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People Share Times Their Landlord Was A Complete Jerk
Tyrone Thomas
These landlords made their tenant's lives living unliveable.
This Guy Was Cheating The Tenants And The Maid
"My landlord had a maid she used for 40 years that came to our house once a month. My roommates and I split the bill of $120 bucks and paid it directly to our landlord.
My roommate told the maid one day, 'You are well worth the $120 we pay each month.' It turns out the maid gave the landlord a considerable discount of $80 to clean our house and the landlord was pocketing the other $40 for about 8 months. This led to the maid quitting on the spot.
The landlord still stops by our house once a week to blame us for the maid quitting. She has also refused to honor any of the maintenance requests we put in. My roommates and I are very ready to move out come the summer."
The Property Managers Tried To Squeeze $25,000 From Them
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"I subleased a room from my friend one summer while he did an internship. His three roommates also were out of town the entire summer but paid rent and their portion of utilities for the summer.
At the end of my sublease, I cleaned the house, moved my stuff out, and turned in my key. Three months later, I get served with a lawsuit for over $5,000, alleging excessive damages and cleaning fees. I sent them back a letter demanding an itemized list of all fees I was being sued for.
When I get the itemized listing, it's absolutely stupid. For example, they'd charge me a $500 'chandelier cleaning charge' to clean the dining room overhead light, then a $300 'chandelier maintenance fee,' and then a $700 'chandelier replacement charge.' $1500 to clean, maintain, and then throw away a chandelier? Nope.
They also obviously fluffed their expenses, charging me $25 to replace a lightbulb in the basement and charging me $750 for 2 hours of 'lawn maintenance,' which was the responsibility of the landlord in the lease anyways! It turns out they also filed a separate lawsuit against each of us, so they were suing us all for $25,000 total for what couldn't have been more than $1,000 in expenses (covered by our security deposit).
Anyways, I work for the Housing Department of my city and sent them a response on my office letterhead saying that I refuse to pay for the damages and that they could come and get me if they wanted to try. I never got a response, but the suit was dropped and I promptly advised the city to deny them any future city contracts for what I alleged was extortion of a college student.
Get stuffed Jeanne, you cheap loser."
You Do NOT Disobey Military Orders
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"While deployed, my wife remained at our home in Texas. The A/C broke in the middle of summer. They told her that the temperature wasn't hot enough to constitute a repair. When she showed them pictures of the thermostat reading over 100 degrees indoors, they finally said that they would send a repairman but that I needed to be there because I was the primary name on the lease although she had power of attorney. I threatened to sue. The A/C was eventually Jerry-rigged (the repair guy told her that he was paid to do the bare minimum fix) near the end of summer.
Fast forward. I'm home, it's getting hot again, and the A/C breaks again. Same story as before, claiming it wasn't hot enough. This dragged on for awhile and I finally had orders to move to a new duty station. Gave them 30 days notice and moved out. They tried to tell me that I couldn't leave the home with a broken air conditioner and they wouldn't honor my military orders, I had to pay to fix the A/C, and I still wouldn't get my deposit back. I once again threatened to sue and contacted the actual owner of the house. He was a cool dude living in New York and said he'd take care of it for me. He flew all the way to see me in Texas, fired the property managers, sued them himself, said I was actually the cleanest/most respectable tenet he's had and eventually paid me double my deposit for my troubles. Nice guy."
He Was Collecting Rent On A House He No Longer Owned!
"I never actually met him, but we nearly ended up taking him to court. We complained about a ton of broken things that he would never fix. When they did get fixed, it was by the unqualified worker that he hired from the Home Depot parking lot (no offense to those guys, but they didn't fix our roof correctly).
Being college kids, we go to the free legal council our university offered, hoping we had some options to get things fixed. The lawyer found out that the house we were renting had been foreclosed on 2 months prior and the bank owned it now. Extremely ticked off, we decided to stop paying rent to this guy while we got our things in order (we never did get our two months rent back from when he didn't own the house). About 6 weeks later, he comes by the house furious that we hadn't paid rent in over a month. My roommate simply said, 'We aren't paying you anymore, get the heck off this property.' This ticked him off even more and he started threatening my roommate until my roommate said, 'We know you don't own this place anymore and we are going to sue you for the money you stole from us.' He shut up at this point and left, never to be heard from again. We didn't sue him because each of us were only out like $600 dollars (rent was stupid cheap for 4 college kids in a big city).
We made a deal with the bank to pay them the same rent we had been paying in order to stay until graduation in May. We were also responsible for cleaning up the yard and they would get someone out there to fix a few big issues (roof and plumbing) since they were going to sell the house anyway. We held up our end and enjoyed our last few months of college without a cruddy landlord."
There Were Two Families In The Apartment -- One Human, One Squirrel
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"When I was a kid, our slumlord refused to fix anything that broke in our house or do any preventative maintenance. The house had already had an electrical fire from a leaky upstairs bathroom, but he refused to fix any further leaks.
When I was about 13, a family of squirrels moved in to the space between the ceiling & roof in my room. I could hear them scratching and running all the time. They eventually scratched through the ceiling and left a few areas with small holes. I was always afraid they would drop into my room and attack.
Then, my ceiling started leaking when it rained, first in just one area and then gradually across the entire beam that ran across the ceiling. We set up buckets and I would fall asleep to the music of raindrops hitting different containers. The sound of water hitting carpet would wake me up in a panic and I'd have to find another bucket to catch the new drips.
One night while I was staying with a friend, the entire ceiling collapsed directly over my bed. All of the soaking wet sheetrock (drywall?) landed on my bed, desk, etc. And the entire family of squirrels was released into my room. They hid in my closet, under the bed, everywhere, and it took three days to get them all out.
That stupid landlord took another week before sending someone in to 'fix' it, and even then, it was only his son, who had zero experience/skill fixing anything."
They Tried To Call The Power Company's Bluff!
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"It was an apartment complex, but this one stands out still.
They didn't pay the power.
Not, 'they forgot to pay the power.' Not, 'they were in financial trouble.' They just wanted to see if they could call the power company's bluff.
The power company killed and locked half the breakers in every building.
I dunno if you've ever seen a riot take shape, but try cutting off the AC and refrigeration for a few dozen Alabamians in the middle of June in a heat wave."
She Was Judging Him For Having His Medication
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"I used to get medication shipped to me. It was a self-administered shot with a spring-loaded needle casing. I had a safe disposal method, etc, all set up. It was a medical issue.
Well, the little coolers of medicine each month went to the main office of my cruddy apartment building. For the first year, everything was fine, but then my building was sold to a new company and we got a new weirdo running the place.
The first time my meds got shipped to me, I went down to get it from the office like always. First off, there is a massive sticker that said, 'Refrigerate upon delivery.' The previous people always just popped it into the fridge that was set up in the office for me. This woman did not. She left it in the sweltering back room instead. Rude and inconsiderate, but I could deal with it.
But then, when I asked for the meds, she did the thing where she mimed like she was handing it to me and then pulled it back when I reached for the box. She then asked me, 'Are these needles? Are you having needles delivered?'
I was like, 'That's not any of your business. Give me my medication.'
She kept holding on to it and said: 'Well, some of the neighbors are concerned because needles usually mean illegal substances...'
You freak, my neighbors have never seen my needles and even if they did, you can't actually see the needle part because it's all encased in a spring-loaded tube. There is no way my 'neighbors are concerned' about this, they have no clue that this is something I need.
I told her again that it wasn't any of her business. She finally gave me the box, but she gave me the stink eye every time I received my medication after that. Theresa, you're a nosy freak, you know that?"
There Were 'Palm Sized Clumps' Of Ants All Over...Enough Said
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"Lived overseas, housing company managed multiple 'landlord' properties. I had multiple issues with them.
First incident, was that we noticed ants started making their way into the house. But, instead of normal places, they were on the ceiling, in clumps. Thousands of them, and they weren't interested in food, they just were in palm-sized clumps along the edges of the ceiling. We called housing several times, to which one came out to look at them and say 'sorry this is normal' and didn't want to do anything about it. They finally bought us special traps that helped.
The second and final time before we moved houses, I somehow pulled our oven door off, twice. The outer piece with the handle came away from the inner piece that faces the food. Once they drilled the door back together, the second time they just put it out of commission, and said I would have to wait until the owners of the home came over (we were in Japan, they lived in the US) and bought a new one. We were looking at almost two months until they would return. We complained that it was ridiculous to pay rent and not have a working oven for that long. The company then said instead we could buy an oven ourselves and then they would pay us back.
In the end, we complained so much about that house and what the company wasn't helping us with, nor the owners, so they allowed us to move into a different house owned by the loveliest guy who came by once a month and did yard trimming for us."
This Creep Used To Enter Their House When They Weren't Even There...
