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TV Programs I Like–from the Backlist
August 24, 2021 August 24, 2021 / Austin Mystery Writers
Well. Today I planned to get out of bed and be perfect. It didn't work that way.
First I had a fight getting a certain video to embed properly in a certain site. It was a very nice video, and I was trying to help a friend, but the video began with an ad about a cure for toenail fungus, complete with pictures. That was not what I had in mind, and it was certainly not what my friend had in mind. The fight took longer than it should have. I'm afraid to look back to see if the cure–for the video, not the toenail fungus–is still working.
Then while I fought, my breakfast, thanks to a kind husband, sat on the table beside the recliner where I was working, and I looked up and saw Ernest the Cat had designs on it. Yesterday I found him stretching upward, his paw in my bacon. He's never tasted bacon, but he'd like to. I rescued breakfast.
So now I'm sitting here in my Snoopy and Woodstock nightshirt, entirely inappropriate attire for a woman of my age and respectability, recovering from a major fume.
I knew I should have put on makeup as soon as I got out of bed. Yesterday I did so for the first time in ages–let's face it, staying home for seventeen months straight changes one's attitude toward personal grooming–and with makeup, the day went better.
I used a face cream, which I thought might be a night cream but didn't have my glasses on and so couldn't tell but risked it anyway. And it did wonders for the wrinkles around my eyes, filled them right in.
I put on enough blush that a ship on troubled seas would need no lighthouse to warn it away from perilous rocks, so I wiped some of it off. I used eye shadow, maybe too much, but I didn't wipe that off because behind my glasses it's invisible anyway. I applied lipstick.
Then I used my curling iron. That's problematic because something is wrong with my shoulders–no rotator cuff tears, but the arms don't like to go up as far as they should, like to the top of my head, and I refuse to go back to PT and have a bunch of skinny infants tell me I'm doing the exercises wrong, when all I'm doing is executing them faster than prescribed because I want to get them over with and go home.
But anyway, I made the effort and used the curling iron, and then I even brushed my hair, and the day really did go better. I imagine my husband was relieved. He's staying in self-imposed quarantine, too, and there's not much visual variety inside. I'm probably the reason he spends so much time looking at the cats.
Anyway, I spent the next part of my better yesterday deciding that I spend too much time watching television. That wasn't a difficult decision, since I've watched all the BritBox offerings at least three times. I like to watch TV shows and movies more than once; the more often I watch, the less attention I have to pay to know what's going on. But it seemed time to unsubscribe. After all, I still have Prime and ROKU.
I also decided I wasn't listening to enough music–I used to have music going all the time–so I upgraded Spotify in hopes it will play what I tell it to, like it used to, instead of what it wants to. I went all the way up to 99 cents a month. I'm not sure 99 cents is enough to do what I expected. I want Max Morath playing piano rags–he has the best touch I've ever heard. And Brian Stokes Mitchell, whose name I can rarely remember without prompting, singing a certain song from South Pacific, which I'm afraid is not in the repertoire.
But there's an out. If I'm not happy, I can always go back to Acorn TV, which I subscribed to years ago. I watch mostly British programs. The accents are comforting.
Anyway, having progressed from cussing a certain website to discussing television, I'll move into the main idea of this post, which my high school English teacher said I should do in the first paragraph, but I'm old enough to break the rules.
The main idea is TV shows I like–old TV shows. I'm always reading the backlist, so why shouldn't I do the same for viewing?
Here they are, in no particular order:
Kavanaugh QC, starring John Thaw as a London barrister, a senior member of River Court chambers, who usually appears for the defense but sometimes prosecutes. The antithesis of Thaw's former character, the irascible Inspector Morse, Kavanaugh is even-tempered and respected by both colleagues and opposing counsel. A family man, he is also, like many protagonists in crime fiction, a workaholic, but his character plays against type when his wife accepts a job with the European Union based in Strasbourg, and he must adjust his own life to accommodate hers. Some mild comic relief is provided by a snobbish colleague in chambers, Jeffrey Aldermarten, but Kavanaugh's cases are serious, no comedy there. His goal is justice, which he often finds difficult to deliver, even when he wins his cases.
Wycliffe, based on W. J. Burley's novels. Jack Shepherd stars as Detective Superintendent Charley Wycliffe, whose territory covers the coast of Cornwall. He is quiet, thoughtful, and good at his job, but not interested in advancement. He's often at odds with his Deputy Chief Constable, who is concerned with budget restraints and with convincing Wycliff to run his division from the office rather than work cases himself. The Chief Constable and others often urge Wycliffe to apply for promotion–and to retire. He is assisted by two Detective Inspectors, Doug Kersey and Lucy Lane. Kersey is a solitary man, lonely, quietly and hopelessly attracted to Lucy. Lucy, as ambitious as Wycliffe is not, finds promotion is based more on sexual politics than on ability. Cases in this series are serious, but scenes of Wycliffe's family life, while not comedic, sometimes lighten the intensity. Emphasis is on human relationships, not on just police procedure.
Line of Duty, another police procedural, which ran for six seasons and has received numerous awards, including being ranked third in a Radio Times 2018 poll of the best British crime dramas of all time. The series begins with a young Steve Arnott being transferred to the Anti-Corruption unit because he has refused to cover up a mistake made during a raid in which he took part. Corruption in the department goes deeper, however, than anyone suspects, and the lives of members of the unit are sometimes in danger, even from their own colleagues. Twists and turns abound; it appears that no one is completely clean–or they can be made to appear bent–and the viewer continually wonders whom he can trust, and even whom he can like. What makes the series especially satisfying is that the plot isn't strictly linear–it circles around; events that seemed to be resolved in early episodes emerge as catalysts toward the end. Gritty doesn't begin to describe Line of Duty. You'll thank yourself for watching. I've seen it twice and might watch it again. And yet, I'm not sure I want to.
A Touch of Frost. I love this series, the early episodes of which are based on the novels of R. D. Wingfield. David Jason stars as William "Jack" Frost, an experienced detective with the Denton Police Force, who does everything his way. Superintendent "Horn Rimmed Harry" Mullet admires Frost's abilities but would love to retire him, downsize him, generally get rid of him–Frost is famous for neglecting paperwork, which gets Mullet in trouble up the line, and for happily putting his foot in his mouth, with generally amusing results. But Frost is the Chief Constable's fair-haired boy–he once subdued an armed man, was shot, and won the George Cross for bravery. Frost is a flawed individual, as the best characters are. Privately, the award embarrasses him, since his heroism was the result of his being drunk on duty–he'd just made up his mind to leave an unhappy marriage when his wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he carelessly risked his life because he knew he had to stay with her. In the first episode, Frost is widowed; a series of relationships fail because his job always comes first. But he is loyal to his colleagues and becomes especially fond of a young man who serves as his assistant. And although he has no tolerance for crime, he often feels compassion and understanding for those who commit it. The series comes to an end that is both sad and satisfactory, like many of Frost's cases. The popular series ended when David Jason retired, saying at sixty-eight he was older than any real police detective, and that he couldn't imagine filming Frost in a wheelchair.
All of these mystery/thriller/police procedurals, and many others, are available on Prime as well as on BritBox and other subscription services.
Now I shall divest myself of my Snoopy shirt, don some regular clothes–also known as rags, but these days, only one human and two cats see them, and they don't care–and apply makeup. Maybe I'll wear enough blush to be a lighthouse. With the amount of rain we've been having, I might end up being useful.
Photographs of actors are television screenshots taken by me.
Photograph of Snoopy and Woodstock was taken my my husband.
Kathy Waller blogs at Telling the Truth, Mainly. Her stories are published in anthologies and online. Sometimes she works on a novel. Sometimes she doesn't. She wants to re-read an old book by Rebecca West, but she can't remember the title.
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SpaceX to launch 1st rocket of 2023 with 114 satellites aboard on Jan. 3
SpaceX is ready to launch some belated New Year's fireworks of its own on Tuesday with a mission to fly 114 different satellites into orbit to kick off 2023.
A Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX will launch the company's epic Transporter-6 rideshare mission at 9:56 a.m. EST (1456 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. You can watch the launch live here at Space.com in a livestream brought to you by EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA).
The Transporter-6 mission will launch EOS SAT-1 for EOSDA on this mission; that's the first of seven agriculture-focused satellites for the company's new constellation. EOS SAT-1 will be the last of the 114 satellites to deploy during the Transporter-6 mission, according to a SpaceX mission timeline.
"This launch brings new game-changing possibilities of satellite technologies to the agricultural industry. EOSDA will now work with proprietary datasets to provide even deeper and more accurate insights for its customers and partners," EOSDA CEO Artiom Anisimov said in a statement.
EOS SAT-1 is designed to scrutinize 386,000 miles (1 million square kilometers) daily using 11 bands of light. Examining the crop's health in this way is expected to allow farmers to better customize their care for the crops, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and water usage, among other benefits.
The full EOS SAT fleet, when ready around 2025, will aim to look at 4.6 million square miles (12 million sq. km.) every day, which is about a third more than the equivalent area of the United States. The seven satellites, built by Dragonfly Aerospace, aim to reach 100 percent of countries "with the largest areas of farmlands and forestlands," EOSDA's statement added.
Engineers prepare the EOSDA satellite EOS SAT-1, the first agriculture-focused analytics satellite in a 7-craft constellation, for launch. (Image credit: EOSDA)
There are other satellite crops that will fly to space aboard Transporter-6 as well. For example, Spire Global plans to launch six satellites (opens in new tab) to expand its constellation monitoring maritime and aviation traffic using ADS-B technology.
Spaceflight Inc. plans to heft four Kleos spacecraft (opens in new tab) to a sun-synchronous orbit that keeps consistent lighting conditions below the fleet. Kleos examines radio frequency transmissions from space to search for "hidden and illegal activity", its website states (opens in new tab).
The Transporter series of missions are "dedicated rideshares," meaning that they feature what may be dozens of small satellites flying to space on a single Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX has not confirmed the full manifest of Transporter-6 on its website. The first mission of the series, Transporter-1, launched a record 143 satellites on Jan. 24, 2021.
