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Carly Bloom Books In Order
Publication Order of Once Upon a Time in Texas Books
Big Bad Cowboy (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
It's All About That Cowboy (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Cowboy Come Home (2020) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Must Love Cowboys (2021) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Carly Bloom is a bestselling romance author best known for the "Once Upon a Time in Texas" series of novels.
Before she became an author, she was a family humor blogger and columnist, which she abandoned when her children were old enough as she thought it would be embarrassing for her family. To protect them from embarrassment and still provide for them, she started writing steamy contemporary romances.
Bloom published "Big Bad Cowboy," her debut novel in 2018 and the novel went on to garner critical acclaim and become a bestseller. She has become known for writing heroes that refuse to enter the 21st century and have to be dragged there kicking and screaming while she is at it.
Carly currently makes her home in a cattle ranch in Texas, where she lives with her husband and children.
Bloom's inspiration for her debut novel "Big Bad Cowboy" came from wanting to play with the theme of "You've Got Mail" but now in small town settings.
Coming up with plot arcs to make her couple grow their different relationships was quite a challenge since she did not have any creative writing training.
She then decided to dress them up in Halloween costumes during Halloween with one being a Big Bad Wolf and the other as Little Red Riding Hood.
Of course there is instant sexual attraction and it is not long before there is a tense but furious texting relationship.
Carly Bloom's "Big Bad Cowboy" is a beautiful novel that tells the story of a cowboy fling that comes with a fairy tale twist. After several heartbreaks, Travis Blake quit being a cowboy and left Verde, Texas to go to the big city.
But then he is called up and told he has to return home as his cousin needs him. Once he deals with the problem, he intends to sell the family land and head back to Austin.
But he recently met Maggie who thinks he is an irritating man that she hates with a passion. She believes that he is very attractive but also blames him for destroying her business.
Things get very interesting when they have to work together and Maggie learns that there is more to Travis than she first thought. He helps out his community, is sweet with his nephew and makes her knees go weak.
She knows he intends to leave and does not want to enter into a relationship with him but cannot help herself. The best thing she can do is to convince him to stay.
"Cowboy Come Home" by Carly Bloom is set in Big Verde Texas, where a hot and handsome cowboy has to deal with one of the most difficult challenges of his life.
Claire Kowalski is all too aware that not all cowboys are fated to be Prince Charming. She had once upon a time given her heart to Ford Jarvis who had stamped on it when he disappeared.
He is now back in town and she has vowed never to fall into his trap once again. But the sexy and rugged looking cowboy has a way of pushing her buttons and she cannot avoid seeing him as she often needs his help with things.
Jarvis never planned on coming back home to Big Verde but had to when he learned that his family's ranch was in trouble. He thinks his time in the small town will be short as he intends to get the farm up and running before he high tails it.
But he finds that the new foreman he is to train is Claire who is just as beautiful and stubborn as he had left her. Will he fight for future with the only woman he ever loved or will he repeat his mistakes?
"Must Love Cowboys" by Carly Bloom is a sexy and charming romance about a nerdish beauty in search of a fake boyfriend. The man she finds is Beau Montgomery who was having the time of his life until Rancho Canada Verde is left to him.
As a dyslexic he would have preferred to be in the saddle rather than a spreadsheet. He thinks he could ask the local librarian for some help but the kinkin his plan is that he has had a crush on her since he was a junior in high school. While he is a smooth talker he gets tongue tied whenever he is in her presence.
On her part, Alice Alice Martin has never been one for personal relationships as she prefers to advance her career above everything. But when Beau asks her for help she cannot help but agree. She agrees to help him with his reading skills as long as he agrees to be her date for a weddingthsat is coming up and teaches her how to flirt.
It is not long before the gossip mill in the town is going full speed and Alice and Beau are forced to fake a romance to keep their deal secret. But what they called fake soon starts turning very real.
Book Series In Order » Authors » Carly Bloom
One Response to "Carly Bloom"
Donna Bernhardt: 4 months ago
Loved Loved Loved all three of these books have read them twice already Reading It's all about that Cowboy now
Want more more more, maybe Worths story, Anna, Bubba
keep them coming please


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Tokyo Blade return with a new studio album 'Unbroken'
3MS Music are delighted to announce that Tokyo Blade return with a new studio album "Unbroken", the band's eighth, which is to be released 20 July 2018 [3MS018CD / 3MS018LP / 3MS018DA]. The band's roots go right back to the heady days of the rise of the NWOBHM and on this eleven-track album they prove that their cutting edge remains undimmed, this is uncompromising stuff.
Whilst the band shared stages with the likes of Metallic, Ozzy, Dio and Scorpions at Festivals across the world, the line-up changed regularly, but in recent years founder member and lead guitarist Andy Boulton has steadied the ship. He re-enlisted four parts of the classic Tokyo Blade line-up, guitarist John Wiggins, bassist Andy Wrighton and drummer Steve Pierce, with vocalist Alan Marsh returning for a 3rd stint.
'Unbroken' is the first Tokyo Blade album since 2011's acclaimed 'Thousand Men Strong'. As 'Devil's Gonna Bring You Down' bursts out of the speakers you know that this is no nostalgia kick, Tokyo Blade mean business. 'Unbroken' is heavy, a real Metal tour de force from a band that helped shape the genre. Andy Boulton said, "Blade are back with the 100% original line-up. Undeniably our journey has been a tough one and it's taken enormous effort to keep Tokyo Blade alive. With the original line-up coming together it's a very significant release, proving that we won't lay down and die. This is our 8th studio album and our 3rd with the original line up; we truly believe that this album should have been the rightful successor to 'Night of the Blade' but fate had other plans. In our opinion this is our finest album; ultimately the fans will be the judges and our thanks go out to them, 3MS and everybody else who made this album possible".
Devil's Gonna Bring You Down
Bullet Made Of Stone
Burn Down The Night
The Man In Black
No Time To Bleed
My Kind Of Heaven
Tokyo Blade's name and enviable reputation may have been forged in the late 70s as part of the NWOBHM that stamped its mark on the whole world, influencing countless bands, but 'Unbroken' is a serious return to form, this Blade is sharp as ever.
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I once walked into this restaurant that uniquely incorporated the Ethiopian tradition with that of the West. It was a beautiful place. I wanted to dine there even though the prices were a little steep for my purse. I was served with the meal of my choice along with ketchup. And as I dipped the fry, I realised with disbelief that the ketchup had been diluted with water.
It was shocking, especially for a meal that was already overpriced. It is astounding that the establishment would ask for that much money and yet offer such a product.
Our business model cannot be to keep hiking the prices with no regard for quality. We concentrate too much on the exterior with disregard to the interior.
Is this a reflection of who we are as a modern society?
A friend mentioned the other day that our level of consciousness and the country's development do not seem to be going at a complimentary pace. And I thought about how right he was. His statement embodies everything that is wrong with modern Ethiopia.
We are living in a time where historic sites are destroyed to make way for tasteless glass and aluminium buildings with no character or inspiration. We have become too far removed from our genuine selves that we are constantly imitating and not building things of our own. We live in a country where contractors and engineers destroy public sidewalks as they construct buildings for the rich.
The contradictions of our existence are overwhelming. As a society, we have stopped reflecting before acting. We are building up without building within. We are too convinced the rest of the world has moved on without us; thus, we are consumed on playing catch up.
But we need to take our own route. This is not a race as one cannot compete without a finishing line to cross. Every nation is on a journey, which does not imply the destination but the process itself.
Ethiopia should not have to play catch-up for our society is imbued with a past that should catapult us to the next level. Yet, we hold on to the past like a clutch and fear a future we cannot control.
There are many positives in our culture and identity. Nonetheless, we need to right the wrongs we see. We need to be better.
We have become a community that is okay with looking away, too comfortable in saying things like, "You know nothing works," and only surprised when things go right.
There is a lot of hope and pressure on those who have gone to school, but I fear even the educated have spent too much time unlearning all they know from their community that they are not able to link the formal education with the informal.
Learning is a part of our existence. For most, it comes from our schools but we should not be misguided to think that education happens only inside the four walls of a classroom.
As Ethiopians embark on this journey of education, it must be in search of enlightenment, not just a living. We must have ideals that contribute to our fellow human beings. Neither short cuts, get-rich-quick schemes, pretending to have the know-how nor imitating success can be ideals of a functioning society.
Money is not bad and being successful takes a mindset to achieve along with strong traits. There is no shortcut to success, at least not non-financial ones.
Often, people use the measure of one's character, to define a person rather than the material success that person has. And also the success they had at times measures a person's will and determination against many odds to create something that works.
Today, many turn their heads away not to see how a person has reached the status they have had. Often those successful foolishly think that it is only their hard work that has got them to the position they have in life. But one cannot succeed alone. There are many factors at play that put them in that position.
If hard work was the one sure-fire means of prospering, Ethiopia's millionaires and billionaires would be the women who climb mountains with bundles of sticks fastened to their backs or heads.
In building modern Ethiopia, we have the luxury of learning from countries who have erred on the journey to development. We can stir our community to a healthy, environmentally caring, tradition respecting, conscious community. Building and rebuilding Ethiopia is up to us – those living in this moment. We should leave the world better than we found it under every circumstance possible.
Hanna Haile (hannahaile212@gmail.com) is an Ethiopian writer, researcher and social worker who uses her writing to promote social and gender equality, identity and women's rights. She is one of the organisers of Poetic Saturday at Fendika Cultural Centre where she performs spoken word poetry every first Saturday of the month.