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"They seemed like the nicest couple in the world when we first rented the place, they even invited us to dinner and we had a great time. About three months in we found out that they argue quite loudly and curse like truckers, not that big of a deal. Then my wife stepped on a piece of blue glass that was on our kitchen floor (we didn't own any blue glasses).
Sure as heck I remembered that first dinner: they had blue glasses on the table. I set up a camera in the living room and over the next week caught this guy in our apartment when we weren't home.
This freak was going through our dressers and playing with my wife's underwear, caught him red-handed and gave him a nice beating and called the cops.
He tried playing it off like he smelt smoke and wanted to investigate, then I played back the previous weeks videos of him visiting on 3 separate occasions.
They locked him up, we found a new place really fast and never looked back."
That Gas Cooker Could Have Killed Everyone In The Building
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"I moved into a tiny studio apartment that was basically a single room with a sink in the cupboard, a bed, gas cooker from the 1980s, and a table. The room was in a large house with six other one-room apartments.
For the first couple of nights, I smelt some hints of gas but assumed it was just my imagination since I have a really crappy sense of smell.
I woke up in the middle of the night one night, to a VERY powerful smell of gas which seemed to be coming from the bottom of the cooker. I bolted out of bed, turned off the gas cut-off valve to my room, and sat on the garden wall at about 1 am trying to phone the landlord's emergency contact number. His phone wasn't turned on. I left a bunch of messages explaining the situation. In the end, I called the gas leak phone line, who sent out an engineer straight away. The dude disconnected the main gas line to the house since he was still reading a drop in pressure in the boiler. I wrote notes explaining why the gas was turned off (didn't want to wake up my new neighbors) and posted them under the doors of the other flats and went back to bed.
I woke up at 7 am the next morning to pounding on my door and shouting. The landlord was outside, DEMANDING to know why I had turned off the gas to the house, screaming that it might be days before it could be reconnected and that it would mean seven tenants without hot water or cooking facilities. I demanded to know why the heck his 'Emergency contact number' didn't work. He responded with, 'I have young kids at home. If people phoned that number after 9 pm, it would wake them up, so I turn it off.' I. Was. Freaking. Seething with rage. Glad to know emergencies only happen during waking hours.
The gas technician arrived, went to the boiler, then asked the Landlord to come down and see. They spent about twenty minutes there before the landlord came back up and mumbled some crap about how I was right to call the gas company to disconnect the house. Without explanation, he got every tenant a new electric cooker that afternoon; I'm guessing the thing had been leaking for ages.
Moron."
A Literal Sea Of Cockroaches
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"This was more recent when my SO and I were looking for a place together. We found a first floor one bedroom that my gut said 'no' about but we had been looking for close to 3 months and just wanted the search to be over. We sign the lease, get the keys, start moving my boxes of stuff to be moved in.
Surprise, lost! You got roaches The German kind, because get wrecked. These landlords were also family; a husband and wife with a son who acted as the liaison because the parents were not native English speakers. Yeah they could speak and understand English but not as well as their adult son. We called the son about the infestation. 'Oh yeah haha, this is a city so there are roaches' he said cheerfully.
I cussed him out. Because this was not a roach or two, but thousands. Everywhere. The molding on the ceiling was caked with roach filth. You don't notice it during the walkthrough when the lights are on and people stomping about but upon our inspection it was evident that the roaches had been there for a long time. It was a couple who were there for 2 years before us and they had been living in this filth.
What occurred was 6 days of terrible experiences. At one point, the wife called me at 9:30pm, hysterical, because 'why was I doing?' 'why was I such an awful person?' For breaking the lease and moving out of their roach motel. Lots of screaming involved. I essentially told them to get lost for knowingly letting us move into their disgusting place.
We broke the lease and the landlords came over to collect the keys. Over the 6 days my boyfriend and I were there, we did not clean up a single roach after we killed them out. Hundreds of roach bodies on the floors. The husband took a look-see, shrugged, and said 'It's not that bad.'
What disgusts me most of all is in both situations, the landlords had children. I asked both sets of landlords, 'how would you feel about your daughter living in these conditions?' to which they could not answer. I despise slumlords. Most operate without a license and all their properties are gross biohazards."
There Are Some Good Landlords Out There
"I've had bad luck with landlords for most of my life, but I just want to tell my story about my AMAZING landlord. Because she might be the only one out there.
I moved into my place last year, and had just settled in. I think it was a week. Anyway, I am home alone and watching a crazy storm happening out of my living room window thinking that some flash flooding would happen. Then I hear the water. It was flooding in under my door. The rain came in so hard the drain outside my door (at the bottom of 6 steps) couldn't keep up with all the water and debris flying around.
My kitchen and living room flooded within minutes of the rain starting. I was able to get it mostly stopped by using every towel and sheet in my apartment to block the door. All the while trying to get ahold of my roommate and significant other but they were both at parties and wasted. I was trapped and alone.
Roommate got ahold of Landlord who had literally just hopped off a plane 30 minutes before the call. She came rushing over and just took over. She and her husband bailed water, cleaned the whole place and spent the whole night setting up pumps, dams. She had me go pour myself a strong drink and just relax.
They were out while waves of storms rolled in and threaten to flood the place again.
After we were all clear that night they went home, slept a couple of hours and were back to make sure this would never happen again.
This had been pretty traumatic to me as a couple of years previous, our city had a huge flood and I had been evacuated for over a week, but was one of the lucky people that didn't lose anything in a neighborhood where a lot of people lost everything.
I am moving in a month and I am bummed that this awesome woman will not be my landlord anymore."
This Guy Was Obsessed With Chem Trails
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"Ceiling was leaking and called the landlord. He comes over with a ladder, gloves, a single shingle (that rhymes), and a bucket of roofing cement. Climbs up there to replace the shingle that flew off during a storm and the whole time he is telling me that the airplanes in the sky are controlling our minds with the chemicals they are raining down upon us. He puts the gloves on and dives his hand into the roofing cement. Spreads it on the roof with his hands and lays down the shingle. Once he was done, while still on the roof, he walks over to the edge next to the ladder and throws the gloves in my lawn. Keep in mind the gloves still covered in roofing cement. Then he gets down off of the ladder, packs it up and goes to walk away. As he is walking away he hits the back of my car with the ladder and leaves the gloves in my yard."
Apparently, Their Breath Was Bad For The House
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"Lived in a cruddy 2 bedroom apartment with no ventilation. It was more like a glorified shoe-box than a house. One day I get mail from the landlord. She wrote a letter saying that she was walking past the property the other day and they noticed mildew on the corner of the front window. The letter said that this was really bad for the house and we had to get rid of it. This was a little weird and pedantic, but okay, whatever, I'll clean it.
But the letter went on to say that we should take steps to prevent it from coming back. The letter included a list of things that caused mildew and recommend that we avoid doing things that can cause mildew. Get to the last item on the list: 'Breathing'
Breathing can cause mildew. The landlord tried to ask me to stop breathing in my apartment."
A Homophobic Control Freak That Forced Herself On Their Property
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"Lived in a house with, among other flatmates, a lovely young gay man whose mother owned the house and was a crazy evangelical Christian maniac. She didn't live there but came round whenever she wanted in the guise of visiting her son even when he wasn't around (in my country it is illegal for landlords to enter the house without giving all tenants 48 hours notice, unless there's a genuine emergency). She pressured him and put her son down constantly because of his orientation. She would leave incredibly offensive and homophobic 'reading material' on the hallway table mixed in with his mail and threatened to disown him if he went to a real, accredited university instead of a useless indoctrination center disguised as a tertiary institute.
She insisted on decorating the house herself, complete with Christian platitudes implying that only Christians are worthwhile people (am atheist - she knew this from the beginning, I think she may have dreamed of converting the poor ignorant atheist) and an entire bookshelf filled with such gems as guides on how to be a good Christian wife (to be fair, these had solid entertainment value).
She would come round at 6am and mow the lawns in her bra. I'd get up to make a coffee and she'd yell about how I left a book or a jersey or whatever in MY living room - I'm talking a single personal item, not a big mess. If I came home in the morning after a night out and she was around, she would make snarky comments implying I was a loose woman.
When she decided the kitchen wasn't clean enough (again, she didn't live there and this was not a designated flat inspection so she had no right to say a darn thing) she wrote an angry note in ALL CAPS in permanent marker on the wall. It was so big she must have stood on a chair to write the top couple of lines.
She decided me and my friends drank too much, so she posted an AA pamphlet on the toilet door and circled every reference to God or religion.
She was generally a nasty, toxic person to be around who felt the need to control everyone around her. She had no leg to stand on to make us change, because we weren't doing anything to damage the property and it was my home, NOT hers. So she just made everyone around her miserable instead.
When I moved out, she started only letting rooms to Christian international students, which was probably better for everyone involved. Except I am 99%sure she was exploiting and controlling the new tenants thanks to their ignorance of our tenancy laws."


