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Charges: Man knocked woman out before kidnapping their baby
The baby was dropped off at urgent care in Minnetonka a day after being taken.
Ramsey County Jail
A man who sparked a kidnapping alert last week in St. Paul has been charged with stalking and domestic assault.
Jamal Lamarr Jones, 21, remains at large following the June 24 incident, in which he's accused of knocking the mother of their child unconscious, then fleeing with their 7-month-old baby.
According to a charging document, the mother called police at 8:54 p.m. after she regained consciousness following the assault. When she woke up, Jones and their baby were gone and she didn't know how long she'd been knocked out.
She told police that Jones became angry when she wouldn't let him leave with the baby, which she said led to Jones punching her all over her body with closed fists and then "banging her head off the living room floor for about three minutes," the criminal complaint said.
One day after St. Paul Police Department issued a missing persons report for the child – the criminal complaint says an AMBER Alert was issued – an "unknown male" dropped off the baby at North Memorial Urgent Care in Minnetonka.
The baby was unharmed and soon thereafter reunited with the mother.
Jones is not in custody and due to "serious concerns" about his violent history, a warrant for his arrest has been issued.
Per the criminal complaint, Jones has been charged with assault three times in the past month, all of them against the mother of his child.
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We got the chance to ask stand-up comedian, father of two, Sam Avery, a few questions about what it's like to be a father in 2018 and what you can expect from his new touring show.
It's a stand-up comedy show about being a hapless, learner parent to toddlers in 2018.
What's the thing you look forward to most about going on tour?
Unbroken sleep in hotel rooms! Oh, and doing this new show to the audiences who are coming along. But mainly the sleep bit.
How do you balance writing for a new tour plus looking after two young kids?
Years ago I had this romantic image of writing - I'd probably work at some log cabin out in the woods, passionately expressing my emotions on an old typewriter, hot coffee boiling on the stove and classical music oozing out of an old record player. The reality is I spend 20 minutes moving piles of sh*t-stained clothes and dirty cups just to sit down in our bombsite of a house, then try to scribble down as many words as possible before my kids come and stand on my nether regions.
What's the funniest thing one of your kids have ever said to you?
I'll save the best one for my show but yesterday one of them complimented me on my 'boobies.' At this point, I'll take any compliment I get.
If you were going to a desert island and you were only allowed to take three things, what would you pick?
My bed, pillow and duvet. I'd be quite happy for a decade or so I reckon.
What's one piece of advice you will give to your kids that you hope they will remember?
Don't waste your time on people who don't care about you.
If you could make one of your kids toys come alive, which one would it be and why?
This annoying, dancing thing called Beatbo, just so I could slowly kill it again.
Father Christmas giving me a make-up set because he thought I was a girl. I had beautiful hair back then. Those were the days.
If you want to hear Sam's honest, messy account of wrestling with sleep deprivation and breast pumps - right through to his botched attempts at discipline and pathetic bids to stifle various toddler tantrums that definitely registered on the Richter scale, then head to Gloucester Guildhall this November; it will have you testing your pelvic floor with laughter.


Video games are an exciting way to spend time for a while or be used to improve your skills. You can lose weight and get healthier! This article contains tips to help you achieve your goals. Are you having trouble hearing dialogue over all that gunfire and background music? Many video games have an options menu to adjust the audio. You can usually find your subtitles on and off. Video games are no longer just for children, so don't assume that a game's content will be appropriate for all age groups.
Video games are often times very expensive. You can save as much as 50% by purchasing used games at a 25 to 50 percent discount from the retail price. Make sure you duck and take cover before reloading a weapon during a shooting game. It's a lot easier to get pawned because they failed to take adequate cover before reloading. You don't want this to be you!
Stretch every fifteen minutes during video game. Your body will quickly become tight and joints are typically engaging in repetitive motions for long periods of time. Your muscles need to be stretched to avoid cramping and formation of blood clots.This is very good for your health.
Make sure you don't want to get up and move around periodically when playing video games.You can really get addicted to games in an unhealthy way if you don't step away every so often. Playing and practicing a game is something that should always be fun.If you feel that the game is more important that eating, socializing or other activities, you need to have a chat with a counselor.
Consider having your kids game on consoles. Consoles let you control their privacy, security settings, whereas kids can far more easily bypass such restrictions on a computer. They can have a far more protected experience with a dedicated console system. You can try some video games at your local library to test play a game first. Your community library may have a selection of games that you can rent for free. Call your local library to see what games they have available.
If you want to stay involved in your child's life, consider playing their games yourself from time-to-time. Playing the games with your child can yield a great way to understand what the games are all about. Ask them questions and be interested in what they are doing with their time. Hands-on experience is always the most useful.
It can be hard to determine which video game console is best for your needs. Check reviews to see if other gamers have posted. The PS2 is 12 years old and kind of outdated, but it is cheap and has a great library. You can buy games for the PS2. There are a lot of games available.
Don't let playing video gaming your only leisure time activity. It can be very unhealthy to play video games for long time period. You should schedule other activities as well. Video games provide more than just a way to pass time. The article here shared some great tips when it comes to gaming.


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I would like to ask how to write formulas in C# to do simple math on groups of data found in the value fields?
I have tried to create formula for the Field Types: String, Double, Int32, and Float in Report Designer but cannot create the correct format to perform division between the value fields in the report.

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From video glasses for the deaf to protecting endangered languages. The Taalmuseum's new exhibition in the hall of the University's former library demonstrates how language research contributes to societal issues such as health care and disappearing cultures. The exhibition is open from 14 September to 30 November.
Questions about identity, digitisation and innovation dominate the news. With this dual-language exhibition De zin van taal | Language for society, the Taalmuseum is showing how language and culture research can enrich these debates. One exhibit is a pair of video glasses, a project on which Leiden neurolinguist Niels Schiller has worked. These very special glasses have a built-in microphone that receives speech and converts it into text that is then projected onto the lens of the glasses so that the wearer can read it.
Tests have shown that, using these glasses, deaf people can follow 70 to 85 per cent of what is said, while without the glasses this is just 25 per cent. That represents an enormous improvement. The exhibition also shows that language researchers contribute to better treatment for many other conditions. Cognitive language tests, for example, can help detect illnesses such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's at an early stage.
The exhibition shows artistic images by photographer Thalia de Jong, who has visualised societal questions to which language researchers contribute solutions. There are also beautiful photographs by George Saad, depicting Lani warriors from Papua New Guinea and Indonesians who still speak the disappearing Abui language. Leiden scientists have older speakers of Abui translate a hundred words from Abui to preserve their vocabulary.
Visitors to the exhibition can take away with them a free magazine with articles and interviews about all this remarkable research.
The exhibition was organised at the request of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) research institutes at Leiden University. The aim of the Taalmuseum is to broaden the interest in and knowledge about language. The museum is an initiative of Leiden University, supported by the Municipality of Leiden.
For more information, see the website of the Taalmuseum.
Opening hours and location Monday to Friday (not at weekends) from 07.30 - 18.30 hrs in the Old Library, Rapenburg 70, Leiden.


VIT University Vellore came into existence in the year 1984 under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956 as Vellore Engineering College. It was a self-financing institution and later the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development gave university status in the year 2001. The University is headed by Dr. G. Viswanathan former Parliamentarian & also the minister in Tamilnadu Government. He is also the founder of the institution. This man is honored doctorate by West Virginia University, USA for the service in offering a world-class education to India. G. V. Selvam, Sekar Viswanathan & Sankar Viswanathan are the Vice-Presidents. Dr. Anand A. Samuel is the Vice-Chancellor & Dr. V. Raju & Dr. S. Narayanan are the Pro-Vice-Chancellors. This institution offers around twenty undergraduate, thirty-four postgraduate, four integrated & four research programs in various domains. The university has campuses in Chennai & Vellore in Tamil Nadu, India. A 200-acre new campus located at Amaravati is under construction and very soon classes will be started here.
For Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT University) Vellore Direct Admission Contact 08150855000.