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The Mennonite Church in the Netherlands, or Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit, is a body of Mennonite Christians in the Netherlands.
The Mennonites (or Mennisten or Doopsgezinden) are named for Menno Simons (1496–1561), a Dutch Roman Catholic priest from the Province of Friesland who converted to Anabaptism around 1536. He was re-baptized as an adult in 1537 and became part (and soon leader) of the Dutch Anabaptist movement.

In 1811, different regional churches merged to form the Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit (doopsgezind ≈ Baptist-minded). The Mennonite Church in the Netherlands is a member of the Mennonite World Conference and in 2015 reported 7230 members in 111 congregations.

General characteristics
The doopsgezinden (literally: baptism-minded) or the Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit (General Baptism-minded Society) are a religious community in the Netherlands that can be considered the Dutch branch of the Mennonites. In the Netherlands they are at times also called Mennists.

The current Dutch name "doopsgezinden" (baptism-minded) arose around 1800 to replace earlier names like "mennonieten/me(n)nisten" or "dopersen". The name refers to the movement's specific views on baptism. Rather than baptizing infants as is usual in many other denominations, baptism is reserved for adults. Prior to baptism a person writes a personal statement of confession and becomes a full member of the community upon being baptized. The confession is not necessarily based on any prescribed forms or dogmatic rules, in contrast to what is customary in the "Protestantse Kerk in Nederland", the largest Protestant denomination in the country; a denomination that unifies a number of Calvinist and Lutheran traditions.

Another characteristic of the doopsgezinden is that they reject military service and the bearing of arms. In the past, this stance has extended to all service for the state. In the days of the Dutch Republic, this position brought the community into conflict with local and Stadholderly authorities, because the church members refused to participate in the city's militia. In place of such service, however, they often did participate and contribute to the fire brigades in many places.

History

Founding years
Mennonites are the followers of Menno Simons (1496–1561), who was born in Witmarsum, Friesland. Simons is considered one of the best known leaders of the Reformation alongside Luther, Calvin and Zwingli. Simons is the only widely recognized Reformer of Dutch descent.

Anabaptism appeared in the Netherlands by 1530, when Melchior Hoffman (1495–1543) visited Emden in East Frisia. While there, Hoffman baptized more than 100 adults who converted to Anabaptism. The early years saw a number of, at times, rather fanatical, even violent developments under Anabaptist-associated groups like the Batenburgers. A similar violent take over of the city of Münster was subsequently repressed.

After 1536
After the demise of the Anabaptist rule in Münster (1534–1536, under Jan van Leiden), Menno Simons became the pivotal person who inspired the movement known as the (Ana)baptists. This movement was fiercely repressed and persecuted by many, including the Lutheran church. After 1536, Menno Simons was mostly active in organizing congregations in what are now the German states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, but congregations were also founded in his homeland of the Netherlands.

16th and 17th centuries
Soon after Menno's death, his followers in the Netherlands split into a number of local factions. There were Waterlandic, Frisian and Flemish denominations. In the second half of the 16th century many Frisian and Flemish Mennonites from the Netherlands moved to the Vistula Delta, where they established settlements that flourished until the 1770s. Many of these Vistula delta Mennonites later moved to the Russian Empire and from there to North and Latin America. Today there several hundred thousands of these so-called Russian Mennonites, who are of Dutch descent and speak Plautdietsch.

After 1664, there was another schism. One of the groups was founded by the preacher Galenus Abraham de Haen from Zierikzee. Members of that group are known as the "Lammists." A different group, known as the "Sonnists," arose under the preacher Samuel Apostool. Lammists were more liberal and Sonnists were stricter. In 1735, the Sonnists founded their own Mennonite seminary in Amsterdam. In 1801, the two groups united again.

During the Republic, which was dominated by Calvinism, the Menists found themselves in a position similar to that of the Jews and the Catholics. They were tolerated as long as they did not practice their religion too openly. Churches were built in inconspicuous places, hidden from view. In some places, they can still be found in the middle of a block behind the houses, e.g. in  Grouw, Haarlem, Deventer and Joure. In this period, the community was mostly of an orthodox nature as the usual name of the churches the "Vermaning" (Admonition) indicates. Many walks of life and professions were not open to the community, e.g. they were not admitted into the guilds. Many members, therefore, became merchants or earned their living in financial services. In the heyday of the Dutch Republic, the Golden Age of the seventeenth century, many of the  Menists came into considerable wealth. The region of the river Vecht above Utrecht is still known as the "Menists' Heaven", because of its many opulent mansions.

