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El Paso mass shooting suspect pleads not guilty in 22 deaths
There were 2,000 witnesses at the scene of the massacre
The 21-year-old man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, pleaded not guilty Thursday during a brief initial hearing.
Police have said Patrick Crusius of Dallas confessed to the Aug. 3 mass shooting and that he targeted Mexicans. Some two-dozen people survived the attack with injuries, and two of them remain in the hospital, hospital officials said.
Crusius walked into the courtroom wearing a dark suit, white shirt and glasses. He was sworn in, waived the reading of his indictment and pleaded not guilty. The entire hearing lasted less than three minutes.
Around 80 members of the public crammed into the courtroom on the top floor of the El Paso County Courthouse to witness his first appearance. A handful wiped away tears as Crusius pronounced his plea.
Among the crowd was a delegation from the Mexican Consulate. Eight Mexican citizens were killed in the attack and most of the victims had Hispanic last names. Among the dead was a German citizen who lived in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
A bailiff had asked the court to remain quiet and warned against outbursts.
READ MORE: El Paso shooting victim, 25, 'gave her life' for son
Local prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty. Federal authorities are weighing capital murder and hate crime charges. The Department of Justice has called the shooting an act of domestic terrorism.
There were 2,000 witnesses at the scene of the massacre, so almost everybody in the city of about 700,000 knew somebody affected by the shooting.
The first judge assigned to the case recused herself because she knew one of the people killed in the attack. The lead prosecutor said his sister also was in the Walmart during the attack and that the gunman walked right by her.
Crusius fled the scene of the shooting in his car but turned himself in less than an hour later, according to police. His arrest warrant says he declared: "I'm the shooter."
In documents filed Thursday, the El Paso prosecutor notified the court that he had shared evidence with the defence on Sept. 27. That evidence includes police and FBI interviews with Crusius, data from his cellphone, records from the Dallas-area schools he attended and tens of hours of footage captured by Walmart security cameras around the time of the shooting, according to court records.
It also includes the FBI's "manifesto analysis" — a likely reference to a racist screed railing against an influx of Hispanics into the U.S. that authorities have said Crusius posted online before the shooting.
Crusius is being held without bond in an El Paso jail. He has been on suicide watch since shortly after his arrest and is separated from other prisoners.
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Fight has the best prognosis because the person naturally fights and therefore if managed correctly they can use that fight response to fight their script. And if that happens then there can be no stopping them.
However it is also a risky one because the client can start to fight the therapy and then the prognosis is not so good.
This type of temperament often ends up in therapy because therapy is about fighting for survival. Sometimes these people can have an aversion to using medications because it is seen by them as a weak, kind of giving in type of response. This can be to their detriment if medications could be helpful in some cases.
These people can do what is technically known as "non compliance to medical /therapeutic instructions". Which is a problem if those instructions are crucial for their well being. The concept of the contract is useful here. If they feel like they are responsible (at least in part) for the therapy goals then they are much less likely to fight against it. So contracting in terms of the ego states, transactions, games, stroking patterns and so forth is useful as most clients can understand that readily and thus they feel like they are a significant player in the therapy in this way.
The person who flees the scene of an accident or the hit and run driver has the flight response. "It is essential for me to get physical distance from the problem" is their basic view of the world. In their early family this is how they survived it, remove self for the arguments, danger and so forth. They run and hide under the bed. The child that runs away from home is using this response. Usually a child who runs away from home is not actually running to somewhere, but they are just running away from…. Sometimes you hear clients say, "When I was a child I spent most of my time at the neighbours house". Again the flight response probably.
These people are less likely to end up in therapy because their basic response is to run from the problem. Having said that they do often present in treatment as well. But their contracts are usually less about tackling the problem head on.
Which is not about tackling the problem but about gaining understanding of the problem which is safer for the flight person.
"I want to get rid of my (depression, anxiety, my inner child)". It is not about addressing the problem but about removing it from self which is a backwards flight response. I can't run away from it so I will get it to 'run away' from me.
A waiting for something to happen contract.
This can be the client who makes another appointment, then never turns up and you never hear from them again. Or they make another appointment, then cancel saying they will get back to you and then never do. There is a flight from therapy, their natural response.
A no run (from therapy) contract can be useful for this person. This contract stops their natural desire to run away. If they address this contract seriously then they are forced to take the script on and more significant changes may occur.
This is the most problematic and psychologically unsatisfactory response to adversity. It is the 'playing dead' response. The mouse that is caught by a cat plays dead. The cat bumps the mouse, throws it, bites it in the hope of getting a response. The mouse plays dead and does nothing so eventually the cat gets bored and walks off.
Some children do this when they are being physically or psychologically abused. They freeze in a state of incapacitation and therefore sit and take the abuse as long as the other wants to do it.
With the fighter the parent has to fight with the child and that requires extra work on their behalf. With the 'freeze' child there is no such work and hence it is easier to carry it on for longer and do it more frequently.
Furthermore with the fighter that indicates a level of self respect. "I don't deserve to be treated like this and I am going to say so by fighting". The freeze child does not have this and hence the sense of self worth can be effected, "I don't even stand up for myself". The freeze response if typical of the true victim position in the psychological dynamics of the bully – victim relationship.
It's not uncommon for these people to end up in therapy. Their basic temperament is one of incapacitation which as we know is the fourth type of passive behaviour. And the goal of passive behaviour is to form a symbiosis with some one. Many would see therapy and a therapist as a readily made person to form a symbiosis with.


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Federal Judge Gives Big Coal a 170,000-Ton Victory in Montana
November 2, 2017 November 2, 2017 LAURA LUNDQUIST
China, coal, injunction, mining, Montana
MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) — A federal judge this week modified his injunction to allow Signal Peak Energy to continue developing one of the world's largest underground coal mines, under federal land, so long as it doesn't ship the coal, most of which is destined for China.
In a special hearing Tuesday, attorneys for Signal Peak asked U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy to tailor his hold on coal production in the Bull Mountain mine north of Billings.
They asked to be allowed to continue developing coal tunnels but not completely mine the coal. Any coal extracted would be stockpiled, Signal Peak attorney John Martin said.
"We'd be willing to accept a tailored injunction that not only stockpiles the federal-development coal but also stockpiles the private-development coal for the duration of your injunction. We would not ship it; it would not be burned and it would not give rise to the risks and pollutants that are at issue in this litigation. If it's tailored in that way, I don't know that the plaintiffs have a legitimate objection," Martin said.
Late Tuesday, Molloy modified his injunction, to allow Signal Peak to "displace" no more than 170,000 tons of "federal coal," which "must be stockpiled and stored at the Mine, and shall be neither sold nor shipped." The rest of his original injunction remains in effect.
The Montana Environmental Information Center, the Sierra Club and Montana Elders for a Livable Tomorrow sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining in 2015, saying its environmental assessment of the mine expansion failed to consider the effects of coal on waterways, air pollution and the health of people living along the coal shipping routes. Ninety-five percent of Bull Mountain coal is shipped to Asia.
Molloy agreed on Aug. 15 this year that the government's 75-page environmental assessment was inadequate because it overestimated the economic benefits of the mine and downplayed the costs associated with climate change. He blocked Signal Peak Energy from producing any more coal from under federal land until a new environmental study is completed.
Signal Peak uses an underground mining technique called "long-wall panels," in which parallel tunnels are mined in sequence. The proposed expansion would open up a 176-million-ton coal reserve, and the tunnels would run under several sections of land, a scattered few of which are federal land.
Signal Peak CEO Bradley Hansen told the court Tuesday that development operations came to a standstill eight days previously because the crews ran into one of the federal parcels. Development of each tunnel includes digging enough space to install infrastructure such as conveyor-belt lines and ventilation equipment. So development crews have to prepare a tunnel at least a month before any coal is extracted, Hansen said.
Last Friday, Signal Peak filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit to intervene, saying the company had installed the infrastructure for the last long-wall panel the injunction allowed and would have to lay off 30 engineers if Molloy's injunction stood.
Martin said he would cancel the appeal of the injunction was modified.
But Montana Environmental Information Center attorney Shiloh Hernandez argued that Signal Peak would not lose money because it already has enough tunnels ready to go under private land so its coal production can continue until the new environmental study is issued. The government has not decided whether to do another environmental assessment or a more intensive environmental impact study. In either case, a report should be completed by June 2019.
Hernandez said Signal Peak should not be allowed to continue to develop under federal land because the new environmental study may end up rejecting the mine expansion, in the public interest.
"If they're allowed to keep moving the mine forward and treat NEPA [the National Environmental Policy Act] as a dead letter, just a paperwork exercise, then the outcome is predetermined," Hernandez said.
"As they're doing this, the decision is already made. It's assumed that they'll just keep going through there. It's also going to limit NEPA alternatives."
Signal Peak has laid workers off in the past, so the injunction shouldn't have to be tailored to save the company from having to make similar employment decisions, Hernandez said.
Signal Peak is partly owned by Gunvor, one of the world's largest energy traders, and Ohio-based First Energy.
Molloy said his injunction was not intended to be a judgment of the mining company's credentials, but to hold federal agencies accountable.
"The question isn't about whether the mills or the mines are good people, whether the workers are good people. That's not the issue. The question is, 'Did the agency do what they should have done?' I don't think they did," Molloy said.
"Then the question that I have to resolve is: I've issued an injunction and is it too broad? Or is there a way that I can balance the equities in a way that keeps things in the status quo?"
In his order issued late Tuesday, Molloy decided his injunction was indeed too broad, and modified it.
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Skal Labissière (nascido em 18 de março de 1996) é um jogador haitiano de basquete profissional que atualmente está sem clube.