VIT University Vellore offers academic programs in Technology, Engineering, Applied Sciences, & Management. The VIT University main campus is in Vellore on 250 acres of land and is divided by the Bangalore Chennai railway line. The academic block and the women's hostel are to the south of railway tracks where as in the northern block there are the men's hostels & the outdoor stadium. Both the regions are connected by 3 subways for easy movements of the students. The campus is very good and it resembles a city with gardens, residential complexes, hair salons, lawns & food courts. The university is backed up with own electricity supply & water supply. It also has shopping complexes for the regular needs of the students. Admissions for the academic year can be obtained with all the fee structure details for the courses offered. Management quota seats are available for direct admission.
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A sense of Magic
Magic Tree has launched a new collection called Sentiment, which incorporates natural elements designed to help boost the mood and revitalise the mind. The range includes energy, described as a punchy fragrance with an uplifting effect; relax to encourage a sense of calm; peace, to aid relaxation; and passion, to heighten the senses. Rrp is £1.99 each. Roma Pereira, business development manager at Saxon, the exclusive UK distributor of Magic Tree, says: "The new range has been launched with a younger audience in mind. It has been developed to widen Magic Tree's appeal for use in the home, as well as the car."
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Fifo UK partners charity during Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Breakfast biscuit brand belVita has launched a new consumer promotion.
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GLORY 17: Jarrell Miller Promises to "Whup" Mirko "Cro Cop's" "Ass", Tells Fighter's Manager to Stay "Behind his Desk"
Jarrell Miller (photo via RING Bio/Youtube)
By Kelsey Mowatt
Thanks to a boxing career that has seen Jarrell Miller go undefeated in ten fights, the heavyweight didn't have any immediate plans to return to kickboxing. But, when GLORY came calling to see if he'd be interested in rematching the only man who has defeated him to date, it was an opportunity he couldn't turn down.
After Sergei Kharitonov was forced to withdraw from a June 21st bout with Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, GLORY contacted the 25 year-old fighter to see if he'd face the renowned striker.
"I mean money talks, bulls–t walks, you know what I mean?" Miller relayed on a recent episode of Full Contact Fighter Radio. "I've been offered numerous fights deals to fight in other organizations…the whole focus of the thing had to be right, you offer me the right bait, it's Cro Cop, okay cool. I'll whup his ass; how much?"
"Realistically, GLORY has all the right tools to buy me in. They had everything at the right moment to say, 'you know what J this is it,' it was now or never, and as a fighter you can't just watch someone hold up a lot of money," furthered Miller, who will face Cro Cop live on SPIKE at GLORY 17. "We're all prize fighters and we do want a prize for the fight at the end of the day. GLORY just had everything; it was the total package."
Although like many other fighters, Miller believes GLORY has been a driving force behind the resurgence of kickboxing, it remains to be seen if he'll return to the organization.
"Will I be coming back? I highly doubt it as of right now, but you never know," said Miller, who is coming off a second round, stoppage win over boxer Joshua Harris in May. "I can't say never, but as of right now, I'm just so focused on boxing, that Cro Cop is the only reason that I'm taking a short, not a shortcut, a speed bump. I just have to jackhammer this speed bump out of the way before I return to boxing."
Jarrell Miller (photo via GLORY)
Miller and Cro Cop fought under the K-1 banner last March in the latter's native Croatia, and Filipovic emerged with the unanimous decision win. According to Miller, however, his first and only pro loss, shouldn't have happened.
"He just knew how to headbutt, and hold on to me, and get a win in his country…" said Miller. "But I'm just going to whup his ass. Plain and simple. I already know that GLORY is looking for these headbutts, 'we got to watch out for this', but I'm telling them, listen, I'm going to give 100 percent, all of me, I'm going to come out ready to kill, but be fair. That's all I'm saying. The organization, be fair. That's all I want. I want my fair chance and I'm going to whup his ass."
In addition to questioning the scoring of their first encounter, Miller has taken aim at the 39 year-old Cro Cop's age in some of his pre-fight comments. The statements have drawn the ire of Cro Cop's manager Orsat Zovko, who recently called the heavyweight a "wuss", and argued the judges made the right call last March.
"That dude is an opportunist, so he needs to stick to what he do, and that's hide behind a desk, and keep pushing his papers and pens" said Miller, who despite the fact he referred to Cro Cop as an "old fart" on FCF Radio, and said he'll leave the fighter in a "wheelchair", acknowledged he's a legend in the sport. "Leave the fighting to the fighters, and the sh– talking to us, because he's never stepped a day in the ring."
GLORY 17 will be hosted by the Forum in Inglewood, California, and the pay-per-view portion of the card will feature Daniel Ghita versus Rico Verhoeven for the heavyweight championship.
Tags: Glory, GLORY 17, Jarrell Miller, Mirko Cro Cop
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Disagreement over Port Authority reform continues
An effort by New Jersey and New York to pass the same legislation to overhaul the powerful bistate agency that controls the region's airports, bridges and tunnels appears to have stalled.
On Thursday, a New Jersey Senate panel approved a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reform measure, backed by Democrats, that is similar but not identical to a bill that passed in New York.
The biggest difference is a provision that calls for legislative oversight of the agency, which was at the center of the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal that resulted in former agency officials being indicted.
The two states must pass the same measure for changes to take effect.
Mercer County soft-launches COVID-19 vaccination site
New Jersey's capital county will be doing a trial run at Cure Insurance Arena in Trenton with the aim of an official launch during the first week of February.
N.J. lawmaker to introduce Biden's 'bold' immigration reform package
Sen. Bob Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The jury convicted Damon Williams of second-degree robbery, which requires the use of force or the threat of force, rather than the less serious crime of third-degree theft.


i would have easily ate all 25 cupcakes too (i ate an entire box of girl scout cookies last week). oh well, it happens!
i'm sorry about your hammie. i was having hammie problems this past dec and went to PT for a month (combo of strengthing exercises and ART). i did recover though…and quickly!
thanks! i remember when you had those problems! i had a sports massage today so i hope that will help. and PT on wednesday.
Love those cupcakes!! Having a whole box like that would be so dangerous for me. When I have gone there I have just bought the box of 3 cupcakes…which were gone in a second!


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Category: SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic Inks $4.5 Million Deal With NASA for Research Flights
October 13, 2011 October 13, 2011 NASA, space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
Gear down. (Photo: Mark Greenberg)
VG PR – MOJAVE, CA – Virgin Galactic has confirmed an order from NASA for up to three charter flights on its privately-built spacecraft to provide opportunities for engineers, technologists, and scientific researchers to conduct cutting-edge experiments in suborbital space. The agreement calls for NASA to charter a full flight from Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, and includes options for two additional charter flights. If all options are exercised, the contract value is $4.5 million.
Virgin Galactic to Begin Commercial Space Tourism Flights in…..
October 3, 2011 October 2, 2011 space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 2
Attenborough: [Launching our first commercial flight] 18 months to two years from now is achievable, but that isn't to say that we will achieve it. The only thing that will extend that expected timeline is if something comes up during the remainder of the test flight program.
Or so Virgin Galactic's Commercial Director Stephen Attenborough tells The Wall Street Journal's Chun Han Wong . The company's founder, Richard Branson, has been making similar predictions for years now.
Virigin Galactic to Hold First Industry Day
September 5, 2011 September 2, 2011 News, space tourism, Spaceship Company, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
Virgin Galactic's first ever Industry Day is a chance for potential suppliers to learn more about the goods and services that we will need to set up operations at Spaceport America in New Mexico and become the world's first commercial spaceline.
Virgin Galactic's Chief Test Pilot Takes Controls of WhiteKnightTwo for First Time
September 2, 2011 September 2, 2011 News, space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic, WhiteKnightTwo 0
VG PR — To date, all test flights of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo have been piloted by Scaled Composite's cadre of talented test pilots.
