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Buckshot Jones
Roy "Buckshot" Jones was born on July 23, 1970 in Monticello, Georgia. If anyone (Except for maybe Lake Speed) had a name that says "NASCAR Racer", then Buckshot Jones has got it.
Jones earned the nickname "Buckshot" from his grandfather after he ran into a table and showed no signs of pain. His racing career began as a hobby during his studies at the University of Georgia. Jones originally wanted to race motocross, but his dad suggested stock cars since they were safer.
After Jones sixth race he went out to dinner with his father, where he told him that he wanted to be a NASCAR champion. He and his father then developed a six-year plan that would allow Jones to move up the ladder and begin to fulfill his dream, and it worked to an extent.
In 1995, Jones moved to the NASCAR Busch (Nationwide) Series with his own team called Buckshot Racing. After a disappointing rookie campaign where his best finish was a ninth at South Boston Speedway, Jones hired Ricky Pearson, son of the legendary David Pearson, as his crew chief. Jones won two races over the next three years. During this time, he gained a reputation as an overaggressive driver who caused many crashes.
Buckshot won his first NASCAR Busch (Nationwide) series Race at The Milwaukee Mile in 1996.
Randy LaJoie and Buckshot had a feud that began during a 1997 event at Talladega, and then continued with a memorable incident at Bristol in which Jones rammed LaJoie's machine under caution.
Jones won his second and last Busch (Nationwide) series race at New Hampshire International Speedway in 1998. He also was voted the Most Popular Driver in the Busch (Nationwide) Series. But those weren't the only exciting thing that happened to Buckshot in 1998. Buckshot's and Randy's feud was still alive, and as heated as ever. At Nazareth, with LaJoie's car left in a heap following contact with Jones just five laps into the race. Their confrontations were really amazing, and almost always resulted in comments that were heated. When Jones and LaJoie started talking about each other, any kind of politically correct filtering went out the window.
Just like this confrontation which happened right after the incident at Nazareth. "The kid's got the best race cars out there, and he can't drive a lick," said a furious LaJoie "I feel sorry for his race team because if they had a racecar driver in that car, it'd be hard to beat. It's just pitiful that we have to race against somebody with such good equipment [and] such little talent. I never had a feud. I just don't talk to him, I don't like him and he keeps running into me. I ain't done nothing to that idiot for a year and a half."
In 1999, after marrying his long-time girlfriend, Jina, he made the jump to Winston (Sprint) Cup driving the #00 Pontiac, with Ricky's brother Larry Pearson taking over his Busch (Nationwide) ride. Crown Fiber was the major sponsor of the car. The results, however, were disappointing. He failed to qualify several times, including the first two races of the season. On the occasions in which he did make the field, a DNF was the typical result. After nine starts, he decided to end his bid for Rookie of the Year.
In 2000, Jones struggled to return to the level his career had previously attained. He made 32 Busch (Nationwide) Series starts and finished 21st in points, with one top-five and three top-10 finishes. Buckshot started only one Winston (Sprint) Cup race that year, the NAPA 500 on Nov 20th at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, in that final race of 2000, Buckshot started from the 29th position and finished 37th and brought home $35,275.
In 2001 he returned to the Cup Series full time, while facing the daunting task of participating in Petty Enterprises switch from Pontiac to Dodge, with Dodge coming back after a 20 year absence, while driving the number 44 Georgia-Pacific Dodge. Unfortunately for him, even though he nearly doubled his career starts in the Winston (Sprint) cup series with 30 out of the 36 races that year, the results were only slightly better than his previous years.
By the MNBA 400 at Atlanta in March the word was out that Buckshot was soon to be fired despite a 12th place finish, his best ever with Petty Enterprises. The funniest thing about it all was the hot rumor that Joe Nemechek was a leading candidate for the ride. Meanwhile, Buckshot finished off his career with Petty with a somewhat respectable 19th the next week at Darlington, 40th place at Bristol, a 26th place at Texas, and his final race with Petty was a 33rd place finish at Martinsville that ended with a crash on lap 483.
Steve Grissom, a former Craftsman (Camping World) truck driver was called up from Petty's engine shop to take over the #44 car at Talladega the next week. Grissom piloted that ride to a stunning 25th place finish at Talladega. Amidst a flurry of Silly Season rumors, Grissom piloted the #44 car until July, and then returned to his role with Petty in the engine shop, when Kyle hired a new driver for the remainder of 2002. The irony of this is that they driver was Jerry Nadeau, who was released from his #25 ride with Rick Hendrick in May. What makes this ironic is not that Nadeau was hired by Petty, but that Rick Hendrick hired none other than Front Row Joe to pilot the #25.
Buckshot has since sold his team and temporarily retired from racing. He last appeared in a NASCAR sanctioned race in 2004, when he ran two Busch (Nationwide) Series events. He is now 38 years old and works in land development and real estate in Gwinnett County, GA, and he maintains primary custody of his two sons, Kolton, 7 and Levin, 6. He returned to auto racing in the Snowball Derby in December 2006 but finished last after being caught in an early accident. Currently he runs the #00 Chevrolet for DMT Motorsports in the Southern Division of the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series.
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When working to implement the REST API of an existing service, there are many avenues to understanding what is going on. Ideally, documentation would be complete enough to implement to the APIs. If the documentation is not present or is incomplete, examining an existing SDK (possibly in a different language) is an option. In reality, things are not always that simple and other sources are needed.
