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Getaway to Ojai in California
How to Spend a Day or a Weekend at Ojai
Betsy Malloy
Betsy has been writing about California for nearly more than two decades as TripSavvy's expert on the state.
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Ojai village settles down into its valley like eggs into a bird's nest, giving credence to some people's contention that its name means "nest" in the Chumash Indian language.
Ojai (pronounced like a startled greeting: OH-hi) is situated in a small, east-west valley about 15 miles from Ventura and the Pacific coast, surrounded by citrus groves, oak trees, and the protective Santa Ynez Mountains.
You can plan your Ojai day trip or weekend getaway using the resources below.
Why Should You Go? Will You Like Ojai?
Ojai is a good place for a relaxing getaway or a romantic interlude, with just enough to do at a leisurely pace.
If you're a photographer, the oak trees, mountains, and orange groves provide plenty of things to point your lens at. And the annual "pink moment" could be worth planning a trip around.
If you don't like to shop, spa, or hike, Ojai may not be for you. Ojai is also a little short on kid-oriented activities to make it a good place for a family getaway.
Best Time to Go to Ojai
Ojai weather is nice anytime, but hotter in summer. If you go in spring or fall, it will be less crowded, and hotels may offer off-season rates. It is also less busy midweek any time of year.
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If you've only got a day, take a leisurely stroll along the arcade and the streets branching off from Ojai Avenue (which is also Hwy 150). You'll find art galleries, boutique clothing stores, several places to eat and the tasting rooms for Majestic Oak Winery and Casa Barranca Winery, the first certified organic winery on the Central Coast.
Just a block off Ojai Avenue, on the corner of Matilija and Canada, is Bart's Books. Famous for being a (mostly) outdoor bookstore, it's known for its scandalously low-priced specials displayed on shelves along the sidewalk. Those super deals have been sold on the honor system since 1964 when the original Bart first put out a coffee can to collect his earnings when he wasn't around. Bart's Books is open seven days a week.
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More Great Things to Do in Ojai
A weekend in Ojai is about escaping and relaxing rather than a big list of things to do. You can't beat the Kuyam experience at Spa Ojai for helping with the relaxing part. It uses the therapeutic effects of cleansing mud, dry heat, inhalation therapy, and guided meditation. Try the Day Spa of Ojai which offers massage, facials, and body treatments.
Visitors give high marks to Ojai Olive Oil at 1811 Ladera Road for their tours and products.
For a little more active day, you can go horseback riding with Western Trail Rides. If you have kids Ojai Trail Riding company offers special programs just for youngsters.
Rent a bicycle from Bicycles of Ojai (108 Canada Street) and pedal the 16-mile paved path that runs from Ojai's Libbey Park all the way to the beach in Ventura.
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Annual Events You Should Know About
April: Ojai Pixie Month—a month-long celebration dedicated to the Pixie Tangerine, a tasty citrus orb that is unique to the Ojai Valley. During the month, Ojai businesses, restaurants, and hotels throughout Ojai offer special packages.
April: Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament
June: Ojai Wine Festival at nearby Lake Casitas
June: Ojai Music Festival
June: Ojai Valley Lavender Festival
July: Fourth of July Parade and Fireworks Celebration
October: Ojai Studio Artists Tour
October: Ojai Day
November: Ojai Film Festival
Tips for Visiting Ojai
Whether you're visiting for the day or the weekend, you'll quickly discover that parking along Ojai Ave is limited to 2 hours. Follow S. Montgomery or look behind the arcade shops off E. Matilija for lots with longer limits. They also have a trolley that operates during busy times. Check their maps for stops and prices.
If you need to "go" while you're downtown, head for the green-tiled arch under the arcade. Follow the signs pointing toward more shops. There are public restrooms back there.
The Oaks at Ojai
We haven't had the time to stay in every hotel, motel, B&B and other lodgings in town, but we would go back to the lovely Su Nido Inn anytime and we still remember how nice it was to find the hot tub ready for us to jump into a chilly evening.
For a unique lodging experience, try Caravan Outpost, a collection of vintage Airstream travel trailers circled around a central area where you can get to know your fellow travelers.
For other ideas, go to Tripadvisor for reviews and price comparisons on hotels in Ojai.
If you're looking for a place to camp, you'll find 400 sites along the shores at Lake Casitas, just a few miles out of town.
Getting To Ojai
Ojai is 83 miles from Los Angeles, 207 miles from San Diego and 120 miles from Bakersfield. From the north or south, take US 101 to CA Hwy 33 east. The junction is just north of Ventura. If you're driving southward on US 101 at night, resist the urge to turn off at Hwy 150 (which is the first exit you'll encounter toward Ojai). While Hwy 150 is scenic in the day, it's two-laned and winding, no fun in the dark.
From the east or central valley, take I-5 to CA Hwy 33 west.
Getting Home from Ojai
You'll likely be done with Ojai after spending a full day there. After breakfast on your second day, think about taking a leisurely drive home.
If your home is north of town, CA Hwy 150 toward Santa Barbara includes a scenic drive around Lake Casitas, through pastoral countryside and past avocado groves. From there, you could continue north on Hwy 192, skirting the eastern edge of Santa Barbara, then follow Hwy 154 north through the Santa Ynez Valley, connecting with US 101.
If you are going south from Ojai, take CA Hwy 150 int the other direction, and you'll climb to some scenic vista points overlooking the valley on the way to Santa Paula. From there you can take CA Hwy 126 toward Ventura or follow CA Hwy 126 the other way to I-5.
CA Hwy 33 leads through the Los Padres National Forest and toward the Central Valley.
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Book Review: The New Politics of Russia
October 16, 2016 PaulR	9 Comments
Given the hyperbolic hysteria which characterizes so much analysis of Russia, it is good to come across a book which studiously avoids all that and instead calls for 'a sophisticated, empathetic understanding of Russia and how it works.' In The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change, published this year by Manchester University Press, Andrew Monaghan of St Antony's College, Oxford, denounces what he calls 'the mainstream view of Russia in the West', which he calls 'narrow, simplistic, and repetitive.' He analyzes the reasons why Western observers have continually been surprised by Russian actions and finishes by laying out his own model of how the Russian political system works. His book challenges Russian 'experts' to reconsider their assumptions.
Monaghan posits a number of causes for the poor quality of Western analyses of Russia.
First, government support for Russian studies declined following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The result, Monaghan says, is that 'the practical capacity to understand Russia is much reduced in policy-making circles', with 'very few experienced Russia specialists at the heart of high-level decision-making in the West.' I have some doubts about this idea. Monaghan is certainly correct about the decline in Russian studies in the West – the 1990s in particular saw numerous Russian departments closing in Western universities. But I'm not sure that Sovietologists were much more accurate in their predictions than the current generation of Russian experts, even though there were many more of them. Moreover, the problems we have in understanding Russia today appear to have more to do with the quality of analysis than the quantity of experts. To be fair to Monaghan, he acknowledges this, saying that, 'a simple increase in resources and the number of analysts will not necessarily facilitate the correction of analytical mistakes.' Instead, 'there is a need to reassess the conceptual approach'.
Second, Monaghan says that there is an excessive tendency to view Russia in terms of 'transition' from communism to Western-style liberal democracy and free market capitalism, and to evaluate Russia according to its supposed progress in this transition. Consequently, 'the focus of mainstream attention narrowed to support for the (liberal) opposition to Putin and objections to the Kremlin's oppressive measures against it, in effect the story of embattled and threatened democracy.' Because of this, Monaghan continues, 'many who discuss Russia tend towards using a limited range of sources … most of which have a more liberal or Western orientation. … thus shining a distorting light on how Russia works.' During the wars in Georgia and Ukraine, 'Georgian and Ukrainian sources were often not critically examined before being absorbed and deployed in assessments of Russia and Russian intentions', and Western analysts have championed those who oppose Putin as 'charismatic, "crusaders", and democratic', even though they are often nothing of the sort. The result is that 'advocacy and analysis become conflated.' Thus, Western commentators greatly exaggerated the numbers who protested against the Russian government in 2011-2012 and overestimated the significance of the protests, the likelihood of 'regime change', and the fact that the government response to the protests was not purely repressive. The companion of 'transitionology' is wishful thinking.
Third, Monaghan says that Western views of Russia are characterized by 'pronounced ethnocentrism and "mirror imaging".' He writes that, 'The assumption that the Russians are not so different and see the world and react in the same way as Westerners has obstructed understanding Russian intentions, prejudices, hopes, fears and motivations.' Monaghan argues that one of the great problems in Russian-Western relations is that the two sides do not in fact see the world in the same way. They also apply different meanings to the same words. Russia and the West have had very different views on subjects such as Iran, ballistic missile defence, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. They draw 'different conclusions' from the 'same body of evidence.' And while the two sides were at one point able to agree that they were committed to the 'indivisibility of security', they interpreted this terminology very differently. To the West, 'indivisibility of security' meant that military and political security were intimately connected to human security, and thus to issues of democracy and human rights. Russia, however, interpreted the phrase as meaning that the European security structure should embrace all the countries of Europe, including Russia. The differing interpretations of what had been agreed inevitably led to disenchantment when it became clear that the other side was not actually committed to things which it had been supposed that it was committed to.
In the final part of his book, Monaghan examines various models of the Russian political system, and develops one of his own. This divides the ruling class into three layers: the key 'leadership team' of a relatively small number of people surrounding Putin; the 'federal locomotives', who are a 'larger group of those who are trusted to carry out the strategic agenda'; and finally, 'a third category, the largest and most diverse,[which] consists of proven managers.' The value of this model is open to debate, but Monaghan makes a good case that we need a 'more sophisticated understanding of the wider political landscape and political culture.'
For the most part, I concur with Monaghan's approach. The New Politics of Russia expertly dismantles the way the West views Russia. The book is a refreshing addition to the literature on Russian-Western relations.
