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Van Vleuten's calendar, Molano doubles up, BWR expands: Daily News Digest
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Hello again, CyclingTips readers!
We're getting pretty close to the weekend now. Maybe if you read today's DND extra slowly, it will be here by the time you've finished?
From the world of road racing, Annemiek van Vleuten has unveiled her Classics calendar, and just like in 2019, it will be busy one that includes Strade Bianche, the Tour of Flanders, and the Ardennes races. Meanwhile, it was a sprinter-friendly day at the Tour Colombia, with Sebastián Molano taking a second straight stage win.
Away from the road, the Belgian Waffle Ride has a big announcement, just in case you were looking for more evidence that gravel racing is on the rise. The San Diego-based event is expanding to not just one but two new locations: Asheville, North Carolina, and Cedar City, Utah.
The trio of races will form a new series branded as the "Tripel Crown of Gravel."
Until next time, readers!
| Van Vleuten's plans for the Classics
World road champ Annemiek van Vleuten has laid out her program for the Classics, and as usual, she will be busy in the big races this season. Van Vleuten will race the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Strade Bianche, Dwars door Vlaanderen, the Tour of Flanders, and the Ardennes trio of the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
"Usually I am a slow starter in the Spring Classics but this time I expect to be ready for Nieuwsblad and carry that forward, so this is pretty exciting for me," she said. "They're all races that really suit me, I don't particularly like the weather but I can deal with it.
| Molano doubles up in Colombia
Sebastián Molano is on a roll in Colombia. The 25-year-old UAE Team Emirates rider picked up his second straight victory at the Tour Colombia 2.1 on Thursday, winning stage 3 ahead of fellow Colombians Edwin Ávila and Álvaro Hodeg.
EF's Jonathan Caicedo finished safely in the bunch to retain his race lead.
| Belgian Waffle Ride expands with two new events and "Tripel Crown" series
The Belgian Waffle Ride is expanding. The San Diego gravel race in May will be one of three events under the BWR umbrella in 2020. A new race in Asheville, North Carolina, is scheduled for August, and a race in Cedar City, Utah, is planned for October.
Altogether, the trio will make up a new series branded as the "Tripel Crown of Gravel."
| Bouhanni wins Provence opener
Nacer Bouhanni won stage 1 of the Tour de La Provence, which was elevated from UCI 2.1 status to the inaugural ProSeries of races this year.
The Frenchman topped Jakub Mareczko and Giacomo Nizzolo in a sprint to get the victory and the first race lead.
| Saleh wins in Langkawi
Mohd Harrif Saleh picked up his second stage win of this year's Tour de Langkawi in Thursday's stage 7, besting Matteo Pelucchi and Taj Jones in a sprint.
Danilo Celano remains in the race lead with one stage remaining.
| Rapha Foundation announces second round of grantees
The Rapha Foundation has named the recipients that comprise its second round of grantees.
The Foundation awarded a total of $750,000 across four organizations: The Cyclists' Alliance, the Rayner Foundation (formerly the Dave Rayner Fund), Helen100, and the Herne Hill Velodrome Trust.
| 2020 Giant XTC Advanced SL 29 1 hardtail review
Dave Rome reviewed the 2020 Giant XTC Advanced SL 29 1 and found the hardtail to be quite quick.
| Explainer: The UCI and the teams are locked in a power struggle. Why?
Iain Treloar reports on the power struggle among major stakeholders that is going on behind the scenes in the world of road racing.
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Q: How to hide/show div based on variable using javascript I am trying to display a div based on the URL parameter. I have to use only html css and javascript. I got it working until the part where the div must be set to display none if the variable (parameter from URL) matches.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated. I suspect something is wrong with the document.getElementById.

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Living the Lord's Prayer – Community
More than words to be said, the Lord's Prayer is an invitation to live life in tune with God. We look at the 7 big ideas in the Lord's Prayer.
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Hundreds of nursery school heads and governors will march on Downing Street on Monday to deliver a letter to Philip Hammond asking for long-term funding to secure their future.
The 251 signatories to the letter will ask the chancellor to safeguard the future of maintained nursery schools in the forthcoming spending review.
The march and letter have been coordinated by the all-party parliamentary group for nursery schools, nursery and reception classes, and the National Association of Head Teachers union.
The children's minister, Nadhim Zahawi, announced £24m of additional funding for nurseries in February, but the letter argues that there is no guarantee of adequate funding after the next academic year.
"The long-term survival of maintained nursery schools still hangs by a thread," it reads. "The fact remains that, even with the supplementary funding, most maintained nursery schools have had to make large cuts and make hard decisions to balance reduced budgets.
"Exceptional, highly trained early-years staff have been lost to the system through restructures or because of the constant worry of an uncertain future.
The march takes place against the backdrop of widespread concern at the effects of cuts across education.
On Friday, a letter from headteachers at more than 7,000 schools was sent to millions of families across England, accusing the Department for Education of refusing to recognise the impact of cuts.
A Guardian investigation found that schools across the country were resorting to cost-saving measures that included cutting the start and end of the day, and making teachers take on cleaning duties and turn off heating.
The Observer revealed in October last year that half of all nurseries, preschools and childminders in England were receiving less government funding than they had been five years previously.
A Conservative manifesto pledge to allow working parents of three- and four-year-olds to claim 30 hours of childcare a week during term-time for free has also led to more than half of private nurseries raising their fees.
Zahawi said: "We know that maintained nursery schools play a valuable role in supporting some of the most disadvantaged children across the country, and that there was some uncertainty about funding for the next academic year.
"That is why we have provided an additional £24m of funding to local authorities for their maintained nursery schools – to give reassurance in time for the allocation of places for September 2019.


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G7 must commit to feminist aid agenda to tackle tackle poverty and economic inequality
Publié: 9th mai 2019
G7 development aid must prioritize the needs of women and girls if they are to tackle poverty and economic inequality, said Oxfam today as G7 Ministers prepare for a meeting on gender equality in Paris on the 9th and 10th May. The G7 accounts for three quarters of total international development aid.
Robin Guittard, Senior Campaigner on Financing for Development said:
"Putting women and girls at the heart of the development agenda is key to fighting poverty and inequality - yet just US$97 million of the US$110 billion the G7 spent on overseas aid in 2017 was channelled through women's organizations. President Macron, who is hosting this year's G7 Summit, has made gender equality a priority at home but less than one third of its overseas aid funding is targeting women."
"G7 leaders must commit to a feminist development agenda – including more funding for women's organisations in developing countries and more funding for public services which benefit women and girls such as healthcare and education," added Guittard.
A new Oxfam report, 'Feminist aid: a call for G7 leaders to beat inequality,' is published today which calls for:
Increased funding for feminist organizations in developing countries
Increased funding public services that support poor women – particularly healthcare, education and social protection
Involvement of women in the development and delivery of programmes funded by overseas development aid.
More consideration given to the existing structural imbalances that make women more vulnerable to poverty and inequality in the design of aid programmes
Anna Ratcliff: anna.ratcliff@oxfam.org or +44 7796993288
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The Bruins have made it through regionals.
No. 5-seeded UCLA softball took down San Jose State 10-2 in six innings Saturday and proceeded to take down unseeded Cal State Fullerton 9-1 on Sunday. UCLA now advances to the NCAA Super Regionals next weekend, where it will host the No. 12 seed, Mississippi.
UCLA took an early 1-0 lead over San Jose State when senior shortstop Delaney Spaulding scored on an errant throw from center field. Spaulding stretched the Bruin lead to 3-0 with a two-run blast in the top of the second.
In the fifth, the Bruins added back-to-back home runs from junior first baseman Madeline Jelenicki and redshirt freshman pitcher Rachel Garcia. UCLA put the game out of reach in the sixth, scoring three more.
San Jose State responded with one run in the bottom of the sixth, but could not score the requisite second run to keep the game alive.
Against Fullerton, UCLA jumped out to any early 2-0 lead on a first-inning Jelenicki home run. The Bruins added on with five in the fifth on a solo home run from sophomore catcher Paige Halstead and a grand slam from sophomore third baseman Brianna Tautalafua, and two in the seventh on a two-run double by freshman center fielder Bubba Nickles.
After conceding one run in the first, Garcia held the Titans scoreless for the remainder of the game.
"Everybody that has been on our team is just giving everybody confidence to go out there and go for it," Jelenicki said.
All told, the Bruins scored 27 runs in this weekend's games while only conceding three. They bashed 10 home runs as well, with Jelenicki and Tautalafua each contributing three.
Spaulding offered her own explanation for the Bruins' prolific weekend at the plate.
"Right now, we're all just seeing it well and excited to be in postseason, so I think that's something helping us as well," Spaulding said.
Garcia started every game for the Bruins in the circle, totaling just one earned run in 13 combined innings of work.
The Bruins' series with the Rebels will be a best-of-three, with the winner advancing to the College World Series in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


