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Mates Rates For Farmers
February 5, 2021 By editor
CEO of Rural Aid, John Warlters, has encouraged locals to continue the spirit of Australia Day, to help out Aussie farmers. "We're great at lending a hand to mates in need here in Australia, it's one of the best parts of our nation," John said.
"Right now, our farmers are in need of some 'Mates Rates'. By donating a few dollars to Rural Aid, you'll help a farming family and their community get back on their feet after years of drought and devastating bushfires."
Last financial year, Rural Aid distributed more than $28 million worth of fodder, water, financial assistance and counselling to farmers and towns in need of a helping hand. Donations from the Mates Helping Mates campaign will contribute to Rural Aid's Stronger Futures program, an initiative that helps rejuvenate towns and surrounding farms. The multi-pronged program provides the knowledge, resources, and the heavy lifters to ensure rural communities are maximizing their full potential.
The Mates Helping Mates campaign is a third of the way towards its target of $100,000. "These generous donations will help to change the lives of our farming mates," John said. To make a donation visit www.ruralaid.org.au/mates-helping-mates.

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Roanoke settlement
Thread starter Sasquatch
Does anyone else find the issue of Roanoke settlement to be as fascinating as I do. The settlers came here and established a colony there. Then some of the men under the leadership of Sir Richard Grenville, returned to England for supplies and came back to find all of the settler's gone and the word "Croatan" carved into a nearby tree. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
TheReaper
That has something to do with an Indian tribe, right? The question seems to be, did the settlers go with the Indians? And why did they carve the tribe name in a tree?
Scary!
Not necessarily TheReaper. There have been several suppositions over the years from the Native Americans absorbing them into their tribes to thoughts that they could have been wiped out by disease. But if they were wiped out by disease there was no evidence of new graves and no one left when the others returned that could have buried them. There is still speculation about what happened.
Old World American
I always supported the absorption theory. Due to whatever stresses there were in colonial days, quite a few I'm sure, the settlement just couldn't sustain itself. The remains of the structures could have been just dissembled and reused or could have become firewood. What is actually really creepy is the word carved on the tree. It's the name of a tribe on good terms with the English in the region; what it exactly means is a mystery. A version of the legend has it that the tribe actually began when the Roanoke settlers decided to adopt the tribal ways. In any case it is definitely one of the coolest parts of colonial Americana. That lone tree with one cryptic word crudely carved into it is just a fantastic image.
"wtf?"
I agree OWA. Have you been to Williamsburg, Virginia to visit? Around Halloween they have a ghost tour of all of the supposedly haunted areas. There is a lot of history there and you can feel quite overwhelmed by it if you are alone by chance. One of the taverns there, I learned after I left Williamsburg, is haunted. It is supposed to be on the bottom floor or basement. I had occasion while we were there to visit the men's room down in the basement and it does give you shivers. I didn't realize it was supposed to be haunted but I did my best to hurry to get to the restaurant floor. I seriously don't think I wish to go to that area again. I'm not one to believe in the paranormal but if there are ghosts anywhere, they're in Williamsburg.
I live in Georgia and used to see all sorts of television ads about visiting colonial Williamsburg but never went. Now that I've got some disposable income I might plan a trip this summer. Thanks!
Sounds like something I'd like to do. I've never been in Virginia before. I live close-I'm in upper Ohio-but I've never been there. If we get to take a vacation next year, I may have to go. I love history and historical sites. I'm in awe when I stand somewhere our founding father's have been.
"Before the Governor's departure, he and the colonists had agreed that a message would be carved into a tree if they had moved and would include an image of a Maltese Cross if the decision was made by force." Milton, Giles (2000). Big Chief Elizabeth - How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World.
So it would seem pretty simple to assume they could not survive alone and cut off from England as they had been left without supplies and joined the CRO/CROATOAN on what is now called Hatteras Island, where they had settled in 1584 before going to Roanoke Island two years later.
John White, who made maps showing both Croatoan and Roanoke, wrote in 1590:
"I greatly joyed that I had safely found a certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is the place where Manteo was born, and the savages of the island our friends."
Apparently the word craved into tree and post reassured them enough that when a storm struck they simply left.
....Which doesn't really make sense to me, but okay?...
I can't remember where, but I once read that people who appeared European were later spotted among the natives by settlers on mainland Virginia. It has been conjectured that these were descendants of the missing Roanoke settlers. Has anyone else heard of this?
Shinks
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This theory seems fairly familiar to me, but I can remember where I saw it for the life of me.
I know nothing of the Roanoke except for what I saw in Supernatural, and even that wasn't much. I think maybe even only just the basics of the basics. I would like to get into it though, it sounds fascinating.


