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Oregon land use board denies Waste Management's appeal over Riverbend Landfill expansion
Published Aug. 14, 2020 • Updated April 13, 2021
E.A. Crunden
Megan Quinn
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UPDATE: April 9, 2021: The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals denied Waste Management's challenge to a 2020 decision by Yamhill County commissioners not to approve a permit application for expansion of the Riverbend Landfill. In its April 9 decision, the board upheld the commissioners' findings, which stated Waste Management's proposed litter control plan would not be adequate to protect nearby farmers from significantly changing their growing and harvesting practices or increasing operational costs to clean up their properties.
Jackie Lang, Waste Management's senior area manager for public affairs, said the company is "reviewing the decision and will assess options later this month." She said the Riverbend expansion plan "goes above and beyond in terms of environmental protections and considerations for neighbors and the community," adding the company has participated in more than 25 community meetings and public hearings related to the proposed expansion over the past 12 years.
Waste Management recently faced another setback in its efforts to expand the Riverbend Landfill in Yamhill County, Oregon, following a 2-1 vote against the plan by the county board of commissioners on Aug. 6. According to the News-Register, the company's bid to add 29 acres to the 88-acre site is nonetheless likely to continue.
Concerns leading to the board's decision included worries about pollution, along with the potential for an earthquake, given the landfill's location in a seismically active area that is also prone to flooding. Another factor was a January notice from the U.S. EPA which found the landfill was committing numerous violations under the Clean Air Act. County Commissioner Casey Kulla pointed to those findings, alongside arguments from local farmers opposed to the landfill, as reasons for his opposition.
Jackie Lang, Waste Management's senior area manager for public affairs, called the vote "disappointing and difficult to understand," and said the site has met its legal obligations in full. Lang said the company will be able to make a decision about next steps once it has reviewed the board's full findings, which are expected to be adopted in the official record by the end of the month.
Waste Management has been engaged in litigation for years over the landfill, with the company pushing for expansion since at least 2008.
Proponents say it is a community-driven plan that has been thoroughly vetted, with a considerable amount of input from the public via open hearings and meetings. But critics have pushed back, maintaining the site poses a risk to agricultural production. A group of local advocacy organizations — including Stop the Dump Coalition, Friends of Yamhill County, the Willamette Valley Wineries Association, and a local farmer — have fought the expansion on those grounds, resulting in litigation that landed before the state's highest court in 2017.
In February 2019, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled against Waste Management and found the company could not offset the ramifications stemming from the expansion simply by compensating impacted neighbors. That court sent the issue back to the lower courts, saying the county would need to reconsider the expansion.
Commissioner Kulla said this month's vote marked the latest chapter in this dispute. Waste Management offered commissioners a "comprehensive litter control plan" addressing concerns raised by expansion opponents, Kulla said, and indicating how the company would seek to address litter migrating to neighboring farming areas. But critics were ultimately successful in convincing Kulla and another commissioner, Rick Olson, that their concerns were legitimate.
Moreover, Kulla said "the plan Waste Management proposed seemed unlikely to be carried out successfully," and noted EPA's findings as a factor in his decision. According to its Jan. 27 notice, the agency found four separate violations, including failures to conduct compliant surface emission monitoring; ensure monthly cover integrity; comply with good air pollution control practices; and meet monthly inspection requirements for a landfill gas well.
Commissioner Mary Starrett, who voted in favor of the expansion, said her decision did not mean the landfill should have been sited in its current location — which is vulnerable to flooding and other issues. Instead, Starrett said she was considering the expansion's impacts in isolation from other impacts associated with the current landfill operations.
Kulla said there do not appear to be broader concerns about where the area's waste may go depending on the expansion outcome. Portland's Metro regional government and the city of McMinnville — major municipal customers — phased out sending waste to Riverbend as of this year.
"All waste that had previously been transported to Riverbend has now shifted to other landfills," said Warren Johnson, a standards and compliance manager for Metro, naming other sites including Republic Services' Coffin Butte Landfill in Corvallis.
Waste Management may still appeal the board's decision once findings are entered into the county record, a process that typically takes two to three weeks.
"For legal purposes, findings of fact are important because they will help us understand the facts the County relied on and their thinking that led to the decision," said Lang of Waste Management. "I can't speculate about any next steps beyond our review of the findings."
The company could also potentially submit a new application, keeping the process going indefinitely. Lang did not indicate how much capacity remains for the landfill, stating the amount of waste received at the site varies by day. Prior data from EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program estimated a 2035 closure date.
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Perhaps we could ask a fruitful question by each asking self the question, "Why am I a Christian?" Begin with the observation that the Christian in this situation was a prisoner. Eventually his appeal to Caesar resulted in a trial in Rome. Even later, his appearances in Rome resulted in his execution.
To obtain advantages and blessings that would not otherwise be available to me?
To escape consequences which scare me?
To obligate God to protect me from bad things?
To express faith in the reality of Jesus' death and resurrection?
To declare faith in the restoration of the Creator God to His rightful position?
Consider some observations. (1) It is common in talking about salvation to discuss our benefits, but to rarely discuss God. We focus on matters like forgiveness, redemption, sanctification, justification, and propitiation as though salvation was primarily about us and not about the God who gave us Jesus Christ. (2) It is uncommon for us to focus on or discuss the enormous injustice the Creator endured when His creation honored the evil that odiously perverted the earthly creation of the Creator. (3) Perhaps the primary objective of our salvation is to promote the restoration of the Creator to His rightful place and the secondary benefit of our salvation is our forgiveness, redemption, sanctification, justification, and propitiation. Unselfishness focuses on God. Selfishness focuses on us.