18th century and the Napoleonic period
From the 18th century onward, many Menists evolved from a rather orthodox view to a decidedly liberal one. At the end of the century, there was considerable upheaval and the "patriots" inspired by events in the American colonies strove for sweeping reform in the rather archaic institutions of the Republic. In the Batavian Revolution of 1795, a disproportionately large number of 'doopsgezinden', as they started to call themselves, could be found amongst the "patriots" and they played an active role in the emancipation of groups that, like themselves, had been excluded from full citizenship. In 1806, the old guilds were finally abolished and all professions became open to the Menists. However, the customary right to refuse military service was now denied them.

19th century
In the century that followed, many of the more orthodox members of the 'doopsgezinden' decided to leave and join the more conservative Dutch Reformed Church. The remaining Mennists acquired a more and more progressive signature, quite in contrast to their fellow Mennists overseas.

Mission work among the group also began in the 19th century, carrying into the early 20th century. The group chose Central Java and New Guinea as mission fields. Strong ties still exist between these communities (now in Indonesia) and today's Dutch groups.

Modern church
The Mennonite Church was the first denomination in the Netherlands to allow women to be ordained as ministers. The church first adopted acceptance of women to the priesthood in 1905. In 1911, Anne Zernike became the first woman minister in the country. Her ministry started in the Frisian town of Bovenknijpe (near Heerenveen).

By 2007, there were 118 "Doopsgezinde" congregations with a total of 8362 members. These were located mostly in the provinces Friesland and North Holland, and in cities along the river IJssel.  In 2015 they had 7230 members in 111 congregations.

Together with the Remonstrants, the Algemeene Doopsgezinde Societeit church was also the first church to accept and perform same-sex marriage in the service, before such was legalized in the Netherlands in 2001. The first gay marriage took place in 1986 and was the first in the world.  They continue to both ordain gays and conduct homosexual marriages in their congregations.

Notes

External links
 Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit—Official website in Dutch.
 Doperse immigranten in het Noord-Duitse kustgebied (1500–1700)
 Doopsgezinde prenten

1847 establishments in the Netherlands
Christian denominations in the Netherlands
History of Christianity in the Netherlands
Members of the World Council of Churches
Mennonite denominations
Mennonite World Conference
Mennonitism in the Netherlands
Religious organizations established in 1847

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70 different outfits so far! I didn't really expect to go this long without repeating outfits. Before working with a capsule wardrobe, I absolutely had favorite outfits that I wore repeatedly.
Another surprise is that I expected to shop for a little while before the fall season began and then pretty much quit thinking about clothes for a couple months. But what really happened is that I am thinking about my winter capsule quite a bit (and spring has crossed my mind, though I have no plans yet). I'm spending time looking at different options and thinking about outfit possibilities. It's a lot of fun, just different from what I thought would happen. Surprises: another way that capsule wardrobes are not boring.


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Bruins Notes: What Bruce Cassidy Thought Was Most Disappointing About Loss To Lightning
The B's now are down 2-1 to the Lightning
by Lauren Campbell
It was not a good night for the Boston Bruins, to say the least.
Boston dropped Game 3 of its second-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning 7-1 on Wednesday night.
It was an all-around ugly game for the B's on their second night of a back-to-back. They never could seem to get things going, save for Brad Marchand's power-play goal.
But what was the most disappointing part of the loss?
Allow head coach Bruce Cassidy to explain:
"The response, obviously the first period we were fine," Cassidy said during his Zoom postgame press conference. "I think if you look at all the numbers pretty even. Obviously, couple of breaks didn't go our way, couple of questionable calls in my estimation obviously didn't help, and then you chase the game. That's tough, three in four, no excuses, but it's tough you get behind in this league against a good team it's hard enough to catch up. I just think if you look in the regular season when you're playing three in four back-to-backs there's not a lot of comebacks, it's going to be especially magnified in the playoffs.
"But clearly after that we lost our composure at times and didn't do enough to get back in the game. You kind of got to bear down at the start of the second period, first 10 minutes, and we weren't able to do that, sort of tilt the ice back in our favor and they took full advantage of the opportunities given to them in the first period and after for that matter. So then it gets away from you and I think you're just starting to build your game for game four more than anything."
Boston will have to clean up its game if it wants to knot things up Friday night.
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Here are some other notes from Wednesday's Bruins-Lightning Game 3:
— The NBA postponed their slate of Wednesday games, while Major League Baseball also postponed some.
The NHL continued to play, but Cassidy said he would have supported his players no matter what their decision would have been.
"I would've supported our group whatever they decided, 100 percent behind them," he said.
— Daniel Vladar made his NHL debut in the second period after Jaroslav Halak surrendered four goals.
"I'm glad he got an opportunity to play," Cassidy said. "I don't wish it in that circumstance but it is what it is and he got him some work. Hopefully he's better off for it down the road."
— Marchand's goal continued to put him in with some elite company.
Getting his team on the board in Game 3 vs the Lightning tonight, Brad Marchand has passed Ray Bourque for the 8th most career playoff goals in @NHLBruins history (37). On the same play, Torey Krug passes Zdeno Chara for the 4th most career PO assists by a defenceman on BOS (41) pic.twitter.com/FPY62kyevQ
— StatsCentre (@StatsCentre) August 27, 2020
— The Lightning's second goal came with a bit of help from the officials when one of the linesmen essentially picked off Jeremy Lauzon, which resulted in a clear path to the net for Tampa Bay.
"… Second goal, I mean come on, the linesman runs our D out of room," Cassidy said. "Good for Yanni Gourde for taking advantage of a break given to him. But I mean, when do you see that play happen in the National Hockey League?…"
— The Bruins now look to even things at 2-2 on Friday night. And Cassidy knows his team needs to make some adjustments.
"Well I think you got to say something, you can't just throw it out," he said. "We'll make some adjustments. They moved (Nikita) Kucherov to his forehand side the other night so we'll look at how we need to sort of handle that. Power plays generally you're trying to limit who has the puck, who it runs through if you can, who's doing the shooting, so they did a good job with it.
"So like I said typically we're really good on the kill so we'll talk about that. Five-on-five how we can obviously generate more offense, we talked about it before, we want to get our D involved a little more, find ways to get pucks through to the net, so that's an area we can talk about. We've got guys in the middle of the lineup we challenged to be better, to drive the bus on a night like tonight where young legs matter. Clearly that didn't happen enough and we'll continue to push that message. But as a whole let's face it, they were better than us in every facet of the game so we got our work cut out for us but it's one loss and put our best foot forward in Game 4 try to even the series then by playing a lot better and a lot smarter."
Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.
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If you missed the 2018 Top 100 webcast the first time around, the archived version is now available.
The hour-long webcast covers a lot of ground. We go over the numbers and explore some of the strategies we see Top 100 companies putting into place.
There has been a lot of activity in the market over the last year and driving a lot of that is a return to growth in the market.
For the second straight year we have seen the aggregate value of all of the Top 100 prime contracts grow, which answered a big question we had last year – has growth finally returned. And yes, it has.
One of the big strategic trends we see in the Top 100 is the increased mergers and acquisition activity. Of particular note is the major deal involving General Dynamics IT and CSRA that created a new No. 1 Top 100 company.
But there also is the recent creation of Perspecta and a whole lot of other smaller and mid-size deals.
We also predict that the M&A activity will continue, especially when you consider the resources that both CACI International and Science Applications International Corp. mustered in their attempts to buy CSRA before GD finally prevailed.
There also are a variety of so-called newcomers on the Top 100. I called them so-called because they have always been there but in different forms. These include NTT Data through its buy of Dell Services and Peraton, which was created when Harris Corp. divested its IT business.
Another part of the webcast covers the transformation we see in the market that is driven by customer demands for new technologies such as cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT modernization, artificial intelligence and data analytics.
Some of the priority market segments we see include space, intelligence, electronic warfare and unmanned systems. Then of course, anything dealing with IT modernization.
Overall, we have a lot of optimism about the market but that also is tempered by some caution. What will happen after the current budget deal expires? The long-term budget will be a challenge because of the debt and deficit.
But through 2020, all expectations are for a strong market. After that, it is hard to predict.
You can access the webcast from this link.