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'Guilty, your honor': Man who dressed as Captain Moroni for Jan. 6 Capitol breach makes plea deal
By Tad Walch@Tad_Walch Jan 14, 2022, 1:36pm MST
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Nathan Wayne Entrekin poses near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Entrekin, who is from Arizona, was arrested in July and pleaded guilty Friday to breaching the Capitol.
Nathaniel Wayne Entrekin, the Arizona man who dressed as Captain Moroni from the Book of Mormon during the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Friday to a single misdemeanor in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Why this matters: Entrekin, 48, becomes at least the 174th person to plead guilty to a crime in connection with the Capitol breach, according to an NPR database. He told one interviewer on Jan. 6, "I am Captain Moroni. I'm the William Wallace of the Book of Mormon."
Federal prosecutors have charged 733 people, according to a Justice Department database. New cases continue to be filed.
Breachers injured more than 140 police officers on Jan. 6, 2021. They did than $1.5 million worth of damage to the Capitol.
The plea deal: Entrekin agreed to plead guilty to a federal class B misdemeanor of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building in exchange for federal prosecutors dropping four other charges.
Entrekin appeared Friday via video for the plea agreement hearing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Judge Florence Pan asked Entrekin, "Did you enter the Capitol's restricted grounds on Jan. 6?" Entrekin replied, "Yes, your honor."
"Guilty, your honor," Entrekin said Friday when the judge asked how he pleaded.
FBI arrests man who dressed up as Captain Moroni during Jan. 6 insurrection
Man who dressed as 'Captain Moroni' in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach expected to make plea deal
Next up: Entrekin faces a maximum sentence of six months in prison, a $5,000 fine and five years of probation.
Pan ordered Entrekin to appear for a video sentencing hearing on April 22.
Entrekin's attorney, assistant federal public defender Dani Jahn, said that as part of the plea agreement, Entrekin would pay $500 in restitution.
The judge said Entrekin has exhibited exemplary conduct by complying with the conditions of his release after he was arrested on July 15 in Cottonwood, Arizona. She agreed to allow him to remain on release pending sentencing.
Entrekin cannot travel outside Arizona or the United States without permission. He cannot enter the District of Columbia except for court business and meetings with his attorney. He also is not allowed to possess a weapon.
Flashback: Entrekin stood out in national TV coverage of the Capitol breach because he wore a gladiator costume and represented himself as Captain Moroni, according to a 27-page affidavit by an FBI agent. The Book of Mormon, one of the books of scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) describes Captain Moroni raising armies to fight tyrants in about 72 B.C.
Nathan Wayne Entrekin poses during the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. The FBI says it seized the photo from the phone of Entrekin, who pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday.
The affidavit included images that showed Entrekin walking through the Capitol doors at least twice and images from his phone that showed looting.
Entrekin said he considered his time in the Capitol "solemn" and "revered," the FBI affidavit said. He also said that he decided to leave as soon as he saw broken glass and looting. The FBI said video evidence "at times confirmed and at times contradicted the claims that the defendant made."
"In all the photos and videos of the defendant, he is carrying a wooden dowel with a piece of white cloth attached. The cloth appears to have the following text handwritten on it: 'IN MEMORY OF OUR GOD, OUR RELIGION, AND FREEDOM, AND OUR PEACE, OUR WIVES, AND OUR CHILDREN. ALMA 46:12,'" the FBI affidavit said.
Nathan Wayne Entrekin sits on a bench near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The FBI says the photo was posted publicly on Twitter. Entrekin pleaded guilty Friday to breaching the Capitol.
The case: A federal judge issued a warrant for his arrest on July 14 and he was arrested the following day. Federal prosecutors filed five charges against Entrekin on Nov. 18.
Entrekin entered not guilty pleas on all five counts on Dec. 8, when his attorney asked the court to set a plea agreement hearing.
Federal prosecutor Sean Murphy agreed to drop the final four counts against Entrekin when he is sentenced. Those counts are: Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, entering and remaining in certain rooms in the Capitol building and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.
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Kuwait's apprehension about normalizing relations with Syria
MENASource by Theodore Karasik and Tristan Ober
Middle East Syria The Gulf
Photo: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah attends an international peace and donor conference for Syria, at the European Union Council in Brussels, Belgium March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
With the Syrian civil war winding down, politicians and observers alike recognize that President Bashar al-Assad has managed to retain his position as Syria's head-of-state. Some countries have moved swiftly in acknowledging the outcome of the conflict by reinstating diplomatic ties with the Assad regime and reopening embassies in Damascus. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, which, to varying degrees, opposed Assad after the civil war erupted, are two salient examples of this trend.
Other countries in the region appear more hesitant in re-normalizing ties with Syria's government. The State of Kuwait is a case in point. The Kuwaiti leadership appears to have adopted a wait-and-see approach to the situation. Countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE have a vested interest in countering Iranian influence in the region. Kuwait, however, strives to maintain relative neutrality on most regional affairs, is less concerned about Iran's hand in the Levant, and more interested in a foreign policy that rests on the principles of multilateralism, diplomacy, while acting in concert with its closest Arab/Islamic allies and Western partners.
As the Arabian emirate has demonstrated through its mediation efforts during the ongoing Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) crisis, Kuwait is attached to the idea of multilateralism. Given its desire to remain neutral, multi-state organizations such as the GCC and the Arab League are important institutions that help Kuwait retain its influence in the region via a carefully crafted foreign policy that manages to resist pressure from larger powers in the neighborhood.
As a result, it is in Kuwait's interest to divert decisions such as the recognition of Assad to these multilateral institutions. This is reflected in Kuwait's rhetoric on the issue, stating that Kuwait City would wait for the Arab League's 'green light' before committing to any particular approach to Syria. As has become apparent since the league's latest meeting, there is not yet a consensus on readmitting Syria, although Assad himself recently claimed that most of the Gulf monarchies had come to a major understanding regarding Damascus.
Although multilateralism is one cornerstone of Kuwaiti foreign policy, the emirate's humanitarian policies may be considered as equally important and are often worn by the country's leading figures as a badge of honor. Since the Emir of Kuwait received the honorary award of 'Exemplary Humanitarian Leader' from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2014, the Kuwaitis have gone out of their way to both commemorate the occasion and uphold their reputation of generous humanitarian donors.
As a result, Kuwait has sought to present itself as a regional hub for humanitarian aid and reconstruction, for instance through the recent summit on the reconstruction of neighboring Iraq. It has attempted to play a similar role in Syria, donating large sums of money to international relief totaling more than USD 1.6 billion over the course of the conflict. At the same time, many of the international organizations that Kuwait supports, the most prominent of which being UN relief missions, claim that Assad actively targets innocent civilians and has been responsible for numerous humanitarian tragedies.
Furthermore, although the Kuwaiti delegation to the UN Human Rights Council did not explicitly mention the Assad government when discussing the targeting of civilians, it did decry the use of illegal weapons and the perpetration of war crimes and crimes against humanity. If Kuwait really does take itself seriously as a humanitarian bastion in the Gulf, it will find itself hard-pressed to recognize the regime which they themselves hold accountable for human suffering in Syria of epic proportions.
Apart from Kuwait's general opposition to recognizing Assad as the legitimate Syrian head-of-state, there are also several bilateral tensions which would give the Kuwaitis reason to pause. For example, in December 2018, Kuwaiti media obtained a list of terrorists and suspected financiers of terrorism in Syria, drafted by the Syrian government, which included thirty Kuwaitis. The inclusion of high level officials such as the Deputy Foreign Minister al-Jarallah and several Kuwaiti MPs on the list did not help relations between the countries. Although the Syrians would categorically deny the existence of the list, the damage appeared to have been done at that point already, as Kuwait slammed the Syrian charges as 'baffling' and 'slanderous'. Kuwait, for its part, also does not seem particularly fond of Assad's associates, as they recently arrested a long-time resident of Kuwait with close ties to the Assad regime on money laundering charges.
A final issue concerns the problematic aspect of Kuwait's parliament members funding terrorist organizations within Syria. Since the Kuwait 2016 elections, Sunni hardliners—which include Muslim Brotherhood members and Salafists—hold a significant number of seats in the National Assembly. As a result, members of these respective groups have often publicly opposed the Assad regime, claiming that Assad is a tool of the Russian and Iranian regimes that systematically represses Sunnis. These types of MPs support extremist groups and privately fund them. Kuwaiti monies donated to Syrian causes were augmented by local charity telethons on specific Kuwait television networks. Given the already fragile relations between the Kuwaiti government and the parliament due to the ongoing discussions regarding the sentencing of two MPs, the government will likely be reluctant to unilaterally engage with a topic as contentious as the future of the Assad regime.
Taking these considerations into account, Kuwait is likely to hold off on any decision related to Assad's legitimacy until a consensus has been reached in the Arab League. Although Kuwait does not appear overly fond of the Assad regime, it will likely not stand in the way of the League readmitting Assad. By appealing to a consensus among Arab states on the issue, Kuwait could avoid critique from both humanitarian organizations as well as its domestic constituencies, as these groups would be more likely to accept Kuwait following a multilateral decision than they would support its unilateral recognition of Assad. At the same time, not outright opposing Assad and allowing the re-entry of Syria into the Arab League would help Kuwait in fostering future relations with Syria. Since pan-Arabism and opposition to Israel are another cornerstone of Kuwait's foreign policy, a united front with Syria on both issues could greatly support Kuwait's ambitions on these topics. Time will tell as Syria moves to its next chapter.
Theodore Karasik is the senior advisor at Gulf State Analytics (@GulfStateAnalyt), a Washington, DC-based geopolitical risk consultancy. You can follow him on Twitter @Tkarasik.
Tristan Ober is an intern at Gulf State Analytics. You can follow him on Twitter @TP_Ober.


