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Gov. Rick Scott Announces Roll Out of Veterans For Scott Coalition
September 4, 2018 | News, Press Releases
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. – Governor Rick Scott today joined Florida veterans at events in Green Cove Springs and Cape Coral to announce the roll out of his Veterans Coalition, which is made up of more than 500 military members and veterans from across the state who recognize Governor Scott's work over the past seven and a half years to make Florida the most military and veteran friendly state in the nation – and who want to see Governor Scott as the next U.S. Senator.
Governor Rick Scott said, "Over the past seven and a half years, we have worked hard to support our military members, veterans and their families both during and after their service. This includes securing funding and legislation to help veterans get a great education, find jobs and open their own businesses. We have also worked to alleviate the financial burden on military families by cutting taxes and reducing regulations to welcome these families to our state. As a Navy veteran myself, it has also been an honor to recognize more than 14,5000 Florida veterans with the Veterans Service Award in appreciation of their service. This work has helped make Florida the most military and veteran-friendly state in the country – and that's something I will continue to fight for in Washington. I am proud to announce our Veterans Coalition today and I look forward to continuing to serve these heroes as Florida's next U.S. Senator."
Brigadier General Chip Diehl, United States Air Force, said, "As a Navy veteran himself, Governor Scott knows firsthand what is important to our military members and their families. Governor Scott takes the time to meet with every military installation Commander four times a year to hear their priorities and concerns. Every day over the past seven and a half years, Governor Scott has embraced our military, making Florida truly the most military-friendly state in the nation. From providing immediate in-state tuition for military attending college to proactively working to protect our military bases from closure and realignment, providing reciprocity for military spouses who come to Florida with professional licenses, and standing up for Veterans' healthcare, the Governor walks the walk with our Veterans. Governor Scott and our First Lady's respect for our Gold Star families hallmarks their love and admiration of those who've died protecting our nation. As a Veteran with a son serving in our Air Force, I salute and can't thank our Governor properly for his steadfast support and leadership. I proudly join Governor Scott's Veterans Coalition because we need him in the U.S. Senate to continue to fight for those who have selflessly fought for our country and our freedoms."
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Faculty Advisor, Purdue Heifer International Chapter, 2007-present.
Faculty Advisor, Animal Sciences Ambassadors, 2012-present.
Member, Purdue University Faculty Senate, 2013-present.
Community of Service Learning Faculty Fellow. Purdue University Office of Engagement. 2011.
President, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Specialists Association. 2011.
President, Gamma Sigma Delta Agriculture Honor Society, Purdue University Chapter. 2010.
Purdue University College of Agriculture TEAM Award. Purdue CAFO Team. 2010.
Service Learning Faculty Development Grantee. Purdue University Office of Instructional Excellence. 2009.
Purdue University Cooperative Extension Specialists' Association Team Award. Purdue CAFO Team. 2009.
National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2004 to 2006.
Elected Member. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. University of Tennessee, 1999.
Elected Member. Gamma Sigma Delta Agriculture Honor Society. University of Tennessee, 1997.


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11 July: Submissions Open
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24 October: Awards Ceremony
Tristan McConnell – 'Close Your Eyes and Pretend to be Dead', Foreign Policy
Tristan McConnell is a foreign correspondent living in Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2004 he has reported from across the African continent frequently covering conflicts and crises in countries such as Somalia, the Sudans, DR Congo and Mali.
Judges: Tristan's detailed investigation into the Westgate Mall attack in Kenya had a clean and powerful narrative.
Umer Ali – 'Junaid Hafeez: condemned forever?', Dawn
Umer Ali is a freelance journalist based in Pakistan. He covers human rights, social issues, terrorism and more. He's currently working with News Deeply, covering the repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and with local papers to cover a range of issues – from blasphemy cases to LGBT issues.
Judges: Umer tells the poignant tale of a university scholar accused under Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws. His report was made with compassion and clarity.
Jack Losh – 'Inside Rebel-Held Ukraine's Palaces of Propaganda', Vice News
Jack Losh is a British freelance journalist, documenting life and conflict in eastern Ukraine and beyond, from the front line to the humanitarian crisis.
Judges: This is an unusual and revealing portrayal of living and working in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
Ayman Oghanna & Warzer Jaff – 'Fighting the Islamic State with Iraq's Golden Division: The Road to Fallujah', Vice News
Ayman Oghanna is a journalist and photographer working in the Middle East. Warzer Jaff is a Kurdish-American photojournalist and cameraman based in New York City.
Judges: This was great combat footage, well shot and competently managed on the ground, and it took the viewer through a new front in the war against IS. It helped us with a number of questions – why did the Iraqi forces suffer so badly in their early attempts to take on IS, why the Islamists had traction in local villages, and how difficult it will be to remove them. It had good material throughout, and was confidently edited.
Feras Kilani – 'Battle of Benghazi', BBC Arabic
Feras Kilani is a BBC Journalist, covering Middle East, specialised in Syria and Libya.
Judges: Feras Kilani has shown a real commitment to the Libya story since the uprising in 2011 and total integrity in reporting it. For this film, he penetrates the chaos of Benghazi, the city that gave birth to the Libyan uprising but is now torn apart by ISIS and other warring militias. Kilani moves with the Libyan army – which is itself showing signs of fracturing – as it fights to reclaim control. Libya is a complex story that is often lost in the news, but Kilani and BBC Arabic have shown bravery and integrity in their consistently excellent reporting of it.
Phil Rees – 'Al Jazeera Investigates – Genocide Agenda', Al Jazeera
After 23 years as a senior producer and correspondent with the BBC, Phil is now the Manager of Investigative Journalism at al Jazeera Media Network.
Judges: This presented complex evidence compellingly, with heart-breaking interviews, and some tremendous graphics. There were telling interviews with a racist Buddhist monk, and local officials which explained why things have become so bad for the Rohingya Muslims – facing vicious persecution. The programme took a three-dimensional view of the history of the conflict, with a nuanced view of recent history that was so much more refreshing than the usual binary tit-for-tat claim and counterclaim. Phil Rees is an experienced and accomplished journalist who has made a film in the best traditions of Frontline.
Nicole Tung – for her body of work in the Middle East
Nicole Tung is a freelance photojournalist from Hong Kong and is currently based in Istanbul contributing to international media publications including the New York Times, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal. She focuses on conflict and conflict related stories, primarily in the Middle East, and has been recognized by PDN, the International Women's Media Foundation, PX3, the Society of Professional Journalists, and other organizations for her work.
Judges: Nicole Tung has shown sustained commitment to narrating the conflicts in the Middle East and her body of work on migration has been done with integrity and courage.
Paolo Pellegrin – 'Fractured Lands: How The Arab World Came Apart', The New York Times Magazine
Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L'Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy before studying photography at l'istituto Italiano di Fotografia also in Rome. Between 1991 and 2001 Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2001 he became a Magnum Photos nominee and a full member in 2005. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek for ten years.
Judges: Paolo Pellegrin's work is an example of great engagement with a complex, and violent story over many years. It is work of high intellectual and visual integrity that is simultaneously direct, thoughtful and nuanced. The judges felt that the New York Times Magazine should be congratulated for it's thoughtful and powerful publication of the work with Scott Anderson's accompanying written essay that gave context to the current migration crisis.
Sergey Ponomarev – 'Reporting Europe's Refugee Crisis', The New York Times
Sergey Ponomarev is a Russian freelance photojournalist best known for his works depicting Russian daily life and his work in Middle East including Syria, Gaa, Lebanon, Egypt and Libya.
Judges: Sergey Ponomarev's work on the migration of refugees from the middle east was committed, powerful, thorough and well structured. In a crowded field Ponomarev's work demonstrated sophisticated use of the medium and thoughtful storytelling.
Scott Anderson and Paolo Pellegrin – 'Fractured Lands: How the Arab World World Came Apart', The New York Times Magazine
Judges: The article shows reflection, perspective and context. It is reported, written and photographed to a very high standard. Both authors have reported on this story since the beginning with courage, intelligence, perception and élan. The judges also felt that the New York Times Magazine should be congratulated for it's thoughtful and powerful publication of such work.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, ICIJ & the team of international journalists behind The Panama Papers
Judges: The Panama Papers was a product of a year's work by over 300 journalists collaborating in 75 countries and analysing 4 decades worth of financial documents written in 25 languages. Using the latest techniques in data journalism to unravel how politicians, celebrities and billionaires around the world have squirrelled their wealth in tax havens.

