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PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Circuit Court heard the following cases June 12-18:
In Judge Jason Wharton's Court:
* Darren Petty, 31, in custody, waived extradition to Washington County on a charge of failure to appear.
* Christopher Rowan, 31, in custody for three counts of fraudulent use of an access device and one count of uttering, had his bond reduced to $25,000 surety.
* Joann Kimble, 45, 410 Avery Place, Apt. A3, Parkersburg, was found guilty per plea to a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, methamphetamine, and was sentenced to one to five years with West Virginia Department of Corrections with credit for 40 days.
In Judge J.D. Beane's Court:
* Ryan Dailey, in custody, plead not guilty to the charges of two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of keeping or maintaining a vehicle for the keeping of a controlled substance, and his trial will begin July 23.
* Michael Kerns, 24, in custody for possession with intent to deliver, heroin, had his bond reduced from $50,000 surety to $20,000 surety with the condition of home confinement.
* Roy Tranter, 43, in custody, plead guilty to second-offense driving while revoked for DUI and will be sentenced Aug. 22 at 9 a.m.
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Magistrate Court heard the following cases on June 18:
* Ashley McPherson, 35, 104 Dye Circle, Marietta, was arraigned on a charge of shoplifting and released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.
* Stephen Kaiser, 39, 104 Dye Circle, Marietta, was arraigned on a charge of shoplifting and released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.
* Daniel Hickman, 34, 1342 Lynn St., Parkersburg, was arraigned on charges of third-offense driving while suspended and failure to maintain control. He was a released on a $500 personal recognizance bond.
* Michael Foreman, 38, 513 Hugh St., Parkersburg, was arraigned on charges of obstruction and failure to render information and was released on a $500 surety bond.
* Eric Touvell, 37, 413 Eighth St., Parkersburg, had his preliminary hearing waived on a charge of manufacturing delivering or possession with the intent to manufacture and deliver cocaine, and his case has been bound over to Wood County Circuit Court for grand jury consideration.
* Denver Hoover, 56, 1025 1/2 Lakeview Drive, Parkersburg, had his preliminary hearing waived on a charge of counterfeiting and his case has been bound over to Wood County Circuit Court for grand jury consideration.
MARIETTA — The Washington County Sheriff's Department released the following reports on June 18:
* Deputy Hill, while working the Washington County Jail, began an investigation into a theft complaint filed by inmate David Wiggers. Deputy Hill began the investigation and was able to determine that Kyle Davis approached the area where Wiggers keeps his property and began going through it. Davis left that immediate area with a large blue bag, which he did not previously have. Davis took the bag back to his housing area and other inmates proceeded to go through the bag. Davis refused to cooperate with Deputy Hill. A charge of theft was filed on Kyle Anthony Davis, 23, 104 Riley Drive, Apt. 9, Marietta, through Marietta Municipal Court.
* Deputy McKee responded to the Lake Side Motel, 18850 State Route 60, Waterford, to conduct a welfare check on a juvenile left there overnight. Employees explained the day prior, Roxane Spicer and Cyril C. Pletcher III had rented a motel room. Spicer and Pletcher left yesterday afternoon and it was believed that they had not returned. Spicer and Pletcher left their juvenile son in the room, by himself, with a loaded .22 caliber rifle. Employees stated the child was walking in the parking lot with the rifle and even tried to bring the rifle into the office, however office personnel hurried and locked the door due to concerned about what the juvenile was planning to do with the rifle. Employees allowed Deputy McKee into the room to check on the child, however he was not present. Deputy McKee did view a .22 caliber rifle in plain sight, and it was found to be loaded. The child was then located walking in Beverly. The child gave deputies information on being left in the room and stated the parents allowed him to keep the rifle with him, loaded. The child further stated that the parents stayed at another motel/hotel last evening (which was confirmed) while he stayed in Beverly. Contact was eventually made with Spicer and she came to the Sheriff's Office to meet with deputies. Roxane Rae Spicer, 40, last known address 801 Ferry Street, Beverly, was placed under arrest for endangering children and improperly furnish firearms to a minor. Deputies were unable to make contact with Cyril C. Pletcher III, 39, lask known address 920 Schott Road, Waterford, a warrant was requested for his arrest for endangering children and improperly furnishing firearms to a minor.
The following subjects were processed into the Washington County Jail between June 17 and 18:
* Christopher Allen Peyton, 29, 208 Jefferson Square, Marietta, probation violation, a misdemeanor.
* Jaced Lee Jeffries, 18, homeless, probation violation, a felony.
* Erick Antonio Newborn, 33, unknown, possession of drugs, a felony.
* Derek Douglas Oldfield, 33, Marietta, violation of a protection order, two counts, both felonies.
* Michael Douglas Kenney Jr., 46, 2605 Keffer Road, Stockport, criminal simulation and theft without consent, both misdemeanors.
* Jesse Eugene Stoops, 34, 24500 Mountain Bell Road, Coolville, probation violation, a felony.


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Nurculuk ist eine Bezeichnung für die auf Said Nursî zurückgehende religiöse Reformbewegung in der Türkei. Der Begriff Nurcu (in etwa "Anhänger des Lichts") wird von vielen Anhängern benutzt, jedoch auch von vielen als diskriminierend und als unrichtig abgelehnt.

Anfänge und Ziele der Bewegung
Der Gründer der Nurculuk-Bewegung war der kurdisch-türkische islamische Gelehrte Said Nursi, dessen Tätigkeit in Ablehnung der Reformpolitik Atatürks ab 1923 darauf ausgerichtet war, den Islam wiederzubeleben und mit den Erfordernissen der modernen Welt zu versöhnen. Said Nursi war zu jener Zeit etwa 50 Jahre alt. Dreh- und Angelpunkt war das literarische Schaffen Said Nursis, das ca. 150 Schriften umfasst, die er teils in der Verbannung oder in Gefängnissen in osmanischer Schrift verfasste. Diese Werke wurden von seinen Anhängern kopiert, verbreitet und gelesen. Diese Kopier- und Lektüretätigkeit war die Keimzelle der Nurculuk-Bewegung. Ziel Said Nursis und seiner Bewegung war ein panislamischer Staat mit Mekka und Medina als Zentrum und der Scharia als Rechtsordnung.

Untergruppen der Nur Cemaati

Die erste Abspaltung ereignete sich bereits zu Lebzeiten Said Nursis. Als 1956 der Druck der Werke Said Nursis erlaubt wurde, entschied er, dass diese in Lateinschrift publiziert werden sollten.

Die Mehrheit der Anhänger Said Nursis sammelte sich nach dessen Tod 1960 hinter dem Rat der ağabeys, seiner engsten Weggefährten zu Lebzeiten. Ihre wichtigsten Vertreter waren Zübeyir Gündüzalp, Mustafa Sungur und Bayram Yüksel. Vor allem Mitte der 1960er Jahre und erneut nach dem Militärputsch von 1971 verfolgten staatliche Stellen die Nur-Schüler wegen vermeintlich staatsfeindlicher Aktivitäten, welche nie nachgewiesen wurden. Diese Gruppierung gab ab 1971 die Tageszeitung Yeni Asya (deswegen Yeni Asyacılar), und ab 1977 die Monatszeitschrift "Köprü" heraus. In den siebziger Jahren bekämpften sie den Einfluss des Marxismus in der türkischen Gesellschaft. Sie unterstützten jedoch nicht die Anhänger Necmettin Erbakans Millî-Görüş-Bewegung, da sie deren Politkonzept als undemokratische politische Instrumentalisierung der Religion verwerfen. Nach dem Militärputsch von 1980 wurden ihre Zeitschriften mehrfach verboten, weil sie gegen die vom Militär erlassene Verfassung polemisierten. Die Parteinahme gegen das Militärregime und die Mutterlandspartei von Turgut Özal war jedoch nicht unumstritten. 1990 spaltete sich schließlich die Gruppe der Yeni Nesil (= Neue Generation) um Mehmed Fırıncı von der Yeni Asya-Gruppe ab. Die Neue Generation betreiben einen Verlag und den Radiosender "Moral FM". Ihr Verlag publiziert zahlreiche Romane, Sachbücher und Ratgeber.

