Gettysburg resident John Franklin "Frankie" Riegel was a member of M Company, 3/5 (3rd Battalion, 5th Marines), 3rd platoon, United States Marine Corps. He is standing on the far left in this view. This photograph, courtesy of Fred Permenter, was taken in September, 1967, three months before Riegel's death in Vietnam.
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr is standing by the grave of John Franklin Riegel, who lived in Gettysburg when he joined the United States Marine Corps. The Custis-Lee Mansion is in the background. This view was taken facing west at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
In our tenth Arlington post, Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr shows us the graves of the son of George Pickett, a Gettysburg Medal of Honor recipient, and the grandson of E.P. Alexander.
In the eleventh Arlington post, Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr showed us the graves of a tank trainer at Camp Colt, and a witness to both Pickett's Charge and the charge up San Juan Hill.
In the today's Arlington post, Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr presents the gravesite of a Gettysburg Marine killed in Vietnam, an image of 1st Minnesota Veteran Albert Sieber, and the grave of a member of the 1st Michigan Infantry.
This map shows us the locations taken of videos for our Gettysburg at Arlington series. Videos #1-#32 were shown in our previous Arlington posts. Videos #33 was taken at the grave of Gettysburg Marine John Franklin Riegel. Video #34 was taken at the George Crook monument. Video #35 was taken at the grave of a member of the 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment. This map was created facing north at approximately 5:30 PM on Monday, May 24, 2010.
In Video #33 (Videos #1 – #32 were shown in our previous Arlington posts) Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr tells the story of a Gettysburg Marine who was killed in Vietnam, John Franklin Riegel. This view was taken facing west at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
A closer view of John F. Riegel's marker. Others killed in the action that December afternoon were Private First Class Murray Dean Vidler of Canada and Private First Class James Martin Klopmeyer from Illinois. To link to a memorial page for Riegel, Vidler, and Klopmeyer, please click here. This view was taken facing west at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr is standing by the gravesite and monument to General George Crook. This view was taken facing east at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
In Video #34 Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr shows us the bas relief on the Crook monument, and provides background information of one of the men featured on the monument, Albert Sieber. This view was taken facing east at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
The bas relief on Crook's monument features at least two individuals with Gettysburg connections. This view was taken facing east at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
The first Gettysburg connection is Adna Chaffee (1842-1914), shown here sitting, just to the right of the person's leg, who was a Second Lieutenant in the 6th U.S. Cavalry during the Gettysburg Campaign, and Army Chief of Staff from 1904-1906. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery and we showed his grave on a previous post. This view was taken facing east at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2010.
… and Albert Sieber (1843-1907), Indian Scout and member of the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg and is buried in Gila County, Arizona. This view was taken facing east at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2010.
Rich Kohr is near the site of Mary Lee's Rose Garden on the south side of the Custis-Lee Mansion. He is standing near the grave of Lieutenant William Woodruff of the 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment. This view was taken facing north at approximately 2:30 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2010.


The bike-share industry is exploding and for good reason. Bicycles are essential to solving a persistent, everyday problem, traffic. My – call it bold – prediction is that bike-share companies will eventually become bigger than car-based services such as Uber. This, however, depends highly on getting the regulatory framework for bike-share systems right.
Bicycles will win because in the trafficless future of liveable, sustainable cities only a few will afford or want to drive a car every day. Infrastructure will favor the majority, cyclists, and self-driving cars will make streets safer for biking. Bicycles will win, and bike-shares will play a key role as they allow for better modal integration, especially for the rail and bike combination.
The venture capital world has finally woken up to the potential of bike-sharing. So far Ofo and Mobike have each raised upwards of $500 million. The remaining 30+ bike-share startups, including the one I'm co-founder of, Donkey Republic, have also collectively raised perhaps another half a billion.
The results? In China, 50 million people are regular users on its 10 million shared bikes. The bike-share business, which was not seen as a venture capital case until 2016, grew tenfold in less than a year. The adoption of large-scale bike-share systems is likely to spread to Europe, the US, Latin America, India and other regions of the world.
Bike-share riders in Europe commonly pay between €0.50 to €1 per trip, up to €3-4 to get to work and back, and an average of €10-12 for a whole day on the bike. These fees will drop in a future where they are integrated into monthly commute cards.
Ofo and Mobike are charging only 1 Chinese Yuan (~€0.14) per ride in China, and claim 6 trips are made per bike per day, bringing the revenue from rentals to around €0.50 per bike per day. If a bicycle costs around €250, lasts for 2 years, and needs low maintenance, rider revenues are not far from covering the costs. When these companies launch in Europe and the US the pricing will of course adjust to an expected rental fee of €0.50 per trip for up to 30 minutes. Compare that with paying 30 times the price to share a car, and you suddenly get why bike-shares are booming*.
The data accumulated by bike-sharing systems represents another revenue stream. Traditionally, they have used their bikes as moving billboards. Now, leveraging the data available on rider behaviour, bike-shares will start using their technology platforms to serve advertising, adding to their profitability and attractiveness for investors.
Disruptive bike-share companies may create some negative externalities that call for regulation. To give a short overview: cluttering sensitive public space (e.g. the entrance to a subway station) and thus inhibiting public life, bike oversaturation relative to the utilisation rate, damaged, unusable bikes that don't get removed, unethical collection and sale of user data.
As disruptive technologies appear, cities and national governments feel an increasing pressure to control them and policy makers are put on the spot to address these issues. When their reaction is delayed, it leaves grey areas of regulation, and authorities end up needing to take a more strict stance than they would if they acted proactively.
Cities should not ignore the growing market and interest for independent bike-shares. For over a decade they have been paying for expensive and non-scalable systems, and now sit on a golden opportunity to promote what many have been dreaming: reduced traffic, improved urban mobility, societal health benefits, increased public safety and stronger local economy. The advent of private, highly technological and scalable bike-sharing system is a promising step forward and it is time for cities to provide the regulatory framework to leverage the opportunity. Instead of tendering large public procurements, now the more important task is to provide the guidelines for market competition that will have a positive impact on the cities.
So, how are municipalities supposed to ride this wave, and decide what is good and bad? And what specific regulations could be implemented to get there**?
A few cities have taken steps to lead the way with this vision. Seattle, for example, has requested different shared bike schemes to apply for permits. Singapore has decided not to procure a system but invited the independent providers for a pilot. Beijing and Shanghai are working on bike-sharing permit schemes.
From discussions emerging at this year's Velocity conference (June, 2017) with the launch of the Platform for European Bike-Sharing & Systems (PEBBS) within the European Cycling Federation (ECF), the boundaries of relevant policy areas are becoming clearer. Seattle has published the first version of its regulatory requirements, and Dublin city declared what they are looking for. Besides ECF, BikePlus and Polis Network are helping cities to define their requirements.
Protecting public space. Limit the number of bikes at first, so as to ensure a minimum viable network but only allow more bikes based on increase in usage. Ensure there are enough bike racks for both private and shared bikes, and that bike-share providers distribute their fleets only in permitted areas when not in use.
Maintenance of bikes. Municipalities should not have to collect the bikes that don't work, or provide the space for a dysfunctional bike for a month before anyone removes it.
Protecting competition. Cities should prevent predatory pricing, where a player drops prices to an unsustainable level to drive out competition. It is simply not good for maintaining a healthy, competitive market in the long run.
Setting the right goals. Cities benefit when people ride bikes, and a successful system is not one with thousands of bikes piling up on the streets, but the one that increases utilisation. Municipalities could promote cycling by subsidising rides on the bikes. Moreover, they could aim their subsidies towards certain target groups, be it current car-commuters, young people or any other group they deem more valuable to get on bikes.
Privacy laws. Bike-shares need to respect European data privacy laws. There are still many ways in which valuable data can be collected, but such data should not be used or sold unlawfully.
Colin Hughes from Social Bikes and a former ITDP researcher spoke recently at Velocity 2017 of a vision for the future where public authorities provide people with a mobility budget (as transport subsidies), and transport options are priced (either directly or through taxes on operators) to include externality cost and benefit.
Currently, cars are heavily subsidised in most countries in the form of direct subsidies and reduced CO2 targets for manufacturers, as well as the huge public cost of car-centric infrastructure. This cost, as well as the environmental cost of car transport and the traffic load on cities would be incorporated into user prices in a mobility budget scheme.
Bike transport would also have some public cost for regulation and infrastructure, albeit much lower. However the positive externality of the net health benefit of cycling could be also incorporated into pricing under a mobility budget scheme.
Given we each get €100 per month to spend on transport, we would collectively make millions of decisions with our wallet every day that contribute to shaping the most positive urban mobility design for a city. It's an interesting thought experiment which gives a clear picture of where public authorities should stand when designing the transport future of their cities. Including public costs, all externalities and average distances we travel, bicycles are the likely winners of how we get around our cities in the future.
For more information on Donkey Republic's analysis on cities' regulatory needs, download this document.
* Taking the example of DriveNow, where you pay €0.50, and not even considering that in urban areas the trip takes longer and includes parking.
** If cities want to make shared bikes something big, they should get inspiration from car shares. In car share space, there are several networks competing for best rider experience, and cities adopted regulations around parking, safety and pricing. As a result, we see a healthy market of car shares where DriveNow, Car2Go, ZipCar and the like are competing.
Urban cycling endows you with a kind of freedom and autonomy that Erdem has been pursuing ever since he was sitting as a teen on his hour-long commute to school in his native Istanbul. After riding through a bunch of different cities, he is now living and advocating his #lifebybike dream in Copenhagen, as the co-founder and CEO of Donkey Republic.