On a recent project that required implementing the Azure KeyVault REST APIs for the Apache JClouds Project ambiguities were encountered. To resolve the issues encountered, a method was needed to get more information. SDKs do exist in a number of languages, yet that requires writing code to use the SDKs.
For Azure, another option exists, the Azure CLI. The Azure CLI is a tool for interacting with most of the Azure services. It is written in Python and leverages modules for each of the various components within the Azure Cloud. Through various commands, one can trigger the desired REST APIs to complete the desired task. The code driving the REST APIs is already written.
There is one hitch, however, the Azure CLI interacts with Azure over a secure connection, HTTPS. How does one examine the traffic?
Given communication between the computer where the Azure CLI commands are issued and the Azure is encrypted, a mechanism is necessary to spy on the traffic. A class of tools exists that can help listen in on this traffic, they are referred to as "Man in the Middle" (MitM) proxies.
What is a MitM Proxy?
By it's name, a MitM proxy is a software agent that sits in between two pieces of software attempting to communicate with one another. If successfully setup, the proxy has access to the information being transmitted.
How does one use the MitM Proxy?
Once installed and running, proxies listen on the local system on a specific port. For example, 8080 and 8888 are two common ports.
Second, one must configure the application or the environment it is running in (will depend upon the application) to use the proxy. As mentioned previously, the Azure CLI is written in the Python language. Most of it's modules leverage either the requests module or a lower level Python HTTP library urllib3.
If one examines the error above, the proxy can not be connected to. As it is not running, this is as expected.
It should be noted installing a proxy in between applications should not be a normal practice or adding self signed or other locally generated certificates to a trust store as both break the intended security of the handshake between the local machine and the remote host/website/etc.
Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised.
In this case, az login is ignoring the proxy certificate and polling awaiting the a successful login to the devicelogin site. Note within the warnings, the lack of certificate verification is explicitly called out.
Authenticate to login.microsoftonline.com and request a token.
Use that token to perform an operation on one of the Azure services. In this case the service being accessed is management.azure.com.
The Azure CLI is built upon various Azure Python SDKs. Active Directory Authentication Libraries (ADAL) is one of those libraries. As we saw previously, there is a specific flag that needs to be set for that library in order to ignore certificate authentication. Many of the other Azure Python SDKs are built upon a set of common Microsoft libraries, thus it should be able to disable the verification of certificates when accessing management.azure.com.
What do the contents of each look like? Since we are using a proxy, we have access to the details of each request.
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"message": "To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://aka.ms/devicelogin and enter the code BZ8VJNH9G to authenticate."
What Happens is Proxy Environment Variables Don't Work?
As mentioned previously, the Azure CLI is built upon multiple Azure Python SDKs. ADAL required it's own environment variable separate from the CLI itself in order for the encrypted connections to ignore the certificate verification. There are other APIs called by the Azure SDK where these environment variables don't work. Further, hunting down these environment variables is non-trivial even with decent searching.
In this case, what does one do? Recall that a second method for listening in on the traffic is to somehow add the proxy certificate to the trust store of the application, in this case the Azure CLI.
For a Python application, one can try and figure out all the possible places that the application may use or store a certificate. A number of systems have a default trust store that may enable adding certificates. Doing so is outside the scope of this post. In the case of figuring out how to handle cases that don't respect the previously mentioned two environment variables, a number of approaches were tried (and failed).
It turns out, the Azure CLI uses a Python library certifi. certifi is a library that contains a number of trusted root certificates and plays nicely with the requests library.
In order to add the proxy certificate such that certify will support it, one needs to find where the library is installed. On Ubuntu Linux, using the Microsoft package repository, the Azure CLI installs itself into /opt/az. Within this directory, the certifi library can be found in /opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/certifi. Within this directory is a file cacert.pem.
If one were to unset the environment variables ADAL_PYTHON_SSL_NO_VERIFY and AZURE_CLI_DISABLE_CONNECTION_VERIFICATION and rerun the commands, you would notice the commands would work through the proxy without any warnings. However, as was mentioned, adding an untrusted certificate to the trust store is not a solution for anything other than when debugging is needed or in a developer setup.


The Department of Aviation Management and Logistics was established as a new unit within the College of Business in the Fall of 2000. Auburn University is one of the pioneers in the development of the Aviation Management degree. Since its inception in 1941, Auburn University Aviation Management has consistently been a leader in aviation education and research.
Our Aviation Management-Professional Flight program uses single-engine and light twin-engine aircraft, along with an advanced flight simulation laboratory, in courses leading to various pilot certificates and ratings. Auburn University owns and operates the Auburn/Opelika Robert G. Pitts Airport . The airport utilizes two (a 5260 x 100 foot and a 4000 x 75 foot) paved and lighted runways which are capable of handling all general aviation aircraft and most corporate aircraft and light jets.
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Lamejoun hot out of the oven!
Last Friday my dear husband and I decided that it was time to make Lahmejoun. My wondeful Armenian friends know what this entails, lots of work! For my non-Armenian friends, Lahmejoun is an Armenian meat pie, probably unlike anything you have ever eaten before. They are the best addition to any meal, or a meal by itself.
So Friday we went to the market and bought 8 lbs. of ground lamb, bell peppers, garlic, lots of parsley, crushed tomatoes, flour and yeast. For two and a half hours I cleaned, cut and diced veggies. Then I added all of that and some wonderful spices to 8 lbs. of ground lamb. Needless to say you need a very large bowl to mix all of those ingredients. That all went into the fridge to wait til morning.
