It happens to the best of us. We misplace or permanently lose our debit card. Or, worst case scenario, it's stolen.
Whatever happens to your debit card, you can easily and securely turn it off from our mobile banking app. Simply log into the app and manage all of your cards. You have the options of reordering, suspending or reporting your card lost or stolen.
Don't have the F&M mobile banking app? Maybe it's time you did. Search for F&M Bank Nebraska in the app store on your phone.


The Milano double pedestal table is a serious addition to your bedroom ensemble, a striking and sophisticated double pedestal table handcrafted from the purest American White Oak and finished in a smooth and flawless manner. It adds a light touch to your bedroom with a suggestion of Italian style that is truly timeless.
However, the Milano does not only look good. It's built to last a lifetime, with its sturdy and traditional construction, featuring dovetail jointed drawers and tongue and groove backs and bases. The lacquer finish means you will not need to worry about re-waxing. You only need to dust or polish the Milano Double Pedestal Table alongside other items of furniture.


Hydra's Hospital is a small "cottage style" hospital without a major emergency ward. Having said that most emergencies are competently dealt with by our medical staff. There is a full x-ray department and the doctor and nursing staff are very experienced at dealing with breaks, sprains and bruising etc. If required, accidents and emergency illnesses are referred to mainland hospitals and the arrangements are made by Hydra's hospital for patients to be transferred by dolphin or in extreme emergencies by medical helicopter. Associated with the hospital, Hydra also has a small electrical ambulance. It looks a bit like a golf caddy and it can only be used on level streets. If necessary, stretchers are sent up the hills so that accident patients can be carried down. The banner at the top of this page shows the ambulance.


We work hard to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
Our team works together to provide clients with industry leading service and quality. You will find all our people easy to deal with, professional, pro-active and client focused.
We use Layher Scaffolding - versatile, efficient and safe. We have hundreds of tonnes of scaffolding which means we can service any size job.
Layher's local branch and professional engineers support our projects with additional equipment and design advice.
Our in house propping designer will work with your estimator and construction teams to design propping suited to your job.
Our propping system integrates with our scaffolding to provide a seamless solution.
We specialise in providing large free spanning structures for weather protection and containment.
Weatherproofing can take months off your construction programme and protect interiors during building renovation.
Containment of asbestos, debris or other harmful material is another key benefit.
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Stages, sets, towers, large marquees, public access stairs – let us know what you need for your next event.
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Making sure our people go home safe every night is of paramount importance at Geeves Scaffolding. We also think doing a job well means doing it safely. We regularly work in high hazard industries where safety management is crucial – including oil and gas, rail, dairy and large scale commercial construction.
Comprehensive induction of all staff and subcontractors followed with a written asessment to ensure good understanding. New staff sign a code of conduct and are issued quality PPE gear.
Geeves prioritises regular training and up-skilling of staff – in 2014 and 2017 Geeves Scaffolding was awarded the Skills Organisation Training Company of the Year Award. We put more staff through training than any other scaffolding company.
We have a comprehensive risk management system which is clear, easy to use and effective. It includes detailed Task Analyses and a Risk Register that is regularly reviewed and updated. We provide effective supervision– including daily site and crew audits.
Our Safety Handbook fits in the back pocket and ensures our staff have key safety information at their fingertips.
Regular random and targeted drug and alcohol testing is a key element of our risk management policy.
We use a professional rehabilitation company to ensure that our staff get immediate and targeted assistance to ensure a safe and early return to work.
Our policy covers all the risks associated with our business including employee safety, protection of the public and the building of safe scaffolds.
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A summary of the employee training we provide. Competency records for individual staff are available on request.
The development of our staff is important to us and we are committed to providing ongoing up- skilling, training and development.
We do this through external courses, on- the- job training and in house training days.
In 2015 six staff were put through their scaffolding tickets. Many others were put through HT and Forklift Licences, Working at Heights, Confined Space and Sitesafe training.
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At Geeves, you can expect regular feedback on your performance and regular discussions regarding your learning and development requirements.
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Levis Mound Recreational Area has the inside track on outdoor fun. With miles of groomed trails that loop through the Clark County Forest, Levis Mound is one of the premier trail systems for mountain biking and its fast-growing offshoot—fat-tire biking—in the Midwest.
You needn't be a cyclist, however, to enjoy this area. Of its more than 34 miles of trails, 25 are single-track trails for mountain biking while others are devoted to hiking, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing, depending on the season. All offer spectacular views and unique pathways, thanks to the three colorfully banded sandstone mounds that distinguish the area's terrain.
Located at the edge of the Driftless Area in the southwest corner of Clark County, Levis Mound is marked by the elevations created by mounds of earth—officially known as nunataks—that rose above a sea of ice during the state's Glacial Stage some 15,000 years ago.
"The unique thing about this trail system is the mounds," said Steve Meurett of the Neillsville Area Trails Association (NATA) and a member of Clark Electric Cooperative. "We've got trails that go up and down them, around them, we have a lot of scenic overlooks, and we have flat areas between them. The ski trails go up and down them too. That's very unique for Wisconsin; there's no other trail system like it that has that kind of terrain."
Levis Mound has trails of all levels, with some advanced loops featuring steep climbs and sudden drops while beginner and intermediate loops remain flat near the base of the mounds. Twice-yearly bike races, including February's Sweaty Yeti, one of the region's first fat-bike races, attract cyclists from all over the Midwest. These events also serve as fundraisers to help cover maintenance costs for the trail system.
It Started with Skis
Levis Mound Recreational Area grew into one of the top mountain bike trail systems in the region from fairly modest beginnings. Meurett said the area initially had only a few lightly developed cross-country ski trails. In 1987, he and a group of other outdoor recreationists who used the ski trails saw the area's potential for mountain biking, a sport that was just starting to take off in popularity. With the county's approval, the group began building, on a volunteer basis, single-track trails for biking. The group of volunteers, which evolved into NATA, added more trails each year, both for biking and skiing.
The advent of fat-tire biking—which utilizes wider tires that will move along packed snow without breaking through the surface—brought even more opportunities. NATA volunteers began grooming some of the mountain biking trails for winter use, making Levis Mound among the first trail systems in the state to offer groomed fat-tire bike trails. The sport was so new that there was no standard grooming equipment for fat-bike trails, so the group worked with a fabricator in Neillsville to design a groomer that Meurett said is now widely used in the fat-biking community.
"Fat biking has really taken off over the past 10 years," he said. "I think part of the reason is if you've got poor snow conditions or the weather isn't good, you can still go out and fat bike. Skiing is a little more difficult if you've icy conditions or melting, but fat biking can still go on. That's really increased the visitors on our trails."
These days, Meurett said on a typical winter weekend Levis Mound will have as many fat bikers as skiiers. NATA maintains separate trails, specifically groomed for each activity.
Snowshoeing is another activity that Meurett said has grown considerably in popularity over the past decade. Snowshoers are welcome on both hiking and biking trails at Levis Mound. New for this winter, NATA volunteers are developing loops specifically for snowshoers that will take them to the top of the mounds.
A Bigger and Better Building
Loops and trails are marked throughout the recreation area, but visitors can also pick up a map at the chalet located at the Levis Mound trailhead, another development brought in large part by NATA's volunteer efforts.
An early NATA project was moving the Levis Mound trailhead to its current location on Fisher Road, which had open space adequate for ample parking and some added amenities. Working in partnership with the county, the organization raised money by sponsoring mountain bike races to build a ski chalet at the site, providing bathrooms and a place to warm up. The chalet burned to the ground in 2015 and NATA went to work once again raising funds to replace it with a slightly bigger, and much better, building.
Open for about a year, the new chalet at the Levis Mound trailhead is served by Jackson Electric Cooperative. With its in-floor heating, hot showers, and spacious seating area, the building provides a comfortable place for trail users to warm up and gather. (Chalet photos courtesy of Jackson Electric Cooperative)
The new chalet, opened last fall, is served by Jackson Electric Cooperative and maintained by the county forestry department. The building stays toasty warm with an in-floor heat system, and it provides bathrooms and hot showers.
"The new building is much better than the original," Meurett said. "It's more energy efficient and it's just much nicer."
The new chalet, he said, has also helped draw more users to the trailhead's campground, which includes eight non-electric campsites. Future plans call for adding electric campsites.
Visitors may purchase trail passes for biking or skiing at self-service kiosks located at the trailhead. In addition, yearly trail passes, multi-sport passes, and family passes are available. No trail fee is required for hiking or snowshoeing.
Whether you plan to bike, hike, trek, or ski, Levis Mound will put you on the right track.—Mary Erickson
Levis Mound Recreation Area begins at N1589 Fisher Ave., Neillsville. It is open year-round. For more information, including a trail map, visit co.clark.wi.us or call the Clark County Forestry & Parks Department, 715-743-5140.

