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Since Mark was four years old he has always loved the horror genre, even when his mother would be a good parent and not let him watch such films. It was when he would sneak into the Horror section at the video store called Tommy K's that he would see all of the VHS covers of classics like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
During his time as a journalism major and news staff writer at Southern CT State University, he had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren before a seminar in 2009 at the Lyman Center on campus.
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First Photo for 'Ghostbusters 2020' Released as Filming Begins
July 14, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Movies and TV Shows, News /by Mark McCurley
Director Jason Reitman took to his Instagram to officially announce the commencement of filming on Sony's Ghostbusters 2020 in Alberta, Canada with a first look photo featuring stars Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard and Carrie Coon in character. Reitman appears also in the photo, alongside his father Ivan Reitman who directed the first two Ghostbusters films.
It seems Grace's familiar specs tease a lineage with Egon Spengler.
Grace, known also for her roles in Captain Marvel and Annbelle Comes Home, will star in the 2020 film along with Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things and 2017's IT). Carrie Coon (The Leftovers) will play their mother. Sigourney Weaver recently confirmed that she and the original cast were reprising their roles for the sequel. read more read more
Samuel L. Jackson added to Chris Rock's Reboot of 'Saw'
July 9, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Movies and TV Shows, News /by Mark McCurley
Hold on to those butts, Samuel L. Jackson has been confirmed as a cast member of the newest entry in the Saw franchise confirmed by Joe Drake, chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.
According to Variety, he said, "We think Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Rock along with Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols make this film completely special in the 'Saw' canon and we can't wait to unleash this unexpected and sinister new story on fans of this franchise. This is next level of 'Saw' on full tilt." read more read more
'Hellraiser' Television Rights Acquired by Roy Lee and Dan Farah
June 30, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Movies and TV Shows, News /by Mark McCurley
Pinhead once said, "We have such sights to show you," this is especially true now since according to Deadline producers Roy Lee (IT 2017) and Dan Farah (Ready Player One) have attained the rights to bring Clive Barker's Hellraiser to the small screen for the first time ever.
Lee and Farah have joined forces with producers and rights-holders Lawrence Kuppin, David Salzman and Eric Gardner, who have held those TV rights since New World Entertainment was sold in 1989. read more
'28 Days Later' Director Danny Boyle Discusses Sequel Plans
12 years following the previous franchise entry, original director Danny Boyle has revealed he's working on a second sequel to 28 Days Later.
He told The Independent that a third film is in the works with Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, who wrote the original back in 2002.
"Alex Garland and I have a wonderful idea for the third part," Boyle said. "It's properly good. The original film led to a bit of a resurgence in the zombie drama and it doesn't reference any of that. It doesn't feel stale at all. He's concentrating on directing his own work at the moment, so it's stood in abeyance really, but it's a you-never-know." read more read more
Paramount Confirms 'Paranormal Activity' will Return with a New Sequel
During an appearance at CineEurope, Chairman and CEO for Paramount Pictures Jim Gianopulos made an announcement that a new entry in the Paranormal Activity series officially is in development at the studio. This one will be part seven and the first since 2015.
Gianopulos said, "We are partnering with uber horror producer Jason Blum to bring a new installment of Paranormal Activity."
2019 marks the ten year anniversary of the first Paranormal Activity film's release, which exploded at the domestic box office and set the world of horror ablaze with the found footage feature phenomena. The first Paranormal Activity was produced on a budget of $15,000 dollars and went on to gross $193 million worldwide. read more read more
Nickelodeon Bringing Back 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' as a Limited Series
June 11, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Movies and TV Shows, Horror Toys, News /by Mark McCurley
Following the unfortunate news of losing IT screenwriter Gary Dauberman, Are You Afraid of the Dark? as a film has been put on the back burner for now, however Deadline brings word that the show will be brought back this coming October as limited series to the network where it began for viewers in the USA, Nickelodeon.
Continuing the tradition of a group of friends, known as The Midnight Society, gathering around a campfire to tell scary stories every Saturday night, the upcoming horror anthology will be aired as three one-hour long episodes. read more read more
'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' Movie Loses Writer
June 4, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Movies and TV Shows, News /by Mark McCurley
Apparently, the creators at Paramount Pictures need nightlights because Are You Afraid of the Dark? the movie has not only been pulled from its October 4 release date but according to Slash Film screenwriter Gary Dauberman has parted with the project entirely, leaving its current status unknown.
Initially, Dauberman was going to pen the film's script and produce the adaptation of Nickelodeon's 1990's hit series, but in the interview he had this to say, "No, that actually hasn't shot yet. That's one of those things I'm no longer a part of. I just had a different vision to make it and thought it best to part ways. It's unfortunate but as you said, that's sometimes how it goes." read more read more
Upcoming Horror Movie Previews from the Staff of Horror News Network (Video)
May 29, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Movies and TV Shows, News /by Mark McCurley
With the barrage of scary movies set to release in 2019, Christine Caprilozzi, Larry Dwyer and Mark McCurley of Horror News Network discuss each of the ones they're looking forward to from the trailers that have premiered so far.
Discussed in this video are The Lodge, IT: Chapter 2, Crawl and Midsommar.
Which upcoming horror films are you looking forward to?
Check out the video below and be sure to Like, Comment and Subscribe!
Horror News Network Staff on CT HorrorFest 2019 (Video)
Just in from the staff of Horror News Network, Mike Simonetta, Larry Dwyer and Mark McCurley take some time to discuss CT HorrorFest coming up on Sept. 14 at the Naugatuck Event Center with the many celebrity guests and opportunities coming this year.
Which guests are you most excited to meet?!
Get your tickets here and check out the video below.
We'll see you in September!
'Ghostbusters' Sequel to be Laden with Practical Effects Over CGI
Dan Aykroyd dropped more hints regarding the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel that is sure to excite fans all over the world. During an interview with 660 News the comedy actor revealed the creators of the upcoming film are sticking to the use of practical effects instead of Computer-generated imagery, or CGI, as much as possible.
Aykroyd said, "I'm always urging to use puppets, I'm always urging to go back to the mechanicals. But CGI is so efficient and easy to use but I think that all of us are on board with the idea of maybe doing mechanicals and puppets where we can." read more read more