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Q: Why is Ubuntu 14.04 so slow on my laptop? I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a Dell laptop with 1.7Ghz Pentium M and 1Gbyte memory.
Graphics are Intel® 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2, OS type is 32bit.
The whole system is VERY slow. When I launch the applications manager, for example, I need to wait in order to see the letters I typed appear!
It is as if the CPU was overloaded and no memory available, but I only have Firefox running.
How can I make the system run smoother? It used to have Windows XP installed and it worked fine.

A: Because you only have 1GB of RAM! That isn't the only problem, but it is part of it. Simply, your computer can't handle the intensity of Unity's graphics.
Windows XP is not nearly as CPU / Graphically intensive as Unity, the default desktop of Ubuntu 11.04+. It is based on compiz and has all sorts of fancy graphics, such as the see through dash and the expanding launcher. I would advise installing Lubuntu or Xubuntu, or putting XFCE or LXDE on, and using that rather than unity.
I have both on 3 old XP computers, and they are running well (typed on a 2006 Lubuntu laptop with 683 MB of RAM).

It is as if the CPU was overloaded and no memory available

The CPU probably is overloaded / there probably isn't enough RAM available. Try installing and using midori - it is lighter, and is what I'm using at the moment.
My pronouns are He / Him

A: You are extremely likely to have 2 relevant bottlenecks:

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*the low amount of RAM available to the system, which in some cases is even less then the nominal value, for example if your GPU is stealing some RAM from the system the total amount available to the system is obiviously 1Gb - WhatTheGPUIsUsing

*the slow HDD. Tipically old notebooks have a 5400rpm disk, this is probably a really small figure for todays standards, there isn't a good troughtput that the OS can use.

The first consequence is that you have low RAM and not even the SWAP does any good because of the slow HDD.
Basically when you have a low amount of RAM the system uses the SWAP, a partition on your HDD, to store temporary files just like you do with your RAM in the first place, this allows the OS to get more temporary storage and "fix" things when there isn't a good amount of RAM available.
Unless you have deactivated or removed the swap partition, the swap is there and it's working against your timings, but you can't really do too much because even using a swap on a slow HDD is better then having your OS or your applications terminated because of the memory that is not there.
So you should just keep things as they are now, you can maybe do 2 things:

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*try another distribution like Archlinux, which is tipically faster and lighter but requires some tuning and you need to read some wiki articles and manuals to know what you are doing

*try to boot into console without a GUI, if you can live with just the console your performane will benefit from that, obiviously it depends on what you have to do, if you have to code and write documents or check emails, you can do it with a terminal, if you like to browse the web, well you can do that too but it's certainly not up to what you get with firefox under an X11 session.

A: There's also gnome-session-flashback which should look familiar if you have used previous iterations of Ubuntu. Apart from having a similar look-and-feel, it is also less resource-intensive.

A: Two things:
1) Ubuntu 14.04 uses Unity 3D, which is based on Compiz. The whole thing is rendered through hardware-accelerated OpenGL. This is fantastic if you have good drivers and a good video card, not so much if either is missing.
There is absolutely no need to switch distributions. Just install a lighter desktop environment, log out, and log back in to the new desktop. For ease of use the preferred one is usually Xfce.
2) Combination of the broken update-apt-xapian-index cron job, and broken process scheduling in the kernel. Long story short, you need to append 'noautogroup' to your boot options, otherwise process niceness will not work. So:

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*elevate to root with sudo

*in /etc/default/grub, edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to be "quiet splash noautogroup"

*run 'update-grub'

*reboot

This is safer than using the kernel.autogroup sysctl variable, which may panic some computers.
Anyway, contrary to what a lot of people say, Ubuntu runs fine with 1 GB of RAM if you don't use the bloated default desktop.
Edit: actually I filed a Launchpad bug about the second issue last year: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1219548

A: Have you checked your swap file in System Monitor/Resources - though it was working OK in 13.10 - it has not been activated when I upgraded to 14.04 on my laptop.