The Falcon 9 rocket for Transporter-6 has a first stage that is making its 15th flight. The booster previously launched SpaceX's Transporter-2 rideshare mission, three commercial satellite flights and 10 Starlink satellite missions, SpaceX has said. If all goes well, the booster should return to a landing pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for a touchdown.
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Rare 'big fuzzy green ball' comet visible in B.C. skies, a 50000-year sight
In the night sky, a comet is flying by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years.
Steve Coleopy, of the South Cariboo Astronomy Club, is offering some tips on how to see it before it disappears.
The green-coloured comet, named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), is not readily visible to the naked eye, although someone with good eyesight in really dark skies might be able to see it, he said. The only problem is it's getting less visible by the day.
"Right now the comet is the closest to earth and is travelling rapidly away," Coleopy said, noting it is easily seen through binoculars and small telescopes. "I have not been very successful in taking a picture of it yet, because it's so faint, but will keep trying, weather permitting."
At the moment, the comet is located between the bowl of the Big Dipper and the North Star but will be moving toward the Planet Mars – a steady orange-coloured point of light- in the night sky over the next couple of weeks, according to Coleopy.
"I have found it best to view the comet after 3:30 in the morning, after the moon sets," he said. "It is still visible in binoculars even with the moon still up, but the view is more washed out because of the moonlight."
He noted the comet looks like a "big fuzzy green ball," as opposed to the bright pinpoint light of the stars.
"There's not much of a tail, but if you can look through the binoculars for a short period of time, enough for your eyes to acclimatize to the image, it's quite spectacular."
To know its more precise location on a particular evening, an internet search will produce drawings and pictures of the comet with dates of where and when the comet will be in each daily location.
Coleopy notes the comet will only be visible for a few more weeks, and then it won't return for about 50,000 years.
Extreme species deficit of nitrogen-converting microbes in European lakes
Sampling of Lake Constance water from 85 m depth, in which ammonia-oxidizing archaea make up as much as 40% of all microorganisms
Dr. David Kamanda Ngugi, environmental microbiologist at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ
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An international team of researchers led by microbiologists from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig, Germany, shows that in the depths of European lakes, the detoxification of ammonium is ensured by an extremely low biodiversity of archaea. The researchers recently published their findings in the prestigious international journal Science Advances. The team led by environmental microbiologists from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ has now shown that the species diversity of these archaea in lakes around the world ranges from 1 to 15 species. This is of particularly concern in the context of global biodiversity loss and the UN Biodiversity Conference held in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022. Lakes play an important role in providing freshwater for drinking, inland fisheries, and recreation. These ecosystem services would be at danger from ammonium enrichment. Ammonium is an essential component of agricultural fertilizers and contributes to its remarkable increase in environmental concentrations and the overall im-balance of the global nitrogen cycle. Nutrient-poor lakes with large water masses (such as Lake Constance and many other pre-alpine lakes) harbor enormously large populations of archaea, a unique class of microorganisms. In sediments and other low-oxygen environments, these archaea convert ammonium to nitrate, which is then converted to inert dinitrogen gas, an essential component of the air. In this way, they contribute to the detoxification of ammonium in the aquatic environment. In fact, the species predominant in European lakes is even clonal and shows low genetic microdiversity between different lakes. This low species diversity contrasts with marine ecosystems where this group of microorganisms predominates with much greater species richness, making the stability of ecosystem function provided by these nitrogen-converting archaea potentially vulnerable to environmental change.
Maintenance of drinking water quality
Although there is a lot of water on our planet, only 2.5% of it is fresh water. Since much of this fresh water is stored in glaciers and polar ice caps, only about 80% of it is even accessible to us humans. About 36% of drinking water in the European Union is obtained from surface waters. It is therefore crucial to understand how environmental processes such as microbial nitrification maintain this ecosystem service. The rate-determining phase of nitrification is the oxidation of ammonia, which prevents the accumulation of ammonium and converts it to nitrate via nitrite. In this way, ammonium is prevented from contaminating water sources and is necessary for its final conversion to the harmless dinitrogen gas. In this study, deep lakes on five different continents were investigated to assess the richness and evolutionary history of ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Organisms from marine habitats have traditionally colonized freshwater ecosystems. However, these archaea have had to make significant changes in their cell composition, possible only a few times during evolution, when they moved from marine habitats to freshwaters with much lower salt concentrations. The researchers identified this selection pressure as the major barrier to greater diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea colonizing freshwaters. The researchers were also able to determine when the few freshwater archaea first appeared. Ac-cording to the study, the dominant archaeal species in European lakes emerged only about 13 million years ago, which is quite consistent with the evolutionary history of the European lakes studied.
Slowed evolution of freshwater archaea
The major freshwater species in Europe changed relatively little over the 13 million years and spread almost clonally across Europe and Asia, which puzzled the researchers. Currently, there are not many examples of such an evolutionary break over such long time periods and over large intercontinental ranges. The authors suggest that the main factor slowing the rapid growth rates and associated evolutionary changes is the low temperatures (4 °C) at the bottom of the lakes studied. As a result, these archaea are restricted to a state of low genetic diversity. It is unclear how the extremely species-poor and evolutionarily static freshwater archaea will respond to changes induced by global climate warming and eutrophication of nearby agricultur-al lands, as the effects of climate change are more pronounced in freshwater than in marine habitats, which is associated with a loss of biodiversity.
Publication: Ngugi DK, Salcher MM, Andre A-S, Ghai R., Klotz F, Chiriac M-C, Ionescu D, Büsing P, Grossart H-S, Xing P, Priscu JC, Alymkulov S, Pester M. 2022. Postglacial adaptations enabled coloniza-tion and quasi-clonal dispersal of ammonia oxidizing archaea in modern European large lakes. Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adc9392
PhDr. Sven-David Müller, Head of Public Relations, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH
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Mail: press@dsmz.de
About the Leibniz Institute DSMZ
The Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures is the world's most diverse collection of biological resources (bacteria, archaea, protists, yeasts, fungi, bacteriophages, plant viruses, genomic bacterial DNA as well as human and animal cell lines). Microorganisms and cell cultures are collected, investigated and archived at the DSMZ. As an institution of the Leibniz Association, the DSMZ with its extensive scientific services and biological resources has been a global partner for research, science and industry since 1969. The DSMZ was the first registered collection in Europe (Regulation (EU) No. 511/2014) and is certified according to the quality standard ISO 9001:2015. As a patent depository, it offers the only possibility in Germany to deposit biological material in accordance with the requirements of the Budapest Treaty. In addition to scientific services, research is the second pillar of the DSMZ. The institute, located on the Science Campus Braunschweig-Süd, accommodates more than 82,000 cultures and biomaterials and has around 200 employees. www.dsmz.de
PhDr. Sven David Mueller, M.Sc.
Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
Scientists are closing in on why the universe exists
Particle astrophysicist Benjamin Tam hopes his work will help us understand a question. A very big one.
"The big question that we are trying to answer with this research is how the universe was formed," said Tam, who is finishing his PhD at Queen's University.
"What is the origin of the universe?"
And to answer that question, he and dozens of fellow scientists and engineers are conducting a multi-million dollar experiment two kilometres below the surface of the Canadian Shield in a repurposed mine near Sudbury, Ontario.
Ten thousand light-sensitive cameras send data to scientists watching for evidence of a neutrino bumping into another particle. (Tom Howell/CBC)
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOLAB) is already famous for an earlier experiment that revealed how neutrinos 'oscillate' between different versions of themselves as they travel here from the sun.
This finding proved a vital point: the mass of a neutrino cannot be zero. The experiment's lead scientist, Arthur McDonald, shared the Nobel Prize in 2015 for this discovery.
The neutrino is commonly known as the 'ghost particle.' Trillions upon trillions of them emanate from the sun every second. To humans, they are imperceptible except through highly specialized detection technology that alerts us to their presence.
Neutrinos were first hypothesized in the early 20th century to explain why certain important physics equations consistently produced what looked like the wrong answers. In 1956, they were proven to exist.
The neutrino detector is at the heart of the SNO+ experiment. An acrylic sphere containing 'scintillator' liquid is suspended inside a larger water-filled globe studded with 10,000 light-sensitive cameras. (Submitted by SNOLOAB)
Tam and his fellow researchers are now homing in on the biggest remaining mystery about these tiny particles.
Nobody knows what happens when two neutrinos collide. If it can be shown that they sometimes zap each other out of existence, scientists could conclude that a neutrino acts as its own 'antiparticle'.
Such a conclusion would explain how an imbalance arose between matter and anti-matter, thus clarifying the current existence of all the matter in the universe.
It would also offer some relief to those hoping to describe the physical world using a model that does not imply none of us should be here.
IDEAS producer Tom Howell (centre) joins research scientist Erica Caden (left) and Benjamin Tam on a video call from their underground lab. (Screengrab: Nicola Luksic)
Guests in this episode (in order of appearance):
Benjamin Tam is a PhD student in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University.
Eve Vavagiakis is a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physics Department at Cornell University. She's the author of a children's book, I'm A Neutrino: Tiny Particles in a Big Universe.
Blaire Flynn is the senior education and outreach officer at SNOLAB.
Erica Caden is a research scientist at SNOLAB. Among her duties she is the detector manager for SNO+, responsible for keeping things running day to day.
*This episode was produced by Nicola Luksic and Tom Howell. It is part of an on-going series, IDEAS from the Trenches, some stories are below.
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Legends Hospitality Management
The name definitely encapsulates the partners' reputations in their given leagues and by no stretch the status of their owners as well. By the fall of 2008 the New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and Goldman Sachs had formed a food and retail company in Legends Hospitality Management LLC. George Steinbrenner's Yankees and Jerry Jones' Cowboys will each own 34%, with the rest being owned by Goldman Sachs and CIC Partners LP. Goldman Sachs and CIC will provide financing for the company.