If I were to add anything to Monaghan's analysis, it would be to say that one of the reasons why we misperceive Russia is because we misperceive ourselves and so misperceive how Russians see us. We do not take seriously their objections to what we do; and we do not take those objections seriously because of our inability to regard ourselves as anything other than the 'good guys'. If we are to improve our understanding of Russia, we perhaps first need to improve our understanding of ourselves.
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Great! I can't wait to read/review this one.
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This seems like a useful dose of sober analysis to counteract the comically anti-Russian rhetoric that passes as expert opinion.
As a tangential point with respect to liberalism and notions of 'good guys', it is worth noting that RT had it's accounts in the UK frozen today. The ever progressive Guardian can barely contain its glee.
Luke Harding tells us that RT is a 'propaganda tool', citing the fact that it often features people like Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Livingstone. Apart from the fact that Corbyn is the leader of HM Official Opposition and therefore hardly a fringe figure, RT has featured contributions from Geoffrey Roberts, Robert Gellately and other esteemed experts. By contrast, Luke Harding's contribution to the public's understanding of Russia has been to present Pussy Riot as paragons of political virtue.
'Second, Monaghan says that there is an excessive tendency to view Russia in terms of "transition" from communism to Western-style liberal democracy and free market capitalism, and to evaluate Russia according to its supposed progress in this transition.'
Let me put this a different way. To venture into fantasy for a moment, it sometimes seems to me as though, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the evil bird of messianic ideology realised that – for the time being at least – it no longer had a home in Moscow.
So it flapped its wings, and flew over to Washington. And there, it found all the materials needed to build itself a superlative nest. A bit of comfortably woolly 'city on a hill' material, with some refurbished Trotskyism, from Irving Kristol and his like, to add, as it were, the lining.
In London, it had thought there might still be a few troublesome 'conservatives' left, in the country of Burke. But, as it turned out, they were almost extinct. And there was plenty of nesting material here, also.
And so, the project for 'world revolution' found a new home, and also a new slogan: 'human rights', in the name of which to wreak devastation.
Reverting to the world of mundane fact, there was a time, not so very long ago, when in Britain not simply a lot of Tories, but many who would have thought themselves as being on the left, but in a cautious and pragmatic way, believed that to think that the claim that history had some kind of intelligible 'direction' was the ultimate heresy.
So 'historicism' in Sir Karl Popper's sense, seemed to lead naturally to a viciously authoritarian politics: after all, if a 'vanguard' (a term Fukuyama was happy to take over from Marxists) possesses 'consciousness' of the true direction of the historical process, how can anyone who opposes it be other than either ignorant or evil?
Obviously, for a genuine Popperian (I am not talking of pseudo-Popperians like Martin Wolf, the chief economics columnist of the 'Financial Times') Fukuyama is little better than Trotsky – and indeed, arguably might be judged much worse.
But post-Cold War Western policy is clearly only intelligible in terms of a practically universal acceptance among Western élites of some version or other of the 'end of history' nonsense.
And now, the evil bird of messianic ideology is having his revenge.
In 1989, the prestige of Western ideas and political models was, globally, at something close to an all-time high.
At the moment it is, frankly low and sinking. The problem is not simply that 'regime change' projects have, repeatedly caused chaos. It is that, to be blunt, 'democracy' does not any longer seem capable of producing reasonably competent government.
Of course, quite a few people in Russia may have reservations about the Putin 'sistema'.
But can any rational person any longer think that a political system which generates a contest between Hillary Clinton and Trump for supreme power, where John Kerry is Secretary of State and Ashton B. Carter Secretary of Defense, is self-evidently admirable?
I do not think so.
And, given a choice between any of those figures and Putin, Lavrov, and Shoigu, are not a lot of normal people going to say: democracy did seem a very nice idea, but, better the devil we know?
Sheesh, if we are to resort to poetic comparisons and metaphors, let's water down them with some facts, okay?
Your "evil bird of messianic ideology" in Moscow probably died well before 1991 – the historians are still arguing when exactly. The West didn't notice that though and continued to scare its easily manipulated "free people" with the stories about monstrous communistic "evil bird", blissfully (un)aware that they have their own mutant of avian variety, an oversized "dove" crossed with "hawk" with steel beak, talons, pooping smartbombs wherever and whenever it flies to bring the Free-doom and 'Mockracy to some unfortunate part of the word.
Messianic ideology of the West was right there all the time – there was no need for the "evil bird" to get the green card in early 90s and migrate to the Chosen Land of the Free.
"America is indispensable—and exceptional—because of our values'
There's always been something special about the United States of America. President Abraham Lincoln called us the "last, best hope of earth." President Ronald Reagan said we are a "shining city on a hill." And Robert Kennedy called us a great, unselfish, compassionate country.
I couldn't agree more.
Most of all, America is ¬indispensable—and exceptional—because of our values. As Secretary of State, I was proud to represent our country's commitment to freedom, equality and opportunity. The world looks to us to stand up for human rights, LGBT rights, religious and ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities and people everywhere who yearn for peace. We challenge ourselves and other nations to do better. It's why so many people from around the world want to become Americans too.
But with all of these advantages comes ¬responsibility—we need to continue leading the world. Because when America fails to lead, we leave a vacuum that lets extremism take root, emboldens our adversaries and discourages our friends.
So let's never stop doing good and being great. Let's keep America exceptional."
– from the the "Time" article Why America is Exceptional by Hillary R. Clinton
What can say? After the Democratic Convention aka "The Triumph of the Well 2: Electric Boogaloo" I think no one in their right mind could mistake the current regime in the USA with its faux-parties for anything but nationalistic militaristic aggressive destructive force, hell bent on dominating the world while using aggressive propaganda, narrow ideological indoctrination and militancy in all possible spheres. Cue – the Exceptionalism which is truly indispensible for the Indispensible Nation.
Here Ian Tyrell gives a quick history of the formation of this supremacist ideology.
"As the leader of the free world, the chief victor in the Second World War over 'totalitarian' Germany, and by far the world's most prosperous economy, the US seemed in all these ways an exceptional nation. Seymour Martin Lipset, the eminent Stanford political sociologist, made a career investigating the many factors that led to this American exceptionalism. Until his death in 2006, Lipset continued to hold that the US was not subject to the historical norms of all other nations.
No one did more than Ronald Reagan to amplify and popularise the US as exceptional. Refusing to accept the doldrums of the Jimmy Carter presidency or the transgressions of Richard Nixon as the best that Americans could do, Reagan promoted the image of the US as a shining 'city upon a hill'. This reference is to a 1630 sermon by John Winthrop, the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop was calling on the new Pilgrim settlers heading for Massachusetts to stick to the narrow path of Puritanism.
Reagan and his followers wrongly attributed American exceptionalism to this Puritan injunction, and added 'shining' to the original, which gave the phrase a distinctly different connotation. Nor was Winthrop referring to any nation, but rather a discrete community of English Protestant believers. Notably, Winthrop's sermon had been neglected for centuries. It was resurrected only in the 1940s by a few Harvard academics who were engaged in an intellectual rehabilitation of Puritan thought. In a 1961 speech, John F Kennedy, who had been a Harvard student and was influenced by that university's Americanists, used the 'city upon a hill' phrase. The idea of the US as a 'city upon a hill', however, really gained purchase in political rhetoric in the 1970s and '80s, as Reagan sought to reinvent the country."
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"The assumption that the Russians are not so different and see the world and react in the same way as Westerners has obstructed understanding Russian intentions"
In this case, Russians really are not so different. And they react in the same way as Westerners. Anti-Western turn Russia was absolutely predictable, and "Westerners" on the site Russian would have done the same
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Helen was born in Dudley, West Midlands - into a theatrical family. Her parents both acted in amateur theatre and her father was Chairman of the Old Dudleians Dramatic society forever ! She had her first taste of directing age 14 at King Edward VI High School, Edgebaston. The play was dreadful - The Crimson Coconut - but her leading lady was amazing and is now known as Lindsay Duncan. Her first part was as an Irish nun for the ODDS - she was brought in at three days notice - no change there then.
More drama at Manchester University, despite studying Psychology, she appeared in two medic revues - including a forgettable performance as Little Weed. After graduation, she moved to Newcastle to become the first female marketing executive for Proctor and Gamble - mainly because she was told P&G didn't take women. She worked on Daz and joined the People's Theatre. There, while she was playing a nymphomaniac and he was doing the can-can with no trousers, she met John, himself a founder member of The Young Theatre (at Beaconsfield).
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The couple moved back to Bucks., and John introduced her to the Beaconsfield Theatre Group where she became very much involved in all aspects of BTG, serving on the committee and becoming Group Chairman for a number of years. Her acting roles have ranged from Puck to Doris in the two hander Same Time Next Year and later she played Doris again, this time in The Cemetery Club. She also directed Dead Guilty and The Killing of Sister George, and - as luck would have it - it was when she was directing Woman in Mind for BTG in 1989 that a certain Mark Britton, who was in the cast, "persuaded" her to become actively involved in The Young Theatre at (Beaconsfield) as an Assistant Group Director to Bill Tapley - and the rest is history. Apart from being YT's Artistic Director for seven years, she has also directed a number of YT productions including Blithe Spirit (1992); Antigone (1993) and Daisy Pulls it Off (2001) - whilst in 2002 she stepped in, at only a week's notice, to play Mother in Billy Liar - with her own son as Billy! In fact both her children, Becky and Peter were heavily involved with YT, but so far, none of the dogs have appeared on stage. This is a good thing! While the children were small, Helen wrote comedy sketches for TV - Naked Video and Russ Abbott. About 7 years ago, Bums on Seats, a publicity handbook, was published - and the board room battle over the title remains legendary. Her second book, Directing Amateur Theatre was published in 2004 and as recently as 2013 was to be found in the NT bookshop; and work continues on a novel.
She fulfilled a lifetime ambition to follow in her father's footsteps when she was accepted as an associate member of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators, and is now a full member of GODA, working as far afield as the Shetland Islands and, in 2014, will be adjudicating in Teeside.


