook moist, tender and juicy chicken or turkey in half the time. Yes, Chef Tony is back with the most amazing kitchen product he's ever pitched. Imagine serving a delicious 6 pound chicken your whole family will love, cooked to perfection in just 45 minutes.
The secret is turbo-roasted flavor infusion.
It delivers heat and moisture to the inside of the chicken, so it cooks quickly without drying out. Just add liquid, place the turbo tube into the chicken and roast for 45 minutes. Your chicken will be moist and beautifully browned, but prepared in half the time.
Cook a 24 pound turkey in 2 hours.
A large turkey could take 5 hours or more to cook. With the Turbo Roaster, that turkey is perfectly prepared in 2 hours, even stuffed. And even the breast will be moist and juicy.


Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Museum purchase.
In 2007, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth hosted Ron Mueck, featuring the artist's figures that are extraordinarily realistic, except in scale – they are always depicted much smaller or larger than life. The exhibition broke attendance records for the Museum as Mueck's stunning works became a must-see for visitors from across the region. Now a decade later, Ron Mueck returns to the Modern for a special project showcasing six major works created between 2008 and 2018, including two sculptures making their North American debut.
Photo: Patrick Gries. Copyright Ron Mueck.
Spanning painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, Kamrooz Aram's work investigates the complex relationship between Western modernism and classical non-Western art. By highlighting their formal connections, he reveals the typically downplayed role that non-Western art and design have had in the development of modernism and its drive toward abstraction. Challenging the traditionally Euro-centric narrative established by art history, Aram's work sets forth to disrupt this perceived hierarchy by merging and equalizing Western and non-Western forms. The artist will present all new work for this exhibition.
Known for his collaborations with pop icon Kanye West and fashion house Louis Vuitton, and for vibrant anime-inspired characters, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami blurs the boundaries between high and low culture, ancient and modern, East and West. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, this major retrospective features 50 paintings that span three decades of Murakami's career, from the artist's earliest mature works to his recent, monumentally scaled paintings.
The exhibition shows how Murakami's art is rooted in traditions of Japanese painting and folklore, and highlights the artist's careful attention to craft and materials. It also showcases his astute eye for the contemporary influences of globalization, media culture, and the continued threats of nuclear power.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a major survey of works by Laurie Simmons, organized by Andrea Karnes, senior curator, with full support of the artist. This exhibition will showcase the artist's photographs spanning the last four decades, from 1976 to the present, a small selection of sculpture, and two films.
Simmons's career-long exploration of archetypal gender roles, especially women in domestic settings, is the primary subject of this exhibition and is a topic as poignant today as it was in the late 1970s, when she began to develop her mature style by using props and dolls as stand-ins for people and places.


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If you're no stranger to snow, then an ice dam on your roof is a dangerous seasonal possibility.
An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a roof and prevents melting snow from draining off the roof. From gutter damage to unintended injuries, an ice dam can spell disaster. Fortunately, ice dams can be easily mitigated if you take steps to prevent them from forming or if you remove them as soon as they start to form.
Where do Ice Dams Occur: Ice dams happen in certain conditions--and they're more likely to form on some homes than others. Learn if yours is at risk.
Understanding the Dangers of Ice Dams: Take a deeper look as to why ice dams are bad for both the interior and exterior of your home.
How to Prevent Ice Dams from Forming: What can you do to reduce the chances of an ice dam forming?
How to Remove an Ice Dam from Your Home: Despite your best efforts, ice dams can still form. How to get rid of them safely and efficiently.
If you've ever been tasked with removing an ice dam from your home, you might have wondered how the ice dam formed in the first place.
An ice dam is a ridge of ice that, once formed, blocks snow and moisture from escaping a given area. To form, the dam requires the perfect temperature conditions and a bed of snow. Temperatures at the snow's highest point must reach above freezing 32 degrees, while areas at the base of the snow must be below freezing.