Bereits 1980 hatte sich eine Gruppe von Nurcus um den in Erzurum lebenden Mehmed Kırkıncı abgespalten, weil sie den Putsch von Kenan Evren befürworteten. Später unterstützten sie die Mutterlandspartei von Turgut Özal. Generell sind die politischen Vorstellungen dieser Fraktion autoritärer. Ihr steht die Zeitschrift "Zafer" nahe.

Eine große Gruppe von Nur-Schüler um Mustafa Sungur formierte sich zur Gruppe der Okuyucular (= Leser), welche sich selbst als die "klassische Form" der Nurculuk-Bewegung betrachtet. Sie legen das Schwergewicht auf die Lektüre der Schriften von Said Nursi.

Für eine stärker intellektuelle Ausrichtung steht dagegen die Zeitschrift Karakalem.

Daneben besteht eine Vereinigung von Nurcus kurdischer Herkunft, die in Istanbul den Verlag Tenvir Neşriyat betreibt. Da sie die anderen Nurcu-Fraktionen des türkischen Chauvinismus zeihen, sind deren Beziehungen zu ihnen gespannt.

Gülen-Bewegung

Eine Sonderrolle spielt Fethullah Gülens Bewegung, die in den späten 1960er Jahren als lokale Gruppierung in İzmir und Umgebung entstand und ab Mitte der 1980er in andere Teile der Türkei expandierte. Er wird von Wissenschaftlern als bedeutendster Vertreter und zentrale Führungsperson der Schüler Said Nursis betrachtet, obwohl er sich nie als Nurcu bezeichnet hat. Bereits als Kind kam er u. a. durch den einflussreichen Sufi-Lehrer Muhammed Lutfi Efendi mit den Lehren Said Nursis in Berührung. Besonders geprägt wurde Gülen von Said Nursis Reinterpretation des Korans im Lichte moderner Wissenschaft, vom Bekenntnis zur Demokratie und der Verbindung zwischen Vernunft und Offenbarung. Nursis Ideen wurden zu Eckpfeilern von Gülens späteren Lehren und Schriften.

Der Gülen-Bewegung werden hunderttausende Mitglieder zugerechnet, was sie zu einer der größten – wenn nicht sogar der größten – islamischen Bewegung in der Türkei macht. Die Gülen-Bewegung verfügt über hunderte von Unterorganisationen und Kongressen in etwa 50 Ländern.

Der Bewegung Fethullah Gülens wird inner- und außerhalb der Türkei vorgeworfen, eine systematische Unterwanderung der türkischen Polizei und Justiz anzustreben und dadurch einen Staat im Staat errichten zu wollen. Nach dem gescheiterten Putschversuch in der Türkei 2016 wurde die Gülen-Bewegung als Drahtzieher benannt (ohne dass dafür konkrete Beweise vorgelegt wurden), und über 45.000 Militärs, Polizisten, Richter, Gouverneure und Beamte als (wirkliche oder angebliche) Anhänger Gülens verhaftet oder suspendiert.

Nurcus in Europa

Die Nurculuk-Bruderschaft, deren Gesamtleitung in der Verantwortung einer Arbeitsgemeinschaft gleichberechtigter "Brüder" in Istanbul liegt, soll nach eigener Darstellung in 100 Ländern weltweit 10 Millionen Mitglieder haben.
In Deutschland ist die Nurculuk-Bewegung in dem Dachverband Jam'at-un Nur (Islamische Gemeinschaft des göttlichen Lichtes e.V.) mit Sitz in Köln organisiert. Deren Vervierfachung der Mitgliederzahl in der zweiten Hälfte der 1990er Jahre ist auch ein Erfolg Fethullah Gülens, der im Dezember 1994 eine intensive Öffentlichkeitskampagne startete. Nach eigenen Angaben hat sie in Deutschland 120 Medressen. Ähnliche Vereinigungen bestehen in Österreich und den Niederlanden.

In Deutschland werden die Risale-i Nur Schüler und die Nurculuk Bewegung vom Dachverband "European Risale-i Nur Association" vertreten.

Religiöse Praktiken und das Gemeinschaftsleben der Nurcus
Im Mittelpunkt der religiösen Praxis der Nurcus steht die sohbet, eine Zusammenkunft nach dem Abendgebet, bei dem unter anderem aus den Werken Said Nursis (Risale-i Nur) rezitiert wird, die die Wunder des Islam aufzeigen.

Die Nurcus unterhalten zahlreiche Studentenwohnheime, die nach religiösen Prinzipien geleitet werden.

Als Sprachrohr der Bewegung gilt die Tageszeitung Yeni Asya.

Literatur
 Bekim Agai: Zwischen Netzwerk und Diskurs: das Bildungsnetzwerk um Fethullah Gülen (geb. 1941): Die flexible Umsetzung modernen islamischen Gedankenguts, EB-Verlag, Schenefeld 2004, ISBN 3-936912-10-6.
 Cemil Şahinöz: Die Nurculuk-Bewegung. Entstehung, Organisation und Vernetzung, Nesil Verlag: Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-269-620-4 (eine Schrift von einem Vertreter der Bewegung)
 Ursula Spuler: Nurculuk, in: Tilman Nagel (Hrsg.): Studien zum Minderheitenproblem im Islam. Bd. I. Selbstverlag des Orientalischen Seminars der Universität Bonn 1973. S. 100–182.
 Ursula Spuler: Nurculuk. Eine moderne islamische Bewegung. In: Wolfgang Voigt (Hrsg.): XIX. Deutscher Orientalistentag. Vorträge. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977. (= Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Supplement III, 2). S. 1246–1252. Digitalisat
 Ursula Spuler: Zur Organisationsstruktur der Nurculuk-Bewegung, in: Hans-Robert Roemer (Hrsg.): Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des vorderen Orients: Festschrift für Bertold Spuler zum 70. Geburtstag. Brill, Leiden 1981. S. 423–443.
 Martin Riexinger/Bülent Ucar (Hg.): Ein traditioneller Gelehrter stellt sich der Moderne. Said Nursi 1876-1960. V&R unipress, Osnabrück 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0695-1.

Weblinks
 Said-Nuris-Symposium
 Nur Cemaati Links
 Avrupa Nur Cemaati
 Ozan Ceyhun (Hrsg.), Eberhard Seidel, Claudia Dantschke, Ali Yildirim:  (PDF-Datei; 4,13 MB), 2003

Einzelnachweise

Islamische Richtung
Islam in der Türkei
Religion (Kurdistan)

