In a previous article I discussed the effects of estrogen on your body and subsequent weight gain. Then I followed with a discussion on cortisol, also known as the stress hormone.
This week I am going to assess how having a low functioning thyroid could be adding to your weight gain woes, even if all your blood levels come back normal.
Thyroid problems and weight gain can be directly linked. Thyroid issues develop over time. You may have been displaying signs of low thyroid function in your 30s or 40s but were able to push through it.
You were able to exercise a little more to lose any extra weight, or sleep in over the weekends to make up for any tiredness. You probably did not give these changes a second thought.
As you enter your late 40s, these symptoms tend to become more apparent because of any hormonal fluctuations that are also experienced during that time. You need to listen to your thyroid and the signs your body is receiving, and nurture your thyroid if you want to lose weight and gain energy.
Weight gain is typically linked to an under active thyroid because it slows down your metabolism. This results in weight gain and difficulty losing extra weight.
An under active thyroid gland, a condition referred to as hypothyroidism, is where your thyroid gland doesn't produce enough hormones. Common signs of an under active thyroid are tiredness, weight gain and feeling depressed.
Women's weight tends to fluctuate, especially when hormone levels are shifting, which happens as you approach menopause. Many women try to diet to counter this with unhealthy eating plans or a plan that does not address their thyroid, only to make things worse.
Eating the wrong foods can decrease your gut mobility, which slows down your metabolism and causes you to gain more weight. Then, when you find that you do not get the weight loss you were expecting, you revert back to your old eating habits.
Low thyroid function is associated with weight gain due to the fact that the thyroid gland controls fuel-efficiency and your metabolism. With too little thyroid, the fuel (your food) is burned at a lower rate. If meal sizes are the same, weight gain occurs.
Tiredness associated with low thyroid function also can find you too tired to exercise as much as you would like to, further adding to weight gain.
A note of caution: Although weight gain often occurs with hypothyroidism, it is a nonspecific change because increasing weight also occurs with decreased exercise, stress and as a side effect of many drugs.
So do not be quick to assume that you have an under active thyroid if you have gained weight or are unable to lose weight.
Estrogen dominance can decrease your thyroid activity by inhibiting the release of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH is a hormone secreted by your pituitary gland when your thyroid hormone levels are low. Low thyroid function can also cause progesterone levels to decrease.
An under active thyroid, referred to as hypothyroidism, can present with symptoms that are usually mild and nonspecific. Therefore, it can be easy to dismiss them at the start as not being particularly important. But this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Hypothyroidism stems from a problem with the thyroid gland, which reduces the amount of the hormone thyroxine it produces.
An under active thyroid can lead to fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, depression, constantly feeling cold and even hair loss. All of these can also be experienced during perimenopause and menopause. A common cause of hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's disease.
You do not have to have a disease of the thyroid to feel the effects of low thyroid function.
Many of my clients would be in tears with the tiredness and exhaustion they experience, yet blood tests come back normal, making them feel that they are going crazy. It certainly does not help when their doctor will not listen to what they are feeling and will only respond to blood tests.
What could be happening is a condition referred to as sub-clinical hypothyroidism where your thyroid is not working to its full potential but blood tests are coming back within normal ranges.
All your blood tests may come back normal but you are most certainly experiencing nearly every symptom associated with low thyroid function. Even low thyroid function can lead to weight gain, especially when it is interconnected with other hormonal issues.
If your thyroid is not functioning as well as it should be, all of your efforts to curb weight gain and achieve hormone harmony may be futile.
Hypothyroidism can occur at any stage in life but it most commonly occurs in women between the ages of 40 and 50. At this age, some women mistake their symptoms are just a part of the menopause or getting older.
Both perimenopause and hypothyroidism commonly occur in midlife women. Perimenopause is a phase that happens for all women and the incidence of hypothyroidism increases with increasing age, especially in women. Therefore, perimenopause and new onset hypothyroidism may occur together.
Here are top 5 tips to improve your thyroid function and help curb the battle of the belly fat.
A diet high in processed foods can cause inflammation in the body. It also inhibits the thyroid hormone conversion of T4 to T3, T3 being the active form that the body uses.
There is a strong connection between gluten reactions and the thyroid. Some people will be able to completely put their conditions into remission by going gluten-free, while others may need to dig a bit deeper. Eliminating gluten from your diet for 1-3 weeks can be of great benefit.
Two nutrients directly involved in thyroid function are selenium and zinc. Consuming a diet naturally rich in selenium and zinc is critical for maintaining a healthy thyroid and metabolism. These foods include brazil nuts, tuna, sardines, eggs and pumpkin seeds.
Get more Vitamin D into your body. This fat soluble vitamin is necessary for thyroid hormone production in the pituitary gland. So be sure to get out and bare your arms and legs at least 20 minutes a day, without UV protection to absorb essential Vitamin D.
Add a green smoothie to your diet. This is one of the best ways to make sure you are getting enough nutrients into your day. It is easy to make, easy to digest and packed full of vitamins and minerals that your body needs.
To make it even easier to find out more about the wonders of green smoothies, join the next Green Smoothie Challenge that starts on September 25th 2017. Click here if you would like to join me on the challenge. Your thyroid will thank you for it!
Do you think your thyroid is sluggish? Have you had any blood tests to ascertain if your thyroid function is low only to be told everything is fine? I would love to know what experience you have had. Let me know in the comments below.
Julie Dargan (RN, ND, BHSc) is the Menopause Whisperer. She assists women going through hormonal changes and want to live each day with confidence and enthusiasm. Her website http://menopausewhisperer.com was created to help women understand the menopause and how to halt the middle age spread.


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Fr D'Arcy – 'I'll quit Church if censured'
Greg Harkin – 23 October 2013 03:30 PM
BOOK: Fr Brian D'Arcy
FATHER Brian D'Arcy is prepared to quit the Church if he is censured by the Congregation of the Faith over his new book.
In his new book, Brian D'Arcy's Food for the Soul the cleric reveals that he almost walked away in the past – only for his mind to be changed by thousands of letters he received pleading with him not to give up the priesthood.
However, he has warned that if the Vatican attempts to censor his latest writings: "That would be it."
He explained: "The fact is there is nothing in it that Pope Francis hasn't said.
"I don't believe there would be any grounds for censoring me again or any attempt to shut me up.
"Pope Francis knows there is too much power and wealth in the Vatican; he's said all his life what I have said all of mine."
The Fermanagh-based cleric said the new pope recognised that "the Curia and clericalism is killing the Church."
"You just have to go back to John Paul II who banned even discussion of women priests," he added.
"That was evil. Simple as that. I have given 45 years to the church and I want to give more but if there is any attempt of censure over this book then that would be me finished. That would be it."
Writing in the introduction to his book, the 68-year-old says he has gone through "the most devastating faith-crisis of my life."
He admits he has been critical of the Church leadership's handling of the child sex abuse scandals but makes no apology for that, stating: "I was absolutely correct to do so. I am a survivor of clerical sex abuse myself," he said.
The book will be available in bookshops from early November according to Shane McCoy of Columba Press.
hnews@herald.ie

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Celso Álvarez Cáccamo (Vigo, Galiza, 1958) é um sociolinguista e professor.

