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Boris Johnson will lead an emergency meeting on Monday. (FILE)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss international travel, particularly the flow of cargo to and from the UK, a spokeswoman for his office said on Sunday.
On the previous Sunday, several European countries began closing their doors to travelers from the UK after the country tightened COVID restrictions in London and southern England to curb the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus.
France said it would lock down all people coming from the UK for 48 hours starting Sunday evening, including freight companies, whether by road, air, sea or rail. The UK port of Dover said its ferry terminal is closed.
"The Prime Minister will chair an Emergency Response (COBR) meeting tomorrow to discuss the situation regarding international travel, particularly the steady flow of goods to and from the UK. Further meetings will be held tonight and tomorrow morning to ensure robustness Plans are in place, "said the spokeswoman.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps urged the British, especially freight forwarders, not to travel to ports in Kent, southern England, and warned on Twitter that "we expect significant disruption in the region".
The travel restrictions come at a tough time for many UK companies holding last minute supplies before December 31st, as a transition to the status quo with the European Union ends and new customs regulations come into effect.
Doug Bannister, general manager at the Port of Dover, told Reuters earlier this month that Europe's largest trucking port had already seen near-record levels of trade.
Businesses and industry associations had lobbied to get their US workers to get the vaccines immediately after health professionals and long-term care residents.
Meanwhile, FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service Inc trucks have started collecting the cans from warehouses for delivery to hospitals and other locations.
The Moderna vaccine vials were dispensed at the facility of pharmaceutical services company Catalent Inc in Bloomington, Indiana. Distributor McKesson Corp supplies cans from facilities in places like Louisville, Kentucky and Memphis, Tennessee – near air hubs for UPS and FedEx.
Both FedEx and UPS said deliveries were smooth and everything went exactly as planned.
Regardless, U.S. health officials are monitoring the new strain of COVID-19 emerging in the United Kingdom, U.S. surgeon general Jerome Adams said on Sunday, adding that any mutation shows people need to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus until they are vaccinated.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and scientists announced on Saturday that the new strain of the virus had increased the number of infections, tightened COVID-19 restrictions on London and the surrounding areas and disrupted the Christmas vacation plans of millions of people.
The variant, which according to official information is up to 70% more transferable than the original, has raised concerns about its wider distribution. Several European countries, including Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, said they are taking measures to prevent people from arriving from the UK, including flight and train bans.
The distribution of Moderna's vaccine at more than 3,700 locations in the US will significantly expand the rollout that Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began last week.
U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program director Moncef Slaoui said it was most likely the first Moderna vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, Monday morning.
"We look forward to the vaccine. It will be a little easier to distribute as it doesn't require as low (a) temperatures as Pfizer," Slaoui said on CNN.
The US government plans to ship 5.9 million Moderna recordings and 2 million Pfizer recordings this week.
Data from CDC shows that 2.84 million doses have been distributed and 556,208 shots have been administered to date.
The start of delivery of the Moderna vaccine will greatly increase the availability of COVID-19 vaccines as deaths from respiratory disease in the US have reached more than 316,000 in the eleven months since the first documented US cases. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/34pvUyi)
Some states choose Moderna's recordings for hard-to-reach rural areas because they can be stored in standard temperature refrigerators for 30 days. Pfizers must be shipped and stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius and can only be kept for five days at normal refrigerator temperatures.
Starting doses were given to health professionals. The Walgreens and CVS pharmacies' programs to distribute the Pfizer vaccine to long-term care facilities are expected to begin Monday.
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JOHN GRANT announces third solo album, "Grey Tickles, Black Pressure", released 2nd October on Bella Union
It's been the most spectacular of journeys, from a place in time when John Grant feared he'd never make music again, to winning awards, accolades and Top 20 chart positions, collaborating with the likes of Sinead O'Connor, Goldfrapp and Elton John, as well as a Best International Male Solo Artist nomination at the 2014 BRITS Awards.
Now comes Grant's third album, the invitingly titled Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, a veritable tour-de-force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop song. There are newer musical accomplishments across its panoply of towering sound, like the title track's new steely demeanour, while the ominous drama of "Black Blizzard" echoes both John Carpenter and Bernard 'Black Devil Disco Club' Fevre's beautiful and icy synthscapes. The contagious, gleeful "You And Him" marries buzzing rock with a squelchy electronic undertow, while orchestral drama swathes the bad-dreamy "Global Warming" and the album's gorgeously aching widescreen finale "Geraldine". John has released a NSFW (or at least not for the squeamish!) album trailer featuring the title track which can be viewed below…
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure is available to pre-order now via iTunes
CD and Vinyl copies are now available for pre-order via the Bella Union Store
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure was recorded in Dallas with producer John Congleton (St Vincent, Franz Ferdinand, Swans) – coincidentally the same state of Texas where Grant nailed his 2010 solo debut Queen Of Denmark in the company of Denton's wondrous Midlake. After that landmark return, which MOJO made its album of 2010, 2013's Pale Green Ghosts was made in Icelandic capital Reykjavik (where Grant has lived ever since), which entered the UK Top 20 in its first week and ended up as Rough Trade Shop's Album of the Year 2013, The Guardian's No.2 and in MOJO and Uncut's Top Five). Such recognition, iced by years of sell-out shows across Europe and a recent US tour as special invited guest of the Pixies, should allow the notoriously self-critical and insecure Grant the passing thought that Grey Tickles, Black Pressure will deservedly cement his reputation as the most disarmingly honest, caustic, profound and funny diarist of the human condition in the persistently testing, even tragic, era that is the 21st century.
"I do think the album's great, and I'm really proud of it," he says. "I wanted to get moodier and angrier on this record, but I probably had a lot more fun making it." He cites "amazing" session keyboardist Bobby Sparks, "who really funked things up," as part of that fun; likewise a month of Dallas sunshine "after a brutal dark winter in Iceland. And there was a lot of laughter."
That said, fun isn't the first ingredient you'd expect when you know the roots of the album title. "'Grey tickles' is the literal translation from Icelandic for 'mid-life crisis', while 'black pressure' is the direct translation from Turkish for 'nightmare'," Grant explains, an unusually gifted linguist (he's fluent in German, Russian and now tackling Icelandic).
Nevertheless, there are plenty of positive streaks in Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. Grant, for one, is in fabulous voice throughout and has moved on from the specific subject matter that shaped both previous albums (though the concept of love always figures into the mix). "Disappointing" – featuring vocal guest Tracey Thorn – is an exuberant tribute to new love, against which Grant's favourite Saturday Night Live comediennes, Russian artists and "ballet dancers with or without tights" pale in comparison. The album's other two guests are vocalist Amanda Palmer and former Banshees drummer Budgie.
But the end result is indeed a moody, angry record, laced with levering humour and wounded pathos, yet as dark as Reykjavik in February. It starts and ends with spoken word snippets called, simply, "Intro" and "Outro", both taken from the same Biblical quote (from 1 Corinthians 13) regarding the divinity of love that young John was taught in church. In between are 12 songs that document the reality of love on planet Earth, corrupted by "pain, misunderstandings, jealousy, objectification and expectations," as Grant puts it.
The album's last two songs are among its finest. "No More Tangles" fights against co-dependency "with narcissistic queers," he sings, through the metaphor of hair care products. "It's about not apologizing for who you are and not putting up with unnecessary bullshit from people who do not care about you". But in "Geraldine" (as in the late Geraldine Paige, "one of freakiest, strongest, coolest actresses I've come across"), Grant's latest actor-inspired song is Grant's chance to ask her if she too had to "put up with this shit" that life dishes out.
So Grant still manages to keep fighting the good fight, and writing his way out of trouble with another fantastic record. "I want to continue to challenge myself," he says. "To keep collaborating, to get the sound or the direction that will take me where I need to go. To keep taking the bull by the horns."
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure will be released 2nd October on Bella Union. Album artwork, album tracklisting and European tour dates below…
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure tracklisting:
2. Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
3. Snug Slacks
4. Guess How I Know
5. You & Him
6. Down Here
7. Voodoo Doll
8. Global Warming
9. Magma Arrives
10. Black Blizzard
11. Disappointing
12. No More Tangles
13. Geraldine
14. Outro
John Grant European tour dates:
Thursday 5 November – REYKJAVIK – Eldborg Harpa
Friday 6 November – REYKJAVIK – Eldborg Harpa
Monday 9 November – DUBLIN – Vicar Street
Tuesday 10 November – DUBLIN – Vicar Street
Thursday 12 November – LONDON – Hammersmith Apollo
Friday 13 November – BRIGHTON – Dome
Sunday 15 November – PARIS – La Cigale
Thursday 17 November – BRUSSELS – Botanique
Wednesday 18 November – AMSTERDAM – Melkweg
Friday 20 November – LUXEMBOURG – Den Atelier
Saturday 21 November – ZURICH – Kaufleuten
Sunday 22 November – MILAN – Fabrique
Tuesday 24 November – COLOGNE – Buergerhaus Stollwerck
Wednesday 25 November – HAMBURG – Uebel & Gefahrlich
Thursday 26 November – BERLIN – Postbahnof
Saturday 28 November – AARHUS – Voxhall
Sunday 29 November – COPENHAGEN – Store Vega
Tuesday 1 December – GOTHENBURG – Pustervik
Wednesday 2 December – STOCKHOLM – Sodra Teatern
Friday 4 December – OSLO – Cosmopolite
Saturday 5 December – BERGEN – Logen
Sunday 6 December – STAVANGER – Zetlitz
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For Indian Railways under Suresh Prabhu, quality tops agenda, Varanasi contractor sacked over complaints
Published: April 4, 2017 1:13:50 PM
The Indian Railways has dismissed food service of a Varanasi-based catering contractor over several complaints regarding the food quality in the premium Swarna Jayanti Ahmedabad Rajdhani.
As many as 133 complaints related to food were received from the Swarna Jayanti Ahmedabad Rajdhani. (PTI)
The Indian Railways has dismissed food service of a Varanasi-based catering contractor over several complaints regarding the food quality in the premium Swarna Jayanti Ahmedabad Rajdhani. The step was taken on Friday after a BJP MP from Gujarat raised the issue in the Rajya Sabha. The train is used by MPs from the state as well as other state BJP and RSS functionaries and businessmen. In past seven months, they were bringing the issue of poor food quality to the notice of Rail PSU IRCTC. In the time period, as many as 133 complaints related to food were received from the Swarna Jayanti Ahmedabad Rajdhani, reported The Indian Express stating official data. Taking note of it, the zonal railways had been slapping the caterers with repeated financial penalties for below standard food quality. The combined penalty in the last six months amounted to Rs 9.5 lakh. Out of this amount, about Rs 8.3 lakh has been realised so far.
The Varanasi-based Ambuja Caterers was serving food in the train. However, when the order to dismiss its contract was issued, the cateror exerted political pressure on the Railways to save the contract, said IE Sources. It allegedly claimed close ties with some BJP workers positioned at high posts, including a senior Union Cabinet minister. Even Shankarbhai Vegad, the MP had raised a question on this issue in the Rajya Sabha and asked not to dismiss the contract seeking attention towards over hundred of employees who will become jobless after this. But constant complaints in past few months did not let all this work and the IRCTC overlook the demand to discontinue the food service.
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Talking to IE, Vegad said he had only asked for improvement in service in the train. The MP further said all MPs from Gujarat had given feedback in writing that the quality had improved in the past couple of months and thus they would not want to take away the jobs of poor people working for the catering service.
However, the mention of the issue in Rajya Sabha proved fatal for Ambuja, which was first served a show cause notice and then asked to leave.


