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Serial Mom
"Waters recycles himself; still very funny."
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Even at his most outrageous � say, the infamous cult classic 'Pink Flamingos,' which ended with the great Divine eating actual dog excrement on-camera � the writer-director John Waters can't disguise his essential good-heartedness, his affection for his characters. The more screwed up they are, the more he cherishes them.
Serial Mom, Waters' new comedy, is about a suburban wife and mother who kills people. Some may think Waters loves this woman because she's an otherwise nice person. No. He loves her because she kills people. Always glad to set these things straight.
After the goofy PG fun of Hairspray and Cry-Baby, which seemed positively Disneyesque compared with Waters' early work, Serial Mom finds him firmly back in R-rated territory. I enjoyed it more than any other movie so far this year, yet for the first time in his career, Waters' satire isn't quite cutting-edge. (This is a man who, in Polyester, found belly laughs in a trip to an abortion clinic.) Waters has always been preoccupied with killers; he has written often about his visits to murder trials, and his 1974 Female Trouble was a sort of dry run for Serial Mom. I think what's happened is that, with the advent of Court TV and the media popularity of the Bobbitts and the Menendezes, the national interest in legal freak shows has dovetailed with Waters' obsession, thus defanging his humor. Still, Serial Mom has more than enough bite in other areas.
Kathleen Turner is Beverly Sutphin, a happy housewife who takes pride in recycling and in making the perfect meat loaf. Her husband Eugene (Sam Waterston), a dentist, believes strongly in capital punishment � until the issue comes closer to home (one of Waters' subtler, gutsier points). Daughter Misty (Ricki Lake) is boy-crazy; son Chip (Matthew Lillard) is a horror-movie addict. Waters introduces the family in a scene that plays as borderline parody (all it needs is a perky dog named Spot) and neatly establishes that Bev isn't playing with a full deck: Tracking a fly around the breakfast table, she swats it bloodily and with a little too much enthusiasm.
Bev will spend the rest of Serial Mom swatting human flies. Waters stages the murders so that we laugh at them (Bev's victims are all grotesque) but feel a twinge of guilt for laughing; after all, their deaths are far from justified. We watch Serial Mom going after people who don't recycle, who don't rewind rental videos before returning them, who cheat her out of a parking space. Waters wants us to identify with Bev's homicidal rage; he wants us to admit to our own fleeting murderous impulses (who hasn't momentarily wanted to kill some asshole who cuts us off on the highway?) that we hold in check. Bev doesn't hold back. After her arrest, of course, she becomes a "feminist heroine" who charms the jury, and Suzanne Somers angles to play her in the inevitable TV movie.
Serial Mom is consistently witty. Waters' moment of glory here is the leg-of-lamb murder (perhaps a tribute to the famous Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Lamb to the Slaughter"), in which blood spatters a TV screen playing Annie; the point is made but not lingered on. There's a great appearance by the hard-driving all-female band L7, playing a band called Camel Lips, at a concert where the crowd respectfully parts for the now-notorious Serial Mom. (Waters' staging of this scene's orgasmic fiery murder is ingenious: exciting enough to get you cheering along with the concert audience, fierce enough to make you wince.) I'd rather not give away all the jokes, as some critics (i.e. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone) have done, but there's a giddy bit of vintage Waters profanity when Bev crank-calls her snippy neighbor (Waters regular Mink Stole).
Kathleen Turner, who proved her aptitude for gleeful sadism in The War of the Roses, gives a twinkly, crowd-pleasing performance. When she's sprinting after her prey with sharp objects, she's as funny-scary as the Terminator. The purposeful way she takes off after one victim or another (These jerks aren't gonna get away from me!) is classic physical comedy. Turner is funniest, though, at her most wholesome; her All-American-Mom facade grows more absurd as the movie goes on. Waters' true comic find here, though, is Sam Waterston, vacationing from a career of well-appointed television. Waterston scores more laughs with his eyebrows (they're always curled up in bafflement, like bushy question marks) than most actors manage with their entire bodies.
I'd love to recommend Serial Mom wholeheartedly. For the most part, I do. Yet I can't help pointing out that Waters has essentially made this movie before, and more daringly. (The slogan of Female Trouble was "Crime is beauty.") His script here is an excellent expansion of a one-joke idea, and the one joke is the title. Waters began writing Serial Mom years ago, so it isn't his fault that it parodies what has become a self-parody: the American fascination with sordid murder cases, the cult of criminal celebrity (which in this country goes back at least to Lizzie Borden). When Bev's family hawks Serial Mom T-shirts outside the courthouse, we flash on John Wayne Bobbitt selling his own line of shirts. The concept of a man marketing his own mutilation is right out of a John Waters film, and unfortunately it trumps most of the excesses offered in this John Waters film.
In the past, John Waters shocked us into laughter by skewering traditional values (and those who would actually watch a Waters film probably never took those values very seriously in the first place). Here he skewers himself, too: He's as hooked on true-crime stories as anyone, and his movie itself is implicated. Waters, an openly gay filmmaker who has never made much of his sexuality (it rarely comes up in interviews, and you wouldn't think of any of his films as "gay-interest movies"), used to respond to society's rejection of him by violently rejecting society. He drew more blood when he was irresponsible and nasty, and we shared his affection for his outcasts � he was like Andy Warhol with a raucous, teasing sense of humor and a natural entertainer's instinct. Serial Mom, however, has a whiff of moral rectitude about it. Has Waters actually grown up? Now that's shocking. Waters gets us hooting at Bev's kill sprees, then tweaks us for being murder groupies. He actually has a young horror-movie fan exclaim, after finding one of Bev's victims, "That was real blood, not gore, like in the movies! It was real!" � at which exact moment I knew that John Waters has become kinder and gentler. (The old Waters would've had the kid get off on seeing real blood.)
'Serial Mom' is often hilarious; Waters remains our best working comedy director. But is there anything left for him to puncture? The film may be a bad-boy satirist's mournful acceptance that America has finally become sicker than anything he could dream up.


