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JESUS PLUS NOTHING!
Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people of Israel did not answer him so much as a word.
~1 Kings 18:21
In the 9th century B.C.E., when drought covered the land of Israel, a weak King Ahab and a wicked Queen Jezebel ruled. The prophet Elijah was moved to confront Israel's double-minded prophets on Mount Carmel, asking them to make a decision. Their decision was not about what to have for breakfast that morning, but whether they wanted to eat at all in the future!
Like Joshua before him, Elijah spoke of the need to choose whom they would serve - and to choose wisely! Under Torah laws, to choose idolatry would mean a death sentence.
God's challenge to the New Testament Church is the same. Revival tarries when, like the church in Thyatira, the Bride of Christ tolerates Jezebel: compromising herself with sin and yielding her flesh to moves of religious spirits instead of the movements of the Spirit of God. Throughout the Bible, the message is the same: it's Jesus plus nothing!
Today, a narrow window of time remains for the Body of Christ to determine where she stands. If God is God, it is time to stand for righteousness and truth.
If the dead works of religion, compromise, and control are more appealing, then I believe we will miss the pure revival fires of the Lord, who still desires to be Head of His church. The overcomers who hold fast to Jesus in these end times comprise a remnant-Bride who will ultimately receive authority over the nations. (Revelation 2:18-29.)
ELIJAH BUILDS AN ALTAR
After giving the false prophets time to prove their point and summon their (nonexistent) gods, Elijah demonstrates, rather than teaches, how to summon the Living God who answers by fire.
For all their raving, dancing, and prophesying, Jezebel's followers cannot initiate a move of God! In a dramatic and even unified effort which includes 12 hours straight of prayer and worship, these self-appointed prophets cannot create fire; "...there was no voice, no one answered, and no one paid attention." (1 Kings 18:26)
Elijah summons the people to him and begins to build an authentic foundation for the altar of God. Noting in prayer that it is at God's word that he builds, Elijah takes 12 stones, one for each of Israel's tribes, rebuilds the altar "in His Name," lays out the sacrifice, and begins to pour pitchers of water on something that he hopes will burn.
This is an unthinkable, foolish way to create a fiery "move" of God! No one lights a match and expects soaked wood to burn!
But it works.
Fire, which usually burns upward, descends downward from heaven and consumes not only the sacrifice, but the wood, the stones, the dust, and even the water in the trench! Truly God has done "exceeding abundantly more" than Elijah could have thought or imagined! (Ephesians 3:20)
DIVIDED DEVOTION
As one commentator writes, God is not interested in "divided devotion." Like an unfaithful spouse, 9th century Israel wanted to keep both their marriage partner and their illicit lover! The Lord has a legitimate claim to the exclusive devotion of His Bride. He will not tolerate lukewarmness any more than He will tolerate Jezebel. (Revelation 2:4 & 2:20.)
Preacher Charles H. Spurgeon put it this way in the 1800's: "How many more dead sermons do you want? How much more drought? How much more sickness? How many more graves for your families? The people of God lacked the courage to answer Elijah, just as many people today lack the courage to either defend their position or to change their minds."**
Sadly, Spurgeon's words are still true.
THIS IS A TEST!
Just as Elijah tested the false prophets at Mount Carmel, so I believe the Body of Christ is being tested right now. The Lord is interested to see whether we will continue to build on altars of human desires, emotions, and flesh rather than on the sure foundation of Jesus Christ. Elijah's test was sponsored and initiated by the the Holy Spirit, not from a soulish need for self-justification or self-promotion.
In a vision this morning, I saw the throne of God, where flashing lightnings were being combined and then released in explosive power that was given to believers positioned before Him in prayer. I heard the Father ROARING over His people like a lion; it was a roar of justice and love and such a passionate desire to see His children return to Him and experience ALL that He is! Yes, He is a jealous God! His commands are not burdensome; His desire is always to bless and increase us as we come to Him. But we must come! Fully come!
The next glory-moves of God will come as a result of the "power that works in us" by the Holy Spirit, not by any works of the flesh! To build according to what we want, the needs we have, or anything other than the foundation that God is now laying for His church is to plan to fail.
It's Jesus plus nothing. And that, dear friends, is everything!
*David Guzik; Enduring Word Commentary on 1 Kings; www.EnduringWord.com
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The area that would one day become known as Guntersville began as a crossroads early habitation, settlement, and trade by Paleo-Indians approximately 12,000 years ago. These first inhabitants were followed by a variety of tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokee, Alabama, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Koasati, and Mobile. DeSoto arrived in there area in 1540, marking him as one of the earliest European visitors. Around the late 1700s, the Cherokees began referring to this specific area as Kusa-Nunnahi, meaning Creek Path.
In 1785, the man whom Guntersville would earn its name from and the first permanent white settler arrived to the area. John Gunter came from the Carolinas just ten years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence to trade with the Indians. Eventually, he married the daughter of the local Cherokee chief and was given land to raise a family. By the time John Gunter passed away in 1835, he left behind him a large family and a fortune in land, money, and slaves. His children and grandchildren became prominent figures in both the Indian Territory and the land that was then a part of the State of Georgia. Probably the most well known of his descendents is John Gunter's grandson, the noted humorist Will Rogers.
In 1813, General Andrew Jackson passed through the area in order to recruit Cherokees to help him fight the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Between 1818 and 1820, John Gunter's son, Edward, established a ferry across the river. As the small village grew, it became known as Gunter's Landing. John Gunter owned the first painted house in the new county, and incidentally the first house in Gunter's landing. The first educational facility in Gunter's Landing was a mission school built by the Presbyterians for the Indians called "Old Missionary". In late 1830, Gunter's Landing became involved with the tragic removal of Indians. By 1838, the John Benge Detachment of more than 1,000 Cherokees crossed the river in Guntersville on their way to the Oklahoma Territory on the Trail of Tears.
In 1836, Guntersville received its newest resident Louis Wyeth, a young lawyer from Pennsylvania. Louis Wyeth would be responsible for developing the town and establishing the county seat. Additionally, he was a renowned author and surgeon and founded one of New York City's largest hospitals before going to become the president of the American Medical Association. It was through Wyeth's efforts that Guntersville was incorporated by State Legislature in August of 1847. During this period, settlers slowly arrived migrating south from the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky. These settlers were primarily of Scotch, Irish and English descent looking for work.
When the Civil War broke out, Guntersville was hit hard. Guntersville was practically destroyed by Union raids and cannon bombardments. One building to survive was the home of Colonel Montgomery Gilbreath, which remains a historic attraction to this day. After the Civil War was over, Guntersville began to grow as a river town. In the early 1890s, Guntersville grew even further with the arrival of the much sought-after railroad, making the town into a major port practically overnight. Guntersville was mainly used for commercial and passenger steamboats traveling between Knoxville and Decatur.
In 1939, a large group of people were brought in to build the Tennessee Valley Authority Dam nine miles below Guntersville. With the completion of the Guntersville Dam, the water surrounded Guntersville, making it into a peninsula city.
In 1940, Guntersville's population was at 4,398, but by 1950 it had grown to 5,253. By 1960, Guntersville was home to 6,592. Today, Guntersville is now an inland port city on the Louisville & Nashville Railway, with US Highway 431 running through the city. Guntersville is served by the Huntsville and Gadsden airports. To find out more about Guntersville's rich history, please visit: http://www.lakeguntersville.org/pages.asp?p=4.
In addition to Guntersville's excellent Parks and Recreation Department, Guntersville offers a vast array of quality recreational activities for you and your family to enjoy. Located on Alabama's largest lake with a 950 mile shoreline, Guntersville offers exceptional bass fishing, annual fishing tournaments, water skiing, boating, jet skiing, sailing, swimming and more! Lake Guntersville State Park is home to an 18 hole championship golf course, 322 site campground and a deluxe Lodge-Convention center. Guntersville's multi-purpose center is perfect for senior citizens with daily nutrition programs, educational activities, weekly recreation programs, health screening, arts and crafts and transportation. Guntersville also boasts four private campgrounds, a bowling center, putt-putt golf course, and three public golf courses.
If you're looking to head indoors, why not check out Guntersville's rich array of Native American and Civil War history exhibits at the Guntersville Museum and Cultural Center? If you're just feeling like curling up with a good book, the Guntersville Public Library offers a full range of opportunities for the most inquisitive minds. Residents also enjoy Guntersville's local theatre group, The Whole Backstage, who put on a musical production each summer and a season of plays throughout the year.
The City of Guntersville is home to a variety of fun events throughout the year, always offering you and your family something new and exciting to experience! From holiday events to farmers markets and community gatherings, there's something for people of all ages and interests. Please visit Guntersville's official event calendars to discover just a few of these family-friendly events and activities that await you in the upcoming months.