Another year to add onto my life.
27 was okay. I would say I didn't do anything too exciting, but in hindsight it was pretty good. I got married a month before my 27th birthday and went on my honeymoon. Celebrated friends getting married, sister graduating college, family members getting pregnant, etc. Celebrated Christmas with both our families for the first time. Went wine tasting multiple times. Went snowboarding twice after not going for 2 years (by the second trip I was more comfortable with my skills… almost like riding a bike.). Went to Vegas after a year and a half and saw a fight (Boxing). Bought a new car. Moved to a nicer place. Will start an awesome vacation a week before my birthday.
I did have a bucket list for my 27th year. Some of the items I wasn't able to do so hopefully I can this year. Here's that list along with additional items I'm adding on for my 28th year of life. I would hate to call this a resolution because I find these are more things I eventually want to do in life rather than things I need to do now. If I don't do them when I'm 28, I'll try again when I'm 29.
Get into stock market – although the economy is tanking again. LOL! So this one may be a good move now or something to ponder some more.
One thing that I'm not doing while I'm 27 and would like to do when I'm 28 (but probably won't) is to go to the Philippines. We were supposed to be there now. Instead we're touring Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. The reason being that it's rainy season there and with the 3 days of rain we had last year on our honeymoon and with all the natural disasters in the world, we didn't want to risk getting stuck in a typhoon or tsunami on our vacation. We wanted dry weather for this summer vacation.
So this year I will try to immerse myself with a little bit of everything like exercise, travel, classes, finance, and creativity – business venture and this blog.
Do you have a to do list for each year? Or is it more of a resolution?


