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Stabilization planning in Syria
Series: The New Geopolitics of the Middle East
Bruce Jones, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Sarah Yerkes March 2017
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Syria is entering its sixth year of debilitating violence at a moment of geopolitical flux. It has been and remains a crucible in the geopolitics of the Middle East; a flash point in great power politics; a source of extraregional instability; and a devastating human tragedy. Sadly, the international response to Syria has dealt with those aspects in that order, rather than prioritizing the human suffering.
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Most analysts of civil wars believe that the approach to the Syrian civil war most likely to result in a sustained end to bloodshed would have the following elements: increased scale and coherence of Western engagement, in order to enhance Western leverage in negotiations with Russia and Iran; political negotiations that link international, regional, and local actors; the forging of an interim political deal—either a deal that sees President Bashar Assad leave power eventually, or at least one that limits Assad's ability to execute violence against his opponents; and the installation of transitional institutions that can oversee interim security arrangements (including the disposition of Syria's armed forces and intelligence agencies) and the beginnings of social reconciliation and economic reconstruction. These will be mammoth tasks, given the scale of devastation, destruction, and distrust.
The prospects for such an approach, however, remain dim. Indeed, given the current geopolitical dynamics, we do not believe an equitable negotiated settlement that removes Assad from power is possible. However, when Assad does eventually leave power, either through a pacted transition, an election, or eventual retirement or death, the international community may have an opportunity to guide Syria through a new negotiated political framework, allowing for a different set of stability measures and a robust reconciliation process.
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In the shorter term, however, policymakers examining the real options for bringing Syria's civil war to an end, or mitigating its destructive violence, must start with the following realities.
Geopolitical factors. Unlike much of the experience of response to civil wars during the post-Cold War period, decisionmaking in Syria is heavily shaped by great power tensions and geopolitics—both within the Middle East and externally. That is to say, relations between regional powers and between Russia, Iran, the United States, and Europe are a decisive factor in shaping options for conflict mitigation or management. After a long period of deterioration, in part over debates about Syria, those relations are now in flux. The new U.S. president creates an opportunity for realignment with Russia over Syria, but the extent of that realignment, or its sustainability, is unclear. Particularly unclear is how President Trump might align his administration's desire for de-escalation and closer ties with Russia with its rising antagonism with Iran, which has been one of Russia's key allies in the Syrian conflict.
Ground realities. The balance of forces and influence between outside actors and on-the-ground fighters always tilts in favor of local actors, but that is true in spades in Syria. Because the West's involvement has been patchy and limited, its influence with various opposition actors is also limited. The involvement of Turkish, Gulf, and other actors further fractures opposition loyalties. (This has waxed and waned; but as we note in the annexed paper on reconstruction, it is likely to grow under conditions of settlement.) Russia has a more direct tie to Assad and his armed forces but even there, influence is far from total; indeed, much of it is tied to Iran's presence, which arguably wields the greatest degree of external influence in Syria. All of this means that whatever agreements can be forged at the geopolitical level are unlikely to translate directly into changing conditions on the ground. Trust is non-existent, national institutions are shattered or profoundly weakened, and even under conditions of a so-called "victory" or a negotiated settlement, continuing violence (perhaps at a low level, localized) is likely to be a long-term reality for Syria.
Intrusive regional politics. Regional actors have major stakes in the shape of Syria's postwar politics and security arrangements, as well as economic interests, and are likely to continue to provide support to their partners even if there is a political deal among major external actors. An international arrangement that fails to account for the politics of these actors is likely to run into substantial headwinds. Two major issues structure regional actors' views of the Syrian conflict. The first is a disagreement over the role that Iran will play in post-conflict Syria; the second is a disagreement over the primacy of preserving Syria as a unitary state with a strong central government, currently headed by Assad. Positioning on these two issues generates divergent priorities amongst governments who are all partners to the United States and Europe in both the Syrian negotiations and the anti-ISIS fight. These differences have frustrated the Vienna negotiating process, hampered cooperation in the fight against ISIS, and threaten to escalate the Syrian war further. It is thus imperative that any stabilization effort recognizes these disagreements and how they shape emerging coalitions within the region.
Reconciliation matters. Even well organized, substantial, and savvy external support to political negotiations and physical security will falter if not accompanied, from the outset, by a scaled and sustained effort to foster local and national reconciliation. Building this into planning from the outset will be an important determinant of likely success. Furthermore, it is essential that reconciliation not be treated as a side pillar to economic reconstruction, political negotiations, or international security measures. Rather, reconciliation should be central to the design of those measures. Regardless of whatever outcome is achieved, it is worthwhile for the international donor community to invest now in Syrian actors and organizations who can support future reconciliation, particularly at the community level.
The net result of all of these factors is that what are often depicted as alternate scenarios for the eventual reconstruction of Syria, are in fact points along a spectrum. And whereas the common scenarios examined for Syria refer primarily to the disposition of military forces on the ground, we believe it is necessary to construct scenarios by tying geopolitical and ground realities together.
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Suit alleges THC edible played a role in wife's murder
According to the Denver Post, on April 14, 2014 "Kristine Kirk called 911 and pleaded for help as she told the operator her husband was ranting about the end of the world, asking her to shoot him and 'totally hallucinating.'" Richard Kirk had ingested part of a powerful THC-infused edible.
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the couple's three surviving children charging that the edible manufacturer "recklessly and purposefully failed to warn him about the bite-sized candy's potency and possible side effects — including hallucinations and other psychotic behaviors" according to the Denver Post.
THC overdose leads to death
After eating a single cookie containing 6.5 doses of THC that cost a mere $10, Levi Thamba Pongi jumped from a fourth floor hotel balcony to his death. The cookie contained just 2.3 thousandths of an ounce of THC but caused him to act "crazy" including "smashing room furniture, lamps and the television." According to press reports, THC concentration in his blood was just 7.2 nanograms (less than a billionth of an ounce), only 2.2 nanograms per milliliter of blood more than the official level defined for impaired driving. See Denver Post for more details.


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The impact of covid-19 on the gender gap in hours actually worked
Maite Blázquez and Ainhoa Herrarte, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Ana Isabel Moro-Egido, Universidad de Granada
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The covid-19 pandemic has reduced the number of hours actually worked in Spain. This reduction has affected men more than women, leading to a 15.7% decrease in the gender gap. However, in households with small children (0-4 years), the result has been inverted, so that it has been women, to a larger extent than men, who have seen a reduction in the number of hours they have actually worked. One plausible explanation for this phenomenon could be, as a consequence of the closure of schools and nurseries with the outbreak of the pandemic, that women have taken on greater workloads in terms of childcare. This would have made their possibilities for reconciling family and working life more difficult.
Prior to the covid-19 pandemic, women occupied full-time were working on average 2.7 hours less than men, which translated into a gap of 5.3% in hours actually worked.
Since the start of the pandemic, during the second and third quarter of 2020, the number of hours actually worked fell with respect to the same quarters of 2019. However, this phenomenon was manifested with greater intensity among men, so the gender gap in hours worked was reduced to 4.4%.
With the outbreak of the pandemic, the number of hours worked by women exceeded that of men among skilled workers in agriculture, traditional craftspeople and skilled workers in industry and construction. However, this was only true for skilled workers who had no children or when their children were aged over 15.
The reduction in the gender gap did not occur, however, among occupied people with children aged between 0 and 4 years as, in this case, women saw their hours actually worked reduced to a greater extent than men. The presence of small children tended to accentuate the gender gap, except in activities considered as essential.
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The contraction in economic activity caused by the covid-19 pandemic has caused a drop in the number of hours actually worked
The economic recession caused by covid-19 has again put gender equality under the spotlight. This article analyses the impact of the pandemic on hours actually worked by the occupied population using data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) from the second and third quarter of the years 2019 and 2020. The contraction of economic activity during lockdown and its subsequent partial recovery have led to an important fall in the employment rate in Spain, although this has occurred with greater intensity among men. Furthermore, among occupied people who worked in the quarters analysed, changes were observed in a dual sense with respect to the number of hours actually worked. Firstly, the number of people who worked less than usual has increased by 20%, fundamentally due to temporary lay-offs (ERTEs). Moreover, the number of occupied people who actually worked more hours has increased by 12%. These changes have led to a fall in the number of hours worked that is more pronounced among men than among women, giving rise to a reduction of 15.7% in the gender gap.