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Since 2014, the number of attacks from right-wing extremists has been greater than attacks from Jihadists, and, the Anti-Defamation League report that during 2018 "right-wing extremists were linked to at least 50 murders in the United States [up 35% on 2017]." Globally, between 2013 and 2017 there were 113 attacks "by far-right groups and individuals…. of those 47 attacks took place in 2017.
manifesto title and many of the ideas promoted in it come from Le Grand Remplacement by 71-year-old Jean Camus and published in 2012.
As a result of wars in the Middle East and economic insecurity in Sub-Sharan Africa large numbers of migrants have indeed fled to Europe and elsewhere seeking safety and a new life. The influx of migrants/refugee into western countries presents societal challenges and change, but is not a threat or an act of 'replacement'. The vast majority of migrants do not want to leave their homeland and travel to a country they do not know; people migrate to escape conflict, persecution and economic hardship, much of it caused by the foreign policies of western powers over decades, the exploitation of poor countries over centuries and the concentration of global economic wealth.
well as other minority groups. Liberal politicians, especially women, have also been targeted, many receiving hate mail and violent threats from right-wing extremists.
A cornerstone of the economic system and many aspects of contemporary life is competition; competition encourages division. Competition and aggression go together: the sense that we must compete or fight to survive, that others - especially others that are dissimilar – are regarded as opponents, rivals, competitors wanting what we have, which we must defend at all costs. Trust is nowhere in such an unjust world, society fractures along flag waving lines, violence erupts.
One of the consequences of this combative socio-economic system is inequality - of wealth, income, opportunity, influence, access to culture etc., etc. This social poison fuels a range of ills including mistrust, particularly of 'the other', someone who looks, talks and prays differently. Societies with the highest levels of inequality have the lowest levels of trust.