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Review: The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
June 8, 2019 June 23, 2019 ~ Judith
Many readers will remember Helen Simonson's popular debut novel Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. It's a contemporary story about a man recently widowed who rescues a golf-course from developers and has a second chance at love. The Summer Before the War is similarly set in rural England, but the war of the title is World War 1. Protagonist Beatrice Nash has recently lost her father but through a well-connected but disapproving aunt secures a position to teach Latin at a grammar school in Rye.
Beatrice aims to be self-supporting, to earn a living through teaching and writing, and to never marry. She's a striking and interesting character, in a book full of interesting characters, including Agatha Kent, who takes Beatrice under her wing and helps her settle in. She sends her nephew, Hugh Grange, to collect Beatrice from the station and the two strike a slightly awkward friendship.
Hugh is in his last year of training as surgeon under the brilliant Sir Alex Ramsey, who has a lovely young daughter, Lucy. She has many admirers among Ramsey's students, but Hugh rather hopes he could be the frontrunner in the race for her affections. He has a dream of taking over Ramsey's busy London practice and Lucy would be the perfect wife.
But then war is declared and everyone's future is suddenly up in the air. This includes Daniel, Hugh's poet cousin who had plans to start a literary journal with his close friend Craigmore. Lucy refuses to countenance the attentions of any suitor not in uniform – she and her friends hand out white feathers without qualm. The village of Rye becomes home to a number of Belgian refugees, among them, pretty young Celeste who boards with Beatrice and who has a disturbing secret.
While the main players in the book are full of the idiosyncrasies that make them quirky and real, there's a whole village of interesting minor characters too, all with motives and axes to grind. There's a little of Jane Austen in the comedy of manners Simonson has created, but this is thrown into relief against some rather more gritty scenes set in the trenches. Well, there's a war on after all.
I loved this novel, which sweeps you along and has you hoping for better things for Beatrice, Hugh and Daniel. Simonson balances humour with an eye for social issues and the harrowing effects of war on young lives. It's been a long wait for Simonson's second novel, and I hope she's got another one in the pipeline. This one was well worth the wait. Four out of five from me.
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Wild Emotions: An Interview with Landscape Photographer Kate Rentz
Photos by Kate Rentz.
"Over the last few days, I've noticed an increase of followers and I think it's mostly because Instagram's algorithm decided to share an image of myself without makeup on," Kate Rentz quips under a photo of herself, draped in a black jacket, standing serenely in the desert sun. At first pass, it's just an eye-catching self-portrait. But dig deeper through the archives of Kate's work and you'll find it's emblematic of her unique take on landscape photography.
"Growing up in a small Midwestern village, I wasn't aware I struggled with a mental disorder," says Kate. "I didn't know how to deal with or process the feelings and thoughts I was experiencing, so I began using nature as a form of medicine. Now, having gone to therapy and having learned so much, I look back and see just how vital my decision was for my mental health."
The LA-based photographer and director has been increasingly open on social media about her journey with both Lyme Disease and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, using her platform to pose thoughtful questions and explore the ways mental health and nature intersect in both her personal life and through her art.
"Now that I'm aware of the role that nature plays in my life, I'm actively intentional about how much time I spend outside," says Kate. "I make it a priority in my life."
Here, Kate takes Teva Women's boots into the desert to celebrate the power that landscape photography has to express and explore our human emotions. We caught up with the artist to talk about the solo hikes and female creatives who inspire her work.
Kate explores feelings of calmness, confusion, loneliness and anger by thoughtfully placing her subjects within a landscape. Here, her subjects scramble across rock wearing styles from Teva Women's boot collection.
You just did a solo hiking trip with your dog, Maggie. You wrote about another solo trip you took with her on the Teva blog last year. How did you feel on this trek?
These solo trips with Maggie are my favorite. I really enjoy spending time outdoors with others, but it's the solo trip that feeds my soul. I recently had a few things come up in my life that I felt I needed to process and reflect on. Somehow, my body knew my mind needed to rest but that other parts of me needed to be physically active! As a result, I spent most of my time hiking with Maggie by my side. On the trail, my thoughts were completely quieted, which is usually so rare for me and only happens when I'm in nature.
"I wanted to add some depth and a sense of surrealism to make the environment feel a little more dream-like," says Kate. "In some of the images, I've layered the product or a person on top of a landscape. I liked the contrast of subject matter, but also how complimentary the colors were in those images."
The other day you lamented on Instagram about the lack of female landscape artists getting much-deserved attention. Who are some of your favorite female artists?
I love the work of Renée Ackermaan, Maya Beano, Laura Hendricks, Morgan Erpicum, to name just a few. I really love how their landscape work leaves space for the viewer to take away whatever they want or need from the image. I love images that aren't too "in your face" about how you should think or feel.
"I met these women through friends of friends in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. All three women are insanely talented. Andrea is a painter, Anjelica a fashion designer, and Omotola a musician. It's really cool to be surrounded by such talent," says Kate. Pictured here are the Teva Women's Arrowood 2 Mid WP in Midnight Navy, an adventure-seeking, waterproof sneakerboot.
What type of landscapes are you drawn to as an artist?
Typically, I'm drawn towards landscapes that feel vast, desolate, and mysterious. I love spaces that make you feel like you're completely alone and completely surrounded by something greater than you. I'm interested in creating images that evoke complex emotions that contrast against one another. For instance, experiencing a sense of beauty and connection, while experiencing a sense of fear and loneliness at the same time. I love putting single or multiple subjects into a landscape to convey the contrasting emotions one may feel while in nature.
Using double exposures and layered landscapes, Kate is able to capture the conflicting emotions someone may have in the wilderness within a single frame. Styled with the Teva Women's Arrowood 2 Mid WP in Desert Sand.
Your use of color is so beautiful.
Using color, by way of wardrobe or natural elements, helps me set the mood and emotion of the image. In stark landscapes, I might use bright colors in contrast with the lonely landscape (like I chose to do in these images for Teva), but in a forest, where there's a lot of life, I like putting my subject in black or white pieces to make the image feel more empty or lonely.
How do you use composition to evoke emotion in your work?
By putting my subjects in specific locations within the frame, I try to show how one might feel in that environment. If the subject is just a tiny dot in the frame, they feel alone within the great power of nature. In contrast, when the subject is interacting with the environment around them, nature is a source of connection and healing. I love this idea of nature being a catalyst for growth, both for individuals and for groups of people. I think that's the underlying theme in the images I create because it feels very personal to my own life journey and is something that I hope others can experience as well.
"I love how versatile the Teva Women's Boot Collection is. The boots are super stylish while being completely functional. My favorites were the De La Vina Dos Alpine Low boots!" says Kate.
What's your favorite place in the world to photograph?
I actually really love photographing the desert. Give me some desolate mountains and some endless sand dunes and I'm set! The light that happens there is beautiful. I was recently in the mountains of Northern Italy and had a very intense and spiritual experience with that landscape — it was life changing. The contrast of the green-scape with the heavy, dense clouds was out of this world. I'd love to go to Iceland or Northern Scotland. Actually, I'm down to go anywhere. Send me off, I'll capture it!
What are your tips for finding a voice as a landscape photographer?
I believe you should focus on what you see and experience in a landscape. I love mystery in a landscape and I'm drawn to that. It's what evokes emotion in me and I want to celebrate the beauty I see. Pay attention to the light in a landscape and the lines and shapes you notice in it. What part of that inspires you most? Figure that out and then capture it — we all have a unique story to tell.
See more of Kate's work at KateRentz.com, and shop her favorite styles at Teva.com.
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Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos, Jr. proposed increased cooperation and exchanges between non-government organizations (NGOs) in the Philippines and China, saying it would go a long way towards enhancing the bilateral relations between the two countries.
During the dialogue, Marcos said that both the Philippines and China should strive to make their differences over conflicting territorial claims a minor part of their relationship and instead pursue further contacts, exchanges and cooperation in other sectors.
He said the two countries could pursue such exchanges and cooperation in the areas of trade, tourism, education, health and social protection issues, mutual assistance during disasters, and in culture and arts.
"These areas of possible partnerships in international exchanges and cooperation can only be enhanced by the participation of organizations such as CNIE whose network of NGOs can serve as a conduit for such activities," Marcos said.
He said this avenue of exchange holds a lot of promise since the Philippines is internationally recognized as one of the leading countries in terms of active NGOs operating and assisting in various sectors of the Philippines society.
"We look forward to working with our Chinese counterparts through organizations such as CNIE for the continued enhancement of friendship between our two countries, ASEAN and the region," Marcos said.