If these conditions exist, the snow in higher area — above 32 F — will begin to melt and run downhill. When it does, this water will then come into contact with the colder snow and turn to ice. This ice then blocks the way for additional melting moisture to escape, making the dam grow larger and larger.
As the dam keeps growing, it will only continue to add ice in areas that are below freezing. Once the water backs up into the region where freezing temperatures are no longer present, that water will search for other places to escape — including into a home.
Where do ice dams most commonly form?
Ice dams require very specific conditions to form successfully. Yet those conditions are usually more common than you may think.
The slanted roofs on many homes are ideal staging areas for ice dams, particularly if the lower half of the roof is shaded by another section of the roof or the home itself.
Temperature conditions inside the home can play a part in ice-dam formation as well. In many cases, the warm air rising to the ceiling inside the home also warms the roof. This heat keeps the higher portion of the roof warm. Meanwhile the lower portion—which is designed to hang away from the house—stays cool. This creates the ideal conditions for an ice dam to form. Areas of your house that are shaded tend to get more ice dams since the sun isn't present to melt the damage.
The icicles hanging from your roof give your home that iconic winter appearance.
Their appearance, however, means something else if you recognize them for what they are: a tell-tale sign of an ice dam. If you have an ice dam on your property, you need to eliminate it as quickly as possible.
What makes ice dams dangerous?
Ice dams are formed by winter moisture trapped in a specific area, such as a crux in the home's roof. The potential for damage exists wherever this water collects. An ice dam can also spread water and ice on the ground beneath it, creating hazardous walking conditions along the home's exterior. Those beautiful icicles pose another very real danger to anyone walking beneath them.
Most often, however, the greatest danger posed by ice dams is to the home's gutter system. While any of these potential hazards is reason enough to remove ice dams from your home, the danger posed by ice dams to the home's interior is usually the most detrimental and expensive.
When an ice dam forms, it applies pressure on the structure and channels water from the home's exterior through the building's envelope (the term used to describe the home's roof, exterior walls and floor). Once water has entered this space, it becomes more difficult to detect and remove.
Rotting in the home's roof decking, exterior and/or interior walls, and rafters.
Mold growth, which can affect the health of people in your home.
Peeling paint caused by the presence of water in the wall cavity. This damage can actually appear after the ice dam has disappeared if the water remains and festers in the wall.
Reduction in the effectiveness of the home's insulation. Wet insulation performs poorly compared to dry insulation; if the insulation becomes wet enough, it may never dry out correctly.
Removal of an ice dam should be an immediate to-do for homeowners. While the icicles may be beautiful, they're also a warning sign of problems that lie beneath.
Preventing ice dams from forming should be the goal of any homeowner in a cold-weather climate. Fortunately, there are quite a few things you can do when it comes to preventing ice dams from forming on your home. Control your home's temperature Ice dams require certain temperature conditions in order to form, so it's to your benefit to prevent them from occurring. For starters, avoid heating your roof or attic. The heat emitted from a roof or attic can melt the snow on the roof, and that can help form an ice dam. Eliminating this heat waste is also a helpful energy saver that can lower your utility bills. To prevent your home's heat from leaking through the roof, inspect the attic's insulation. The same insulation that blocks cold air from coming into the home can stop warm air from reaching the roof. Your attic's insulation should be 12 inches thick, though 15 to 20 inches is recommended if you live in an area with especially harsh winters. This is also a good time to check your attic's ventilation capabilities. They should let cold air enter the attic and let any warm air that enters escape — preferably rapidly. When warm air lingers in the attic, it can heat the roof and lead to the formation of ice dams. Prevent extra, unnecessary sources of heat Properly insulating your attic is the first and most important step to keeping your roof cool and preventing ice dams. Yet there are other things you can do when it comes to preventing ice dams from forming. For starters, contact an HVAC professional and ask him or her to inspect your system. You should schedule this check-up every fall to make sure your furnace is ready for the winter and to ensure the system is ventilating properly. Furnace or bathroom vents that accidentally leak heat into the attic will only make ice-dam formation more likely. You can also use this time to inspect any other openings to your attic, such as pipes or cable holes. Take the opportunity to apply caulk or sealant to these areas if necessary. This will prevent additional warm air from seeping into your attic, which can go a long way toward keeping your roof safe and dry for another winter season. In the final post, learn what to do if you an ice dam still manages to form on your house.