1. The gender gap in hours worked has increased among occupied people with small children
According to data from the EPA for a sample of men aged between 25 and 64 years, occupied full-time and not affected by lay-offs and who were living in households where both partners were occupied, in the second quarter of 2020 the number of hours actually worked decreased. This fall was more intense among men, given their greater relative presence in economic activities classified as non-essential. This reduced the gap between men and women in terms of hours worked. Upon the recovery of economic activity in the third quarter of 2020, the hours worked increased among both men and women, but without reaching previous values. When comparing the second and third quarter of 2020 with the same period of 2019 (periods that in this article are termed covid-19 and pre-covid, respectively), a descent in the number of hours worked is observed (0.34 among men and 0.13 among women) along with the consequent narrowing of the gender gap in hours worked, from 2.7 to 2.5 hours.
However, when household characteristics are taken into account, some differences are detected based on whether the occupied people concerned have children, and the age of any children. Although the reduction in hours actually worked is greater among men, among occupied people with small children (0-4 years and 5-9 years old) it is women who have experienced a greater reduction in hours worked. Thus, during the covid-19 period, the gender gap increased for this segment of the population. In contrast, the gap reduced among occupied people without children, as well as among occupied people with children aged over 10 years. This result would suggest that the pandemic has accentuated women's role as the main people responsible for the care of small children.
2. The gender gap in hours actually worked disappears in skilled occupations classed as blue-collar, except for among occupied people with small children
In relation with the type of occupation, the number of hours worked increased for women in high-skilled jobs during the covid-19 period. This is highlighted, especially, in the case of skilled workers classed as blue collar (skilled agricultural workers, traditional craftspeople and skilled industry and construction walkers). This circumstance, together with the slight reduction in hours worked among the male group, has led to the gender gap being inverted in favour of women in these occupations.
By household typology, according to the presence of children and their ages, it is noticeable that, among occupied people without children and occupied people with children aged over 15, women in high-skilled blue-collar occupations worked even more hours than men during the pandemic. Among occupied people with children aged between 10 and 15, the gender gap practically disappeared during the pandemic, while among occupied people with children aged 0 to 9, the gap widened slightly.
3. The essential nature of an activity and the incidence of remote working determine the gender gap in hours actually worked
Despite the generalised reduction in the number of hours actually worked during the covid-19 period, for women the hours actually worked in activities classified as essential by Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, increased. In contrast, for men the number of hours actually worked fell in both essential and non-essential activities. This result could be due to the greater presence of women in some essential activities such as the health sector (healthcare staff) or commerce (supermarkets, pharmacies and other commercial establishments classed as essential). Thus, the pandemic has led to the gender gap in hours actually worked becoming smaller in essential economic activities and, within these, especially among occupations with a low incidence of remote working (workers in catering and personal services, workers in the agricultural sector, craft workers, operators and elementary occupations). In contrast, within the non-essential activities, an increase –albeit slight– is observed in hours actually worked in occupations with a high incidence of remote working.
If attention is focused on occupied people with small children, an increase in the gender gap in hours actually worked during the covid-19 period is observed among those working in non-essential activities, although the gap hardly varies for those occupied in essential activities.
4. The covid-19 pandemic has reduced the gender gap in hours actually worked by 15.7%
In the study conducted, for occupied people aged 25 to 64 years, not affected by temporary lay-offs and who were working full-time and lived in households where both partners were occupied, the descriptive analysis above was complemented with an econometric analysis. This focused on two sub-samples of workers with similar personal and job characteristics: one sub-sample for the covid-19 period and another for the pre-covid period. These sub-samples were taken for the purpose of comparing whether, once the specific characteristics of individuals were taken into account, the outbreak of the pandemic has had any effect on hours actually worked, and whether differential behaviours have arisen according to household characteristics. The results of this more detailed analysis corroborate that the fall in the number of hours actually worked caused by the pandemic has been greater among men than among women. Thus, the gender gap has decreased by 15.7%, passing from 5.3% in the second and third quarter of 2019 to 4.4% in the same period of 2020.
The reduction in the gender gap in hours actually worked following the outbreak of the pandemic has been generalised, but much more intense among occupied people without children. However, among occupied people with small children (0-4 years) the gap would not only continue to be higher but, furthermore, it would not have decreased during the covid-19 period due to the fact that, in these households, women reduced the number of hours actually worked to a greater extent than men. Moreover, when the economic activity of their employment is taken into account, it is observed that the presence of small children tends to accentuate the gender gap, except in economic activities considered essential.
The only case for which the gender gap has been inverted due to the pandemic was in skilled blue-collar occupations. But again, if they have small children, the difference between hours actually worked between women and men in these occupations exceeds three hours in favour of men.
In short, the results point to a general reduction in the gender gap in hours actually worked as a consequence of the pandemic, except among occupied people with small children, for whom this reduction is not significant. The greater workload due to childcare tasks with small children among the female group that may have been caused by lockdown could be among the causes that have led to this result. However, the absence of information in the EPA on the distribution of tasks within households prevents any firm conclusion being drawn in this regard.
The medium-term effects of the pandemic on hours actually worked by women are still unknown. However, if these preliminary results were to be maintained in coming quarters, a greater deterioration of the position of women with children in the labour market as a consequence of the pandemic would be observed.
6. Study limitations
As for the main limitations for the study on which this article has been based, it should be mentioned that the EPA does not include information on the distribution of tasks within the household. Although the results obtained reflect a differential behaviour of the gender gap in hours actually worked among occupied people with small children during the pandemic, the data gathered do not enable any conclusion on whether this behaviour is the result of greater dedication to childcare tasks by women due to covid-19. Furthermore, the possibility of having access to longitudinal data would enable the analysis to be improved.
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100 Brinker Road
Barrington Hills, IL, 60010
One of Barrington Hills' last great historic estate properties, this home provides a rare opportunity for the buyer seeking their family's own personal Camelot. A spectacular retreat combining natural beauty, meticulously preserved treasures of the past and modern amenities, this property is truly a legacy to be passed onto ensuing generations. Owned and occupied by the current family in residence for 55 years, the property combines three historic estate homes dating back to 1699, 1720 and 1805 that were reassembled as one in 1922 as the main house to Dorville Dairy Farms. Resting on 40+ acres of rolling wooded, beautifully gardened and luxuriously groomed open grass spaces with private lake, pool and pool house, the home provides equal use for serenity and play. The home and its surrounding acreage provide an idyllic retreat from the outside world, while still situated just minutes from town, schools and highways. Upon approach to this country home from the rolling hills of Brinker Road, you will pass by 800 feet of split rail fence lined by pristine woods and meadows of pastures leading to a private 1/8th mile meticulously landscaped driveway. The home's showcase is the elegant family room featuring the original wood burning fireplace as the centerpiece. Authentic and original New England white pine (patina) paneling, wide plank floors, original wood doors and beams grace the interior through the warm glow of leaded glass windows.The living room is adorned with patina white pine paneling and rustic wide plank flooring. The bright formal dining room with fireplace (one of 5 in the home) overlooks the sprawling backyard and lake and is flanked by an open window breakfast room and a charming and spacious sunroom. The open country-style, fully-equipped kitchen is inspired with a complement of modern and traditional conveniences including an open flame hooded grill and ample space for in-kitchen dining. The home's six large bedrooms on the second floor, many with ensuite or attached baths, are connected by a long walnut-floored hallway with beautiful views through plenty of colonial-style paned windows. Cozy open dormers second as private reading nooks. Rich wood paneling envelops the home's office, featuring its own wood burning fireplace.The home's lower level features a large recreation room with gorgeous custom wet bar and plenty of space for a pool table, as well as a full bath and ample storage space. In addition, a first-floor guest suite provides the perfect arrangement for extended family living with a bedroom, full bath, kitchenette and private living area accessible through a separate entrance. When nature beckons life to the outdoors, a 75-foot hourglass pool with a full- equipped pool house and gazebo provide space for memorable gatherings and entertainment. The enclosed and fully illuminated tennis court has been home to many community and club tournaments. Equestrians will appreciate the lush pasture areas with immediate access to miles of the Barrington Hills bridle paths, while fishermen will appreciate the bountiful fishing of bass and bluegill in the stream fed lake, perfect for ice skating during winter months. An oversized 3-car garage and a large carpentry and mechanical shop are equipped for every hobby. This rare and unique property evokes the rich heritage of great family estates of history and is truly one-of-a-kind!