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The current Parking Policy was approved in 2014, and required a revision to provide for new services, and advances in technology. Picture Courtney Africa/African News Agency (ANA)
Residents and interested parties are encouraged to read the revised Parking Policy and to submit their comments and proposals by Friday September 18.
The revised policy addresses the provision, management, regulation, enforcement, and pricing of parking across the city: from on-street parking and off-street parking, to park-and-ride facilities, loading bays, bus bays, parking permits, reserved parking, and parking for bicycles, motorbikes, and provision for e-hailing services.
This includes all aspects related to parking, and regardless of whether the parking is being provided by the private or public sector.
The current Parking Policy was approved in 2014, and required a revision to provide for new services, and advances in technology.
Mayoral committee member for transport, Felicity Purchase, said: "There is a need to improve enforcement of parking transgressions; to cater for new transport modes such as e-hailing and electric vehicles; and to promote parking that is friendly to the environment in terms of design and management. We also want to, in future, implement cashless payments for parking. The revised policy addresses these needs."
Regarding on-street parking, the draft revised policy is pursuing the following:
– easier access to on-street parking within central business districts for those who want to park for a short period
– easier access to designated on-street parking for people with special needs, such as those in wheelchairs
– investigate a possible discount for those who park for less than 10 or 15 minutes
– easier access to designated on-street parking bays for delivery vehicles
– to encourage economic activity in central business areas by providing easy access to on-street parking bays for customers and delivery vehicles
– to encourage short-stay parking within the core of the CBD and longer stay parking on the periphery of the CBD during business hours
– payment through a cashless system by using smart cards or mobile phones to improve convenience and accounting
– for minor parking transgressions to be administered by the contractor who will be contracted to manage on-street parking bays on behalf of the City;
– to develop a rationale for the expansion or removal of managed on-street parking as and when needed
The revised policy is available on www.capetown.gov.za/haveyoursay
Comments, input and recommendations can be submitted as follows:
• By email: transport.info@capetown.gov.za
• Online, by visiting: www.capetown.gov.za/haveyoursay
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FFE Magazine > Life and Lifestyle > Tech > Tech News > Should All Cell Phones Come With "Kill Switches"?
A majority of Americans now own smartphones, and while that might be great news for app-makers, it's becoming an increasing headache for law enforcement. About 40% of robberies in major metros across the country involve a cell phone, according to the Federal Communications Commission, and smartphone-driven thefts often take a violent turn. In a few humanity-shaming instances, those altercations have ended in death.
Congress and the FCC have been trying to come up with deterrents, but some state officials say those efforts are insufficient and slow. That's why a California lawmaker is trying to pass the nation's first state law mandating that phones have "kill switches," mechanisms that would easily render devices inoperable if stolen. "The concept is to use a technological solution to curb this ever escalating new form of crime," says California State Sen. Mark Leno, who will propose the legislation in January with the backing of the San Francisco District Attorney.
In 2012, the FCC helped broker an agreement among the nation's largest carriers to join forces in a central database, where stolen cell phones can be cataloged. The idea was that someone who jacked a phone that was registered with AT&T would no longer be able to get it reactivated on T-Mobile, thus making life harder for criminals and chilling the black market. The companies balked at first, saying it would be too much trouble and cost to implement, but they caved and finished the process in late November this year.
So what does a simple "kill switch" look like? There is no single definition, and the California officials backing the measure say they're more interested in mandating that there is one than dictating how it works. But Gascón sees it as having three important parts: being an opt-out system, so that it's widespread but not infringing on consumer choice; being reversible, so that someone who rediscovers a lost phone can go right back to the way things were; and being effective anywhere in the world, so that the stolen phone would remain a "brick" no matter where it ends up. As a best-so-far model, Gascón points to the "activation lock" feature introduced by Apple earlier this year.
The unclear nature of the "kill switch" isn't going to be the only point of contention as lawmakers debate the proposal in Sacramento. The association representing carriers like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile—known as CTIA—has balked at the basic idea, citing concerns about security. "Our members are continuing to explore and offer new technologies to address these crimes, while not inadvertently creating a 'trap door' that hackers and cybercriminals could exploit," it said in a statement to TIME.
A kill switch could be something like an app that comes preloaded on a phone and allows users to go online and shut down the phone themselves, so that the gadget would never operate again in the absence of a user's security codes. Leno says those details will be fleshed out in conversations with manufacturers and law enforcement in the new year, when similar legislation may be introduced in New York. "The intent is to make use of technology to make this kind of crime of little value to those who are involved," he says.


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Last week, biosolids groups from across the nation submitted a letter to Dave Ross, U. S. EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water, urging the Agency to include wastewater and biosolids management professionals and their perspectives in its efforts to address poly- and perfuorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment.
PFAS are a group of chemicals, widely used for 50 years in consumer products, fire-fighting foams, and manufacturing. More than two decades of research has found some significant health impacts, mostly associated with the two most common and persistent PFAS: PFOA and PFOS. Starting in the early 2000s, U. S. EPA facilitated a voluntary phase-out of these two chemicals, and, already, their concentrations are lower in humans.
As health concerns and public scrutiny increase, regulatory agencies are stepping in to protect drinking water, which is considered one of the primary modes of human exposure. By far the most serious PFAS contamination has been found at and from industrial and fire-fighting sites. Yet wastewater and biosolids are routinely mentioned as other "sources" of PFAS by leading reviews of the topic, even though, to date, research finds orders of magnitude lower impacts from biosolids sites, even where there have been many years of biosolids applications.
Biosolids practitioners are urging state agencies and U. S. EPA to pay attention to these details and work with us to address any legitimate PFAS concerns related to biosolids, but not make assumptions that result in overreactions that could disrupt important, ongoing biosolids recycling programs and provide no significant public health benefit.
Read the group letter to U. S. EPA and NEBRA's perspective fact sheet here.