Natural de Vigo, formou-se academicamente na Galiza, na Catalunha e nos Estados Unidos: na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (1975-1978), na Universitat Central de Barcelona (1978-1980, onde obteve a Licenciatura em Filologia Hispânica), na State University of New York at Buffalo (1982-1983, onde obteve o Máster em Língua e Literatura Espanhola) e na University of California at Berkeley (1983-1990, onde obteve o título de Doutor em Sociolinguística e Antropologia Linguística). É também Doutor em Filologia Hispânica.

Desde 1991 é professor de Linguística na Faculdade de Filologia da Universidade da Crunha. Em 1998 foi convidado como professor visitante no Departamento de Espanhol e Português da Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley.

Tem diversas publicações em português e inglês sobre sociolinguística, glotopolítica, variação linguística, análise do discurso e análise da conversa em revistas especializadas e volumes internacionais. Participou em projetos interdisciplinares sobre análise do discurso público nos meios de comunicação e sobre a interação no contexto educativo. Foi conferencista convidado na Universidade de Massachussets em Amherst (EUA), na Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, na Universidade de València, e na City University of New York, e participou em congressos e simpósios internacionais de linguística, sociolinguística, pragmática e antropologia.

Conta com mais de 160 colaborações sobre língua, cultura, política e sociedade em publicações periódicas e lugares digitais da Galiza, Portugal, Brasil e a Espanha. Foi fundador e gestor das listas de discussão eletrônica: Code-Switching e Socioling*. Leva também os lugares web Çopyright-pensamento, crítica e criação e Versão Original, que contém material audiovisual e documentos digitalizados sobre o debate linguístico na Galiza.

No âmbito da criação literária, publicou o livro de poesia Os distantes (Espiral Maior, 1995) e colaborou em vários volumes coletivos, entre eles Escolma de familia. Cen anos de poesía (Edicións Xerais de Galicia, 2000) e Poemas ao pai (Espiral Maior, 2008).

Obra
Obra poética
Os distantes, Espiral Maior, 1995,
Escolma de familia. Cen anos de poesía, Ed. Xerais, 2000 (Livro coletivo no qual participou com vários poemas)
Os passos da procura, Através editora, 2018

Ligações externas
Blogue do autor

Ver também
 Lista de autores de língua portuguesa

Naturais de Vigo
Escritores da Galiza
Professores da Espanha
Sociolinguistas

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What are the best sites online to learn about JAVA AWT/SWING event-handling components?
You want to know which sites are the best out there for learning JAVA AWT/SWING event-handling components, etc?
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Online Java Tutorial. It is the need of the hour as the world slowly get stable economy and the programming options and learnings are again started.
Java is a very powerful language to be used in designing web applications. Java is a product of sun microsystems and helps in desining standalone applications web, applications, custom applications, embedded system programming, mobile programming and so on.
If any one who want to make his career in computer software he has to be introduced to java. Such popular and powerful language it is. As per the different surveys and the feedbacks from the job consultancies we learn that the job opeinings for java lies between 40 to 60 percentage of total software openings are demanding programming skills in java.
Java lays the foundation for not only the programmers but also the testers when the write their scripting for automated testing. Learning java will help to achieve ones targets easily because of the inbuilt libraries it has, the security it provides, especially the platform independance.
There are several websites which provides tutorials for learning core java, advanced java, servlets, JSPs, architecture using frameworks like struts, hibernate, spring and so on. These sites will provide discussion forums where we can post our queries and the experts will post the answers to it. When registered with the site we will get regular mails on java updates, new examples added, We can also provide feedback to the site as it conains the feedback.
You are new to Java that helps improve the web page design and you need to learn in order to better your skills. Java experts post there analysis in the form of Java tutorials and a lot of documentation has been done that could be referred back. It is vital for beginners to get all essential knowledge that is required to make perfect functional Java programs and equally important for advanced learners to get tips for a more enhanced approach towards Java programming.
Online Java tutorials are far more effective learning options today for learners wanting to have knowledge on Java Platform which is a hardware or software environment in which a program runs. In the online java tutorials we have already mentioned some of the most popular platforms like Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris OS, and Mac OS. Most platforms can be described as a combination of the operating system and underlying hardware. More information on this is available online, thus saving your time in looking for books containing more of a limited resource.


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Q: How to select time ranges in android? I know I can use TimePicker to select time in android. But, I have to pick a time interval like from-to. Ex 03:00 AM-09:00 AM.
I have seen a something like in the following figure.

I came to know it is RangeSeekBar. I don't know how to use it to select time range and don't know how to set RangeValues to this RangeSeekBar. If anybody familiar with this custom widget means please do help me. At this moment I'm stuck in my project because don't know how to implement this. Thanks.

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Carr: Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit Secures Indictment in Gwinnett County
ATLANTA, GA — Attorney General Chris Carr today announced the office's Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit has secured the indictment of Demonte Engle on one charge of Trafficking of Persons for Sexual Servitude.
"Our Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit is proud to provide critical support to local law enforcement as they employ new and innovative methods for apprehending buyers before they reach potential victims," said Carr. "We understand that to end this cycle of abuse and exploitation, we must work together to identify, locate, arrest and prosecute those who would engage in this criminal industry. We look forward to seeking justice in court."
This indictment follows the successful completion of an undercover operation conducted by the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office Trafficking and Child Exploitation Unit with assistance from the Office of the Attorney General's Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.
The Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit presented evidence to a Gwinnett County grand jury, resulting in Engle's indictment* on Jan. 5, 2022. The indictment charges the defendant with the following which, if convicted, can carry the respective maximum penalties:
Trafficking of Persons for Sexual Servitude (O.C.G.A. 16-5-46 (c)) – life in prison
In 2021, the Attorney General's Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit initiated 25 cases, arrested 9 individuals, investigated and prosecuted 51 defendants, and rescued and assisted 107 victims.
*Members of the public should keep in mind that indictments contain only allegations against the individual against whom the indictment is sought. A defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and it will be the government's burden at trial to prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the allegations contained in the indictment.
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require 'workflowable/model_additions'

module Workflowable
  class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
    if defined?(ActiveRecord::Base)
      ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, Workflowable::ModelAdditions
    end