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Guests can customize their burgers in 1 million ways at Cheeseburger Bobby's.

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Cheeseburger Bobby's lets customers do the customizing
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Paris Wolfe | Mar 09, 2016
Gourmet burgers share top billing with fries and frozen custard at Cheeseburger Bobby's, a 10-unit concept based in Atlanta. The restaurants offer a familiar build-your-own burger, fries and soda experience, but with some well-considered twists.
The emphasis is on freshness and quality ingredients. Customers have free rein at the build-your-own burger bar, with the promise of 1 million topping combinations for the quarter pounders. And because great burgers take time, the company eschews drive-through windows.
Diners can also customize their fries with a choice of 10 flavored salts, including Cajun, celery and jalapeno. And attendants walk the dining room dishing out free refills on those fries.
Servers also offer frozen custard samples to entice consumers to add on to their purchase. It works. Seven percent buy custard, shakes or sundaes.
"We use high-quality Angus beef that we're putting on the grill when you order," says Bobby Stoll, co-president and founder of the chain. "Everything is fresh. We have buns delivered fresh every day. French fries are cut fresh and never frozen. We're slicing, dicing, cutting up vegetables three times a day for the bar."
Cheeseburger Bobby's offers frozen custard, not ice cream or frozen yogurt, because its dense creaminess best complements the Angus burgers.
Stoll, who launched the concept in 2007, has six restaurants are on the books for 2016, and he is eyeing 75 locations over the next five years in Atlanta and Augusta, GA; Nashville and Knoxville, TN; and Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh, NC. Stoll envisions 25 percent corporate-owned properties and the remaining franchised.
He expects growth to speed up, but maintains some caution. "We're very selective who we sell to. Our franchisees are natural leaders with a strong work ethic while also being community-oriented. Our franchisees are currently multi-unit and looking to add an additional concept and expand their portfolio."
At Cheeseburger Bobby's, checks average $9.50. Units range from 1,800 to 2,700 square feet. And average sales are $950,000 per unit and growing.
A new interior concept is being rolled out by the end of 2016. "It's done in natural earth tones to help emphasize food freshness," he says. Other new décor features include large, trapezoid community tables and prominent photos of juicy burgers on a fiery grill along the walls by the booths and large images of freshly cut vegetables by the burger bar.
Stoll launched his foodservice career manning the grill at a Wendy's when he was 15. "I took my paychecks and invested them in company stock so I could buy my first restaurant," he recalls. It was the late 1980s.
His early ventures were turnarounds. "I bought failing restaurants, turned them around and resold them," he says. Eventually he bought into the Stevi B's Pizza brand. He sold those in 2006 when he reached 35 stores.
"I've worked in restaurants for over 30 years," he says. "It's the only thing I know how to do."
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Billions of households across the world are abuzz with activity and excitement. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is just around the corner. And so are the elaborate preparations: shopping for new clothes, preparing sweets and savouries for family and friends, spring cleaning the house, and planning for all the fun and frolic this festival entails.
Diwali is not only religiously significant but is also close to everyone's heart for the goodwill and cheer associated with it. After all, who doesn't love a night lit up with a million lamps, good food, music and merry-making with loved ones.
However, as we immerse ourselves in the festivities, it is important not to forget the essence of this beautiful festival: the triumph of good over evil. While on the surface this evil is signified with mythological demons, the deeper meaning it holds is to get rid of our inner demons, attempt to light up our life with knowledge, and do whatever is good for collective humanity.
And in the present day world, where we consume a little too much and care a little too less, what bigger evil is there to shun than our lifestyle of mindless consumption and neglect for this planet we live on? So, this Diwali, instead of celebrating the demise of imaginary demons, let's turn our attention to the very real demon of environmental destruction in front of us and pledge to fight it by starting to lead a sustainable lifestyle of less consumerism, more conservation.
(Om, from falsehood lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to the light, from death lead me to immortality).
1) Light it right: Lamps, lanterns, and lights! The idea of Diwali is to fill the night up with bright lights so that no corner of the house remains dark. Today the dainty earthen lamps of yesteryears have been replaced by electric lights that are more attractive and durable but consume a lot of electricity and just add to the plastic junk once done with. Try to use less of these electric lights and go the old-fashioned way: use diyas (mud lamps) filled with mustard oil, buy bees-wax or soy candles instead of petroleum-based wax candles that give off toxic fumes, or make your own bees-wax candles and lamps at home if you are creatively-inclined. There are several free and paid workshops to learn soy and bees wax candle-making every weekend or you could just find an online tutorial just in time for the festivities. You can even make little lamps out of random items in your house. Hollow out that huge citrus that you haven't eaten for a week, fill it with some cooking oil, put a wick in, and light it up for some orange glow with a sweet, and citrusy smell.
2) Go easy on fireworks: While in India it is nowadays a trend to buy the loudest, brightest crackers available in the market, the truth is that they were not even a part of Diwali celebrations traditionally. A fairly recent invention, fireworks can be a lot of fun if enjoyed sensibly but are also a huge nuisance, causing plenty of environmental and noise pollution. The best way is to ditch them entirely but if you are one of those people who cannot imagine a Diwali without fireworks, it's a good idea to do it as a community activity where many people enjoy them collectively. That would mean at least some less pollution than every household buying and bursting them individually.
3) Green clean: In Indian and Hindu households, a key aspect of Diwali is spring-cleaning the house to welcome Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. People dust, mop, sweep, and clean the whole house and many even get it freshly painted. But this doesn't have to mean loads of toxic cleaning products. You can find several natural, organic cleaning products that are free of harsh chemicals and do not leave a toxic trail in the environment. And what's more, they are easily available online, and in supermarkets, are as good as chemical-based products, and are cheaper than toxic products in most cases. You can check out for brands like, Earth's Choice, Ecogreen, Organic Choice, etc.
4) Refuse, reuse, recycle: A big celebration doesn't necessarily need to mean a big mound of plastic waste of decoration items. There are hundreds of environmentally-friendly options available for decorative stuff these days. They can be easily ordered over the internet. And better still, they don't burn a hole in your pocket. So, why not? Apart from that, there is always an option to reuse sturdy decoration stuff. Try to remove decorations like lanterns, streamers, banners, and buntings carefully once the celebrations are over and store them to use them next Diwali instead of sending perfectly good, reusable plastic items down the garbage chute. You could end up saving some money as well as the environment.
1) Local is better: Diwali is synonymous with good, scrumptious food. And lots of it. Right from curries, breads, and rice dishes to sweets and savouries of a hundred different kinds. So, when food is such a huge part of celebrations, a good way to make this festival an Earth-happy affair is to shop locally for ingredients. Go to the local grocery store in your area or find a nearby farmer's market instead of a supermarket chain to buy veggies, spices and fruits. Not only would you get to have fresh, straight from the farm stuff but would also invest in your local economy and ensure your food has a lower carbon foot-print, that is, it hasn't travelled thousands of miles using hundreds of gallons of fuel before reaching your plate. Win-win in every way!
Also try to keep your food organic. Lesser chemicals in food are not just good for the environment but also for human health. Check out www.localharvest.org.au to find good food close to you.
2) Donate leftover food: If you can't finish it all why not share it with someone in need? Donating left-over food is a great way of contributing to the community and can mean not going empty-stomach for an individual or family. There are charities that rescues excess food, which would otherwise be discarded, and distribute it to people in need.
3) Compostable cutlery: While using dinner sets year after year is the best thing to do for the environment, not everyone is happy with all the dishwashing that follows. So, if you must use disposable dishware make sure you avoid Styrofoam or plastic, single-use cups, plates, and cutlery. There are a lot of eco-friendly options available now made from bio-degradable materials, like palm leaves, bamboo pulp, poly-lactic acid (PLA), sugarcane pulp etc. They are cheap, biodegradable, and non-toxic.
1) Fair and sweet: It is customary to visit family and friends during Diwali, and no visit during this festival is considered complete without sweets being gifted and offered. And lately, traditional sweets have been replaced by the omnipresent chocolates. So as you set about to meet and greet loved ones this Diwali, buy Fairtrade chocolate with NO palm oil: most chocolate in super-market aisles abound in sneaky palm oil and cocoa grown under environmentally unsustainable conditions, exploitative practices and forced labour. So by buying fair-trade chocolate we are not only choosing a good quality product but also taking a stand against deforestation, human trafficking, and child labour. Many stores in Australia, like, Aldi, Coles, Chocolatier Australia, Haigh's Chocolates, etc. sell fair-trade chocolate. Look for chocolates with Fairtrade, UTZ, or Rainforest Alliance certification on the packets.
2) Wise gift: As with most festivals, exchanging gifts is a big part of Diwali celebrations. This time around, try to get creative with your gift and keep it green. Instead of store-bought packaged stuff give someone a live-gift they can nurture and cherish: a planter with flower seedlings, a mini-herb garden, a colourful succulent garden in a pot, or maybe small, hand-made pouches of organic wildflower seeds to scatter around the house and garden.
You can also look at online stores, websites, and even small local stores to find the perfect gifts that do not put a stress on the environment. The options are limitless: hand-made jewellery made of recycled materials, dresses and accessories made from eco-friendly materials and processes, organic cosmetics, handicrafts and artisan made gifts sourced from fair-trade organisations across the globe. Websites like Etsy, Ethical Superstore, EcoBella, Oz Fair Trade, Biome, Organic Earth Shop or Ethical Gifts are a good place to look at for such gifts. Many such things are also available in local farmers and artisan markets across the city. Or you can buy a gift-card to businesses selling eco-friendly products in your area. This way you help that business thrive while your loved one gets to pick a green gift of their choice.
3) Unwrap it: Lots of gifts means lots of unnecessary waste: chocolate wrappings, gift wraps, cardboard boxes. To prevent this, try to find gifts with less or bio-degradable packaging. Look for chocolates packed in more tin-foil, less plastic and cardboard. Also, foil that enters the recycling in little scraps doesn't get picked up. So, keep a bowl on the kitchen counter and ask everyone to put their empty wrappers there. Then scrunch it up in a big ball to go in the recycling bin. You can also up-cycle any non-recyclable waste– take to Pinterest for interesting ideas!
Mindless consumerism has slowly killed the true spirit of most of our celebrations and replaced it with practices that have not just eroded the traditional values of our festivals but also triggered a cascade of environmental destruction on a global scale. Let's try to slowly revive that spirit of our festivals, the spirit that was in unison with Nature, not against it. Let this be a Happy Diwali for our planet!