The next morning I mixed 2 packets of yeast with lots and lots of flour. I think at this point it was about 6 lbs. of flour. To say that my arms were getting a bit tired is an understatement. The fun hadn't even started yet! I let the dough rise for about 1 1/2 hours.
While the dough was rising I continued to chop veggies and made a pot of Minestrone Soup. My mother-in-law Irma taught me how to make Lamejoun and whenever we made it together we also made a pot of soup to go with it. Irma was not Armenian, she was French Canadian and Irish, she was a hell of a good cook and she happily taught me everything she knew about Armenian food. We always had fun when we cooked together.
I have 2 beautiful ovens, both were set at 500 degrees. Thankfully it was a dreary, rainy cool day so having the ovens on that high was not unpleasant.
To make Lamejoun you need to roll out the dough into a thin round disc about 7-8″ in diameter. Then you add about 1/3 cup of the meat mixture. I use parchment paper on the cookie sheets so that I don't have to wash them between batches.
Cooking them is a 2 step process. First they go on the bottom of the oven for about 8 minutes then they are moved to the top rack for an additional 6-8 minutes. This is where Chuck steps in. While I am rolling out the dough, he is watching the oven and counting the fruits of our labor. The first 2 Lamejoun that come out of the oven go right into our mouths. Oh my goodness! it is sooo good hot out of the oven.
We worked together for a couple of hours, until we had 6 dozen Lamejoun baked. Trust me we were tired. It is a lot of work but the end result is so wonderful. We can go to the markets in Boston and buy Lamejoun but I have to say there is nothing like homemade. At this point we have 5 dozen Lamejoun in the freezer – we will deliver some to various family members over the next couple of weeks.
If it is a dreary Spring I will make more – they are a great dinner when you are busy and don't feel like cooking. Chuck and I had a great day cooking together. I don't know how my dear Mother-in-law ever made 100 of these by herself – she was quite a lady!
Now back to my quilting.
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I enjoyed reading this so much!! Sounds like you and Chuck had a great day in the kitchen.
We did, and the rewards for our hard work was good food in the freezer!


In the jolly time of Advent, I always look towards celebration with my real friends the most. During Youth Camp at the YMCA of the Rockies, I made those real, true, and best friends. These are the kind of people who I know will forever be consistent even when the rest of the world is inconsistent. In them I find support, laughs, open ears, and the time to listen. I think listening is the best way to show how much you truly care.
Sixth grade had been hard as middle school was for most. I had the typical bully and the sledgehammer of end-of-school projects. I needed a break like summer. I was especially pumped for South Main Baptist Youth Camp. It was my first time traveling without my parents to remind me to brush my teeth, or do this or that.
At first, my family-group of girls goofed around and didn't seem to really take anything that was being said to heart. But, towards the middle of the amazing week we won competitions together, like a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos. It was the games that ultimately let us grow closer together. Soon, every night the "Sunshine Fam Bams" would come from the nightly group discussion and indulge in time with our cabin of girls called "Girl Talk." All six of us shared life struggles, opinions, and secrets as if we were sisters. Walls tumbled down and bonds grew like ivy on a fence.
In that short week, I learned that God puts you in specific places with specific people for a reason. All blessings, like friendship, come from Him, and true friends come together naturally and always act as a backbone. I hope to continue to get to learn more about every friend I have come to know and love at South Main. This is how I anticipate Advent.
Dear Precious Lord, thank you for the lasting friends you place in our lives, the kind of people who will walk beside us forever, even when others in our life abandon us at our most trying times. Thank you for this wonderful church in which we worship You and Your amazing gift to us, as well as the body of welcoming church family. In Jesus name, Amen.
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The Healthy Club Canteens evaluation report (2008-2010) outlines the approach taken to support club canteens to increase the proportion of healthy food choices available to players, officials and spectators at community sport. Health promotion or nutrition professionals who are either planning to, or are currently working with community sporting clubs will be interested in this report, which highlights the critical success factors to influencing the types of food offered in club canteens.
The Healthy Club Canteens kit is a practical resource for sporting club canteens that assists in making changes to the canteen menu to increase the amount of healthy food choices available. The kit includes information on healthy eating principles, the 'traffic-light' food guide and developing a healthy eating policy.


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Police K-9s are officers too, so this organization helps outfit them for the role
Buy Photos Carrboro Police Department K-9 Turbo.
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June 2, 2019 | 11:43pm EDT
CLARIFICATION: Vested Interest in K9s gave the Carrboro Police Department a grant of body armor. A previous version of the article said the Carrboro Police was given a charitable donation. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
The Carrboro Police Department announced the reception of a grant of protective body armor for the dogs in their K-9 unit on Wednesday.
K-9s Titus, Blitz and Turbo will receive vests that provide them protection from both bullets and stabs. The three vests will be embroidered with "In memory of Officer Jordan Sheldon, Mooresville, NC- EOW 5/4/19," to honor a K-9 officer with the nearby Mooresville Police Department who was shot and killed in the line of duty on May 4.
The vests are valued at up to $2,283 each.
The grant was given by Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., a Massachusetts-based nonprofit which helps to provide funding for a variety of K-9 services through grants, contributions and fundraising. These services include ballistic vests, health insurance premiums, K-9 opioid reversal kits and first aid equipment. The nonprofit has even donated a fully equipped SUV for a K-9 unit, said Sandy Marcal founder and president of Vested Interest in K9s .