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Q: React parent element not correctly updating combobox child component So i'm building an app and since i'm using combobox multiple times i decided to create a reusable component as follow ( also is it necessary ? just curious )
import { useState, Fragment } from 'react'
import { Combobox } from '@headlessui/react'

function AppCombobox ({ data, selectedPerson, setSelectedPerson, value, displayValue}) {

return (
   <>
    <Combobox value={selectedPerson} onChange={setSelectedPerson}>
      <Combobox.Input
        as={Fragment}
        onChange={(event) => setQuery(event.target.value)}
        displayValue={(person) => person.name}
      >
        <input />
      </Combobox.Input>
      <Combobox.Options>
        {data.map((person) => (
          <Combobox.Option key={person.id} value={person}>
            {({ active, selected }) => (
            <>
                {person.name}
                {selected && (

                    <CheckIcon className="h-5 w-5" aria-hidden="true"/>

                )}
            </>
        )}
          </Combobox.Option>
        ))}
      </Combobox.Options>
    </Combobox>
   </>
);

Parent Element
export default function Parent () {

   const [selectedPerson, setSelectedPerson] = useState(null)

   const people = [
      { id: 1, name: 'Durward Reynolds' },
      { id: 2, name: 'Kenton Towne' },
      { id: 3, name: 'Therese Wunsch' },
      { id: 4, name: 'Benedict Kessler'},
      { id: 5, name: 'Katelyn Rohan' },
   ]

    return (
       <AppCombobox value={selectedPerson} setSelectedPerson={setSelectedPerson} data={people}/>
    )

}

The problem i'm facing is that When i have the state in the child element ( AppCombobox ) and i select an element, the selected element ui changes and has a checkbox next to it(see attached picture). but when i move the state to the parent element, The combobox checkIcon of the selected element doesn't get rendered. can you please help me out i've spend 2 hours trying to fix this bug

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At first blush, gain staging doesn't seem like it should be a big issue in the digital realm. In the analog world, tape hiss and other signal degradation is a real problem, so it's essential to make sure inputs are hot enough to keep above a fairly unforgiving noise floor.
With digital, that's not really the case: a 24-bit recording has a 144dB signal-to-noise ratio – just a touch more than the range of human hearing. Provided you're getting any signal at all, and not clipping, any level should work fine for tracking, since you can make drastic adjustments on the faders without sacrificing much by way of sound quality. That works, sure, but it's an easy way to drive yourself crazy.
Green good, red bad – we can do better!
Since there's not much risk of drowning in noise, job one for digital recording is to avoid clipping. For the longest time, with digital recording, that's all I did, with decent enough results. Lots of interfaces (like my Focusrite) have lights instead of meters, where green means "signal" and red means "clipping" – the idea is that that adjusting the gain until the light is steadily green is good enough.
Headroom is your friend. If your level is just barely below clipping, a passage that's louder than expected might blow an otherwise great take.
If you want to splice together takes tracked over a few sessions, instead of one right after the other, it's a lot easier since the levels are similar.
Having everything recorded at comparable levels makes reading waveforms inside your DAW a lot easier.
After some trial and error, I've settled on -18dB as my target level for recording. I don't obsess about hitting that number exactly, but when I first set up for tracking a new part, I'll take some time to run through a bit of the song to make sure sound is coming in at that level during typical passages.
As an aside, I've heard that -18dB is an ideal level for running signals through outboard gear. I'm doing this project entirely "in the box" so that's not relevant to me, but I'm curious to learn more about that.
When I'm tracking, I like to get a simple "level matched" mix put together as quickly as possible. Getting consistent input levels will get you part of the way there, but anyone who's mixed a track will know that the numbers coming off a meter don't always reflect how loud a part actually sounds.
This is where pink noise comes to the rescue. "Pink" noise has constant energy per octave – it's got more bass than white noise, but to our ear (or a frequency analyzer intended for audio) it's approximately flat from bottom to top.
By crowding the entire audio spectrum evenly, pink noise can stand in for "everything else" when you're listening to a single track in isolation. While it's not practical to compare a few dozen – or hundred – tracks all against each other, you can do almost as well by comparing each of them to the same pink noise reference.
Find a pink noise generator plugin. REAPER comes with one built-in, and I suspect most other DAWs do as well. There's also plenty of perfectly cromulent free VSTs around that will also work.
Choose your reference level. I use -14dB RMS, and wouldn't suggest going much higher. You want some headroom to work with during mixing and mastering, but you could certainly go lower.
Put the noise generator in your signal chain – either on your master track, or it's own channel, and find that reference level. If your DAW has an RMS metering mode, you can use that. Otherwise, something like Voxengo SPAN (pictured above) will do the trick. For REAPER's noise generator plugin, a noise level of -3dB comes out to exactly -14dB RMS.
Play your tune alongside with the pink noise, and solo the first track – if you've done it right, you'll hear just that one track, probably drowned in noise.
Adjust the level of that track until it's just barely audible over the pink noise. Start low, and slowly sweep the volume up.
Repeat this for each track. Move quickly: even for a huge project this should only take a few minutes.
Disable the noise generator, make sure nothing is solo'd, and admire your level-matched mix.
For me, this technique was a revelation. It doesn't do the creative work of mixing, but it's amazing how quickly you can turn a huge number of tracks into a decent-sounding rough mix this way.
So you've tracked everything at a good input level, you've got a rough mix put, and it's sounding great – but now all your faders are all over the place. That's not really a problem, per se, but I find it's easy to mess things up by forgetting where the faders are supposed to be.
This little plugin keeps me sane.
I like to set things up so my level matched mix has all the faders at 0dB. That way, I can see at a glance the relative change I've made to each fader as I work through the mix, and can easily reset a channel back to "neutral" just by popping the fader back to 0.
Your DAW probably has an "item gain" setting, or something similar, but I'm not a huge fan of the workflow for that in REAPER.
If you've got some effects on a track, like a compressor or an EQ, they should have an output gain setting.
You can find plenty of free gain-staging plugins that are nothing more than one volume knob or fader. I'm partial to GGain, if only because the whole GVST library is a valuable part of my toolkit.
If you've already done level matching on the faders, you can transfer the value from your fader into whatever you're using for gain control, and zero out the fader, and you're done. You can also work the other way around: put gain control plugins on your channels before doing level matching. Over the course of a session, I find myself doing both.
25 tracks, all at 0 – a beautiful sight.
A big issue when it comes to processing your tracks – either just roughly during tracking, or with more finesse during a final mix – is that effects can mess up your gain staging. It's easy for our brains to get fooled into thinking that something that's louder sounds better. This can be an issue at the best of times, but some plugin developers seem to exploit this by having presets crank up the gain: one delay plugin I have, and otherwise really like, adds about 10dB just on the "default" setting.
To stay objective, it's helpful to gain stage your plugin chains to keep the impact on levels to a minimum. By using the output gain on each plugin, or instances of something like GGain, you can ensure levels stay the same as the signal goes through each plugin.
These two plugins add a decent amount of gain – but that's easily fixed with the output knobs.
You can use pink noise for this as well, in more or less the same way: just solo the one channel, disable all the effects, then bring them in one by one. For each plugin, adjust the output gain to make sure the track is just peeking through the pink noise. That way, you can be confident that the change you hear from the effects isn't being coloured by loudness changes, and you can tweak an effects chain without messing up your rough mix.
You can also use a pink noise reference to give you some direction on how to apply effects. For example, as you bring a track up through pink noise, the first thing you'll hear is the part of the frequency spectrum where that track is loudest, and where it will take up the most space in the mix. Sometimes, I find that it's audibly the wrong part of the sound, like muddy low-end rumble on an acoustic guitar, or fret noise on an electric bass. That can be a good clue for where to find a quick win for your rough mix – slap an EQ on the track, and dial it in until what you hear over the pink noise is what you actually want.
That's far from a finished mix, or even a finished recording, but it's great for this stage in the process. Most importantly, there's 25 tracks in the session (including buses and the reverb send) and, to my ear at least, each one is sitting comfortably in the mix.
After I've finished tracking a part and am thinking of putting some edits on it, I'll do a quick pink noise level check on it so I have a good perspective on the edit and how it fits into the song.
If I'm looking to double a part – say, adding a second guitar to fatten up the sound – I'll track a verse or two, then level match it so I can get a sense for how the tone and performance will complement the existing part.
Sometimes I'll just check a few tracks to give myself something more "objective" to do when I'm in the middle of tracking or mixing and want to step back to refocus my perspective.
It might only take 30 seconds here, or a minute there, but in my experience at least that effort pays huge dividends for keeping a big, and growing, project organized and sounding good every step of the way.
But enough about gain staging – I've got an album to make, and so do you!