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Geology and Ground-water Resources of Sumner County, Kansas
by Kenneth L. Walters, U.S. Geological Survey
Originally published in 1961 as Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 151. This is, in general, the original text as published in 1961. The information has not been updated.
You may also wish to visit our web site on the Sumner County geologic map.
This report describes the geography, geology, and ground-water resources of Sumner County in south-central Kansas. The hydrologic and geologic data upon which this report is based were obtained in the field during the summers of 1955 and 1956. Records of 300 wells and 2 springs, chemical analyses of 219 water samples from wells and test holes and of 15 from streams, and logs of 362 wells and test holes are included in tables.
Sumner County has an area of 1,183 square miles and lies in the Wellington Lowland and Arkansas River Lowlands of the Central Lowland physiographic province. It is drained by Arkansas River, Ninnescah River, and Chikaskia River and their tributaries. The land surface in general is a southeastward-sloping, gently rolling plain. The average annual precipitation at Wellington is about 31 inches. Wheat fanning is the principal industry of the county, and oil is the chief natural resource.
The Wellington Formation, of Permian age, crops out in the eastern two-thirds of the county except where it is covered by Pleistocene deposits. The Ninnescah Shale (Permian) overlies the Wellington Formation and crops out in parts of the western third of the county. The Permian rocks yield small quantities of hard water to wells. Pleistocene sand and gravel deposits of Nebraskan age are present in the northwestern corner of the county and yield moderate quantities of good water to wells. Discontinuous deposits of Kansan or Illinoisan age, locally mantled by colluvium, forms terraces in southern and eastern Sumner County, and may yield moderate quantities of water. Wisconsinan terrace deposits and Recent alluvium along the major streams yield large quantities of water. Colluvium and dune sand are unimportant as sources of water but may facilitate recharge.
Maps of Sumner County included in this report show the outcrop areas of the formations, geologic cross sections, the shape and slope of the water table, the locations of wells and test holes for which records are given, and the distribution of chloride in water samples.
The ground-water reservoir is recharged principally from rain and snow that fall within the county, by percolation from streams and other surface bodies of water, and by underflow from adjacent areas. Water is discharged from the ground-water reservoir by seepage into streams, by transpiration and evaporation, by movement into adjacent areas, and by wells. Water is pumped from wells for domestic, stock, municipal, industrial, and irrigation use. Irrigation from wells is most extensive in the valley of Arkansas River, in which area further development is most probable.
Chemical analyses of samples of water from Sumner County indicate that the quality varies greatly from place to place. Sulfate is common in water from the Wellington Formation and Ninnescah Shale. Water from Pleistocene deposits is generally suitable for most uses except in local areas where it contains excessive chloride.
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The URL for this page is http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Geology/Sumner/index.html


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In the search for truth, questioning accepted assumptions is the duty of any scientist. This necessity of investigating and reassessing our knowledge makes often way for newer, exciting hypotheses that continuously challenge the existing ones, as an integral part of the scientific progress.
This artist's impression depicts a Sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of the Sun, in the centre of a distant galaxy. Its large mass bends the light from stars and gas behind it. Despite being way more massive than the star, the supermassive black hole has an event horizon which is only 200 times larger than the size of the star. Its fast rotation has changed its shape into an oblate sphere. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
The "crime scene" is located in a distant galaxy, 4 billion light years away from the Earth. An extraordinarily bright flash of light was witnessed by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) in June 2015. This explosion, dubbed ASASSN-15lh, was so bright that it was at the time categorised as a "super luminous supernova", a high mass star meeting death in a giant explosion, and indeed the brightest ever seen!
But given this extreme brightness, could this source be incurred by another event than a supernova? A question that Giorgos Leloudas, associate scientist at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, supported in part by the Carlsberg Foundation, and partially based at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) did not hesitate to ask.
In collaboration with an international research team, Leloudas opened up for other explanations. A 10 month-long investigation followed, which gathered and analysed data from several ground-based and space telescopes.
Investigating this unique event, was in fact a tremendous collaborative effort, which involved using data, amongst others, from the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory, the New Technology Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, as part of the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO), and the NASA/ASI/UK Swift satellite.
The team used the data to propose a theoretical model and explanation for this extraordinary event and this led to a new and exciting hypothesis: the discovery of a rare phenomenon, called a tidal disruption event, where a rapidly spinning gigantic black hole is ripping apart an unlucky star that came too close.
"We observed the source for 10 months following the event and have concluded that the explanation is unlikely to lie with an extraordinarily bright supernova. Our results indicate that the event was probably caused by a supermassive black hole, located in the centre of its galaxy, that destroyed a low-mass star," explains Leloudas. He explains that important evidence towards this direction was provided by the fact that the event took place in the nucleus of a red and dead massive galaxy. Massive stars that explode as supernovae are not found in these old environments.
Caption: Spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc formed by a disrupted star (artist's impression). Image credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
Ultraviolet data from the Swift spacecraft also revealed a new emission episode long after the initial explosion. "A supernova is not expected to show this kind of revived emission, while leftover debris from the shredded star can naturally emit long-lasting light when they fall down the black hole", explains Daniele Malesani, another team member from the Dark Cosmology Centre and the Danish Technical University.
Although the team say a supernova source is therefore very unlikely, the complexity of the observed emission demonstrates that tidal disruption events exhibit more variety and a more complex phenomenology than previously known. Team member Nicholas Stone from Columbia University, USA, elaborates: "The tidal disruption event we propose cannot be explained with a ordinary supermassive black hole. The black hole has to be spinning rapidly in order to allow for the disruption to happen outside its event horizon."
It is therefore the first time that a spinning black hole has been associated with a tidal disruption event. Future observations and theoretical work are expected to shed light in both the nature of this unique event and the physics of tidal disruption events.
Leloudas concludes: "We cannot say to 100% certainty that the ASASSN-15lh event was a tidal disruption event. But it is by far the most likely explanation."
Note: This research was presented in a paper entitled "The Superluminous Transient ASASSN-15lh as a Tidal Disruption Event from a Kerr Black Hole", by G. Leloudas et al. to appear in the new Nature Astronomy magazine. Link to the Nature Astronomy article
For a more complete press article, please consult the ESO press release here.
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At 4:30 am last night, I began praying for the light of reason to switch on inside the heads of our congressional leaders. To be fair, my prayers applied specifically to a small, right wing segment of the Republican Party. I'm sure these individuals are acting out of what they consider their "social conscience." I choose to call it something else: selfishness and irresponsibility.
I do not "have it in" for Republicans because I happen to be one myself. In addition, I am not an advocate of "Obamacare." In my situation, the only "benefits" I stand to reap from the law are higher insurance premiums and a longer wait to see my doctor. But there are a couple of things I realize and accept that the "Tea Party" Republicans choose to conveniently ignore. Obamacare is now the law of the land. It was passed by both houses of Congress and ratified by the Supreme Court. I'm not sure if the majority of citizens in this country favor the law, but certainly our elected leaders favor it. The last time I checked, the majority rules in a Democracy, and we are bound to follow the laws of the land.
In time, I hope amendments to the law will be passed that will allow everyone in this country to live with the Affordable Care Act in peace. Perhaps a future administration will dismantle the law if we find it does more harm than good. Whatever the case, we have no reason to panic. Life will go on. Affordable Care will live or die on its own merit or lack thereof.
Instead, we have a few people holding the government hostage and causing untold suffering to hundreds of thousands of people in addition to disrupting financial markets and an economy finally showing signs of life.
In 1995, a political party impasse caused a government shutdown. It cost taxpayers 1.4 billion dollars to stop and restart the engine. Here are a few examples of people affected by the shutdown, paraphrased from an article by Fred Grimm in the October 1, 2013 edition of the Miami Herald.
Somewhere between 800,000 and a million government employees cannot go to work. Nine million mothers-in-need will be denied supplemental food and nutritional education for their infants and children. The shutdown disrupts research by the National Institutes of Health and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Environmental Protection Agency will go dark. 1.1 million Head Start kids are affected adversely—and on and on.
The Tea Party faction of the Republican Party will no doubt view the plight of people directly affected by the government shutdown as collateral damage in their holy war against the "Affordable Care Act." For these compassionate souls, I pray the law of Karma will kick in to apply swift and sure payback.