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CHINA GRAPPLES WITH A HUGE COVID RESURGENCE
Events Supposedly Attributed to Vaccination or Immunisation (ESAVI) online reporting for COVID-19 Fall booster side effects
Seasonal Flu Update
Quarantine Breach Reported to Police
COVID - 19 16 Apr, 2021 Follow News
An alleged breach of isolation protocols on 13 April 2021 by travellers quarantining at residence and members of the public has been reported to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) and is currently under investigation.
The Mobile Compliance team conducted a routine compliance and welfare check, in response to a tip received by Travel Cayman. A group of three (3) travellers quarantining on a docked boat were found to have three (3) visitors at the location. One of the visitors was reported to have also had contact with another local person. By instruction of Public Health, seven (7) persons, including the travellers, their visitors, and the other local contact, have been placed in quarantine at a Government facility.
Public Health has confirmed that all primary contact tracing protocols have been observed following the suspected breach and would like to reassure the public that there is no immediate cause for concern.
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) noted that this is an ongoing investigation and six (6) persons involved have been warned for intended prosecution.
The public and travellers are reminded that, regardless of a person's vaccination status or COVID antibody status, there is to be no direct contact between members of the public and persons in quarantine during their period of isolation. This includes anyone delivering food or supplies, where the minimum necessary time for delivery should be observed. Persons in quarantine should wait to physically collect supplies after the person delivering has left the property. The public is encouraged to report any suspected breach of quarantine to the Travel Cayman Tip Line 943-7233.
Anyone that is found to be in breach of the mandatory quarantine provisions will be warned for intended prosecution and is liable on conviction to a fine of up to ten thousand dollars and imprisonment for up to two years.


"I'm going to spend the day going from the apartment to the beach and from the beach to the apartment" is a typical saying that crosses everybody's mind when you are overwhelmed with work or studies and thinking about holidays. That feeling of having no more obligations than to enjoy the days off is unique, however in the end, it is not feasible do be doing nothing more than that during such a long time. Therefore, when traveling we have to take into account the multiple mobility in Fuerteventura options that the island offers.
The villa or apartment we rented in Fuerteventura will serve as a "base of operations" and from there on we can count on buses, taxis, rental cars, boats and bikes to approach other locations. Moving around in Fuerteventura is easy and at affordable cost for all.
Firstly, there is the 'guagua', that is used to label the buses in the Canary Islands. It is the most economical means of transport to move around Fuerteventura, getting quickly and conveniently to different corners of the island. The company that is in charge of providing this service is called "Tiadhe" and seventeen lines connect with virtually all points of interest that are needed to enjoy the holidays, as is the historic center, museums, viewpoints or lighthouses.
The fare for the bus ticket costs approximately 1.50 euros per person per one-way trip, a symbolic price considering the walk we will save us. Mind you, the cost is only approximately, since it depends on the area of the island where you want to go. If you are intending to use the bus on a regular basis, keep in mind that you can save up to 30% on every trip with the bus passes.
Mobility options in Fuerteventura include the possibility of traveling on your own four wheels. Bringing your own car to the island by plane is not feasible and due to the costs it is not worth bringing it per boat, so the best option is to rent a car over there. La Oliva, Puerto del Rosario, Betancuria, Antigua or Pájara are some of the places that one should see. The offer of car rental is broad, due to the high demand by tourists. If you have a large family or need more than the usual five places, you just have to talk to the car rental company to find the right vehicle for your needs.
When you are of the opinion that there is no need to rent a car but you need to move quickly at certain moments, remember that the mobility options in your visit to Fuerteventura includes taxis. The reservation can be made by phone, but also via Internet. There are even own applications for this kind of service in which we can find interesting discounts given that it is the first time we are using it. Taxis help bridging the gap in Fuerteventura, since the island is very long. Most vehicles are Mercedes, guaranteeing comfort for the passenger, but if you need additional space to transport six or seven people, there are also taxis-minivans with more seats.
Bikes are another means of transport, promoting sports activities without polluting. In Fuerteventura there is a bike lane on completely flat land that is nine kilometers long. You can use the bike to go to the beach and discover wonderful sites pedaling through the routes the island has to offer. This mobility option offers great possibilities, for example, traveling from Corralejo to the beaches of Majanicho. The trip lasts a bit more than one hour and is eight kilometers long. There are several towns offering the service of renting bicycles.
Like we said in the beginning, renting a villa or apartment in Fuerteventura is the best option to ensure the rest period, which can be combined with visits to other islands of the archipelago. In this regard, the best option is the boat, whose journey time is depending on the island we want to go to. The trip from Fuerteventura to Lanzarote, for example, takes between thirty and sixty minutes. The boat allows to ship a car, whether owned or rented, for an economic cost.
Finally, among all the mobility options in Fuerteventura you shouldn't discard the plane, both for entering and leaving the archipelago as for the visit to more distant islands like La Palma and El Hierro. The airport is at five kilometers from the capital of the island, called Puerta del Rosario.
Come to our villas in Fuerteventura and try the different mobility opportunities the island has to offer!


The invention relates to an anti-loosening leg and its application. The anti-loosening leg comprises a base, a screw, a anti-loosening rod, a first locking nut sleeved on the screw and a locking seat sleeved on the base. The screw is installed on the base through the first locking nut; the first locking nut is provided with an anti-loosening plate bent to the base; the locking seat is provided with an extension along the radial direction, and the extension part is arranged in the base. A hole for piercing the anti-loosening rod is provided, and the anti-loosening rod is used to top the anti-loosening board after passing through the hole. The anti-loosening leg of the invention has strong anti-loosening performance and stable and reliable support; when the anti-loosening leg is applied to the vehicle photoelectric tracking and measuring system, it can effectively guarantee the reliability of the support fixing of several tons of heavy load in the process of vehicle transportation, and can effectively solve the fixed protection problem of the optical part weighing tons in the process of transportation.


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Q: Can I simultaneously apply styles to many DOT nodes taken from multiple subgraphs? Consider this DOT sample:
digraph Foo
{
    subgraph clusterA
    {
        A -> B;
    }

    subgraph clusterB
    {
        X -> Y;
    }

    subgraph connection_type_1
    {
        edge [color=red];
        A -> Y;
    }

    subgraph connection_type_1
    {
        edge [color=green];
        B -> X;
    }

    subgraph node_type_1
    {
        node [style=filled, color=".5,.5,.5"]; // THIS LINE DOESN'T WORK
        X [label="foo"];
        A;
    }
}

The structure is set out in the two clusters and the edges are added later in semantically/cosmetically equivalent groups. The edges are coloured as expected.
But this doesn't work with styling nodes. The marked line has no effect unless I move it into one of the cluster* subgraphs, but then it applies to all nodes within that subgraph.
What's odd is that label=foo works in the final subgraph, whereas style doesn't.
I have a feeling that the answer is going to be "you can only set node attributes the first time you mention them", but is there a way to say "the following nodes, wherever they are, should all have the following attributes"?

A: the line does not work, as it sets default attributes only and the nodes have been created already. the default attributes have no effect. the label is a concrete attribute overriding any default values and therefore takes effect.
So you should reorder the code to

*

*create all nodes (with default attributes)

*create all edges (again with default attributes)

*assign the nodes to clusters

steps 2 and 3 would create the nodes with the defauls attributes then active. your example did work for the edges only by accident, as you did try it for non existing edges only. it would not have worked for the 2 already defined edges in the clusters.
digraph Foo {
    subgraph node_type_1 {
        node [style=filled, color=".5,.5,.5"];
        A;
        X [label="foo"];
    }
    subgraph node_type_2 {
        node [style=none];
        B;
        Y;
    }
    subgraph connection_type_1 {
        edge [color=red];
        A -> Y;
        A -> B;
    }
    subgraph connection_type_2 {
        edge [color=green];
        B -> X;
        X -> Y;
    }
    subgraph clusterA {
       A;
       B;
    }
    subgraph clusterB {
        X;
        Y;
    }
}

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Interesting stats. Thanks for sharing!
Sure. It was interesting to see them myself.
Although we're talking Rejections here, I find your stats strangely reassuring, especially the 'most rejected stories' stats.
It's not too bad, really, and I find this kind of exercise mostly positive. It's a good indicator, for me, anyway, of how far I've progressed with my submissions game.