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Inter's Diego Milito played for the first time after a long injury layoff.
Balzaretti burst into tears after opening the scoring, his first goal in Roma shirt. Lazio's Andre Dias got a straight red card for elbowing Totti less than 5 minutes after coming on as a sub, a bit harsh decision but Totti is a sacred cow in Italy. Ljajic sealed the victory with an injury time penalty. First derby win for Roma in two and a half years.
Balotelli had a penalty saved for the first time in his career. He also scored a beautiful (but worthless) goal in the injury time and then got sent off after the final whistle for an attempt to attack the ref, earning himself a three-match ban.
Milan were without Mario Balotelli who was serving the first of his 3-game suspension. Allegri's Milan are totally Balotelli-dependant so it was no wonder that two minutes from the end they were trailing by two goals. However, their chaotic attacks in the end allowed them to salvage a point. I wonder why Allegri is still the Milan coach, the management's belief in him is beyond my understanding.
Sassuolo earned their very first point in Serie A. While I knew Sassuolo weren't a bad side at all and just had been a bit unlucky not to get anything from the previous rounds, still this result is very unexpected. First points dropped by Napoli this season.
Roma have scored all their 12 league goals this season in second halfs. While coach Rudi Garcia gives his post-match interviews in reasonably good Italian, he claims he does not understand the Italian word scudetto. All right, it's really too early in the season and his side still hasn't faced neither Juve nor the Milan giants.
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MOCKSVILLE – Mr. Allen Ray Clontz, 67, of Williams Road, died Wednesday, December 1, 2021, at his home. He was born on March 18, 1954, in Rowan County, to the late Jasper Ray and Allen Roena Williams Clontz. Allen Ray retired from Ingersoll Rand with 40 years of service and was a member of the Mocksville Moose Lodge for many years. He had attended Believers Sonship Tabernacle. He enjoyed going to flea markets and loved his "treasures". Allen Ray enjoyed camping and loved horses as long as he was able. He loved to pick and joke and never met a stranger. He also loved tinkering with his hands and was always willing to help anyone at any time. Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Delores Link Clontz; two sons, Dustin Clontz (Gina) of Yadkinville and William Clontz of Mocksville; three grandchildren, Draco Clontz, Garrett Blevins and Corey Brill; two great-grandchildren, Olivia Edwards and Casey Blevins; a sister, Jane Foster of Mocksville; several nieces, nephews and cousins; and numerous friends. A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m., Saturday, December 4, at Eaton Funeral Chapel with Mrs. Sue Couch officiating. Interment will follow in Believers Sonship Tabernacle Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, December 3, at the funeral home. Memorials may be considered for American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312.
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The immigration wars that bitterly divided the GOP in 2007 and 2013 have made their way, as it was inevitable they would, into the 2016 Republican primary. An argument that began in a measured way during Tuesday evening's debate in Milwaukee carried over onto the campaign trail Thursday, with an intense back-and-forth between Florida senator Marco Rubio and Texas senator Ted Cruz, the candidates now viewed by many as the most likely prospects to win the Republican nomination.
Rubio's support for the failed Gang of Eight bill has made him vulnerable on immigration and Cruz is beginning to pummel him for it. That was to be expected. What is more surprising is that Rubio is hitting back, arguing in so many words that Cruz is as weak on the issue as he is. "I don't think our positions are dramatically different," he told reporters in South Carolina on Thursday. "Ted is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally."
For a candidate like Cruz, whose campaign is devoted to uniting the conservative grassroots by running as an ideological purist, it was the equivalent of the dropping of a nuclear bomb. Cruz had repudiated that position at Tuesday evening's debate in Milwaukee. "It is not compassionate to say we're not going to enforce the laws," he said, "and we're going to drive down the wages for millions of hardworking men and women." The view that both legal and illegal immigration are depressing wages for lower- and middle-class Americans is popular among the sorts of conservatives Cruz counts as his most fervent supporters.
What Rubio was referring to was Cruz's support, during the 2013 debate over the Gang of Eight bill, for increasing levels of legal immigration, and his introduction of an amendment during that debate that would have removed the language in the bill that granted citizenship to those here illegally but nonetheless allowed them to remain in the country with legal status. That's essentially the position proposed by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has been widely pilloried for his views on immigration, in his 2014 book. So Rubio's charge has Cruz fending off an attack from the right, a rare circumstance for him that explains the hit's special potency as well as Cruz's furious response.
Rubio's charge has Cruz fending off an attack from the right, a rare circumstance for him
Cruz's amendment would have introduced a process by which those in the country illegally could have applied for legal status after a three-year period during which border security was increased. "The 11 million who are here illegally would be granted legal status once the border was secured — not before — but after the border was secured, they would be granted legal status," he told National Public Radio in June 2013. "And indeed, they would be eligible for permanent legal residency. But they would not be eligible for citizenship." The New York Times called that view a "middle ground" between the views of hawks such as Alabama's Jeff Sessions and doves such as Rubio and Jeb Bush.
The Cruz campaign says the amendment was intended to scuttle the Gang of Eight bill and does not reflect the senator's views — an explanation to which strong opponents of the immigration bill are sympathetic. "As I saw it, it was a ploy to try to stop the bill, in the hopes that it might pass with Republican votes but then turn off enough Democrats to kill the overall bill," says Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, a leading immigration hawk. "It didn't work, but I can't say I wouldn't have tried the amendment thing in his position."
The Cruz campaign says the amendment was introduced as a poison pill intended to kill the bill. "Senator Cruz's strategy against the Gang of Eight Bill successfully exposed the bill for the amnesty it was and, because of that, the House didn't take up the bill and it never passed Congress," says a Cruz adviser. "It effectively turned the table against Democrats to make immigration a positive issue for Republicans in 2014."
Cruz has also been a vocal supporter of increasing legal-immigration levels, particularly for high-skilled workers. He proposed two more amendments to the 2013 immigration bill that would have increased the number of both legal immigrants and high-skilled immigrants allowed into the country. "I am an unapologetic advocate of legal immigration," he told the Washington Examiner's Byron York at the time.
#share#In an about-face, Cruz now says he does not support an increase in the number of H-1B visas granted to high-skilled immigrants, nor does he support an increase in the number of foreign workers as a whole. "I don't believe that's a good idea," he told conservative talk-radio host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday.
Rubio, who has enormous exposure on immigration, obviously isn't well-positioned to hit anyone else on the issue. But he hopes to bring to bear new information about Cruz, and some say that he has opened a line of attack that others may pick up.
"I think this really gets to be problematic if a guy like Trump latches onto this issue and really tries to drive it home," says Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Iowa GOP and the editor-in-chief of The Iowa Republican.
#related#Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who has tried to target blue-collar conservatives on the campaign trail, is already on the case.
"He picked a fight he can't win," Santorum communications director Matt Beynon says of Cruz. "It was just astounding that Senator Cruz put his immigration platform under the context of fighting for the American worker at the Fox Business debate. His proposals do exactly the opposite. They're hurting the American worker."
Not everyone sees Cruz's past statements as a problem for him.
"At least from my perspective, I don't see that as Cruz weakening on immigration; I would see that as Cruz hopefully trying to provide leadership on immigration," says Bob Vander Plaats, president of The Family Leader, an influential Iowa-based conservative group.
"I think what everybody wants is they want some solutions to the illegal-immigration issue, and then a 21st-century immigration policy. And so if Cruz is coming up with a 21st-century immigration policy, I see that as a step forward," he says.
By creating a controversy over somebody else's position on immigration, rather than his own, Rubio has executed a bit of political jujitsu. Whether or not it's enough to blunt the coming assault from Cruz and others is one of the key questions of the next phase of the campaign.
— Eliana Johnson is Washington editor for National Review. Alexis Levinson is the senior political reporter for National Review.
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Q: How to find the CPU memory utilization of a Windows 2008 server We have an issue with sharepoint was running slow on yesterday. Now to troubleshoot this, i would like to know the CPU utilization for yesterday(for example from 10AM to 12AM) on the server. How to get this report.
Thanks in advance.
Sivakumar. P

A: You can't.  That information isn't recorded unless you record it, so that information does not exist anymore.
If you want to set it up going forward, you do it through Computer Management -> Performance -> Data Collector Sets.  As mentioned, collecting this information will increase the serve load slightly (and consume disk space), but once setup, you can then access historical data under the Reports section.
Real time data can be monitored with Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe), also found in the Performance sections of Computer Management, under Monitoring Tools.

A: As Jay already said one way to do this is setting up a performance log.
The easiest way to get there is entering perfmon or perfmon.msc in your command line or execute dialog (Windows key + R)
There you can set up a new log (protocols item in the tree view) and select the items you want to log and the interval of how often they are supposed to be logged - as well as the output format of your log. And of course the time span the log shall be conducted.
Saving it as comma separated values has the advantage of being easily restructured in a table using Excel or similar programs

A: google "logman.exe" for command-line friendly ways to go about this on multiple servers.