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The PQS award is part of Intel's Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) program that encourages suppliers to strive for excellence and continuous improvement. To qualify for PQS status, suppliers must score 80 percent on a report card that assesses performance and ability to meet cost, quality, availability, technology, environmental, social and governance goals. Suppliers must also achieve 80 percent or greater on a challenging improvement plan and demonstrate solid quality and business systems. Additional information about the SCQI program is available at http://intel.com/go/quality.
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I turned 21 this month. Also, tons of PS2, PS3,and GBA game reviews/impressions.
Wow it has been awhile since my last blog. What can I say; I am a lazyhoboguy after all. Well here is an excessively long blog that will rot your brain and make up for my absence.
I have been getting in a good amount of gaming lately and picked up a few new games with some birthday money I got. I am now 21 and can legally drink. Although, I have no interest really in drinking alcohol anymore so this birthday was not as exciting as it could have been if I was a typical habitual overdrinking loud college student like many of my peers.
Two days after my birthday I decided to buy a 6 pack of Corona just because. It stayed in my fridge about a week before I even touched one. I did not like it much. It has been about 2 weeks since I bought them, yet 4 out of the 6 beers are still sitting in my fridge. I don't really understand why people like beer. It tastes nasty, it makes me feel all full and like a slob after, and they usually upset my stomach. Plus, I am cheap and would rather spend my money on something else. Also, if you drink beer for the purpose of turning into a super drunk person, why not just get some hard liquor and not deal with the super full feeling that beer gives you?
Anyways, back to gaming. I don't want a bunch of angry drunks realizing I trash talked their miracle beverage, so I am shall quickly change the subject.
The games I picked up recently are:
Lumines Plus
Red Faction Guerrilla
I have not touched Amplitude or Rougue Trooper yet, so I don't have much to say about them. I absolutely loved Frequency, which Amplitude is a sequel too, so I am obviously excited to try it.
Also, here is a new animation I was inspired to make after playing one of the following games
There are NO SPOILERS in the following Reviews/ Game Impressions
Family Feud (PS2)
This Family Feud game is terrible. I expected such, but I did not realize quite how terrible it would turn out. I got it mainly to try its online mode with a friend, but it turned out the online mode is most likely no longer functioning. Two other people and I all get the same error when trying to host an online game of this. In fact, one of these guys called the company to see if the game was officially offline now, and the guy had no idea what was going on with that game. My friend was the first person to ever call the company about it lol.
I wrote a quick review a little while ago about this game.
Don't expect an amazing review in the following chunks of text. This is a half-assed game, so I felt it was only fair to give it a half-assed review.
Shockingly, this game is not very good lol. I hoped I could get some sick type of entertainment out of the game. I was hoping it would be so bad it would be good, but instead it was so bad it made me want to kill myself.
This game seems like it was made in 2 weeks. Playing against the computer is ridiculous. On the easy difficulty, the computer family just never answers a question and passes it to you so you win regardless of doing anything. If you go to the normal difficulty the computer family becomes a collection of psychics. If they are allowed one turn they will guess every correct answer in a row and there is nothing you can do.
Also, the answers for some of the questions are just ridiculous. But the computer always knows these nonsense answers because they are the computer.
The host in this game is some generic guy that has like 5 phrases.
There is lag between just about everything in the game. I mean like whenever you pick an answer, you have to wait a long time for the board to show your answer, then you get to wait for the host to read off the answers you didn't guess suuuuuuuper slowly. Between transitions in the game too , it will just pause randomly for waaay too long. It starts to get on your nerves very quickly. They are obviously trying to be clever and stick loading into the game without having a loading bar. Well staring at a menu for 5 seconds before it registers an answer gets really frustrating.
Oh yea, there is one little 10 second track of half-assed techno stuff that loop endlessly throughout the whole game. There is literally only one song that plays the entire game.....
This game might be fun if you had someone to play with you on your tv, since the other player would not be able to guess the stupid answers and things would be closer. If this games online worked it might be ok. Three of us have tried playing this game online, but every time someone tries to host an error message immediately pops up. I think if this game's online is truly dead, it must be banished to lamestop.
Oh, and this game doesn't work with dualshock one. I had to go find my dualshock 2 and that pissed me off. Damn you family feud.
The one pro of this game.... it works with a usb keyboard. If that is really a pro. Trying to type in words with the controller is literally impossible since you are timed for answering the questions.
I tell you what.
The only thing this game has going for it is its family creation system. I had about 10 minutes of amusement making Hank Hill and his family play the game. Here is a video of that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMGihV0rk4w
Once the novelty of that wore off, I realized that I can't stand to ever play this game again. That tells you something is really really atrocious, when even the most brilliant salesman of propane and propane accessories cannot save the game.
Lumines Plus (PS2)
This is a puzzle game that originally came out on the PSP. A guy I know had been telling me for months about how fun it was and then recently I heard that this game was created by the Japanese dude who made the game REZ. Finding this out made me very eager to try it so I picked it up off of amazon.
I really like this game. It is a deceivingly simple puzzle game at first glance. You drop squares that are made up of 4 smaller blocks that are mixed up in random combinations of 2 colors. You can flip this big square around and you try to line up 4 small blocks of the same color. When you do that those 4 small blocks disappear. You lose the game when the stacked up blocks reach the top of the screen.
What makes this game innovative is that all the time there is a scrolling horizontal line that goes from left to right. Your groups of 4 same colored blocks will not disappear until this scrolling horizontal line reaches them. You can get lots of combo points by adding more blocks to your group of 4 before that horizontal line reaches the mass of same colored blocks. This makes things interesting because you are always rushing to add more blocks before the line reaches that section so you can get the most points. However, you have to be careful because if you carelessly toss blocks down, you may miss and screw yourself over for the future.
Also, this game has a beautiful visual design and cool music. If you last awhile in the game, the visual theme of the game will shift and so will the music. It is nice because it gives you a cue that tells you when the difficulty is going to ramp up. When you're in the middle of tons of block stacking madness, it's hard to keep track of the level counter at the bottom of the screen, so the changing visual theme helps a lot.
This game is very very addicting. The game keeps track of your high scores, so it compels you to keep replaying the game over and over to beat them.
I had not acquired a new puzzle game in a very long time, but I am happy that this particular game ended up as my newest one.
Red Faction: Guerrilla (PS3)
My PS3 has been getting a lot of use after a few week period of me not touching it and that is because I got this game. I had wanted this game since its launch, but I am a cheapo and could not shell out the cash for it. It finally dropped down to 20 bucks for a new copy on amazon with free shipping and I could not resist.
I have probably put in over 10 hours in this game. I loved the demo of this game when it was released and played that for hours and hours. That is because the destruction engine in this game is simply amazing. Any building or object can be destroyed. Stuff breaks apart differently based on which weapon you use to attack it. You can ram a car through a building. You can cover your car with 10 mines, jump out of the car at the last second before it hits a building, and after its has crashed into the building you can detonate the mines on the car and totally devastate that once proudly constructed structure. The only thing in this game that cannot be destroyed is the ground.
There is not much story to this game. Basically you are part of a guerrilla movement that is challenging the EDF (Earth Defense Force) who are oppressing the miners on Mars. The voice acting is well done in my opinion, but the story just does not have much meat to it and is not fleshed out much. But who needs much of a story when the destruction in this game is so much fun.
This game is a sandbox game. Meaning you can choose to go wherever you want in the game world and do missions and other things whenever you feel like. If you feel like tracking down some EDF soldiers and blowing them up and fighting a small scale war with their respawning forces, you can. The game limits you to sectors of the map until you beat all the missions there and reduce the EDF presence in that area to 0 percent. The map highlights important EDF targets, usually big buildings and military structures that you need to blow up. I really enjoy this part of the game because coming up with a plan of action for taking out a fortified position and successfully implementing it is really fun. Or, you end up having your plan go completely wrong and you have to suddenly improvise and hope you can take out the building and survive the pursuing forces afterwards.