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182,448 Black People Went Missing in the U.S. Last Year — These Sisters Are Working to Find Them
Derrica and Natalie Wilson rise early in the mornings, before they clock in to their full-time jobs and then burn the midnight oil to help solve the countless missing persons cases plaguing Black communities across the United States, which they say have been disproportionately overlooked by both law enforcement and national media outlets. "If you see something wrong, you have to be willing to come up with a solution to fix it," Derrica says. "So we became the change."
The Wilsons have been sisters-in-law for nearly two decades and don't even consider each other in-laws anymore. "She's my sister," Derrica says. But the moment they became coworkers traces back to a family gathering, one of many, in 2004. They were discussing Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old woman who'd gone missing from Derrica's hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina. The national media wasn't covering the case. Outlets at the time were hyper-focused on Lori Hacking, a Salt Lake City, Utah woman who had gone missing. A year later, Natalee Holloway quickly became a household name after she disappeared while on a senior trip to Aruba.
Looking closer at cases like these, the Wilson sisters found that in America, 40% of people who go missing every year are people of color, while only 13% of the U.S. population is African American. Of the missing people who received national media coverage, Derrica and Natalie couldn't recall one who was Black. In the wake of the recent Gabby Petito tragedy, this disparity is receiving some of the attention it deserves.
Derrica, who worked in law enforcement, was the first and only African American female police officer in the history of the Falls Church Police Department in Virginia. Natalie has worked in public relations for 15 years. They knew that, together, they were a uniquely qualified team to be the change they wished to see. "When we had that discussion, it really all came together, like this is something not that we could do, this is something that we have to do." In 2008, they officially launched a non-profit dedicated to the cause: Black and Missing Foundation. Their tag line is "Help us find us," and their mission is to help Black families to bring their loved ones home, which they do by providing resources to galvanize searches and to spread vital personal-safety education in minority communities.
182,448 Black People Went Missing in the US in 2020 — These Sisters Are Working to Find Them
The resources needed to launch an investigation into a missing person case can be prohibitively expensive. Search parties, police canines, drones, divers, and even printing flyers can be costly — but these tactics are also extremely effective. Widespread media coverage helps a lot, too, as it inspires public intrigue which can produce crucial tips, potential leads and rogue investigations. When the media turns its attention on a case, so much that a victim becomes a household name (like Laci Peterson, Natalee Holloway, and now Gabby Petito), it puts pressure on law enforcement to produce answers. The families of missing people whose stories aren't told on such a large platform can be left to navigate a painful and often fruitless search alone. That's where Natalie and Derrica come in.
"Oftentimes when families are reaching out to us, we're their last resort," says Natalie. "We meet families at the worst point in their lives. They're desperate, they're searching for their missing loved ones." Once the sisters are in touch with a family, the first thing they do is make sure a missing person report has been filed. "Sometimes the police report isn't taken seriously," says Natalie. "So Derrica will hold their hand in working with law enforcement. Then the case is uploaded to our clearinghouse and we utilize social media to get the word out instantaneously."
Next, they tap into news outlets to really spread the word. "Media is very important for a couple of reasons," Natalie adds. "One, it alerts the community that someone is missing, and they can help search for them and to be vigilant as they're going about their day, and it increases the chance of recovery. But most importantly, it adds pressure to law enforcement to add resources to the case."
Derrica and Natalie spoke with the father of 24-year-old geologist Daniel Robinson, who went missing in Arizona in late June of this year. His car was found a month later, overturned in a ravine with his keys, phone and wallet nearby. "His father traveled from South Carolina to Arizona, to look for his son, because quite frankly, law enforcement, they're not doing anything," says Derrica. "He hired a private investigator. He's had to exhaust money and facilitate search teams. And that's devastating."
CNN had David Robinson II on to discuss his son Daniel's mysterious case and its murky details, amid an outpouring of concern regarding the disparities in case coverage following the Gabby Petito story. "I don't think they did enough," Robinson told anchor Chris Cuomo of the authorities' handling of his son's case. Daniel Robinson has only recently been covered on national news. He's been missing for three months.
The Black and Missing Foundation provides crucial resources for families when law enforcement hasn't allocated enough, or any at all, for the daughter, son, sibling, or relative they're desperate to find. "It's very expensive for families to search for their missing loved ones," says Natalie. "We hear all the time, they have exhausted all of their life savings spending time traveling just to get answers."
The foundation helps cover travel and reunification expenses or, in the tragic case of a missing person being found deceased, burial expenses. They help design and pay for flyers and create shirts, so search teams can be in a recognizable uniform. The non-profit also provides financial assistance for circumstances involving children with missing parents who need supplies for school, basic essentials, or even in hiring a private investigator and search teams, which can quickly add up to tens of thousands of dollars.
First a Flyer, then a Family Reunited
The Wilson sisters' efforts, although at times result in heartbreaking outcomes, are not made in vain: They get results. In 2017, the case of a 16-year-old missing girl in Baltimore was solved after Natalie and Derrica became involved. The Black and Missing Foundation had paired up with local media stations as well as shared flyers with the teenager's photo across social platforms. The girl had left her high school with someone who had befriended her online, then began to traffic her using ride-sharing apps. One Uber driver had seen the teenager's photo on a flyer shared by Black and Missing Foundation and contacted them. They immediately notified the FBI. The girl was reunited with her family after six harrowing days.
Also in 2017, the foundation was able to aid in the search of a single mother who had gone missing while on vacation in New York. She, too, had been held against her will and trafficked beginning in August. By November, Derrica and Natalie had assisted in locating the woman, arranged her travel home to Virginia, and helped secure care for her subsequent PTSD.
Prior to the pandemic, the foundation raised money with an annual 5K run, which they hope to host again in the post-COVID days to come. They have always accepted donations through their website and will continue to do so, and they are currently looking to add a grant writer to their team with the hope of obtaining additional funds through government and foundation grants.
The Wilson sisters' work is far from complete. The women, who are wives, mothers, and still working full-time jobs — Derrica now in public safety for the DC government and Natalie still in public relations — credit their own supportive families in helping them to devote so much to their cause. "We spend so much time helping these families," says Derrica. "And our families have to sacrifice to be able to join us in this movement, by allowing us to lend ourselves to these families who are at their lowest point, to make a difference."
"We have to continue to fight for this voiceless group."
In the nearly 14 years since Black and Missing Foundation has been up and running, the non-profit has made great strides. They went from pounding on doors to get news coverage to forging media partnerships that have helped bring missing people home. In November, they have a docu-series coming to HBO, Black and Missing, which Natalie and Derrica are currently executive producing to highlight important cases and bring them to a platform with far reach and massive influence.
The foundation is currently based in Maryland, but the sisters and their team work remotely for now. They hope to open satellite offices in cities where Black people are the most likely to be reported missing: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore and Detroit among them. "We want boots on the ground," says Natalie. "We want to have programs in place. We want to have national media partnerships that can help us. And we need more community involvement, because we believe that someone always knows something about a missing person."
When InStyle asked the Wilson sisters for photos of them to include in their Badass Women profile, Natalie asked if they could provide images of still missing Black people instead. "We need to continue the conversation about the disparity in media coverage and assistance from law enforcement regarding our missing because they are valuable members of our community. We can't let this story die. We have to continue to fight for this voiceless group."
The flyers in this article represent women who are out there, whom Derrica and Natalie, on behalf of their families, are still working to find. Their organization has contributed to closing nearly 400 missing persons cases to date — a number that is huge and devastatingly small at the same time.
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Felix Dennis Biography
Felix Dennis was a publisher, poet and philanthropist. He was born in Surrey on the 27th May 1947 and sadly died on the 22nd June 2014 at his home in Warwickshire aged 67.
Felix and Mandalay Estate
Felix Dennis bought Mandalay Estate, then still known as Britannia House, in 1994 from David Bowie. Dennis made a number of additions to the villa including adding a new roof and also The Writers Cottage. Inspired by the island, he wrote a number of poems in The Writers Cottage. Visitors to Mandalay Estate can now stay in The Writers Cottage.
Felix Dennis and Mustique
In the twenty years that Felix owned Mandalay Estate, he became incredibly involved in the community of the island, even becoming Honorary Consul to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2010. He considered Mustique his second home and would spend four – five months of the year at Mandalay Estate. In 2014, shortly before his passing, Dennis worked hard to broker a deal to benefit all 12,500 of the countries secondary school children; to provide each with a new laptop computer.
Felix Dennis' Career
Felix Dennis' career began after he wrote the first review of Led Zeppelin's debut album in Oz and he was quickly promoted to co-editor of the magazine. He was involved in the longest conspiracy trial in English history after he and fellow Oz editor, Jim Anderson allowed a group of sixth-formers to edit an issue of the magazine, which included an explicit cartoon strip. This lead to Dennis, Anderson and another Oz editor, Richard Neville, to be arrested and charged with "conspiracy to corrupt public morals". They were found not guilty of the charge however were convicted on two other offences and sentenced to imprisonment.
After being acquitted by the Court of Appeal, Dennis founded his own magazine publishing company, Dennis Publishing, in 1973. Whilst his publishing career began with publishing cOZmic and Kung-Fu Monthly, he quickly began specialising in publishing IT publications; buying, establishing and selling a number of popular computing magazines.
Away from IT and computing, arguably the most well-known publication to be released by Dennis Publishing was Maxim. After being created in 1995, Maxim went on to become the world's biggest and best selling men's lifestyle magazine.
Felix wrote his first poem on a post-it note when he was in hospital in 2001 and within a year he had written his first book of verse called A Glass Half Full. In 2004, he released his second book of verse, Lone Wolf. Both of these books of poetry were accompanied by a book tour for Felix Dennis. A few years later he went on to release a further five poetry books and at the end of 2008, Felix again toured the UK and Ireland with a 12 date book tour.
Away from poetry, Felix also wrote and published two best-selling books about his journey to becoming a millionaire. His first, How to Get Rich, was released in 2006 and the 2011 follow up, How to Make Money.
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Cicada songs creak out the end of day
A choir of tree-frogs whistle: "Come to me!"
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The public is invited to attend the opening reception Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Sherman School Education Association will also hold its annual Ice Cream Social in conjunction with the reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The art show will be also be open for viewing Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day.