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Dorman and Farhang, The US Press and Iran
Ervand Abrahamian In: 153 (July/August 1988)
William Dorman and Mansour Farhang, The US Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987).
Why did the mainstream press in the US — especially the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek — for twenty-five years consistently mislead their readers on Iran? They systematically portrayed the shah as a popular modernizer and venerated leader, and his opponents, including Mossadeq, as backward-looking and rabble-rousing demagogues. They persisted in praising the shah's land reform as a resounding success when scholars with any familiarity with the countryside knew it to be an abysmal failure. They consciously covered up the CIA role in the 1953 coup — even as late as 1987, the Times obituary of the US ambassador who had coordinated that coup could not bring itself to admit that the CIA had played any role whatsoever in that venture. It was no wonder, then, that the media was unable to analyze the complexities of the 1979 revolution. The Washington Post went so far as to explain the revolution by arguing that the Iranian people were intrinsically incapable of being "grateful" to the shah for all the wonderful things he had done for them. If the final outcome had not been so tragic one could read the whole story of the US media and Iran as a hilarious comedy.
William Dorman and Mansour Farhang argue convincingly that journalists see the world, including Iran, very much through the same ideological and ethnocentric lenses as the Washington foreign policy establishment; that they tended to distort internal Iranian politics in order to place their "facts" into the Cold War context; and that they blindly toed the White House line that the shah was good for both Iran and the US. The mainstream media sometimes functioned as a large advertising agency for the Pahlavi regime, praising the shah for his "Napoleonic vision," crediting him with "economic miracles" and claiming that his subjects "worshipped" him as a "semi-divine" leader.
The book is succinct, well-written, thoroughly researched and persuasively argued. It is essential reading for Middle East specialists as well as for students of journalism. What is more, the two authors are ideally suited to undertake this book. Dorman, as a professor of journalism, has for years kept a keen eye on how newspapers deal with international crises. Farhang, as a professor of political science and former ambassador to the UN, has deep personal knowledge of the diverse ways the press distorts Iran.
Some of the best sections of the book deal with the Mossadeq period in general and the CIA coup in particular. They reveal that not a single major paper spelled out for their readers Iran's main grievances against the British oil company — how the oil company kept Iranians out of management positions, how it did not allow the host government to inspect company books, and how it grossed profits of $3 billion between 1913 and 1951 but sprinkled down to Iran a paltry $624 million. Instead the press carried numerous articles describing Mossadeq as a "rabid fanatic," a "dangerous lunatic," a "dizzy old wizard," and a "tantrum-throwing Scheherazade." Some compared him to Hitler and Mussolini. Interestingly, the mainstream press in 1951-53 frequently described Mossadeq as a "dictator,&dquo; but used that label for the shah on only four occasions in the whole of the 1953-78 period — even though Mossadeq, in sharp contrast to the shah, did not ban newspapers, imprison critics, outlaw parties, torture prisoners, and execute opponents. Of the four occasions, one praised the shah for being a "benevolent dictator"; another criticized him for not being decisive enough with the opposition.
The book also has a fascinating section summarizing interviews with Kenneth Love, the Tehran correspondent of the Times during the 1953 coup. Times editors ignored Love's request to investigate the coup, scoffed at any suspicion that the US had a hand in it, and eventually eased him out of Tehran when his reporting failed to be pro-shah enough. The US ambassador by then had concluded that Love was "unpatriotic."
In arguing that the press failed mainly because of its deferential attitude towards the Washington establishment, Dorman and Farhang underestimate and sometimes completely overlook three other contributing influences: the Israeli factor; the British connection; and, even more important, the Pahlavi network. Many editors, themselves highly pro-Israeli, surely supported the shah at least in part because they considered him a rare and valuable item — a Middle East leader sympathetic to Israel. They were willing to overlook "minor" shortcomings, such as his human rights record, as long as he remained on cordial terms with Israel.
The British factor was important during the 1951-53 oil crisis. Many newspapermen had wartime links with Britain. In 1951, soon after the British Foreign Office launched a concerted campaign to win over the American public, the US press began depicting Mossadeq as a dangerous xenophobe. Drew Pearson, columnist for the Washington Post, eagerly fabricated stories on how Husayn Fatemi, Mossadeq's Foreign Minister, had been convicted of appropriating government funds. The fact that such character assassinations had no factual bases seemed irrelevant to the journalistic profession.
The Pahlavi network was even more important — especially in the 1970s when the shah could afford to be extremely generous. The revolutionary government quickly published a long list of prominent Americans who were favorably disposed to the former regime and claimed that most of those in the list had benefitted from Pahlavi generosity (Ettela'at February 9, 1979). The list included Arnaud de Borchgrave, Joseph Kraft, Barbara Walters, Betty Beale, Peter Jennings, Walter Cronkite, and Mrs. Arthur Sulzberger. Though such prominent individuals were surely too honorable to have their judgement influenced, we humble members of the reading public can be forgiven if we toy with the idea that perhaps there was some link between their views and the regime's generosity. James Bill investigates this Pahlavi connection in his recent book, The Eagle and the Lion.
Lest readers conclude that this is all past history, they should keep an eye on which journalists are now allowed into the Islamic Republic, and what they produce — not just in the mainstream media but also in the alternative press. The tradition of journalistic deception lives on despite the change of regime.
Ervand Abrahamian "Dorman and Farhang, The US Press and Iran," Middle East Report 153 (July/August 1988).


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Damvant es una antigua comuna suiza del cantón del Jura, situada en el distrito de Porrentruy. El 1 de enero de 2009 se fusionó con los municipios de Chevenez, Réclère y Roche-d'Or para formar la comuna de Haute-Ajoie.

El municipio limitaba con las comunas de Grandfontaine y Réclère en Suiza, y Vaufrey, Montjoie-le-Château, Villars-lès-Blamont y Dannemarie en Francia.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página de Damvant en el portal del Jura.

Antiguas comunas de Suiza

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With Your Leadership, Pierce the Heavens!
...phew, that's a lot of panels! We encourage any panelist that wants to elaborate on their panels to do so in the #self-promotion channel on discord or on our Facebook page! We will see you at our next regular meeting on April 4th!
It's spring break! That means we will not be having a regular meeting next week on 3/21. What we will have, however, is SPRING BREAK ANIME MARATHON! From 10 AM to 10 PM we will be meeting in Moos 2-580 (not our normal room) and watching anime! That's 12 hours of anime watching! Of course, you can come and go as you please, but the more time you can spend watching anime the better! We will have our DVD/BluRay player and access to most legal streaming services, so bring shows you want to watch! We hope to see you there!
Note that the following week (3/28) we will also not have MAS due to many of our admins and members being involved in the local anime convention Anime Detour that is running that weekend! If you're going to Detour, several of our members are running panels, so keep an eye out! We will make another reminder post with more details on all the panels MAS members are involved in closer to the date of the con.
Have a lovely spring break!
Those curious can check out our Facebook page in the coming week for a detailed vote count. It was a close race! Also, the vote to change our start time from 6:30 PM to 6 PM did not pass, so we will not be changing our start time in the foreseeable future.
Our next meeting will be Thursday 1/24/2019 in Moos 2-690 from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM! Have a lovely winter break, and we hope to see you all next spring!
Craptacular!! Also Voting is Open!
We will be having our semi-annual Craptacular night this Thursday 12/20 at 6 PM in Moos 2-520. NOTE: This is not our regular room! If you're unfamiliar with Craptacular, it is when we all gather together after finals to de-stress by watching bad anime, silly anime, dubbed anime, and other ridiculous things. It's a lot of fun, and we will have snacks! Everyone is welcome to come help us heckle some of the worst shows we could find!
Also, voting is now open! If you are a paid member, you should have already received an invitation to vote in your email. If you haven't received this email and you believe you should have, contact us at mangaanimesociety@gmail.com to sort that out! Voting closes on 12/20 at 11:59 PM. Every vote counts!
It's that time of year again - time to select new shows for Spring Semester 2019! This semester we will be voting for 3 pre-showings (11-13 episodes) and 2 main-showings (22-26 episodes). YOU MUST BE A PAID MEMBER TO NOMINATE AND VOTE FOR SHOWS! Nominations will be open until 11:59 PM on Thursday 12/13.
Also, to help select shows, we will have a preview night this Thursday 12/13! First at 6:30 PM we will finish the last two episodes of Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, then at about 7:15 PM we will start showing clips of nominated shows. If you want to show a clip of a show you nominated, you must bring it yourself! Please keep clips to about 1-3 minutes in length.
Finally, we will also be having a Craptacular Planning Meeting this Thursday 12/13 at 5:00 PM in Moos 1-440! Help us pick out bad shows to trash during our Craptacular night next week! Anyone can come help us out!
We are hosting a movie night this Friday 11/16 at 4:30 PM in Moos 2-690 (our usual room)!
All three are excellent movies, and there will be snacks! Anyone is welcome to attend!
Celebrate Halloween with your favorite anime club! We have tons of scary shows to watch, a cosplay contest, and a fanart/fanfiction contest! Oh, and FREE PIZZA for paid members!
WHAT: a night of spooky anime fun!
Tomorrow (Thursday 10/18) is our planning meeting for MAS-o-ween, as well as a few other fun planning things. Please come if you have some ~spooky shows~ to suggest, or if you just have an interest in helping the club out! We will be meeting at 5 PM in Moos 1-440.
After our meeting we will have our regular MAS showings starting at 6:30 PM in Moos 2-690, and next Thursday 10/25 we will have our MAS-o-ween event! More info on that event coming soon!
It's time for Manga Anime Society's first social night of the year: Game Night! Bring your favorite board games, video games, party games and card games, and play awesome games with other anime fans!
What: Playing Games! With cool people who like anime! Also snacks.
We will be having our first admin meeting of the year tomorrow (Thursday 9/13) at 5PM in Moos 1-435. We will be determining our first social event and planning out the semester. Anyone is welcome to attend, not just current admins!
Our regular meeting is still starting at 6:30 in Moos 2-690.