The move was a change for both teams as Centerplate Inc. operated the Yanks Park for 40 years and the Cowboys had operated their concessions at Texas Stadium for the past 20 years. Their entry into the industry was well timed. With the Yankees unveiling their $1.3 billion coliseum and the Cowboys unveiling their $1.1 billion dollar playground in 2009, pair with the fact Legends identified a dozen professional sports venues with food service contracts expiring in 2009. Former Pizza Hut President and managing partner at CIC Mike Rawlings was named the CEO.
Dallas' new stadium has been hyped like no stadium before and Jones has been quite successful at acquiring numerous and highly lucrative events to his new castle. The Yankees Randy Levine planned to have a "market-rate" rights agreement with Legends. That money made under this "market-rate" agreement will be subject to Major League Baseball revenue sharing. However, Legends' company profits will not. Thus, the more the Steinbrenner's and Jerry can book up their venues the greater the revenues and profits Legends can generate, and the more money the Yankees will have in their Duck Tales like payroll pool. Perhaps a future article will cover how this venture impacts the Cowboys in relation to its caps and revenue sharing.
Legends mission is to improve stadium dining by serving fresher food, faster, with Celebrity chefs and locally themed menus, as stated by Rawlings. The deal is not the first of sorts for the Yankees, as in 1999 they merged operations with the NBA's New Jersey Nets, creating YankeeNets LLC. Also, in 2001 they signed a partnership with the world's richest soccer club, Manchester United Plc and began airing taped games in 2003.
Sunburst Entertainment Group
By the fall of 2009 the Tampa Bay Rays launched their subsidiary unit, Sunburst Entertainment Group. In the short term SEG plans to double the events held at Tropicana Field. In a consulting role, much like FSG and Giant's Enterprises, Sunburst Entertainment Group shines to be the go-to source (regionally at first) for sports and entertainment consulting, investment and event management. SEG believes they are able to formally transfer their intellectual capital to become a leading sports and entertainment consulting company.
Part of this expansion strategy was taking a minority stake in the recently established Florida Tuskers, the Orlando franchise of the developing United Football League. Rays President Matt Silverman and executives are eager to draw more concerts, exhibitions, NCAA playoff games, Cirque du Soleil, charity events and eventually Tuskers games at the Trop as well.
Silver Chalice
Though work had already begun, officially Silver Chalice launched in the fall of 2009. It is a digital-focused division working with clients to create, implement and monetize new media assets online and via mobile platforms. In leveraging a combination of experience, skill sets, and senior-level relationships across various industries to create competitive advantages for clients seeking to grow their businesses in the intersecting worlds of new media and sports entertainment, Silver Chalice is full of potential.
The COO Jason Coyle, was formerly the President of Intersport's digital media division. In October of last year it announced the launch of BullsTV. It was a logical client relationship with the Bulls and White Sox sharing the same Chairman. Leveraging those teams' assets should only enhance Silver Chalice's possibilities. Silver Chalice developed and implemented an integrated digital strategy for the Bulls to include interactive platforms and the aforementioned BullsTV, debuting via bulls.com. Also launched was a full package of mobile offerings for the Southeastern Conference's SEC Digital Network. With a relationship with XOS Digital in place, their iPhone application climbed as high as the number two paid sports application on iTunes. Silver Chalice also has an office in Boulder, Colorado and a planned downtown Chicago location is in the works.
Notice anything different about Silver Chalice, than the other ventures? After learning more about these ventures, most of them had one common dominator that jumped out at me. Though many of these ventures made a great deal of sense and schematically work very well, the majority of their cash flows still seem related to the same issues of event based marketing and overhead costs. These ventures strengthen their team's brands and bottom line, there is little doubt there. In relation to how effective they are in generating revenue that is not subject to MLB revenue sharing, some may have greater advantages than others.
The thing I like and find fascinating is the reach and scope potential for Silver Chalice. With their digital platforms and wider distribution probabilities, profits can register quicker than costs. Being less event based and with digital distribution; location, weather and lines are never an issue. And while you can't serve a Legends sampler platter to the fan watching on his couch, you can serve him fantasy updates, video highlights stats and other interactive content. With other college conferences in the works and a plethora of other avenues to explore, Silver Chalice shall soon be as stated. Giving the White Sox a new stream of cash in bulk up Kenny Williams' lineup.
It will be interesting over the next few years to see how these how these companies develop and what other MLB or teams from other leagues will do to begin to find their ways of securing additional revenue streams. Regionally these organizations that are more events based are spaced well geographically. Time will tell how competition transpires and the economics of sport continues to evolve.
If anyone has any other resources or information on other MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL ventures, please DM me on Twitter @TylerDJohnson or post a comment!
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50 years later, New York murder still fascinates | The Daily Gazette
50 years later, New York murder still fascinates
Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartm
Karen Matthews, The Associated Press
A pedestrian uses the stairway leading past the entrance to 82-70 Austin street in the Queens borough of New York. The 50th anniversary of the killing of Kitty Genovese's, whose screams could not save her the night she was stalked and killed in the nei...
Photographer: The Associated Press
Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors.
The case "caught the spirit of the time," said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. "It seemed to symbolize that society no longer cared about other people."
Genovese's random stabbing by Winston Moseley on March 13, 1964, became a sensation when The New York Times reported that "38 respectable, law-abiding citizens" in Queens watched the attack unfold over more than half an hour and didn't call police during the assault.
While more recent reporting — some of it by the Times itself — found that the number of people who actually saw the murder was greatly exaggerated and that some neighbors did try to help, the Genovese case left its mark on public policy and psychology.
It has been credited with spurring adoption of the 911 system in 1968 as well as "Good Samaritan" laws that give legal protection to people who help those in trouble.
The case also gave rise to research into the "bystander effect" — the phenomenon in which a group of onlookers fails to help someone in distress — and is often featured in psychology textbooks.
At least five books about Genovese's killing have come out recently or will be published this year, a testament to the enduring fascination with the case.
"Many people were murdered that year, over 600, but she haunts us because she could have been helped and nobody did," said Peter Hellman, a journalist and author of the e-book "Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese, Inside the Case That Rocked Our Faith in Each Other."
According to police reports and trial testimony, Genovese was a 28-year-old bar manager living in the seemingly safe, well-kept neighborhood of Kew Gardens when she was attacked while returning home from work after 3 a.m.
Moseley later told police he had been driving around looking for a woman to kill. He spotted Genovese, chased her and stabbed her in the back. Genovese screamed, and a neighbor yelled from his window, "Leave that girl alone!"
Moseley retreated to his car but returned minutes later and found Genovese in a hallway at the back of her building, where she had collapsed. He stabbed her several more times and raped her as she lay dying.
The story was not widely reported until A.M. Rosenthal, then metro editor of the Times, had lunch with Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, who told him about the 38 witnesses. Rosenthal assigned a reporter to write a story about the neighbors' apathy.
"I didn't want to get involved," one neighbor was quoted as saying.
The story seemed to show that New York was an urban hell where no one would lift a finger to help a neighbor.
"It fit some people's anti-New York perspective," said Philip Zimbardo, a retired professor of psychology at Stanford University.
Some later accounts of Genovese's murder challenged the Times' version.
Kevin Cook, author of "Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America," argues that only a few neighbors saw enough of the attack to understand much of what was going on, and some of them tried to help.
The Times revisited the case in 2004 on the 40th anniversary. A former prosecutor told the paper then that while far fewer than 38 saw the murder, many others heard the screams.
Catherine Pelonero argues in her book "Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private Consequences" that the reporting from 1964 was fundamentally correct: "Many people heard the screams and had very good reasonable cause to believe that a crime was taking place."
"The most chilling part is that once she reached the back of the building, she was lying down there for several minutes calling for help," Pelonero added. "She was saying, 'It's Kitty! I'm stabbed! Help me!'"
Moseley was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, a punishment later reduced to life in prison.
He escaped during a transfer to a hospital in Buffalo in 1968, took five people hostage and raped a woman in front of her husband before surrendering to police. Now 79, Moseley is one of the longest-serving inmates in the New York state prison system.
In reaction to the case, Fordham University Professor Harold Takooshian began studying bystander behavior as a graduate student in 1978. Working under the social psychologist Stanley Milgram, Takooshian conducted experiments that involved pretending to commit crimes to observe bystanders' reaction.
"The field emerged entirely because of her, and now it's a very large field," Takooshian said.
Genovese emerges in the new books as a compelling figure in her own right, a high-spirited young woman known as the class cut-up in high school.
The oldest in an Italian-American family of five children, Genovese grew up in Brooklyn and stayed in New York when the rest of her family moved to New Canaan, Conn., in the mid-1950s. At the time of her death, she had been living with a partner, Mary Ann Zielonko, for about a year.
"She was a daughter and a sister and a lover and a colleague," said James Solomon, a filmmaker who is working with Genovese's younger brother on a documentary about Genovese called "The Witness." ''She wasn't just a victim."
CDTA eyes two new rapid routes
Report: Global executions up 15 percent in 2013
Schenectady police charge man with drug possession
Schenectady man allegedly had sex with child
Schenectady man accused of assault with pot
Altered flare gun draws charges in Schenectady
Clifton Park man indicted on burglary counts
Charlotte mayor resigns; accused of taking bribes
Residents dazzled by lighting concepts at Schenectady revitalization meeting
Niskayuna roundabout work starting in April
Police top salary list of Schenectady employees
Niskayuna's Caroline McGraw running for Biden delegate in 20th Congress District
Police: Man illegally entered ex's Schenectady residence, dragged her out in front of kids