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I plan to attend a photography workshop each year in order to keep pushing my own work forward. Browsing over various workshops taking place this winter I was delighted when I discovered Jan Scholz & Ryan Muirhead, two photographers whose work I admire greatly, announced they would be holding a two day workshop in Tenerife. Jan & Ryan are known for their beautiful film images and this workshop centred around shooting with film. Whilst I do shoot film fairly regularly it's mostly for personal work. I love the fact that shooting film with old, sometimes rather quirky cameras takes me far away from my everyday professional work. I was interested to see how more experienced film photographers approached their craft and see if I could pick up some tips along the way.
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Until the 1950s, fashion clothing was predominately designed and manufactured on a made-to-measure or haute couture basis (French for high-sewing), with each garment being created for a specific client. A couture garment is made to order for an individual customer, and is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric, sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. Look and fit take priority over the cost of materials and the time it takes to make.[2][3] Due to the high cost of each garment, haute couture makes little direct profit for the fashion houses, but is important for prestige and publicity.[4]
Chic is characterized by being trendy and fashionable. It is a type of statement to make oneself look smart and striking. Whoever follows this style makes sure to choose well tailored stylish designs that are pretty classy. Strong colors which are not extravagant, comes as a part of the chic style. It is something that relates to being casual in not so casual way. If you are part of this style, your wardrobe is a symbol of style.
Ottavio Missoni started their own fashion design company with his wife Rosita. First they started with stripes, the easiest design which could be made with the ch. They use up to twenty different fabrics, including wool, cotton, linen, rayon and silk and some 40 different colours for each of their collections. Their clothes range from sweaters to skirts, dresses and jackets. Ottavio Missoni has also diversified from clothes to tapestries and carpets. Ottavio died last year leaving Rosita being the head of the business.
Growing up, Lauren was encouraged by his mother to become a rabbi, but he chose a much different course. Influenced by the easy, preppy elegance of the country club set, as well as the glamour of old Hollywood, he chose to emulate the work of Brooks Brothers and other WASP-y retailers, creating a look that seemed to embody easy American elegance. His interest in luxury, refinement and a certain "taste level" put a different spin on the staid classics of the past.
Fashion design is customarily deemed to have started in the 19th century with Charles Frederick Worth was the first to have his decal sewn into garments. Fashion designers stab to design clothes which are serviceable as well as aesthetically pleasing. They deliberate who likes to wear a garment is. Fashion designers can vocation in a number of many ways.
Born in August of 1883, Gabrielle Chanel was a French native who was destined to liberate women from the constraints of corsets and other uncomfortable garments. A true rebel and visionary, Chanel, who changed her name to Coco after a brief career as a singer, preferred to wear clothes she could move freely in; often, her style were imbued with a mannish aesthetic. Indeed, Coco Chanel, who designed her first cardigan to avoid pulling any garment over her head, was really the originator of modern women's sportswear. Her desire for freedom and self-expression gave women style without sacrifice…
"Butter-yellow hues offered a fresh new palette for the season, with brands incorporating head-to-toe looks in the shade across tailoring, eveningwear and outerwear, from Max Mara's layering look to Jil Sander's knitted styles," says Tiffany Hsu, fashion buying director at Mytheresa. "I loved Jaquemus's power suit, which is a great workwear option worn with heels and one of his statement mini-bags. This color is the ideal alternative for minimalists—an alternative to classic black and beige hues, it lifts an outfit without being overly colorful."
Every collection of this talented designer is doomed for success. His works can be unhesitatingly called masterpieces: he's never afraid of expressing himself in the wackiest, the most sophisticated, out-of-this-world shapes and colors. Pierre Cardin is the inventor of the 'bubble dress'. His works can be easily told from the others: Cardin's models look like they've come out from the SCI-FI novels :).
"Last year was all about the midi dress, but for A/W 19, it's all about the minidress," says Laura Larbalestier, Group Fashion Buying Director at Harvey Nichols. "We have exciting new launches at Harvey Nichols from Retrofete, Rotate and Giuseppe di Morabito, which all involve impactful looks with mini hemlines." Newbie labels are clearly backing shorter hemlines, but the trend also has the strong support coming in from the industry's sassiest established fashion houses, such as Saint Laurent: Anthony Vaccarello's vision for the French brand was nothing if not a total lesson in getting your legs out.
To continue the designing process, different skills, knowledge, educational experiences are required. Personal judgments, inspiration, concept development and decision making are needed to select and reject ideas. Here I will show quick research exercise flowchart that will help you to research easily. From the following flow chart you may choose one or more elements from each level to start new designing.
Teddy-bear coats rose to fashion fame last year, reportedly being 1000% more popular than the winter prior. And now the ongoing trend for fur alternatives powers on, generating fluffy things for every part of your look. Chubby coats in neutral colours will undoubtedly be the most wearable part of this all-encompassing trend, but don't be surprised if your fashion friends start wearing shoes with shearling on the outside rather than the lining, or a mad winter hat rendered from shaggy faux fur.
One of the world's most successful fashion designers, Diane von Fürstenberg impressed the fashion world when she introduced her now-iconic "wrap dress" for the working woman in 1972. Elegance, ease, and accessibility have always been the core of her design philosophy, which has allowed her to turn DVF into a global luxury lifestyle brand. In 2005, she became the recipient of the CFDA's Lifetime Achievement Award.
If there could be such a thing as Big Dress Energy, the A/W 19 runways were absolutely chock-full of it. Avant garde eveningwear has become a focus for many brands, both those known for their elaborate after-dark looks (say, Rodarte) and those who are usually more casual (Y/Project). It's all about volume, drama, embellishment, rich colours, and as much satin and tulle as you can get your hands on. Sure, the hyped-up and hugely Instagrammable frilled dress explosions created by Tomo Koizumo won't literally slide effortlessly into your wardrobe, but the mantra of more is more will definitely influence the party season.
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury." No quote could be more appropriate from the woman who gave us the little black dress. Born August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France, Coco Chanel is famous for her timeless designs, trademark suits, and little black dresses. Chanel had a brief career as a singer before opening her first clothes shop in 1910. In the 1920s, she launched her first perfume and introduced the Chanel suit and the little black dress.