The weapons in this game are very fun to use. Your default weapon is a sledge hammer. Do I really need to explain the awesomness of this? Ok fine I will. It is such a satisfying weapon to use. It can one hit kill enemies. You can bash is buildings with it. A sledge hammer is just fun to use. The other weapons in this game are just as fun. Your other trusty weapon is remote mines. You can originally only place one or 2 at a time, but you can eventually upgrade that ability and currently in the game I can place 10 mines at once before I detonate them all. Mines stick to anything. It is really funny sticking them on the soldiers because they will start running around frantically and will eventually shake them off. Mines are great all around weapons in this game since they easily allow you to destroy enemy vehicles. A few well placed mines can take down massive buildings as well. Other weapons include an assault rifle, and assault rifle with heat seeking bullets, a rocket launcher, shotguns, a gun that disintegrates anything you shoot (people, cars, buildings, etc), and a gun that shoots electricity that can electrocute multiple enemies at once.
So far I am loving this game. It lacks a gripping story, but the destruction engine in this game is the best and most realistic one ever created. Yay for Geo Mod 2.0. I have not even tried the multiplayer yet and it looks really great as well.
No Rules: Get Phat (GBA) I have had this for years, but just recently found it again
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I have decided to make this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7qHUWMGS4c&feature=response_watch ) the first in a series called "Unbelievably Terrible Games" which is up on my youtube account. I do not have too many crappy games like this in my collection anymore, but there are a few hiding in it. Whenever I come across a game that makes my blood boil from its shocking amount of mediocrity or outright blatant suckage, I will post a video of that game and add "Unbelievably Terrible Games:" before the video title.
I created a new playlist ( http://www.youtube.com/user/Lazyhoboguy#g/c/0E4390477A4A27CA ) where all other "Unbelievably Terrible Games:" videos will be located.
Here is a quote from the instruction manual to help you understand what this game is like.
"Background
One Eye Jack's got a kickin' life: Get juiced up with a bowl of Cocoa Soul Puffies, catch a little Snoop Nasty and The Super Homeez on TV, bust some airs with the crew at the skatepark, maybe even mix some phat beats after hours...
But when aliens from Planet Punkazz arrive, Jack's lifestyle takes it in the shorts. The Punkazzes say they're here to "get phat." But the Punkazzes don't want to serve people on a plate. To survive, they have to wack Jack's culture. And Jack don't play dat...."
Ummm yea lmao. Reading the instruction manual is much more entertaining then actually playing the game.
The story in this game revolves around One Eye Jack, who is some mutated freak kid who only has one eye, has white hair, and apparently thinks he is a hardcore gangster. He reminds me of like a little shriveled up Bart Simpson. He rides a skateboard and his weapon throughout the game is a slingshot.
The cut scenes in this game are the only interesting thing about it. They are like a comic book where One Eye Jack talks in gangsta talk about trying to save his precious cereal called "Cocoa Soul Puffies" from the "Punkazz aliens".
I had this game for many years, but forgot I owned it until this week. I remembered the game being frustrating as hell when I was a kid and it played just how I remembered it. The controls in this game are horrendous. You ride a skateboard or snowboard throughout the game and when you move left or right you glide for a bit. So it makes quickly turning directions or platforming needlessly tedious and sometimes near impossible. The developers have tons of sections where you need to make precise jumps on tiny moving platforms. The controls make this very very annoying. Also, you cannot shoot and move at the same time....
Boss battles in this game randomly turn into a mediocre rhythm game where you press the buttons that scroll across the top screen. When you hit a series of the buttons at the right time, you press the A button and the boss loses health. Repeat that about 10 times and the boss dies. You are djing during boss battles and apparently the sound of you scratching is able to kill aliens and make them explode.
Also, the only reason I bought this game as a kid was because it included a free knock off tech deck finger board lol. I think that is the only way this game sold any copies. I believe that fingerboard broke shortly after I bought it too.
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Product transfer data is set to finally be made publicly available by UK Finance later this year, Mortgage Solutions understands.
The trade body is expected to start publishing the value of this important sub-segment of the market in the coming months, confirm sources, which could help inform broker business strategies for the future.
Lending trends, such as the amount and number of remortgages and home mover loans, have long been publicly issued by UK Finance.
But product transfer has been a noticeable omission, even though this part of the market is thought to be worth far more than remortgages, for example.
UK Finance does gather the data, with lenders asked to provide information on the number and value of their product or rate switches.
Members are also asked for the numbers to be split by the channel used by the borrower, and advised or execution only.
Those that provide data are then given the wider results in a quarterly survey, but it isn't currently publicly published.
However, this is set to change later this year, as the trade body is expected to bow to pressure to open up data on the market.
Up-to-date information on product transfer could be invaluable to brokers, especially as more lenders now pay product transfer procuration fees and as the home mover market is forecast to remain flat over the coming months.
Industry experts have previously estimated the rate switching market to be worth at least £100bn a year.
It's thought the trade body has previously pushed back against making product transfer public, blaming patchy records that haven't been running long enough.
UK Finance declined to confirm plans to publish the data.
A spokesman for the body said: "UK Finance regularly publishes mortgage statistics on our website including on first-time buyers, movers, remortgagors and buy-to-let.


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Social'nye predstavlenija o proshlom, ili Znajut li amerikantsy istoriju [Social Representations of the Past, or Do Americans Know History]. Novoe literatirnoe obozrenie.
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Znanie o proshlom: teoriya i istoriya. V 2-h t. T. 1: Konstruirovanie proshlogo. T. 2: Obrazy proshlogo. [Knowledge About the Past: Theory and History. 2 vols. V. 1: Construction of the Past. V. 2: Images of the Past]. Nauka.
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A Giant TV on the Back of Semi Trucks Could Make Passing Safer
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Samsung wants to put more TVs on the road. Trying to pass a semi-truck on a two-way, one-lane road can easily lead to a deadly head-on collision, since it's almost impossible to see around a semi without inching out into the opposite lane. Samsung's Safety Truck would make drivers safer by allowing them to see past tall trucks through a television attached to the back of the semi.
The Safety Truck comes equipped with a front-view camera that provides a peek at what's ahead for any driver stuck idling behind the truck. A wall of four television monitors hung on the back of the semi connects to a wireless camera attached to the front. The live feed from the camera shows what the driver of the truck sees, allowing drivers behind to make decisions about whether or not it's safe to pass the slower semi, both during the day and at night.
Driving is one of the most dangerous activities in the world, killing or injuring up to 50 million people throughout the world each year. The Safety Truck project was developed with Argentina in mind, where lots of one-lane highways with little passing room make for dangerous driving conditions. The country has one of the highest driving-related fatality rates in Latin America.
The Safety Truck looks like a no-brainer for anyone interested in making roads safer. But there will likely be some obstacles to putting it into action. The system will need to take into account changing visibility conditions (for instance, when driving toward a low sunset), and Samsung hasn't announced how much it would cost truck owners.
So it isn't clear how soon this concept could get out on the road. "Currently, the prototype truck built is no longer operational," the company announced on its blog Samsung Tomorrow, stipulating that, "So far Samsung has been able to confirm that the technology works." The technology company is teaming up with road safety non-profits and the Argentinean government to go through more testing and attain the proper permits for the product. Until then, be careful in the passing lane.
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Hollywood tattoo artist Paul Timman to appear at Toledo Museum of Art
When Angelina Jolie needed to cover the tattoo of her ex-husband's name with some new ink, she went to Hollywood's elite: Paul Timman.
He's not a household name, unless your household happens to be Tommy Lee's or Mark Wahlberg's. But Timman, the Toledo native and tattoo artist dubbed the "Rembrandt of Sunset Strip," is who the Los Angeles elite trust with their skin. When he's not wielding the needle at the famous Sunset Strip Tattoo parlor, he's making house calls.
And as for Jolie—well, "she was a real sweetheart," according to Timman.
Timman is returning to his hometown to discuss the relationships between art, tattooing and life during a free Masters Series lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5 at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle. See all


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By RE Sports on Jan 22, 2018 at 12:12 p.m.
A tight game was blown open in the third period as Owatonna piled up four goals in the final frame in a 6-0 Big Nine Conference victory over Red Wing on Saturday.
Andrew Munns, in the first, and Matthew DeHaan, in the second, gave the Huskies a 2-0 lead into the second intermission. Then Tyler Wencl, twice, and Kenny Johnson and Landon Thurnau all scored in the third to put the game away.