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New dog licenses and renewals for Temple City residents are issued by the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society.
New licenses must be obtained in person at the Humane Society office. Renewals may be mailed to the Humane Society or submitted in person at the Humane Society office.
All dogs in Temple City over 4 months old must be licensed. All dogs must be spayed or neutered, must have a current rabies vaccination, and must have a microchip implant.
Dog licenses are valid for one year, from July 1 through June 30. Licenses must be renewed each year by July 31. Licenses renewed after July 31 are subject to a late fee. Seniors age 60 and older, and disabled veterans, may license one spayed/neutered dog per household at a reduced rate.
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Taking preventative health messages into the wider caring professions: the views of housing staff and tenants.
In order to harness the potential impact of the wider public health workforce, innovative services are providing opportunities for social housing staff to extend their public health role. This study explored the views of housing professionals and social housing residents on the delivery of preventative health messages by housing staff in the context of the evaluation of the roll-out of a new service. We conducted semi structured interviews with 21 neighbourhood housing officers, 4 managers and 30 social housing tenants to understand their views on the widening role and the potential impact on the preventative healthcare messages being delivered. Neighbourhood officers were willing to discuss existing health conditions with tenants; but they often did not feel comfortable discussing their lifestyle choices. Most tenants also reported that they would feel discussions around lifestyle behaviours to be intrusive and outside the remit of housing staff. Resistance to discussions of lifestyle topics during home visits was found among both housing staff and tenants. Appropriate staff training and the development of strong and trusting relationships between officers and tenants is needed, if similar programmes to extend the role of housing staff are to succeed in terms of health impact.


