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Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform’s marketplace.
At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out a compromise that will allow for a fully featured YouTube experience on the latter’s mobile platform. Google and Microsoft have had a fraught year, bickering over email syncing, search dominance and mobile mapping. And the YouTube thing.
Microsoft had pulled its home-built YouTube app for Windows Phone from its mobile store following vociferous Google complaints that resulted in a cease-and-desist letter.
The stakes are somewhat high, if in the distance: Microsoft is hell-bent on building a first-tier mobile platform. Google is dedicated to Android’s continued hegemony. It has scant incentive to grant Microsoft even one extra scrap of oxygen. Windows Phone users have been somewhat caught in the crossfire.
Google once extended its support of Exchange ActiveSync at the proverbial last minute, granting Microsoft enough time to support its CalDAV and CardDAV syncing systems to keep Windows Phone users, who depended on Google web services, happy.
Users will be able to live stream YouTube content that is ongoing, and upload video from their phones.
What matters more than the generic feature breakdown of the application is that it exists at all, at last, with full coronation from both parties. That’s something to be applauded. It has been a scrap for Microsoft to fight for a place at the table. Each time Microsoft has butted heads with the Mountain View search giant, it has always done well by its users in the end. So, if you are a Windows Phone user, here’s a clip to get you started.
Hat Tip to Tom Warren for first spotting this.


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Security Folder Download. Hide and protect files, folders and drives!
Hide and protect files, folders and drives!
Requirements Windows XP/2000/NT. No any special requirements to hardware.
These days computers are everywhere. Reliable and tireless machines replace human beings at dull routine tasks in almost every area. Each day we tend to rely more and more on electronics as storage media and information processing and distribution systems. A decade ago, our puny hard drives contained hardly a couple of thousands of files. Today, our massive hard drives contain dozens and even hundreds of thousands of various files and folders and, which is most important, the overall information value increased dramatically. From private messages to business-critical data ?every singe bit of valuable information we may have on our computers requires reliable protection. Despite the fact that there are many 3d party data security solutions on the market today, few of them offer an intuitively easy way to protect files and folders on local hard drive from unauthorized access. Introducing Security Folder by Everstrike Software, the unique folder data protection system intended to make your life times and times easier, while making sure your private and sensitive data are kept away from prying eyes! Security Folder represents the new generation of computer safeguard tools and is intended for hiding your files, folders and entire drives from other users of a Windows NT/2000/XP machine. The application combines the ultimate power of industry-standard strong encryption algorithms with unique stealth technologies to protect your data from both unauthorized access and modification/destruction by malicious programs. Unlike other security software, available on the market, Security Folder was designed with user convenience in mind, which ensures even the newbie computer users can learn operating it within seconds. Intuitive interface makes protecting data as easy as click-and-go. Thanks to flexible licensing policy, Security Folder is a cost-effective security solution both for home and corporate users. Protect your data now!
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Advanced Password Manager - Handy password manager with powerful features.
Effective Password Manager - A perfect tool for storing your passwords.
1 Click Encrypt File Folder Encryption - 1Click Encrypt will secure files and folders.

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RYTE supports two options for folder crawling.
The shortest and easiest way to crawl a single folder on your domain is to open the Crawler-Settings on the top right of RYTE. There you can find many options. Navigate to "What to crawl" and choose "Subfolder-Mode". Here you can add your folder. Keep in mind that your folder must be relative to your root directory!
An example would look like this: you want to crawl your folder "awesome". Your URL looks like this: www.domain.com/awesome/. To crawl just the contents located in the awesome folder enter /awesome/ in the subfolder field. This is the instruction for the crawler to operate only in the folder /awesome/ and subfolders of /awesome/.
If you activate the subfolder crawling it is absolutely necessary to edit the homepage URL of the project. Click "homepage URL" by staying in the tab "what to crawl". It is important that the homepage URL contains the directory of the subfolder. If not - the crawl won't be successful. Please check the settings by clicking the tab "Test settings".
The expert option can also be found within the "Crawler-Settings". There is another tab named "URL Patterns". With the two options "Exclude URLs" and "Must include URLs" is a very precise crawling possible.
URLs which contain an expression that was defined before a crawl will be included. For example: when /awesome/ is included the crawler is working only in this folder.
This feature is really powerful and does support regex. Examples can be found in the RYTE interface.
As already mentioned above. If you active the subfolder crawling it is absolutely necessary to edit the homepage URL of the project. Click "homepage URL" by staying in the tab "what to crawl". It is important that the homepage URL contains the directory of the subfolder. If not - the crawl won't be successful. Please check the settings by clicking the tab "Test settings".


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This, the dreaded ear poker with high numbers, has chased the hot red ears of several boys here this week. Oh, but for the yummy sweet candy medicine that follows, they’d do anything for ibuprofen, to drink it with a straw, anything but throw up, which is what Jude has been doing for 24 hours. There’s nothing sweet about seeing a child emptied from head to toe.
In the throws of some long freelance work, my eyes cross at the screen, so tired. As on the SAT test, I begin to write ACDC ACDC ACDC.
Seth helps me work, is such a good daddy outside. Jude curls on a chair. I hear the swing screech forward; back; forward; back. He comes in to make dinner, and I throw down the yard quilt, pallet perfection in the sun.
Called in for dinner with drool on my chin, those of us who can eat sit down to quinoa with black beans and tomatoes, only Seth’s version, which is some of the best stuff I’ve ever tasted. I love it when quinoa cooks and gets out all the little fun hula-hoops.
Only YOU could take a weekend full of vomit and other ickiness and turn it into something so pretty. Hope everyone is on the mend really soon and that you get some extended time on that sunny pallet together this week. Quilts spilled over fresh green grass always look deliciously inviting, don't they?
Thank God for partners in this parenting/life gig. Whether they're husband or grandma or neighbor or friend. Or sometimes all of the above.
we've been sick over here, but I couldn't think of a way to make it sound positive or pretty. I hope everyone is feeling better. We are. We just haven't gotten the wheels back on the wagon that was in the middle of painting the bathroom when the sickness hit.
That food looks delicious. Maybe somehow you could distribute the recipe?
Sick babies makes for long days. I'm praying your babies are better soon!
Ugh, we are in the throes of Stomach Bug The Sequel over here. It's so sad when the babies are sick. And when the mommies and daddies are sick, too. But that quilt in the sunshine? That looks divine.

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THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ALCOHOL INTERLOCK SYMPOSIUM IS AN ANNUAL THREE-DAY EVENT, HELD IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION EACH YEAR BY A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION.
For over a decade, leading international breathalyser companies have gathered to this event to review technological, social and safety progression within their field. Attendence often reaches three hundred, and includes accommodation, meals, activities, presentations and demos.
As the Creative Director and Marketing Manager for this group from 2010 - 2013, I led a medium-sized team of talented designers and media professionals to inject some fun into this event, and design each year's identity, collateral and promotional materials.