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David Brooks: Threat or Menace? The Next Culture War
Posted: August 10, 2015 in Braak, david brooks, Politics
Tags: david brooks, gay marriage, homosexuality, religion, values
(I guess I am going to keep doing these.)
Friends, this week's David Brooks column is…a little bizarre. I don't completely know what to make of it. It's definitely about Christian homophobes, and how they need to conduct themselves in the new, slightly-less-homophobic America that the Supreme Court has gay-married us all into, and I can't tell if it's this clever mixture of diplomacy and stinging criticism, or if it's just astonishingly dopey. Experience leads me to believe option two, but…man.
Just, look at this, check this out.
So, he starts off with some mostly-accurate, if a little misleading, business about how Christianity and religion are in decline in the United States (I say "misleading" because it is extremely dumb to talk about "Christianity" like it's one thing, not the least of which because we don't have a lot of good data about it — and if you look at some of these Gallup trends yeah, sure, in the last twenty years, regular Protestantism has declined from 59% of the population to 37% of the population, while Catholicism has suffered a shocking drop from 24% to 23%. Judaism has suffered a little worse, going from 2% to somewhere still within the margin of error of 2% for the survey. The "nones" — these famous Millennials who just aren't into your grandad's church, man, have EXPLODED from 6% to 16% on this one. That's to say nothing of the Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any of innumerable other faiths that we weren't even asking about twenty years ago. Furthermore there's a lot that surveys like this don't tell us; my favorite is always the point that we have no way of knowing how many people were identifying as Christian twenty years ago because they thought they had to, and so lied on the survey for the sake of their own personal identity; it's entirely possible that very little has changed, Christianity-wise, except that people don't feel compelled to bullshit the census-taker anymore).
The problem with this kind of stuff is how guys like Brooks use "decline of religion" as a shorthand for "decline of morals" (or, in the case of actual David Brooks, actual longhand for it: "Christianity's gravest setbacks are in the realm of values."). Of course, this is horseshit. Many Christians have different sets of values. My in-laws go to an Episcopal church, those guys have been pro-gay-marriage for decades. If you ask them, the normalization of gay marriage is a triumph of Christian values, not a setback. Likewise the Affordable Care Act. Likewise increased support for transgender visibility. The guys that Brooks calls "orthodox" Christians (this is impossible of course: since Christianity itself doesn't have a fixed doctrine you can't be orthdoxic, but nevermind) aren't more moral, than everyone else, they are differently moral than everyone else, and they're not more Christian, they are differently Christian. Failure by one metric is success by any one of a dozen others, and it's weird that Brooks wants to concede moral authority to what is actually a pretty small (if noisy and irritating) corner of a complex, multivariate tradition.
But again, set that aside for right now. I don't believe that this "decline of morality" is anything other than a completely stupid way to look at the modern world, but I've got a suspicion that Brooks might not believe it either. Here is what he says later on, after paying some obeisance to the conservative cultural commentators that he admires:
Consider putting aside, in the current climate, the culture war oriented around the sexual revolution.
Put aside a culture war that has alienated large parts of three generations from any consideration of religion or belief. Put aside an effort that has been a communications disaster, reducing a rich, complex and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex. Put aside a culture war that, at least over the near term, you are destined to lose.
Right? Give it up, guys! You've lost! He says maybe they've just lost in the near-term, but let's be real — if they give up in the near-term, they've lost the long-term battle, too. No one seriously thinks that shithead Christianity is going to go into their prepper sheds for a hundred years and come out after the Sex Apocalypse has destroyed society to show us the way again. (I mean, I think. I hope no serious person believes that. I hope that the New York Times' most serious opinionist doesn't believe that.)
All right, what's happening here? Is David Brooks trying to give these guys an out? A way to leave the battle with dignity? To save some face? Of course, no one wants to be the guy who retreats, who surrenders, who GIVES UP like a LOSER, especially not in the sort of proto-fascist Conservative politics of the modern day, where anything like "weakness" is anathema. You can't tell someone to retreat, but maybe you can convince them that it's okay to advance in a different direction. Maybe that's all the Conservative Christian Coalition needs, a way to give up where we all pretend that they didn't actually lose!
A brief aside: I don't have a problem with this, but let me set up my position on a couple things. I believe that the kind of "orthodox" Christians that Brooks describe — the kind that live in that particular nexus of disapproving of: "homosexuality, premarital sex, contraception, out-of-wedlock childbearing, divorce"…what David Brooks calls "values" but by which he means "cultural proscriptions" — I think those guys are bad and wrong. And I know that as a liberal I'm supposed to have a position of tolerance or something like that, but I have to let you know that no, I am not a very tolerant person. I am not tolerant of homosexuality; I like homosexuality. I think it's good. I think the world is better for it, I think humanity is better because some people are gay, some people are trans, some people are genderfluid or genderqueer or bisexual or pansexual or asexual. I think as a society we must tolerate this difference at a bare minimum; the reality is that in order to be good people, we must embrace it as completely fucking rad.
The same goes for sex of all kinds and in all forms; I think the only bad relationship is a dishonest relationship, and the only bad sex is when someone isn't consenting. That's it. Same with race, same with religion, same with everything — these things are awesome, and I don't want to tolerate them, I want to celebrate them. The fact of the matter is, i don't have a tolerant bone in my body, because I don't need tolerance to support liberal values of inclusiveness: I genuinely believe that this kind of inclusiveness is beneficial to humanity.
So, because I am not a very tolerant person, I don't feel any misgivings about thinking the people who hate this kind of thing are terrible people. I will tolerate them, because I have to, and I believe that in a free society I should have to tolerate them, which is why I don't advocate throwing them all off of bridges or sending them to dungeons. But I don't like them, and I don't intend to like them, and I don't have any problem saying that I think their values are bad.
I know these "orthodox" Christians think they're the most valuey of all values voters, but their values are shit. I'm an atheist, I don't believe in the Christian god, and even I know that a supreme being isn't going to create a species with this kind of marvelous diversity and then insist that we hate each other for it. If you believe the Bible is true and you come away from it hating gay people, or hating any kind of person, then you've either misunderstood it, or the Bible has misunderstood your god, and that's about it. One way or the another, America is as much mine as it is yours, and we're not making a bunch of rules based on your misunderstandings, get out of here with that business.
All that said, I don't have a problem letting these guys make a graceful exit if it will make things easier. If they have to hear that they're the true heroes of love and charity and selflessness while they're pulling up stakes and packing up their bedrolls then so be it. Whatever you need to hear, guys, just get the shit off my lawn.
And maybe that's what Brooks is doing. Maybe he's reaching out to his fellow conservative commentators and saying, "Guys look, I know that you're good people, but maybe this isn't the best way to use your goodness? Maybe you can apply your religion of selfless love, which you guys are committed to and these ignorant liberals don't even BEGIN to understand, the people at Chris's in-laws' church notwithstanding, to something in society that would actually be USEFUL?"
Well, hey, A+ David Brooks, I can agree to that. What do you think these guys should be spending their time on?
Social conservatives could be the people who help reweave the sinews of society. They already subscribe to a faith built on selfless love.
Okay. I mean, we've got…we've got a lot of sinews here already, it's not like the irreligious are just wandering around in a state of confusion, but people have to have meaning in their lives, so…sure, okay.
They can serve as examples of commitment.
Yeah, good choice! If you think your values are so great, just live them for real, and let people follow them if they want to!
They are equipped with a vocabulary to distinguish right from wrong, what dignifies and what demeans.
That…is kind of a little insulting (see all the things I said about values earlier). I mean, is the implication that I support gay marriage because I don't have a vocabulary to distinguish right from wrong? Okay, you know what? Whatever. Sure, you guys talk a lot about right and wrong, and so in that sense (I mean: the sense of having a lot of words that you use) you definitely have a lot of words that you use to talk about right and wrong.
But what are you guys actually going to DO?
The defining face of social conservatism could be this: Those are the people who go into underprivileged areas and form organizations to help nurture stable families
Uh. What? Like…hold on, what?
Like what, you want to take Focus on the Family apart, and send those guys on a fucking mission trip into the inner cities? Dave. Davey. What the fuck are you talking about?
Those are the people who can help us think about how economic joblessness and spiritual poverty reinforce each other.Those are the people who converse with us about the transcendent in everyday life.
How they reinforce each other? You think that spiritual poverty is helping to keep people poor? Like they're coming to the welfare office because they don't have enough Jesus in their lives? Are you serious?