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Q: Nginx CDN - redirects to prevent duplicated content Scenario:
Main website: example.com
Static media served from CDN: xxxxx.cloudfront.net (CNAME: cdn.example.com)

In an attempt to prevent Google and other indexing bots from indexing the CDN URLs (xxxxx.cloudfront.net and cdn.example.com) and their contents, someone suggested me the following steps:
1) Create a .htaccess rewrite rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA} ^.*\.CloudFront\..*$
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ robots_cloudfront.txt [L]

2) Create robots_cloudfront.txt with:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

My questions are:
1) Would that work as expected?
2) How would a translation of the above .htaccess rule look like on Nginx? Not sure if the following is correct:
location / {
if ($http_via ~* "CloudFront") {
rewrite ^/robots\.txt$ /robots_cloudfront.txt break;
}
}

Thanks!

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Published On: Sun, Jul 2nd, 2017
News in English | By admin
1 killed, 6 hurt as car plows into group of teenagers in London
The Pixton Way in Croydon, London, where a car ran over seven teenagers killing one of them, July 1, 2017. (Photo from social media)
London(ANN)-At least one person has died and six others injured after a car plowed into a crowd of teenagers on a sidewalk in south London.
Police said Sunday that a manhunt was underway for the driver of a red convertible Audi, who fled the scene of the crash that killed a 16-year-old girl in Croydon at around 1:30 am local time.
Three of the six teenagers hit by the car had serious injuries, according to a spokeswoman for the London ambulance service.
The Scotland Yard said it did not believe that the incident was a deliberate attack but still asked people information to come forward.
Detective Sergeant Jose Qureshi appealed directly to the driver of the vehicle and asked him to turn himself in.
Police kept the area at the Pixton Way cordoned off before leaving the scene at around noon. The car also hit a number of cars parked along the way.
Incidents of this type have seen a rise across the UK in recent months.
Less than a week ago in New Castle, a car mowed down a large crowd of people marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Six people were injured as a result.
Police said they could not find any traces of a possible attack in that incident either.
This while in mid-June a driver ran over a group of Muslim worshipers outside a mosque in the Finsbury Park area of north London, killing one person and injuring 10 others.
Before being apprehended by police, the driver, Darren Osborne, was heard shouting, "I want to kill Muslims."
A few days later, police charged Osborne with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.
In early June terrorists drove a white van into the crowd on London bridge and then started stabbing people in the area before being gunned down by police. That attack left 10 dead and 48 more injured.
In March, terrorists used the same method to run over pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge, killing four of them.
The UK Government recognise the importance of Somaliland
A historic debate in the UK Parliament on the issue of Somaliland's recognition
Somaliland Cabinet Warns Villa Somalia Of Jealousy In British Parliament Debate


The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics and Coors Light are hosting a celebration of the outdoors at The Grayson, NYC. Acclaimed wilderness photographer, Christin Healey, will be a special guest speaker.
Come join us for a night of celebration at The Grayson in NYC!
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics and Coors Light are hosting a celebration of the outdoors at The Grayson on Thursday, November 1st. This advocacy event celebrates and supports the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference volunteers and their recent environmental work in conjunction with Leave No Trace.
The event will feature special guest speaker, Christin Healey, whose wilderness photographs honor many of the world's most dramatic and wild resources. Healey, named in 2017 as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Adventure Photographers in the world, will discuss the connection between photography and the importance of a Leave No Trace ethic when venturing outdoors.
Come join us for a night of festivities, recognition and fun - Sign up today!


Comprised of Julie Joslyn (alto saxophone, live electronics, violin, vocals) and Leo Ciesa (drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals), Iconoclast has been part of Fang since near the beginning. Ciesa and Joslyn, composing and performing together since '87, developed a bold and distinctive sound. Known for its intensity, physicality and 'larger than duo' impact, Iconoclast uses both acoustic and electronic sounds. The music moves between improvisation and composition without stylistic limitation. Playing regularly in New York City and throughout the US, Canada and Europe, Ciesa and Joslyn have performed at festivals such as the Avantgarde Jazz Festival in Imola, Italy; Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland; Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary; International Ring Ring Festival in Belgrade, Serbia; Pohyb-Zvuk-Prostor Festival in the Czech Republic; Il Festiwal Muzyka z Mozgu in Bydgoszcz, Poland; Interzone International Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia; The Festival of Women Improvisers and NYU Independent Music Fest in New York. The duo has been featured on various radio and television programs worldwide, including numerous interviews and live on-the-air concerts (e.g., WFMU-FM). Iconoclast composed and performed the title theme music for the cable television series Labor at the Crossroads, and has been featured on the TV series Welcome to Nocturnia (The Art World). The duo composed and performed the music for the documentary film Savage Acts: Wars, Fairs and Empire and the website The Lost Museum (American Social History Productions, Inc.), and provided the score for the Italian short film Con gli occhi di domani (With Tomorrow's Eyes). Iconoclast contributed compositions to the compilation CD Transforms: The Nerve Events Project (Cuneiform Records). The duo has collaborated and performed with noted Polish poet Andrzej Dorobek. Ciesa and Joslyn have received grants from Meet the Composer and from Arts International: The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, and are recipients of Artist's Fellowships in Music Composition from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Last Saturday, I was invited to sample the menu at Imli Urban Indian Food, a new Indian restaurant located on the Upper East Side. I was not sure what to expect, New York having so many Indian restaurants and was wondering what Imli Urban Indian Food would have that makes it stand out. Well, as you will see below, there, Chef Manuel Butler, crafted a very interesting menu inspired from street food, with dishes from all over India, made with a twist, but still staying true to its origin. Indian cuisine is meant for sharing but the fact that they propose several small plates (tapas style) makes the experience even more interesting.
Of course, on their menu, you will recognize dishes that people are always expecting in an Indian restaurant, like samosa, saag paneer or chicken tikka masala. But, for instance, the chicken tikka masala was slightly modified: the Chef added some smoked peppers (smoked in the restaurant's tandoor oven), adding a nice but subtle smokiness to the dish. Other ingredients such as clams or duck, rarely seen on a menu are also proposed.
Before I talk about the food, let's talk about the place that has one particularity that is priceless: their patio, a fantastic hidden gem in an already beautiful restaurant.
We started off our meal with some beverages. Jodi went with a delicious mango lassi (notice the absence of ice that is always appreciated especially when ice melts and waters down the lassi) and I went for one of their cocktails, the Kachumber Cooler (made with Hendricks Gin, St. Germain, lychee juice and cucumber), that was very refreshing and dangerous as not strong and so I could have drank a bunch of them.
Grilled duck served au jus: very good, as I mentioned before, I rarely saw duck on an Indian menu. The duck breast was delicious, although I would have liked it slightly less cooked and it reminded me a bit of a French dish.
Overall it was a succulent meal: the food was delicious and not spicy, with lots of flavors. I love the tapas concept that allows to try plenty of dishes. Imli Urban Indian Food stands out from lots of Indian restaurants in the city thanks to its elevated menu. I would for sure go back there!