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Gay is the Old Black
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2019, Take a Seat
I'm thinking of 2019 as the year of the bad breakup. It was miserable, endless and painful and yet it had a few high points where you got some revenge and even won several arguments.
No, that's not a particularly healthy way to think. But it is satisfying and harmless if you only indulge at the end of the year. Like a pizza dinner with fries on the side and a chocolate anything for dessert. Or sex with the wrong person.
Yeah, I said it.
No one really wants to look back on a year such as this one but as 2019 comes to a close a handful of moments might be worth remembering. That is aside from teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg taking every one of us over forty out to the virtual woodshed for destroying the planet over the last 30 years.
Some moments are in a class by themselves and have far more meaning than the off year in which they occurred.
And with that:
THE CHAIR'S BEST OF LIST:
The Finger Point Seen Round the World
Say what you will about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi but her total domination of the Electoral College POTUS who thinks He's King in 2019 was one dependable, if sporadic, joy to behold. This was typified by that October still photo Trump tweeted of her dressing down the sort of prez over his Syrian policy with her words AND her finger with the attempted shaming caption, Nervous Nancy's Unhinged Meltdown!
Only he could never imagine she would embrace an image where she was confronting a table full of clueless straight white men who could barely look her in the face, make it her Twitter cover photo and in turn have it embraced as THE symbol of female empowerment and popular resistance to the patriarchy heard round the world.
AND you thought she couldn't top last year's meme of her leaving the White House in that red coat and oversized sunglasses…
The Strangest and Best TV Special that Shouldn't Exist but Does
Netflix's John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch is exhibit A in defense of Netflix because it's hard to imagine it would get green lit by or as widely seen on any other platform in the world.
But how to describe it?
Well, see, there's this smart comic named John Mulaney (Note: Co-creator of SNL's Stefon) who had an Emmy winning Netflix special last year and thought for his fellow-up he'd mix it up with a group of musical theatre pre-teens he gets to sing, dance and emote with in a post-modern remix version of the eighties kids shows Electric Company and Zoom!
This, of course, sells everything about the program way, way, waaaaay short.
Intrigued, confused, weirded out? All of the above.
Suffice it to say any show that features The Talking Heads' David Byrne, Broadway's Andrew De Shields and moviedom's star Jake Gyllenhaal singing along to Mulaney-penned or approved original material with youngsters who have much better voices than they do is worth seeing.
If that doesn't grab you how about a young guy warbling Sascha's Dad Does Drag, another singing, Grandma's Got A Boyfriend or a young woman getting to wear David Byrne's iconic big suit while dueting Pay Attention with him?
What about Jake in a colorful xylophone jacket having a sweaty nervous breakdown as he desperately and unsuccessfully tries to convince us of the places where he is sure music sprang from.
Are you sure I'm not on drugs?
Be honest. You like to watch….don't you?
The Unforgettable Performance
Clang, clang, clang goes the Oscar?
Judy Garland is likely the most imitated performer in the history of show business. Or at least in every gay bar across the world, which is, let's face it, where all of show business sprang from.
That is why Renee Zellweger's incredible performance in title role of Judy, a film that chronicles Garland's final musical comeback towards the end of her life, is such an achievement (see my post about that here).
It's not so much that she delivers a carbon copy imitation. It's more that she manages to evoke the very tremulous essence of the vulnerable performer and turn her into a recognizable brew of strengths and weaknesses that each of us can relate to.
… and she did indeed #tehehe
On paper this might have seemed like a disaster, especially since there is nowhere to hide when half the film is shot in close-ups and two-shots of you either alone or pulling focus from others by just being you (nee Her). That Zellweger manages to pull this off (and then some) in a film that will likely win her the competitive best actress Oscar that eluded the real Judy is sweet. Even sweeter for her is the fact that it has vaulted her right back on top of contemporary Hollywood after the tongue waggers-that-be delighted some years ago in categorizing her as already past her prime before she even turned 50.
Tee-hee. Hee.
Best Shirtless Brad Pitt Moment
He's 56 years old and it was in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. Without CGI. That is all.
Priceless Mean Girls Moment
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French president Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson huddled together at this year's NATO summit dishing Electoral POTUS Donald Trump and it made us ALL feel better about being human.
Oh, OF COURSE NO ONE IS CONDONING GOSSIP OR BITCHY BEHAVIOR!!
Still, Mean Girls was a best-selling book, a hit movie, and a Broadway musical that ran for almost two years and will likely be playing at a city near you in 2020 so there must be something to it.
We all know Regina George would make Electoral POTUS cry.
Sure, the best strategy with a know-nothing bully is not stooping to their level. But we all need to blow off steam, and preferably where they are in close enough proximity to know that you HATE them!!!!
Not to mention, the message must have gotten through. Trump promptly left the summit early just a day later in a huff, knowing he was not wanted.
Wait….you feel bad? Really???????
Because his latest revenge against Trudeau, hot off the presses: Trump and his son, Donald Trump, Jr., tweeting that it was the Canadian Prime Minister who was responsible for Sr's cameo in Home Alone: 2 (1992) getting cut from Canadian television over this year's Christmas holidays.
The best part of this – other than the savory irony of Don, Jr. referring to anyone else as "triggered" – is the reference, in this assault on journalism from bizpacreview, to Home Alone 2 as a "classic 1992 film." https://t.co/YJA8TevE8o
— Ben Mankiewicz (@BenMank77) December 27, 2019
As if!!!
Best Joyous Hate Watching
Will you ever forget…the very first moment in 2019….that you saw…….the trailer to……the movie version of………CATS????
The fake fur, the pointy ears, the strange facial expressions and inhuman semi-sexual gyrations. It delivered everything and more…or less. Universal recently took the historic step of actually announcing that after a week in release it was redoing some of the special effects and issuing new versions of the print to the thousands of theatres it was playing.
Our response to that is: PLEASE DON'T.
Don't change a frame for those of us who are waiting to stream it…along with a side of magic mushr—well, something.
And this just in from the gift that keeps on giving: Dame Judy Dench was only just a handful of days ago quoted as saying her cat, Old Deuteronomy, is…transgender!
Please don't make it stop. Now OR forever.
And finally – THE Prophetic Musical Moment
Taylor Swift was much more than a regrettable 2019 supporting turn in Cats. Sure, her You Need To Calm Down record and video is a song about LGBTQ equality and acceptance. On the surface. But in a sense, isn't it also the overriding message to all of us when we reflect on the entire year and strategize for what's inevitably to come in 2020??
Taylor Swift – "You Need to Calm Down"
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This past week the democratically led House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald J. Trump right out of the Oval Office.
There were seemingly endless hours and days of sober, nasty, angry and all around contentious testimonies, cross-examinations and speechifying none of us could get away from.
Even if you didn't tune in, read about it or experience it via a random social media post/tweet, it was in the air. Try going into any public place and someone, somewhere said something. Or you I thought they did.
Of course, this is merely act one.
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In the next month we have a trial in the Senate that looks to be eerily similar except for the outcome. Since that body has a Republican majority it's likely that all of those legal and ceremonial bickerings will end with Trump exonerated/still in office and both sides of supporters feeling similarly aggrieved.
It's about the only thing we all agree on as a group.
This weekend I watched the new movie about famed children's TV star Mister Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. I watched it on a screener at home because I was so similarly aggrieved that I was too lazy to go out to the movies and too wrung out to actually spend time looking at anything that I even vaguely cared about.
Yeah, I never got the TV show Mister Rogers Neighborhood OR the man himself. In fact, full confession, as a kid he REALLY gave me the creeps.
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The sweater, the monotone, the dumb songs and the STARE into the camera made my skin crawl. It seemed like any minute his red wooly arms would reach through the camera, grab me and then touch me in a place he didn't belong.
Intimacy issues? Trauma? Challenge with trust? Perhaps so or maybe it is all of the above? But, I mean, who didn't in those days? Not to mention, which of us doesn't have at least one of those in these days?
That's why I can only point to current events as the reason why I bought A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a film about a journalist interviewing Mister Rogers in the late nineties, hook line and sinker.
Wait… what?!
Sure, you could argue that the fact the film centered on a jaded, too-smart-for-the room journalist with childhood daddy abandonment issues was what made this cynical, smart-mouthed writer and child of divorce with childhood daddy abandonment issues like it. And you wouldn't be entirely wrong.
But neither would you be even close to being entirely right.
There is nothing less than this writer wants to see than Tom Hanks starring as yet another onscreen heroic character (Note: Particularly in a sweater). In fact, for the first 20 minutes of the film I literally found myself so majorly annoyed and offended I began shouting fuck you out loud to Mister Rogers, the WGA, the screenwriters and anyone else who would listen (Note: My poor dog) for subjecting me to this mess.
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But then at some point something hit me. It was a line from the beginning of the film and I had to pause, then eject and then replay the DVD from the beginning to get the exact quote.
Yes, I shudder to repeat this out of context but it's something…Mister Rogers says to one of his…..ugh……..puppets in the first five minutes. And that is:
Do you know that means, to forgive? It's a decision we make to release a person from the feelings of anger we have at them.
Yeah, I know.
.. and then the Chair's heart grew three times
A purple prose bromide that is just another part of the never-ending Toolkit of New Age Logic.
Not to mention, it's not even original to me. I was a faithful Oprah watcher and to this day I still get O Magazine. Plus, I've literally had decades of therapy where this very issue – and very line – has been covered ad infinitum.
But usually it is in reference to me and my personal issues, not those of national neuroticism and consciousness.
OK.. and well this too
As a left leaning Democrat who used to feel like he was a liberal (Note: Until the last year where I've been yelled at for being what is now considered a MODERATE) well, let's start with I'm angry with everyone and anyone categorizing me as that.
But then there's also:
1- A president who hate tweets a 16-year-old climate activist because he was jealous she got the cover of Time Magazine as Person of the Year instead of him. (Note: And his wife, the faux anti-bullying activist, among other fauxs).
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2- His various enablers, from Congress on down, who don't mind him consistently meeting with powerful Russians, including Putin, on the phone and this week in the White House, and laughing about it even as he's being prosecuted for actions relating to it.
3- Staunch conservative Republicans who turn a blind eye to his attacks on people who have spent their lives trying to defend the freedoms they claim to hold dear (Note: This week it was calling the FBI scum, and last month it was referring to the press as traitors and very bad people)
4- His loyal base of EVERY voter (Note: Whoever they are) who are okay with base insults against every non-white, non-straight or ethnically specific group under the sun from the Oval Office, as long as said base get to watch those who oppose their politics squirm while he throws then a bone on some issue near and dear to their hearts.
I didn't say it — he did!
There are also:
5- The Democrats, liberals, et al, on social media who loathe Trump but rant and rave about how NO ONE but THEIR candidate (Note: Often Bernie Sanders, sorry) will do. This is usually accompanied by endless posts and stories about some failing among the many, many, many others in the Trump-opposing field.
6- The women who are threatening to sit it out if the Dem nominee isn't female, the gays who claim they won't vote until the nominee is queer, the people of color who will willingly stay home unless…..well, you get the picture.
7 – The woke culture that has gotten my students to the point where they are often afraid to write, or even say, anything controversial in class for fear that they might micro-agress/offend.
8- The vitriol, threats and sheer meanness from the top on down, that has turned young people mostly off to politics and given them little faith that they or anyone else can make a difference until this generation of boomers die out and they are able to take control.
Okay, boomer, indeed.
All of this and more has brought me to the point where, in the search for a solution, I actually find myself, all these decades later, turning to….Mister Rogers for comfort????
I draw the line at the puppets though #STILLCREEPY
Well, if that's what it takes, fine, I do forgive them. Trump and his followers, every last one of them. Seriously, I do. I only wish they could forgive whatever they think me and my ilk did to them (Note: This includes all those who now claim the mantle of 2019 liberal).
Mister Rogers, and now I, might be a little naive but at the moment this seems the only solution for any of us in this country to have even a fighting chance.
Mister Rogers – "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" (Opening Theme)
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from . import util
from . import config

