For the second year in a row, New York-based Global Finance magazine has named Gulf International Bank (GIB) the Safest Bank in Bahrain. Winners were recognised at an awards ceremony on 10th October, during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group meetings in Lima, Peru.
GIB had total assets of US$21.3 billion at the end of 2014. GIB's shareholder base includes Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which holds a majority stake of 97.2 percent.
Earlier this year, GIB was named "Best Equity Bank in the Middle East" and "Best Investment Bank in Bahrain" by Global Finance magazine.
GIB is owned by the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund being the major shareholder.
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Football notes: Lindenwold's Muldrow looks to cap remarkable season
When he suffered what proved to be a punctured lung as well as bruised ribs in mid-September, the idea of playing the rest of the season seemed pretty bleak.
But after a remarkable recovery and missing just one game, Lindenwold High School quarterback Malik Muldrow will take the field Thursday looking to wrap up a historic career in grand fashion.
The senior has thrown for 5,364 career yards, tops in Colonial Conference history and 11th in South Jersey history according to area historian Chuck Langerman. Muldrow passed Joe Flacco of Audubon, the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl MVP quarterback, for the conference record.
Flacco finished with 5,101 yards in 2002.
Muldrow has completed 440 of 918 passes and thrown for 34 touchdowns. His 918 attempts is also a South Jersey record, surpassing the mark of 850 set by Kevin Foley of Cherry Hill East in 1991.
Muldrow goes into Thursday's game having completed 71 of 155 passes for 1,064 yards and seven touchdowns this season.
• Titles on line: Three games Thursday in the West Jersey Football League have championships on the line.
Palmyra can secure the Freedom Division with a win over Burlington City, while Glassboro can take the Diamond with a victory over Deptford. Camden can also take the Royal crown with a win over cross-town rival Woodrow Wilson.
• Record career: Camden quarterback Khalil Williams will take the field for the final time Thursday when the Panthers meet city rival Woodrow Wilson. It has been a historic career for the four-year player.
Williams heads into the game with 6,183 career passing yards, third-best in South Jersey history behind Dylan Cummings of Pennsville (7,695) and Eastern's Tom Flacco (7,387). Williams also has 79 career touchdown passes, just five behind South Jersey record holder Cummings (84).
Williams has thrown for 2,048 yards and 24 TDs this season, while also rushing for 57 yards and four scores.
• Rivalry continues: When Millville (4-5) travels to Vineland (3-6) for their annual showdown, it will mark the 143rd meeting between the Cape-Atlantic League teams.
Millville is led by senior running back Ryquell Armstead. The Temple recruit has rushed for 1,167 yards and 14 touchdowns on 157 carries. He set the school's single-game record when he went for 337 yards and five TDs in a win over Absegami.
Freshman quarterback Isiah Pacheco has rushed for 641 yards on 140 carries to lead Vineland.
• Down to the wire: Jahmiere Van Kline of Bordentown needs 25 yards Thursday against New Egypt to overtake Lamont Harris of St. Augustine and claim this year's rushing title.
Harris ran for just 27 yards on six carries in his final game against Cedar Creek, giving the senior 1,955 yards on the season. He suffered a head injury early in the game and did not return.
Van Kline has 1,931 yards, which includes four games of at least 200 yards. He rushed for a school record 395 yards on 24 carries and scored six touchdowns in a win over Delran. The record day was the sixth-best in South Jersey history and second this season to only Tyrone Williams of Cherry Hill West.
Williams rushed for a school record 403 yards on 36 carries in a win over Winslow Township, fifth-best in South Jersey history.
• Big on defense: Collingswood held West Deptford to just seven points in last week's South Jersey Group 2 semifinal loss. If the Panthers can hold Sterling to 38 or less Thursday, it will mark the team's best defensive season since 1994.
Collingswood has allowed 111 points this season. The 1994 team surrendered just 72 under former longtime coach Bob Barikian.
• Extra points: Just a sophomore, Anthony Seas leads Kingsway in rushing (1,023) and touchdowns (11) on 176 carries. ... Buena is the only South Jersey team to have two 1,000-yard rushers. Sam Crouch led the Chiefs with 1,290 yards, while Quadir Albright added 1,193. Both are juniors. ... According to area historian Chuck Langerman, Timber Creek quarterback Khalil Trotman is the first in state history to throw for 2,000 yards at two different schools. He threw for 2,898 yards over the past two seasons at Burlington Township and has thrown for 2,093 this fall after transferring in the summer.
Reach Kevin Minnick at kminnick@courierpostonline.com. Follow him on Twitter @cp_varsity