"The dogs are sworn-in officers, so they need the same protection as their human counterparts because they are working in a potentially dangerous environment on a regular basis," Marcal said.
Vested Interest in K-9s has provided 3,400 ballistic vests at a value of $5.7 million, according to a press release.
Captain Chris Atack of the Carrboro Police Department said the officer in charge of the K-9 unit, Joseph Glenn, found the grant online and applied for it. Atack said that prior to the grant, vest protection for the department's K-9 units had not been considered for funding.
"I think this was just something that wasn't on our radar financially, and would've been way down the line in terms of priority," Atack said. "So it's really a great thing that this company was able to donate to us."
Atack said although the Carrboro Police Department's K-9 unit is small with only three dogs, they are deployed often, which makes vests like these useful to have.
"We use our dogs a lot," Atack said. "In fiscal year 2018, we used them about 120 times. So far this calendar year, we are up to 46 [uses]."
Atack said the Carrboro Police Department K-9 unit assists with everything from lost objects to apprehending suspects.
Officer Lori McLamb, who is partnered with K-9 Blitz, said that not only are the vests a great protective measure, but also help serve as a cue to the dogs that they are on duty when the vests are on.
She also said that the vests are important because police K-9s are often utilized in high-risk situations where sending an officer might be too risky.
"You read about every day, suspects will fight dogs; they don't have any issue with shooting or stabbing them, and (police dogs) getting hurt all the time," McLamb said. "So any additional protection we can give them is great, it's beneficial."
McLamb said that, in addition, the vests come with other useful features such as handles for picking the dogs up if necessary.
She said that she was very happy working with Vested Interest in K9s.
"They've been very responsive, very easy to work with," McLamb said. "We got selected a lot quicker than we thought we would, so we're pleased, and can't wait to get the dogs outfitted."
Atack said the vests are expected to arrive in six to eight weeks. Vested Interest in K9s relies on contributions and fundraising, and accepts donations online.
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Hiking shoes are a medium between the lighter weight of a trail running shoe and the durability of a Hiking Boot.
Hiking shoe is much more flexible than hiking boots offering good grip on different terrains.
Hiking shoes are also available in a waterproof or non-waterproof option for wet and dry environments.
In general: Hiking Shoes for flat feet should be lightweight, flexible, durable, and breathable offering protection and stability in rough terrain.
Buying a pair of specialist hiking shoes for people with low arches is necessary from a comfort and safety point of view; Hiking long hours in a shoe that is not intended for flat footers; not only will be very uncomfortable but, could lead to severe foot, ankle and knee damage and should be avoided.
A comfortable cushioned insole and supportive midsole.
Special SELECT GRIP outsole provides unparallel stability on various terrains and surfaces.
Elastic cords as the laces provide a quick, easy and more precise fit on your feet.
Midsole: Utilizing the specialized M Select FRESH Molded EVA footbed for exceptional cushioning and comfort.
Heel: The Merrell Air Cushion absorbs shocks and adds stability for flat footers.
Hikers love these shoes as they find them as light as loafers, and this makes the task of climbing a lot less tiring.
Note: for some weird reasons Merrell does not have a women's version for this hiking shoes – Though many women in the reviews say they buy them 1-2 sizes smaller and they fit very well and look cute.
The Adidas Terrex is a waterproof hiking shoe with a comfortable EVA midsole and high-traction tread for walking on all terrains.
Breathable textile and synthetic uppers with Gore-Tex waterproof protection.
A lightweight EVA midsole for cushioned comfort.
The molded sock liner ensures an enhanced fit and all-day dryness.
A high traction rubber outsole delivers optimal grip in wet conditions.
A waterproof hiking boot that will offer four-wheel drive performance in the harshest of hiking terrain.
A mid-cut height for better ankle support and protection.
The Keen dry waterproof breathable membrane ensures your feet are always kept dry.
An ESS shank for torsional stability and a more secure ride.
The aggressive outsole features 4mm lugs that will bite into the toughest terrain.
Classic leather and breathable mesh that ventilate your feet.
Compression-molded EVA foam midsole for superb cushioning.
Shaft measures approximately 5.25″ from the arch.
Waterproof full-grain leather and boot construction that is water and stain resistant treatment.
Omnigrip lugged outsole for better traction.
The most efficient, least costly and easiest way to treat foot pain, particularly foot pain caused by flat feet is to wear the appropriate footwear.
The most important step for anyone who has a flat foot is to wear proper and well-fitting footwear.
Footwear that has become old and worn out does not provide the right fit or suitable amount of support for a flat foot and should be replaced promptly.
Good hiking shoes that provide cushioning, arch support, and good shock absorbency are an excellent choice for flat feet, you can also look at motion control and stability shoes depending on your type of pronation.
People with flat feet are much more likely to overpronate than supinate but may also be neutral pronators.


Black Softline mooring rope. Softline is a Synthetic rope that is extremely soft and flexible, this means it is easy to handle. It is made from a variety of different materials (multi filament) so it feels different to most plastic based ropes e.g. normal polypropylene rope.
This line would make ideal mooring rope for yacht or canal boat as it floats but does not rot. It has also been UV stabilised so that it does not decompose in direct sunlight.
You can also purchase made up mooring ropes that are already spliced.
This product is available with splicing, please choose this option after adding the product to your basket.


"Simply being in Anasuya's presence is healing. She has been my nutritionist for 5 years. The story below best describes why I recommend her work with no reservation.