Zach Harding stopped 22 of 28 shots for Red Wing, while Ryan Johnson made 22 saves for Owatonna.
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CORRESPONDENT editor Tony Bugby joined a group of hardy walkers on a trek to Hartshead Pike for the winter solstice and was given a history lesson about the local landmark.
It conjured a romantic notion of hiking to Hartshead Pike Tower on the winter solstice and looking at the panoramic views, sometimes as far as Snowdonia on a clear day, as the sun rose on the horizon on the shortest day.
The reality was anything but that with a fine drizzle and gloomy conditions making it anything but a pleasant early-morning December stroll.
But the conditions did not deter a group of around 35 hardy souls who put on their walking boots and waterproofs to mark this highly symbolic time of year.
The winter solstice, also known as midwinter, occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from the sun and marks the shortest day.
From December 21, each day gets lighter by two minutes until the summer solstice on June 21 which is celebrated even more – presumably as the weather in kinder – as many cultures have marked it with festivals and rituals for thousands of years.
The winter solstice walk is an annual event run by Tameside Council's Greenspace team since the millennium while they have also organised a summer one since the mid-1990s.
It was a decidedly early start as the four-mile hike left Park Bridge Heritage Centre at 7.15am which is in the middle of nowhere and not the easiest place to locate in darkness when unfamiliar with the surroundings.
It was days later when I was given a history lesson when visiting Derek Rigby, 90, the former deputy editor of the Ashton Reporter Group of Newspapers when I began my journalistic career more than 40 years ago as a cub reporter.
Derek, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Ashton, was able to relate stories about when it was a vibrant industrial hub with rivets manufactured there that were used for the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
Its importance was such it once had its own station, one of four in Ashton when the railways were in their pomp before the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
It was dull and drizzly as the group gathered in the courtyard outside the heritage centre for an address from John Courtman, Greenspace's development manager, before departing as the walkers snaked their way by torchlight up Alt Hill Lane.
It was a group of all aged with the youngest eight-year-old Reve Morrissey who was with her parents with the family from Manchester.
It also included mother and son Rachel and Richard Carter, from Dukinfield, and their Weimaraner dog Louis.
There were a number of pooches, all impeccably behaved and also in festive attire.
The route to Hartshead Pike was along roads and tracks, including Alt Hill Lane, Twirl Hill Road and Lily Lanes with various stops when things like a tithe stone were pointed out.
It is only on foot that you realise just how busy Lees New Road is as that was the only major highway to negotiate.
After about an hour we finally made it to the Pike but it was clear there would be no glorious sunrise as the drizzle/rain was horizontal and it was not the most pleasant place to be as it stands exposed at 940 feet (290 metres) above sea level.
John Courtman informed us there had been a monument on the site since pre-Christian times and it was a Saxon meeting place, though the imposing folly was rebuilt in 1863 by John Eaton to mark the wedding of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra of Denmark. The original building had been there since 1751.
The circular, grade II listed tower is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and in the 1930s the tower was open to the public and contained a sweet shop such was its popularity. In the days before cars were owned by the masses, this beauty spot was visited at weekends by hundreds, maybe thousands.
After reaching the tower we were instructed to John to make three circuits of it in an anti-clockwise direction, a sign of good luck.
There were readings on poetry, including the aptly-named Solstice, by John along with Lesley Bardsley, also a member of the Greenspace team.
John also entertained with tunes playing the flute while well-known local man Nigel Dix met us at the tower clad as a Roman centurion.
The last time I had encountered Nigel was at the Remembrance Sunday service in Stalybridge when he was dressed a mounted officer from WWI and sat on a sturdy cob Bilbo Baggins.
While the climb up to the Pike was a leisurely stroll on roads and tracks, the route back to Park Bridge was anything but that.
As it was light it was across rough grazing land and often ankle deep in water and mud, a legacy of a recent wet spell that had saturated the ground.
There were slippery footbridges to negotiate and the going under foot was challenging but everybody made it back in one piece.
And many were already looking forward to the summer solstice event which is at the opposite end of the day as the hike on June 21 will reach the Pike for sunset with the walkers joined by morris men, a spectacle that draws a far larger turnout to the winter solstice that was more for hardy souls.


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If You're Young & Hip, Your City Wants You; All The Old Folks Are Retiring and Leaving Town
by ponyman in All News
Some cities will do anything they can think of to keep young people from fleeing to a hipper town.
In Lansing, Mich., partiers can ease from bar to bar on the new Entertainment Express trolley, part of the state's Cool Cities Initiative. In Portland, Ore., employees at an advertising firm can watch indie rock concerts at lunch and play "bump," an abbreviated form of basketball, every afternoon.
And in Memphis, employers pay for recruits to be matched with hip young professionals in a sort of corporate Big Brothers program. A new biosciences research park is under construction — not in the suburbs, but downtown, just blocks from the nightlife of Beale Street.
These measures reflect a hard demographic reality: Baby boomers are retiring and the number of young adults is declining. By 2012, the work force will be losing more than two workers for every one it gains.
Cities have long competed over job growth, struggling to revive their downtowns and improve their image. But the latest population trends have forced them to fight for college-educated 25- to 34-year-olds, a demographic group increasingly viewed as the key to an economic future.
Mobile but not flighty, fresh but technologically savvy, "the young and restless," as demographers call them, are at their most desirable age, particularly because their chances of relocating drop precipitously when they turn 35. Cities that do not attract them now will be hurting in a decade.
"It's a zero-sum game," said William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, noting that one city's gain can only be another's loss. "These are rare and desirable people."
They are people who, demographers say, are likely to choose a location before finding a job. They like downtown living, public transportation and plenty of entertainment options. They view diversity and tolerance as marks of sophistication.
The problem for cities, says Richard Florida, a public policy professor at George Mason University who has written about what he calls "the creative class," is that those cities that already have a significant share of the young and restless are in the best position to attract more.
"There are a dozen places, at best, that are becoming magnets for these people," Mr. Florida said.
That disparity was evident in a report released this week by the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, which showed Atlanta leading the pack among big cities, while other metro areas, like Philadelphia, hemorrhaged young people from 1990 to 2000. (In this competition, surveys that make a city look good are a favorite opening salvo.)
In that decade, the Atlanta study said, the number of 25- to-34-year-olds with four-year college degrees in the city increased by 46 percent, placing Atlanta in the top five metropolitan areas in terms of growth rate, and a close second to San Francisco in terms of overall numbers. Charlotte, N.C., also outperformed Atlanta, with a growth rate of 57 percent, the second highest in the country after Las Vegas.
(Demographers point out that Las Vegas started with very small numbers and still ranks last among major cities when it comes to the percentage of its 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree.)
Atlanta did particularly well with young, educated blacks — a boon for employers seeking to diversify their ranks. The city's report zeroed in on people like Tiffany Patterson, 27, who on a recent Thursday night was hanging out at Verve, the sleek new Midtown bar and restaurant that is one of her marketing clients.
The place was thrumming with young African-Americans in leather jackets, stilettos or pinstripe suits — the kind of vibe, said Ms. Patterson, who is from Dallas, that made her stay in Atlanta after college.
"If I go home, women my age are looking for a husband," she said. "They have a cubicle job."
In Atlanta, Ms. Patterson said, she can afford a new town house. A few years ago, she decided to leave her financial sector job and start her own business as a marketing consultant.
"I thought, I can break out and do it myself," she said. "It really is the city of the fearless."
The recent study, based on census figures and conducted by Joe Cortright of Impresa Consulting in Portland and Carol Coletta, president and chief executive of CEOs for Cities, a nonprofit organization in Chicago, showed that Atlanta won its net gain in educated young people by luring them from New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston.
"What we're seeing is the jury of the most skeptical age group in America has looked at Atlanta's character and likes it," Sam A. Williams, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, said.
But Mr. Williams acknowledged the difficulty of replicating that phenomenon on purpose.
Had the chamber tried to advertise Atlanta, he said, "we might have screwed it up —because they're much more trusting of their own network than they are of any marketing campaign."
"You can't fake it here," he said. "You either do it or you don't."
In addition to Atlanta, the biggest gainers in market share of the young and restless were San Francisco; Denver; Portland; and Austin, Tex. The biggest losers included Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles.