Ele jogou basquete universitário na Universidade de Kentucky e foi selecionado pelo Phoenix Suns como a 28ª escolha geral no Draft da NBA de 2016.

Primeiros anos
Labissière nasceu em Porto Principe, no Haiti. Sua carreira no basquete começou no Collège Canado-Haïtien, uma escola secundária de Porto Príncipe, que participou de campeonatos escolares organizados pelo Comitê Interscolaire de Basket-Ball Amateur (CIBA) e Association of Basketball-Ball Interscolaire (ASI).

Durante o terremoto de 2010 no Haiti, a casa de sua família desabou com Labissière, sua mãe e seu irmão lá dentro. Todos os três sobreviveram, mas permaneceram presos sob os escombros por três horas. Suas pernas estavam presas, fazendo com que ficassem dormentes e ele ficou incapaz de andar algumas semanas depois.

Alguns meses após o terremoto, Labissière mudou-se para Memphis, Tennessee, para morar com Gerald Hamilton, que dirigia a Fundação Reach Your Dream, que trazia atletas internacionais para os Estados Unidos.

Carreira no ensino médio
Labissière frequentou a Evangelical Christian School em Memphis e começou a jogar basquete no colégio como aluno da oitava série.

Quando chegou nos EUA, Labissière falava pouco inglês e exigia um intérprete de francês em todas as suas aulas. Depois de três a quatro meses, ele não precisou da ajuda e tornou-se fluente.

Em 2014, ele deixou a escola no último ano e se matriculou na Lausanne Collegiate School, também localizada em Memphis, mas por causa da mudança, ele foi considerado pela TSSAA como inelegível para jogar basquete em Lausanne durante a temporada. Em vez disso, Labissière jogou pela equipe da Academia Reach Your Dream Prep, de Gerald Hamilton, onde obteve média de 26 pontos, 12 rebotes e 4,5 bloqueios por jogo.

Carreira universitária

Labissière foi classificado como um recruta de cinco estrelas e foi considerado um dos melhores jogadores de sua classe. Ele se comprometeu com a Universidade de Kentucky para jogar basquete universitário. O técnico de UK, John Calipari, ofereceu uma bolsa a Labissière antes de qualquer outro prospecto de 2015, comparando-o a Anthony Davis.

No início da temporada, ele foi considerado um potencial número 1 do Draft da NBA de 2016. Labissière registrou médias de 6,6 pontos, 3,1 rebotes e 1,6 bloqueios em 15,8 minutos por jogo em 36 jogos.

Em 5 de abril de 2016, Labissière se declarou o Draft da NBA, renunciando aos seus últimos três anos de elegibilidade da faculdade.

Carreira profissional

Sacramento Kings (2016–2019)
Em 23 de junho de 2016, Labissière foi selecionado pelo Phoenix Suns com a 28ª escolha geral no Draft da NBA de 2016, tornando-se o jogador haitiano mais bem selecionado desde Samuel Dalembert (26ª no Draft da NBA de 2001). Seus direitos foram posteriormente negociados com o Sacramento Kings na noite do draft e, em 15 de julho, ele assinou seu contrato de novato com os Kings.

Labissière estreou na NBA em 5 de novembro de 2016, registrando oito pontos e três rebotes em em uma derrota por 117-91 para o Milwaukee Bucks. Em 1º de março de 2017, em seu primeiro jogo como titular da carreira, Labissière registrou 10 pontos e cinco rebotes em uma derrota por 109-100 para o Brooklyn Nets. Em 15 de março de 2017, ele marcou 21 de seus 32 pontos no quarto quarto na derrota por 107–101 para o Sacramento Kings, tornando-se o primeiro novato do Draft de 2016 a marcar pelo menos 30 pontos. Ele também teve 11 rebotes e teve seu primeiro duplo-duplo. Ele se tornou o jogador mais jovem dos Kings a ter um jogo de 30 a 10 e o quarto jogador dos Kings a fazê-lo como reserva desde a temporada de 1984-85. Seu total de pontos foi o mais alto para um jogador novato dos Kings desde que o companheiro de equipe Ben McLemore marcou 31 em 2013–14. Labissière tornou-se o 41º jogador na história da NBA a marcar pelo menos 32 pontos com 20 anos ou menos - o único outro jogador a conseguir esse feito na história da franquia é Tyreke Evans. Durante sua temporada de estréia, ele teve jogou alguns jogos com o Reno Bighorns da G-League.

Em 5 de dezembro de 2017, Labissière foi designado para o Reno Bighorns. Ele foi chamado pelos Kings quatro dias depois. Em 2 de janeiro de 2018, Labissière registrou 17 pontos e 15 rebotes em uma derrota de 131-111 para o Charlotte Hornets. Em 22 de janeiro de 2018, ele marcou 23 pontos em uma derrota para o 112-107 contra Charlotte.

Portland Trail Blazers (2019-2020)
Em 7 de fevereiro de 2019, Labissière foi negociado com o Portland Trail Blazers em troca de Caleb Swanigan.

Em 10 de abril, Labissière foi titular no último jogo da temporada do Portland, enquanto a equipe descansava seus jogadores de rotação nos playoffs. Em 40 minutos de ação, Labissière fez 29 pontos e 15 rebotes, ajudando os Blazers a superar um déficit de 28 pontos em uma vitória de 136-131.

Atlanta Hawks (2020-Presente)
Em 6 de fevereiro de 2020, Labissière foi negociada com o Atlanta Hawks em troca de uma futura escolha do Draft de segunda rodada.