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Fernando De Napoli (Chiusano di San Domenico, Província d'Avellino, Itàlia, 15 de març de 1964), és un exfutbolista italià que va jugar de migcampista.

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Format al planter de l'US Mirgia de Mercogliano, va passar a l'Avellino, que el va cedir per una temporada al Rimini. La temporada 1983/84 va fer el seu debut en Sèrie A amb l'Avellino.

Tres anys després va ser contractat pel SSC Napoli, amb el qual va guanyar dos Scudetti, una Copa d'Itàlia, una Copa de la UEFA i una Supercopa d'Itàlia. Al costat de Salvatore Bagni va formar l'eix del mig del camp del gran Napoli.

El 1993 va passar al Milan, on va guanyar dos Scudetti, duess Supercopes d'Itàlia, una Copa d'Europa i una Supercopa d'Europa.

El 1995 va ser transferit al Reggiana, on va cloure la seva carrera de futbolista el 1997. Fins al 2004 va ser el team manager del club emilià.

Internacional
Ha estat internacional amb la selecció italiana, disputant 16 partits amb la sub-21 (amb 1 gol) i 54 amb la selecció absoluta (1 gol). Va participar en els Mundials de Mèxic 86 i Itàlia 90 i a l'Eurocopa 1988 d'Alemanya Occidental.

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Orde al Mèrit de la República Italiana
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Futbolistes de la SSC Napoli
Persones de la província d'Avellino
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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov congratulates Baira Kovanova on winning the Russian Women's Chess Cup
The final of the Russian Women's Chess Cup held in Khanty-Mansiysk ended with the victory of Grandmaster Baira Kovanova on 2nd of December. Baira Kovanova is a Russian Cup finalist, Euro cup medallist and winner of many competitions. In the final, Baira Kovanova defeated Ekaterina Goltseva 2.5: 1.5 and won the Russian Cup.
The first President of Kalmykia, sixth President of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov congratulated the compatriot on the great victory and wished her further success, health and bright triumphs in chess.
Editor's note: Baira Kovanova was born in Elista on May 12, 1987. When the republic was headed by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a real chess boom began in Kalmykia. Chess City was built and general chess education came to schools. Baira learned to play quite late, at the age of ten, but quickly showed her chess abilities.
At this time, the famous trainer, international master Pavel Lobach often came to Elista. Noticing a capable girl, Lobach began individual coaching of Baira, which soon led to Kovanova winning the Russian U18 Championship (2005).
Inspired by her success, the native of Elista decided to link her fate with chess and entered the Saratov State Law Academy. Two years later (2007) Baira Kovanova got the title of the International Grandmaster. As part of the Saratov's 'Economist', the chess player has repeatedly become a prize-winner of the country's championships.