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Students with learning and attention disorders appear to be in the midst of a school-suspension epidemic. According to a 2017 report from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, students with learning differences are more than twice as likely as their peers to be suspended or expelled because of social, emotional, or behavioral problems.
The NCLD report—Understanding the 1 in 5—looked at school discipline in relation to the 20% of students who struggle with learning and regulation disorders such as ADHD. It found that kids who have difficulty regulating their behaviors, emotions, or attention make up two-thirds of all kids with IEPs who are suspended.
And that may be the tip of the iceberg. Robert M. Tudisco, an attorney who specializes in school discipline and criminal defense, believes that the report probably underestimates the school discipline problem among kids with learning and attention issues.
Why are so many kids with LD and ADHD disciplined? One of the reasons is the strict enforcement of school rules—Codes of Conduct—which has led to an increase in the number of suspensions nationwide; another reason is the type of behaviors prohibited by those rules.
The vast majority of suspensions are for non-violent behaviors and/or “discretionary” offenses—behaviors for which school officials have a choice between suspending a student and implementing a less severe form of discipline.
Discretionary offenses include violations of school conduct codes, which prohibit students from engaging in behaviors considered disorderly, disruptive, and disrespectful. Examples include talking out of turn, running in hallways, dressing inappropriately, acting in ways designed to disrupt learning, being late to school, exhibiting hyperactive or aggressive behaviors, failing to comply with a teacher’s reasonable directions, playing games on a cellphone during instructional time, texting inappropriately, endangering the safety and morals of others, lying to school personnel, intentionally damaging school property or the property of others, sharing medications, and using alcoholic beverages.
In other words, school conduct codes commonly read like a comprehensive checklist of ADHD behaviors. The actions proscribed by the codes are the very ones that students with LD, ADHD, and co-occurring disorders struggle to control every day.
Typically, the reasons underlying problem behaviors are not that students with ADHD are “bad” kids or that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong. Instead, it’s because these kids have executive function impairments, an unquenchable thirst for instant gratification, and an inability to control themselves. It’s particularly difficult for kids with ADHD to control their focus, emotions, and impulses, to think logically, to consider the long-term consequences of their actions, to understand how their behaviors may affect others, and to learn from their mistakes.
The NCLD Report stresses that school suspensions have overwhelmingly negative effects on students. Not only does school removal force kids to lose essential academic instruction and positive social interactions, it increases their risks of being held back, dropping out of school, and failing to graduate from high school entirely.
Even more concerning is that these kids have a greater probability of becoming entangled in the special education-to-prison pipeline. Data show that particularly for kids with LD and ADHD, school suspensions serve as a gateway to the juvenile justice system, which is often followed by confinement in adult prisons.
This article is based on School Discipline for Students with ADHD, presented by Robert M. Tudisco, Esq., a nationally recognized author, ADHD motivational speaker, nonprofit management consultant, and disability rights attorney who represents students facing disciplinary actions. Eve Kessler, Esq., a criminal appellate attorney, is co-founder and Executive Director of SPED*NET, Special Education Network of Wilton, (CT), www.spednetwilton.org, and a Contributing Editor for Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities.

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A gift in memory or in honor of a relative, friend, student, professor, or teacher is a generous and thoughtful way to recognize a person's life and accomplishments. When you make an honorary or memorial gift to the Texas A&M Foundation, we notify the honoree or next of kin, and the gift is used as you specified.
If you choose to make an online credit card donation, you can donate to the account of your choice or select "GENERAL MEMORIAL." Please include the honoree's name and address or the address of the next of kin in the "WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR GIFT TO HONOR SOMEONE SPECIAL?" section of the online giving form.


text: Thursday 25th of April 2019, 6:34 pm. The sun rose at 5:37 am and the sunset will be at 7:33 pm. There will be 13 hours and 56 minutes of sun and the average temperature is 44°F. At the moment the current water temperature is 40°F. and the average water temperature is 40°F.


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oI have called you by name, you are mine.
Cush and tSeba in exchange for you.
who are deaf, yet have ears!
and show us the former things?
and let them hear and say, It is true.
nor shall there be any after me.
and zyou are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.
geven the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
oand rivers in the desert.
rthat they might declare my praise.
but syou have been weary of me, O Israel!
or honored me with your sacrifices.
sor wearied you with frankincense.
or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.
set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
and yyour mediators transgressed against me.
Israel whom I have chosen!
eJeshurun whom I have chosen.
and my blessing on your descendants.
glike willows by flowing streams.
since I appointed an ancient people.
Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.
have I not told you from of old and declared it?
lAnd you are my witnesses!
mIs there a God besides me?
9 oAll who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame. 10 pWho fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing? 11 qBehold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together.
zO Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
O forest, and every tree in it!
dand will be glorified3 in Israel.
the God of Israel, vwho call you by your name.
wI name you, though you do not know me.
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
I the Lord have created it.
and lI commanded all their host.
they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
O God of Israel, the Savior.
the makers of idols go in confusion together.
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
you survivors of the nations!
let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
Who declared it of old?
there is none besides me.
hall the ends of the earth!
nall who were incensed against him.
as burdens on weary beasts.
but pthemselves go into captivity.
and to gray hairs I will carry you.
and compare me, that we may be alike?
uthen they fall down and worship!
wit cannot move from its place.
or save him from his trouble.
the man of my counsel from a far country.
I have purposed, and I will do it.
O daughter of hthe Chaldeans!
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
and the great power of your enchantments.
of which you know nothing.
perhaps you may inspire terror.
what shall come upon you.
no fire to sit before!
there is no one to save you.


text: Designed for Studio 49 Series 2000 or 1600 Orff instruments, this mobile stand will take the work out of moving your xylophone or metallophone. The handles on your 2000 or 1600 Series instrument have been designed to easily integrate with this stand. If you have an earlier model of Studio 49 xylophone or metallophone, we recommend using the Basic Beat stand instead (item 260087, available separately).


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Three-second red lights: Do they increase pedestrian safety?
TUCSON, Arizona — The Tucson Department of Transportation is trying different things to keep pedestrians safe.
One of the newest experiments is the only crossing of its kind downtown. It's called a leading pedestrian interval (LPI).
For three seconds, all traffic lights are red to drivers, creating safer intersections.
"It gives the pedestrian a head start into the crosswalk," said Michael Graham with TDOT. "They're visible to the motorists before the motorists turn into the intersection."
The LPI intersection is at an intersection where there are a higher number of pedestrians using it. TDOT says it may roll this type of configuration out to other city intersections after a three- to four-month trial.

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Recently a video of Actor Sivakumar went viral for all wrong reasons where he was seen knocking the phone of the fan who tried to take a selfie with him. This was not the first time the actor got into trouble as there was a similar incident a few months back and the actor apologized, even bought the youngster a mobile phone.
Since this is the second time a video like this is going viral, the fans trolled and abused the actor for doing so.
On the same day, there was a video of the lady superstar Nayanthara walking out of the airport. When a fan approached her, she stopped, smiled and posed for a selfie. Since both the incidents happened on the same day, the fans are comparing both of them and wants Sivakumar to learn it from Nayanthara.

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This update includes brief commentary on amendments to NH Condominium Act, the new SC HOA Act, and the 2020 solar rooftop mandate in California.
HB 1519 AN ACT relative to the conduct of condominium unit owners’ associations votes without a meeting.
In New Hampshire, condominium associations can range in size from 2 units to hundreds of units. Many small condo associations exist in older row homes, brownstones, or large historic homes divided into multifamily properties in past generations. Condo owners in these small associations tend to conduct annual elections at a meeting with a voice vote or raise of hands.
However, larger associations are more likely to vote by secret ballot. HB 1519 now requires the use of tally sheets when counting ballots at an annual meeting. If a recount is requested, one or more board members, plus another member of the association, must be present for the examination and recount of ballots. The intent, it seems, is to prevent fraudulent elections or miscounting of ballots due to human error.
At least one HOA attorney is advising his condo association clients to avoid election by secret ballot, and to stick to a show of hands or voice vote. That may be practical for small communities, but less realistic and less efficient for larger condo associations.
HB 1521 AN ACT relative to the definition of an emergency for a special assessment in a condominium.
In other words, the new definition of “emergency” is very broad, and allows the board more freedom to impose special assessments for any repair or service, without allowing unit owners to veto the assessment by a 2/3 vote of all members.
On the surface, this appears to be a reasonable amendment. However, one can foresee situations where certain condo boards may allow conditions to deteriorate to the point of imminent danger or threat to health and safety, in order to declare an emergency assessment.
HB 1601 AN ACT relative to a declarant’s options for condominium expansion.
This law was enacted to close a loophole for real estate developers (Declarants), in response to a ruling in favor of the Declarant in Condominiums at Lilac Lane v. Monument Garden, LLC.
Attorneys claim that the new language in the law closes loopholes, and obligates developers to hand over the reins of power after 5 years, or 10 years by amendment to condominium documents.
The new law also prevents a developer from breaking a promise to provide certain “improvements” such as a community swimming pool. The law was obviously a reaction to condo owners who complained that they were promised a swimming pool at the time of purchase, but the developer never delivered on that promise.
This overly-broad definition can include a birdhouse, a lawn ornament, a flowerpot on the porch, holiday decorations, or any other object “added” to common land. It’s easy to see that this addition to the Condominium Act creates new enforcement obligations for condo boards and managers, and reduces freedom for condo owners, who generally don’t own a private parcel of land, or the exterior surfaces of their condos.
As of May 2018, common interest communities are subject to the South Carolina Homeowners Association Act.
Prior statutes govern condominiums and nonprofit corporations, but the HOA Act regulates planned communities of both single family homes and condominiums, where payment of assessments is a mandatory obligation.
ByLaws must be recorded as official County records by January 10, 2019, to be enforceable.
Rules and Regulations must be recorded as public records (also with the County) by January 10th of each year, to remain enforceable. All members must have access to the HOA’s list of Rules and Regulations.
Magistrates Court, also known as Small Claims Court, will now handle HOA disputes involving damages up to $7,500.
SC Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) will serve as an Ombudsman, authorized to take HOA complaints — either homeowner complaints against the HOA, or HOA complaints against the owner. Although the DCA isn’t authorized to enforce complaints, it is required to publish them annually for the benefit of the Governor, the General Assembly, and all housing consumers.
The homeowner’s name and identifying information will be redacted from (not included in) the public record. The HOA or its management company information is always included in the public record of a complaint.
The DCA will not investigate or arbitrate complaints, nor will it issue any public policy statements related to the HOA Act.
Upon receiving a homeowner’s or homeowners association’s complaint, the department shall provide the complaint to the homeowners association or the homeowner complained against in a manner that verifies receipt of such complaint by the homeowners association or homeowner, so the homeowner, board, or homeowners association may determine if the homeowner, board, or homeowners association desires to make a response to the complaint.
The DCA will also publish educational materials about HOAs and common interest communities.
The California Energy Commission created a new building code, approved by the California Building Standards Commission in December. As of 2020, all new construction will be required to include rooftop solar panels.
Note that the CEC is not a legislative body, but state agency, whose members are appointed by the Governor of California.
Although solar panels may be used to save energy and reduce harmful fossil fuel emissions, critics say that the effect of residential rooftop solar panels is minimal. Plus, the cost to include solar panels will significantly increase the sale price of new homes.
Those who favor solar energy say that future savings on energy bills more than make up for the up-front costs of construction.
This entry was posted in Environmental Protection, Regulatory Agencies, State Policy & Legislation and tagged California, New Hampshire, South Carolina by deborahgoonan. Bookmark the permalink.