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2016 Audi RS6 Avant Performance review
Disappointed that the Audi RS6 Avant has less power than its predecessor? The new 597bhp Performance version should sort that out
Audi RS6 Avant
Performance behemoth sheds two cylinders. Is that progress for the mighty Audi RS6?
2016 Audi RS6 Avant Performance UK review
Already monstrously fast Audi RS6 gets yet more power for even more hooliganism but is no more relevant on UK roads
by Alan Taylor-Jones
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Audi has a long, if not entirely illustrious, history of making estate cars fast enough to make your dog feel very queasy indeed. While the B7 RS4 Avant from a couple of generations ago was widely regarded as a high point for fast Audis, there have been far more misses than hits.
The RS6 Avant has long been the perfect example of how the German brand falls a little short of making a truly great performance car. While you can't argue with the sheer amount of power on offer or the usability quattro brings, they've proved to be numb and often spine-shatteringly firm in the UK.
So what's changed, then? Well, the RS6 Avant has received the Performance treatment that's also available on the RS Q3. In the RS6, that ramps horsepower up from a potent 552bhp to a supercar-worrying 597bhp. Torque is normally 516Ib ft, but the Performance pack adds an overboost function that briefly increases this to 553Ib ft.
Furthermore, we've finally got our hands on a car running the standard air suspension set-up. Considering how uncomfortable the optional steel springs made things, the RS6 Avant could finally come good here.
What's it like?
Despite weighing more than two tonnes and being capable of moving the entire contents of your typical bedsit in one hit, the RS6 Performance is explosively fast. There's no launch control, yet it still fires you away from a standstill with an addictive savagery. The bellowing V8 makes a fitting soundtrack, too.
Audi claims 0-62mph in 3.7sec, while our experience – and timing gear when strapped to the standard RS6 – suggests that it'll reel off 0-100mph in comfortably less than nine seconds. On the road, you really can't keep your foot buried for very long at all before you'll fear for your licence.
What really impresses is how usable this performance is. In the dry and on asphalt that isn't too craggy, it barely wastes a single horsepower even when you're being brutal with your throttle application. In the wet, you do see the traction control light flicker more regularly, but it's nowhere near as lairy as a Mercedes-AMG E 63 estate.
That, unsurprisingly, means it's nowhere near as playful as the big Mercedes, either. There may be a sports differential out back and a rearward bias to the torque split, but you still won't be drifting the RS6 Avant.
Understeer dominates the experience; even stamping on the throttle in the wet with steering lock on will give you, at most, a twitch of the rear. After that, the driveline fires the torque to the front axle to drag you out of the slide as quickly as possible.
The air springs are a definite improvement over the conventional coils, though. There's precious little roll when pushing on, yet the car still copes admirably with the kind of British B-road that traditionally unravelled RS6s. It's still firm, but the car seems to move with the surface instead of trying to flatten it like a turbocharged road roller.
One area that we always felt needed attention was the steering; despite this, there have been no changes to the electromechanical system. If there's any feel at all, we certainly didn't find it, leaving you guessing as to what the front wheels are doing. It may be accurate, but it just doesn't involve you like the best performance cars.
More impressive is the eight-speed automatic gearbox, which is capable of swift shifts when you're trying to embarrass exotica but proves delightfully smooth under normal use. There are paddles for you to take manual control, but there is sometimes a delay between you selecting a gear and the gearbox actually delivering it.
Of course, it's not just the driving experience that might tempt you into the RS6. While it has one of Audi's older interiors, it's still a great place to sit. Material quality is excellent and it looks good in a sober, Germanic way. Rear space is more than adequate for all but the tallest of adults and the load bay is huge.
Should I buy one?
We can certainly understand why someone might opt for an RS6 Avant Performance. For a start, there's no other standard estate that's faster, yet it's still capable of being driven briskly in any weather conditions. As an everyday car for effortlessly crossing country, it's very impressive.
The problem is that the best performance cars are more than just impressive. They should connect and engage with you; they should be the kind of car you look longingly at and desperately think of excuses to drive. This is something the RS6 has never been able to do. This model changes nothing in that respect.
Are we missing the point, though? There is the argument that the person that can spend £86,000 on a fast estate and then deal with the running costs probably doesn't have this as an only car. If you already own a wheeled adrenalin pump and just want the quickest and easiest way to cart five people and all their luggage from point A to point B, the RS6 Avant Performance fills that role perfectly.
2016 Audi RS6 Avant Performance
Location Bedfordshire; On sale Now; Price £86,000; Engine V8, 3993cc, twin-turbo, petrol; Power 597bhp at 6100-6800rpm; Torque 516lb ft at 1750-6000rpm; Gearbox 8-spd automatic; Kerb weight 2025kg; Top speed 155mph; 0-62mph 3.7sec; Economy 29.4mpg (combined); CO2/tax band 223g/km, 37%
Predictable Autocar
Had to get half way through before it reared its Autocar gripe - the steering. This is just unreal. I am not saying it could not be improved by VAG but really you overdo it - having driven this recently in St Petersburg (friend swapped his X6 for it because I threatened to stop talking to him till he got shot of the X6)and suburbs - I didnt find this to be any more issue than the Merc AMG is at the other end of the scale being too heavy for my taste. Of the two Audi still wins it by many margins
what's life without imagination
BillGreen0_0
Splitting hairs...
...that's all it is. I have a 2014 E63 S Estate which I really like (obviously rwd), tried the RS6 and really liked that, too. Different for sure, but better, worse...almost impossible to say. I could live with either, but maybe I'm just not discerning enough.
One for the lottery win, yes
One for the lottery win, yes please. I think Autocar slightly miss the point and the final paragraph sums up why people run these cars. UK sales hover around 1,000 which is impressive considering what they cost (and lose). Another car where sales and desirability far outstrip their magazine rating.
DBtechnician
Sold on looks,,,,
I suspect many of these are purchased on how it looks, I know this is subjective but for me it looks very nice. If it was just on performance then there are other options. If it was just sold on being fast and very practical then same applies. I guess many just like the way it looks and if that floats your boat then why not. Win for Audi and their lucky owners.
Offence can only be taken not given- so give it back!
Van Nistelrooy
"They should connect and
"They should connect and engage with you; they should be the kind of car you look longingly at and desperately think of excuses to drive. This is something the RS6 has never been able to do. "
Ah... it doesn't have "that something"... And I'm sure Jaguar XF-R will have "that something" and deserve the 5 star rating. Meanwhile, it will be behind in all measurable categories.
typos1
Autocar are right - generally
Autocar are right - generally Audis from the A4 up are feel less, involving, understeery, hard riding cars that dont connect with the driver, thats just the way it is.
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Lol, I meant "uninvolving"
Lol, I meant "uninvolving" why did they remove the edit feature ?
eseaton
Yes, Autocar are correct.
Yes, Autocar are correct. Apart my 2006 RS4, every single Audi I have driven or experienced has given far too much of the wrong sort of feeling, and far too little of right.


Then as now, I made endless resolutions to avoid masturbation, though I can see nothing wrong in the mutual act of two persons drawn together by love.
Furthermore, divorces are expensive and men may lack stability making it difficult to nurture the relationship.
When Tanya asked me and I told her I couldn't hold back much longer.
He was then sent to the Cook Insane Hospital. That simple little phrase is enough to make men the world over pull their hair out in frustration. Ok, I may be exaggerating the degree of passivity expected from women, but certainly not by much.