"I had been suffering with weekly migraines and tension headaches almost daily. Medication didn't real help. The relief after just a few sessions of CranioSacral Therapy with Anasuya was incredible and I have been migraine free for a few years now. Even the stress related tension headaches occur very infrequently. Over time we moved into nutrition counseling in combination with various forms of bodywork. Anasuya's intuitive nature gives her the ability to know exactly what modality my body needs every time I visit. She has that magic touch that is so much more than just placing hands on one's body. Her guidance and skill helped me learn how to be more accepting of myself and how to listen to my body, which in turn taught me how to heal myself between visits.
With Anasuya's help I started better eating/exercise habits and am healthier than I've been in years, I stopped smoking after 20 years, I made it through breast cancer surgery and radiation, and I found the strength and courage to deal with a family member's illness, hospice and death. I have always considered myself prone to depression, but I am generally happier now as a result of all the work Anasuya and I have done together. When the blues do come, they don't stay long…my mind set and ability to move forward have changed significantly.
– M. M. Oakland, CA.
"What a difference 5 months make! I feel more energetic, upbeat and focused than I have in a long time. Best of all, I no longer have severe abdominal discomfort, constant bowel movement changes, and flatulence, and I have lost weight. The cleansing diet to eliminate my intestinal parasites was very effective. It was a pleasure to have a health care professional who treated me like a partner. Above all I appreciated your support and quick response to my queries throughout this process. Thanks for helping me feel so good".
"As I began writing down what I ate, I found that I zoned out a lot, and that I ate lots of junk food. I was constantly craving but never being satisfied. Once I got the nutrition program totally going, without making an effort, I ate less food and began losing weight. I also began eating more regularly and calmly, enjoying my meals and feeling satisfied during and after eating them." – L.K.- Berkeley, CA.


In the past two weeks, the government of Canada has come under fire several times over its complete lack of effort when it comes to the protection of endangered species. The gap between what Canada says - and what it actually does - for conservation continues to widen, and it is wildlife who pays the price.
But that was just the beginning. IFAW then brought to light that Canada is also neglecting to fulfill our obligations to other endangered species in trade under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
CITES is an international conservation agreement with the fundamental goal of ensuring that global commercial trade in wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Roughly 36,000 species of animals and plants are protected against over-exploitation by CITES. Almost every country on earth is a signatory to this Treaty, and Canada was one of the first to join.
In March 2013, 76 new species were added to Appendix I and Appendix II of CITES. Countries who are signatories to the convention are expected to amend their domestic legislation within 90 days, to give these species the protection they need within their borders.
Canada has not only missed the 90 day deadline, we have failed to update our legislation for over 20 months - and have taken the unprecedented and unusual move of placing reservations on all 76 species that were added at the last CITES meeting.
Placing a reservation on a species signifies that a party does not accept the decision made by CITES, and is essentially a sign that they will not participate in protection for those particular species through CITES.
This action defies logical explanation and raises serious questions about our commitment to CITES - and to protecting plants and animals - before they are gone forever.
But it gets worse. Canada is failing endangered species in our own backyard, too. A damning new scientific analysis by Canadian scientists shows that attempts to protect endangered species here at home are almost totally ineffective. According to the study, 86% of species assessed multiple times since 1977 either stayed at the same risk level or deteriorated over time. The authors found that the status of species at-risk in Canada rarely improved, with only 5.7% of those assessed recovering to a "not at risk" status.
A few days later, scientists reiterated concerns raised over a year ago that Environment Canada was still taking far too long to list species deemed at risk. In fact, the process for listing species now appears to have stopped completely, with none of the 67 species recommended for listing under the Species at Risk Act since January 2011 given the additional protection they need.
Any discussion of endangered species in Canada would be incomplete without mention of polar bears, and our government's inaction on protecting this species might come as a shock.
A new study by researchers at the University of Alberta predicts that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, by the end of the century even the most remote areas of the high north will not be able to support a viable population of polar bears and more southern populations, like that in James Bay, may not even be worth trying to save. World renowned Canadian polar bear researcher Andrew Derocher warns that Canada is doing so little research in the Arctic, that any changes in the High Arctic bear populations will not be detected until it's too late to take any action.
Ironically, this is all making the news whilst Minister Aglukkaq is leading the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Lima, Peru. In her country address, Minister Aglukkaq said, "Canada is a country that has always done its part." Sadly, this no longer seems to be true. We need to hold the government to account, so that words like this are not meaningless.
Send a letter to your MP, ask them to take action for endangered species.


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Release Blitz: A Musician's Tale
Posted on March 26, 2016 March 25, 2016 by Sarah
A Musician's Tale is an anthology that consists of interviews with musicians. Since R&RSMS published a book that talks about how music affects those who listen, the founder decided to do one about how it affects the ones who create music. All proceeds from the anthology will be donated to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
An artist's life is never easy. From the very beginning, they're faced with struggles of criticism and self-doubt, making the lifestyle difficult.
But from the ashes, they will rise.
Despite all the negative they face, they use it to their advantage, using it to fuel their artistic side. We use music to escape. So do those who write or play music, creating the sounds we love the most.
A Musician's Tale – Telling their stories.
AMT's event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1733872940190873/
Rock & Roll Saved My Soul publishes anthologies in which all proceeds go to different charities. They are looking for submissions for several different anthologies right now, so feel free to head over to the Facebook page and go to the Submissions Call album if you're interested in helping them out by writing a story. They've published ones about domestic violence, bullying, rescuing animals, helping others out, and music saving lives so far. They'll also publish books or short stories as long as all proceeds goes to charity.