  end
end

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The EU's F-gas regulations are aimed at limiting their application and consequent emissions. Mike Nankivell, Chairman of the ACRIB F-gas group, gave a presentation on the latest update to the F-gas regulations at the recent CIBSE Building Performance Conference. Here he summarises the potential impacts of the latest revisions.
Although a year has passed since the government introduced tighter regulations on the use of Fluorinated gases (F-gases) to comply with EU's F-gas regulations, the refrigeration and air conditioning industry is still struggling to come to terms with the impact of the latest changes.
The latest (2015) revisions to the F-gas rules strengthened existing measures in relation to containment, recovery, certification and sale of F-gases; introduces additional bans on usage; a ban the servicing of certain equipment with high global warming potential (GWP) F-gases; and more critically, a phase down of HFCs in the EU to 21% of a 2014 baseline by 2030. The revisions are intended to help further reduce emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases, which are covered by the Kyoto protocol to limit global warming.
The air conditioning industry will have to adapt to the changes
The most common types of F-gas are hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which, unsurprisingly, contain hydrogen, fluorine and carbon. These are generally used in a variety of refrigeration applications including commercial refrigeration, industrial refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps.
The phase-down in HFC use is expected to have an impact on commercial refrigeration systems in particular because these systems tend to be charged with HFCs with the highest GWPs, for example, R404A which has a GWP of 3922. Under the new rules, from 2020 HFCs with global warming potentials of more than 2,500 will be phased-out in all refrigeration systems.
It should be noted that the phase-down still allows production of HFCs with a GWP lower than 2500 beyond 2030, and the regulation actively encourages recycling so it would be incorrect to presume that all HFCs will not be available beyond 2030. Where a system's refrigeration charge is recovered and cleaned, or recycled, it will fall under a different section of the new regulation that will allow its reuse. Where this is the case, its re-use will not be determined by the phase-down process.
The most common types of F-gas are found in a variety of systems including heat pumps
As a result of the F-gas regulations, refrigerant producers now have maximum quotas based on equivalent CO2 emissions (CO2e) rather than limits on the quantities of specific refrigerant types. Because of this, the presumption is that the production of lower GWP refrigerants, such as R410A and R134a, may increase in the short term. Although, in the longer term, even HFCs with lower GWPs will likely be phased out if the industry is to meet the 21% target.
Unhelpfully for the air conditioning and refrigeration industry, in particular specifiers and installers, refrigerant producers are not making clear the likely availability of F Gases such as R410A or R134a in the next five-to-10 year period as the phase-down starts to make its impact felt.
Over time, as the phase-down continues, currently common refrigerants, such as R134a, will need to be replaced by ultra-low GWP options such as ammonia or CO2 or perhaps hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs). HFOs, Like HFCs, contain hydrogen, fluorine and carbon but as they are derivatives of alkenes they have significantly lower GWP than HFCs and are not included in F Gas quota system.
Installers do not know the likely availability of F-gases ten years down the line
When considering any replacement refrigerant, a variety of properties should be assessed including: operating pressure, energy efficiency, materials compatibility, toxicity, flammability and cost. One of the biggest challenges for manufacturers looking for replacement refrigerants is that many of the alternatives that are currently available do not perform as well in the same application as the HFCs they are intended to replace. Hopefully, this situation will change with future advances in the refrigeration technology.
In direct expansion (DX) systems, R32 would appear to be the preferred option to replace R410A despite the industry standard BS EN 378:2008 Refrigerating systems and heat pumps safety and environmental requirements placing a limit on the size of the refrigerant charge. Currently R32 is being offered as an alternative refrigerant in smaller capacity systems. However, a revised version of the standard, which provides scope to relax the charge limits, is currently out for approval. If the revisions to the standard are adopted, then R32 could be offered as an alternative to R410A in larger capacity DX systems including variable refrigerant flow (VRF) solutions.
It is worth noting that both R32 and HFOs are classed as 'mildly flammable'. As a consequence, the revised version of BS EN 378 is set to include a new refrigerant category 'A2L' for such refrigerants.
Chillers are most likely to be affected by the new rules
Arguably, it will be chillers (charged with refrigerants covered by the HFC phase-down) and not DX systems that will be most impacted by the new F-gas rules. This is simply because the 25-year life expectancy of a chiller is greater than that of a DX system, which might be expected to last 15 years or so. At the moment it would appear that the safest choice of refrigerant for those looking to specify a chiller would probably be R134a, simply because R134a machines can generally be converted to use HFOs, which are not included in the F-gas phase-down.
The EU predicts the F-gas regulations will cut F-gas emissions by two-thirds by 2030, compared with 2014 levels. This legislation is aimed at stabilising CO2e levels of F-gas at roundabout the 100m tonnes by 2030. However, to achieve the EU's roadmap of cutting emissions by 80-95% by 2050 additional measures will be required. This suggests that at some time in the not too distant future the industry can expect a further tightening of the F-gas regulations. You have been warned.
Building Performance carbon reduction
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Hao Shi, a 2013 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology's physics program, was chosen as a recipient of the American Physical Society's LeRoy Apker Award. The premier national award recognizes outstanding achievement in physics by an undergraduate student in the United States.
The American Physical Society presents the annual award worth $5,000 to two students: one from a Ph.D.-granting institution and another from a non-Ph.D. granting institution. The society will recognize Shi's undergraduate research from RIT's non-Ph.D. granting program, and the work of Guy Geyer Marcus, the recipient from Wesleyan University's Ph.D. granting program, during a ceremony at the society meeting in Madison, Wis., slated for June 2–6, 2014. As Shi's nominating department, RIT's School of Physics and Astronomy will also receive a certificate and $5,000 to support undergraduate research.
The Apker Award recognizes Shi's undergraduate research in theoretical quantum and optical physics, and cites his work on "Torsional Optomechanics: A Dialogue Between Spinning Photons and Twisting Oscillators." Shi explored the quantum dynamics of optomechanical systems with his RIT research adviser and mentor, professor Mishkat Bhattacharya, and his secondary mentor, professor Edwin Hach III.
Shi submitted five papers during his undergraduate career at RIT. He was the first author on papers published in the Physical Review A, Journal of Modern Optics, and the Journal of Physics B, a co-author on a paper published in the American Journal of Physics and a co-author on a paper submitted to the Journal of the Optical Society of America A. Hao is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University. The research performed by Shi and Bhattacharya was partially supported by a grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Shi is originally from Xiamen, China.
In 1978, Jean Dickey Apker established the LeRoy Apker Award in the memory of her husband and colleague. Apker was an experimental physicist at General Electric Research Laboratory known for his research on the photoelectric effect in semiconductors and the photoelectric properties of potassium iodide.


Born in humble, poor surroundings.
First born Son so meek and mild.
Told by angels, joyous news.
Resting now with cows and ewes.
Swaddling clothes, a sign of glory.
Angels sing, their voices raise.
Share the news and give God praise.
Weighing thoughts within her heart.
Silent presence from the start.
Came the time for dedication.
Jesus was the baby's name.
He, who'd later suffer shame.
Had been held within his arms.
Salvation through a promised King.
God had planned another way.
Mary heard old Simeon say.
Israel's redemption now in sight.
Little baby, news so joyous.
Born to reign, the angels sing.
Prophets of His future told.
To return them to the fold.
Of the cross—this baby's worth.
But to multiply our joy.


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Driver-side fender Grille that covers the horn.
Add $10.98 to the bug bill.
If you go to the Volkswagen AutoMuseum and fill-in their Certificate Generator (oh, and remit 35 Euros), they will research your little hobby car, and send you a birth certificate that tells when your car was made, where is was shipped, and what options were included.
Is it really necessary (and worth the money)? Maybe not. Depends on how much you want to know about your car, its history, and its original color-scheme/engine/configuration/etc. Since I want to try and keep it original, I'm curious to see if there's something about Beevis that I don't already know.
One of the better resources on the web for Volkswagen information has to be TheSamba.com. I signed up today. Accounts are free, and there is a huge amount of information available with the technical data that's warehoused on the site, and through the forums where other Volkswagen owners ask/answer every imaginable questions.