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Pension & Benefits News Honeywell retirees not entitled to lifetime health care benefits
Honeywell retirees not entitled to lifetime health care benefits
By Pension and Benefits Editorial Staff
In light of the Supreme Court's ruling in M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded that the general durational clause included in a series of collective bargaining agreements between Honeywell and a union precluded the vesting of lifetime retiree health care benefits. The appeals court's decision in Fletcher v. Honeywell Int'l, Inc. settled on a "clear rule—a CBA's general durational clause applies to health care benefits unless it contains clear, affirmative language indicating the contrary." Accordingly, none of the CBAs in question vested lifetime benefits. Judge Stranch filed a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Health care benefits. Beginning in 1965, Honeywell and the union negotiated a series of collective bargaining agreements in which the employer agreed to pay "the full [health care benefit] premium or subscription charge applicable to the coverages of [its] pensioner[s]" and their surviving spouses. Over the next four decades, each successive CBA guaranteed full-premium contributions on behalf of pensioners and their surviving spouses. Each CBA also contained a general durational clause stating that agreement would expire on a specified date and time.
Cost controls. When the 1999 CBA expired in 2003, Honeywell's negotiators emphasized the effect of rising retiree medical costs on its bottom line and concluded that "[c]ost controls" were "required . . . to remain competitive." The company thus proposed setting a "limit" on Honeywell's contribution for all retirees going forward.
Union negotiators objected, in part, because they believed that the pre-2003 CBAs had vested lifetime, full-premium benefits for pre-2003 retirees. This meant that Honeywell had no right to reduce its contribution (at least with respect to those retirees). For its part, the employer insisted that none of the CBAs had vested lifetime benefits. Rather than reach a common understanding, the parties settled on language that left open whether the pre-2003 CBAs had vested full-premium benefits. The parties included that same language when they renegotiated the CBA in 2007.
Vested full-premium benefits. When the parties met to renegotiate in 2011, the UAW restated its position that the pre-2003 retirees were "entitled to 100 percent of company paid health insurance" because the pre-2003 CBAs had already vested full-premium benefits. However, it conceded that for those who retired in 2003 or after, "[t]he company contribution amount [would] be limited to the amounts described in the 2003 and 2007 agreements." The parties then again agreed to disagree on whether the pre-2003 CBAs had vested full-premium benefits.
In anticipation of the contribution limit's effective date of January 2012, both parties filed suit. After the claims were consolidated, both parties filed motions for summary judgment. Honeywell began enforcing the contribution limit on post-2003 retirees in 2014 and on pre-2003 retirees in 2015. After the 2011 CBA expired in 2016, the parties signed the 2017 CBA that did not provide for any health care benefits.
General durational clause. The district court ruled on the parties' summary judgment motions in March 2018. It determined that the pre-2003 CBAs did not vest lifetime, full-premium benefits for the pre-2003 retirees. The court reasoned that each CBA had a general durational clause and, "absent an express clause providing that retirees are entitled to vested lifetime health care benefits, the CBAs do not vest retirees with lifetime health care benefits when the general durational clause is for the term of the agreement." As for the contribution limit, the court held that the CBA's "shall not be less than" language did not end Honeywell's obligation to make full-premium contributions. Thus, the court ordered Honeywell to reimburse retirees for any co-payments they made during the 2011 CBA in which the company enforced the contribution limit.
A week after the district court issued its order, Honeywell sent a letter to its retirees stating that it had "no legal obligation to continue providing retiree medical coverage" and announced its intent to terminate the retiree medical and prescription drug coverage. The union responded by filing a second motion for summary judgment, arguing that the 2003 CBA's "shall not be less than" language had at least vested lifetime, floor-level benefits. The district court denied the union's motion.