20 more Scania Irizar i6 coaches have now joined the fleet of Hayes, Middlesex based City Circle UK Ltd. This additional batch of vehicles makes the fleet predominantly Scania powered and should ensure its fleet is more than 75% of the way towards being completely Euro6 well in advance of the required date for London. 16 of the Scania Irizars are 12.9m, based on Scania's K 410 6×2*4 chassis and have Scania 410hp Euro6 engines coupled with the fully automated Opticruise gear selection system. These vehicles have 53 seats with leather and extra padded flaps, a sunken toilet and a Frenzel Kitchen located at the centre continental exit. The remaining four are 10.8m long and are based on Scania's K 360 EB 4×2 chassis with Scania's 360hp Euro6 engine matched to fully automated Opticruise gear selection system. These vehicles have 36 reclining seats with half leather trim, rear floor mounted toilet/washroom and an extensive servery at the rear of the coach with built in units for fridges and drinks facilities fitted by A&D coach systems.


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High Court Ruling Extends Toxic Exposure Liability
By Golomb Spirt Grunfeld, P.C.
The New Jersey State Supreme Court has unanimously decided that liability for exposure to toxic substances in the workplace may extend beyond an affected employee's spouse. According to NJ Spotlight, the decision expands the scope of a 10-year-old ruling involving the case of a Pennsylvania husband and his wife who was sickened from exposure to toxic substances.
In the original case, the wife of a ceramic worker was diagnosed with chronic beryllium disease, an incurable condition affecting lung tissue, due to second-hand exposure to asbestos and beryllium from her husband's clothing. The lawsuit, which was initially filed in the Pennsylvania state court but moved to federal jurisdiction, accused the man's employer of product liability based on the theory of take-home toxic-tort liability.
However, because the man's job with the ceramics company predated his marriage to his wife, and because neither New Jersey or Pennsylvania courts recognized the duty of an employer to protect someone who was not a worker's spouse, the company's motion to dismiss the case was granted. The plaintiffs later appealed this decision to the Third Circuit, which found that the company could be held liable for her injuries on the grounds that it should have been foreseeable that the woman would be handling and laundering the worker's clothes.
In the current case, the court has found that liability may extend beyond the spouse of a worker injured by a toxic substance in proper circumstances. Factors that may be considered include:
The relationship between the defendant and the injured person
The opportunity for exposure to the dangerous substance
The employer's knowledge of the risks inherent in exposure
The court specified, however, that there is no hard-and-fast rule in take-home toxic-tort cases as to who is included and excluded.
If you or a family member has been injured by a toxic substance related to your workplace, please contact a Philadelphia toxic tort attorney at Golomb Spirt Grunfeld, P.C. We are prepared to fight tenaciously on your behalf to help bring you the compensation you deserve. Call our office at (215) 278-4449 to schedule a consultation, or fill out a brief online form and we will be in touch with you promptly.
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Elizabeth "Betty" Graves Cline
Elizabeth "Betty" Graves Cline, 70 of Overland Park, KS passed away Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at her home surrounded by her loving family.
Elizabeth was born on February 28, 1952 in St. Louis, MO. She spent most of her childhood in Lexington, MO and later moved to the Kansas City area where she established her family and raised her children with love and devotion in Merriam, KS. Elizabeth worked full time in customer service at UPS before retiring in 2018.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary Graves Evans Day and her father, Robert E. Day of Lexington, MO. Survivors include: her two children, Mathew Cline and wife Kendal of Olathe, KS and Becky Kermoade and husband Brett of Overland Park, KS; brother, Tom Day and wife Ike of Edwardsville, IL; sisters, Dominique Owens and husband Andy of Richmond, MO, Angelique Day of San Antonio, TX, Monique Hooks of St. Joseph, MO and Janique Flora and husband Brian of Gilford, MO; along with many adored nieces and nephews. She was "Bubby" to her 4 grandchildren, Caden and Kylie Kermoade of Overland Park, KS and Kohen and Kamden Cline of Olathe, KS.
Elizabeth was an active and caring woman who spent most her life always thinking of others. She surrounded herself with her friends and family, which is where she felt most comfortable and loved.
Elizabeth absolutely adored spending time with her children and grandchildren. She enjoyed the outdoors, riding her bike, fishing, and park adventures with the grandkids, reconnecting with childhood friends in Lexington, MO and fostering and caring for many animals throughout her life.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00am, Saturday, September 24, 2022 at Christ Lutheran Church, 11720 Nieman Rd. Overland Park, KS with a visitation at 10:00am, prior to the service.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial contributions to: Re/Gen Program at Christ Lutheran Church, Interim Hospice, or the American Cancer Society.
Terry Guardiola says
Your mother was a beautiful person. Will keep your family in my prays.
Pam Kermoade says
Elizabeth will be missed. She was always kind, easy going, a good grandmother and mom. Much love to her family.
Nancy Lingo says
Praying for strength and comfort for you and your family during this difficult time Beckster. Love you??
Steve and Nancy Cline says
Elizabeth was a good and loving friend. She will be sorely missed. Rest In Peace.
Sheryl Palmer says
I can't believe you are gone. You were a wonderful, funny, loving soul. May you rest in peace, Elizabeth.
To Elizabeth's family- may God's angels comfort you and give you peace in remembering all the wonderful memories you had with your Mom.
Mary Jo Mc Coy says
I worked with Liz and she was one of the nicest people to work with. She was always kind and had a beautiful smile. My prayers to her family. She will be greatly missed. Sincerely, Mary Jo McCoy
Jamie Morello says
Betty, as I knew her, lived across the street from me for several years, in Lexington, Missouri. I was 7 years her senior and when the Days moved in, she was like a little sister. She was always at my house, following me everywhere……making cookies with me. I was the typical teenager and she was just a little kid. When she requested me as a friend on FB, I didn't recognize the name, so I ignored the request. But she persisted, finally letting me know, that she was my former neighbor, Betty Day! I was so shocked to hear of her death. My most sincere condolences to you, her family, as I cannot imagine how much you will miss her.
All the best to all of you as you try to get through this most difficult time. Sincerely, Jamie Morello
Sharon Sue Utz Kenney says
Betty was one of my best friends when we we young. My grandmother lived next door to Betty and family on Highland Avenue in Lexington and we spent hours playing Barbies together. My thoughts and prayers are with her family.
Janet parker says
Betty was a childhood friend of mine. We were in Brownies & girl scouts together. Sending ? ? ?
Donny Tennyson says
We are all so sorry for your loss but are thankful that you got to spend so much time with your Mom in her final days. Praying for healing and peace for your family.
Diane DeJean says
I, too, worked with Elizabeth and am so sorry to hear this. She was cute, sweet and kind. God bless all of you whose heart has a hole in it with her loss.
Dominick and Julie Italiano says
Becky and Matt and family,
We are so sorry to hear this. I really enjoyed your mother a lot, whenever I was at your house. What a sweet smile and fun-loving spirit. Be well, all of you. My prayers will be that God surround you with love and peace.
Julie and Dominick Italiano


