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The Ab steam locomotives were extensively used on the Paeroa-Tauranga section of the East Coast main trunk line from 1940 into the 1950s. They were replaced by diesel-electric powered locomotives in the early 1960s.
"Rat-hole" Tested the Train Crew
Ab steam locomotives were extensively used
"Shipwreck Inland"
Abridged Introduction to "Poenamo"
Ahiataewa Kinewe Royal
Albert John Nicholas of Hikutaia
Art of the Wheelwright
Early Hikutaia Settlement
Early Paeroa School
Federation of Historical Societies
Gold in the North Island
Historic Omokoroa Property
Hollis Family of Waihi
Margaret Allan Stewart of Waihi
Memorial Fountain
Mining News - Thames Advertiser
Nerve-wracking Ride from Puriri-Tairua
Old Junction Road
Old Waihi Hardware Building
Our Sojourn at Waiomu
Rotokohu Valley - Paeroa 1876-1971
Service Cars in the 1920s
The Cassrels Family of Paeroa
The Shepherd Family (cont)
The Waikino Battery
Wild Horses of Pukehanga
Ohinemuri Regional History Journal 15, June 1971
By Graeme Young
NOTE: The guest Speaker at Paeroa on Anzac Day this year was a member of our Historical Society - Mr. C.W. Malcolm, now of Auckland. He prefaced his stirring address by recalling that the first Anzac Day 56 years ago, with its incredible Gallipoli Landing was also on a Sunday. While deprecating war he made a plea for remembering those who served, with special reference to two Paeroa residents who made the supreme sacrifice. These were George Roland Bradford who was the first British soldier to lose his life in the Boer War and the Rev. Wilfred Parker, Chaplain of H.M.S. "Prince of Wales", sunk 10/12/41. (See Journal 7) [see Journal 7: W.G. Parker - E]. In remembering them we do not forget the many others who gave their lives and the following story of a salvaged memorial is not only an expression of appreciation but it restores our faith in that truly fine side of human nature, which is constructive rather than destructive. Ed.)
Members of the Historical Society will have read in a previous issue of the journal [see Journal 12: George Roland Bradford - E], an account of the history of The Bradford Memorial Fountain, and will no doubt be interested to know that parts of the fountain have been restored, and I should like to put on record how it came to be restored and erected in our garden at Hikutaia. My late husband William Samuel Vivian Young had a great appreciation of the past achievements and possessions of a former generation and was concerned that the Memorial Fountain on Primrose Hill was being misused by some thoughtless citizens. Some years ago he expressed a wish for the fountain to be moved to a position in the town where it could be appreciated by more passersby and thus be less exposed to vandalism. Fate intervened however and the movable parts of the fountain met an untimely end at the foot of Primrose Hill.
On enquiring the extent of the damage, my husband was told that it was considered that repairs to the damaged parts would be too costly, and at a later date we were given permission by the Borough Council to salvage the broken parts. These we brought home and my husband pieced the parts together after fashioning some missing portions from a mixture of cement and polyfilla. (The dark piece at the top in the photograph is a repair). It was my task to remove layers of white paint which revealed a beautiful sparkly granite. We have the two bowls and connecting columns - the third and largest bowl is still on Primrose Hill, where it can never he damaged as it is set in a solid concrete foundation.
The fountain though not perfect as it once was, is still a piece of beautiful masonry, and set in the centre of a rose garden, is a delight to the eye and ear as the water spills gently from bowl to bowl. It gave us both pleasure to preserve it and will always be treasured.
NOTE : Mrs. Young kindly invited us to see the 70 year old fountain in its delightful new setting where it is not only a memorial to Roland Bradford but also to the Young Family whose story will be told in a future issue of our Journal. Ed.)


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Google Pixelbook 12in: A Detailed Specs & Performance Reviews
If you're in the market for a new laptop, the Google Pixelbook 12in definitely deserves your attention. This device is packed with features and performance that rivals most of the competition. So, what are the specs and performance reviews like? In this article, we'll take a look at each of the key aspects of the Pixelbook 12in and give you an in-depth review of what it has to offer. From its design to its performance, we'll cover everything you need to make an informed decision about whether or not this laptop is right for you.
Google Pixelbook 12in: The Basics
The Google Pixelbook is a 12-inch laptop that was announced in October 2017. It has an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, 8GB of DDR3L memory, and 256GB or 512GB of storage. The display on the Pixelbook is a 12.3 inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS with Gorilla Glass 4 protection. It also has two USB Type-C ports, one 3.5mm headphone jack, and one mini DisplayPort. The battery life is rated at up to 10 hours which is about average for a laptop this size.
When it comes to performance, the Pixelbook can handle most tasks that you would throw at it. You can use it for work, play games, browse the web, and listen to music without any issues. One thing to keep in mind though is that the Intel Core i7 version of the Pixelbook may lag behind some other laptops in terms of performance when using more intensive tasks such as video editing or encoding videos.
Google Pixelbook 12in: Performance
The Google Pixelbook 12in is a laptop that comes with a lot of power. It has an Intel Core i5-8259U processor and 8GB of RAM, which makes it one of the most powerful laptops on the market. In terms of graphics, it has an NVIDIA MX150 GPU with 2GB of dedicated memory.
When it comes to performance, the Pixelbook 12in is capable of handling most tasks that you would want to do. However, due to its powerful hardware, it can also be a bit slow when running multiple applications at the same time. Overall, though, the Pixelbook 12in is a great option for anyone looking for a high-powered laptop that is able to handle most tasks quickly and easily.
Google Pixelbook 12in: Battery Life
The Google Pixelbook is a 12-inch laptop that comes with an Intel Core i5-8250U, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. It also has a 12-megapixel rear camera and an 8-megapixel front camera. It weighs 4.2 pounds and measures 13.3 x 9.1 x 0.65 inches. According to PCMag, the Pixelbook "delivers outstanding performance for its price point."
PCMag gave the Google Pixelbook three out of five stars and said that it "offers standout performance for its price point" and offers "plenty of ports and features for users who need them." Additionally, they found that the battery life was excellent – lasting 10 hours and 20 minutes in their testing – which is longer than most laptops in this price range. They did note that there are some drawbacks, such as the small screen size (13 inches) and high price tag (starting at $999).
Google Pixelbook 12in: Camera
The Google Pixelbook's camera is one of its better features. It has an 8MP rear-facing camera with a f/2.4 aperture and Optical Image Stabilization. You can also take 4K videos at 60fps and 1080p videos at 240fps. The front-facing camera has an 8MP sensor with a f/1.9 aperture, which should be good for selfies and video calls.
One thing to note is that the front-facing camera doesn't have OIS, so you may not get as smooth a video as you would with other cameras on mobile devices. However, it should still be adequate for general use. Another thing to note is that the camera doesn't have a flash, so if you're shooting in low light conditions you'll need to bring along a separate light source.
The Google Pixelbook 12in: Specifications
The Google Pixelbook is a new 12in laptop that was announced by Google in late October. It is powered by an Intel Core i5-8265U processor and has 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a UHD display. As with all Pixel devices, the Pixelbook comes with an integrated Google Assistant AI assistant.
In terms of performance, the Google Pixelbook is very similar to the Apple MacBook Air 13in. Both laptops have an Intel Core i5-8265U processor and 8GB of RAM. The Pixelbook does have one advantage though – it has a faster storage option with 128GB vs. the MacBook Air's 64GB. In terms of graphics, both laptops are powered by an Intel UHD Graphics 620 GPU. When it comes to battery life, we found that the MacBook Air lasted slightly longer than the Pixelbook – 11 hours vs 10 hours.
The Google Pixelbook 12in: Performance & Uses
The Google Pixelbook 12in is a laptop with some unique features that make it one of the most powerful Chromebooks on the market. It has an Intel Core i5-8265U CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The Pixelbook also has a very high-resolution 12.3 inch display with a resolution of 2160 x 1440 pixels.
When it comes to performance, the Pixelbook is very strong. It can handle most tasks that you would need it to do, including running popular software like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office. It also has a fast Wi-Fi connection which makes online browsing and streaming videos smooth and quick.
One downside to the Pixelbook is that its battery life isn't as good as some other laptops on the market. For example, the Acer Spin 3 has a much longer battery life than the Pixelbook. However, if you plan on using the Pixelbook for work only and not for daily use, then its battery should last you around 10 hours or so before needing to be recharged.
The Google Pixelbook 12in is a powerful device that packs a lot of features into an sleek and lightweight design. It comes with a variety of ports, including two Thunderbolt 3 ports, one USB-C port, an SD card reader, and a headphone jack. Additionally, it has a 12MP rear camera with laser autofocus and an 8MP front facing camera for capturing amazing selfies and video calls. The Pixelbook also has great performance thanks to its 6th Gen Intel Core i5 processor and 128GB storage option. So if you are in the market for a high-end device that can do it all – from productivity tasks to online streaming – the Google Pixelbook 12in is worth considering!
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Rábay László (1928 – 2006. október 14.) labdarúgó, fedezet, edző.