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Oregon is introducing a bill to regulate marijuana like alcohol. It's 2013 and Oregon is going to try to regulate weed like alcohol. Nice job everyone. Maybe we should do something federally, as a whole, rather than making state laws that won't be recognized when it comes down to it.
California wants to get in on this cannabis legalization thing. Read about it here.
Oh yea, and don't forget about Florida. They also would like to legalize the weed stuffs.
It's about time the DEA's budget is getting cut, but if you think about it, everyone who has a budget is getting it cut. We're in an economic rut, haven't you heard? Wasn't their budget way over blown to begin with?
If you want to get your mind blown, check out the Charles Grob interview on this episode of Tangentially Speaking.
Check out the whole story about Dr. Juan Sanchez-Ramos over on Neatorama. This is such a cool story.
This is why you should really be more careful about who you send your weed to. They might not be so cool about it. Fed Ex probably shouldn't have given out her address, but you know, mistakes happen.
Is there such a thing as an anti marijuana group who actually tells the truth? I'm pretty sure that's an oxymoron or something. Check out this ridiculousness over on Reason.com. You should also check out the Smart Approaches site.
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King Princess got a haircut inspired by Joe Jonas in Camp Rock
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King Princess once got a haircut inspired by Joe Jonas in 'Camp Rock'.
The 'Let Us Die' singer - whose real name is Mikaela Straus - watched the Disney Channel Original Movie as a child and wanted the mop top sported by the middle Jonas Brother in the film where he starred opposite Demi Lovato.
The 24-year-old musician - who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns - told Interview magazine: "I was in the fifth grade. I had just watched 'Camp Rock'. And I printed a photo of Joe Jonas on my mom's printer and brought it into a salon and was like, 'This haircut." And I got home and I was like, "Oh f***. This was a poor choice." Everyone already thought I was a d***. So I was like, "F***. Now I've really shot myself in the foot.' So, I wore a hat for a whole year while it grew."
They added: "Now that would be a dated reference."
Mikaela cited themselves as the probable "crown" holder of bad haircuts inspired by pop culture figures, something they noticed while onstage.
They said: "I probably took that crown. I can't even tell you how many people have my haircut at my shows. I was performing and I looked out in the audience, and there was a full King Princess cosplay situation happening."
The 'Hold On Baby' hitmaker called their episode of the Audible podcast 'Origins' - which explores their life and work - "kind of crazy".
Mikaela said: "I felt very emotional listening to it and thinking about myself as a kid, to revisit those parts of your life and then to revisit it on a public platform. There's parts of our childhood we all kind of want to be like, 'I'm not that person anymore. I've grown, I'm so different.' Childhood can be very touchy. And then to have a verbal document of it is kind of crazy."
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"Internal investigators"? Is that like my right eye "investigating" my left eye? Ha, ha! The police "investigating" themselves! That's what Donald Trump wants to do.
The internal investigators should be brought before a citizen commission to determine their credibility in further law enforcement investigations. Also, the DA should bring forth charges against the officers for falsifying evidence, malicious arrest, violation of civil rights, abuse of process, and false imprisonment.
No way that would have happened if there were 4 white guys in the car.
Dirty little piggy 🐷 🐷 🐖 planting some weed in a black man's car… I bet you that was the cops joint that he was smoking earlier that day. This is why blue lives don't matter. These pigs need to be sent to a pig shed where they belong.
Dirty pigs need to be removed from power, just like all the other racist extremist in our government.
NO police misconduct because this is what they are trained to do… but further training will be administered to avoid being caught next time.
Racist, crooked cops is nothing new.
Hey lady on the local news crying about your cop husband who just got shot. This is why I ain't cryin for you but instead feeling joy over it.
Cops who patrol urban areas are not to be trusted by any minority. Period.
They will out right lie to justify and secure an arrest. I don't trust any of them. Never have. Never will.
The police shouldn't be as pressured to make arrests. Yes, they should arrest people who are breaking the law, but they shouldn't arrest people to fill a quota. That's when stuff like this happens.
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Vako leads San Jose Earthquakes to California Clasico shutout
San Jose Earthquakes score rousing 3-0 win over Galaxy in front of record crowd at Stanford Stadium
Tommy Thompson scored a goal Saturday to help the San Jose Earthquakes beat the LA Galaxy in the California Clasico at Stanford Stadium. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2019 at 9:47 pm | UPDATED: June 30, 2019 at 4:36 am
STANFORD — Valeri "Vako" Qazaishvili scored early and the San Jose Earthquakes held on to beat the LA Galaxy 3-0 in the California Clasico on Saturday night.
Vako's pass was blocked by a Galaxy player back to him and he sent a low hard shot from outside the area into the left corner in the 11th minute. Vako scored the Earthquakes' last six goals in all competitions.
Shea Salinas broke Vako's streak in the 82nd minute, settling a long pass from Vako and firing it inside the left post. Three minutes later, Tommy Thompson's cross was redirected into the goal by the Galaxy's Perry Kitchen to cap the scoring.
Daniel Vega preserved his fifth shutout of the season with a diving save to deny Efrain Alvarez in the 89th minute. The Earthquakes (7-6-4) improved their unbeaten streak to five.
There were 50,850 fans on hand at Stanford Stadium, setting an attendance record for the rivalry.
The Galaxy dropped to 10-7-1.
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Joe's parents and brother moved to Dunedoo approximately 50 years ago and acquired three farming properties in total over that period.
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Joe sadly passed away in June 2020 at the age of 78. He was a farmer all his life and son of Maltese immigrants, Grazio and Grazia Axiak. Joe, his brother Andy, and parents moved to 'Liamena' Dunedoo in 1973 - a 2000-acre property in western NSW.
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Twenty years ago the Idaho Statesman wrote a groundbreaking collection of editorials that concluded it was time to remove four dams on the lower Snake River to save taxpayers money and restore endangered wild salmon.
This summer five Northwest lawmakers have introduced legislation that would turn the clock back on the limited progress that's been made during the ensuing two decades.
The following Reader's View by IRU Executive Director Kevin Lewis was published in the Statesman today, July 28. Click here to read Lewis's reflections at the Statesman's website. Otherwise, read on.
Twenty years ago this month, The Idaho Statesman helped nudge the conversation about wild salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest toward lower Snake River dam removal.
On July 20, 1997, the Statesman launched a series of editorials discussing the steady decline of wild Idaho salmon and the impact of four lower Snake River dams. The paper's conclusion: removing the four dams would restore salmon and made economic sense. "Four dams in Washington are holding Idaho's economy hostage," the Statesman concluded.
Recent economic analysis shows that the numbers have only tipped further toward dam removal in the ensuing 20 years. For every dollar spent on these four low-value, high-0cost dams, taxpayers receive just 15 cents in return. Meanwhile, salmon returns to Idaho this year are likely as low as at any time in the past 40 years.
Idaho Rivers United applauds both the Statesman's 1997 investigation and conclusion along with the current series of salmon-focused articles by reporter Rocky Barker, who is taking a fresh look at the challenges and opportunities related to Idaho's salmon. Hopefully, Barker's articles will help stimulate new discussions and further advance the notion that Northwesterners have to do more to return these species from the brink.
Unfortunately, there are those who would do less and, moreover, work to impose their will on Idaho. Five Northwest elected leaders recently introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives seeking to block a federal court order that requires increased protections for Idaho's endangered salmon.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and four other Washington and Oregon congressional representatives. The legislation is aimed at an April decision by a federal judge that requires federal, state and tribal fisheries experts to work together to improve conditions in the Columbia and Snake rivers for young salmon migrating to the ocean.
Idaho's iconic salmon have been teetering on the brink of extinction for more than 25 years with little progress toward recovery and, during that time, federal courts have repeatedly instructed federal agencies to follow the law and create a sound plan to prevent extinction of these fish.
Instead, these representatives think it is good government to bypass our nation's judicial branch and impose their misguided will on the people of Idaho. Would they be so cavalier if these were Oregon and Washington fish?
It is possible to restore the lower Snake River, recover our salmon and steelhead, protect agriculture and build a more robust regional economy if folks sit down in good faith to work out solutions without being bullied by out-of-state interests.
In recent decades hundreds of dams have been removed across America, including several large-scale dam removals in the Pacific Northwest. Nobody regrets the dam removals that have already occurred. In fact, they are universally celebrated as success stories for fish, local economics and quality of life.
Here in Idaho our people and salmon deserve better than to have the clock turned backward on their protections. McMorris Rodgers' bill should be dead on arrival.
Kevin Lewis is the executive director of Idaho Rivers United.