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Tufts falls to WPI at home in 2–2 start to season
Yuan Jun Chee and Bradley Schussel
Sophomore center Luke Rogers swats down a shot in Tufts' 76–71 win against Trinity on Feb. 11. Evan Sayles / The Tufts Daily Archives
Tufts recorded a mixed start to the season, winning both games at the RWU / Courtyard by Marriott Tournament, before losing its next two games, including its home opener against WPI.
The WPI Engineers traveled to Cousens Gymnasium Tuesday for an out-of-conference game against the Jumbos. This was the home opener for Tufts, as well as the first game back for junior guard and co-captain Eric Savage.
The Jumbos ended up on the losing end of this game in a blowout, 89–66. Savage came off the bench for his first game back, finishing with five points and five rebounds in 22 minutes of action.
The first half of the game was very tight, as both teams traded buckets. The Jumbos attacked the Engineers' zone defense by moving the ball and scoring inside. Their first-half offense was built around the 6-foot-8 sophomore center Luke Rogers who was able to out-reach his matchup. Rogers, who was named NESCAC Player of the Week in the season's first week, would end up with 23 points and six rebounds on an efficient 10-of-13 from the floor.
Rogers praised his teammates' performance, which he believes allowed him to find success with scoring inside.
"[My teammates] opened things up for me," Rogers said. "I'm surrounded by a great core of shooters. They really space the floor for me down low. Them moving off the ball and getting open was the key to helping me find success inside the paint."
Meanwhile, the Engineers ran their offense in the first few minutes through sophomore forward Reid Walker. While he took a back seat in favor of a more balanced offensive approach later in the game, Walker still had a strong game, tallying 18 points, six rebounds and six assists.
For the first seven minutes of the first half, no team held a lead of more than three points. Tufts took its largest lead of the game, 22–14, on a jumpshot by Rogers with less than 11 minutes left in the first half. The Engineers then went on a 9–0 run, taking the lead 23–22 on a 3-pointer from sophomore guard Jake Needleman. The teams traded blows the rest of the half, with neither team gathering enough momentum to pull away with a big lead. With 31 seconds left in the half, first-year guard Carson Cohen hit a three-pointer to give the Jumbos a two-point lead going into halftime, 42–40.
Though the Jumbos took the momentum into halftime, the second half seemed like a completely different game. Tufts shot 16-of-28 in the first half, but regressed to a 6-of-30 clip in the second. The Jumbos were 1-for-13 on 3-pointers in the second half, shooting from deep very early in the shot clock on several possessions.
Tufts coach Bob Sheldon noted some of the reasons for his team's regression in the second half.
"Once things started to go south, we panicked," Sheldon said. "We didn't pass the ball as much. We took some shots we shouldn't have taken. There was a lot of stuff that's correctable."
The first eight minutes of the second half saw a 24–5 run by the Engineers. The Jumbos could not seem to hit their shots, especially from outside. WPI's zone defense found success, and its defensive stops created fast break opportunities. The final blow of the 19-point swing came on a 3-pointer from Reid.
While the Jumbos tried to fight back, they could not find the inside scoring success that propelled them in the first half. The offensive onslaught ended with the Engineers taking the game by 23 points. Sophomore forward Dakota Wheeler was an important part of WPI's success in the second half, hitting several key 3-pointers. Wheeler ended the day with 14 points while hitting four of his six 3-point attempts for a strong game off of the bench.
Sheldon believes that his team has a lot of room to grow after the loss.
"We're a very young team," Sheldon said. "We started two [first-years] and three sophomores and we only have two juniors on the team. There's going to be nights where we're inconsistent. There's going to be nights like that, so one of the things we have to work on as a team is being consistent."
Tufts fell 98–92 to neighboring MIT on Nov. 20, before Thanksgiving break. Once again, Tufts held a narrow lead after the first half. Its largest lead in the half was 12 after sophomore guard Brennan Morris sunk a 3-point shot with 3:27 to play in the first half. This lead narrowed to four as first-year guard Dan Pilsbury grabbed the defensive rebound and made a 3-pointer.
MIT's improved field goal shooting in the second half — from 13-of-28 (46.4 percent) to 19-of-33 (57.6 percent) — allowed it to force overtime. MIT senior forward Tim Roberts put up five of MIT's 12 points in the overtime period to seal victory for the home team.
On the weekend of Nov. 16–17, Tufts started its season out strongly with two wins at the RWU / Courtyard by Marriott Tournament. In contrast to its recent two games, Tufts trailed in the first half in both games at the tournament. On Nov. 17, Tufts recorded a 88–84 victory over hosts RWU. While Tufts trailed by three at the half, the team was able to put up 50 points in the second half to steal a victory. A Rogers' jumpshot with 10:34 on the clock gave the visitors the lead, which it never relinquished. He led the way with 32 points and 17 rebounds, and also helped the Jumbos dominate the backboard with 46 rebounds compared to RWU's 31. Tufts' success from the free-throw line also gave the team an advantage, as the team was 20-of-28 (71.4 percent) compared to RWU's 14-of-22 (63.6 percent).
A day earlier, Tufts made a winning start to its season, defeating Saint Joseph's (Maine) 88–83. Tufts put up 51 points in the second half, improving its 3-point shooting, from 3-of-12 (25 percent) in the first half to 7-of-16 (43.8 percent) in the second period. Cohen impressed in his first collegiate game with team-highs of 22 points and four assists. Fellow first-year guard Tyler Aronson also put up 15 points of his own.
While the team is young, Rogers commended his first-year teammates for stepping into the starting lineup and producing.
"[The first-years] have been unbelievable," Rogers said. "They've really stepped up, and they're coming into some pretty difficult roles. Our team has a lot of big shoes to fill, and they've come in and kept their heads on."
The Jumbos graduated six standout seniors last year, so production from first-years and sophomores will be important for the team's success. Tufts will travel to Babson for the New England Big 4 Challenge Saturday. Babson, Brandeis and Salem State will also take part in the four-team tournament.
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Rewari Gangrape Case: Another Army Man Caught in Odisha, Accused of Not Informing Authorities
Sources confirmed that the accused was apprehended from army training centre Gopalpur (Odisha).
Published: September 26, 2018 7:57 AM IST
By India.com News Desk Email
Chandigarh: The investigation team probing the Rewari gangrape case has arrested another Army man, Navin alias Nikku, for his alleged involvement in the incident, said media reports on Wednesday. While the charge being pressed on Nikku has yet not been disclosed, reports claimed that police have said that he was also present at the tube well room when the crime took place. (Also read: Condition of Survivor Stable, Treatment to Continue in Rewari)Also Read - Maharashtra, Karnataka, 4 Others Among 'States of Concern', Centre Rushes Teams To Review Situation
Sources confirmed that the accused was apprehended from army training centre Gopalpur (Odisha). He had reportedly left the crime spot and did not inform anyone about it. Nikku had joined the Army six months ago and was undergoing basic military training at Army Air Defence (AAD) training centre at Gopalpur in Odisha, said reports. He is a native of Nayagaon village. He was produced before the duty magistrate, who sent him on 10-days police remand on Tuesday. He has been accused of not informing the authorities about the incident and maintaining silence over the crime. Also Read - Odisha: Huge Quantity of Exlosives Seized in Malkangiri, Security Forces Suspect Naxal Activity
He was on leave from the training when the incident of rape happened. He would now be produced before the duty magistrate on October 5. Also Read - Odisha Imposes Ban On Religious Gatherings At River Ghats, Restrictions on Rituals | Full Guidelines Here
The two prime accused in the case – Pankaj and Manish – were arrested this Sunday. The arrests come a week after another main accused Nishu was apprehended, along with two others — Sanjeev, the doctor who first attended to the woman following the crime, and Deendayal, on whose property she was allegedly raped.
DGP BS Sandhu said with the arrest of Manish and Pankaj, an Army man, all the key accused allegedly involved in the incident, had been arrested. "Both the prime accused in the case, who had been on the run, have been arrested," DGP Sandhu told PTI.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) had stated in its report that there was a delay on the part of state police in taking prompt action. Zero FIR lodged at 3.30 AM on September 13 but the FIR transferred at 7.15 PM. The scene of the crime wasn't sealed also. Meanwhile, parents of the victim suspected the involvement of at least 10-12 people in the crime.
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Barcelona director institutional and sporting relations Guillermo Amor has admitted that there would be no financial problem in signing Thiago Alcantara from Bayern Munich this summer, despite parting ways with huge amounts of money on the signings of Ousmane Dembele and Philippe Coutinho in 2017/18.
Bayern have reportedly told Thiago he can leave the Allianz Arena this summer as part of an overhaul ahead of the arrival of Niko Kovac, and Barça are in need of a direct replacement for Andres Iniesta – with a desire to push Coutinho further up the pitch.
Barça director Amor has helped fuel the fire around the Thiago speculation, admitting that La Blaugrana would definitely be able to afford the playmaker.
"Thiago left because he sold himself, he left money and if Barça signed him this would not be the problem," Amor admitted to RAC1, according to AS.
There has also been some talk about Amor's personal future at Camp Nou, with some papers previously claiming that Barca could be trying to tempt Roma director Monchi to move to Catalonia, but Amor has claimed that he knows nothing of the situation.
Barcelona have a lot of work to do this summer. Antoine Griezmann continues to debate whether or not he will leave Atletico Madrid in the next few months, and the future of Ousmane Dembele seems to also be up in the air.
The club have also been linked with a move for Christian Eriksen this summer, but the Dane won't come cheap if they do choose to make a move for the Tottenham star.