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What is an advocate? An advocate is a person who works for a cause or group; someone who fights for something or someone, especially someone who fights for the rights of others.
Growing up in India, Rangan developed a keen awareness of class, discrimination and justice, and that sensitivity informs the core of her work. “At the Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council, our belief is simple: Everyone has a place at the table,” she says.
Received a House Tribute and Proclamation from the Georgetown City Council for our work in the community. January 14th, 2016 has been Proclaimed SCAPC Day in the Town of Georgetown. Thank you Rep. Ruth Briggs-King and Mayor Bill West!
4 yrs ago she was homeless, living in a transitional shelter with her children. Determined to not only to get back on her feet and provide for her children, she was just as determined to help others rise from similar circumstances.
Bringing her 27 years of experience to WSFS as its' new Director of Community Reinvestment, Terri has been a champion among Delaware based community organizations. Her support has enabled CBO's build capacity, increase services and resources in the areas of economic development, affordable housing and financial education programs.


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This article continues on from Part 1 - A Decent Disassembly.
Looking these up here I could see 002Bh is BASIC's Inkey function, while 0033h is the print character routine. OK, noted.
0125h 			- Somewhere in BASIC ROM?
8000h           - top of stack.
In other words, depending on the version of BASIC this instruction might become LD (HL),0FFh. Interesting.
The next step was to edit the disassembled listing into something that could be re-assembled and re-located. This is the most tedious part of the port. The problem stems from the fact that it's not always possible to discern if literal numeric values used in the code are just numbers, or references to memory addresses.
In order to get this program running on the Mirobee we're going to need to be able to make changes that will inevitably require inserting new instructions. If the assembly listing uses absolute memory addresses however, inserting those instructions will cause things to move around in memory and essentially break it. Also, we're probably going to want to move the program in memory (Microbee programs typically load at 0x0900, not 0x4500) so absolute memory addresses are not useful.
454E: 21 57 6B                          LD      HL,6B57h        ; address or value?
At this stage I found it best to leave the left hand columns with the raw byte code in place in the listing. This is sometimes useful information (particularly when encountering self-modifying code - which we'll come to again shortly).
I took my chances and assumed every reference between 0x7300 and 0x7D00 was to the working ram and use some regex search and replaces to fix them all up in one fell swoop.
Similarly I guessed that any value less than 100h is probably not an address and much more likely to be a value. (say an increment value) and used a regex to remove the comment.
Rather than using symbolic labels for internal references, at least for now I stuck to using a label based on the original address. eg: 'L6B57' and not 'game_name_str'.
For external references I changed them to a base symbol plus an offset. So anything between 3C00h and 4000h I changed to vram+value. eg: 3c40h would become vram+0040h. This allows relocating these sections with an EQU later.
Anything that could be determined not to be an address I simply removed the comment.
4591: 21 C0 3F                   L4591: LD      HL,3FC0h        ; address or value?
4594: 11 40 77                          LD      DE,7740h        ; address or value?
4597: 01 40 00                          LD      BC,0040h        ; address or value?
There were a few that I still couldn't figure out and so for the moment just left the comment in place as a reminder to come back and visit them again later.
5807: 21 80 37                          LD      HL,3780h        ; address or value?
6591: 21 00 40                          LD      HL,4000h        ; address or value?
6594: 11 01 40                          LD      DE,4001h        ; address or value?
6599: 01 00 00                          LD      BC,0000h        ; address or value?
All up it took a couple of hours to go through and fix up these address locations. I also removed the LMOFFSET stub at the end.
I then hex dumped the binary and the original binary and ran them through a text diff program, which turned up one mistake (I'd missed putting the 'L' on the start of a label and it was getting treated as a literal decimal number). After fixing it, I had the exact same output (except with the stub re-locator from the end removed).
Obviously I need to setup the LORES graphic characters, but basically it's working!
Porting Meteor Mission II to Microbee continues with Part 3 - Development Environment and Title Screen.


text: What better way to spend Valentine’s Day weekend than with Nick Guerra? Why you ask? Well whether you are in a relationship or single Nick has so Love Advice. A blog that you can find at http://nickguerra.com/category/love/. Nick analyzes his best and worst flaws when it comes to love. Maybe you can relate? Watch the video and see if you disagree! To make this is even sweeter, Nick will be at Comedy Works South at the Landmark on February 14th to 17th….Get you tickets now!


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BRUNSWICK — The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority is eager to move forward on a proposed train layover facility, after receiving tentative approval last week for a storm-water license from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
But opponents of the project are not backing down.
A DEP-issued storm-water license is the final hurdle NNEPRA must clear to begin construction on the $12.7 million layover facility between Stanwood Street and Church Road.
“We are pleased with (DEP’s) draft decision,” NNEPRA Executive Director Patricia Quinn said Tuesday.
In a June 3 memorandum, DEP found NNEPRA had met all of the department’s rules concerning storm-water management, and outlined the draft license.
The draft contains several conditions of approval, including a revised spill contingency plan, a dewatering plan, and retaining a third-party inspector.
“Through the entire process, DEP has done a very, very thorough review, and the draft decision was also very thorough,” she said.
NNEPRA wants to build the layover facility so it can keep Amtrak Downeaster trains overnight in Brunswick. Currently, trains return to Portland for overnight maintenance and come back up to Brunswick in the morning for the first run of the day.
Quinn has said that eliminating those two “dead-head” runs would allow the Downeaster to offer a third trip between Brunswick and Boston.
The proposed facility would house up to three passenger trains, according to NNEPRA’s website.
But the plan has been consistently opposed by nearby residents, led by the Brunswick West Neighborhood Coalition, who claim the facility will increase air and groundwater pollution.
John Shumadine, the attorney representing the coalition, said the group will submit comments on the draft to the DEP.
“We think this has never been a completed application,” he said. “The draft order is basically indicating that by asking for whole host of documents that should have been provided beforehand,” he added, referring to 15 conditions of approval outlined in the draft.
He argued that the “appropriate” response would be to deny the permit and have the applicant supply the documents in a new application.
“The order is not final yet,” Shumadine noted.
NNEPRA was previously granted a storm-water permit for the site, but it was voided in July 2014 by a Superior Court judge who found the rail authority had failed to notify property abutters of its permit application.
NNEPRA then reapplied for the necessary permit, but DEP returned it in August, saying it was incomplete.
The current application was submitted last October, and received a day-long public hearing in March at the Brunswick Golf Club. It was the first public hearing the DEP ever held for a storm-water permit application.
Comments on the draft approval were due Wednesday, and the final license decision will be issued by June 17, the DEP said.
If the permit is approved, the decision can be appealed to the Board of Environmental Protection. The board consists of seven members, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Legislature.
With final approval, NNEPRA can finally break ground on the layover facility.
Even if the decision is appealed, “my understanding is that construction does not have to wait,” Quinn said.
“The intent is to move forward,” she added.
But opponents promise to be there, too.