But some of the losing cities have been trying hard to forestall their losses, in part by focusing on talented workers who want a certain lifestyle instead of big employers that have traditionally been interested in tax credits and infrastructure.
Steven W. Pedigo, the research director for the Greater Washington Initiative, a regional economic group, said the numbers there had begun to turn around. Stephanie Naidoff, Philadelphia's director of commerce, said a major effort to draw college students off campus with things like internships and concert tickets was paying off, increasing the city's graduate retention numbers.
Studies like Atlanta's are common these days. From Milwaukee to Tampa Bay, consultants have been hired to score such nebulous indexes as "social capital," "after hours" and "vitality." Relocation videos have begun to feature dreadlocks and mosh pits instead of sunsets and duck ponds. In the governor's race in Michigan this fall, the candidates repeatedly sparred over how best to combat "brain drain."
But determining exactly what works is not easy. In Atlanta, focus group participants liked the low cost of living, an airport hub that allowed easy travel and what they perceived as a diverse and open culture.
And Atlanta has some strong advantages, of course. There are some 45 colleges and universities in the metro area. The Cartoon Network is based here, as are scores of companies in the technology and entertainment sectors. The music industry is another draw for the creative class. And the city has large international and gay populations, considered strong indicators for popularity with the young and restless.
"Atlanta's just one of those mixes," said T. J. Ashiru, 30, a Nigerian who chose Atlanta over New York for college shortly after the 1996 Olympics were held here, and stayed to begin his career in finance. "The Olympics was basically the catalyst for what Atlanta became."
In some cases, cities have done well in the competition without even overtly trying. Charlotte has done well without either a major university or the kind of strong identity — like Austin's position as a live music capital — that helps put cities on the young-and-restless map.
At the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Tony Crumbley, the vice president for research, said the city and state had done a lot of things right without realizing it, like establishing liberal banking laws that made Charlotte a financial capital, and redeveloping downtown in the 1980s.
"Another thing," Mr. Crumbley said, "there are more Frisbee golf courses in this area than any other place in the country."
Still, what works in one city will not work in others, Mr. Cortright said, and not all young people are looking for the same things. He cites Portland's bike paths, which many point to as an amenity that has helped the city attract young people.
"I think that confuses a result with a cause," Mr. Cortright said. Portland happened to have a group who wanted concessions for cyclists and was able to get them, he said.
"The real issue was, is your city open to a set of ideas from young people, and their wish to realize their dream or objective in your city," he said. "You could go out and build bike paths, but if that's not what your young people want, it's not going to work." Source:NY Times
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Each year, Congress passes far-reaching funding legislation, known as appropriations legislation, to fund federal programs across the government. This includes many of the programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
On Thursday May 24, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its agriculture appropriations bill for fiscal year (FY) 2019. The Committee worked off of the bill that was passed out of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee two days earlier. The bill provides funding for food and agriculture programs ranging from food safety and rural development to farm credit and nutrition assistance. The appropriations process is moving at a historically rapid pace at the committee level, but from here things may slow down as House and Senate leadership take over from the usually congenial Committees. The House Appropriations Committee passed its version of the FY 2019 Appropriations bill last week that had a slightly higher overall allocation for agriculture. It is also unclear when and if the full House or Senate will take up these measures before the August recess, and even then the House and Senate versions will need to be reconciled by the end of the fiscal year, which ends on September 30.
Below, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) analyzes the Senate Appropriations Committee FY 2019 bill and details how programs of relevance for family farmers and the sustainable agriculture community may be affected.
You can also take a look at our appropriations chart, which has been updated to include House Agriculture Appropriations Committee action.
We are pleased to report that the Senate Appropriations Committee's bill makes no cuts to farm bill mandatory spending for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) or the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), USDA's premier working lands conservation programs.
The Senate's decision to protect working lands conservation programs, for the first time in recent history, not only bucks a years-long trend of raiding farm bill funding for conservation programs by the Senate, it is also a clear rejection of the President's FY 2019 efforts to fully eradicate funding for CSP. We thank appropriators for recognizing the importance of CSP and EQIP to farmers, ranchers, and forest owners across the country.
In a further rejection of the President's attempts to gut conservation programs, the Senate Appropriations Committee provided near flat funding for Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA), which provides farmers with on-the ground conservation planning support. While the Senate Committee's number of $774 million is $105 million more than the President's request, it is $11 million less than the House Appropriations Committee's mark approved last week. We will continue to urge Congress to adopt the higher level from the House to address the significant need for on the ground technical conservation support.
In addition to conservation programs, federal energy programs also play an important role in the growth and maintenance of sustainable operations. We are pleased that the Committee's bill does not cut farm bill mandatory funding for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP); REAP has previously been a target for cuts. REAP provides grants and loans to farmers and businesses for energy efficiency improvements and purchase of wind, solar, or other renewable energy systems. It also provides support for farmers' energy audits and renewable energy development. In protecting REAP, the Subcommittee is retaining USDA's primary tool for helping farmers and ranchers reduce energy costs by conserving and producing energy on their land.
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) loan funding levels approved by the Senate Committee are the same as what the House Committee approved and level with those for the current fiscal year. We believe these levels are commensurate with the current need. FSA is the lender of first opportunity and last resort for many American farmers, particularly beginning and socially disadvantaged producers. Maintaining support for these programs while the farm economy remains in a downturn is a must-do for Congress, and we are pleased to see the Senate Appropriations Committee approved level funding. We are also pleased to see that no attempt was made to alter the current limits on the size of FSA Guaranteed Loans.
The Committee's bill maintains programs levels for Direct Operating Loans at $1.53 billion, Guaranteed Operations loans at $1.96 billion, Guaranteed Farm Ownership Loans at $2.75 billion, and Direct Farm Ownership Loans at $1.5 billion.
For more information on the state of FSA loan programs and NSAC's recommendations on loan limits, please check out our recent blog series.
Overall, the Committee's bill rejects the severe cuts proposed to rural development in the President's FY 2019 budget request. The bill retains level funding from FY 2018 for the Value-Added Producer Grant program (VAPG), providing $15 million in discretionary funding. It also includes an additional $2.5 million for grants to state innovation centers to offer technical assistance and outreach to farmers and ranchers engaged in value-added agriculture. Recently, USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) released a new report highlighting the critical role that VAPG has played in helping farmers and ranchers grow rural economies. The report, "USDA's Value-Added Producer Grant Program and Its Effect on Business Survival and Growth," illustrates the effectiveness of VAPG's investments in supporting business development and job creation.
The Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) program, which provides practical, cutting edge information to farmers and extension agents received a $1 million increase, for a total of $3.75 million in funding. Half of the increase is dedicated to the Armed to Farm Program, which helps returning military veterans learn to farm and enter the field of agriculture.
Both the VAPG and ATTRA funding levels within the Committee's bill meet the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's (NSAC) requests for FY 2019.
Additionally, the Farm to School Program was able to achieve an appropriation of $5 million, which mirrors funding provided in the FY 2018 omnibus. The $5 million in discretionary funding in FY 2018 was paired with $5 million in mandatory funding provided by the Child Nutrition Act, for a total of $10 million. This will be the case once again in FY 2019, if the Senate level becomes final law. The Farm to School Program provides important capacity grants to get farm to school programs up and running.
Research programs and food safety training funding is the Senate Committee's bill is a mixed bag for sustainable agriculture. Unlike the House Committee, which proposed a 14 percent cut to the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE), the Senate Committee includes a $2 million increase to $37 million. This would be SAREs highest level of funding since its creation in the late 1980s, and great news for farmers, ranchers, and researchers.
The Organic Transitions (ORG) research program, which was zeroed out in the President's FY 2019 budget request, is provided $6 million, an increase of $1 million from FY 2018. NSAC has sought a funding level for ORG of at least $5 million.
Another NSAC priority program, the Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) is funded at $8 million, a $1 million increase from FY 2018. NSAC had recommended that the program be funded at $10 million in FY 2019, given the 100,000 farms that could potentially be impacted by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in the coming year. While the Senate's proposed funding level of $8 million is not enough to ensure that all small farmers and processors have the training that they need to comply with FSMA, we very much appreciate the continued effort of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee to increase funding for FSOP.