WhiteKnightTwo took to the air for the 72nd time yesterday (8/31/2011); it was a special flight for Virgin Galactic because at the controls, for the very first time, was our own Chief Test pilot, Dave Mackay. Dave joined Virgin Galactic in 2009 following a high-flying aviation career as an RAF test pilot and a Virgin Atlantic Captain.
Virgin Galactic vs. XCOR: Two Very Different Approaches
August 24, 2011 August 24, 2011 Lynx, News, space tourism, Spaceship Company, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic, XCOR 8
Space Up Houston August 2011 from Schipul – The Web Marketing Co. on Vimeo.
Virgin Galactic's Will Pomerantz and XCOR Aerospace's Khaki McKee both gave updates on their companies' suborbital vehicles during the recent Houston SpaceUp conference. For the benefit of those who don't have time to watch the full video above, I've summarized their presentations below in a convenient side-by-side table to allow for an easy comparison.
Video: NMSA's Christina Anderson Talks About Spaceport America
August 22, 2011 August 21, 2011 New Mexico Spaceport Authority, News, space tourism, Spaceport America, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
New Mexico Spaceport Authority Executive Director Christine Anderson talks about the development and future of Spaceport America. Some highlights from the El Paso Times article:
The first phase of construction of Spaceport America, New Mexico's $209 million commercial spaceflight launch complex, is 90 percent complete.
Virgin Galactic, the spaceport's anchor tenant, plans to dedicate the terminal-hangar sometime in October….
Sir Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Galactic, has not said exactly when the aerospace company will take space tourists from its future headquarters at Spaceport America on suborbital flights to the edge of space. At his request, the terminal-hangar has been named the Virgin Galactic Gateway To Space.
Various space aviation experts have suggested that Virgin Galactic may launch its first space tourist flights sometime in 2013…..
Anderson is convinced that the spaceport will eventually rely less on the state government as a primary source of money. "Our goal is to be self-sustaining," she said.
Virgin Galactic to Fly NASA Payloads to Space
August 10, 2011 CRuSR, NASA, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
VSS Enterprise on its first test flight. (Photo: Mark Greenberg)
VG PR — Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, has been selected by NASA to provide flight opportunities for engineers, technologists and scientific researchers to fly technology payloads into space. This arrangement marks the first time that NASA has contracted with a commercial partner to provide flights into space on a suborbital spacecraft, and represents another important endorsement of the value of regular commercial space access for a wide range of science and educational applications.
SwRI Scientists Prep for Suborbital Science Missions
July 26, 2011 July 26, 2011 Lynx, News, Southwest Research Institute, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic, XCOR 0
SWRI — PR Boulder, Colo. — July 25, 2011 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced in February that it had contracted multiple suborbital flights for its own astronaut payload specialists as part of a larger effort to promote the development of commercial human spaceflight. Preparations for these flights are proceeding and will be flown on a combination SwRI manifest of XCOR Lynx I and Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2 vehicles. The Lynx I missions will reach altitudes of about 200,000 feet; the SpaceShip 2 missions will reach altitudes near 350,000 feet.
Video: Richard Branson on Space Tourism
July 12, 2011 July 11, 2011 space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
A CBS News report on Virgin Galactic's space tourism plans.
Spaceship Company Ramps Up in Mojave
July 11, 2011 July 11, 2011 Scaled Composites, space tourism, Spaceship Company, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
The Spaceship Company in Mojave is ramping up to produce WhiteKnightTwos and SpaceShipTwos. We have this report from Aviation Week:
TSC was initially tasked with making one WK2 and four SS2s for Virgin Galactic, and Operations Director Enrico Palermo says: "I'm confident we'll be building more." Together with the first WK2 and SS2 already built and in test, Virgin plans to operate an initial fleet of two carriers and five spacecraft, though hopes are high that other "spaceline" customers will emerge.
For now, Palermo says, "our blinders are set on serving our first customer, and getting these spacecraft flying." With flight tests of the first SS2 accelerating and the first rocket-powered flights expected in coming months, the configuration of the production variants of both spacecraft and carrier aircraft are close to finalization. "WK2 is flying and meeting its objectives, so that's more or less set," says Joe Brennan, TSC vehicle production manager, who adds that the company is also "pretty happy" with the minor design changes on the SS2 required so far.
Hey Aussies, Win a Trip into Space
July 11, 2011 July 11, 2011 SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
VIRGIN PR — Virgin Money Australia is giving one lucky Australian the chance to fulfil their childhood dream and travel in to space on a Virgin Galactic flight.
The competition is open to all current and new Virgin Money Australia customers (Any Australian resident who holds an active Virgin Money Australia product before 01 October 2011 is eligible to enter).
Enter the competition now at Virgin Money Australia
The winner will be announced on 15 October 2011.
Branson: SpaceShipTwo Will Fly Passengers in 10-15 Months
July 7, 2011 July 7, 2011 space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 1
Will Whitehorn gives a pat on the back to Richard Branson as he greets Virgin Galactic ticketholders during the Oshkosh air show in July 2009.
Virgin Galactic's Founder says that commercial suborbital flights will take place between May and October 2012:
Sir Richard Branson said that the reason he established Virgin Galactic was because he 'got sick sick of waiting for NASA.' He confirmed that space flights for the public will commence in '10 to 15 months.' Another endeavour after this milestone will be to launch 'a 2 to 3 hour London to Australia flight' via space.
Branson: SS2 Will Be a Clean Lean Green Flying Machine
June 28, 2011 space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic, WhiteKnightTwo 0
BusinessDay.co.nz has a Q&A with Richard Branson in which the British billionaire promotes the "greener" nature of the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo combo:
We should no longer rely on old, expensive, "dirty" technology to transport satellites into space. The industry must be modernised and made more sustainable, both for financial reasons and for the health of the planet. In response to this challenge, we have been developing a greener solution in Mojave, California — one that will have less impact on the environment and will be more cost effective. Our two-step launch process, which does not employ rockets until the aircraft reaches the stratosphere, uses less energy than other launch systems that rely on rockets to lift off from the ground.
Attenborough: Virgin Galactic in "Final Stretch"
February 6, 2011 February 5, 2011 space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
Businessworld has a Q&A with Virgin Galactic's Stephen Attenborough, who says that he expects the company to begin commercial flights by 2012. Some key excerpts:
When will we see the first human going on a private space flight?
…The big aircraft has finished its test flights and it has performed flawlessly. The spaceship is at the glide flight path of its programme because it is a reusable vehicle. We will probably have 5-6 glide flights. Then, later this year, we expect to test the rocket launcher for the first time. As soon as the propulsion tests start, provided the first couple of tests go well, we will undertake the first space flight.
Dizzee Rascal Wants to Go Where No Rapper Has Gone Before
February 4, 2011 February 4, 2011 News, space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, virgin galactic 0
Rapper Dizzee Rascal. (Credit: Tuomas Vitikainen)
British rapper Dizzee Rascal has become the latest high profile figure to join the ranks of Virgin Galactic's celebritynauts:
In a recent interview with Britain's Esquire magazine, Rascal said that he has been talking to his friend Sam Branson, son of the famed British entrepreneur, about reserving a spot on one of Virgin Galactic's future commercial space flight. He even went as far as to say that he hopes to have his cremated ashes spread out in space.
"I've asked Sam to reserve my place and I meant it," he said. "When I die, I want my ashes scattered in space. I just love the possibilities of what could happen. I know it sounds a bit nerdy, but your particles could merge with something."
Nerdy is one word for it. For those not up on British rap artists, here's a brief bio from Wikipedia:
Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 1 October 1985), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English rapper, songwriter and record producer. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles. Best known for his number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco" & "Shout", his debut album, Boy in da Corner, won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English and Tongue n' Cheek have all been critically acclaimed and certified gold, the latter going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units.
Maybe Dizzee will be on the same flight as Australian business manager Wayne Glynne, who won a ticket to space aboard SpaceShipTwo as part of IBM's Destination X competition. Tickets to space are raffled off to sales staff who sell IBM's System X at values of more than $100,000.