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Spring is coming which means Lent is coming to the church. Lent traditionally is a time of fasting that began around the time of the council of Nicaea in 325AD. It has been celebrated in more and less structured ways over the centuries. In the early centuries, only one meal was to be eaten per day—meat was prohibited even during that meal. Today we don't typically fast...at least not as they fasted in the early centuries. Actually, today, other than the celebration of Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday, lent is not a concept we typically consider except for the change of the paraments in worship to purple. Lent is to be a time that we prepare ourselves to receive the grace offered to us by the empty tomb. The grace that encompasses not only forgiveness but also everlasting life that is offered by that same empty tomb.
As the Lenten season begins this year I want to challenge you to enter a time of introspection and reflection on who you are and how you are loving your neighbor. This can be a fearsome task: to ask the same hard questions of ourselves that we often look for in others. I am reminded that Jesus called those present to him as he was giving the Sermon on the Mount to "first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye." Matthew 7:5 NRSV I need to examine my own life, my motives, my desires, and my actions before I examine the lives of others. My dear sweet Granny often reminded me to "sweep around my own doorstep before I start sweeping around someone else's. She was telling me that maybe I had done as bad or worse than they had and needed to pay attention to myself before judging their actions. I call us this Lenten season to do just that; to do a vigorous examination of our lives before we examine others.
John Wesley believed this practice to be of such importance that he didn't just require the members of the Holy Club to make examination during Lent but every day. Below are the questions Wesley required of those participating to answer for themselves. I offer these as a means of helping us all to examine our lives and find the places we need to grow during Lent in order to be ready to accept the grace of Christ when the resurrection is upon us.
As we move toward Easter, I hope we can find a deeper place of growth as we seek to become disciples of Jesus Christ and as we learn more fully to offer the grace, we have received from Him to others in our lives.
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Study provides comparison of biomass crop growth in the Midwest
By Chris Hanson | December 26, 2013
Dennis Pennington, bioenergy educator at Michigan State University Extension, recently reviewed a study on regional biomass feedstocks from the University of Illinois.
Researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois evaluated woody and grassy biomass feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol production at Illinois. Twenty-one species of short-rotation woody biomass were included in the study. The top five performing species were black locust, northern catalpa, flameleaf sumac, silver maple and sycamore. The prairie grasses were from the plot trials planted in spring 2010, which were harvested and measured in both 2011 and 2012. The top performing grassy plants were three various types of switchgrass and Scout Indiangrass.
The study is a valuable piece of work since it is rare to find the multitude of crops represented all conducted at once site at the same time, Pennington said. The study provides an idea of how each crop compares to each other and does not require to obtain data from multiple studies that could have been from different sites, years, weather conditions and management objectives, he added. Furthermore, the findings were applicable to Michigan due to its proximity to Illinois and its similar growing conditions.
Michigan has two distinct regions for growing different types of biomass, Pennington explained. The northern region is characterized by woody biomass and wood-based industries, such as mills and logging, while the southern region has the infrastructure to handle row crop commodities. In terms of cellulosic ethanol crops, it is likely that farmers in southern Michigan will plant mostly warm season, perennial grasses, while northern landowners may choose woody species such as hybrid poplar, willow and sycamore, Pennington added.
In addition to cellulosic ethanol producers, the study could be potentially valuable to farmers. When farmers are asked to produce cellulosic biomass crops, they will seek studies that are well-suited for their particular farm, Pennington said. Data from similar climate and soils will be very valuable to them as we move forward in the growing and supplying biomass, he added.
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Kleptocracy has deprived the developing world of trillions of dollars, impoverishing the most vulnerable populations and entrenching authoritarian regimes. Too often, the proceeds of this corruption are laundered through tax havens before ending up in U.S. real estate and other investments. Meanwhile, powerful adversaries including China and Russia routinely employ corrupt practices as foreign policy tools, undermining the rule of law and security worldwide.
Despite the scale of this challenge, 2021 may prove to be a turning point in the United States' struggle against global kleptocracy. President Biden has identified fighting corruption as a core U.S. national security interest and made it a central pillar of the U.S.-led Summit for Democracy. Congress has targeted money laundering by banning anonymous shell companies. Please join Hudson Institute for a discussion on further elevating America's fight against kleptocracy with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and Hudson Research Fellow Nate Sibley.
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He's helped Barcelona win La Liga the last three seasons, and the UEFA Champions League trophy twice in the last three years. Oh, and he just won his third straight Ballon d'Or award. Cristiano Ronaldo, the second-best player in the world, didn't even bother going to the ceremony. That's what kind of no-brainer it was. He can confidently be discussed in the same breath as Pele and Maradona. Many believe he might already be better.
Maybe not enough is being said about this guy? That was some textbook "catch and 80-yard-afterburner sprint past wheezing Steelers." Just like they drew it up. Can you imagine if he had dropped that?!
Stay tuned for 60 Minutes, immediately following Do You Believe in Miracles?! Part 8.
As Rembert Browne and Amos Barshad point out, the White House is a Delonte-Free Zone for what is now 77,137 days, as the Mavericks guard did not accompany his (new) teammates to meet President Obama on Monday. West initially claimed this was due to his failing a background check. In his typically candid way, West addressed the matter: "That's what happens when you make bad decisions in your life. You can't go to the White House. … I've been there [the White House] 100 times in my lifetime. I live right around the corner. I live in D.C. It's going to be a shame the president isn't going to get a chance to meet me. I'm the president of my house." In somewhat mysterious, kind of sad West-ian fashion, the Secret Service then disputed the suggestion that he was banned.
West has been a personal favorite of mine ever since he, along with Jameer Nelson, led a really fun St. Joe's team to the Elite Eight back in the 2004 NCAA tournament (losing to a Tony Allen-led Oklahoma State). His battle with bipolar disorder has occasionally been a harrowing kind of public theater, but he's someone I pull for, in part because of his sometimes abrasive, sometimes funny honesty.
Was that the most passive-aggressive wearing of a helmet by a guy on the sideline in the history of organized football? I loved how, every time the camera cut to Lee, HE WAS STRETCHING. JUST IN CASE.
You may not remember the name, but you surely saw him looking for his Tide helmet after many, many plays during Monday's BCS National Championship Game. Seriously, did this Bama defensive lineman have a prop bet on how many times that thing would fly off? The chinstrap is not an ornament, dog!


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Five doors, crooked with age. Each morning, full bladder and all, I curse them during my tiptoe walk from our street-facing bedroom to the bathroom hiding in the shadows at the back. It is an old place, this new home of ours. Musty, dark-timbered, illogical in its archaic layout. The house is the oldest in town. I joke that the place sags under its own forgotten memories. She doesn't smile. It has been a while since she did.
True, we wanted a thing with years. Something to work on, something with potential. A hop, step and jump into a bright, responsible future. Our dream, our own casa in the blue hills. Didn't we agree upon this? Not the doors, though, left there to suffocate us. I always find them more often closed than not, confining white-washed spaces that don't make sense anymore.
Five ancient gatekeepers. The dining room one slides open and has panes of frosted yellow glass etched with flowers and peacocks. They rattle their crystal bones whenever I open the two halves, as if they don't want to give up the secrets they have harbored for so long. But I live here now, I'd shout. You can moan and refuse to budge, but I will push and you will open.
I have to be careful. If not, I get scolded by her. You scratch the tiles, she says. Or, you let in the chill. I always make too much noise. Her sharp words leave marks like doors do on the floor.
Five of them. The bathroom door is first, with the long splinters of wood missing from its frame — an untold past made real. The office comes next, stacked with unopened boxes. Step through to the hallway, with the dark square at the end that opens to the living room. There, broken in half, the partition with its mournful slide.
I feel a chill as I pause in front of the fifth door. I picture the warm bedroom beyond, the shape of her growing belly under the sheets. We promised ourselves a fresh start, a thing to work on, didn't we? We promised ourselves many things: she will change, he will stop. A home for life.
After our steep walk uphill, we stumbled through the rough-hewed front door, and found only bare bricks and deserted rooms. This rotten house has consumed us, with crooked doors that slam shut more often than they creak open. Instead of keeping our love together, like a persistent draught, they allowed it to slip away.
Five doors, one for each year together. I stand in front of the last one. She is peaceful when she sleeps. That's when I miss her the most. Maybe, if I open this one real quiet, I can catch a glimpse of her before she wakes. I push the handle down, add the slight nudge of my shoulder, bit more pressure, but it's no good. The cold has warped the wood, and the crooked thing won't budge.
Stephan Meijerhof is Dutch, and after many international travels, now resides on the beautiful island of Mallorca, Spain. Having studied in South Africa, and with a background in journalism, he works as a freelance PR consultant in the video game industry. With two creative writing courses under his belt, including Oxford University, he is hard at work to get his short stories and flash fiction published. Stephan can be found on Twitter as @smeijerhof121.