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(BEDFORD) - The Bedford Board of Works opened proposals from DLZ, RQAW Corp, A&F Engineering and Bernardin, Lachmueller and Associates for different parts of Bedford's Stellar projects.
Those projects including the moving of the Milwaukee Depot to a lot on J Street and establishing the Limestone Trail or figure-eight loop in the downtown area that will link to the rails-to-trails project.
Marla Jones, business and community development director says the proposals will be sent to INDOT for scoring and then the city will be notified about their findings.
In other business the board:
* Accepted the quote and authorized Mayor Shawna Girgis to enter into a contract with Key Research for the City of Bedford to conduct an Income Survey. According to Trena Carter, of ARa, the survey is needed to develop income guide lines for the Stellar Stonegate Art and Education Center.
* Approved the adoption of a new clothing allowance policy and guidelines for Bedford City Utilities, the Street Department and the Planning and Zoning Departments.
* Approved a change in the traffic schedule. Now the recommendation will be sent to the city council for approval. Bedford Police Chief Dennis Parsley and Street Department Commissioner Dan Kirk recommended that the north south alley between 6 ½ Street and 7 ½ Street and Lincoln Avenue and O streets be made a yield onto 7 ½ Street and 7 ½ Street be made a stop onto both Lincoln Avenue and O Street.
* Approved the hiring of Cody Turner as a part-time dispatcher for the Bedford Police Department. Turner replaces Steven Haley who retired in August. They also approved the promotion of Jim McCreery to dispatch supervisor and Stephanie Fitzgerald to IDACS Coordinator.
* Approved the placement of a passenger loading zone at 633 T Street. Rich Vonderharr and his wife, who are both legally blind, requested the loading zone. Chief Parsley says currently because the Vonderharr's don't drive, othesr are parking in front of their home, which leaves no room for the TASC bus or others to drop off or picking up the couple. The request will now go to the council for an ordinance approval.
* Approved for Bernardin, Louchmueller and Associates to enter into an agreement with the city utilities to oversee the improvements for the Spider Creek storm sewer project in the U Street channel.
* Approved the revision for the Transit Drug and Alcohol Policy. TASC Director Melanie Hacker says the revision is required by the FDA and INDOT. TASC has a zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol use.