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Home » news » Making LGBT a Protected Class Will Kill Religious Liberty
Making LGBT a Protected Class Will Kill Religious Liberty
By T.R. Clancy
https://www.americanthinker.com/
The current campaign to amend federal and state civil rights laws to extend protections to sexual orientation and gender identity isn't meant to eliminate discrimination -- it's meant to eliminate religious freedom.
What else are we to believe when proponents of such amendments tell us as much?
Earlier this month, Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss introduced legislation to amend the state's civil rights law to add sexual orientation and sexual identity as protected classes. One of the main objections to changing the law before now has been the harm it must do to conscience protections and the free exercise of religion. Like their federal cousin, the Equality Act, these laws can't ensure equality because, as gay writer Brad Polumbo explains, they work by "elevating [LGBT] rights over those of religious Americans."
Senator Moss isn't even pretending this isn't the case. As reported in the Oakland Press, Moss said:
[T]he legislation will not make exceptions for those whose religious beliefs condemn homosexuality and other lifestyles[.] ... That would mean, for example, that a Catholic school that teaches against homosexuality could not discriminate against a homosexual job applicant on the basis of sexual orientation.
Bakery owners and photographers could not refuse to serve a same-sex couple's wedding on the basis of their religious beliefs.
None of this bothers Moss, who "says he is gay as well as a practicing Jew," and doesn't see what the problem is. He "knows plenty of rabbis and other religious leaders who support the legislation." Besides, believers who don't see it his way just don't understand the Bible, or their own faith: "A few passages in the Old Testament (teaching against homosexuality) don't give people the right to discriminate. I don't believe there is a conflict between religious values and treating everyone fairly."
And if it turns out there is a conflict between Moss's ideas about "treating everyone fairly" and someone's religious values, then we'll just ignore the religious values. As David Harsanyi recently noted at The Federalist, "compelling the right kind of speech no longer seems a bothersome prospect to most progressives. Any neutral principles that are inherent in the First Amendment have long been discarded for more pressing matters of social justice." How else could Moss write a law that forces a Catholic school principal to hire a homosexual teacher whose lifestyle contradicts Catholic teaching, and forces a Christian baker to design a cake with a message the baker considers sinful?
It would also mean that, as is already happening in states that include gender identity as a protected class, Catholic hospitals could be sued "for 'discrimination' on the basis of gender identity because they wouldn't perform sex-change surgeries for patients with gender dysphoria."
The Supreme Court of British Columbia applied similar gender equality dogma when it "declared a father guilty of family violence for his polite refusal to refer to his 14-year old daughter as a boy in private, and his repeated choice to affirm in media interviews that she is a girl." The judge went so far as to order the father's immediate arrest by any B.C. cop who merely suspects him of referring to his daughter as a girl -- anywhere in public or private -- including uttering her birth name. And, "[p]oliticizing the medical treatment of gender dysphoria could lead to more prosecutions against parents who refuse to aid in the sterilization of their children," as happened recently in Ohio, and they haven't even added gender orientation to their civil rights law -- yet. The Ohio judge took into account that the parents' unwillingness that their daughter undergo hormone treatments that will sterilize her "was based at least in part on [the parents'] Christian beliefs."
What if their objections were based in part on their Christian beliefs? Wouldn't most atheist parents react the same? Or are we supposed to believe that only parents who recite the Apostles' Creed or believe in the story of Adam and Eve would think of standing in the way of their daughter being robbed of all possibility of motherhood through some insane experiment that will never turn her into a boy?
The amount of irrationality needed to justify the normalizing of homosexuality and transgenderism is leading to the astonishing result that it's the religious believers, and not the agnostic scientists, who are inheriting the guardianship of empirical reality. Far-fetched as some people may find the story of Noah's Ark or the doctrine of the Last Judgment, those of us who believe these things are still perfectly capable of recognizing nature and the laws of nature for what they are here on Earth. We're not the ones, in other words, who believe that little girls are regularly being born trapped inside the bodies of little boys, or that a man can change himself into a woman, or that a pregnant woman can transform the living being inside her from a human into a disposable appendage, just by choosing it to be so. Whatever the source of these fables -- self-serving metaphysics or the devil in hell -- it isn't science.
It's taken a special kind of intellectual breakdown for our society to blind itself to visible concrete realities for the sake of invisible and imaginary ones. Maybe 40 years of rationalizing the slaughter of the unborn with the antiscientific lie that we don't know when a human life begins made it an easy lie to tell that a man can be made into a woman by means of hormone injections and surgical mutilations.
While judges, politicians, celebrities, academics, doctors, and psychotherapists are repeating these lies, it's been left to religious believers to withstand them. The Catholic Church just released educational guidelines (50 years late, but better late than never) that state unequivocally that male-female sexuality is a "given natural or biological fact." In the UK it was Muslim parents who put a stop to a school program in which their "[c]hildren are being told it's OK to be gay."
And again, though the motivations of the British Muslims and Christian parents are in part religious, they're not doing these things to force acceptance of a creed on someone else, just the recognition of natural facts: our daughter is not a boy; homosexuality is not normal. Last month Pope Francis rejected the notion that being pro-life is a religious position, arguing that abortion is a "pre-religious problem" that "existed long before Catholicism": "Do not blame religion for something that concerns the human," he said. "It is not lawful. Never, ever eliminate a human life or hire a hitman to solve a problem."
Even when we call our hitmen "doctors," and the murders they commit "health care." Or castration "gender transitioning."
When the old progressives attacked religion, they mistakenly saw themselves as defending modern science from primitive superstitions. Matthew Arnold rejected miracles outright, and called for a critical effort, "in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is." But the last thing today's progressives are willing to tolerate is anyone pointing out the object as in itself it really is. Our best-educated professors, lawyers, and doctors refuse to permit an unborn child to be referred to as a human baby, his bearer as a mother, or a gender dysphoric teenaged "transgendered male" as exactly what she is: a girl. Today's war on religious liberty isn't being waged by clear-eyed progressives against bitter clingers determined to force their dark superstitions on the nation; it's being waged by a radical clerisy properly terrified that their counterfeit science is being exposed -- including by clear-eyed believers -- as the superstitious mumbo-jumbo that it is.
As Senator Moss's blatant disregard for religious liberty puts beyond doubt, the push to re-define LGBT status as a protected class isn't about expanding freedoms for LGBT people: it's about taking away the freedoms of religious believers who refuse to deny what we all know about the facts of life.


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"riffraff, riffraff, you make me laugh, riffy riffy, I'll be there in a jiffy"
LMAO !!! Someone should send him these lyrics...my life would then be complete!
Our Edge is so tiny!
One of my favorite threads. . . Boom Cha (or Boom Baby as we love to call you) thank you for starting this.
Haha! If you dare go down to the woods today and find TalkU2, that's the kind of banter you'll discover!
There would be no U2 without any of them. Without Bono they would have no voice or image, without The Edge they wouldn't have their sound or their heart and their soul, without Larry they wouldn't have their pretty boy and the band would have never been founded, and without Adam they would have no funk and no rockstar.
UPDATE: These guys did a great job at the Grammys as well just a few days ago. Long Live U2!


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Kylie Minogue, Photo Ros O'Gorman
Kylie's Magical Proms Experience
by Music-News.com on September 12, 2012
Kylie Minogue has described headlining the BBC Proms in the Park event on Saturday (08.09.12) as a "magical" experience.
The 'All The Lovers' hitmaker headlined the concert in London's Hyde Park, which was part of the annual Proms end of season celebrations, and she admits she loved every minute of it.
She tweeted after the concert: "#lovers I still can't get over last night @bbcproms. It was magical. Thanks to all involved (sic)"
Kylie performed her hits such as 'On A Night Like This' and 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head', accompanied by the Royal Choral Society and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Richard Balcombe.
Tenor Alfie Boe and vocal group Il Divo also sang at the event, held in tandem with the 'Last Night of the Proms' at the Royal Albert Hall.
The traditional closing concert at the Royal Albert Hall featured such flag-waving favourites as Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance' and Sir Hubert Parry's 'Jerusalem', and it was screened live to events up and down the UK.
The 118th Proms season began on 13 July and included performances of all nine Beethoven symphonies by Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
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Tagged as: Alfie Boe, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Proms, Daniel Barenboim, Elgar, Il Divo, Kylie Minogue, Richard Balcombe, Royal Albert Hall, Sir Hubert Parry
Queen Could Have A UK No 1 … And We Mean Queen Elizabeth, Not Queen then Band
A new version of 'God Save The Queen' by Sarah Brightman and Alfie Boe could give Queen Elizabeth II a number one in the UK in coming weeks.
New Music Releases for 18 January 2019
Major new titles coming this week from: Papa Roach, Arch Enemy, Joe Jackson, Daniel O'Donnell, Alice Merton, For King & Country, Future, Christina Perri, Thunder, Ashley McBride, Mike Posner, James Blake, Maggie Rogers, Steve Mason, Alfie Boe, Switchfoot, and Cub Sport.
Michael Ball And Alfie Boe To Tour Australia In October
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will tour 'Together' in Australia in October.
Kylie Minogue To Sing At Birthday For Old Lady On $5 Note
Kylie Minogue has been chosen to perform at the 90th birthday party of the old lady on Australia's $5 note.
Gary Barlow To Host Queen's Jubilee Concert
Gary Barlow has been announced as the host of Queen Elizabeth II's Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace next week.
Phil Manning of Chain
Boom Crash Opera
Crosses †††
The Rubens
The Angels – No Secrets
Steve Poltz
Richard Clapton
Guy Pearce – Golden Heart


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For a next-level original artist, performer and style icon, Lady Gaga became engaged in a surprisingly conventional way. On Valentine's Day her actor love Taylor Kinney (star of Chicago Fire) proposed with a diamond ring, and they celebrated the engagement by dining in the New York restaurant owned by Gaga's family. But the ring he offered was both completely unique and incredibly romantic: A dazzling heart-shaped diamond atop a band featuring the letters T and S and a heart symbol spelled out with diamonds (as you might know, Gaga's real name is Stefani).
A heart-shaped diamond stands on its own, and the timeless 2mm Comfort Fit Ring is an elegant way to showcase its beauty. Rose gold adds to the unabashedly romantic effect.
The symbolism of a Celtic Love Knot Ring, which features "knot" designs to represent two lives bound in love, gets an added dose of romance with a heart-shaped diamond at its center.
Pavé diamond accents along the shank, as seen in the Petite Shared Prong Diamond Ring, lend a heart-shaped diamond a luxe look similar to Lady Gaga's.
What do you think of heart-shaped diamond engagement rings like Lady Gaga's? Let us know on Facebook or Twitter, or in the comments section!
I myself have a 1 carat heart shaped diamond on my wedding ring. It's the most beautiful shape of all diamonds.
I only wish mine was at least 2 carats.