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Museum Advocacy Day: From diversity initiatives to integrating missing voices
Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on February 25, 2019
In honor of this year's Museum Advocacy Day, which takes place Feb. 25-26 in Washington, D.C., at Grantmakers in the Arts we look back at some of the museum contents we have published in our news feed and Reader. Some of the posts tackle diversity initiatives in both staff and boards while others explore the importance of integrating missing -or underrepresented- voices and artists.
A Pilot Internship Seeks to Make US Museums Staff More Diverse
A Funder Collaboration Works to Diversify Art Museums
A Museum's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Plan
Bringing Native Voices to Chicago's Field Museum
A Grant to Diversify Museums Through the Atlanta University Center Initiative
"As Our Communities Change, Museums Have to Change"
American Alliance of Museums Launches Museum Board Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
MoMA to Close and Reconfigure its Galleries to Focus on Women and Overlooked Artists
The Oakland Museum of California's Vision for Social Impact
In the Fall 2018 issue of the GIA Reader, in "Arts Access: Messy, hard, oh-so-worthwhile work," Emily Smith Beitiks, associate director at the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, addresses the institute's experience preparing the exhibit Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights and the importance of equity and inclusion encompassing people with disabilities. Read the article here.
What We're Reading:
A study found that 85% of artists in U.S. museum collections are white, and 87% are male.
In 2015, the Mellon Foundation found that museum leadership demographics were majority white, but with equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives growing throughout the nation, the institution's most recent study shows progress is underway, but slow.
Art Museums Need to Address Colonialist Theft—Not Diversity
A Detroit teacher launched a mobile museum to educate people on African American history all year round
The current political landscape is inspiring more people to visit the sites where the civil rights movement made history
A conversation with Dr. Tonya Matthews, American Alliance of Museums (AAM)'s interim director of inclusion
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Team U.S.A. Olympians is going to be wearing their ugly sweaters with turtlenecks underneath, as well as the fleece "athletic pants" is going to be tucked into cable-knit socks and combined with a cotton ribbon belt (adorned with patriotic jacquard graphics, naturally). The one shining spot within this outfit? The black-leather work boots with red laces, which are actually super rad, and we'd like a pair in our size, please-and-thank-you.
Consequently, the price for consumers trying to parade their patriotic pride alongside Team USA is steeper compared to Olympics past, from $75 for any belt to $598 for any symbol-showered sweater. Completing the ensemble are white fleece pants ($165), a cream cotton turtleneck ($245), red-laced, alpine-ready black leather boots ($395) as well as an earflapped wool reindeer hat ($95). The collection can be obtained at RalphLauren.com and TeamUSAShop.org.
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Ashland's Central High School sttod at this location from 1898 to x. The school was later named in honor of John Grant Crabbe. The school was later demolished and replaced with a modern elementary school with the same name.
Old Crabbe School
During the late 1800s, Ashland went through a period of growth which required additional efforts in building schools and education. Before the first county school, the First Presbyterian church held classes out of its buildings for the children in the area. Through the efforts of the minister they reopened Beechgrove Academy, which serviced the greater Ashland area.
The first county school was a four room building built on the 1400 block of Carter Avenue and was called the Central Building. Ashland's first Superintendent of Schools, W.B. Wylie, was in charge of the first group of students who were required to complete the first three years. The first commencement was in 1885, four students received their diploma. The construction of the larger Central Building, renamed to Central High School was finished in 1898.
The school was renamed after Dr. John Grant Crabbe who was heavily involved in literacy programs in Kentucky. He was one of the first five members of the Kentucky Illiteracy Commission and served as Kentucky State Superintendent. The older brick structure was torn down and replaced with the modern Crabbe Elementary School but still retains the original corner stone.
The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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Ashland Kentucky Historical Walking Tour
A work in progress, this walking tour starts at Ashland's Central Park and winds its way through the historic downtown with stops at historic landmarks, iconic buildings, and cultural institutions such as the Paramount.