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David Locke, ACNC's assistant commissioner for charity services
An Australian digital service launched by the country's charities regulator has won an award for its accessibility, after achieving 99% adoption rates amongst its target audience of charity board members – a group with an average age of 60.
In November 2013, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) launched the Charity Portal: a self-service digital interface permitting charities to complete their mandatory reporting and update their public information online. Awarding the project a national 'Digital Transformation' Public Sector Innovation Award, judges praised it for achieving for "broad-based buy-in and an innovative approach to engagement with older Australians who dominate the charitable sector."
The ACNC's assistant commissioner for charity services, David Locke, told Global Government Forum: "In 2015 over 90% of charities completed their reporting on time – a result far beyond what is achieved internationally by charity regulators." Many board members had never interacted with government online before the system's introduction, he said, and 20% of them are aged over 70 – but good service design and an education programme involving seminars and advice services had led to almost universal participation.
Locke argued that it's important not to "make assumptions about people's capacity to use digital." The key to success, he argued, is building the right service: "Our message to civil servants around the world would be to make it as easy as possible for charities to interact with government so they can spend more time delivering their services to the community. If the system works and digital is the easiest route then people will use it."
By including features such as pre-filling the form with the previous year's answers for basic contact information as well as more complex information such as financial reporting, activities or beneficiaries, the portal saves time and effort in reporting to government, he added.
Another challenge was to provide a secure login: "Due to the structure of the data and the requirement for a single 'address for service' contact, we were only able to provide one user account for each charity – even though many charities have boards of between three and 12 people who need to access the portal." Locke's team is now "working towards developing an individual 'sign-in' for board members, which would link all the charities associated with the board member in one Portal entry point."
This, he added, "will also support professional advisers to charities, such as lawyers or accountants, who complete reporting to the ACNC on behalf of a charity and allow them to hold a single user account for all the charities they represent rather than separate accounts for each charity."
Locke moved to Australia five years ago, having led the Charity Commission for England and Wales. "I came here to help advise the government on setting up the ACNC, and have been here since then."
One major challenge when the ACNC first started operating in 2012 was the sheer amount of information that had to be analysed: "On the day we opened our doors, the ACNC inherited 56,000 paper-based charity records dating back 20 years, which had never been verified or updated.
"Locating these organisations, establishing whether they still exist and updating this information was a big challenge."
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Is Academe Now Privileging Click-bait Over Rigor?
Portia Roelofs is an LSE fellow in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics, where she obtained her doctorate. She works on the politics of development with a focus on Southwest Nigeria. Her website is www.portiaroelofs.com. Max Gallien is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. He works on the political economy of North Africa with a focus on informal economies.
Earlier this month, development studies journal Third World Quarterly published an article that, by many common metrics used in academia today, will be the most successful in its 38-year history. The paper has, in a few days, already achieved a higher Altmetric Attention Score than any other TWQ paper. By the rules of modern academia, this is a triumph. The problem is, the paper is not.
This article by Portia Roelofs and Max Gallien originally appeared on the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog as <href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/09/19/clickbait-and-impact-how-academia-has-been-hacked/">"Clickbait and impact: how academia has been hacked" and is reposted under the Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0).
Of course, none of this is accidental. It is a well-planned provocation, an argument that feeds off the criticism it is designed to create, and references it as evidence of the prevailing "orthodoxy." If this sounds familiar, this is exactly the same strategy with which the alt-right movement has hacked its way into public debates. The article even replicates its trademark victimhood and brazen rewriting of history by claiming that colonialism has had a "bad name" for the last hundred years, and thereby backdating what the author perceives to be a politically correct obsession to a time when colonialism was still official government policy in many states.
Surely, these views are not entirely new. That they exist is not shocking. We are slowly getting used to the alt-right. However, that these ideas and strategies, distilled into academic writing, not only get published but immediately jump to the top of some of the key metrics we use to identify success, influence, and "impact" in academia – this is chilling. Because this means not only that academia can be hacked, but that it already has been.
This article represents the culmination of broader trends in academia: from marketization, to impact, to the promotion of artificially adversarial debate. From the late 1990s, universities have been under pressure to operate more like businesses. Rather than existing in their own comfy bubble, politicians demanded that universities face the bracing winds of the market and earn their keep. Students became consumers, big companies increasingly set the agenda for publicly funded research, and academics were to be subject to the same accountability and incentives as, say, a call-center worker. Academics have to publish. In order to rank articles against each other, the world of academia had to create a universal way of quantifying how good an article is: hence the citation index. Indexing platforms like Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar record how many other articles or books cite your article. The idea is that if a paper is good, it is worth talking about. The only thing is, citation rankings count positive and negative references equally.
But this style of quantifying how good an article is pales in comparison to what has been done under the "impact agenda." Initially spurred by the desire for professors to reach out and engage with the world outside the "ivory tower," impact came to be measured by blogs, page views, download stats, and tweets. Academia is replicating the structure of the mass media. Academic articles are now evaluated according to essentially the same metrics as Buzzfeed posts and Instagram selfies. In fact, the impact factor is an especially blunt example of online metrics: Reddit, Youtube, and Imgur at least allow users to up-vote or down-vote posts.
The result is to dilute the idea of impact to simply publicity. And as we all know, all publicity is good publicity. (It is worth noting that Gilley lists his "scholarly impact metrics" on his CV above any of his publications.) And it's deadly serious: how many likes your article gets is not simply a matter of vanity but is ingrained into the system of academic rewards and respects; whether when applying for promotions, jobs, or research funding. If your job prospects depend on clicks, you'd be stupid not to write clickbait.
But it's not just an obsession with rankings and hits that leads academics to write extreme and reductive articles, and academic journals to publish them. The Gilley article reflects another, equally pernicious trend in academia. Increasingly academic debates are reduced to an adversarial "for and against." This too mirrors movements in the news media. In search of a myopic idea of "balanced debate," browbeaten news shows bow to the idea that the truth is always "somewhere in the middle" of two extreme opposing views. This renders actual progress in debates impossible. It creates false dissent on issues which are overwhelmingly sites of consensus, like climate change, and it stops debates from developing beyond their starting premise.
When academia is thus framed as a confrontation, it favours confrontational people. This has gendered and racialised effects. We live in a world where young boys are conditioned to be louder and more outspoken than girls; where "stereotype threat" means that black people have to be on guard against being seen to confirm stereotypes that they are aggressive. In universities, this translates into departments which are perhaps gender-balanced in number, but where men's work is systematically rewarded at a higher rate, and black and minority ethnic academics are almost invisible. The sort of sensational articles that get hits – like Gilley's – are those for which white men are lauded, while everyone else is told to get on and do some proper work.
Sometimes, a system reaches a point when its output is so surprising, so concerning, so against its function and mission, that a fundamental rethinking of the system itself becomes imperative, that we need to say "OK, let's stop everything and figure out where we went wrong." Academia serves truth and social justice best when it acts as a counterweight to the hysteria of the 24-hour news cycle. The success of articles like Gilley's show that, unless something changes, good research may go the way of good journalism: all that is solid dissolves into clickbait.
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Rawle & Henderson attorneys Claudio J. DiPaolo and Christian M. Stein presented a seminar on "Insurance Coverage of Workers' Compensation Claims" to members of Sompo Japan Insurance Company in Charlotte, NC, on August 5, 2015. The seminar included a discussion on performing a thorough workers' compensation coverage analysis, focusing on the insurers' and insureds duties and offering case examples to ensure claims are accurately processed. Click here to view a copy of their PowerPoint presentation.
Claudio J. DiPaolo, Chair of Rawle & Henderson LLP's Workers' Compensation Section, has focused his practice in the area of workers' compensation for over 15 years. He has defended workers' compensation claims on behalf of self-insured corporations, insurance carriers, and various political entities. Claudio began his career with an appointment to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry as an opinion writer, during which he drafted administrative law decisions involving adjudicated workers' compensation matters. In this capacity, he also assisted in the editing of the treatise, Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation: Practice and Procedure. He has given presentations to various groups and clients throughout the country in regard to establishing workplace safety programs, reducing workers' compensation costs, compliance with federal and state employment laws, and effective claims handling. Claudio studied Art History in Rome, Italy, and Political Science at Duquesne University. He earned his J.D. degree from the Delaware campus of the Widener University School of Law in 1993. He has been selected as a 2015 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers and Law & Politics Magazine.
Christian M. Stein, Counsel to the Firm in the Pittsburgh office, focuses his practice on all facets of Pennsylvania workers' compensation law, representing insured and self-insured employers, as well as insurance companies and third party administrators. His experience also includes consulting clients in regard to workers' compensation issues in New York, Ohio and Florida. His practice includes work at all appellate levels arguing before the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board, the Commonwealth Court, and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stein also counsels clients on issues pertaining to compliance with federal, state and local laws in reducing workers' compensation liability for workplace injuries, occupational exposures and diseases. His practice also includes counseling and representing clients on unemployment compensation matters as well. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2000, a Master in the Art of Teaching from The Citadel in 1997 and a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in 1993. He is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations.