Rock & Roll Saved My Soul's anthologies:
Rock & Roll Saved My Soul Volume One:
US: http://goo.gl/wEf7b1
UK: http://goo.gl/A8G1oS
Rock & Roll Saved My Soul Volume Two:
US: http://goo.gl/fbC3T1
UK: http://goo.gl/GuOAXI
The Concert Experience: US: http://goo.gl/7CnaCD
UK: http://goo.gl/3mHtgi
Dark Fantasia:
US: http://goo.gl/XjgZjO
UK: http://goo.gl/GfG0l6
Random Acts of Kindness:
US: http://www.amazon.com/Random-Acts-Kindness-Saved-Anthology-ebook/dp/B00KXFTQIY
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Random-Acts-Kindness-Saved-Anthology-ebook/dp/B00KXFTQIY
Fighting Chance:
US: http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Chance-Kate-Marie-Robbins-ebook/dp/B015LDXETE
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fighting-Chance-Kate-Marie-Robbins-ebook/dp/B015LDXETE
Rescue Me: Stories of Hope:
US: http://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Me-Stories-Renee-Jean-ebook/dp/B00OY9AEA4
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rescue-Me-Stories-Renee-Jean-ebook/dp/B00OY9AEA4
Authors Against Bullying Volume One:
US: http://www.amazon.com/Authors-Against-Bullying-Bree-Vanderland-ebook/dp/B00O2BTXPQ
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Authors-Against-Bullying-Bree-Vanderland-ebook/dp/B00O2BTXPQ
Authors Against Bullying Volume Two:
US: http://www.amazon.com/Authors-Against-Bullying-Bree-Vanderland-ebook/dp/B0106TCO2Q
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Authors-Against-Bullying-Bree-Vanderland-ebook/dp/B0106TCO2Q
Books Rock & Roll Saved My Soul has published:
Behind Closed Doors:
US: http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Closed-Doors-Marie-Robbins-ebook/dp/B015JRFTSQ UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ebooks-Behind-Closed-Doors-Marie-Robbins-ebook/dp/B015JRFTSQ
Finding Rachel:
US: http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Rachel-Brianna-Vanderland-ebook/dp/B015LEKCGG
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Finding-Rachel-Brianna-Vanderland-ebook/dp/B015LEKCGG
Rock & Roll Saved My Soul: https://www.facebook.com/rockandrollsavedmysoul
Rock & Roll Saved My Soul
Authors Against Bullying: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorsTakeAStand
Authors Against Bullying – Charity Book Series
Rescue Me: https://www.facebook.com/Rescue-Me-Animal-Anthology-1382765645296256?hc_location=ufi
Street Team: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockandrollsavedmysoul
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rocknrollsavedm
Tumblr: http://rrsms-charity.tumblr.com/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/rockandrollsavedme
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rock-and-roll-saved-my-soul-945603114
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Blog: http://rockandrollsavedmysoul2014.blogspot.com/
Posted on March 23, 2016 by Sarah
Some great books to check out by author Mike Wolff.
Release Blitz and Review: Fractured Palace by R.J. Loom
Title: Fractured Palace
Author: R.J. Loom
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Standalone
They say home is where the heart is.
Ashton Roberts never understood that saying. Heart couldn't be found anywhere in the rundown bungalow she grew up in. It also couldn't be found in the luxury estate she moved into when her mother married her stepfather.
All Ashton wants is to get her degree, meet Mr. Right and find the happy stable life she never had. But when life constantly throws her curve balls, she begins to wonder if it really is just a pipe dream.
Until she runs into her former neighbor, Reed Collins.
As a child, Reed had always been Ashton's silent protector. As an adult, he is everything she has ever dreamed of in a man. If only he didn't keep her at arms length. But as things heat up, guards drop and secrets are revealed which toss Ash back into the turmoil surrounding a tragic event from her youth.
Will Ashton let her past fracture the perfect picture of her future? Or will the meaning of loyalty, family and love be redefined?
After laying out rugs and putting away towels she began a battle with the packaging for the shower curtain rings. The plastic was sealed on all sides and no amount of tugging or biting at the edges would tear it open. She growled in frustration.
"Uh…Ash?" Reed chuckled from his bedroom. "You okay in there?"
Great. He heard her. "Yeah," she called out. "I just can't get this package open. Do you have any scissors?"
"Hang on…"
Ashton continued her fight then hissed as the plastic edge sliced into her thumb.
Reed appeared in the doorway and held out his hand. "Give it here."
Happy to get rid of the stupid package, she tossed it to him, then stuck her thumb in her mouth to suck away the sting. As he began to struggle with the container, his eyes lowered to her mouth. They lingered there for a moment before he lifted them to meet her own. "Are you all right?"
She removed her thumb from her mouth and inspected it for any bleeding. "Yeah, I'm fine," she dismissed, tucking her hand in her back pocket of her jeans as if she could hide the fact she was just sucking her thumb.
Fortunately, her slight embarrassment was short lived. With one last hard tug, the package popped open and shower curtains rings flew everywhere. They ricocheted off of the medicine cabinet, sink and walls before scattering all over the floor and in the bathtub. But it was the one ominous plop which came from behind her that was cause for concern. Reed must have heard it at the same time because he stepped forward just as she turned. A lone chrome shower curtain ring sparkled back at them from the bottom of the toilet.