Unlike last February, this February experienced increased home sales, but with only a moderate rise in prices. Home sales in February rose 7.1% from January and 2.2% from February 2014. Sales through the fall and winter months held ground, as four of the last six months saw higher sales than the same month in the previous year.


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Community buildings for self respect: Etala
April 22, 2018 by aslam
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was giving equal respect and honour to all castes and religions in the State, Finance Minister Eatala Rajender said today. As part of his ideas, KCR was for providing a separate building for each caste for self-respect, he said.
Participating in Bhagiratha Jayanthi at a program Ravindra Bharati here, the minister said only KCR was giving equal priority to all castes and communities and implementing schemes for inclusive growth and all round development. It is the KCR Government that launched the flagship Mission Bhagiratha program to provide purified waters to households in the villages, he said. For this, the government was spending Rs 40,000 crore and the works were nearing completion, he claimed.
The Finance Minister said that about 40 per cent of houses in the rural pockets are getting potable waters now and the rest of the 60 per cent houses will also get waters soon, he said. The State government has launched crop investment scheme to offer Rs 4000 per acre to farmers which will relieve them of bad loans and consequences, he promised.
In addition to water scheme, the government launched the famous Mission Kakatiya program to revive as many as 46000 lakes in the State. The lakes revival program, of course, has shown phenomenal results with migrants from Palamur and other backward districts are beating a retreat to eke out their livelihood through agriculture and professional works like fishing, sheep raring and others he said. We are making efforts to implement the ideals of Bhagiratha and the KCR Government is providing help to the masses and farmers he said. (NSS)
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Crops planted after Cyclone Winston were washed away in this week's floods in Fiji, raising concerns about food security.
Many newly planted seedlings were drowned in the deluges brought by tropical depressions this week.
Sune Gudnitz of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Suva said replanting will have to start again.
"So the investment that was made in the course of a short amount of time to get crops to come back - that we can now start over."
"We don't have the complete overview but it's very clear that things that have been planted in the last five to seven weeks, a lot of it has been washed away," he said.
Sune Gudnitz said he assumes this will push out the timeline for achieving food security in certain areas.
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Three Kings (1999)
This superb – though very violent – mix of comedy, drama and action is set in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War.
Hearing a rumour that Saddam Hussein has stashed stolen Kuwaiti gold in bunkers, US soldiers Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin (Ice Cube), Sergeant Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) and Pfc. Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), embark on a secret field trip with the help of a map they find concealed about an Iraqi soldier's person.
It seems simple enough: grab the bullion and be rich for the rest of their lives. However, their quest for wealth is diverted when they reluctantly agree to help a group of Iraqi dissidents who are being tortured by Saddam's men.
They retreat right before reinforcements arrive, but happen upon a minefield and become separated. Troy is captured by Iraqi soldiers and the remaining Americans are rescued by local rebels and ushered to an underground hideout where Conrad, Chief, and Archie make a deal with the rebels, offering to help their families if they are first allowed to rescue Troy.
The other Americans eventually free Troy, although Conrad is killed in the process. Each of the rebels receives a bar of gold for his services, and the remaining gold is buried.
The group reaches the Iranian border, and the Americans attempt to escort the rebels to Iran, but new American officers arrive and arrest the three soldiers while recapturing the rebels. Archie tries to bribe the officers, but they respond by saying that charges will be brought against Archie, Troy, and Chief Elgin.
In an epilogue, the film states that the three surviving soldiers (Archie, Troy, and Chief Elgin) were cleared of the charges and honourably discharged. Archie and Chief are now working in Hollywood as military advisors, and Troy is back home with his family, running a carpet store. The stolen gold has been given back to Kuwait, which claims that some is missing (implying that some pilfering has occurred).
Wittily scripted by director David O Russell, it boasts terrific performances (especially from Clooney) and takes some well-aimed stabs at the late-20th-century phenomenon of war waged on television. It's reckless, gripping and unmissable.
The opening scene of Three Kings was filmed on a dry lake bed outside Mexicali, Mexico, but most of the film was shot in Arizona, near the abandoned Sacaton Copper Mine, about six miles northwest of Casa Grande, between Tucson and Phoenix, where toxic mining chemicals had wiped out all vegetation.
Many of the extras were played by actual Iraqi refugees, all of whom were recruited from the Iraqi community in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The fatal flaw in American policy can be traced back to the Truman years. What happened between 1945 and 1949 sealed the fate of the Middle East for the remainder of the century.
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time—the relationship between the United States and Israel
As a visiting scholar at Carnegie, Judis wrote The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region of the world. In Genesis, John B. Judis argues that, while Israelis and Palestinians must shoulder much of the blame, the United States has been the principal power outside the region since the end of World War II and as such must account for its repeated failed efforts to resolve this enduring strife.
The fatal flaw in American policy, Judis shows, can be traced back to the Truman years. What happened between 1945 and 1949 sealed the fate of the Middle East for the remainder of the century. As a result, understanding that period holds the key to explaining almost everything that follows—right down to George W. Bush's unsuccessful and ill-conceived effort to win peace through holding elections among the Palestinians, and Barack Obama's failed attempt to bring both parties to the negotiating table. A provocative narrative history animated by a strong analytical and moral perspective, and peopled by colorful and outsized personalities, Genesis offers a fresh look at these critical postwar years, arguing that if we can understand how this stalemate originated, we will be better positioned to help end it.
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Everyone on Twitter may have seen that Diddy recently released what he called a "Prelude" to his forthcoming album, Last Train To Paris. The prelude is a 9 song preview and/or remixes of songs from the album that are tightly mixed together in a presentation hosted by Diddy himself. It is complete with various people in Diddy's world like Janelle Monae, Rick Ross, Marc Jacob giving shout outs about the albums's upcoming release. The prelude only features three guest performers, Swizz Beatz on "Ass On The Floor" Lil' Wayne on "Strobe Lights" and Justin Timberlake on "Shades". The full running time is 21:28 THIS PRELUDE CONTAINS EXPLICIT LYRICS. Take a listen if you haven't already.
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Six judges were in attendance for the Dec. 10 Civil Bench Bar meeting. Recent Supreme Court decisions were a prominent topic. Lawyers who are looking to use Power Point presentations in cases were advised to look at 59703 – Watters v. State another opinion of particular interest 55817 Perez V. State http://supreme.nvcourts.gov/ . Judge Kenneth Cory will be taking on the docket from the outlying areas. A civil case reassignment to distribute Judge Cory's civil caseload will be effective Jan. 4. The next Civil Bench Bar will be Jan. 14 at 12:05 p.m.