David Brooks, of course, does not live in an underprivileged area, but one thing he might be surprised about, should he ever find the occasion to visit, is how many fucking churches there are. There are hundreds, if not thousands. In West Philadelphia, where I used to work for the welfare office, there is a church about every four blocks. Little churches built into old shops or in the back of someone's house; big churches that look like castles, where every Sunday you can see men in suits and women with elaborate hats lining up to get in. You think these people need some anti-gay lobbyist to roll up and start telling them about grace and transcendence? You think they're all waiting for Ross Douthat to swing by and give them the lecture on stable families that's been missing from their lives?
It's pretty…wild to imagine a bunch of well-meaning Utah kids in white shirts and black ties chartering a bus to Malcolm X Park and lecturing the black ladies in their Sunday hats about family values. It's…it's such a baffling idea to me, opinionists like Brooks who want to talk to black people about the church, or about values, this idea that "faith" is some Red-State-only quality, something that James Dobson eats and breathes and swims in, and is utterly desolate in the hearts of our cities.
But maybe that's true. Maybe there really is no legacy of lynching, of slavery, of discrimination, of institutional racism and structural poverty. Maybe politics doesn't keep people poor at all. Maybe "underprivileged" means just that: it means people who've never had the privilege of Pat Robertson coming by their neighborhood to tell them the good news about the Lord.
Post Script:
What the fuck does this mean?
Millions of kids live in stressed and fluid living arrangements. Many communities have suffered a loss of social capital. Many young people grow up in a sexual and social environment rendered barbaric because there are no common norms. Many adults hunger for meaning and goodness, but lack a spiritual vocabulary to think things through.
"Rendered barbaric because there are no common norms"? So, we can't agree on whether or not parents need to be married in order to be good, so everyone is wearing animal hides and sacking Rome?
Post Post Script:
It's really weird that he talks about sending his team of homophobic missionaries into underprivileged areas to lecture them about family values as the next culture WAR, right?
Post Script, David Brooks Metaphor Edition:
The Supreme Court's gay marriage decision landed like some sort of culminating body blow onto this beleaguered climate.
Body-blows are landed on boxers, not weather. They are, furthermore, landed over and over again in order to exhaust an opponent; they are not culminating blows.
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It can be such a poison pill as well, which has been discussed a bit in terms of religious NGOs abroad: like, no matter how much good you're doing you could actually be doing more if you cut out your "bibles for everyone" budget and redirected that money and time.
You're also asking people who are in duress to tacitly prop up your own belief system and make nice with you in order to receive more crucial aid. There's something extremely gross about that to me.
There's an organization that does tutoring and "moral education" for young men east of the river here in DC that's run by freaking Opus Dei. Like tutoring: yes, good; instructions on what typical teenage behaviors are venal vs. mortal sins: no, sorry.
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Sheffield Wednesday dealt major injury blow ahead of Leeds United clash
Their key striker is a big doubt to make their trip to Elland Road
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Steven Fletcher (centre) in action with Gaetano Berardi (second left) during the Championship match at Hillsborough on Saturday, October 26, 2019 between Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United (Image: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)
Sheffield Wednesday have been hit with a big injury blow ahead of their clash with Leeds United on Saturday as key man Steven Fletcher had to be brought off in their last outing.
The striker has been a vital presence up top for Wednesday this season, scoring 12 goals so far, already equalling his best return in an English league season.
Garry Monk has helped rekindle the Scotland international's career and had him in prolific form, with seven goals in his last seven appearances for the club.
Like Chris Wood at Leeds and Che Adams at Birmingham City last season, Fletcher has been the focal point of Monk's team and essential to how they've fared so far this season.
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He's the only player in their squad to have scored more than three goals, which might explain why they're reportedly targeting Eddie Nketiah after his loan move to Leeds was cut short.
The 32-year-old's struggled with knocks recently, sidelined for two of their recent three league defeats, but was fit enough to feature in last Saturday's cup upset 1-0 win over Brighton & Hove Albion.
He suffered a setback and had to be hauled off early in the second half after sustaining a knee injury.
Monk is hopeful the striker will be back sooner rather than later, though, with the full extent of the injury to become clear in the coming days.
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"The x-ray has come back clear, which is a good thing, but we'll have to check the swelling and the bruising and where that is," said the Owls boss post-match.
"Obviously we have to be very hopeful it isn't anything serious. It didn't look good and we'll know more when there's more checks.
"The good thing is the x-ray has come back good, so there's no break or anything like that.
"If it's a hyperextension then it shouldn't be too long, it would be days or a week, but we'll have to see about the damage around the knee. At this moment in time, I can't say whether it's going to be this or that.
"Best case scenario is that it's three, four, seven days. That's what we'll be lighting a candle for, we'll have to see."
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Cowboys command the spotlight once again, but they must prove they can thrive in it
OXNARD, Calif. – Nothing brings this sleepy place on the outskirts of L.A. to life quite like the arrival of the NFL's most popular road show. The 'Boys are back in town and, as usual, the Dallas Cowboys training camp has the feel of a traveling circus.
Jerry's here. Dak's back. Zeke is in full effect.
And there's always buzz about something in this place, like the firestorm that flamboyant owner Jerry Jones ignited on Wednesday when he reiterated his hardline stance regarding protests during the national anthem.
No, this team does not come or go quietly into the night.
On Saturday, they will christen the camp – the 39th time the Cowboys have trained in California – with a midfield ceremony. The mayor will show up. There will be a band, special effects and cheerleaders.
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All of that for a team a team that finished 9-7 last season … yet still draws 10,000 fans to camp practice on a regular basis. Dallas still ranks as the NFL's most appealing TV draw, sells more apparel than any team in the league and ranks as the most valuable sports franchise in the world, checking in recently on the Forbes list at $4.8 billion.
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It's rather amazing in the context of production. The Cowboys haven't won a Super Bowl – haven't even been to a conference title game – in 23 years. But here they are, still cashing in as if the Triplets (Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin) were in the house.
"I don't want to go any longer than I have, to not put the meat on the bone and get a championship," Jones told USA TODAY Sports.
Sounds good. But really, the fact is that the popularity measures and revenues attached to the Cowboys seemingly has nothing to do with winning Super Bowls.
"It should make your bar higher when you have that kind of interest," Jones added.
Should've. Could've. Would've.
With so many question marks for a young team — including how to replace Jason Witten and Dez Bryant — the Cowboys are nobody's Super Bowl favorite.
But they sure can bring the buzz.
It was no surprise that Jones sparked debate (and outrage, too) with his remarks about requiring players to stand for the national anthem, despite whatever policy the NFL and NFL Players Association might strike. He's expressed the position before, and despite the sensitivity of the issue and talks with the players' union – and the NFL's apparent suggestion that owners not address the issue -- he has long demonstrated a willingness to go against the grain.
Yet by Cowboys standards, drama is rather thin as camp begins. Shoot, last year there was the cloud hanging over star running back Ezekiel Elliott (ultimately suspended for six games for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy) and the bizarre circumstances that led to the release of Lucky Whitehead.
Sure, there are issues to watch in camp and beyond. Randy Gregory, once seen as a potential star pass rusher, is back on the field after missing more than a year due to a drug suspension. And emerging defensive tackle David Irving is absent, facing a four-game ban for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
Yet by and large, when you take Jerry out of the equation, the drama is low. Granted, it's still early.
"I guarantee you something will come up over the course of training camp for us, just like it does around the league," Cowboys coach Jason Garrett told USA TODAY Sports.
Let's take his word for that. Garrett, who was once Aikman's backup, knows. Stuff happens.
Garrett himself is a potential flashpoint as he tries to recapture the magic of two years ago, when the Cowboys claimed the NFC's top playoff seed after a 13-3 regular season finish but squandered home-field advantage by losing their playoff opener.
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Someone asked Jones during the team's camp-opening press conference whether this is a playoff-or-bust season for Garrett, entering his eighth full season at the helm.
"No," Jones flatly responded.
Yet public votes of confidence can be tricky. Jones might change his mind.
In a private moment following the press conference, Jones allowed to USA TODAY Sports: "Just because I show that kind of stick with Jason does not mean as we are strategizing, that it looks like he is in the family portrait forever. That's not the way it works. The fact that we are candid is one of the pluses."
Garrett (68-55, including a 1-2 playoff record) can't sweat it. While he mentions an appreciation for the public support from his boss, he realizes the pressure cooker environment — heightened by the high-profile status of one particular team.
"That's the nature of our job," Garrett said. "You try not to focus on that. You try to wake up every day and do the best job you can do."
After all, the circus must go on.
Follow Jarrett Bell on Twitter @JarrettBell.


