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Chambers Launch 'City Regions Ireland' With Eoghan Murphy Meeting
By Chamber Press Office, 29 November 2018
City Regions Ireland - a new group bringing together the Chambers of Commerce of Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford - today met with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Urban Development Eoghan Murphy TD to outline what is needed to safeguard an ambitious urban future for Ireland's City Regions.
The 5 cities, identified by the National Planning Framework, Ireland 2040, have devised a document detailing the following 8 principles, spanning infrastructure, housing, and planning to inform policy making, maximise growth, and tackle the common issues and opportunities in our urban regions.
City Regions Ireland is made up of Cork Chamber, Dublin Chamber, Galway Chamber, Limerick Chamber and Waterford Chamber, all members of Chambers Ireland.
City Regions Ireland's 8 principles call on policymakers to;
Plan for Core Density & Reduce Urban Sprawl
Increase Housing Supply
Support International Connectivity through our Ports and Airports
Develop Transport Infrastructure to Connect our Cities
Invest in Public Transport
Create Destinations of Higher Education
Rejuvenate our City Centres
Manage Water and Waste
City Regions Ireland is working for the common goal of ensuring the country's 5 cities are developed sustainably as the national and regional economic engines and to support a population projected in the National Planning Framework to grow by 25% in Dublin and 50% in the other four cities out to 2040.
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Urban Planning Eoghan Murphy commented on the new City Regions Ireland group;
"It's essential that we as a country recognise the important part that our cities play in driving our national economy, they are centres of business, culture, education and innovation for everyone, and not just for those who live in them. I'm happy to see that Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford have come together for the collective betterment of urban Ireland, and I look forward to working with City Regions Ireland to ensure that our cities grow and develop sustainably into the future."
Speaking on behalf of City Regions Ireland, Dublin Chamber CEO Mary Rose Burke said; "For too long urban Ireland has been badly in need of a unified voice calling for what all of our cities require, calling for sustainability and to be effectively planned as cities that people can live, play and do business in. Today, City Regions Ireland has been launched to remedy this and to give our cities a clear urban agenda incorporating every aspect of city planning from housing and core density to public transport and international connectivity. Ireland's 5 city regions have been identified as the economic engines of the country in the National Planning Framework and City Regions Ireland has come together under the common goal of ensuring the cities of Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford are developed with the coordination and intent of real urban planning."


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Characters: Ghost, Katie, Optimus Prime
Location: Earth, South Central US
TP: Non-TP
Summary: Chance encounter in the desert results in an odd moment of time.
As logged by Ghost
t universe - Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 9:00 PM
South Central United States - North America
Lying in almost the dead center of the southern half of the United States, most of the area here is taken up by Texas. Easily one of the biggest states in the country, Texas is a major hub for US industries dealing in electronics and information services. Most of the farmland is used for raising cattle and growing cotton, and many also serve as dude ranches for vacationers looking for fun living like a cowboy for a few days. Massive oil wells rise over the landscape as well, churning with oil-pumping power. Above it is the smaller, pan-shaped Oklahoma, which is also rich with oil and farmland.
Red Kenworth Tractor Trailer is rolling across the open plains of the south central states, leading a convoy of Terran trucks carrying something of obvious value. Not sure what exactly, but the fact that Prime is helping to ensure security must mean something.
Katie is off in Oklahoma next to her truck, out in the open, though not far from the main roads.
Ghost is not on a mission of any kind, simply flying over the countryside, enjoying the view and considering the variances in surface styles that prevail on this, her second home.
Red Kenworth Tractor Trailer continues along a highway, lord only knows which one. The Convoy slows as it nears a truck stop, likely a scheduled rest stop for the group to refresh themselves and get much needed sustenance. Prime himself leads them into the parking lot, taking the first spot to keep a watch on the trucks.
Ghost finds herself following a ribbon of blackened asphalt, quietly tracking the tail lights of a transfer truck. She pulls back into a hover, peering down the forlorn highway to see the twinkling lights of a fill station.. Thoughts roam about in her mind and a momentary sense of mischievousness emerges as she flies towards the station, mentally remembering where she stashed something slightly important to this particular idea.
Red Kenworth Tractor Trailer settles into his parking space and removes his trailer, proceeding to transform into Robot mode while the humans head into the rest stop and take care of business.
The semi's trailer detaches as the cab leaps upward. The truck begins to unfold, and the mighty Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, lands on his feet.
Tetra Interceptor transforms, allowing her airspeed to diminish to the point where antigrav kicks on. With a blatant flare of said engines, she circles the truck stop once before dropping to land. The craft touches down behind a transfer truck and taxies after it, as if looking for a parking spot.
Optimus Prime isn't completely unaware, and as the other robot settles to the ground he immediately goes defensive, "Halt..." his voice rings out deep and true, "Who goes there." his optics look over Ghost carefully, a faint flicker of recognition tugging at the back of his mind...
Tetra Interceptor settles into the parking spot, letting engines cool before transforming back up, resting a hand on a hip and peering at optimus with a crooked grin on her face. She doesn't reply immediately, just stares with that grin. "Just a Ghost."
With a rapid series of panels unfolding, some seeming to simply dissolve, Ghost reforms into a tall, sleek femme.
Optimus Prime narrows his optics, "Ah yes... a 'ghost'. The one Uplift has had trouble with..." he straightens, arms settling at his sides, "What is your business here?"
Ghost looks around before looking back at Prime. "Refueling. This is a standard terran refueling location, is it not?"
Katie keeps sitting near her truck, a ways away, but not too far, not noticing the other too... yet.
Optimus Prime narrows his optics, "It's for trucks and automobiles, not hostile cybertronians." he replies evenly, "Or rather, potentially hostile cybertronians."
Ghost lifts a brow, "It is a place for *paying* clientele, Optimus. Of that which I am." She grins briefly, the expression not changing the slightly cold glimmer in her optics.
Optimus Prime watches silently, "Very well... 'pay' then." he remains passively defensive, watching to make sure Ghost doesn't try anything funny.
Ghost gives a shrug as she flicks her wrist. A very small, for her, rectangle of plastic ends up held between her fingertips. "Could I entertain the notion that you'll help me fill my fuel tank, Prime? After all, I suppose I'm not to be trusted in allowing a native close enough to perform that particular action, am I?"
Optimus Prime smirks, "I've never seen a Decepticon willing to pay for anything before. Most of you just try to take what you want."
Optimus Prime adds, "If you wish for my assistance, that is fine, however humans -are- employed for that purpose. Expect a very unpleasant reaction if any harm comes of the human, however."
Ghost gives a tiny shrug of her shoulders, "I dont think you and I have ever really met. Applying the standard vision of the enemy to everyone that wears their emblem is the sign of a closed mind, Prime." Now the smile reaches her optics, "And I would be delighted to have your assistance."
Optimus Prime replies evenly, "I've had my mind closed by having it repeatedly slammed by one Decepticon after another doing the exact same thing, Ghost. Besides, you're more than you appear, that much I'm sure of thanks to Uplift. You -are- devious to say the least." he moves over at her request and kneels down, gingerly going about moving the fueling hose to Ghost's intake, "The bottom line is, after having so many Decepticons behave so brutishly, it's safer to assume you -will- than to assume you won't. It's not a difficult concept to envision an Autobot taking a defensive posture when faced with a Decepticon."
Ghost drops into a crouch, shifting a wing aside to make the refueling easier. The smile threatens to depart, shading slightly off before she speaks, "Yes.. Uplift.. An.. A.. Something I care not to think about. I do hope he is still functioning?" she asks quietly.
Optimus Prime says, "Yes, though I doubt he will ever really recover from the experience of meeting you as he did."
Ghost nods before she shrugs, "I endeavored to give him ample warning. Time and time again. But he chose to believe something else and.. the consequences were not something I would have wished." She frowns now, peering off before shaking her head, optics glimmering a twilight shade of lavender, "And yes, most of my counterparts have an overabundance of the brutish programming. For the most part, it makes it easier to calculate their reactions in certain situations."