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Berkeley"s wild weeks of protests, censors and thieves
by GEOFFREY GAGNON October 30, 2001 April 21, 2021
On a campus brimming with social activism and a history of open mindedness, signs have emerged this month that the sanctity of free speech at the University of California at Berkeley may be endangered.
Paul Wong
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Geoffrey Gagnon
Civil liberty advocates and free speech proponents nationwide have watched with interest and caution the debates that have swirled in the past month surrounding the appropriateness of speech in the wake of September"s national disaster
In a pair of contentious cases that strike at the very nerve of the free exercise of speech, student editors at The Daily Californian the campus newspaper at Berkeley are taking defiant stances in the face of controversy and criticism. The debate jumped from the pages of The Daily Californian on Sept. 18 when the paper ran the syndicated column of Darrin Bell who had depicted the terrorist pilots of the airplanes downed in last month"s tragedy standing in flames symbolic of hell.
The cartoon immediately touched off a firestorm of controversy that found its way to the university"s student assembly, where a measure that threatened The Daily Californian with an outrageous $8,000-per-month increase in rent for the offices the independent newspaper rents from the assembly was proposed. Though the threat of financially penalizing the independent newspaper was later removed before the motion moved to a vote, the fact that the Associated Students of the University of California Berkeley, the school"s official student senate, would consider stifling the free speech of the campus daily should raise eyebrows on campuses nationwide.
Rarely does a student-run campus forum need to fear being silenced by its peers in student government who usually operate with similar motivations of student service. But by threatening to manipulate rental agreements in an obviously coercive attempt to extract an apology from the paper, the student senate considered a frightening form of censorship to say the least.
Now, I should say quiet clearly that I make no claims in defense of any cartoon that incenses, insults or in any way contributes to fear or anxiety on campuses especially in light of last month"s tragedy. The cartoon may have been run in poor taste and the editors" response to the complaints it generated may have been insensitive nevertheless, to see an elected body of campus leaders threaten to silence a newspaper in such a way should make us all stop and take note of the potential abuse of power. In the end, ASUC passed a rather symbolic resolution that still called for a dramatic show of apology on the part of the newspaper. The student senate voted with an 11-7 vote to demand a front-page apology from the newspaper and urged its staff to seek sensitivity training.
The paper"s editor in chief has said that the controversy has done nothing to change the editors" decision to refuse an apology for the cartoon.
But things refused to quiet down for The Daily Cal as last week free speech opponents stole hundreds of newspapers after bandit censors took issue with an advertisement placed by the Ayn Rand Institute. Five years ago as Californians weighed in on Proposition 209, The Daily Californian saw some 22,000 papers stolen in response to an editorial. And even last year after conservative media-monger David Horowitz placed an ad in the paper, The Daily Californian found itself in the middle of a wild debate and another case of stolen newspapers. The rogue criminals last Wednesday declared that they "will not allow business as usual to continue."
Sadly, even in a time of heightened awareness of freedoms, the type of censorship that is becoming commonplace in Berkeley is beginning to look like business as usual.
Geoffrey Gagnon can be reached via e-mail at ggagnon@umich.edu.
'The University of Michigan's work will remain unfinished': Schlissel discusses University goals and accomplishments at State of the University address
60 years after the Peace Corps was founded at U-M, students remain engaged
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Since the mid-1990s, both domestic and foreign developments have made the government to bestow greater attention on the people of China's minority regions, their relationship to the Chinese state, and their foreign ties. Some of these developments include the economic development of, and Han settlement in China's remote minority regions threatening to displace indigenous populations, post-Soviet establishment of independent countries consisting mainly of Muslim and Turkic-speaking peoples across china's north-western frontier presenting problems for related groups in China, and freedom of Mongolia from Soviet control raising the specter of a pan-Mongolian movement inclusive of Chinese Mongols. However, our immediate interest in this paper is centered on the chapters entitled Heteronomy and Its Discontents: "Minzu Regional Autonomy" in Xinjiang, by Gardner Bovingdon, and Making Xinjiang Safe for the Han Contradictions and Ironies of Chinese Governance in China's Northwest by David Bachman in Rossabi's book. The writers have extensive fieldwork experience in these regions, and therefore, are able to illuminate their analysis with interview material and other fieldwork notes. The current phase of modernization in China has officially been described as being beneficial for minorities. however, the authors present a picture where ethnic minorities are increasingly marginalized in their home regions, because of ethnic discrimination, massive surge of Han-Chinese migrants, and distorted economic policies. This marginalization has increased dissatisfaction among ethnic minorities, sometimes even leading to violent conflicts. This has been so more in the Xinjiang region in recent years than in the Tibetan region.
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The Xinjiang region has been 'the heartland' of the ancient Silk Road. Kingdoms have risen and fallen in that region for the past 2000 years. In the early 20th century, foreign archaeologists found Muslim communities built upon Tang dynasty ruins. It is an important part of the region through which the ancient Silk Road passed. The Silk Road was once unsurpassed in the trade it took across Asia to Europe and back and along with it, also the cultures of the East. This region is an inhospitable area with very little vegetation, and almost no rainfall. and constantly visited by sandstorms which have claimed many lives. On the eastern and western sides of the region, the civilizations of China and the West developed. In the west the Persian Empire was in control of an area extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the borders of India. The Chinese exploration of the west began when in 138 BC, Zhang Qian was sent by the Han emperor on a mission to form an alliance with the Yuezhi tribe in the west. He could return only 13 years later, but brought with him important information about a new breed of horse and hitherto unknown tribes in the west. More expeditions were sent west to get horses and objects of beauty for the emperor. By this process, the route to the west was opened up. The Silk Road was not one single route, but many routes and roads. and some routes were not well protected and suffered from plunder by bandits.
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The Rex Alpha and Rex Zero 1 are joining the USPSA Production Class gun list, offering more options to competitive handgun shooters. The Rex Alpha is a 9mm, competition ready, steel frame pistol that features upgrades such as an undercut trigger, shorter grip and adjustable trigger reset.
The pistol also boasts an internal flared magwell, competition spring set, ambidextrous manual safeties in addition to fiber optic sight and a fully adjustable rear sight. Approved on the IPSC circuit for over a year, the Rex Alpha now joins the USPSA list of hammer fired pistols designed for shooting competitors.
"Celebrated for its precision, quality, and durability, the Rex Alpha from Slovenia continues to impress as it recently joined the USPSA Production Class gun list. It's no surprise that the handgun, which was designed for competitive shooting, is making a splash in the firearms community," FIME Group said in a news release.
Following the Rex Alpha on the list of go-to pistols is its sibling the Rex Zero 1. Available in Standard, Compact or Tactical model the Rex Zero 1 is a 9mm chambered pistol. Distributor of the Rex brand, FIME Group, said the Zero 1 has passed extreme drop and temperate test and is expected to push past 30,000 rounds.
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Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maeet described the recent new positive outlook of the Egyptian economy by the international ratings agency Moody's as a "positive sign", a statement by Egypt's finance ministry read on Tuesday.
In an official statement, Maeet said his ministry is currently following the country's economic and fiscal reforms programme, which began in 2014, in order to sustain the economic growth that was prevalent in the last two years, while also increasing the number of job opportunities and attracting more foreign investments.
He added that the current rating should raise investors' trust in the Egyptian economy, which will help bring in more foreign direct investments and lower the cost of future loans for the public and private sectors.
Moody's has changed the outlook on the government of Egypt's long-term issuer ratings to positive from stable, and has affirmed the B3 issuer ratings in its research document published on Tuesday.
"Moody's decision to change the outlook to positive reflects the continuing structural improvements in the fiscal and current account balances, resulting from the ongoing implementation of the home-grown IMF-backed reform program. Moreover, early signs of business environment reforms offer the prospect of a sustainable, inclusive growth path capable of improving competitiveness and absorbing the country's rapidly expanding labor force," the document said.
The continued implementation of fiscal and economic reforms should sustain GDP growth converging to six percent, according to the US-based agency.
Moreover, Moody's expects that the energy subsidy bill will fall below 1% of GDP by 2020 from 4.1% of GDP in 2017.
These savings will be partly offset by cash transfers to low-income and vulnerable households, which should help maintain public support for the ongoing reforms and better direct government subsidies.
Since 2014, Egypt has introduced multiple subsidy cuts in fuel and electricity.
The decision of the American credit rating agency to affirm Egypt's B3 rating can be traced to its large and diversified economy and robust and rising growth potential that provides a high degree of resilience to external economic shocks and against continuously weak fiscal indicators, specifically debt affordability.
"Very weak debt affordability will maintain the government's annual gross financing needs at very high levels of about 30%-40% of GDP," Moody's said.
The B3 ratings also capture the low risk of a sudden political uprising that could negatively influence the economic progress through slowing down or reversing the current economic policy.
"Foreign and local currency bond and deposit ceilings remain unchanged; the foreign-currency bond ceiling remains at B2, the foreign-currency deposit ceiling at Caa1, and the local-currency bond and deposit ceiling at Ba2," said Moody's.
The research document concluded saying that the prospect of upgrading the rating was high if Moody's confidence is heightened in two areas. First, that the government's commitment to fiscal and structural economic reforms will be sustained through fluctuations in the economic environment and public acceptance of ongoing economic policies and second, that the country's susceptibility to external financing shocks will remain manageable.