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Awash in Sea of Data, Ecologists Turn to Open Access Tools
By John Rennie
To assess the ocean's health, ecology's "rugged individualists" learned to get with the big data program.
The Mathematics of Juggling
By Jennifer Ouellette
Juggling has advanced enormously in recent decades, thanks in part to the mathematical study of possible patterns.
Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography
A new paper claims that a common digital security system could be tweaked to withstand attacks even from a powerful quantum computer.
Exoplanet Puzzle Cracked by Jazz Musicians
By Joshua Sokol
A system of seven Earth-like exoplanets appeared to be unstable. Now their orbits have been rewritten in the music of the spheres.
A Simple Visual Proof of a Powerful Idea
Ramsey's theorem predicts a surprising (and useful) consistency in the organization of graphs. Here's a simple visual proof of how it works.
How to Use a Sphere to Talk to Mars
To avoid garbled messages, mathematicians might translate them into geometric form.
Physicists Attack Math's $1,000,000 Question
Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system.
Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize
The French mathematician was cited "for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets."
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
Top women in mathematics and physics discuss how they got to where they are — and why there aren't more of them.


Why Do Male Celebrities Love Henleys (and Which Ones Should I Get)?
As writer Alex Ronan observed over on the Cut, male celebrities like Ryan Gosling, Kanye, and (of course) Mark Ruffalo sure seem to love their henleys. Wondering what explains the micro-phenomenon, we decided to go to an expert — fashion stylist Ilaria Urbinati, who counts famous guys like Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Evans, Ben Affleck, and Rami Malek among her clients — with all our questions: Why the henley? How do you find a good one? And (most importantly) which ones should a person buy?
Why do you think male celebrities love a henley?
Well, it's body-conscious, but still relaxed, so it's rugged and masculine at the same time. It's flattering on a guy because usually the shoulders and arms are very fitted (that's the proper kind of henley to buy). Because it's open at the neck (the buttons should be undone!), it's less stiff-looking compared to a crew neck and cooler than a V-neck, too.
I'd assume that as a celebrity, you're in good enough shape to wear one, too.
Exactly, the henley really does hug them in the parts that they want to accentuate.
Is there a wrong way to wear a henley?
If you're not in the shape of a celebrity — who is? — you probably shouldn't wear one in a material that's too clingy. Get something in a thicker cotton that's a little bit less clingy. I like the Rag & Bone ones for this kind of material.
What do you look for in a good henley?
Good fit is the top priority, but simplicity is also key. Don't get one with too many bells and whistles in the stitching or the buttons. It should feel a little vintage, like you didn't put too much thought into it — make it look like the kind of thing you would wear to fix your car.
So is it just a summer in L.A. thing?
Not at all — during the colder months, I like switching from the standard cotton versions to knit henleys in that waffled material (super old school), or even the cashmere ones for something luxurious and warm.
Why Do Celebrities Love Henleys (and Which Should I Get)?
Why Are So Many Guys Wearing This Striped Shirt?
Who Makes Dev's Plaid Shearling Coat on Master of None?
Does a Natural Antiperspirant Actually Exist?
Is There Anything (Non-Surgical) You Can Do About Your Neck?


Install updates as soon as they're available. This is harder on Android as some OEMs are really bad about pushing patches.
Don't jailbreak/root. Doing this is intentionally breaking the security of the affected OS – it also generally means you can't install updates.
Don't install apps from 3rd party appstores. Almost all of the smartphone hacks you see start with "an app on Chinese-run appstore…" just don't do it. Google, Apple, Amazon only.
Practice safe browsing. The same things that make your computer vulnerable, make your phone vulnerable.
If you follow these tips and you should be golden. Don't bother with anything claiming to be antivirus or security software for your phone. Security software needs to run at a permissions level that just isn't possible on a non-rooted/jailbroken device in order to be effective. It'll just end up causing you problems and providing no protection.


The Inspirational Festival suggested to us to do the opening titles for the event.
The challenge was to obtain images through the creative process. Starting with the absolute vacuum, through various negative phases that we go through, such as fear, confusion, over time, pressure or frustration. All of them, often necessary, which together function as parts of a great machine that will give us the desired inspiration.