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Operation Kindness' purpose is to imagine, articulate, implement and actualize alternatives to neoliberal globalization based upon kindness, altruism and love, and as such policy formation is crucial to the movement. Our recent position paper 'Love and Alter-globalisation: Towards a New Development Ethic' aims to position Operation Kindness within the wider alter-globalisation movement, and articulate the rationale for adopting our specific ideas and practices. It explores the potential of a political concept of love as a frame of reference within which a genuinely realistic and visionary set of transformations could occur, leading to principled and non-violent revolutionary social change. The paper proposes that a new politics of love can offer an ethical hegemony to subvert and supplant the current neoliberal worldview whilst simultaneously providing a clear pathway for transition to the next system model. You can download the position paper here.
Radical system change might seem utopian in vision in a world within which 'there is no alternative' (TINA) remains a dominant narrative, but much detailed and practical work is underway on transition strategies to achieve just such change in an immediate way. While Operation Kindness does not exclusively propose one particular next system model, there are naturally some models more closely aligned to our values than others. Below is a selection of papers from the 'Next System Project' who are a US based initiative involving a broad group of researchers, theorists and activists who seek to launch a debate on the nature of the next system. We hope you find them a useful resource.
Next System Project Papers
The Economy for the Common Good – A Workable, Transformative Ethics-Based Alternative by Christian Felber and Gus Hagelberg By focusing on increasing the quality of life for everyone, promoting values such as human dignity and rights, ecological responsibility, and ensuring social justice, the economy can be finally controlled by the citizens to serve the public good. …continue reading…
Earthland: Scenes From a Civilized Future by Paul Raskin
This essay is written as a dispatch from the future. We visit Earthland in 2084, the flourishing planetary civilization that has emerged out of the great crises and struggles that today still lie before us. We learn how decades earlier a "global citizens movement" had coalesced and gathered momentum, becoming the key agent of the Great Transition that bent the arc of history from catastrophe to renewal. …continue reading…
The Promise of a Million Utopias by Michael Shuman
Here is a fun question guaranteed to stump your friends, family, and party guests: Can you name the leader of Switzerland? Trust me—no one ever knows the answer. And the reason is simple. It hardly matters. …continue reading…
Cultivating Community Economies: Tools for Building a Liveable World by J.K. Gibson-Graham and Community Economies Collective (CEC)
The Community Economies Collective (CEC) seeks to bring about more sustainable and equitable forms of development by acting on new ways of thinking about economies and politics. Building on J.K. Gibson-Graham's feminist critique of political economy, the CEC challenges two problematic aspects of how "the economy" is understood: seeing it as inevitably capitalist, and separating the economy from ecology …continue reading…
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm by David Bollier
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change? Our challenge is not just articulating attractive alternatives, but identifying credible strategies for actualizing them. …continue reading…
The New Economy: A Living Earth System Model by David Korten
As an MBA student, I learned a basic rule of effective organizational problem solving that has shaped much of my professional life. Our professors constantly admonished us to "look at the big picture." Treat the visible problem—a defective product or an underperforming employee—as the symptom of a deeper system failure. Look upstream to find and correct the system conditions responsible for the system failure. Otherwise the problem will simply reoccur. It is perhaps the most important lesson I learned in more than twenty-six years of formal education. We humans must apply that lesson now to the greatest challenges we have faced since our earliest ancestors walked the plains of Africa.
Economic Democracy: An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable by David Schweickart
"The big challenges that capitalism now faces in the contemporary world include issues of inequality (especially that of grinding poverty in a world of unprecedented prosperity) and of "public goods" (that is, goods people share together, like the environment). The solution to these problems will almost certainly call for institutions that take us beyond the capitalist market economy." So wrote Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen, sixteen years ago. Needless to say the intervening years have only strengthened his thesis—inequality and environmental degradation have gotten much worse and grinding poverty persists. …continue reading…
Toward Democratic Eco-socialism as the Next World System by Hans A. Baer
This essay is guided by two imperatives: (1) how do we live in harmony with each other on a fragile planet of limited resources, which have become unevenly distributed; and (2) how do we live in harmony with nature, particularly as humanity lurches forward into an era of potentially catastrophic, anthropogenic climate change that to a large degree is a by-product of the capitalist world system. …continue reading…
The Good Society by Henning Meyer
When the global financial crisis hit in 2007/08, many social democrats in Europe (and beyond) believed that their time had finally come. Deregulated financial markets had developed into a self-referential system that was becoming more and more detached from the wider economy. And when the finance industry collapsed, it had wide-ranging consequences, given global economic interdependency. The crash of Wall Street brought down not just other financial centers, like the City of London, but plunged the entire global economy into a deep crisis that is still not resolved to date. …continue reading…
Towards a New, Green Economy Sustainable and Just―at Community Scale by Tim Jackson and Peter A. Victor
This paper explores what we will call the green economy as a potential solution to the multiple challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity to social injustice, and financial instability …continue reading…
Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth Created by Arthur Shlain from the Noun Project by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
The next system that we need, and that hopefully we are moving toward, is a cooperative commonwealth within interlocking local solidarity economies. Such a system is created from the bottom up, building upon multiple grassroots cooperative enterprises, and democratic community-based economic practices. These networks collaborate and federate from the local to municipal, regional, national, and international levels. …continue reading…
A Civic Economy of Provisions by Marvin T. Brown
Many of us agree that the economy we have is not the economy we want. There are alternatives: a solidarity economy, a sharing economy, a local economy, an ownership economy, and so on. Many of you know about some of these. All are good, and I think we are still looking. As an additional alternative, I want to propose a civic economy—an economy based on civic relations rather than property relations—designed to make provisions for all rather than making money for the few. …continue reading…
What's Next? Parecon (Participatory Economics) by Michael Albert
People now fighting economic injustice have no right to decide how future people should live. But we do have a responsibility to provide an institutional setting that facilitates future people deciding for themselves what their own conditions of life and work should be. To this end, participatory economics, or parecon, describes the core institutions required to generate solidarity, equity, self-management, and an ecologically sound and classless economy. …continue reading…
Whole Systems Change: A Framework & First Steps for Social/Economic Transformation by Riane Eisler
Today's nuclear and biological weapons give us destructive powers once attributed only to a vengeful God. Fossil fuels combined with our species' exponential population growth are decimating our natural life-support systems. A seismic technological shift, as radical as that from foraging to farming and from agriculture to manufacturing, is hurling us into the postindustrial, knowledge-service age. Jobs are disappearing, and many more soon will be lost to robotics and artificial intelligence. The chasm between haves and have-nots is again widening both within and between nations. Religious fanaticism is resurging, promising heavenly rewards for terrorizing, maiming, and killing.
And that is only the short list of our environmental, economic, and social problems. Yet the vast majority of people, including most national leaders, academics, and mass media, remain in a kind of trance, insulated by old ways of thinking. …continue reading…
Six Theses on Saving the Planet by Richard Smith
From the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, workers, trade unionists, radicals, and socialists have fought against the worst depredations of capitalist development: intensifying exploitation, increasing social polarization, persistent racism and sexism, deteriorating workplace health and safety conditions, environmental ravages, and relentless efforts to suppress democratic political gains under the iron heel of capital. Yet, even as we fight to hold onto the few gains we've made, today, the engine of global capitalist development has thrown up a new and unprecedented threat, an existential threat to our very survival as a species. …continue reading…
Start With Worker Self-Directed Enterprises by Richard D. Wolff
Contemporary capitalism no longer "delivers the goods"—understood as a rising standard of real wages—to the majority of people. That classic defense of its instability (recurrent bouts of unemployment, lost output, and wasted resources), its deepening economic, political, and cultural inequalities (as Thomas Piketty documents), and the attendant injustices are no longer plausible. In the US since the 1970s, and especially since 2007, those who control the dominant capitalist enterprises and the resulting economic "development" made decisions that undermined the delivery of rising standards of living to the mass of people. …continue reading…
Participatory Economics & the Next System by Robin Hahnel
It is increasingly apparent that neoliberal capitalism is not working well for most of us. Growing inequality of wealth and income is putting the famous American middle class in danger of
becoming a distant memory as American children, for the first time in our history, now face economic prospects worse than what their parents enjoyed. We suffer from more frequent financial "shocks" and linger in recession far longer than in the past. Education and health care systems are being decimated. And if all this were not enough, environmental destruction continues to escalate as we stand on the verge of triggering irreversible, and perhaps cataclysmic, climate change. However, in the midst of escalating economic dysfunction, new economic initiatives are sprouting up everywhere. …continue reading…