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At the UC Merced IT department we get a lot of angry stressed out people yelling at informing us that one or several of our systems/services are down(e.g. email, cloud storage, wireless network, etc.) and are anxious to find out when they will come back online. Yea yea, big cliche, every IT department has people hating on them, but seriously, sometimes we deserve that hate.
If you're at UC Merced and you can't access CROPS (our Learning Management System), the third thing you're going to do is go to it.ucmerced.edu and check the "systems status" block.
After I got over his ambiguous word choice to describe the issue I began asking him questions that would give me specific answers; the initial discovery phase in the design process.
What three things bother you about it?
What negative things have people told you about it?
What do you want/expect your users to do when they visit?
What about it do you think works?
A lot of it came down to spacing issues between the different elements in the block and figuring out a layout that doesn't frustrate people when they use it. I made it very clear that redesigning this would take more than just "a few hours" (I love it when people minimize the importance of design) but the result would be worth it.
As of 12/9/11 this is what our beautifully designed IT home page looks like (No, I didn't design this).
2) The dropdown menu under "Filter By Progress:" gets lost and a lot of people end up not using it. We get a lot of "Oh, I didn't know I had a choice of selecting 'Four Most Recent', 'Resolved', or 'In Progress' issues".
3) This might just be me but you kinda' have to strain your eyes and find the date and time stamp of each issue. If I'm frantic about email being down, I'd like to be able to scan this list quickly and see if there's been an update today.
If you read point 1, you'll notice that this solves the issue of users not knowing they had the option of choosing to see "All" issues, "In Progress" issues and "Resolved" ones.
Point 2 follows the spirit of Twitter's "keep it short" mentality by forcing the updater to create a simple title without cluttering the interface with details. "Single Sign On is down" is much better than "Single Sign On service being disrupted by server reset". The majority of users don't care why Single Sign On is down, they just want to know if they're the only ones that can't sign on and whether or not IT is aware of it so they don't have to call/email the Help Desk to inform them.
I styled the date block in point 3 to be quickly scannable because sometimes there are multiple issues listed on the same day or close to a certain date (when it rains, it pours). Having the dates easily discerned allows users to quickly scan the list of issues to see if their particular problem has been reported. "Hmm I can't connect to the network. Today's the 15th so has anyone reported the problem yet? Oh yep, there it is." My boss said he imagined this list displaying more than four issues at a time so being able to quickly scan it is a good thing.
I can't make everything big and bold but I do need to make everything clear and noticeable; so for point 4 I chose to take advantage of the white space to single out the time stamp and italicized it to differentiate it from the title to the right.
At this point (12/12) it's ready to be prototyped and I'm going to forgo using Photoshop because this isn't an extremely large project and creating it in the browser would go much faster, especially with CSS3 being able to handle drop-shadows, gradients, border-styles and even cool hover effects. I'll update this post with the final result.


Dan, it's time for the monthly review of foreign objects found in your milk deliveries. There were four hockey pucks and a copy of Leather Llamas in the Johnsons' order alone.
Clearly those items were placed there by my arch-rivals from the PETA brigade.
6 Sorta funny and a nice segue in panel 3!
6 Clever. 9-voter - It's variously Occam or Ockham, never Occum.
6 It's not faux-intelectualism, it's Dan stretching for an excuse.
4 The joke being that they found a razor in someone's order? Meh.
3 Doesn't work for me. I find it contrived.


You would think choosing a paint color is simple. But no. It's never that easy!
I am SURROUNDED by shades of grayish khaki, beige, beige khaki, greenish khaki, peach beige, wheat... blah blah. You think colors look PERFECT on the sample and then get them on the wall and OH MY... NO.
So I have been trying to make a decision and every time I thought I had my "this is it, for sure this time" decision... it wasn't.
When we moved into our home 5 years ago, the previous owner had painted the entire inside just before listing. Used the cheapest, chalkiest weird paint that left chalky gray stripes up and down the walls where his roller was. NEVER have seen that before in the 5 homes we've lived in and painted numerous times. (I bought of the exact color/brand thinking it was a bad mix or not mixed well enough but EVERY CAN of that brand did it).
So I got better quality paint and I tried like heck to 'match' the paint already here because I figured that would make it easier to paint at a nice, slow pace as needed. The paint we 'matched' at the time, a few years ago was Aura's Coastal Path by Benjamin Moore.
At the time, on the wall I was matching, it seemed to match perfectly.
In hindsight, it wasn't. It was a shade too 'orangey brown' if the sun wasn't directly on it.
What happened was that over the next 2-3 years of slowly repainting everything I started to realize our house was to dark. Too 'yellow' in all our photos.
I took the sample swatches and tried again before I repainted the master bedroom and found a color closer to the original lighter shade I *should* have been using for the past couple years was Glacial Till.
So I slowly started to buy Glacial Till - the bedroom and 1 of the walls of the kitchen and the office were all done in Glacial Till and the difference is awesome.
But dang-it that paint is $65-75 a GALLON.
And that is NOT budget friendly. Especially when you have a 3 story house. In the last 5 years I've spent about $1500 on Aura paint.... I could have painted the whole house in the pale GRAY I originally WANTED to 5 years ago if I had foreseen I would be spending that much just to re-paint what was already there when we moved in (that I did not pick).
I started on a quest to 'match' the Glacial Till color I love from the expensive Aura to high quality but less expensive paint I could pick up at my local Lowe's store.
After DAYS of researching online and looking at a thousand paint samples, images, other peoples blog posts and photos, etc. I decided the color that I was going to try was Accessible Beige by Sherwin Williams. I loved the photos of it online and it looked like it would be beautiful in our home too.
Lowe's offers tiny little containers of custom mixed paints for you try for about $3 (although they often go on sale for $.99 sometimes). So I got 3 samples of paints to try - but I was SURE I was going to love and buy Accessible Beige. I just knew it.
And did not like ANY of them in our living room.
And I didn't love that either.
After living with the splotches on that particular wall for a week I couldn't stand it anymore and painted it all in the Aura's GLACIAL TILL I had on hand. I loved it. I just do.
But it's so expensive I just can't keep spending $65-75 on each gallon of paint. We have a HUGE house and a single-income.
I'm going to skip ahead now - because this post is WAY LONGER than I anticipated it to be.
In the end I had Lowe's match the Aura's Glacial Till and I had a guy in the paint department that ROCKS! HE IS AMAZING. So the computer 'match' didn't match after all (they rarely do when you are matching a different brand). It was too yellow. So he 'tweaked' it - and OMGosh he matched it exact.
But I'm really really really loving the last sample paint I also picked up to try.
This week I *MUST* make some decisions.
Right now it's between a Lowe's match version of Glacial Till and the Sherwin Williams Loggia SW 7506.


All right everybody, welcome back.
I hope you're enjoying your new CAD skills, your new fusion skills.
I hope you're using the sculpt tool.
But let me challenge you guys.
Let me go one step further.
We've taught you guys how to visualize both with drawing and with CAD tools.
But what happens if you build something physical?
You build a model out of foam. You build a model out of clay.
that you want to take from physical to digital.
Well, that's where we bring in 3D scanning.
into the digital CAD environment to leverage your new skills there?
Colton's going to lead this last module here, so let me turn it over to him.
and he's going to show you about the tools used to do this.
Are you ready to start scanning?
>> Hey I'm Colton Jackson.
its my job to introduce the technology that's available at our lab.
what they hope to do with the digital fabrication tools available to them.
far is not far off what you would learn if you spent some time at our FAB LAB.
You've learned you can download existing models and hit print.
use a CAD tool to design a model from scratch.
turning them into physical objects.
how can I go the other direction.
How can I make a digital file from a physical object.
Maybe you want to create a replacement part.
Maybe you've sculpted a prototype from clay and you want to digitize that.
Or maybe you just want to make a miniature bust of your friends.
turning objects into 3D models.
copies of parts or people, or even used as assets in a video game or animation.
include the NextEngine 3D scanner.
The structure sensor for iPad, as well as whatever camera you already have.
These devices fall into two categories.
Structured light scanners, and photogrammetry.
I'll detail the way each technology works.
you can make better decisions about what technique will work best for you.
since there's a good chance that's a new word for everybody.
All that's needed as input is photographs.
Photogrammetry has a much longer history than the other technologies.
It's really about taking measurements from photographs.
doing this began to be developed soon after cameras were invented.
And became important as soon as photographs were being taken by aircraft.
Going all the way back to World War I.
the size of objects and the distances between them could be determined.
You could imagine the military importance of these new photogrammetric strategies.
This was done long before computers were able to process images.
generate a new 3D model.
The rest of the devices use a technique called structured light scanning.
is projected from the sensor.
as is the case with the next engine.
Or an infrared star field that envelops the object all at once.
These tools are a little more automated since you're not using your own camera.
much about getting the technical details of photography right.
You can just set the scanner up and hit go.
use magnetic resonance or x-rays.
underground, or the ground itself.