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DR MIRIAM LAW SMITH
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Dr. Miriam Law Smith provides scientific consultancy to television production companies, including appearances as an on-screen expert. See below for a full list of Miriam's media experience. For broadcast and media enquiries please contact on Twitter @DrMiriam
October 2015: Television appearance as guest Psychologist on the Channel 4 documentary My Mania and Me.
March – May 2015: Television appearances as guest Psychologist on 5 episodes of Richard E Grant's Seven Deadly Sins of the Animal Kingdom, shown on Discovery Channel UK (and SKY 3D).
July 2014: Television appearance on BBC Newsnight as guest Psychologist discussing the perception of masculinity in men.
May/ June 2013: Scientific consultant to Blink Film on Ape-man, on National Geographic UK (and Going Ape, National Geographic USA), including on-screen appearance as a guest Psychologist conducting a live science demo on detecting cues to ovulation in humans.
December 2012: Radio interview with BBC Cumbria; as guest Psychologist discussing intelligence, and the nature and nurture of talent and success.
October 2011: Live radio interview with BBC Scotland; as guest Psychologist discussing my research on hormone levels and how they can relate to personality and behaviour. My research was also covered on Scottish television news channel STV.
February 2006: Television interview with Discovery Channel, Canada. As guest Psychologist, presenting my research on oestrogen and facial appearance. The interview was also shown on Discovery Channels in USA, and across Europe and Asia.
November 2005: Live radio interviews; as guest Psychologist discussing my research on how hormones can relate to facial appearance, with BBC Five Live, BBC Scotland, BBC Shropshire, Real Radio (Glasgow), Wave 102fm (Dundee), South East radio (Ireland), VIPonair (Glasgow), Spin 1038 (Dublin), and Newstalk 106 (Dublin).
October 2005: Live radio interviews; as guest Psychologist discussing my research on how personality can be linked to underlying biology, with BBC Radio 2, BBC World Service, BBC Beds & Herts, BBC Bucks & Milton Keynes and VIPonair (Glasgow).
Popular Science Writing
October 2011: Guest Blog on Scientific American: Commentary invited by the editors of Scientific American. Article: Don't Lose the Context! Are you maternal enough to be a woman?
Press coverage of my research
October 2011: UK and Europe: Daily Express (UK), Daily Telegraph (UK), Daily Mail (UK), The Independent (Ireland), Belfast Telegraph (N.Ireland), The Huffington Post (UK), The Scotsman (Scotland), Metro (UK), Sunday Mercury (UK), The Press and Journal (Scotland), The Times of Malta (Malta). Rest of World: New Zealand Herald (NZ), The Times of India (India), The Courier Mail (Australia), China Daily (China),
November 2008: The Herald (UK)
March 2006: The Independent (Ireland)
November 2005: New Scientist (Worldwide). UK and Europe: BBC News Online (UK), The Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Independent (UK), The Times (UK), The Daily Mail (UK), Metro (UK), Herald (Scotland), Scotsman (Scotland)., Psychologie Heute (Netherlands), Orange News (Poland), Aftenposten (Norway), Psychologies (Italy), Cerveau & Psycho Magazine (France), Vital Media (Hungary), Morganbladid (Iceland). Rest of World: New York Times (USA), Toronto Star (Canada), The Telegraph (India), New Kerala (India), Pravda (Russia), The Age (Australia), Mail & Guardian (Zambia), Sciscape Online (China),
October 2005: New Scientist (Worldwide). UK and Europe: The Times (UK), The Independent (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Telegraph (UK), Daily Mail (UK), The Scotsman (Scotland), The Herald (Scotland), Metro (UK), The Independent (Ireland), La Republica (Italy), Psychologies (Italy), 9am News (Romania). Rest of World: Washington Post (USA), Pravda (Russia), The Age (Australia), New Kerala (India), Daily Nation (Kenya), Viet Bao (Vietnam), Sungaibaru (Indonesia).
2005: BBSRC Communication of Science course (Media Training and Science Writing). BBSRC, London, UK.
2005: Opening the Lab Door; Communicating Science to the Public. GRADSKILLS course, University of St Andrews, UK.
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Outside Myriad Immortals Planet, the colossal thunder formation was taking shape gradually. Although it was massive and would strike terror into the hearts of those who looked at it, its dreadful power was well-contained. Streaks of lightning were constantly darting out of it like living beings, chasing each other in the void and interweaving into countless dazzling thunder runes. There was no sound in the void except the occasional crackling.
The huge Eye of Heaven Wrath slowly opened, and Lei Meng's figure was imprinted on its dark purple-blue pupil. Endless Acquire Red Yang Gas of Death was being drawn into the thunder formation from the crimson Flaming Ocean of Nether that surrounded the planet, gradually injecting into the huge eye and then being stored in the depths of the pupil in the form of tiny streaks of red lightning. Each streak of lightning was condensed from gases that covered thousands of miles, which showed how powerful they were.
On the thunder formation hovered a row of eighteen immortals in green Daoist robes. They all looked stately, their faces beaming with energy and their eyes gleaming like stars. Each of them had a layer of airflow swirling around their bodies, a sign that their cultivation of Daoist technique had been perfected to a very profound degree, and that the technique they were cultivating was orthodox, not those lowly techniques cultivated by itinerant cultivators.
The group of immortals was headed by a gray-haired old Daoist. With hands clasped behind his back, he looked at Myriad Immortals Planet with a relaxed expression and said with a smile, "My fellow Junior Brothers, after more than a year of hard work, we've finally come to the last one of all the thirteen evil lairs provided by the intelligence!"
"Indeed!" A young Daoist said while smiling. "We've been working restlessly for more than a year. Everyone is weary now. However, once we've completed the mission and returned to Green City, I reckon all of us will be handsomely rewarded!"
All the immortals laughed cheerfully, each wearing a very proud expression. The old Daoist shook his head, then sighed and said, "Those evil ones are really crafty. Most probably, the Flaming Ocean of Nether you see here is their work. Hiding this planet in the midst of a vast starfield... How could we know that there was actually an evil lair here if we didn't get the reliable intelligence?"
The young immortal, who was the youngest amongst the rest and looked like a fifteen or sixteen years old youth, turned to look at the old Daoist and asked curiously, "Senior Brother Jue Cheng, what exactly is the background of these evils? Also, we've destroyed twelve planets, and it will be thirteen after this one. There were countless common people living on every planet… So, by destroying them, are we committing the karma of killing?"
The old Daoist, Jue Cheng, shook his head with a smile. "No, it's not like that." He told the young immortal. "Slaying evils is a deed that can bring us great virtues, so how could it be considered as committing the karma of killing? As for their background, it all started from our Ancestral Master..."
Jue Cheng was about to explain to his fellow Junior Brothers the origin of these evils, the great harm they could cause to all the heavenly realms, and the devastating natural disasters that could occur if they were left unchecked. But before he could speak, the Eye of Heaven Wrath had sucked all the Acquire Red Yang Gas of Death within billions of miles and condensed them into a thunder rune. It was about the size of a rice hopper, gleaming brilliantly as if it was carved out of a purple crystal, yet not emanating any energy wave.
The rune was named 'Thirty-three Heavens Purple Divine Thunder'. It was a Core Thunder Rune created by the Thunder Heaven Lord in the Heaven, who controlled all the forces of the thunder between heaven and earth using the thunder elemental magical artifacts passed down since the primordial era, as well as the power of eight hundred Immortal Monarchs from the Thunder Faction of the Heaven.
The so-called Core Thunder Rune was actually the seed of thunder magic. By activating it, one would automatically extract the nearby natural energies and transform them into a frightful tribulation powerful enough to destroy a planet. Before his departure, Jue Cheng was given a total of thirteen thunder runes by his Senior, and his mission was to destroy thirteen planets along with all the living beings on the planets. If he ever missed a target, he and his Junior Brothers would have to destroy the entire planet by themselves.
But, Jue Cheng did not think it was possible to miss a target.
The Eye of Heaven Wrath in the void was a Gold Immortal Artifact, which was modeled after the real legendary Heavenly Dao Divine Artifact. It was like the barrel of a gun, and the thunder rune was the bullet in the chamber. The combination of the two could produce an attack comparable to that of a Gold Immortal. How could a Gold Immortal miss a target?
According to the intelligence, the strongest cultivators in all thirteen evil lairs were no stronger than the peak of Nascent Divinity realm. To use the power of Gold Immortals against Nascent Divinity cultivators was like shooting a mosquito with a cannon. Had it not been for the purpose of exterminating all the evils and not allowing any of them to escape, how could the Thunder Faction possible have given Jue Cheng such important artifacts?
There were only 108 Eyes of Heaven Wrath in the Heaven, and when they were put together, they would form the 'Thirty-three Heavens Purple Thunder Formation' that had a frightening reputation amongst all the evils across the universe. It was one of the very important and precious treasures of the Heaven, and could never be brought out of Heaven without special permission.
Therefore, Jue Cheng felt very honored, as not only was bringing an Eye of Heaven Wrath with him, but also given thirteen thunder runes to destroy thirteen planets. If he could complete the mission perfectly, he would certainly be rewarded handsomely when he returned to the sect!
"The Thunderous Wrath of Heaven!" Jue Cheng burst into laughter. "It is not the real one produced by the Heavenly Dao and just an intimation created by the Thunder Faction with immortal magic. Although I've watched it a dozen times, I just can't resist to watch it again! Observe it carefully, my fellow Junior Brothers! There is an endless profound knowledge in it, and if you can learn something from it, it will be of great benefit to your cultivation of Green City's thunder magic!"
Even before Jue Cheng reminded them, all the immortals were already looking at the Eye of Heaven Wrath. The expressions on their faces were as if they wanted to fly over and embrace the eye so that they could understand the mystery once and for all. Suddenly, the thunder rune, which had accumulated enough force of thunder, quietly shot out of the eye.
After absorbing all the Acquired Red Yang Gas of Death within billions of miles, the lightning produced by the thunder rune had a very violent nature. However, when it shot out of the eye, it actually made everyone feel as if it was flying at a very leisure pace.
Countless bolts of lightning poured out of the Eye of Heaven Wrath; the entire thunder formation was shaking violently while waves of lightning followed closely behind the thunder rune as it made its descent on the Myriad Immortals Planet. Like the thunder rune, these destructive lightning bolts fell slowly through the void, quiet and eerily beautiful.
Soon, the entire Myriad Immortals Planet was gently but tightly surrounded by a thick layer of lightning. At the same time, the thunder rune slowly passed through the planet's atmosphere, and was slowly flying toward Lei Meng, the existence that emanated the most powerful energy wave on the planet. Even as it approached the target, the lightning around the planet gradually compressed inward, moving closer to the ground while sending out countless very fine strands of light, each attached to the thunder rune.
On Myriad Immortals Planet, Lei Meng was in the middle of sprinkling immeasurable amount of blood-red light.
As Lei Meng said, ghosts and deities from outer domains and immortals were different. The reason they devoured blood essences and souls was the same as why human beings ate — it was their biological need, and at the same time, the best way for them to improve their overall strength. However, after digesting the blood essence and souls, as well as extracting the energy they needed, their bodies would release a lot of waste.
It was like when people ate, they produced excrement and urine, and when they breathed in oxygen, they exhaled carbon dioxide. The waste released by Lei Meng and his kind was pure immortal energy and spirit energy. They were like the best energy converters. As long as they were provided with enough offerings, they would give back enough immortal energy and spirit energy.
At the moment, thirty immortals, including Patriarch Jiang Yun, were floating in the air as the blood-red light constantly fused into their bodies. Their expressions were a mixture of pain and pleasure. The level of immortal energy within them was surging at a speed they dared not imagine. However, although the speed was incredibly fast, because Wu Qi had forcibly raised their understanding of the Heavenly Dao at the expense of his Divine Soul Essence, their bodies could still endure this constant influx of immortal energy.
On the other side, Little Que'er was also absorbing the blood-red light. All her feathers stood upright; they were falling off her body constantly while new ones kept sprouting from under her skin. As more and more blood-red light being pouring into her body, the ring of Nanming Flame around her became clearer; its color turned redder, and it was growing thicker while the temperature was rising higher and higher.
Of all the people present, Ao Buzun had changed the most. With a big inkstone placed atop his head, he greedily devoured the blood-red light that sprinkled onto him. His body had grown to a length of nearly ten thousand feet, and he was shrouded in a roiling dark smoke. The scales on his body kept breaking, then healed in just the blink of an eye. From time to time loud, noises of bones and meridians breaking could be heard coming from within his body; but as his body kept twitching and twisting, these bones and meridians quickly healed as well.
In order to force his cultivation of Dragon Transformation Script to evolve toward the True Dragon level, which equaled to the realm of Gold Immortal, he nearly passed out many times in the throes of rebuilding his dragon body in such a short period of time. However, this fellow was incredibly hard on himself. He kept murmuring as he breathed out flames, but his words left Princess Zhang Le, who was standing not far away from him, flushed with anger, wishing she could strangle this obscene fellow to death.
"Only by experiencing the hardest hardships can one rise above the ordinary! Rise above the ordinary, rise above the ordinary, RIDING THE ORDINARY!
"Apart from Master's women, I want to ride all the women in this world! This is what I called RIDING THE ORDINARY!
"Haha… I have to quickly recover my power and my divine abilities. I must become the dragon who rides all the women!
"Those b*stards who pulled out my meridians and bones, just you wait! I pray to the heaven that you will have a lot of daughters and granddaughters, and it will be even better if you have many, many great-granddaughters and great-great-granddaughters! When I visit you, I'll make sure that you have no more virgins left in your clan!"
Amidst Ao Buzun's nonsense, the glittering thunder rune slowly drifted toward Lei Meng's head along with countless tiny streaks of lighting trailing behind.
Lei Meng looked up in surprise and grabbed hold of the tiny thunder rune.
"What is this thing? How strange! Why are we surrounded by lightning?"
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My test-model at $69,954 had some rather interesting features that add to the pamper quotient. They included a touch screen navigation system with Bluetooth technology that allows the driver to make hands-free voice-activated calls, a rear camera for backing up that gives a wide angle view of what's behind you, rear seat swivel reading lamps, the Mark Levinson stereo with one-touch individual audio tuning for the driver, front passenger or rear passengers and a power rear sunshade. XM Satellite Radio also is available. The navigation system was more user-friendly than most, the graphics were clear, the guiding voice calm and I still got lost somewhere in the Bronx.
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A pillar of her ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish Community in Brooklyn, Rachel 'Ruchie' Freier decided on her thirtieth birthday that she wanted much more out of life. She became a lawyer and started campaigning to establish Ezras Nashim; the first Hasidic emergency medical response unit run exclusively by women. Her actions are met with a backlash from Hasidic Jewish men, and she struggles to find a Rabbi who will publicly support Ezras Nashim. But nobody puts Ruchie in the corner. While accused of pushing a "radical feminist agenda", Ruchie continues with charm and determination, in this a rare insight into an extremely private community.