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Q: 400 Error despite working in Postman, possible reasons? I am using the Deepl API, and when I run the request in Postman it is successful, however using it in my app it returns only a 400 Error, which I assume means the headers aren't set up correctly, but it is just how it is in my Postman. Can anyone point out what may be the issue here?
async translateMessage(data = {}) {
  const url = "https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate?auth_key=myAuthKey";
  const response = await fetch(url, {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
      'Accept': '*/*'
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    body: {
      text: JSON.stringify(this.text),
      target_lang: 'DE',
      source_lang: 'EN'
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  return response.json();
},

Example HTTP Post Request from Documentation:
POST /v2/translate?auth_key=[yourAuthKey]> HTTP/1.0
Host: api.deepl.com
User-Agent: YourApp
Accept: */*
Content-Length: [length]
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

auth_key=[yourAuthKey]&text=Hello, world&source_lang=EN&target_lang=DE

A: The body property of a URL-encoded message (with the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type) must be either a string of the query parameters, or a URLSearchParams instance.
Solution

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*Pass the object of key/value pairs to the URLSearchParams constructor.

*You might as well add auth_key (one of the required query parameters) to that, and remove it from the URL.

*Remove JSON.stringify() from the text property as that would insert unnecessary quotes into the translation.

const url = 'https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate';
const response = await fetch(url, {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Accept': '*/*'
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Brooklyn Decker's Four Favorite Things at Home
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Photograph by Robby Klein/Contour by Getty Images
Brooklyn Decker began her career as a model, breaking out after being featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Since then, the 32-year-old has transitioned into an actress, an advocate for the special- needs community, an entrepreneur, and a "hobby" home flipper.
She's currently shooting the sixth season of Netflix's Grace and Frankie, with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, a gig that has her traveling between Austin, Texas; North Carolina; and Los Angeles, with her son Hank, 3; daughter Stevie, 1; and husband, former No. 1 tennis player Andy Roddick, 36.
Decker is also a global ambassador for the Special Olympics World Games, inspired by her aunt, who plays tennis and basketball for the Special Olympics. The organization, she explains, is about more than just sports.
"They also provide services like eye checks and heart screenings for those in the community," Decker says. "They raise up a community that would otherwise be underserved."
And the sports themselves are incredible. "I have been to some of the best sporting events in the world," she says, "and both Andy and I say the World Games is one of the most compelling and inspiring."
Decker is also an entrepreneur. In 2017, she co-launched Finery, a web platform that acts as the operating system for your wardrobe. "We see ourselves as the Nest for your closet, where you can control everything digitally."
Currently, Decker and Roddick are selling a home in Austin, their latest house sale. "We ended up getting into house-flipping accidentally, but it has become kind of a hobby," she says.
No matter where their home is based, or how long they live there, some items stand out for Decker.
Photograph by Anna Naphtali
Antique Wallpaper Panels
"I have a quirky aesthetic," she says. "I like my surroundings to convey a sense of history, so when I saw these antique wallpaper panels by Zuber (Views of North America) circa 1850, I knew they would fit perfectly." The panorama was used by Jacqueline Kennedy in a private dining room in the White House, she adds.
Decker found a six-foot-high stained-glass panel of St. Lucy, the patron saint of the blind, at Architectural Artifacts in Chicago: "The colors are beautiful, and then you notice Lucy is carrying a set of eyeballs." They put it in the entryway of their house in Cashiers, N.C., across from the bar, "because first impressions are important, and there's really nothing better than creeping out your guests."
Marble Bathroom Sinks
"I like a challenge when designing a home, both for myself and for the people I work with. So when I came up with the idea for these solid-marble bathroom sinks, I drew a terrible sketch and handed it over to Sean Bryant at Bottega Stone, based out of Charlotte, N.C. He's a miracle worker and fabricated them to exactly what I had in mind."
Amish High Chair
"My mother-in-law found this Amish high chair in Kerrville, Texas, and bought it as a gift" for Hank when he was a baby, Decker says. "I love it because it's so functional and can be used as a high chair, a desk, and a rocking horse. We now use it with Stevie." Decker says that she has given similar high chairs to family and friends. "I like the fact that it's made of wood, not plastic, and it will last, so the kids can even pass them down to their own families one day."
Brooklyn Decker began her career as a model, breaking out after being featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.


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Canada PM Stands By Supply Management As US Debates NAFTA
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to defend the supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to defend the supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry in talks about revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement.
A U.S. House subcommittee raised the long-standing trade irritant at its hearing on NAFTA negotiations Tuesday, suggesting Canadian measures to protect the industry will be a sticking point.
Congressman Ron Kind, a Democrat from Wisconsin, says he does not want to jeopardize a crucial trading relationship with Canada but thinks the system should be more balanced.
The Trump administration released its objectives for a new trade deal earlier this week, including better access for its agricultural exports.
Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada has signed significant trade deals with Europe, North America and elsewhere while protecting the supply management system.