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Rabbits are masters of the art of training humans. If they have three favorite vegetables, they will carefully teach you never to offer them any but these three.
•The rabbit makes the first move, which is to refuse the Brussels sprouts you’ve offered and turn her back on you with a motion which is the rabbit’s equivalent to rolling her eyes in disbelief you could possibly have committed such a gaffe.
•Desperately wanting her to have vegetables, which you know are good for her, you remove the offending matter and dash to the store for parsley.
•She rewards you by savoring every last morsel and smiling approvingly at you (yes, rabbit do smile).
•First, refer to a list of vegetables that rabbits can eat (Safe Veggie List). Choose an item and bring it home – let’s say it’s the Brussels sprouts.
•The first move is the rabbit’s again refusing the Brussels sprouts and giving you the look.
•You respond by cutting one of the sprouts open to display its freshness and leave it with her.
•She retaliates by lying in her litter box, eyes unfocused in a morass of despair over your stupidity, checking briefly from time to time to be sure you are noticing.
•You steadfastly ignore her plight, wish her goodnight, and go to bed. The next morning, when you invite her out for her morning romp while you eat breakfast, you remove the shriveling sprouts with no comment.
•For several days, as you work your way through your list of vegetables, all seems well. And then one day you foolishly bring home some fresh mint.
•She again demonstrates her deep disappointment in your lack of good judgment. She passes up her papaya tablet and pellets, ignores her hay, and sinks as deeply into her litter box as she can, sighing from time to time as though her heart might break unless her empty stomach kills her first.
•You steadfastly ignore her plight, wish her goodnight, and go to bed. The next morning, when you invite her out for her morning romp while you eat breakfast, you remove the wilting mint with no comment, but you do happen to notice that the papaya tablet is gone, her pellet dish is empty, and she needs more hay.
•This little charade may go on for weeks. And then one day, certain you have wasted your money, you bring home Brussels sprouts for the eighth time, give them to her, and notice as she turns to her pellets. You sit down across the room and and apparently get lost in your newspaper, but actually watching her out of the corner of your eye.
•She stops eating pellets and turns her head toward the Brussels sprouts, knowing that if she ignores them, you are too dense to understand she is requesting – nay, demanding – something more to her liking. She sniffs at them, wrinkling her nose in disgust, but a look of surprise appears before she can suppress it. She checks to be sure you didn’t notice. There was a most interesting odor there… she sniffs again, takes a nibble, pretends to be interested in rubbing her chin on one of her toys and carefully chews so as not to be noticed. And suddenly, it doesn’t matter any more… she admits to herself that, although you aren’t the most intelligent creature in the world, you did happen to stumble on something which isn’t all that bad.
•Half way through, she decides it isn’t one of her favorites but it is tolerable. She leaves some of it, polishes off her pellets and hay, and contentedly lies down for the night.
•The next day, you remove what is left. Three weeks later, you find the next time you offer the Brussels sprout, it is gone by morning. And it strikes you as interesting that she seems to have forgotten entirely how stupid and untrainable you once were.
Rabbits’ lungs occupy a mere one-fifth of its body, in comparison to one-third in ours. Obviously, obesity can be an extreme strain on the heart and lungs.
When a rabbit perceives danger or encounters a frightening situation, chemical changes occur, causing the heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate to increase, the eyes to dilate, and blood sugar (fuel for the body) to soar. These chemical changes make the rabbit better able to sense the danger and to run from it. But if the condition lasts for very long, it can cause serious problems.
For one thing, it can cause the contents of the intestine to stop moving. It can also cause diarrhea, inflammation of the intestinal tract, or even the production of poisons by bacteria in the intestinal tract. And, liver energy stores can be depleted – this is called shock disease, and it may be fatal! Shock disease occurs when rabbits who are obese or have been on a pellet-rich diet, undergo a prolonged stressful event (e.g., infested with maggots (fly strike) or left on a balcony overnight, etc.). A poor diet causes fatty changes in the rabbit’s liver, and when stressed, the result is starvation of body tissues.
Stress can’t be entirely avoided, but you can protect your rabbit from some of the more dangerous effects of stress by providing a good diet. A diet high in fiber (that means mostly good quality grass hay) helps to protect the GI tract from toxins produced in the intestine; helps to keep the contents of the intestine moving; and helps prevent the development of fatty liver. If your rabbit is stressed by some situation or event, get him back to a normal environment as soon as possible. Be sure he eats and drinks. If he becomes depressed or weak, he needs to see a veterinarian immediately.
•Minimize treats of high caloric content.
•Provide straw for chewing: it is different, so your rabbit may see it as a treat, but straw is essentially without calories.
•Hide tiny bits of low-calorie treats around the house. Once the rabbits begins to realize this happens every day, they will begin searching for the treats, thereby being more active.
Feeding your rabbit properly is essential to the health of these specialized creatures. Although it may present an interesting challenge for you, when done sucessfully, it brings rich rewards in your rabbit having a long and active life.

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One of the original natural wonders of the world, the Victoria Falls is breathtaking and not surprisingly a World Heritage Site. Known locally as ‘The Smoke that Thunders’ this spectacle is accessible from both Zambia and Zimbabwe. Unlike other waterfalls Victoria Falls has a natural catwalk across from the falls which provides for spectacular viewing.
A walk through the lush rain forest along the falls brings you almost within touching distance of the Seven Natural wonders of the world. The falls is the ‘adventure capital’ of the region and a flight over the falls shows them in their full splendour.
On the wildlife front, Zambia offers impressive diversity as well as large concentrations, and some of the wildest and most remote game areas on the continent. With nineteen national parks in the country, walking safaris are popular and afford the adventurous wildlife enthusiast an authentic opportunity to enjoy the rich flora and fauna.
Within Zimbabwe, hwange National park and Mana Pools are world –renowned and offer diverse habitats. The former is a home to some of southern Africa’s last great elephant, buffalo and sable herds; a truly wild area where animals have no restrictions. Mana Pools, located on the flood plains of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, offers superb wildlife and bird viewing.

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Danger, Will Robinson! Google a benevolent monopoly?
"Google is a private company, and its users aren't entitled to anything beyond Google honoring it's end of its user agreements and following the law."
Warning, Will Robinson! Warning! I thought we had already learned the lesson of the cost and benefits of monopolies. Google not a monopoly? Under whose definition? Under the law? Where did the law come from? There were some big companies that were not operating in the best interest of the United States.
Here's a newsflash: A system (like the economy) has rules (like laws) because the system was unable to keep from tending towards a sub-optimal solution. The solution is judged sub-optimal because of criteria that are used to measure success in another system (like religion, science, politics, country, community, family, ego, and even overlapping systems inside my head). Rules are the interface protocol where two systems interact.
I hope I am misunderstanding many of these comments saying that Google has the right to do what it wants because it is a private company. Funny how private companies have got us thinking that they have the right to act against the interests of my community, sometimes treating human beings as if we were just another resource to be efficiently allocated to maximize profits. Doesn't economics teach that private monopolies have a conflict of interest when it comes to choosing between maximizing utility and maximizing profit. And if economics doesn't teach that, hasn't history taught us? In a perfectly competitive economy, maximizing consumer utility and maximizing company profit tend to encourage decisions in the same direction. Since monopolies don't have the same checks and balances, they can tend to move in the direction of maximizing profit, to the detriment of the consumers. That is why we often decide, traditionally through a political process, that monopolies cannot have so much power.
Google's hold over the search engine business and being privately owned and controlled by a small number of people is like trusting a private company to own oxygen. Sure, if Google is benevolent, people might not be exploited and people might not have their goals and aspirations squeezed out of the decision-making process. But it is unlikely (see history) and it is very dangerous (see history). One of the important (often forgotten) roles of our political institutions is to provide a check and balance to economic forces driven by profit maximizing and monopoly power.