This article applies to version 1 of Data Factory. If you are using the current version of the Data Factory service, see SAP Business Warehouse connector in V2.
This article explains how to use the Copy Activity in Azure Data Factory to move data from an on-premises SAP Business Warehouse (BW). It builds on the Data Movement Activities article, which presents a general overview of data movement with the copy activity.
You can copy data from an on-premises SAP Business Warehouse data store to any supported sink data store. For a list of data stores supported as sinks by the copy activity, see the Supported data stores table. Data factory currently supports only moving data from an SAP Business Warehouse to other data stores, but not for moving data from other data stores to an SAP Business Warehouse.
This connector supports SAP Business Warehouse version 7.x. It supports copying data from InfoCubes and QueryCubes (including BEx queries) using MDX queries.
Data Management Gateway: Data Factory service supports connecting to on-premises data stores (including SAP Business Warehouse) using a component called Data Management Gateway. To learn about Data Management Gateway and step-by-step instructions for setting up the gateway, see Moving data between on-premises data store to cloud data store article. Gateway is required even if the SAP Business Warehouse is hosted in an Azure IaaS virtual machine (VM). You can install the gateway on the same VM as the data store or on a different VM as long as the gateway can connect to the database.
SAP NetWeaver library on the gateway machine. You can get the SAP Netweaver library from your SAP administrator, or directly from the SAP Software Download Center. Search for the SAP Note #1025361 to get the download location for the most recent version. Make sure that the architecture for the SAP NetWeaver library (32-bit or 64-bit) matches your gateway installation. Then install all files included in the SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK according to the SAP Note. The SAP NetWeaver library is also included in the SAP Client Tools installation.
Put the dlls extracted from the NetWeaver RFC SDK into system32 folder.
When you use the wizard, JSON definitions for these Data Factory entities (linked services, datasets, and the pipeline) are automatically created for you. When you use tools/APIs (except .NET API), you define these Data Factory entities by using the JSON format. For a sample with JSON definitions for Data Factory entities that are used to copy data from an on-premises SAP Business Warehouse, see JSON example: Copy data from SAP Business Warehouse to Azure Blob section of this article.
The following table provides description for JSON elements specific to SAP Business Warehouse (BW) linked service.
The typeProperties section is different for each type of dataset and provides information about the location of the data in the data store. There are no type-specific properties supported for the SAP BW dataset of type RelationalTable.
For a full list of sections & properties available for defining activities, see the Creating Pipelines article. Properties such as name, description, input and output tables, are policies are available for all types of activities.
The following example provides sample JSON definitions that you can use to create a pipeline by using Azure portal or Visual Studio or Azure PowerShell. This sample shows how to copy data from an on-premises SAP Business Warehouse to an Azure Blob Storage. However, data can be copied directly to any of the sinks stated here using the Copy Activity in Azure Data Factory.
This sample provides JSON snippets. It does not include step-by-step instructions for creating the data factory. See moving data between on-premises locations and cloud article for step-by-step instructions.
A linked service of type SapBw.
A pipeline with Copy Activity that uses RelationalSource and BlobSink.
The sample copies data from an SAP Business Warehouse instance to an Azure blob hourly. The JSON properties used in these samples are described in sections following the samples.
This linked service links your SAP BW instance to the data factory. The type property is set to SapBw. The typeProperties section provides connection information for the SAP BW instance.
This linked service links your Azure Storage account to the data factory. The type property is set to AzureStorage. The typeProperties section provides connection information for the Azure Storage account.
This dataset defines the SAP Business Warehouse dataset. You set the type of the Data Factory dataset to RelationalTable. Currently, you do not specify any type-specific properties for an SAP BW dataset. The query in the Copy Activity definition specifies what data to read from the SAP BW instance.
Setting external property to true informs the Data Factory service that the table is external to the data factory and is not produced by an activity in the data factory.
Frequency and interval properties defines the schedule. In this case, the data is read from the SAP BW instance hourly.
This dataset defines the output Azure Blob dataset. The type property is set to AzureBlob. The typeProperties section provides where the data copied from the SAP BW instance is stored. The data is written to a new blob every hour (frequency: hour, interval: 1). The folder path for the blob is dynamically evaluated based on the start time of the slice that is being processed. The folder path uses year, month, day, and hours parts of the start time.
The pipeline contains a Copy Activity that is configured to use the input and output datasets and is scheduled to run every hour. In the pipeline JSON definition, the source type is set to RelationalSource (for SAP BW source) and sink type is set to BlobSink. The query specified for the query property selects the data in the past hour to copy.
"query": "<MDX query for SAP BW>"
When moving data from SAP BW, the following mappings are used from SAP BW types to .NET types.


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Lakeland Salutes - December 8, 2022
Bobby Mayclim (Lakeland Panas Boys Cross Country): Section 1, Class A Champion Walter Panas junior and team captain, Bobby Mayclim, had a fantastic year for the Lakeland Panas Boys Cross Country Team. Coming off a leg injury in the spring, he was able to recover and compete at a high level. From the first meet of the year in early September to the Westchester County Championships at the end of October, Bobby never finished below second place. Battling sickness for the final two races of the season, Bobby was able to finish sixth overall in Class A at the Sectional Championships to qualify for the NYSPHSAA State Championships. Once at the StateChampionship, a 30th overall finish in Class A (47th in the overall merge) saw him named to the New York State Federation meet. Bobby was able to overcome injuries and ran one of the best seasons in Rebel Cross Country history. Congrats Bobby on a job well done!
Lakeland Girls Varsity Volleyball: Section 1, Class A Champions Congratulations to the Lakeland Varsity Volleyball team for winning the Section 1 Class A Championship. It was the first time in school history that the volleyball team won a Section 1 title. The team finished the regular season with a 16-3 record and then went on to defeat Nyack, Eastchester, Panas, and finally Horace Greeley in the championship game to win the tournament. The team then lost to Cornwall in the regional finals finishing with a 20-4 record; the most wins by any Lakeland team in school history. The team was led by senior captain Kayla Jennings who recorded her 1,000th kill during the season and was voted All-Section and 3rd team All-State. Senior captain Olivia Berkson and senior Sarah Cahill received all-conference honors, and junior captain Emma Dedushaj and eighth-grader Kelly Mallon received all-section and 3rd team all-state honors. Congratulations to this history-making team! Lakeland Varsity Field Hockey: Section 1, Class B Champions
The 2022 Lakeland Varsity Field Hockey team may be the youngest team ever, but that didn't stop them from another incredible season, winning both the 2022 League Championship for the 26th consecutive year (33rd year overall) and the Section 1 Championship for the 13th consecutive time (22nd year overall). Led by team captains Bella Basulto, Emma Numme, Emily Yazzetti, and Celeste Pagliaroli, the Hornets finished the season with an 18-2-1 record, ranking number 2 overall in the Lohud Field Hockey poll and number 15 in the Northeast Region by Max Field Hockey. Individual athlete recognitions were awarded to many team members this season, including:
● Senior Celeste Pagliaroli received the National Field Hockey Coaches Association
All Region Award, Con Edison Scholastic Sports Award, and the Section 1
Coaches Association Scholarship.
● All State recognition was awarded to Bella Basulto, Celeste Pagliaroli, and Gabby
Santini.
● All Section recognition was awarded to Bella Basulto, Emma Numme, Celeste
Pagliaroli, Gabby Santini, and Emily Yazzetti.
● All League recognition was awarded to Bella Basulto, Keira Gallagher, Anna
Lemma, Emma Numme, Celeste Pagliaroli, Gabby Santini, and Emily Yazzetti.
● All League Honorable Mention recognition was awarded to Alyssa Petrilli and
Charlotte Sabert.
Congratulations on another extraordinary season!
Lakeland Salutes - November 17, 2022
LAKELAND SALUTES CON ED ATHLETE OF THE WEEK CELESTE PAGLIAROLI
Lakeland Salutes Celeste Pagliaroli, Con Ed Athlete of the Week! Lakeland Field Hockey Goalie, two-year team captain, and four year starter, Celeste Pagliaroli's talent, leadership, and commitment are just some of the reasons she has received this impressive recognition.
Celeste boasts a 90% save percentage and 14 shutouts this season, with a total of 52 shutouts throughout her field hockey career. She was a four-year starter for the Varsity Team and has won a Championship in every season. As a freshman, Celeste and her teammates won the Class B State Championship. As a sophomore during the Covid year, she won the Westchester/Putnam Small School Regional Championship. In both her junior and senior years, Celeste won the Class B Section 1 Championship and was a Regional Finalist.
Coach Sarsen describes Celeste as, "an outstanding athlete with a complete skill set." She also shared that Celeste's strongest attribute is her leadership and ability to step up in big games; including leading a young, inexperienced defense and giving them the confidence and direction to compete.
Celeste was All League, All Section, and All State this season for Lakeland. She also was a recipient of the 2022 Section 1 Field Hockey Coaches Association Scholarship.
Atrue leader, Celeste is the first one to volunteer within her school, community, and team. After graduation, she plans to study Education while minoring in Coaching at Long Island University, where she has committed to play Division 1 Field Hockey for the Sharks.
Congratulations on this impressive recognition of your many outstanding accomplishments throughout your years at Lakeland!
Lakeland Salutes - October 20, 2022
Congratulations to WPHS students, Bryonna and Aryonna Kristoferson, for receiving the Career and Technical Education Student of Distinction award for the month of October!
Aryonna has received this award for her work in the Cosmetology Program and Bryonna for her studies in the Sports Medicine Program.
Administrators from Putnam Northern-Westchester BOCES have joined usthis evening and will present Aryonna and Bryonna with their awards.
School Board Recognition Week (Oct 17-21)
This week is School Board Recognition Week. Did you know that combined, our current Board Trustees have volunteered on behalf of LCSD for over 35 years?
It takes strong schools to build a strong community, and these men and women devote countless hours to making sure all Lakeland students achieve educational excellence. They make tough decisions every month and spend many hours studying education issues and regulations in order to provide the kind of accountability our community deserves.
Tonight, our district salutes the Lakeland Central School District Board of Education members for their dedication and service to our community.
Lakeland Salutes - September 22, 2022
Congratulations to Haden Gold, Lauren Kim, Christian Laughlin, and Liam Webb for their outstanding recognition from the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA)!
Haden, Christian, and Liam will be performing alongside the best music students from across New York State at the NYSSMA All-State Winter Conference, held on December 1 - 4 in Rochester, NY. The concert will be performed at the esteemed Eastman Theatre.
Haden, Christian, Liam, and Lauren have been selected as members of the Area All-State ensembles, featuring the top musicians in Westchester County. Our students will be rehearsing and performing a concert with their peers from school districts throughout Westchester County: Haden on Timpani, Lauren on Oboe, Christian on Clarinet, and Liam on Trumpet!
Haden Gold, a junior at Lakeland High School, was selected as an alternate for the NYSSMA All-State Symphonic Band based on his score of 97 at his audition last Spring. Haden is a percussionist with the Lakeland High School Wind Ensemble. Haden has performed in musicals at both high schools, as a vocalist with the Walter Panas Chamber Choir, and at Marching Band events. His teacher is Matthew Kowalski.
Lauren Kim, a junior at Walter Panas High School, was selected for NYSSMA Zone 11 (Westchester County) Area All-State based on her score of 100 at her audition last Spring. Lauren is an oboist with the Walter Panas High School Wind Ensemble. Additionally, Lauren is also a dedicated member of the extracurricular music ensembles at Walter Panas performing with the Marching Panthers as well as the Jazz Ensemble. Her teacher is Patrick Murphy.
Christian Laughlin, a junior at Walter Panas High School, was selected for the NYSSMA All-State Symphonic Band based on his score of 100 at his audition last Spring. Christian is a clarinet player with the Walter Panas High School Wind Ensemble. Christian is also a multi-instrumentalist and has participated in the pit for both Walter Panas and Lakeland High School's musicals. His teacher is Patrick Murphy.
Liam Webb, a senior at Lakeland High School, was selected for the NYSSMA All-State Symphonic Band based on his score of 100 at his audition last Spring. Liam is a trumpet player with the Lakeland High School Wind Ensemble and very musically active in our community, including participation as the principal trumpet player in the Greater Westchester Youth Orchestras Association. His teacher is Matthew Kowalski.
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Sputnik V shipments to San Marino improved COVID situation in the country — Lavrov
During the talks in Moscow, the Russian Foerign Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of San Marino Luca Beccari discussed the perspectives of further cooperation between two countries in fighting the coronavirus pandemic
MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. The cooperation between Russia and San Marino in combating the pandemic, including shipments of the Sputnik V vaccine, has improved the epidemiologic situation in the republic, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference in the wake of the talks with Luca Beccari, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of San Marino.
"We discussed the perspectives of our further cooperation in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Our cooperation in this field actually helped in improving the epidemiological situation in San Marino. As you know, in particular, we shipped the Sputnik V vaccine for the vaccination of the population," he said.
Lavrov noted that the sides welcomed the mutual readiness for deepening of cultural and humanitarian contacts.
In February 2021, San Marino authorities signed an agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund on shipments of the Sputnik V to the republic.
According to the World Health Organization data, a total of 5,373 COVID cases and 90 COVID-related deaths were registered in San Marino between January 3, 2020, and August 4, 2021. By 2019, the total population of San Marino was about 33,860 people.
Sergey LavrovRussian Foreign Ministry