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Categories > International Data > Countries > Cyprus
Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices: Non-Energy Industrial Goods, Non-Durables Only for Cyprus (IGDXENCYM086NEST)
Dec 2022: 102.27 | Index 2015=100 | Monthly | Updated: Jan 18, 2023
Dec 2022: 102.27 (+ more)
Dec 2022: 102.27
Nov 2022: 101.84
Oct 2022: 101.41
Sep 2022: 100.80
Aug 2022: 99.79
Index 2015=100,
Release: Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP)
Units: Index 2015=100, Not Seasonally Adjusted
The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices category "Non-Energy Industrial Goods, Nondurables Only (IGOODSXEND)" is a classification of nondurable goods that includes Materials for the Maintenance and Repair of the Dwelling (04.3.1), Water Supply (04.4.1), Nondurable Household Goods (05.6.1), Pharmaceutical Products (06.1.1), Other Medical Products, Therapeutic Appliances, and Equipment (06.1.2/3), Gardens, Plants, and Flowers (09.3.3), Pets and Related Products including Veterinary and Other Services for Pets (09.3.4/5), Newspapers and Periodicals (09.5.2), Miscellaneous Printed Matter, Stationery and Drawing Materials (09.5.3/4), and Electric Appliances for Personal Care and Other Appliances, Articles, and Products for Personal Care (12.1.2/3).
Information provided in the notes pertaining to Special Aggregates HICP classifications can be found from the source at: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/prc_hicp_esms.htm.
Copyright, European Union, 1995-2016, http://ec.europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm#copyright.
Eurostat, Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices: Non-Energy Industrial Goods, Non-Durables Only for Cyprus [IGDXENCYM086NEST], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IGDXENCYM086NEST, January 27, 2023.
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Duckhorn Vineyards has been crafting a Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc since 1982. Expanding on this winemaking tradition, Decoy Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc allows our winemaking team the opportunity to explore a different expression of this great grape. This wine was fermented exclusively in stainless steel to achieve a lively expression of Sauvignon Blanc, highlighting grapefruit, kiwi, kaffir lime, lemon zest and fresh-cut grass aromas. The palate is bright and balanced, and the flavors echo the aromas, with additional notes of pineapple, gooseberry and minerals leading to a full, refreshing finish.