Ashton swung her head around and locked eyes with Reed in alarm. "Injured," she called out, thrusting her hand in the air as if she were holding up a free pass.
"Oh yeah?" Reed chuckled and raised a brow.
"Yeah." She nodded solemnly, cradling her hand to her chest. The small, barely visible slice in her thumb had suddenly and conveniently become a grave situation. "I could contract MRSA or some other nasty infection."
His eyes flicked down to her hands then back up to meet her gaze. "Well, we wouldn't want that."
"No, we wouldn't," she agreed, narrowing her eyes as a smile slowly crept across his face. The smile would not have been worrisome had it been a regular smile. No, this smile should have warned her to take a step back. Instead, she got lost in the way it reached his eyes and showed off his white, almost perfectly straight teeth.
"Good thing your other hand is fine," he pointed out just as he lunged forward to try to grab her wrist.
"No!" She squealed, jumping out of the way.
He laughed and pushed one of his shirt sleeves up. "I'm kidding, Ash. I wouldn't do that." Shaking his head, he turned back to the toilet. "I'm going in."
Ashton watched from the safety of the doorway as Reed swooped in to retrieve the shower curtain ring. He tossed it into the sink then washed it and his hands, going all the way up to his elbows. After he was done, he flicked water at her then grabbed a towel.
Reed's eyes met hers as he dried his hands. Their laughter died off and silence stretched between them. Eventually, he cleared his throat and averted his gaze to the floor. A crease formed between his brows and she wondered what he could possibly be thinking.
"Ash …," he began and lifted his eyes back to hers. In that brief moment, Ashton's heart beat faster and she swore she felt some kind of connection with Reed she had never felt before. She wondered if it was her imagination or simply anticipation for what he was about to say. Most likely, it was a combination of both.
"Jackpot!" Danny announced from the bedroom, shattering the moment. "I found Reed's spank bank!"
In spite of the horrible timing, Ashton could not help but burst out laughing. Reed groaned and stepped toward where she stood in the doorway. They both looked over to find Danny with a huge grin on his face as he held up a couple copies of some car magazine.
She shook her head and turned back to Reed. "You share a gene pool with that one."
"Yeah," he said, running a hand over the back of his head before he looked back over toward his room. "Hey, Danny. Why don't you go outside, dig a hole, jump into it and bury yourself," Reed suggested as if it were a great idea.
This only made Danny laugh harder.
"I'm just messing with him, Ash," Reed murmured in her ear before he stepped passed her.
She knew he had been but her curiosity over what he had been about to say made her reach out to grab his arm to stop him. "Wait, what were you about to say in there," she asked, inclining her back toward the bathroom.
His eyes shifted from the bathroom over to meet hers. He smiled but it was nothing like the smile he wore only a few minutes earlier. This one was weak at best. "Oh…nothing important," he said with a shake of his head. Hooking a thumb over his shoulder, he took a step back. "I better get back to this so I have a bed to sleep in tonight."
"Okay." Ashton released his arm and watched as he walked back into his room.
*Disclaimer: I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
If you're a Colleen Hoover fan, then you will love Fractured Palace by R.J. Loom. The characters are realistic, and they tugged on my heart from the beginning. Ashton has had a difficult life, and her pain is tangible, yet it doesn't break her. She's a resilient woman, and I easily became attached to how her life would turn out. Reed is absolutely swoon-worthy. His desire to protect Ashton from the time she was young made him an endearing character. The story pulled me in and hooked me from the prologue. Loom seamlessly weaves intensity and lightheartedness into the story, which makes Fractured Palace a rich romance that left me with a wonderful book hangover. I highly recommend reading it.
R.J. Loom was born and raised along the shores of Lake Erie in Ohio, where she still resides with her husband, two children and two spoiled dogs. She loves books, music, travel and anyone with a great sense of humor. When she's not writing, she can be found with her nose in a book, looking for more books to add to her "to-be-read" pile or spending time with her family.
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Cover Reveal: Steady As The Snow Falls by Lindy Zart
Title: Steady as the Snow Falls
Author: Lindy Zart
Genre: Contemporary/ Inspirational Romance
Cover Designer: Cover to Cover Designs
Cover Model: Kailey Dobson
Cover Photography by: Wendi Stizer
Hired by a stranger to write his life story, Beth Lambert arrives at a seemingly abandoned house in the hills near her hometown. She knows the rumors, she knows it is dangerous and unwise. But she needs the money. And she needs to prove that it isn't a mistake to think she can make a career out of a dream.
Inside the house of emptiness and coldness, she finds a man with curt words and haunted eyes. He is eccentric, odd. Brutish, even. He scares her, and he intrigues her. When she learns who he is, she wants to run. But there is the money, and there is the dream, and eventually, there is simply Harrison Caldwell. The haunted man with the black, ugly truth.
"What's happening between us?" When she didn't immediately answer, Harrison turned.
"We're getting to know each other's heart. I'm glad I was introduced to yours." Beth gingerly set her hand to his chest, felt the beat of his life against her palm. "I like your heart, Harrison." She looked up, her eyes clashing with his.
"I like your heart too," he told her falteringly.
Lindy Zart is the USA Today bestselling author of Roomies. She has been writing since she was a child. Luckily for readers, her writing has improved since then. She lives in Wisconsin with her family. Lindy loves hearing from people who enjoy her work. She also has a completely healthy obsession with the following: coffee, wine, bloody marys, peanut butter, and pizza.
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Coming on April 20, 2016!