I've mentioned before, but never as an OP, that to me MM cobs are permanent pipes. I know for many, they are good for yard work, fishing, or just hauling around in a vehicle, so if they get lost, it's no big shakes. And that's a good use for them. But I like them well enough that I have supplied mine with Forever stems or bought the special series that have acrylic stems, and that makes them competitive with any other pipe for light weight, comfort, and good smoking characteristics. Also, I've admired fishnbanjos various admirable cobs that are beauties from the past, illustrating how well they can last, as have some of mine. Does anyone else have this sense of the permanent with their MM cobs? Especially with a large rotation of pipes, the cobs don't show great wear and seem destined to last a long time.
All of mine, with exception of some of the seconds I own, are permanent pipes. I've added a forever stem to my Washington Rob Roy and love it. I've bought the Dagner, Charles Towne, Carolina Gent and the St. Patrick's Day pipes and love the acrylic stems they came with. They're mainstays in my collection and rotation. I love them for just about any time I want a no fuss pipe that all I have to do is knock out and go. I clean them and take care of them, and they will be a foundation for all of my pipe smoking. Some blends just seem to taste better in a cob, especially on a hot day. They also handle more bowls at a time than any of my briars do in regards to moisture. They'll always be permanent in my eyes.
Never thought of them that way, but why not? With care, they'll last a lifetime. Well, someone's lifetime.
Mine are definitely forever pipes. No fancy stems are Necessary. Even though I think about it a lot.
I'd be really disappointed if I lost either of my two oldest cobs. Nothing special about them except the bond we've built.
I've never had to replace a stem, and my oldest are a 10 year old General and a Great Dane egg I picked up 8 or 9 years ago. In some cases they smoke as good as some artisan pieces I've owned, in some cases, better. Never wanted an acrylic stem for them.
Then I don't know how your stems were made, because mine are so soft, that after one smoking session with a brand new one, the bit will already have teeth marks in it, and I don't bite down but just hard enough to keep it from falling out of my mouth.
I wouldn't mind having one of the older versions though. I've liked those old bulldogs they made back in the day with the diamond shank. Those look spiffy!
I don't bite down when clenching.
I always get the orange ones.
The stem issue depends on your clenching habits and comfort. I seem to chew through the standard stems, orange and black, fairly quickly and certainly with some ingestion of plastic bits. I just enjoy a stem that is more permanent for me. If I didn't have that issue, I wouldn't bother with acrylic stems. I have to admit, the acrylic stems can add a bit of flair, an orange swirl Forever stem that I wouldn't put on anything but a cob but that looks great (to me). I tried softie bits, but the puffiness of those activates my jaw muscle and aggravates my teeth. Once I get the stems right, cobs are keepers.
I just like how the orange ones change color over time.
I may refer to cobs as disposables but, there are three in my shop that are at least 25 years old. And, I do get acceptable smoking experiences from cobs. In fact, some of my best ever bowls have been from a cob, watching a sunset as I float the last fly of the day in a creek, hoping for a dinner. But, I buy them purely for the value. They are my "beaters".
I consider my cobs to be more or less permanent pipes. I know for sure that they are tough. I have this black lab pup who loves to chew on things. She found one of my oldest and dearest cobs and decided to "rusticate" it for me. It still smoked fine although I have since replaced the stem.
Yes Embers, my stems get very dark over time. And now since this thread, I think I'll buy myself a forever stem.
These are still my favorites.
Not a fan of cobs. Still, I do my best to keep the ones I do have in as good shape as possible. Part of my upbringing.
I have 45 cobs and treat them just like I do my briars and meers. They are definitely permanent pipes in my opinion.
Love cobs and get the forever stems for them. Will keep them in my rotation for life. Great smoking pipes.
Yeah, well, you've never had a cleaner feeling mouth than after one sharpening session. It really leaves you feeling invigorated, although it might make cobs a single use item. Well, at least the stem, anyway.
I, too, think of them as permanent pipes...I like to dress them up a bit by staining them...here are three examples of staining and dressing them up for public consumption.
I've had these Dagner's for 3 years. They are permanent in my rotation.
After many years of debating, due to this thread I finally ordered a forever stem.
I also see them as permanent pipes and take well care of them.
I'm so glad that Rom made it into a thread on here!
I have a hardwood cob and don't see the reason to get rid of it. It is just as solid as it was years ago when it was gifted to me.
Cobs are forever pipes for me as well.
I've burned out one McArthur with a load of black cavendish I probably shouldn't have stuffed it with (its replacement is smoking just fine).
I've had to replace the stem on my bent General, as the one it came with softened and bent just enough to permanently put an end to the mortise and tenon sealing tight enough to get a draw from the bowl. I may have been unconsciously imitating an pufferbilly engine for a few weeks when that happened.
The only one not in the rotation very often is the nose warmer, as I'm not very partial to short-short pipes.
I like cobs and never considered them disposable. I wish Forever stems would fit my Country Gentleman.
+1trouttimes, i have a couple of Country Gentleman and would like to mod others but, there is no Forever Stem availability for the unfiltered MMs. I realize that it is undoubtedly a small piece of a small market but, it would be nice to have. Maybe when I get to retirement I will have the time to fashion my own.
They will never get the respect they deserve because they're so inexpensive, particularly when compared to every functional equivalent (and there are few). They're the Corvette of pipes, I suppose.
do you perchance mean the corvair of pipes?
I love my MM Cobs and still keep them in my regular rotation. I have one for work and long drives home in traffic which is more of a beater pipe, but , I also have another 4 which are in my regular rotation and get cleaned and treated like my briars. They are great smokes and with some blends actually perform better than my briars. Nothing like smoking a cob while sitting by a bonfire with a cold beer on a summer night.
Definitely a permanent pipe for me.
Me too! Got it today. Since they're made in Ann Arbor, home of U Michigan, had to go with the old Maize and Blue in honor of my alma mater.
The first smoke blew my mind - richer, creamier, cooler, drier, etc.. I already loved my cobs, often preferring them to briar and meer, but the Forever Stem is a real game changer. This will be the first of many. The original orange (well, kind of dark brown now) plastic stems on my Legends will always have a place, though - can't get much more lightweight than that.
Just made my cob officially permanent today. The stem was 3x as much as the pipe, but it was well worth it. May be buying more in the future.
Like that orange swirl, looks sharp! I wasn't really thinking about the added weight when I ordered the one with all the doodads and stuff on it. Doh! Next time, I'll go with one more like yours. Looks better, too - more elegant.
I think they're totally worth the money. I mean, the "forever" means it makes the pipe last forever too, right?
Trubka2 yours looks beautiful, but yes looks heavy. I'll be ordering a nose warmer one for my oldest cob very soon. And yes your right, they are game changers!
I had cobs at first and then bought some briars but I'm back on a cob bender at the moment. They really smoke well. Never disappoint. Still on the journey though, lots of ground still to cover.