def _apply_if_is_alias(vars, func):
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        if hasattr(alias, '__iter__') \
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                and not alias_name.startswith('_'):
            result[alias_name] = func(vars, alias_name)

    return result

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        aliases = util.read_python_file(config.get_data_path('alias.data'))
        _get_aliases.aliases = _apply_if_is_alias(aliases, lambda d, k: d[k])

    return _get_aliases.aliases

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Printed below are self-explanatory emails recently sent by Bill Campbell, retired global safety guru for Royal Dutch Shell Plc. See related article Malcolm Brinded's responsibility for Brent Bravo deaths for more information.
First of a number of submissions- the contents are explained.
Please comment by Monday, if not will state that you and OSDR have been given this info and have raised no moral or legal objections because the info provided is fundamentally accurate.
The other submissions are in chronological order and will be copied to you shortly.
(3) Management Presentation of 1999 Audit Findings by that time accepted in full by the Auditees.
Messrs Donovan and Richmond are witnesses to these communications.
A subsequent email to Trade Unions, Scottish Parliment Justice Committee and the Health & Safety Executive.
Please see attached which covers in some detail the concerns of trade unions, this is copied to the Justice Committee and also the Moncrieff family. Apparently the unions namely STUC and RTU placed reliance on the FAI held in Aberdeen getting at the underlying causes of the death of Keith Moncrieff and the apprentice OT Sean McCue, there was never any possibility of this happening. In fact in an action both repugnant, and morally reprehensible the Offshore Safety Officials namely Taff Powell, David Bainbridge and Tom McClaren purposefully withheld the evidence I passed to them only days after the fatalities on 28 Oct 2003 and again the 2003 follow up material from the Shell internal post fatalities review passed to them on 22 May 2005, months before the FAI commenced in November of that year. To prevent a FAI being held McClaren et all met with the then Fiscal Earnest Barbour where furnished with the red handled screwdriver that was found at the 81m level of the Bravo utility shaft told the Fiscal that this was an open and shut case, no need Earnest for a FAI, Shell working in collusion with OSD had also informed Barbour, who they had been conditioning such that by the time of the FAI he was totally compromised, that my evidence was the ranting and ravings of a disgruntled ex employee and did not merit his attention. The meeting over a cup of tea lasted some 15 minutes where my letter, see attached, was discussed but the evidence provided with the letter, both evidence from 1999 and from 2003 was not passed to the Fiscal. This is NOT contentious, OSD in 2006 confirmed this to be the case in writing. What OSD told the Fiscal is that Keith Moncrieff went into the shaft of 11 Sept, 2003 to repair patch 86 without authority to do so, he didn't have a permit to work, and they thus contributed to their own demise and rather foolishly did not even bother to done their individual self rescue apparatus. I will pass you shortly what happened on that Fateful Day.
Judge for yourself, and you can compare it with the FAI findings and the Sheriff, devoid of help from an expert witness struggling to understand what terms like operations under the Operations Umbrella actually meant. If the Author, who would at the time would have presented evidence against both Shell and OSD but was debarred from so doing, it would have reached a far more detailed and informative conclusion than it did and I am confident would have led to the prosecution of Shell Directors and Managers and also of OSD officials for their criminal misconduct whilst employed by a public authority funded by you and I and whose only role in life was to reduce risks to protect people.
To the Justice Committee, the Moncrieff family have been treated shamefully, the death of their brother covered up by both the them Labour Government, specifically the Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson, and later by the SNP government all to mask from public scrutiny that the investigation into the genuine concerns of workers in 1999, the infamous Touch F-All Policy was halted by the intervention of a government Minister namely Helen Liddell.
No one in the establishment of the secret Society that is modern Scotland wanted you as Trade Unions to be made aware that a Secretary for State for Scotland intervened in the Regulatory process to help out her lover Malcolm Brinded and this action allowed Shell to maintain in office a mentally unbalanced Asset Manager and if the vapour cloud had ignited on the 11th September, 2003 is likely to have caused the total destruction of an offshore installation with 156 persons on board. This is explained in the later attachments.
I would respectfully suggest that the STUC coordinated a response to the information passed to them and take the matter up directly with the Justice Committee. To the committee you are bound by your own doctrine to make a positive difference to the lives of the people of Scotland so I beg you to study the letter sent to Shell and the totally unacceptable reply from the then Justice Minister Matheson. The family are victims of the most atrocious crime and need to be treated as such, including pro bono legal help to take action against the Managers and Directors who failed their brother and his workmates in 2003. I would very much like yet again, I have tried 6 times before, to present this evidence in public to the Committee on behalf of the Moncrieff family.
I am currently abroad and will not return to 23 Dec, I would also welcome opportunity to discuss with STUC executive committee if this is deemed necessary because the evidence is not disputed by Royal Dutch Shell or by OSDR, and in fairness I will add that both the Shell Chairman and the current head of OSDR played no role in this sordid affair.
Attachment supplied with the immediately above email.
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Colin Firth Is Selling Himself to Fight Poverty – Who's Gonna Win?
Don't worry, it's not as racy as it sounds — Colin Firth is auctioning himself off as a date for charity. The Oscar-winning star of 'The King's Speech' is attempting to raise money by selling a chance to meet him on the red carpet and accompany him to an after party.
Not only is Firth a dashing Academy Award winner, he's also a philanthropist and has teamed up with Oxfam America, an organization dedicated to ending poverty. The winner of Firth's auction, and a friend, will meet the star at the premiere of his new movie 'Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy' on December 6, and then be taken by limo to the after party at Chateau Marmont.
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A civilian was injured and a railway station was destroyed as a result of the continued Turkish assault on Afrin area in Aleppo's northern countryside.
The sources said that the shelling injured a civilian who was rushed to the hospital for treatment, in addition to causing extensive damage to homes, properties, and shops, adding that the forces of the Turkish regime targeted the train station in the village of Astir, causing its complete destruction.
The train station in the village is one of the historical landmarks in Afrin area, dating back to 1911, and is one of the railway stations linking Damascus and Aleppo with Turkey.
Meanwhile, medical sources confirmed that the Turkish forces used chlorine gas against al-Mazyna village on Friday, basing their report on samples that were collected in Afrin hospital.