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Letter to Herald Bulletin– Reservoir promotion has circus approach
Posted on July 27, 2014 by ckahlo2013
http://www.heraldbulletin.com/opinion/x1927884315/Letter-Reservoir-promotion-has-circus-approach
Letter: Reservoir promotion has circus approach
The Herald Bulletin
P.T. Barnum is starting his tour to promote the reservoir by going to all the towns surrounding the dream. Rob Sparks is this town's P.T. Barnum.
To promote the circus, he travels to the towns drumming and boasting of all the exciting things to come.
I'm not for or against the reservoir, I'm against the way it has been promoted.
The very first article on the reservoir many months ago was P.T. Sparks telling us how the reservoir would be stocked with bass, bluegills and crappies for us to harvest. It was a hook, now we are getting the line, and the next step will be the sinker. We will swallow it all as human nature takes over.
All politicians are good at telling us what we should hear.
The presentation of this whole reservoir has many red flags, especially with information coming at us with hype and a circus atmosphere.
Ronald K. Jones
HEC's slick slogan: "all. together. now." Oh really?
In 2010 the Hoosier Environmental Council re-branded and re-imaged itself to appear more broadly appealing, especially to the corporate mindset. Its new slogan appears on its letterhead and website masthead.
It suggests a warm and fuzzy feeling of inclusiveness and collaboration. It's a slick brand identity. But it's bunk, as recent experience re the planned reservoir reveals.
The HEC has acted in an aloof, imperious, and self-aggrandizing way since the beginning of the dam review process in April of last year. It started with the phone calls and requests for assistance over a year ago from several Heart of the River coalition participants. Their calls were ignored or deflected. Worse, HEC's executive director even suggested to one caller that perhaps a compromise "green dam" might be appropriate.
More recently, we saw in HEC's recent news proclamation concerning the planned dam, that HEC is "all about HEC". It didn't even mention the HTR coalition— our grassroots coalition which has worked for 14 months to organize, outreach, research, and educate. Neither did the HEC's accompanying lengthy position paper. There was not one word of acknowledgement for the grassroots volunteer group which has led the charge and done a tremendous amount of arduous early spade work. And not one mention of concern for the many residents who would be displaced by this land and water grab. HEC's proposal seeking funding for the design charrette (a portion of which was read over the phone to me) repeatedly emphasized that the project would aid HEC's development efforts to increase fundraising.
Of course, advocacy organizations are free to take their positions independent of what other groups might do. In that sense, it's understandable for the HEC to seek to appear that it has taken its position of opposition as an independent entity– despite the fact that 13 prominent conservation groups of various stripes have already taken positions of opposition.
As we also know, the big environmental organizations need a constant infusion of dollars to fund their activities and staff, and thus it's no surprise that the HEC would resort to such self-aggrandizing tactics. In most of its communications, it boasts that it's "the largest environmental organization in Indiana". Yet neither its large relative size nor its slick PR slogan instills much credence that the HEC actually operates in a collaborative way.
I'm recalling Deliverance, the famous 1972 film about a last canoe trip before an imminent inundation of the river caused by the construction of a dam in Georgia's backwoods north of Atlanta, and Lewis' (Burt Reynolds) blunt response to an unacceptable $50 offer by a local man to drive their two cars downstream to the take-out. His reply: "Fifty, my ass!" That aptly captures my reaction to the HEC's "all. together. now." slogan. As a former HEC board president, I'm disappointed to see the organization resort to such misleading claims of inclusiveness and collaboration.
Happy Anniversary, DNR White River recreation plan
Talk about the proverbial doldrums. This month marks the 35th anniversary of the July, 1979 DNR plan: The Recreational Potential of the White River— Martinsville to Muncie.
The detailed 2-volume plan analyzed the river from upstream of Muncie down to Martinsville. Unfortunately it was not implemented and DNR has no explanation at all for the lack of interest in realizing the plan. Your tax dollars hard at work again.
For more info, see post dated May 18th re Two Upcoming State Anniversaries.
Perhaps the current state administration will dust off the plan and recognize its unrealized value. That would remain to be seen considering that Gov. Pence has given $650,000 for the CED's feasibility study for the reservoir.
One the other hand, if the feasibility study, due to be completed by year-end, concludes that the reservoir scheme is too problematic and costly, perhaps Governor Pence would direct the DNR to move forward with implementing the 35 year old plan.
Dan Sherry's recent op-ed in Muncie's The Star Press
http://www.thestarpress.com/comments/article/20140713/OPINION/307130015/Dan-Sherry-Mounds-Lake-White-River-environment
Dan Sherry: Proposed dam would cause environmental havoc
Jul. 11, 2014 |
Written by Dan Sherry
Visiting my hometown Muncie last spring, I was shocked to see the April 1 Star Press article about the proposed dam on the White River in Anderson to create a Mounds Lake Reservoir.
I spent 38 years representing fish and wildlife interests in Tennessee negotiating development projects affecting those interests. Although impoundments of free-flowing streams were once commonplace, their numerous environmental impacts have made them a thing of the past in recent decades — especially on larger streams. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now conducts an active nationwide program to dismantle existing dams.
The Star Press article did a good job of describing the impacts the proposed dam would have on uncommon/rare species and their habitats. Having grown up in Muncie when the river was so polluted, it's been heartwarming to see it cleaned up in recent decades.
A dam would do a lot to undo that. The warmer water within the impoundment would lead to lower water quality and inferior, pollution-tolerant aquatic life. Miles of the tailwater would be subject to water quality problems, and the reduced/inferior aquatic life that goes with them.
Below the dam, the natural flooding cycle that functions to purge/filter pollutants and nourish farmlands would be interrupted. The sensitive wetlands that depend on flood flows and harbor the most productive wildlife habitats would be significantly degraded. The dam would also block the passage of fish and aquatic life, replacing the high quality coolwater fishery (smallmouth bass, rock bass, et al) with a lesser quality warmwater fishery.
This kind of project typically benefits a few politically connected developers at the expense of broader public interests. Private homes would occupy a shoreline developed with tree-cleared manicured lawns, docks and retaining walls. This shoreline development would further degrade the lake's fish and wildlife resources, despoil aesthetics, and create a de facto privatization of the lake in the eyes of the public — to whom these waters originally belonged and who may have paid for the project and its maintenance in the first place.
Finally, this project is basically impossible to permit. The proposed impoundment would constitute a violation of the Federal Clean Water Act and the Federal Water Quality Standards for Antidegradation. To the extent state and local environmental agency staff are politically allowed to speak out, I'm confident their views would mirror those of the feds.
Even if the project proponents could gain a platform with which to proceed, the compensatory mitigation requirements would be insurmountable and are surely not reflected in the $350 million price tag.
For starters, all impacts to streams (including tributaries and degraded tailwaters) would have to be mitigated. All wetlands within the impoundment, as well as those lost to normal flooding below the impoundment would also have to be mitigated.
For perspective, wetland mitigation costs roughly $40,000 an acre in Tennessee. Stream mitigation costs for even small intermittent streams in Tennessee is currently $240/credit — even more in some states. This means for example, an applicant would have to pay a mitigation entity $240 for each foot of just a tiny stream proposed for elimination in Tennessee. I don't know the guidelines for Indiana, but can only imagine the mitigation price tag for the loss of seven miles of the White River, all of its affected tributaries, and degradation of miles of White River tailwaters.
Even if funds were available, there would be no potential sites for restoring that much of a major river elsewhere in Indiana. Then there is all of the impossible mitigation for rare species/habitats.
It's not going to happen.
Dan Sherry was a fish and wildlife environmentalist for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency from 1968-2008. He represented the agency negotiating all environmental/regulatory matters in Tennessee as those matters affected fish and wildlife interests. He has a bachelors and masters degrees in biology from Ball State University.
Doug Berky's letter to the Muncie Star Press
Posted on July 3, 2014 by ckahlo2013
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201407020317/OPINION03/307020018&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
Mounds Lake project and freedom
Jul. 1, 2014 |
DOUG BERKY
As July 4th approaches, I am experiencing a different perspective on this celebration of our independence from tyranny. For many of us in this community, a dark shadow has obscured the very ideals called for in the Declaration of Independence. A small group of business people, none of whom have been elected to represent our community, are trying to put into motion a plan that would change the character and environment of our community by building a dam on the White River here in Anderson.
This plan, developed for years in secret, without consulting the community, will force at least 400 families from their homes. Regardless of the merits of this plan, such a decision should be made by the people, weighing the seriousness of infringing on the civil rights of members of our community because of a hoped for gain.
Those elected to represent us and protect our rights have asked no questions nor have they raised concerns or advocated for those whose rights will be abridged. Our elected officials have asked for no objective studies or information about the dam proposal or its effects on the health, environment and economy of our community. Join me next election in campaigning for those at state, county and city offices who will represent all the citizens of our community, regardless of their stock portfolios.
As July 4th approaches, I am grateful that the Declaration of Independence led to our Constitution, which provides me with the freedom of speech exercised here.
Extensive — and expensive — shoreline erosion control
A few weeks back, IDEM issued a Public Notice for a shoreline stabilization project for a residential property at Geist reservoir in Indianapolis. Here is what the homeowner proposes in order to received the required Sec. 401 Water Quality certification:
"The applicant is proposing to install a 220 linear foot granite block seawall with gravel base and steel anchor panels along the reservoir shoreline. Cobble and boulder stone will be placed along the toe of the block seawall to dissipate wave action. Additionally, a shorelines stabilization and naturalization planning plan is proposed both lakeward and landward of the boulder seawall t replace natural vegetation removed during construction." IDEM 2014-177-30-AMM-A
Aren't you glad you won't be writing the check for that home maintenance project! Of course, with 220 feet of Geist shoreline at his residence, the applicant can likely well afford it.
Bank erosion and stabilization is a problem for many reservoirs because the water bodies are not natural and are frequently built on highly erosion-prone soils. It would be a big problem for a Mounds reservoir. We wonder if such inevitable long-term maintenance costs will be adequately accounted for in the CED's phony "feasibility study". Bet not!


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The NEW SmartCoach content library is packed with staff development resources including training modules to assist in communicating with stakeholders, goal setting with students, securing quality data, and analyzing data to drive decisions. Using the 8-Step Fitness Education Process with SmartCoach is a great way to introduce health and fitness into your districts and schools.
Continuous staff development and education is within reach with the New SmartCoach content library on the MyHealthyZone dashboard. From the first informational orientation - to targeted advice - to learning advanced instructional strategies, FitnessGram provides a wealth of online instructional resources to help your staff excel.


Social Security Disability - What is a Disability Claim?
A disability claim is a claim for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Benefits are available for eligible individuals from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or from Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
You can apply online, by telephone, or in person at a local SSA Field Office. The Social Security Administration (SSA) recommends the online process, but please note that applying online does not give you protective filing status. In addition, if you are unsure about anything and wish to ask questions, you can only do that if you apply in person. When filing an initial application, it is important that your Social Security Disability claim is filed within 17 months of the onset of your disability. Be sure to print and keep copies of absolutely everything you submit to the SSA, along with the confirmation that you receive from the SSA upon filing.
The second step in the application process is the personal interview. This interview may be held in person at the Social Security District Office, or conducted over the telephone. The SSA will mail to your home all the paperwork you will need to have ready at your interview.
Your Social Security Disability claim includes not only the application and other SSA paperwork, but also the supporting materials that you must present to document your disabling condition and the way it affects your ability to function. In addition to current and past medical records, the SSA will ask for your birth certificate, proof of citizenship, pertinent medical records, workmens' comp records, military discharge papers, and your most recent W-2. Again, it is extremely important that you keep copies of everything submitted during the application process.
Some of the most important documents you will need to obtain are detailed statements from your doctor, your family, and your friends regarding your disability. Your doctors' statements should contain not only your diagnosis, but also the SSA, in detail, how your disability keeps you from functioning on a daily basis. The statements from your family and friends should address the same question, telling the SSA what they observe about your physical difficulties at home.
Finally, you need to be able to explain at your interview how your disability limits your ability to function – basically, you must prove to the SSA that you cannot perform any work. Tell the SSA about sleep problems, fatigue, pain, and the like and be very specific. It is best to start documenting your problems in a daily diary. Details are important, and documented details are best.
It sometimes takes months to get your hearing scheduled, so be absolutely sure that you are prepared to attend when the hearing date arrives so that your Social Security Disability application can be heard. In most cases, it is highly advisable to retain a qualified Social Security Disability attorney or advocate to help you fill out your initial Social Security Disability application, and to help you assemble the information you need to present at hearing in the high likelihood that the claim is denied. The process can be arduous, and a qualified Social Security Disability representative can take much of the load off your shoulders and help you get the best possible result for your case.