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EA Clarifies They Are Still Making Star Wars Games
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When Disney obtain the rights of Lucasfilm Ltd it wasn't long after that we got word of more Star Wars. There's been some hits and misses over the years but with this new collection of Star Wars movies and television shows coming out into the market, it was only a matter of time that we would be receiving new Star Wars video games. That unfortunately to some players came with the announcement of EA taking on the control of producing said Star Wars games.
This exclusive deal, much like the cinematic universe, saw some hits and misses as well. However, after the launch of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order along with Star Wars Squadrons, we've been waiting on just what the next Star Wars game would be about. EA Motive confirmed that they were not working on a new Star Wars game which was about the last we heard about the IP from EA.
✅ We love Star Wars.
✅ We look forward to continuing our partnership with Lucasfilm Games.
✅ We're making more Star Wars games.
✅ BD-1 is still the cutest.
— Electronic Arts (@EA) January 13, 2021
Now fast forward to this week and we got the surprise reveal of Ubisoft handling a Star Wars title. It was unveiled that Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment, the developers behind The Division franchise, is working on a new open-world Star Wars video game. Outside of that, we don't know anything about the game so we're forced into waiting on just when the official details will start to come out into public on that front.
With that said, there's been plenty of confusion as to what this means for EA. It was believed that EA had a ten year exclusive deal for Star Wars video game projects. From the look of things, that deal has changed which prompted Ubisoft to start making their own video game project, but don't count EA out just yet. Instead, it looks like EA will have a partnership with Lucasfilm Games with Star Wars titles and that they will release games into the market in the future. Just don't expect EA to be the only company getting access to the IP.
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You should take Donald Trump's immigration plan seriously: Here's why.
By By Greg Sargent
The sight of Donald Trump rolling out a new, and highly specific, immigration plan has been more than a little unsettling: It shows that Trump is now genuinely playing in the GOP primaries to win, and reveals in stark relief how exactly he intends to go about doing that.
Trump's plan to combat illegal immigration — unveiled yesterday — may make it harder to avoid reckoning with the real source of Trump's appeal to his supporters. If his lead among GOP primary voters continues, it will challenge the platitudes about how it is rooted in their desire to see "disruptions" or in their general dissatisfaction with the political establishment.
Trump's plan, which is detailed on his website, calls for construction of a wall along the Mexican border, vowing to "make Mexico pay" for it; an end to birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants; the defunding of sanctuary cities; the strengthening of immigration enforcement; and more. In an interview on NBC News, Trump added that he would rescind President Obama's executive actions shielding millions from deportation, and deport all illegal immigrants: "They have to go."
One crucial component of his plan is the justification for it. He is absolutely clear in blaming the suffering of American workers on immigration policies:
According to Simon Rosenberg, the president of NDN and a longtime watcher of Republican positioning on immigration, Trump has given voice to a narrative that most other Republicans avoid sounding quite as openly or loudly.
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"No leading candidate for President in the last generation of U.S. politics has been so explicit about blaming Mexico, Mexican immigrants and our recent high rates of immigration for America's economic troubles as Trump," Rosenberg tells me. "He is the most significant champion of the restrictionist approach to immigration the country has seen in this era of American politics."
Trump has laid down a hard marker. The questions now: Will the story Trump is telling on immigration enhance his appeal to GOP primary voters, as is plainly his goal? (I have argued that GOP primary voters have far more nuanced views, and I hope that holds true).
What will the other GOP candidates — such as Jeb Bush, who has called for legalization, and argued that illegal immigrants have something positive to contribute to American life — say in response? Will other candidates feel obliged to echo that narrative, thus potentially boxing the eventual nominee into a place that's arguably to the right of Mitt Romney's self-deportation stance? Will any of them push back on it?
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Steve Ray brings an unusually broad range of legal experience to his focused Northern Colorado practice representing people who have been injured. He has served as a lawyer and judge in the U.S. Marine Corps, and as a civilian attorney he has years of experience handling business litigation and insurance defense work.
Steve grew up in tiny Chappell, Neb., spending a good portion of his childhood on the family's farm outside town. He attended Colorado State University, where he served in the Army ROTC where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and received a B.A. in history in 1971. Upon graduation, the Army allowed him to attend the University of Tulsa College of Law, where he received his J.D. in 1973.
While in law school, Steve decided to transfer to the U.S. Marine Corps, and after graduating, he served as a Marine judge advocate general for four years, gaining valuable trial experience in military proceedings.
In 1977, Steve left the Marines and began his civilian legal career as a lawyer in a busy general-practice firm in northern Colorado. Much of his work there involved representing Allstate Insurance Co. against personal-injury claims filed by plaintiffs. "I enjoyed the work," he recalls, "but I also was making some realizations about injury law—that nobody was taking very good care of the injured people."
He noticed that lawyers in the area were taking personal-injury cases, but weren't doing a good job of developing them and were too quick to settle them for less than what they were worth.
So Steve opted to eventually leave that firm and change the focus of his work. He decided to stop working on behalf of insurance companies and instead represent injured people. In the ensuing years, he worked with other lawyers and also as a solo practitioner, but has concentrated on personal-injury legal cases and has achieved many notable successes.
"I've had many cases with high values—hundreds of thousands of dollars, and sometimes millions—and I have those going all the time," he says.
Meanwhile, he maintained his connection to the Marine Corps, serving as a court-martial judge in the Marine Corps Reserve for 10 years. Then, following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he returned to full active duty as a Marine lawyer for a year. In 2005, he officially retired from the Corps with the rank of colonel.
Steve looks back upon diverse career with satisfaction. "I've been around a long time," he says, "but I still enjoy my work."
"It's challenging, and I like that," he says, "But I think that mostly I enjoy meeting people and helping them. I really feel for the people who are involved in these accidents. Most people live paycheck to paycheck and all of a sudden they can't work and it's scary and they don't know what their future holds. I bring a lot experience and good judgment to the table for them and it's rewarding."
His work has earned him numerous awards and recognitions. He has been named as a Colorado SuperLawyer in 2013 and as a certified specialist in personal-injury trial work and pretrial litigation by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Litigation Council of America.
He has also served his community in other ways. He serves as Larimer County chair of Colorado Lawyers for Colorado Veterans, and has been a board member for Crossroads Safe House, a domestic violence shelter; Hearts and Horses, a therapeutic riding center for people with special needs; and Front Range Community College.
He is a licensed pilot who flies his own plane frequently for both work and pleasure. He and his wife enjoy outdoors activities, including mountain horsepacking, backpacking, and fly fishing. He also values his frequent trips back to the family farm in Nebraska. If you're seeking representation to ensure that you gain the compensation that you deserve for your personal injury, then reach out to Steve, we'll get started with a free consultation to learn about the details of your specific case.
Serves as a Board of Director for Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (2013–present)
Larimer County Chair for Colorado Lawyers for Colorado Veterans (2012–present)
Associate Member of American Board of Trial Advocates (2011–present)
Attorney Member of National Board of Trial Advocacy (1995–present)
8th Judicial District Bench/Bar Committee
Litigation Counsel of America – The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
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7 imported COVID-19 cases reported
The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating seven additional imported COVID-19 cases involving patients who arrived from the UK, Turkey and the Philippines. One of the cases involves a 68-year-old man who carries the L452R mutant strain, but not the N501Y or E484K mutant genes. The patient, who stayed in Sunrise, Discovery Bay, travelled to the UK on August 15 and returned to Hong Kong on August 25. His specimen collected upon arrival at Hong Kong International Airport tested negative for COVID-19. He developed symptoms including a cough, sore throat and running nose since August 25. Subsequently, his sample collected on August 27 at a designated quarantine hotel tested positive for the virus. The centre is also investigating a re-positive overseas COVID-19 case carrying the L452R mutant strain which involves a 29-year-old woman. She travelled to the UK, Spain and Portugal at the end of June and returned to Hong Kong on August 19. Her specimen collected upon arrival at the airport tested negative for COVID-19. The patient received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine in Hong Kong in March and April. Her blood specimen collected on June 23 tested positive for anti-spike protein antibodies. She stayed in a designated quarantine hotel from August 19 to 25. She lives at 208, Shek O Village in Shek O and went there after completing quarantine. Her specimen collected on August 27 at a community testing centre according to the compulsory testing requirement tested positive. The patient said she developed symptoms in early August and tested positive for COVID-19 in Portugal. She underwent self-isolation and tested negative before departure. She was asymptomatic after returning to Hong Kong. As a prudent measure, the buildings where the two patients had stayed and places they had visited during the incubation period were included in a compulsory testing notice. Meanwhile, as Philippine Airlines flight PR300 from Manila and Turkish Airlines flight TK083 from Istanbul each had three passengers on board confirmed infected with COVID-19 by arrival testing, the Department of Health has prohibited the landing of the airlines' passenger flights from the two places from today to September 11. Regarding the operators of goods vessels Asia Energy and Thor Monadic who were suspected of providing false information during the application for free pratique, the department has reported the cases to Police for their suspected contravention of the Prevention & Control of Disease Regulation. A total of 68 cases were reported in Hong Kong in the past 14 days. One is a local case with an unknown infection source, while the rest are imported. For information and health advice on COVID-19, visit the Government's dedicated webpage.
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The legendary progressive folk rockers Jethro Tull hardly need any introduction; they have sold millions of records, toured the world more times than anyone cares to remember, and written some wildly exciting and influential music that still resonates with people to this very day. In other words, Tull reign supreme when it comes to eclectic, innovative, and atmospheric prog rock. What is even more exciting than some of their records is band's history between 1968 and 1980, which is perfectly illustrated by Gary Parker's riveting literary gem appropriately entitled "Original Jethro Tull - The Glory Years, 1968 – 1980".
Parker's account of the hugely captivating and intriguing Tull chronicle is marvelously presented and so well-written in places that it almost brought tears to my eyes when I read it. The most amazing thing about this near-flawless book is how incredibly balanced and nuanced it is. Every member of Jethro Tull has been interviewed on numerous occasions by the author himself and each musician is given a voice, which entails that different and thought-provoking perspectives on how things unfolded within the Tull camp are brought to life. Many of the stories contradict each other, but that is partly what makes for such a compelling read.
I especially loved reading about the early years in Blackpool and London as well as the conception and creation of the band's first record "This Was", but not a single chapter left anything to be desired and the author's warm and reflective tone permeates every sentence. You can tell that Parker is a huge and passionate fan of the band, but he is definitely not oblivious to the fact that Tull wrote some lackluster songs from time to time and that their decision-making was, frankly speaking, horrendous at certain points in their long-running saga.
Apart from being utterly cohesive and coherent not to mention entertaining, "Original Jethro Tull" is also full of wit, charm, and a lovely sense of humor in places. That especially goes for the last chapter in which Parker reveals how he was initially introduced to the music of Tull and how they changed his perspective on music (or at least blew him away by means of their powerful live show back in the early 70s when supporting Led Zeppelin in the US). Great stuff!
"Original Jethro Tull" is rich in detail and atmosphere, which is to say that reading it feels like one is being transported back to the late 60s and 70s, which is an impressive feat by the author in and of itself. Everything flows together nicely, and every triumph, tragedy, album, tour, and line-up change is covered in great detail. For an in-depth study of Jethro Tull's most important and vital years, look no further than this superb 190-page piece of work. Highly recommended for both fans of the band and lovers of prog rock in general.