You cant really put me in any kind of sexual box. I am the one that will try anything once... and if I dont like it, then I will have to try it one more time to make sure.
I love women and men, and lots of different fetishes as well. This is my life, and I want to share it with everyone!!!!!


I'm trying to take advantage of having a lot of free time on vacation this week and the use of my parents' perfect naturally lit kitchen to bake and document a few recipes so that I have some on hand to blog about when I go back to work next week. Though I am finding plenty of other things to fill my days with in the sunshine so I haven't gotten quite as much baking done as I was hoping. But I finally hunkered down, bought a jumbo-size muffin tin and baked up two batches of muffins.
The thing about the jumbo sized muffin tin is that this is the actual size muffin you find when you go to most bakeries or restaurants. Each muffin is basically the equivalent of two regular sized muffins, but now you can just say "oh, well I just had ONE muffin." Amiright??
So for my first muffin of the week, I wanted to try a new take on the lemon poppyseed muffin, which is one of my favorite muffins. I made regular Lemon Poppyseed Muffins last summer, right around this time actually. I saw on Pinterest an easy variation of these muffins from Sally's Baking Addiction where she included orange zest and orange juice in her lemon poppyseed muffin, which sounded like a great fruity combo to me so I decided to give it a try. Plus her base muffin is a bit different than mine so I wanted to see which base I liked better.
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line the muffin tins with paper liners and spray with nonstick spray.
Step 2: In a large mixing bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, poppy seeds, baking powder, baking soda and salt until well mixed and set aside.
Step 3: In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the melted butter, lemon juice, lemon zest, orange juice and orange zest together until combined. Whisk in the eggs and beat until incorporated. Whisk in the yogurt and vanilla.
Step 4: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients slowly and gently mix together until the flour is all mixed in, being careful not to overmix. The batter is very thick.
Step 5: Spoon the batter into the muffin tins. For the jumbo tins, this makes 6, and for regular muffins it should make 12. Bake for 5 minutes at 425 degrees, then reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees and continue to bake for about 12-16 minutes until the tops are lightly golden. The initial higher temp will help to create that great crunch on top of the muffin.
Allow the muffins to cool for about 10 minutes before digging in. You can also keep these in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
I like mine toasted with some butter melted on top. Along with a hot cup of coffee and view of the lake. Heaven, I'm in heaven.
My next door neighbor down the Cape has her kids and grandkids visiting this weekend, so I brought these muffins over to her tonight along with the other batch I baked this afternoon so that they have some good breakfast treats to look forward to. I should probably get a few other recipes in while I have a good group of taste testers next door! Also when I was uploading my photos today, I found out that my camera was hijacked by these fluffy guys this morning. They look so innocent here, but they are t-r-o-u-b-l-e!