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Labour spells out election issues
THE Labour Party has begun its fight for votes in next month's local election.
Kirklees Labour leader Clr Mehboob Khan has officially launched the party's manifesto.
The main issues Labour believe are important in Kirklees include more police on the streets, extra investment in schools and cleaner streets.
Clr Khan said: "I think our manifesto sets out clearly why we are the party people should put their trust in us next month.
"I think a lot of people have decided it is time for a change in Kirklees and we are the party to bring that about most successfully.
"People must remember things like the charges for the removal of bulky items and the proposed closure of old people's homes - we fought and won on these issues."
Clr Khan stressed the importance of people using their vote wisely. He believes the new system of postal voting will see an increase in the number of voters.
"There is a danger that people will vote in a local election as a protest," he said.
"With the far right BNP standing in a lot of areas this is not the thing to do.
"I also think people should vote on the local issues rather than national ones.
"Hopefully people will remember the good we have done and listen to what we are promising to do."


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The New LinkedIn App
Technology Articles > Social Networking > LinkedIn > The New LinkedIn App
You may have read the title of this article and thought: "what? There's a new LinkedIn app?" Then, you may have headed to the App Store to search for the new LinkedIn addition. If this is what occurred, you probably noted that there is only one LinkedIn app, and you probably already have this app on your iPhone. So, what's the deal with a headline that states "The New LinkedIn App?" Is the publishing date of this article wrong?
Not so much. The LinkedIn app that I'm talking about is new in most senses of the word, though it should really be called the "updated" LinkedIn app. Before you stop reading based on the notion that updates are usually boring, there's a lot you should know about the LinkedIn app that now exists. Dare I say that this app is even fun?
Not Overly Social
LinkedIn is, technically, a social network. But it doesn't have any of the excitement of Twitter or the semi-addictiveness of Facebook. Instead, LinkedIn is a social network that was designed for the business crowd. As such, the network maintains some decorum and you won't find useless posts or videos crowding your LinkedIn fee (unless, of course, someone who's part of your feed has automated Twitter posts to post on a LinkedIn account too).
Given the fact that LinkedIn isn't the social scene of the year, this site has to work a bit harder than most. What better way to gain new users and keep old ones than to create an app? Well, LinkedIn went the app route. Sadly, the original LinkedIn app was boring, less than creative, and somewhat useless. This has all changed with the dawn of the new LinkedIn app.
First of all, the new LinkedIn app has a new interface. This interface is bold, simple to use, and clearly defined. Secondly, the new LinkedIn app has news streams, updates, a "buzz" section, and quick ways to view connections, invitations, and reconnect with people who may not be part of your LinkedIn group anymore. All of these things are accessible with the tap of your screen.
Neatly organized and user-friendly, the new LinkedIn app is right on the money. There's also a great new feature called "In Person" that lets you connect with someone on your LinkedIn list using Bluetooth. If there's a nearby LinkedIn app user, you can talk to that user through the In Person feature (kind of like a voice messenger service for LinkedIn users).
Lastly, the new app comes with theme color choice. You can turn your whole app blue, pink, green, or any other color – not a necessary feature, but it does make this app a lot more fun!
You Should Download This App
If you've already downloaded the original LinkedIn app, you'll find that your app has recently been upgraded. If not, go ahead and download the new app, set up a LinkedIn account, and invite friends with the handy "invite" button included in the app (upper right-hand corner). Apps should be innovative and easy to use without being useless, and these are notions that LinkedIn has finally grasped.
LinkedIn will never be Facebook or Twitter, but it isn't trying to be. What it is, instead, is a social network for people who are serious about business. Now, getting serious about business just got easier with the newly developed LinkedIn app.


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A Belgian Rapist and Murderer Has Won the Right to Be Euthanized
By Helen Regan
September 15, 2014 11:51 PM EDT
In a groundbreaking ruling, a man who is serving a life sentence in Belgium is to be allowed to have doctors end his life, the BBC reports.
Fifty-year-old Frank Van Den Bleeken was convicted in the 1980s for rape and murder. His lawyers say he has not been able to get over his violent sexual impulses.
Belgium introduced an assisted-dying law in 2002, but the ruling is the first time involving a prisoner.
Van Den Bleeken says he cannot control his sexual urges, which have caused him "unbearable psychological anguish," and argued because of this he had no prospect of release, says the BBC.
Van Den Bleeken first requested to be euthanized in 2011, but his plea was rejected by Belgium's Federal Euthanasia Commission.
For the past three years he has been fighting the courts to allow doctors to end his life.
Van Den Bleeken will be taken to a hospital where doctors will perform the procedure, but it is not clear when it will be conducted.
Write to Helen Regan at helen.regan@timeasia.com.
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Tributes to 12-year-old 'little legend' who died suddenly on Christmas Day
Rebecca Speare-Cole
Cason, 12, died suddenly on Christmas Day. (GoFundMe)
Tributes have been pouring in for a 12-year-old boy from Cheshire who suddenly died on Christmas Day.
Cason Hallwood had woken up excited on Christmas morning with his three brothers and his mother Louise at their home in Winsford, according to Cheshire Live.
After spending the day with his family, he went out to Wharton Recreation Park to meet friends in the afternoon, the publication reported.
But Cason, who had asthma and a nut allergy, soon began to complain that he could not breathe, Cheshire Live reported.
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Louise reportedly rushed to the park and gave her son a shot from his epinephrine auto-injector in an attempt to revive him but when this failed she called 999.
Cason was rushed to Leighton Hospital in Crewe but died a short time later, according to the local news outlet.
In a GoFundMe page, Sam Decruz, a friend of the family, wrote that they had given him permission to launch the fundraiser in Cason's memory.
Watch: Sturgeon urges people to stay home for Hogmanay as Covid death toll rises
Decruz wrote: "As a parent myself, I cannot comprehend the pain that Louise and her three other sons, Cowen, Corley and Caiden are feeling right now.
"It's something no parent should ever have to go through on any day let alone Christmas day."
Decruz added that Cason was "the life and soul" of his family's life and kept his mum on her toes.
Since Boxing Day, the page has raised more than £11,000 to support Cason's family.
The fundraiser read: "He was her baby of the bunch, so he always got away with murder. He made his mum laugh cry and most importantly he adored her. They were never far apart. Best friends.
READ: 'We're running out of oxygen': Doctor makes emotional plea as NHS on brink of COVID crisis
"Cason was a handsome whirlwind, and no day was ever the same as the next with him."
Decruz asked people to help ease Louise's financial strain and to "help give the little legend the send off he truly deserves".
Cason reportedly often spent Christmas in hospital due to his asthma but this year was the first time he didn't spend the festivities on a ward, according to Cheshire Live.
The publication reported that doctors believe Cason suffered an anaphylactic shock but a post-mortem examination is yet to be carried out.
Watch: French fashion designer Pierre Cardin dies aged 98
Daredevil actor Charlie Cox is reportedly filming scenes for Spider-Man 3
The Daredevil actor has been spotted on the set of Spider-Man 3
Support for West End bars and shops 'is just a sticking plaster'
Support for thousands of businesses in the West End is "a sticking plaster", the Tory leader of Westminster council said today as she urged Rishi Sunak to step up levels of assistance. Rachael Robathan told the Evening Standard that the local authority "must have Government funding in place to help businesses stand on their own two feet when the pandemic finally lifts". More than 3,700 restaurants, pubs, cafes and bars across Westminster have been forced to close down for the third time in a year under the lockdown ordered by Boris Johnson this month.
Quest Diagnostics Granted CDC Contract to Sequence COVID-19 Gene Variants to Aid Public Health Response to COVID-19
Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide genomic sequencing to identify new mutations in, and patterns of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Financial terms of the agreement are not disclosed.
Infosec brings Choose Your Own Adventure® magic to security awareness training
Infosec today announced release of its Choose Your Own Adventure Security Awareness Games, the first series to infuse the magic of Choose Your Own Adventure® books and the power of experiential learning into security awareness and training. The best-known gamebook series in the world, Choose Your Own Adventure books have been translated into 40 languages with over 265 million books in print worldwide.
Holly Willoughby's 'Dancing On Ice' beauty secrets revealed as new series returns
We can't wait to recreate her flawless make-up.
GOL Celebrates 20 Years In The Air
Twenty years ago, on January 15, 2001, GOL Linhas Aéreas' inaugural Flight 1741 on a Boeing 737-700 aircraft took off from Brasília and landed in Congonhas, São Paulo. The flight crew included Captain Grabler and Flight Attendant Giselle, who are also celebrating their 20 years at the Company, together with another 127 employees. This group is representative of our Team of Eagles, which is composed of thousands of people who dedicate themselves unconditionally to GOL every day, strengthening the bases of our contribution to transforming the history or air travel and Brazilian society itself journey that has made GOL the leader in the Brazilian airline industry.
Timken to Announce Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2020 Financial Results on Feb. 4
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a world leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products, will release its 2020 fourth-quarter and full-year financial results on Thursday, Feb. 4, prior to the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. The company will host a conference call that day to discuss its financial performance with investors and securities analysts. The financial results and conference call materials will be available online at http://investors.timken.com.
Enghouse Networks Partners With Access Communications To Enable Next Generation TV services Across Canada
Enghouse Networks today announced it is partnering with Access Communications Co-operative of Regina, Saskatchewan to provide a fully hosted, next generation TV service for Canadian service providers.
Innovative All-Woman Tech Startup Creating First of Its Kind Interactive Mobile App On Black History
Nostalgia: Black, a Black-owned, all-woman tech startup, is developing an innovative, immersive mobile app designed to shine a light on America's rich Black history using historically significant locations.
S3 International Announces New Name
S3 International is excited to announce that effective today, it has changed its name and brand to S3 AeroDefense. The new name emphasizes not only growth but the long-term vision – to continue to be a trusted partner in the Aerospace and Defense market. This announcement coincides with the celebration of 15 years in business. While the name has changed, the service that both customers and partners alike have come to trust and expect remains the cornerstone of S3's business. Along with this change, S3 redesigned its company logo and developed a new website which can be accessed at www.s3aerodefense.com.
The Kombucha Shop Acquired by Serial ECom Entrepreneur and CEO of SkyDiamond Elite
Habib Bakshi, known throughout the fashion and luxury e-commerce community as an expert in revenue growth, recently finalized the purchase of the healthy living focused DTC company 'The Kombucha Shop'. In an episode of NBC's Shark Tank in 2018, The Kombucha Shop received worldwide acclaim when all four sharks tried to acquire an ownership stake in the company. Even without the help of the sharks, the company saw incredible growth of the past 2 years.
Global Furnace Carbon Black Market Quarterly Demand Update: Market Drivers and Analysis
The "Furnace Carbon Black Market Demand" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
Foodservice Packaging Market is expected to witness a positive growth rate due to large sales in the food & beverage sector - Persistence Market Research
A gradual shift from the tradition of cooking food at home toward buying ready-to-eat food has increased the rate of online food ordering, globally. Foodservice packaging processes require much less energy, owing to the recycled material used for manufacturing. Studies have concluded that packed solutions come at a low price and occupy 35% less space in any retail sector. Furthermore, packaging solutions come with various striking graphics, which, in turn, helps in promoting a brand and increasing the merchantability of the product.