Optimus Prime says, "Indeed, which is exactly what I did." he replies, "Closed mind is one thing I do -not- have. More often than not that has cost me... it cost me the first day I met Megatron. I treated him as a friend... and that is something he quite obviously was not."
Ghost snorts, "No. Megatron is friend to no one." She checks her tank, "Just a few more moments and we'll be done."
Optimus Prime nods as the pump stops pumping, indicating (usually) a full tank, "I think you're full."
Ghost rechecks her tank before shifting her wing over the port. "Topped off and ready to fly again. Thank primus for fuel converters." Her optics glimmer briefly as she turns to rather gingerly, slide the card through the on-tank meter and wait for a receipt.
Optimus Prime nods once, "You're certainly an unusual one, Ghost."
Ghost gets her receipt and tucks the card and that away. "I get told that a great deal, Optimus." She shrugs, looking upwards at the sky briefly. "Thank you for your assistance. While the natives do do their jobs well, I prefer not to endanger them when I can."
Optimus Prime says, "That is admirable. You are an enemy to be respected, not decried. The sort of opponent you hope to find if you're stuck in a warzone."
Ghost snorts, "I'm an enemy that prefers not to make more trouble than necessary, Optimus. There would be no purpose in causing harm here, no gain for anyone. And.." She stands, checking her wings.. "I wouldn't be able to use this particular chain of fuel depots if I caused trouble. Pact of non aggression.. or something consumer like. I really should read my regulations for this fuelcard of mine some cycle." A wry smile crosses her face.
Optimus Prime smiles faintly, "I see. Why do you use the chain to begin with?" he asks, probing gently in the hopes of uncovering a potentially useful piece of information.
Ghost considers, "They are numerous and crisscross the entire North american continent. They have subsidiaries that I can go to as well.." She pauses as she narrows her optics at Prime. "And no.. No one else that I know of has thought to gain personal fuel in such a legal manner that I am aware of so you shouldn't have concern over my kind becoming prevalent in this area."
Optimus Prime nods once, "I was thinking your faction was suffering an energy crisis of some sort. But that is a relief as well."
Ghost pffts, "That isn't something I could speak of freely, Prime." She offers a wry smirk, "Although seeing you here begs the question, what are you doing so far from your home?"
Optimus Prime indicates the convoy of trucks, "Escort duty." he replies simply, not elaborating on the reasons beyond saying, "I honor as many requests from the terrans for aid as I can without letting my greater concerns suffer."
Ghost ahhs softly, "We do seem to do an immeasurable amount of damage when we put our minds to it.. Rather.. wasteful.."
Optimus Prime says, "Quite." he replies, "It's easy for me to run such a convoy escort, as I blend right in, and can assist in carrying the cargo as well."
Optimus Prime says, "I'll give you a free tip for your 'friends'. Don't try hitting any truck convoys, I've got several escorts, and I -will- repel them with maximum force if they attack."
Ghost ahhs softly.. "They aren't my friends, Prime. They are simply.. coworkers." She nods to the words, "Something I will pass along, although I suspect that will only increase their interest in the convoys.. After all. you would be a prime catch."
Optimus Prime smiles, "Perhaps it would, perhaps it won't..." he replies, optics seeming to sparkle with a hint of... is that malice? "But the message is well sent none the less."
Ghost lifts a brow before she smirks, "Yes.. the message will be sent all the same. Could I entrust you with a return message?"
Optimus Prime replies evenly, "Not to be insulting Ghost, but I'm likely more trustworthy than you are."
Ghost hehs softly, "Perhaps. Perhaps.. " She shrugs, "Pass a message to Uplift for me." She pauses, considering words briefly, "I'm sorry."
Optimus Prime nods, "I will deliver the message... though that too has the potential to be misinterpreted."
Ghost waves a hand as she takes alook about before she kicks off of the ground and heads upwards. She gets good clearance before transforming and heading off for her own business.
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La lonsdaléite est un minéral qui est, avec le diamant et le graphite, l'une des trois formes cristallisées naturelles du carbone. Le nom « lonsdaléite » vient de Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971), cristallographe anglaise.

La lonsdaléite est l'allotrope hexagonal du diamant. L'empilement des atomes de carbone dans la lonsdaléite est de type AABB, au lieu de AABBCC dans le diamant : ce sont deux polytypes, qui diffèrent par l'empilement des atomes de carbone. Dans les deux polytypes, ceux-ci ont une coordination tétraédrique. Cette forme est très rare à l'état natif ; elle a été découverte en 1967 dans le cratère météoritique de « Canyon Diablo » en Arizona.

En , une équipe internationale de chercheurs, menée par Zicheng Pan à l'université Jiao-tong de Shanghai, a montré que la lonsdaléite résiste à 58 % de pression de plus que le diamant ; cependant, les échantillons naturels sont d'une dureté inférieure, 7 à 8 sur l'échelle de Mohs ; on suppose que cela est dû à des défauts dans le cristal et des impuretés.

Plusieurs méthodes de synthèse chimique sont connues, la première depuis au moins 1966 : compression à haute température de graphite ou de diamant, dépôt chimique en phase vapeur, décomposition thermique d'un polymère de poly(hydridocarbyne) sous argon à pression atmosphérique à .

Notes et références

Élément natif
Forme allotropique du carbone
Matériau superdur

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The Odyssey And Gilgamesh
Throughout the epic poems both characters reveal traits of an epic hero. Both characters share god-like traits and have a variety of enemies. Each hero presents physical strength, but also goes through the emotional effects of loneliness. Each of the heroes in some way become unselfish in the end. Each hero has god-lik ....
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This Celery Root & Potato Soufflee is an elevated alternative to plain mashed potato and is lower in calories and a lot less starchy to boot. I love it with Roast Chicken or Turkey. Celery root, is one of the underestimated root vegetables. Its ugly gnarly outside can be a bit off putting, but its strong peppery 'celery' taste is a great foil for bland potatoes.
2. Cut off the gnarly top and the bottom of the celery root knobs. Rinse, scrubbing it well to remove as much dirt as possible from its remaining nooks and crannies. Peel then halve. Cut into ½-inch cubes.
3. Put the diced celery root into a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil. Add ½ teaspoon of salt. After the celery root has been boiling for about 5 minutes, add the cubed potato. Cook until both the potatoes and celeriac are tender. Drain, reserving ½ cup of the cooking water.
4. Return drained potatoes and celery root to the saucepan. Add the yogurt and butter or oil if using and mash together until a soft puree is formed. Add a little of the reserved cooking water if it seems too stiff. Taste for salt and add a grind or two of black pepper. Tip into a large bowl. Set aside to cool slightly.
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7. Fold in 1 heaped tablespoon of the beaten egg whites to break up the potato-celeriac mixture. Carefully fold in the rest of the egg whites with a large spatula. Do not over mix – there should be some white streaks. Pour into a buttered soufflé dish.
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The mission of MNUDL is to empower students through competitive academic debate to become engaged learners, critical thinkers, and active global citizens who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities. Currently, MNUDL serves more than 900 students at 39 partner schools and has seen sustained growth in student participation since its inception in 2004.


I had a nasty surprise just now when I tried to go onto Eagleland. My Norton antivirus had detected a serious threat (Trojan) which it couldn't repair. I think my computer is OK, but I'm not going back on there for now. I sincerely hope for L&M's sake that the site hasn't been sabotaged again.
Oh no! I went there recently and was having trouble accessing the forums but eventually I made it and there wasn't a problem. Still, it's a worry. Maybe you should e-mail them?
OK, seems to be working again now.
I'm still getting error messages about half the time. Let's hope it's just a glitch.
For me, it seems to be back to normal, Apologies if I alarmed anyone, but you can't be too careful. In the meantime I'm just getting into the Christchurch DVD....cool...!!
I can't access it at all now.
I can get to the main page and the Latest News page, but not on the message board. Has anyone heard anything?
L&M have posted a message on the news section, to say there is a technical problem on the board. I hope they get it sorted.
It appears to be back now. Pity I have nothing to say over there.