How many of us eat well during our working week, reining in our cravings to keep our weight under control, only to let loose on the weekend?
The 'Weekday Angel / Weekend Devil' scenario has us juggling the duplicity of striving to be 'good' during the working week, then on the weekend being 'bad' and making up for it afterwards by being doubly good... until it is time to be bad or naughty again. There can be a crazy logic that calculates gains made during the week that we can then afford to splurge on the weekend. We end up with an identity crisis that leaves us feeling like we can't trust ourselves because we don't know who we are: are we bad or are we good?
...that play on our choice to be an Angel or a Devil, 'good' or 'bad', making right or wrong decisions and breaking or keeping our rules around food and eating.
We can imprison ourselves in a yo-yo relationship with food when we make it about being an Angel or a Devil, keeping or breaking rules about what to eat or not to eat and all the while bypassing remembering who we are at heart . . . knowing to the bone that we are not bad, wrong, hopeless or weak-willed, but actually completely aware and capable and perhaps merely using food to reward or satisfy and even dull or distract ourselves.
We're so busy playing the game of following or breaking the rules of what to eat and how to lose weight that we've forgotten that we innately know, without needing to be told by 'rules', what to eat and what to avoid to be well and live a vibrant and vital life.
Dieting in these states is nearly impossible as our will goes out the window along with our inner steadiness.
What would happen if our focus wasn't on maintaining a diet, but on maintaining our state of being?
If the state we are in determines what passes our lips more than any other factor, it makes sense to put this at the forefront of our awareness. We can focus not on calories and crunches but on building a connection to ourselves, where we get to feel and develop a steady state of being; building confidence, presence, joy, appreciation and a deep trust in ourselves and our ability to live evenly, not at the mercy of ups and downs that fling us so easily into eating in ways that leave us worse off.
When we stop driving ourselves with food rules, striving for ideal weight, size and looks, being Weekday Angels and Weekend Devils, falling on and off the 'good' eating wagon and other diet issues, and begin to focus on living connected to an awareness of our inner state of being, we come to know ourselves not by weight, width or wobble, but by feel ... how we feel in ourselves.
Why make life difficult when it can be so simple?