A father of three, Glynne was "wrestling with the decision" as to whether he would accept the prize.
"I've only told my wife, I haven't told my kids yet. I'll sit down with them this evening and go through the [Galactic] DVD. My youngest is nine and my eldest is 15, so they will absolutely understand what this means.
"I need a little bit more information before I make a commitment one way or another. I am very excited."
Best of luck to both Dizzee and Wayne.


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New Release Blitz: Ponyboy by AE Lister
Title: Ponyboy
Series: The Braided Crop Ranch
Author: AE Lister
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male, Male/Male Menage
Genre: Contemporary BDSM, LGBTQIA+, BDSM, pony play, puppy play, cowboys, entertainment, sex toys, menage, rewards, punishments, insta-love, voyeurism
Owen Lipke is looking for adventure. When he hears about a ranch in the Muskokas catering to kinky men who don't want to settle for backroom amateurs, he signs up in a second.
At the Braided Crop Ranch, Owen finds what he's looking for: A sex-positive space with safety protocols and Doms (trainers) who know their business. And a stable full of well-behaved ponyboys to prove it.
Owen thinks his trainer, Kamal, is hot as hell but finds being a ponyboy isn't as intuitive as he expected. As he struggles to learn the basics of equine pet play under the firm hand of his trainer, he finds himself falling for the experienced older man.
And perhaps Kamal is developing a thing for the young, adventurous newcomer. But there are rules about fraternizing with staff at the ranch. And Owen wonders if it's wise to fall in love with the pragmatic trainer who unravels him layer by layer to expose his deepest needs and most secret proclivities.
But perhaps wisdom is overrated. And maybe the rewards of adventure are only achieved when you abandon caution and take a huge leap of faith.
Ponyboy
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Shadows and dim lighting made the inside of the club appear deceptively edgy. The Stocks boasted a selection of the most overrated brews and clientele in the city, in my opinion. But this particular club was one of the few places I could go to try to find the kind of man I was looking for.
"Hey, Lipke, what are you doing here again?" Sandro smiled, clapping a hand on my shoulder and taking the stool next to me. "I thought you had the real deal? You know, a nice cozy apartment with your man."
"We broke up," I said, staring at the bar and trying not to let the fact I didn't feel much disappointment about the end of my relationship bother me.
"Ah, shit, that's too bad," Sandro replied, but I saw a glimmer of satisfaction in his eyes as he motioned to the bartender. "Hey, a drink for my buddy here, Paulo." He turned back. "What are you having, Owen?"
I shook my head and tossed the dark hair out of my eyes. It was getting way too long in front. I'd been meaning to get it cut, but I was so unmotivated to do anything these days. "Thanks, but I'm hoping for some action tonight."
I never trolled for Doms with alcohol in my system. I'd learned that lesson a long time ago.
"How about a Coke, then?"
"Okay, sure. Thanks."
He was trying to butter me up because he wanted to hook up. He'd tried with me before, but I had been in a relationship that didn't allow for "extras" so I'd had an excuse to turn him down.
"A Coke for Owen, please. And a ginger ale for me," he said, throwing a tenner on the bar.
"Thanks," I said again, looking Sandro over and wondering if he could give me what I wanted.
He wasn't a bad-looking guy; a little heavier in the gut, but it worked for him. He had a decent "Daddy" vibe going on and appeared to be pushing forty. Maybe he had the experience to give me something…more. Something solid and demanding and ruthless.
The Stocks was an underground fetish bar, where I'd come innumerable times to find the type of hook-up I was after. But anyone I'd ever gone home or played downstairs with, had disappointed. It wasn't operating on the down-low. The club was literally underground, which made it even darker and dingier inside than most places—almost claustrophobic.
Everyone played games. That was often the point with fetish and BDSM, and a lot of guys were perfectly happy with that. But I was tired and bored with it all.
I'd had a connection with Simon, my ex, but even he couldn't give me what I wanted in the end. I couldn't define that particular desire but I knew I hadn't fulfilled it—ever.
At night I'd dream about a Master who took total control, put me in my place easily and perfunctorily, without a thought to my comfort, yet took care of my needs like they were his own. This mystery man became a shadowy, elusive presence in my waking world. I'd never encountered an actual human being who could measure up to the Dom in my dreams. Maybe no one ever would.
Maybe I should make the most of what I could get, here and now.
Sandro handed me the Coke and winked. "So, you're a free agent tonight," he said.
I grinned. "Yep. Trolling for Doms."
He laughed, looked away, and then back. "Wanna come home with me? We could have some fun."
I picked up my glass and sipped the cold, sugary-sweet syrup, considering his offer. "You live close?"
Sandro nodded. "Down the street. Walking distance. You can leave your car here, and pick it up later, or in the morning if you decide to stay over."
It was thoughtful of him to offer me the whole night. Such an invitation was rare in this environment, where most people simply wanted a quick fuck or a fun kink session and didn't give a shit what you did with yourself after.
"Yeah, okay."
I found his excitement flattering, if misplaced. I didn't feel like anything special these days, but I was up for a quick screw.
"Sure. But let's enjoy our drinks first. We've got all night."
Sandro had fair-to-good conversation skills. He was intelligent, perceptive, and witty. I warmed to my decision over the time it took to finish our drinks. Maybe the evening wouldn't be a washout after all.
Sandro sighed. "I wish there were more kink places in this city. I mean, this place is fine but it gets boring after a while."
I agreed with his observation completely. There were several options across the river from Ottawa in Quebec that offered more hard-core entertainment, but in terms of convenience, this place was closest. And even when I had ventured as far as Gatineau or Montreal, I'd been largely disappointed.
"I hear Toronto is the place to be for this kind of scene," I said. "Maybe I should move to the Big Smoke."
"Maybe. I thought about it a couple of times. But my family is here, and my job."
"I don't know if I could sacrifice the green space," I said.
The easy access to nature was one of the things I loved about Ottawa. There were a multitude of parks and treed spaces; bike paths, beaches, and water everywhere. And the Gatineau hills were right across the Ottawa River. I enjoyed hiking and camping more than almost anything else. Spending regular time in nature was essential to my being. I doubted I'd be happy in a concrete city like Toronto.
Then again, was I happy here?
"I heard about this place in the Muskokas," Sandro was saying. "It's a ranch, but not the kind of ranch you'd expect in that touristy area."
"Huh?" I asked. A ranch? I had absolutely no interest in horses.
Sandro nodded. "It's set up like a real ranch, but instead of horses, they get men to dress like ponies."
If I had been a pony, my ears would have swung toward him. "What? No way." Something in me thrilled to the thought of it.
He laughed. "Yeah, they put them in harnesses and bridles and make them do stuff. It's all set up to make the experience as realistic as possible. At least that's what I heard."
I pretended not to be as interested as I was. "Hmm. Weird."
"Yeah, well, I guess some guys get off on that stuff. Not me. I'm happy with the regular kink experience myself, although it would be nice to have a few more bars to go to."
Men in harnesses and wearing bridles? A ranch for pony fetishists? Why hadn't I heard about this before? My balls ached at the thought of it. I'd never explored animal role-play, but the thought of being a pony at a fetish ranch rang every one of my bells. Maybe a fetish ranch was the kind of immersive experience I needed. Sure, it was still a game, but maybe they did it so well you forgot it was a game and became fully invested in submission and objectification.
I drained the rest of my glass. "Ready to go?"
Sandro beamed as his gaze raked over me. "Absolutely."
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AE Lister/Elizabeth Lister is a Canadian non-binary author with a vivid imagination and a head full of unique and interesting characters. They have published many other books, one of which (Beyond the Edge) received an Honorable Mention from the National Leather Association–International for excellence in SM/Leather/Fetish writing.