Pályafutása
A Goldberger csapatában kezdte a labdarúgást. Az élvonalban 1949. február 19-én mutatkozott be a Vasas ellen, ahol csapata 7–0-s vereséget szenvedett. 1951 és 1953 között a Szegedi Honvéd labdarúgója volt. 1954 és 1961 között a Szegedi EAC együttesében játszott. Összesen 108 első osztályú bajnoki mérkőzésen lépett pályára és kilenc gólt szerzett. Az aktív labdarúgást a Szegedi VSE csapatában fejezte be.

Edzői pályafutását a Szegedi VSE-nél kezdte. 1964-től a Szegedi EAC edzője lett. Három alkalommal volt a csapat vezetőedzője (1968–68, 1970-ősz, 1975-ősz). 1972-ben, 1978-ban, majd 1984-ben a Szegedi VSE trénere lett. 1980 nyarán átvette  a Szegedi Dózsa csapatának irányítását.

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In order to pass an exam successfully, it is important to fully understand the different test modes. We can help you to familiarize yourself with each of the test modes and provide you with the respective test training. An experienced teacher will support you with the training through the following aspects: (1) Introduction of the test mode with the test procedure and each part of the test; (2) Introduction to the oral requirements those taking the exam or test have to meet; (3) Preparation to act appropriately and issue-related in each of the oral dialogue scenarios; (4) Test strategy.
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December 18, 2008 Arts + Scene » Art Beat
Into the Mystery
Nina Groth, painting what isn't
By Katherine Almy
'Sojourn No. 3, 2006' watercolor and India ink on paper by Nina Groth, 31 3/16x24 1/8 inches
Throughout history, the primary function of art has been to represent the world as we see it. It has been a way to cheat the relentless forward march of time and hang on to an image that does not age or fade away (well, at least not as quickly as humans do). We have painted ourselves more than any other subject as a way to stay young forever, so that our descendants might see us as we were in our prime. We have also shown an interest in capturing other subjects to remember them at particular moments in time -- with a still life, a bouquet of June roses can grace the dining room on the darkest winter day. For centuries, this was the function of painting and sculpture. And then something came along that changed everything.
The camera was invented, and suddenly, with the click of a button -- it was a bit more complicated in the early days of photography, but relatively simple compared to painting a picture -- you could have an accurate, detailed portrait. When he saw his first daguerreotype, the painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed, "From this day, painting is dead."
Nearly 170 years later, painting is most assuredly alive and kicking and likely to remain so, but the invention of photography certainly brought about a reevaluation of art and its function. Perhaps the greatest step was the realization that an artist, unlike a photographer, was not limited to reality. While photography can, arguably, produce a more accurate image of what is there, an artist can paint what isn't there, and this is the driving force behind Nina Groth's show, Sojourn, that opened at the beginning of this month at the First Street Gallery in Eureka.
"This show is about the Mystery," the artist explains. "It's what we don't see in this life but we feel, viscerally. Those things that we experience that are unseen, and I tried to give it some imagery." A monumental task, really. A painter trying to give shape to that which cannot be seen? Where does one start? One thing is clear: You couldn't approach the topic with a camera.
If you talked with Nina for a little while, you'd quickly realize that this is just the sort of challenge for her, as an artist and as a philosopher. Deep thinking and reading has been a way of life for her from childhood, and the paintings in this show are really not just the product of her last four years of work, but a lifetime of questing.
The exhibit presents a series of paintings in chronological order that tell a story. The title cards include the text of the story to accompany each painting, which the viewer can read or not, depending on their preference. Apart from the words, the artist skillfully uses shapes, colors and symbolic meanings to convey her message.
In the first painting, the two main characters of the story are introduced as Night Bird, who is a guide, and the feminine form who represents all those, male or female, who seek a deeper understanding. We are also introduced to several of the shapes that will recur throughout the series; the orb representing inner strength, the arc that protects the feminine form on her journey, and the crosshatching that can represent chaos and obstacles, as well as opportunity. Black is also the most dominant color in the first painting, symbolizing the unseeable nature of mystery, but in the final painting of the series, as the mystery is revealed, black is absent.
With a difficult topic like this, the images in the series could easily have been trite, or even ridiculous, but Nina Groth has worked for many years on developing her ability to convey intangible subjects on paper, and her technical abilities are only the starting point. Her knowledge of symbols and the use of color are her tools, but it is her own searching mind, humor and love of life that infuse the paintings with meaning. The result is a series of paintings that are as accessible as they are insightful. While a full understanding of the concepts might take a lifetime, anyone can enjoy the images and relate them to their own experiences. Indeed, this show would be one to share with young children, who would appreciate the storytelling style and vivid colors.
In the end, these paintings should not be viewed merely as a treatise on the meaning of life. They are an invitation to all of us to explore the mysteries of life and imagine our own concept of what they may look like. What is it that inspires us to song, or brings us closer to our children? What is it that draws us to a beautiful flower, and why is the sight of one so important? Why are we here? Is there more to life than we can see? Nina Groth has not done the work for us; she has only done it for herself. We can enjoy her vision, but ultimately, we must each find our own.
Sojourn will be on exhibit through Dec. 23, at the First Street Gallery, 422 First Street, Eureka. You can also see the images and read the accompanying text on the Gallery's website, www.humboldt.edu/~first, which is nice, but will not be nearly as rich an experience as going to see the show first hand.
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Katherine Almy
Katherine lives in the magical land of Humboldt County, California, with her husband Richard and their son, who just happens to be the most intelligent and beautiful child on the planet. She is a frequent contributor to the North Coast Journal and Artweek Magazine. She blogs and writes at http://www.katherinealmy.com... Katherine lives in the magical land of Humboldt County, California, with her husband Richard and their son, who just happens to be the most intelligent and beautiful child on the planet. She is a frequent contributor to the North Coast Journal and Artweek Magazine. She blogs and writes at http://www.katherinealmy.com and http://www.artwalks.blogspot.com. Send your art news — six weeks in advance — to katherinealmy@northcoastjournal.com. more
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The Supreme Court Deals a Blow to the Affordable Care Act and Access to Contraceptives
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This morning the Supreme Court handed down its most anticipated decision of the term.Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, et al. dealt with the application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to the contraceptive mandate established under regulations promulgated by HHS under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The Supreme Court's decision that closely-held corporations could not be compelled to provide contraceptives to their employees against the corporation's religious beliefs may have far-reaching impacts on access to birth control, and could open the door for a wide range of corporate claims to religious exemptions. It also deals a symbolic blow to the ACA in the run-up to the contentious mid-term elections. This post summarizes the decision and its context. Watch the O'Neill Institute Blog this week for further analysis of the decision.
Hobby Lobby in Context
The ACA mandates that all employers with more than 50 full-time employees offer health insurance to these workers or pay a tax penalty. As part of this mandate, HHS established rules defining the basic package of services that must be provided as part of employer-provided health insurance. A required element of that package is coverage without any co-pay for all FDA-approved contraceptive devices, including intrauterine devices (IUDs) and emergency contraceptives (e.g. Plan B).
As a part of the regulations, HHS recognized the concern among some religious people, who believe IUDs and emergency contraceptives can prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus–constituting an abortion. (As an aside, a growing body of scientific evidence calls into question this supposed abortifacient effect). As a result, HHS created an accommodation for religious non-profit entities that allows them to continue to provide health insurance whilst opting out of the requirement to cover contraception. In these cases, they need merely notify HHS which has decided to provide contraceptive coverage to employees of these non-profits, thereby ensuring comprehensive coverage to all women.
For-profit corporations, however, were granted no such accommodation. Hobby Lobby (along with Conestoga Woods Specialities and Mardel) are closely held corporations (essentially single-family owned and not publicly traded) whose Christian owners believe that providing potentially abortifacient forms of contraception violates their religious liberty, forcing them to choose between running their businesses and adhering to their religious beliefs.
The core of the case turned on whether for-profit corporations could be considered "persons" under RFRA. The Supreme Court ruled that, at least in the case of closely held corporations, they could. (With more than 50% of workers employed by "closely-held" corporations, this limitation leaves an enormous potential range of exemption). Because such closely held corporations are directly controlled by their owners, the corporation can hold the religious beliefs of the owners. Moreover, the Court found that for-profit status doesn't inherently mean that the companies have no interest other than profit, noting that corporations frequently engage in non-profit motivated activities such as charitable work.
Once the Court determined that corporations like Hobby Lobby were "persons" under RFRA, it turned next to the analysis of whether the ACA's Contraceptive Mandate constitutes a substantial burden on the exercise of freedom of religion. At no point was there any challenge to the sincerity of the beliefs at issue in this case (this despite the fact that until 2012, Hobby Lobby covered the very emergency contraceptives that it objects to in this case). As a result, the court found that the mandate does impose a substantial burden by requiring religious employers to choose between engaging in conduct that they believe violates their religion, facing a substantial financial penalty, or foregoing the benefits of incorporation.
Having found a substantial burden, the mandate could have survived on the grounds that it was the least restrictive means to achieve the legitimate government interest. The Court decided that it was not. While making clear that ensuring that women had cost-free access to the full range of contraception approved by the FDA was a legitimate government interest, the Court used the accommodation provided to religious non-profits to illustrate why the mandate was not the least restrictive alternative. In particular, the Court emphasized that the non-profit accommodation could simply be extended to for-profit corporations who desire to opt-out of contraceptive coverage due to the sincere religious beliefs of the corporation's owners.
The Court did attempt to limit the impact of its argument, but without providing much reasoning or guidance. Without additional argument, the decision states that it does not extend to any other religious objection to employer mandates (e.g. blood transfusions, vaccinations, etc.) for which other arguments may apply.
The majority decision was written by Alito joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas. Kennedy filed a separate concurrence. Ginsburg filed a dissent with Sotomayor in which Breyer and Kagan joined in part. The full opinion is available here.
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Li Auto Inc. (LI) distance from 20-day Simple moving Average is -9.33%: What to Expect?
At the end of the latest market close, Li Auto Inc. (LI) was valued at $32.03. In that particular session, Stock kicked-off at the price of $34.00 while reaching the peak value of $34.60 and lowest value recorded on the day was $31.25. The stock current value is $31.83.
Recently in News on December 4, 2020, Li Auto Inc. Announces Pricing of Follow-on Public Offering of American Depositary Shares. Li Auto Inc. ("Li Auto" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: LI), an innovator in China's new energy vehicle market, today announced the pricing of its underwritten follow-on offering of 47,000,000 American depositary shares ("ADSs"), each representing two Class A ordinary shares of the Company, at a public offering price of US$29.00 per ADS. The underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase up to an aggregate of 7,050,000 additional ADSs from the Company. The offering is expected to close on December 8, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions. You can read further details here
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock's existing status and the future performance. Presently, Li Auto Inc. shares are logging -33.28% during the 52-week period from high price, and 122.40% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock's price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $14.31 and $47.70.
The company's shares, operating in the sector of Consumer Cyclical managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 5946146 for the day, which was evidently lower, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Li Auto Inc. (LI) recorded performance in the market was 94.59%, having the revenues showcasing 99.56% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 28.35B, as it employees total of 2628 workers.
Analysts verdict on Li Auto Inc. (LI)
During the last month, 6 analysts gave the Li Auto Inc. a BUY rating, 0 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 2 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 0 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company's financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders' equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders' equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for LI is recording 0.02 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.02.
Li Auto Inc. (LI): Technical Analysis
Raw Stochastic average of Li Auto Inc. in the period of last 50 days is set at 50.55%. The result represents improvement in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 26.87%. In the last 20 days, the company's Stochastic %K was 34.96% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 35.91%.
Let's take a glance in the erstwhile performances of Li Auto Inc., multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company's stock appears to be pessimistic, given the fact the metric is recording 94.59%. The shares increased approximately by -7.83% in the 7-day charts and went down by 21.79% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were driven by 99.56% during last recorded quarter.
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The number of men and women living alone or in nonfamily households increased 78.7% since 1970 to 33.6 million households in 2012, or more than one-third of total US households.
The constitution of the American household has evolved considerably in the past 4 decades or so, such that there really is no typical household type anymore.
Nearly all households with kids ages 0 to 8 had computers and a large majority had web-enabled phones.