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PRESS RELEASE: DOH EVCHD CONFIRMS PRESENCE OF DELTA VARIANT IN EASTERN VISAYAS; AIMS TO REINFORCE STRATEGIES AGAINST COVID-19
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Posted on July 30, 2021 by Jelyn Lopez
DOH EVCHD CONFIRMS PRESENCE OF DELTA VARIANT IN EASTERN VISAYAS; AIMS TO REINFORCE STRATEGIES AGAINST COVID-19
Press Release as of July 30, 2021
The Department of Health Eastern Visayas Center for Health Development (DOH EVCHD), thru its Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, received a report from the DOH Central Office's Epidemiology Bureau that of the samples sent for sequencing to the Philippine Genome Center between June and July, ten (10) turned out to be positive for the highly transmissible Delta Variant or the B.1.6.1.7 lineage first identified in India.
Of the ten individuals who tested positive for the said variant of concern, nine (9) are from Eastern Samar– one (1) from Arteche, five (5) from Borongan, three (3) from Can-avid, and one (1) from Tacloban City. Although all have already recovered, the Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit of DOH EVCHD is conducting an investigation for forward and backward tracing. This is to determine the source or origin of transmission and determine the extent of transmission in the area. All are considered to be local cases because there were no recorded travel history outside the region amongst them. Active monitoring and surveillance is being conducted to gather more data about these cases in the areas mentioned.
According to researches conducted about the contagious Delta variant, it is 40-60% more transmissible than the Alpha variant and three times more transmissible than the original SARS-COV-2 virus where one case can infect eight people. It seems to be deadlier where even younger ages develop severe diseases and may appear worse when the healthcare system is overwhelmed. Also, it has a longer duration of infectiousness with a faster time to becoming infectious from time of exposure where even less than fifteen minutes of contact from an infected person, the virus can already transmit. It is highly contagious even when asymptomatic.
The DOH EVCHD clarifies that the samples being sent to the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) for sequencing are identified from areas with clustering of COVID-19 cases within a period of time. The samples are sent after a thorough study and analysis by the Surveillance Unit while the identified case is still active in the region. After which, the agency awaits results from PGC within 2-3 weeks, or a month at most, due to restrictions in the testing capacity of PGC, as it caters samples from all over the country.
Moreover, the purpose of whole genome sequencing is to guide the overall strategies of the respective local government units and not for individual case management. The samples sequenced are already COVID-19-postive regardless of the variant. Therefore, management and treatment of these cases should remain the same. All necessary health measures should be implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community.
"Prevention is our best bet in stopping COVID-19," Dr. Marc Steven Capungcol, Head of RESU-HEMS, reminds the public as each has a role to play to contain the transmission and follow the strategies of the Minimum Public Health Standard and added that "this is the only universal and effective protocol against any kind of variant of concern."
With the establishment of the local transmission of the Delta variant in the region, a swifter implementation of response strategies must be reinforced. Dr. Exuperia B. Sabalberino, Regional Director of the DOH EVCHD, specified that there needs to be an individual-based and community-based responses against COVID-19 or any kind of variant of concern in the region. For the individual, one must live with and practice the Minimum Public Health Standards, must observe and embody the agency's BIDA Solusyon Plus advocacy. "B – Bawal walang mask; I – I-sanitize ang mga kamay. D – Dumistansya ng isang metro; and A – alamin ang totoong impormasyon; and Plus – suportahan ang FDA-approved bakuna."
On the other hand, local government units must immediately contain observed case increases through necessary quarantine classifications and stronger implementation of the PDITR strategies- Prevention, Detection, Isolation, Treatment, and Reintegration. Both public and private sectors are asked to ensure active case finding, aggressive contact tracing, immediate isolation or quarantine, and compliance to minimum public health standards in their respective localities and even workplaces. All LGUs are reminded to intensify the vaccination drive in the community and strictly follow the Prioritization Framework set by the government in order to protect the most vulnerable while efforts are continued for everyone to get vaccinated. All vaccines work against COVID-19. The public is asked to get vaccinated- register and coordinate with your respective LGUs for masterlisting and schedule in order to get the maximum protection against the severe form of COVID-19. As Dr. Sabalberino said, "none of us is safe until everyone is safe."


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The Rails Rumble is a distributed programming competition where teams of one to four people, from all over the world, have 48 hours to build an innovative web application, with Ruby on Rails or another Rack-based Ruby web framework.
The original team ("BAMF") that signed up included me, Levi Rosol, and Brandon Ruschill. Brandon had to drop out at the last minute, but Brad Angelcyk came on board to work on a mobile app.
To align with an API that we are developing at Goodsmiths, we decided to build a simple site for rating handmade goods called Craft or Crap. It was intended to be a tongue-in-cheek homage to HotOrNot.com — the interface was especially influenced by the old HoN site.
Team BAMF consists of three dudes who wanted to knock the socks off of the world with their code slingin', keyboard rockin', dubstep kickin' kind of ways. We have Eric Heikes from Goodsmiths on front end, Brad Angelcyk from Automattic on mobile, and on the rear, Levi Rosol from Goodsmiths on backend. These dudes are certainly BAMF in every sense of the phrase, in a nerdy kind of way.
Craft Or Crap is a project hatched during the Rails Rumble 2012 event and is intended to highlight the use of existing APIs within e-commerce applications, specifically within the handmade goods market.
The site is also intended to provide a solution for a problem within the handmade marketplace; promoting items of very high quality and weeding out unappealing items.
Because the data collected within this experiment is anonymous, the intent is for said marketplaces to have complete access to the data in aggregate. We feel the data provided within Craft Or Crap will help the source marketplaces provide better service and more value to their users.
As a first step for building the application, team BAMF needed to find data. The only two handmade goods marketplaces to offer an API are Goodsmiths and Etsy. With a little finesse, the team was able to aggregate data from both marketplaces into a single dataset to be used as the basis of the Craft Or Crap website.
Being a team of developers, design was tough during the event. Twitter Bootstrap was used to get the initial front-end in place. Various changes were made, but primarily the design consists of small tweaks that the team felt worked well for the purpose.
You can check out all of the Rails Rumble entries on the website, or just the winners.


I did it. Despite having to decipher different and conflicting translations of the pattern and some vague instructions, I did it. Watching the youtube videos helped immensely along with my previous knowledge of crochet. I need to remember to put my notes into my project.
Just looking at it causes me to choke up a little. Tonight we had the rehearsal for Danica's wedding and I had the tears down pat. It's all going to so beautiful and so very Danica.
It's not traditional but still so very wonderful. My daughter is going to be wearing something that I made and I'm so humbled by that thought.
I was so heartbroken when I lost Keaton back in March. I knew I would eventually get another cat, one always seemed to find me. I waited and waited and no strays waltzed into my life. This is odd. I have always, and I mean always had cats. Before now the longest I'd been without one was from the time I moved to Utah to a couple of months after I got married. There was always someone with free kittens within easy reach, or a stray found behind a dumpster at someone's work, or a cat wandering on to the property but it's been months.
I finally decided it was time to go looking and where better to look than at the local shelter. I had put off going because I knew I was going to be a mess because I couldn't take them all home. While I was looking over the pictures on their website I came across a calico described as shy and who had been given the name Danica.
I had to go look. I screwed up my courage. I skipped the mascara. I grabbed the tissues and went.
Oops, she's cuddled up with a friend. They didn't come into the shelter together but made friends while there. This is okay, two adult cats, I'm not opposed to having two cats and they're already friends.
I went out to fill out the paperwork to find that the formerly empty display cages in the reception area were suddenly filled with several tiny, fluffy kittens.
Well played, animal shelter, well played.