Floor-level limit. On appeal, Honeywell challenges the district court's finding that the floor-level limit did not end its obligation to make full-premium contributions during the life of the 2011 CBA. The union appeals the district court's decision that the pre-2003 CBAs did not vest lifetime, full-premium benefits for pre-2003 retirees, and that the 2003, 2007, and 2011 CBAs did not vest lifetime, floor-level benefits for the remaining retirees. Finally, the union argued that remand was necessary because the district court improperly denied its claim that Honeywell took certain "windfall" financial advantages at the expense of retirees.
"Not less than" language. The Sixth Circuit determined that: (1) none of the CBAs vested lifetime benefits, (2) the "not less than" language did not end Honeywell's obligation to make full-premium contributions until each CBA's expiration date; and (3) the union's claims that Honeywell had taken certain "windfall" advantages at the expense of retirees were moot.
Ever since the Supreme Court issued M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, the Sixth Circuit has obeyed its command to interpret CBAs under "ordinary principles of contract law." Applying ordinary contract-law principles means applying the general durational clauses. Since then, the Sixth Circuit has almost always concluded that a CBA with a general durational clause unambiguously does not vest health care benefits for retirees beyond the life of the agreement. In Fletcher v. Honeywell Int'l, Inc., the Sixth Circuit settled on a "clear rule—a CBA's general durational clause applies to health care benefits unless it contains clear, affirmative language indicating the contrary."
Here, none of the language in any of the CBAs satisfied the Fletcher rule. Without an unambiguous vesting clause, the general durational clause controlled.
The pre-2003 CBAs stated that Honeywell would pay the full premium or subscription charge applicable to the coverages of its pensioners and their surviving spouses. But each CBA also contained a general durational clause stating the agreement's terms would expire on a specified date and time. Here, the appeals court determined that language in the CBAs stating that Honeywell would pay health care benefits as long as the retirees were "receiving a monthly pension," the retirees' surviving spouses would receive benefits, and retirees would receive Medicare Part B reimbursement, was insufficient to disconnect retiree benefits from a CBA's durational clause.
The court next considered whether the 2003 to 2011 CBAs vested lifetime, floor-level benefits. Retirees argued that language in the CBAs vested them with floor-level benefits. Again, the appeals court observed that their argument failed because the language in the agreement did not disconnect Honeywell's contribution requirement from the CBA's general durational clause. Thus, under Fletcher, the general durational clause controlled the termination of retiree health care benefits in the 2003 to 2011 CBAs. Accordingly, the appeals court affirmed the district court's judgment that the limiting language in the 2003 to 2011 CBAs did not vest retirees with lifetime, floor-level benefits.
SOURCE: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) v. Honeywell International, Inc. (CA-6), Nos. 18-1471/1975/1976, April 3, 2020.
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I get the error Expected ) before isEqualToString
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A: Try adding brackets in the if statement to actually call the NSString comparison method:
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Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Sewell (1793-1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798 - 1884) was a successful author of children's books.
She had one sibling, younger brother (1822–1906) who worked as a construction engineer in Europe, building railways in Spain and elsewhere, before settling back in Norfolk and working as a banker. Anna Sewell was largely educated at home, a regime heavily influenced by her mother's religious and educational convictions. When Anna was twelve years old, the family moved to Stoke Newington, where Sewell attended school for the first time and gained instruction in areas new to her such as mathematics and foreign languages.
Two years later, however, she slipped while walking home from school and severely injured both of her ankles. Her father took a job in Brighton in 1836, partly in the hope that the climate there would help to cure her. Despite this, and most likely because of mistreatment of her injury, Sewell was lame for the rest of her life and was unable to stand without a crutch or to walk for any length of time. For greater mobility, she frequently used horse-drawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the humane treatment of animals.
Sewell's only published work was Black Beauty, written during 1871 to 1877, after she had moved to Old Catton, a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk. During this time her health was declining. She was often so weak that she couldn't get out of bed and writing was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed.
Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect.