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Q: SQL Server Express LocalDB: update a value if it begins with a certain digit We are currently storing a load of customer mobile numbers, however most of them are missing the leading 0.
How can I add a 0 in SQL to the front of all mobile numbers where the first digit equals 7?

A: You may use LIKE here:
UPDATE yourTable
SET mobile = '0' + mobile
WHERE mobile LIKE '7%';

A: You can write a concat statement
update table
set yourcolumn = CONCAT('0', yourcolumn)
where yourcolumn like '7%'

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Car chase ends with drug arrest
By By MARY-ALLISON LANCASTER – Managing editor
A routine patrol for Brewton Police officers turned into a high-speed police chase that ended with the arrest of a Florida man in possession of illegal narcotics.
According to Brewton Police Chief Monte McGougin, officers on patrol Friday afternoon attempted to stop James Allen Prince, 47, of Milton. Prince refused to stop his vehicle and led officers on a high-speed police chase into East Brewton, McGougin said.
McGougin said Prince began tossing bags of marijuana out of the vehicle. At that time, all units were called to pursue Prince. As he turned the corner, Prince lost control of the vehicle and crashed his vehicle on Hickory Street in East Brewton.
Along with the marijuana, officers seized Loritab pills that were thrown outside of the vehicle, McGougin said. Being in possession of a controlled substance not in its proper container or without a prescription is illegal.
Prince was charged with possession of marijuana in the first degree, possession of a controlled substance (prescription drug Loritab), and he was ticketed for attempting to elude a police officer, running a stop sign and not wearing a seat belt.
Assisting with the arrest were agents with the 21st Judicial Drug Task Force and Tim Cook with the State of Alabama Adult Probation office.
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It is that time- Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6-10 this year and I have some awesome ideas and ways for you to say thank you to your childs teachers.
All of these teacher appreciation gift ideas are easy to make. You do not have to be super crafty person. Many of them come with free printables.
Often times you give one gift a day to your teacher for the week. Sometimes your school will have a theme each day and some schools just go with the flow and you bring whatever you want.
Any teacher would love to receive any of these as a gift. I even share with you step by step how to make each of these gift ideas.
Teacher Hershey Kiss Printable– this is the sweetest gift ever. I provide you with the printable that you run off on a sheet of labels. Then use a small circle cutter to cut them out. Peel and stick to Hersheys Kisses.
Thanks for Helping me Bloom Flower Pot Picks (free printable)- want to give your teacher flower, but want a fun printable to go with it? These take a flower to from a simple gift to an awesome!
Thanks for \"Chewsing\" to Teach Bubble Gum Printable – teachers tell you no bubble gum in class, but bubble gum balls in a Mason Jar make the cutest gift ever. Love this printable on this one too!
Homemade Pencil Holder– every teacher needs at least one (or two, or three) pencil holders. Why not make her a personalized one? Love this fun idea that anyone can make!
Thanks A Latte Gift Card Holder (free printable)- teachers love coffee! Here is a gift card holder that you just print, fold and glue.
Tea-riffic Teacher Water Bottle Printable– love this water bottle printable. Take a Crystal Light tea packet and attach it to the front of the bottle with my precious printable.
Flower and Button Clothespin Magnets– magnet clothespins are perfect for teacher who love to hang things in the classroom. You can make these… easy breezy.
Teacher Picture Frame– every teacher needs a picture frame of her class at the end of the year. I show you how to use scrapbook embellishments to make this affordable memory keepsake.
Teacher Popcorn Gift Printable – easy and affordable this printable can be attached to a bag of popcorn.
We Need Smore Teachers Like You Printable– give your teacher this delicious smore treat! Love this printable.
DIY Teacher Water Bottle Thank You Gift– decorate water bottles using scrapbook embellishments.
Homemade Mod Podge Vase (for flowers)- use a leftover spaghetti jar and fancy it up with Mod Podge. Tada- you have a handmade flower vase.
As a teacher in the middle school, teacher appreciation day never makes it to me. I love all of these little gifts and I know teachers love getting little things to say thank you. In the early years, when a student has just one or two teachers, it's easy but by middle school, with 10 teachers, it's just too much. Sad because some of these are sooooooo cute!
I love the smores idea! What a great collection of idea to show how much teachers are appreciated!
I'm still cracking up over Thanks a Latte! 🙂 Thanks for sharing with us on Throwback Thursday!


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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.
What are some suggested next steps to debug this issue?

A: According to packages_ubuntu you need to add trusty main universe repo to the sources.list :
Example :
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main universe
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First , you need to fix broken package:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then reinstall fcitx using the following command:
sudo apt-get install fcitx-module-dbus


Members of the administration area and the city will congratulate OJSC " Vinnitsa Oil and Fat Plant ", which is part of the industrial group " Vioil " in connection with the opening of a new manufacturing facility. It is about oil extraction plant , which was built remarkably quickly, in just 11 months. Thanks to this plant its owners are planning to begin a new stage in the history of their business.
Industrial group "Vioil " planned to celebrate this event with a grand scale: so city residents and visitors waiting for the big concert program, which will bring together city orchestra "Vinbend " and Ukrainian pop group "TIC" .
In addition, the opening day of the plant area will become a platform on which will unfold festivities: will be organized handicrafts fair and a unique photoexhibition, which will showcase rare photographs documenting the history of the origin of fat and oil business in this area.
The company team invites everyone to share the joy of the feast and a good mood , because a good start is the key to further success.