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Game 4: The DeRozan Debacle
by Matt Shantz
First off, thank you to the Raptors for ruining my last two Saturdays in exquisitely terrible fashion.
It's for that reason that I'm beginning writing this at 6:45am on Sunday. I wanted to have it completed yesterday but thought the tone might be a little more measured if I slept off the debacle that was Game 4. Well…I'm still grumpy and this thing still has a deadline.
So let's review the all of the positives so far:
This is so much better than last year's playoffs
Toronto has split the first four games
The series is now a best of three, with two of these games taking place at home for Toronto
The Raptors are undefeated in games that begin later than 5:00pm EST
Games 5 and 6 are guaranteed to be evening games.
And that's all I got. I spent an entire evening thinking about this, slept on it to try and put myself in a better mood, and still could only come up with absolutely nothing about Game 4 to appreciate. It was just terrible in every sense.
What's really annoying is that I'm trying my best to stay positive. In fact, I do believe that the Raptors are the better team and that they will still win this series. I do believe they are the better team in this series, and the better team almost always wins when it comes to a seven game series.
But it isn't that cut and dry. What makes it so annoying is how easily the Raptors dismantled the Pacers on April 8, despite sitting Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan, DeMarre Carroll (still injured), and Luis Scola, while playing Jonas Valanciunas just 21 minutes. Despite all of that the Raptors still won 111-98. Indiana played their regular players (George Hill saw 32 minutes of action and Paul George got 28 minutes while being a minus 14), and were beaten by a lineup that heavily featured Delon Wright and Norman Powell.
So what on earth is the problem now? There are lots of issues that have surfaced in Games 1-4, but it's hard to not recognize the problem that is DeMar DeRozan. And that's hard for me to say. Although I see the flaws in his game that everyone else sees as well, I generally like DeMar. He is a hard worker, sets the tone for the team, has high character, I have had hopes that he could be the first lifelong Raptor, and he has built himself into an All Star…but he has been absolute crap in the playoffs this year.
Through the first four games of the series the Raptors and the Pacers have literally played to a draw, with each team scoring a total of 372 points. The series is literally divided equally in team scoring.
Meanwhile, according to NBA.com/Stats on/off court numbers, DeRozan is easily a team worst -20 through four games, and was -14 in game 4 alone. Granted, he was far from the only culprit in yesterday's embarrassment. The plus/minus king in Patrick Patterson was a shocking -22, and Cory Joseph was -17. Yesterday was a team effort in terrible.
But for DeMar, it is the way in which he earned his -14. He is supposed to be one of the leaders of this team along with Lowry, and yet it is tough to argue that he has been that on the court. Despite shooting just 29.6 percent in the playoffs, DeMar continues to force difficult shots. Paul George is swallowing him whole and he just thinks he can shoot his way out of it.
DeMar took a team high 15 shots yesterday, and they were largely terrible decision.
His shot chart doesn't even do it justice, with many of his shots being contested fadeaway jumpers and/or difficult isolation attempts. The worst instance game with roughly 5:30 left in the fourth quarter. DeRozan tried to isolate against Rodney Stuckey, who rather easily forced DeRozan into a difficult pull-up from the free throw line. Patterson managed to fight off Paul George and tap the ball back out to DeMar. Without hesitation DeRozan barrelled his way into the lane and telegraphed a clear charging call.
The Raptors need from DeRozan than he is providing. He cannot continue shooting below 30 percent, he cannot commit a team worst 6 turnovers like he did on Saturday, and he cannot continue to try and force a one-on-one game against a defender like Paul George.
And granted, I am picking on DeMar after a game where virtually everyone played well below their abilities, but more is expected when you are the star of the team.
Now it's up to DeMar to go out and prove this entire article to be just stupid drivel, and I sincerely hope that he does.
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---- "Siss Boom Bah!" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk" http://www.moceanworker.com/
Peak Oil isn't just a concept or an idea, though it is that, but peak oil is the harbinger of a change that is coming that is going to sweep everything into a great big pile.
As reality changes to accommodate this new elephant in the room, we're going to have to be creative in the options choices we're all going to make.
Peak oil spells gloom and doom for our way of life, but it does not spell gloom and doom for mankind.
Our dependence on oil is a historic aberration which saw enormous changes coming in, and it will see even more enormous changes going out.
We're not going back to an agrarian society since we have seen the population rise beyond what could be supported by the unaided soil.
Either we succeed in this endeavor or we're going to have to play at being "Pol Pot" with world-wide "killing fields". (Pol Pot I'll remind you killed merely in person in five in Cambodia with his agrarian reforms.
We would have to kill four persons in five the world over to achieve a sustainable and supportable population using only the techniques which existed pre-oil, or about a mere century-and-a-half ago.
---- "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/
Synthesis:
So lets deconstruct peak oil as a series of phenomena which correspond to a modification of Mazlow's pyramid.
Man can live
* Without air: four minutes.
* Without water: four days.
* Without food: four weeks.
* Without sex: Forget it!
Okay, on a less facetious form, lets examine the "real" "Mazlow's" pyramid [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs ].
Basic human needs are:
* physiological,
* safety and security,
* love and belonging,
* esteem and
* self-actualization.
Given the fact that we're knocking every blessed thing into a cocked-hat, lets examine the most basic needs, the physiological:
* Food
* Water
* Breathing
* Excretion
* Sleep
* Homeostasis
* Sex
Back to my facetious pyramid.
"Air" will be pretty much in the same supply it is now.
It might even be cleaner for the same reason that foxes have moved back into Detroit. The base state for a post-industrial society is pretty much the same as for a pre-industrial one. Clean air, plenty of sunshine and lots of "critter space".
You will be relieved to hear that "water" will still flow down hill. Hydroelectric dams will still work. (The lubricants for the turbines "will" require some work.)
You will be relieved to hear that water will still evaporate too. (Of course, clouds "will" form where and when they want to, mostly away from the catch basins of the hydroelectric dams.)
The rest is a bit more problematic.
"Food" production currently demands large areas of land. Unfortunately, that also demands large quantities of oil to accomplish some things:
* farming (for fertilizers, pesticides, moving dirt around harrowing, and harvesting.)
* transportation of produce to market,
* transportation of seed to the farm to begin with,
* maintaining markets (though that is the province of anybody from your local green grocer to a huge box store,)
* moving the produce back to your home.
The problems come primarily from three very disturbing facts:
* First we have to, uh, think different.
* Then we have to overcome the distance between the farm and home.
* Lastly we we have problems of un-cooperative weather, un-cooperative soil, and un-cooperative labor conditions on the farms.
The solutions to these require some attitude adjustment on our part and on the part of the nice folks who build our cities.
---- "Little Bird" by: "Annie Lennox" http://www.annielennox.com/
We got PSAs:
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
---- "100% Pure Love" by: "Crystal Waters" http://www.theoneandonlycrystalwaters.com/
Okay back to urban planning.
We've got to refit and insure that all new construction is mixed industrial, agricultural, residential and retail.
Preferably in the same building!
I gave the order because we need that the construction of our "archologies" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology ] be pretty much in that order.
We have to stop thinking so "cheap and cheesy", slapdash and jury-rigged, and instead start thinking of habitation as things fitting together and complementing each other.
Now that cheap oil and therefore cheap energy are disappearing from the landscape, the things that depend on cheap oil and therefore cheap energy must disappear also.
I am advocating the creation of arcologies not out of some Utopian visions but because its preferable to the distopian visions that come to the mind's when trying to keep the outside out and the inside hermetically sealed against it.
R. Buckminster Fuller, because he was born and lived some of his life before the era of widespread cheap oil, had designed the principles of a dymaxion arcology out of necessity back when the twentieth century was new.
He was trying to solve the problems of sustainability for his time and now, after the oil enabled diversions of two world wars, countless skirmishes, failed regimes, failed implementations of failed political ideas, countless deaths to serve no purpose, failed religions and false prophets, its time we put down the "Kool-Aid" and started back on the path he'd glimpsed "through a glass darkly" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_a_Glass_Darkly ] but still more clearly than most of us ever see.
One of the prime principles of his dymaxion philosophy is to extract the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people from the smallest amount of material.
I am not advocating blind acceptance of everything he wrote. The man could have clearly benefitted from some linguistics courses which would have helped him with his need to coin new words.
But the concepts for reforming refitting and creating the new urban arcologies are clearly there.
Imagine living contained in buildings of currently unimaginable size where all of our physical, emotional and spiritual needs can be met, all of our transportation requirements are local.
Imagine living in Dubai ... everywhere.
We'll return to this theme of arcology at several point during upcoming episodes.
---- "Children (Dream Version)" by: "Robert Miles" http://www.robert-miles.com/
Peak Oil is going to change everything in a wave of innovation or leave us high and dry gasping for breath and grasping at straws stuck in an empty oil barrel.
Its actually going to do both. Some people won't be able to loosen their grasp and will end up holding nothing and burying their children, dead from a millions causes all related to their acceptance of scarcity.
Some people will be able to see that you can only accept things with open hands and will end up owning everything of any value and leave a legacy to a future they can't even imagine.
Some of the innovation that is coming will affect how and where we live and that requires the most open mind of all.
---- "Everybody Loves A Loser" by: "Morcheeba" http://www.morcheeba.co.uk/
Oh and by the way:
I just want to thank the people who left the nice comments on the blog, sent me email feedback on the podcast of "The Disability Show".
And to my wife who's been chiding me for having thought small all these years, when the need was for exactly this kind of show, "Yes Dear. You were right..."
In this episode, we heard:
"Siss Boom Bah!" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk"
"Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/
"Little Bird" by: "Annie Lennox"
"100% Pure Love" by: "Crystal Waters"
"Children (Dream Version)" by: "Robert Miles"
"Everybody Loves A Loser" by: "Morcheeba"
and we're going to close off the week with
"A Deeper Love" by: "Aretha Franklin"
"The Voice Of Enigma" by: "Enigma"
"Such Great Heights" by: "The Postal Service"
"Bodyrock" by: "Moby"
"Beachball" by: "Nalin & Kane"
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.
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RICK SPRINGFIELD - The Snake King
Catalogue Number: FRCD 840
RICK SPRINGFIELD's resume as a successful musician and actor need not be repeated here as it has been well documented many times over the years. What needs to be discussed here is that "The Snake King" will NOT be the Rick Springfield album you or anyone else was expecting.
With 25 million albums sold, 17 U.S. top-40 hits, including "Don't Talk to Strangers", "An Affair of the Heart", "I've Done Everything for You", "Love Somebody", and "Human Touch", as well as a 1981 Grammy® Best Male Rock Vocal win for his No. 1 single hit "Jessie's Girl" behind him, Springfield has more to say with his latest new release, "Rocket Science".
Still playing nearly 100 live shows a year, Springfield's bond with his audience is the subject of the recent documentary An Affair of the Heart, winning special jury awards at both the Nashville and Florida Film Festivals. He also recently wrote and recorded a new song with Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters / Nirvana) as well as being a featured guest in Grohl's documentary about "Sound City," the fabled San Fernando Valley recording studio.
His 2010 autobiography, "Late, Late at Night…: A Memoir", for Simon & Schuster's Touchstone imprint, entered The New York Times best-seller list at No. 13, hitting the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly lists as well, with Rolling Stone recently naming it one of the Top 25 rock autobiographies of all time.
Also, within the past year, Springfield played opposite Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep in Jonathan Demme's "Ricki & The Flash", plus a multi episode arc in the HBO series "True Detective".
1. In The Land Of The Blind
2. The Devil That You Know
3. Little Demon
4. Judas Tree
5. Jesus Was An Atheist
6. The Snake King
7. God Don't Care
8. The Voodoo House
9. Suicide Manifesto
10. Blues For The Disillusioned
11. Santa Is An Anagram
12. Orpheus In The Underworld
Reb Beach is simply one of the Hard Rock Guitar Giants of the current era.
Chicago - Now (Chicago XXXVI)
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky - The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra
PRAYING MANTIS - Gravity
Praying Mantis are pleased to announce their 11th studio album, "G.R.A.V.I.T.Y."!
Down 'n' Outz - The Further Adventures Of…
Sometimes, the most interesting of projects arise from the most unusual of circumstances. So it is that the Down 'N Outz is a project fronted by Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, backed by The Quireboys and playing rare tracks connected only by Mott The Hoople...
ALAN PARSONS - "The Secret"
Eleven-time Grammy nominated legendary music icon and master of progressive rock, Alan Parsons will return with a new album, "The Secret" on April 19, 2019.
Neal Schon - The Calling
Electric Light Orchestra - Live
Jeff Lynne has always preferred the creative experience of his natural environment—the recording studio. Listening back to the live performances gathered here, however, one is reminded that regardless of his thoughts of life on the road, Lynne remains a compelling performer who's always figured out ways to bring his distinctive widescreen musical universe to life onstage when he needed to. Taken from a PBS special recorded at Los Angeles' CBS Television City, Electric Light Orchestra Live offers fans four tracks that weren't on what became the ZOOM DVD as well as two new, unreleased studio tracks, "Out of Luck" and "Cold Feet."
All songs except ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN written and produced by JEFF LYNNE
ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN written by CHUCK BERRY