This whole wheat apple cake with chocolate chips makes a delicious snack cake.
This is my son's new favourite snack food. Moist and flavourful, it's the sort of cake that sits somewhere between a muffin and a cake.
Don't get me wrong -- it is most definitely a cake.
Apple, chocolate chips and walnuts are a great combination. I guess that's why it's so satisfying. So many flavours and textures.
This is a recipe my mom got sometime in the 1970's. It was from Vivian, a woman who used to work at my dad's office. As I recall, Vivian wore stylish denim pant suits and seemed really old (I was about 7). In my experience grandmother types weren't usually trendy so she always stood out to me. So did her apple cake. It was one of the first recipes that I put in my hand-written recipe book.
I used to take the cake to pot lucks at university because it was easy to make, didn't need frosting and was always a hit.
This is a true one-bowl cake, the sort of cake you bake when you don't feel like baking a cake. It's fast and easy, It uses oil instead of butter and doesn't need frosting.
Combine the oil, sugar and eggs. Mix well then add the vanilla.
In another bowl combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
Stir into the wet mixture until just combined (dough will be stiff).
Stir in the apples, nuts and chocolate chips.
Spread in a greased 8" x 8" pan. Bake at 325 F for 55-60 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
This sounds simple & delicious! Pinning it so I can try it out some time. Stopping by from All My Bloggy Friends blog hop!