The fantastic images of our universe as seen on the screens of supercomputers — gigantic galactic clusters, filaments, and bubble-like structures made up of millions of galaxies — call attention in new ways to the teachings of the ancient wisdom regarding the hierarchies of atoms, humans, and gods which comprise the organism of our universe.
Modern man's voyage of discovery in the greater universe gathered momentum in 1923 with the work of American astronomer Edwin Hubble confirming the existence of galaxies beyond our own home galaxy. Six years later Hubble further rocked the astronomical world with his discovery that all galaxies appear to be rushing away from each other and that our universe is expanding, perhaps following a primordial explosion of immense scale — the Big Bang. For a long time it was believed that galaxies were the largest structures to condense from the universe's fiery birth.
This view was seriously questioned in the 1930s by Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley, whose detailed surveys of selected areas of sky showed that galaxies flock together in clusters. This was confirmed by the 1956 survey of the entire sky visible from Palomar Observatory, where George Abell compiled his famous catalog of 2,712 rich clusters of galaxies out to a distance of three billion light-years. In the 1970s French astronomer Gerard de Vaucouleurs presented convincing evidence for what he called the Local Supercluster, consisting of thousands of galaxies with a mass equal to a million billion suns. Theorists, such as Soviet astronomer Yakov Zel'dovich, speculated that such structures are common in a universe of huge streaming filaments of galaxies separated by immense voids.
The discoveries of these early astronomers are supported by observations in the 19805 and '90s, many of which echo ancient traditions regarding the structure of our universe. In 1987 astrophysicist R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii used a supercomputer to corroborate that de Vaucouleurs' Local Supercluster was in fact part of a vast complex of super-clusters, each comprising millions of galaxies (Galaxies, Voyage through the Universe, Time-Life Books, Amsterdam, 1988).
Wherever the dish of the radio telescope is turned the universe astounds scientists with its ever grander structures. In 1989 scientists from the USA, Britain, and Australia compared notes on their studies of two narrow "cones" of observations probing 2.5 billion light-years north and south of the galactic plane. The astronomers discovered that galaxies are clumped at consistent intervals of between 400 and 800 million light-years in a series of great walls separated by equally huge voids.* On the largest scales astronomers working on this survey speculated that the universe may resemble foaming bubbles, shells, or intricate honeycombs of galaxies.
*"Astronews: Sky Surveys Reveal Regularly Spaced Galaxies" in Astronomy, June 1990, p. 10; J. Kanipe, "A Cross Section of the Universe" in Astronomy, Nov 1989, pp. 44-6; I. Petersen, "Seeding the Universe" in Science News, Mar 24,1990, pp. 184-7; D. Johnson, "Supercomputing the Universe" in Astronomy, Dec 1989, pp. 48-54; A. P. Fairall, "The Biggest Structures in the Universe" in 1991 Yearbook of Astronomy, pp. 136-45; R. Cowen, "Quasar Clumps Dim Cosmological Theory" in Science News, Jan 26, 1991, p. 52.
One is reminded of the beautiful analogies of the birth of a universe in the ancient wisdom tradition of many lands cited by H. P. Blavatsky in her Secret Doctrine. Hindu traditions, for example, tell of the expansion (outbreathing) of primordial matter like the churning of an ocean of milk, sending milk-white curds streaming through space (The Secret Doctrine 1:67).
This ancient, now modern, view of the universe was further reinforced by the work of Alexander Szalay of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, in 1990, probing an unprecedented seven billion light-years into the uncharted reaches of the cosmos. Dr. Szalay's "pencil beam" surveys showed galaxies appearing in clumps spaced about 420 million light-years apart (but not in a direct line with the picture produced by the 1989 survey), indicating these massive structures are far more complex than had so far been observed (I. Petersen, "Probing a Universe of Bubbles and Voids" in Science News, Oct 27, 1990, p. 260).
Our beautiful home galaxy, the Milky Way, is unusual in the brotherhood of galaxies in that it is positioned between two walls of galaxies, about two-thirds from the northern boundary, known as the "Great Wall," approximately 200-400 million light-years to the galactic north. Just as our planet Earth circles the Sun, our Sun wheels majestically round the core of the Milky Way in 250 million years, drawing our solar system every microsecond into new areas of space. Last year astronomers at the Carnegie and Wick observatories reported evidence that the universal hierarchy extends to whole families of galaxies. According to this recent study, 136 galaxies in and around our own are streaming towards a region of space about 147 million light-years away, known since 1987 as the "Great Attractor" (P. Muirden, "The Great Attractor," in 1990 Yearbook of Astronomy, pp. 158-67; "Astronews: Best Evidence for the Great Attractor" in Astronomy, Sep 1990, p. 22). While our Sun draws us along on its journey in the greater realm of the galaxy, the entire Milky Way with its uncounted myriads of lives is "falling" towards an entity some 300 million light-years across, consisting of tens of thousands of luminous galaxies and a much larger amount of enigmatic "dark matter." Somewhere in the recesses of our consciousness this discovery reminds us of the ancient teaching that there is a hierarchy amongst the suns themselves in the management of the universe. Theosophical literature alludes to "Raja Suns" about which many solar systems wheel just as the planets follow their courses round the Sun. The discovery of the "Great Attractor" leads us to speculate that there may be greater beings amongst the galaxies whose dominion includes the myriad lives that inhabit and compose entire galactic clusters.
Wheels within wheels in constant motion. Yet to us tiny beings all appears largely unchanged from one day to the next, just as we were once beguiled by appearances into thinking that the earth was flat. Brave explorers in their sailing ships proved this to be a fallacy and gave us a global consciousness; now questing souls are reaching billions of light-years into the depths of space with radio telescopes and offering us something approaching a galactic awareness. We are starting to appreciate the reality of the ancient teachings that the universe is one of an infinite number of vast living organisms extending from the infinitely divisible atom to the supergalactic structures we are now seeing, and beyond, to macrocosmic entities. Theosophical teachings compare our Earth to an electron and our solar system to an atom in the body of a being so vast that we cannot see it. We see only other atoms, galactic molecules, and now larger molecular swarms surrounding us.
Let us now turn the telescope round the other way and look at the microcosmos of billions of cells that compose our bodies. In turn these cells are built of molecules and atoms, electrons and subatomic particles. Letting our minds take flight with the consciousness-expanding images of the ancient wisdom, is it not possible that many of these electrons could be inhabited by beings, who like us are pondering these wonderful thoughts?
Consciousness unbounded by physical size lends wings to the imagination beyond the dreams of science fiction. One might fantasize that the larger being of which we are a part could be no further progressed in evolution than ourselves; conversely, that hierarchies of divinely conscious beings could inhabit the atoms of our bodies whose "worlds and galaxies" live out their life cycles and reimbody in one of our split seconds! A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions befalling the galactic being of which we form a minute part, we infinitesimals might know nothing or little about it, just as its atoms and molecules, our worlds, might peregrinate as do the life-atoms which enter and leave us at every instant.
In a world beset with wars and economic recession, where the great majority of people struggle to meet the demands of daily existence, what possible significance could these scientific metaphysical speculations have for the man in the street? The fact that modern science is beginning to have some understanding of the ancient truth that we are part of a larger organism has ethical implications for us all. We are encouraged to lift our heads from transitory worries and seek the broader horizons of the night sky, alive with evidence of our brotherhood with the stars. From infinitesimal being to galactic supercluster we see intricate connections and realize that we each have our own role to play. We start to respect our bodies, our environment, and the universe as temples of life, and to treat ourselves and others with reverence. We realize that our actions today will affect the destiny of planets and suns of the distant future, when we, as evolving beings, shall inhabit celestial forms — stars and galaxies — to provide the environment for humanities of tomorrow, the evolved life-atoms of our own constitution.
☼ The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of David Doody, Flight Operations Engineer, Magellan Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.