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Bo Gilbert Dreiwitz, född 27 augusti 1935 i Kungsholms församling i Stockholms stad, är en svensk militär.

Biografi
Dreiwitz avlade officersexamen vid Kungliga Krigsskolan 1958 och utnämndes samma år till fänrik vid Hälsinge flygflottilj. Han utnämndes till kapten i Generalstabskåren 1966 och erhöll 1969 tjänst som lärare vid Militärhögskolan. År 1972 befordrades han först till major och därefter till överstelöjtnant. Han tjänstgjorde i Studieavdelningen vid Försvarsstaben 1973–1977 och vid Planeringssekretariatet på Försvarsdepartementet 1977–1982. År 1982 befordrades han till överste, varefter han var planeringsdirektör vid Försvarets materielverk. Åren 1985–2000 var han kanslichef i Södra civilområdet.

Bo Dreiwitz invaldes 1989 som ledamot av Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien.

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Connor Design-Build has proudly served the greater Harrisburg region since 2003, led by Shawn Connor, the Principal of the company. Having studied furniture design and craftsmanship at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and Buckinghamshire New University in England, Shawn utilizes design and aesthetic to create inspired works.
From his formal education and training to his employment and business ownership experience, Shawn has amassed almost 20 years of experience in the restoration and construction trades, most notably his work on historic structures, innovative residential design construction projects, and his bold furniture designs. It is with these experiences and approaches that Shawn has melded Connor Design-Build into a firm that can honor the past while still looking forward and embracing innovation.
Projects led by Shawn through Connor Design-Build are hallmarked by bold use of color, innovative building materials and construction practices, and unique design elements.
Connor Design-Build's Executive Administrator, Meghann Connor, began working for the company in 2007. Meghann has Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. With her project planning, development, and management expertise, she oversees sales, marketing, and business management for the company. Working alongside Shawn and Meghann is our team of on-site craftsmen and technicians and specialty trades partners, working together to deliver cohesive, well-executed projects for our clients.