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A team of researchers, which included Dr. Habib Benzian of FDI, Dr. Ann Goldman of the School of Public Health and Health Services at the George Washington University in Washington D.C., Dr. Robert Yee and Dr. Christopher Holmgren, experts to the FDI World Dental Development and Health Promotion Committee, compared the relative affordability of fluoride toothpaste in 48 countries. This study is the first to attempt to quantify the affordability of toothpaste across the globe.
According to the study, fluoride toothpaste is prohibitively expensive for the world's poorest people. Researchers revealed that the poorest populations of developing countries have the least access to affordable toothpaste.
Dental caries remain the most common disease worldwide where the use of fluoride toothpaste is the most effective preventive public health measure. Changes in diets following globalization contribute to the development of dental caries in emerging economies. The aim of this paper is to compare the cost and relative affordability of fluoride toothpaste in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The hypothesis is that fluoride toothpaste is not equally affordable in high-, middle- and low-income countries.
Data on consumer prices of fluoride toothpastes were obtained from a self-completion questionnaire from 48 countries. The cost of fluoride toothpaste in high-, middle- and low-income countries was compared and related to annual household expenditure as well as to days of work needed to purchase the average annual usage of toothpaste per head.
The general trend seems to be that the proportion of household expenditure required to purchase the annual dosage of toothpaste increases as the country's per capita household expenditure decreases. While in the UK for the poorest 30% of the population only require 0.037 days of household expenditure to purchase the annual average dosage (182.5g) of the lowest cost toothpaste, 10.75 days are needed in Kenya. The proportion of annual household expenditure ranged from 0.02% in the UK to 4% in Zambia to buy the annual average amount of lowest cost toothpaste per head.
Significant inequalities in the affordability of this essential preventive care product indicate the necessity for action to make it more affordable. Various measures to improve affordability based on experiences from essential pharmaceuticals are proposed.


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Klahowya product Rory Lee rushed for 209 yards and three touchdowns as Puget Sound(5-4) ended its season with a 49-6 win over Lewis and Clark College in Baker Stadium Saturday.
Lee, an All-West Sound running back after the 2001 season, led the Northwest Conference, comprised of Northwest NCAA Division III schools, in rushing. Lee finished with 991 yards and six touchdowns.
• EASTERN CLINCHES SHARE — No. 16 Eastern Washington clinched a share of the Big Sky Conference title with a 51-44 overtime win over Montana State in Bozeman, Mont. The Eagles (8-3, 6-1) rallied from a 21-point second-half deficit — and a touchdown in the final minute — to beat the No. 23 Bobcats (6-4, 4-2). Receiver Eric Kimble had a big day for the Eagles with 10 catches for 196 yards and three scores. If Montana State beats rival Montana (8-2, 5-1), ranked ninth, next week, Eastern will the conference and the automatic berth into the NCAA I-AA playoffs. EWU, with wins over four ranked opponents, will likely earn an at-large berth.
ALSO: Joel Clark passed for 314 yards and two scores as Whitworth beat Pacific Lutheran 38-35.
— Sun Staff
MSU Win Gives Eagles Playoff Berth
CHENEY Erik Meyer threw two first-half touchdown passes Saturday as Eastern Washington clinched a Division I-AA playoff berth with a 24-7 non-conference victory over UC Davis. With Montana State's 16-6 victory over Montana earlier Saturday, the Eagles (7-4) secured the Big Sky Conference ... [Read More...]
State Roundup No. 12 Eastern Knocks Off No. 2 Montana
MISSOULA, Mont. Washington Grizzly Stadium doesn't hold much of a mystique for Eastern Washington anymore. Erik Meyer passed for 395 yards and five touchdowns Saturday to lead the Eagles to a 34-20 upset of Montana — the Grizzlies' biggest home loss since 1990. Eastern Washington (4-2, 3... [Read More...]
State Roundup Lee Runs Wild in UPS Win
TACOMA Klahowya product Rory Lee gained a season-high 242 yards and scored a touchdown as the University of Puget Sound defeated Colorado College, 38-7 in an NCAA Division III game Saturday. Lee crossed the 1,000-yard milestone and is now just 112 yards short of UPS' ... [Read More...]
Late surge lifts Eastern past Bobcats
SPOKANE -- Eastern Washington scored two touchdowns in the final 2:20 of the game to earn a 34-25 Big Sky Conference victory over Montana State at Joe Albi Stadium on Saturday. Montana State (5-5, 3-2 Big Sky), tied for the conference lead coming into ... [Read More...]
State Roundup Lee Stopped Just Short of Record
Monmouth, Ore. Klahowya grad Rory Lee needed 113 yards Saturday to break the single-season school rushing record at the University of Puget Sound. He ended up with 109 in the NCAA Division III Loggers' (4-5) final game of the season, a 31-15 non-conference loss to ... [Read More...]