Icicles are hanging from the roof, the ground is slick beneath your feet and you can spot snow, ice and debris above your head. The telltale signs are all there: You have an ice dam.
The short answer, of course, is to remove the ice dam. An ice dam is simply too dangerous to be ignored.
Before you remove an ice dam, you first must determine whether you will tackle the task yourself or hire a professional. Here's what to consider when it comes to both options.
It may seem counterintuitive, but the best way to remove an ice dam is to first focus on the snow. Ice dams require specific conditions to form, and the snow on your roof supports these conditions by acting as an insulator.
Start the ice-dam-removal process by using a roof rake to pull snow from your roof to the ground. Use a telescopic roof rake and try to remove the three to four feet of snow closest to the edge of your roof.
Once you've removed the snow, you'll see the ice formation underneath. Use a ladder to reach this area and apply an ice melt product like calcium chloride. If you don't have a ladder or you're not interested in climbing one, you can also use throwable ice-melt solutions. These products, which are the size of small plates, are specifically designed to be thrown up on the roof to melt ice in hard-to-reach places.
Applying an ice-melt product is the safest, most efficient way to remove an ice dam from your home. Under no circumstances should you ever try to melt the ice with fire or chip away at the ice with an axe, pick, screwdriver or similar object. Doing so will only expose you to injury and your home to damage.
If you'd feel better leaving your ice-dam-removal project to the experts, head online to hire a contractor in your area. Look for one who will remove the ice dam using low-pressure steam as opposed to high-pressure washing, which can damage your roof.
Low-pressure steam may be expensive. But if you're okay with the higher cost, hiring a professional will spare you from having to tackle one of winter's most notorious weather issues.
Another way to protect your home during winter is by having the right homeowners insurance. Find out which coverage you need and get a free quote by calling Royal Insurance Agency.


Lawn bowling rules aren't very well known to many kids in the U.S., but in Europe, lawn bowling is quite popular. If you know anything about bocce rules, you'll see the games are somewhat similar.
Lawn bowling is played by 2 teams of 1-4 players who try to earn points by throwing their "bowls" (balls) up the green so that they land closest to a small target ball called a "Jack."
Lawn bowls, as it is officially called, is played on a square area usually measuring 120' on each side. This area, known as a bowling green, is surrounded by a shallow ditch. The surface of the playing area is usually grass, but may be a sand-clay mixture or other artificial surface like carpet.
The green is divided into 6 rectangular "rinks" which allow 6 games to take place at one time. The rinks measure 120' long by 20' wide.
These balls vary in size between 4.5" to 5.5" in diameter and weigh no more than 3.5 pounds. They are made of a very hard, heavy wood or hard plastic material, and they come in a wide range of colors.
Lawn bowls are not spherical; they bulge out slightly on one side so that they follow a curved path when they are rolled.
The curved path of the ball helps bowlers maneuver their way past other bowls. Bowls can curve about 4' to the side of the bulge over a distance of 100'. There is a mark on the ball to show the heavier side that has the "bias."
The Jack is the target ball. It's white or yellow, about 2.5" in diameter, and weighs about 10 ounces.
Players must stand with at least one foot on a rubber mat, 14" x 24" in size, when delivering their bowl. The mat is placed on the center line no less than 4' from the rear ditch and 82' from the front ditch. The player who throws the Jack determines where the mat is played for that round, or "end."
The first player, the "lead," delivers the Jack. If the Jack doesn't travel at least 75 feet from the front edge of the mat or land inbounds, it's rolled by the other team. The Jack must be centered on the rink, which means it is moved to the center line while keeping it at the same distance it traveled. If it stops within 6.5' from the front edge of the rink, it has to be moved to the center line 6.5' out.