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Stellantis and General Motors ranks the worst automakers for fuel efficiency even in the midst of the push for EVs, EPA says
Raeesa Sayyad
General Motors might be changing to an all-electric future, yet its new vehicle fleet ranked among the most un-productive and most polluting in the U.S. automotive industry, as per a report released Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
For the 2021 model year, the EPA ranked the average estimated real-world fuel economy and carbon emissions of the Detroit automaker as the second-worst in the industry. Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, was the only major automaker that performed worse than General Motors.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that since the 2016 model year, Hyundai Motor, Mazda, and Volkswagen have all seen increases in CO2 emissions and decreased fuel economy.
Ford Motor, which came in just behind GM, did a little better over the five years, but it still fell short of the industry average.
The report comes at a time when the Biden administration is working to move the United States away from cars powered by gas and toward electric cars. By 2030, the White House wants electric vehicles to account for half of all new vehicle sales. Most notably, GM has stated that by 2035, it will only sell consumer electric vehicles.
In a statement, EPA Administrator Michael Regan stated, "Today's report demonstrates the significant progress we've made to ensure clean air for all as automakers continue to innovate and utilize more advanced technologies to cut pollution."
The average fuel economy of a vehicle in 2021 was unchanged from the previous year, reaching a record high of 25.4 miles per gallon. The average fleet efficiency in 2022 is expected to rise to 26.4 mpg, according to the EPA. According to the report, new vehicle carbon dioxide emissions fell to a record low of 347 grams per mile.
Each year, approximately one-third of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. CO2 emissions from all vehicle types are at an all-time low; However, some of the benefits to the fleet as a whole have been offset by market shifts away from cars toward SUVs and pickup trucks.
Stellantis refered to the rising interest among purchasers for SUVs and pickups in light of its lower rankings, saying they do "not reflect our current or future product plan."
"Auto companies claim they're chugging ahead with electric vehicles, but the EPA's report shows they're more like the caboose claiming to be the engine," said Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Safe Climate Transport Campaign.
Automakers are using regulatory credits they've acquired from rivals or earned in previous years to meet stricter emissions standards.
Tesla, which only makes all-electric vehicles that don't produce any CO2 emissions, topped the rankings. It had a 123.9-mile average fuel economy, which is measured in miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent (mpge).
Hybrid vehicles assist with working on the 2021 midpoints. According to the report, hybrids increased in popularity among truck, SUV, and pickup vehicle categories last year, accounting for 9% of all production, a record high. The EPA anticipates that fuel cell, electric, or plug-in hybrid vehicles will account for 8% of all vehicles by 2022, up from 4% in 2021.
Some politicians and environmentalists have criticized Toyota Motor for not moving more quickly to EVs, pointing to the company's Prius, which helped popularize the hybrid market.
Toyota has argued that hybrid vehicles will continue to be a better option for some customers in the foreseeable future due to their superior fuel economy and CO2 emissions performance. The company asserts that it can produce eight plug-in hybrids with a range of 40 miles for each battery electric vehicle with a range of 320 miles and reduce atmospheric carbon emissions by up to eight times.
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Freelance journalist Christopher Goodfellow has written a blog post recommending Skype for interviews.
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Mindy McAdams has created a Storify featuring lots of examples of data journalism to inspire budding data journalists, as well as background reading and other resources, which she has posted on her blog.
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The 10,000 Words blog has posted five top tricks for filing blog posts from the field using WordPress.com. The tips include WordPress' mobile apps, adding hyperlinks, call-in audio posts and adding geolocation to posts.
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Over on the HelpMeInvestigate blog Paul Bradshaw has compiled an incredibly useful list of five ways to simplify investigations. The tips include writing a hypothesis, breaking down the process into more manageable tasks and keeping a record. He also offers plenty of tools and resources to help put these tips into action.
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1. As innovators we aren't simply responding to external change, we are creating change, both for customers and for our companies and markets. (the inside, proactive change vs external, reactive impact). The 'flood' of data, of customer dialogues is offering us 'signals' to explore and seize opportunities by being agile, aware and alert to the new discovery of needs not being fulfilled.
2. External change is far more unpredictable, in global markets new threats emerge from anywhere, at any time and often delivered in totally unexpected ways, through new business models that totally cut through and disrupt the existing positions. They can render the existing obsolete in seemingly rapid time, irrespective of the efforts to respond as they have discovered the unmet need to deliver solutions to it.
3. The pace and nature of change is not slowing down but accelerating and will continue to accelerate at increasing pace, frequency and amplitude of change. Organizations need to pick up the pace, learn to accept a greater risk, experimentation and rapid adjustment on the new knowledge flowing in to build the final outcome to the needs of the market and customer.
4. Sudden rapidly evolving markets make everything needing to be 'super' responsive by existing players, to the sudden realization they have missed opportunities, Many existing organizations cannot cope and alter with this demand for agility, flexibility, and responsiveness. They need to (re)learn this and build it into their systems and often this realization comes too late ,they have fossilized.
5. As often demonstrated, most innovation has the potential to be business model innovation, which will require change. As more innovation becomes focused on business model innovation, this will create even more change and challenges.
6. We recognize that change is no longer an occasional threat but a constant companion, so we need to shift from the idea of change as a potential inhibitor into one of developing an ongoing change capacity as part of our unique competitive advantage, evolving and pushing boundaries.
7. The idea that companies can achieve a protected steady state where change won't affect them doesn't seem to apply anymore, as long periods of stasis, or standing still, is no longer possible, we must be able to learn to evolve constantly and reflect that more 'dynamic' condition.
8. We need to think of change as a capability that we constantly deploy, rather than a threat we typically avoid and fail to understand. We need to develop change as a capability, to build skills, reduce barriers, to extend our capacity and competencies through experimentation and discovery. We need to push out of our comfort zone constantly.
Are we asking ourselves do we recognize our need to change?
How can we focus the energy around the boardroom table on to this linking the future work to the shape and the organization's needs, making the growing innovation debate as strategic as it can be? One where change becomes a constant, delivered through innovation.
How are we going to design our innovation capabilities, competencies or capacity unless we fully recognize the dramatic changes in business that are now underway and what this needs to be addressed, to allow for a more responsive, fluid, agile and adaptive culture, to flourish and respond so as to generate the better innovation of the future we need.
* We need to build far more serendipity into what we do, also random connections, as well as purposeful discovery, by seeking out increasing connections and engaging in networks of learning and mutual exchange.
* We need 'safe' places where we are turning curiosity into reality and building our innovation mental abilities for growth, development, and accomplishment, opening up and having others being receptive and then jointly translating this into new innovation.
* We need to embed into our new innovation core new routines and thinking. It is determining the changes needed by those new combinations of fusion by seeking out the chemistry from all the connections and exchanges, pushing for creative collisions, positive tensions and dynamics to engage fully in innovation, so the culture, climate, and environment are vibrant, challenging and exciting.
* We need to constantly seek the new space from knowledge exploitation and exploration, redefining the organization edges, enlarging and enhancing our understanding.
* We need to place learning into the center, to allow our capability building, new competencies to grow and evolve.
* We need to focus on the constant wish to improve, so as to improve performance and capacities by focusing on both our mental and physical abilities to develop our position and function, to explore, expand and exploit. Each contributes to our ability to receive, hold and absorb new knowledge. We measure these by the increased volume and quality outcomes, others provide back to us.
* We need new structures, attitudes, investment and motivation to change, to focus on innovation building that needs being instilled, drive with a dedicated focus from the top, not just as a commitment that must happen but integrated and aligned with the strategic thinking and planning, worked through a clear pathway of change to achieve a different, core innovation capability.
* We need to determine the abilities to deliver in effective, focused, efficient and aligned ways. Knowing what is important, seeking out the actions to support and deliver the part needed to achieve the desired goals. Adjusting as we go, as we learn, ramping up what is working, dampening down what is clearly not.
* We need to build innovation by working it continuously. On making our environment into this more evolving, fluid and dynamic one, where the climate and culture of innovation thrive and grows from this constant feeding and attention.
Innovation requires increasing agility, flexibility and allowing creativity to flourish on a constant, evolving basis. Today, innovation often stays outside the mainstream system and operational structures, most often to the organization's detriment, as we simply accept innovation work as something that does not fit the 'norm'.