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Thai coalition looks for new PM
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The mood in Thailand was reportedly tense as the coalition met
Thailand's political parties are meeting to discuss who should replace Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, a day after he was stripped of office.
Mr Samak has not been seen since the Constitutional Court ruled he broke the law by appearing on a TV cookery show.
Parliament is due to elect 73-year-old Mr Samak's successor on Friday.
His People Power Party (PPP), the biggest in the six-member coalition, appeared to back away from an earlier pledge to re-nominate him as PM.
"What the party spokesman said yesterday was not the party's resolution. Our resolution is the next prime minister must come from the People Power Party," Reuters news agency quoted finance minister and PPP secretary general Surapong Suebwonglee as saying.
'Fuel the fire'
Now that the dust has settled after the Constitutional Court's astonishing decision on Tuesday, the bargaining has begun, according to the correspondent in Bangkok, Jonathan Head.
Party factions have been holding meetings throughout the day; some have been in contact with the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is still influential because of his continued financial support.
26 Aug: Protesters occupy government buildings, demand the government step down
28 Aug: PM Samak promises no use of force against the protesters
30 Aug: Samak rules out resignation, after meeting with Thailand's king
1 Sept: A late-night clash between pro- and anti-government groups leaves one dead. Samak declares a state of emergency
4 Sept: Samak proposes a national referendum
9 Sept: Court orders Samak to resign for violating constitution
The PPP insists any replacement for Mr Samak must come from within its ranks, but its coalition partners are angling to get one of their own into the seat.
The second-largest of the partners, the Chart Thai Party, said the PPP should not re-nominate Mr Samak.
But Chart Thai's leader, Banharn Silpa-Archa – who as prime minister a decade ago presided over a currency collapse that triggered an Asian economic crisis – told Reuters he had ruled himself out.
The opposition Democrats are proposing a new government of national unity as the best way out of the crisis – with the clear hint that their party leader should get the job.
Bangkok dangerous?
For the past two weeks, the Thai government has been paralysed by thousands of protesters who have occupied its headquarters, demanding Mr Samak quit.
Protesters are still laying siege to Government House
They accuse him of being a proxy for Mr Thaksin, who was ousted in an army coup in 2006 amid accusations of corruption and abuse of power.
The demonstrators said they would continue to besiege Government House while waiting to see who parliament selects as the new prime minister.
They have already warned that they will continue their protests if Mr Samak or anyone else closely associated with Mr Thaksin is chosen.
The caretaker administration has anticipated the continued protests by proposing that ministers move their offices to the old international airport.
Deputy PPP leader Somchai Wongsawat is acting as a caretaker prime minister until the new premier is named.
Correspondents say his new role could fan Thailand's political flames as he is the brother-in-law of Mr Thaksin.
Breaking News: Court says Thai PM 'must resign'
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Court says Thai PM 'must resign'
Mr Samak was a TV chef before becoming prime minister
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has been ordered to resign after being found guilty of violating the constitution over a TV cookery show.
His entire cabinet has also been ordered to step down.
Mr Samak was found to have violated a ban on ministers having outside interests by taking money from a private company to host a TV show.
However, the ruling People Power Party (PPP) has vowed to re-appoint Mr Samak as prime minister.
It is unclear what happens next.
Mr Samak has not been banned from standing again for prime minister, and it will be 30 days before the court's decision comes into effect.
Thailand has had its fair share of crises recently, but this is one that even the Thais are baffled by, our correspondent says.
Thai leader in court over TV show
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Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has defended himself in court for appearing on a TV cooking program.
In the latest of a series of problems to beset Mr Samak, he is accused of violating the constitution by working for a private company.
Protesters have now spent nearly two weeks occupying Mr Samak's office complex, demanding his resignation.
Mr Samak will have to quit if found guilty in this case, which might indirectly end the impasse.
Possible way forward?
Before taking office seven months ago, Mr Samak hosted a popular TV cooking show called Tasting, Grumbling.
He continued to make a few appearances on the show after becoming prime minister.
BANGKOK PROTESTS
29 Aug: Police try to evict protesters but pull back; crowds blockade two regional airports
30 Aug: Samak rules out resignation, following a meeting with Thailand's king
1 Sep: A late-night clash between pro- and anti-government groups leaves one dead. Samak declares a state of emergency
3 Sept: Thai FM Tej Bunnag resigns
A group of senators filed a petition against Mr Samak, saying that a prime minister is barred by the constitution from working for private companies.
Mr Samak told the Constitutional Court on Monday that he had been paid for his appearances on the TV show, but was not actually employed by the television company.
The court is due to give its verdict on Tuesday.
Local newspapers have speculated about the case being a possible short-term solution to the current political stalemate in Thailand – although some analysts point out that even if Mr Samak stepped down, his party could always vote him back in again.
For the past two weeks, protesters have been camping outside Government House, refusing to leave until Mr Samak quits, but despite pressure from several military leaders the prime minister has refused to go.
Late last week, Mr Samak proposed to hold a referendum on his rule, but the opposition has rejected the offer.
The demonstrators, from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), say Mr Samak is merely a proxy for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in an army coup in 2006.
One man was killed in clashes between pro- and anti-government groups in Bangkok last week, prompting the government to impose emergency rule in the capital.
Thai PM plans crisis referendum
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Protesters listened to Mr Samak's address, hoping he would resign
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has announced plans to hold a national referendum in an effort to defuse the ongoing political crisis.
An exact date has not been decided, but a referendum can be held 30 days after being approved by the Senate.
In an earlier radio address, Mr Samak said he would not resign or bow to the demands of protesters who have been occupying his offices since last week.
A state of emergency has been in place in Bangkok since Tuesday.
The anti-government protesters – from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) – say Mr Samak is merely a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006 and is now in exile.
'Threat of anarchy'
"I am not resigning, I will not dissolve parliament. I have to protect the democracy of this country," Mr Samak said in his radio address on Thursday morning.
He said he was a defender of democracy against a movement that threatened to bring "anarchy" to Thailand.
"The PAD is an illegal group who have seized the Government House and declared their victory. How can that be correct?" he said.
After his address, Mr Samak summoned his cabinet for an emergency meeting, and they agreed to hold a referendum to try to resolve the crisis.
27 Aug: Authorities issue arrest warrants for nine protest leaders
30 Aug: PM Samak rules out resignation, following a meeting with Thailand's king
31 Aug: Parliament meets for a special session on the protests
1 Sep: A late-night clash between pro- and anti-government groups leaves one person dead
2 Sep: PM Samak declares a state of emergency
A government spokesman said the referendum could take place by early October if the Senate quickly endorsed a bill to organize the vote.
Culture Minister Somsak Kietsuranond said the referendum would ask a range of questions including whether the government should resign, whether it should dissolve parliament and what people think about the ongoing protests.
After hearing Mr Samak's radio broadcast, one of the PAD's leaders, Sondhi Limthongkul, told the French news agency AFP: "His speech only increased my confidence that what we are doing is not wrong. We will not go anywhere as long as he stays."
The PAD has a passionate following in various parts of the country, especially Bangkok, and some powerful backers among the elite.
But it has little support in most of rural Thailand, which voted strongly for Mr Samak, and Mr Thaksin before him. Thai society remains deeply divided over the issue.
As the standoff has developed, some unions have begun supporting the protesters. However, a strike called by an umbrella group of 43 unions on Wednesday appeared to have failed – one piece of good news for the government.
But the prime minister's attempt to contain the PAD protests with a state of emergency seem to have fallen flat.
The army has refused to exercise the extra powers he gave them, arguing that the conflict is a political one that cannot be solved by military intervention.
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Thai army chief rules out coup
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At least four of the dozens wounded were said to be in serious condition [EPA]
Thailand's army chief has ruled out the possibility of a military coup, hours after Samak Sundaravej, the prime minister, declared a state of emergency in the capital.
"There is no possibility of a coup. We must turn to the parliamentary mechanism," General Anupong Paojinda told reporters on Tuesday.
The army chief also vowed not to use force against protesters following the declaration of the state of emergency.
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Samak's government which they say is a proxy of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's former prime minister, who was ousted in a coup in September 2006.
Samak declared the emergency after one person was killed and dozens were injured in Bangkok as police and both pro- and anti-government protesters clashed overnight on Monday.
New crisis
Shortly after Samak spoke, a new crisis confronted his government.
The election commission recommended that his People's Power Party (PPP) be disbanded for alleged electoral fraud committed during the elections in December.
The commission forwarded its findings to the attorney general's office to decide whether to submit the case to the constitutional court for a final ruling.
This process could take months.Samak and other party leaders would be banned from politics for five years if the ruling is upheld.
Al Jazeera's correspondent, Selina Downes, reported many were saying that the unanimous vote by the five-member commission could be the beginning of the end of the PPP.
Tuesday's move was reminiscent of the court dissolving of Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party last year. The party later regrouped under the PPP flag.
Thai newspapers have reported that the PPP is preparing for the worst and is lining up a new "shell" party to admit all its MPs, who could try to cobble together another coalition government.
Kudeb Saikrachang, the PPP spokesman, told that party MPs already had another party in mind in case the PPP were to be dissolved.
Soldiers deployed
Under the sweeping emergency powers announced on television and radio, all public gatherings in the capital are banned and restrictions have been imposed on media reports that "undermined public security".
"There is an urgent need to solve all these problems quickly. Therefore the prime minister declares a state of emergency in Bangkok from now on," the announcement read.
Around 400 soldiers armed with batons and shields were sent to back up police struggling to contain the street battles in the worst violence since the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) launched its street campaign against the prime minister in May.
Kudeb told Al Jazeera that the PPP had "no part" in the violence.
"We don't support violent means whatsoever," he added.
By sunrise on Tuesday, General Jongrak Jutanond, Bangkok's police chief, said "the situation is now under control".
Some schools were shut in Bangkok on Tuesday, but morning rush-hour traffic was flowing as normal and the airport, the main gateway for foreign tourists visiting one of Asia's top holiday destinations, remained open.
'Soft option'
Samak called emergency rule the "softest means available" for restoring calm.
In a nationally televised news conference on Tuesday, he gave no timeframe for how long the decree would stay in effect but said it would be over "moderately quickly".
The protesters have vowed to force out Samak's government [EPA]
The prime minister had said last week that he had hoped to avoid declaring an emergency, but said he was left with little choice after violence erupted."I did it to solve the problems of the country," he said. "Because the situation turned out this way, I had no other choice."
Correspondent Downes said the emergency law gave the prime minister absolute control over the situation, as he had made himself defense minister when he was elected in January and was therefore in charge of the military.
Under a state of emergency, Samak has special powers outside of the constitution to deploy police and soldiers on the streets to quell protests.
Our correspondent said there had been mounting pressure on the government to get a handle on the increasingly chaotic situation.
The PAD had been in the driving seat after storming and occupying the Government House compound a week ago.
Many analysts said there appeared no other way out of the situation.
Strike threat
On Monday, the PAD had announced that its supporters in state enterprise unions would cut off water, electricity and phone service to government offices as part of a "general strike" set for Wednesday.
"There are not enough jails to put us all into"
Chamlong Srimuang, anti-government protest leader
Alliance supporters said they also would delay departures of flights of the national airline.They were already disrupting rail service and planned to cut back public bus transportation as well.
Samak has repeatedly said he would not be bullied by a mob into resigning or dissolving parliament and calling fresh elections.
Leaders of the anti-government protest movement that has occupied the prime minister's official compound for the past week said they would not budge.
"There are not enough jails to put us all into," Chamlong Srimuang, one of the leaders of the PAD that is leading the anti-government protests, told thousands of supporters inside the compound camped in behind makeshift barricades of razor wire and car tyres.
Samak's announcement blamed unnamed people for "wreaking havoc" and undermining the economy and national unity.
Thais Al Jazeera spoke to were angry and frustrated that they were "back to square one" two years after Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a military coup after weeks of street protests against the then prime minister.