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The Real Issue, Trump threatens "Globalists"
Not since Barry Goldwater in 1964 have I seen the establishment turn on one man with a unity and vehemence, as though from the very bowels of Hell, as it has Donald Trump. It's a full court press consisting of big governments types from both political parties, the establishment press (all networks except Fox), Hollywood moguls such as Steven Spielberg, and the billionaire club notably: David Rockefeller, George Soros, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this alliance, and it's in all of their interests to protect one another and destroy anyone who threatens this money and power flow, thus their warfare on Trump.
They are not all that concerned about the character of Trump—not even his disgusting video—as the character of Hillary, the one they do support, is far more flawed; nor do they particularly care about his sometimes hurtful comments. Bill Clinton is accused of having sexually assaulted women; even raping Juanita Broaddrick, while his wife used her power to punish his victims. As a defense attorney Hillary defended the rapist of a twelve-year-old child, even knowing the perpetrator was guilty, and we all saw the video of her laughing about her success in doing so. With a President Hillary the elite will stay in power so they use their power to minimize her many scandals and maximize Trump's character flaws. It is as simple as this. They have even allowed her to garner about $300 million after leaving broke from the Whitehouse. She is one of them.
So-called conservatives, like former president George H. Bush, plan to vote for so-called liberals (actually socialists) like Hillary Clinton in this election. Loyalty to this semi-secret combination is very strong.
Virtually all of these elites mentioned can be described as "globalists" or friendly to globalism, a term that emphasizes transferring power from nations to an international body such as the U.N. If successful the Constitution will not be the ruling document and the United States will not be a separate, independent, and sovereign nation. Such eventually spells the end of the United States and liberty as we know it. Even the phrase "open borders," as used by Hillary (revealed in Wikileak's October dump), calls for an "open border hemisphere," implies the same.
What happened to political opposition to globalism? In fact, there never really was much after J.P. Morgan purchased the 25 largest newspapers in 1917 and personally placed an editor at each "paper to insure that all published information was in keeping with the new policy" determined by a new organization that he cofounded with John D. Rockefeller, The Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR is the most powerful special interest group working for world government in the U.S. The New York Times, now leading the charge against Trump, was the most powerful newspaper purchased.
The financial elite have always had consensus on preserving their power and wealth and have always owned most of the mainstream media and both major political parties. The big government, big business, and big media forces that now wish to drop an atomic bomb on Trump because he is opposing them on free trade, open borders, and America first, each sacred to them, are exposing themselves as having always been on the same side. As with Hillary and George H. Bush, they always have had a private message that differed from their public message.
This is why there is so little difference in foreign policy between Democrat and Republican presidents. They get their advisors from the same Wall Street special interest group, The CFR. They all support extensive foreign aid, policing the world with over 900 military bases in other lands, and continual wars without declaration or pre-established end. They all support international trade agreements that undermine the interests of our country and export jobs formerly held by Americans. Despite Republican opposition to open borders such was never effectively stopped when they were in power; the flood of illegals never ended. Finally, the establishment despises nationalism.
On domestic policy the elites all supported the bank bailouts and their management of the money supply through the bankers private Federal Reserve Bank, which they manage. Despite Republicans having the purse power they have allowed Barack Obama to double the national debt. None of the problem solved with the Constitution as first consideration. They all support problem solving on the federal or international level rather than the state level. Nor do they talk about limited government.
The establishment opposition to Trump certifies that he is not one of them. He will not be controlled by them, as have his predecessors from both parties. Nor will any special interest group control him. This may be the first time in 100 years that this is the case.
Now Trump has many "warts," is not a particularly righteous man, is not politically polished or verbally refined and is sometimes offensive to those around him, but he still represents the best chance to break free from the 100-year-old elitist secret combination which now has a choke-hold on our government, the Constitution, and liberty itself. Certainly he has a much better chance of doing so than Barry Goldwater, the last presidential candidate that really tried. If he does not score a win this time there may not be another chance.
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Investigation Continues Into Fatal Bixby House Fire
Friday, January 16th 2015, 11:15 pm
Investigators are trying to figure out what happened after a house fire took the life of a Bixby man early Friday morning.
Several neighbors were still in shock that a tragedy like that could happen so close to their homes.
The call went out at 3 a.m., but Bixby firefighters said it looked as if the fire had been burning for a while.
It was the orange glow from the home on 118th Street that woke one of the next door neighbors.
She said she ran to the burning home and started banging on the windows, hoping no one was inside.
Bixby Fire Chief Bryan Wood said they found the body of a man inside.
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The neighbor said she was devastated and that she was close with the man who lived there. She said she couldn't believe he was gone.
She's not alone. Several neighbors said they were saddened by the loss. They all also wanted to know how something like that could happen.
That's a question the Bixby Fire Marshal and the State Fire Marshal's office is trying to figure out.
They spent the day sifting through debris, looking for clues on where, and how, the fire started. It's a lengthy process that's still not over.
Neighbors said Bixby police had been at the home this week for some sort of disturbance.
Police were also talking with investigators on scene Friday afternoon.
Right now we're still unsure on how that factors into this investigation.
News On 6 Investigators are trying to figure out what happened after a house fire took the life of a Bixby man early Friday morning.