I screwed up. I admit it. But sometimes screwing up turns out to be a great thing. Like when Alexander Fleming screwed up and accidentally invented penicillin. My screw-up wasn't that important to humanity, but I bet a lot of authors and small publishers will be really excited to find out what I did, and how they can screw up exactly the way I did!
First, some background. Last year I wrote a book called Entropy, that has done pretty well. And since late last fall, I've been working on a sequel, called Duality. (Click that to pre-order for Kindle.) As with the first book, I'm using CreateSpace to do a print-on-demand paperback version that is to die for. I absolutely love the quality of these CreateSpace books. And I'm using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to make the Kindle version. I'm not doing…
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Jay Meehan, Park Record columnist
"Woody is just Woody. Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people. Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who will listen. There is the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression."
Arriving like a perfect storm into the life of an already somewhat leftish teenage GI stationed in Georgia during the timeframe that witnessed some of the most oppressive violence of the American Civil Rights Movement, the songs and prose of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie provided a lens into an America to which I had, for whatever reason, turned a blind eye.
Looking back, "Woody," as he had come to be called from an early age, also had a way of nurturing my philosophical sensibility that would be furthered by the writings of such simpatico cultural and political observers as Jack Kerouac, Eric Hoffer, Upton Sinclair, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter Thompson, and Edward Abbey, not to mention the two musicians who had channeled my muse most extensively, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan.
Countless others would be similarly affected over the years by Guthrie's words, of course, to the extent that 2012, the centennial year of his birth, is playing host to a wide variety of symposiums, concerts, festivals, panel discussions, university conferences, special tributes, museum and gallery exhibitions, workshops, educational programs, hobo gatherings, and impromptu sing-along jam sessions both here and across the pond.
With the Grammy Museum and the Guthrie family as organizers, Robert Santelli, the museum's executive director, has been spending much of the year coordinating and moderating many of the testimonial gatherings. Santelli, who visited Park City during April of 2010 in his role as curator of the traveling Smithsonian exhibition, New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, brings both a fan's and an educator's sensibility to the table.
In March at the South-By-Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, Santelli led a panel discussion focused upon Guthrie's legacy and music featuring historian Douglas Brinkley, longtime music writer Dave Marsh, and musicians Jimmy LaFave and Joel Rafael. Woody's daughter Nora and his son Arlo, a longtime singer-songwriter of note, were also on hand to add first-person anecdotes to the discussion.
Musician and author Steve Earle, who only last weekend performed a riveting set at Red Butte Garden on a bill with the equally-brilliant Los Lobos, has always maintained that "Woody Guthrie invented my job." A couple of weeks earlier Earle had hosted a "Woody Fest" trio of New York concerts featuring Billy Bragg, Tim Robbins, the Wood Brothers, the late Levon Helm's daughter Amy, Joe Purdy, and other performers with a relationship to Woody's social ethic.
It's all about his iconic songs, of course, with their anthemic quality equaled only by their working-class simplicity. A champion of the dispossessed, he never sugarcoated the brutal realities inherent in the relationship between the organized labor and business factions of his day.
In "1913 Massacre," he asks the listener to "Take a trip with me in 1913/To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country/I will take you to a place called Italian Hall/Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball." By the concluding verse, copper company thugs had barred the door and shouted "fire" in the hall.
Most of the 73 victims of the ensuing stampede were children. No moon-June-spoon feel-good Tin Pan Alley songwriting for this guy.
Even his lighter fare, such as "Talking Fishing Blues" and "Do, Re, Mi," though whimsical on one level, highlighted the systemic inequality experienced by the downtrodden. "Pastures of Plenty" asked the 1% to at least notice the contributions of migrant workers who "set on your table your sparkling wine."
But, more than any other, it would be the song Woody wrote in response to Irving Berlin's "America the Beautiful" that would have the most lasting impact. Although censors would edit out complete verses before allowing it in the classrooms of the day, "This Land is Your Land," as written by Woody, was nothing short of a call-to-arms for the have-nots to repossess their birthright. What a novel, and radical, idea!
Happy 100, Woody! They sure broke the mold when they made you!
Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social scenes for more than 40 years.
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I didn't get to the Morgan exhibit, but I used to take my students to Harvard's Houghton Library so we could read the Austen letters in their collection, and I know what Marsha means about how close you feel to the author when the letter is in your (white-gloved) hands, or on the table in front of you. It's true, as Marsha says, that it can be hard to read the letters when you don't recognize all the names of the people Jane Austen mentions, but I think she's right that consulting the biographical and topographical notes in Deirdre Le Faye's edition of the Letters, it's possible to reach a kind of "fluency." The work of flipping back and forth to the notes is well worth it.
I've written before about the problem of charity in Jane Austen's novels and letters, in an article on "Laughing at Our Neighbours" in Persuasions On-line. Of course, the letters were intended for Cassandra alone, not for any of us to read. I think one of the reasons Austen is so good in her novels at dramatizing the problem of how to speak and act in a charitable manner is that she knows all too well the very human temptation to speak ill of others. It's tempting because it can be so funny. In this particular case, she's mixing fact and fiction, as the Faggs are real, but the other families, according to Le Faye, are very likely fictional. I love the way she inserts the name "Franfraddop" into the list of otherwise ordinary, more believable names, heightening the silliness of the comparisons. Jane was not alone in her judgement of the Faggs—Le Faye notes that her niece Fanny Knight had commented several years earlier on the plainness of one of the daughters.