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Custom Drilling is well-qualified in the field of environmental drilling, including the installation of monitor wells. Monitor wells are designed to allow environmental monitoring of important factors such as water levels, water quality and contamination. As a member of the National Ground Water Association, the Florida Ground Water Association, and the National Drilling Association, Custom Drilling Services has access to the latest technological advances in the science of water well drilling. Located in the heart of Florida for over 20 years, we are keenly familiar with the Floridan Aquifer and groundwater system. Custom Drilling Services has a complete line of specialty drilling equipment to ensure efficiency and precision with each drilling project.
A water well must be drilled and installed correctly to be productive. Custom Drilling understands the complete scope of industrial water well drilling. Our on-time completion rate is 98.7% - that doesn’t mean we rush through, it means we do it right.
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When you get to spend the day with Design Studio South and work on a great decor project that’s so easy and pretty it’s an all-out happy zone. And I’ve been crushing on Tristen Needham since we met for the Elegant Easter Tabletop Tips and Spring Cocktail Recipe. I wanted to try my hand at making something (anything really!), inspired by her design even if it’s as small as a plastic Easter Egg. Don’t you love a style statement that challenges the tired, old, expected spring pastel pallet and is totally sweat free and inexpensive? I do!
Put up the watercolors, give your crazy-artificial-looking, plastic a simple, witty, elegant makeover.
Step 1: Layout your eggs. Open eggs and place in a line.
Step 2: Choose your paint colors.
Tip! For an artistic look select a paint with an accent like stone to give a natural texture to the surface of the egg. The funny thing is - it’s speckling takes them to an eggshell-like place that’s an au-natural appearance!
Step 3: Spray with hardware-store paint and let dry.
Step 4: Now celebrate with a glass of wine. Because in a matter of minutes you’ve crafted the most stylish Easter Eggs ever that are easy on your wallet. Plus your table and guests will love. And all the friends in your life are guaranteed to be blown away with your cleverness!
Tip! Rather than storing or throwing away after the season, leave them out for a whimsical touch!
See the this DIY featured on Pottery Barn Inside & Out.
See the tablescape featured on Pottery Barn Inside & Out.
Do you have a special way you decorate Easter eggs? I would love to see. Share your pictures on our Facebook page!


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There were 10 in attendance today, including: Kat McElroy Bonnie Reed, Tim Horn, Audrey Roth, Jeannie Bennet, Virginia Young, Bill, Rebecca and Emily Troxel, and Mary Alexander.
We enjoyed garbanzo bean and mutton soup, mixed green salad, and Ritz crackers with a sliced cheese and raisins & pecans for lunch.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: No minutes generated last week.
Dancing In The Streets: Maryellen Robinson continues to encourage people to contact her if they want to have a float in the DITS parade. Mike Anderson will be in charge of the food, has made a menu, and will supervise NSLC students in preparation and serving. It is not known at this time if Akeela House from Fairbanks will be able to travel up to Nenana to participate. A DJ has been contracted and we look forward to a large turn-out.
WELLNESS THOUGHT: Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Aldous Huxley.
Tim: School starts tomorrow at 7:45 AM. Late start Wednesday has become late start Monday.
There will be a themed devotional at Bonnie’s house Wednesday, September 29th, prayers for the educators and students.
Tim has had emails back and forth with Felicia at the Blood Bank in regards to the next Nenana Blood drive. There is some confusion as to the date. Tim thought October 10th but Felicia thought October 3rd. Tim will call Susan at the school to confirm.
The Book Club meets September 10th at 7 PM; the book being read is Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. Location of the meeting is undetermined at this time.
Bill: Enjoyed his birthday celebration.
Virginia Enjoyed her blueberry picking and the Peony Grower’s Farm Tour. She will be putting four thousand more peony roots in come September.
Bonnie September 2nd will be the Seniors train trip to Denali.
Kat: David’s baler broke, again, so he has purchased a new (used) baler from Delta. Life is only all about hay down out at the air strip right now.
Jeannie: Speaking of things that br5eak, their cement mixer motor went on the fritz which has caused delays and problems pouring the foundation for their new shop.
She would like to do one more push this summer for Project Overhaul.


text: This program showcases highlights from the Under The Radar Festival produced by Mark Russell which took place at The Public Theatre in New York City in January 2006. Under The Radar was a celebration of contemporary, independent, experimental theatre and featured some of the world’s most adventuresome and provocative artists including Brazil’s Cia dos Atores, France’s Superamas, Holland’s Kassys, England’s Tim Crouch and Australia’s William Yang. Included in the program are clips from “Rehearsal Hamlet” by Cia dos Atores, “Big 2nd Episode” by Superamas, “Kommer” by Kassys, “My Left Arm” by Tim Crouch, “Shadows” by William Yang as well as interviews with the artists, leading producers and presenters audience members offering a virtual crash course/symposium on new trends in international theatre. 32 minutes.


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This is a new kind of post for my blog today.
The owners are lovely and they sell beautiful gifts including my beloved Brit-Stitch bags and Dyrberg/Kern Jewellery.
I love that the shop has something for everyone at an affordable price! So if you're looking for a unique gift then Lex and Co. Gifts is the place.
They also sell bridal jewellery and accessories, Alexa (one of the owners) makes some jewellery herself. I just adore their little bridal room, as many of you know I am engaged and I blooming love anything related to weddings so I'm planning to get all my bridesmaids gorgeous accessories from there.
Its so nice to support your local.
If you can't get down to see the beautiful shop they also have a great website too.
This looks like such a lovely little shop! I'm most definitely going to have to have a look at some of their stock!


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Established in 1981, Britcom International Limited was initially a specialist exporter of used commercial vehicles. The company expanded rapidly throughout the 1980's establishing a strong presence in African, Caribbean and Far Eastern Markets as well as a small UK sales operation. By 1987 larger premises were required to house the creation of a new spare parts department and enabling the company to have its own workshop and paintshop to carry out refurbishment of trucks in-house.
Diversification occurred in the early 1990's with a move into used plant machinery and the acquisition of a chassis engineering business. Throughout the 1990's Britcom continued to develop its global reputation for supplying quality equipment, with unrivalled after-sales support in documentation and parts.
This led to the move to the current 14-acre premises in 2006. The purpose built site comprises modern offices, workshops and a paintshop, plus a storage yard for over 300 vehicles. To expand our presence in the Kenyan market, we also acquired HVPS in Nairobi, enabling us to service a growing customer base requiring local financing, with a multi-brand used truck offering.
Recent years have seen a significant growth in the UK side of the business, both from a used truck perspective and also with the engineering and bodyshop departments expanding their external clientele. This was further aided by the opening in 2015 of our Manchester depot.
We are now geared up to continue to take advantage of exciting new opportunities and develop both our export and UK business.

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Fantastic Full Skin of a Male Reeves Pheasant (no tail). Lots of wonderful feathers.
Our skins are from genuine UK stock so there is always limited availability. Most skins on e-bay and other sources are from illicit or illegal sources as this is a CITES listed species and the import/export of them are strictly controlled. Help conserve the natural wild stocks of this beautiful bird by only buying UK bred birds rather than one slaughtered illegally in the wild. Please note because of the legislation covering this product it can only be easily sent within the UK or to other EC countries. (We occasionally send abroad but be aware that there is often complex paperwork to complete and we may charge for our time to complete this - please e-mail us first to discuss your requirements).


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David Fleming, Hart Mackenzie's right-hand man, seeks refuge with an old mentor only to find the mentor's beautiful niece, Sophie, has sought sanctuary as well. In the quiet spaces of the countryside, David finds some peace from his reprobate existence but now faces a new problem–he's falling for Sophie, Lady Devonport, a lady with a scandalous secret.
Jennifer Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 100 novels and novellas in romance, mystery, fantasy, and historical fiction. She also writes as Allyson James and Ashley Gardner.