Transport for London says that its contactless card payment system is proving a huge success – but that many customers are embracing smartphone payments as the next step of the initiative.
Since its introduction six months ago, payments for travel via contactless credit and debit touched gate sensors have soared in popularity, with 500,000 journeys each day paid for in this way.
However, support for mobile payments is "live" according to TfL's Director of Customer Experience Sharma Verma. Customers with the ability to use their smartphones to pay for journeys are gradually making the switch.
"This milestone for TfL shows just how quickly consumers have taken to contactless in London," commented Scott Abrahams, group head of acceptance and emerging payments at MasterCard UK and Ireland.


Every day, Roberta's disabilities present challenges that she must overcome. However, she does not let these challenges prevent her from living independently in her own home.
In 1997, Roberta began losing her vision due to diabetes. She worked up until she could no longer drive, and she is now legally blind.
"When you've had sight and you have to adapt to losing it, it's really hard," Roberta said.
Roberta also suffers from neuropathy, which causes numbness in the hands and feet. She has no feeling from the knees down and doesn't have much feeling in her fingers. She has been in a wheelchair since 2003.
Despite all these challenges, Roberta can remain independent in her home with help from JEVS Financial Management Services (FMS), which allows adult disabled individuals in the state of Delaware to self-direct their own attendant care at home. Through FMS, Roberta was able to hire her husband, Brian, to be her care worker for 30 hours a week.
Brian helps Roberta with everything from bathing and meal preparation to checking her blood sugar and making sure she takes her medication.
In addition to having Brian's help, Roberta now has a new 7-week-old puppy named Baylee who will be trained to be her service dog. Since Roberta has trouble seeing and tends to drop things, Baylee can alert Roberta of objects that are in the way and help with picking things up. Baylee will also be able to detect when Roberta's blood sugar level is high or low.
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We Have Sacrificed Our Constitutional Freedoms to Fight a Virus; Will We Ever Get Them Back?
By streiff | 8:00 AM on April 06, 2020
AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus
Shoppers visit a Costco Wholesale in Tigard, Ore., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, after reports of Oregon's first case of coronavirus was announced in the nearby Oregon city of Lake Oswego on Friday. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
Smarter people than me have noted over the years that totalitarianism always arrives wearing a smiley face. Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." I fear we are on the cusp of totalitarianism taking root in America and it has not come on the strength of $100,000 in Facebook ads bought by a Russian troll farm. It has been propelled here by a virus that most likely represents an interspecies jump of an everyday virus from some pre-soup bat at a live market in Wuhan, China, to a human.
The extent to which the government, at all levels, driven on by the frenzied bleating of our national media has used this virus to lay siege to our civil liberties has been nothing short of astounding. The degree to which Americans have gone along with this slow-motion revolution has been shocking.
Ridiculous shelter-in-place orders are zealously enforced:
Parking lots at Ashbridges Bay and Woodbine Beach Park are closed. Vehicles parking within park could be subject to a fine and/or tow. #COVID2019 @TPS55Div pic.twitter.com/UhtUxuAYGW
— Jesse Weeks (@TPSSgtWeeks) April 5, 2020
Seriously…stay home.
Two visitors from Fremont decided that Shelter in Place did not apply to them, claiming "it is not that serious."
WRONG ANSWER. To help them understand, we cited for driving car on Cowell's beach & not #SIP per the Order. Fine up to $1000. #SantaCruzPolice pic.twitter.com/6kBH3QQcnK
— Santa Cruz Police (@SantaCruzPolice) April 2, 2020
New rule means possible $1000 fine for playing football, Frisbee at beach. http://t.co/HI8EmcrZ LA county also bans digging deep sand holes.
— Yahoo (@Yahoo) February 9, 2012
PUBLIC SAFETY ORDER AND DIRECTIVE – CURFEW
Esmeralda Moya, Mayor pic.twitter.com/ty6JOZ8STj
— City of Galena Park (@CityGalenaPark) April 5, 2020
City ordinances are forbidding the sale of merchandise in otherwise open stores based on bureaucratic whim:
DENVER — It's an unprecedented move in uncharted times: big chains like Target and Walmart are seeing non-essential aisles roped off in Summit County. https://t.co/GhEV8Lflll
— april clark (@aprillynnclark) March 29, 2020
Pastors have been arrested for holding services:
This is the face of tyranny.
Hillsborough Country Sheriff @HCSOSheriff arrests a Tampa Bay pastor for holding Sunday services.
Listen to this authoritarian thug smugly justify.
By the way, the "orders" by the President and CDC are just recommendations and have no force of law. https://t.co/EWK6V4qXu9
— Mark Pantano (@TheMarkPantano) March 30, 2020
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has threatened to permanently close any church that holds services.
The use of the word "permanently" transforms this from the realm of potentially defensible short-term measure into the realm of profound malice and disgrace. https://t.co/HqZjHHy9Q3
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) March 29, 2020
Senior officials openly muse about their fantasies of a nationwide shelter-in-place order.
Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested the federal government should impose a nationwide stay-at-home order to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the United States https://t.co/nX8TMI4Lc5
— POLITICO (@politico) April 3, 2020
And attempts are made to shame Americans into submission:
Dr. Birx: Our data makes clear that not every American is following the CDC guidance, inhibiting/delaying our ability to bend the national curve.
Follows this with a call to action: Effectively, get with the program. Now.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 2, 2020
The official government slogan of 30 Days to Slow the Spread has been in effect for 32 days, as of today, and shows no signs of an end in the near future.
Don't be deceived. We will not be allowed to return to the status quo ante after this bug is just part of the ecosystem any more than Germany was allowed to return to the status quo ante after Marinus van der Lubbe kept his appointment with the fallbeil. We have been fundamentally changed as a nation.
This pandemic has shown that our government not respect civil liberties or recognize any concept of personal agency. The First Amendment, which guarantees our right to peaceably assemble, has been absolutely shutdown by politicians and bureaucrats declaring that it was illegal to do so. It is no more permissible to forbid people from going to the beach because of some inchoate and ill-defined risk to themselves than it is to prevent them from holding political rally…something which would also be forbidden. This is power that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon never dreamed of exercising during the height of the Vietnam War protests and the "Days of Rage."
If churches are locked, with the complicity of their clergy based upon government fiat and pastors are arrested for holding church services (sadly, no Catholic priests have yet stepped forward to do their duty to their flocks in the face of the obeisance of their hierarchy to Caesar), then freedom of religion has been defined down to a personal hobby from a human right in a way that Barack Obama could never have dreamed.
If a mayor can forbid a store to sell merchandise because of Wuhan virus, then he or she can forbid a store from selling merchandise for any other 'public health crisis.' And let's be serious here, the limiting of merchandise that can be sold has zero to do with transmission of the Wuhan virus and everything to do with government staking out its right to control your life. Once you are in the store, your risk of spreading or contracting the virus neither increases nor decreases based upon the goods you buy any more than a 9 p.m. curfew keeps you safe.
And this is the start. The people pushing this are watching and observing and taking notes and are very happy with what they see.
The course of action charted by the federal and state governments here have inflicted hardship all out of proportion to the damage potential of the virus. And they have done it in a way that guarantees we go through this again in November. Widespread infection, when some 80% of everyone catching the virus recovers completely with few or no symptoms would build the herd immunity we need to render the Wuhan virus irrelevance. The social distancing nonsense simply preserves a large population with no immunity that will be as susceptible to the virus in the autumn as it is now and give rise to yet another round of social controls. (Amazingly, in short, we've devastated the economy and spent trillions of dollars and sacrificed our liberties and our birthright and we have nothing to show for it, not even the proverbial mess of pottage.)
Now that government knows that it can do this and that our elites and our media will stand idly by…along with the great mass of the citizenry as well…as precious liberties are sacrificed on the altar of ephemeral fear, fear will be our constant companion as government refuses to give up its newly won power.
Former infantry officer, CGSC grad and Army Operations Center alumnus.
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Scandals rock some of the highest offices, largest corporations and most sacred institutions. Can we restore integrity to leadership? I was asked to share my thoughts on this subject at the Annual World Future Society, July 19th, 2003 in San Francisco. I chose to talk about "moral leaders vs. immoral society"–how do we tackle "wicked messes." See my slides.