NSAC was very pleased that the Senate retained the $3 million in discretionary funding for the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program (also known as the "Section 2501 Program") that was first approved in FY 2018, and also included in the House Committee's FY 2019 agriculture spending bill. The Section 2501 Program is the only farm bill program dedicated to addressing the specific needs of farmers of color, and was also expanded in the 2014 Farm Bill to serve military veterans. The program supports institutions and nonprofits that provide critical resources, outreach, and technical assistance to serve these historically underserved producers.
The FY 2018 omnibus provided $3 million in discretionary funding for 2501 – the first time in at least a decade that the program had received discretionary funding. In the 2014 Farm Bill, Congress added veteran farmers to the list of producers that the Section 2501 Program is meant to serve, but also slashed the program's budget in half (from $20 million per year in mandatory funding to $10 million per year). The $3 million provided by the House and Senate agriculture appropriations bills is a modest, but much needed investment in this critical program. Section 2501 is also among several "tiny but mighty" programs whose farm bill funding will expire without new mandatory funding being expressly included in the 2018 Farm Bill.
As has been the case in previous years, the Senate Appropriations Committee's FY 2019 bill includes several tacked on policy riders. The riders included this year contain items like a ban on horse slaughter, a labeling requirement for GMO salmon, a directive that USDA oversee lab grown meat, and the shielding of retail Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) sales data from public disclosure.
Additionally, the bill's accompanying Report, contains several further directives and recommendations to the Administration including several supported or requested by NSAC.
The Committee Report includes language to reduce barriers to using a single SNAP terminal at multiple markets that occur at different locations on different days. The language was requested by NSAC and is similar to language in the House Appropriation Committee's Report.
The committee is concerned that there are unnecessary barriers and added costs for organizations that manage farmers markets in multiple locations. The Secretary shall permit such organizations to become a SNAP-authorized retailer at the level of the organization, provided that the organization notifies [Food and Nutrition Service] FNS of all market locations at which it will accept SNAP benefits. The SNAP-authorized organization will continue to bear legal responsibility for SNAP compliance at all locations it oversees, included exercising proper oversight of SNAP implementation at each participating market location.
The report also included significant language relating to the availability of the locally and regionally adapted cultivars.
The Committee notes the importance of this requirement to provide farmers nationwide with greater access to cultivars that are locally and regionally adapted to their soils, climates, and farming systems. Because of the agencies lack of progress in prioritizing this effort, the Committee directs the agency to make regionally adapted, publically held cultivar development a distinct funding priority within AFRI for fiscal year 2019, and directs the agency to take steps to improve its tracking of public cultivar project within AFRI and report its progress in meeting this goal.
The Committee is concerned about the decline in public plant and animal breeding programs at our nations land-grant institutions over the last 25 years, and encourages LGU's to take steps to foster the next generation of public plant and animal breeder by placing a higher priority on development of publically available, regionally adapted cultivars and breeds.
Several other significant items have been included in the Report such as support for SARE, the prioritizing of conservation benefits when determining payments for conservation practices, and direction on addressing the large number of vacancies at NRCS offices.
Now that the House and Senate appropriators have passed their draft bills for FY 2019, the bill's next stop will be the full House and Senate. No date for floor consideration in either body has been announced. House and Senate leadership has said they will likely consider three other appropriations bills as a package soon. That group of bills does not include the agriculture bill, so it is unclear when the agriculture bill will come up for consideration.
The next month portends a very significant time for decisions related to funding, as both the House and Senate debate bills and potentially contend with a rescissions package in the coming weeks. At the same time, Congress will be debating farm bill policy and spending levels, which is a separate process led by a separate set of committees.
As these and other dramas play out on Capitol Hill, NSAC will continue to provide timely and in-depth updates on our blog and via social media.


"Clarence Wolfguts wants to live the rest of his life on the trail.
And the trail will lead to Johnsville, where the Eastern Woodlands Gathering of All Nations will be July 25 to 27.
God willing, Wolfguts, 84, the last of the World War II "code talkers," will lead the Grand Entry on each day of the Gathering.
Wolfguts, a Lakota, spoke the "whisper" of the Lakota dialect during the Pacific campaigns of World War II.
He helped develop a phonetic alphabet based upon Lakota that he and his fellow Sioux code talkers used to transmit messages between headquarters and the fighting front. It was a code the Japanese were never able to break.
You might remember a movie made a few years ago called "Windtalkers," based on Navajo code talkers and their work during the battle of Iwo Jima.
Wolfguts was there, and as he watched men die all around him, he whispered a promise in Lakota.
Translated it is simply: "Bring me home God, and I will praise your name always."


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Hothouse (Paperback)
By Karyna McGlynn
Sarabande Books, 9781941411452, 80pp.
Karyna MyGlynn takes readers on tour through the half-haunted house of the contemporary American psyche with wit, whimsy, and candid confession. Disappointing lovers surface in the bedroom; in the bathroom, "the drained tub ticks with mollusks & lobsters;" revenge fantasies and death lurk in the basement where they rightly belong. With lush imagery and au courant asides, Hothouse surprises and delights.
Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl and three chapbooks. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Translation at Oberlin College.
Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (Sarabande Books 2009), and three chapbooks. Her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Witness, and The Academy of American Poet's Poem-A-Day. McGlynn's honors include the Hopwood Award, the Verlaine Prize, and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. She received her PhD from the University of Houston, where she was the Managing Editor of Gulf Coast. She is currently the Diane Middlebrook Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin where she serves as the Senior Poetry Editor for Devil's Lake.


Welcome to a new, occasional series in which I'll be shining a spotlight on club classics that were released 20 years ago. My first pick is one of my favorite discoveries of recent years, and surely one of the strangest collaborations in the history of house music.
Over on Buzzfeed, Katie Notopoulos reports that the Prince.org fan forum has erupted into debate over whether or not an unreleased 1989 album by Kim Basinger was produced by her then-beau, the artist who was soon to be known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. But that putative collabo pales in comparison to another project Basigner was involved with: Was (Not Was)'s 1992 hit "Shake Your Head," which found the former Bond girl facing off against Ozzy Obsourne — remixed by Chicago house pioneer Steve "Silk" Hurley!


The list below contains all organs in the database (as of April 21, 2019) that have had photographs associated with their entries in the last 21 days: 206 images of 98 individual instruments. Images were most recently added 2019-04-20. To search for a particular city, state or institution, use crtl-F/command-F. Click the name of the institution to open the page with details about the organ, or click on a thumbnail image to see a larger image.
The organs whose photographs have been added to the Database most recently appear at the top of the page. The order in which the organs are listed can be changed by choosing to see them arranged alphabetically by city or state.
C. B. Fisk, Inc. Opus 85 (1984). Stanford University, Memorial Church. Palo Alto, California.
Leonard A. Carlson (1963). Lutheran Church of the Atonement. Oneonta, New York.
Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2233 (1956). First Lutheran Church. Albert Lea, Minnesota.
C. B. Fisk, Inc. Opus 78 (1978). House of Hope Presbyterian Church. St. Paul, Minnesota.
Reuter Organ Co. Opus 961 (1951). Bethel Eub. Manly, Iowa.
Holtkamp Job 1949 (1979). St. Patrick's Episcopal Church. Washington, District of Columbia.
The Aeolian Co. St. Mary's Convent. St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
Hook & Hastings Opus 2418 (1918). Convent of St. Joseph. St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
M. P. Möller Opus 4891 (1920). Mignon M. E. Church. Sylacauga, Alabama.
M. P. Möller Opus 1804 (1915). First Baptist Church. Austin, Minnesota.
Schantz Organ Co. Opus 135 (1951). Christ Lutheran Church. Lansing, Michigan.
Hillgreen, Lane & Co. (1908). First Methodist Church. Ames, Iowa.
Hillgreen, Lane & Co. Opus 1285 (1970). St. Michael's Lutheran Church. Richville, Michigan.
Wangerin Organ Co. Opus 387 (1925). Madison Masonic Center. Madison, Wisconsin.
Austin Organ Co. Opus 195 (1910). Sixth United Presbyterian Church. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Austin Organ Co. Opus 1694 (1928). All Saints' Episcopal Church. Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2230 First Presbyterian Church. Petoskey, Michigan.
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 873 (1931). St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Hoosick Falls, New York.
Estey Organ Co. Opus 33 (1903). United Presbyterian Church. West Newton, Pennsylvania.