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IC² Institute 2019 grant solicitation for research on rural entrepreneurship
The IC² Institute announces a grant solicitation supporting research by UT Austin faculty on the theme "Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Rural and Small City Environments." The submission deadline is March 29, 2019.
The new IC² Institute grant solicitation provides funds supporting research collaborations to tenured and tenure-track faculty at The University of Texas at Austin to accelerate research in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems in rural or small city environments.
IC² anticipates funding six to eight research projects of $100,000 over 24 months in an ongoing effort to stimulate research by faculty across all disciplines at UT Austin focused on key topics of interest to the Institute.
Studies addressing this topic are encouraged from researchers in public policy, social science, engineering and solid science, business, technology, economics, education, arts and culture.
Results from these projects will be presented at an IC² Institute-sponsored conference in spring 2021.
Applications must be submitted online via InfoReady Review (https://utexas.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1782746) by Friday, March 29, 2019. Specific application procedures and submission and reporting requirements are detailed in the RFP.
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Questions? Please contact Gregory Pogue at gpogue@ic2.utexas.edu.
Why rural and small city entrepreneurship?
The sociological and economic gaps between rural and urban communities have grown significantly in the United States and the world. As late at 1940, almost 45% of the U.S. population lived in rural regions. Urbanization has decreased this percentage to <20% as of 2019, exacerbating the existing social, economic and opportunity divide between rural and urban regions. The urban and rural gap may be described by population shifts, but the impact cuts across the fabric of society, creating sociological and economic divisions leading to political discord, technological inequity, disparity in economic participation/reward, disproportional disease prevalence, and poor allocation and use of natural resources. These issues are not just in the U.S. but are shared with the world. In 2018, >55% of the world's population lives in urban areas. The hyper-urbanization trend is expected to continue in the coming decades increasing the urban living population to 68% by 2050, compounding current city challenges and introducing new ones in virtually all countries.
As noted in recent reports to the U.S. Congress and other published studies, the economic and opportunity gap has widened between rural and urban communities across the United States since the Great Recession. In the U.S., the economic shock of the recession hit rural counties and states harder than those dominated by urban communities with many rural areas having yet to fully recover. For example, employment in urban areas normalized to pre-recession levels by 2013, whereas rural job growth continued to lag pre-recession levels in 2017. Further, sluggish wage growth of 3.8% in rural areas is outstripped by the >5.5% growth in metropolitan areas. This can be dramatically observed in Texas when reviewing data from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. According to the 2010 census, per capita income is also about $3,000 less in the 191 Texas counties classified as rural than in the 63 non-rural counties. Indeed, the 18 most heavily urbanized counties in Texas have a per capita income almost $5,000 more than the remaining 236 counties in the state.
The dramatic loss of jobs from 2008-2010, the income gap, and the slow recovery of high-paying jobs in rural regions have led many residents to migrate to urban environments to find new opportunities. This migration has exacerbated the decline in rural population and supported significant urban population growth since 2010 and attendant infrastructure overuse and overcrowding. Rural population decline is compounded by the geographic remoteness of communities and lack of online connectivity (39% of rural residents lack access to broadband compared to only 4% of urban residents). Further, underinvestment in rural infrastructure impairs travel as roads, bridges and water infrastructure require urgent repair to facilitate efficient transport across these regions. Limited virtual connectivity coupled with physical distance restricts business communications and increases the costs of logistics and transportation, reducing company investments in rural regions.
Most rural economies are structured to support a single or a small cluster of industries and are usually dependent on the value of natural and agricultural resources in the region. The lack of economic diversification makes rural communities more vulnerable to the impact of individual company decisions, macro-economic shocks and the growing trend of technological displacement. Recent natural disasters in the Coastal Bend region of Texas have further revealed the fragility of rural and isolated city economies to such perturbations.
The growing societal focus on technology, robotics, data and artificial intelligence of the new economy is expected to create further distance between rural and urban communities. The gap in higher education graduates, often viewed as a prerequisite for participation in the new economy, has grown by 25% between rural and communities from 2000-2016. Lower educational attainment and population decline combine to restrict the number of individuals available to respond to government grant applications, receive new federal funds or create new cutting-edge businesses at the same rate as in urban areas.
As rural society, agricultural products and natural resources contribute greatly to the U.S. culture and economy, action is required to remove these disadvantages from rural economies and create new models and incentives for rural communities to thrive and grow. This is especially true in Texas where rural regions make up a dominant part of its land mass and local governments. Economic development in rural regions is a high priority in Texas, as it is for many other midwestern and southern states – not to mention many other developing nations whose rural population far exceeds that of the U.S.
Entrepreneurship is a core backbone of economic development. The University of Texas at Austin has long been a home for scholars whose research explores business development and it continues to have strength in this area. The number of scholars across campus involved in the IC² Institute, the McCombs Entrepreneurship Minor, the Herb Kelleher Center, the RGK Center, the Bridging Disciplines Programs on entrepreneurship, and the many groups on campus that are part of the Entrepreneurship Coordination Committee all attest to the vibrant community of research around the topic of entrepreneurship on campus. The IC² Institute aims to galvanize this community of scholars to focus on the challenges and prospects for developing business ecosystems in rural areas and small, isolated cities.
Why the IC² Institute?
This research focus fits in with the IC² Institute's long history of research and practical engagement in the economic development of urban, rural and small city environments. In the past 25 years IC² has conducted 29 regional economic studies across the world, including ten in Texas alone, reviewing the innovation and economic growth strategies of urban and rural regions and providing detailed case studies illustrating rural/urban challenges. Based on IC²'s groundbreaking research on the Austin entrepreneurial ecosystem in the 1980s and 90s, the Austin Model was defined and subsequently disseminated across the U.S. and 43 countries around the world. This model is based on the diffusion of knowledge from science and technology centers into economic practice of regions through technology transfer and entrepreneurship. The leadership of Austin as a technology and entrepreneurship hub is widely recognized and IC² will follow the pattern of its founder, Dr. George Kozmetsky, to identify new, unstructured problems of world importance to study and engage solutions. Toward this end, IC² has since completed numerous benchmarking studies in rural and isolated cities in Texas, including the Rio Grande Valley, San Angelo, and Waco, as well as other regions in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia. In addition, IC²'s Bureau of Business Research has a rich legacy of economic research in all regions of Texas going back to the 1920s. A new model for economic development based on innovation is required for rural and small, isolated cities. Our new research initiative seeks to catalyze new studies to define improved and fitted strategies to improve the competitiveness of these regions.
This solicitation follows the successful Insight to Innovation Grant Program conducted between 2017-2018. Eleven grants were provided to UT Austin faculty which engaged over 10 student researchers at UT Austin, produced many peer-reviewed publications and a number of others in preparation or under review, and supported a wealth of scholarly presentations. Further, student-led investigations were conducted in Nepal and Japan through UT courses supported by Insight to Innovation grants.
References used:
Heinrich, M. 2017. Understanding Economic Challenges in Rural America. US Congress Joint Economic Committee Minority Staff Report.
Sorgel, A. "In America's Rural-Urban Divide, Age, Earnings and Education are Prominent" in US News and World Report, Dec. 8, 2016.
Population Division, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects.
US Department of Agriculture. 2016. Rural America at a Glance.
US Department of Agriculture. 2017. Rural Employment and Unemployment.
Federal Communications Commission. 2016 Broadband Progress Report
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Winner of the Spur Award for the Best Western Novel of 1970.
Winner of the Spur Award for the Best Western Novel of 1969.
Winner of the Spur Award for the Best Western Novel of 1964.
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Western novel set in Nevada. Not located in OCLC. This book was catalogued by Larry Dingman in 1996 but we can find no other reference to it. It is one of a handful of books published by this imprint in 1937 & 1938.


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Carabus ludingensis is een keversoort uit de familie van de loopkevers (Carabidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1992 door Deuve & Vigna Taglianti.

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The site also offers other graphic model products and John uses it as a "one stop shop"
You can partially back up with your "browser back button" to select different times without needing to reenter the access code, but you will need to re-enter a new code to change locations.
The big advantage is that you can view multiple graphic products from multiple forecast models for any location you enter, and you can look pretty far into the future, compared to the VGB balloon which looks at the past.
Note: reviewing Skew-T sounding graphs for different locations can be cumbersome and time consuming but they are often one of the best tools to visualize the atmospheric profile.
It is time consuming to configure, so once you tunnel in, you don't want to loose your place. To view multiple models for comparison, see [strategy] below.
or you can simply enter SBA for the Airport.
but the soundings look at weather above the surface.
but I haven't studied the inner workings of the models.
Select a model under the drop down list for "Soundings"
will also look at 15-UTC and 00-UTC (8 am and 5 pm) if I have the time and want to see the progression. We don't launch at 8 am, but are often in the air at 5 PM on good days.
You can click your browser back button to change the date and time, but you can't jump to a different model or location without starting over.
You can save the GIF image files which will let you record several forecast times for a particular model without having to re-enter coordinates and access codes. If you are going to save the images for comparison, then it's better to use just one window and back up with your browser back button so when you right click on an image and select "save image as", it will default to your last directory tree location and you won't need to tunnel in from your default "save-to" location.
I recommend using a file naming scheme that will sort and group, then when you save an image you can click on the last image saved name and simple edit the time in the file name.
The file naming scheme I use is "model" "sounding date and time" "for" "location" "day" "time". I use UTC time as designated by z but use 24Z for 00Z in the afternoon. Example file name: nam_2017_11-29_12z_for_ojai_29_21z, which translates to the NAM model run on November 29th, 2017 at 12Z (4 am PST) for Ojai on the same day (the 29th) at 21Z (1 pm). Then the if I want to save the next time, I simply copy the file name and change the 21Z to 24Z. To group and sort, I keep our local days together, so the NAM time in the image will progress from 29_21Z to 30_00Z, but I'll use 29_24Z. If I'm at the end of the month, then I'll add days to the month, for example, 29, 30, 31, 32. After saving all the images I'll sometimes put the different locations in different sub-folders, then when I open with a viewer, I can have multiple viewer windows open, one for each location, and toggle through in the location's time sequence without getting too confused about which location I'm looking at.