At currently measured rates, it would take billions of years for Uranium 238 (238U) to completely decay into its final daughter element, Lead 206 (206Pb). As mentioned in part 1 of this series, the implied assumption is that the rate of decay has been constant (equal to the current rate) throughout the entire history of the earth....However, there is compelling scientific evidence to reject this assumption.
Unlike Uranium, the element Polonium (produced during the decay of Uranium) decays very rapidly. Uranium decay produces three isotopes (versions) of Polonium: 218Po, 214Po and 210Po. These three elements have half-lives of just 3.1 minutes, 164 micro-seconds, and 138 days, respectively. This means that these elements decay very quickly, not over millions or billions of years, but in days, minutes, or fractions of a second!
Why does any of this matter? Scientists have discovered numerous examples of Polonium "halos" within granite rocks. When Polonium decays, the radioactivity damages the surrounding structure (biotite—a mica mineral) and leaves a spherical pattern. The general term for these patterns is "radiohalos," short for "radioactive halos." Polonium halos are radiohalos specifically formed by Polonium decay. So where is this all leading? The radiohalos can only form in hardened rock, but Polonium decays very quickly. If it truly took millions or billions of years for the Uranium to decay and millions of years for the rocks to cool, the Polonium halos would not form. The rocks must have formed and cooled in much less time.
The existence of Polonium halos indicates that 100 million years of Uranium decay were necessary to produce enough Polonium to create these halos. However, since Polonium decays so quickly, it shouldn't have left any record in the rocks (which supposedly were still in the process of cooling for millions of years). But the halos are there! This is evidence of accelerated radioactive decay rates. It appears that 100 million years of decay took place in a number of days! This would account for the appearance of the halos and would also indicate that Uranium decay was accelerated approximately 1 billion times the current rate—evidence of a young earth and against the assumption of constant decay rates.
Polystrate fossils are fossils (usually trees) that extend through multiple layers of rock that were supposedly deposited over multiplied thousands or millions of years....If those layers were truly laid down over such a long period of time, the trees would have rotted long before ever getting completely buried and thus would never turn into a fossil! It's interesting that when we find these trees (and there are many of them), we generally don't find the root systems intact, meaning that these trees were not growing there; they were catastrophically uprooted from their original location and rapidly deposited .
Millions of Years to Form?
We all know that it takes millions of years to form oil… And the same goes for coal… And diamonds—millions of years…right? WRONG!
Oil supposedly formed over millions of years from the breakdown of organic material buried within the earth. However, scientists today are able to produce oil in a matter of minutes in the laboratory ( Discover, May 2, 2003). It takes the right materials and conditions—not the magic of millions of years. The main ingredients are organic material, pressure, heat, and water. This is exactly what the flood would have provided! Lots of water burying tons of organic material, forming huge layers of sediment, creating tremendous pressure, which in turn created great amounts of heat.
Scientists have also been able to create diamonds that are indistinguishable from natural diamonds, using carbon dioxide, metallic sodium, high pressure, and a temperature of 440ºC, in just 12 hours!
With coal supposedly being millions of years old, you wouldn't expect to find any amount of Carbon-14 remaining, but surprisingly, no coal sample has ever been found to be completely void of C14.
Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man and are extremely impervious to contamination. Allegedly millions to billions of years old, they also should not contain any C14, but recent studies have shown that they do, dispelling the idea of vast ages.
Biological material is certainly not as resilient as geologic material, such as granite, and is especially susceptible to decay. In spite of the fact that researchers say that DNA cannot survive in its natural environment for more than 10,000 years, we have discovered it in places where it "ought not be"! One example is in insects that were imbedded in amber. Another was in some dinosaur bones. (They've even found dinosaur bones with blood cells and soft tissue, un-decomposed! But dinosaurs are supposed to be at least 65 million years old!) Lastly, they have evidently revived bacteria (supposedly 250 million years old) with completely undamaged DNA [ Nature 407:897-900 (19 October 2000)]. This is a huge conundrum for evolutionists but fits very comfortably with a young earth.
Have you ever tried folding rocks?…I haven't either. It's interesting to note, however, that there are a number of places on earth where we see great "folds" in solid rock. How did this occur? Experiments have shown that if there is enough pressure and heat, rocks can fold to some extent. In these cases, the rocks show evidence of having experienced great amounts of heat. However, there are many instances where the rocks show no evidence of great heat and also yield evidence that the rocks were in a "soft and plastic" state when they were folded (not having had enough time to harden). This fits perfectly with a global flood, depositing the layers rapidly that were then uplifted and deformed by subsequent tectonic movements, all before they had time to harden.
We are inundated with stories of millions and billions of years from the media and scientific community, but the empirical evidence is significantly lacking. Numerous scientific indicators show that the earth cannot possibly be billions of years old, as the evolutionary model indicates, and those who won't question the validity of this model will generally not even consider any evidence that would counter the idea of eons of time.
From a biblical perspective, the case for millions of years is not supported by the text. Furthermore, importing millions of years into Scripture causes several serious exegetical and theological problems….
As interesting or important as the subject of the age of the earth might be, there is something infinitely more significant, and it relates to your eternal destiny.
I think it's safe to say that when your life is over and you find yourself standing (more likely kneeling) before God, He won't be asking your opinion on the age of the earth or quizzing you about radiometric dating! At that point, there will only be one subject on the table and I wish to close with this brief thought.
If I were to die tonight and find myself standing before God, and He asked " Why should I let you into heaven? " what would my response be?
Is there any rational reason that today you would not confess your sins and place your faith in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of your sins and assurance of your eternal salvation?
Dear God, I know that you created me and that I have not lived according to your standards. Your word tells me that " trying to be good enough" does not earn your favor. Because of your great love for me, you sent your Son (Jesus) to die on a cross to pay the penalty for my own sins so that I don't have to spend eternity separated from you in judgment. I am asking today for you to forgive my sins and am accepting the free gift of eternal life that you are offering to me through your son Jesus Christ. I want to live my life in a way that is honoring and pleasing to you. When I do sin in the future, help me to confess those sins and thank you for the fact that they too are also forgiven in Jesus. Amen!