OS MO CHIONN SHEINN AN UISEAG a sgrìobh Eric I Dòmhnallach. Tha Màiri a cuimhneachadh air na lathaichean a bha i aig a' sgadan. Bha i ann an criùtha de thriùir a bha a' leantainn an iasgaich eadar Sealltainn agus bailtean mòra an iasgaich air taobh an ear Shasainn. Chaidh an scriobt a stèideachadh air còmhraidhean ri boireannaich à Leòdhas a bha ris an obair anns na 1920's. Tha Mairi a' mineachadh na h-obrach agus a' suathadh air suidhichean anns a' choimhearsanachd anns an latha anns a bheil sin.
Based on extensive interviews with the last surviving Herring Girls the play incorporates traditional songs and visual imagery into the telling of a life story.Mairi has regrets but no trace of self pity : rather an air of defiance , dignity and indomitable good humour as she looks back on life well lived.
The play has been performed at venues throughout the islands including Shawbost, Carloway, Ness and Eriskay and was broadcast on Radio Nan Gaidheal on New Years Eve 2011. An English language version was broadcast on Isles FM in May 2013 and will be heard on other community stations later this year. See the full list of past performances click here.
GU LEÒR DE SEÒRS' AN CABHARSTAIGH a sgrìobh Alasdair Caimbeul. Stad dà Leòdhasach anns an taigh chuirt an deidh turas dhan Eilean Sgitheanach 's iad air a bhith a' lorg obair. 'S iomadh èiginn a bha aca air an t-slighe, mas do stad iad air taobh a muigh a Co-op ann an Steòrnabhagh.


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HATE MOB
Uganda's annual LGBT pride parade has been canceled after the government "threatened to mobilize a mob"
Despite vocal protests, LGBTs face discrimination in Uganda.
Image: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth
Yomi Kazeem
PublishedAugust 6, 2016
Since 2012, Uganda's LGBT community has held an annual celebration with little incident. But following threats from the country's minister of ethics, the pride parade slated for today (Aug. 6), has been postponed.
The cancellation has come only two days after a private LGBT pride event at a nightclub in Kampala was disrupted by policemen. The police claimed the event was a breach of a law requiring organizers to obtain permission to hold public meetings (organizers say they did, in fact, get permission for the event). Activists say some of those present were arrested and detained, but later released. In a statement obtained by Quartz, advocacy group Outright Action International say the police also "called in the media to take photos of everyone at the event without individual consent."
After a meeting to discuss the police raid with Simon Lokodo, Uganda's minister of ethics, Nick Opiyo, a local lawyer, emerged with a message of threats, rather than any assurances of safety.
"We decided to suspend it because of the risks to personal safety," Opiyo said. "The minister threatened to mobilize a mob and a large police group to beat up anyone who shows up for pride tomorrow."
Uganda's LGBT community has long been a target of the government. In 2014, Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's president, signed a controversial anti-gay law which criminalized same-sex relationships and ordered life imprisonment for offenders. While it was roundly criticized by foreign governments and groups, the law garnered considerable support locally and resulted in a tenfold increase in attacks against LGBT people. Despite being struck out by the Ugandan Supreme Court, the LGBT community has continued to face discrimination.
Beyonce Karungi, a trans activist who was arrested and later released at the pride event on Thursday, says the discrimination against the LGBT community in Uganda is plainly ignored by law enforcement. "When we report incidents of discrimination to the police, they do nothing," she told Quartz. "They sometimes tell us we deserve it."
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Car accidents may lead to major injuries, death in New York
On behalf of Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP posted in Car Accidents on Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
One person lost his life and multiple others were injured in a recent vehicle accident in New York. These types of car accidents can easily occur if one driver is being careless behind the wheel. The accident happened on a Monday and involved three cars.
Police said a 55-year-old man was driving one vehicle north on a road. He suddenly breached the road's middle line and entered oncoming traffic. That is when he reportedly struck another vehicle that a 51-year-old woman was driving. The man's vehicle then struck a second automobile driven by another 55-year-old man.
The driver who allegedly hit the two vehicles passed away at the crash scene. The driver of the second vehicle that was struck suffered injuries deemed not to be life-threatening and so did his passenger, who was 16. The woman who was driving the first automobile that was hit suffered injuries and was transported to the hospital. Her passenger, also 16, was taken to a medical center too. Authorities continue to investigate what caused the crash.
The crash victims who suffered injuries may opt to file personal injury claims in this case. They have the right to seek monetary damages, which -- if awarded -- might be useful for covering their hospital bills and other accident-related losses, which can stem from these types of car accidents. Although the person believed to have caused the New York crash by hitting the two vehicles has died, his estate may become the subject of litigation, and any separate owner of the vehicle he was driving might also be sued. In order for the plaintiffs to prevail in court, liability has to be established to the court's satisfaction.
Source: wgrz.com, "State Police identify victim in Lewiston fatal accident", June 30, 2015


This Caran d'Ache ink was part of the Earth series that was discontinued several years ago. The bottles were a pain to fill pens from, but the labels and inks were beautiful. The elegance of the heavy glass inkwells was way cool. I wish they would stop discontinuing amazing things. This is a brown I can replace fairly easily because I like my browns warm, rich, red, or golden.
Thank you to Pen Sachi for sending this pen for a review.
Japanese fountain pen maker Nakaya offers a range of nib options and you can have them modified to your liking as well. I purchased this Cigar Milky Way from @sakurafountaingallery but I wanted an elastic nib so off it went to Nakaya! Here are a top view and side view of the elastic medium nib in a bit of action. It's not a flex nib so don't buy one expecting that! I push it to its absolute max at the end but I'd suggest keeping a lighter hand on it. I just wanted to see what it could do.
You can see a comparison between an elastic fine and soft medium here as well.


1093 Canyon Rd, Lake Delton, WI 53965 (#1842589) :: Nicole Charles & Associates, Inc.
Completely furnished and updated! Beautiful waterfront view right from your private deck overlooking Lake Delton. Imagine morning coffee on the deck while planning your day, or winding the day down with a glass of wine during sunset. Enjoy the onsite indoor and outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, private beach and more. Located near several state parks where you can hike, kayak or swim. Conveniently close to to all the entertainment and excitement the Dells has to offer! Condo is great for a full-time residence or recreational retreat. Can be rented through the onsite management company or on your own.