Formula One: Launch of the W08 EQ Power+.
MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Motorsport looks forward with excitement to the 2017 challenges.
MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Motorsport took the first step today on the road to the 2017 Formula One season with the official presentation of the new F1 W08 EQ Power+. The new car was launched to the Team's fans from the Silverstone garages via a live 360-degree broadcast on Facebook, YouTube and the Team's official website – reinforcing the "fan first" approach that has grown MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Motorsport's social media community into the sport's largest, at over 14 million people. The launch was held as part of the Team's official 100 km Filming Day, during which the F1 W08 EQ Power+ completed its first laps on Silverstone's 2.96 km International Circuit, in the hands of both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.
Fourth iteration of the Turbo Hybrid generation of Power Units.
"But the dominant feeling in the Team right now is one of excitement – the factory is buzzing with anticipation. It has been a really motivating challenge to develop a brand new car concept and I have never seen our determination to succeed higher than it is right now. Of course, we had a curve ball from Nico late last year that left us scrambling a little bit in the winter.
At the 2016 Paris Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its new product brand for electric mobility: EQ. The name EQ stands for "Electric Intelligence" and is derived from the Mercedes-Benz brand values of "Emotion and Intelligence". EQ aims to make electric mobility simple, comfortable, safe and accessible for everybody.
First Mercedes-AMG Hybrid to receive the "EQ Power+" designation.
From the forthcoming facelift of the S-Class, all future Mercedes-Benz Plug-In Hybrids will carry the designation "EQ Power". And the launch of the F1 W08 EQ Power+ makes the new F1 car the first Mercedes-AMG Hybrid to receive the "EQ Power+" designation, which will be used on all future Mercedes-AMG performance hybrids. The new model designation has been translated graphically into the livery of the new W08, with an electric blue visual representation of the airflow across the car running from the front wing to trailing the edge of the sidepods. This distinctive signature derives from the electro-look of the Concept EQ unveiled last year.
A complementary, competitive driver pairing.
One of the most significant changes for the new season sees Valtteri Bottas become just the fourth Silver Arrows driver of the modern era in 2017. Next to him in the garage will be three-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, who comes to the new season refreshed and reinvigorated. "It's been a fantastic winter and an exciting training season for me," explained Lewis of his preparations for the increased physical demands of 2017.
The most exciting period of the year.
New arrival Valtteri Bottas is equally excited at the prospect of the new season: "It's a new chapter in my career, a new team, new regulations … new everything! I've been waiting for a long time to get this car out on track and, although this is just a Filming Day, I'm looking forward to starting to test properly next week in Barcelona and to really understand the car that we've been given by everybody in Brixworth and Brackley. It has been a busy winter for me since signing with MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS and we have tried to make the most of the time we have had. We've been going day by day, making the most of each one, spending a lot of time in Brackley and going through as much stuff as possible with the engineers. I feel well prepared in such a short time but, of course, the learning curve is still steep and I'm getting more useful information every day. It's up to us to make the most out of the time together.
A brand new technical challenge.
In Formula One, major regulation changes have usually been designed to limit performance and provide the technical teams with new constraints to work within. The new rules for 2017 opened up a new and exciting challenge – the freedom to explore a more generous set of regulations, coupled with the uncertainty of not knowing exactly where targets should be set, or what will represent a good result.
If last year's W07 was all about refinement and elaborate, detailed evolution, the W08 project has gone back to first principles. With the car having to be designed before running the definitive 2017 tyres, and in some parts before the regulations had even been finalized, it was important to arrive quickly at a sound base architecture, while following a flexible, adaptable philosophy to allow scope for major developments during the season.
Over 2,000 runs in the wind tunnel.
With this in mind, only 17 % of the components in W08 have been carried over from its predecessor, with the team's main focus lying on optimizing the car within the new aerodynamic regulations. This is also the first major regulation change to occur under the Aerodynamic Testing Regulations (ATR), which limit every team to the same maximum amount of wind tunnel testing – 65 runs per week. Given the extent of the regulation changes, the first W08 concept ran in the team's 60 % Brackley wind tunnel before the first race of last season and has completed over 2,000 runs during its development so far. In addition to the new shapes of front and rear wing, the biggest areas of aerodynamic opportunity are the floor and the barge board area in front of the sidepods, which have been the focus of significant work.
Substantial increases in aerodynamic and mechanical loads.
And while the performance opportunity has been significant, the design teams have also worked to improve the W08 structurally in order to withstand the substantial increases in aerodynamic and mechanical loads. The Power Unit, christened M08, has also been comprehensively redesigned for the new season. Although the previous token system did not constrain power unit development since 2014, its abolition allows the technical group more freedom for engineering solutions. As ever, much focus has been on the primary energy conversion opportunity – the combustion process – but there are also many opportunities for gains further downstream, including within the engine ancillaries.
The new aerodynamic regulations have had a significant impact on the configuration of the engine which, as a structural component of the car, must cope with significantly greater physical loads. To maintain its structural properties, the engine is therefore slightly heavier than its predecessor.
In addition to this comes an increased duty cycle, with the cars expected to spend approximately 10 % more of every lap at full throttle – a change that is reflected in a 5 % increase in race fuel allowance for the new season. M08 has also been designed for increased durability, with only four Power Units per driver per season permitted by regulation in 2017.
The W08 EQ Power+ will begin its testing programme in Barcelona on Monday 27 February. In order to maximize potential mileage across the fortnight of testing, the drivers will complete half-day sessions in the car as per the team's practice in 2016.