The Jack becomes the target for the bowlers.
After the lead player rolls the Jack, he rolls two balls. Then the other team rolls two balls, and play continues in this manner until all of the balls have been played.
The bowl may travel outside the boundaries of the rink as long as it comes to rest within the boundaries.
An end is complete when the Jack and all bowls by all players have been rolled. The ball that lands nearest the Jack is called "the shot." When all of the bowls have been played, the number of "shots" is counted.
Players deliver their bowls from one end of the rink and then the other, alternating back and forth from end to end until the game is finished.
A team gets 1 point for each of its balls that is closer to the Jack than the closest opponent's ball.
The team that scores in one end rolls first in the next end.
Games are usually played to 21 points.
The Jack can be moved by the bowls during play. If a bowl hits a Jack, the Jack remains in its new position even if it is knocked into the ditch. If it goes in the ditch, play continues with bowlers trying to get their bowls as close as possible to the Jack at the edge of the green without falling into the ditch.
The bowl which moves the Jack is marked with chalk and called the "Toucher." If it touches the Jack before falling into the ditch or if it is later knocked into the ditch by another bowl, it's considered "live" and may be included in the final point count.
A live ball is any ball that is delivered inbounds.
goes into the ditch without touching the Jack.
comes to rest out of bounds.
is knocked out of bounds by another ball.
stops within 45' of the mat.
This is the most common shot, and it's really what the game is about. With the draw, the player attempts to deliver his bowl as close to the Jack as possible to earn a point.
With this shot, the bowler attempts to roll the bowl a yard or two past the Jack.
This shot is thrown with more force than the Yard On with the intent to knock the opponent's bowls from their location or move the Jack to the ditch.
This shot is delivered with full force so the bowl will strike its target with maximum impact. The object of this shot is to completely remove an opponent's bowls from the rink or drive the Jack into the ditch.
Use bean bag balls for a fun indoor lawn bowling game that wont mess up your walls.
Use other kinds of balls like soccer balls, softballs, or basketballs.
Use balls you can kick and only use your feet to deliver the balls.
To make teams more even, have some players use their weaker hand.
If you hit the Jack, you get bonus points (or you lose points).
These are just a few easy ways to change up the lawn bowling rules to fit your needs. Hopefully, they'll give you some ideas for adapting the game to make it more fun for your group.
We've got lots more exciting kids sports activities that include ball and target games likes lawn bowling!


(ECNS) – In China, there are a few ethnic groups that haven't been officially recognized, and Chuanqing is one of them.
But on May 5, Guo Dan, a woman from the Chuanqing ethnic group, finally received her new ID card with her nationality on it.
"I feel proud of my ethnic identity," said Guo, who moved from Guizhou province to Danling county of Sichuan province after she married a local man.
As Chuanqing isn't among the official list of China's 56 ethnic groups, it has caused some registration problems for those belonging to the group. Some local authorities would ask Chuanqing people to fill in "Han" in the ethnicity column to avoid potential troubles, according to Guo.
Chuanqing people are mainly found in western Guizhou province, with a population of about 670,000. The Chinese government listed them as one of the unrecognized ethnic groups, even though historically, they are a Han subgroup.
Guo said except those who live in remote mountains, most Chuanqing people share the same culture and language with local Han nationality.


North Korean leader Kim Jong-un finds himself in the company of female soldiers from Korean People's Army Unit 4302 while on a visit to the Three-Revolution Red Flag Kamnamu (persimmon tree) Company.
A flight drill of the Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 2620 is supervised by Kim Jong-un.
Accompanied by female soldiers, Kim Jong-un guides the multiple-rocket launching drill of Korean People's Army Unit 851.
Kim Jong-un flashes a smile at women during his inspection of Unit 1016 of Air and Anti-Air Force.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gets an emotional reception from the women's national soccer team, winners of the East Asian Football Federation's (EAFF) East Asian Cup championship in Seoul, South Korea in 2013.