This is another interview that I wanted very much to do at GenCon. Erik Bauer of Gaming Paper seems to me to be a guy who saw a place to make his mark on the RPG hobby, and did that in spades. On top of that, he is one of the only guys I follow who makes comments when I mention his company on Twitter. There are nights when I'm sitting around the gaming table and gaming with friends and I snap a pic of the map to tweet it. Why? Who really knows honestly, but I like to share my hobbies with my followers from time to time. Whenever I'm using Gaming Paper I tend to toss an @GamingPaper onto the tweet, and Erik almost always sends a comment my way in return. It might not be immediately, but eventually he will say something. In all my interactions with him online, he has always come off as a very genuine person. Besides, he's friends with Ed Healy so he can't be all bad.
As with some other interviews I wanted to talk about Kickstarter. Some of the companies I spoke to had done one, maybe two projects on Kickstarter and had them successfully funded. As of this writing, they have had six fully funded and successful projects. They started out with their original project of GamingPaper Singles way back in July of 2010. Before Kickstarter was as mainstream as it is today. In that project they received slightly over the amount they asked for, and as a result GamingPaper Singles are a new product that you can still buy to this day on their website. Seeing as how they started with Kickstarter so early, I was curious what took them in that direction. Basically, they feel that it helps them actually get a project off the ground. In such a small company, I can imagine that would be important. Secondly, as mentioned before by other companies, it also helps them to gauge interest in a particular product or product line. If a product gets Kickstarted and it does well, they now know that there is interest in doing more in that direction.
As a company, it seems that their core product is the actual map products. You have the paper itself that comes in rolls and sheets with either squares or hexes, as well as items like the Mega Dungeon. Lately however, their Kickstarters have moved more into the realm of adventures, and even a Pathfinder compatible sourcebook. Seeing as how that was taking the focus down a different path I was curious what spurred them in that direction. Basically the answer is that it was something that they wanted to do, they are fans of Pathfinder and good adventures, and it was an area where they felt there was something missing and that they could help fill that gap. That's definitely something I can understand and sympathize with as well.
Now, Happy Jacks is more of a non-d20 podcast. Most of the games that they talk about and feature through the articles on DoucheyDM and on the show are not standard d20 style games. GURPS, HERO, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulhu… just to name a few. GamingPaper does offer hex based map products as well as the square, and they even offer the hexes in multiple sizes for use in different games. My next question then, was in that direction. Do they plan to offer any further support for non-d20 games? They are intending to create more paper products oriented to being system generic, as well as a Mega Dungeon type product that is actually a city instead of a dungeon.
Now I've mentioned the Mega Dungeon a few times already, and I do have to say that it is my favorite Gaming Paper product to date. I participated in the Kickstarter for it and have used it multiple times. Basically its 100 sheets of paper with a dungeon pre-printed on the sheets. One side of each sheet has a dungeon section with furnishings drawn in, the other side has the same section completely devoid of any furnishings whatsoever. Its very versatile on its own, and they even have companion adventures for the product written by some industry notables including Ed Greenwood and Lou Agresta. I used the Mega Dungeon to great effect in an event that I put on at my local game store that we called a GM challenge. A GM signed up for a two and a half hour slot, we handed them the Mega Dungeon pack and gave them thirty minutes to put together a dungeon. They then had two hours to run it, and at the end the players voted on it. It worked out very well for us. I think we will do it again in the future. If you want to learn more about it I did a review of it over on my YouTube channel. Along those lines though, I asked when we could expect to see the new "mega city" product he mentioned previously. He said it is slated to be out by GenCon 2013, and is planned to be on Kickstarter again as well.
To get a little away from all the business talk, and to lighten things up a bit I asked Erik what he likes to do when he finds himself with a free Friday night. Obviously he's a gamer so he tends to play a little Pathfinder or he'll head on down to his local game store GrandLAN Gaming Center to play some computer games.
Lastly, I of course had to ask the standard question. What makes you a Douchey DM? "I think I tend to under treasure my party, you know what I mean?" "My dragons they refer to as food stamp dragons." Well Erik it sounds like you need to go a little Monte Hall on your players for a bit!
Ok, that's it for this interview. If you want to learn more about Gaming Paper don't forget to check them out at GamingPaper.com and buy some Gaming Paper for your next game. Thanks again to Erik Bauer for taking a few minutes out of his schedule to talk to me.


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Carolina Public Press awarded national INNovation Fund grant
by Angie Newsome October 16, 2014 July 7, 2020
The Investigative News Network has announced eight winners of the second round of its INNovation Fund grants, for a total of $226,020.
The fund was established with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to spur business innovation and experimentation in nonprofit newsrooms that are focused on audience engagement and long-term sustainability.
"This second round of INNovation grant winners reflects our continued emphasis on business experimentation in the nonprofit and public media space that is both replicable and scalable in the future," said Kevin Davis, CEO and executive director of the Investigative News Network. "Whether its a speaker's bureau, a film festival or a social network for content syndication, each of these new projects has the potential to generate impact and benefit for the entire nonprofit news sector."
"One of the hardest jobs we have as a regional 501(c)(3) nonprofit online news organization is building relationships with our readers throughout Western North Carolina," said Carolina Public Press Executive Director Angie Newsome. "2015 is going to be an exciting year, because we're not only continuing and expanding our News Exchange series, we're also launching an event series called Newsmakers. It will focus on the top issues facing the region by bringing the region's journalists and those in the news together for a nonpartisan public conversation that residents can participate in, too. We're grateful that the Investigative News Network and the Knight Foundation supports our efforts to make real connections with readers and supporters throughout our region."
Carolina Public Press's first Newsmaker event, on the future of the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests — a portion of which can be found in nearly every Western North Carolina county — will be held on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, at Handmade in America, 125 S Lexington Ave #101, in Asheville. An invitation-only breakfast for Carolina Public Press donors and contributors will be held from 8:30-9:30 a.m. The forum — which will be open and free to the public — will be held from 9:30-10:30 a.m.
According to the Investigative News Network, eight finalists were chosen from a pool of 48 proposals, each describing the project, the goals, projected results, and explanation of how the money would be used. The chosen projects vary from event journalism to mobile app development, most with the aim to increase audience reach and engagement.
"Each of the winners has already taken important steps towards business development and newsroom innovation—putting them on a path to sustainability," said Marie Gilot, Knight Foundation program officer for journalism. "The INNovation Fund will help build on that momentum further allowing them to test and experiment with new tools to grow revenue and engage audiences."
The eight winners are:
100Reporters — http://100r.org/ — $35,000 to launch an Investigative Film Festival in Washington, DC, focusing on films about investigative journalism or investigative journalists.
Carolina Public Press — http://carolinapublicpress.org/ — $25,000 to organize a series of in-person News Exchange events to reach potential readers, subscribers and policymakers in 18 rural Blue Ridge mountain counties.
Citizens Campaign — http://www.thecitizenscampaign.org/ — $35,000 to launch a Community Day in Paterson, NJ to heighten interest in the Paterson Press, their local online investigative news outlet.
High Country News — https://www.hcn.org/ — $30,000 to expand HCN University, partnering with colleges and universities nationwide to integrate HCN's content into science, economics and environment courses.
inewsource — http://inewsource.org — $28,404 to create one 'virtual voice' content syndication and distribution program among up to 90 community news outlets in the San Diego area.
The Lens — http://thelensnola.org/ — $7,500 to expand a Speakers Bureau to bring the Lens reporters face-to-face with current and potential subscribers in New Orleans.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism — http://wisconsinwatch.org/ — $35,000 to organize a series of 'Art + Journalism' forums/fundraisers statewide, showcasing their stories on water issues with representative sculpture which will be auctioned.
WKAR-AM/FM/TV — http://wkar.org/ — $30,116 to develop a mobile app around their long-running 'Off the Record' public affairs show to attract more viewers ages 18-29.
More in-depth information about each grantee and project is available at http://journo.biz/innovation-fund.