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Patronymes
Le prénom anglophone Curly (signifiant originellement "bouclé") est porté notamment par :
Curly Armstrong (1918-1983), joueur de baseball américain.
Curly Howard (1903-1952), acteur américain.
Curly Lambeau (1896-1985), entraîneur de football américain.

Commerce
 Curly est une marque de produits salés pour apéritif.

Zoologie
 Le Curly est une race de chevaux aux poils bouclés, originaire des États-Unis.

Voir aussi

Curley (homonymie)
Homonymie de prénom

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The Big Lemon could go out of business by the beginning of the next academic year if Brighton and Hove buses continue to charge equivalent prices.
In January this year the Big Lemon competitor, Brighton and Hove buses, reduced their day ticket price from £3.70 to £2.50 for the 23 and 25 routes. These are the routes that run parallel to The Big Lemon's service from Old Steine to the University.
This move has followed a price reduction in autumn for weekly tickets, from £10 to £8 along these routes. These prices now directly mirror The Big Lemon prices and have been called "a direct attack on the Big Lemon's service" by the Students' Union (SU).
The SU has now passed the 'Motion for Long Term Transport' following these price changes. At the SU Council meeting they highlighted the positive impact that The Big Lemon has had on choice and services for student transport. The SU also noted The Big Lemon provides competition within transport, as well as an innovative sustainable alternative bus for students.
There is a fear that now the buses are equally priced students are being swayed by a more regular service provided by Brighton and Hove, due to the sheer number of buses. The Big Lemon insist that if Brighton and Hove continue with these pricing strategies the they will be forced to stop running by the next academic year. This would create a monopoly for Brighton and Hove.
Questions are being asked about how Brighton and Hove can run bigger buses, a more frequent service and use more expensive fuel and still manage to break even, which The Big Lemon only just does.
If Brighton and Hove buses are running their service at a loss, then they would be taking part in a form of illegal pricing and would be contravening EU competition law.
The Big Lemon are legally restricted as to what can say and so have asked that the Union and Big Lemon users get as involved as they can.
Students are the majority of The Big Lemon's clientele and the Students' Union will actively support The Big Lemon by lobbying the relevant groups, launching petitions and supporting the issue throughout Green Week. They have also resolved to provide official representation for Big Lemon strategy meetings.
Roger French, Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company Managing Director, responded saying: "The allegation that we are trying to run them off the road is nonsense.
"We change our prices all the time. We are forever doing different pricing schemes and we will continue to do so. It has got nothing to do with other bus operators.
The Big Lemon has been operating since 2007 and expanded their service at the beginning of this academic year. On Shrove Tuesday they gave out free pancakes and will deploy two entertainers to raise money for Comic Relief.
I find Roger French's audacity thoroughly appalling. He can't even be honest about what he is doing. If he is successful in his campaign, the Big Lemon will go bust meaning a loss of jobs and a loss of an affordable means of transport for Sussex students.
B+H buses may well have set their prices to mirror the Big Lemon's for now, but let's see what "kind of price scheme" they experiment with in September once they have no competition!


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After giving us the song "On Point" featuring Davido, Mitch comes through with the much anticipated single titled "Paddy Man".
Mitch who happens to be born in Nigeria but based overseas promise to put out the video to follow suit while the song is enjoying airplay.
Currently number one on my playlist the song "Paddy Man" is produced by Superb beatz while the guitar was put together by Fiokee. This is one song you will want to replay over and over again. Download, listen & share.


It's Friday, and the sun is shining, my peonies are blooming, and I'm listening to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as I type this. Can you believe that it was 50 years ago, er, yesterday Sgt Pepper taught the band to play? Like anyone born after the early '60s, the Beatles have always been part of my musical landscape. And, like just about everyone else I've always loved them. (I even had a poster of the Sgt Pepper album cover in my bedroom growing up.) It's hard to imagine hearing it for the first time. Apparently the New York Times panned it!
1) The new Wonder Woman movie opens this weekend, and it's been getting great reviews. I don't normally go for action movies or comic-book movies, but maybe I'll check this one out. Are you all seeing it? Should I?
A theater in Austin, Texas had a women-only showing of the movie, and wow, were a lot of trollish dudes mad about that! Someone wrote to the mayor of Austin about it, calling for a boycott of the entire city (!!!), and his response is priceless.
2) Anthony Bourdain is a pretty ubiquitous presence in the travel/cooking show universe. Have you ever wondered how he went from chef to tv personality? Meet the woman who turned Anthony Bourdain into a TV star.
3) It's always exciting to see women we've interviewed in the past doing cool things. Monica Byrne announced this week that she's hosting a new documentary series for VICE, and the first episode is full of some pretty wild innovations and the human body.
4) Another past interviewee, Lizy Dastin talked about her work with street art, and venturing into creating some street art herself.
5) I saw an exhibit of art noveau posters earlier this week, and my favorite was of a woman riding a bike through the French countryside, scaring a flock of geese. I explained to my friends that riding a bike was a symbol of women's liberation, and there had even been a book about it. Yesterday, I came across a video explaining the movement, and thought it was a perfect time to share it, since this time of year always feels like the perfect time for a bike ride.