I am letterpress printer, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., and I am asking for your support to help me build a printing plant in Detroit, MI for people who are interested in letterpress printing and need a space to practice it.
When I first started printing, it was the generosity of older printers that helped me grow and develop and I think it is now my responsibility to pass on this generosity to others.
What I want to do is develop a space that if you have an interest in letterpress printing, you can come and experience it and decide if this is what you want to do with your life.
We all have dreams and aspirations of doing things, and this is about helping people accomplish their dreams.
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation demands a halt to construction of the "Creek Casino Wetumpka" expansion project, which is desecrating the sacred Hickory Ground. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians already excavated approximately 60 human remains to build the casino, and the recently announced $246 million expansion will cause further desecration to Hickory Ground.
Hickory Ground, known as "Oce Vpofv" in the Muscogee language, was the last Capitol of the National Council of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, prior to forced removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. The sacred place includes a ceremonial ground, a tribal burial ground and individual graves.
Hickory Ground was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1984, the federal government officially recognized the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, descendants of Muscogee (Creeks) who were not removed and did not live in Alabama as Muscogee Creeks. The Alabama Historical Commission transferred Hickory Ground to the Poarch Band, even though they had no direct ancestral or cultural connection to the ceremonial ground.
Although the Poarch Band promised to preserve the Hickory Ground for the benefit of all Creek Indians, the Poarch Band exhumed Muscogee human remains and ceremonial objects to build the Creek Casino Wetumpka, with assistance from researchers at Auburn University. The excavated human remains belong to the lineal ancestors of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma, who hold Hickory Ground as sacred and oppose development on the ceremonial ground.


We hope you had a great Holiday season! This year the studio scored some pretty cool stuff.
JHS Crayon: this is a distortion/tone pedal for guitar. The Crayon is the little cousin to the JHS Colour Box. Both pedals employ circuits similar to the front end of a Neve console. Some of the earliest ways that extreme distortion was put to tape was by running guitars straight into a console and distorting the mic pre in the console. The Crayon gives you that sound in a convenient little box. Think Beatles "Revolution".
JHS Little Black Buffer: this simple little box is just a buffer for your guitar. When you're recording in the studio it's not uncommon to setup your pedals and so forth in the control room, and then run a cable through a special wall jack into the live room where the amp sits. Between the cables required for the pedals and the runs to and from the wall jacks/amps there can be quite a bit of signal quality degradation just due to all the cables. The Little Black Buffer can help you overcome that loss. It's designed to be able to drive the type of high capacitance in your signal chain that is typical for a multi-pedal, long cable run setup.
Voodoo Labs Big Shot ABY: this pedal lets you send your guitar or keyboard signal to two different outputs or even both at the same time. It has a full compliment of features that help overcome common issues when working with two amplifiers. You've got a ground lift on the B output which can sometimes solve those nasty buzzing issues. There is also an "ISO" switch which inserts an isolation transformer into the B signal path. This is another way to stop ground buzz in its tracks. And there's a phase reverse switch in case the signal out of amp B is phase inverted from the signal out of amp A. If you want to record out of two amps to get a massive sound or just sonic diversity, the Big Shot is going to get the job done no matter what.
Moog Minifooger MF Flange: this pedal is an all analog flanger from the analog synth kings at Moog. Rarefied already has the MF Trem tremolo pedal, which sounds amazing. Now with the MF Flange we'll have that iconic flanger sound in spades. The MF Flange actually has a stereo output as well as an expression pedal input which lets you modulate the flanger effect in real time with the flick of your foot. And yes, we do have a Moog expression pedal ready to go for it.
Cloud Microphones CL-1 Cloudlifter: this simple box provides a gain boost for dynamic and ribbon mics. Dynamics like the Shure SM7B and ribbons like the AEA R84 are amazing, but their output is a bit lower than your average mic. This means you often have to use a lot of gain at the mic pre amp and if the mic pre amp's self noise isn't so great or if some noise is coupling into the line prior to the mic pre, the signal to noise ratio may not be so good. Enter the CL-1. You place it right near the mic itself and get a quick boost in gain before ever even hitting the mic pre. This should make great mics like the ones mentioned even more useful.
Electroharmonix V256 Vocoder: this pedal has several classic vocoder sounds and many other amazing features built right in. The vocoder bands can be adjusted from retro (8 bands, think Kraftwerk) to modern (256 bands, think Daft Punk). The Gender Bender knob and the Pitch knob can really let you dial in the effect even more. And there's also a Blend and Tone control. Without an instrument attached you can still get basic single note, major, and minor chord drones going, but via the 1/4″ input or the MIDI in, a keyboard (typically) can really let your inner robot sing. But the V256 doesn't stop there! It also has a feature called Reflex-Tune which is essentially a real-time Autotune. While we do have Autotune 8 at the studio, it's always nice to just plug something in sometimes and get what you need with the turn of a few knobs. From the videos I've seen on YouTube, you can definitely get that obvious Autotuned sound or a more subtle correction.
Voodoo Labs Micro Vibe: this pedal is a recreation of the classic 60's Univibe effect. This effect was supposed to be like the sound of a Leslie rotating speaker amp, but it really never sounded much like one. None-the-less, artist's like Jimi Hendrix put it to great use. Think of the Micro Vibe like a unique chorus pedal.
Granelli Audio Labs right angled modified SM57: the Shure SM57 is the most ubiquitous microphone ever to be found on the stage or in the studio. Nearly every electric guitar and snare drum you hear on records was done with a 57. How can you improve on the classic? Make it even more useful by giving it a right angle bend so it can fit into tighter spaces. This is especially useful on drum kits where some drummers really don't leave a lot of room between drums, hardware, and cymbals. And hell, it can never hurt to have another SM57 lying around. The way in which Granelli Audio Labs does their mod, the sound of the original 57 is unaltered. Brilliant!


Let's face it: when it comes to upgrading your kitchen, the price tag is often well out of your budget range. This can lead to one of two things: overspending or an inability to some of the things you would like in your kitchen. From upgrading your Gilbert cabinets to putting in new flooring, some of the major upgrades that add life to your kitchen space may be too much for you at this time. However, there are a few kitchen upgrades that you can likely afford; these upgrades won't break the bank and will make your kitchen look completely renewed in no time.
Replace hardware on Gilbert cabinets: This might seem like such a small step and yet new hardware for your cabinets can make all the difference in the world. You might try some trendier takes on traditional hardware options, such as bronze or nickel. These materials are still strong enough to properly hold your Gilbert cabinets together, while looking funky and interesting enough to add some pizazz to this element of your kitchen.
Get a new kitchen faucet: Once you are done with your Gilbert cabinets, it may be time to move on to another area of the kitchen. If you want to do an upgrade you're likely to use often, you might consider installing a new kitchen sink and corresponding faucet. Opt for something energy efficient, so that you can truly make the most of the upgrade by at least saving a few bucks on your water bills. Moreover, if you go with a high end faucet designer, your sink may end up looking more like a work of art than a traditional sink space in the kitchen.
Install a new backsplash: Nothing pops more than color in a kitchen and one of the best ways to get great color quick is through the use of a backsplash. You can install this behind the stove in your home or even along the wall between the countertops and the Gilbert kitchen cabinets. Opt for a professionally designed installation for best results and don't shy away from something outside of the norm for you. The more eclectic you are willing to be with your backsplash, the more dramatic effect it will have and carry a major part of the design scheme of the kitchen space. This is definitely the place to be adventurous.