Our problem is that the Image doesn't appear in the search.
Did you rebuild the index after setting those properties on the manufacturers, or have you created an index?
This is how our smart search index is done.
Did you specify that index in the search webpart and results?
Yes, (i'm Miguel's coworker) we showed the Search Preview example under the Smart Search > Index app, so we shouldn't need to set those.
However, we've tested this with other types of index and it was not a problem, it may well be an issue with this index type and object?


Every year I have a Secret Santa gift exchange with some of my oldest friends, from elementary school. I feel lucky to still know them all, and on top of that, I felt lucky to draw Jane, my super-cool crafty friend who I knew would appreciate a handmade gift.
While I felt guilty that, as her knitting teacher, I did not buy her anything knitty - I tried to make up for it with a handmade yoyo necklace.
Now, my friend Martina has been making these for years, and hers are of superior quality and style (you can see them at her blog, here). Nevertheless, I gave it a shot, making a five-yoyo cluster to be worn as a pendant.
If you yourself would like to make a yoyo, hit up Heather Bailey's pretty instructions.


Fact: I've been using the same purse every day for the past four years. I remembering being pretty proud of myself for being able to afford it at the time and bought it as a reward for getting through my very first busy season at work. ;) I'm not the kind of person to switch out my bag with each outfit so I had no problem investing a pretty penny (well, in my opinion) in my current bag - price per use tends to be my rationalization for most things I buy. These days, I generally just throw my wallet into my diaper bag whenever I'm out anywhere with Ellie and leave my purse at home. However, I do venture out of the house sans diaper bag occasionally (like to work) and would love to mix it up a bit! I don't want to spend another small fortune on the bag and care much less about brand names than I did at the time I bought my last one - although, I do have to admit that my current one is definitely still in great shape, especially for getting so much use. I'm undecided on a style, color, or size because I've seen so many cute ones that I like, but here are some of the ones I'm loving - all under $50!
I'm definitely leaning towards neutral colors so it will go with everything. Number five's reversible which is extra cool because it's like two bags in one! ;) Any suggestions for a new budget friendly bag? I'd love to hear! Happy Friday Eve!!


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More details on T-Mobile-Costco arrangement are revealed
Written by Technology
As a follow up to last week's report that Costco will be running a pilot program that will sell T-Mobile's products in its stores, an update has been released. The T-Mo Report revealed that the Un-carrier will be the exclusive wireless provider in 178 Costco stores.
The publication shared documents detailing this new move from the Un-carrier. The documents reveal that "managers at nearby corporate-owned T-Mobile stores will be sending some of their employees to these Costco locations." This is because actual T-Mobile corporate employees will now be manning these stores to sell the Un-carrier's products. As such, they no longer have to rely on a third-party vendor like Wireless Advocates.
One of the good things about this arrangement is that T-Mobile will be waiving its $35 Device Connection Charge for customers who will be making a transaction in these stores. There will also be a 90-day return window on purchases made at Costco, which is two months more compared to regular purchases made at T-Mobile.
It's important to note, though, that all device orders at Costco are currently "Ship-To" basis. This means that the devices will be shipped to their address at home.
Aside from purchasing devices at Costco, T-Mobile customers will also be able to purchase Home Internet plans. The report also believes that T-Mobile Business customers will be able to handle their accounts at these stores. But this is not yet official.
Now that the details have been planned out, T-Mobile will be covering 21% of the total Costco stores around the country. Right now, there are 847 Costco stores in operation. It's possible that this is simply a temporary arrangement while T-Mo is trying to get an exclusive contract with Costco since some stores are currently serving AT&T customers exclusively too.