Estey Organ Co. Opus 629 (1909). First Congregational. Houlton, Maine.
M. P. Möller Opus 6953 (1941). West Market Street Methodist Church. Greensboro, North Carolina.
M. P. Möller Opus 7472 (1946). Trinity Methodist Church. Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.
M. P. Möller Opus 4006 (1920). Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Staunton, Virginia.
Casavant Frères Ltd. Opus 3134 (1972). Centenary United Methodist Church. Terre Haute, Indiana.
Unknown Builder (1917). First Presbyterian Church. Parsons, Kansas.
Holtkamp Organ Co. Job 1912 (1975). Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Hook & Hastings Opus 2112 (1906). Francis Street Methodist Church. St. Joseph, Missouri.
Unknown Builder (1908). St. Paul's Reformed Church. Sidney, Ohio.
Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2232 St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Norfolk, Virginia.
Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2705 (1986). Simsbury United Methodist Church. Simsbury, Connecticut.
Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2596 (1975). First Presbyterian Church. Lisbon, Ohio.
Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 652 (1909). First Congregational Church. Texarkana, Arkansas.
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1358 (1957). St. Andrew Episcopal Cathedral. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.
Estey Organ Co. Opus 876 (1911). First Methodist Church. San Diego, California.
Estey Organ Co. Opus 1111 (1913). First Christian Church. Eugene, Oregon.
Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.) Opus 351 (1894). St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Jamestown, New York.
M. P. Möller Opus 6583 (1937). Wilson College. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
J. H. & C. S. Odell & Co. (1899). First Baptist Church. Morristown, New Jersey.
Welte-Mignon Corporation [Welte Organ Co.] (1928). Residence: Albert M. & Bessie Johnson – "Scotty's Castle". Death Valley, California.
Schantz Organ Co. Opus 689 (1964). Christian & Missionary Alliance Church. Orrville, Ohio.
Karl Wilhelm Opus 154 (2001). Emanuel Episcopal Church. Killingworth, Connecticut.
Hinners Organ Co. Opus 2818 (1926). St. John's Lutheran Church - Sauers. Seymour, Indiana.
Unknown Builder Tabor Congregational Church. Tabor, Iowa.
Unknown Builder (1885). Salem United Church of Christ. Wanatah, Indiana.
Steve Hermes Church of Our Savior. Milton, Massachusetts.
Austin Organ Co. Opus 2214 (1954). First Presbyterian Church. Athens, Georgia.
Schantz Organ Co. (1983). Alps Road Presbyterian Church. Athens, Georgia.
M. P. Möller Opus 11166 (1976). First Baptist Church. Athens, Georgia.
M. P. Möller Opus 7664 (1948). First Methodist Church. Milledgeville, Georgia.
Schantz Organ Co. Opus 1475 (1977). First Baptist Church. Winder, Georgia.
Skinner Organ Co. Opus 713 (1928). First Presbyterian Church. Wilmington, North Carolina.
Visser-Rowland Associates Opus 83 (1988). Trinity United Methodist Church. Wilmington, North Carolina.
M. P. Möller Opus 9528 (1961). Grace Methodist Church. Wilmington, North Carolina.
Casavant Frères Ltd. Opus 2465 (1958). St. Andrew's Covenant Presbyterian Church. Wilmington, North Carolina.
Casavant Frères Ltd. Opus 2905 (1966). Temple Baptist Church. Wilmington, North Carolina.
Casavant Frères Ltd. Opus 2681 (1962). St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Wilmington, North Carolina.
Schantz Organ Co. Opus 820 (1968). First Baptist Church. Wilmington, North Carolina.
Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1571 (1967). First Baptist Church. Asheville, North Carolina.
Casavant Frères Ltd. Opus 3774 (1998). First United Methodist Church. Waynesville, North Carolina.
Lauck Pipe Organ Co. Opus 54 (2001). St. Peter's Catholic Cathedral. Marquette, Michigan.
Wangerin Organ Co. (1924). University of Dayton. Dayton, Ohio.
Austin Organ Co. Opus 1320 (1920). Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Birmingham, Alabama.
M. P. Möller Opus 29 (1886). First Baptist Church. Leavenworth, Kansas.
Verney Organ Company (1904). First United Methodist Church. Parkersburg, Iowa.
Roy A. Redman (Organ Co.) Opus 36 (1983). John Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dallas, Texas.
Hook & Hastings Opus 1335 (1887). First Presbyterian Church. Lake Forest, Illinois.
Hook & Hastings Opus 1953 (1902). St. John's Methodist Church. St. Louis, Missouri.
Hook & Hastings Opus 2245 (1910). Christ Episcopal Church. Corning, New York.
Estey Organ Co. Opus 708 (1909). First Methodist Episcopal Church. Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Estey Organ Co. Opus 1930 (1921). Methodist Episcopal. Earlville, Illinois.
M. P. Möller Opus 4936 (1927). St. John's Episcopal Church. Hagerstown, Maryland.
Farrand & Votey Organ Co. Opus 735 (1892). First Baptist Church. Galesburg, Illinois.
M. P. Möller Opus 1303 (1910). First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Hillgreen, Lane & Co. (1919). Kountze Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church. Omaha, Nebraska.
Hillgreen, Lane & Co. Opus 1243 (1962). Old Stone Church (First Presbyterian). Cleveland, Ohio.
W. W. Kimball Co. (1925). Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Parish. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
J. W. Steere & Sons Opus 533 (1904). First Congregational. Nantucket, Massachusetts.
E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 661 (1872). Central Presbyterian Church. San Francisco, California.
Casavant Frères Ltd. Opus 2604 (1960). Christ Episcopal Church. Corning, New York.
Hillgreen, Lane & Co. Opus 988 (1931). St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Belmont, Massachusetts.
H. A. Howell (Pipe Organs) Opus 1 (1929). Studio: Al Carney. Chicago, Illinois.
Holtkamp Organ Co. Job 1904 (1974). Canterbury Episcopal Chapel. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.


Expect to be impressed when you meet a Marine, but when that Marine is a 95-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor who challenges you to a pull-up contest, prepare to be blown away.
This is one of many things Will Hines of Spartanburg has learned in conducting the Veterans Project, an ongoing undergraduate research project to collect and preserve the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations can hear those stories directly from the men and women who lived them.
Former Marine Staff Sgt. Robert A. Henderson's story begins in Hawaii on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, as a plane with a perplexing paint job thunders overhead "close enough that I could have thrown a rock and hit it" toward a row of U.S. Navy ships docked in the harbor, he said. He thought it was part of a drill until the plane dipped and released a torpedo. The violent chaos in the two hours that followed would define much of the 20th century.
Henderson described in gripping detail the many months of combat he experienced, culminating in the Battle of Okinawa. "I was in the first and last battles of the war," he said.
Hines videotapes every word. One copy will go to Henderson and his family, and one copy will go to the Library of Congress to be preserved forever.
When asked how he stays so healthy at 95, Henderson takes Hines out to his garage to show off his home gym where he exercises three times a week. He demonstrates by doing 12 pull-ups without breaking a sweat and dares Hines to match him.
Hines, a business management major from Spartanburg, became involved in the project because of his lifelong fascination with history. His interest in veterans stemmed from his relationship with a great uncle who served in the Pacific during WWII. After Henderson's interview, Hines is slated to interview a Vietnam veteran and a Battle of the Bulge veteran. It's quite a day for a history buff.
To date, Clemson students have preserved the stories of 87 veterans from all branches of service with hopes that the project will continue as new students cycle in.
After interviewing Marine Staff Sgt. Robert A. Henderson, Clemson student Will Hines of Spartanburg makes the seven-minute drive to another veteran's home. Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Arthur T. Ballard was an F-105 fighter pilot during the Vietnam conflict with 68 combat missions under his belt when he was shot down and captured Sept. 26, 1966.


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Q: How to handle Quick Switcher events in Obsidian API? I making a plugin for Obsidian that will need the possibility to edit suggestions in Quick Switcher. (P.S. Quick switcher is a modal window to quickly search and select files.)
Is there any event handler for Quick Switcher or alternative for it? Or i can make it with native html. (just get by id and set suggestions)
I didn't find any information on the internet about handling events from Quick Switcher or somehow getting the Quick Switcher instance.

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