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Zidane's Madrid better than Pep's Barcelona
Even Pep Guardiola's tiki-taka Barca couldn't retain their European crown and the question now is can anyone stop Real Madrid winning three Uefa Champions League in a row? There comes a time when it should dawn on you that the players and teams you are watching before your very eyes rank alongside the all-time greats.This realisation is as much about the observer as the teams and players observed and requires clarity and decisiveness in opinion-making.
It requires fans to be able to stand back and be solid in their convictions that, yes, this team or this player is the best and would probably be the best in any era. When watching certain players, this is not too difficult to manage. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are held to be better than any player that has gone before.Team-wise, it has become widely accepted that Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team from the years 2008-2012 were the best. However, disorientating it might be to have two all-time great teams coming one almost immediately after the other, we are now forced to consider the reality that Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid might already be better.With the squad he has at his disposal, given their ages, there is no question that Zidane will have two or three years to verifiably prove that his team is the best and the signs are already there that his side could well put Pep's in the shade.
For 27 years the record stood. No team in the European Cup or Champions League could retain the trophy. That was until Zidane came along and dismantled that record in little more than a year in charge.He didn't request exorbitant sums to carry it out. Indeed, he has spent quite a bit less than any other Real Madrid manager of the modern era. He turned a healthy profit this summer and last, and won those two Champions Leagues with largely the same squad.
The odd blending of young talent here – in Marco Asensio, the odd tweaking of a system there – integrating Isco into the midfield – has proven that there need not be a huge ideological uproot in order to create history.
Then there's the small matter of Real winning their first Spanish and European double in nearly 60 years. Many have tried, many have failed. It took this squad of players, bonded together by Zidane's gentle touch, to write a new chapter in Madrid history. No one would back them against sealing another this season.
Madrid appear to be on a higher plane than any other domestic challenger and any other aspirant to their European throne too. There is a fundamental simplicity to the type of football Zidane has requested they play.There is a big echo in the work of Carlo Ancelotti in his system. He doesn't ask his players to adapt to his preferences; instead he plays to their strengths.
Zidane is no zealot. He moves between systems, subtly, without dizzying his players with a raft of demands. He lets them go out there to showcase their qualities.
He now has the best centre-back in the world in Sergio Ramos, the best left-back in Marcelo, the best midfielder in Luka Modric, the best striker in Cristiano Ronaldo and the best young player in Asensio.
This is a liberated Real Madrid, utterly transformed from the day Zidane arrived. Madrid has such a characteristic habit of self-sabotage that it was hard to think anything other than implosion when Zidane was hastily announced as the replacement for Rafael Benitez.
Rafa had ridden roughshod over a group of talented if egotistical players who decided to quit on him. Zidane, with scarcely the experience or pedigree of a top-level coach, was drafted in.
Since then, Madrid went 40 games unbeaten in La Liga – setting a new record – and won seven major trophies, placing the Frenchman fourth in the all-time Madrid honours list after barely 18 months in charge. He's promoting from within and eschewing massive transfer fees for players which some clubs hope are the quick hit needed to find ecstasy. He is content to work with players he knows and likes – and who look up to him – which settles the squad, gives it continuity and trust inside the group. It is a very traditional method of managing the biggest example of a 21st century club out there.
But it's not simply a matter of Zidane having made Real great. The players have to take the bulk of the credit. Whether it's controlling the pace of matches through the wizardry of Modric, Toni Kroos, Casemiro and Isco or striking on the counter with the pace of Marcelo and Ronaldo, these men provide the template of how to play football in this era, just like Guardiola's team did for the first time nearly a decade ago.
To promote this Real to the rank of Guardiola's world-beaters is not to diminish the status of Barcelona. They were great; the greatest club team the world had ever seen.They democratised a game that had seen the fittest, the fastest and the biggest come out on top. They struck a blow for the little guy – the Xavis, the Iniestas and the Messis – who were not bestowed physical gifts but cerebral ones. They showed it didn't matter how big you were if you were well-drilled and skilful then you could compete right at the highest levels. There was a reinstatement of the ideals of Barcelona with youth products like Pedro and Sergio Busquets promoted and Gerard Pique brought back to the club. Every other top team looked at what Barcelona were doing and attempted to implement it themselves. Tiki-taka became the only show in town.
The success of Zidane's Real Madrid does owe plenty to that Barca – you could imagine that midfield plus Asensio all playing in blue and red – but this is a team out on its own. It relies less on one overarching philosophy to which all the players should adhere than it does to promotion of their intuitive skill and understanding.
It is a group which survives the absence of its most potent member in Ronaldo. It is a group which has the world looking around for a real challenger.It would need to be a very good day for any other team and a very bad one for Real Madrid to see them defeated in any final.
It would take a monumental effort to prevent them from winning their third Champions League title in a row.
While right now these efforts to compare them to that great Barca might be immature, would anyone argue the legitimacy of their legacy if they perfected the trifecta? (i.e. three champions league in a row)
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CofE bishops commend Anglican Covenant
on Saturday, 26 June 2010 at 1.57 pm by Simon Sarmiento
The latest batch of General Synod papers includes HB(10)M1, the Summary of Decisions from the recent (17-18 May) meeting of the House of Bishops.
That document includes the following (paragraph 6):
On the Anglican Communion Covenant, the House agreed
(a) to commend it for adoption by the Church of England;
(b) to invite the Business Committee to schedule the beginning of the adoption process for the inaugural Synod in November 2010, with a view to final approval in February 2012;
(c) not to propose special majorities for its adoption; and
(d) to authorise the House's Standing Committee to oversee the production of necessary material for the Synod.
For "necessary material for the Synod," read "propaganda."
The Synod elections become all the more important.
Now is the time for thinking voters to come to the aid of the Church of England.
Eric Funston
Hierarchical nonsense! I'm not surprised by the bishops' actions, but will be very interested to see how the rest of the Church deals with this in Synod. I'm guessing that the bishops generally can't conceive of any situation where "jolly old England" would ever be at odds with "the Anglican Communion" … but just wait.
"(c) not to propose special majorities for its adoption;"
I would have thought such a momentous decision would demand a higher standard of approval than the ordinary. I do not think I am alone in that way of thinking. The adoption of an effective written "Constitution for the Anglican Communion" — which has worked with an unwritten constitution for so long, seems to me a weighty action, warranting a very clear and overwhelming support, not a bare majority. What became of all that talk about "consensus" — which is just short of unanimity?
Lionel Deimel
I would be more impressed had the recommendation come from a group of priests, deacons, and laypeople.
So, for those of us outside the Church of England, what are the necessary steps in this process, and the probable timeline? Inquiring minds want to know.
Simon Sarmiento
The process is very similar to that for the women bishops legislation. That is to say, first General Synod has to agree a motion, then it is referred to all the dioceses, and has to be passed by at least 50% of the diocesan synods. Then it returns to General Synod, where it must again be passed.
The constitutional provisions are here (Articles 7 and 8 are both potentially relevant):
http://peterowen.org.uk/articles/gs-constitution.html
See this further explanation issued in January 2009:
http://thinkinganglicans.org.uk/uploads/GS1716.html
John B. Chilton
So you can fast track the covenant, but not women bishops? Women wearing mitres is a matter of English law, but making the established church subservient to section 4 of the covenant isn't? And ditto Tobias' point: what about consensus? Is this a way for a majority today to block progressive moves in the future?
So many questions. So few answers. But I am a mere American.
Cynthia Gilliatt
Oh – you mean the little people?
"The process is very similar to that for the women bishops legislation."
Simple majorities for that, too? I'm confused.
1. The speed of the track for the Covenant is the same as for Women Bishops. That is to say, the referral to dioceses takes the same amount of time for each. The only difference is in the requirement for the latter that the final approval vote in synod shall have two-thirds majorities in each of the three houses.
2. There is nothing in English law about anyone, whether or not a bishop, male or female, wearing a mitre.
Jonathan Jennings