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Mary Trull believed in duty. Her most important duty was grading student papers in a timely way. By the time she finished, the impotent winter sun visible through her classroom windows had sunk behind snow clouds. She put on her coat, gathered her things, turned off the lights, and locked the door.
Shadows flooded the second-floor hallway of Andrew Garner High School, the only illumination the soft glow of every third or fourth light. The florescent fixture above her buzzed and dimmed. Mary shivered at a breath of cold air that caressed her cheeks. The heat had been turned down several hours ago, at dismissal time. One of the school board's money-saving measures.
Perhaps she should have left earlier. She'd forgotten how early darkness came this close to Christmas. She hitched her purse strap up on her shoulder and set off down the hall. Her sensible, soft-soled shoes made shushing sounds as she walked.
She paused at the top of the dark stairwell and reached for the railing.
A rustling sound from below halted her. A tiny red glow on the landing below blossomed and faded. The acrid odor of cigarette smoke overrode the smell of cleaning products.
That idiot security guard Mendoza didn't even have the courtesy to go outside to smoke because it was cold. Mary would report him tomorrow. She peered over the railing. Two shapes were barely visible on the landing. Students? A cigarette passed between them.
"Ya know…." A male voice. "Ol' Troll's gonna drive me nuts."
Mary winced. She knew from other teachers' guarded conversations in the staff workroom what students called her. Children had nicknames for most of the staff.
"Yeah, dude." A deep male voice. "She's too old to teach."
Mary recognized that voice: Benjamin Powell. Fourth hour freshman English, two years older than the other freshman. A wannabe gang banger from the Projects with a long record of school offenses. He was often absent. When he was in school, he swaggered and postured and made obscene gestures which morphed into running his hand through his hair when Mary turned to him.
"My mama had her in school." The other boy.
Mary put a name to that one: JaMarkus Wilson. One of the more ridiculous made-up names that were prevalent nowadays. He was a delinquent from a single mother home. Mary remembered the mother vaguely from her early days of teaching: a stupid girl who had gotten herself pregnant before she was fifteen.
"One o' these days the ol' Troll'll croak right there at her desk," JaMarkus said.
"Nobody'll notice. She won't look any different." Benjamin sniggered. "Might look better."
Laughter echoed in the stairwell.
"Can you believe she forgot what she was talking 'bout today?" Benjamin said.
"That's cuz of what Kevin was doin'." JaMarcus said.
"Holdin' a pencil under his nose with his tongue? That's nothin'. I once seen him balance an apple on his head in history. Pirate Johnson didn't even ask him to quit. Just kept rollin' his eyes. That apple stayed there till the bell rang. Pirate Johnson ain't playin' with a full deck, neither."
That did it. Mr. Johnson could not help it if one of his eyes was smaller than the other and he looked like he was always squinting one eye. Mary Trull would not allow students to disrespect teachers in her school. She would definitely report them to the assistant principal in the morning. They would be suspended if she had any say in the matter.
But Mary didn't move. She was alone, and there were two of them.
"I'll tell you what oughtta happen to her," Benjamin said, his tone conspiratorial. "I saw it in a TV movie. There was this creature that lived in the swamp and grabbed people and ate 'em. Course, the local sheriff was stupid. He couldn't figure out what happened, cuz there were no bodies. Turned out it was the spirit of people who'd been murdered by some guy the sheriff disrespected."
JaMarkus laughed, a vicious, cruel sound. "It could eat the Troll. I saw that movie. Had a stupid ending, though. Some do-gooder killed it. Burned it up with gas or holy water or something."
"Yeah. Hey, I got it. How 'bout the creature hides under her car and waits till it's dark? When the Troll goes to get in, it grabs her and drags her under the car and eats her guts out while she's still screamin'."
"Awesome, dude," JaMarkus murmured. "Only she's prob'ly too tough for it to eat. She's gotta be eighty."
How dare they? Mary was not yet sixty.
"Fuck yeah." Benjamin's voice grew husky. "But it could rip her up. Like early retirement."
"Shit," JaMarkus said, his voice low. "That's scary. I saw a movie once 'bout a guy who made things real by talkin' bout 'em. I gotta go home alone, an' it's gettin' dark…."
Demerits for swearing. And for not speaking correctly. These boys were like most of their peers: brains fried by too much television. Not to mention computers and texting.
"You know what really pisses me off?" Benjamin said.
Another demerit, Mary tallied.
"That paper we hadda write last week. Mine wasn't bad. My sister helped me. she's a senior, and she's a straight A student, dude, and she fixed all the capitals and periods and shit. The Troll didn't even read it. Gave me an F."
"How d'ya know she didn't read it?"
"Cuz in the middle I wrote, like it was part of the paper, 'If you're reading this paper, please underline this sentence.' Nothin. She just put the grade at the top and gave it back."
Mary nodded. Of course she did that. There was no need to read students' papers. She skimmed the first sentence or two, looked at the names, matched names with faces, and assigned grades based on her opinion of them.
She didn't remember having the sister in class. Probably lazy and stupid, too. Girls like her fooled teachers with cute smiles and short skirts. Dishonesty ran in families.
Mary's patience stretched to its limit. She leaned over the parapet above the boys. "What are you doing here?" she said. "School is closed. Get out this instant."
Benjamin Powell was tall and muscular, and he always wore a black leather jacket. He held a glowing cigarette pinched between his fingers. JaMarkus leaned against the wall, his dark skin blending into the shadows, eyes bright.
"We're just talkin'," JaMarkus said.
"Everything all right, Miz Trull?" A raspy voice drifted down the hall behind Mary.
"No, Mr. Mendoza." She let a note of triumph creep into her reply. "There are two ruffians smoking in the stairwell who need your attention."
"Shit," Benjamin hissed. "Let's get outta here." His cigarette left a red trail as it fell. "Don't worry, man, fuckin' Mendoza's too fat to catch us."
The two boys left in a flurry of shadows, their sneakers squeaking on the marble steps. Mary pursed her lips in disapproval at the smoke smell.
The uniformed guard thundered up to Mary, holding his belly that bulged over his belt line. A huge ring of keys and a walkie-talkie dangling from his belt flapped and clanked as he puffed to a halt beside her.
"You okay, Miz Trull?" Mendoza wheezed. He touched his walkie-talkie.
"Yes, I'm all right, Mr. Mendoza. But there were two vandals here polluting the air with smoke and foul language—which I shall report in the morning. You should do a thorough search of the building to make sure they've left."
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, Miz Trull," Mendoza said, his fat cheeks puffing in and out as he panted. "They prob'ly came inside to get out of the cold. I'm sure they're gone." His breathing slowed. "They're kids. Nothin' to worry about." He huffed as he clumped down the stairs.
Mary wrinkled her nose at the renewed assault on her senses: he smelled of sweat and cigar smoke.
Mendoza ground out the glowing cigarette butt with his toe. "You're working late, ma'am."
"I had a meeting after school and papers to grade, young man."
"Yes, ma'am. I'll walk you to your car." Mendoza wiped his sweaty forehead with the back of a beefy hand.
Mary Trull drew her scrawny frame up straight and began to descend the stairs.
"No, thank you, Mr. Mendoza," she said. "I'm quite all right." She held her breath and breezed past him.
"I'd be glad to…."
His voice was lost as she moved down the last flight of steps and turned the corner into the first floor hallway. Darkness pooled at the end of the corridor. Had something moved in the darkness? Mary blinked, looked again. Shadows. The boys' conversation had unnerved her. There were no monsters.
She should have taken the papers home for something to do alone in her tiny apartment, but duty prodded her to give her students a quick turnaround on their work. After a few days at the beginning of the school year, she knew what kind of student each of them was, and didn't have to read any of their work. She meticulously marked their grades in bright red marker.
None of them had any imagination. She thought of the two boys in the stairwell. All they did was watch stupid movies on television, and engage in unsavory criminal hobbies. If she were inventing creatures, she would conjure ones that would eat stupid children. If words could become reality, such a monster would never go hungry.
She buttoned her coat and tied the practical wool scarf around her neck. No sense getting pneumonia walking to the car.
Eighty, indeed. She was 59, but the school board was forcing her to retire. The principal, Mr.—Mary could never quite remember his name—had said she could not remember important things, like staff meetings and turning in attendance and lesson plans. It wasn't her fault. The students were loud and rude. They made her forget things. But she knew what grades they deserved.
Mary stepped out of the building into the netherworld of twilight. The cold stopped her. The lights in the parking lot were coming on, not yet bright enough to dispel the encroaching darkness.
Her car sat on the other side of the lot under trees in deeper shadows. She should have gone out earlier and moved the car closer to the building. Oh well, the walk would be invigorating.
Saying it made it real. The boy's words whispered in her mind. Nonsense.
She put on her gloves and adjusted her purse strap more firmly over her shoulder, then ducked her head into the breeze and started across the parking lot.
A few dirty patches of ice and snow lingered on the asphalt. Once she was out of the lee of the structure, the wind bit into her cheeks. Leaves skittered across the pavement, sounding like noisy mice.
A faint sound rose above the wind. Mary stopped and listened. Had someone called to her? Only the wind blowing the leaves.
Nearer her car, trees shivered in the breeze, their bare branches clacking against each other. Ghostly shadows trembled like living things. She pushed the thought away.
Words became reality.
She paused, clutching her purse against her breast. She had heard something. But what? Dry leaves blowing across the pavement. Branches rubbing together. Nothing else.
Wind-driven snowflakes stung her cheeks.
Mary trudged the few remaining steps to her battered old Ford. She removed a glove and rummaged in her purse for her keys. Stupid. She should have gotten them inside where it was warm. Finally, she found them, and fumbling with cold fingers, she pressed the remote. The door lock clicked.
Her teeth rattled from the chill.
A tiny sound, different from the clacking branches or the rustle of dry leaves. It sounded like fingernails scraping across a chalkboard.
She froze. A chill coursed up her back. Those dreadful children had unnerved her.
Trying to dismiss them from her mind—and not succeeding—Mary yanked the door open, tossed her purse across to the passenger seat, and gathered up her coat to sit down. Something cold brushed her ankle. She almost jumped back from the safety of the car.
A cat must have run right by her legs. It had probably been sheltering under the car. Luckily, it had heard her, or it would have been killed when she started the engine.
Anxious to get out of the bitter wind, Mary stepped into the car. She sat down on the seat, one leg still on the ground. A gust of wind made the trees' dry-bones rattling louder. An icy grip closed on her ankle. Pain shot up her leg.
Mary opened her mouth, but sound died in her throat, squeezed by the vice of fear. If she looked down, she knew she would see claws grasping her. Something from a nightmare, not from the reality Mary Trull knew. Talons dug into her flesh, and hot blood spurted.
Something preternaturally strong dragged her from the seat. Her head cracked the edge of the door. Spots exploded in her vision. She was sliding on the icy pavement, sliding under the car. Dragged by both ankles held in an inexorable grip of claws. No way to get loose.
Mary flailed for something that would save her. Tried to scream. Throat locked in terror. Grabbed the edge of the car. Her hands slipped. Pain slammed her breath away, and darkness consumed her.
Saying it made it real.
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O tiro com arco nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1920 foi realizado em Antuérpia, na Bélgica, após 12 anos de ausência. Porém seu regresso foi tímido, com arqueiros de apenas três países: 14 da Bélgica, país anfitrião, e outros 8 representantes de França e Países Baixos. Todos os eventos foram exclusivamente masculinos.