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Ballykinlar History Hut Project
New report - Downpatrick Community Excavation
New exhibition - Heydays and Holidays
New Exhibition - When We Were Young
Archaeological Dig on Cathedral Hill
Award for Down County Museum
Down at the Races: the story of horse racing in County Down
Ernest Elliott: Faces of the Lough
Saul Pottery: The Ceramics of Willie Taggart
Ballykinlar History Hut Engagement Project Launched at Down County Museum
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council is gearing up to launch an activity-filled public engagement project relating to the Ballykinlar History Hut, with a special launch event at Down County Museum between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 29 September.
The 'Ballykinlar History Hut' Roadshow will be a great opportunity for families to explore history, with the chance to handle historic objects and artefacts, and hear their stories. Visitors will also have an opportunity to dress up and have their photograph taken using green-screen technology which will transport them back in time, creating a high quality souvenir photo to keep.
As well as getting involved in craft activities, visitors will be able to see how cutting-edge 3D and virtual reality technologies are generated, and will be able to try out a 3D walkthrough experience.
The project, which is supported by the European Union's PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB), will run from November 2018 to June 2019. The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen's University has been appointed by the Council to involve the local community and record stories about individuals who occupied Ballykinlar Camp during the period 1899-1950. Their work will focus on the years 1914-21, which are now being commemorated as part of the Decade of Centenaries. In autumn 2019, a 60ft by 20ft Armstrong Hut will be recreated in every detail in the Museum.
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council Chairman, Councillor Mark Murnin said, "This strong community engagement programme will be key to providing opportunities for sustained, meaningful and purposeful connections between individuals and groups of different backgrounds on a cross-border basis. The activities planned for the participants at the roadshow and during the coming months are going to be an exciting experience. Who knows what incredible human stories will be unlocked by the 'History Hut' project."
At the launch event, light refreshments will be served followed by talks about different aspects of the project for those who wish to learn more. Project coordinators will be on hand, asking for stories relating to soldiers, internees and refugees in particular, who are known to have been in the Camp in the first half of the 20th century, and hope to make new connections on the day.
The coordinators will also be encouraging people to sign up to participate in a whole range of free activities and trips, which will take place between November 2018 and June 2019. These will include visits to Ballykinlar Camp, the Somme Centre, Cavan County Museum, the Curragh and Kilmainham Gaol.
Match-funding for this project has been provided by The Executive Office in Northern Ireland and the Department for Rural and Community Development in Ireland.
© Down County Museum | The Mall, Downpatrick, County Down, BT30 6AH | +44 (0)28 4461 5218 | mail@downcountymuseum.com | Access to Council Information


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"Government Stole Our Water": US Farmers Ready for Standoff with Feds in Drought Irrigation Crisis, Expect Right-wing Militia Help
By RT News
Global Research, June 18, 2021
RT News 15 June 2021
Theme: Environment, Law and Justice
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Outraged farmers threatened to disrupt a federal order to stop the flow of irrigation water from a lake amid a severe drought in the US state of Oregon. They warned that right-wing militias will back them in case of confrontation.
Farmers are protesting because they own the water in the Upper Klamath Lake, farmer Dan Nielsen told RT's Ruptly video agency. He stood outside an American flag-colored tent that was set up next to the canal headgates, which control the flow of irrigation water from the lake.
"It's ours and the federal government actually just stole it. No due process of law, no compensation," Nielsen said, adding that federal officials had violated the locals' property rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.
Protesters brought signs saying "Water for Farms" and "Open the Gates. No Water. No Food. No Life."
They spoke about releasing the water themselves if the government does not back down. "If they don't budge… I think we're just going to end up taking it," Nielsen said. "It's the only way the government gets it." In order to avoid confrontation, officials must let farmers use the water for their crops or purchase the land from the farmers, he said.
The US Bureau of Reclamation closed the canal last month, saying that due to the extreme drought there was not enough water left for it to operate properly. The bureau also said that releasing the water will threaten the endangered species of salmon that inhabit the lake. The fish have agricultural and spiritual significance to the Native American tribes who live upstream.
According to local media, thousands of farmers on the Oregon-California border were left without a steady water supply after the closure of the canal. Klamath Irrigation District president Ty Kliewer said that "the impacts to our family farms and these rural communities will be off the scale."
An outraged Nielsen and another farmer, Grant Knoll, purchased a vacant lot near the federal waterway, where they set up a tent dubbed 'Water Crisis Info Center'. Protesters told Jefferson Public Radio (JPR) that they had teamed up with People's Rights, a group founded by well-known conservative militia leader Ammon Bundy.
They showed JPR a text conversation with Bundy and said the militiamen will get a heads-up when the farmers make their move. "I'm planning on getting DC's attention," Knoll told JPR this month. "We're going to turn on the water and have a standoff."
The Bundy family first became famous for their 2014 armed standoff with the US government in a dispute over grazing fees. Two years later Ammon Bundy led a group of militiamen that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge office in Harney County, Oregon.
The occupation ended with FBI agents giving chase during which one militiaman was killed and Ammon Bundy's brother, Ryan Bundy, was wounded. The brothers were later acquitted in the case that stemmed from the refuge office takeover.
Ben DuVal, a farm owner and president of the Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA), told Ruptly that the situation on the ground has been getting tense because the lack of water hurts not only farmers, but also businesses in the city of Klamath Falls. "Farmers like myself are looking at basically zero irrigation water this year."
DuVal said the protesters were "doing a good job of bringing some enthusiasm and some awareness to this issue." At the same time, he stressed that the protest must remain peaceful. "I don't want anything to happen at the headgates that is going to reflect poorly on our community."
KWUA previously released a statement condemning the decision to stop releasing the water from Upper Klamath Lake, with DuVal calling it a "failed experiment that has produced no benefit for the [fish]."
Klamath Tribes Chairman Don Gentry acknowledged that the severe drought has "really put us at odds" with the farming community. "The agriculture folks… often too referred to [the lake] as 'reservoir for our folks', which is kind of strange because it has been here forever; they are using it like a reservoir," he said.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown, who declared the Klamath Basin a drought emergency area in April, urged everyone to remain peaceful while the state government was "doing everything we can" to help those affected by the extreme weather.
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Basaseachic Falls tumbles over 800 feet (245 meters) into an unspoiled canyon in a sight that, for me at least, was simply inspirational.
Creel in Chihuahua's Copper Canyon region provides the center of a great vacation or even long week-end from the U.S. Southwest. Particularly fun if you take a sports touring motorcycle as I did.
The Copper Canyon Railroad ride is one of the world's most scenic. From the U.S. you should be able to contact Mexico by Rail at 800-228-3225.
Thanks for the picture to The Bird and Esteban Turati.