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Tina is a young Trustee for North Herts CVS, we had a chat with her to find out why she loves volunteering
I am an 18 years old student from Letchworth Garden City. I am a climate activist, local campaigner and volunteer. I am also heavily involved in local politics. How long have you been a volunteer? I have been a volunteer for most of my life and have a wealth of volunteer experience which started at school. I have coached athletics to disabled children and in the sixth form I took part in the school council, running charity events and helping out in history as part of the ambassador programme. In the local community, I have volunteered in a range of places such as a pop up shop for a local homelessness charity and supported local community cafes. In January I became a Trustee at the North Herts Centre for Voluntary Service and I am currently the lead board member for the #TeamHerts Volunteering project.
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I decided to start volunteering to give back to the local community that I feel so passionately about. I became a Trustee because I wanted to use my volunteering experience and personal experiences to support and promote others undertaking volunteering opportunities and to aid the development of the voluntary sector in Hertfordshire. What's good about volunteering? I find volunteering incredibly rewarding. It gives you the chance to make a positive difference to the local community and the world around you.
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A brand new addition to Team Silvana Tirinzoni for the 2018-2019 season after a spell of five years as skip, Barbezat is the youngest member of her rink.
Barbezat won her first world championship in 2019, in the same season she picked up a silver medal at the European Curling Championship in Tallinn.
A former member of Michele Jaeggi, Barbezat won a bronze medal at the 2013 Winter Universiade.


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Marathon running is not easy, says sprint great Yohan Blake
Over 55,000 participants have registered across six categories for the 18th edition of event.
Long-distance great Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya smashed his world marathon record by 30 seconds, clocking 2:01:09 at the Berlin Marathon last year, and Blake thinks the time will be bettered.
"I think it's possible, it can go lower by far. Give it time. Anything is possible," added 33-year-old Blake, who is the second fastest man of all time.
Blake, the current 100m Jamaican champion, has clocked under 10 seconds in the 100m 48 times in his career and said he's eyeing the World Championships in August.
"Yeah. I'm focusing on Budapest. I didn't do what I wanted in the World Championships (Eugene, 2022). I'm very focused on Budapest."
He feels a close affinity towards India because of his love for cricket and said unearthing athletics talent in this country is part of his plans.
"I intend to come to India and find the best runners. Use my team to train them. If it wasn't for covid it would be in action already," he said.
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dude, let it go 🙂 we get the picture. though honestly it seemed pretty clear to me that dienekes wasn't a professional. but then again, i've been following his blog since spring of 2003, and his background in computer science seems to have been more well known then.


I was watching this awesome and wild storm from the dry safety of the Rorbuer we rented in Moskenes, Lofoten, near Eliassen Rorbuer.
When I looked over at that mountain I could sens something happening so I went out to the balcony of the house with my camera. The moment with this ray of light only lasted about a minute but it was one of those really neat features of light that you have to catch when they are happening. Just then and at no other time.