Launched in 2011, Carolina Public Press is a nonprofit online news service providing Western North Carolina with unbiased, in-depth and investigative reporting as well as educational opportunities to journalists, students and others. An award-winning news organization, Carolina Public Press's unique reporting may be found at www.carolinapublicpress.org and through content-sharing partnerships with news organizations across North Carolina — including The Charlotte Observer, WUNC, WCQS, WLOS-TV and others. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Carolina Public Press is supported by the generous donations of its readers, sponsors and local, statewide and national foundations. Carolina Public Press is a member of the N.C. Press Association and the Investigative News Network.
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Angie Newsome
Angie Newsome is the executive director and editor of Carolina Public Press. Contact her at (828) 774-5290 or e-mail her at anewsome@carolinapublicpress.org.
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NEW REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God
Category: History of Texas
MICHAEL HOFFMAN – REVISIONISTS AS BIBLICAL AMALEK -Bitchute
There are few men I admire and trust in the world today, of which I am aware.
Don't mean there are not a hell of lot more good men and women out there, than everyone thinks.
Just most don't know where the others are, and the MSM & WASHINGTON DC, sure as hell are not going to help you wind each other.
But the English Author David Irvin has my respect.
If he introduces this man in this matter, I have no doubt of this mans's truth and honor, as David Irvin would not recommend him so highly, if he were not a true warrior on the side of the Light.
If you are new to some of the teachings of the so called Judaic religion, well, it has a whole lot of real evil nasty shit in them, the "Jews", (Non Semitic Kharzarian) cult members believe that are entitled to do to any but another cult member.
According to their religion, want to rape a goy child, women, man, rob them, murder them, it is no sin, they are cattle, to be farmed and slaughtered.
Raping their own cult children is fine, as long as it is not done past three years and one day.
Now, there are a whole lot of people out there, think of themselves as "Jews", because they were born into it, don't know shit from shenola about the real teachings, never read the books.
Same with a lot of "christians", born into it, goes to churchy, sings Holy-HJoly_holy, hopes they don't go to hell for all those sins they keep lying about doing, never read the Bible through.
SO give it a listen.
If you are a zionist christian, these soul-less Khazarian animals mean you no good, they are not Hebrews, God is not going to judge America if it do not kiss Israhell's ass.
But God bis going to Judge America if the do not find some balls, and Kick Israhell's Ass!
John C Carleton
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TqqMtTIKCZfk/
Author John C CarletonPosted on July 5, 2019 Categories History of TexasLeave a comment on MICHAEL HOFFMAN – REVISIONISTS AS BIBLICAL AMALEK -Bitchute
DNA Testing Shows 1/3 Of "Asylum" Seekers Faked Being Family of Children To Claim "Asylum"
DNA testing found that 30 per cent of those tested had lied about family ties.
Central Americans who cross the border illegally with children can claim asylum and avoid any lengthy detention in most cases.
ICE ran the pilot for a few days this month in El Paso and McAllen, Texas
About 30% of migrants tested with rapid DNA were lying about familial relations
Migrants with children can claim asylum and avoid detention in most cases
If you have not figured it out yet, just because the Pope tells these people to breed like rabbits, so he has more church members, don't mean The Occopied Republic of Texas, or the other occupied North American States, can take all these Anti American, hands out, American hating gentuza.
Send them to Washington DC and the Vatican.
Get them the hell out of Texas!
Get them the hell out of North America.
They are not our problem.
Washington DC on the other hand, is our problem.
It is the USA, the Occupying by military force of the Occupied Republic of Texas, which is forcing these Anti-American hands out, "and oh yes we hate you", third world people on the Occupied Republic of Texas, and the Occupied States.
For you slower ones, USA/Washington DC, is trying to make the Occupied Republic of Texas, and the Occupied North American States, third world Shit Holes!
About time to stop this evil Anti-American shit by USA/WASHINGTON DC.
Oh yes, San Antonio folks, remember, mayor PendejoBerg and his Merry band of Hairless chihuahuas on "San Antonio city council", are in favor of flooding San Antonio with these thieving, child molesting, murdering gentuza.
Crime has gone out of sight in San Antonio because of "city hall's" criminal actions against Texicans.
Author John C CarletonPosted on July 2, 2019 July 2, 2019 Categories History of TexasLeave a comment on DNA Testing Shows 1/3 Of "Asylum" Seekers Faked Being Family of Children To Claim "Asylum"
Occupied Republic of Texas yankee Occupation "government" "School Board" Considers Introducing Sex Education For Kindergartners
Grooming Children for Pedophillia perhaps?
Grooming For Pedophillia Perhaps?
The Texas State Board of Education is considering new policies that would begin sex education during kindergarten.
Texas Education Board Commissioner Mike Morath made recommendations in his health care review that include lessons about healthy relationships and reproduction.
Brae'Lee Stewart is six years old and just finished kindergarten a few months ago.
Her mother Brae'Lynn said the idea of her daughter learning anything about sex at her age makes her cringe.
https://www.sott.net/article/415815-Texas-school-board-considers-introducing-sex-education-to-kindergartners
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The Writing On The Wall-Vimeo
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A Colt 45 Peacemaker Educates a Zionist Yankee Professor
In 1882, my grandfather was sixteen years old. His father, my great grandfather, was medical doctor, a Methodist circuit riding minister, and a Confederate veteran, living in occupied Texas.
A lot damn carpet bagger zionist, (Puritan back then), came to the Southern occupied States to see what they could steal, opportunities to run it over the conquered Southerners.
One such was a very large man, not fat, tall and muscular, who came to Texas, and set up a school. Things were tough in Texas during reconstruction, and schools were few and far between.
To show all the kids he was boss, the coward picked out a girl who's father was dead, accused her of some small infraction of the rules, took her to the front and was beating her unmercifully. My grandfather was sixteen, the second oldest and largest boy in the school. He and the older boy both stood up and called the Professor as he called himself, down. Told him that was enough.
The professor, being a cowardly yankee, held a grudge. Professor had a teachers pet. The teaches pet and my grandfather were outside during noon one day, teachers pet started some trouble, so they started fighting. Here comes the professor yelling, "Will Carleton, I'm going to whip you. So my grandfather told him he did not believe so, and quit school.
About a week later, he was running an errand for his dad, driving a one horse hack. About a block from the school, kids saw him, the teachers pet came down, grandfather stopped the hack, got down started to finish the fight.
Professor sees this, come running down there yelling, "Will Carleton, i'm going to whip you". Grandfather climbs back in the hack, the professor started climbing up after him. Grandfather reached under the seat, pulled out the Colt 45 Peacemaker that was kept there, put the end of the barrel up the teachers nose, eared the hammer back and said, "I don't think so".
The professor ran back to his school so fast his own heels was kicking him in his own ass.
Grandfather said nothing about it, but about a week later, someone told my great grandfather. He called my grandfather in, asked him what happened. Grandfather told him. He said, "Stay away from that school".
Great grandfather went to have a talk with the Professor. Told him that his being unfair, had caused my grandfather to leave the school, that if he ever tried to mess with the boy again, he would be messing with the old man, he asked if the professor understood. The professor understood perfectly. There was never any more trouble with the professor getting out of line.
It seems to me, the only thing keeps a zionist in line, is a double barreled shotgun or a good 45 pointed at them, seems they CAN control that zionist virus when they want to. Seems a good weapon pointed at their ass makes them want to behave.
Time to educate yourselves Mr. and Mrs. America.
Time to get a Peacemaker.
time to get er done.
Author John C CarletonPosted on March 7, 2019 Categories History of TexasLeave a comment on A Colt 45 Peacemaker Educates a Zionist Yankee Professor
A 12 Gauge Double Barrled Shotgun Trumps a Zionist Virus Infected Yankee
My grandfather Carleton, was born under a military dictatorship. Born in Texas under occupation military "government".
When he was nine years old, still under Zionist Yankee "reconstruction" occupation, a lot of carpet baggers were coming South to see what they could steal from the Southern people.
My great-grandfather was Methodist Circuit riding Minister, and a medical doctor. He was gone a lot. Seems the reason Carletons had so many boys, was so the boys could work the farm, while the father, could travel around the country.