The Chameleon 4 LIN has a choice of dual colors red and blue or solid amber flashing signals. 48 Watts of Code 3 lights gets you to the emergency scene; then the same 48 Watts flash amber with a push of a button to direct traffic, and it all comes from the same dual color traffic advisor light. The "4" has Linear 1 Optics that spread far and wide and are made of polycarbonate material that is tough, resistant to scratching, and stay clear in all weather conditions. This model has 4 modules with 4 Generation IV 3-Watt LEDs in each. It can be installed inside or outside of your vehicle in multiple locations: dash, push bumper, main deck on a POV, on a roof rack, or even on the back window of an SUV fleet vehicle. It comes with a combination cigarette lighter power plug with a power switch for easy access to 2 controls--ON/OFF and Flash Patterns, and it can also be hardwired to any light or siren system already in place.
The multi-functional Chameleon 4 LIN is only 17.5" long, so it can be installed as a single unit or in pairs which would shower your police vehicle with 96 Watts of strobing light. It comes with pattern memory, so even after you turn off the light system, it will pick up right where it left off! No resetting is necessary.


This week, our science focus has been on the forces and what happens when friction acts on a moving object.
Year three worked really well in groups today to test different surfaces and to show how far each surface would allow a toy car to travel.
I was especially impressed by how the children made sure to keep it a fair test by simply letting the car go rather than pushing it down the ramp and were quick to correct each other if they were using the wrong technique!
Well done year three, from a very proud teacher this week!


With veteran Jacob Davis injured, the Eagles looked to their bench for wrestlers to come in and contribute. In a dual where nine of the 10 matches were decided by decisions, the Eagles came up short.
To kick off the dual, the Eagles looked to the no. 14 nationally ranked heavyweight in junior Gage Hutchinson. Hutchinson was unable to keep his hot streak from The Midlands tournament going as he fell to Zach Parker with a 7-2 decision.
Another EMU ranked player fell as no. 18 ranked freshman, Noah Gonser, fell to no. 19 ranked Shakur Laney of Ohio by a 4-1 decision at the 125 class. The Eagles trailed early with a score of 6-0.
Senior Shayne Wireman gave EMU its first points of the day with his 10-3 decision. Junior Kyle Springer was unable to tie the match up as he fell in a 4-1 decision to set the score at 9-3.
The next wrestler to get points on the board was another senior in Nick Barber who won a 8-2 decision. Freshman J.J. Wolfe would have 19-0 technical fall and would have the Eagles trailing 14-6.
The third senior struck when Devan Marry came through with a 10-4 decision to cut the deficit to five. Sophomore Kayne MacCallum was in the place of Jacob Davis and lost in a 6-3 decision.
The fourth senior in the lineup was Mitch Malott and unlike the other was unable to pull off a win as he fell in a 12-9 decision. With the Ohio win solidified, sophomore Derek Hillman still came out and won a 4-3 decision at the 197 weight class.
The Eagles will look to rebound against Old Dominion as the Eagles host the Monarchs on Sunday, Jan. 8 at noon.
"They never really pulled away and I think those are the matches that I think we should win," said Bolyard.