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Robert Wright is the deputy manager for the Dynetics Space Systems Division reporting to Kim Doering. He provides technical, organizational and business support and direction across Division interests. In addition, Mr. Wright is the Project Manager for NASA's prime contract award to Dynetics for the Space Launch System (SLS) Universal Stage Adapter (USA). The USA provides the primary structure transition between the SLS Exploration Upper Stage and the Orion crew module. Mr. Wright has worked the civilian space market for 30 years. Prior to joining Dynetics he was responsible for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster flight design and the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) ground systems hardware used throughout Shuttle processing.
Mr. Wright earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA.
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You can find these books at the Library and Archives, and probably your local Public Library, too!
Black by design : a 2-tone memoir by Pauline Black
Call Number: ML420.B534 A3 2012
Selecter frontwoman Black recounts her life as a mixed-race adoptee in suburban London.
Hip Hop's Amnesia: from blues and the black women's club movement to rap and the hip hop movement by Reiland Rabaka
Call Number: ML3531.R33 H57 2012
African American movement music : on hip hop's "partial or total loss of memory" surrounding classical black popular music and classical black popular movements -- "Back to the old school!" : on the "old school" origins and evolution of rap music, hip hop culture, and the hip hop movement -- "Lifting as we climb!" : classic blues queens and the black women's club movement, neo-soul sistas and the hip hop women's movement -- Jazzmatazz : from classic jazz and bebop to jazz rap and hip hop -- "If we must die!" : the new Negro movement, the Harlem renaissance, and the homosexual hip hop movement -- The hip hop movement : from merely rap music to a major multi-issue socio-political movement
Keep on pushing : Black power music from blues to hip-hop by Denise Sullivan
Call Number: ML3556 .S94 2011
Freedom now -- Everybody knows about Mississippi-- goddam! -- The rhythm of the rebel : the sound of Black power -- Movin' on up : Black power rising -- Rainbow politics, Woodstock, and revolution rock -- The revolution will not be realized : the sound of Black power goes mainstream -- Move on over : women's and gay liberation and the punky reggae disco party -- Everybody say hey! ho! let's go : punk rock meets hip-hop -- Power to the peaceful : hip-hop at the foot of the mountaintop
Listen, Whitey!: the sights and sounds of Black power 1968-1975 by Pat Thomas
Call Number: E185.615 .T46 2012
Foreword / by Stanley Nelson -- Introduction : Musicians as revolutionaries, revolutionaries as pop culture icons -- Iconic images : the Black Power salute, berets and a wicker chair -- The movement, Motown and popular music -- Honkies for Huey -- Soul on wax : the Black Panthers on record -- Look out, whitey! Black Power's gon' get your mama! -- Black Power preachin' -- Negroes with guns and radios -- Wattstax : a festival of Brotherhood -- Jazz, artist colllectives and black consciousness -- Grits 'n' groceries : miscellaneous recordings -- Conclusion : a dream deferred
Go-Go Live by Natalie Hopkinson
Call Number: ML3527.84 .H67 2012
Black body politic -- Club U -- What's happening -- Call and response -- The archive -- The boondocks -- Redemption song -- Roll call, 1986
What Are You Doing Here? by Laina Dawes; Skin (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML3918.R63 D39 2012
Introduction -- Canadian steel -- Metal can save your life (or at least your sanity) -- I'm here because we started it! -- So you think you're white? -- "The only one" syndrome -- Too Black, too metal, and all woman -- The lingering stench of racism in metal -- Remove the barricades, and stagedive! -- Epilogue -- Appendix. "What are you doing here?" : the survey
Afro-Punk
When Matthew Morgan and James Spooner joined forces in 2002, their focus was giving a voice to thousands of multi-cultural kids fiercely identifying with a lifestyle path-less-traveled. Morgan, a visionary with 15 years in the music industry, instinctively understood that the indie rock/punk/hardcore scene had powerful appeal beyond the predictable Caucasian audience; the passion evident in writer-director Spooners hours of riveting hand-shot footage was the indisputable proof. The result: 2003s Afro-Punk, the seminal cult classic film spotlighting Black Punks in America.
Born in Washington D.C. in the fall of 1978, members Paul (H.R.) Hudson (Voice) his brother Earl (Drums), Gary (Dr.Know) Miller (Guitar) and Darryl Jenifer (Bass), came together like the Ninja Turtles, when they were exposed to a suspicious green goo while working at various research centers throughout the Washington Metropolitan area, eventually Bad Brains were banned in D.C.
Black Rock Coalition
The Black Rock Coalition was founded in 1985 by guitarist Vernon Reid,
journalist Greg Tate and producer Konda Mason in reaction to the
constrictions that the commercial music industry places on Black artists.
A collective of artists, writers, producers, publicists, activists and
music fans assembled to maximize exposure and provide resources
for Black artists who defy convention. To date, the BRC is the only
national nonprofit organization dedicated to the complete creative freedom
of Black artists.
Black Women Rock
jessica Care moore founded Black Women Rock! in 2004 at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. The 90 minute show is a tribute to pioneer rocker, Betty Davis and features some of the most progressive vocalists and women musicians in the country
Fishbone first assembled in 1979 with John Norwood Fisher (bass); his brother Phillip "Fish" Fisher (drums); Angelo Moore, who sometimes uses the stage name "Dr. Madd Vibe" (vocals, saxophones ranging from sopranino to bass, theremin); Kendall Jones (guitar); "Dirty" Walter A. Kibby II (vocals, trumpet); and Christopher Dowd, who sometimes uses the pseudonym "Charlie Down" (keyboards, trombone, vocals). Founding members John Norwood Fisher, Angelo Moore, and Walter Kibby remain with the band as of 2013.
George Clinton-Parliament-Funkadelic
Recording both as Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton revolutionized R&B during the '70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-'60s acid heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Sly Stone. The Parliament/Funkadelic machine ruled black music during the '70s, capturing over 40 R&B hit singles (including three number ones) and recording three platinum albums.
Born in Kannapolis, NC, on July 22, 1941, Clinton became interested in doo wop while living in New Jersey during the early '50s. . Basing his group on Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Clinton formed The Parliaments in 1955, rehearsing in the back room of a Plainfield barbershop where he straightened hair. The Parliaments released only two singles during the next ten years, but frequent trips to Detroit during the mid-'60s – where Clinton began working as a songwriter and producer – eventually paid off their investment.
Pure Hell
PURE HELL- Proto-Punk/Classic-Punk/Rock. "The World's First All Black Punk-Rock Band," established 1974 in Philadelphia, PA, during the flashpoint of the punk culture in New York City, London and Los Angeles.
Amid the pioneers of the post garage, acid rock, glam-theatre era of the late 60's/early 70's, this band is considered the first of its kind, and comparable to the Sex Pistols, Dead Boys, The Germs, The MC 5 and Bad Brains, who recognize them as an influence.
Vernon Reid is probably best known for leading Living Colour. Vernon founded Living Colour in New York City circa 1985 and piloted the band through a remarkable career. Among the highlights: a double platinum-selling debut album Vivid, released in 1988; its gold-certified successor, Time's Up, released 1990; two consecutive Grammy Awards in the category of Best Hard Rock Performance; opening for the Rolling Stones' 1989 "Steel Wheels" tour; and appearing on the first Lollapalooza tour in the summer of 1991. Vernon is thrilled to be working with Living Colour again and is extremely proud of their new album Collidescope, which was released in October of 2003 on Sanctuary Records.
These are just some of the videos available for viewing at the Library and Archives.
Bad Brains: live at CBGB OMFUG 1982
Call Number: DVD BAD-B BAD 2006
Filmed live at CBGB during the Hardcore Festival, Dec. 24-26, 1982.
Curtis Mayfield live at Montreux 1987 by A Montreux Jazz Festival Production
Call Number: DVD MAYF LIVE-M 2004
Curtis Mayfield was one of the dominant figures of soul music for three decades. This performance, filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1987, finds Curtis in fine form. His distinctive falsetto vocals and fine guitar playing are in evidence on a classic set that spans his career from early Impressions hits such as Gypsy Woman and It's Alright through to his solo classics including Move On Up, Freddie's Dead (theme from "Superfly"), If There's A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go and People Get Ready
Everyday sunshine : the story of Fishbone by Pale Griot Film presents ; a Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler documentary ; directed and produced by Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler
Call Number: DVD FISHB EVER 2012
Narrated by Laurence Fishburne ; Fishbone: Kendall Jones, Norwood Fisher, Chris Dowd, Phillip "Fish" Fisher, "Dirty" Walt Kibby II, Angelo Moore ; featuring interviews with Flea, Gwen Stefani, Ice-T, Tim Robbins, George Clinton [inductee], Branford Marsalis, Quest Love, Mike Watt, and many more.
Parliament Funkadelic : the Mothership connection : live 1976 by produced under the supervision of Alan Douglas for Gravity Limited ; production, Jeff Palo
Call Number: DVD PARL PARL-M 2008
Performed live at the Hofheinz Pavilion (the Summit) in Houston, Texas on October 31, 1976.
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Darcy Moore - Heading Back or Heading Backwards?
Imagine for a moment you're Nathan Buckley. Apart from looking like the MGM lion, life's not that bad, right? You're a head coach of an AFL team. You've got yourself a nice two-year contract extension at, what was until recently, Australia's biggest footy club (G'day Richmond). You've had a storied playing career and won countless awards. You've done things most ordinary people dream of. But you can't solve one pressing problem with your current team. You can't get the forward set up right.
Word out of Collingwood is that several of their star players will spend time off half back in the coming season, using their ability to read the play to cut off attacks and propel the Magpies forward. Already, names like Scott Pendlebury and Taylor Adams have been floated as possible part-time defenders, as the Pies look to sure-up their defence.
However, there is one name mooted to spend more time down back in the new season that should cause more than a little concern for Collingwood supporters. Standing 199cm (6' 6" for us oldies) and weighing 93 kilograms, Darcy Moore is built to be a marking forward. But Collingwood, and Nathan Buckley, have seemingly grown impatient with him as they desperately attempt to work out a structure that will see them take marks inside fifty. After just three seasons, and what has seemed like consistent development, the club is looking for different ways to use Moore. The question is, why?
Two years ago, the Essendon football club found itself in a similar spot with their young forward, Joe Daniher. After three years in the game, Daniher had shown glimpses, but had not set the football world alight with his play. He was tall and gangly, and was taking time to repay the faith the Bombers were placing in him. He was not clunking marks the way they'd hoped he would, and was struggling to make an impact. The Bombers were languishing in 15th position, and were in the midst of a saga that is best not revisited again here. They were looking for answers to stop the bleeding down back. Did they panic? No, they did not.
Essendon remained committed to their young forward, and two years later they've reaped the rewards. Daniher is now not just one of the best young forwards in the game – he is one of the best forwards in the competition overall. He amassed 65 majors in 2017, up from 43 the year before. Even a minor improvement from him in 2018 will see him sit comfortably in the top 3-4 forwards in the league. A Coleman Medal is not out of the question. Are Collingwood shooting themselves in the foot with their impatience with their own young forward? If left to develop in attack, could Moore make a similar leap?
The numbers for Moore and Daniher are strikingly similar at the same stage in their careers. Whilst Daniher has a slight edge in goals, Moore is ahead of him in disposals, marks and importantly, contested marks. It was year four and five that Daniher made significant improvements to his output. Moore is about to enter year four. Unfortunately, it looks as though he'll spend a fair amount of it in defence.
Year Three Comparison - Moore vs Daniher
So why is Collingwood looking to take a young man out of the forward line and throw him down back so readily when it appears as though he may be ready to take the next step to become exactly what they drafted him to be – a star forward?
Nathan Buckley's contract with Collingwood could've gone either way at the last negotiation. The succession plan, and the transference of power from Mick Malthouse to his protégé was supposed to yield results. It has – poor ones. Collingwood went from a Grand Finalist in 2011 to fourth in 2012, then sixth in 2013. The slide has not stopped, to the point where the Magpies have finished 11th, 12th, 12th, and 13th in the last four years. The Magpies succession plan should be renamed the 'ION' plan, because it has been completely devoid of success.
Buckley's record as coach has a dismal win percentage of just 51.47%. He needs to arrest this, and quick wins are required to do so, even if that means squandering the opportunity to develop Moore as one of the AFL's next elite forwards. It is quick term gain for possible long term pain.
Moore's father, Peter is a great of the club, and of the AFL in general. A dual Brownlow medallist, he knows a few things about the game, and he sees great flaws with the club's use of his son, and the way the Pies are using their forwards in general.
In an interview with Melbourne Radio station SEN, Peter labelled the way Collingwood was delivering the ball inside fifty as "absolutely hopeless" in the first half of 2017. He lamented Buckley's coaching style and stated that "Collingwood forwards don't kick a lot of goals."
Hardly the environment that aids in the development of a tall forward.
David Cloke, former Collingwood and Richmond star, and father of Travis, has also been outspoken about Buckley and Collingwood's use of forwards. Cloke claims his son was made a scapegoat by Collingwood in his time there, and stated that soon, they'd so the same with Darcy Moore.
"They will destroy him," said Cloke, going on to say that the Collingwood game style revolves around midfielders gaining high disposal counts, instead of getting it into the forward half.
So with Moore roaming the half back line, who will be left to kick the goals for the Magpies?
Scott Pendlebury said what a captain had to say in regards to moving Ben Reid forward in place of Moore, stating in an interview with the Herald Sun that Reid "showed last year that he can clearly play forward."
Reid did go forward in the second half of 2017 and netted bags of 3 against Gold Coast, and 4 against Port Adelaide. He totaled 14 goals for the year, but will need to do a lot more as the number one marking option.
There seems to be a bit of a push for Mason Cox as well this season. This big man has been in the system for only two years, but at 211cm, is a daunting prospect to defend. Sadly, his 2017 averages of 7.78 disposals and 3.22 marks per game don't tell a story of someone you'd put your faith in to be the focal point of an attack.
Jamie Elliott led the Pies in 2017 with 34 goals at 2.00 per game, and has hopefully been able to put his ankle-injuring, bin-urinating off season to rest and focus on a big 2018. Alex Fasolo snagged 29 goals in his 19 games and behind them was Darcy Moore. Mason Cox kicked only ten for the year.
Looking at it as a whole, the Magpie forward structure does not scream "potent" without Moore playing there. On current form it doesn't scream "potent" with him positioned there, either. However, unlike the others mentioned, Moore looks most likely to develop and become a consistent threat, and isn't that what you want?
The Magpies will toy with their line up as the season progresses. An injury, or bout of poor form will force Buckley's hand and necessitate changes. I would not be surprised to see Darcy Moore moved back into the forward line in short order in 2018. He is a potential match winner, but like all good things, he will take a bit of time. Collingwood and Nathan Buckley can't rush this one. They have a diamond in Darcy Moore, and they're treating him like coal.
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By the end of the 60s Chevrolet Bel Air is still remains one of the most affordable full-size cars. With the discontinuation of the 2-door sedan in 1969, 4-door sedans and station wagons remained to be produced on the conveyor.
Bel Air remained to be placed on the middle range of Chevy's B-body model range, along with top trim Impala, mid-high Caprice and low-budget Biscayne.
As before, the basic engine was a straight six of 250 cubic inches coupled with 3-speed automatic transmission. It was remained until 1973 model year when instead of I6 engine, the standard became 350 cubic inch V8 with automatic transmission. Old 2-speed Powerglide gearboxes were still available to offer for six cylinder cars.
Station wagon modification was also carrying Townsman name.
The car itself keep its more squarish lines, became popular in 1970s, it has got completely new front fascia with 4 square lights and stand out grille – typical design decision of the so many US-made cars on that era. B-pillars had become more square, the rear part features small square rear lights with chamfered angles. Rear numberplate was integrated to the bumper.
The interior keep its "square shaped" styling and wide spoke steering wheel acquired in 1969, unified with all other Chevrolet cars. Those square design will keep on most US-made cars until the mid 80s. It was especially popular on full-size sedans.
In 1971 GM released several versions of the Chevrolet Bel Air with different body styles, engines and transmissions. Sedans offered eight options: from a modest 250 Turbo-Thrift straight six to monstrous 454-4 V-8 Turbo-Jet with Hydra-Matic. That is why you see the article about this car on our website. Due to the usage of high-powered big-block V8, its cheapness, you could call a Bel Air a true 4-door muslce car. The biggest 454 engine, being introduced with the 7th generation of the car (from 1971 until 1975) was a 8- cylinder V-engine capacity of 7.4L and a power of 289 HP. Thanks to this monster, heavy framed sedan was capable to reach top speed of up to 131 mph (212 km/h) and accelearate up to "sixty" in just 8.7 seconds.
The fuel consuption was also phenomenal, but in the relatively opposite way – a lot less than 11 miles per gallon.