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As a by-product of being sick and having fun, I found myself voiceless this morning. I swung by the closing sale at Commuknity, and ran into quite a few old and familiar faces.
The funny thing is, when you whisper, people whisper back.
It felt a little wierd, like I was gossiping or telling secrets. Nope, just lost my voice.
If you find it, please send it home.
Is it kinda orange, with cream-colored stripes, a bent ear, and smells like peppermint? If so, it's here. Let me know when you can pick it up.
Commuknity? - I thought they closed last year???


- First book-length scholarly survey of this category in the nineteenth century - Makes persuasive links between nineteenth-century scientific culture (in particular evolutionary theory) and speculative literature in the period.
- Provides a genealogy of a well-known twentieth-century genre (alternate history), which is traced from its European origins to its passage to the US.
This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as "alternate histories"—proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that "discovered" improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The "untimely" imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.
Ben Carver is Associate Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK. He was awarded his doctorate from the University of Exeter in 2013 and since then has been teaching and researching nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is now studying the circulation of conspiracy beliefs and narratives, which is part of the COST-funded "Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories" project.


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Q: AJAX to database sending null to PHP script I'm trying to use ajax to insert using a simple form into my database(using insert.php) to practice. Below the var_dump($email) is hitting null. The script runs through to here:
echo "Data for $name inserted successfully!";

The problem is the variables are null as stated.
So we make it to there, but the output is an empty variable field like below:
Data for inserted successfully!
Am I missing something here?
index.php

<form>
Name:  <input id="name" type="text" />
E-Mail:  <input id="email" type="text" />
</form>
Push into mysql

insert.php
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//Configure and Connect to the Databse
 include "db_conx.php";
 if (!$db_conx) {
 die('Could not connect: ' . mysqli_error());
 }
 //Pull data from home.php front-end page
 $name=$_POST['name'];
 $email=$_POST['email'];
 echo "
";
var_dump($email);
echo "

";
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$query= "INSERT INTO best_rate(name,email) VALUES('$name','$email')";
$result = mysqli_query($db_conx,$query);
if($query){
echo "Data for $name inserted successfully!";
}
else{ echo "An error occurred!"; }
?>

UPDATE PHP #2
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 $name=$_POST['myname'];
 $email=$_POST['myemail'];
 echo "
";
var_dump($email);
echo "

";
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$query= "INSERT INTO best_rate(name,email) VALUES('$name','$email')";
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    <form>
    Name:  <input id="name" type="text" name="myname"/>
    E-Mail: <input id="email" type="text" name="myemail"/>
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    Push into mysql

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A: you havent gave name attribut to your feilds
<input id="name" type="text" />

use instead
<input id="name" type="text" name="myname"/>

and then used like this in your php file
$name=$_POST['myname'];

A: I can see you are having post method issue so we can use $.get instead of $.post and receive the data on $_GET["name"]
I think this is correct solution for now.
Thanks

A: I have checked your code and working correctly, as I can see there might be some issue with database connection or something mysql related. Your code working correct no need to give name or any other parameter in HTML as you have posted and given variable in jquery.
If you want more details you need to provide mysql related config file and table structure so I can check correctly.
Thanks

A: It sounds to me that the values from the inputs aren't getting passed to the php script to insert them.
I have noticed in your code that you pass an oject that contains these values:
$.post('insert.php', {myname: name, myemail: email},

I beleive that you are setting the name of the property (ie. myname) incorrectly. From my understanding,  the javascript is interpriting myname as a variable rather than a name. The correct code would be:
$.post('insert.php', {'myname': name, 'myemail': email},

This would then properly set the POST variables to use in your php code.