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Dashcams: Friend or Foe?
Fleet managers expect initial resistance from drivers when they implement forward-facing and driver-facing video recorders. Drivers balk at what they perceive as an invasion of privacy and, for many, dash cams conjure up images of big brother.
However, there—s been strong interest from fleets, and more are installing these cameras in their trucks.
SmartDrive Systems announced record growth in 2014 and said it expanded its customer base by 45 percent. Con-way Freight just installed Lytx—s DriveCam in its 8,500 vehicles.
Dash cams, for better or worse, may join electronic logging devices as more than an emerging trend in safety and training. Most manufacturers of these cameras say they are designed to record only seconds before and after an event such as hard braking, lane departure or an accident. And they say the camera can—t be triggered from fleet headquarters.
Dash cams can help fleets and drivers in two ways. They can be used to help determine probable cause in the case of an accident. A large percentage of accidents involving cars and trucks are the fault of the driver of the car, not the trucker, so drivers may find it beneficial to have visual evidence of what the driver of a car did to cause the accident. Many drivers have been exonerated by their footage.
Fleet managers use the videos from camera-triggered events to train new drivers similar to the way coaches make professional athletes watch game film to see where they missed a block and how they can improve their performance. The videos are used as a driver-coaching tool by pointing out to a driver how he could have better handled a certain situation. Fleet managers can see the root cause of poor driver performance and target training to address specific areas and make the driver safer. Drivers may be unaware of their own bad habits, such as following too closely, until they are confronted with video footage.
No matter how one feels about the privacy issues, it—s likely to become a moot point. Like other safety options, this may eventually become a federal mandate. For now, it—s wise to evaluate dash cams for their potential benefits.
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We aim to organise at least on public lecture each year as well as a varied programme of activities for members.
The last meeting of 2014 was held on Wednesday 3rd December featuring Jimmy Lawrence. Jimmy is a well-known and great character who grew up on Thames Sailing Barges and later went into sail-making for boats such as these. He still speaks with a local Brightlingsea accent and has a turn of phrase which has a charm all of its own. Members thoroughly enjoyed listening to him tell stories about his life, mainly as a young boy playing along the foreshore here at Wivenhoe as well as in Brightlingsea. He also performed a couple of songs for us. The evening was greatly enjoyed helped by a glass of wine and a mince pie.
Wivenhoe Memories Exhibitions
John Stewart started staging an Exhibition of historic photographs and memorabilia many years ago and it has become a regular fixture in the Wivenhoe calendar, attracting many residents from Wivenhoe and much further afield.
The last Wivenhoe Memories Exhibition was in the Wm Loveless Hall on Saturday 23rd August / Monday 25th August 2014 from 10.00 am to 5pm each day. The next one is 4th – 6th April 2015.
The Wivenhoe History Group aim to arrange at least one public talk each year in St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe.
The following talks have been held:
October 2014 – Dr Paul Rusiecki – WW1 – The Impact of Catastrophe on Wivenhoe and the People of Essex.
March 2014 – Talk by Paul Brown on Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway.
October 2013 – Lecture by Christopher Thompson about the De Veres and Wivenhoe Hall.
We aim to organise two public lectures each year amongst a varied programme of activities.
Click here for the 2014 programme.
The last meeting of 2014 was held on Wednesday 3rd December featuring Jimmy Lawrence. Jimmy is a well-known and great character who grew up on Thames Sailing Barges and later went into sail-making for boats such as these. He still speaks with a local Brightlingsea accent and has a turn of phrase which has a charm all of its own. Members thoroughly enjoyed listening to him tell stories about his life, mainly as a young boy playing along the foreshore here at Wivenhoe as well as Brightlingsea. He also performed a couple of songs for us. The evening was thoroughly enjoyed together with a glass of wine and a mince pie.
The last Wivenhoe Memories Exhibition was in the Wm Loveless Hall on Saturday 23rd August / Monday 25th August 2014 from 10.00 am to 5pm each day. The next one is likely to be next April 2015.
For details of Past Public Talks:
October 2014 – Dr Paul Rusiecki – WW1 – The Impact of Catastrophe on Wivenhoe and the People of Essex. Click here
March 2014 – Talk by Paul Brown on Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway. Details click here
October 2013 – Lecture by Christopher Thompson about the De Veres and Wivenhoe Hall, click here.