Innovation needs to be fluid, open, responsive, adaptive; sometimes reliant on the instinct, hunch or powerful insight that is never 'predictable' but suddenly emerges from a collision of events, or random thoughts that lead to a new insight, a game-changing one.
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Home Education UPSC Mains Results 2019: Union Public Service Commission declares UPSC Mains Results...
UPSC Mains Results 2019: Union Public Service Commission declares UPSC Mains Results 2019 @ upsc.gov.in
UPSC Mains Results 2019: The Union Public Service Commission has declared the UPSC Mains Results 2019 on its official website upsc.gov.in. Successful candidates may be called for interview round or personality test in February this year. Civil Services Mains Examination 2019 was held in September 2019.
A notification by the UPSC read, "On the basis of the results of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2019 held by the Union Public Service Commission from 20th September to
29th September, 2019, the candidates with the Roll Numbers, as given below, have qualified for the Personality Test (Interview) for selection to the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and other Central Services (Group 'A' and Group 'B')."
Follow these steps to access your results
Visit the official website upsc.gov.in
Click on Written Result of UPSC Civil Services Mains 2019 under 'What's New' section
New page with pdf file containing results will open
Save the page or take the printout for the future reference
Alternatively, you can click the link here to directly access your results.
About UPSC
Civil Servants for the East India Company used to be nominated by the Directors
of the Company and thereafter trained at Haileybury College in London and then sent to
India. Following Lord Macaulay's Report of the Select Committee of British Parliament,
the concept of a merit based modern Civil Service in India was introduced in 1854. The
Report recommended that patronage based system of East India Company should be
replaced by a permanent Civil Service based on a merit based system with entry
through competitive examinations. For this purpose, a Civil Service Commission was
setup in 1854 in London and competitive examinations were started in 1855. Initially,
the examinations for Indian Civil Service were conducted only in London. Maximum age
was 23 years and minimum age was 18 years. The syllabus was designed such that
European Classics had a predominant share of marks. All this made it difficult for Indian
candidates. Nevertheless, in 1864, the first Indian, Shri Satyendranath Tagore brother
of Shri Rabindaranath Tagore succeeded. Three years later 4 other Indians succeeded.
Throughout the next 50 years, Indians petitioned for simultaneous examinations to be
held in India without success because the British Government did not want many
Indians to succeed and enter the ICS. It was only after the First World War and the
Montagu Chelmsford reforms that this was agreed to. From 1922 onwards the Indian
Civil Service Examination began to be held in India also, first in Allahabad and later in
Delhi with the setting up of the Federal Public Service Commission. The Examination in
London continued to be conducted by the Civil Service Commission.
Similarly, prior to independence superior police officers belonged to the Indian (Imperial)
Police appointed by the Secretary of State by competitive examination. The first open
competition for the service was held in England in June, 1893, and 10 top candidates
were appointed as Probationary Assistant Superintendents of Police. Entry into Imperial
Police was thrown open to Indians only after 1920 and the following year examinations
for the service were conducted both in England and India. Indianisation of the police
service continued to be very slow despite pronouncement and recommendations of the
Islington Commission and the Lee Commission. Till 1931, Indians were appointed
against 20% of the total posts of Superintendents of Police. However, because of non
availability of the suitable European candidates, more Indians were appointed to the
Indian Police from the year 1939 onwards.
Regarding Forest Service, British India Government started the Imperial Forest
Department in 1864 and to organize the affairs of the Imperial Forest Department,
Imperial Forest Service was constituted in 1867. From 1867 to 1885, the officers
appointed to Imperial Forest Service were trained in France and Germany. Till 1905,
they were trained at Coopers Hill, London. In 1920, it was decided that further
recruitment to the Imperial Forest Service would be made by direct recruitment in
England and India and by promotion from the provincial service in India. After
independence, the Indian Forest Service was created in 1966 under All India Service
Act 1951.
Regarding Central Civil Services, the Civil Services in British India were classified as
covenanted and uncovenanted services on the basis of the nature of work, pay-scales
and appointing authority. In 1887, the Aitchinson Commission recommended the reorganization of the services on a new pattern and divided the services into three groups-Imperial, Provincial and Subordinate. The recruiting and controlling authority of
Imperial services was the 'Secretary of State'. Initially, mostly British candidates were
recruited for these services. The appointing and controlling authority for Provincial
services was the respective provincial government, which framed rules for these
services with the approval of the Government of India. With the passing of the Indian
Act 1919, the Imperial Services headed by the Secretary of State for India, were split
into two-All India Services and Central Services. The central services were concerned
with matters under the direct control of the Central Government. Apart from the Central
Secretariat, the more important of these services were the Railway Services, the Indian
Posts and Telegraph Service, and the Imperial Customs Service. To some of these, the
Secretary of State used to make appointments, but in the great majority of cases their
members were appointed and controlled by the Government of India.
The origin of the Public Service Commission in India is found in the First
Dispatch of the Government of India on the Indian Constitutional Reforms on the 5th
March, 1919 which referred to the need for setting up some permanent office charged
with the regulation of service matters. This concept of a body intended to be charged
primarily with the regulation of service matters, found a somewhat more practical shape
in the Government of India Act, 1919. Section 96(C) of the Act provided for the
establishment in India of a Public Service Commission which should "discharge, in
regard to recruitment and control of the Public Services in India, such functions as may
be assigned thereto by rules made by the Secretary of State in Council".
After passing of the Government of India Act, 1919, in spite of a prolonged
correspondence among various levels on the functions and machinery of the body to be
set up, no decision was taken on setting up of the body. The subject was then referred
to the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India (also known as Lee
Commission). The Lee Commission, in their report in the year 1924, recommended that
the statutory Public Service Commission contemplated by the Government of India Act,
1919 should be established without delay.
Subsequent to the provisions of Section 96(C) of the Government of India Act,
1919 and the strong recommendations made by the Lee Commission in 1924 for the
early establishment of a Public Service Commission, it was on October 1, 1926 that the
Public Service Commission was set up in India for the first time. It consisted of four
Members in addition to the Chairman. Sir Ross Barker, a member of the Home Civil
Service of the United Kingdom was the first Chairman of the Commission.
The functions of the Public Service Commission were not laid down in the
Government of India Act, 1919, but were regulated by the Public Service Commission
(Functions) Rules, 1926 framed under sub-section (2) of Section 96(C) of the
Government of India Act, 1919. Further, the Government of India Act, 1935 envisaged a
Public Service Commission for the Federation and a Provincial Public Service
Commission for each Province or group of Provinces. Therefore, in terms of the
provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935 and with its coming into effect on 1st
April, 1937, the Public Service Commission became the Federal Public Service
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Economic Impacts of Pricing Carbon
Laser Talk
This page was updated on 05/04/19 at 16:00 CDT.
Question: Won't a carbon fee be bad for the economy?
Answer: A properly designed carbon policy will be good for the economy. The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act [1] will have a positive impact on our well-being, especially if we consider the avoided costs of climate change and the health benefits from reduced air pollution.
As far back as 2009, 98 percent of economists said a price on carbon would promote efficiency and innovation, [2] and 10 years later, support for a carbon fee and dividend was declared by 46 of the world's premier economists. [3] A 2013 review by Resources for The Future [4] held that the impact of various carbon tax plans on GDP would be 'trivially small,' and a 2014 analysis of a carbon fee and dividend plan by REMI [5] predicted that over 20 years, it would actually increase job growth.
Neither of those studies accounted for how much money we will save by avoiding fossil fuel damages. [6 ,7] According to a 2016 government report, every metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted now will cost tomorrow's economy from $12 to $120, and that cost could double for CO2 emitted in 2050. [8] We currently emit over 160 metric tons of CO2 per second. [9]
If we include the health costs of fossil fuel air pollution, which have been estimated at $188 billion annually, [10] it's clear that burning fossil fuels is already costing our economy upwards of $250 billion a year. This was confirmed by the Fourth National Climate Assessment [11] issued in November 2018.