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I ended up having to shutdown one of the websites that I talked about on the very popular Episode: How to Rank and Rent or Sell a Website For Profit.
This will be the last Episode for 2017. Expect an all new Episode in mid January, 2018.
I hope you get some time to relax and enjoy and be appreciative for what you have and I hope you and your family have a very safe, happy, healthy and prosperous 2018!!


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Q: How to use other Angular11 service inside an ngrx/Store reducer as an initial state? New to reducers and effects. Basically, I have this reducer:
        const realColumnsReducer = createReducer<ColumnsState>(
          toData(AssetsColumns.columnsConfig),//here the service i need to use as a initial state
          on(setColumns, (state, action) => toData(action.columns)),
          on(setSelectedColumns, (state, action) =>
            toData(
              action.columns.map(x => ({
                ...x,
                enabled: true
              }))
            )
          )

here the part of  ijectble service i need to use
          columnsConfig: StatefulColumn[] = [
            {
              column: assetCategoryColumn,
              enabled: true
            },
         {
              column: assetCodeColumn,
              enabled: true
            }
        ].map((x, index) => ({ ...x, index, width: columnMinWidthPx } as StatefulColumn));

And here the effect that i have
    @Effect()
      applyCompanyPreferences = this.actions$.pipe(
        ofType(applyCompanyPreferences.request),
        switchMap(() => this.store.select(currentIdentity).pipe(onlyTruthy(), take(1))),
        switchMap(identity => from(loadCompanyPreferencesFromIndexedDb(identity))),
        map(x =>
          x
            ? x.columns.map(z => ({ ...this.assetsColumns.columnsConfig[z.index], ...z } as StatefulColumn))
            : this.assetsColumns.columnsConfig
        ),
        mergeMap(x => [setColumns({ columns: x }), applyCompanyPreferences.success({ request: undefined })]),

how can i use my service as a initial state?

A: From my understanding, you would like to employ the service to update the state on the first time.
Maybe this is what you are looking for: https://ngrx.io/guide/effects/lifecycle#oniniteffects.
Besides this, the combination of switchMap and store.select is not correct. The last example in this page https://ngrx.io/guide/effects can give you an idea of how to do thing right.

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The first three episode titles from "Game of Thrones" Season 7 have been announced, and they've got us even more excited about the show's July 16 return to HBO. The season premiere is titled "Dragonstone," the second episode is called "Stormborn" and the third hour is named "The Queen's Justice." Scroll down to see even more "Game of Thrones" Season 7 spoilers about these three episodes, including HBO's official plot descriptions.
Episode #61: "Dragonstone" (July 16) — Jon (Kit Harington) organizes the defense of the North. Cersei (Lena Headey) tries to even the odds. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) comes home. Written for television by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss; directed by Jeremy Podeswa.
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Agree or not, they are well within their rights to make such a choice. However….
To expect the taxpayer to pay for religious, economic, gender, intelligence, political and racial segregation is contrary to the principles on which this country was founded. A private school voucher (by any name) is not an issue of Right and Left politics. A private school voucher is an issue of Right or Wrong.


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Men's Basketball rolls to 3rd Straight Road Win on Monday at Arlington Baptist
Arlington Baptist College
University of Dallas (12-8) 55 48 103
Arlington Baptist College (0-0) 25 47 72
Offense was clicking all night, as Crusaders win big to improve win streak to three.
Pts: Michael Wambsganss - 21
Reb: Spencer Levi - 9
Ast: 2 Players (#03, #35) - 6
Pts: Quinton Moore - 14
Reb: Kennedy Jones - 10
Ast: Kennedy Jones - 3
ARLINGTON, Texas – The University of Dallas men's basketball team stormed out to a 30-point lead at halftime, and used sharp shooting performances from the field and three-point arc en route to a 103-72 victory at Arlington Baptist on Monday night.
Things were close through the first seven minutes, but 12 straight points for the Crusaders sparked a 30-6 run over the next 10 minutes to build a huge margin. Dallas was one three-pointer shy of matching the singe-game record with 13 total. Six different players contributed from downtown, led by Michael Wambsganss (Denver, Colo.) going 5-for-9 to help boast his game-high 21 points.
Dallas improved to 12-8 and won the first three games on this five-game road swing. The team has played within the past four days as well.
The Patriots started out with a 6-2 lead through the first two minutes, but the guests got the offense rolling shortly after. Joshua Nunn (St. Louis, Mo.) made a basket and got the harm to earn an old fashioned three-point play. A few plays later, Darrius Colvin (Waco, Texas) swiped a steal and found Wambsganss for his first three of the night to make it 8-6 in favor of UD.
Dallas never trailed from that juncture, but there were a couple ties over the next few moments. A trifecta by Nunn at 15:14 put the Crusaders up for good, but it was a layup by Colvin two and a half minutes later that started the big unanswered stretch to make it 29-14.
Jashun Petite for Arlington Baptist halted the run, but then a trey by Dustin Mathis (Forth Worth, Texas) sparked another streak of 10 in a row for the road squad. Mathis had eight points in the first half, with a pair of threes starting and capping that second scoring stretch.
In the first half, the Crusaders shot 64.9 percent (14-27) from the floor and made five three-pointers out of nine attempts. Dallas was able to lead by as many as 30 in the frame, with Levi finding Colvin on a fastbreak layup to reach the margin the first time at 50-20 with 2:24. Layups by Ben Norton (Louisville, Ky.), and another Nunn trifecta finished UD's scoring heading into the break ahead 55-25.
The Patriots did shoot 40.7 percent in the first half, but were hurt by 11 turnovers.
The second half presented a much more even game, but the damage had already been done by the Crusaders. A trio of three-pointers towards midway of the half gave Dallas its greatest lead of the game by 35. Wambsganss was feeling it as he nailed consecutive looks, and then Colvin answered an Arlington Baptist field goal with a trey of his own. Wambsganss connected on his final triple with six to go, and pushed the team back up to its greatest margin at 91-56.
As the minutes ticked down, the Crusaders were able to play most of their reserves with 12 getting time on the floor. Maurice Compton (San Antonio, Texas) snagged the steal that led to his first career points and put UD into triple-digits the first time on the campaign.
NOTABEL STATISTICS
A trio of players scored eight field goals apiece including: Wambsganss, Colvin, and Spencer Levi (St. Louis, Mo.). This same group posted tops in scoring respectively with 21, 19, and 16 points. Levi grabbed a team-high nine rebounds, while dishing a personal-best six assists. Emmanuel Calton (Keller, Texas) also had six dimes.
13 different players recorded points for Dallas to help the squad boast season-bests in field goal shooting (41-68) and three-point shooting (13-25). The Crusaders outrebounded their opposition 39-27 and notched a season-high 30 assists. Turnovers ended up even at 19. The Dallas bench outscored ABC 50-23.
A quintet of Patriots eclipsed double-digits in points led by Quinton Moore with 14. Kei Wallace and Kennedy Jones each had 12. Petite scored 11 and Donnell Johnson added 10. Jones snagged a game-high 10 boards for a double-double.
The program's record for three-pointers is 14 versus John Brown on January 20th, 1990. The last time UD had 13 in a game was twice during the 2012-13 campaign. On February 16th at Trinity University and November 30th verses Connecticut College.
The Crusaders netted above 100 points in three contests last season. Counting tonight's game, the past four occurrences have been to teams outside of SCAC play, and five from the past four season have been at the home confines.
Dallas improves to 9-3 in the all-time series with the Patriots. Those setbacks had occurred in each of the last road outings dating back to 2011-12. All those decisions were decided by less four points or less.
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Dallas has wrapped up non-conference action for the season, and resume focus on SCAC foes the remaining five matchups. This stretch starts with two more road tips at Centenary College on Feb. 2nd and Austin College the 3rd.
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Афана́сий Ива́нович Чи́риков (1720—1794) — государственный деятель Российской империи, действительный статский советник, правитель Олонецкого наместничества.