Today I thought I'd talk about how to resolve the downside of vintage fabric collecting, mainly because I've been dealing with it for the last two days instead of knitting or spinning. Not that I'm bitter!
It wasn't the tea toweling I bought for our kitchen windows that did me in, but a vintage French linen sheet and some tea towels from a different, albeit just as nice, vendor: I opened the shipping box and it was like falling face-first into a meadow of fabric softener sheets. I have a perfume allergy, so the fact that I don't particularly like that scent was the least of my problems; I also got a massive headache straightaway.
Obviously mt first reaction was to run my new purchases straight to the washing machine and dump them in. In hindsight that was the right thing for me to do because I'm in a condo with no balcony and my neighbours would probably not like it if I strung up a line on the shared upstairs terrace to air them out for a few days. But seriously?
Air out perfumed fabric for as long as you can before you try to wash it.
Don't just run it through the cycle. Let it soak in warm water and Borax for an hour or three before letting the machine go again, and when you get to the rinse cycle, pour some vinegar, maybe half a cup, into the fresh water. Let that soak for a few hours too.
After you've done two or three of those wash cycles you might still smell the perfume, and simultaneously realize you've run out of vinegar. But fear not! You can use baking soda in the rinse water, instead. You can substitute baking soda for Borax too, if you run out of that.
I had to deodorize the washing machine as well.
If this happens to you, try filling the drum with warm water and adding more Borax. Let that sit for an hour, then run through to the rinse cycle, add vinegar to the fresh water, and let that sit too. Running through a cycle like this twice cleared enough odor out of our machine to allow me to wash clothes unscathed.
The linen sheet is huge and completely unstained and if I can ever get it smelling clean it will be a great asset in the new house. And we love the tea towels.
Also: it's a really good idea to have a clothesline. I wasn't planning to put one into the new back yard, but I'm going to now, even though I'm seriously questioning the wisdom of buying fabric online, at least until technology advances to sniff-o-vision so you know what you're getting into when you click Buy It Now.
I'm not at all blind to the terrible waste of water just to undo the damage caused by a chemical product but I don't know, is it worse to throw out the fabric? I'll probably have a clearer answer to that after another day's wash, though I suppose at that point I'll have invested so much water and energy it would be a slap in the face of Mother Nature to throw it in the bin.
Hope everybody who celebrated a big national holiday this weekend had a wonderful time and that all of you (holiday or not) got in some crafty time with a marked reduction in laundry-doing, heh.
See you tomorrow, if I get lucky with the next round of linen-soaking!
I can heartily recommend an outdoor washing line! When I had this problem, I simply hung the offending item outside and left it there for a couple of weeks! It did get rid of the smell. Could you not put your fabric in a plastic storage container with lots of baking soda?
Thank you so much for the comment that you are allergic to fragrances! I have the same problem and no one believes me (except the other family members who have the same problem and my husband who has seen what perfume can do to me).
I have a similar issue! I bought some beautiful yarn in a wool mohair blend at a fiber festival, & realized when I got it home that it wasn't just the vendor who reeked of patchouli. It's a polarizing scent, & I'm not a fan.
What a drag. I too am sensitive to fabric softeners and the accompanying artificial scents. Makes my skin just itch. Thanks for the tips and I hope your beautiful fabric turns out to be usable.
Guys, thank you all so much for the sympathy and for the tips, Su!
The good news is, the smell is almost out after many, many more washes. I can't dry the sheet perfectly in our laundry room and was afraid to put it in a bin still wet lest it get moldy (and there is no way I'll risk stinking up my dryer), but then I remembered we are opening our cottage this weekend and there is a TON of space there to string up a separate washing line. A few hours damp in a bag won't kill that big sheet.
Beth, I hope the word spreads where you are about perfumes... in Toronto there is a good awareness about allergies and lots of scent free areas and office. It's definitely not in your head!