A string of natural disasters in Mexico has left the country reeling as three earthquakes and a volcanic eruption have ravaged the region around Mexico City.
On September 8th, an earthquake registering 8.1 on the Richter Scale struck just off the coast of the Mexican state of Chiapas, on the southwest Pacific coast. The epicenter was approximately 600 miles (1,000 km) southeast of Mexico City, which was rocked by the temblor. According to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, the quake was the strongest that Mexico has experienced since a 7.9 quake in 1902. At least 96 people died, tsunami warnings were triggered, and much of the city of Juchitan, in the state of Oaxaca, collapsed into rubble.
Eleven days later, on September 19th, another earthquake hit the region, this time a 7.1 quake in the state of Puebla. This quake, though of lesser magnitude, was much more damaging, as the epicenter was much closer to Mexico City, centered in the town of Raboso, about 76 miles (123 km) southeast of Mexico City. Over 340 deaths have been reported, and estimates of the cost of damage range from two to eight billion dollars.
Saturday, September 21st, saw another earthquake strike the region: a 6.1 magnitude quake centered in the state of Oaxaca near the town of Matias Romero, approximately 275 miles southeast of Mexico City, roughly between the centers of the two earlier, more violent earthquakes. The earthquakes are thought to be too far apart to be related to each other.
As if three earthquakes greater than 6.0 magnitude within 15 days weren't enough to deal with, the seismic activity has touched off a volcanic eruption at the Popocatepetl volcano, an active volcano 45 miles (72.5 km) southeast of Mexico City. The volcano has been active at a low level for 23 years. The volcano, which periodically belches smoke and ash, erupted with a shower of lava and rocks after the quake, though fortunately the eruption remained at a relatively low level. Mexico's volcano-monitoring system registered one notable explosion and 256 low-intensity "exhalations" between September 17th and 18th. Because of its location, a major eruption could potentially affect 20 million Mexicans.
Mexico, and Mexico City in particular, are especially vulnerable to seismic activity because of location: Mexico is located at the junction of five tectonic plates, and Mexico City itself sits on a former lake bed, an unstable terrain for one of the world's largest cities. The land under Mexico City is unconsolidated sediment, meaning that a quake can cause shaking much like a bowl of gelatin. The quakes were likely caused by the Cocos plate subducting under the North American plate. Whether or not the movement that caused the quakes also caused the eruption of Popocatepetl is in question. Mexico's National Center for Prevention of Disasters said none of the volcanic activity can be attributed to the earthquake. Eruptions occur at the volcano approximately twice a year, on average. Other experts are unwilling to dismiss a potential connection.
Rebuilding will be costly, and Peña Nieto warns that financial resources are limited, and Congress, which is meeting now, must focus on making funds available for reconstruction and rehabilitation in 2018.


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Sad to say there is no such place period!
The only way to get your current and correct score is to contact each of the 3 reporting agencies and pay their fees. This way you get your real score.
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You can get your annual free copies of your credit reports from all three credit bureaus thru AnnualCreditReport.com. Reports are free, scores are not.
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We don't use 100% Charlotte Mason methods, but our homeschool has been heavily influenced by her ideas. Copywork is a fundamental of her approach to language skills. So, today I'd like to talk a bit about copywork, how to approach it, what it accomplishes, and how to best make use of our copywork books.
Copywork is simply copying written works by hand. It is an excellent tool to use from the time a child can form letters until about the age of 10. As a child learns to read, they should practice forming their letters every day, and then proceed to copying simple words that they are learning to sound out and read. This can then progress to simple sentences or single Scripture verses. During elementary school, excellent choices for copywork are paragraphs from their favorite books, short Scripture passages, and excerpts from their reading assignments.
Copywork obviously provides a great opportunity for handwriting practice, but it does a lot more.
Copywork promotes careful work and attention to detail.
Copywork gives intimate exposure to great written works.
Copywork aids in spelling, as the child writes the correct spelling of words over and over and learns to recognize correct spelling.
Copywork assists in memory work by using another part of the brain.
Copywork gives familiarity with grammar principles without tedious study of rules.
Copywork demonstrates examples of great writing, and prepares the child for original writing as they get older.
Copywork is such a valuable tool that you will find it everyday in our homeschool. Our children are at varying levels of ability, but everybody copies. Naomi is eleven and is beginning to write her own papers, but still spends a few days a week copying either Scripture or passages from her reading books.
How do I use copywork?
There are some rules to follow to be able to use copywork effectively. If you simply give a child something to copy, it will become nothing more than a handwriting exercise. Let me give you a few examples from my children so you can see how it should work.
Isaac is 8 years old. He is required to copy 2-4 sentences from his reading assignment everyday. He is required to copy exactly what he sees on the page. If he makes an error, he copies the entire passage again. I give him a reminder as he begins to be sure to look for capital letters and punctuation. This calls his attention to grammar rules without drilling them. He copies the passage in his best handwriting, since he knows that momma is looking for neatness as well as accuracy. He also makes sure that he doesn't crowd his letters or his words. If I can't read the letters or figure out where the next word begins, he will have to copy it again. Once he is finished, he checks his work at least twice to make sure it matches exactly. Then I check it. If he did a great job, I have him read it aloud to me, and send him on his way with a hearty "Good Job!" If I find a mistake, he will need to locate it, sometimes with help, and then copy the passage again. I have found that a child who has to copy a passage twice will be very careful in their work to avoid having to do it again. This tends to produce overflow into other parts of their life as well. Be careful to keep the amount of copywork suitable to the child. In order to get neat, accurate results, you need to keep the length shorter. It is better to have them do 2 sentences very well, than 8 sentences poorly and with a bad attitude.
Sadie is 6 years old. She is still in the process of learning letters and putting them together into short words. She begins by writing her name at the top of the page. This is the writing I teach a child first. Her grammar awareness consists of: Names start with big letters because people are important. A usual lesson for her consists of copying letters she already knows, writing a few short words, and perhaps a short sentence. She reads everything she writes. Recently, I put together a two word sentence and told her it was a story! When she figured out how to read it, she got to draw a picture to illustrate it. You can see her actual page up at the top of this page.
Holly is 10 years old and follows much the same pattern as Isaac, only I can require a longer passage from her. She also practices some cursive writing everyday, as well as a page in our Hebrew copywork book. She wrote the polar bear sample at the top of the page.
Naomi is 11 years old. She is beginning to do one page papers, but she also does copywork on some days. She copies from her reading books. She and Holly have both already finished the Torah portion copywork books.
To summarize, here are some principles to use that will make copywork much more effective.
Keep the passage short enough that the child will put forth good effort with a good attitude.
Require perfection, period. If it isn't perfect, it gets done again.
Point out grammar principles casually either before or after they copy. Example: Be sure to put the quotation marks around where this person is talking. That's what shows us that someone is speaking.
Remind them to spell words correctly.
Encourage proper letter and word spacing. I taught them to lay their pencil down between words. It's a good space.
Have your child read their copywork to you when they are done. Engage all those different parts of the brain! When copying Scripture, you can also have a brief discussion on the meaning of the verses.
How do I get started on copywork?
As you may have noticed, copywork encompasses the majority of language art skills. When you use copywork, you no longer need a handwriting course, grammar course, spelling course, etc. When copywork is properly used, all these skills will be acquired naturally. Start by designating a "writing time." I have found that keeping all the kids on the same subject at the same time keeps the day running smoothly. After math, we do writing. When starting out, it can be daunting to figure out what to have your child copy. We have tried to help out with our copywork books. When you buy the printed copy, you receive a spiral bound copywork book that is all ready to go. All you have to do is decide how much they should copy each day. This is pretty easy to determine just by watching your child. If they are starting to get tired or sloppy, they've reached their max. If your child makes a mistake, they can use a separate sheet of paper to copy the portion again, or use the blank side of the paper in the Torah portion copywork books. Our copywork books are completely based on Scripture, which is great for keeping your child's mind on the Word. If money is an issue, you might consider the ebooks, which are cheaper and save on the shipping. Otherwise, you can begin by working through Scripture passages such as Genesis 1, Exodus 20, Psalm 19, etc. You may want to switch between Scripture copywork and copying some sentences from yesterday's reading assignment. Don't overlook the potential for using 'My First Torah' for copywork. It can be easier for younger students to copy and read themselves, as opposed to full Scripture verses. It is also available in print and ebook format.
And there you have it, a basic primer on copywork! I hope you will begin to use this amazing tool in your homeschool. We have another copywork book in the works designed just for my science minded son that I am very excited about! Some of you already use copywork. What types of things do your children copy? What benefits are you seeing? Be sure to share with us!
My son is 12, and daughter 9, is it too late to start with them?
It's never too late to start copywork. I do quite a bit myself. You will want to start them on short things to get used to it, though. For example, have them copy one verse a day at first.