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New Chair and Trustee for Bristol Ensemble
Bristol Ensemble's board of trustees is delighted to welcome two new members: Charlie Wyld has been appointed as Chair, and Daniella Radice has joined as a trustee.
Charlie Wyld
Charlie Wyld was a partner in solicitors Burges Salmon, and has recently been High Sheriff of Bristol (2019-20) and Chair of trustees at St George's Bristol (2013-18). He has also recently joined the board of Young Bristol. He plays the oboe – being a pupil of our very own Imogen Triner – and sings with the Exultate Singers. He knows Bristol Ensemble well and has a wealth of experience and expertise that will be enormously valuable as we develop the orchestra and our Preludes education arm over the next few years.
Daniella Radice
Daniella Radice has a background in environmental and community issues in Bristol. A former councillor and Assistant Mayor (with responsibility for neighbourhoods), she is now field organiser for the Green Party of England and Wales, and is involved in projects working with children with learning disabilities. She plays violin in the Westbury Park Orchestra, and is also a keen singer. Her skills and enthusiasm will be particularly helpful as we develop and expand Preludes.
Charlie and Daniella join the existing trustees – Simon Cook, Jerry Cowhig, Andrew Gustar, Caroline Levett and Mark Tooley – for what promises to be an exciting period for the Bristol Ensemble.
The Lark Ascending Evaluation
On 15 December last year we had the privilege of performing Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending at Shirehampton Public Hall, exactly 100 years after it was premiered there by violinist Marie Hall and pianist Geoffrey Mendham. Details of the concert, the associated education project, and the original premiere, are available here.
Despite the restrictions due to Covid-19, the project was delivered on budget, and we achieved almost all of our objectives. It was not possible to have a live audience, so the concert was streamed online for free, and we attracted around 4,000 viewers of the live concert, with another 8,000 viewing it subsequently. This compares to perhaps 200 who would have been able to attend the original premiere. A series of related talks and other performances also attracted several thousand views. We are grateful to Arts Council England, Paragon Music Trust and the Vaughan Williams Trust for their generous funding.
The education activities were limited by coronavirus restrictions, staff shortages and school policies, but we started early and were able to spend longer in the schools than originally planned, and modified some of the activities. Over 700 children (in St Bernard's RC Primary School, Oasis Long Cross Academy, and Oasis Bankleaze Academy) were able to learn about Vaughan Williams and The Lark Ascending; to compose and perform their own music inspired by the Lark; produce artworks and creative writing; and link this with the history of Shirehampton and their studies of the First World War. We produced a video to record their achievements, and hope to be able to hold a concert later in the year when restrictions have eased.
Bristol Beacon were enormously helpful with the promotion and technical aspects of the event. Most of the marketing was online via social media. Our Facebook event page reached over 60,000 people, and we generated a lot of retweets and favourites on Twitter. The BBC, ITV and Classic FM all broadcast features about the concert, and it was also picked up by several newspapers including The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and over 200 local newspapers' websites around the UK.
All of this coverage and social media activity generated many comments – overwhelmingly positive – from members of the public, as well as the children and others involved in the education project.
This was an exciting and complex project to deliver. We learned a lot, and worked with lots of great people – soloists, technicians, presenters, teachers and others. We taught the people of Bristol, the children of Shirehampton, and ourselves, more about this important local centenary of one of Britain's best-loved pieces of music. And in a difficult year, we were able to bring a little hope and beauty, as expressed in this comment (one of several along similar lines)…
"Just to thank them for such a calming but uplifting time of beauty and wonder in a currently chaotic life."
The Lark Ascending: we have lift-off!
We're delighted to have received an Arts Council National Lottery Project grant towards our celebration of the centenary of the first performance of Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. This is on top of a grant from the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust, for which we are very grateful.
We're excited to be joined by violinist Jennifer Pike, who will play the work with us at Shirehampton Public Hall on 15th December 2020 – exactly 100 years after Marie Hall gave the premiere there in the presence of the composer.
Jennifer Pike (photo by Tomasz Jurek)
Although we have been planning this for some time, the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented any progress over the summer, and has forced us to rethink a few things. Now that we have secure funding, detailed planning will take place over the coming weeks. The current plan is for a combination of live and online events, plus talks and articles. The concert on 15 December will be a shorter version of the original programme from 1920. In addition our Preludes team will be running a multi-faceted Lark-themed project in several schools in the Shirehampton area, looking at both the music and George Meredith's poem that inspired it, and incorporating music, art and poetry.
We're looking forward to working with Jennifer Pike, Shirehampton Public Hall, Kings Weston House, Bristol Beacon, the schools and all of the musicians, tutors, technicians and others who will help to make this an exciting – and much-needed – celebration of one of the nation's favourite pieces of music.
Keep an eye on our website and social media for further details as our plans develop over the next few weeks.
Preludes: bubbles and videos for the new term
When the country went into lockdown in March, and most children were unable to go to school, our Preludes team continued to work with some schools that remained open for vulnerable children and the children of key workers. Now that all children have returned to school for the new term, Preludes is ready to continue providing regular music education to over 2,000 children across ten Bristol schools.
We have been working closely with the schools to understand their new Covid-secure arrangements, and to agree how we can work with them safely and effectively within their "bubbles". The schools each have slightly different approaches, and our tutors, who are used to working across several schools, are having to work in new ways. But we relish a challenge!
This week we have started to return to some schools, and more will follow over the next few weeks.
We have had to change a few things, but have designed a programme of activities which is still of great quality but also keeps the tutors and children safe. We can still do some singing and playing of instruments, but will also be doing more of the quieter activities, such as composing, telling stories with music, and learning about composers. We are delighted to have recently been given some money by the National Mark Masons to record more videos, which we have been using to support and supplement face-to-face teaching in some schools.
The last few months have been stressful and disruptive for many children, and it is great – for them and us – to be able to start getting back to some normality. Preludes has proven time and again that its benefits go way beyond simply learning music. This quote, from one of the teachers at a school where we provided video tuition during lockdown, is one of many…
"During Lockdown, the support Preludes gave our children with high quality, well thought about and planned music lesson weekly videos, were invaluable to our children and families – not only providing them with fun, happy, immersive lessons to join in at home with, but making a positive impact on the continuity of their education, within this very disruptive time for them."
An exciting Shirehampton centenary
On Wednesday 15th December 1920, 99 years ago, you could have paid four pence to go along to Shirehampton Public Hall for a concert of the Avonmouth and Shirehampton Choral Society. Also among the performers that night, alongside the young singer (and later actress) Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, and teenage local cellist Helen Just (who would go on to have a distinguished teaching career at the Royal College of Music) was violinist Marie Hall, already a well-known star.
Marie Hall was a protegée of Philip Napier Miles, squire of nearby Kings Weston and himself a talented amateur musician. Napier Miles was a good friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who had come along to the concert for the first ever performance of his new work The Lark Ascending, in a version for piano and violin, which he had dedicated to Marie Hall.
Also on the programme that evening were Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols, a selection of songs (including a newly written one by Napier Miles himself), Bach's concerto for two violins, and some choral works by Hubert Parry.
We don't know how the concert went – there are no accounts or reviews. No doubt the audience of 200 were appreciative, but perhaps didn't realise the significance of the event until the orchestral premiere took place the following year and The Lark Ascending became an instant success. It remains one of Britain's most popular and best loved pieces of music.
We have booked Shirehampton Public Hall for 15th December 2020, to celebrate the centenary of this concert. The plans are not quite finalised, but there will certainly be a performance of The Lark Ascending by a star violinist, and we certainly won't have kept the original ticket price! Watch this space for further details over the coming months.
Specialist Baroque Ensemble to premiere in November
The Bristol Ensemble unveils its new baroque specialist ensemble for the first time, under the directorship of Adrian Chandler, in a concert at St George's Bristol on 13th November.
Adrian is one of the leading interpreters of Italian baroque music and founded the renowned ensemble La Serenissima. He takes over the leadership of Bristol Ensemble Baroque in what will be a vibrant, energetic and thoroughly engaging performance exploring some well-known and less familiar composers of the Baroque period.
Of course, Bristol Ensemble has always featured baroque works in its programmes, but this concert will be performed on period instruments by baroque specialists, creating a more authentically 18th-century sound which reveals these works in a new light. Baroque instruments are generally quieter than their modern counterparts, and there are subtle differences in the design and materials. Baroque violins, for example, use gut strings rather than metal, which give a more mellow sound. Baroque wind instruments have fewer (if any) keys, with fingers used to cover the holes. Baroque pitch is about a semitone lower than modern pitch, and techniques such as vibrato, commonly used by modern singers and string players, rarely appear in authentic baroque music.
The launch of Bristol Ensemble Baroque is partly due to the fact that there are now so many fine baroque players in the Bristol area. Hopefully it will become a regular part of our concert schedule in future.
Listen to Adrian Chandler playing Autumn from Vivaldi's Four Seasons with La Serenissima
Click here for concert details.
Preludes announced as Treefest Charity
We are delighted that Preludes has been chosen as the charity for this year's Treefest festival at St Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol.
Treefest is a spectacular festive display of Christmas trees held in the Gothic splendour of St Mary Redcliffe. Local charities, schools, businesses and other organisations can enter a Christmas tree and decorate it in a style of their choosing, giving them a great opportunity to tell local people about their services, causes or activities – and to raise money for good causes. There's also a varied musical programme and a chance for visitors to vote for their favourite tree.
Treefest has become increasingly successful over the last five years, attracting thousands of visitors and helping to raise valuable funds for local charities. This year the event will support St Mary Redcliffe's work in the community and Bristol Ensemble's education project Preludes, which has been transforming music education in the city for the past ten years.
This year's festival runs from 3rd-7th December. On Thursday 5th December, from about 5pm onwards, why not come along and join some of the Preludes team and children for "Come and Sing Carols" around the tree, plus a "Come and Try an Instrument" session.
Preludes Celebrates 10 years
In 2009 Bristol Ensemble began an educational journey in two schools in South Bristol through the formation of the Preludes Project. It was conceived with an overarching vision: To transform the lives of children who live in disadvantaged communities, by putting classical music at the heart of their education. This inclusive project is unique in its provision of classical music training that is accessible for children of all abilities.
The project has gone from strength to strength over the years, working with many more schools and over 1,400 children. It recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a concert in the glorious surroundings of St Mary Redcliffe Church. The theme was "BRISTOL SEA-PORT CITY – SONGS OF THE SEA".
The Preludes team after a successful concert!
The schools involved were: Baddocks Woods E-ACT Academy; Bedminster Down; Cheddar Grove; Easton C of E; Greenfield E-ACT Academy; Ilminster Avenue E-ACT Academy; Knowle DGE; Oasis Bankleaze; Oasis Long Cross; Perry Court E-ACT Academy; and Redfield Educate Together
On the programme was a wide selection of music from Classical through to Sea Shanties, performed by voices and instruments including strings, brass, woodwind and percussion and delivered with wonderful professionalism, flair and sheer enjoyment.
One of the added benefits of the project has been the engagement of the children's families and carers in their learning and performing journey. The church was filled with excited supporters, proud of the children's extraordinary achievements and eager to hear the results of all their hard work. Also in attendance were long term funders of the project, and several local dignitaries.
The Preludes teaching team, led by Penny Rawlings, works tirelessly throughout the year and on the day provided their usual warm professional encouragement and support.
For more information on Preludes, see our Preludes page.
Einaudi Comments
Rehearsing for the Einaudi concert at Wiltshire Music Centre
It is always lovely to get feedback on our concerts from audience members, and last month's mini-tour (at Wiltshire Music Centre, Christ Church Nailsworth, and St George's Bristol) of a concert of music by Ludovico Einaudi generated quite a few lovely comments. Thank you!
Here is a selection…
"Just listened to @BristolEnsemble playing Ludovico Einaudi @stgeorgesbris. Such a wonderful, mesmerising experience!"
"Captivating and mesmerising they said – just a bit! What a wonderful evening, like a massage for the brain."
"Bristol Ensemble plays Ludovico Einaudi concert at St George's last night was excellent. The beautiful pieces and the images of nature were mesmerising."
"Absolutely loved it. Selection of the songs was great. Surpassed my expectations."
"It was a fantastic evening at St George's. I have seen the Bristol Ensemble many times and Roger Huckle is an excellent leader. I had been given an early insight to the evening as I attended the Einaudi concert at Nailsworth given by Paul Israel and the Bristol Ensemble. That was a particularly moving experience but did not prepare me for what was to come last night. Einaudi's music is emotional in the extreme and the lighting and images made it more so. Paul Israel is a special talent."
"What a treat. I won't forget this evening – I applaud Bristol Ensemble, terrific to watch and so thrilling to listen to. Einaudi music live is a thing of wonder."
"Outstanding performance by pianist and ensemble. One that will be remembered for some while. Effective use of visual landscape photography to enhance beautiful music."
"Beautiful rendition of Ludovico's work"
"Beautiful. More Einaudi please Bristol Ensemble! There was a wonderful atmosphere and it was obvious that everyone was captivated."
"Bristol Ensemble were a real treat. I love Ludovico Einaudi's music so know it well , B.E. played it fantastically. My whole evening was great."
We're looking for a new Chairman
Click here for a PDF version of this announcement
Bristol Ensemble's board of trustees is seeking to appoint a new Chairperson in the first quarter of 2017 following the retirement of the current Chairman.
Bristol Ensemble, established in 1994 by violinist Roger Huckle, is the city's only professional orchestra, and is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It gives around 50 concerts a year, ranging from a small chamber group to a large orchestra, with a repertoire stretching from the 17th century through to premieres of new commissions.
The orchestra's plans for the next five years are exciting and challenging, and it is well placed to continue to build on its position at the forefront of classical music in Bristol.
The essential requirements we are seeking in a new Chairman include:
Fully engaged and committed to the long term development of the organisation
Well connected and influential in Bristol. Needs to live in or near Bristol
Committed to putting in the time for board and other necessary internal & external
meetings (the board meets quarterly and there is a monthly Executive Committee
meeting)
A regular concert goer
Be an effective ambassador for the organisation and all aspects of its work
Inspire the board and all those associated with the organisation
A visionary and good completer/finisher
Have good leadership skills and able to delegate effectively.
If you are interested in finding out more about this voluntary role, please contact the Treasurer, Andrew Gustar, by email at info@bristolensemble.com.
We are seeking submissions of interest by the 1st December. Interested candidates should provide a letter outlining their suitability for the role and what particular skills and interest they could bring to the ensemble. Candidates will be invited to meet the Artistic Director and two members of the board at an agreed date where they will have the opportunity to discuss the role in more detail.
Welcome to Be More Musical!
All 4 Music has changed its name to Be More Musical. It even has a fancy new logo!
Don't worry though, we will still be putting on exciting music workshops with our fantastic tutors. Billy Elliot, A Capella Jazz, the ever popular Scratch Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac and a new Recorder project are all ready to be explored, just follow this link to the Be More Musical website.
Tea-Time Concert
Henleaze Concert Society: Spring in the Air
Vaughan Williams and the English tradition
Preludes: Big Noise
St John Passion
Henleaze Concert Society: American Connections
Henleaze Concert Society: Summer Serenade