Staff and students from Grant's Braes School share how they use iPads in the classroom, and the benefits they provide for student learning.
e-Learning in my classroom is all about collaboration and interactivity, getting the kids involved in technology, using it to make a difference, taking action, involving them in day to day learning with a purpose, using technology.
Well in our class we use iPads for all sorts of learning.
Our purpose for using them is that they are different to a laptop; they have different purposes. They're a collaborative tool, so we use them with our groups for maths, reading, writing, spelling, everything.
We use the iPad for spelling and punctuation games.
When I'm playing (with) the iPads in maths with someone else I think it's more fun because it's a race to get the question right.
Especially in the junior school, they've been a really powerful tool because the little children can – they just pick them up and they just start using them. Everything's touch and they don't have to work their way round the keyboards, they don't have the problem with the upper case and lower case and things like that because the iPads are far more intuitive.
We use the iPads and we buddy up at buddy reading and we play different games in their level but the seniors teach them how to do it first and then they have a turn. Then they help along while they do it.
The children use them with other children to collaborate in their learning, to work together, to make learning more exciting, to engage them in a topic.
Well there's different games that you can cooperate on. There's tabletop mode or there's wireless where you connect with all the different iPads.
We use them with groups of children as follow up activities - so if we're learning a strategy in maths the children will go away and use an app that relates directly to that learning intention. As far as interactivity is concerned, the children get immediate feedback from the iPad, which encourages them to keep going.
If you get it wrong on a textbook you have to go up to your teacher and say, 'How is this wrong?' But if you have an iPad you can click "find the real answer" and then it comes up with an explanation on how it is wrong.
So we've seen children from first day at school to year 6 being engaged with the iPad, giving them feedback. It's really helped in the sense that the children really work independently on things when they're not with a teacher as well. So it's engaged them in independent activities.


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Sail the Book
Maritime Literary Nonfiction, Art and History in Google Earth
How To Sail The Book
Sail The Book uses Google Earth to take the reader on a virtual journey to locations mentioned in seven inspirational books of maritime nonfiction literature. The reader will be able to select a book and embark on chapter tours. The tours/chapters consist of from one to twenty Points of Interest (POIs). Each POI has an info window, with a passage from the book. At the bottom of the text is an activity page link. Activities consist of questions related to the info window passage, vocabulary, language, history and science. The later questions are colored green. These are specific Google Earth activities. "Green questions" draw on Google Earth layers, such as: Photos, Ocean, Gallery, Borders and Labels and 3D Buildings. Other Google Earth activities employ the Ruler tool, Historical Imagery and Street View.
In order to Sail The Book it is necessary to download the latest version of Google Earth and become familiar with some basics of this application.
Click here for free Google Earth download.
Click here for Google Earth User Guide.
By clicking on one of the book titles, located in the right column, a table of contents will open. Under the chapter there will appear a blue, bold, italicized link to a kmz file (ex.CHAPTER XII Tour in Google Earth) . This link is Sail The Book. By clicking on the link you will download a chapter tour that will open in Google Earth. The tour folder contains all the POI's in the chapter. Before Clicking the Play Tour button make sure to do the following: set control touring preferences such as, time between POI's, desired pause time at each stop and show text balloons by going to:
Tools > Options >Touring, at the top Google Earth menu.
How to Sail The Book 3 Methods
Click on the link to download the tour. The tour will stop at each POI and an info window will open. Click the pause button and read the passage from the book. Enjoy the imagery and then click on the play button to continue to the next POI.
Same as Method 1, except at the end of the passage click on "Go to activity" link. You now have access to questions, music, photos and video that have been selected to enrich the reader's experience. Before doing the activities, don't forget to check the following Google Earth layers: Photos, 3D Buildings, Ocean and Gallery to get the most out of the material.
The green questions at the end of the activities have been developed specifically for the Google Earth Imagery. The range, tilt and heading have been set to allow the reader to observe, measure, use Street View and Historic Imagery at the POI.
There will be times when it is more fruitful not to run the tour. By clicking on an individual POI an info window will open and you will not have to pause a tour. The advantage of this method is that the Ruler tool and flight simulator, that are unavailable during a tour, will be active. There are math and physics questions that involve measuring and require the Ruler tool.
I have tried to include a wide range of activities and encourage teachers to add to the process. I am a high school physics, earth science and marine science teacher. Before becoming a teacher I was an environmental geologist. Naturally, when I look at Earth imagery I see potential questions in the landforms, waves, geology etc. I have made an effort to include language, history and culture as well. This is a work in progress. It has proved valuable in getting my students interested and even excited about literary nonfiction in a science class. The chapters/tours can be adapted for English language arts, history and geography classes. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions.
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The Cruise of the Snark
In the South Seas
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 – 1917
Historic Maritime
USS Monitor
The American on the Endurance
In Search of the Western Flyer
Darwin's Galapagos Streetview
Salty Art
The Hudson River School
The Sea Poets
The Outermost House


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The Life of Senna
The Senna Mission
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Senna me Inspira
Senna TRI campaign
The Yellow helmet
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Personal talks with Ayrton Senna
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10 Years in Formula 1
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Senninha Meu Herói
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Nurburgring 1984
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The sport of Formula 1 racing is known for its attention to detail and obsession with perfection, but the truth is that things haven't always run as tidy as they are nowadays. With the 2018 season-opening race in Melbourne, Australia taking place later this week, it's a perfect time to revisit the 1991 Australian Grand Prix, which is a glowing example of the older, less-organized, more political, and far more dangerous Formula 1 circus.
The Australian Grand Prix hasn't always taken place at Albert Park in the glamorous city of Melbourne. In fact, despite hosting F1 races dating back to 1963, Australia didn't join the Formula 1 World Championship until 1985, when the F1 fraternity set up shop on the streets of Adelaide, a city about 450 miles west of the current venue. The Adelaide street circuit proved to be a real challenge and it quickly earned a reputation for being tough on cars and tough on drivers.
The 1985 Australian Grand Prix was won by none other than Ayrton Senna, who raced for Lotus-Renault at the time and had to battle the likes of Keke Rosberg for most of the two-hour race. Perhaps the most notorious race ever held at Adelaide was the 1991 Grand Prix, which like this video shows, it's earned the title of the "shortest race in F1 history."
Pole-sitter Ayrton Senna led the field under extremely wet and treacherous conditions, which caused several drivers to lose control and spin off the track. After a major collision on the main straightaway, it became evident that conditions weren't going to improve, and that the race should be canceled. Of course, back in the '90s, most top teams accused the FIA of playing favorites, and every team boss and driver came up with a "perfect" explanation as to why the race continued for more laps than it should.
In the end, the 1991 Australian Grand Prix only lasted 24 minutes and it was won by Ayrton Senna, who made sure to share a piece of his mind during the post-race interview. Nigel Mansell was awarded second place despite crashing out before the race ended, and Gerhard Berger came in third.
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"E Depois do Adeus" ("And after the farewell") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, performed in Portuguese by Paulo de Carvalho.
The song is a ballad, with Paulo de Carvalho taking the role of a man who is faced with the end of a relationship. He tells his lover how he feels, likening her to "a flower that I picked", implying that the relationship was of a comparatively short duration. He also comments on the nature of love itself, singing that it is "winning and losing".
At the close of voting, it had received 3 points, placing 14th (tied for last with Switzerland, Norway and Germany) in a field of 17.
Despite the modest showing in Brighton at the Contest itself, the song achieved considerable fame as one of the two signals to launch the Carnation Revolution in Portugal against the Estado Novo regime of Marcelo Caetano - the other being the folk song "Grândola Vila Morena" by Zeca Afonso, which was the signal for the coup leaders to announce that they had taken control of strategic parts of the country.
Histories of the Contest tend to take a facetious view of this fact. In his Official History of The Eurovision Song Contest, author John Kennedy O'Connor, for example, describes it as "the only Eurovision entry to have actually started a revolution", while Des Mangan suggests that other Portuguese entries (he mentions 1998's "Se eu te pudesse abraçar") would not be likely to inspire coups.