Recruiting Trail is a weekly feature highlighting college offers and commitments from the area's top high school athletes.
Michael Mayer remains one of the Cincinnati-area's biggest football prospects in the 2020 class – but his recruitment went into the stratosphere April 2.
Alabama offered the Covington Catholic tight end on Monday helping him cement his place as one of top – if not the top – recruits at his position in the nation. But the offers did not end there for the 6-foot-5, 235-pound sophomore; he also added an offer from Nebraska April 4. The offers from the Crimson Tide and the Cornhuskers join an ever-growing list of who's who in college football including Notre Dame, LSU, Michigan and Penn State to name just a few. Per 247sports.com Mayer is set to visit Ohio State and Michigan later this month and already took a trip to Penn State at the end of March.
At Beechwood Adam Derry continues to garner Division I football interest as well. The 2019 offensive lineman picked up his sixth DI offer April 4. Derry's newest offer comes from Fordham. The Rams join a list that includes Ball State, Eastern Kentucky, Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee and Yale. Derry anchored an offensive line that helped propel one of Kentucky's best offenses last season. The 6-foot-3, 275-pound Derry played at both guard and tackle last season but could move to center at the college level. On the defensive side of the ball, he was a terror for opposing offenses at tackle.
In the Buckeye state, 2019 Deer Park tight end/defensive end Joseph Hocker continues to attract attention from Mid-American Conference schools. Hocker's newest offer came April 2 from Akron. The Zips are the fourth team to offer the Wildcat standout joining Bowling Green as well as Eastern Kentucky and Elon. At 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds, Hocker was a double-double machine during Deer Park's run to the state basketball championship this winter. His combination of size and athleticism have college coaches taking notice so don't be surprised if he adds a few more offers over the course of his final year at Deer Park.


Bessie Blount, was a physical therapist who worked with soldiers injured in W.W.II. Bessie Blount's war service inspired her to patent a device, in 1951, that allowed amputees to feed themselves.
The electrical device allowed a tube to deliver one mouthful of food at a time to a patient in a wheelchair or in a bed whenever he or she bit down on the tube. She later invented a portable receptacle support that was a simpler and smaller version of the same, designed to be worn around a patient's neck.


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We acknowledge the gift of Ida Tarbell ....
As we enter this New Year of 2021, we acknowledge a new source for our own inspiration in this continuing work, by the pioneering investigative journalism created by Ida Tarbell.
It was Ida Tarbell whose influence caused us to move the scope of this work back in time beyond its original limited boundary. We were influenced by Ida's own words that she wrote and published back in the so-called 'Gilded Age'.
We had already discovered the influence of Herman Brown and his brother, and they have had a major impact on our research into reasons for the arrival of offshore broadcasting in the North Sea. But it was Ida's "muckraking", as President Teddy Roosevelt called the 'boodling' revelations of her colleagues, and Ida's own investigative examination of the Trust created by John D. Rockefeller, that turned our own attention to the key subject of oil.
It is oil from on land and under the sea which has created our modern world of gadgetry and transportation, and without oil our Modern Age could not have developed in the way it has. But oil is more than the lubricant that make 'things' work, it is also the means by which huge wealth has been privately assembled to buy influence that controls our political world.
Thank you Ida Tarbell for not only revealing this basic truth to us, because in so doing you have helped us to assemble a gigantic jigsaw puzzle and see the really big picture.
Ida, you also provided additional proof and inspiration - especially for women - to show that anyone can succeed, even when Society tries to block your path.


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Q: In App Engine, Is there a way to get all the children entities without including the parent Entity of the same type? Here's this parent-child structure of Datastore
+ Entity:Place,ID:1 {'name':'Derp Region','type':'region'}
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+---+ Entity:Place,ID:1a {'name':'Derpina Province','type','province'}
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+---+ Entity:Place,ID:1b {'name':'Banana Province','type','province'}
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+---+ Entity:Place,ID:1c {'name':'Potato Province','type','province'}

and when tried to get the children places of Derp Region, it included Derp Region in the returned data like so:
Derp Region
Derpina Province
Banana Province
Potato Province

which shouldn't be the case. Is this expected due to the reason that they have the same Entity type?
Insertion Code
DatastoreService datastore = DatastoreServiceFactory.getDatastoreService();

Entity place = new Entity( "Place" , "1" );
place.setProperty( "name" , "Derp Region" );
place.setProperty( "type" , "region" );
datastore.put( place );

Key parentKey = KeyFactory.createKey( "Place" , "1" );

Entity placeA = new Entity( "Place" , "1a" , parentKey );
placeA.setProperty( "name" , "Derpina Province" );
placeA.setProperty( "type" , "province" );
datastore.put( placeA );

Entity placeB = new Entity( "Place" , "1b" , parentKey );
placeB.setProperty( "name" , "Banana Province" );
placeB.setProperty( "type" , "province" );
datastore.put( placeB );

Entity placeC = new Entity( "Place" , "1c" , parentKey );
placeC.setProperty( "name" , "Potato Province" );
placeC.setProperty( "type" , "province" );
datastore.put( placeC );

Query Code
DatastoreService datastore = DatastoreServiceFactory.getDatastoreService();

Key parentKey = KeyFactory.createKey("Place", "1" );

Query placeQuery = new Query( "Place" ).setAncestor( parentKey ).addSort( "name" , SortDirection.ASCENDING );

PreparedQuery preparedQuery = datastore.prepare( placeQuery );

for( Entity result : preparedQuery.asIterable() )
    {
    resp.getWriter().println( result.getProperty( "name" ) );
    }

Is there a way to get all the children entities without including the parent Entity of the same type?

A: An 'ancestor query' is not a 'child query' - although it is similar. Think of entity groups as trees and Cloud Datastore as a Key-Tree Document database (rather than just a Key-Value or Document database).
An ancestor query is one that says "Get me every entity in this tree matching these conditions". "This tree" is the one specified by parentKey and your condition is "Kind = Place". Once you understand this concept, it becomes clearer how this type of query differs from a "child query".
Often, this can be ignored because parentKey won't match the Kind condition. This is the first solution: Make parent and children entities have different kinds - such as PlaceRegion and PlaceProvince, or if type isn't tied to parent Place and PlaceChild
The second solution is via indexing. Add an integer field called level, and assign it a value depending on its level in the tree. 1 = the root/parent, 2 = the immediate child. Create composite indexes including this level field and now you can issue queries with the condition level = 2 to perform a child query.
The third solution is simply post filter by key = parentKey and discarding the parent.