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Pontypridd kids take two million steps for Diabetes UK Cymru
Written by Gavin on 15th October 2020
Awen-Haf and Llion Harding, aged 9 and 7, from Church Village, Pontypridd decided to double the One Million Step Challenge between July and September this year, raising £315 for Diabetes UK Cymru for their efforts. The children's father, Scott lives with type 1 diabetes and this is the third time the family has taken on the walking challenge.
Their mother, Marie Harding, a nursery teacher, said: "As a family, we usually take on similar challenges and take part in annual fundraising activities for a cause close to our hearts to raise funds and awareness. The children have journeyed with their dad, as he moved from injections to pump to control his diabetes.
"They took to the walking like ducks to water, they love a challenge and the idea of helping others, especially people who possibly have been through similar experiences to their dad.
"This was an ideal challenge during lockdown. They wrote postcards to their friends and walked to deliver them. My son is sports-mad, so we took a rugby ball to play at the field as part of the walking. My daughter loves her baby dolls so took her little pram out at every opportunity. They also enjoy the outdoors in any weather and are used to it, so the rain didn't bother them at all."
The challenge took them to beaches, coastal paths, mountains, castles and other Welsh landscapes and they ended up doing an impressive 2 million steps in 90 days.
Marie added; "We like walking but it's hard to fit it all in. The worst part was when both kids had blisters on a 9-mile walk, but they felt really encouraged by all the support they were getting from family and friends and just carried on. We have such busy lifestyles with so many activities, we are rarely home but we've made time to walk and it gifted us with time to talk to each other, so it was great for our family",
Dai Williams, National Director of Diabetes UK Cymru, said; "This year we've seen demand for our services reach record levels, while our own funding has been significantly impacted. More so than ever, people with diabetes in Wales need us, but we need your support to be able to continue fighting their corner. Thank you to Awen-Haf and Llion for their amazing effort and taking on the One Million Step Challenge, you're both incredible."
Llys Cadwyn contractor donates time and resources to repair flood hit Ynysangharad Park Bowls Club
CTM – Media update – Thursday 15th October


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So the question is how does someone get a header value within your query/mutations??

A: So I never found the answer online but decided I should post this in case someone else runs into this issue.
First you need to setup the context that'll be used
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What do embedded analytics offer that only your software application vendor can truly understand?
When analytics are integrated in everyday financial processes and workflows, users can work smarter and more efficiently in the applications they rely on every day. This is especially important for finance, sales, and HR teams that need timely visual and interactive access to the kinds of data they work with in their business units.
Not surprisingly, the market for embedded analytics is experiencing rapid growth as software vendors extend their applications for end users who want insights in the context of how they work.
Analytics, some in the form of static dashboards, started showing up in software applications years ago. The tools were complex and unintuitive even by IT's standards. They required that IT be trained in the specifics of each vendor's proprietary solution, and they required IT to script or code to make them work in their environment.
As their natural owners, IT served the business users who funneled their questions and requests through them—and then waited. Users would have to submit a ticket to IT, and by the time they received the information it was usually stale.
The software developer's strategy of placing a dashboard as a separate tab on a toolbar was an attempt to short-circuit this. While business users were ready for embedded analytics, legacy business intelligence and software applications were not.
The software ran atop different architectures, a work-around for the cost and performance limitations of the antiquated hardware they were built to use. They each used their own separate database. That created a significant problem: The story the data in a static dashboard was telling you didn't necessarily match what the data in the business application said. Users, therefore, didn't trust the data.
Even the most advanced approaches at the time were constrained by a legacy architecture. You may have no longer needed an engineering background to use an embedded report wizard. However, someone with knowledge of the software needed to create reports and send them to the end users. Not exactly self-service.
Modern software architecture is cloud-based and leverages the fastest memory, computing, and storage options widely available today. Business applications and analytics run in-memory. They share the same architectural foundation. Both use the same data so the answers to business questions are consistent. This is changing the game for analytics. As more business users rely on software applications to do their jobs, the conversation has shifted from whether analytics are included in an application to how well embedded the analytics are, the variety of analytics that are embedded, and if business users can use them without needing IT assistance or business intelligence expertise.
Effective analytics are intuitive, deeply embedded within the application where users do their daily work, both powerful and easy to use, and take many forms to satisfy all preferences. When application vendors treat the capabilities and placement of analytics in their applications with the same importance they do other features—putting the right type of business functionality where it makes the most sense for the task at hand—users win. Users can select from any dimension to answer their specific questions, visualize predictions on the same page where they are making business decisions, or highlight numbers on a data-entry sheet to see them charted, all leading to smarter decisions faster.
Consider that the average manager makes 3 billion decisions a year. To align with this overwhelming number, analytics must be intuitive, include seamless access to relevant, real-time data, be available in the context of how business users work, and be optimized for their specific work tasks.
Do analytics rank high on your vendor's 2018 priority list?
When application vendors don't consider analytics to be core to their product, they rely on a third-party vendor's analytics product and integrate the two as best they can. It's easy to tell which software application vendors believe analytics are a core expertise within their organizations. Just ask them whether their analytics come from a third-party vendor or are developed in-house. If they depend on a vendor, then analytics doesn't rank as one of their software's most essential elements.
Meanwhile, these days, without analytics, businesses cannot keep up with the pace of change. They're increasingly under pressure to be data-driven just to stay in the game. Analytics is no longer a differentiator that separates one company's ability to compete from another. Every company has them. Now businesses are focused on using them effectively. As such, companies are ingraining analytics into the everyday workflow of the organization.
As companies up the ante for analytics in their companies, the application vendors whose software they rely on must do the same. Its time to be asking your software application vendor where analytics rank on its priority list and see if it matches with yours.
Elizabeth leads the nonprofit cross-functional team at Adaptive Insights. She works with Adaptive Insights' nonprofit customers and internal teams to enable nonprofit organizations to better achieve their mission with streamlined planning.


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A veritable, natural oil of youth, Cactus Seed Oil is renowned for its anti-ageing effect. Extremely rich in both vitamin E and essential fatty acids, it combats drying out and ageing of the skin due to its ability to nourish and tone. Its many virtues make it a precious ally for the Berber women who use it in the desert to moisturize and protect their skin. Nowadays, this oil is increasingly popular as it combines efficiency with beauty in a natural way.