At nine, my grandfather was living on the family farm out side Llano, Texas. There was a wagon road came within distance to the house so that travel could be heard. Two wagon tracks ran out to the wagon road, which took a curve around the property. Wagons did not move that fast, so one took the wagon path heading in the direction on the road, one was going to travel.
One day, my grandfather heard travel on the road, so he and his bulldog walked down to see who was moving.
Around the bend comes several wagons. In the lead wagon was a self-rightious, smart ass, thieving zionist yankee. At that time they called themselves "Puritans". He stopped his wagon and called my grandfathers dog over and tied him to his wagon. My grandfather said, Hey Mister, thats my dog". Damn zionist yankee said, "he's my dog now".
People in the rearward wagons, told the ass, "Don't take the boys dog".
He Just laughed and said, "I told you I was going to get a good dog before we got there". Climbed in his wagon and drove off.
My grandfather ran all the way back to his home, grabbed the 12 gauge double barrel, and ran all the way out the other track. When the wagons came around the curve, my grandfather was standing in the middle of the road pointing the business end of the shotgun at the yankee scum. He eared bothe hammers back. So mad he was crying, he told the thieving yankee, "mister, if you don't turn my dog loose, i am going to kill you"!
The Zionist, very carefully got down and turned my grandfather's dog loose. The wagons drove off.
Now, i do not know if he got a dog or not, but i do know he did not get my grandfathers.
The moral to this story is that a good twelve gauge shotgun trumps Zionism every time!
Time to Get a good 12 gauge double barrel.
Author John C CarletonPosted on March 6, 2019 Categories History of TexasLeave a comment on A 12 Gauge Double Barrled Shotgun Trumps a Zionist Virus Infected Yankee
The Interesting Court Case of Texas v. White
Salmon P. Chase
How secession was finally declared illegal.
In a legal examination of the right of secession no case has been thrown in our faces as Texas v. White. With this case the Supreme Court of the United States declared secession was not constitutional. The case concerned some government bonds owned by the State of Texas. By Texas law they could only be sold with the governor's approval and signature. After secession, the State of Texas needed money to continue its war effort. The Texas legislature voided the requirement of the governor's signature and sold the bonds. After the War, the Reconstruction government of Texas sued to reclaim the bonds on the grounds that the sale was illegal.
The only way that the Supreme Court had jurisdiction was if the suit was between "a State and Citizens of another State" (US Constitution, art. III, sec. 2, para. 1) and Texas had purported to secede from the Union. In order to write Radical Republican doctrine into the Constitution, Chief Justice Chase found it necessary to hold that secession was unconstitutional (Texas never left the Union), but that the Reconstruction government of Texas (a government created by the U.S. Congress) had standing before the Court. He did so in a single paragraph: The Articles of Confederation had declared the Union "perpetual". The preamble to the 1789 Constitution had declared that the Union was even "more perfect". "What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect is not?" This doctrine of the perpetual Union made more perfect would be reaffirmed in White v. Hart where the Court declared that the State of Georgia had never left the Union. In making his ruling Chase ignored many of the legal arguments that had bearing on this case.
First, the Articles of Confederation had been superseded by the Constitution. The ratification of the Constitution had dissolved the "perpetual Union". Chase also ignored the larger problem that the ratification of the Constitution initiated a secession from the government created by the Articles. Even though only nine States needed to ratify the Constitution for it to become part of "the supreme law of the land", the Articles could only be altered by the approval of all thirteen States! Thus, when nine States had ratified the Constitution and put aside the Articles in favor of the Constitution this was an act of secession.
Second, it had never been assumed that the preamble was legally binding, but simply a statement of the intent of the Constitution. Thus, the preamble recognized that the Constitution was an attempt to form a more perfect union, but it did not legislate that "more perfect Union" as law.
Third, Chase stated that the seceding states had forfeited their rights, but not their obligations. He never addressed the question of how this could be if, as he contended, the States had never left the Union in the first place. If the Confederate States had never left the United States they would still retain all their obligations (White v. Hart) and all their constitutional rights. The doctrine of lost rights with retained obligations was a concept of the Radical Republicans created by them to reconstruct the South in their own image.
Fourth, Chase never addressed the fact that earlier Supreme Court decisions had declared Confederate State governments de facto governments (Thorington v. Smith, Delmas v. Insurance Co., and Mauran v. Insurance Co.) in all acts that did not further the aims of the rebellion. While he could have argued that acts supporting the secession could be punishable as treason (art. III, sec. 3) he never did. Interestingly, while these acts might have been considered treasonable, that did not in and of itself prove them to be unconstitutional (Yet another can of worms that Chase chose to ignore). Also, even though States were forbidden to "engage in War", the Constitution contains an exception in the cases of actual or threatened invasion (art. I, sec. 3). While Chase could have argued that the invasion clause did not apply to federal troops seeking "to enforce constitutional law" he did not.
Fifth, Chase never addressed the constitutional question of the legality of secession, just declared it illegal. An interesting argument in favor of the right of secession can be found in "A View of the Constitution of the United States", by William Rawle.
Chase basically ignored all previous case law and the supremacy clause, and accepted without supporting argument the standard Radical view of a one-sided secession: The Southern states had lost their rights, but not their obligations. Although Texas had not left the Union, it had forfeited its right to sue. This was a pretty shaky thesis; if Texas was still a State, article III give it the right to sue. Justice Grier, the lone dissenter, protested, saying that if Texas had not left the Union, it had the power to repeal its own laws. Chase and company couldn't accept that line of reasoning without destroying the Reconstruction Act.
Charles Fairman in "History of the Supreme Court of the United States, vol. VI, Reconstruction and Reunion 1864-88, part I", says that the objective of this particular decision was to promote Chase's firm belief that suffrage should not be limited by the laws of the past. He wanted a new start in who would govern the state, and required that the new citizens created by the fourteenth amendment participate in making the new start. Most of the Southern States had now completed that course of restoration (reconstruction). However, Texas was not of that number. Texas remained subject to the declaration of the Reconstruction Act. Its government was not "legal" but "provisional only". "It suffices to say," the Chief Justice concluded, "that the terms of the Acts necessarily imply recognition of existing governments; and that in point of fact, the governments thus recognized, in some important respects, still exist." The conclusion was that the suit was properly brought and was within the original jurisdiction of the Court. This ruling also legitimized and "constitutionalized" the Reconstruction governments created by the Radical Republicans.
Professor David P. Currie, University of Chicago Law School, in, "The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years,1789-1888" says, "In Texas v. White the Court went out of its way to embrace the Radical position that secession and all acts that served it were illegal, that the seceding states had nevertheless forfeited their rights, and that Congress could determine under the guarantee clause how they were to be governed. It did so essentially by fiat, without serious consideration of the opposing arguments … In Texas v. White, Chase finally succeeded in writing most of the Radical philosophy of Reconstruction into the Constitution."
Courtesy of Mike Purdy
Confederate Memorial Camp #1432
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Author John C CarletonPosted on March 6, 2019 Categories History of TexasLeave a comment on The Interesting Court Case of Texas v. White
Carpet-Baggers
Carpetbagger was the pejorative term applied to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, specifically those who joined state Republican parties formed in 1867 and who were elected as Republicans to public office. Southern Democrats immediately saw that the newcomers were corrupt and dishonest adventurers, whose property consisted only of what they could carry in their carpetbags (suitcases made of carpeting), who seized political power and plundered the helpless people of the South. This assessment of the carpetbagger became standard in late-nineteenth-century histories and retains its currency among some historians today. Since the 1950s, however, revisionist historians have challenged the validity of the traditional view and assessed the carpetbaggers more favorably. [Ed. note: It is a well-known maxim of war that 'to the victor go the spoils.' The victor in the War for Southern Independence has claimed, as part of his spoils, the right to record and enforce his point of view as the official and accepted history of the war.]
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 placed Southern governments under military rule. The South was divided into five military districts, each run by a general in the U.S. Army. The five districts were (1) Virginia; (2) North and South Carolina; (3) Georgia, Alabama, and Florida; (4) Mississippi and Arkansas; and (5) Texas and Louisiana. Tennessee was the only prior Confederate state that was not placed under military rule. Around 200,000 troops were placed in the South to enforce military rule.