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I know no army is ever really complete, but my 15mm Sassanid Persians are now effectively so. I have all the cataphracts, heavy cavalry and light cavalry allowed, and now have two deep units of Sassanid foot as well.
These have been sitting on the painting table for far too long and were effectively blocking me from getting anything done: whilst they were there, I didn’t want to start anything new; and yet the thought of painting them just caused my mojo to flee!
A previous post has covered the elephants that I’ve added to my Sassanid Persian force. As I had a few spare infantrymen left over from those put aside for a Levy Foot unit, I thought I’d use them to represent the optional light infantry elephant escorts that significantly improve the battlefield effectiveness of the pachyderms.
A simple paint job that nevertheless looks quite good. Three shades of blue, red and flesh. Paint in the darkest colours; wash in GW Agrax Earthshade; highlight in the next lightest colour; finally, a tiny highlight in the lightest colour.
With the game To The Strongest, each army really needs at least one, and usually three, camps. Obviously, one can cobble something together, but it’s nice to have some specific pieces for each force.
Loving these. Easy to paint up: spray white; paint the roofs straw colour and the doors brown; wash with GW Agrax Earthshade; leave to properly dry and then highlight the thatch and doors; finally, take a stippling brush to the walls.
They are perhaps a bit pricey at £24, but well worth it. Recommended.
A bit more painting left over from last year: four bases, so one To The Strongest deep unit, of Ancient British foot in 15mm. The figures are Forged in Battle, excuse the shed!
Quite like these. The shields are partly painted and partly using LitteBigMan transfers. What decided which to use? Well, I couldn’t be bothered to cut out the holes in the transfers for the double-boss shields, so only used the transfers for the simple single-boss shields. I did try to do one: but it was annoyingly difficult and time-consuming!
Here’s the back view. The tartan and stripe patterns look better at wargaming distance than under the microscope.
I now need another four units of these: the thought of painting which fills me with horror! The Hoplites are bad enough, but at least they are homogeneous: these all have to be painted individually. Anyone got a pile of well-painted Ancient Brits they don’t want any more?
I always seem to get a lot of painting done over Christmas.
I think it’s because there’s nothing else to do apart from eating and drinking heavily (check), watching tv (check), arguing with the family (check), snoozing (check)!
Four Sassanid Persian elephant bases, so one full unit in To The Strongest, four units in Vis Bellica.
With the below, my Sassanid army in 15mm for To The Strongest is now finally legitimate i.e. fulfils the minimums required by the army lists.
So, here are two units of Heavy Cavalry - armoured men on unarmoured horses - plus a couple of heroes.
Naturally I haven’t quite finished yet: a unit of elephants and another unit of levy foot are sitting on the painting table waiting for a bit of attention. They’ll have to wait for the Ancient Brits to be finished first, and I’ve got that final unit of Hoplites to finish, and don’t even mention the Macedonians! So much painting, so little time!
Another ancients army that I need to bulk out for To The Strongest is my Sassanid Persians.
Fortunately, I had plenty of cataphracts already painted, so all I need to add to bring the force up to regulation ratios is some of the heavy cavalry that supported the superheavies.
That requires four heavy horse units, which I have decided to field as two units of what I would call Clibanarii (armoured men on felt-armoured covered horses) and two units of Heavy Cavalry (armoured men on unarmoured horses). They have exactly the same stats in TTS, but it’s nice to have the variety should I ever need it.
Lovely 15mm figures from Forged in Battle’s Empires range. Highly recommended.
The grey Clibanarii at the back have come out beautifully, but the turquoise lot at the front haven’t quite worked the way I wanted. I think the contrast between the white and turquoise is just too great to look good at this scale. No matter: I’ll know better for next time!
Updating all my Vis Bellica-based armies for To The Strongest means doubling the size of all my forces, or at least it does the way that I’m doing it. Vis Bellica has element bases that are (for 15mm figures) 6cm wide, so when I switched systems, it seemed obvious to use two VB elements to represent one TTS unit using the recommended 15cm TTS grid. That also means that I can show disorder in TTS merely by moving the two elements apart at an angle i.e. no need for additional markers.
That’s fine for standard units, but we’ve already seen how TTS deep units (such as Hoplites, Pikes, some Warriors) need four VB bases per TTS unit…and the same is unfortunately true for light chariots as well. In VB, they are based on a 3cm frontage: so four VB light chariot units are needed to make one TTS light chariot unit.
That was fine for the Egyptians, as I already had loads of light chariots in a double-size VB army. It is not so fine, however, for my Ancient British. The VB version has six light chariot bases - just about the right number - but that only makes 1½ TTS light chariot bases. Time to paint lots of chariots!
Reading the TTS army lists, however, the Ancient British have light chariots up to AD211 and light cavalry after that, so the author recommends mixing light cavalry and light chariots in a TTS Ancient British light unit that can count as both. Good idea: time, then, to paint loads of light cavalry rather than light chariots!
Xyston have some very nice Ancient British Unarmoured Cavalry, so that’s what I went for: painting up six four-horse bases’ worth and, controversially, mounting them to match the chariots rather than the more normal four-across-6cm for light cavalry.
So all I need now is another two chariots and another eight cavalry to hit the minimum number of light chariot units required.
I need to take a break from painting Hoplites, so thought I’d also start bringing my Ancient Britons up to scratch.
I’ve had Ancient Brits for as long as I have been wargaming: starting with an army for WRG 6th mostly made up with Airfix plastics but with a smattering of metal command figures; and then another, 15mm, force for Vis Bellica, which I had painted for me for the Society of Ancients “Battle of the Sambre” Day, for which we won best game of the day.
It’s only meet and right, therefore, that I adapt the 15mm troops for To The Strongest: which means painting chariots, light cavalry and warriors. And heroes, which is what I’ve started with.
This is a pack of Gaeseti Nobles from Xyston. Nice crisp, animated figures that paint up well. Which is lucky, as I’ve got a load of light cavalry to paint as well.
I’m continuing to build up my Hoplite Greek force for To The Strongest. My target is six units of Hoplites, with each unit being 48 figures strong. That’s 288 Hoplites in all!
I started with 96 Hoplites, added another 48 two weeks ago, and am now adding another 48 making 192 in all. So 96, or two more units to go.
This time, I chose to use Hoplites from Forged in Battle’s 15mm range. They come with shields and spears attached, and although the spears don’t look quite as good as the wire spears used with the Xyston lot, it did save an awful lot of time to have them ready-fitted.
So how do these compare with Xyston?
There’s less variety of pose in the FiB pack, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing as Hoplites are supposed to be in formation , so even-Stevens on that one.
As mentioned, the spears and shields are integral, so don’t look as good, but save an awful lot of work, so even-Stevens on that one too.
Details is comparable, although the hoplons themselves (the shields, darling, the shields) are a little small.
So, all-in-all, Xyston edge FiB in terms of quality of sculpt and final look, but the ease of integral spears and shields, and the fact that FiB are slightly easier to paint, more than makes up for it. I shall use both evenly from now on.
Right: time to start on the next 48 of the little blighters!
Now that the camps are sorted out, time to get a bit of scenery to dress the table and provide me with more of the sort of “traffic jam” problems that I encountered in my first game of To The Strongest.
I’ve got some desert style bits, but need to prepare for when my Hoplites eventually take the field. They are based in a sort of rocky outcrop style, so I need some sort of rocky outcrops to match.
A quick wander round Warfare and I came across The Scene. They had four rocky outcrop style bases about 120mm in diameter which I purchased immediately. Sorted!
As you can see, each fits neatly in one of the boxes on my mat.
In addition to the extra figures I need for To The Strongest, my current war game of choice, I also need some camps: about six i.e. three a side. They need to be big enough to take a guardian unit (so at least 120mm wide) and deep enough to carry a bit of “dressing”.
I’m not sure where the bases came from, but the pyramids, huts and Sphinx all came from The Square, an excellent place to find all sorts of useful bits of resin. I always make my way there at the end of the day and spend whatever I have left in my pockets!
They paint up easily as well. The huts are undercoated in light brown, then very heavily dry-brushed white with the roofs dry-brushed in a variety of yellowy-brown colours. What makes the difference is that I have filled in the doorways and windows with a bit of woven hemp: giving a bit of depth and texture.
The Sphink and pyramids are simply painted sand yellow, washed with GW Agrax Earthshade, and then dry-brushed with GW Screaming Skull. Whole lot took me about half an hour.
As mentioned before, converting my Vis Bellica Ancients armies for To The Strongest means making them bigger, especially where chariots and deep units are concerned.
My Assyrians were already a large VB army, so didn’t need a huge amount of augmenting to bring them up to TTS strength. I’ve already posted about the chariots, now here is the extra cavalry I need: a VB unit of Guard cavalry and a unit of Regular cavalry, allowing me (with what I have already) to field three TTS cavalry units, one Guard and two Regular.
That’s the Assyrians finished, now on to either the Egyptians (need more chariots!) or the Hoplite Greeks (need more Hoplites for those TTS deep units).
As mentioned in a previous post, using my 15mm Ancients armies originally designed for Vis Bellica for To The Strongest has proved easy: two VB bases (or four for deep units) neatly equals one TTS unit, and allows for disorder to be easily shown.
The only problem is that that means that each of my existing armies is now half the size that it was before (or a quarter for those with deep units e.g. hoplites, pikes and some warbands). Fortunately, I always went big for my VB armies, but there is definitely a need for some topping up to take place. This is a good thing, as I haven’t painted any Ancients for ages, and a change is as good as a rest, as they say!
Here, then, is the first of the topping up: two heavy chariots (i.e. one unit) and three foot figures to represent heroes. All Essex, apart from a couple of the chariot crews, which are Museum.