Zlatan Ibrahimovic's two children have joined Wayne Rooney's son in the Manchester United academy.
Manchester United will have to stump up a mammoth £450m to sign Gareth Bale from Real Madrid.
Meanwhile, Bale's team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo is set for a new £215m five-year deal at the Bernabeu.
Luke Shaw is back in Manchester United training and ready to give a timely boost to Jose Mourinho.
Arsene Wenger has told Manchester City and Barcelona they are wasting their time trying to prise Hector Bellerin from Arsenal.
Chelsea captain John Terry returned to training on Thursday following a spell on the sidelines with an ankle injury.
Tottenham will continue their pursuit of Real Madrid midfielder Isco in the summer.
Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte has been handed a massive transfer boost after the club clinched a staggering £900m kit deal with Nike.
Arsene Wenger has shot down suggestions that Arsenal are prepared to sell Hector Bellerin.
Interim manager Gareth Southgate is ready to bench Wayne Rooney again for the match against Scotland next month which will decide his own England future – but will not yet strip him of the captaincy.
Arsene Wenger says Arsenal want Hector Bellerin to sign a new contract to ward off interest from Barcelona and Manchester City.
Everton boss Ronald Koeman is furious with Republic of Ireland counterpart Martin O'Neill over his treatment of midfielder James McCarthy.
Eden Hazard wants to play in the No 10 role at Chelsea but admits manager Antonio Conte will not change the formation just for him.
Manchester United are in line for a cash windfall if Michael Keane leaves Burnley having reluctantly allowed him to leave Old Trafford in 2014.
Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is set to return from a hamstring injury for the upcoming matches against Everton and Barcelona.
Arsene Wenger has offered a vote of confidence to Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud, who has been restricted to just 78 minutes of football for his club this season.
Nottingham Forest are close to agreeing a £50m sale to an American consortium led by John Jay Moores, the former owner of Major League Baseball franchise San Diego Padres.
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10 Best Curb Your Enthusiasm Guest Stars, Ranked
by Ben Sherlock
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Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm is known for its big-name guest stars who play absurdly exaggerated version of themselves, just like David himself does. Not all of the guest stars play themselves; some play fictional characters. In fact, some guest stars – like Dustin Hoffman and Sacha Baron Cohen – make this the condition on which they appear on the show in the first place, because they don't want to play themselves.
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Curb is nine seasons in now, and the guest stars seem to get more and more famous every year. So, here are 10 Best Curb Your Enthusiasm Guest Stars, Ranked.
10 Philip Baker Hall (as Dr. Morrison)
It's important to note that Philip Baker Hall is a highly respected actor. When you've seen him in countless Paul Thomas Anderson movies, you take him very seriously. That's what makes Larry's brazen disrespect for his character Dr. Morrison that much funnier. First, he berates Larry about using the phone in his office, which Larry denies is that big of a deal. Then, the two have a hilarious passive-aggressive back-and-forth about the "little prick" involved in the medical procedure.
Hall – who also played the library detective Bookman in Seinfeld – has returned to play Dr. Morrison a few times over the years, but never funnier than the time he drooled on Larry's head in his office and, in turn, got drooled on by Larry at the theater.
9 Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais, a long-time fan of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, finally got the chance to lock horns with Larry in the eighth season. The British comedy icon played himself exactly how one might expect him to be: pretentious, irritating, and full of himself.
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He gives Susie a signed copy of his own DVD as a gift, wears a $500 scarf to protect his vocal cords, has a hissy fit about Larry and Susie arguing through his performance, and insults Larry's bread for being too hard. Of course, this is the same bread that Larry would later use to beat a mugger with to save him.
8 Bill Buckner
Curb's guest stars often use the show to right their past wrongs in a satirical way. Bill Buckner, who famously cost the Red Sox a World Series with a fielding error, did this brilliantly in season 8.
After Larry's error costs his softball team the championship, he can empathize with Buckner's predicament. He is scorned out of a funeral for the error and misses a catch that lets Susie's gift to Jeff fall out their apartment window. Finally, at the end of the episode, Buckner gets his redemption as he saves a baby from a burning building by diving through the air to catch it.
7 Steve Coogan (as Dr. Bright)
Steve Coogan's turn as Larry's bumbling therapist who tries to get him back together with Cheryl was hysterical. The poor guy gets put through the wringer as he tries to correct his own mistakes.
Larry gets him to mug Cheryl's therapist so he can swoop in and look like a hero, then he gets pinched by the cops, then he comes out of prison with no idea what he wants to do with his life. Coogan is a terrific comic actor whose talents translate perfectly into the improvised world of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
6 Martin Scorsese
In season 3, Martin Scorsese casts Larry David to play a mob boss in his latest movie, having once seen him yelling at the audience in a comedy club in New York and been convinced that he could play the character's rage. Scorsese plays himself pretty much as one would expect, as a no-nonsense director who wants to get the perfect take.
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But what makes him a great guest star is how Larry interacts with him. Several takes in, Larry asks Marty, "Do you even know what you're doing?" This is Martin Scorsese, the legendary filmmaker behind Goodfellas and Raging Bull!
5 Shaquille O'Neal
Season 2's "Shaq" is one of the most memorable episodes of Curb, because it begins with one of the greatest celebrity cameo appearances and leads into a great arc for Larry's character. When he accidentally trips Shaquille O'Neal while sitting courtside at a Lakers game, Larry is booed out of the stadium as he's thought to have planned it.
But then he realizes, with everyone hating him, he doesn't have to do anything for anyone – and he can get away with saying whatever he wants. And then when he makes things up with Shaq, he's back to normal again.
4 Lin-Manuel Miranda
God knows how Larry managed to get Lin-Manuel Miranda – arguably the hottest talent in the world right now – to make the time in his busy schedule to appear in a multi-episode story arc that makes him look like a terrible person. But either way, it's a good thing he did, because it saved the latter half of season 9.
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Miranda plays himself exactly how one might picture the worst version of him to behave: an arrogant, smug, ungrateful, self-obsessed perfectionist. He's probably nothing like that in real life, but he plays it perfectly. Plus, his arc ends with the most hysterical reference to the Hamilton v. Burr duel.
3 Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller played himself in season 4 as Larry's co-star in The Producers. Stiller played every scene against David perfectly, whether they were arguing over David sitting in the front of Stiller's car, David not singing the "Happy Birthday" song at Stiller's birthday party, or David accidentally stabbing Stiller in the eye with a used skewer.
It's difficult to keep up in an improv situation, especially when you're working with seasoned pros, you're new to the show, you have to serve the motivations of a scene, and above all, you have to keep it funny. Ben Stiller nailed every scene he was in.
2 Chris Williams (as Krazee-Eyez Killa)
Krazee-Eyez Killa was sort of an early template for Leon, Larry's black, streetwise sidekick. He came into the show for one episode as a rapper engaged to Wanda Sykes, and Chris Williams brought everything to the character. He even wrote the rap lyrics that he pitches to Larry, which Larry wasn't expecting at all.