After the Grand Jury investigates the allegations of the crime, they may decide to indict an accused. If a Grand Jury indicts, the person is charged with a criminal offense and will have to continue in the criminal justice process. The Grand Jury has no further responsibility in that case. The prosecution is taken over by either the Polk County Attorney or the Iowa Attorney General.
As a member of a Grand Jury, you stand in a very real sense between the government and the accused. A Grand Jury must never be made an instrument of private prejudice, vengeance, or malice. It is your duty to see that indictments are returned only against those persons you find probable cause to believe are guilty of a criminal offense under State law and should be prosecuted and held accountable. In addition to this primary function, a Grand Jury has several other statutory obligations, which would be explained by the judge if you are chosen to be a Grand Jury member.


The hotel chain's investigation found that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information from its Starwood Hotel brand's guest database since 2014.
Nov 30 (Reuters) - Marriott International said on Friday that hackers illegally accessed its Starwood Hotels brand's reservation database since 2014, potentially exposing personal information on about 500 million guests.
"We are still investigating the situation so we don't have a list of specific hotels. What we do know is that it only impacted Starwood brands," Marriott spokesman Jeff Flaherty told Reuters.
Last year, both InterContinental Hotels Group Plc and Hyatt Hotels Corp were victims of cyber attacks.


Calm, Forward, Straight: In the Arena #150 - Back to the drawing board + a super cool contest!
In the Arena #150 - Back to the drawing board + a super cool contest!
We're on a roll. Sort of.
- Val becomes three legged lame with a never pops mystery abscess. Six weeks gone.
- I learn a painful valuable lesson about girth tightening and bust my a$$. Six weeks down the drain.
- After a crazy month straight of rain every day, (source of abscess), apparently, it will never rain again. Water table historically low - my sand arena... more like a quicksand arena.
- I find L, my new trainer, who is super helpful, but located far, far away.
So now we're working towards an October 18th clinic. L's a student of Mary Wanless and Mark Rashid, specializing in biomechanics. So fortunate to have this opportunity.
Daily - confirm forward, focus on contact, pick one other thing to work on for each ride.
Weekly - keep rides short but increase frequency each week. No drilling. Consistency is key.
Monthly - both of us fit, with the basics confirmed, so we can move forward while we have the benefit of several days with a trainer.
Changing trainers has provided an interesting lens to analyze my riding through. One element where there's a glaring difference, is the go button. With OT the aid was calf related. A wiggle of the ankle to lightly brush the barrel with your calf, tap, tap, tap with the whip as backup. NT - more seat/weight oriented, and straight to the whip if necessary. Thigh on, but calf has a whisper of contact. With OT I remember feeling that the motion of my leg was pulling me out of position. With NT, I'm stable.
With L's horse Tom Terrific, it definitely made a difference, because as I struggled not to nag with my leg while asking for the trot - surprise - we went straight to the canter. A bumpy little "not sure if you were asking for this - crazy lady with the spastic legs" canter. After a few tries I moderated my ask and we had a decent trot transition. Hello forward horse + light aids... it's been a while.
Anyhow - that's where we are. My seat is feeling more secure and effective. Val's been relaxed and blowing, tentatively taking contact. My aids are getting lighter, and lighter aids are all that's necessary. Every ride is a little better than the last. We've only got about a third of the arena that's rideable, but throw some cones in to make it interesting and we're cooking with gas.
Great progress despite all the set backs. You are inspiring me.
Excited for you about the clinic!!
Here's to a little rain for ya!!
Since daughter rides regularly in the Sandhills, it just occurred to me - maybe you could install a few sprinklers around your arena so you have total control of the footing? They have them on two posts in the arena she rides in and between the two of them they can easily wet down the entire area. Might be better than waiting for rain with our fickle weather!
Is Val coming alive with these new whisper-soft aids? I am thinking he must love them. :) Can't wait to read the report of your weekend away.
It all sounds good. Bet you and Val are going to love the clinic and get a lot out of it. The NT sounds wonderful! Great work with Val.
Crossing fingers here for one rain for you and the arena.
Glad you're back marching towards a goal after all those setbacks!
The well water just doesn't have enough pressure to spray over any distance. It wou;d feel wasteful. If I were hooked up to the county water that would be a solution.
The good thing about no hurricanes is no hurricanes. The bad thing is super low water table. Until the aquifer replenishes, any water on top just runs straight down.
Well, darn. People in these parts have sand hauled in. I guess you need some clay for a nice arena base!
Sounds like you're coping with all events. Can't wait to hear how the clinic goes . . .
Definitely sounds like you have a plan and are working through it! Happy times are here and hopefully a little rain.
Please tell about the beach photo in the margin. Did I miss this all along? That is the best photo - when was this? Do you always ride right on the beach? Am I that dense that I did not know this?!? Love that photo!
My off road riding partner S and I are hoping to get out to the beach next weekend. It's a five minute trailer ride away.
Hard to enjoy the ride in the tourist season - so many cars and turtle nest closures... not much room for fun.
That clinic sounds awesome! You know I love biomechanics, so consider this a pre-request for a write-up from it!
six weeks of mystery lameness, I can relate. Ugh, why can't they just tell you where it hurts before you spend $250 at the vet??
OOH 18th Oct is not so far away!! Hope you can keep up the good work before hand so you really get the most out of your clinic.


You guys know how much I love my Tiare Hawaii outfits! One of their classics is the ruffle hem style sleeves with smocked bodice and stunning flare maxi skirt.
It comes in many colors and prints and I always have a hard time trying to pick one. But given we're almost in Spring and I have been wondering which colors to try on to break into the Spring fresh mood, mustard and marigold florals were my obvious pick!
Easily an eye catcher anywhere you go, the flowy length is comfortable and stylish showing off those legs for days!
Style it with a complementary blue necklace and maybe a hat even to add that boho attitude to your aura!


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This interactive installation was developed to simulate and recreate the behaviour of one of the smallest living beings inside of the human body, "spermatozoon" or "spermatozoids".
This tiny cell seems to be alive and is one of the two key elements involved in animal's fertilization process. They are all different in size, speed, chromosomes combination and each one of them seems to have their unique story to tell and life to live. But all of them pursue the same goal, get to the female egg the first and get it fertilised.
In this interactive installation Fecundation, the union of an egg (the public) and the sperm cells occurs in the interactive scene like in the real process inside the ampulla of the uterine tube.
The simulation is installed in a dark room with the floor as the interactive projected area. The installation uses specific pieces of hardware and software to work, like for example, the infrared lights that are placed in the ceiling, which let the camera sense the visitors wandering around the installation and filters the light coming from the projector.
Fecundation also uses C++ programming to localize the right position of the foot of the users in the installation area. Each spermatozoon senses the visitors presence and, using his little conscience and decision-making capabilities, behaves like a living being by deciding which direction to take and moving its little body in search of the female egg.