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I was listening to a podcast by Keith Preston at Attack the System regarding the question “Who are the Power Elite?” If I recall correctly, I found this podcast through the good efforts of Charles Burris.
In this podcast, and I will paraphrase as best as I can, Mr. Preston suggested certain ways that the elite control the population. For the lower economic classes, control is achieved through various laws that allow for an overly aggressive police – drug laws, prostitution, and the like (see William Grigg for a few examples of the methods).
For the middle and especially upper economic classes, control is achieved through enforcement of political correctness – the avoidance of certain views found to be unacceptable in polite society.
This seems to be more the case the higher one goes in economic and intellectual circles. One need look no further than the so-called bastions of intellectual purity – the top colleges and universities – to find this to be the case. How many students regurgitate the acceptable answer instead of the correct one – no matter how well they defend their position?
It is interesting that the brightest minds have, in many ways, been captured by the system – whether the owners of those minds understand this or not. Consider, the top researchers, economists, financiers, academicians, journalists; all hold privileged positions much more lucrative than would likely be the case in a free market. The brightest minds – the ones best able to question the very system that controls them – are beholden to that same system for their oversized positions.
While the internet has helped to put a crack in this armor of political correctness, the acceptance of “narratives at variance with the facts” still holds tremendous power to control – or, worded another way, the questioning of “narratives at variance with the facts” still holds tremendous power to chastise.
September 11, Pearl Harbor, dropping the atomic bombs, Ron Paul, central banking, global warming (or climate change), the two-party system, an independent press, honor the troops, Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, the Good War, the gold standard, Iran, Israel, Austrian economics, .
You hold one of these privileged positions – perhaps a nice research position at the NIH, or a high-profile position with a major newspaper or nightly news broadcast; an employee of a central bank; an eight-figure-a-year-bonus banker; an executive at a defense contractor. You are a cog in polite society.
Go to your next cocktail party, and question the politically acceptable view of any of these topics. I don’t mean one-on-one, where your counterpart’s views will not be heard by others. No, say something to the crowd of five or six standing by the cheese table, where each member of the group must be concerned about witnesses. You won’t do this too often before you are no longer invited.
Put faces on the people at the party: Warren Buffet, Ben Bernanke, Jamie Dimon, Jeff Immelt. Have you heard any such individuals question an official narrative – one at obvious variance with the facts? How about the news anchors, business journalists? Maria Bartiromo? Do you think you will be invited to Davos after such an indiscretion?
I am trying to remember my internal explanation for the existence of “political correctness” prior to hearing the above-mentioned podcast. I cannot remember it – the explanation given by Mr. Preston was one of the bigger light-bulb moments I have had in quite a while; it has erased any thinking from my memory that I had about this concept before.
Reprinted with permission from the Bionic Mosquito.

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The Skinny on Ground Flax seed -Your Questions Answered?
April Showers are here... Farmer's Markets will be here soon!
How has your spring been?
Many of us are enjoying a very unexpected, warm spring! feels like Summer sometimes!~ I just hope that the farmer's won't suffer for the strange weather. ...I am REALLY looking forward to the wonderful local fruit and veggies of the Farmer's Markets!
I'm very happy that tax season is over... I'm sure we all are! This will be a busy summer for me as my son will be getting married in California at the end of July! We are excited :).
What plans do you have this summer? I love to hear from my customers and you can chat with us on facebook as well!
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There is tons of info out there... I believe that it is important to do research and learn as much as we can, while maintaining a balanced view of extremes!
My personal philosophy is to eat food as close as possible to it's source... this is the primary influence in my writing and perspectives. I hope learning more about ground flax will help you eat and live healthier!
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2) What are the Types of Ground Flax?
There are many types of ground flax: flaxseed meal, ground flaxseeds (sometimes found refrigerated, sometimes not), milled flaxseed, and even cold milled flaxseed (there may be more kinds!).
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The principal aim of South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership is to improve the health and wellbeing of the people in the area. To make this happen, we are ensuring that the expertise and resources of health and social care services are combined, shared, co-ordinated and plans are made jointly – with the person at the centre of our collective efforts. Key partners also include the third sector, the independent care sector, unpaid carers and a range of stakeholders – including people at the very heart of our communities. Our vision is working together to improve health and wellbeing in the community, with the community.
Integration of Health and Social Care is the Scottish Government’s programme of reform. One of the main aspects of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act was to create statutory Health & Social Care Partnerships (H&SCPs) in each local authority area in co-operation with health boards. It was this act that saw the formation of South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership.
We’re working together to achieve the nine national health and wellbeing outcomes .
In essence, these outcomes provide the partnership with clear direction and are the goals – set down by the Scottish Government - we are working at local level to attain. They also set out the difference we intend to make to people’s lives from people who use our services to staff and partners.

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Puerto Rico, which will vote on whether to become a state this summer, has reduced its spending by 20 percent in just two years with the help of public-private partnerships.
Sun, sand and 80-degree temperatures distract most winter visitors to this U.S. island territory from the visible signs of aging at the 57-year-old Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, a critical hub to the Caribbean, but increasingly expensive to run and maintain.
That’s not good enough for Kenneth McClintock, the secretary of state for Puerto Rico, who says the airport is about to undergo world-class upgrades made possible through a long-term lease with a private company that will finance, design, build and operate the facility.
“It’s a showcase project that will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenues,” says McClintock, who’s been a key player in the island’s aggressive use of public-private partnerships (P3) to modernize public infrastructure. Act No. 29, passed by the Legislature in 2009, created the Public-Private Partnerships Authority that, in consultation with investment banking firm Macquarie Capital, developed the commonwealth’s ambitious P3 program. So far, the growing portfolio includes 100 K-12 schools, road improvements and public transit.
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The authority’s five-member board of directors includes two members suggested by the Legislature. “They are in on day one for everything,” says McClintock, and they decide on behalf of the Legislature, which means individual deals don’t return to the Legislature for ratification.
“In that way, they have managed to insulate P3s from the political process,” says Sean Slone, senior transportation policy analyst with The Council of State Governments (CSG). He says Puerto Rico’s independent P3 authority is unique among the 31 states with legislation that allows them to enter into P3s.
The P3 strategy is part of larger government reforms that include agency consolidations in education, corrections and labor. Gov. Luis Fortuño’s administration has reduced government spending by 20 percent in the two years since taking office. Public employees have shouldered much of the budget cuts: 23,000 jobs have been eliminated and remaining salaries are frozen for two years. These and other measures seem to be working. In 2009, Puerto Rico’s deficit was the highest proportionately when compared to the 50 states. Today, by the same measure, the commonwealth ranks 20th and would be 15th under provisions of its 2012 budget. Meanwhile, its bond ratings have risen from junk to AAA.
Fortuño, a Republican, and McClintock, a Democrat, are both intent on pushing away from the kids’ table once and for all, setting aside mainland party labels in favor of a common desire for statehood. Fortuño has put the question of political status back on the ballot through a two-step nonbinding plebiscite. It will be the fourth time since 1967. On Aug. 12, voters will be asked if they prefer the status quo or change. If change wins, they’ll vote again on general election day among choices that range from statehood to all-out independence.


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Authorities in Afghanistan have pardoned a fourteen-year-old would-be suicide bomber named Rafiqullah. The boy was recruited by the Taleban from a religious school in Pakistan. Trained in the techniques of suicide bombing, Rafiqullah was taken across the border to Afghanistan in June, given a vest full of explosives, and ordered to kill himself and the governor of Afghanistan's Khost province, Arsala Jamal.
The attack was foiled by Afghan authorities. Governor Jamal recommended leniency for the boy. "The enemy of Islam deceived him," said Mr. Jamal. "He was brainwashed." Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, said the world is faced with a "terrifying truth. . .the sending of a Muslim child to carry out a suicide attack."
"It's certainly clear that the Taleban targets Afghan civilians, including children, in its campaigns of terror. They've engaged in all kinds of heinous behavior; from beheadings and suicide bombings and abductions. And certainly, these kind of stories of children being coerced into working for the Taleban or, in fact, even being coerced into becoming suicide bombers is not unheard or unusual."
As the Taleban's tactics become more barbaric, public tolerance of such violence is rapidly decreasing. A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that Muslims around the world increasingly reject suicide bombings and other forms of violence against civilians by Islamic extremists. According to the survey, today only nine percent of Pakistanis believe suicide bombings can ever be justified, a decline from forty-one percent who believed this in 2004.
"In Afghanistan, they have targeted teachers for beatings and murder. In Iraq, they killed a young boy, and then booby-trapped his body so it would explode when his family came to retrieve him. They put children in the backseat of a car so they could pass a security checkpoint, and then blew up the car with the children still inside."
"This enemy is not the true face of Islam," said President Bush, "this enemy is the face of hatred."