When someone claims a carbon tax will depress the economy, they fail to consider how returning the money back to U.S. households changes the results, and also fail to account for the huge costs of doing nothing.
Related: The REMI Study.
H.R.763 – The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019. Congress.gov (24 Jan 2019).
Holladay, J.S., J. Horne, and J. Schwartz. "Economists and Climate Change: Consensus and Open Questions." Policy Brief No. 5. New York University School of Law (Nov 2009).
Akerlof, G., et al. "Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends." econstatement.org (17 Jan 2019).
Kopp, R.J. "Economic Growth and Carbon Taxes." Resources for the Future (13 Sep 2013).
Nystrom, S. and P. Luckow. "The Economic, Climate, Fiscal, Power, and Demographic Impact of a National Fee-and-Dividend Carbon Tax." Regional Economic Models, Inc. and Synapse, Inc. (9 June 2014).
"Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Summary Stats." NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (2018).
"The Social Cost of Carbon." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (snapshot 19 Jan 2017).
"Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis." Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases. (Aug 2016).
"U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2016." U.S. Energy Information Administration (5 Oct 2017).
"The Economic Case for Climate Action in the United States." Universal Ecological Fund (Sep 2017).
Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume II. U.S. Global Change Research Program (23 Nov 2018).
Laser Talks Directory
Basic Science of Climate Change
Where Scientists Stand on Climate
The Latest IPCC Report
Extreme Weather and Climate
Hurricanes and Climate
Wildfires and Climate
Household Energy Costs
Jobs – Fossil Fuels versus Renewables
Low-Income Households
The REMI Study
Health Benefits of Climate Policy
Agriculture and the Carbon Fee
Policy Design
Comparing H.R.763 with Carbon Fee & Dividend
Dividend Delivery
Carbon Border Fee Adjustment
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The H.R.763 Regulatory Pause
Satisfying the PAYGO Law
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Biomass and the Carbon Fee
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Public Opinion on Climate
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China and India
British Columbia's Carbon Tax
Economic Impacts of Pricing Carbon,
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Charles Kickham designed the stone and masonry Benevolent Irish Society (BIS) building in St. John's. However, John Coleman, William Kelly and the members of the BIS actually constructed the building.
Benevolent Irish Society Building is one of the few surviving Second Empire style masonry buildings in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The structure was erected in two phases, the first being the construction of St. Pat's Hall between 1877 to 1880. The Great Fire of 1892 later led to the rebuilding of the structure's interior. St. Pat's served as a Catholic school for many years, but the hall quickly became overcrowded. In 1906 the BIS built O'Donel Hall to provide extra schooling space. They named the new extension after Right Rev. Dr. James O'Donel, the first Irish prelate to lead a Newfoundland congregation.
In 1906 the third floor assembly hall became the Nickel Theatre and the BIS club moved to the ground floor. The Nickel was one of the first North American theatres to show the "new" silent films. The building continued to be used for educational purposes until 1985 when a decline in student numbers, combined with new Catholic facilities on Bonaventure Avenue, made the old building redundant.
Formed in 1806, the BIS was one of Newfoundland's first charitable organisations. The association was nonsectarian; the only qualifications for membership involved having close family ties to Ireland. Of the initial BIS executive of six men, only one, Henry Shea, was Roman Catholic. Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, many of Newfoundland's political, economic, social and religious leaders were associated with the BIS. Newfoundland's first prime minister, Philip Francis Little, was president of the society when he became prime minister in 1855.
In July 1998, the BIS announced their intention to sell the complex to developers Kevin Nolan and Robert Hall, who have since transformed the building into several condominium units.
In recognition of the prominent role played by the Benevolent Irish Society in Newfoundland's history, their building became a Registered Heritage Structure in April 1990.
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Also view the Benevolent Irish Society (BIS) Building Registered Heritage Structure, and the Benevolent Irish Society (BIS) Building - City of St. John's Heritage Site on the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador web site. The Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site has on its site only a portion of the registered heritage structures in Newfoundland and Labrador. To view a complete list or search for a particular structure visit the Heritage Foundation's Property Search page.


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Anton Filatov, Ukrainian Film Critic, Drafted Into Real-Life War
ROZDOLIVKA, Ukraine — Before the war arrived at his doorstep, Anton Filatov, a Ukrainian film critic, said the most dangerous thing he ever carried was a fork.
"I had never touched a weapon," he said. "I was against war. I ran as far as I could from it."
But as with so many other Ukrainians, the fighting found him, and his life, has become a real-life war movie. He is serving on the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russian invaders, in some of the most contested, blood-soaked territory, caught in a theater he never imagined for himself.
In late August, he was stationed in an abandoned house in the village of Rozdolivka, in the war-ravaged Donbas region. This used to be a place where the gardens had grape vines crawling up trellises and the houses had roofs. Then the shelling began.
During one barrage, Mr. Filatov, 34, ducked into a bomb shelter, still wearing his owlish glasses. He is extremely nearsighted, minus 7, one of the many reasons his wife was shocked he was drafted.
Even with the horrors he has to squint to see, and the daily grind of being a soldier, he hasn't given up on his writing. The opposite. Ukraine's war has become his new material, as he delves into the fear, sorrow, rage and anxiety he is experiencing and tries to find meaning in the smallest things around him, like the mice that scurry over him while he sleeps.
In a recent text message, he wrote:
Once, during one of the heavy attacks, I sat in a dugout and watched the earth tremble. Chopped pine roots stuck out from the wall of our shelter. The sap of the tree flowed out of them. It shined like mercury and resembled tears. A few months later, I don't remember how many explosions there were that evening or what weapons had been fired. But I clearly remember one image: how the earth wept with heavy, cold tears.
War has always provoked remarkable writing, from the Iliad onward. Norman Mailer published "The Naked and the Dead" after serving in the Pacific in World War II as a young man just out of Harvard. Bao Ninh wrote perhaps the saddest, most agonizing account of the Vietnam War, in which he narrowly survived as a North Vietnamese foot soldier, in "The Sorrow of War."
Mr. Filatov's blog posts on Facebook are a 21st-century version of this, and they have gained him a growing audience.
"The war opens his gifts even more," said Alexandr Gusev, a veteran Ukrainian film critic, who was an admirer of Mr. Filatov's film writing before the fighting and has been following his wartime blogging since.
He writes in three languages — Ukrainian, Russian and English — and in the 2010s, when Ukraine's film industry took off, so did Mr. Filatov's career. He saw thousands of movies, wrote hundreds of reviews and traveled the world to sit on film festival juries.
Cinema, he said, helps him "understand people," and film criticism lets him explore his love for the movies, his interest in stories — and his talent for evocative writing.
"From the start, Anton was really noticeable," Mr. Gusev said. "He has this ability to use his own personal emotional condition, which brings him close to his audience. He became one of the top five or six film critics in our country."
With the 2020 Covid pandemic, cinemas in the country shut down and so did many Ukrainian publications. His wife, Elena Filatova, is also a journalist, and to help support his family, he became a content editor for Nestlé, while still writing the occasional review.
Around 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 24, his young son Platon toddled up to a window in their apartment in the Kyiv suburbs and looked down at the street. Cars were fleeing, bomb blasts were shaking the city, and the little boy started crying. The Russians had invaded.
As required, Mr. Filatov reported for military duty, thinking he'd never be chosen, but a few weeks later, he boarded a train crowded with soldiers for Donbas, where the fighting has been the fiercest.
"It's such a paradox that a calm, peaceful man like him is forced into a situation like that," said Britt Sorensen, a Norwegian film critic who served on a film festival jury with Mr. Filatov. "The fact that he has to fight physically for his country instead of using his intellectual capacity for the best of his country is outrageous."
As a simple soldier, Mr. Filatov's first task on the front was digging a pit to sleep in. The rocklike soil was so hard he had to use an ax. It took an hour just to hack away a few inches. He didn't like living in that hole: "It's not so nice in middle of the night when some spiders try to come into your nose," he said.