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"Growing Pains" Cast Then & Now: Where are the "Growing Pains" Cast Mates Today?
By: Brent Chittenden - Published: December 20, 2016 at 2:39 pm
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With the recent tragedy of Alan Thicke's death, the spotlight has turned once again to the cast of probably his best-known work, Growing Pains. The Growing Pains cast had a bit of a bittersweet reunion at Thicke's memorial service, and we're bringing you all the details on where they are now.
Running 168 episodes over seven seasons, Growing Pains was a big hit for ABC, but many of the cast members have kind of disappeared from the spotlight, with the exception of Leonardo DiCaprio. Here, we take a look at the Growing Pains cast then and the Growing Pains cast now and even a few Growing Pains cast pics.
Alan Thicke
After a varied career as wide-ranging as his, Thicke will best be remembered as Dr. Jason Seaver on Growing Pains. But after the show ended, Thicke kept busy with numerous supporting roles and even hosting a number of beauty pageants. He would gain a bit more notoriety with younger generations as Robin's dad on How I Met Your Mother.
Joanna Kerns
Joanna Kerns played mom and tenacious reporter, Maggie Seaver on Growing Pains for all seven seasons. After the show ended, she kind of fell off the map as an actor with small parts and guest spots on multiple television shows like The Closer, Chicago Hope, and Less Than Perfect as well as appearances in films like Knocked Up. What you may not know is that Kerns has kept incredibly busy behind the camera as a director! Her first gig as a director was on the Growing Pains episode titled, "The Truck Stops Here" and since then, she has directed episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, The Goldbergs and much more. She recently directed Growing Pains' co-star Kirk Cameron's sister, Candace on two episodes of Fuller House on Netflix.
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Kirk Cameron
For a number of us, Kirk Cameron (who played Mike Seaver, the oldest child of the Seaver clan) faded from the national spotlight shortly after Growing Pains went off the air, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been busy. After Growing Pains, Cameron had a series called Kirk on the WB that last for two seasons, and then he left the mainstream route for the world of faith-based film and television. A Born Again Christian, Cameron has acted in several faith-based films, including the Left Behind series, Fireproof and Saving Christmas. But, he still made time to participate in two Growing Pains reunion movies, including 2000's The Growing Pains movie and 2004's Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers. He is married to Growing Pains cast mate, Chelsea Noble, and they have six kids.
Tracey Gold
Tracey Gold portrayed the smartest of the Seaver children, Carol Seaver, during the entire run of Growing Pains with the exception of a few episodes in the 1991/92 season. Gold had developed a terrible battle with anorexia, which by 1991, could no longer be hidden. She sought treatment and eventually returned to the show for the rest of the series. After Growing Pains ended, Tracey appeared in numerous TV series like Touched by an Angel, Twice in a Lifetime and Melissa and Joey. She too made time for both Growing Pains reunion TV movies. Tracey is married and has three kids.
Jeremy Miller
Jeremy Miller played Ben Seaver during the entire run of the show and he too had some problems of his own. Miller was treated for alcoholism and is now a spokesperson for the center where he received his treatment. Miller hasn't done much in the way of acting in the years following Growing Pains, but he did appear in a few things like 2015's The Comeback Kids. Jeremy is married and has three step-sons.
Ashley appeared as Chrissy Seaver, a late addition to the Seaver family, in the last season of the show. Chrissy had only been born the season before, so her age was accelerated to that of a toddler. After Growing Pains ended, Ashley would appear in several films like What Women Want and The Avengers, but has most recently made a splash back into the world of television and voice acting. On television, Ashley most recently appeared on the TV show, Blindspot. As a voice actor, Ashley has had big hits with Teen Titans, Ben 10: Omniverse, Tales from the Borderlands and the critical video game hit, The Last of Us. She also appears as herself on the web series, Critical Roll where she plays Dungeons and Dragons with a number of other actors, celebrities and voice actors.
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Leo was added on to the last season of Growing Pains as Luke Brower (a troubled youth that Mike Seaver decided to help out). We've heard that Leo went into film…and may have won an award or two. (Wink, wink.) Of all the cast members to appear on Growing Pains, Leonardo DiCaprio, without a doubt has reached the highest achievements in fame! His celebrity status is so large now, that many forget that this is where he really made his acting debut! Looking back, who could have guess that troubled pre-teen on Growing Pains would grow into the star he is today.


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He went on to form a rock band called "INKT", who made their debut in 2014.
Jenny "I pooped my pants on purpose" Slate was dating Captain America.
Though Slate is undeniably awesome in her own right and there was definitely a gross degree of "her?
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Minami Minegishi had just been accused of having a boyfriend.
It used to be one segment of the Sunday Sunday Night program. First broadcast in 2008, the show pairs up Korean celebrities to show what life would be like if they were married.