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The Los Angeles Kings have acquired right wing Tobias Rieder and goaltender Scott Wedgewood from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for goaltender Darcy Kuemper, Kings Vice President and General Manager Rob Blake announced on Feb. 21.
Both Rieder and Wedgewood are expected to be in Los Angeles in time for Feb. 22 morning's game day skate at 10 a.m.
Rieder is a 25-year-old native of Landshut, Germany. Originally selected by Edmonton in the fourth-round (114th) of the 2011 NHL Draft, he has 51 goals and 111 points in 292 career regular season games – all with Arizona. In 58 games this season, he has eight goals and 19 points.
The 5-11, 188-pound Rieder made his Coyotes/NHL debut during the 2014-15 season, collected a career-high 37 points during the 2015-16 season, and scored a career-high 16 goals during the 2016-17 campaign.
The speedy winger has also been remarkably durable during his NHL career, appearing in 220 of a possible 223 games for the Coyotes over the last two-plus seasons.
Rieder has also represented his native Germany several times on the international stage. He played for the German World Junior team from 2009-2013 (he was an assistant captain in 2013) and he most recently skated for the German national team at the 2017 World Championships, his fourth appearance with that team.
Wedgewood is a 25-year-old native of Brampton, Ontario. Originally selected by New Jersey in the third-round (84th overall) in the 2010 NHL Draft, he has a record of 5-9-4 with a goals-against-average of 3.45 and a save-percentage of .893 with one shutout in 20 appearances this season.
The 6-2, 195-pound netminder made his NHL debut in 2015-16 with the Devils and went 2-1-1 with a 1.24 goals-against-average and a .957 save-percentage in four appearances. He also earned his first career shutout that season with a 39-save effort at Pittsburgh (March 24, 2016).
Like Rieder, Wedgewood has also represented his native country internationally as he was a member of the Canadian World Junior Championship team that captured a bronze medal in 2012.
Kuemper was in his first season with the Kings after joining the team as a free agent.
In 19 games he has a 10-1-3 record, a 2.10 goals-against-average, a .932 save percentage (ranks among league leaders) and three shutouts. His five previous NHL seasons were spent with the Minnesota Wild.
Today's trade between the Kings and Coyotes marks the first transaction between the two clubs since March 9, 2006 (Kings acquired Tim Jackman for Yanick Lehoux).
The Kings, winners of three consecutive games, begin a three-game homestand on Feb. 22 at STAPLES Center when Kings host the Dallas Stars beginning at 7:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on FOX Sports West and KABC Radio 790 with pregame shows starting at 7 p.m.


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Published February 10, 2017 2:51pm EST
Redskins OL Kory Lichtensteiger announces retirement at 31
By | FoxSports
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Washington Redskins offensive lineman Kory Lichtensteiger is retiring at age 31 after eight seasons in the NFL.
Lichtensteiger announced the news via the Redskins on Friday.
He made a total of 75 starts at left guard or center for the Redskins after joining them as a free agent in 2010. He was drafted in the fourth round out of Bowling Green by the Denver Broncos in 2008.
Lichtensteiger dealt with injuries the past two seasons, totaling only eight starts.
For more NFL coverage: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL


It is sad to think about how beautiful tree must have been.
I do realize that and they were probably killed/damaged in a flood before they were cut down. But I have seen my share of horrible clear cutting in Maine and Canada. And besides, it made for a good story.
<smile> I was, of course, being ironic. When I arrived in British Columbia, the Canadian logging companies were promoting their efforts at sustainable logging by putting signs in the clearcuts just off the highway. The signs were emblazoned with the bold title: "Managed Forest" and beneath that, the month and year the forest had been cut, followed by the month and year it had been replanted.
The signs did not mention that the 'managed' part of the forest meant the replanting was generally a monoculture — generally fir, but sometimes instead, cedar. That is, a tree farm, not a forest.
And now the poor trees only get to 8" diameter, the soil is so poor. They clear the pines down here too. But I did take liberties with that particular site.


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A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Compulsion in Religion?
Compulsion in Religion?
Cole Bunzel
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The title of Samuel Helfont's Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq derives from the Qur'anic phrase "there is no compulsion in religion" (Q. 2:256). While to many this statement reads like a declaration of universal religious freedom, early Muslim scholars tended to interpret it more restrictively. For some, including the leading judge in late Umayyad Syria, the verse was understood to have been abrogated by other verses enjoining warfare against unbelievers. For others, its meaning was that Christians and Jews who agreed to pay the poll-tax (jizya) should not be compelled to convert. Helfont's book is not concerned with any of this. Its subject is rather Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, and his engagement with—and manipulation of—the Iraqi religious sphere during his years in power. As the title suggests, Saddam's policies were entirely at odds with the plain sense of the Qur'anic verse. From the beginning of his tenure, Saddam set out to dominate the religious landscape and to enforce a certain version of Islam on Iraqi society, as Helfont relates in detail. The story of these efforts has not been told before.
Helfont's book is one of several recent studies to make extensive use of the vast trove of Iraqi documents captured following the Iraq war in 2003. These documents include, most importantly for Helfont, the more than ten million pages of the Ba'th Party Regional Command held at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. With access to this unique source material, scholars have been hard at work refining and challenging conventional narratives regarding Ba'thist Iraq. It has been shown, for instance, that the state was far less sectarian in its inner workings than previously believed and that the regime's system of control was as much about rewards as punishments. Compulsion in Religion forms a significant contribution to this more general effort. It flashes a revisionist spirit throughout, as indicated by the phrases "contrary to popular portrayals" and "the regime's internal documents tell a different story."
The narrative that Helfont's book aims to contest is that Saddam's approach to religion underwent dramatic change over the course of his rule. (A recent book by the Israeli scholar Amatzia Baram, published in 2014, fleshes out this narrative at length.) From the outset, on this telling, Saddam's policies were secular and even anti-religious in orientation. In the 1990s, however, the leader reversed course, launching a sweeping campaign to promote Islam in the public sphere. This "Faith Campaign," as it was dubbed, saw the construction of numerous mosques and the introduction of mandatory Islamic education for Ba'thist officials, among many other initiatives. Saddam himself, it is even said by some, discovered a newfound piety during this period. According to Helfont, these notions break down rather quickly when one examines the Ba'th Party archive. Properly considered, Saddam's religious policies betray more continuity than change. There was no "ideological shift," he argues, away from secular Arab nationalism and toward Islam—and certainly not toward Islamism, of which Saddam remained wary till the end. The Islam that he energetically promoted in the 1990s and after was the same Ba'thist version that he had sponsored on a lesser scale in the years before. What appeared as a sudden change in the 1990s was in fact an escalation of preexisting policies, enabled by a growing capacity on the part of the regime to exert control in the religious sphere.
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GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College women's basketball team dropped to 5-4 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference Wednesday night with a 61-58 setback against No. 20 Washington & Jefferson (16-2, 7-1 PAC) in the Grove City College Arena.
Junior forward Christine Slater (Aliquippa, Pa./Center) fired in a game-high 24 points to become the 10th 1,000-point scorer in program history. She now has 1,004 career points.
Slater scored 18 of her 24 points in the second half as Grove City rallied from a 33-20 halftime hole to tie the game at 55 with three minutes left. Grove City trailed 59-58 in the final minute and had a chance to take its first lead of the second half. However, the Wolverines turned the ball over on each of their final three possessions of the game.
Grove City used an 8-0 run to tie the game at 55. Freshman guard Leah Gibson (North Canton, Ohio/Hoover) ignited the run with a layup while Slater followed with two foul shots. Junior forward Alison Wells (Waterville, Vt./Lamoille) scored in the paint and senior forward Laura Miller (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson) knotted the game by hitting tow free throws.
W&J countered with back-to-back scores from Kennan Killeen and Maggie Gibson. Leah Gibson drained a three-point goal with 1:55 left to cut the W&J lead to 59-58.
W&J jumped out to a 14-3 lead in the first half. The Presidents shot 48 percent (14 of 29) from the field in the first half. For the game, the Presidents went 24 for 55 (44 percent) from the field. Grove City finished 23 of 49 (47 percent).
Vanessa Rivera led W&J with 15 points. Maggie Gibson and Killeen each had 11 points. Gibson also had 11 rebounds. Slater led Grove City with 11 rebounds. Each team had 30 rebounds. Both teams went 2 for 9 on three-point attempts.
Leah Gibson added 10 points for Grove City. Senior forward Krista Beechy (Winesburg, Ohio/Berlin Hiland) and sophomore guard Megan Gebrosky (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley) both had three assists.
Grove City (8-10) will host Waynesburg Saturday at 1 p.m. on Hall of Fame Day in the Grove City College Arena.