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Yea, he really does need it. Highlander does the same damage, but faster, and has faster unblockables that can be spammed and guaranteed. On top of that, Shugo takes more damage when his hyperarmor is down, making his health effectively more like an assassin's.
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It will be a dream come true if he did. But, I doubt he's on the top priority lists for rework. Valkyrie and Warden are probably next because due to popularity demanding reworks for the two.
For now, continue light > headbutting.


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My question is: How can I suppress the ghostscript help?
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There seemed to be a sudden increase in the text displayed possibly around two years or so ago; whether that was due to a change in Ghostscript itself, or possibly but probably less likely, a change in NConvert, I don't know.


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If nominated … I will graciously bow
Yours truly is one of the nominees for "Conservative Blogress Diva" at GayPatriot.com. Actually, I don't know about "conservative," I've never fancied myself a diva, and I think "blogress" sound a bit too much like "ogress" … but how ungracious to quibble! It's an honor to be nominated after only 3 months in the blogosphere, and while my chances of winning are close to those of, say, Olympia Snowe getting the Republican presidential nomination, I offer the guys at GayPatriot my humble thanks for the nomination.
Update: Oh, and you can go here to cast your vote.
A win for sanity in Dover
So, I'm back from my vacation, to more news of political messes as well as the encouraging news that U.S. District Judge John E. Jones has ruled against adding "intelligent design" to the biology curriculum in Dover, Pennsylvania. Judge Jones's 139-page opinion eviscerates ID's scientific pretensions, noting that it is "a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory," and that it utterly fails all the tests a scientific theory must meet. He also pointed out the fundamental dishonesty of the pro-ID school board faction in Dover: "Several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID policy."
This is a good day for science and reason. I'm particularly pleased that Jones is a Bush appointee, which runs counter to political stereotypes of Republican and conservative judges and which should also, at least in theory, mute the ID backers' cries of a liberal conspiracy to keep them down. Only in theory, of course: Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who represented the old school board in the case, was quick to tell the Associated Press that the ruling looked like "an ad hominem attack on scientists who happen to believe in God." Nice try, Mr. Thompson; keep obfuscating about the fact that most scientists who "happen to believe in God," and even those who happen to teach at religious colleges, firmly support evolutionary theory and reject ID.
By the way, Judge Jones is not only a Republican but a churchgoer as well. Not that it's going to stop the ID'ers from painting themselves as victims of anti-Christian bias, but it may make it harder for their whining to be taken seriously by others.
Update: John Cole points to news that some of the witnesses who testified for the Dover school board may be investigated for perjury.
Update, again: Added link to the Kitzmiller ruling. See also Richard Bennett for a good roundup.
And more: ID advocates react. Here's a contender for dumbest quote of the week:
"This decision is a poster child for a half-century secularist reign of terror that's coming to a rapid end with Justice Roberts and soon-to-be Justice Alito," said Richard Land, who is president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and is a political ally of White House adviser Karl Rove. "This was an extremely injudicious judge who went way, way beyond his boundaries — if he had any eyes on advancing up the judicial ladder, he just sawed off the bottom rung."
Can you say "unhinged"? I'm hoping Land is wrong and there's no reason to believe that Roberts and Alito are going to be any more receptive to pseudo-scientific buffoonery than Judge Jones.


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The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey
Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He certainly couldn't imagine going more than a day without manicuring his goatee. But with a job cut short and no immediate plans, this fixture of the New York comedy scene began to think about what he might do with months of free time. He had heard of the Appalachian Trail, but he had never seriously considered attempting to hike all 2,184.2 miles of it. Suddenly he found himself asking, Could he do it?
The Unlikely Thru-Hiker is the story of how a young black man from the city, unfamiliar with both the outdoors and thru-hiking culture, sets off with an extremely overweight pack and a willfully can-do attitude to conquer the infamous trail. What follows are lessons on preparation, humility, and nature's wild unpredictability. But this isn't a hard-nosed memoir of discouragement. What sets Lugo apart from the typical walk in the woods is his refusal to let any challenge squash his inner Pollyanna. Through it all, Lugo perseveres with humor, tenacity, and an unshakeable commitment to grooming―earning him the trail name "Mr. Fabulous"―that sees him from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Katahdin in Maine.


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Thin layers of silver and titanium were deposited onto commercial Ti–48Al particles by magnetron sputtering prior to their consolidation by hot isostatic pressing and subsequent heat treatment. Based on picnometry and electron probe microanalysis results, average values of 1.5 and 2.5 at.%, respectively, were obtained for the silver and titanium contents in the coated particles. The surface modified Ti–48Al particles exhibited improved sintering ability than the unmodified ones. The consolidated samples have duplex microstructures formed by γ-TiAl and γ-TiAl + α2-Ti3Al grains. Ag-rich nanoprecipitates were detected in the microstructure of the compacted Ti-48Al + Ag sample. The coatings are no longer visible at the grains boundaries after a subsequent homogenization heat treatment at 1200°C. The highest values of hardness and Young's modulus were obtained for the Ti–48Al + Ag sample, associated with a higher density and a lower percentage of pores.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through project POCTI/CTM/46498/2002.


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