Traveling is pretty complicated stuff, if you think about it. It's not just plugging in the destination address, and arriving, on time, with no changes or distractions, to the venue.
There might be a last minute changes to the venue – that you find while you're already on the way, and have to change the route mid-drive.
You might be early for an appointment, and would like to just go to the nearest Starbucks to hang out in the meantime.
You're running low on gas. Will you be able to make it to the venue with gas to spare? Should you fill up now, or can you wait till later?
You just remembered you have to pick up milk on your way home. What's the fastest way to do that, taking into account commute traffic conditions?
Physical GPS devices, or iPhone/Android navigation apps, are a godsend compared to the days of paper-printouts (or worse – AAA maps!). However, they are poor substitutes for a real human in the shotgun seat.
You get a call from your friends while you're driving to a restaurant – the venue has changed. Quick – what do you do? Fumble with your GPS while driving? Ask them for directions and ignore the GPS? Pull by the side of the road or take the next exit?
Your GPS is showing a multi-block view, but you know a quicker route if you could only zoom in a bit. Choice – keep your eye on the road while figuring out how to zoom, or just opt for the non-optimal route?
You missed the last navigational direction spoken by the GPS, and want to hear it again. There's a 'repeat' button on most hardware devices, which is still somewhat scary to try to find, let alone phone-based GPS, where there's probably a soft button tucked behind a menu somewhere.
Designing a navigation user experience isn't easy, of course. This is a device that demands you don't touch it once you're on your way, yet it's pretty useless if you don't.
Have you ever driven from A to B, without having to look at, or manipulate the GPS interface? I thought not.
There isn't even a good place to set the GPS display. If it's set in the dash, you're forcing the driver to look down, away from the traffic line-of-sight, to see what's next. If it's above the dash, as in an after-market GPS device, you have a bright, colorful distraction from what's ahead.
The touch interfaces for such devices are all terrible tradeoffs. You want to minimize the number of buttons so the touch targets are big, but that means that many important functions are hidden behind menus.
The obvious reason first – a voice command driven GPS reduces the number of on-device actions required – but this isn't what would be new or novel.
Siri is 'stateful'. It is able to do multi-part interactions, essentially having a conversation with you in order to complete a task.
Siri understands location very well. It can understand maps, landmarks, searches centered around a certain location – anything but turn-by-turn directions.
Siri has context. It knows exactly where you are right now, where your next appointment is, who it's with, and what the contact details for that person are.
With these in hand, what could you do? Let's wear a Product Manager's hat for a bit, and play with some user stories.
Amit follows directions to get on to 101 N. He's already 20 minutes in, when the phone rings. It's Dan!
Amit hangs up the phone. He's not mad at Dan since Dan actually called about the change in plans.
Amit is already en route to meet Dan.
Amit is already en route to meet Dan. His car indicator tells him he only has 15 miles worth of gas left.
Amit to Siri – 'Siri, how far is the nearest gas station from the destination?
None of these scenarios are inconceivable, and are in fact entirely tractable with existing Siri technology.
If you ever wondered why Apple hasn't yet launched turn-by-turn navigation, this is probably why.
Yes, Apple's contract with Google probably limited their options, but I'm sure there was a number with enough zeroes that Apple could have dangled. In fact, Apple could have bought Navteq when it was on the market, but they passed. They can also switch wholesale to Bing Maps as the map-tile-provider, but they have chosen not to.
It really isn't about who has the tiles – it's about the actual application, the user experience. Siri provides that last puzzle piece needed to truly revolutionize directions on the go.
And as with everything Apple, I can't wait!
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Love the possibilities with Siri. And to think we are just at the cusp of what is possible is amazing. Agree with your assumption about the Apple-Google map agreement which is probably why Apple acquired C3 Technologies, a mapping company, recently to wean itself of Google Maps.
I imagine the possibilities are endless but this does seem like a particularly good one.