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The Tour begins. Green Alert.
A mid-morning start to a relaxing day of sightseeing. After a Singaporean breakfast of super soft boiled eggs and toast with coconut spread. While we were waiting for people to prepare with passports, thunder started booming around us, with flashes of lighting in the distance. As we were about to leave, a monsoon of rain came down upon us, I was surprised about the sheer volume of watch which came down, however it did show me why there are such large storm drains around the city.
We travelled to Kent ridge by train and walked over to the Merlion. We walked past a few stages of people setting up for a festival and sound checking. Then over the Helix bridge to the Marina bay sands shopping centre. After spending time at the centre, we walked over to Gardens by the bay, which had a massive array of plant life. We went into the flower dome first off which had plants from all over the world, it was very nice to get inside and be out of the very humid atmosphere. The plants inside the dome were very diverse and aesthetically pleasing. The group moved to the Cloud Forest which was a cooler separate dome with a giant mound in the middle with rainforest plants growing off the walls and a waterfall from the top to the bottom. It was an amazing experience to see such a large variety of plants.
The first official day of the tour involved us meeting at 10am. After we meet at Starbucks, we were assaulted by an equatorial thunderstorm. The severity and the speed of the thunderstorm surprised everyone except the local, Dong Chen. The first thing on the agenda was heading to marina bay sands and walking down by the riverfront. Lunch was had at the marina bay sands food court and after everyone was gathered we headed to the biospheres. The biospheres were split up into two sections; Flowering plants and the Cloud biosphere. The Flowering biosphere had an abundance of plants from around the world and featured Australia, South Africa, USA and South America.The cloud biospheres featured a central tower with a waterfall and several levels of observation.The main attraction was the plants that were attached onto the outside of the main tower which varied and beautiful, it was obvious a large amount of time had been spent arranging and collecting these plants.So far in this trip i have the impression that the culture of Singapore is to respect plants.
Singapore so far has given me and impression that they have valued having a large amount of plants incorporated in the city however the amount of time, money and effort that has been spent creating the sanctuary of plants that is the biospheres and surrounding areas reminds me more of a temple. Singapore in a way have created a temple that displays the sanctity and respect that they hold towards nature. The Cloud Biosphere in particular reminds me of the ancient legends of the hanging garden of Babylon and like the fabled garden there are many people who travel around the world and ensure they see this wondrous enclosure. This again can be compared to the main place of worship in a country ie. Mecca, Vatican City. The people of Singapore don't only respect nature, they give me the impression that they worship it and their scared place is the biospheres. It was definitely worth going and grasping a better understanding of the culture.


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Survey: Reform, Centre to get half of European Parliament election votes
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Would EU elections be held tomorrow, the Reform and Centre parties would together get about half of Estonia's votes, BNS wrote on Friday. Some 10% of voters prefer an individual candidate, and newcomer Estonia 200 would likely be able to beat the Social Democratic Party's result, the survey showed.
In the survey carried out by pollster Kantar Emor, 25% of voters expressed a preference for the Reform Party, while 22% would go for Centre. Among those who said they are definitely planning to vote, the share of Reform was slightly higher, at 28%.
Altogether 17% of all respondents and 15% of those definitely planning to vote would do so in favour of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE).
11% of all voters and 10% of those definitely intending to vote would support an independent candidate.
A total of 9% of all respondents and 7% of those definitely intending to vote would do so for a candidate of Estonia 200.
The Social Democratic party would have the support of 6% of respondents and 8% of those saying they will definitely vote.
For Pro Patria, support stood at 5% and willingness to vote for them at 6%, the Estonian Greens would get 3 and 4% in the same categories.
2% of all respondents and 1% of all those definitely intending to vote say that they would opt for another candidate.
Pollster Kantar Amor interviewed more 1,000 voting-age Estonian residents, with most of the interviews done before the Riigikogu's vote on the UN Global Compact on Migration on 26 November and the related scuffle involving EKRE members, which has since cost the party a lot of sympathy and even more tolerance.
Based on an online survey commissioned by the Baltic News Service and daily Postimees and also conducted by pollster Kantar Emor with 1,055 voting-age residents between November 8 and 13, of all respondents combined, the Reform Party had the support of 29%, the Center Party 24.7%, EKRE 17%, SDE 10.7%, Estonia 200 8.5% and Pro Patria 4.6%.
Next year's European Parliament elections are taking place on 26 May in Estonia, which is 84 days after the Estonian general election on 3 March. Estonia's citizens and resident EU citizens will elect seven MEPs on the basis of an open list method.
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The best free music samples and loop obtain websites on the web
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Once approved, you will need to enter into a sampling settlement with the copyright homeowners. The underlying composition refers back to the music itself, which is owned by the songwriter or publisher. The recording is owned by the artist or record label.
So, typically they approach the sampler and level this reality out and you work out a deal. Through this route, yow will discover drum beats, string sections, vocal melodies, and more to sample in your music.
What's special is that usually to do this, a DJ must get the rights to promote each music they play on the mixtape. This may be almost unimaginable, between the difficulties of contacting the unique artists, convincing them, and paying them off. If a sample isn't chosen fastidiously and systematically, it may not symbolize the population.
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Therefore, if the producer who samples the recording is unable to pay what the copyright holder asks for, the pattern must be taken out of the final mix. Famous recordings can price $50,000 a chunk or more to be sampled commercially.
The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 states in section twelve that the Act "doesn't provide copyright safety for any work that is in the public domain." The congressional committee report explains that this means merely that the Act doesn't apply retroactively. There are several references to putting copyrighted work into the public domain. The first reference is actually in a statute passed by Congress, within the Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990 (Public Law one hundred and one–650, 104 Stat. 5089 (1990)).
Sound recordings mounted in a tangible type before February 15, 1972, have been generally lined by frequent legislation or in some circumstances by anti-piracy statutes enacted in certain states, not by federal copyright law, and the anti-piracy statutes sometimes have no period restrict. The 1971 Sound Recordings Act, effective 1972,[6] and the 1976 Copyright Act, efficient 1978, provide federal copyright for unpublished and revealed sound recordings fastened on or after February 15, 1972. In the music legislation world, music is actually protected by copyright laws on two levels, composition and recording. When you pattern somebody's song with out their permission, you might be violating the copyright on the musical composition and the recording governing the actual track you are sampling from.
You just have to keep in mind that with a sample there are at all times two copyrights to clear – the song and the recording. This solely modifications in relation to my first answer. If you're taking an element of an original recording which you yourself are covering, then you wouldn't need to clear the music as you are already acknowledging that it is 100% owned by the writer whose work you've lined. I assume you mean that you've done a canopy and in addition used a pattern of the unique track in your cowl. If so, you solely must clear the recording component, since with a cover, all the rights in the underlying music are as per the unique – so no clearance is required.
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By Jeremy Wilks • last updated: 06/08/2015
Years in the building, seconds in the launching; rocket engines are truly awesome in their sheer power, but are also amazing feats of engineering and design.
It's much more than technology, it's an emotion to see that it works
The scientific principle remains quite simple – accelerated gas creating thrust through a nozzle. However, extrapolating that concept to the point where the rocket has sufficient power to lift people and satellites beyond Earth's gravity and into orbit is far more complex. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise, the manufacturing and testing process is rocket science.
In Europe one of the key centres of work on rocket engines) is done at the Snecma factory complex in a remote location in forests near the town of Vernon in Normandy. Many of the components are built elsewhere in Europe, but the assembly and testing are carried at the site in northern France.
The pieces are carefully milled from titanium or lightweight alloys over a period of weeks.
When construction is finally completed then comes the critical test phase, where the rockets are fired into life at a vast control tower.
Space reporter Jeremy
Wilks visited the Snecma site to find out more about this unique and constantly evolving industrial sector.
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