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Ranger Mine
8 km E from Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia
Level 3, Energy House 18-20 Cavenagh Street
Mines & projects in Australia
Acid tank leaching
ERA is currently processing stockpiled ore following the completion of open cut mining in 2012.
Latest News The end nears for Ranger uranium mine January 11, 2019
Rio Tinto plc 68.4 % Indirect
Energy Resources of Australia Ltd. (operator)	 100 % Direct
Rio Tinto owns 68.4 per cent of ERA shares. The balance of the company's shares are publicly held and traded on the Australian Securities Exchange.
The Ranger No. 1 and No. 3 orebodies contain about 124,000 tonnes l^Og in highly chloritized metasediments of the lower Proterozoic Cahill Formation within about 500 m of the projected sub-Kombolgie Formation unconformity. In both orebodies, oxidized and reduced uranium minerals occur chiefly in quartzose schists that have highly variable amounts of muscovite, sericite, and chlorite.
Below the oxidized zone, uranium occurs chiefly as uraninite and pitchblende disseminated through thick sections of quartz-chlorite-muscovite schist and has no apparent association with graphite or sulfides. In fact, graphite is rare and sulfides are generally low in abundance (<0.5 percent). Higher ore grades occur in disrupted zones a few centimeters thick and in some quartz chlorite vein-like zones of uncertain origin. Uranium correlates strongly with chlorite, but not all of the many ages of chlorite have associated uranium. At least five textural varieties of chlorite are present and represent at least 3 ages. Preliminary microprobe analyses suggest that Mg-Fe-Al contents are relatively uniform. Apatite commonly occurs with chlorite. Uranium is not common in carbonate rocks and seems to occur only in disrupted zones that have chlorite alteration.
The structure of the orebodies is outwardly simple, particularly in No. 3; dips are less than 40° on most lithologic contacts. The No. 1 orebody is in a basin-like structure about 400 m wide that probably formed in part by progressive removal of carbonate rocks that are as much as 200 m thick adjacent to the No. 1 orebody and below the No. 3 orebody. Quartz-chlorite breccias have formed in the zone of carbonate thinning; uranium is spotty and low grade in these breccias. Chloritized and uraniferous broken and sheared zones, a few centimeters to a few meters thick, have an unknown attitude but must have small displacement. Blocks of altered Kombolgie sandstone are downfaulted into the No. 3 orebody and locally contain reduced uranium minerals. One or more shear zones 5-30 m thick.
Ranger is a large unconformity-related deposit and the ore is mined by open cut methods. As depicted in figure 3.3, within the Ranger Project there are two orebodies—Ranger No. 1 (now mined out) and Ranger No. 3 which is currently being mined. Open cut mining at the Ranger No. 1 orebody began in August 1981 and was completed by December 1994. Production from the processing plant continued from stockpiled ore until open cut mining commenced at Ranger No. 3 orebody in October 1996.
The mill uses a sulphuric acid leach process to dissolve uranium from the ore. Uranium is recovered from the leachate by solvent extraction and is precipitated as ammonium diuranate (yellowcake). This is then calcined (heated to more than 200°C to remove volatile components) to produce concentrates of uranium oxide (greygreen coloured powder) assaying 99.2 per cent U3O8.
Uranium (U3O8) Recovery Rate, % 86.6 84.7 84.9 82 81.5
Uranium (U3O8) Head Grade, % ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
Uranium (U3O8) t ...... ^ ...... ...... ...... 2,005
All production numbers are expressed as U3O8. ^ Guidance / Forecast.
Tonnes milled ...... ...... 2.7 Mt of ore / dso 2.5 Mt of ore / dso 1.3 Mt of ore / dso
OreType
Contained
Proven & Probable Stockpiles 4.9 Mt Uranium (U3O8) 0.076 % 3,735 t
Measured & Indicated Stockpiles 41.29 Mt Uranium (U3O8) 0.11 % 43,614 t
Inferred Stockpiles 5.44 Mt Uranium (U3O8) 0.2 % 11,087 t
Revenue M USD ...... ...... ...... 332.78 379.17
After-tax Income M USD ...... ...... ...... -275.49 -187.8
....................... ....................... Feb 8, 2018
The end nears for Ranger uranium mine January 11, 2019


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Eighteen years ago, cities and towns including Grapevine, Southlake, Trophy Club and Roanoke were choking in traffic. Texas 114 was just a two-lane country road in some places, and even where it was wider the highway amounted to little more than frontage roads. With a rapidly growing population, leaders in those cities knew that if they didn't act fast their efforts to grow and prosper would be crushed.
"Highway 114 was part of the regional network but it didn't function like one," remembered Frank Bliss, president of Southlake Town Square developer Cooper & Stebbins. "It wasn't fully engineered. There were stop lights at all the major crossings — Kimball Road, Carroll Avenue, White Chapel Road."
Officials and business leaders from those and other cities as well as Tarrant and Denton counties formed a group now known as Metroport Cities Partnership, and in 1996 they piled into a caravan of buses and traveled to Austin to ask legislators for help.
"We went to Austin with four or five busloads of people. We took school kids' pictures — drawings that the first-, second- and third-graders had done showing school buses trying to cross 114," said Tarrant County Commissioner Gary Fickes, who was Southlake mayor from 1989 to 1996. "They gave us more money than we asked for."
Several pieces of the highway are still under construction. West of Texas Motor Speedway in north Fort Worth, new main lanes are being built from near Farm Road 156 to the Wise County line, and that work is expected to continue until 2015. Just south of the speedway, new frontage roads that will help handle the routine race-day crowds of 100,000-plus are being built, a project expected to wrap up in October.
In Roanoke, long-awaited improvements to the Texas 114/170 interchange are scheduled for completion in March.
After those jobs are done, a few improvements remain, including a proposal to build new Texas 114 main lanes from Roanoke to the speedway within about 10 years, and another to widen and improve the highway from Las Colinas in Irving to the former Texas Stadium site. Irving officials hope to redevelop the former stadium area with a mix of commercial and residential uses and access to light rail.
Rural roots to city streets
Those who warned about the area's impending population boom turned out to be right.
In 1995, some 986,000 people lived within a 30-minute drive of Southlake Town Square, Bliss said. By 2013, that number had more than doubled, to 2 million people — nearly a third of North Texas' metro area.
"This increase has been a function of both area population growth as well as improved access due to regional transportation projects," Bliss said.
Even those who fondly remember the area's rural history agree that the changes in Texas 114 had to be made.
Rebecca Utley, a Southlake real estate agent, grew up in Fort Worth and spent many weekends at her family's ranch along Texas 114 and White Chapel Road. She could swing in the front yard all afternoon, with a view of the lonely highway.
"You could drive out here and you might only pass a car or two," she said.
Despite her happy memories of the country lifestyle, Utley is glad the highway is wider and safer today. In the late 1980s, she totaled her beloved Buick LeSabre trying to cross the road, when another car struck hers just outside the family's ranch. She feels lucky she wasn't seriously hurt.
"It certainly brought more attention to Southlake," she said of Texas 114 improvements, "because we were in the middle of nowhere and now we're in the middle of everything."
'Grapevine funnel'
Grapevine Mayor William D. Tate remembers when Texas 114 was a mostly sleepy highway — except during Texas-Oklahoma weekend.
"On OU weekend there was a parade down Main Street with the Oklahoma Sooners come to town to the Cotton Bowl," he said.
As the area evolved and DFW Airport came into the picture in the late 1960s and early '70s, the old highway was diverted to a new loop on the outskirts of Grapevine in 1963. There was a deadly intersection on the south end of the city where the old highway and the new loop rejoined, and Tate remembered that one year 10 people were killed in many crashes there. The state eventually redesigned the intersection to make it safer, he said.
In the 1980s, the area began to be overrun with traffic. The new Texas 114 merged with a new Texas 121 in south Grapevine, making it much easier to connect with cities such as Bedford and Fort Worth.
But DFW Airport was on its way to becoming the third-busiest airport in the world, and the merged highways couldn't handle the traffic. By the 1990s, more than 200,000 motorists per day were passing through Grapevine. Traffic broadcasters, police and other municipal employees began referring to the area as the "Grapevine funnel."
The state Transportation Department began the planning for a massive overhaul of the Texas 114/121 corridor in the late 1990s. But little money was available, so the plans faltered.
In the mid-2000s, the department began searching for a private partner not only to build new freeway lanes, but also to add toll lanes.
By then, the cost of the project had ballooned to more than $1 billion — and still, the state lacked the funds.
It wasn't until 2009, when the U.S. Transportation Department awarded $250 million in Recovery Act funding to the project —the largest single sum of stimulus funding ever awarded to a transportation project in the nation — that dirt finally turned.
The "Grapevine funnel" got a more positive name: DFW Connector. The work was substantially completed last year, and it's now possible to travel through Grapevine at 50 mph or more, even during rush hours.
Some city businesses didn't survive the three years-plus of construction, but those that remained can perhaps enjoy good access to the highway for decades.
"We were just glad they were able to get it done in three years instead of 10," Tate said. "We felt like they shut down the roads too many times for just small improvements. It really hurt a lot of our businesses and they didn't get compensated for that. We just hope the days are brighter and the road is complete and the people are happy and can move freely, and they [businesses] will be able to make that up."
Residents and restaurants
Roanoke was a small town with only about 5,000 residents and few attractions in its old downtown in the mid-1990s. Today, the area has about 9,000 residents, a collection of well-known popular restaurants and a Hawaiian Falls water park. The city will likely reach 12,000 residents in a few years, with the planned opening of two large high-end residential developments, Mayor Scooter Gierisch said.
One is Fairway Ranch, being built on land owned by the late legendary golfer Byron Nelson. It is on the single largest piece of vacant space left in the city center and will include 580 homes.
The city's tax base has grown to about $1.27 billion, up from about $700 million two decades ago, said Gierisch, who grew up in the area.
One of the biggest quality-of-life improvements was the creation of a Texas 114 bypass around the northeast end of the city. The bypass eliminated the dangerous truck traffic that previously tore through the center of the city on the old two-lane Texas 114, which has been renamed Byron Nelson Boulevard.
"You felt like you were entering a death trap every time you got onto 114," Gierisch said. "Now we've expanded it to a four-lane highway and it has helped."
The mayor said he is looking forward to the scheduled completion of the Texas 114/170 interchange in March. "That will take out three signal lights people have to stop at to get to their jobs at DFW," he said.
But Gierisch said some work remains. For example, he said, about three miles of Texas 114 main lanes between Roanoke and the speedway remain to be built. For now, traffic in that area continues to use only the frontage roads that are in place — and those roads are beginning to show serious wear and tear, he said.
Area leaders must continue to press for improvements, he said, because Texas 114 is now an economic backbone of the North Texas region.
"As people move to this area," he said, "it's going to continue to be a problem."
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[ARCHIVED] 2021 Assist-A-Family Campaign
Donate to the 2021 Assist-A-Family Campaign!
Please consider supporting the 2021 Skokie Assist-A-Family Program. Each year the generosity of our community helps Skokie families struggling with limited financial resources celebrate the winter holidays. Families receive gift cards for area businesses which they use to purchase food, household necessities and other items specific to each family member's needs. Last year, some 210 Skokie households, which included nearly 429 children and a total of 385 individual household members, received support through the Skokie Assist-A-Family program.
The need is greater this year than ever due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past few months, Human Services social workers have been in contact with numerous Skokie families and individuals who have suffered both human and economic loss from the pandemic and helped provide support and contacts to other community resources:
Skokie resident couple of over 20 years who both lost their jobs, and for the first time ever, requested assistance to meet housing costs.
Single mom with three children, starting over after a domestic violence divorce, received assistance with housing, emotional support and more.
A family was quarantined due to COVDI-19, and while the wife was hospitalized, the father was home unable to work for over a month. The support helped the family meet expenses and stay in their home.
Those interested in making a donation this year are asked to please do so by Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Make an online donation to the 2021 Skokie Assist-A-Family Program. Checks also are accepted and should be made payable to the Village of Skokie, with Skokie Assist-A-Family Program noted on the memo line. Checks should be mailed to Village of Skokie, Health and Human Services Department, 5127 Oakton Street, Skokie, Illinois, 60077.
For further information, please contact the Health and Human Services Department at 847-933-8208.