"I would be more impressed had the recommendation come from a group of priests, deacons, and laypeople." That's who it's going to, given that the bishops already support it. Synod will go with it or not. It's by no means in the bag, and although the bishops can collectively block anything they choose, they can't force anything through that they want if one of the other two Houses chooses to block it. Interesting that they're showing their hand in that respect; but they've lain down a marker that they will (probably) defeat any attempt to introduce special majorities. Synod doesn't… Read more »
TEC and the ACofC will be out of the Anglican Communion by 2015, kicked out, if the fundamentalists have their way. Where is the Queen, the Defender of the Faith, on all of this? Has anyone asked or is this sort of thing beneath her?
The "small" people, Cynthia!
Leonardo Ricardo
The ++Rowan season of political avalanche and ramrodding of ¨getting what he thinks he MUST HAVE¨…reminds me of securing his own +Duncanlike ¨place to stand¨…unsafe at any speed and a hurricane of self-will running riot that destroys trust and engages in behind-the-scenes deceit…no doubt all debate amongst the Bishops was ¨off the record.¨
Reid Hamilton
No good ever comes from meetings of men in pointy hats and purple dresses.
drdanfee
A majority vote by bishops, then? Okay, a lot of these fellows – and I am using male references, deliberately? – probably cannot wait to start policing and punishing … durable mystical marks of their sacramental power? Until at least some in the house find themselves subject to global covenant policing and punishment? Alas, the covenant is not godly. I'm clear and getting even more convinced, as things proceed, helped along by Lambeth and York and all that lot getting so big power-for-conformity grabby. We can be so very different along old nasty Anglican fault lines – sacramental theology, baptism,… Read more »
Of course, if the Church of England General Synod ever does adopt the Covenant, it may just be to shore up the different parties within the Church of England. Then, the Church of England may find itself an entity unto itself, alone. Watch out for a possible new grouping of Churches – formerly 'Anglican' – hence 'Episcopalian'. This will allow non-Covenantal Church to get on with a Mission to ALL people – around the world. Oh, and yes, there could be an ecumenical outreach to those Churches which do allow women and gays to be part and parcel of the… Read more »
Richard W. "TEC and the ACofC will be out of the Anglican Communion by 2015, kicked out, if the fundamentalists have their way." Well, if simply having an official rite to bless same sex unions could get us kicked out of the Communion, your prediction should come true. We have several dioceses that have such. In fact, using that as the criterion we should be in "time out" with neighbors next door. Indeed, a real stand up province would say, O.K. if you are going to punish TEC you'll have to punish us as well. However the recent political strategy… Read more »
chenier1
The Church of Sweden has been priesting women since 1960; does Rowan Williams really want to inform the Church that all the stuff about being in the formalized communion with a single interchangeable ministry that they thought they had signed up to in 1994 is not worth the paper it is written on? He can hardly claim that he didn't know that they had women priests; will he claim that their female bishops have broken the yet unsigned Covenant? Or do our Bishops believe they can dump the Churches of the Porvoo Agreement in the hope of keeping their, thank… Read more »
Oh dear! I forgot! hunkering down with a glass of wine so as to be small enough!
Seriously – the ongoing damage to the Gulf, its critters and its people is just awful. To have it be minimized by anyone is just hard to take.
Sara MacVane
Do all the bishops speak as one (man)? Not one of them has any reservations, disagreements, hesitations?
The significant point is that the crucial Synod vote – the first one – will be taken in a newly elected Synod. A newly elected body is less likely to challenge a recommendation from the House of Bishops and the Archbishops than one which has forged its own mind in meetings and debate over the course of a Synod, and found its own feet.
Having just returned from a service of Solemn Evensong at the Church of St. Michael & All Angels, Christchurch, New Zealand – where Bishop Katharine, together with the local Maori Bishop, wore mitres – I can report that the Presiding Bishop of TEC, Bishop Katharine, gave one of the most inspiring sermons I've heard in a long time. There was no provocation – not a word about seuxality or gender – just the Gospel of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and how the Church in the USA is reaching out to hurting places of the world with resources and… Read more »
"There was no provocation – not a word about seuxality or gender – just the Gospel of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and how the Church in the USA is reaching out to hurting places of the world with resources and support. I felt that she was truly a bishop whose presence shone with the Light of Christ, and whose words were gracious and reflective of the best of Anglican diversity." Thank you, Father Ron, for posting this. Even the best of priests can miss the mark in a sermon or homily: the combination of love and instruction is… Read more »
Pantycelyn
I don't think I go to worship to be 'instructed.'
Perry Butler
I dont know about the Anglican Covenant but cooking the Cottage Pie I suddenly thought, What about the Methodist Covenant?? I cant imagine the Methodist Church in England with its strong commitment to gender equality is going to wear the situation created by the Archbishops amendment…so Church of England/Methodist unity will be put off to the parousia. The Roman Catholic Church wont wear women bishops at all…seems to me the C of E will be paddling its own canoe for a good while…scope for economies at the Council for Christian Unity at Church House!!
"I don't think I go to worship to be 'instructed.'"
Really? Then what's the point of having a sermon at all? Or are you interpreting "instruction" as merely "a directive to do something," as opposed to being taught something new?
I have learned a great deal from the best sermons I have heard in my lifetime–sometimes about the history of the church, or about biblical interpretation, or just about the lives of others around me.
It seems to me that the General Synod in its coming meetings is facing some important forks in the road. If it follows these here today and gone tomorrow Archbishops, it will change the institution for good. It needs to view these Archbishops as temporary and minority opinionated and to have the self-confidence to keep telling them no – that's if it wants ever to be again the broad Church that it once was. Nevertheless, if the Church starts this road laid out it will continue that way too. Some other Churches will be welcoming a number of dissidents, I… Read more »
Nom de Plume
@Pluralist: I think it might have been Yogi Berra who said "if you come to a fork in the road, take it." From one perspective, it matters not which decisions are made with respect to women bishops and the Anglican Covenant. Either way, it is likely that some will leave the CofE. The question is whether the GS will call the bluff of those threatening to leave (and undoubtedly see some of them carry through their threat) or succumb to the threats (and undoubtedly see more disillusioned people simply walk away, shaking their heads.) A bit of a Hobson's choice.… Read more »
Justin Brett
We continue to be in a bizarre constitutional situation here, and it hasn't been resolved. Any proposed covenant with enforceable powers cannot be approved by the Church of England – not while it remains Established – as that would mean that an outside agency was taking supremacy over the queen. On the other hand, the whole point of the covenant is to provide a means by which the ideologically pure can purge the Communion of the Provinces that are doing naughty things. I think acceptance of the covenant would need Parliamentary approval, and I do not think that would be… Read more »
Are you referring to the current Covenant text when you say that you think it needs Parliamentary approval? Or are you saying that the current Covenant text is already incapable of approval by the Church of England (in which case it won't get to Parliament anyway).
My understanding of earlier official pronouncements is that "they" do not think this action requires a Measure, hence no need for Parliament to express an opinion.
"My understanding of earlier official pronounce-ments is that "they" do not think this action requires a Measure, hence no need for Parliament to express an opinion." – Simon Sarmiento, on Tuesday – If this is indeed the case, then it becomes more important that other Provinces of the Communion, who may be back-peddling on our opposition to the Covenant – on the grounds of its probable non-admissability on the part of the British Parliament – had better put on our thinking caps about how, proactively, we might more effectively fight the imposition of the Covenant as it is now presented… Read more »
To elaborate on the earlier announcements to which I referred above. As explained here, in February 2009 it was said that: http://thinkinganglicans.org.uk/uploads/GS1716.html 9. The decision whether the Church of England should enter a Covenant together with other Churches of the Anglican Communion would be for the General Synod to take. It is not envisaged that any such decision would require, or be given, legislative authority by means of a Measure or Canon: a resolution of the Synod would suffice. 10. Once the Synod had considered and passed the necessary resolution the expectation is, given the significance of the decision, that… Read more »
Have all the PCCs and Deanery Synods debated and passed it, then ?
Simon, the excerpt you point to is not persuasive. That excerpt is from a carefully draft and (doubtless) thoroughly lawyered document "agreed" by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. I would have thought it clear by now that one cannot take at face value anything that Canterbury may say about the proposed covenant. So the archbishops "envisage" that for the Covenant to take effect, no act of Parliament would be required. So what? Merely because the archbishops "envisage" something, does that make it so? Who does get to decide whether the CofE, by itself, can approve the proposed covenant? If… Read more »