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Some of us always work with background music, some of us can't. Let's shed some light on what science tells us about music and focus.
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Shih, Y.N., Chien, W.H., Chiang, H.S. (2016). Elucidating the relationship between work attention performance and emotions arising from listening to music. Work, 55(2), 489-494.
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Florida voter fraud crackdown finally snares a live one
by Elise Roedenbeck on June 1, 2012 in El Now, Pocho Ñews Service
Mr. ChaCha is remorseful
(PNS reporting from LA FLORIDA) Even as the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to shut down Florida's effort to disenfranchise voters, state officials are overjoyed that their purge of voter role has finally nabbed a real fraud, even if their case is a dog.
Much to the relief of Republican witch-hunters who were under fire for challenging the eligibility to vote of war veterans, grandmothers and local heroes, a French Bulldog puppy named Mr. ChaCha was charged on Tuesday for voting fraudulently in a local Miami election last year.
The eight-month-old pup snuck into a neighborhood high school, sniffed the ballot and then pulled the lever for Hammad Jose de Marx, the Green Party candidate for Dade County Residential Service Officer, according to poll watchers. "Though Mr. ChaCha's motives are unclear, one fact is clear: Voter fraud is real," an election board spokesman said.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott has unleashed a massive voter purge targeting residents suspected of being Fascist Socialist illegal immigrants who believe in Evolution. Over 2600 voters have been ruled ineligible to vote for assorted reasons.
Cute puppy or not, Scott is no fan of Mr. ChaCha:
Clearly, he's a Socialist. He is French after all. I doubt he was born in America. Stepping in dog doo like his could really stink up an election!
Republicans have been very vocal about the threat of French Bulldog voter fraud. The breed's popularity has grown exponentially, creating a massive population boom in more urban areas prone to voting with the Democrats.
"These fancy city-dwellers want us to play fetch with their liberal agenda. I, for one, say bad dog," former governor Jeb Bush told a local TV station.
Bush blamed the liberal media for the fraud epidemic:
The liberal media has made it cool to breed French Bulldogs and what does that get us? Undocumented anchor puppies just hankering to bark the vote.
Although Mr. ChaCha's owner presented a long-form AKC certificate that stated the pup was born in Oviedo, FL, neither Scott nor Republican pedigree professor Donald Trump were convinced. "I'm not saying I'm a birther, I just don't believe Mr. ChaCha is a real American," Trump said.
In light of his age, Mr. ChaCha was spared the harsher punishment of deportation to France and sentenced to ten minutes of time out.
"He is deeply remorseful for his actions as you can tell by looking at his sad puppy dog eyes," the owner told officials. "And who left that turd in the hallway?"
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Kapitsa Memorial Evening
SPRI was host to a Memorial Evening on 24 May 2013 at which many friends and colleagues gathered to remember the lives of Sergei and Andrei Kapitsa. Sergei (1928-2012) and Andrei (1931-1911) were the sons of the Nobel laureate physicist Pyotr Kapitsa (1894-1984) and were themselves highly distinguished scientists with a strong connection to Cambridge, both having been born in the city. Andrei Kapitsa had a long-term connection to SPRI, dating back to the 1960s and reactivated in the 1990s when he began a collaboration with Gareth Rees into the use of satellite remote sensing methods to investigate environmental change in arctic regions. That collaboration between SPRI and the Geography Faculty of Moscow State University continues and develops to this day, with strong links between the two organisations originating in Andrei's involvement with SPRI.
Both Sergei and Andrei Kapitsa were active in strengthening the Russian community in Cambridge, and it was a pleasure to see so many people at the Memorial Evening. The event was organised by Tanya Yurasova, Ksenia Afonina and Isabella Warren. Talks were given by family, friends and colleagues of the Kapitsa brothers.
Text by Dr W Gareth Rees, Polar Landscape and Remote Sensing Group, SPRI
Photos by kind permission.
30th May 2013 by Webmaster


The Super Bowl 50 halftime show was an interesting performance (because what else would you expect to come from sticking Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, and Chris Martin all on the same stage?). Beyoncé was fierce as ever, though, and looked amazing (nobody is surprised). One thing that most people missed at first, though, was how Beyoncé channeled Michael Jackson during the halftime show. Her black-and-gold leotard would have been gorgeous on its own, but was made even better when CBS revealed that it was a tribute to Jackson's Super Bowl XXVII performance. Queen of pop, meet the King.
Jackson gave a stellar halftime performance in 1993, and it often makes lists of top halftime shows in Super Bowl history. He was the first solo act to take on the halftime show, and viewership actually increased when he took the stage, according to Metro. Because it was Michael Jackson.
If anyone could don his threads, it'd be Beyoncé the day after releasing her call-to-action song "Formation." Between her fashionable nod to Jackson's legacy, the clips of Whitney Houston singing the anthem, and Bruno Mars killing it on stage? The Super Bowl did a great job of pulling past and present together to give viewers all the feels.
Take a look at the subtle tribute Beyoncé gave the king of pop below.
Needless to say, the internet loved it.
Thank you, Super Bowl. Now that was a much better throwback than Chris Martin's jacket. Long live the king.


Finally! My ecu is flashed. Purchased the kit on 8/24/2018. After a harness recalled, software issues, endless troubleshooting over email and ship my ecu in. It's done.
I'm using the power commander map for full exhaust.
Only ride for 10 minutes tonight. But everything is smooth. If any of you want to flash your ecu. I will let you borrow the kit.
Harness issue...uhh...that would drive me nuts because you would expect the company sorted things out before shipping. So am I understanding you correctly...the ECU needed to be shipped to FTECU because the flash you tried to do broke (bricked) your ECU?
If any of you want to flash your ecu. I will let you borrow the kit.
My ecu wasn't "broke (bricked)". Like it said in my previous post. I'm keep getting fail selecting device. The software is fail to recognize my ecu. So to fix the problem ftecu need to find an ecu. I send my ecu in so they can update the software.
Ps. You know what burn a hole in your engine? Not having the right air fuel mixture. If my engine for having the right air to fuel ratio, I think I maybe the first person. I have been think about swapping ninja 1000 engine into the Z900. Now that I have access to the ecu so if my engine blow up, perfect excuse to do the swap.
Ive got a 1239 to here in Canada and flash it with the 1240 tunes. Ive got no problem at all.
Don't have FT for the Z. The Z900 is pretty new with them, they only recently added it. Their bread and butter has been Yamaha.
Did you verify with them your specific ECU number is supported? I think Kawi makes 4 different ECU's. As a reference, mine is the 1239 (which ironically, I can't find a tune for that).