Source: The T-Mo Report
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Workers Aid for Bosnia: the Heaton connection
Heaton History Group member, Peter Sagar, has previously described how Smajo Beso and his family came from war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s to find a warm welcome in Heaton. This was not the only way Heaton helped the people of Bosnia in the Balkans conflicts, as Peter explains:
During the year-long 1984/5 strike, miners, including thousands in the north east, had enjoyed support from many different quarters. They included the Bosnian town of Tuzla, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. When that republic imploded less than ten years later, it was time for grateful people in this country to return the compliment. So Workers Aid for Bosnia was established and the key organiser in the north east was a man who lived in Heaton: Tony Parker.
The inaugural meeting of Workers' Aid for Bosnia was held in London in 1993, partly in response to the lack of action from our government to a war in Europe which had been raging for over a year by then. Bob Myers, who was there, reports that 'about 60 people came to the meeting and for the first time I heard Bosnian people, mostly refugees, talking about the war. One woman in particular started to make me think. She explained that from 1984-5, when the British miners had been on strike, Tuzla miners, themselves desperately poor, had given a day's pay every month for their comrades in Britain'. That was when it was decided that, with the people of Bosnia suffering terrible food shortages and other privations, it was time to repay the debt.
At the time Tony Parker, who had been a shipyard worker at Swan Hunter's, lived in Heaton and was the chair of Heaton Labour Party. He worked at Wallsend People's Centre. Amer Ratkusic reports that Tony attended an important fundraising meeting in Manchester in 1994, where it was decided how aid would be transported to Bosnia.
In the book, TAKING SIDES; against ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, which documents the way that people in Britain and other countries helped Bosnians during their darkest hours, it is noted that in all there were 15 convoys of aid to Tuzla and other places in Bosnia. It is a great testimony to the work done by Tony that four of these convoys included lorries specifically from Tyneside. That is in addition to lorries and convoys from other parts of the UK which will have included contributions from Tyneside. This way, a lot of food and clothing from places such as Heaton made its way to Tuzla, a place which saw its share of brutal and callous violence.
The worst atrocity took place on 25 May 1995 during commemorations of former President Tito's birth and Youth Day in the former Yugoslavia. It was a beautiful spring day and the local basketball team had just won a regional tournament. Although they did not have money like they did in other parts of Europe or for that matter had had in Tuzla a few years earlier, hundreds of young people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds gathered in a square in the centre of the town to enjoy being together and to celebrate. But a single shell from Serbian forces soon shattered this celebratory scene. The shell hit the square, killing 72 young people.
The fear of further shelling meant that the young people were buried under the cover of darkness. Normally they would have been buried in separate cemeteries, for Muslims and Orthodox, for Catholics or atheists. On this occasion the distraught families decided to send a message to the men of hate. It is reported that the families and loved ones of the murdered young people, 'decided to bury them together in a public park to show the world, that knew only 'ethnic war', that they had all lived together and died together'.
Tony Parker wrote the following poem about the tragedy:
A spring may day, shattered by death
Gay young voices gasp a last breath
Evil struck from the hiss that day
In Tuzla town on 25th May
72 bodies lie bloody and shattered
Serb, Muslim, Croat – it hardly mattered
To the faceless men, dealers in pain
Clinical death through explosive rain
The innocent lie in a sunny town square
Cordite and coffee smells blend in the air
People stand silent, stare in disbelief
The rest of the town united in grief
Numbed by shock, they can only shed tears
For a lost generation of such tender years
Hate is the reaper, he gathers his crop
When hate is abandoned, the killing can stop.
It was in response to these kinds of tragedy that Tony Parker and others continued to work hard to put together convoys of aid for the people of multicultural Tuzla.
The convoys which specifically included lorries from Tyneside were the eighth convoy in December 1994, the tenth in August 1995, the eleventh in September 1995 and the twelfth in December 1995. These convoys were often going through the areas were fighting was taking place and people like Tony Parker who joined them were putting their lives at considerable risk. They also carried hope along with the food and clothing. Some idea of the dangers faced and hope engendered can be seen in this description of the 10th convoy in August 1995, which included a lorry from Tyneside:
'Lorries from France, Spain, Ireland and Britain converged in Split. During a two day hold up on the Herceg-Bosnia border, the escalation of the war led to nervousness amongst the many 'first timers'. People listened for news bulletins. Rumours came and went. After we crossed into Bosnia the fears vanished.