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FASTAR is a fully scalable recording solution for local or remote operation, providing simple networking of multiple recorders to provide access to large camera estates through a single user interface - regardless of physical location. Using the CONTROL SMS interface, FASTAR can display live, recorded or mixed views using a variety of screen layouts. Viewing screens can be populated with video from site maps or camera lists, both simply and intuitively. The export of FASTAR recordings is an equally simple process, using the CONTROL SMS interface to output either data or evidentially compliant movie format DVDs.


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Police utilize new technology to help them solve crimes
Police are using new technology to help them fight crime.
Technology has radically changed how people live. Each year, there are new and innovative ways to connect with others, work more efficiently and solve complex problems. A growing number of police forces are also taking advantage of new technology to better track and share data, to solve crimes and also to prevent them.
Toledo, Ohio uses network of cameras to fight crime
The Toledo Free Press columnist David Willinger recently wrote about the success of the Toledo Police Department's new Observation Research Intelligence Operations Network initiative, known as Orion. Toledo invested more than $1.5 million into developing Orion, a video monitoring system that includes 73 cameras at 37 locations in the city. The cameras can rotate 360 degrees and have a 36x zoom, features which are controlled remotely at the station. Some cameras also have infrared technology that allows them to capture images in the dark.
The cameras record 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and store data for up to 14 days, according to the article. Any video related to a crime is kept permanently. Police officers are tasked with monitoring the video feed full-time during business hours. The department also issues a report every two weeks, as well as several bulletins every week that are shared with the local law enforcement community. This gives police officers and other law enforcement officials a more comprehensive view of crime in the area than they had before. It can also help them track trends in crime and make decisions about where to focus department resources.
On January 29, the Toledo City Council approved an additional $380,000 to support the second phase of Orion. This money will be used to purchase computer monitoring software and other tools that will allow the police department, local agencies and officers in the field to access the network's data. The new server will also compile information that is currently stored in different systems, including: criminal background data, 911 call center data, vehicle-mounted license plate readers, and internal and mobile databases.
But is Orion actually lowering crime rates? Local officials say that it is. The article reported that according to police spokesman Joe Heffernan, burglaries and thefts were down 22 percent in 2012, compared to 2011. The new system is also saving police officers from having to search for information in multiple databases, and is making it easier for them to identify and catch criminals. This, in turn, saves the city money and frees up more time for officers to patrol the streets.
Springfield, Missouri deploys Command Central
According to Springfield's Unified Crime Report, crime rose sharply from 2011 to 2012, including a 22.21 percent increase in "crimes against persons." Springfield Police Department officials turned to technology to help them fight back.
Local ABC affiliate KSPR News reported that the department recently invested in new software, called Command Central, which creates reports that help officers analyze data, track crime and solve cases; KSPR reporter Mary Moloney referred to the new system as "the future of fighting crime." The software is accessible on network computers and also in police vehicles so that officers in the field can access data.
The article highlighted comments from local officials, who discussed why this layered security software is so important.
"An officer can go right to this report and search this area for the last 30 days and see what other crimes have been happening around that area," said Springfield Police Lt. Ben King, "maybe start looking at those reports to see if he's got the same MO and the same type of suspect information."
This software and compiling of data over time is known as "intelligence-led policing," KSPR pointed out. Intelligence-led policing also makes it easier for departments to educate their police force about overall crime in the city, rather than keeping information restricted to a specific beat.
What do you think about the police using new technology to fight crime? Let us know in the comments below!
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