Биография
Происхождением из старинного дворянского рода.

Служил полковым секретарём в Измайловском лейб-гвардии полку.

В 1773 году назначен воеводой в город Зарайск в звании подполковника, с 1775 года — воевода Свияжска.

Участник подавления восстания под предводительством Емельяна Пугачёва.

В 1781—1787 годах — вице-губернатор Уфимского наместничества.

9 августа 1787 года в чине статского советника был назначен правителем Олонецкого наместничества. Во время правления Чирикова, в 1791 году Петрозаводск посетил А. В. Суворов, инспектировавший Александровский пушечно-литейный завод.

В сентябре 1792 года вышел в отставку в чине действительного статского советника.

Похоронен на родине, на кладбище села Покров Ярославской губернии.

Семья
В браке с Марией Васильевной имел девятерых детей: Василия, Николая, Ивана, Дмитрия, Александра, Екатерину, Прасковью, Надежду и Веру.

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Персоналии:Свияжск
Воеводы Зарайска
Персоналии:Уфимская губерния
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Похороненные в Ярославской области
Действительные статские советники
Участники подавления восстания Пугачёва


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Convenience store owner pleads guilty in Missouri illegal gambling case
Rudi Keller,
Photo by Alexander Mils
A northwest Missouri county is free of video games that offer cash prizes to players following the successful prosecution of a convenience store owner.
Mohammad Saqib, owner of The Junction in Andrew County, pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of a gambling device, a Class A misdemeanor. Saqib received a suspended imposition of sentence and was placed on probation for two years by Associate Circuit Judge Michael Ordnung on charges he allowed vendors to place 11 games alleged to be slot machines in his store.
Andrew County Prosecuting Attorney Steven Stevenson said he was satisfied with the plea deal, which included reducing the charge from felony promotion of gambling. In addition to the plea, Saqib and others initially charged with felonies agreed to forfeit $14,444 found when the machines were opened.
If Saqib follows the rules of his probation, the charge will not appear on his public record as a conviction.
"For us, in a small county like this, what I wanted to do was send a message out," Stevenson said.
Andrew County, with about 17,700 people, is just north of St. Joseph.
Saqib's attorney, James Nadloski of St. Joseph, could not be reached for comment on the plea.
The guilty plea is the second successful prosecution involving the machines, which vendors contend are legal under Missouri law because they have a "pre-reveal" feature that allows players to know the outcome of their next bet.
In the first, in Platte County, Kansas-based Integrity Vending was found guilty of promoting gambling and fined $7,500.
The machines have proliferated in Missouri over the past few years but many prosecutors have been reluctant to file charges. Of the 190 probable cause statements–requests for charges based on a particular set of facts–sent to prosecutors by Missouri State Highway Patrol investigators in 2019 and 2020, only 26 cases alleging illegal gambling, including eight felony charges, have been filed in that period.
The machines have become the target of legislation for the past two years to remove any doubt, penalize liquor retailers who host the machines, and require any machine offering cash prizes to be certified by either the Missouri Gaming Commission or the Missouri Lottery Commission. Opponents charge the estimated 14,000 game machines are costing the state millions in revenue that would be used for schools and veterans.
Torch Electronics of Wildwood, a company that has made major campaign donations in Missouri and hired well-connected lobbyists to promote its business, is trying to block those investigations with a lawsuit filed February 10 in Cole County. Along with Midwest Petroleum, owner of 44 convenience stores, Torch sued the patrol, the Department of Public Safety, and the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, alleging a campaign of "harassment and intimidation."
Torch, and two other vendors, are charged in Linn County with felony promotion of gambling charges. James McNutt, the president of Midwest Petroleum, is charged with misdemeanor possession of a gambling device in Franklin County.
In the Andrew County case, patrol Sgt. Trayton Pitts visited The Junction on Oct. 27, 2020, and played one of the 11 machines. After determining that it operated like other machines that have been subject to prosecution, Pitts contacted the Country Club Village police, who told the store that the machines had to be removed by Nov. 6.
When Pitts returned, the machines were still there. When they were opened after being seized, the internal memory showed they had a total cash intake of $538,974 and payouts of $361,866. The profit of $177,107 was split between the vendor and the store.
Stevenson initially filed felony charges against Saqib, his wife Azra Noreen, store manager Tanya McDaniel and vendor Rodney DeVries of Red Oak, Iowa. DeVries died before his case came to trial and Stevenson said he dropped the charges against McDaniel because she was only an employee of The Junction.
The plea deal with Saqib included dropping charges against Noreen, Stevenson said.
"This guy for sure will never, ever think of doing it again," Stevenson said.
Following the conviction in Platte County, Integrity Vending removed all its games from the state. Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd said recently that no other vendor has attempted to bring games into his county.
As far as he knows, Steveson said, Andrew County is also free of the games.
"If the state highway patrol finds them, they will pursue them," Stevenson said. "If they do, we will prosecute them. We just don't want it up here."
The piece is reprinted with permission via Missouri Independent, which focuses on Missouri political and policy work.
Tags: Andrew County, illegal gambling, Missouri Independent, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Mohammed Saquib, Platte County, Torch Electronics
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