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Ready to splurge Rs 123 crore? World's 'most expensive' pair of shoes will be yours
Crafted by UAE-based Jada Dubai in collaboration with Passion Jewellers, the Passion Diamond shoes features gold and hundreds of diamonds, including two imposing D-flawless diamonds of 15 carats each.
By : Ken Sunny
Sep 26, 2018 13:21 IST
The prototype of the Passion Diamond shoes
Dubai, the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, is home to some of the world's firsts such as the tallest building (Burj Khalifa), only 7-star hotel (Burj Al Arab) and others. The sprawling city is all set to showcase yet another expensive stuff - world's most expensive pair of shoes.
Crafted by UAE-based Jada Dubai in collaboration with Passion Jewellers, the Passion Diamond shoe is up for grabs for 62.4 million dirham ($17 million) that translates into an eye-watering Rs 123 crore. To put it into perspective, the price is nearly what you need to pay for 12 units of Rolls-Royce Phantom 8th-gen launched in India at Rs 9.5 crore (ex-showroom).
Diamonds, gold. The Passion Diamond Shoes.
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The unveiling of the world's costliest shoes has been scheduled for Wednesday. And the organisers have chosen Burj Al Arab as the venue and approximately 50 guests including VVIPs, deeply-pocketed individuals and media are invited for the launch event.
Why the Passion Diamond shoe is so expensive?
The Passion Diamond shoe is made of gold and hundreds of diamonds while the highlight is the two imposing D-flawless diamonds of 15 carats each. A total of 236 diamonds has been used in the shoes. Jada Dubai and Passion Jewellers took nine months to design and create the luxurious footwear.
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The organisers will show a prototype of a size 36 shoes for the event while the actual shoes will be made as per the size requirements of the buyer. In addition, Jada Dubai will also launch three more limited edition creations made with diamonds, rubies, gold and pearls.
"We had to prototype many shoes in Italy in order to find the perfect shape, perfect heel and the perfect colour. Even inside, the logos of both companies are made of gold, which is very thin, so it will be very comfortable for walking," said Maria Majari, co-founder and creative director of Jada Dubai, who designed the shoes.
The sale of Passion Diamond shoe will pip UK designer Debbie Wingham's high heels as the most expensive footwear. Debbie Wingham's high heels were priced at $15.1 million (Rs 109 crore).
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London's New Year parade was exhilarating and these pictures prove it!
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'Law & Order: SVU' Star Danny Pino Joins CBS' Summer Series 'BrainDead'
By Patrick Munn | December 1, 2015 - 11:42 am | 2 Comments
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Danny Pino is heading to Washington, D.C.
The former Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star, who exited the NBC procedural at the end of last season, has signed on for a series regular role on BrainDead, CBS's newest Summer series which hails from CBS Television Studios and The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King.
Created by Robert and Michelle King, BrainDead follows Laurel, a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer whose first job in Washington, D.C. leads her to discover two things: The government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and Hill staffers.
Danny Pino will play Luke, Laurel's older brother and the junior Senator from the state of Maryland, who also serves as the Senate Whip for the democratic party. The role brings Pino back to CBS, where he starred in Cold Case from 2003 – 2010. His casting was first reported by Deadline.
Pino is the latest actor to board BrainDead since it got a series order at CBS back in July. Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Returned) was previously cast as fresh-faced Capitol Hill staffer Laurel; while, shortly after the cancellation of his USA Network drama Graceland, Aaron Tveit was cast as Gareth, the smart, hard-working Legislative Director to a top Republican senator who is ultimately responsible for helping to save the world.
BrainDead is being produced by CBS Television Studios, with Robert and Michelle King, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Brooke Kennedy and Liz Glotzer executive producing. Judy Smith will serve as co-executive producer. Under a three-series deal using the "unique" Summer model pioneered by Under The Dome, Amazon Prime has already secured US streaming rights to the series, which will premiere in 2016


And has anybody seen the "Dim Sum Coming Soon" banner hanging over my neighborhood Chinese-stop, T&T Seafood Restaurant in Edmonds? I have, and I'm beside myself. Last I heard, my main man at T&T, Tony Mann, was in search of the right dim sum chef — who may be making dumplings as soon as November. Speaking of dumplings, the ETA on Bellevue's Din Tai Fung, since so many of you keep asking, is early November. I promise to keep you posted on that one.
Amy Lee, co-owner of Bamboo Village (center, left) and Sonny and Macky Wong of Macky's Dim Sum (holding their namesake specialty) had strong ties to the ID before heading North and East.


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The only edition to include juvenilia by all four Bronte siblings, this unique volumne highlights the collaborative nature of the early 'plays' of Glass Town that developed into the different sagas of Angria and Gondal.
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For Kerbal Space Program on the Xbox One, GameFAQs has 44 achievements. how to find magento api key Once you get the phase angle right, just launch out to it's orbit, not worrying about the inclination yet. Set it as your target, and when you get to the ascending/descending node on your interplanetary burn, adjust the phase angle then (if there isn't one for some reason, do it about halfway between Kerbin and Eeloo).
Now here is where I decided I needed a way to get the entirety of what I had built so far into orbit without having to use any of the fuel since nuclear engines work best in the vacuum of space.
Eeloo Expedition. My Mark Twain series of ships have been all over the Kerbol system, visiting all the moons and planets (and returning kerbals from all of them but Eve)... except for the distant dwarf planet Eeloo.
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Kevin Broussard draws from over 25 years as a practicing professional to direct his efforts as partner in the firm. Additionally he has responsibility over the firm's marketing efforts and information technology systems. His pragmatic approach to project development and commitment to the client's goals has created a number of long term client relationships. Born and raised in Southwest Louisiana, Kevin moved to Alexandria after completing his architectural education at Louisiana Tech University, graduating with honors.
Kevin's current work focuses on the areas of healthcare, commercial banking, and master planning for church campuses. Some of those projects include Resthaven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, numerous branch and regional offices for Red River Bank, and a new Worship Center for Calvary Baptist Church.
Away from the office, Kevin and his wife Rhonda have devoted much of their time to children, church, and the never ending "renovation" of an old home. He can often be found in his workshop making sawdust from perfectly good wood.


We are delighted to be able to run another meeting about managing woodlands for butterflies, this time in the Midlands.
Thanks to owners in Cotgrave Forest and Ben Driver from the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, there will be a SWOG meeting at Cotgrave, Notts at 2pm on Saturday 23 June.
Ben Driver of the Notts Wildlife Trust will conduct a guided walk to spot butterflies and talk about woodland management for butterfly conservation.
Please email [email protected] to attend.


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GOOD PUPPY Play Cash is a clean and safe way to reward or limit a child's privileges, they can be awarded for good behavior or charged for chores not done. Start by assigning the children a weekly allowance, then divide that number by seven and give them that sum in Play Cash at the end of each day, according to their behavior, which could be assessed by the GOOD PUPPY Weekly Journal nightly review. At the end of the week, you may switch the child's Play Cash for actual money, a reward, or a GOOD PUPPY Gift Certificate, depending on age, preferences and circumstances.
The GOOD PUPPY Emotions Color Wall Chart is an empathetic aid to help children identify and verbalize their emotions from a very early age. Used together with GOOD PUPPY Behavioral & Emotional Tools, the system provides a reward based environment focused on emotional communication. Recommended for use at home, in classrooms and an indispensable tool for therapy and counseling.
The GOOD PUPPY Challenges and Super Powers illustrates twenty five challenging emotions, or situations, paired with the super power that trumps them. Children can recognize the emotions through empathetic imagery from a very young age, with an adults' help, they learn to verbalize them. The exercise of super powers to conquer situations allows children to grow their virtues and aids in building a healthy moral code.
Manage children's behavior creating incentives and positive reinforcements. Improve children's behavior, communication, social skills and the understanding and verbalization of emotions, positively influencing academic performance.
This book contains all the tools needed to implement the system in the classroom. Browse through it, and notice it is divided into 10 sections and contains all of the information for the correct implementation of all tools included. Bring this puppy into the classroom and let children learn the way they do it best, playing!