Oh Blueberries how my family loves you! In muffins, pancakes, with whipped cream, in yogurt, and the best plain! My son adores blueberries, he eats them at least every other day. I love them too! Plus they are the only fruit that is blue, my favorite color and a superfood!
I have been trying to come up with new ways to incorporate blueberries into our meals. Do you have any great blueberry recipes?
Its not a pretty pancake but its so good! So many berries it turned the batter blue. I called them Smurf cakes!


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James Cook University ISSN 1445-6354
Policy Report
From pipelines to pathways: the Memorial experience in educating doctors for rural generalist practice
James Rourke1 MD, Former Dean of Medicine, 2004-2016 - Director, Centre for Rural Health Studies - Professor of Family Medicine *
Shabnam Asghari2 PhD, Research Director, Centre for Rural Health Studies - Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
Oliver Hurley3 MEnvSc, Research Coordinator, Centre for Rural Health Studies
Mohamed Ravalia4 MBChB, Assistant Dean, Rural Medical Education Network - Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Michael Jong5 MBBS, Professor of Family Medicine, Labrador Health Centre
Wanda Parsons6 MD, Assistant Dean, Admissions - Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Norah Duggan7 MD, Family Medicine Undergraduate Director - Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Katherine Stringer8 MBChB, Chair and Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Danielle O'Keefe9 MD, Postgraduate Family Medicine Program Director - Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Scott Moffatt10 MD, Assistant Dean, Student Affairs - Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Wendy Graham11 MD, Associate Professor, Discipline of Family Medicine
Carolyn Sturge Sparkes12 PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor – Coordinator, Aboriginal Health Initiative
Janelle Hippe13 MA, Research Assistant, Learners & Locations project
Kristin Harris Walsh14 PhD, Research Assistant, Learners & Locations project
Donald McKay15 PhD, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education Professor of Physiology
Asoka Samarasena16 MBBS, Assistant Dean Post Graduate Medical Education
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Health Sciences Centre, Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3V6, Canada
ACCEPTED: 7 August 2017
Memorial University of Newfoundland experience in educating doctors for rural generalist practice
early abstract:
Context: This report describes the community context, concept and mission of Memorial University of Newfoundland (Memorial) and its "pathways to rural practice" approach which includes influences at the pre-medical school, medical school experience, postgraduate residency training, and physician practice levels. Memorial's pathways to practice helped Memorial to fulfill its social accountability mandate to populate the province with highly skilled rural generalist practitioners.
Programs/Interventions/Initiatives: The "pathways to
rural practice" includes initiatives in four stages: (1) before admission to medical school (2) during undergraduate medical training (MD program) (3) during post-graduate vocational residency training (4) after post-graduate vocational residency
training. Memorial's Learners & Locations (L&L) database tracks students through these stages. The Aboriginal initiative, the MedQuest program and the admissions process that considers geographic or minority representation in terms of those selecting candidates and the candidates themselves - occurs before the student is admitted. Once a student starts Memorial's MD program, the student has ample opportunities to have rural based experiences through pre-clerkship and clerkship where some take place exclusively outside of St. John's tertiary hospitals. Memorial's postgraduate (PG) Family Medicine (FM) residency (vocational) training program allows for deeper community integration and longer periods of training within the same community which increases the likelihood of a physician choosing rural family medicine. After post-graduate training, rural physicians were given many opportunities for professional development as well as faculty development opportunities. Each of the programs and initiatives were assessed through geospatial rurality analysis of administrative data collected upon entry into and during the MD program and PG training (L&L). Among Memorial MD-graduating classes of 2011-2020, 56% spent the majority of their lives before their 18th birthday in a rural
location and 44% in an urban location. As of September 2016, 23 Memorial MD-students self-identified as Aboriginal where 2 (9%) were from an urban location, 20 (91%) were from rural locations.
For Year 3 Family Medicine, graduating classes 2011 to 2019, 89% of placement weeks took place in rural communities and 8% took place in rural towns. For Memorial MD graduating classes 2011-2013 who completed Memorial Family Medicine vocational training residencies, (N=49), 100% completed some rural training. For these 49 residents (vocational trainees), the average amount of time spent in rural areas was 52 weeks out of a total average FM
training time of 95 weeks. For Family Medicine residencies from July 2011 - October 2016, 29% of all placement weeks took place in rural communities and 21% of all placement weeks took place in rural towns. For 2016-2017 first year residents, 53% of
the first year training is completed in rural locations reflecting an even greater rural experiential learning focus.
Lessons Learned: Memorial's pathways approach has allowed for the comprehensive training of rural generalists for NL and the rest of Canada and may be applicable to other settings. More challenges remain, requiring ongoing collaboration with
governments, medical associations, health authorities, communities and their physicians to help achieve reliable and feasible healthcare delivery for those living in rural and remote areas.