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by Chico Buarque Translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin
From one of Brazil's most beloved figures and the prize-winning author of the acclaimed novel Budapest, Spilt Milk is an arresting story of love lost, fortunes squandered, and a family in decline, seamlessly interwoven with several generations of Brazilian history.
Publication Date December 10, 2013
Born in Rio de Janeiro, where he still lives, Chico Buarque is a world-renowned singer and composer. Exiled briefly in Italy during the period of political repression in the late sixties, he has written hundreds of songs—love songs, subversive songs, songs of the people—as well as plays and poetry. His novels Turbulence and Benjamin have been translated into many languages.
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From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love, loss, and longing, played out across multiple generations of one Brazilian family. At once jubilant and painfully nostalgic, playful and devastatingly urgent, Spilt Milk cements Buarque's reputation as a masterful storyteller.
As Eulálio Assumpção lies dying in a Brazilian public hospital, his daughter and the attending nurses are treated—whether they like it or not—to his last, rambling monologue. Ribald, hectoring, and occasionally delusional, Eulálio reflects on his past, present, and future—on his privileged, plantation-owning family, his father's philandering with beautiful French whores, his own half-hearted career as a weapons dealer, the eventual decline of the family fortune; and his passionate courtship of the wife who would later abandon him. As Eulálio wanders the sinuous twists and turns of his own fragmented memories, Buarque conjures up a brilliantly evocative portrait of a man's life and love, set in the broad sweep of vivid Brazilian history.
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"Chico Buarque is at the forefront of a new wave of writing that should make you rethink everything you thought you knew about South American literature. Buarque may be a popular singer, but he's also the real deal, a genuine novelist. When I finished reading his last novel, Budapest, my face ached from smiling at its ingenuity, its audacity, its freshness, its line-by-line effulgence, its irresistible narrative momentum." —Jonathan Franzen
"Buarque, a pillar of the Latin American New Song movement, gives us a fractured, refractive vision from a character seemingly in the foothills of dementia. . . . We find we are in the hands of a master storyteller. It becomes clear why this novel won major literary prizes when first published in Brazil." —Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Lovely details and a fine sense of place . . . . Echoing Sebald's Rings of Saturn . . . . [When] Eulálio talks of meeting his wife . . . his desire for her is instant and extraordinary. . . . There's plenty to like." —Publishers Weekly
"In Spilt Milk [Buarque] confronts the themes that make Brazil squirm, from the stain of slavery to the inferiority complex the country has historically felt when it compares itself to Europe." —Larry Rohter, New York Times
"Deft and moving. . . . At its heart is the idea that everything, our very lives, is an illusion, in which we cling most desperately to that which matters least. Class, status, breeding fade away, and we are left with what we least expect. . . . What's most remarkable about the book, though, is not that it somehow manages to internalize more than 100 years of Brazilian history but, rather, the way it also exists almost outside of history, outside of time." —David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times
"This is somewhat an aspiration toward an aesthetic essence, distilling fiction to what is irreducible. . . . That slip from unreliable recollection to flat-out fantasy showcases Buarque's effortless rhythm—no surprise, as Buarque is an elder statesman of bossa nova, and a legend for his subversive opposition to Brazil's brutal military dictatorship. . . . we can think of Spilt Milk as a prose equivalent of a Barnett Newman painting—the irritating outbursts and hallucinations about his crazy daughter end up being the strips that measures, divides, and shapes the sweep of colorful narratives that pours out of Eulálio. . . . Eulálio ends up being an idol, a wraith who, at 150, is not quite dead and not quite living." —Jimmy So, The Daily Beast
"Buarque is regarded in Brazil as a vital cultural stalwart, an artist who, since the early '60s, continues to examine his country and instill large social change . . . In the protagonist of Eulálio Assumpção, the 100-year-old descendant of Portuguese invaders and the beneficiary of colonialism's vast harvest, Buarque fashions a grudgingly likeable narrator . . . Buarque's resultant story is intricate, and cloudily encased by Eulálio's fragile state. . . . Buarque takes his time with Spilt Milk, a book whose real story sits beautifully obscured by Eulálio's skipping incoherence. . . . Eulálio provides a lens through which to see Brazil's turbulent and complicated history. . . . Spilt Milk is a necessary, often painful examination of not just a man's wounds but also of a country's complicated past." —Lucy Schiller, ZYZZYVA
"A brilliant comic monologue by a Brazilian novelist, in which a hospitalized centenarian curmudgeon on morphine becomes entangled in his own deception-filled life story." —Shelf Awareness
"Musical, charged with sensuality and sparkling with surrealist humor, irresistibly seductive." —La Vanguardia
"A Balzacian saga arranged in best Rio style. In less than 200 pages, it covers more than two hundred years of the history of the Assumpção family, and, through this dynasty of rulers, the history of Brazil." —Livres Hebdo
"Budapest was one of my favorite novels of 2004, and since then I've been waiting, with increasing impatience, for another book by Chico Buarque. I read Spilt Milk in a single night, awed and deeply moved. How did he do it? Buarque has breathed the story of a whole country into a single, unforgettable man with a soul as big as Brazil. But he's also written one of the saddest love stories, and one of the truest." —Nicole Krauss
"If Buarque's new book were a football match, it would be one of those games full of memorable passes, dazzling dribbles, and touches of genius." —Folha de São Paulo
An Amazon Best Book of the Month December 2012
Winner of the Portugal Telecom Award for Literature and the
Winner of the Premio Jabuti for Best Fiction Work
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Hunts in Dreams
by Theodore Weesner
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Being Krystyna
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In 2012 when young Polish immigrant Agnieszka visits fellow countrywoman Krystyna in a Peterborough care home for the first time, she thinks it a simple act of kindness. However, the meeting proves to be the beginning of a life-changing experience. Krystyna's stories about the past are not memories of the good old days but recollections of war-ravaged Europe: The Warsaw Ghetto, Pawiak Prison, Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, and a death march to freedom. The losses and ordeals Krystyna suffered and what she had to do to survive are horrors Agnieszka must confront when she volunteers to be Krystyna's biographer. Will Agnieszka be able to keep her promise to tell her story, and, in this harrowing memoir of survival, what is the message for us today?
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Born in 1954 and raised in Crewe, Cheshire, Carol Browne obtained an honours degree in English language and literature from Nottingham University in 1976. When not writing fiction and non-fiction, Carol works as a self-employed housekeeper and...
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When you've been around Magic long enough to see dozens of sets come and go (or you're a drafting type), how you look at a set changes over time. You're still able to stare at a completed list of cards and appreciate the mechanics, the flavor, the storyline, and all of the other little things that Wizards injects into each new release. Yet while some see the entire spoiler for what it is and others hone in on the very visible / powerful / soon-to-be-expensive cards, your eyes gravitate to the unsung hero cards instead. These are the cards that can (and often do) get overlooked until well past a set's release and only really flourish when used in the thick of battle.
It's not that those pretty and powerful rares are bad. Rather, it's obvious those cards are good. Part of the fun and excitement of exploring a set – especially after you've seen so many come and go – is finding those diamonds in the rough.
Hidden set gems are one of my favorite aspects of trying out new sets, and it really has been since the days when Shivan Dragon was still a highly sought after card. Diabolic Edict, Hull Breach, Vines of Vastwood, even Rhystic Study itself are all just a tiny fraction of card examples that didn't get much initial attention when they came out but went on to have quite a bit of usefulness.
Personally, I love hidden gems. For one, I appreciate cards that serve a worthwhile purpose without costing much money. More importantly, though, is that I like the workhorses of a set. I enjoy the cards that are deceptively efficient and fly under the radar. In trying to discover which ones fit that criteria, it keeps new sets fresh and interesting to me. It also allows cards to serve as having a larger purpose than simply being filler for mythics and tournament staples.
Some sets may only have a small handful of these cards, while other sets are so packed with delicious casual player goodness that it's very easy to miss one worthwhile card while inspecting another. The Shadowmoor / Eventide mini block was one such era. With so many hybrid and multicolor cards to focus on, I am still able to mine that set for new things to use. Still, I still have my personal favorites. And I'm sharing one of them with you now.
Highlights: Commander games are nothing if not shows of big spells and big creatures. Snakeform has the knack for being able to bring low just about any creature on the battlefield. Someone drop down a Blightsteel Colossus or bring their army to 11 with an Avacyn, Angel of Hope? Snakeform has you covered.
Snakeform is as versatile as it is timely. For starters, it's an Instant. This gives you the power to react at just about any given time when something may go awry. Snakeform can be used in combat to swing the advantage the way you want, or it can be used to undermine some crazy combo about to go off. And at a mere three mana, it's easy to sit on the card until it's needed.
Secondly, it makes good use of polymorph effects. Green and Blue generally don't have access to effects that destroy or exile creatures, as it's not really part of their color philosophies. However, it can manipulate creatures into situations that will easily get themselves killed, and Snakeform certainly helps with that. There is nothing more unfortunate for a giant trampler or winged avenger than to be reduced to a tiny snake that will get stepped on by almost anything. Sometimes a Snakeformed creature will revert back to its normal form afterwards, but the vast majority of the time, you're going to use it in such a way that it will die.
Granted, Snakeform does have limitations. It can't deal with the creature if they're untargetable for some reason, and it'll have no effect on +1/+1 counters or other effects that may buff them. It's also more singularly based (unlike it's older cousin Sudden Spoiling or its newer cousin Polymorphist's Jest). That said, the fact that it's also a cantrip easily makes up for this. For just three mana, not only can you shock something down to a range that's generally killable with ease, but you are also drawing a replacement card on top of it. And that often creates a nice tempo swing in your favor.
Snakeform was a great hidden gem during Eventide, and it's still a card that people often don't usually see coming in a Commander game. Probably because they no longer can see over the table.