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Activation of α2A-adrenergic signal transduction in chondrocytes promotes degenerative remodelling of temporomandibular joint
Kai Jiao, Guang Zeng, Li Na Niu, Hong Xu Yang, Gao Tong Ren, Xin Yue Xu, Fei Fei Li, Franklin R. Tay, Mei Qing Wang
This study tested whether activation of adrenoreceptors in chondrocytes has roles in degenerative remodelling of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and to determine associated mechanisms. Unilateral anterior crossbite (UAC) was established to induce TMJ degeneration in rats. Saline vehicle, α2-and β-adrenoreceptor antagonists or agonists were injected locally into the TMJ area of UAC rats. Cartilage degeneration, subchondral bone microarchitecture and the expression of adrenoreceptors, aggrecans, matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and RANKL by chondrocytes were evaluated. Chondrocytes were stimulated by norepinephrine to investigate signal transduction of adrenoreceptors. Increased α2A-adrenoreceptor expression was observed in condylar cartilage of UAC rats, together with cartilage degeneration and subchondral bone loss. Norepinephrine depresses aggrecans expression but stimulates MMP-3, MMP-13 and RANKL production by chondrocytes through ERK1/2 and PKA pathway; these effects were abolished by an α2A-adrenoreceptor antagonist. Furthermore, inhibition of α2A-adrenoreceptor attenuated degenerative remodelling in the condylar cartilage and subchondral bone, as revealed by increased cartilage thickness, proteoglycans and aggrecan expression, and decreased MMP-3, MMP-13 and RANKL expressions in cartilage, increased BMD, BV/TV, and decreased Tb.Sp in subchondral bone. Conversely, activation of α2A-adrenoreceptor intensified aforementioned degenerative changes in UAC rats. It is concluded that activation of α2A-adrenergic signal in chondrocytes promotes TMJ degenerative remodelling by chondrocyte-mediated pro-catabolic activities.
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30085
Adrenergic Agents
Aggrecans
Matrix Metalloproteinase 13
Matrix Metalloproteinase 3
MAP Kinase Signaling System
Proteoglycans
Matrix Metalloproteinases
Jiao, K., Zeng, G., Niu, L. N., Yang, H. X., Ren, G. T., Xu, X. Y., ... Wang, M. Q. (2016). Activation of α2A-adrenergic signal transduction in chondrocytes promotes degenerative remodelling of temporomandibular joint. Scientific Reports, 6, [30085]. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30085
Activation of α2A-adrenergic signal transduction in chondrocytes promotes degenerative remodelling of temporomandibular joint. / Jiao, Kai; Zeng, Guang; Niu, Li Na; Yang, Hong Xu; Ren, Gao Tong; Xu, Xin Yue; Li, Fei Fei; Tay, Franklin R.; Wang, Mei Qing.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, 30085, 25.07.2016.
Jiao, K, Zeng, G, Niu, LN, Yang, HX, Ren, GT, Xu, XY, Li, FF, Tay, FR & Wang, MQ 2016, 'Activation of α2A-adrenergic signal transduction in chondrocytes promotes degenerative remodelling of temporomandibular joint', Scientific Reports, vol. 6, 30085. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30085
Jiao K, Zeng G, Niu LN, Yang HX, Ren GT, Xu XY et al. Activation of α2A-adrenergic signal transduction in chondrocytes promotes degenerative remodelling of temporomandibular joint. Scientific Reports. 2016 Jul 25;6. 30085. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30085
Jiao, Kai ; Zeng, Guang ; Niu, Li Na ; Yang, Hong Xu ; Ren, Gao Tong ; Xu, Xin Yue ; Li, Fei Fei ; Tay, Franklin R. ; Wang, Mei Qing. / Activation of α2A-adrenergic signal transduction in chondrocytes promotes degenerative remodelling of temporomandibular joint. In: Scientific Reports. 2016 ; Vol. 6.
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Thread meat cubes, peppers and pineapple onto skewers.
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2012 Mini Cooper S Coupe
Date Posted: February 16, 2012
Mini now has a smaller, sportier two seater that delivers driving pleasure but limited space.
Ever since BMW took over the Mini brand just over a decade ago, sales have been very strong. Next time you are driving about, especially in urban areas, have a look for these tiny packages of ''fun on four wheels''-- they are everywhere. Not content to sell the ''new Mini'' in its traditional three-door hatch configuration, BMW has stretched into a convertible, a wagon called Clubman and even a compact crossover called Countryman. 2012 ushers in the next stage of Mini evolution with this two-seater coupe, along with a two-seater roadster; basically a convertible version of the coupe. This Coupe is a sportier, sleeker take on the original three-door design with only two seats, a cropped roof and is lighter in weight.
Taking an already short car and turning it into a sleeker coupe design must have been a challenge for the designers. The front windshield has been placed at a steeper angle, the back hatch is no longer square and the rear pillars are wrapped in glass to provide an almost floating roof. Speaking of the roof, it is substantially lower than the regular model and the rear section intrudes on rear visibility. It is easy to say that this Coupe version is a about compromises on behalf of design and the owner. The design limits the outward visibility and cargo capacity and the owner has to be able to live with the confined dimensions in order to be seen in such an eye-catching car. As with all other model, there is a base model called Cooper, then the higher horsepower model called S and even an ultra high-performance model called John Cooper works.
The Cockpit
It is interesting to note that Mini has one of the highest resale values in the business, yet scores very poorly in JD Power and Associates Initial Quality Study. JD Power not only studies repairs but complaints about design and functionality. Basically, the interior of any Mini is a mish-mash of toggle switches, push button switches, rocker switches and rotary dials. Then buttons and switches are scattered throughout the cabin with no sense of order. It talks a while to figure it all out. It could be said that these cars are quirky and the owners are at times frustrated with the complexity because the overall ownership experience is good. Buyers considering the Coupe should pay extra attention to the outward visibility due to the low roof. Being able to see traffic lights out the front window and more than one car through the rear window is frustrating for taller buyers.
Once on the road, all the Mini goodness comes to the surface and the quirks of this little car fall behind. A run to 100km/h in this Cooper S version takes only 6.9 seconds. This S model has a turbocharged 1.6L engine with 184hp and it feels fast and nimble, the exhaust gargles on throttle lift, making it seem faster, plus the manual transmission is a joy to throw around. It's no stretch to say that this Coupe feels even more go-cart like than the regular car; it is 45kg lighter and has 3 more hp. So yes it is quicker, just slightly. One of the things that make this car so much fun is the engine and road noise that provides a sporty soundtrack. That's also bad, because at highway speeds, this car is noisy and fatiguing. If you drive a lot on the highway, this might not be the Mini for you. The base model comes with the same 1.6L engine but it isn't turbocharged and it provides 122hp. If you can afford the stretch for the turbo, go for it you will never regret it.
The Mini Coupe starts at roughly $26,000 and the Cooper S version seen here starts at around $31,000, which represents about a $2000 premium over the regular models. To recap, the Coupe has no back seats, a smaller cargo area and it's loud but it is an absolute blast to drive. Acceleration and handling are at the top of this rather small class. The fact that the Mini brand has such a strong following, with excellent resale value shows the blind eye many buyers have to its shortcomings. The person that is attracted to this car will not care one bit about any of this. I'm sure buyers will be even more thrilled with a quirkier version of a quirky car.
The Good, The Bad
Very cool looking car with go-cart handling.
Some drivers might not fit and visibility is at a premium.
Power: 1.6L turbocharged 4-cylinder with 184hp
Fill-up: 7.6L/5.6L/100km (city/highway)
Backup: 4-year/80,000km
Sticker price: $31,150