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Watch KING DIAMOND Perform 'Sleepless Nights' At GRASPOP METAL MEETING From 'Songs For The Dead Live' DVD/Blu-Ray
A performance clip of "Sleepless Nights (Live At Graspop)", taken from the forthcoming KING DIAMOND DVD/Blu-ray, "Songs For The Dead Live", can be viewed below. The set will be released on January 25 via Metal Blade Records.
There is only one King Diamond, and for more than thirty years the great Dane has been dropping classic albums and putting on shows fans remember for the rest of their lives. Perhaps the only downside to having such a formidable catalogue is that there are just too many great songs to fit into a single set. However, you would be hard-pressed to find a fan who wouldn't want to hear 1987's seminal "Abigail" in its entirety, and "Songs For The Dead Live" captures this, twice, and in very different locales. Boasting eighteen songs per set, each of the two shows — Belgium's Graspop Metal Meeting in June 2016 and Philadelphia's Fillmore in November 2015 — features a brace of classic KING DIAMOND and MERCYFUL FATE tracks, including "Welcome Home", "Halloween" and "Eye Of The Witch" before launching into "Abigail". The performances of the all-star lineup of musicians, comprising of guitarists Andy LaRocque and Mike Wead, bassist Pontus Egberg and drummer Matt Thompson, are absolutely ferocious, hammering home every single moment.
"Songs For The Dead Live" can be pre-ordered in the following formats:
* 2DVD/CD 6-Panel Digipak
* Blu-ray (includes audio digital download of Philadelphia Show)
* special edition box set with 5 discs (2DVD, 2CD, 1 Blu-ray) plus poster, flier, laminate, setlist, ticket, sticker, and guitar pick (limited to 3000 copies)
* opaque blue with white splatter vinyl (U.S. retail exclusive - limited to 600 copies)
* opaque red with black splatter vinyl (U.S. webstore exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
* opaque white with black splatter vinyl (U.S. webstore exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
* 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
* transparent amber marbled vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 700 copies)
* clear ghost white vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 500 copies)
* orange-brown/black marbled vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 300 copies)
* black/purple melt vinyl (Nuclear Blast exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
* orange/red marbled vinyl (Napalm exclusive - limited to 300 copies)
* clear lavender marbled vinyl (EMP exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
* clear ash grey marbled vinyl (Bengan exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
* pink blue marbled vinyl (Ebay exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
Captured on film by director Denise Korycki for Wild Wind Studios, she worked closely with King on every aspect of filming, and throughout the viewer finds themselves front and center as the shows unfold. This includes some inventive camera placement, such as riding in on the back of the wheelchair as it is wheeled out to "Out From The Asylum" at the start of the show, or looking up from the coffin at the commencement of "Abigail" opener "Funeral", which adds an extra dimension to proceedings. Naturally, the theatricality that has become synonymous with KING DIAMOND is there in full force, making for an even more immersive experience. The gothic stage set and the participation of actors playing out certain scenes tying into the songs definitely increases the drama and the sense of complete disconnect from the trappings of reality, ensuring that the shows remain riveting from start to finish.
While the setlists are virtually identical, the drastic difference in the two venues make for distinctly different atmospheres. The sweeping, epic scale of Graspop and the virtual sea of baying metalheads makes for a particularly thrilling spectacle, King holding them all in the palm of his hand. The Fillmore show is immediately more intimate, and rather than a mixed bag of metal lovers drunk on a weekend of the heavy stuff, the audience is comprised entirely of the KING DIAMOND devout, screaming back every word, their love for their hero bleeding from every frame. "Songs For The Dead Live" gives those who missed out on seeing these shows in the flesh a chance to vividly experience them, offering so much deeper an experience than your run of the mill live DVD.
Graspop Metal Meeting track listing
01. Out From The Asylum
02. Welcome Home
03. Sleepless Nights
04. Halloween
05. Eye Of The Witch
06. Melissa
07. Come To The Sabbath
08. Them
09. Funeral
10. Arrival
11. A Mansion In Darkness
12. The Family Ghost
13. The 7th Day Of July 1777
14. Omens
15. The Possession
16. Abigail
17. Black Horsemen
18. Insanity
The Fillmore track listing
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – As reported in the August PLNA e-News, the Obama Administration is contemplating a series of administrative actions to achieve some of what Congress was unable to do with immigration reform.
Unfortunately, it appears that those administrative changes will not affect agriculture directly or the guest worker programs that support nurseries (H2-A) and landscape contractors (H2-B).
While official information coming out of the internal deliberations within the White House are scant, the changes being contemplated seem to focus exclusively on the legal status of those 11 to 12 million immigrants who are here undocumented.
But some in the agriculture community are not concerned, fearing that getting administrative concessions now from the Administration may make it more difficult to get permanent legislative fixes down the road. They are concerned that Republican legislators could harbor a grudge against any sector benefitting from the Administration's immigration largesse.
Nonetheless, simply reducing the raw number of undocumented immigrants here in the country could reduce the legal jeopardy that employers find themselves in when hiring. Employers now must determine the legal status of job applicants when faced with fake ID's that are indistinguishable from the real thing.
It's expected that any announcement of what steps the Administration will take with regard to immigration measures will come after Labor Day, but before the November mid-term elections.


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Škorpil est un nom de famille tchèque notamment porté par :

Par ordre alphabétique
 Hermann Škorpil (1858–1923), archéologue tchéco-bulgare ;
 Karel Škorpil (1859–1944), archéologue tchéco-bulgare, frère du précédent ;
  (né en 1945), joueur puis entraîneur de football tchèque.