Nicole Anona Banowetz's installation "Being More than One" is on view at Gray Contemporary through Feb. 17.
What: "Being More Than One"
Why: This winter's flu season has brought such miserable strains of the disease, some healthy people are refusing to shake hands for fear of catching it - no laughing matter.
Denver artist Nicole Anona Banowetz's first solo gallery installation seems to face the fear head on. She's blown a germ of an idea so far out of proportion, it's like an amusement park that beckons, "C'mon, romp with me."
Her large inflatable sculptures, sewn from white oxford fabric, fill the floor of Gray Contemporary's largest room. Some reach all the way to the ceiling. Others puddle on the floor. Odd, organic-looking appendages bubble up from or seep decoratively around each piece.
All seem to manifest our fear of bacteria and viruses, a gazillion times magnified. The biggest, "Erupture," stretches 15-by-9-by-7 feet, consuming a corner of the gallery.
Inspired by microscopic images of the animal, plant, mineral and bacterial worlds, Banowetz's sculptures do have a serious side, evoking the complex natural connections of vulnerability and struggle, growth and decay.
The art equivalent of the inflatable yard gee-gaws that populate lawns during the Christmas holidays, the pieces collapse at night, when gallery owner Mel DeWees turns off the blowers. He never knows when he cranks the loud system up again each morning exactly how the blobby pieces will spring to life. Parts can remain droopy or tilt jauntily to different sides. Apparently, germs can be moody.
Banowetz's pieces more often appear at outdoor festivals around the world. Lately, she has been filling them with interior colored lights. The ghostly, all-white versions at Gray may require more from the imagination, which is not a bad thing.


Workers near a bookmakers where staff were threatened with an axe during a robbery have been left shocked.
Two masked men armed with an axe subjected staff to a terrifying ordeal when they held up the Betfred betting shop in North Hykeham.
The incident happened in The Forum, between 9.25pm and 9.30pm on Sunday, November 26 - and the shop is down an alleyway off the main courtyard.
Police said both men were wearing dark clothing and one of them carried an axe.
Stores close to the Betfred in the Forum have said they hope the perpetrators are caught quickly - although the bookmakers is open again now.
Kerry Goodliffe, store manager at Sue Ryder Care, which is next door to the Betfred, said: "I think I would just run if someone walked into our shop with an axe.
"I just feel really sorry for the people next door as they really are so lovely.
"The betting shop is open until around 10pm every night and this alleyway is very badly lit and there is no CCTV which covers it either.
"I believe they often don't have many members of staff working on a night time and this is not the first time it has happened.
"I don't think it would make me scared to come to work but I just hope that they are caught."
Katherine and Alison of Curtis Bakery - both declined to give their surnames - work just two doors down from the bookmakers.
And they said it gave them chills just thinking about it.
Alison said: "You see these sort of things on the TV but you never think it's going to happen two doors away. It's really scary and has made me go cold just thinking about it."
Katherine said: "It just makes you realise how vulnerable you are. We never leave each other on our own in the shop.
"At the end of the day we always leave with someone and lock up together. It's very very scary."
One customer who was going into Betfred said: "It will definitely make me think twice about coming to the store later in the evening.
"You just don't expect it so close to home, and especially when you know the staff quite well."
A police spokesman said: "We wish to trace this man who may have been seen in the area at the time of the incident, and may have been witnessed.
"If anyone has any information relating to the incident, the man pictured, or anything suspicious in the area, can you please call 101 and state incident number 381 of November 26."


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In our country, more and more interesting machines appear, deprived of the attention of Western studios. One of the latest works of St. Petersburg designers – exterior tuning for the Volvo S80, unique from both artistic and commercial points of view.
"A-Design" for a long time left on the path of external tuning cars of foreign production. The first experiments were carried out on used cars, but there were no problems with the quality of the plastic elements or installing them on the car – the technology was worked out for a long time, and almost did not differ from the western one. Moreover, there were no complaints about the updated appearance of the machines. On the contrary, the first signs of "A-Design" – ennobled BMWs in the E34 and "Audi" A4 – attracted a lot of attention. These cars were at the peak of popularity among representatives of the so-called middle class, but because of the appearance of more recent models, they were already beginning to become obsolete morally.
Over time, those wishing to donate to the exterior of five or seven year old cars the "second youth" became more and more, and more and more modern cars drove into A-Design boxes. In 2002, the first order for external tuning finally appeared for two absolutely new cars, and not from a private individual, but from the Atlant-M Baltika car dealership, the official Opel dealer in Peterburg. The A-Design stylists who received complete creative freedom and two "Astra" turned these cars into futuristic cars and demonstrated them at the next motor show.
Stylized "Astra" had the expected commercial success, both cars "left" the salon next week, "A-Design" received an order to finalize the next "Opel" (now "Vectra") and acquired another corporate client – the largest dealer in St. Petersburg Volvo brands by Swed Mobil.
The management of Swed Mobil was well aware that the external tuning of a new car would not bring commercial benefits, however, as an image step, it would be able to attract the attention of consumers and it would be beneficial to select Swed Mobil from a number of dealers. The task was completely different from the wishes of Opel dealers. It was necessary to create a unique look for the Volvo S80, which would have "surpassed" the proposals of foreign studios. Work on the project, called "Storm", lasted longer than usual. Swed Mobil was very scrupulous about the future appearance of the car, so many changes were made to the original sketches. As a result, the artists of A-Design did not just surpass themselves: according to the joint artistic council of Swed Mobil, they went much further than the Swedish court studio TME or the Austrians from MS Design, offering rather boring body kits.
When the model of the car was finally approved and the technicians set to work, representatives of Swed Mobil quite often looked into the pits where the car stood and took a lively part in the process. It took three weeks to create, assemble and install the elements, after which the tuned car took its place in the interior of Swed Mobil.
The reaction of the visitors made it clear that the decision to "charge" the car externally was correct. The appearance of the Volvo Storm makes admiring look at her even representatives of competing salons. The abundance of smooth and completely unexpected lines makes the car look like a concept car. Thresholds came out especially unconventional – not modest, like in TME, not massive, like in MS Design, and not even such "man-made" that A-Design itself usually created. Being in complete stylistic unity with the pads on the front and rear bumpers, the thresholds seem to be divided in two by a hot wave that melted the plastic. The front bumper also looks unusual – due to the large number of decorative edges and a wide chrome grid installed in a low "skirt". The spoilers on the roof and trunk lid are so organic and thoughtful that many visitors to the salon take them for standard elements. There are also "cilia" of the front optics, consisting of not one, but two separate parts. Externally, the package turned out to be sporting and representative at the same time, which is not always possible to achieve even with venerable Western stylingers.
However, visual uniqueness is not all. For the first time in the history of domestic tuning, the customer purchased the rights to distribute a package of improvements. Under the contract, Swed Mobil is now the sole owner of Storm plastic, and it only depends on the will of his management whether this kit will be replicated or the future owner of the S80 will leave the cabin on the world's only car with such an unconventional appearance.
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Jan 18, 2017 at 11:01 AM Jan 18, 2017 at 11:04 AM
CITY OF NEWBURGH – An open civil service test for police chief will be given by Newburgh on March 18, roughly one year after the form of the last test ignited a battle between the Civil Service Commission, acting Chief Dan Cameron and City Manager Michael Ciaravino.
Applications are due Feb. 21 for the exam, and the city is advertising a salary range between $104,138 and $116,076. On the same day Newburgh is holding an exam for deputy police chief, a position that pays between $95,843 and $101,567.
Newburgh last held a test on March 5, 2016. Cameron, who had been named provisional chief pending a civil service exam, refused to take that test in protest. Both he and Ciaravino argued that the exam should have been an internal promotional exam limited to current officers.
After an unsuccessful lawsuit aimed at stopping last year's test, Ciaravino sought through other ways to have Cameron appointed permanent chief. The state's Civil Service Department ultimately ruled that Cameron was ineligible because he did not take the city's exam.
Newburgh's City Council eventually re-created a deputy chief's position so that Cameron could continue to run the department.


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