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Why was the Michigan shooting suspect sent back to class?
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OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (NewsNation Now) — After four students were killed in a school shooting in Michigan last week, questions remain around why the student charged in the attack was allowed to go back to class after a disturbing note he had written was discovered.
Oxford Community Schools leaders have declined requests for interviews, despite calls from the community demanding answers. On Friday, the head of the district released a letter to parents detailing its version of events.
According to the letter, a teacher reported Ethan Crumbley's drawing of a gun pointing to the words "The thoughts won't stop. Help me," to the school counselors and the dean of students Tuesday. Crumbley was brought to the guidance office.
Parents captured after son charged in deadly Michigan high school shooting
His parents were called in, but the district says they refused to take him home and he was returned to class.
In the letter to parents, the superintendent defended school staff, saying the counselors made a decision based on their experience and did not have all the facts we know now.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel told NewsNation on Sunday that "anything is possible" when it comes to potential criminal charges for the school officials who were made aware of the student's alarming behavior.
"I don't want to jump to any conclusions because again, we don't have that information at this point," Nessel said. "But that is a big part of the investigation. People want to make sure that these questions are answered."
"I see a lot of negligence, but I don't foresee charges against anyone in the school," said David Steingold, a Detroit-area defense attorney. "You would have to show specific intent. No one on the staff intended to commit a crime."
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As for others, the gun was legally sold by a local dealer to James Crumbley, according to investigators. The gun manufacturing industry is protected from civil lawsuits for its products, according to the Giffords Law Center, which tracks gun issues.
Crumbley has been charged as an adult with murder and terrorism, along with other crimes. His parents were arrested early Saturday morning after a manhunt led police to a Detroit warehouse. The parents' car was spotted outside.
"They are in our jail," Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. "All three of them. The son and both parents segregated individually in isolation."
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PERDIDO, Ala. (WKRG) -- The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting in Perdido. The sheriff confirmed the investigation in an email shortly after 3 a.m.:
The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office is currently working a shooting in Perdido at the intersection of County Road 47 and McCoy Road. County Road 47 will be closed for a period of time. Traffic should avoid this area and use alternate routes. More information will be released at a later time.
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Using the proof-of-concept DNA storage device, the researchers demonstrated its write and read capabilities by encoding the word 'hello' in snippets of DNA and converting it back to data. The bench-top unit cost around $10,000 but the researchers believe it could be built in low-volumes for a third of the cost by cutting out sensors and actuators.