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I've always been fascinated by robotics due to the amount of possibilities to make our life easier that they provide, and a subject of particular interest to me is the area of domotics due to the fact that I believe that our homes could be seen as an extension of ourselves, a haven where we can rest from the layers of masks we wear on when outside and just relax and chill out and express ourselves. As such I believe we as Extropians must, not only improve our bodies but also our immediate environment which is an extension of ourselves as a means to progress and also to provide us with the comfort we need.
On a more practical side, automating our homes is also useful because by having to spend less time attending to chores we are able to spend more time on the things that we want to do rather than those that we have to and get more meaningful activities in our days.
Develop a home automation system that can be easily ported among the home and easily maintained by using a modular approach.
Establish the basic control protocols.
Automate other appliances and waste disposal.
Find a clean green energy sources to power the system.
Phase 1. Establish the basic control protocols.
I began thinking on the design to make the home automation system. I knew I wanted a control system that could be portable as I usually have to travel a lot, I thought it would be useful to be able to carry the system (or at least parts of it) whenever I have to travel or change residence. Also I wanted to be able to monitor the house and give orders to it from afar to for example, order it to clean itself while I'm away or to open/close doors or windows.
At first I thought I'd distribute the architecture using 16F84 or 16F887A for every module and control them through a micromedia for PIC32MX that I bought for a microcontrollers class. But then I had to buy separate internet modules and a Real Time Clock to keep track of the timing (I want the system to have several automatic alarms) so I discarded that (although plan to use the PIC16F887 to control the rest of the modules once I finish the first version).
Then I remembered about Processing which is a language that has been extensively in use at my University and that uses a Java like structure (its Java based) to enable the creation of GUI's (Graphic User Interface). It's a language I've wanted to learn for a long time and when I found it has Arduino support (Arduino is my favorite microcontroller brand because I'm all for free open-source) and as such decided to control the whole system from a PC as it will enable me to easily monitor and modify the system as I see fit rather than having to trouble myself with modifying the code to suit every microcontroller brand and also to make use of the Internet protocols to upload data to the net for monitoring and personal use.
From the PC the data will be sent to an Arduino microcontroller from which I'll begin to stream data to the rest of the devices (once I get to buy an Ethernet or BlueTooth shield).
I found out that Processing is slightly more troublesome to set these days as the firmware data has been updated and is no longer compatible with the Arduino firmware provided from the page (it hasn't been actualized while Processing has). So lets tackle this first hurdle!
First thing is to download the Processing and Arduino applications which you can get from their respective webpages, which you can get by making click here Procesing and here Arduino.
After that you must uncompress then and put them on a folder (yeah you don't even have to install them, they're that good!), in my case I located them at a special folder I got where I store my applications for use and modifying located at \home\arthur\Programs.
Figure 3. My Program's folder.
Figure 4. You put the folder in there and it will be recognized, finally!
Figure 5. On how to execute the Arduino software, easy huh?
On the GUI you must open the menu File -> Examples -> Firmdata and make click on the StandardFirmdata example.
Upload it to the Arduino by clicking on the upload button (the arrow that points to the right).
Once that's finished, its time to check whether everything is working at all. For that you must open the Processing application by clicking on the processing script or (again) by typing ./processing to execute the script on the terminal.
The GUI is very similar to the Arduino GUI (they are from the same code so no surprise) and it comes with many examples. If the folder doesn't appear on start, you can see it by clicking File -> Examples or CTRL+SHIFT+O. Afterwards go to the Examples menu and open Libraries->Arduino->Arduino_Output to make the test.
Figure 6. The Arduino GUI. Pretty neat!
Figure 7. The Processing GUI which is very similar to the Arduino's.
Plug your Arduino to the USB port if you haven't already and execute the Processing application by clicking on the Run button (once again the arrow like button that points to the right). It should show you the following GUI (figure 9) and if you press on the first button to the left the LED13 on your Arduino (it doesn't seem to matter whether its UNO or Mega as I ran the program perfectly on an Arduino Mega2560) should light up. Click again and it lights off, neat huh? And that's how we've set our control protocol!
Figure 8. The arduino_output application where we'll make the test.
Figure 8. Processing and Arduino in action.
And here's a video of the application in action!
Installing the Arduino on Ubuntu.


MLS® #13953898 is a 8977 home located at 9346 Sunnybrook Lane, 75220-2047 in Dallas, TX. The property features 5 bedrooms and 5.30 bathrooms. This Residential real estate listing was built in 1987 and is currently listed at $5,250,000. Please contact Mike Mazyck Realty for more information on MLS® #13953898. Call us directly at 972-325-6671 to speak to an agent now.


It is a free-kick that is as famous for the foul that preceded it as the goal that followed.
A quarter of an hour into the 1991 FA Cup final, Tottenham's Paul Gascoigne launched into an ugly challenge on Gary Charles, causing damage to his own knee ligaments that would keep him out of the game for almost a year.
Nottingham Forest's Stuart Pearce stepped up to thunder a left-foot rocket past Erik Thorstvedt while Gascoigne hobbled off to be replaced by Nayim in his final game for the club.
Spurs clawed their way back to win the trophy 2-1 through Paul Stewart's low shot and Des Walker's extra-time own-goal.
Tottenham's triumph made them the first club to win the trophy eight times.


Virlanie Foundation is strengthening its position in advocating for street children and poverty alleviation as it reaches its 25th Year milestone.
This year, we are happy to introduce our Signature Campaigns, a set of annual campaigns that will focus on themes and values that embody our Vision of protecting and empowering children for a brighter future.
Give to Achieve is the first Signature Campaign of Virlanie for 2017. The narrative of the campaign is highlighting the theme and value of "Child Empowerment", an area that we strongly believe is essential to a sustainable practice of development, especially towards our marginalized communities in the Philippines.
The campaign aims to reach Php 2.25M to help sustain Virlanie Foundation's Educational Support Program for its beneficiaries. Some of these programs are the Magellan Learning Center for tutorial, Alternative Learning System to help the street children achieve regular schooling at their own pace and capacity, SiBuHi to help children learn new skills and capabilities in sports, craftsmanship, and performance arts, and lastly, iLead to help our Young Adults learn livelihood activities like baking and sewing.
Donations from your company will greatly impact our cause and the services we provide to our children. For example, every Php 13,000.00 that you donate guarantees one year's worth of a child's tutorial services.


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This is just a fairly simple program I am making to help with the time waste that comes with working out simple boolean algebra equation truth tables. When it is completed, the BAT will hold tools that can help with most simple issues when dealing with most types of boolean algebra.

###How To Use This Program
Before using this program for either the convertor or generator, you need to set the operators in the Configure tab. These settings will be used in every function of this program to know what each operator is and how the program should handle these operators when dealing with the equations you enter.

The Converter will use both the "Old Symbols" and "New Symbols" from the Configure tab in order to convert equations into new equations that you can use.

The Generator will look for symbols that you have set in the "New Symbols" settings in order to generate a truth table with the correct type of equation you have entered.

###Prerequisites
This program requires Qt5, PyQt5, and Python 3 in order to run properly.

For Linux users: xclip needs to be installed in order for the copy/paste functionality to work.

###How This Is Being Developed
I plan to make all the modules used in the program as portable as I can. Both the [ttConverter.py](https://github.com/alxxlc/Boolean-Algebra-Toolbox/blob/master/ttConverter.py) and [ttGenerator.py](https://github.com/alxxlc/Boolean-Algebra-Toolbox/blob/master/ttGenerator.py) can be removed entirely from this program and used separately with other programs.

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Police arrested an Antioch man who crashed a stolen pickup truck into a home while fleeing officers Sunday night, police said.
An officer first spotted the suspect about 11:30 p.m. driving a Ford F-250 truck with license plates that didn't match the vehicle, police said.
The vehicle was stolen out of Concord, according to police.


Calling the wrong person, paying the wrong price or getting measurements wrong, mistakes with numbers can have implications that range from annoying to serious. In this short story, one of our reader's recounts an occasion when number problems added an interesting twist to an evening out.
"It's a bit dark isn't it?" I said while studying Google Maps to check we were in the right place.
We'd just parked up in front of a pitch black house.
"She said she'd be home by now." Laura said as she stared at the house, puzzled by its stillness.
We expected Diane to be home by now, we were meeting up for pizza, wine and a lot of Audrey Hepburn movies. This was going to be the first one in a long line of those evenings, but so far we were looking at a grey, grim and very dark house.
"Maybe you should text her", I said as Laura pulled out her phone to check her messages.
We looked at each other puzzled, then back at the dark house.
"Maybe she's at the back, and we just need to knock?" I said hesitantly.
We got out of the car and walked to the dark porch. As we rung the bell, shivering in the cold wind, we looked at each other. Nothing. We knocked on the door, but still nothing. No light, and definitely nobody home.
"Steph!" Laura yelled at me.
I ducked just in time to avoid a friendly slap on the head.
We got back in the car and drove further up the road.
"I think it should be here", I said, pointing to a house on the corner.
Laura gave me a quick suspicious look. "I don't trust you anymore." She laughed, I so knew she found this just as hilarious as I did. That's when we saw Diane standing on the street waving at us.


Soft & Oils fabric softner offers elaborated fragrances which were developed with a unique caring (beauty care) note. The gold variant offers a zesty combination that entwines with a melody of elegant flowers and is rounded off with sensual woods, precious musks and a touch of fluffy, cocooning vanilla. The blue variant rounds off with a lush, sensual and daring intermezzo of woods, musks and cocooning notes. The purple variant is an captivating fragrance rounded off with sensual woodiness, sultry spicy elements and powdery musk.