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'Running' Peter Blake
In Running, Peter Blake has produced a portfolio of 10 limited edition prints, to celebrate 30 years of the Great North Run and to showcase the international pedigree of the run and the heritage of running. Each image is available as a giclee print with silkscreen varnish, measuring 13.5 x 16.5 inches and from a signed edition of 75, and features images of the world's most iconic half marathon, cigarette cards and vintage photographs of runners, medals, posters and much more. The majority of found images and objects Peter Blake has appropriated are from the Great North Run archives or sourced from the North East. Peter Blake's mother was born in South Shields (where the race ends) and moved to Kent in the 1930s, so this new suite can be seen as Blake's homage to the area.
Peter Blake is one of the best known living artists. Born in 1932, he attended Gravesend Technical College (1946-51) and School of Art and transferred to the Royal College of Art in London. The cover design for Beatles' album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) was one of his greatest successes, alongside his collages, silkscreens, engravings, sculptures and prints. Blake also made sleeves for Band Aid single, Do They Know It's Christmas?, Paul Weller's Stanley Road and Oasis' Stop the Clocks.
Sir Peter Blake, RA, was knighted in 2002, and is commonly known as the Godfather of British Pop Art.
Blake's early work is dominated by fantastic scenes from the world of the circus and naturalistic paintings with autobiographical elements, which paved the way for English Pop Art. The colourful huddle of people featured on the Sergeant Pepper cover exemplifies his style: among Beatles dressed in psychedelic uniform are Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, and a child wearing a Rolling Stones T-shirt. As Blake said, 'I talked to the Beatles at length about what the cover would be. I worked out it would show the moment after they had played in a bandstand in the park. My big contribution was the life-size cutouts, the magic crowds.'
Peter Blake's newest works, Running and That Lucky Old Sun are exclusive portfolios of signed limited edition prints. In Running, Peter Blake is producing a portfolio of 10 limited edition prints, to celebrate 30 years of the Great North Run and to showcase the international pedigree of the run and the heritage of running. Each image is available as a giclee print with silkscreen varnish, measuring 13.5 x 16.5 inches and from a signed edition of 75, and features images of the world's most iconic half marathon, cigarette cards and vintage photographs of runners, medals, posters and much more. The majority of found images and objects Peter Blake has appropriated are from the Great North Run archives or sourced from the North East. Peter Blake's mother was born in South Shields (where the race ends) and moved to Kent in the 1930s, so this new suite can be seen as Blake's homage to the area.
That Lucky Old Sun comprises a cloth-bound, hand-numbered book, signed by both Brian Wilson of the Grammy award winning Beach Boys and Peter Blake. It includes an essay and exclusive interviews with Brian Wilson, plus a CD pressing of the Brian Wilson album That Lucky Old Sun and an original VIP pass from a live performance of the album. The book is accompanied by 12 collage screenprints by Peter Blake, and three facsimile copies of the lyrics for a new Brian Wilson song, Midnight's Another Day. The collection is presented in a hand-crafted box, made in Italy, and bound in two luxurious blue cloths, representing the colours of the Californian sky and ocean. The box is also blocked in gold and silver with a portrait of Wilson inset on the inside cover. The box set is from an edition of 1,000.
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WASHINGTON – Aug. 3, 2012 – The average U.S. rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose this week after falling to new record lows in each of the past four weeks.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the rate on the 30-year loan jumped to 3.55 percent. That's up from 3.49 percent last week, which was the lowest since long-term mortgages began in the 1950s.
The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage, a popular refinancing option, increased to 2.83 percent. That's above last week's record low of 2.80 percent.
Cheaper mortgage rates have helped drive a modest but uneven housing recovery this year. Sales of new and previously occupied homes fell in June from May but were higher than the same month last year. Home prices have started to rise in a majority of cities.
Builders are also more confident after seeing more demand for homes. In June, they increased their spending for a third straight month.
Low mortgage rates could also provide some help to the economy if more people refinance. When people refinance at lower rates, they pay less interest on their loans and have more money to spend. Many homeowners use the savings on renovations, furniture, appliances and other improvements, which help drive growth.
The sluggish job market could deter some from making a purchase this year. The Labor Department reports Friday on July unemployment and job growth.
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the economy is losing strength and repeated a pledge to take further steps if the job market doesn't show sustained improvement.
The Fed took no new action after its two-day meeting. But it acknowledged that economic activity had slowed over the first half of the year, unemployment remains elevated and consumer spending has weakened.
Mortgage rates have been dropping because they tend to track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. A weaker U.S. economy and uncertainty about how Europe will resolve its debt crisis have led investors to buy more Treasury securities, which are considered safe investments. As demand for Treasurys increase, the yield falls.
The average fee for 30-year loans was 0.7 point, unchanged from last week. The fee for 15-year loans slipped to 0.6 point from 0.7 the previous week.
The average rate on one-year adjustable rate mortgages fell to 2.70 percent from 2.71 percent. The fee for one-year adjustable rate loans declined to 0.4 point from 0.5 point.
The average rate on five-year adjustable rate mortgages rose to 2.75 percent from 2.74 percent last week. The fee was unchanged at 0.6.
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Working as self-shooting producer editor, I deliver films and videos. BBC trained and with over 15-years broadcast experience I film and edit high quality and engaging content from concept through to delivery.
To illustrate some of my skills I edited this fun showreel which includes some of my favourite images from my 2012 projects. The video starts with an animating title sequence that I created for a BBC film about helping people facing redundancy to reinvent themselves. This is followed by a sequence of shots from some of the charity films, community projects and arts-based films that I produced, filmed and edited. I've managed to edit in some of the memorable times and fun people that I en-counted that year both around the UK and abroad as well.
One of my favourite shots – the side on motorbike shot – was filmed while riding pillion through sunny Wales on the back of a Honda Blackbird. I spent the whole weekend with a motorcycle club and filmed some great footage and edited them into a promotional film. Lucky for me we had great weather.
It's always fun editing a show-reel together and a nice reminder of the previous year's projects. Once the show-reel is edited, I can feel free to delete lots of the previous year's media and make some disc space for new projects. I try to make a fresh showreel every few years so that I can demonstrate my development and the diversity of my skills.
The funky music track 'capture the remembrance' was specially composed by Brighton based mustbecreative. Using licenced production music or copyright free music enables you to share your edit more widely without breaching anyone's copyright. Many online sites now 'listen' to any uploaded music to ensure that it conforms to their sites guidelines.
If you would like any help with your video production, please get in touch. Check out my portfolio to view more examples of my recent projects.
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Former Bush Aide: It Sure Looks Like Hillary Clinton's Campaign Colluded With The Russians
Posted: Oct 25, 2017 1:10 PM
Cortney wrote about this last night, but let's rehash. The infamous Trump dossier that alleges the president had ties to Russia and served as part of the reason why we have a special counsel—Robert Mueller—looking into such allegations turned out to be a DNC-funded operation. Marc Elias, a lawyer with the Hillary campaign and the DNC reached out to Fusion GPS to pay a former British intelligence operative to collect information (via WaPo):
Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS's research into Trump was funded by an unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS's research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.
Former Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said the new revelations reek of collusion between the Hillary campaign and the Russians in an effort to interfere in the 2016 election. Wait—didn't Republicans start this operation as an opposition research effort? Yes and no. Yes, it started as an opposition research project by an anti-Trump Republican, but Democrats were the only ones who gave Fusion GPS money and paid Steele (via WaPo) [emphasis mine]:
Some of the pushback on the left has focused on the fact that a still-unidentified Republican client retained Fusion GPS to do research on Trump before the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Thus, they argue, it's wrong to say the dossier was just funded by Democrats.
But the dossier's author, Steele, wasn't brought into the mix until after Democrats retained Fusion GPS. So while both sides paid Fusion GPS, Steele was only funded by Democrats.
So, how did it take this long to know about who funded this unverified dossier? Well, for starters, Marc Elias stopped some reporters, like The New York Times' Ken Vogel, who was then with Politico, from writing about it, saying his sources were wrong. Well, obviously he was lying. If you want to read how Steele collected this information, please read this lengthy Vanity Fair piece on how Steele and this dossier became known to the public. Fleischer cited key portions, given this new information about the dossier, that could show how the Hillary campaign's actions could qualify as collusion:
Hard 2read this w/o concluding Clinton campaign colluded w Russia 2interfere in US election. https://t.co/lH5wNiUlzT pic.twitter.com/fy5aycEbzT
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) October 25, 2017
Source A was "a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure." Source B was "a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin."
Kremlin gave info to Christopher Steele. His oppo-research was paid for by the Clinton campaign. If that's not collusion, what is?
How good were these sources? Consider what Steele would write in the memos he filed with Simpson: Source A—to use the careful nomenclature of his dossier—was "a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure." Source B was "a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin." And both of these insiders, after "speaking to a trusted compatriot," would claim that the Kremlin had spent years getting its hooks into Donald Trump.
The liberal media won't admit this, but The Washington Post turns the whole investigation on its head. In the past few days, the focus has shifted from Donald Trump to the Clintons.
The transfer of majority ownership of the Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian state-corporation Rosatom in 2010, which included a $500,000 paycheck to Bill Clinton for a speech from a Russian bank selling Uranium One futures and millions of dollars from the chairman of Uranium One being sent to the Clinton Foundation. The chairman, Ian Telfer, used his own charitable foundation to dole out $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation throughout the whole business deal that lasted between 2009-2013. The latter year being when Rosatom took over Uranium One completely, absorbing the American mining sites. That gave Russia control of 1/5 of our uranium supply. Because this sale involved our strategic interests, Hillary Clinton, then-secretary of state, had to approve the sale through the Committee on Foreign Investment. I take it you can guess how she voted. Well, we now know that the FBI and the Obama White House knew the Russians were bribing their way through this deal and did nothing about it for the sake of the Russian reset.
The entire leadership of the DNC is unaware of its activities from only a year ago? https://t.co/UjqSqod5iV
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) October 25, 2017
Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year https://t.co/vXKRV1wRJc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 24, 2017
And now the Hillary campaign's lawyer retaining Fusion, using funds to pay a former spy to compile a dossier on Trump based on still yet to be verified information from former Kremlin intelligence agents and foreign ministry officials. It may be unethical and that's where this whole thing stops, but it seems the Clinton camp is about to be sucked into the nonsensical cyclone that is this whole Russian collusion story. Oh, and just so that no one forgets: there is zero evidence to suggest the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election. For Hillary, well, there's a money trail.
When I tried to report this story, Clinton campaign lawyer @marceelias pushed back vigorously, saying "You (or your sources) are wrong." https://t.co/B5BZwoaNhI
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 24, 2017
That's called... Lying. #TrumpDossier https://t.co/xGnQWzsDvP
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) October 25, 2017
Trump Dossier