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The Cashless Society Almost Here And With Some Very Sinister Implications
Patrick Henningsen, New Dawn
Among the long list of items bundled by consensus reality merchants under the banner of 'conspiracy theory', is a world without cash – where technocrats rule over the populace, and everything and anything is exchanged via plastic and RFID chips.
In this sterile and controlled Orwellian hi-tech society, the idea of cash being passed from hand to hand would be as archaic as the thought of carrying around a rucksack of tally sticks today.
Still, despite the incredible penetration of credit and debit card transactions into economic aggregate, and the boom in internet shopping, few will comfortably admit that a cashless society is nearly upon us. In part, it's a natural denial by many fuelled by the idea our society is indeed on a collision course with the sort of dystopic impersonal future like that depicted in the 1970s sci-fi film classic, Logan's Run. Cashless money is here, and growing rapidly.
Over the years, futurists and commentators alike seemed to agree that a cashless society will be a slow creep, and would automatically phase itself in simply by virtue of the sheer volume of electronic transactions that gradually make cash less available and more costly to redeem, or exchange. This is still true for the most part. What few counted on, however, was how the final push would take place, and why. Some will be surprised by these new emerging mechanisms, and the political and sinister implications they ultimately lead to.
Introduction of Parallel Currencies
There has been a lot made about the 'cashless society' in media, but this cannot fully happen until there is a cashless currency.
Every revolution needs a good crisis in order to germinate its seed. The cashless revolution is no different. It should be abundantly clear by now that the global financial meltdown has been engineered at every juncture of its unfolding by the very private central banks who expand and contract the money supply. A Dollar or Euro collapse will trigger a global economic crisis, which is a prime opportunity to introduce the next phase.
In the summer of 2012, at the height of the European Central Bank (ECB) ritualistic raping of the Greek economy, financial expert Max Keiser, alongside Mexican billionaire Hugo Salinas Price, travelled to Athens to promote the idea of a silver Drachma as a parallel currency to the ever-failing Euro. In theory and in practice, this parallel currency was 'sound money' for individual Greeks and would allow them to retain some say in their financial destiny, and also allow them to accumulate real wealth. It should have caught on. But this great idea did not go down well with media moguls and technocratic elites loyal to their overlords in the ECB, Wall Street and the City of London. Still, too many people remain unaware of how money is created, enters into circulation, and how their private central banks control inflation, and Greece is no different.
The US Dollar is pure fiat [fiat money is money that derives its value from government regulation or law], but it does have a theoretical backer. It is an oil-backed currency – and for better or for worse, is on its way to losing its long-lived status as the world's reserve currency. China is moving towards a gold-backed currency and has already agreed to buy the majority of its oil supply from Russia off of the US Dollar peg. This could mean two things: the US could be forced to fight a war to maintain Dollar supremacy, or the Dollar will begin to drop as the top dog. This shift will open up a window of opportunity for money masters to insert not only a brand new global currency, but also its universal cashless attributes as well.
Common sense and free market wisdom would expect to see a sound money option replace the current fiat disaster, but as we saw in Greece, a great solution was not taken up and straddled with the dysfunctional Euro, and that society will continue to pay the cost of that reality.
The Euro crisis was a great opportunity to throw out the Euro in favour of something that could create wealth, rather than debt. As the fiat currencies continue to slide downhill, globalists are preparing their solution behind closed doors.
Enter the Cashless Currency…
Right now we are now on the cusp of that US Dollar collapse, and perhaps a Euro implosion on the back end of it. Risks of hyper inflation are very real here, but if you control the money supply and have a ready-made solution waiting in the wings, you will not be worried about the rift, only wait for the chaos to ensue so as to maximise your own booty from the crisis.
Many believed that the global currency would be the SDR unit, aka Special Drawing Rights, implemented in 2001 as a supplementary foreign exchange reserve asset maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). SDRs were not considered a full-fledged currency, but rather a claim to currency held by IMF member countries for which they may be exchanged for Dollars, Euros, Yen or other central bankers' fiat notes.
With the SDR confined to the upper tier of the international money launderette, a new product is still needed to dovetail with designs of a global cashless society. Two new parallel currencies are currently being used exclusively within the electronic, or cashless domain – Bitcoin and Ven. Among the many worries US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke listed was the emergence of Bitcoin. But don't believe for a second these digital parallel currencies are not being watched over and even steered by the money masters. Couple this latest trend with done deals by most of the world's largest mobile networks to allow people to pay via a mobile 'wallet', and you now have the initial enabler for a new global electronic currency.
These new parallel cashless currencies could very quickly end up in pole position for supremacy when the old fiat notes fade away as a result of the next planned economic Dollar and Euro crisis.
Both Bitcoin and Ven appear on their surface to be independent parallel digital money systems, but the reality is much different. In April 2011, Ven announced the first commodity trade priced in Ven for gold production between Europe and South America. Both of these so-called 'digital alternatives' are being backed and promoted through some of the world's biggest and most long-standing corporate dynasties, including Rothschild owned Reuters as an example, which should be of interest to any activist who believes that a digitally controlled global currency is a dangerous road.
The Electronic Deutsche Mark
Much is made of Germany's prominent financial position within the EU, with a popular talking point being that, "Germany is carrying the majority of the load in 'bailing out' countries such as Greece in the south." If the Euro is 'heading south' as many a financial commentator are claiming, then how would a country like Germany – or even the Federal Reserve for that matter – hedge their bets with an impending currency collapse looming just over the horizon?
Economics professor Miles Kimball from the University of Michigan thinks he knows the answer:
In short, for a smooth transition, a reintroduced mark needs to be an electronic mark. I recently made the case for the electronic dollar in a previous Quartz column, "E-Money: How paper currency is holding the US recovery back." The trouble with paper money is that the rate of interest people earn on holding paper money puts a floor on the interest rate they are willing to accept in doing any other lending. For the US, I proposed making the electronic dollar the "unit of account" or economic yardstick for prices and other economic values, and having the Federal Reserve control the exchange rate between electronic dollars and paper dollars to make paper dollars gradually fall in value relative to electronic dollars during periods of time when the Fed wants room to make the interest rate negative.
In the case of Germany, there would be no need to reintroduce a paper mark along with the electronic mark, since the euro itself could continue in its current role as a "medium of exchange" for making purchases in Germany, alongside the electronic mark. A "crawling peg" exchange rate could be used to let the electronic mark gradually go up in value relative to the euro, without causing a huge rush into the mark, since with no paper mark other than the euro itself, interest rates in Germany could be close to zero when measured in euros, which would make them strongly negative in terms of marks.
A Dollar or Euro crash could be the perfect storm for the introduction of major global digital currencies, and this will do nothing but fast-track our entry into the new cashless society.
This past year's London Olympics was a beta testing exercise for a number of new programs. We witnessed troops deployed en mass for the first time to marshal the international sporting event and new facial recognition technology tested to monitor its attendees. One of the chief sponsors of the 2012 London Olympics was VISA, which used the event as a springboard to launch its new 'contactless payment' technology, acclimatising the international public to making routine payments via smartphones. VISA now predicts that this new method will carry 50 per cent of its transaction volume by the year 2020.
Mastercard has also rolled out its own version called Paypass, and Barclaycard has already implemented its own mobile phone payment chip in 2011. It's conceivable here that a bank like Barclays could one day takeover a major mobile service provider in order to streamline the endless profits it could accrue from monopolising cashless payment facilities for its customers. A recent edition of Marketing Week further explains how this program is being rolled out:
Barclays launched Pingit this year, a mobile payment service that allows customers to send and receive money with a mobile phone number, which has sparked The Payments Council to work on a similar project. And the three leading mobile operators in the UK – EE, Vodafone and O2 – are working on a joint project under the name Weve, one of the aims of which is to develop standardised technology for 'digital wallets' on mobile.
These industry innovations reflect the changing attitude and behaviour by consumers to cashless payments. Barry Clark, account director at Future Foundation, which identified the trend towards a cashless society in its recent report into the changing face of payments, explains that this move towards digital is a "banking nirvana" for brands, since replacing cash with electronic payments takes high costs out of the system.
These mobile enablers will effectively cover the small services and contractor's market for the cashless society. In addition, digital payment terminals like iZettle and Square (created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey), have brought in most small traders, including taxi drivers, plumbers etc, and street side retailers – meaning that the barrier for entry into the new cashless society has been effectively dissolved.
The Socialist Oyster
The darker aspect of a cashless society is one which few are debating or discussing, but is actually the most pivotal in terms of social engineering and transforming communities and societies. In London, the electronic touch payment Oyster Card was introduced in 2003, initially for public transport, and since that time the card has been co-opted to be used for other functions, as the UK beta tests the idea of an all-in-one cashless lifestyle solution.
Ironically, it's the United States, supposedly the birthplace of modern capitalism, which is beta testing its own socialist technocracy. As the ranks of the poor and unemployed grow and inflation rises in America, more and more people are dependent on traditional 'Food Stamp' entitlements in order to feed their families. The US has now introduced its own socialist 'Oyster' to replace the old Food Stamp program. It's called the 'EBT', which stands for "Electronic Benefit Transfer," as a means of transferring money from the central government to people living below the poverty line. Advocate Mike Adams for Natural News describes it another way:
EBT benefits have more than doubled during the Obama administration's last four years, creating tens of millions of new dependents who now vote based almost entirely on who gives them the most handouts. The purchase of vitamins is specifically prohibited by the EBT program. This is done as a way to keep EBT recipients sick and diseased while suffering from nutritional deficiencies, which is precisely what the federal government wants.
EBT cards create high-profit handouts to corporations, too: Pharmaceutical companies and the sick-care industry; Big Government which gets re-elected based on entitlement handouts; global banks which earn a percentage off every swipe; and even the processed junk food industry which preys upon nutritional ignorance of the poor.
In fact, for every dollar's worth of food handed out to EBT recipients under the program, at least 50 cents is driven right into the profit coffers of wealthy corporations.
Adams points out the endgame here. Where collectivist technocrats are concerned, a global digital currency is not only a means for a centrally controlled economy, but also a centrally controlled society.And as Adams also pointed out, they can even control what you eat.
Bottom line: the State can, and will cut-off your electronic financial lifeline should you fall foul of the system. No negotiations, no gray areas – and definitely no place for a free individual in this type of globalist system.
Social Networks Could Supplant Nations
In 2011 Facebook launched its own virtual currency, which was taken up immediately by the games developer industry. Facebook created its own internal digital market overnight. If customers didn't like it, they had two choices – jump ship, or stay in the biggest market place. That's a lot of power to wield, and you can wield it if you have the big numbers.
A severe lack of choice in the world of online communities has unwittingly (or not) positioned Facebook to play the roles of not only data collector, but also as banker, retailer, archivist and governor.
Many people have certainly become, in one way or another, sans border citizens of the 'Facebook Nation'. In the future, one corporation or cartel's success in capturing a near global monopoly of membership to a particular online platform might give it the ability to dictate a digital economic mandate to both producers and consumer.
The digital data industry now claims in a recent study by fast.MAP that consumer confidence in sharing personal information has risen. But the reality is that most people do not know which data is being used and to who it is being shared or sold to. Most users are unknowingly trading "access" to networks, as well convenient speed of registration – for data privacy. We do this on a daily basis now.