I've been dreaming of the UK since I left a few months ago. My month long UK road trip was probably one of the best trips of my life! The weather was on my side, the people were so friendly, the food was surprisingly better than I had expected and the drives were some of the best I've ever experienced…yes even compared to Italy!
I loved all the colorful and unique storefronts!
After a night by Padstow and a two hour cliff hike, I was now in the old fishing town of St. Ives Cornwall. It's been a holiday destination since 1877 when a railway was built and based on my stay in September I would say that it's still quite the hot spot.
My travel comrade and I drove down to the very tip of town and parked on the dock. TIP: bring change for the meter or you'll have to bum a ticket from a friendly shop clerk if you have no change. Yes, this happened and the shop clerk was extremely sweet.
The center of St. Ives was filled with travelers, seagulls and seafood. After a stroll around town, which took 15 minutes, we ended up on top of the town at Pedn Olva. It's a hotel which has a restaurant and bar with the best views!
Dinner was about 5 plates of everything that looked incredible plus a cold bottle of Riesling!
The plan was to stay one night BUT the B&B—The Old Vicarage—stole our hearts, so we decided to bum around for two nights.
The next morning breakfast was, well, English. I had my fill of eggs, sausage, tomatoes, brown toast and tea. It was a lazy day with distractions from YouTube videos, Instagram, work…all in slow motion.
By 5 o'clock my body got a second wind, which meant it was time for a Pimm's Cup at the B&B's bar. It was a self serve fully stocked bar. My kinda place!
I made a Pimm's Cup sans the fruit, wrote my room number and drink on the tab and relaxed. The fellow B&Bers joined in and I soon found myself surrounded by couples in their 50's and 60's sharing stories, love tales and humorous travel fails. The Brits have THE best sense of humor.
Cheers to the best B&B in Cornwall, The Old Vicarage!
The next day started off with yet another English breakfast…these breakfasts deserve a post of their own! We then said our tearful goodbyes and were off. I was dying to see the Tate, but it was time to head to St. Michael's Mount!
A fellow travel blogger, Teresa, went up St. Michael's Mount a few days before, so I thought it would be fun to check it out for myself.
After a quick drive through Penzance—remember the Pirates of Penzance?—we arrived in Marazion. We parked and began the walk over soft sand and water towards the island.
It was the first time I had to walk on water to get to a destination. I have since become holy.
We were treated with two press passes by the friendly staff. The hike up this place of pilgrimage and prayer was gorgeous!
The Mount played an integral part in tin trade back in 350 B.C. and in 450 B.C. it was where the Archangel of St. Michael appeared as a vision to many fishermen. The property was eventually granted to the monks of St. Michel in France and then seized by English hands in 1193.
Time for fish and chips!
Besides all of the history and site seeing, the fish and chips at Chippy right across the Mount completed the day!
My time in St. Ives was memarable thanks to the walks, Pimms, talks, English breakfasts, Dianne at the Old Vicarage, and drives. Next up, BATH!
What's your favorite area of the UK!? Did you also think that St. Ives would be selling St. Ives hand lotion at every corner?
Yes it was, the day was gorgeous and the walk was actually quite exciting. Who doesn't love a walk on the beach and water?! 😉 So glad I got to share an ice cream with you in Padstow, another place I would love to go back to.
Thanks Becky! I had the best time there. I loved all of Cornwall, hard to choose just one spot.
Yes I plan to write more. I loved Bath, York, Chester and so many parts in Scotland! Many events have happened in Italy, so it was difficult to only write about the UK! Did you subscribe so you can get the UK stories in your inbox when they are published?


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The Collapsed 21-Storey Building Was Sealed By Lagos State Government In 2020
The 21-storey building that collapsed today at Musikiu Junction by Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, was sealed by the State government last year to "prevent calamity".
Unfortunately, it appears the building was later unsealed and construction continued until it collapsed today, November 1, at about 2:25 pm.
In July 2020, it was reported that Sanwo-Olu had sealed the Gerard, Ikoyi high-rise.
At the time, a source was quoted as saying that the State Government took the action to seal the building in order to ensure that what happened with Lekki Gardens Estate when its on-going six-storey building collapsed on March 8, 2016 would not be witnessed again in the state.
The source said: "It is unheard of that the owners of the Ikoyi project in question would embark on such a capital intensive project without obtaining required approvals for a project as massive as that.
"Gone are the days of negligence on the part of the Government when people flout the law. Sealing up the project is law taking its due course.
"The owners of this project have shown themselves to be defiant and obstinate, in that the State Ministry of Land and Physical Planning had been calling on them (to) without paying attention to what the Ministry had been calling their attention to.
"It does not benefit the state to stop economically viable projects like the project on Gerrard Road in Ikoyi, but the responsibility falls on the government that all rules and regulations guiding such buildings are strictly adhered to.
"What the government has done is to halt further construction with a view to assessing and evaluating the extent to which the builders had adhered to the building code. The state will take it up from there.
"The government will not fold its arm and watch people behave recklessly without order and accountability. We are talking about people's lives here. The state will no longer tolerate such attitude from anybody no matter how highly placed they may be."
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Evans Who Made His Billions From Kidnapping Has Finally Been Sentenced To Death
Nigerian notorious kidnapper Evans whose real name is Chikwudubem Onwuamadike has been sentenced to death after been trialed for 3 years for kidnapping and other notorious criminal activities. He was sentenced to death yesterday by a Federal High Court in Lagos, after he was found guilty of kidnapping. Chikwudubem Onwuamadike who is popularly known as Evans made waves years ago after he was arrested for kidnapping. His operation was uncovered and he was found guilty of countless kidnapping.
Evans is one of the biggest criminals in Nigeria.
When he was arrested, the authorities uncovered all the fortune the man has gathered with his illegal and criminal acts. Evans made over 6 billionaire from kidnapping and was regarded as one of Nigerians leading billionaires. But after his arrest in 2017, his properties, cars, houses and assets worth over billions of naira was seized by the Nigerian Federal Government. He was then charged to court and his case has remained in court since 2017 till yesterday 20th August 2020, when the Federal High Court in Lagos finalized his case.
He was found guilty of all the charges leveled against him and was sentenced to death
Well, it looks like Evans has finally met his waterloo. The Federal High Court in Lagos sentenced him to death on Thursday. The billionaire has finally gotten a verdict for all his crimes in Nigeria and I believe this will serve as a lesson for those planning to go into kidnapping and other forms of criminal activities.
Cheating Wife Stabs Husband To Death After He Caught Her With Man On Matrimonial Bed
It was a tale of tears and wailings in Ivhiogbe quarters of Jattu, headquarters of Uzairue Clan of Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, as a cheating wife stabbed her husband, one Abdulrasheed Dagana to death after he caught her in their matrimonial bed having intimacy with another man.
The incidence happened yesterday, 13 November, 2021 when the young man, Tipper driver came back from work unexpectedly to behold his wife naked with another man inside their matrimonial room.
The man attempted to wrestle with the wife's lover, but the wife had join forces with the lover and stabbed her young husband. The man bleeder profusely on the way to the hospital where he died a few minutes later.
Wife Kills Husband Who Caught Her Cheating In Their Matrimonial Home
A man simply identified as Abdulateef has been stabbed to death by his wife.
The woman was said to have harmed him after he caught her with another man in their matrimonial home.
It was gathered that the incident happened around 3am on Sunday in Jattu, Etsako West Local Government of Edo State.
The woman reportedly stabbed the deceased when he came home at about 3am and met her with another man in their bedroom.
A source said, "The man was living with two wives in his house, but had to rent an apartment for his first wife in a different location to allow peace to reign while staying with the junior one in his house."
He said the deceased visits the first wife and spends the night there but there has been a rumour that another man visits his second wife every night when he is not at home.
He said the deceased came home that night from his first wife's rented apartment, only to meet a man with his junior wife in their bedroom.
According to him, the deceased allegedly got hold of the visitor and in the process, the woman stabbed him twice on his stomach apparently to pave way for the alleged lover's escape and make it look like a robbery attack.
He said the deceased died as a result of the injury, adding that the quick arrival of the police saved the suspect from being killed by a mob.
He said the suspect has been arrested by the police.
Efforts to get a response from the state's police command's Public Relations Officer to respond were unsuccessful as calls and text messages to his phone were not answered and replied to respectively.


Electrotonic influences on action potential duration dispersion in small hearts: a simulation study.
Intrinsic spatial variations in repolarization currents in the heart can produce spatial gradients in action potential duration (APD) that serve as possible sites for conduction block and the initiation of reentrant activity. In well-coupled myocardium, however, electrotonic influences at the stimulus site and wavefront collision sites act to modulate any intrinsic heterogeneity in APD. These effects alter APD gradients over an extent larger than that suggested by the length constant associated with propagation and, thus, are hypothesized to play a greater role in smaller hearts used as experimental models of human disease. This study uses computer simulation to investigate how heart size, tissue properties, and the spatial assignment of cell types affect functional APD dispersion. Simulations were carried out using the murine ventricular myocyte model of Pandit et al. or the Luo-Rudy mammalian model in three-dimensional models of mouse and rabbit ventricular geometries. Results show that the spatial extent of the APD dispersion is related to the dynamic changes in transmembrane resistance during recovery. Also, because of the small dimensions of the mouse heart, electrotonic effects on APD primarily determine the functional dispersion of refractoriness, even in the presence of large intrinsic cellular heterogeneity and reduced coupling. APD dispersion, however, is found to increase significantly when the heart size increases to the size of a rabbit heart, unmasking intrinsic cell types.