The Hasselblad Xpan is one of those cult cameras that usually get pulled for landscape photography, Walter Rothwell uses his Xpan for Street Photography. Jump in for his images and thoughts.
After finishing a Higher National Diploma in photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, I ran a gallery in London and freelanced for various companies, newspapers and magazines.
I then spent a period traveling, living in Europe and Asia. I'm now back living in London, working on commissions and long term personal projects.
I kind of 'knew' the first time I picked up a camera. I was studying A level design at 6th form college, one of my tutors also ran a photography course so I signed up as an extra subject, fell in love with the whole process and went onto to study further.
I have found that the best pictures almost present themselves, you recognize the elements falling into place, composition, light, juxtaposition, the usual criteria for street photography, just in panoramic.
You can the Xpan take everywhere,everyday, which I do but try to only use it when I 'see' a panoramic picture, it takes me a long time to shoot a roll of film, about 2-3 weeks on average.
Could you give us a few reason why you chose the Xpan for street photography?
The vast majority of my work is shot on a standard 35mm Nikon F6 but I realised when shooting that I kept 'seeing' panoramic pictures.I became increasingly interested in the panoramic format, the trouble being, my work is shot on film I wasn't happy with the prospect of cropping and enlarging small portions of a 400asa 35mm negative, a huge sacrifice in final print quality.
The only practical panoramic cameras available are the Xpan (now discontinued but plenty available second hand) and the Mamiya7ii with 35mm adaptor, both expose two frames per picture, essentially giving the width of a medium format neg.
The Mamiya is too large for me as a street and everyday camera so I chose the Xpan, it's relatively small, light and apart from the legendarily bad paint job, pretty robust.
How hard or easy was the learning curve?
I've only shot about 85 rolls since I started with it, so I consider myself as very much still on the learning curve. After initial experimentation I was able to discount using it as a straight replacement for standard 35mm street photography, the frame is too unforgiving with too many pictures lost due to the wrong format.
Also, having always used autofocus cameras, learning hyperfocal focusing helped enormously in speeding up the actual picture taking process. Just keep checking the settings, after a lifetime of shooting with SLR's I found it all too easy to shoot an out of focus picture because my eye was not used to checking the split image rangefinder or the focus scale on the lens.
The Xpan is quite the odd aspect ratio, it's panoramic rather than the standard 3:2 or 4:3. How do you balance your frame? Any tips for those who want to pick it up?
One problem with the format is 'too much information' general street scenes can be tricky as unwanted elements creep into frame, focal points can get lost or confused. The other problem is too little information, huge swathes of negative space that don't add anything or work in harmony with the focal point.
I have also found vertical pictures don't really work for me, while the frame can have a beautiful sweeping quality in horizontal when turned vertical the pictures appear 'mean' and jar my eye. The main lessons I have learned so far – simplicity and balance are important and also not to rush it, use the panoramic alongside your other formats and wait for the pictures.
It's easy to understand why people would think of the Xpan primarily as a landscape or architectural camera, it also happens to be a great camera for street photography, the format can be challenging but that's no bad thing.
Thank you, Walter for such nice images and your comments.
Nice work. I've been using panorama cameras, including the XPan on the street for years. A wonderful different POV. My favorite for the street is the KMZ FT-2. A smaller Russian version of the Widelux. that uses proprietary cassettes.
There's some striking stuff here, especially the third shot down. That has a really cinematic feel to it, which can only be achieved by getting in very close with the XPan. Not easy. The point about taking a while to get through a roll strikes a chord too – I decided to cash in on my newly acquired fame as a street photographer 🙂 and loaded up a roll of Scala rated at 800 ISO two weeks ago. Still haven't finished it, and now the sun's come out… You see a lot of XPan "street" on Flickr and most of it is garbage. The thing is, that wide, clear viewfinder is very, very seductive, and often tricks you into thinking that a boring shot is going to be great because it's wide and because it looks just so awesome through the viewfinder. Sadly, no. I think this is on the same lines as Walter's point about needing to watch out for too much negative space. Flickr member Justin Stokes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinalexander-chet/) has some pretty good XPan street stuff. But I think he's a pro movie maker or something – it shows.


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York police hit financial foundation of organized crime group (UPDATE)
Police seized five Ferarris, gaming machines, $1 million in cash, and jewelry like Rolex watches
Kim Champion
1 / 1 A York Regional Police tactical officer stands beside video gaming machines seized in the Figliomeni crime family bust. Kim Champion/NewmarketToday
An unprecedented level of cooperation among eight local law enforcement agencies and the Italian State Police is credited with the arrest of nine key members of the Woodbridge-based Figliomeni organized crime group and the seizure of more than $35 million in cash, houses, merchandise, and luxury vehicles, which included an $880,000 Ferrari.
The three-day operation known as Project Sindacato and carried out the weekend of July 12 saw about 500 officers executing 48 warrants on businesses, cafes, and residences in Vaughan and the GTA.
That operation was the largest traditional organized crime bust in York Regional Police history, chief Eric Jolliffe said today at a news conference at the force's Aurora headquarters.
"York police have seized 27 homes worth $24 million, high-end cars including five Ferarris, for a total of $3.5 million. We also seized gaming machines, ATM machines and $1 million in cash, another $1 million in jewelry like Rolex watches, for a total of $35 million," Jolliffe said.
Included in the nine arrests of the Figliomeni crime organization that operates primarily in the Woodbridge area of Vaughan is its boss, Angelo Figliomeni, Jolliffe said, adding the local crime group is related to the Siderno Group and the "powerful and violent" organized crime group known as 'Ndrangheta.
After York police detected a spike of violent crime in Vaughan in 2017 that included an attempted murder, drive-by shootings, and arsons, the force struck a permanent, organized crime task force.
That task force, which remains operational, has a mandate to deter, disrupt and dismantle organized crime groups, Jolliffe said.
"These crimes occur because these organized groups of criminals are fighting to reinforce their position, protect their turf, or acquire material benefits," he said. "It's hard to detect when members of crime groups embed themselves right in the centre of our community. They do this by establishing themselves within trusted institutions, both private and public sectors, over decades."
"They have legitimized themselves by funneling illegal profits through businesses, including financial institutions, car dealerships, finance companies and even charities," Jolliffe added.
The task force's first project began 18 months ago with a focus on the Figliomeni crime group, which Jolliffe said has been running illegal operations in Vaughan, York Region and the GTA for nearly three decades and has been living a "glamourous, indulgent lifestyle at the expense of law-abiding citizens".
The most serious among the slew of charges facing the nine individuals include money laundering, defrauding the Government of Canada, and participating in an organized crime group, Jolliffe said.
"We know that they have laundered tens of millions of dollars through casinos across Ontario," said Jolliffe. "That has made it easier for them to operate without suspicion within our community and more difficult for police to have a significant impact on their operations."
"Raiding illegal gaming houses or investigating violent crimes as an individual incidence was simply not having a significant effect on the larger problem," he continued. "We needed to focus on taking down the criminal organization by attacking the finances, the laundering of dirty money, and the large profits from proceeds of crime that have built these organizations over decades and allowed them to thrive. And that is exactly what we have done with Project Sindacato."
York police Det.-Sgt. Carl Mattinen, of the traditional organized crime task force, said the investigation's goal was to dismantle the financial foundation of the organized crime group's operation here at home and in Italy.
It achieved this, Mattinen said, with months of surveillance and one year of wire-tapping.
"Investigators targeted 11 cafes, which generated much of the wealth for the Figliomeni crime group," Mattinen said. "A large portion of this income stems from the use of video gaming machines, and the loans made to patrons to keep them gambling regardless of the amount of debt they incurred."
"The astronomical interest rate, or juice as it's known, keeps the organization in a continual flow of available funds. These funds have to been cleaned or laundered. People caught in this cycle gambled away their life savings while members of this criminal organization used intimidation and violence, including shootings and arsons and other threats of harm, to collect their outstanding debts," he said.
"The way we approached the investigation was to go for the foundation which allows them to exist, not the individual crimes," said Mattinen. "A victim has to be able to testify and there's a lot of fear with this group as they're very powerful and violent. I can tell you, forensic accounting is not afraid, math is not afraid, documentary evidence is not afraid. We can tender that in court with no worry of recant for fear from the community."
For example, Mattinen said Ontario casinos were used nightly by Figliomeni crime group to launder large quantities of cash.
"Surveillance officers witnessed between $30,000 to $50,000 gambled per night in our Ontario casinos. About $70 million was cleaned this way in a few short years," he said.
York's task force also traveled to Italy to collaborate with the Italian State Police and its Central Operational Service, Central Anti-crime Directorate, which was set up to investigate organized crime associations. The local force received assistance from Italy's traditional organized crime experts, where 'Ndrangheta originated.
9 arrested, $35M in property seized in 'Ndrangheta family illegal gaming bust
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I started this blog about two and a half years ago as a scrapbook for my thoughts about technology. Since then, it has snowballed into something much bigger, giving me the opportunity to interact and work with some of the smartest people in the industry. Today, I can honestly say that this experience has taught me far more than my formal education or career. But the most important thing I have learnt is the value of intellectual curiosity.
Earlier this year, I spoke to the App Annie team and it became clear to me that intellectual curiosity was deeply embedded into their culture. With the locus of innovation shifting to the digital economy, I found it very exciting to have an opportunity to explore and make sense of their industry-leading data set. And so, this October, I will be joining App Annie in London.
Of course, I will continue to analyze the technology landscape and post my thoughts here independently. At this point, I can only describe Tech-Thoughts as an ongoing self-education project. And education is a process that never ends.


McAfee Labs published their September Threat Report, with notable emphasis on cryptocurrency mining malware and mobile malware. Some good high-level analysis by Politico. Those stock photos though.
"And what made our conversation dangerous wasn't the looming threat of the public Wi-Fi. It was the power I had to misrepresent their community." - NYT's Stephen Hiltner penned another article on his Def Con experience and avoiding stereotypes, A.T.M.'s and public Wi-Fi.
If I were a cybercriminal who owns a botnet of 100,000 such IoT devices, it would cost me next to nothing financially to produce enough cryptocurrency to create a new, profitable revenue stream.