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Blind Rage is a 1978 blaxploitation martial arts film directed by Efren C. Piñon and starring Fred Williamson, Tony Ferrer, Leo Fong, and D'Urville Martin. Although he receives top billing, Fred Williamson's part in the film is only a cameo appearance, reprising his Jesse Crowder role from the 1976 films Death Journey and No Way Back. The plot is about five blind martial artists pulling off a bank robbery in the Philippines.

Plot

The United States government is transferring $15 million to a bank in Manila owned by Johnny Duran. In America, Duran is approached by a man named Simpson and accepts a bribe to cooperate with Simpson's plan to steal the money. Simpson reveals that the plan involves recruiting a team of blind men to perform the robbery. Duran meets each gang member and also recruits Sally, a teacher of blind people.

In Manila, Sally recruits another blind man; local ex-criminal Ben Guevara. The gang learn the layout of the bank in a mock-up and train with weapons. On the day of the robbery, the gang enter the bank while Sally waits nearby feigning an engine problem with her van. Trained to shoot at any unusual sounds, the gang shoot several people including guards, employees and customers. Ben is interrupted by bank guards before he can disconnect the alarm, but in an ensuing fight the system is accidentally disconnected. The gang steal the money and make their escape.

The police discover Ben's cane at the bank and later pick him up for questioning. Ben cooperates and leads them to the place where they trained. The other gang members, hidden in a secret compartment inside a fuel tanker, leave just before the police arrive and head to the airport. The secret compartment begins to fill with gasoline leaking from the tanker, which then crashes and explodes while the driver is trying to evade the police.

In Los Angeles, Jesse Crowder is hired to find Duran and follows him to a meeting with Simpson. When police move in, Duran escapes and Crowder chases him to a rooftop, where the two fight. Crowder wins and takes the unconscious Duran to the waiting police.

Production and release

Cast
 Fred Williamson as Jesse Crowder
 Tony Ferrer as Ben Guevara
 Leila Hermosa as Sally
 D'Urville Martin as Willie Black
 Dick Adair as Anderson
 Darnell Garcia as Hector Lopez
 Leo Fong as Lin Wang
 Charlie Davao as Johnny Duran
 Nathan Jung as Henchman

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Community Protection Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
I spoke on the Community Protection Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
Rainbow families
Rainbow Families NSW is the peak organisation in Australia representing LGBTIQ parents and carers, and will be holding Australia's first ever LGBTIQ-focues antenatal classes.
Tribute to Ann Symonds
It is with great regret that I acknowledged the passing of Ann Symonds, a member of the Legislative Council from 1982 to 1998 and hero to Labor women.
The core tenet of public education is that every child should have access to the highest standard of quality education and be able to reach their full potential.
Marriage Equality: One Year On
This week marks the first anniversary of the historic announcement that 62 per cent of Australians voted in favour of marriage equality.
Saint Paul's College Bill 2018
I spoke on a bill to reform the governance structures at Saint Paul's College.
Acknowledging Principal Ruth Turnell
I gratefully acknowledge Ms Ruth Turnell, who has served as the Principal of Ferncourt Public School in Marrickville for 13 years, and who is about to embark on her well‑earned retirement.
Acknowledging Albert Vella
I acknowledge the work of Albert Vella as he retires from his role of President of the NSW Federation of Community Language Schools after 15 years of distinguished service.
Opening of the NSW School of Languages
It was an honour to be invited to speak at the opening of the new home of the NSW School of Languages.
The Long Walk to Treatment
More than 200,000 Australians are unable to access Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) treatment and that drug-induced deaths in Australia are at the highest levels in 20 years.