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Rebooted – A Quick Catchup
We've been out of commission for a while now, and we're endeavoring to get back to it.
With that, we've added some functionality to the website, including a chat function, forums, and social groups and activities as well. We're expanding our coverage to include more news, reviews, and we're starting to look at video games as well. We're trying to make this website a stopping point for gamers of all kinds, whether they get their fun from the tabletop, the video screen, or both!
In this episode, Ethan, Nathan, and Jeremy talk about what they've been doing the last few months - and get into some of what they want to accomplish with the show from this point out. Expect a lot of new and cool stuff as the weeks progress.
In the meantime, please take your time to play around with the new bells and whistles on the website!
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Episode 107 – After Dark
Recorded a while ago and Ethan forgot to post this ... ah, the busy life.
Ethan, Jeremy, and Noah test some new equipment and talk about what they've been up to.
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5Feb/140
No, you're not seeing things. Jeremy and Ethan decided to get an episode out the door while Nathan and Noah weren't available. So, this being the landmark episode where they didn't have Nathan around, Ethan and Jeremy talked about all kinds of things that would likely make Nathan mad ...
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Gamer's Haven Episode 90 – News, Reviews, and More 5th Edition
No, we're not dead, just busy.
We tackle this episode with some more freestylin' and hit up some news, reviews, and chat a bit more about 5th edition. It's an aimless episode, but we needed to get together to record, and it's been two months ... life has been busy.
In the Three Parter, Jeremy reviews the new D&D supplement, Player's Option: Heroes of the Elemental Chaos, Ethan takes a look at the new DC Adventures/Mutants & Masterminds book, Heroes & Villains Vol. 2, while Nathan (and Ethan and Jeremy) talk a bit about What They're Into ...
We wrap things up with a few Random Encounters!
Running Time on this Episode is 137 minutes.
About D&D Player's Option: Heroes of the Elemental Chaos
Masters of fire and earth. Lords of air and water. This tome is the definitive sourcebook for creating and playing characters with ties to the Elemental Chaos and the primordial beings that dwell there. It shows how the elements can influence heroes of the natural world and presents elemental-themed character options for players.
In addition to discussing elemental power and presenting new character themes with strong story hooks, this book includes new class builds -- including the elementalist and the sha'ir -- and new feats and paragon paths designed to tie existing characters more closely to the Elemental Chaos.
About DC Adventures Heroes & Villains Vol. 2
The DC Universe features a dazzling array of characters who have thrilled readers for generations. The two-volume Heroes & Villains set details more than 500 of those characters for use in your DC Adventures games, all featuring character stats fully compatible with the award-winningMutants & Masterminds RPG. Vol. 2 picks up where Vol. 1 left off, covering characters from the League of Assassins and Legion of Super-Heroes to Zatanna and Zauriel. With Heroes & Villains in-hand, you will never lack for characters to use in your game, from heroic guest-stars and villainous foes to heroes suitable as ready-to-play characters. You'll also have a comprehensive guide for modeling your own DC characters based on existing examples along with a collection of animals and monsters useful for mimics and shapechangers. It's the comprehensive guide to the heroes and villains of the DC Universe no fan should be without!
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One Shots – D&D 4th Edition Dark Sun: It's Always Sunny in Athas
In this redux of a KantCon game session, Ethan, Nathan, and Jeremy and some others get the chance to finally play some Dark Sun!
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Gen Con 2011 – Hunter's Books and Outbreak Undead
Ethan had the pleasure to speak with Ivan Van Norman of Hunters Books, publishers of the hit role-playing game Outbreak Undead (who Ethan interviewed a while back in September 2010). Since then, Outbreak Undead has become a huge hit, and Hunters Books had a few things to announce this year, besides being distributed through Studio 2 Publishing.
This is another installment in a series of short interviews from the floor of Gen Con 2011.
About Hunters Books
Hunters Books and Apparel, In 1999 the Hunter, Vincent St.Clair, came to the United States and was appalled at the lack of preparedness against evil forces. He wanted to make a change in the public knowledge of these threats. With that goal in mind, he and his team of Hunters have developed Outbreak Undead, a Zombie Survival Role-Playing Game with the tag "Your Zombie Survival Plan Will Fail!" and challenges players to prove them wrong. Learn more about our game and visit the "SPEW-AI" stations, where you can create yourself as a character, at our booth. In the days of Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia, information is power, and these men reek of it. While working on the book, they still continue their hunter life, and stalk the shadows of the unknown to this day.
About Outbreak Undead
"Outbreak Undead" is a Zombie Survival Simulation RPG that is not only fun, but an essential step in surviving the Undead. We at Hunters Books have provided the most dramatic, effective, and above all realistic means in which to (safely) simulate the events of a zombie uprising and try your chances at survival!
Included in Outbreak Undead, players will find:
• A simple and unique percentile based combat system
• Everyday items that can be used as weapons! You'll soon find that
anything and everything can be used to destroy the undead.
• Endless scenario types, with the ability to form missions from any and all existing zombie lore and fan-fiction
• Easy-to-use charts that can be used to customize outbreak scenarios for players of all levels of experience
• Dynamic rule-sets, designed to turn the game into a simulation,
including realistic factors such as "Panic," "Pain," and "Empathy"
• Character templates for all survivor archetypes, such as firemen, military personnel, and civilians.
The core rulebook of Outbreak Undead consists of a player's guide, a game-master's guide, and a zombie guide. Everything you need to play is contained in one place. The convenience of three books in one!
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Gen Con 2011 – Crafty Games Seminar
While at Gen Con 2011, Ethan made it to the Crafty Games Seminar, detailing what Crafty Games has up its sleeve for the foreseeable future. Hot on the heels of announcing that they are putting out a role-playing game based on Brian Sanderson's Mistborn, Crafty Games has a slew of new stuff they're working on.
This is first in a series of seminar recordings from Gen Con 2011.
About Crafty Games
Crafty Games was founded in 2005 but its roots date back to 2002, with the release of the award-winning Spycraft RPG (now referred to as Classic Spycraft). Alderac Entertainment Group gave three ambitious lunatics with keyboards and a dream the chance to produce a d20-based espionage roleplaying game and the world was never the same. Blending elegant, balanced rules with thrilling, original settings, Spycraft and its many derivatives landed on the gaming scene like a neutron bomb. Sales charts burst into flames, players took to the streets with graffiti campaigns to spread the word, and the designers were pelted with ridiculous gilded awards in the shape of Ursula Andress in that awesome bikini from Dr. No. Well, that last part might be a bit of an exaggeration, but so far no one's disproved it in a court of law so we're sticking to the facts as we know them.
Shortly after the release of the game's second edition, Spycraft 2.0, AEG discontinued most of its RPG lines. This left Spycraft without a home and gave its creators an opportunity to steal it away and make with the happy, happy fun time (read: global domination). Back room deals were brokered and sacrifices were made, and here we are: a band of merry maniacs and a growing army of the coolest, most dedicated fans in the biz, scheming from the shadows. The Blueprint for Tomorrow (tm) is here and soon, yes, very soon, there will be trembling. Could be the world, or more likely us, but trembling will be had. And it will be mighty indeed.
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Gen Con 2011 – Battle Bunker Games
While walking the floor of Gen Con 2011, Ethan had the chance to stop off at Battle Bunker Games, publishers of Dice of the Dead, Please Stand By, and Adventurer's Tiles.
This is the first in a series of short interviews from Gen Con 2011.
About Battle Bunker Games
Battle Bunker Games was founded by Dan Hinkle in 2004 as a retail game and hobby store. In 2006 BBG closed its store front location and moved to online sales and underwent a business restructuring as Dan joined the U.S. Navy, serving four years in Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron Four. BBG is now a small publisher and game design studio.
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Gamer's Haven Episode 85 – KantCon 2011 Awards Ceremony
As with last year, Jeremy and Ethan take to the podium to dole out the awards for KantCon 2011!
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Gamer's Haven Episode 83 – Finding Religion
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
In this episode, we sit down and talk some religion ... in your game, that is. We talk about how you can use religion, both as an abstract, and as a direct motivator, including religious organizations. We touch on using religion in a fantasy setting, and in a contemporary or futuristic setting. In the Three Parter, Nathan reviews Lamentations of the Flame Princess, while Jeremy has a rant on his latest bout with AT&T, and Ethan gives us a shameless plug.
Total Running Time on this Episode is 104 minutes.
About Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Beyond the borders of civilization, beyond the influence of manipulating politicians, greedy merchants, iron-handed clergy, and the broken masses that toil for their benefit, the ruins of ancient civilizations call to those bold enough, and desperate enough, to escape the oppression of mundane life. Treasure and glory await those courageous enough to wrest it from the darkness. But the danger is great, for lurking in the forgotten shadows are forces far more corrupt than even civilization. The price for freedom might be paid in souls.
Buy Lamentations of the Flame Princess from RPGNow
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Deadlands: The Last Sons Chapter One
Happy Holidays from the Gamer's Haven Podcast – 2016 Edition
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terrestrialboy on Gamer's Haven Special Edition – An Interview with Allen Varney
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Confessions of a Movie Snob
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Cook the noodles according to pack instructions, refresh under cold running water then toss in the sesame oil and soy sauce. Cover and place in the fridge to chill. Put the salmon on a plate and sprinkle with the salt. Leave for 20 minutes.
Make the crispy cabbage – remove leaves from the cabbage, cut out any large stalks then roll into a cigar shape and finely shred. Heat the oil in a wok. When it is hot, add the strips of cabbage. Fry for 2 to 3 minutes until frizzled and lightly browned. Remove with a slotted spoon, drain on kitchen towel, then toss together with the salt and sugar.
The salmon should be ready now. Wash off the salt and pat dry. Place all the ingredients for the poaching liquid in a sauté pan, bring to the boil then simmer. Poach salmon fillets for 8 to 10 minutes until firm to the touch. Toss the remaining salad ingredients into the noodles. Divide among 4 bowls and top with the salmon, then the crispy cabbage.