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NEWS FROM SOFIC: SOCOM to Develop New AI Strategy
TAMPA, Fla. — Special Operations Command plans to craft a new artificial intelligence and machine learning strategy to inform its future spending, according to the organization's chief data officer.
David Spirk Jr. said the blueprint will help SOCOM determine asset allocation for AI as it builds its program objective memorandum for fiscal years 2022 to 2026.
"We're going to start the crafting of a real roadmap," he said May 23 at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida, which is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association. "This will help the command … talk about the investments we need to make and the resources that we're going to need."
All of the SOF components will gather at a symposium in September to begin developing the new strategy, he noted. Spirk told National Defense that the gathering will be limited to the military, which will first establish its goals for investing in AI and machine learning before reaching out to academia and industry for input.
"We're not bringing industry and academia in there yet," he said. "What we're going to do is we're going to establish our requirements, we're going to set what that roadmap is, and then we'll probably have a follow-on [event] where you can talk to everybody about what our conclusions were and the direction that we're going."
SOCOM has not decided if the entire report will be publicly releasable, he added.
The "crux" of the roadmap will be based on a "three-six-five" strategy that has three lines of effort, six focus areas and five collective outcomes, Spirk said.
The lines of effort include having an AI-ready workforce, AI applications and AI outreach, according to his presentation slides.
SOCOM needs to have personnel that are focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives, he noted. The command must show that there is a financial benefit to working in these fields, he said, "and let the nerds get promoted."
"The modern AI-ML workforce is really where I worry about the delivery and sustainment of some of these initiatives," Spirk said. "We need to talk about how do we make this a career opportunity to continue developing what really amounts to ... almost a language-type skill," he added.
The six focus areas of the strategy will be: perception and action; planning and maneuver; communication resilience and cyber protection; recruiting, training and talent management; predictive maintenance, logistics, planning and forecasting; and vendor contract and budget management, according to his presentation slides.
Spirk said technologies within the focus areas could potentially be combined into an algorithmic warfare cross-functional team similar to the one executing Project Maven, a Defense Department initiative focused on using AI and machine learning to sift through drone video footage and identify items of interest to warfighters.
Technologies that SOCOM is eyeing include "artificial reality," intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, and identity management, according to his presentation slides.
"You can see how we're beginning to fuse those technologies, fuse those data sets to build smart systems that are capable of improving our operators' capability to execute successful operations at a rate of precision and speed that has never been accomplished before," Spirk said.
The collective outcomes that the strategy aims to achieve are: established cloud-empowered data and services; ubiquitous use of agile practices in unclassified and classified software development environments; normalized acceleration of procurement; a recognized talent acquisition, development and coaching pipeline; and a codified transition plan to a sustained digitally-enabled future, according to his presentation slides.
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In recent years, the entire country has been focused on its plunging economy. Housing prices are at historic lows, and the jobless rate is at 9.1%. The number is significantly higher in minority communities. The stock market is collapsing, and roughly one in seven Americans are now on food stamps, another historic high.
Though the President and his administration desperately try to shift responsibility to George Bush, to tsunamis, and to bad luck in general, even his most ardent supporters are accepting the fact that it's time to let go. They're beginning to understand that Barack Obama is better suited for a college debate team than for the office of President.
And though international affairs have lately fallen off the radar screen, Obama's performance in that arena has been anywhere from irrelevant to disastrous. He has snubbed our friends, like Great Britain and Israel, and coddled our enemies. He caved to the Russians and scrapped plans for the European missile defense system, turned a blind eye to the Iranian dissidents, virtually abandoned his vow to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, and unilaterally ended the war on terrorism. In response to the terrorist attacks of 2001, then-President Bush sternly announced to the world: "You're either with us or against us." Obama seems to be saying: "You're either with us, or we're with you."
By all measures, he has been an abysmal failure as a leader, and the polls show it.
Yet even as a failed leader, Obama still has, courtesy of his now dismayed electorate, the power to effect the kind of changes he wants, without regard to Congress, the Constitution, or the will of the people. So in a desperate effort to shore up his base, he has thrown a few bones to the special interest groups that still support him. Since he failed to reward them through the legislative process, he simply implemented new rules and regulations to benefit the environmentalist, the gay, and the Hispanic communities.
"Cap and trade" was aimed at reducing greenhouse emissions through higher taxes and more regulation. Early in 2010, the bill faded away after failing to gain any traction in Congress. Later that year, Obama announced that he would not rule out the use of regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to cap carbon emissions without congressional approval. The EPA now regulates carbon emissions from vehicles, and more regulations targeting carbon emissions from coal plants and electric companies are not far behind.
Earlier this year, Obama arbitrarily determined that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional and ordered the Department of Justice to cease defending it.
Then on July 25th, speaking before the National Council of La Raza on immigration reform, Obama humorously announced: "Now I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own..." Maybe it was a just joke, maybe his subconscious dream. But the audience encouraged him, chanting "Yes you can! Yes you can!" Of course he reminded them "That's not how our Democracy functions. That's not how our Constitution is written." Nonetheless, earlier this month, he took that advice of the La Raza audience.
The Dream Act, rejected by the U.S. Senate, would have given amnesty to virtually all illegal aliens who were not engaged in criminal activity. Obama's new policy announced on August 18th by Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano provides essentially the same provisions as the failed legislation.
Napolitano offered, what seemed to be, a reasonable explanation for the new policy. She said it is based on practical considerations, prosecutorial discretion. She explained that, because of limited resources, the government is forced to focus its efforts on deporting only the criminal element.
On the surface, it does sound reasonable. Anyone familiar with our judicial system understands that most law enforcement agents, U.S. Attorneys, and judges have immense workloads, and often use prosecutorial discretion to concentrate on the more significant cases.
But this is vastly different. By issuing a directive from Washington, Obama has actually deprived the U.S. Attorneys and Immigration Judges across the country of their prosecutorial discretion. And by publicly announcing that only the criminal element will be deported, the administration is giving tacit approval to illegal immigration, essentially creating a de facto law. If, for example, a district attorney were to publicly announce that he is focusing his limited resources only on violent criminals, then without fear of prosecution, all other crimes would essentially be legalized.
In this case, the term "prosecutorial discretion" is nothing but a euphemism for executive activism. It is both the realization of the Dream Act, and Obama's dream in action.
Every government has its own laws and individual head of state. One thing that distinguishes the rulers from leaders is that leaders don't defy their legal system or the will of their people. Most Americans are outraged over Obama's blatant abuse of power and his utter disregard for our legislative process. But even those who support his policies should at least be wary of his actions. When our elected President can disregard Congress and the Constitution, and enact law by decree, our republic evolves into an autocracy, and if we allow that to happen, we may all one day experience what life is really like in countries like Cuba or Venezuela.