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Popert's EDGA dominance continues in Australian Open rout
Kipp Popert wins the 2022 ISPS HANDA All Abilities Australian Open at Victoria Golf Club (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
Kipp Popert brought his dominance from 2022 into the 2023 G4D Tour season as he claimed a thumping seven-shot win at the Australian All Abilities Championship @ the ISPS HANDA Australian Open.
The new campaign got underway at Victoria Golf Club and it looked like we might have a new winner as Kurtis Barkley entered the final day with a three-shot lead in search of his first title.
Popert had other ideas though, and the World Number One carded a 69 to finish the week at two under and win a fifth G4D Tour trophy after four victories in the inaugural season.
Barkley signed for a 79 to be the nearest challenger, with Spaniard Juan Postigo Arce then at six over, seven clear of England's Mike Browne and Irish star Brendan Lawlor who shared fourth. Lawlor was unable to replicate his fine play of day one, adding rounds of 79 and 78 to his opening 72 to finish at 13-over.
"I love it here," said the victorious Popert. "This is the first time I've played a competition here in Australia.
"Growing up in the south-east of England I've been practising links golf for a while and I had to use a few of those shots out there today.
"My approach was that we have a system and I just followed it to the tee. I was hitting it really well so just wanted to see how low I could go.
"To be the champion here is an absolute honour. I had three Tim Tams yesterday so there must be something in those."
A nice up-and-down brought Popert a birdie on the driveable first but he dropped shots at the fourth and fifth before finding his groove before the turn.
He put his tee-shot to six feet at the par-three seventh, made a two-putt birdie on the par-five next and holed from 15 feet on the ninth to turn in 34.
A bogey came on the 12th but Popert left himself six feet at the 13th and got down in two putts from off the 17th green as he romped to an emphatic victory.
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A Swollen Red Sun by Matthew McBride
God, drugs, corruption, and morality come together in this gripping tale of desperation
In Gasconade County, Missouri—once called the meth capital of the world—Deputy Sherriff Dale Banks discovers $52,000 hidden in the broken-down trailer that Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows what he did was wrong, but he did it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong, there is a consequence.
Jerry Dean can't afford to lose that $52,000—he owes it to his partners and to a crooked cop. He also can't afford to disappoint the crazed and fearsome Reverend Butch Pogue, who is expecting Jerry Dean to deliver the chemicals the reverend needs for his next batch of meth. To avoid the holy man's wrath, Jerry Dean sets in motion a series of events that will threaten Banks's family, his life, and everything he thinks he knows about the world.
"Matthew McBride's new novel, A Swollen Red Sun, is rough and ready suspense, encompassing a wide array of characters from the sour side of life, and smashing them together with vigorous and blunt prose." —Daniel Woodrell, author of The Maid's Version and Winter's Bone
"The words practically vibrate off the page in Matthew McBride's amped-up and intricately-plotted novel about meth freaks and dirty cops. Filled with scenes of both tremendous brutality and heartrending compassion, it is the best fictional depiction of the current drug epidemic raging across the Midwest that I have ever read." —Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All The Time
"A Swollen Red Sun, simply put, is an epic piece of modern crime fiction. But within that, McBride never loses his sense of powerful intimacy with the characters, their lives, their families, and their demons." —Todd Robinson, author of The Hard Bounce and editor of Thuglit
"Memorable, unique, and at times, even haunting. Every character rings true from the feckless to the noble to the downright frightening. . . . [With] dark country humor, A Swollen Red Sun is a must read." —Johnny Shaw, Anthony Award–winning author of Big Maria and Plaster City