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Q: Suggestions of IDEs for Rich Internet Applications that will run in the browser (Windows, Mac, iOS)? I'm looking for an IDE for developing Web apps.
My idea criteria are:
-A programming-like interface (from what I've seen a lot of FLASH IDE's are designed more for animation (although I hear that's better with Flex 4).

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*Intelisense

*Step-by-step debugging - I have been told that this is a challenge for web apps.

*Easy to use and learn IDE

*Visual Development environment (arrange controls on the screen with drag'n drop)

*Completed app can run on any HTML5 compliant browser with Javascript(i.e., on the iPad, iPhone, Droid, Windows, Mac). So an IDE that supports the above and outputs Javascript +HTML +CSS would be fine.

My needs are pretty minimal:
-playing audio
-Easily modify the UI:  e.g, changing the pointer icon (so if they hover over a picture they can change by selecting another picture from a file, it might change to a folder icon).
-A very responsive UI (not having to submit a query to the server every-time they click).  E.g., we do things like having a message "Select a lesson to begin". When they select a lesson the message changes to "Click the Start button to begin".
I'm considering:

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*Real Software (formerly Real Basic).

*Unity  (impressive for games, but maybe overkill for my needs) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29

*RunRev (formerly Runtime Revolution)

I'd love to hear pluses and minuses of the above platforms as well as any other suggestions. Please post your responses in the Answer for the particular solution (.e.,g all responses for RealSoftware as edits/comments in the Real Software answer).

A: I will have to heavily discourage the use of Unity for this task.
It is not aimed for the type of development I am getting the impression you want to do.
It is also mainly a 3D tool, and working in 2D with it contains various quirks.
Lastly, they do not currently have a HTML backend, although I have heard they are planning on one using WebGL.
The unity web plugin only runs on windows and Mac OS. I.e deployment to android or iPhone is done through a binary build.

A: Your question isn't very clear...you seme to be asking for an HTML 5 editor. Not sure if these will help, but here are some suggestions from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Continuous_Integration_Software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_editors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rich_Internet_application_frameworks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PIGUI_packages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rich_Internet_application_formats
Hope this helps.

A: Real Software
Pro's

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*You can run the app as a web app (viewing it on iOS( iPad, iPhone), Mac, Windows, Linux)

*You can compile the same app to run natively (on Mac, Windows, Linux. Not sure about iOS)

*Intellisense

*Step by step debugging

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*Special Server component. (It's not clear to me whether you could just put that library on your own server or whether you need a special hosting account).

A: what about Eclipse? http://www.eclipse.org/

A: All the IDEs in the market have the first three of your requirements:

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*Intelisense

*Step-by-step debugging.

*Easy to use and learn IDE

For the wysiwyg part, Dreamweaver, VisualStudio and DashCode (part of Mac OS X's dev tools) are the only ones I know that have this functionality. However I'm not sure about Dreamweaver's ability to produce and work with HTML5, CSS3 or even JavaScript (I haven't used it in years) and DashCode (as of version 2.02) produces iPhone/iPod Touch only "apps". I can't tell for VisualStudio.
I saw Radi a few weeks ago but I didn't try it. It seems to be focused on the "WOW!" part of the HTML5 fad, though.
I didn't know about Real's effort in that area, it's probably worth having a look as Real Studio was quite good in the late 90's.
But whatever tool you use, an "HTML5 app" is nothing more than a bunch of HTML/CSS/JS files. This can be created with virtually any programming editor/IDE available and the "HTML5" moniker is often just an empty buzzword as most of what makes it cool (JS APIs, CSS3 animation, …) is available to any webpage, HTML5, HTML4, XHTML1…

A: Google Web Toolkit (GWT) looks really cool. You write in Java (in Eclipse, etc.) and then it compiles it to Javascript, taking care of all cross browser support.
It's used within Google Adwors and Orkut. Free an open source.
Google has done all sorts of things to automatically speed up the code (compiling a version of your code for each browser, compressing images, etc.)

A: RunRev's LiveCode is not good for web apps because it requires a browser plugin, which only runs in a 32-bit environment. It is possible, however, to use LiveCode to create standalone apps for iOS.


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Boston Beer Company 2Q net income jumps 48 percent
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Aug. 4, 2010 at 10:05 AM
The Boston Beer Company, Inc. said second quarter net income rose 36 percent as sales and shipments rose.
The brewer of Samuel Adams beer said net income for the quarter ended June 30 was $16.3 million, or $1.13 per share, up from $11.9 million, or 83 cents per share, the same period last year.
The results beat analysts expectations of $1.10 a share according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
The company raised its profit expectations for 2010 to between $2.85 to $3.15, up from its previous estimate of $2.35 and $2.65 per share.
Revenue was $129.6 million for the quarter, up 10 percent from the same period last year, mainly due to increases in core products shipment volume.
Chairman Jim Koch said the company is optimistic sales will remain strong for the craft beer market.
"We continue to see expanded distribution of domestic specialty brands and local craft brands, which is increasing competition in the category," he said in a statement. "We are happy with the health of our brand portfolio and remain positive about the future of craft beer."
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