The following night, in a queue of lorries waiting to be escorted down 'snipers alley', with young unshaven Bosnian soldiers outside preparing us for the blackout dash, it was possible to dream that maybe this convoy, with its trade union delegations and the growing protests over Srebrenica, might mark a real change. Maybe at last real allies were appearing on the horizon to support those tired, care worn faces, moving around outside in the dark and rain, defending their multicultural bastion.'
Some of the food on the lorries from Tyneside was collected outside the Kwik Save store on Chillingham Road. Tony and a colleague also provided administrative support for the local Bosnian club, based in the old Heaton Library.
Sadly, there was one lorry, which never got to Bosnia. In fact, it never got out of Wallsend. It was parked in a car park, waiting to be filled with much needed food and clothing, when it was burnt. It was reported that, 'the lorry was clearly marked as being an aid vehicle, which makes the actions of the arsonists even more difficult to comprehend….. if the aid is allowed to rot in a warehouse it will be a victory for those of sick mind', an attempt by one or two people to undo the hard work and kindness of so many more.
It has also been reported that a large number of Bosnians, including some who had been inmates at the notorious Omarska concentration camp, helped with the buying of a lorry in the north east. Others of their compatriots, who had stayed behind and been ethnically cleansed from their homes, joined the 17th Brigade of the Bosnian army to regain their homes. Heaton's Tony Parker wrote a poem about one of those in the 17th Brigade:
Man of the 17th
Darkness shrouds you once again
Creeping shadows across the plain
Falling shells make bright of the night
Illuminating faces touched by night
Tracers reflected in your eyes
Death dealing fireflies
Searching out a deadly path
Searing pain as aftermath
Barrage of death, will it cease?
Will the daylight bring release?
Thoughts of home flood your brain,
They carry you above the pain
Omarska camp is your inspiration
And now your thirst for liberation
Some day you will sit in the shade
And never have to be afraid
Peter has fond memories of a barbecue and party with the Bosnian community at Ouseburn City Farm in August 1994:
'I brought my guitar along and contributed a few songs, while the real musical entertainment came from a Bosnian playing the accordion. He played a number of tunes from home – and, of course, the obligatory Beatles tune! One of the Bosnians was a vet and ironically, he was the person who had acquired a lamb and prepared it for the barbecue. I well remember the deceased lamb busily going round on a spit, while other lambs were merrily going about their business in the farm. Meanwhile there was a sign up on a fence saying, "Barbecue for Bosnian refugees. NOT one of our lambs"!'
'Tony Parker and others from Heaton and beyond did a magnificent job of helping people in Tuzla in their darkest hours and repaying a debt from the miners' strike. The story is a timely reminder of what the best in the human spirit, our generosity, our empathy with those in need and our willingness to put our own personal safety aside in order to help others, can achieve when confronted by the worst of humanity. When other people needed support, Heaton responded.'
If you know more about anyone or anything mentioned in this article or have photographs or anecdotes you'd like to share, we'd love to hear from you. You can contact us either through this website by clicking on the link immediately below the article title or by emailing Peter Sagar at peter0462@gmail.com
TAKING SIDES; against ethnic cleansing in Bosnia
Interview with Amer Ratkusic
Researched and written by Peter Sagar, Heaton History Group.
This entry was posted in Research and tagged Chillingham Road, Heaton Library, Kwik Save, Tony Parker, Victoria Library on November 24, 2019 by oldheaton.