"Matthew McBride is an American original. His dialogue crackles like a brush fire and he has a rare gift for pitch-perfect details that breathe life into each and every character. There's no other writer I know whose prose could sear paint off a wall." —Hilary Davidson, author of Blood Always Tells
"Matthew McBride writes like a train doing 80 miles an hour towards a curve rated for 30. The doors are rattling, the couplings are screaming, and you're riding the blind, hoping like hell that the destination lives up to the ride. Which it does, and more. Matthew McBride is exactly my kind of writer, and A SWOLLEN RED SUN is precisely my kind of book." – Benjamin Whitmer, author of Cry Father
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Author Archives: Jacob Barlow
Some of the history of the chapels in Enterprise, Utah
The Enterprise First Meetinghouse was built in 1898 and is now the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum.
The Enterprise Second Meetinghouse was built in 1913 and served as both the church and school.
The Enterprise Third Meetinghouse was built in 1957.
The Salt Lake Stake in Salt Lake City Utah started out with the original 19 wards in 1849. The city was split up into wards usually 3 blocks square.
I found this good visual on familysearch:
Here are links to those I have documented so far:
1st Ward
2nd Ward
3rd Ward
4th Ward
10th Ward
The California Trail had its beginnings at several points along the Missouri River, and included several variant routes across the Great Basin and over the Sierra Nevada mountains into California. With the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, most travelers made the journey by rail.
California Trail related posts:
Central Overland Trail – Washington Square
Salt Lake to Southern California Road
Hastings Cutoff – Utah Outlet (Jordan River)
Jedediah Smith's Trail – Great Salt Lake
Where Trails Meet – Raft River Valley Trails
The Old Emigrant Road
Seeds-Kee-Dee-Agie
The location where they filmed the Tower Farm scenes for Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Halloween 5 Filming Locations
Movie Filming Locations
Filming locations I've come across for Halloween 5.
Mine Shaft/Cabin/Shack
Children's Clinic
Carruthers House
Myer's House
Tower Farm
Cookie Woman Gas Station
Police Station (demolished)
See filming locations for other movies on this page.
Book Burning – Footloose Filming Location
Reverend Moore stops the burning of the books in the movie Footloose (1984).
Reverend Moore runs into the square where they're burning books to not let them influence the children and stops it. Enough people have said that this was filmed at Springville High School so I went with that, but Springville High and Payson High are identically built and the rest of the High School scenes were filmed at Payson High so I wouldn't be surprised if it was in Payson. Either way, they look the same and are only 20 minutes away from each other so close enough I'd say.
Other Footloose Filming Locations
Theaters in Utah
This page is a place to keep track of the theaters I document in Utah.
Capitol Theatre (Logan)
The Egyptian Theater (Park City)
The Electric Theatre (St George)
Huish Theater (Payson)
Little Brown Theater (Springville)
Lyric Theatre (Logan)
Murray Theater (Murray)
Peery's Egyptian Theater (Ogden)
SCERA Theater (Orem)
Drive In Theaters
Basin Drive In (Mt Pleasant)
Coleman's Motor Vu Drive-In (Riverdale)
Echo Drive-In (Roosevelt)
Motor Vu Drive-In (Tooele)
Redwood Drive In (West Valley)
Shooting Star RV Resort (Escalante)
Other Theaters
Capitol Theatre (Salt Lake City)
Desert Star Theater (Murray)
Hale Center Theater (Orem)
Recreation Center for the Utah State Hospital (Provo)
Thatcher Brothers Bank and Opera House (Logan)
Salt Lake Assembly Hall
One of the buildings on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Built where the Old Tabernacle was located, the Old Tabernacle was stood from 1852 to 1877 and construction on the Assembly Hall began that same year and was finished in 1880.
Enterprise Heritage Park
Heritage Park in Enterprise, Utah
Geocaching Youtube Playlist
I've been geocaching since 2001, it's awesome. But I haven't done a lot of videos of geocaching until 2019. I have started trying to document it all that way and here's a playlist of some of those videos.