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14 August 1994 – St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Harney
"St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Harney"
Carroll County Times article for 14 August 1994
By Jay A. Graybeal
During the summer of 1889 a group of Harney Lutherans met to discuss building a church. The early history of St. Paul's Church was written by J. P. Garner and published a century ago in the Taneytown Carroll Record newspaper:
ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCHThe Committee appointed by the Lutheran church council of Mt. Joy to consider the propriety of building a Lutheran church at Harney, met July 15th. 1889. Dr. J. C. Bush was elected chairman, and D. J. Hesson secretary. After the subject was thoroughly discussed, and it was decided to build, Mr. George I. Shriver and J. L. Hesson were appointed a committee to see about a suitable place for the building, and the price asked for the lot.
On July 19th., the committee met to hear the report of Shriver and Hesson about the lots. Mr. Shriver reported that a lot 100 feet front and 200 feet deep, could be purchased from Mr. George Fream for $150.00, and after viewing the site it was decided to purchase it, and Dr. J. C. Bush, S. D. Reck and George I. Shriver, were appointed to procure a deed for the same, at the proper time.
Abraham Waybright, William H. Lightner and Joseph Spangler, were then appointed a soliciting committee with the power to enlarge the committee to six if necessary.
On motion of Wm. Lightner, it was decided that the church should be built 40 by 70, and Abraham Waybright moved that it be built of brick; both carried. On motion of Rev. Heilman, it was decided that the church be deeded to the trustees at Harney, and, should they fail to raise an organization, the Mt. Joy congregation be given the first chance to buy it. Dr. J. C. Bush, Geo. I. Shriver and S. D. Reck were appointed trustees.
On Oct. 15th., 1889, a people's meeting was held, the object of which was to hear the report of the soliciting committee and their deliberations on the same. Wm. H. Lightner moved that the sum necessary to be subscribed, before the subscriptions be binding, be fixed at $2000. As an amendment, Mr. George Valentine moved that it be fixed at $1800., which was accepted.
On Nov. 6th., the solicitors gave the following encouraging report of the amount subscribed;
William Lightner, . . . . . . . . . . $1131.00
Abraham Waybright. . . . . . . . 455.00
J. L. Hesson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495.00
Making a total of $2081.00
The report was very satisfactory to all Dr. J. C. Bush then made the motion "that we proceed to build a Lutheran church at Harney, and that eleven men and the pastor as chairman ex-officio, be appointed a building committee to erect the church, who shall have the power to select a chairman, and elect a sub-committee of three to oversee the erection of said church, in accordance with the purposes and wishes of the committee as a whole, and that this committee of three shall exercise no power not delegated to it by the committee of eleven, and that all business be performed strictly according to parliamentary rules."The above was accepted, and the following were elected a building committee; Dr. J. C. Bush, Abraham Waybright; Wm. H. Lightner, Abraham Hesson, J. L. Hesson; George I. Shriver, S. S. Shoemaker, W. A. Snider, George Valentine, W. E. Myers, and D. J. Hesson. D. J. Hesson was elected treasurer. MORE LIMITED SP.
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LUTHERAN CHURCH (continued.)The following were elected a sub-committee; Abraham Waybright, William H. Lightner, and S. S. Shoemaker. It was then decided to build a church with a tower, and have a bell. The sub-committee was then instructed to see about getting stone on the ground, and they, with the pastor, to determine the size of the church, and see where the brick could be procured and at what price.
On Nov. 13th., it was decided to build the church on the west side of the lot, and on Nov. 15th., the committee met again to hear the report of the sub committee, and ascertain the exact size to build at this time. It was decided to build 88 feet wide, 65 feet long and 16 feet to the square. A resolution was then passed giving the majority of the committee of eleven the right and power to reconsider any question at any time; a center tower was also recommended, this however, was reconsidered later, and the tower built at the east corner. The size of the building was also reconsidered, and quite a number of different plans and views presented, and quite a number of discussions arose before the building was completed. S. B. Florence of near Emmitsburg agreed to put up the stone work for 65 cents per perch, and the brick work for $3.00 per 1000. Mr. Clayton Bucher at first contracted for the carpenter work, but, after Mr. Bucher had commenced work, some trouble arose and the committee met and reconsidered the matter, and declared Mr. Bucher's contract void.
Mr. Henry Kemper was next seen, and agreed to do the work for $1.37 1/2 per day, but, for some reason, Mr. Kemper was unable to do the work and Mr. Joseph Smith was employed on the following terms; Smith to have $2.00 per day, his foreman $1.75, and his other hands $1.50, allowing the committee to employ as many hands as they wanted, and at any price they could get them for, but Smith to have a general supervision over all.