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Hi friends!!! OK, so there are a lot of great sales going on right now this week and yeah they will only get better through the holiday season! But, I wanted to share some of my picks from this week's sales on the blog. My picks are for the WHOLE family not just us ladies! So, with the holidays fast approaching get a head start on some fab finds! I listed when each sale ends, so you have that info! Codes if there are any, are in the post typed in bold italics! There are so many great things for the whole family or great buys for gifts for the upcoming season! Calvin Klein's sale with their extra 50% off sale price at the bottom is the one I am most excited about! Check it out!
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Is There Enough Space For Carbon Sequestration?
By Bradford Plumer
One ever-popular idea for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from coal plants is to capture the CO2 at the smokestack and bury it underground. Up until now, the biggest hurdle here has always been cost: While burning coal is relatively cheap (that is, if you ignore the pollution, the coal ash spills, and the devastation wrought by mountaintop mining…), sequestering CO2 can be pretty pricey—pricier than efficiency and even a lot of renewable power options. But now it turns out there may be another problem. It could prove exceedingly difficult to find space to store all that carbon underground:
A new research paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon in the fight against global warming.
The document from [the University of Houston] claims that governments wanting to use CCS have overestimated its value and says it would take a reservoir the size of a small US state to hold the CO2 produced by one power station.
Previous modelling has hugely underestimated the space needed to store CO2 because it was based on the "totally erroneous" premise that the pressure feeding the carbon into the rock structures would be constant, argues Michael Economides, professor of chemical engineering at Houston, and his co-author Christene Ehlig-Economides, professor of energy engineering at Texas A&M University.
"It is like putting a bicycle pump up against a wall. It would be hard to inject CO2 into a closed system without eventually producing so much pressure that it fractured the rock and allowed the carbon to migrate to other zones and possibly escape to the surface," Economides said.
The paper concludes that CCS "is not a practical means to provide any substantive reduction in CO2 emissions, although it has been repeatedly presented as such by others."
As Tom Laskawy notes, there are currently about 600 coal-fired power plants currently operating in the United States. If just one station needs a reservoir "the size of a small U.S. state," well, things could start to get mighty crowded.
Houston, Environment and Energy, The Vine, Christene Ehlig-Economides, Texas, Houston University, University of Houston, Texas A&M University, Michael Economides


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Some combs are used to groom hair, others to embellish and hold it in place. This decorative lady's hair comb dates from the nineteenth century. By the 1830s, the austere, classically inspired Empire or Regency fashions of the previous twenty years had been supplanted by exuberant gowns sporting large sleeves and broad skirts. Hairstyles changed in accordance with the fashion. The stylish woman, who formerly drew her hair back into a simple tight bun accentuated by a few demure side curls, now braided, teased, and lacquered her tresses into an elaborate coiffeur, often with an immense topknot. Long luxurious hair, whether plaited or piled high, was considered a mark of feminine beauty throughout the rest of the century. The glossy, translucent, mottled surface of this tortoiseshell comb, with cut filigree decoration of delicate scrollwork along its edges, would have provided a rich looking finishing touch.
Tortoiseshell is a luxury material prized for its warm-toned marbled surface, translucency and durability. It is the horny outer layer of a turtle shell, and usually comes from the Hawksbill species of sea turtle. Tortoiseshell was a natural precursor to synthetic plastics, and has been used in both Asia and the West for centuries. Thin sheets of the material could serve as a decorative veneer on furniture, or it could be employed to make a number of small practical and ornamental objects, like boxes or jewelry. It was softened and formed into a variety of shapes, like the compound curves of this comb, by heating and molding. As the molded tortoiseshell cooled, it would stiffen and retain its new form.
By the 1880s, simulated tortoiseshell made of celluloid, the first thermoplastic, became available. Less costly but as appealing as the real thing, imitation tortoiseshell combs and hair ornaments found a ready market. The success of celluloid and twentieth-century plastics that simulate tortoiseshell is fortunate, for although the trade in Hawksbill turtles was outlawed in the late twentieth century, it is now a critically endangered species due to decades of overfishing and harvesting for its shell.
Cynthia Trope is the Associate Curator of Product Design and Decorative Arts at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.


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