But he didn't stay long.
At that stage of the fighting, he and his unit were being pushed back again and again, firsthand witnesses to the Ukrainian Army's struggles in Donbas this spring and summer.
A voracious reader, Mr. Filatov often writes about the overlap between the books he carries and the war itself.
In one blog post, he compared the underworld of a Jo Nesbo thriller, "Phantom," to the suspicion and treachery in Donbas, where many residents support the Russian military and have worked secretly to aid them in their fight.
The settlements here are full of traitors. They walk the streets like phantoms. Restless. Invisible. Dangerous.
One night in Donbas, he saw something very unusual in the starlit sky: glowing white embers, burning bright, floating gently down, almost like flowers. "It was very beautiful," he said. "But horrible."
It was white phosphorous, an especially dreaded munition that burns straight through anything. He started taking anti-anxiety drugs to be able to function.
While Ukrainian forces have been doing well in the south — having just liberated Kherson, a strategically important city — Mr. Filatov predicted the fighting in Donbas "will continue for a very long time."
He mentioned an exchange in a Donbas town, where a drunk man told him he had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S.S.R., so how could he switch that allegiance to Ukraine?
"I said, 'how can you be obligated by a country that doesn't exist?'" Mr. Filatov recalled. "But a conversation with a drunk man is something very special. I don't think he heard me."
During a missile attack in one Donbas town, his battalion's bookkeeper was gravely wounded, and Mr. Filatov was asked to step in.
"What I really wanted was to work with drones and maps," he said. "But nobody asked me."
In his new job, he trots from house to house, where Ukrainian troops are often based, and sometimes even trench to trench, carrying his AK-47 in one hand and a battered, army-issued laptop in the other. He conducts interviews with soldiers, asking them about everything from emergency contacts to their shoe size, building a database of essential information for the entire battalion.
His life before the war now seems so far away. "Quite everything that I loved, that I wanted, that I was interested in, has changed," he said.
He used to gravitate toward art-house films, but now says that one of his Top 10 favorites is Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbuster, "Dunkirk," about which he recently wrote:
The leitmotif of this film is the hypnotizing sound of a ticking stopwatch. Here, at the front line, shelling is so intense that after every explosion, hearing disappears for tens of seconds. When the shelling stops, the hearing gradually begins to return. In one of these cases, the first thing I heard was the ticking of a clock. Exactly like in this movie. And I thought: How many of these seconds are allotted for the rest of my life? How cool is it that I'm still alive?
With death surrounding him, he has turned from someone who never had any urge to participate in combat into a man who now thinks a lot about killing.
"When I see how my friends are killed and maimed in the war, when my wife writes to me that she sits with our 2-year-old son in the basement for several hours, when my relatives tell me that they cannot work due to power outages, because the Russians bombed the power plant, I feel great anger inside me," he said. "At such moments, I want to run into an attack on the Russians, who are standing a few kilometers from me and shoot them all."
He has not seen his wife or his son since May 12.
"It took me a month to get over the shock," Ms. Filatova, his wife, said. "Then the next month was just fear."
"I put myself in a jar," she added. "Now, I'm just waiting for it to end."
Winter is still a month away, but it's already sweeping across Ukraine, the cold making everything harder. Mr. Filatov sleeps in a room with a temperature slightly higher than a refrigerator. More than half his unit, he said, was "injured, sick or dead."
In a recent voice message, he spoke softly and slowly about his own mortality:
One morning I went to the post office to receive a shipment from my family of warm clothes. They came in a big plastic bag. Then I was busy all day and took this plastic bag everywhere I went. In the evening, unexpectedly, I was asked to help our medics load a plastic bag with a casualty from our battalion. This coincidence just struck me emotionally.
A plastic bag gives you life in the morning and in the evening a very similar plastic bag takes life away. Here at war everything is guided by coincidence or accident. No one knows how the missile will fly, how the shrapnel will go or where the bullet will land.
Are you going to carry the bag? Or are you going to be in the bag?
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Video Of Kid Chased By Magpie Is 90 Percent Hilarious, 10 Percent Terrifying, And 100 Percent Australian
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By James Felton
A video has gone viral online of a boy on a scooter being chased and attacked by a bird. In the video, the boy scoots as fast as his little legs will scoot, clearly in distress, as the bird continues its sustained attack. The adult filming the events breaks into laughter.
Even without any context, we're confident you have guessed that this scene takes place in Australia, where, let's face it, everything from creepy crawlies to jumping tree snakes to the trees themselves is out to cause you harm.
The birds are no different, as you can see. These ones, as we will explain, are especially big (to use an Australian term) wankers.
Shortly before spider season in Australia, the frankly uninhabitable country goes through swooping season, in which its "magpies" are known to swoop down from the skies and attack humans minding their own business below. The magpies (actually a type of passerine known as butcherbirds, which only makes them more terrifying) become active between late August and late November, regularly dive-bombing and chasing humans in order to protect their nests.
Particularly aggressive, you don't really need to be anywhere near their nests for them to attack. And when they do, they tend to go for the head, face, and eyes. In a brutal 2017 season, 3,253 attacks and 518 injuries were reported, including a boy who required eye surgery. In 2019, a cyclist died trying to escape an attack.
People have tried several different methods to avoid being singled out by the avian would-be assassins, although as you can see in the video below, no successful technique has been found yet.
The thing that is particularly strange and (saying this safely from the other side of the world) kind of badass about these birds is that the attacks aren't entirely random: As well as focusing largely on men, the birds are known to repeatedly attack the same individuals over several years.
"Research has shown magpies can recognize up to at least 100 different people and we think the main factor is facial recognition," birdlife expert Sean Dooley told radio station 3aw earlier this year. "If you think a magpie has it in for you, you're probably right."
Experts have warned this year could be especially brutal as the birds may have trouble recognizing their usual enemies while everyone is wearing a mask, and attack in a case of mistaken identity.
"A magpie may know you and know that you're okay, but when you're wearing a mask they may not be able to recognize you," Dooley explained.
With masks mandatory in many states, this could be a problem. Unfortunately, the advice for avoiding the beady-eyed birds is basically to alter your life.
"Magpies seem to have very good memories and have attacked the same people over subsequent seasons," according to Magpiealert, a site for runners, cyclists etc to register where attacks have occurred. It also advises your route belongs to them now. "If it's attacked you before, probably a good idea to use an alternative route next season."


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Ottis Gibson: Former West Indies all-rounder is new Yorkshire CCC coach
The 28 Premier League defenders out of contract this summer - should Leeds United, Barnsley, Sheffield United, Middlesbrough, Huddersfield Town, Hull City or Sheffield Wednesday target any of these players?
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Josh Windass signs new deal as Sylla Sow is unveiled as signing number 13 for Sheffield Wednesday
JOSH WINDASS has spoken about his promotion intent after ending speculation over his future by signing a new two-year deal with Sheffield Wednesday, who have also continued their summer transfer signing spree with the capture of Dutch forward Sylla Sow.
By Leon Wobschall
Tuesday, 10th August 2021, 7:00 pm
Josh Windass.
Sow, 25, who can play down the middle or out wide, has previously played in his homeland with Utrecht and Waalwijk.
His addition followed on from the welcome news that Windass had signed fresh terms.
The attacking midfielder, subject of two failed bids from Millwall earlier in the summer and linked with several other Championship clubs, has ended speculation over his future by committing to the Hillsborough club, seeking an instant return to the second tier in 2021-22.
The contract of Windass runs until 2023 and is likely to be viewed as a hugely significant development by Wednesdayites, with the player being one of the club's prized assets.
Windass, who scored ten times for the Owls last term, commented: "I feel settled here, the manager is great and it's one of the best dressing rooms I've played in.
"Promotion is want we want this year and that's our expectation, we aren't scared of saying it.
"It's one of the biggest clubs in Britain, the fan base have been brilliant with me since I arrived and I'm looking forward to playing in front of them again this season."
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