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TALI-TARD COMMANDER OBAMA FREED FROM GITMO DRONED IN AFGHANISTAN…….
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Taliban commander who returned to Afghanistan as recruiter for ISIS after he was freed from Guantánamo Bay is killed in drone strike
Mullah Abdul Rauf, 33, killed by NATO drone strike along with son-in-law
The former Guantánamo Bay detainee recently pledged allegiance to ISIS
The ex-Taliban commander claimed to be recruiting fighters for ISIS
By THOMAS BURROWS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:57 GMT, 9 February 2015 | UPDATED: 23:09 GMT, 9 February 2015
Mullah Abdul Rauf, 33, was killed by a NATO drone
A former Guantánamo Bay detainee who recently pledged allegiance to ISIS has been killed in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Rauf, 33, was killed by a NATO drone strike along with his son-in-law and six others as they drove through Kajaki district in the volatile southern province of Helmand, Afghan officials said.
Rauf, an ex-Taliban commander, declared allegiance to Isis in January, and claimed to be recruiting fighters on behalf of the group which holds large swaths of Syria and Iraq.
He was branded by the Washington Post last month as 'the shadowy figure recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan.'
A Pakistani militant commander said Rauf had been an important liaison between various factions which have broken away from the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban movements in recent months.
His defection had caused deadly infighting and raised fears the movement was gaining footholds in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A statement from Resolute Support, the new name for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, said 'coalition forces conducted a precision strike in Helmand province today, resulting in the death of eight individuals threatening the force'.
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How I've Made Over $1,000,000 With A Subscription Box Business
[#item_title]Career, Extra Income, Extra Money, Hustle SeriesDo you want to learn how to start a subscription box business? Here's how you can start a subscription box business and turn it into a part-time side hustle or even a full-time income. Today, I am interviewing a subscription box expert, Sarah Williams. Sarah built a seven-figure subscription box business in only three years.
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Do you want to learn how to start a subscription box business?
Here's how you can start a subscription box business and turn it into a part-time side hustle or even a full-time income.
Today, I am interviewing a subscription box expert, Sarah Williams. Sarah built a seven-figure subscription box business in only three years.
She is the CEO and founder of two 7-figure businesses, Framed by Sarah and Launch Your Box, where Sarah has worked with thousands of subscription box owners and those wanting to start a subscription box, providing in-depth training that takes them through each step of starting, launching, and growing their business.
I recently asked Sarah to take part in an interview to answer some of the common questions you may have about how to start a subscription box business.
Are you wondering questions such as:
How do subscription boxes work?
What are some subscription box business ideas that a person could start right now?
How much does it cost to start a subscription box business?
How do you find customers?
If so, please continue reading the interview below to see the answers to the questions above as well as answers to other common questions.
If you are interested in starting a subscription box business, I recommend signing up for Sarah's free workshop so that you can take the first step. This workshop will help you figure out what you put in your subscription box, create a plan for your subscription box business, and launch your box.
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How to start a subscription box business
1. Please give us a little background on yourself and how you got started. How much have you earned from subscription boxes?
My business started as a side hustle. I was already running a brick-and-mortar retail store when I made the decision to start a subscription box for the customers that came into my store every single month. I really wanted to create something exclusive and more like a VIP experience for them.
The box was a huge hit and also grew my brick-and-mortar store because hundreds of local subscribers would come in and pick up their boxes.
During the pandemic, I made the decision to close my store because my subscription box business was booming.
Now, five years later, I have thousands of monthly subscribers and have earned over $5 million with my subscription box business alone.
2. How do subscription boxes work?
A subscription box is a curated experience in a box for a specific niche customer.
It's packed and delivered to the customer on a regular schedule, and their payment comes out automatically.
A subscription box can be filled with food, clothing or accessories, candles or whatever you want.
It's delivered once a month, once a quarter, once a week or however you want to set it up.
3. What do you like about having a subscription box business? What do you not like?
When you run an e-commerce business, your sales fluctuate up and down like a rollercoaster. We call it feast or famine.
A subscription box business is totally different.
You can count on sales coming in every month, making your goal simply to retain your subscribers. You already know how much product inventory you need each month, rather than guessing at it because it's already sold. You don't have to feel like you are selling every single day.
I love having a subscription box business because it has stabilized my business. I have a set amount of income I can depend on, and I'm able to make purchasing and staffing decisions without the stress.
Honestly, I don't think there's anything about my subscription box business that I don't like.
4. Is there room for new people to start a subscription box business? How fast is the subscription box industry growing?
The industry is growing rapidly, and there's always room for new people because there are so many potential niches for subscription boxes.
My advice for newbies is to not even try to compete with the big subscription box businesses.
Instead, they should focus on finding a specific area of interest with a cult-like following. If they can find the right niche, their subscription box is going to grow like crazy.
5. What are some subscription box business ideas that a person could start right now?
I always tell people to start with an idea that you are passionate about. If you have a hobby or a special interest, that's the industry you should create your box for. Messaging, or understanding how to attract the right person and build your audience, is so important in the subscription box industry.
If you know your niche, you're going to be able to speak to that so much better than somebody who doesn't. It's going to be easy to find your people. I've seen this happen often, with everything from planter subscriptions to guinea pig subscriptions to candle subscriptions.
Wherever your expertise lies, that's the business to start your subscription box in.
6. How much money does a subscription box business make each month? Is a subscription box business profitable?
Your revenue really depends on your profit margin and how many subscribers you have. Here's a basic way to think about it:
If you have a $20 profit on your subscription, and you have 50 subscribers, you're making $1,000 profit every single month. All you have to do is multiply that if you want more profit.
Some entrepreneurs want a large subscription base of 30,000 subscribers or more. Some want to stay in the hundreds, because it's more manageable for them to do it on a smaller scale.
As a subscription box owner, you can be profitable, no matter if you have 50 subscribers, 500 subscribers, 5,000 subscribers or 50,000 subscribers.
It's up to you to determine how much your business makes each month.
7. How much does it cost to start a subscription box business?
I started my box as part of an existing business, so I didn't start with X amount of money. My goal was to stick to a 30% profit margin at the beginning.
A new entrepreneur could start with $1,000, or $100,000. It really just depends on how many subscribers you are starting with and what your goals are.
You'll have product, packaging, advertising, payroll, fulfillment and shipping costs. The larger your subscription base, the more boxes you have and the more costs you'll have, because you have to buy more products. But as you grow, your cost decreases per box. This is because you can buy in bulk with packaging and products.
My main advice is to keep your box profitable, with a minimum of 30% profit margin when you start. I would also highly encourage you to increase that to 50-60% as you grow.
8. How do you decide what to put in your subscription box? Where do you get the items from? How many products are typically in a subscription box?
Deciding what you're going to put in your subscription box is one of the first things that you have to figure out when you are starting your business. You'll have to really understand who your ideal customer is.
Ask yourself, "Who is your ideal customer? What things do they want? What are they thinking and feeling?"
We have a free workshop that we host called "6 in 60." It takes you through a series of steps to plan out 6 months of subscription boxes in just 60 minutes. Once you can visualize what would be in your subscription box, you can then figure out how many products you'd like to include and where you will get them from.
Typically, what I see from new subscription box owners is that they put too much in a box. It's a problem because if there is too much, the customer can't consume it before the next box comes. So you think you're providing more value, but you are actually doing the opposite by giving them too much.
Starting out, you should either do one thing of the month, or at most, include three to five items in your box.
When it comes to buying the items you will include in your subscription box, there are a lot of different places that you can get your products from. You can find items at markets or you can buy wholesale on different websites. Some online wholesale marketplaces to check out include Faire, Abound and Tundra. You can also buy on global marketplaces like Alibaba and Indiamart.
9. How do you decide how much to price a subscription box?
For me, this was easy. I already had a business and I knew what my average order value was in my retail shop. When people came into my store, they would spend between $40 and $50, on average. I priced my subscription box at $45, right in that average order value range. I also added some upgrade options as well.
Again, when choosing your price, you have to take into account that you want to have a 30% profit margin.
You'll also want to be aware of thresholds. For example, I could sell something all day long for $49. But the minute I price it $50 and cross that threshold, there is a new perceived value.
You also want to be careful that you don't overprice your box, or you won't get the subscribers you'd like.
Spend some time thinking about what value you're creating and price it right for the market and for your customer base.
10. How do you market a subscription box business?
The best place to market your subscription box is via social media ads on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or any other major platform.
Digital marketing ads are so much better than billboards, newspapers and TV. Not only are they cheaper, but digital marketing is where it's at.
It has changed over the last several years, and it has become more expensive, but it's still the best, cheapest and easiest place to find your customer and market your subscription box.
11. Can you list the steps needed to get start a subscription box business?
The first thing that you're going to need to do is to build an audience. That's the step that everybody loves to skip, because it's the hardest. But finding your people is important. You can't just create an amazing box and have nobody to sell it to. It will take some time, but build your audience first.
I tell my students that it will likely take 30 to 90 days to build your audience.
While you're building your audience, you'll need to start working through the logistics of the subscription box. This includes getting your tech stack together. You'll need to decide how you are going to sell your box and what platform you will sell it on.
You'll also need to start sourcing products, create your packaging and figure out fulfillment and shipping.
Now, these are all things that can be worked on while you're building an audience. But you shouldn't build those things first and then try to build your audience later because it takes time.
Get started building an audience yesterday, and all the logistical pieces will start to fall into place.
12. Can you tell me more about the resource you offer? (if you don't offer a resource, then please just skip this question).
The 6 in 60 Workshop is my method for curating 6 subscription boxes in 60 minutes.
By the end of this workshop, you'll know exactly who your box is for & what to put in it, you'll have a plan to curate your first 6 boxes, you'll be ready to take the next steps to launch your box, and you'll have curated 6 months' worth of subscription boxes!
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