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Who, Where, What, And Why?
Christ Church Heiloo currently supports six mission partners. During November 2018 our focus is on the ministry of Tyndale Theological Seminary. We look forward to Sunday 18th November when Mark Garavaglia the president of Tyndale and his wife Alicia will be with us. Mark will preach and Alica will give an update on the work of the seminary.
Pulane Children’s Centre lies in the foot hills of Lesotho, Southern Africa. It is home to more than 90 orphans or vulnerable children caused by the AIDS epidemic. Aged between 0 – 20 they receive love and care in a Christian environment, attending local schools and keeping contact with their villages and Sutho culture in the holidays. Jill Kinsey, an English missionary, started the Centre and was in charge for 8 years. She retired in 2016 and continues to live there. Grant Strugnall, a missionary and South African pilot, now runs the centre with his wife Emily. We have regular contact with them.
ICS is an international Church of England mission agency: making known the good news of Jesus Christ to English-speakers living, studying, working or holidaying away from home in countries where English is not the main language. ICS works mainly in continental Europe and around the Mediterranean. It is funded entirely by donations from individuals, churches and trusts that share its aims.
Jurgens and Eleanor Krause are workers at the orphan house ‘’Pasture Valley.’’ Pasture Valley Children’s home was established in 2003 with the aim of providing a loving, Christian home to neglected and orphaned children from the Shiselweni region of Swaziland, in the South of Swaziland. This mission partnership will be different from the other five in that Jurgens and Eleanor are planning to support themselves financially. So the partnership will be one of prayer support and occasional pastoral wisdom. The only financial element is that Jurgens can ask the Leadership team to make a collection appeal to the congregation if they get into a financial crisis.
Open Doors supports persecuted and threatened Christians in over 60 countries, through providing Bibles, Christian literature, training, livelihood skills and advocacy. Their aim is to keep the light of the world shining in some of the darkest places on earth. In the words of their founder Brother Andrew, “The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfil the Great Commission. Her work is making disciples of all nations.” To enable this Open Doors educates Christians in the free world, seeking to motivate them to identify with threatened and persecuted Christians in praying for and actively helping them.
The Herikon is an interdenominational and evangelical organization that aims to strengthen disciples of Jesus Christ and Churches through evangelism, education and training. They are the Dutch branch of BCM International, a global mission organization.
Tyndale Theological Seminary is an interdenominational, evangelical seminary that prepares students for ministries as pastors, teachers, missionaries, church planters and denominational leaders around the world. The seminary is a graduate, professional school offering accredited English language Masters programs. Tyndale stands as a witness for Christ in multi-cultural Europe, equipping leaders to reach Europe and the world with the gospel.


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I was four years old, my brother not yet one, when my dad moved our family to the woods—1983. We traded suburban Seattle for building an off-grid log cabin in the Union Valley of north central Washington. I grew up thinking it was normal to retrieve spring water with gallon milk jugs, and illuminate our home with kerosene lamps.
I returned to the cabin from some years of sea voyaging at the age of twenty-nine. We’d left our cabin home eighteen years before. Cleaning the house, I filled five vacuum bags with moth wings and mouse droppings. Living at the cabin provoked many questions.was four years old, my brother not yet one, when my dad moved our family to the woods—1983. We traded suburban Seattle for building an off-grid log cabin in the Union Valley of north central Washington. I grew up thinking it was normal to retrieve spring water with gallon milk jugs, and illuminate our home with kerosene lamps.
I’d heard snippets growing up, and even lived through some of the experiences myself, though with a kid’s perspective. Dad and mom answered my questions one story at a time, but I wanted more. I wanted to know the whole story.
“Dad, I know what I want for my birthday,” I said in the spring of 2011. “I want you to write Winter’s Comin’.” This had long been the working title of the book we imagined writing about our Union Valley experience.
My birthday came and went. No book. I pressed for the story as a Christmas gift. My dad made a large pencil sketch of my cat, and taped to the back the pages containing his first 18,000 words. I was thrilled.
I moved from the cabin to Bolivia in July 2012. Dad had made little progress on the book, despite my asking for more of the story. Jennifer and I married in Bolivia on November 30th, the same day my parents had married thirty-eight years before. Our first daughter was born in October 2013, and the three boys we adopted, ages nine, ten and ten, came to live with us that December.
I taught high school science in Bolivia for two years. I did not renew my contract, but decided to become an author instead. The trouble was, I couldn’t create the cabin stories myself. I needed Dad to give me the raw material which I could then polish, sort, and format. Dad had only given me 7,000 more words by June 2014. Mom had written about 4,000 when she came to Bolivia for Sophia’s birth. I would not be paying any bills with an unwritten book. Life was less expensive in Bolivia. But not free.
I signed up on a freelance job website and was offered a job in Search Engine Optimization. I knew nothing about SEO, but I was a quick study and lapped up everything my kind boss taught me. This paid the bills, but I kept pressing my dad for more stories.
Our family traveled to the States in the fall of 2014, and I brought my voice recorder. If Dad won’t type, I know I can get him to talk…And talk he did! My brother Luke asked some great questions, as did Jennifer. Mom and dad both answered at length, quarreling only occasionally about details or sequence—their memories were thirty years old.
All told, I recorded forty hours of recollections, including a few rabbit trails. Back in Bolivia, I began transcribing—one minute of talking took about four minutes to type. Mom and dad often talked over one another, making it difficult to discern what they were saying. The process dragged.
Once all the stories were transcribed, I had to organize them. The stories hadn’t been told in chronological order. Winter stories and hunting stories and kid stories came lumped together, even if they happened years apart. I created codes for the individual stories and filled a massive spreadsheet, organized by month and year. The spreadsheet guided me to cut and paste big chunks of transcribed text into the manuscript.
I set to work polishing and formatting, still asking mom and dad for clarification or more information. Lydia was born in April 2015, and we moved back to the States in September where I started my own SEO company, www.GreatWaveSEO.com.
Finally, I submitted the manuscript to our editor on January 30th, 2016—still with a few holes Dad needed to fill. The edit motivated my dad to generate 10,000 more words and fill in the last gaps. Bradley Harris has helped us trim the fat and keep the book a reasonable length.
I am grateful to my dad for setting my life’s adventurous tone, for loving his family, and for always serving as a great provider and guide. Thanks, Dad, for living an experience worth writing about and sharing the story with us. I am grateful to my mother for supporting my dad and his crazy plans, for loving her family, and always caring for us. Thanks, Mom, for enduring the hardships and being the mom Luke and I needed. I am grateful to my brother for his questions and encouragement throughout this writing process.
My wife Jennifer deserves my gratitude for her encouragement and support and steadfastness. She reviewed the book and asked for more of the story from my mom’s perspective. Much of the human interest component story is thanks to my wife’s guiding questions. Thank you, dear.
I am grateful to my friends and extended family who have provided encouragement and declared their interest in reading the whole story. I am grateful to Brad for tightening the final product.
Finally, I am grateful to you, reader, for taking a risk on an unknown author—I hope you have enjoyed our story and been encouraged to persevere and live a life without regrets.
A young captain. An old ship. An all-volunteer crew on a humanitarian aid voyage to Israel during the Lebanon War. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters: Breakdown. Injury. Ineptitude. Corruption. Desertion. Romance? Read Jake’s true life confessional of a most remarkable modern voyage, and a story of God’s provision during hardship—coming next!
A former ship’s captain living in his family’s off-grid cabin in Washington state. An orphanage founder and director from Texas living in Bolivia. How did they ever come to meet, and what did they need to learn before they were ready for life together? Read Jake & Jennifer’s true life story of a love match made in heaven before it was made on earth—coming eventually!
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