Started with a 5:00 AM van.
First flight was booked full. Ten minutes prior to departure I kept hearing a flight attendant request bell going off. The aisle was full of passengers and the Flight Attendant couldn't get to the passenger. The problem was a "passenger of size" was trying to recline his seat forcefully and broke the recline mechanism....it wouldn't stay upright. Our operations decided to take the seat out of service to keep the schedule going. The passenger was removed.
The Captain worked on the paperwork and asked me to secure the seat. Securing the seat means pushing the seat back forward until its flat against the seat bottom cushion. I then use the seat belt to secure it in place. Not hard. I've seen it done before.
Well when I pushed the seat back forward the seat recline mechanism arm that was broken was shooting straight back into the knee space of the seat behind. Thankfully I had that passenger stand up. The metal piece wasn't removeable. Guess what happened next? We removed the seat BEHIND the broken seat from service as well. Because of one passenger breaking his seat, another is being left behind.
My leg. One of the Air Cycle Machines (we call them "packs") was inoperative. This meant we had to fly much lower than normal. Lower burns more fuel and tends to be bumpier. Blocked out 20 minutes late. Deiced and away we went. Light to moderate chop most of the flight. The flight was heavily over blocked as we arrived just 5 minutes late.
Next flight was really short, 80 miles. Clear and a million, but a front was coming through. Really rough winds. I had to work the yoke quite a bit to land the aircraft on the runway and in the touchdown zone. The gust were random and strong. Happy to be done.
Back at the hub the winds were also high and gusting...and from the complete opposite direction than when we left just an hour prior. It was the Captains turn to have to work it down to the runway.
We landed 25 minutes early. Normally a good thing. Well today our gate was occupied. We waited on the ramp for it to clear. I noticed a huffer art attached....meaning they had no APU. We waited...and waited...and waited. Total air time for the flight was 20 minutes. We waited 45 minutes for a gate. Finally assigned a new gate.
My crew was supposed to have 90 minutes between flights for a break. We only had 50 minutes. I grabbed a veggie burger and fries and headed to the aircraft.
I did my preflight and set up the plane. I then devoured my lunch.
A passenger got on board and confirmed our destination. The Captain stated, "Yes mam, non stop!"
As we were preparing to leave I jokingly told the Captain, "I'm getting worn....I'm only reading these checklist ONE time each, if we divert...too bad."
Blocked out on time. Bumpy takeoff due to winds.
Short hour flight. About 25 minutes out I pulled up the weather with the ACARS unit.
"Hey Phil, we got a problem." I said and pointed to the screen. The winds were a direct 90 degree crosswind at 340 at 27 gusting 34. Our crosswind limitation is 30 knots.
"You have to be kidding me." He replied.
No alternate fuel was on board. There was another airport just 60 miles away that we serve where the winds would be right down the runway.
I used the second radio to call the tower to verify the winds. They were holding at the 90 degrees and 34 knots. Short discussion and we were diverting. Things got busy fast.
Since it was his leg he flew while I notified the dispatcher of our change in destination, reprogrammed the FMS for the new destination, pulled up weather, recomputed performance, changed the landing elevation for pressurization, made a PA to the passengers and called the out station we were headed to via the second radio to advise them that we were coming. All in about 5 minutes.
Gusty approach, but winds were right down the runway.
In and done. Time was 3:13PM. The dispatcher stated we would wait until 4PM to make any decisions. Everybody off.
The passenger who asked about the destination joked about it not being non stop while she walked off.
My crew was hungry. We walked into the terminal and sat down at a restaurant....a steakhouse. Not the place for a vegetarian. I wasn't hungry anyway.
At 4PM the winds were down to 340 at 22 gusting to 28. We had 2 knots to spare. Since we diverted to a nearby airport some passengers...actually about half...had found other ways home.
"Because I like you Phil I'm going to read all the check list ONE more time," I said to the Captain.
When I called to get our clearance I was told ,"Climb maintain 5000, expect Flight Level 240 in 10 minutes." I just laughed. The flight was 60 miles. We couldn't get to FL240 if we were empty. The dispatcher made a typo while filing.
We pushed back at 4:31PM. We only climbed to 10,000 feet.
Short flight. I picked up the ATIS 30 miles out. Winds were 340 at 27 gusting 35.
"Phil you're not going to believe this but the winds kicked back up to a 34 knot direct crosswind." I said.
He was in disbelief. We were banging up against a duty clock. Where ever we landed would mean we would be illegal to take off again due to duty regulations.
Thankfully we had 4000 pounds of fuel on board. We ran the numbers and figured our bingo fuel was 2300 pounds. Our alternate was the airport we just left.
I advised the approach controller we couldn't land. He let us fly an extended downwind to discuss options. We decided we would make our own hold at the final approach fix to see if winds would die down.
The Captain made a PA and told it like it was.
Each time we went inbound we'd ask for the winds. The winds in the area were odd as there was a smoke stack under our pattern that was gently blowing. The winds at 3000 feel AGL were just 17 knots.
The third time inbound the winds were 340 at 25 gusting to 30.
I immediately requested a visual approach. Cleared.
It was a smooth ride until about 1.5 mile final. Passing over a river I could see the rough water from the winds. We got kicked around a bit but the Captain really worked the yoke to make a very nice landing.
So we thought. A master caution went off for a bleed air subsystem. Another write up.
We thought we were done.
We then waited a record 32 minutes for the hotel van.
Tomorrow is just 3 legs....hopefully.
The new rest rules are good. I must have the opportunity for eight hours of uninterrupted rest. Thus all over nights are now 10 hours minimum with most being scheduled for 11 hours. My duty ends at block in for FAA purposes. My rest starts 15 minutes after that.


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With just days remaining before the deadline arrives, and much more still left to do, the Streetscape project in Cape Coral is in a crunch to be completed on time.
The months long construction project in Cape Coral's entertainment district is scheduled to be complete by the end of the year, but with much left to do, it will take a lot of work to have it finished.
Residents of the area say they are ready for it to be done.
"We love coming down here and it's so hard to get to with the construction going on," said Bill Lynch of Cape Coral.
"I tripped on one of the curbing things already once and twisted my ankle so I don't know hopefully it gets better soon," said Dawn Pilz.
What started as a project to increase safety around the restaurants and shopping areas, has turned into a concern for businesses.
Business owners in the area worried about the construction, and the effects it would have on their business from the very beginning, and we are now learning that a business who temporarily shut down, is now shutting down for good.


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