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Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Buchanan. [919-922] Indian relations; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 920 and 943); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serials 919 and 942); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serials 919 and 942); annual report of teh CIA (Serials 919 and 942); including land cessions, Indians in Kansas and Nebraska, Seminole removal, Cheyenne hostilities, Northwestern Indian hostilities, and reports of Supts., agents, and schools; etc.


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On Nov. 11, LUBA Workers' Comp announced the addition of two executives to its leadership team. Luke Blalock was hired as vice president, controller, a new position for the company, and Ryan Inzenga as assistant vice president, underwriting manager. Blalock will oversee accounting and audit departments and work closely with management on financial matters, operational efficiency and strategic growth. Prior to joining LUBA, Blalock spent 12 years with Guaranty Corporation and its subsidiary, Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company. He is a licensed CPA and holds a B.S. from Louisiana State University and an M.S. from the University of New Orleans. Blalock is an active member of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association, having served on Midsouth Chapter's board. Inzenga brings 15 years of workers' comp experience, having worked in Louisiana, New Mexico, Iowa and North Carolina, most recently with Falls Lake Insurance. He received his B.S.B.A from Mississippi College and Executive MBA from the University of New Mexico.
Lane and Associates on Nov. 1 announced the hiring of Don Lundy as a senior underwriter. Lundy, a graduate of St. Leo's University with a degree in computer information systems, has 27 years' experience in the insurance industry, on the retail, carrier and wholesale sides of the business. He recently served as a team lead for CRC Insurance in San Antonio and before that was a vice president/branch manager for IMS/London American in San Antonio. "We are truly honored to have Don Lundy as our first Texas-based underwriter. He brings a wealth of experience from both the carrier and wholesale sides. In addition, he is an excellent fit with Lane & Associates. Don will be a significant catalyst in our continued growth," said Scott Landry, president of Lane and Associates. Lundy can be reached at dlundy@gotolane.com or via telephone at 800-899-1466, extension 112.
Lezlee Liljenberg was appointed to the board of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas on Oct. 18. Liljenberg's service on the board is as a non-public member; she is expected to complete required training in order to assume full duties as a board member by the December meeting. Liljenberg, a retail insurance agent who started her first agency in 2004, is also a real estate consultant, and expert witness. She holds a B.A. in journalism and public relations and a Master's degree in political science and public administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is a self-employed professional financial representative, holding both Series 6 and Series 63 licenses, along with licenses as a property and casualty agent, public adjuster and Texas real estate broker. Her appointment to the SLTX board expires Dec. 31, 2022, as she fills the remainder of a term of Kori Johanson, who resigned from the board last May.
James "Jim" Sparks, 83, who retired from the insurance industry several years ago, died at home on Sept. 23. While Sparks served a stint in the army and graduated from Texas A&M, most of his career was in the insurance business. He served as the marketing representative for Charter General Agency in Dallas, then in 1991 joined Texas General Agency as marketing representative for central Texas, where he remained until his retirement in 2005. Since then, Sparks volunteered with his church, St. Matthew's Episcopal, and as an unofficial greeter at an active senior citizen facility. Sparks is survived by his wife, Diane, two sons and two grandsons. "Sparky was a great person who will be missed dearly by all who knew him and worked with him," said Saul Garcia, Burns and Wilcox, who worked with Sparks at Texas General Agency.
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The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National African American Insurance Association is accepting applications for its annual scholarship program from minority high school seniors interested in pursuing insurance as a career, as well as currently enrolled minority college students majoring in risk management, insurance, business , math, finance, accounting or engineering. Winners will be announced in February and formally recognized at the NAAIA-DFW luncheon on March 3. Award amounts range from $1,500 to $2,500. Along with a completed application, candidates must submit transcripts, an essay, two letters of recommendation and proof of enrollment in a two or four-year university. The deadline to apply is Jan. 18. For more information, contact naaiadfw@gmail.com.
The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas will host its 59th Annual Joe Vincent Management Seminar in person at the Renaissance Austin Hotel on Jan. 30-Feb 1. Sunday's events include an ELITExas workshop on developing talent and optimizing performance. Monday morning's sessions feature Steve Harvill, on concepts and strategies for success, and Commissioner of Insurance Cassie Brown. The afternoon offers several concurrent activities in best practices, employment law, industry update and mergers and acquisitions, with speakers Ann Price, partner in the Boulette Golden and Marin law firm; Lee Loftis, IIAT's chief legislative officer; Regan Ellmer, IIAT's director of government affairs; Jay Thompson, partner in Thompson Coe, and Carey Wallace, president of Agency Focus. Tuesday morning offerings include a presentation on cyber risk by Robert Anderson, Cyber Defense Labs, and a keynote address by Vanessa Van Edwards, author of Science of People. Cost is $395 for members, $525 for nonmembers. IIAT's special group rate at the hotel is $209 per night, with a deadline for room reservations on Jan. 8. Online registration is available.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released a new analysis of how cybersecurity risks impacted the U.S. insurance market in 2020. The report shows a cybersecurity insurance market of roughly $4.1 billion, with a premium increase of 29.1 percent from the prior year. In addition, insurers writing stand-alone cybersecurity insurance products reported approximately $2.58 billion in direct written premiums, and those writing cybersecurity insurance as part of a package policy reported about $1.49 billion in direct written premiums. The NAIC also reported a 55 percent increase in health care breaches last year, and a 62 percent increase in ransomware attacks. "State insurance regulators recognize cybersecurity as one of the most important topics for the insurance sector and businesses today," said NAIC President and Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier.
Reuters has reported that the state-level legal cannabis market is expected to exceed $40 billion nationwide by 2026, even though the industry remains illegal by federal law. According to the news service, 60 percent of adults believe that marijuana should be legal for both medical and recreational use. By remaining illegal at the federal level, the industry suffers a high cost of capital and loses federal protections such as bankruptcy, trademarks, and tax deductions. The proposed Clarifying Law Around Insurance of Marijuana (CLAIM) Act by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, would bar federal agencies from penalizing or discouraging a company in the business of insurance from transactions with marijuana-related businesses (MRBs) that are operating in compliance with state and local law. The CLAIM Act, originally introduced in 2019, expressly provides that insurance businesses may not be held liable pursuant to any federal law or regulation solely for engaging in the business of insurance with an MRB. Since 2012, 18 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized adult-use marijuana, while 37 states have legalized medical marijuana.
TWIA
On Nov. 2, the Actuarial and Underwriting Committee of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association voted to recommend to TWIA's board that the association contract with Willis Re for reinsurance broker services and with Aon for catastrophe modeling services. The two firms replace Guy Carpenter who has been providing both reinsurance broker services and cat modeling services for TWIA until the legislature passed a law requiring separation of the two services. In its proposal, Willis Re said it has been representing three of the largest residual markets in the placement of reinsurance since 2010 and it completed a rate study of TWIA and initiated TWIA's data quality project in 2020. Aon's proposal for cat modeling services stated, "(Aon brings) a deep understanding of the underlying science and assumptions within each catastrophe model and (can) provide insight into performance specific to TWIA's portfolio." The committee's recommendation will be considered by the full board when it meets on Dec. 7.
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association policyholders will see a five percent increase in rates reflected on new and renewal windstorm policies effective Jan. 1. Current TWIA policyholders started receiving renewal notices reflecting the new rates by mail on Nov. 1, 2021. This is the first TWIA rate increase to go into effect since 2018. The rate increase was approved by the TWIA board of directors in a 5 to 3 vote at its August meeting and applies to both residential and commercial policies. The vote followed the board receiving a recommendation for a five percent increase from TWIA's Actuarial and Underwriting Committee. In a media release, TWIA stated that, in addition to the rate increase, individual policy premiums may change due to other factors including the amount of insurance coverage and deductible amount selected, changes made to the property since the last renewal, and any optional additional coverages. TWIA also encouraged policyholders to contact their agent and discuss coverage options that can affect premium.
The Research Group of the Texas Department of Insurance has released a report on the trends from 2014 to 2020 of medical necessity dispute resolutions in the Texas workers' compensation system. The report highlights include: Medical necessity disputes are down 52 percent since 2014; 80 percent of disputes involve non-network claims; 98 percent of medical necessity disputes involve pre-authorization denials, and more than 70 percent of the dispute decisions upheld insurance carriers' denials. Average time to resolve disputes is 18 to 20 days. The complete 12-page report is available on Texas Department of Insurance's website.