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import arcpy
import os
import sys
import traceback

import TestUtilities

def RunTest():
    try:
        arcpy.AddMessage("Starting Test: Load Geonames File")

        toolbox = TestUtilities.toolbox
        arcpy.ImportToolbox(toolbox, "DefenseGeonames")
        arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True

        featureClass = os.path.join(TestUtilities.inputGDB, "GeonamesTestPy")
        textfile = os.path.join(TestUtilities.geodatabasePath, "fr.txt")
        #textfile = os.path.join(TestUtilities.geodatabasePath, "af.txt")
        countryCodes = os.path.join(TestUtilities.inputGDB, "CountryCodes")
        adminCodes = os.path.join(TestUtilities.inputGDB, "AdminCodes")
        featureCodes = os.path.join(TestUtilities.inputGDB, "FeatureCodes")

        # Set environment settings
        print("Running from: " + str(TestUtilities.currentPath))
        print("Geodatabase path: " + str(TestUtilities.geodatabasePath))

        arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True

        arcpy.AddMessage("Deleting features from GeonamesTestPy")
        arcpy.DeleteFeatures_management(featureClass)

        arcpy.AddMessage("Starting Load Geonames File tool...")
        ########################################################
        # Execute the Model under test:
        arcpy.LoadGeonamesFile_DefenseGeonames(featureClass,textfile,countryCodes,adminCodes,featureCodes)
        ########################################################

        # Check For Valid Input
        inputFeatureCount = int(arcpy.GetCount_management(featureClass).getOutput(0))
        print("Input FeatureClass: " + str(featureClass))
        print("Input Feature Count: " +  str(inputFeatureCount))

        print("Test Successful")

    except arcpy.ExecuteError:
        # Get the tool error messages
        msgs = arcpy.GetMessages()
        arcpy.AddError(msgs)

        # return a system error code
        sys.exit(-1)

    except Exception as e:
        # Get the traceback object
        tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
        tbinfo = traceback.format_tb(tb)[0]

        # Concatenate information together concerning the error into a message string
        pymsg = "PYTHON ERRORS:\nTraceback info:\n" + tbinfo + "\nError Info:\n" + str(sys.exc_info()[1])
        msgs = "ArcPy ERRORS:\n" + arcpy.GetMessages() + "\n"

        # Return python error messages for use in script tool or Python Window
        arcpy.AddError(pymsg)
        arcpy.AddError(msgs)

        # return a system error code
        sys.exit(-1)

RunTest()

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HyperOctave is composed of members of the Heritage High School Ambassador Show Choir. This choir performs a variety of music throughout the year and consistently earns Superior ratings at Music Performance Assessments (MPAs). This group is passionate about singing and making music together.
N'Harmonics began at Norcross High School in 2014 and is an audition-based group open to all students. The group was originally a chamber chorus, but the style of the group changed to a cappella with the arrival of a new director, Mrs. Kimberly Money. N'Harmonics focuses on pop and R&B styles and includes positive students who are just happy to be part of the a cappella community. They are excited to see and be inspired by all the wonderful performances this season.
Rhapsody is composed of members of the Heritage High School Rhapsody Show Choir, a new group at this school year. These ladies are passionate about singing and making music together.
The Lion Experience has been in existence for three years, and is a student-led group. Most of the group members are active in the choral program of Shelby High. The group has competed at the Carowinds Show Choir Festival and ICHSA, and regularly perform in the community. The Lion Experience is looking forward to competing in ICHSA again and hopes you enjoy their performance.
Voce Bella formed as an a cappella group in 2013 at Norcross High School. The number of members fluctuates from year to year, and this year they have eight amazing members. This is their first year competing and they are very excited to be here.
Acapocalypse is Pine Ridge High School's a cappella ensemble, established in 2015. Their repertoire focuses on telling stories that audiences can relate to, tackling personal and social issues through their music. This is Acapocalypse's fifth year participating in ICHSA, having progressed to Semifinals in 2017. Follow them on Instagram @prhsacapocalypse.
Alex Mendez is an alumnus of the Florida State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in music therapy. Alex also has a passion for teaching and and is pursuing a certification in both theatre and music education. Alex has served in a wide variety of leadership roles, notably with the all-male group, Reverb, in positions such as music director, business manager, and choreographer. Alex has received numerous Outstanding Soloist, Choreography, and other awards at ICCA and other a cappella competitions, and is a three-time CARA winner.
Skip Stradtman is an a cappella veteran whose biggest claim to "aca-fame" is his involvement with Reverb, FSU's all-male a cappella group. With Reverb, he performed multiple times in the ICCA, including their 2013 ICCA Finals performance in New York City, which placed 4th overall and received the award for Outstanding Choreography. During his two years as music director, Reverb placed 2nd at the 2013 SOJAM a cappella festival competition, placed 1st at the 2014 BOSS competition, and produced the group's first full-length album, Evolve, which went on to receive multiple CARA nominations. Skip was personally recognized with an Outstanding Arrangement award at ICCA 2013 Quarterfinals and Semifinals, SOJAM 2013, and BOSS 2014. Currently, Skip is the chorus director at East River High School in Orlando, Fla. He continues to arrange for high school and collegiate a cappella groups, as well as for various choral ensembles across the Southeast.
Billy B. Williamson is an adjunct professor of music at Seminole State College of Florida and Rollins College. He has an A.A. from Seminole State College, a B.A. in music and secondary education from Rollins College, and a M.M.E. in choral music education from Florida State University. When he is not teaching, Billy also serves on the staff of the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. He is frequently called upon as a guest conductor for choral organizations, as a music director for musicals at the high school and college levels, and even as a stage manager for various productions, from classical music to ballet. Billy is a member of the Florida Vocal Association, the Florida Music Education Association, the National Association for Music Education, and is the Conference Manager for the Florida Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Billy lives in Sanford, Florida with his wife, Hanna.
Dalys Parkhurst received her B.M.E. from Stetson University and has been teaching for 16 years. Dalys is currently the director of choral activities at Tuskawilla Middle School, and was formerly the choral director and musical theatre director at Millennium Middle School Fine Arts and Communication Magnet and Seminole High School in Seminole County. She currently has 280 students in her choral program. Her choirs have earned Superior ratings at Florida Vocal Association Assessments and have been featured in numerous community performances. Most recently, her high school a cappella group earned 1st place at their ICHSA Quarterfinal. She is a frequent honor choir clinician, choral adjudicator, and was awarded Teacher of the Year in 2014. Dalys has also served on several Seminole County Choral Curriculum and Leadership Writing teams. Dalys presented a session on American Children's Choir in Xi'an, China last Summer. She teaches private voice lessons and performs with the Festival Singers of Florida.
Varsity Vocals would like to recognize and thank our guest groups tonight, Winter Park High School's Take 7 and Naughty Scotty and the Octapella; the Winter Park High School Administration, Principal Matthew Arnold, the Winter Park High School Performing Arts Department, the Winter Park High School Choral Department , directors Matthew Swope and Hollie Pratt, booster president Terri Rotz, chorus student president Jake Rotz, chorus student vice president Jeremy Roldan, ICHSA parent volunteer coordinator Indhira Acosta, the WPHS Chorus Parent and Student Volunteers, and audio engineer Steve Johnson (Johnson Digital Audio); our judges, hosts, competitors, volunteers, partners, and producers; and you, the audience, for supporting Varsity Vocals programming.
The top three finishing groups advance to the ICHSA South Semifinal!


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Q: CGI::Cookie fetch does not find cookie i have a problem with setting and getting cookie data.
When i call following method:
%cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;

And print out the hash using Data::Dumper:
print Dumper(%cookies);

My Cookie that was created before with:
$sessioncookie = CGI::Cookie->new(-name=>'SID', -value=>"$sid", -expires=>'+1M', -path=>'/member/');
print $cgi->header(-cookie=>$sessioncookie);

Does not show up in the output. But it shows up in my browsers cookie list!
All values are set and it seems like a normal cookie. But actually it can't be.
Does someone know what i am doing wrong. Is there a strict order for retrieving cookie data?
I also tried it with the method cgi.pm provides, but it didnt work either.
Please help me!

A: As per the help on 'path' in CGI::Cookie

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*path
If you provide a cookie path attribute, the browser will check it against your
  script's   URL before returning the cookie. For example, if you specify the
  path "/cgi-bin", then the   cookie will be returned to each of the scripts
  "/cgi-bin/tally.pl", "/cgi-bin/order.pl", and
  "/cgi-bin/customer_service/complain.pl", but not to the script
  "/cgi-private/site_admin.pl". By default, the path is set to "/", so that all
  scripts at your site will receive the cookie.

So I would remove the path for the moment and retry.
As always with perl, if you aren't using strict and warnings then turn them on

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