He took a character that wasn't very developed or fleshed-out and really made it unforgettably his own. Williams also immortalized a litany of memorable quotes in just a few short appearances, from "I'm your motherf****n' Caucasian!" to "Yo, Delicious, get a tissue – my man's gonna sneeze!"
1 Michael J. Fox
In the comedy world, there's a big distinction between "punching up" and "punching down." Sensitive subjects can be used for comedy, but only if they're handled in the right way and if the targets are right. The season 8 finale "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox" sees Larry going head-to-head with Michael J. Fox and the episode wrings a lot of humor out of Fox's affliction with Parkinson's disease.
From a soda can getting shaken up to Larry being mistaken for playing a fake violin, none of the humor is mean-spirited or insensitive, because the targets are right, and Fox is never the butt of the joke – only Larry is.
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Watch Now: 45 Minute Making Of 'Zootopia' Video
By The Movie God | @ | Thursday, April 7th, 2016 at 3:00 pm
If you were a fan of Disney's recent animated release Zootopia—and a whole lot of people were; the movie has made over $800 millions worldwide in the one month since its release—a new video will be of interest to you.
The video is a huge making of documentary titled "Imagining Zootopia," and it runs over 45 minutes long and covers the entire process of developing and making the movie.
Obviously it's very likely that this will be a bonus feature on the Blu-ray release of the movie, so you might prefer waiting for that to watch this. But if you can't wait that long be sure to continue below to give it a watch.
The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it's a melting pot where animals from every environment live together""a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything. But when rookie Officer Judy Hopps (voice of Ginnifer Goodwin) arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn't so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde (voice of Jason Bateman), to solve the mystery. Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Zootopia," a comedy-adventure directed by Byron Howard ("Tangled," "Bolt") and Rich Moore ("Wreck-It Ralph," "The Simpsons") and co-directed by Jared Bush ("Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero"), opens in theaters on March 4, 2016.
What did it take to bring the world of 'Zootopia' to life? Fusion spent two years with the production team of Disney's smash hit film. In 'Imagining Zootopia,' you will travel with the team to Africa to explore the animals in their natural habitat and find out how the storytellers and animators dealt with the very real themes of prejudice and bias.
[Source: Fusion via /Film]
Topics: Animated, Movies, News, Videos
Tags: Disney, Zootopia
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Researchers Explore New Target for Malaria Vaccine
News By By Amy Norton
THURSDAY, May 22, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have developed a new vaccine for malaria using protective immune system cells from children who appear to be naturally resistant to the deadly infectious disease. Initial tests of the vaccine in mice looked promising, according to a new study.
Certain children are naturally resistant to the mosquito-borne infectious disease. And, it was recently discovered that these children harbor certain protective immune system cells (antibodies). These antibodies are programmed to block the malaria parasite from getting out of red blood cells, where they can multiply and cause more serious disease.
The researchers created a vaccine with these antibodies. And, when given to mice, the vaccine offered some protection against malaria. When the animals were given a malaria strain that is universally fatal to mice, the vaccinated rodents developed lower levels of the malaria parasite and survived longer than unvaccinated mice, according to the study.
The findings, reported in the May 23 issue of Science, are just an early step toward a potential malaria vaccine.
However, because this approach was developed from research in humans, experts have more confidence than they normally would that the findings from the mouse trials will translate to humans, according to lead researcher Dr. Jonathan Kurtis, director of the Center for International Health Research at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.
An infectious diseases expert who reviewed the study said the results should be viewed with some caution, because history shows that animal findings often fail to extend to humans.
"But this does look very exciting," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
A vaccine against malaria is one of the "holy grails" in infectious disease research, Schaffner said.
Malaria is a life-threatening illness caused by a parasite, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The parasite gets into humans via a bite from an infected mosquito.
Worldwide, about 207 million people were infected with malaria in 2012, according to the WHO. It's estimated that almost 630,000 of those individuals died -- mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite huge declines in malaria deaths, the WHO estimates that one child dies from malaria every minute in Africa.
"This is the biggest, single-agent killer of children worldwide," Kurtis said.
One of the reasons malaria remains so deadly is that the parasite has developed resistance to currently available treatments, according to the WHO. Mosquito netting and insecticides offer some protection against malaria transmission, but the parasite has also developed resistance to some insecticides, reports the WHO.
And while there are 50 to 100 malaria vaccines in various stages of development, Kurtis said, most of them are targeted against just a few malaria parasite antigens.
Antigens are proteins on a foreign invader, like a parasite, that trigger the immune system to form defensive antibodies. Exposing a person to an antigen via vaccine can train the immune system to quickly identify that antigen when the real infection invades.
To find a new antigen for a malaria vaccine, Kurtis and colleagues basically "worked backwards," Schaffner said.
They started with blood samples from two dozen 2-year-olds from Tanzania who'd either been sick with malaria or proved resistant to the illness, despite living among malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
The resistant children, it turned out, had natural antibodies to a malaria parasite antigen dubbed PfSEA-1.
That antigen has an important role in the parasite's ability to make people sick. Once it's in the human body, the parasite goes through what's known as the schizont stage, where it is contained within red blood cells before it ruptures and spills out into the bloodstream. The PfSEA-1 antigen normally allows the parasite to exit the red blood cells; but the antibodies found in the resistant Tanzanian children keep the parasite trapped in those cells.
"They used a very clever method to determine which characteristics of the human immune response were important," Schaffner said.
Still, there is a long research road ahead. Kurtis said the vaccine is being studied further in animals, and the hope is to start an early stage human trial soon. But he said it could be a decade before the work leads to a real-world vaccine.
Any such vaccine would be "imperfect," Schaffner noted. That is, it wouldn't work like a measles vaccine, for example, and keep people from ever being infected. Instead, it would help prevent severe illness.
"Everyone would like their vaccine to be the answer," Schaffner said. "But 'perfect protection' (against malaria) has proven so difficult, we have a fallback: A vaccine that would greatly reduce hospitalizations and deaths."
Kurtis speculated that it might be possible to combine this new approach with other vaccines under development. Many of those vaccines aim to prevent the malaria parasite from getting into red blood cells -- while this new one would block the parasite's exit.
That's an interesting notion, according to Schaffner. "If you give [the vaccines] in combined fashion, you might get more protection," he said. Of course, he added, it will take much more work to get to that point.
Learn more about malaria from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This article: Copyright © 2014 HealthDay. All rights reserved.