On January 6th., 1890, a congregational meeting was held at Shoemaker's Hall, at which time the constitution was unanimously adopted, and signed by the following persons as charter members; John C. Bush, Abraham Hesson, A. M. Waybright, Jeremiah Meals, J. W. Black, Charles E. Myers, Walter R. Bush, Gordon H. Hess, Martin Slagle, Geo. I. Shriver, C. F. Reindollar, W. E. Myers, D. J. Hesson, S. S. Shoemaker, J. L. Hesson, E. G. Sterner, W. H. Lightner, Annie E. Black, Rachel Drach, Sarah R. Lightner, Emma L. Shriner, Mary E. Hill, and Sabina Reck.
From the records kept we learn that the committee of eleven held twenty two different meetings, before the building was completed. During the summer of 1890, while the church was being erected, Rev. Heilman, pastor of Mt. Joy congregation, had quite a number at work trying to raise money to help pay for the building. He gave five boys each five cents, and told them to speculate with it, and see how much they could make out of it, until the church was ready for dedication; they were Morris Bishop, Frank Reindollar, Glenroy Black, Clyde Black and Vernon Black. The boys decided to form themselves into a company, and all work together, this done they were ready for business.
They invested their quarter in eggs; of course they bought as cheap as possible, and sold for as high a price as they could; some places they could buy their eggs for five cents per dozen, and Mr. J. W. Black, who was then huckstering, would take them to Baltimore and sell them, and invest the money in oranges and other small articles; these they would sell and invest again in eggs, and thus they kept on until they had a sufficient amount of money to start a small stand on the street, then they invested in ice cream, watermelons, oranges, candies, &c., and sold on the street every Saturday evening and were liberally patronized; thus they continued all summer, and in the fall, they held a picnic, and when all was summed up it was found that they had cleared about $42.00.
Five of the young ladies also started out at the same time, but they took a different plan, as is natural with the gentler sex, they preferred begging to speculating; of course some did sell small articles, such as lead pencils, taffy, &c.; the exact amount raised by the girls cannot be ascertained, but they, like the boys, did well, although their amount, we are told, was a few dollars less.
The corner stone of the church was laid on Sunday afternoon, May 4th., 1890, and the building was dedicated to the service of God on October 26th., 1890. The actual cost of the church was $4496.96. The amount to be raised on the day of dedication was $1456.30, and the amount subscribed was $1437.94. Since that time the church has grown from a mere handful of faithful workers to a membership of nearly 125, and a Sunday school numbering nearly 200, and a Christian Endeavor society of nearly 100.
The first officers of St. Paul's Lutheran church were Dr. J. C. Bush, A. M. Waybright, D. J. Hesson, J. L. Hesson, John T. Ohler and Martin Slagle, who were installed on Jan. 20th., 1890. It was understood that this congregation was to be a part of Mt. Joy charge, and was organized under the pastoral care of Rev. H. M. Heilman, which was finally ratified by the Lutheran Synod at Hanover. Rev. Heilman faithfully served as pastor for several years, when he resigned to accept a charge at Altoona, Pa.
For a short time after this the congregation was supplied from Gettysburg, and finally Rev. Wm. Gardner Minnick accepted a call, and began his pastoral work on Dec. 1st., 1893 and to-day, not only does this congregation have a very handsome church, but also a beautiful cemetery has since been added, which contains 96 lots, and is located along the Gettysburg road about 1/4 mile from the church, and is known as Mountain View Cemetery.
Mr. Garner's history of Harney will be included in the Historical Society's new publication entitled "Carroll Record Histories of Northwestern Carroll County Communities."
Photo Caption: St. Paul's Lutheran Church Harney, Md., photographed by J. W. Baldwin in 1905. From a copy print, gift of J. Robert Everhart, 1984.
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The sounds of the Big Band and Glenn Miller era will be in Leamington as part of a tour to mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day.
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The 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) is on May 8 and marks the day in 1945 when the Allies accepted Germany's unconditional surrender.
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Q: Difference between pass-by-reference & and *? What is the difference between passing-by-reference and using the C pointer notation?
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A: When you pass a pointer to a variable in a subroutine call, the address of that variable is passed to the subroutine. To access the variable in the subroutine, the pointer has to be dereferenced.
When you pass a reference to a variable, the compiler takes care of obtaining the address of the variable when the variable is passed to the subroutine and dereferencing the variable in the subroutine.

A: *

*You can't get a NULL reference: this alone gives you lots of safety

*You can treat your reference as if it was an object: you can dereference it or whatever you need.

Basically you handle a safe pointer as if it was your own object.

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