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Q: post uploaded with FB.api is visible on my timeline, but not on Startpage? When I upload a post with the FB.api javascript it is visible on my timeline but not on the "Startpage" as it is if I post something from within facebook?
Why isnt it visible on the Startpage?
I use the below to post:

FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', {
              method:'stream.publish',
              source:'http...myimage.jpg',
              name:'some title',
              link:'http://www.mydomain.se',
              description:'some description',
              message: 'the message....'
    }, function (response) {

        if (!response || response.error) {
            alert('Error occured:' + response);
        } else {
            alert('Post ID: ' + response.id);
        }

    });

Thank!

A: It can be facebook setting. Some of your post can't be visible on start page, maybe because too much other, more "interesting" posts. Try to change on your start page SORT from Top Stories to Most Recent. It can help, but I am not sure.
If it is visible on your timeline, script code should be ok.

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Author : Marc St-Pierre
Le chat dans le sac (The Cat in the Bag): The Genesis of a Cult Film
Here's a look back at one of Quebec cinema's cult films, Gilles Groulx's Le chat dans le sac (The Cat in the Bag), just in time for the release of previously unissued recordings by John Coltrane that appear on the film's soundtrack.
Films | September 27, 2019
The Little-Known History of the NFB logo
As part of our ongoing preparations for the NFB's move to downtown Montreal, we removed our iconic logo from the outside wall of our current headquarters. But what are its origins?
Uncategorized | April 24, 2019
The Rwanda Series: Humanity Is Not Immune to Barbarism
July 1994, not long after the Rwandan massacre, filmmakers Yvan Patry and Danièle Lacourse arrived on site. They were amongst the first foreign film crews to capture the aftermath.
Documentary | April 5, 2019
NFB Pause: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance | 25 Years Later
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance celebrates the 25th anniversary of its release in 2018. While the documentary enjoyed enormous success, its launch was not without problems.
Documentary, In the News, NFB Pause | June 21, 2018
The Life and Times of Evelyn Lambart
As the first woman animator in the country—and for nearly a quarter-century the only female animation filmmaker at the NFB—Evelyn Lambart enjoyed a prolific career marked by passion and invention.
Animation, Documentary | March 8, 2018
The history of Expo 67's Labyrinth Pavilion
A highlight of Montreal's Expo 67 was certainly the creation of the Labyrinth Pavilion by the NFB. Come and take a look inside!
Behind the Scenes, Documentary | September 16, 2017
Work Work Work Work | Watch 5 Films This Labour Day Weekend
Every year, the Labour Day weekend marks the end of summer holidays and ushers in the dreaded grind of work and school. But before you try to remember your math formulas or how to tie a Windsor knot, you still have a glorious weekend all to yourself. What better way to enjoy that time off than by watching some free movies?
Animation, Documentary, Films | September 1, 2017
NFB Newsletter
Our newsletters offer hand-picked selections of our finest projects.
Memory Rediscovered: The 1976 Montreal Olympics
*This post is a translation. Read the French original here. Forty years ago, on July 17, 1976 to be exact, the eyes of the entire world were fixed on Montréal....
Documentary | July 18, 2016
A Tale of Cannibalism | Watch Passage on NFB.ca
Passage (2008) presents a tragic, disturbing tale about a crew who, faced with the inescapable fate of dying of hunger, committed acts of cannibalism. Englishman eating Englishman?! Impossible, you might say. Unthinkable! But... is it?
Rent 3 Hard-Hitting Docs on Mental Illness and Violent Crime
Rent Life With Murder, NCR: Non Criminally Responsible and Out of Mind, Out of Sight, a trilogy of John Kastner docs about mental illness and violent crime.
Documentary, Films, On Film | May 7, 2015
Hidden Treasures from the Archives – A Letter from Roberto Rossellini
Read a hand written letter from Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, found in the NFB archives. A truly valuable and exciting discovery!
Documentary, Films, News | October 28, 2013
Women and Film: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of the NFB
During the early 1940s, women occupied a marginal—if not non-existent—role in production at the National Film Board of Canada. At the time, the NFB was primarily engaged in producing propaganda...
Documentary, Films | March 4, 2013


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Federal List
100 reasons to be optimistic
By Troy K. Schneider
Looking at what's transpired since our last Federal List issue, it would be easy to make the case for pessimism. There have been high-profile IT debacles, no real appropriations for fiscal 2015 despite setting budget levels last December and ever-scarier cyber incursions. And talented agency IT leaders continue to head for the exits.
Some of those events are enumerated in the pages that follow, but trust me: We could have produced one heck of a long, depressing list!
More Federal List stories
4 cybersecurity gurus to follow on Twitter
4 signs agencies are serious about agile
5 agency IT predictions for 2015
5 key IT bills still pending in Congress
5 players (and 1 tool) you need on your modernization team
5 predictions for fiscal 2015
8 predictions to put on your calendar
9 things to look for in an open-source project
17 hot companies to watch
33 firms hired to work on HealthCare.gov
Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to the coming months. And it's almost entirely due to the Federal 100 nominations that will soon come pouring in.
The Federal 100, of course, is FCW's award to honor outstanding individual efforts in the federal IT community. And when the 100 winners are chosen and announced, we all get a reminder of just how much great work is being done.
That desperately needed survey of what's good in federal IT, however, starts with you. No matter how great an individual's accomplishments are, he or she can't win without being nominated.
So start thinking about who deserves a Federal 100 award. We'll formally open the nomination process in late October, but it's never too soon to begin making a list and gathering the necessary information. And please spread the word so that all the worthy women and men get the consideration they deserve.
If you're not sure what it takes to make the Federal 100 list, here are four things to remember:
Anyone in the federal IT community is eligible, public or private sector.
The award is for individual accomplishments in 2013. Great teams get their due elsewhere.
Federal 100 winners go above and beyond -- whatever their level or rank. A fancy job title is not required, and just doing one's job well is not enough.
Impact matters. The judges need to know not only what a nominee did but also what all that work accomplished.
Know someone who fits the bill? Then please make sure we know about him or her as well!
Troy K. Schneider is editor-in-chief of FCW and GCN, as well as General Manager of Public Sector 360.
Prior to joining 1105 Media in 2012, Schneider was the New America Foundation's Director of Media & Technology, and before that was Managing Director for Electronic Publishing at the Atlantic Media Company. The founding editor of NationalJournal.com, Schneider also helped launch the political site PoliticsNow.com in the mid-1990s, and worked on the earliest online efforts of the Los Angeles Times and Newsday. He began his career in print journalism, and has written for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, WashingtonPost.com, Slate, Politico, National Journal, Governing, and many of the other titles listed above.
Schneider is a graduate of Indiana University, where his emphases were journalism, business and religious studies.
Click here for previous articles by Schneider, or connect with him on Twitter: @troyschneider.


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2 U.S. Ski Team prospects died in an avalanche
byJulie Kliegman
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Two U.S. Ski Team prospects died in an Austrian avalanche Monday. Ronnie Berlack, 20, and Bryce Astle, 19, died while skiing near the World Cup venue, The Associated Press reports.
They left the prepared training slope and set off the avalanche. Both men were on the U.S. development team to gain experience and pursue future global competitions, including the Olympics.
"Ronnie and Bryce were both outstanding ski racers who were passionate about their sport — both on the race course and skiing the mountain," U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association President and CEO Tiger Shaw told The AP.