P 13 (PHANTOM 13) and OE 3 (OLD ENGLISH 3) were two very effective bombing partners in the early 1980's.
COUSIN FRANK is one of many undercover names used by GHOST, which was a nick name given to him from his younger cousin (who also wrote).
is not to be confused with QUIK RTW. He was a Bronx writer from the mid 1980's that bombed the 2 and 5 trains. This photo was taken outside the J train yard.
BLADE, SEEN and COMET - All tags done by BLADE 1980.
is from the writing group NCB (NO COMP BOYS). This is a vintage Roto NCB tag taken in Bushwick, Brooklyn off the J train line.
on the A-line in 1976, which was a line he rarely hit.
BOM 5 - "JOE NUTS was one of the best writing partners I ever had. He was like my right-hand-man back in the day. I took him out to the Bronx to hit places like the 4-yard or Esplanade Throw-Ups on the 5 line. In turn, he took me to the spots out in Brooklyn. JOE NUTS was a dude with a big heart, he will truly be missed!"
BOY 2 - "There were only 3 crews I really put up with. They were TBP (THE BOMBING PARTNERS), TBB (THE BAD BOYS), and WOW (WORDS OF WISDOM), but the TBK CREW to me was the ultimate crew of them all. TBK FOR LIFE!"


"Good job guys!!! George Hamilton."
Pedra da Arara is located in Macambira - Sergipe - Brazil. Is the only climbing area developed in Sergipe. Negative and vertical walls for sport climbing surrounded by a small river that offer a good fresh bath after the climb.
Good job guys!!! George Hamilton.
The point is amazing, the rock is beautiful and it's close to the city i live. The routes are awesome. The local climbers wellcome everyone and are enthusiastic to climb with people from others regions.


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Thursday-Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.


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We recently put together a guide to buying a POS system, but we still had many questions surrounding the best point of sale hardware for small businesses. And for good reason – not all POS hardware was created equal. Nearly every system on the market can accept credit cards and perform basic transactional operations, but many of them fall short of what your point of sale hardware should accomplish: create a better customer experience and increase business efficiency and profits.
A modern POS solution must effectively combine advanced software with great hardware. The functionalities that your software offers can only be realized with powerful, high-performing hardware. So let's consider some of the differences in types of POS equipment in this small business POS hardware guide.
What Pieces of POS Hardware Does Your Store Need?
Though not every retailer needs each and every of these equipment items, most do. High-quality solutions will last longer and give you fewer problems, making the checkout process easier and faster. The 6 POS hardware items listed below are the most common, though some niche SMBs might consider getting customer signature screen captures, scales, or label printers.
A desktop terminal is the most powerful solution for retailers. The processing power is greater and transaction speeds will be quicker. For some SMBs, having a stable unit in place is beneficial. It creates a clearly defined cash wrap or checkout area. Desktops are also nearly impossible to steal. Top of the line solutions also come with customer-facing displays and touchscreens, improving the retail checkout experience.
Desktops, however, come with a few downsides: they are more expensive and take up more space. For small retailers with limited space, a desktop might not be worth the real estate.
But you still have an option to get a mobile POS system! Tablets are a great alternative or addition to desktops. They are sleek, lightweight, and versatile. One of the biggest benefits of mPOS systems is the flexibility it provides. During busy periods you can open up a new line within seconds. Associates can also accept payment on the retail floor if they are helping out a shopper. Tablets are also remarkably inexpensive, and only require a credit card reader to attach and allow payment processing.
Tablets are much less powerful than desktops and more prone to software lag. Transaction speeds will be slower, only if slightly. For businesses with constant lines, like coffee shops or popular apparel stores, tablets might keep your lines moving too slowly.
Credit card machines are, of course, a necessity for nearly every business. A Brooklyn speakeasy can still get away with being cash only, but most customers expect to have the convenience of paying with a card.
At this point, you must also need to accept both debit and credit transactions. Any credit transactions must be run through an EMV chip reader rather than swiped. Though POS debit transactions can still be swiped, it's important that your credit card machine comes equipped with a chip reader.
Though not as critical, it's probably also worth investing in a payment terminal that accepts mobile and contactless payments. Half of Americans will be using mobile payments by 2020, so small businesses might as well be ready now.
Don't skimp on your receipt printer. Its job is simple, but malfunctions can be remarkably frustrating. Old ribbon printers jam or print with poor visibility all the time. It's worth buying a modern receipt printer that automatically prints each receipt with a laser instantaneously upon a completed transaction.
Selecting your retail cash drawer will be the easiest part of the process. These are typically all reliable and functional. The most important thing is to be sure that it only unlocks with the proper commands and can't easily be broken into.
The barcode was one of the most important retail inventions of the past century. It's been so good that it has only slightly evolved since its inception. For most shops, each product is labeled and cataloged by its barcode. On the front end of retail operations, this makes the checkout process quick and easy. A barcode scanner simply reads the barcode and the product is recorded in the point of sale. The scanner also ensures more accuracy. Numbers are never punched in incorrectly or missed entirely.
Additionally, scanners are useful for inventory. Scanning all product inventory into a database is much more efficient than hard counts. And again, more accurate.
How Much Does POS Hardware Cost Small Businesses?
This is a tough question to answer because it can vary so greatly based on a business owner's needs. The budget for POS hardware is obviously going to be a lot greater for a liquor store chain with 25 locations and 6 terminals per store than a boutique shop that needs a single tablet.
But, in general, a desktop or PC POS system will be between $500 and $1500, but high-end solutions can be several thousand. Like normal computers, there is a wide range of pricing based on processing power and functionality.
As you might imagine, tablets or mPOS systems are much more inexpensive. Most tablets will cost a few hundred dollars and provide high functioning systems. Your POS software must integrate with whatever tablet you choose.
Peripherals can also range in price, but less so than desktops. Receipt printers and basic credit card machines typically run $100-300. Cash drawers can be as inexpensive as $50, though more secure registers will be a few hundred. Barcode scanners have the widest range of prices – basic scanners are $20, while more versatile tools that can be used for stocking and inventory can run as high as $1000.
If you need answers to more questions on your POS solution and your hardware options, give us a call at KORONA, or sign up for our free trial. We'll walk you through all of your options and the pricing of each. To make it easier, our software services are as simple as can be: a flat monthly rate with no contracts, no merchant service commitments, no hidden fees, no installation costs, and no charge for tech support. Save money with a fast and reliable point of sale.


If you haven't been able to handle the heat this far, well we hate to tell you, but it's not getting any better. We're quickly approaching the dog days of summer. As the heat starts kicking into full gear, so will your air conditioner. While you may be tempted to turn your air conditioner down to full Arctic blast, the technicians at Action Cooling & Heating in Fort Meyers Florida advise you to not. In fact, they have a few tips to keep you cool while saving money on your air conditioning costs.
For starters, take a good look at your HVAC equipment. If you live in an older home, your unit is probably bordering on prehistoric. At this point, consider upgrading to a smart thermostat. Smart thermostats are excellent for regulating heating and cooling based on the time of day, number of people in the home, and much more. Their smart technology makes it an automatic time and money saver.
Aside from privacy, keeping your blinds closed is another simple yet cost effective method of keeping your home cool. If you keep your blinds open all day, you're inviting all of the heat and rays from the sun in to naturally heat up your home. This may be great in the winter, but during the summer it just becomes counterproductive to your air conditioner. Try closing your windows and blinds during the hottest part of the day.
Many homes in Fort Meyers, Florida have ceiling fans. A surprising amount of people never use their ceiling fans. If you want to save money, Action Cooling & Heating suggests that you start using your ceiling fan. Putting your air conditioner at full blast is not always the most effective method to staying cool. A ceiling fan can help make your room feel anywhere between 5-10 degrees cooler and uses 10% less energy than your air conditioner unit. This saves on both maintenance and energy costs.
Of course, the most effective method to saving money on your air conditioning bill this summer is to keep your HVAC unit maintained regularly. Preventative maintenance helps identify potential issues and remediate any existing ones. For any questions or concerns regarding your HVAC, contact Action Cooling & Heating of Fort Meyers, Florida.