Thousands of government officials were removed from office in the South and replaced with military commanders. Different commanders ruled in different ways. Some were very good at their jobs, and some were not. They had very few restrictions. They could be cruel and unfair and get away with it. It was a very harsh time for the population in the South.
One thing all military commanders did because they were told to do so by Congress was to place former slaves in positions in government. These former slaves knew nothing about government or money. They were not trained for their jobs. Nearly all were puppets under the control of army officials. The reaction was the KKK.
Military rule in the South lasted for 10 years, until 1877, when the Republican party agreed to return Southern states to home rule in exchange for their support of the Republican candidate for president, Rutherford B. Hayes.
Author John C CarletonPosted on March 5, 2019 March 6, 2019 Categories History of TexasLeave a comment on Carpet-Baggers
The Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F. Austin in a call-to-arms written in 1823 and were first headed by Captain Morris.
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Texas Schools Can Reopen for Summer Classes, But Will They?
By Reena Diamante Cedar Park
PUBLISHED 8:12 AM CT May. 21, 2020 PUBLISHED 8:12 AM CDT May. 21, 2020
CEDAR PARK, Texas — State leaders are pushing to put some normalcy back into the lives of young Texans amid the coronavirus pandemic. Child care centers can reopen immediately. Meanwhile, camps and youth sports can resume by the end of the month. Gov. Greg Abbott is also giving school districts the option to offer summer school in person. But after weeks of online learning, one school district is not expecting to change any time soon.
Summer schools in Texas can start June 1
Schools can choose to continue online learning
Even if they do open, they cannot require students attend in person
School district leaders are allowed to reopen campuses on June 1 for summer school, but according to guidance from the Texas Education Agency, they cannot require attendance in person. Students who have to attend summer school as a condition to move on the next grade would still need to satisfy requirements virtually. The guidance encourages district leaders to consider their "local context" when deciding whether to offer summer school on campus.
Despite the go-ahead from state leaders, officials at the Leander Independent School District say they will be sticking with virtual learning this summer. Jennifer Freeman, director of intervention services at the district, told Spectrum News they typically start planning for summer school and developing the curriculum as early as January.
"That safety idea is first and foremost on our minds moving forward. We would not want to put anyone at risk and feel that if we can offer a robust virtual experience, that's probably the safest way for us to deliver that instruction at this time," Freeman said.
Since closures will continue some summer programs may be altered or canceled at Leander ISD. Freeman said they scaled back on the number of original credit courses.
"Our decisions right now have really kind of focused on, you know, how can we keep kids feeling connected and trying to prevent summer slide," Freeman said.
Guidance for summer school includes, but is not limited to:
Students can gather with teachers or staff in groups of no more than 11 individuals
All instruction should be held in spaces that allow desks to be placed at least six feet apart
Whenever possible and developmentally appropriate, there should be no group or pairs
Students must not be brought together in assemblies, field trips, or other group gatherings outside of their class group, unless the distancing of 30 feet between groups can be maintained.
School gyms, weight rooms, and indoor workout facilities are to remain closed
State leaders suggest prioritizing the ability of on-campus summer school for students with significant academic gaps, students with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, and students learning English. Freeman said Leander ISD officials are still making the determination of whether or not to reopen classrooms in July for a small group of students with specific and involved needs.
"We understand that sometimes it can be difficult to recreate face-to-face instruction in a virtual environment, especially when there's therapeutic type of practices involved," Freeman said.
Online classes have been going well for Vista Ridge High School sophomore Walker Moody. But what the 16-year-old misses the most is football and the camaraderie that comes with the sport.
"It's a lot different because normally we'd have the people around us like, supporting each other and everything, but now it's not really the same," Moody said.
The Cedar Park teen is still pulling his weight for the team by doing two-a-days in his garage. Moody said he has been attending virtual meetings with his teams and going over plays. But he is pumped now that the University Interscholastic League will allow for limited strength and conditioning on campuses in early June.
"It's exciting to get back there and go and just see the people again and work out again with them. Even though it's limited, it's still fun," Moody said.
Meanwhile, the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) has argued that the state's protocols for reopening buildings do not go far enough and that June 1 is too early. They are pushing to also equip educators with supplies to better protect them and their students.
"I don't think in our schools currently have the resources and the capacity to truly meet the needs of all of our students," Noel Candelaria, TSTA president said.
Still some parents are putting their trust in their local districts to make the right decision.
"When it comes down to it, the district has been really open about things and they're also taking feedback from some of the parents as well," parent Jason Moody said.
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Can we really take the politics out of alcohol tax?
In light of the SMF's recent report and HM Treasury's controversial 'duty-free' promise, Aveek Bhattacharya asks a pertinent question about the ways in which the alcohol taxation system could be revised
07 October 2019 – The Social Market Foundation's recent review of UK alcohol tax, supported by IAS, attracted a lot of attention, primarily for the radical structural reforms that it proposed. The report called for an end to the preferential treatment of cider, a system that ensures stronger products are always taxed at a higher duty per unit, and for a lower tax rate on drinks in pubs than drinks in supermarkets. Rather less eye-catching, but equally important, and in my view more novel and innovative, were the SMF's suggestions for changing the process by which we set alcohol taxes.
The SMF repeatedly make the point that alcohol duty is 'highly politicised, rather than evidence-informed'. In part, they suggest, this is because UK alcohol duty rates are revised every year in a set-piece political event, the Budget. That incentivises the Chancellor to chase headlines through gimmicks and giveaways, rather than sober reflection and joined-up thinking. Indeed, in recent years, we have regularly seen the government use alcohol duty cuts to sugar the pill of bad news elsewhere in the Budget, most notoriously in the 'beer and bingo' Budget of 2014.
The cumulative effects of such short-termism can be dramatic. Alcohol duty has only been increased in line with inflation in one of the last six Budgets, and we are approaching a situation where nominal freezes are taken for granted, rather than being seen as positive news by the media and the industry. Thus the government has to continue to erode the value of alcohol tax to avoid howls of outrage and condemnation, at increasing cost to the exchequer. In the past six years, inflation has already reduced government revenue from alcohol duty by £1.2 billion a year. There is a danger of alcohol going the way of fuel duty, which has not been increased since 2010/11, costing the exchequer £9 billion a year.
The SMF recommend two reforms to move alcohol duty away from the annual politicking of the Budget. First, they call for alcohol duty to be increased automatically in line with either inflation or earnings every year. Second, they propose that an independent expert body is convened every five or ten years to collect and assess the latest evidence and review the structure and rate of alcohol taxes. This body, informed by insight from government, the health sector, academia, charities and industry, would presumably seek to estimate the level of health and social harm from drinking, the pattern of this harm, the extent to which alcohol tax rates are proportionate to it, and whether the structure of alcohol taxes is well targeted.
The SMF's approach would bring a number of benefits. First and foremost, it would affirm the principle that alcohol duty is primarily a tool to address social harm, and that the assessment of this social harm should be based on the best available evidence. That may sound obvious, but it is not a principle recent governments appear to have held particularly close to. Second, it would ensure that the evidence base upon which alcohol policy is made is up to date. The government's official estimate of the social cost of alcohol is based on an evidence review and methodology that is almost 20 years out of date, and data from almost 10 years ago. Third, it would provide stakeholders with a bit more certainty around alcohol taxes, to make it easier for them to plan for the future. Finally, it would provide a natural window for measures to bed in and be evaluated and reviewed, in the way the five year 'sunset clause' has done for minimum unit pricing in Scotland.
At the same time, the SMF recognise that setting alcohol duties is not a purely technical exercise, and so can never be fully devolved to experts. It will always involve some degree of ideology and value judgement – for example, over the trade-off between freedom and security, or the extent to which it is legitimate to regulate people's behaviour for their own benefit. Consequently, the SMF's proposed expert body will only advise the government – in the way that the Low Pay Commission advises the government on the level of the minimum wage. Ultimately, though, the final say will still rest with politicians.