We all want to look and feel better, but where?s the fun in nibbling on boring salads and choking down steamed broccoli? It?s tough sticking to a diet when you?re craving barbecue ribs, fettucine Alfredo, vegetable lo mein, and chocolate milkshakes. But best-selling author and TODAY show nutrition expert Joy Bauer is fresh from her kitchen with news for you: You can have your cheesecake and eat it, too! In these bright, colorful pages, Joy shares how you can drop the calories in your most fattening favorites?without compromising flavor. With a few simple tricks, she transforms a bacon cheeseburger from a whopping 1,100 calories to a mere 425 . . . and General Tso?s Chicken from an alarming 1,000 to a slimming 260. From Boston cream pie to spaghetti and meatballs, mint chocolate chip ice cream to Buffalo wings with creamy bleu cheese dip, Joy takes the most decadent treats from fat to fit. Want to give a BLT some TLC? Joy?s take on this classic comfort food could save you 35,000 calories annually?with the potential to drop 10 pounds! Featuring more than 120 recipes and oodles of gorgeous photos, From Junk Food to Joy Food has you covered from sun up to late night: breakfasts, dips, soups, sides, suppers, pizzas, pastas, desserts, mocktails, and more. Don?t deny yourself the flavors you love?learn to make them with joy!
If you liked the "Freak Show" season of TV's American Horror Story, this may appeal to you. Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious-and dangerous-asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
She calls herself Calexa Rose Dunhill. She has been living — hiding out — in Dunhill Cemetery ever since someone left her there to die. She has no idea who wants her dead or why, but she isn't about to wait around for her would-be killer to finish the job. Despite her self-imposed isolation, Calexa's ability to see spirits — and the memories she receives from them — guarantees she'll never be alone, even among the deceased. The only living people she allows herself to interact with are Kelner, the cemetery's cantankerous caretaker, and Lucinda Cameron, an elderly woman who lives in an old Victorian house across the street. With their friendship, Calexa has regained a link to the world beyond tombstones and mausoleums. Until the night she witnesses a murder that shatters her life?a life now under a police microscope — as their investigation threatens to uncover Calexa's true identity? A graphic novel, with art by Don Kramer.
Accompanied by the stunning photography of Thomas D. Mangelsen, A Chorus of Cranes details the natural history, biology, and conservation issues surrounding the abundant sandhill crane and the endangered whooping crane in North America. Author Paul A. Johnsgard, one of the leading authorities on cranes and crane biology, describes the fascinating social behaviors, beautiful natural habitats, and grueling seasonal migrations that have stirred the hearts of people as far back as medieval times and garnered the crane a place in folklore and mythology across continents. Johnsgard has substantially updated and significantly expanded his 1991 work Crane Music, incorporating new information on the biology and status of these two North American cranes and providing abbreviated summaries on the other thirteen crane species of the world. The stories of these birds and their contrasting fates provide an instructive and moving history of bird conservation in North America. A Chorus of Cranes is a gorgeous and invaluable resource for crane enthusiasts, birders, natural historians, and conservationists alike.
Diane seems to have the perfect life. She is a wife, a mother, and the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cozy literary cafe in Paris. But when she suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a tragic car accident, the world as she knows it instantly vanishes. Trapped and haunted by her memories, Diane retreats from friends and family, unable and unwilling to move forward. But one year later, Diane shocks her loved ones and makes the surprising decision to move to a small town on the Irish coast, finally determined to heal and rebuild her life alone–until she meets Edward, the attractive yet taciturn Irish photographer who lives next door. At first abrasive and unwelcoming, Edward initially resents Diane's intrusion into his life of solitude . . . until he can no longer keep her at arm's length, and they fall into a surprising and tumultuous romance. But will it last when Diane leaves Ireland, and Edward, for the home she once ran away from in Paris? At once heartbreaking and uplifting, Diane's story is deeply felt, reminding us that love remembered is love enduring.
Alone in the crowd is Constantia Gifford, the taxidermist's daughter. Twenty-two and unmarried, she lives with her father on the fringes of town, in a decaying mansion cluttered with the remains of his once world-famous museum of taxidermy. No one speaks of why the museum was shuttered or how the Giffords fell so low. Connie herself has no recollection–a childhood accident has erased all memory of her earlier days. Even those who might have answers remain silent. The locals shun Blackthorn House, and the strange spinster who practices her father's macabre art.
As the last peal of the midnight bell fades to silence, a woman is found dead–a stranger Connie noticed near the church. In the coming days, snippets of long lost memories will begin to tease through Connie's mind, offering her glimpses of her vanished years. Who is the victim, and why has her death affected Connie so deeply? Why is she watched by a mysterious figure who has suddenly appeared on the marsh nearby? Is her father trying to protect her with his silence–or someone else? The answers are tied to a dark secret that lies at the heart of Blackthorn House, hidden among the bell jars of her father's workshop–a mystery that draws Connie closer to danger . . . closer to madness . . . closer to the startling truth.
In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanished from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. The loss devastated the family. Sixty-four years later, Emily's sister Lucy writes the story of that harrowing summer in a notebook that she bequeaths, along with the lake house and a hefty investment portfolio, to her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers a chance to give her own daughters a stable home she never had, but the dilapidated house is cold in the winter, the lake silent and forbidding, and her only neighbors are two strange old men who seem to know more than they're telling about the summer of 1935. When Justine's troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily's disappearance, Justine's mother arrives wanting money, and Justine's manipulative ex-boyfriend launches a plan to get her back, Justine must overcome her family's tragic legacy in her effort to save herself and her children.