It's a question of speculation at this point how deeply the new digital currencies will be integrated into social networking giants like Facebook, or Second Life – where users are already buying virtual property with virtual currency, but few can deny that the potential for consolidation in the early 21st century is already there.
History Will Repeat Itself
Whenever the status quo is seen as a failure, the architects of society will rarely allow the whole show to come to a grinding halt, for fear that new and non-centrally controlled organic systems of organisation will emerge. The ruling establishment will spare no opportunity to tell society this, over and over, making people truly believe that it is in their best interest to adopt whatever alternative is handed down to them. This is why, when faced with a crisis, society will almost always seek to implement a parallel alternative, rather than rethink the whole system.
In 2008, the public had an opportunity to collapse the predatory banking system that has been trading insolvent and gambling on thin air. But the very same ruling establishment who engineered the crisis to begin with, masterfully presented their own solution as the remedy by establishing the precedent of the State bailing out any gambling losses incurred by the banking community.
In the end society relented, and with the help of pro-banking political leadership on both sides of the Atlantic, they adopted the pre-packaged belief that a cluster of bloated and corrupt financial institutions were simply too big to fail. Aside from being a massive redistribution of wealth upwards into the hands of the speculative elite classes, this was merely a test by the establishment to see how far they could go in robbing the public, pushing up inflation, hoovering up real assets, robbing pension funds and enslaving taxpayers to generations of debt the bankers created – all in one swoop.
It has long been the dream of collectivists and technocratic elites to eliminate the semi-unregulated cash economy and black markets in order to maximise taxation and to fully control markets. If the cashless society is ushered in, they will have near complete control over the lives of individual people.
The financial collapse which began in 2007-2008 was merely the opening gambit of the elite criminal class, a mere warm-up for things to come. With the next collapse we may see a centrally controlled global digital currency gaining its final foothold. The cashless society is already here. The question now is how far will society allow it to penetrate and completely control each and every aspect of their day to day lives.
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Juno, is NASA's unmanned interplanetary station launched on August 5, 2011 to explore Jupiter, the second project under the New Frontiers program. The spacecraft entered the polar orbit of the gas giant on July 5, 2016. The purpose of the mission was to study the gravitational and magnetic fields of Jupiter, as well as to test the hypothesis that Jupiter has a solid core.
Instruments of the Juno interplanetary probe, which is exploring Jupiter, detected a nearby signal at a frequency of about 6.5 megahertz, which is in the range of high-frequency radio waves. On Earth, they are used for ionospheric communications and over-the-horizon radar, but in Jupiter's orbit, their source is supposedly natural.
Such signals have been known for a long time: they are called decametric radio emission. However, for the first time, a spacecraft recorded them in the immediate vicinity of the place of origin. In fact, the probe flew through the source of the radio burst, near Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.
Juno's sensors observed the phenomenon for about five seconds, and then it merged with the background radiation. Given the speed of the probe – about 50 kilometers per second – we can conclude that the area of space where the signal is generated is about 250 kilometers across.
As NASA explains, the found radio emission with a frequency of 10-40 MHz creates a stream of electrons rotating in Jupiter's magnetic field. They generate a radio signal as a result of a process of a certain cyclotron maser instability.
NASA was so terribly interested in this cyclotron instability that the Juno mission was decided to be extended indefinitely, and now the bright adepts are busy building a new ship, the money for which they managed to get in a record short time.
The intrigue is that the conspiracy theorists knew about this radiation back in October 2020, although NASA only spoke about it now. The story began there with the appearance of the following message on one of the network boards:
According to this modest text, it was written as if by a CIA officer who went on the run in the fall of 2020. The reason for this was the cleansing of a team of agents who cleared and hid information about the discovery in orbit of Ganymede of an object similar to an interplanetary space station, created using some advanced technology.
It was opened by the same "Juno", which on June 6, 2020 discovered a strange radio signal, which NASA reports only now. The signal was very powerful and went in a narrow beam, which does not happen in nature, so the satellite was slowed down and at the next revolution turned to look – where is the beam coming from?
The signal came from an object in the form of a torus, inside which a sphere about 1000 feet in diameter was suspended. The sphere was of a substance resembling metal, glowing with a purple light with a green tint, and rotating clockwise. In this case, the torus rotated in the opposite direction. It also looked like the sphere had been damaged by some kind of internal explosion. Nobody had any idea what it was, and it was thought that this was the work of the proto-civilization of the Earth, which was trying to colonize Jupiter. The version of the object's alien origin was also considered.
When people read it in October, everyone laughed merrily. However, when NASA revealed the discovery of something on Ganymede, everyone suddenly realized that the message seemed to be pure truth and therefore now, in order to hush up the information, NASA urgently released its legend of what was happening.
Peruvian judges said the coronavirus pandemic was organized by "authors of a new world order", including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, investment banker George Soros, and members of the Rockefeller family of billionaires. Such a verdict was issued when considering an appeal to extend the detention of a local resident accused of rape.
Judges Tito Gallegos, Luis Legia and Tony Changaray were the authors of the controversial ruling. They explained that the coronavirus pandemic turned out to be force majeure, since no one, except for the "organizers" of the pandemic named by them, could predict its consequences.
"The criminal process was paralyzed due to the COVID-19 pandemic created by the criminal elites, which paralyzed activities in almost all countries … No world government, individuals and legal entities, nor the defense of the accused can claim that this pandemic can be called 'predictable', except for the creators of the new world order, such as Bill Gate, Soros, Rockefeller, etc., who ruled it. They continue to manage it in conditions of extreme secrecy and in global corporations with an eye on the 2030 project," the Pasión por el Derecho edition quotes the text of the resolution.
Representatives of the department, which is responsible for overseeing the work of judges in Peru, have already announced that a review has begun against the authors of the ruling. The RPP publication indicates that it will be clear from its results whether a colleague committed a violation.
In early 2020, against the backdrop of a pandemic, conspiracy theories related to the spread of COVID-19 spread online. According to one version, some world forces (among which Bill Gates, the CIA and the Chinese authorities were mentioned ) specially brought the coronavirus into the laboratory and spread it to put the inhabitants of the planet at home, irradiate them with 5G, and then microchip them.
Gates himself later stated that such theories were "difficult to deny" because they are "too ridiculous."
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) believes that the virus was not created artificially – the organization is of the opinion that the infection was transmitted to humans from bats.
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The United States is in danger of going to extremes, which after the January 6 events, no one knows what is happening in the country and the uncertainty seems to peak in the next few hours.
There are facts which could show that we are heading for the most dramatic hours the world has experienced since the August 1991 coup in Russia when the communists attempted to return to power and take control of the nuclear arsenal.
First, after an incomprehensible and unexpected blackout in Pakistan, a blackout happened in the Vatican.
A few hours before the blackout in Pakistan, the frequency of power grids in Europe dropped sharply, and only renowned German engineers and no less famous German quality of equipment saved Europe from plunging into darkness, as it happened a little later in Pakistan:
Das waren 3741,4 MW – bei einer Reserve von 3.000 MW ist da verdammt viel schiefgegangen. Vor allem dieser steile Einbruch ist alarmierend! pic.twitter.com/YDL6AmbBPj
— HerbertSaurugg (@herbertsaurugg) January 8, 2021
Are there plans for some kind of Pentagon intervention, as Washington now resembles Moscow in August 1991?:
DC Capitol Hill right now pic.twitter.com/Mc3dBMMvOo
— Richard Citizen journalist (@DPotcner) January 9, 2021
Second, US President N. Trump is ready to activate the Emergency Alarm system that bypasses all conventional media (television, internet, radio, etc.) to send a message to US citizens!
In response, of course, to the decision of the dominant online media, from Google to Fb, Amazon, Tweet, Twitch to ban Trump from communicating with US citizens, even through Parler, the medium used by tens of millions of right-wing Americans to communicate.
The Emergency Alarm System (EAS) is a national alert system in the United States that came into force on January 1, 1997 and is coordinated jointly by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The system is designed primarily to allow the president to address the country by intervening in the programming of all radio and television stations in the event of a national emergency.
The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) is used as a backend for the dissemination of warning information via EAS and related technologies, such as Wireless Alerts Alerts (WEA), using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). EAS messages are mainly transmitted via terrestrial and satellite radio and television (including broadcast and multichannel television), which must be part of the system.
Millions of SMS have been sent in the last hours with the following update:
Third, the US military has been embroiled in an unprecedented political conflict. According to the New York Times, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Chief of Staff General Marley Miley to restrict the president's access to the nuclear arsenal, but he refused, as it would be a purely military coup.
The representative of the American Military leadership, David Butler confirmed that "the phone call was made and there was information about the nuclear control procedures".
To add that 70% of the military support Trump, but one can not imagine the involvement of the US armed forces in the internal political conflict, even if it has gone beyond what could be assumed as "within reason."
Fourth, the airspace above Washington was recently closed. Theoretically, it closed because an air traffic controller fell ill with coronavirus. Information was then leaked about "a possible terrorist attack by Iran in retaliation for Suleimani's assassination."
How likely is that? Then there were rumors that it was closed because N. Trump moved out of the White House accompanied by USAF fighters.
That is, for the movement of the aircraft of the presidency "Air Force 1" but it does not cease as a fact to be unprecedented.
The official excuse is that they disinfect the Air Traffic Control Room for flights over 18,000 feet because of a controller who tested positive for the virus.
See the picture of air traffic on the east coast of the USA, now:
Fifth, the arrival of the National Guard in Washington in large numbers:
JUST IN – Busloads of National Guard members arriving in D.C. now.pic.twitter.com/gpvSu0O2Aj
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) January 11, 2021
Military helicopters observed over many US cities. There are many helicopters, they fly at unusually low altitudes and, if the helicopters are attack helicopters, people can consider full suspension systems with weapons:
Um, anyone know what is happening here? Military helicopters flying low over Glendale, CA. @MyGlendale @LATimes pic.twitter.com/81DVHnC4yW
— Robert Hernandez 😷 (@webjournalist) January 11, 2021
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— Jeff Meineke (@jeffmeineke) January 10, 2021
🇺🇸 UH-60 Black Hawk military helicopters in the skies over DC in preparation for Joe Biden's inauguration@serious_war pic.twitter.com/iJbdjJ3yPh
— Serious War (@serious_war_eng) January 10, 2021
Not sure what's up, but some loud as heck military helicopters just flew over our house. We live right near GA so maybe from Fort Benning? pic.twitter.com/FZ3HnI1Fdo
— WarriorPoet (@Warrior22722437) January 9, 2021
Sixth, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released an UPDATE of the nuclear attack guidelines it gives to all Americans through the Ready.gov website. Among the items added by FEMA are the following:
On your way to work, find suitable hiding places to look for in the event of an explosion. Due to COVID-19, many of the places you may walk to and from work may be closed or may not work during normal hours.
Such things were brought to the attention of the Americans for the last time fifty years ago, at the very peak of the Cold War, and the fact that this is now remembered again is very surprising to everyone.
Seventh,since Sunday, January 10, the Boeing E-4B is constantly in the air – one of the so-called "doomsday aircraft", that is, an air command post:
In normal times, any of these messages taken separately would have caused a serious panic among American conspiracy theorists, since, apart from periodic flights of "doomsday planes," nothing of the above has ever happened. And now it turns out, as it were, seven inexplicable sensational news in 24 hours.
This allows one to think that in the United States either some not very good things are being prepared, or these things are in full swing. That is, we can talk either about some grandiose false flag or even a possible world war.
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