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10th Anniversary Gala Begins: 6:00 PM
General Admission Doors: 7:00 PM
Show Begins: 8:00 PM
Show Runtime: ~120min, plus intermission
GALA Attire: Formal
The Vaudeville Bar will be open and begin serving at 7:00 PM.
Please join us in celebrating The Levoy Theatre's 10th Anniversary!
10th Anniversary Gala Ticket includes:
•Cast Performances of Disney's Frozen, Jr, Disney's 101 Dalmatians, and You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
REZA: Edge of Illusions • Private Reception • Light Hors D'oeuvres • Cash Bar • Silent Auction
Show-only are tickets are available also for $40.
REZA:
Reza is recognized as one of today's most highly sought-after entertainers in the touring illusion industry, delivering innovative, engaging and spectacular performances worldwide.
Reza's recent tour and television appearances have astounded over 30 million viewers from across the World on networks such as MTV, A&E, The CW, PBS, Reelz, CX, Fuji, and Telemundo as well as live venues including the Alamodome (San Antonio), Philips Arena (Atlanta), Villanova Pavilion (Philadelphia), and Mundo Imperial Forum (Acapulco), to name a few. Reza's new show "Edge of Illusion," is a ground-breaking grand scale production which Reza simultaneously designed to connect with the audience.
Reza began making his presence felt in the world of illusion at a very young age. His focus in the art began at the early age of seven after being inspired by a magic show in his hometown of Brookings, South Dakota. By the age of fourteen, Reza was landing significant gigs performing for resorts and large corporations across the Midwest. Fast forward to present day. The once youth magician prodigy is today one of the fastest rising stars in the industry, with his mind set on changing the world's perception of magic. Over the last decade, Reza has garnered a world-wide buzz and loyal fan base with his passion for creating signature grand-scale illusions.
Reza's unique brand of entertainment has landed him on popular reality shows across 31 countries, including recent US TV appearances on A&E's Duck Dynasty and The CW's Penn & Teller : Fool Us. More than a magic show, Reza infuses stage of the art production elements, masterful comedic timing, and numerous interactive & inspirational moments, allowing the audience to experience the magic first hand. Perhaps Reza's greatest secret is his uncanny ability to communicate his performance art on such a personal level.
Reza is intriguing, engaging, and captivating. He isn't just a magician. He is an entertainer.
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Lawsuit alleges 9-1-1 dispatcher's actions caused man's death
A lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court Monday, Feb. 18, alleges a Canton Township dispatcher's disregard for her duties led to the death of a Belleville man.
Lawsuit alleges 9-1-1 dispatcher's actions caused man's death A lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court Monday, Feb. 18, alleges a Canton Township dispatcher's disregard for her duties led to the death of a Belleville man. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/2019/02/20/lawsuit-canton-9-1-1-dispatchers-actions-led-death/2914109002/
Ed Wright, Hometownlife.com Published 4:17 p.m. ET Feb. 20, 2019
Stephen and Dorothy Greene are pictured in an undated photo. (Photo: submitted)
A Canton Township dispatcher's blatant disregard for her duties led directly to the death of one man and put tens of thousands of other township residents in peril, alleges a lawsuit filed Monday, Feb. 18, in Wayne County Circuit Court.
The lawsuit claims that on March 1, 2018, 69-year-old Belleville resident Stephen Greene died after suffering a massive heart attack at Canton's Heartland rehabilitation facility after as many as 13 calls to 9-1-1 went unanswered.
Attorney Jonathan Marko, who is representing Greene's widow Dorothy, said information he has compiled proves that Canton emergency dispatcher Rachel Rowell knowingly muted the volume on the township's 9-1-1 emergency line "because she was having a bad day".
A second Canton dispatcher, Joshua Choroba, was also cited in the $25 million lawsuit because Marko claims Choroba neglected to turn the volume up after he took over for Rowell during a shift change.
Marko said that a third person working in the dispatch center overheard Rowell's "bad day" comment.
"Throughout my career as an attorney, I have never seen or heard about a case that is as negligent as this," said Marko. "Not only did Mr. Greene die as a result of this negligence, but who knows how many other people's lives were put in peril during the close to hour-and-a-half the emergency line's volume was turned down."
Marko asserted that the township has been uncooperative regarding the post-death investigation.
"They have neglected to provide us with even the most basic documents," he said.
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Marko said that he has compiled information from a heart expert who will testify that the delay in immediate care to Greene directly resulted in his death.
While Canton Township is not a defendant in the lawsuit, township legal counsel Kristin Kolb responded to the incident in a press release on Wednesday, Feb. 20.
"First and foremost, the Charter Township of Canton extends its deepest sympathies to the family of Mr. Stephen Greene," the release stated. "The missed 9-1-1 calls were reported to a supervisor the same morning of occurrence. Upon receiving the report of the incident the Canton Public Safety Department immediately launched an internal investigation into the actions of the named former employees.
"The investigation quickly determined one of the named former employees turned down the volume on the 9-1-1 telephone speaker causing the calls to be missed leading to an 8-minute delay in service."
Personnel present at Heartland the night of the incident were not equipped to handle a life-threatening scenario, thus the repeated calls to 9-1-1.
"Heartland is a rehabilitation facility, not a hospital," Marko stated. "This happened during the early-morning hours of March 1, so there were nurses present, obviously, but no doctors.
"The sad part is that Mr. Greene was scheduled to be discharged from Heartland the next day. To this day, a year later, his widow is heartbroken and mourning. This was a man with a wife, a daughter and grandchildren."
According to Kolb, Rowell and Choroba were suspended from the department after the internal investigation revealed significant policy violations and evidence of possible criminal conduct.
"This investigation was submitted for review by the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and the Michigan State Police," the release stated. "Subsequent to the independent investigation, the prosecutor's office charged Rachel Rowell with willful neglect of duty.
"The actions of the responsible named former employees are inconsistent with the training, policies and practices of the Canton Department of Public Safety. Additionally, corrective measures have been put in place, and further measures continue to be evaluated by the department to prevent an incident such as this from occurring again."
Canton township's dispatch center received 142,375 phone calls, which included 25,536 9-1-1 calls, according to the township's statement.
"As a CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) accredited agency, the Canton Department of Public Safety holds its employees to the highest of standards," Kolb concluded. "Those responsible for this incident have been held accountable, and the public can continue to have full confidence in the professional delivery of service by the Canton Police and Fire Departments."
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You'll Be Sickened When You Hear How GOPer Thinks Women Who Have Abortions Should Be Punished
The subject of abortion has been controversial for years. Many people are very vocal about their support for or against abortion being legal. An author and journalist named Kevin D. Williamson has landed in some hot water for an article that he wrote for the National Review. Williamson is pro-life and in his statements he said that people who identify themselves as liberals or who are young do not have the intelligence to vote and should be restricted from doing so.
Williamson cited the fact that Lena Dunham who is a famous liberal who is pro-choice has used her star power and celebrity to try to get young people to vote. He went on to say that Dunham actually likes that people are having abortions.
Williamson is a conservative and does not believe that anyone should be allowed to have an abortion. He has also stated that while rape and incest is horrible, that women should also be denied the right to abortions in these circumstances.
If abortions were deemed illegal by the government then Williamson has suggested that women who do get abortions should be executed by being hanged. This basically negates a pro-life stance when a person is being killed as well.
He stated that he believed that the taking of an unborn life justifies the punishment because he had seen someone hung for the crime of a homicide. Many conservatives like Williamson believe that abortion is murdering children. His remarks have yet again churned up the abortion debate in the country.
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International marketing and advertising festival WHITE SQUARE is one of the largest creative festivals in communications industry of Eastern Europe and the main event in the sphere of marketing and advertising in Belarus.
On April 17-19, 2019 WHITE SQUARE will be held in Minsk for the eleventh time, traditionally preserving best festival traditions and supporting innovations and major industrial trends.
The organizer of the Festival is Association of Communications and Marketing Agencies of Belarus ACMA.
WHITE SQUARE is included into creativity indexes of ad agencies by Association of Communications and Marketing Agencies of Belarus; All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition; Association of Communications Agencies of Russia in all segments: advertising, branding, digital, marketing services; Estonian Association of Marketing and Communications Agencies (ETKAL); creativity index of Central Asia and Azerbaijan; effectiveness index of Association of Communications Agencies of Russia.
In 2016 the Festival was first attended by representative of global creativity index The Gunn Report who named WHITE SQUARE one of the largest festivals in Eastern Europe with high level of organization, jury and entries.
Promoting creativity, WHITE SQUARE is a business-oriented Festival that includes two main blocks – contest of advertising projects and business forum on the exchange of advanced international experience and innovations in the industry of marketing and communications.
Annually the Festival gathers the representatives of 25+ countries of Europe and the CIS. 1000+ entries in the contest program, 700+ accredited delegates in business forum, including both largest international and local advertisers and brightest representatives of professional European creative community.
Business forum takes place within three days and includes 70+ activations: master classes, seminars, show lectures, discussion panels, talk shows held by headliners of the leading communications forums in Europe and the CIS.
Call for entries is open during four months prior to the start of work of international jury – six teams of experts with worldwide recognition in advertising and a number of industrial awards, including Gold Lions. At the first stages of entry submission participants are provided with significant financial bonuses.
The culmination of the Festival is Gala Awards Ceremony that is held in the best traditions of European ad festivals. Winning entries get promotion on the territory of Europe and the CIS, amounting to more than 30 publications in industrial online-media.
Special place in WHITE SQUARE's program belongs to parties held in inspiring atmosphere of creative thought, in company of great advertising minds from all around the world, with variety of opportunities to establish useful business contacts, lots of unexpected surprises and treats by famous alcoholic and nonalcoholic Belarusian brands.
XI White Square will be held in Minsk in Cultural and Business Center "House of Moscow", 86 Kommunisticheskaya str.


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MaRcH iS HoT!
by Chelsea Leader Gold
In a few weeks we'll have seen the Earth spin around the sun for 1 full cycle while we've been hunkered down inside to keep ourselves and one another safe from a horrendous virus that's ravaged too much.
More surface but also worth noting, it's interrupted many opportunities to celebrate the little special moments that mark our being alive. We think (we hope) we've, as a collective, learned to count our blessings for all we DO have but also for the excuses we have to celebrate in the ways we can.
You'll see on the Campowerment schedule this March that we've packed the house with said excuses. Every month hits high highs within our virtual community of expert-led programs powered by play, but March has s'more.
On the cal are game-changing sessions that create the space — the playground, really — for women to learn, connect and grow — AND some special events, like…
A Ritual Burn for International Women's Day,
A legacy extravaganza for the (the late) Grandy's 85th birthday,
a dance party that acts as an all-encompassing celebration for any milestone you didn't get to ring in because of COVID since this time last year,
AND two new rituals we think you're going to love
On International Women's Day (March 8) at 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST we'll collect your worries and torch that sh*t, to lighten the load for you to carry, as you take on a stronger stance against inequality and bias. Open to all womxn. Free.
If you're not a member & you want to join, sign up here!
MEMBERS: Add this to your schedule, here!
On Grandy's birthday (March 11) at 8pm EST/5pm PST, we'll continue celebrating the best in all of us, with an honorary journaling sesh in Circle format — so we can deeply reflect and connect — and we'll share memories of a woman who really understood that the Western woman would save the world. Open to all womxn. Free.
On March 19 — right before Spring springs upon us — at 9:30pm EST/6:30pm PST we'll sing happy birthday to literally everyone alive who shows up (because by now we've all had birthdays in quarantine…and some people are going on their second one), we'll toast any anniversary, retirement, baby being born or whatever occasion you tell us you're there to honor. Members only, but you can join us with a 2-week free trial, here!
And we'll introduce two new traditions for members of Campowerment.com:
(1) A Monthly Milestone Circle *and*
(2) A much-anticipated monthly Book Club (hosted by Campower Ranger Cathy Mudd, inspired by her shared love of books with Grandy).
Whew! Hope to catch you 'round the campfire in March!
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Her skillset rounds out her partner's in her focus on impact. Chelsea launched her career in brand strategy and digital storytelling for some kick-ass movements (TOMS, NBC, The Nature Conservancy, 360i, Google). She cut her teeth by shaping brand identities for other companies while making a side-hustle of inventing this one with her family, thrilled at the idea of one day growing a team to have the privilege of evolving it.Chelsea moved into a leadership role for Campowerment in 2014, laying the foundation for the community that exists here today. Alongside some of her favorite humans on the planet, she comes at the business with a fresh Millennial perspective, out to prove that her generation actually cares about REAL connection.
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