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Bloom Nightclub
The Savoy Named Business Of The Year!
|By SavoyAdmin
By Bill Metcalfe – Nelson Star
Nelson BC posted Apr 4, 2017 at 12:00 PM— updated Apr 4, 2017 at 2:10 PM
Jimmy Bundschuh says many people have thanked him for revitalizing the west end of Baker St. by redeveloping the Savoy Hotel.
"Part of that is people's memories from the building," he told the Star. "It seems that everygeneration has their stories about the Savoy, going way back. There have been a lot of good times inthere, and now we are doing that again."
At the annual Chamber of Commerce business awards banquet on Thursday, presenter Barry Auliffe,awarding the Business of the Year award to the Savoy, said the building had become a "sad sackedifice" on the west end of Baker.
"And then in 2013 something special happened," he said. "Jimmy Bundschuh and Jenna (Arpita) Shea, one of Nelson's most intriguing and dynamic entrepreneurial couples, purchased the property,and the rest is history in the making.
"I think we all knew it was not going to be a renovate, update, reopen situation," Auliffe said. "We allknew that something unique and eclectic was going to happen. I had a tour the other day: the FallsMusic Lounge, the Bloom Nightclub, Farm Fresh Cafe, and still yet to happen is the hotelaccommodation."
Bundschuh said he wanted to base the configuration of the building on the past: nightclub in thebasement, with a pub and restaurant on the main floor.
He was one of the founders of the Shambhala music festival and he and Arpita are at the centre of itsoperations today. He said the Savoy will allow him to present music all year round and to hire andkeep good people.
"With a seasonal business it is difficult to retain excellent staff because you might not get them thenext year."
The hotel portion of the building, to be completed by the fall, will consist of 12 rooms.
"It will be a boutique hotel with a big common area and a patio on the roof for guests to hang out.We are trying to go for more of a ski lodge kind of feel more than a hotel, with lots of common space,trying to get groups coming here for the ski season who might rent out the whole floor."
Arpita says she was surprised to get the award because the project isn't finished yet, but "people areloving it, and the community is showing up to what we have created, and that feels really good."
She said that in their photo (above) she and Bundschuh should be standing in the back, behind their staff, "because they are it. We are behind them supporting them. They (and other staff not in the photo) are the ones that have made the business what it is, because their excellence is what people experience when they walk in the door."
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OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health
Welcome to the career site of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) at Impactpool!
The need to fight animal diseases at global level led to the creation of the Office International des Epizooties through the international Agreement signed on January 25th 1924. In May 2003 the Office became the World Organisation for Animal Health but kept its historical acronym OIE.
The OIE is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide.
It is recognised as a reference organisation by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in 2016 has a total of 180 Member Countries. The OIE maintains permanent relations with 71 other international and regional organisations and has Regional and sub-regional Offices on every continent.
The organisation is placed under the authority and control of a World Assembly of Delegates consisting of Delegates designated by the Governments of all Member Countries.
The day-to-day operation of the OIE is managed at the Headquarters situated in Paris and placed under the responsibility of a Director General elected by the World Assembly of Delegates.


Since Misty visited Ash in the Battle frontier episodes and May visited Ash in the diamond/pearl episodes, does that mean Dawn is going to be in the Black & White episodes?
I know this was asked about a year ago, but I thought I'd update the answer. Hope thats okay. Its just for anyone else who's wondering.
Exciting, right? I'm totally esthetic about it.
Why does dawn make a return to the unova region?
Who has more Pokemon contest ribbions in the anime, May or Dawn?
In the episode called "Dawn's Early Night!", How come Dawn didn't make it to round two?
Is there an episode that Misty,May,Dawn and Iris meet each other?
Why do they call Dawn Dee-Dee ?


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/**
 * This is Free Software. See COPYING for information.
 */
#ifndef _UBE_GAME_HPP_
#define _UBE_GAME_HPP_

#include "game_loop.hpp"

#include <string>

#include "SDL.h"

class ResourceResolverInterface;
class OptionParser;
class SdlInGameRenderer;
class InGameModeFactory;
class InGameMode;
class SdlPuzzleSelectionRenderer;
class PuzzleSelectionModeFactory;
class PuzzleSelectionMode;

/**
 * Class for the meat of the game
 */
class UbeGame :
  public GameLoop
{

public:

  UbeGame(ClockInterface * i_p_clock,
	  ResourceResolverInterface & dep_resolver,
	  OptionParser & dep_option_parser) :
    GameLoop(i_p_clock),
    dep_resolver_(dep_resolver),
    dep_option_parser_(dep_option_parser),
    preparation_error_message_(""),
    p_in_game_renderer_(NULL),
    p_in_game_mode_factory_(NULL),
    p_in_game_mode_(NULL),
    p_puzzle_selection_renderer_(NULL),
    p_puzzle_selection_mode_factory_(NULL),
    p_puzzle_selection_mode_(NULL)
  {
  }

  /**
   * Initialize resources, start the
   * SDL subsystems, etc..
   * @return 0 if everything went find, -1 if there was
   * an error.
   */
  int prepare_game();

  /**
   * If an error occured during the preparation
   * of the game, this will contain an (hopefully)
   * helpfull message.
   */
  std::string & get_preparation_error_message() {
    return preparation_error_message_;
  }

  /**
   * Start the main loop.
   */
  void play();

  void handle_event(int i_event_code);

private:
  ResourceResolverInterface & dep_resolver_;
  OptionParser & dep_option_parser_;

  std::string preparation_error_message_;

  // Screen is owned by the game.
  SDL_Surface * p_screen_;

  // TODO(pht) : only the game_mode_factory should
  // be needed.
  SdlInGameRenderer * p_in_game_renderer_;
  InGameModeFactory * p_in_game_mode_factory_;
  InGameMode * p_in_game_mode_;

  SdlPuzzleSelectionRenderer * p_puzzle_selection_renderer_;
  PuzzleSelectionModeFactory * p_puzzle_selection_mode_factory_;
  PuzzleSelectionMode * p_puzzle_selection_mode_;

  int prepare_sdl();
  int prepare_game_modes();

  int prepare_puzzle_selection_mode();
  int prepare_in_game_mode(std::string & i_puzzle_file_name);

  /**
   * Appends the current SDL_GetError to
   * the "preparation_error_message"
   *
   * @param i_mgs, message, to be formatted by boost::format (in
   * should contain at least %1% to contain the actual SDL error.)
   */
  void sdl_preparation_error_message(std::string i_msg);

  void ttf_preparation_error_message(std::string i_msg);

};

#endif // _UBE_GAME_HPP_


What is the Salary Range for a Library Technician?
How Many Library Technicians Are Nationally Employed?
Where Are Most Library Technicians Employed?
What are the Laws for Library Technician Overtime Pay?
Are Library Technicians Entitled to Overtime Pay?
Library Technicians assist librarians by helping readers in the use of library catalogs, databases, and indexes to locate books and other materials, and by answering questions that require only brief consultation of standard reference. They also compile records, sort and shelve books or other media, remove or repair damaged books or other media, register patrons, and check materials in and out of the circulation process.
Depending on the work setting and state where Library Technicians are employed, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted that in 2016, Library Technicians made between $20,000 and $54,000, with the average annual salary being approximately $36,000.
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Library Technicians are often entitled to overtime pay for all hours worked over 40 in one week. If an employer denies a Library Technician overtime wages, it could give rise to an overtime pay lawsuit.
There are strict time limitations for filing a claim so it is important that you discuss your case in a timely manner. If you wait too long, you may lose your ability to recover some or all of your back pay. An experienced Library Technician overtime pay attorney can determine whether you are entitled to overtime wages based upon your job description, job duties, rate of pay, and number of hours worked.
Some states have their own overtime pay laws that may be slightly different from the FLSA with respect to overtime pay for Library Technicians. There are strict time deadlines for filing lawsuits so it is essential that you contact an attorney immediately.
Because Library Technicians perform many different tasks to assist librarians and patrons, their schedules may require them to work far more than 40 hours in a workweek. Many of them are not paid overtime for these excess hours as required under the FLSA. The employer's failure to pay required overtime to a Library Technician can result in a lawsuit for overtime pay.
To determine whether you are eligible for filing a wage claim, contact our experienced Library Technician Overtime Pay Lawyers at (855) 754-2795 for a Free Consultation to discuss your case or complete the Free Unpaid Overtime Case Review Form on this page.