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Black Winged Humanoid Observed in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
A Cape Girardeau, Missouri woman reported seeing a black winged humanoid that she described as being similar to the 'Jeepers Creepers' film creature.
The Singular Fortean Society recently received a message from a woman who wished to report her sighting of a "black, humanoid figure with very large wings and legs" in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
According to the woman, the sighting took place while heading east on Bertling Street, near the Southeast Missouri State Softball Field, between 8 and 9 pm on October 8th.
Tobias Wayland was able to interview the witness over the phone.
"Me, my two girls, and my fiancé went to a little street area where the houses have Halloween decorations at nighttime," she told the investigator. "We went down one way and then came back the other way to look at both sides of the street. We did that, and we were headed back home. We came up over a hill and when we got down almost to the stop sign, that's when I saw it. It was like a human figure, but with big wings—the feet and toes were pointed to the ground—it had scrawny legs, but muscled at the calf. The feet were long but pointy. It was maybe six feet tall. The wings weren't open, they were still closed."
The creature's wings, which she said looked like they were made of skin, "were really pointy and they were past its head. [The creature] just looked like somebody getting ready to dive off of something, like they have their hands out. The wings were over top of it, and they were pulled in, like wrapped around it. The wings weren't as long as the body. They came out over the head, but were shorter than the legs."
Its head, she added, was "was really little and round—kind of pointed but round."
The creature, which she estimated to have been around 100 feet from the car, looked like it had just "leaped from the trees" to the right of the road.
"About 100 feet from the stop sign to the right is a grove of tall trees," the woman said. "About two to three acres of big, tall trees. That's where I saw it. [The creature] looked like it had leaped or dove. It was higher than the streetlights, but not real high—midway over the road, but in the sky."
Although the being was black, she was still able to see it because "the light from the softball field lit it some." The dark figure stood out against the sky, as it was "blacker than the night itself."
She said it didn't look like the creature had any fur or feathers.
"It was bigger than a bird, it didn't look like a bird," she explained. "When I saw it, it was kind of like [the monster from] Jeepers Creepers."
The woman asked her fiancé if he'd seen it, too, and he thought he had caught "maybe a little bit of it."
She estimated that the sighting lasted only six to eight seconds.
After her sighting, the woman looked online to see if anyone else had seen something similar, and found an article published by the Singular Fortean Society about a man who said that he and his son encountered a strange flying creature while hunting ducks near West Alton, Missouri in 2016. That sighting was originally reported to Lon Strickler of Phantoms & Monsters.
West Alton is approximately 125 miles north of this sighting area in Cape Girardeau.
"I was going to get my phone out [to record it], but then I thought 'What if it sees me and tries to come after me?' I'd never seen or read about anything like that until I looked it up to see if anybody else had seen any other bat-looking humans," she said. "It was a shock to see something like that. It is a little scary to go out at night and know something like that's out there."
NOTE: The witness also contacted me after reporting the incident to Tobias Wayland. Lon
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Dutch FinTech raises 60 million euro and rebrands from InvoiceFinance to Floryn
11 December 2019 – Floryn, a fast-growing Dutch FinTech active in the credit market for small and medium-sized businesses, has raised a total of 60 million euro in financing from among others NIBC. The company, active in the online lending market for small and medium-sized businesses, can help more and larger companies to grow with this new financing.
Floryn Team Celebrates 60M debt and equity injection
Floryn, previously known as InvoiceFinance, received more than 4,600 credit applications last quarter which were processed at the speed of light with the help of smart technology, such as data analysis and machine learning. Floryn uses artificial intelligence to look at data from bank transactions and hundreds of other sources to quickly grasp the performance of a company, by which not only a faster but also better risk analysis can be made.
"Floryn has shown rapid growth and has become the alternative lending company in the Netherlands, competing with banks in the segment up to €2,000,000, where a good customer experience and service play a hugely important role," says Sven van der Biezen, CEO of Floryn. "With this new financing, we can not only help more, but also larger companies to grow, create jobs and realize their ambitions."
The new senior financing has been made available by NIBC, which in addition to Floryn cooperates with several other leading FinTechs such as Oaknorth, Iwoca and Ebury, thus responding to the increasing demand for financing of small and medium-sized businesses from alternative finance companies in the market.
"NIBC is constantly looking for opportunities to strengthen relationships with FinTech companies who provide a relevant contribution to the new financial ecosystem," says Jeroen Conijn head of FinTech and Structured Finance at NIBC. "We are very happy to welcome Floryn as a customer, an innovative lender that fits well with NIBC's core values of entrepreneurship, who convinced us with their distinctive technology-driven approach."
With the new financing, Floryn expects to continue to set the standard in online lending for SMEs and to triple their business.
By Johan van Mil|2019-12-13T11:02:18+00:00December 13th, 2019|News|0 Comments


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package com.github.steveash.jg2p.align;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import com.google.common.collect.ComparisonChain;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

import com.github.steveash.jg2p.util.MinHeap;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

/**
 * A memoisation table for calculating the best sequences for a given X.  For the X to Y case see PathXYTable
 *
 * @author Steve Ash
 */
public class PathXTable {

  private final List<MinHeap<Entry>> table;
  private final AtomicInteger ids = new AtomicInteger(0);

  public static class Entry implements Comparable<Entry> {

    public static Entry sample(double score, int xBackRef) {
      return new Entry(-1, score, xBackRef, -1);
    }

    public final int id;
    public double score;
    public int xBackRef;
    public int pathBackRef;

    private Entry(int id, double score, int xBackRef, int pathBackRef) {
      this.id = id;
      this.score = score;
      this.xBackRef = xBackRef;
      this.pathBackRef = pathBackRef;
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(Entry that) {
      return ComparisonChain.start()
          .compare(this.score, that.score)
          .compare(this.xBackRef, that.xBackRef)
          .compare(this.pathBackRef, that.pathBackRef)
          .result();
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return "Entry{" +
             "id=" + id +
             ", score=" + score +
             ", xBackRef=" + xBackRef +
             ", pathBackRef=" + pathBackRef +
             '}';
    }
  }

  public PathXTable(int xSize, int maxBestPath) {
    this.table = Lists.newArrayListWithCapacity(xSize);
    init(xSize, maxBestPath);
  }

  public Entry make(double score, int xBackRef, int pathBackRef) {
    return new Entry(ids.getAndIncrement(), score, xBackRef, pathBackRef);
  }

  public void offer(int x, Entry candidate) {
    MinHeap<Entry> paths = table.get(x);
    if (!paths.isFull()) {
      paths.add(candidate);
      return;
    }
    Entry minEntry = paths.peek();
    if (minEntry.compareTo(candidate) < 0) {
      paths.remove();
      paths.add(candidate);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Extend the paths in the particular x,y location by constructing new ones based on the sample with the addative
   * score and back refs
   *
   * @param sample @return
   */
  public void extendPath(int newX, int oldX, final Entry sample) {
    Iterable<Entry> newEntries = Iterables.transform(table.get(oldX), new Function<Entry, Entry>() {
      @Override
      public Entry apply(Entry input) {
        return make(input.score + sample.score, sample.xBackRef, input.id);
      }
    });

    for (Entry newEntry : newEntries) {
      this.offer(newX, newEntry);
    }
  }

  public Iterable<Entry> get(int x) {
    return table.get(x);
  }

  public Entry get(int x, int id) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(id >= 0);
    for (Entry candidate : get(x)) {
      if (candidate.id == id) {
        return candidate;
      }
    }
    throw new IllegalStateException("Shouldn't be possible but somehow couldnt find " + id);
  }

  private void init(int xSize, int pathSize) {
    for (int i = 0; i < xSize; i++) {
      table.add(i, new MinHeap<Entry>(pathSize));
    }
  }
}


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A Global Green New Deal: Into the Portal, Leave No One Behind
By Haymarket Books / May 19 2020
We knew our system was broken. But the Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the cruelty of the global economy, and deepened the visceral injustices of our societies.
Before the virus stuck, the effect of climate catastrophe and obscene inequality meant that millions were already living in multiple crises. Now, as the pandemic wreaks an untold impact, we know that it is those who are most vulnerable—whether from their inability to access healthcare, or because of their economic precarity—who bear the heaviest burden.
In times of crisis, it is always the poorest, the most oppressed, and those under occupation, who are most affected. Our only recourse is to amplify the calls for justice ringing from every corner of the globe. The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction.
WE CAN MOVE FROM CRISIS TO JUSTICE WITH A GLOBAL GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
Join Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein in a conversation moderated by Asad Rehman and hear how we can begin to build a global transformation.
Co-sponsored by The Leap, War on Want, and Haymarket Books. Find out more about the Global Green New Deal here: globalgnd.org
No Is Not Enough
by Naomi Klein
"This year's most immediately useful political book." —Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017
My Seditious Heart
by Arundhati Roy
In constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati Roy's journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world, from "The End of Imagination", which begins this book, to 'Azadi', with which it ends.
The Battle For Paradise
"Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico—a battle that...