This brings with it certain risks. Obviously, the government may just choose to ignore the recommendations of the expert committee. Moreover, setting alcohol duty for the next five or ten years, rather than just for the next year, raises the stakes of each duty review. This could encourage more furious lobbying and pressure on the government, potentially making them less receptive to evidence. The long review periods also mean that governments are bound by the ideological hue of their predecessors – if we have a particularly libertarian or interventionist administration when the music stops, then they will be able to set the direction of alcohol policy for an entire cycle.
The SMF could perhaps have considered different ways in which the political debates can be joined to the empirical debates in setting alcohol tax. One model, for example, could be a citizens' jury, whereby a representative panel of citizens are presented the with the evidence and encouraged to debate and discuss it before reaching a consensus.
This might all seem a bit 'science fiction'. It does seem unlikely at present that the government would give up its power to set alcohol taxes in this way. But sometimes science fiction does come true, and it is worth deciding how we feel about it, how we can encourage positive innovations and avoid negative ones, before the future is upon us.
You can read the full SMF report, 'Pour Decisions? The case for reforming alcohol duty' here, and listen to a podcast with its author Scott Corfe here.
Written by Senior Policy Analyst Aveek Bhattacharya.


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Players missing from the Premier League 2016-17 season
The summer transfer window is always an exciting time for managers and fans who welcome new players to the club ahead of the new season. However, there are also a few farewells and here are just a few players we've been accustomed to watching in the Premier League who'll be gone for the upcoming 2016-17 season. Some were great, some were good and others were awful but nonetheless, they will be missed! Kolo Toure The former Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester …
The Vardy Show
Leicester City got revenge on Liverpool in their latest Premier League meeting. Having lost one nil to the Reds at Anfield in December, for me it was always on the cards. In fact I had an uneasy feeling all day about this game and all my usual match day rituals couldn't help Jürgen Klopps team get a valuable win over the League leaders, which would have given fans and players the belief that top four is a real possibility. Now …
It's Samba Time in Liverpool
Liverpool's victory over Manchester City on Saturday marked another major improvement experienced by the club in the Jurgen Klopp era. A Liverpool side that found it tough to beat the top sides under Brendan Rodgers has now beaten Chelsea and Manchester City. In the process the Merseyside club became the first team to put 4 beyond the Manchester Club at the Etihad in the Premier League. The victory brought to the forefront the capabilities of two Brazilians who operated in …
Liverpool vs Norwich Preview | Team News, Key Men and Stats
On the back of two successive defeats in the Premier League, Brendan Rodgers faces a must win game when Norwich visit Anfield on Sunday. His future at the club is what will dominate headlines regardless of the result, and following a decent draw with a second string side against Bordeaux in midweek, Liverpool need the three points to keep up pace with United, who beat them last week, and Arsenal with both teams still only 3 points ahead of them. Norwich …
Jose Mourinho & Diego Costa: Like father, like son
There are a few individuals in football that have the ability to entertain and do so quite spectacularly on a regular basis. Individuals such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Jurgen Klopp. Two of such gifted individuals are Chelsea pair Jose Mourinho and Diego Costa. It is unlikely there has been a match this season when one or the other didn't do or say something that was worth talking about and discussing after the game had finished. They are the sparks that …
Reasons for Optimism at Liverpool
Liverpool heads into yet another international break fresh off an much needed home win over West Bromwich Albion. With the exception of the 3-0 win against Tottenham at White Hart Lane, the Reds have yet to rediscover the form that propelled them to second place in the league last season. However, several factors should see Liverpool move quickly back up the table and provide some comfort to fans disappointed with the first seven weeks of the season. Return of Daniel …
Tottenham Hotspur 0-3 Liverpool: Post-Match Tactical Analysis
Spurs looked to take revenge on Liverpool for their 5-0 and 4-0 routs last season, and this was the new look starting line up that Mauricio Pochettino went with, who had a fantastic run-out the week before against QPR: Rodgers had already found the recipe for defeating Pochettino by going with the diamond away from home against Southampton last season. In that game Coutinho through the middle hadn't worked, and Sterling was brought on at the tip of the diamond …
Liverpool FC: Stronger Than Ever - Part 2
Welcome to part 2. Time to round off with some more ramblings on why Liverpool are looking far stronger than they are being given credit for. As I said before - they may not win the title, but they will very soon. Moving Backwards & Doing a Spurs It is now time to take a firm stance on football fans with illogical views. Everyday people are continuing to get away with making lazy comparisons, and this one is no different. After …


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As I prepared for this year's Annual New Year's letter, I was surprised to discover that this note marks a decade since I began writing annually. Ten years is a benchmark of sorts and with that, I decided that this New Year's letter would be a review of a few key thoughts from previous years, such as Time, Vision, Solitude, Discovering Your Calling… re-framed for today.
Here is an exercise you may want to do. Reflect on each of the words above and determine how they may apply to your concept of your vision. In addition you may want to create your own acrostic and once again, make time to figure out how it can support and guide you on your own unique Journey.
The goal is to create a Vision that supports life on your terms to the best of your ability.
Another year one of the themes was identifying your Calling. Again, making time to identify your vision will really help you discern what your calling may be. For you see, the root of the word 'Call' is vocare—it implies hearing one's inner Voice speaking to oneself.
Commit to sitting quietly for a few minutes each day for two weeks with a notepad nearby. The point of the notepad is you will discover that, in this state, creative thoughts and bold new ideas often emerge. If you do not capture them, they can disappear. Ideally, I would like you to do this in the early morning or at night before going to sleep. Through slow, silent Conscious Loving Breaths, i. e. about 5 seconds for each inhale, you will begin to activate a state I call Deeper Listening. Next simply ask yourself, "Am I doing what I have been called to do? Am I doing all that I can to fulfill my purpose?" Then, simply listen. Part of the point in these solitudinal moments is we create the opportunity to be at one with our Selves/Source. Over time, this idyllic, creative state truly contributes to who we are and enhances the very quality of our lives.
Summarizing this letter and the theme of Empowerment Through Voice, many years ago in my first book, The Sound of the Soul, I created a character called the 'Pragmatic Visionary'. I stated that all the dreamer does is dream; but, the Pragmatic Visionary dreams and does all it takes to make that dream come true. This is an important distinction that often goes unnoticed—doing whatever it takes to turn a dream into reality. So, once you have synthesized the concepts of time, vision and calling, employ the principle of the Pragmatic Visionary. Design your plan for yourself with action steps, timeline, key goals, and deliverables—to assure your success.
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Emily Smith Brings Her Scottish Folk to the States
Celtic music of all varieties has peaked my interest for many years now. Among the books I've read of Celtic yore are by the author Stephen R. Lawhead. The Pendragon Series, was my favorite for its intriguing spiritual conflict and victory. Most of these tales take place in Wales or Ireland with some adventures in the land of the Scots. The gentle and beautiful tapestry that Emily Smith paints with her multifaceted palate of musical colors and textures, makes the land and the people of Scotland real to this forlorn pilgrim. The strange thing is, my path is leading to the lands of the Celts, with its mystery and terrible beauty and not to my Iberian homeland, where my forebears once called home.
Emily Smith – Caledonia
Emily Smith – Sunset Hymn
Dumfries & Galloway's EMILY SMITH is one of the leading singers of the contemporary Scottish folk scene. Her powerful, clear vocals have gained her award winning, worldwide recognition. As a songwriter Emily has been likened to 'a Scottish Joni Mitchell', but as a passionate collector she is equally adept at presenting fresh and evocative interpretations of traditional songs on her upcoming North American Tour.
Emily's childhood was spent dancing to music, rather than performing it, in her mother's dance school. She grew up assuming everyone knew how to do a highland fling and weekends were spent dancing at ceilidhs rather than nightclubs. Aged seven she started out on piano, moved onto snare drum in the local pipe band and subsequently found a passion for piano accordion, where at the age of eighteen she was National Mod champion. But it wasn't until a solo with the school choir in her late teens that Emily discovered her singing voice. She moved to Glasgow in 1999 where she gained an Honours degree in Scottish Music from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. With principal study of Scots Song, she also studied accordion and piano.
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When the organizing bug hits – it's common to want to run right out to the store to go shopping for containers.
There is the mistake! Why?
Getting organized is about creating systems that will help you find what you need, when you need it, with minimal stress (if any at all). Determining and implementing the right system takes planning and proper tools.
I can tell you from experience – containers purchased simply because they are pretty, cute, on sale, or whatever other reason they caught your eye, are not proper tools and more often than not don't end up being used at all. In other words, they become clutter!
A better approach: The best organizing tip I can share is to plan before you go shopping.
What am I trying to organize?
How much of it do I have?
Where will I be storing it?
What size does the container need to be?
What features will work best (lid, no lid, etc.)?
Do I already own something that will work?
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Star Wars: Demolition
May 16, 2018 Phil "Shadsy" Salvador
When The Phantom Menace came out in 1999, it was the first Star Wars movie in 16 years. The franchise had been through a dormant period, and in the years leading up with a real new Star Wars film on the horizon, Lucasfilm launched a bombardment of merchandise, tie-ins, and spinoffs to support the brand. There had always been Star Wars games, and now there would be many more, encompassing a broad assortment of formats and genres like a fighting game, several strategy games, a CD-ROM encyclopedia, and a whole bunch of software for children under the new Lucas Learning label. After The Phantom Menace, the engine kept roaring.
At the same time, multiplayer car combat games were having a brief heyday. While the peak lasted only a few years, titles like Activision's Vigilante 8, halfway between driving and shooting, acted like a edgy, destructive companion to the era's kart racing games. Inevitably, the aggressive blockbuster merchandise campaign laid its sights on the hot new violent game genre, and so became Star Wars: Demolition.
Cars shooting each other, as you could imagine, is not a practical fit for Star Wars. The game goes through contortions to justify its existence, and it tries very hard to assemble a serviceable roster of characters and explain why they're fighting on Dagobah or the Death Star. It just isn't organic. It was never going to be. The pretense does at least give Demolition an opportunity to play with some Star Wars-ier ideas.
By the game's belabored explanation, Jabba the Hutt has brought together scoundrels from across the galaxy for an underground deathmatch tournament. The Star Wars universe doesn't have many people known for their car-like vehicles, so Demolition tosses together whatever it can find. The game picks out minor characters or invents new ones like Quagga, the struggling Wookiee mechanic as an excuse to let you play as a landspeeder, a speeder bike, an Imperial walker, or a podracer, but the list gets shakier from there. Boba Fett shows up without a vehicle. Jabba's pet rancor even joins the battle despite not being remotely in the same category as the other competitors. The game scrounges what it can, mixing and matching the prequel movies and the originals as needed, but it's dire enough that one of the super-secret unlockable characters is Lando Calrissian's weird silent assistant Lobot. Really, Lobot?
Demolition integrates concept and settings from The Phantom Menace with the original trilogy
Demolition was developed by Luxoflux, the same studio behind the Vigilante 8 series, using the same engine. It has no qualms about being a licensed Star Wars version of those games. The things that the earlier games did well, like the targeting controls, still work here, and several elements like the radar in the upper-left corner of the screen are identical. Blowing up your friends in the multiplayer mode is still the main appeal rather than fighting the ropey computer opponents. Now this time, one of the stages has a Sarlacc pit. Thankfully, Demolition goes further than a reskin like a licensed Monopoly board, retooling parts of the game with a Star Wars bent.
Most of the tweaks are inspired by Star Wars's technology. You can charge up your weapons, and droids will climb into your vehicle to repair it or beef it up as a powerup. (Getting an R2 unit as a sidekick is pretty cute.) The adjustments slightly alter the speed and feel of the game. Unexpectedly, though, the biggest idea comes out of Demolition's flimsy storyline that I just made fun of. Jabba put together the deathmatches so he could take a cut of the gambling profits, and appropriately, betting and money have a role in the game.
In the one-on-one "high stakes mode," the first player to reach 10,000 credits wins. You begin every match by wagering money; if you tend to lose, the payout will increase in the event of an upset.
Jabba bought his contestants safe passage to the Death Star II. Sure, why not!
You can also earn additional prize money by pulling off special moves. Presumably, Jabba gives you a bonus for keeping the audience entertained. "Force Hit" combos, chained together from weaker attacks followed by a stronger one, don't make a lot of sense, but they're interesting to execute because they require you to shoot slowly and deliberately instead of going full-blast. (The game also awards credits for "Final Blow" attacks against damaged opponents, which aren't nearly as exciting as they sound).
The bonus payments give Demolition matches a structure and a goal beyond simply winning, especially in multiplayer. Although credits are less significant in the tournament mode, where they only matter for unlocking new characters, they add a bit of role-playing. You get to be the seedy contestant, showboating to make extra money.
It's interesting that Demolition visits, however superficially, the grimier, renegade side of Star Wars – with gambling and a cast of no-name criminals, where you're encouraged to blow up the buildings in Mos Eisley – because it didn't have to. Demolition was a franchise extension. The developers could've put Chewbacca and Darth Vader in cars with guns and called it a day. The game is already halfway there with its arbitrary vehicle list and a level set on the Death Star for no good reason, so why try to incorporate it into this dastardly setting?
As faint praise as this might be, LucasArts's excuse for Demolition shows, at a high level, a certain care for even frivolous expansions of Star Wars like this. Maybe not in terms of a believable premise but the thematic possibilities of playing around in other corners of the galaxy.
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Soon, Hope Hicks will join the long list of people who have left the Trump administration behind them. But unlike others — who were reportedly physically removed from the premises or, say, found out they were fired while they were on the toilet — Hicks received a warm good-bye from the president. The outgoing White House communications director was one of Trump's , so it's only fitting that he bid her an over-the-top good-bye as he headed out to board Marine One for a trip to Ohio. It took place in front of the White House — and, crucially, in front of a bunch of cameras.
And a dramatic pivot to her new life, a.k.a. her parents' house in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Paul Simon - 'Surprise'
The new album, produced by Brian Eno
Released by Warner Bros. Records
UK Release Date: June 5th
One of the world's most renowned singer/songwriters Paul Simon returns with the timeless quality of his new album 'Surprise' that is scheduled for a UK June 5th release on Warner Bros. Records.
'Surprise' is the first album that Paul Simon has worked on in collaboration with legendary producer Brian Eno. The result is a captivating collection of songs captured in mesmerising style by Eno's inventive production. 'Surprise', his first album since 2000's 'You're The One', is reminiscent of classics from his back catalogue such as 'Paul Simon', 'There Goes Rhyming Simon' and 'Still Crazy After All These Years'.
Titles set to rank amongst highlights of the set include 'Outrageous', 'How Can You Live In The Northeast' and 'Sons And Daughters'.
There are tentative plans for Paul Simon to plan an intimate show in London around the release of the album. Details of the show will be announced when and if they are confirmed.
Paul Simon's activities since the release of 'You're The One' have included stadium shows with former partner Art Garfunkel and the release of a nine-disc box set entitled 'The Studio Recordings 1972-2000'. He also earned an Oscar nominated for the song 'Father And Daughter' that featured in the animated hit 'The Wild Thornberrys Movie'.
The song titles to "Surprise" are:
01. How Can You Live In The Northeast
02. Everything About It Is A Love Song
03. Outrageous
04. Sure Don't Feel Like Love
05. Wartime Prayers
06. Beautiful
07. I Don't Believe
08. Another Galaxy
09. Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean
10. That's Me
11. Father And Daughter
Paul Simon is also set to play at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 7th.
Click here to buy 'Paul Simon - Surprise'


In our previous report , we did a detailed analysis of Major Buyers Of Columbian Denim Industry for the period of October'16- December'16 . In this report we have done the same analysis for the period of JANUARY'17 – MARCH'17 . During the period of three months, Colombia has imported 6.15 Million Square Meter of denim fabric worth USD 10.60 million at an average price of USD 1.72/Sq Meter.