The Space Alliance formed by Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio announced it has officially taken a minority stake in Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, having received all government approvals for the transaction. This investment is part of an overall fundraising effort of $150 million from several sources which include The Space Alliance and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. With this latest funding, Spaceflight Industries has raised more than $200 million in total capital.
With this round of funding, BlackSky, the geospatial intelligence company of Spaceflight Industries, can ensure production and launch of an additional 20 Global next generation satellites, which are planned to be in orbit by 2020. The first four Global satellites are slated to launch in the next 12 months. These smallsats will generate revenues that will enable the production and launch of the full 60-satellite constellation.
In conjunction with the investment, Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Industries are creating a Seattle-based industrial joint venture, which will be responsible for manufacturing small satellites at scale, including the 20 satellites for the BlackSky constellation. The new company, named LeoStella, will start operation this year. The executive team is being formed from both Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space, as well as other leading organizations.


A local man who lives near the hatchery tells Oscar, the biologist, that he has spotted some caiman (crocodile) nearby. Since monitoring caiman is another of RPTs projects, Oscar asks the local man to show him the site. We walk away from the nice, sandy beach and head into the swampy rainforest. After tramping through brackish water and over a forest floor thick with leaves and vines, we arrive at the spot. We pause so Oscar can see if he can detect the caiman, and immediately, my feet are engulfed by fire ants. The fire ants here are many, vicious, and seem to like me very much. Within my first hour at the reserve, I was marked as easy prey and now feel like they just appear every time I stop moving my feet when I'm outside. The ants are tiny, so I was surprised that their bite packed such a wallop. In actuality, they only bite to get a hold of your skin, it's their sting that causes the pain that gives them their well-earned moniker. The sting delivers a toxic alkaloid venom that creates a burning sensation that continues to burn and prick, making you think they are still crawling on you long after you smoosh them with a swift slap of the hand. If I had to live here, I think the fire ants would drive me insane.
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You want a first-world problem? Here's one: Try writing a topical newspaper column on the day your fellow Americans are voting in one of the most significant elections of your lifetime. You have no idea how it's going turn out. Will the tide of racial and political divisiveness, bigotry, science-denial, media-bashing, misogyny, corruption, and blatant daily lies and exaggerations as presidential policy be turned back? Or will the course we embarked upon in January 2017 continue unabated? Your call, America. Don't screw it up.
By the time this column is being read, we will, I hope, have a pretty good idea of where America is heading. But as I write it, on this first Tuesday in November, I have no idea. None. And only a fool would make a prediction and risk looking like, well, a fool.
Riding on the City of New Orleans.
So, let me tell you about my weekend.
My wife and I took the train to New Orleans last Thursday for a little getaway to the land of beignets and booze. We hopped on the City of New Orleans at 6:45 a.m. and settled in for the eight-hour ride, which, at the ticket price, comes out to around $7 for each hour of travel — quite the bargain, honestly.
The pace is slow, but it doesn't take long until you just give in to it. You're on the train. You can't get off. There's no hurry. The rhythm seduces. The spacious, comfy seats recline like a Barcalounger, replete with leg- and foot-rests. There are outlets for your electronics, and nice reading lights. The Delta slides by outside the window — swamps and forests and fields and tiny forgotten towns with names known only to the locals. You can't stop humming that song.
You want a drink or something to eat? You stagger up through the passenger cars to the club car and order like a boss. Stagger, because the train rocks enough to keep you grabbing passenger seat-backs on your journey down the aisle. There's a running joke: "You been drinking?"
Every couple of hours, the train slows, and the conductor announces a stop: "This is Yazoo City. All my smokers got five minutes, but don't leave the platform or we will leave you in Yazoo." A fate worse than emphysema, no doubt.
We've been to New Orleans enough to know that the French Quarter at night is for amateurs and young folks — especially on a weekend when LSU is playing Alabama and the Saints are playing the Rams. Half the town is walking around in football jerseys and carrying big plastic drinks. The other half is in Day of the Dead apparel. And carrying big plastic drinks. After dark, the Quarter is a freak show of drunks, strippers, souvenir shops, and loud, awful music. Been there, done that.
But the Audubon Insectarium and Aquarium are wonderful, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art was a revelation. The food, as always, was splendid, especially in the CBD, just west of the Quarter. We tried Josephine Estelle, Memphis chefs Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman's restaurant in the Ace Hotel, and it was aces. We also were delighted with a new-to-us Vietnamese/Southern fusion spot called Maypop. Check it out.
On Sunday, weary from power-shopping and the miles we'd walked, we headed back to the Amtrak station. It's located near the Superdome, where the undefeated Rams were playing the beloved hometown Saints. We fought our way through numerous impromptu tailgate parties — on sidewalks, random patches of grass, parking lots, street corners. Apparently, in NOLA, when the Saints play, any spot near the stadium is fair game for tailgating, even the lawn of the train station. Who Dat!
As we settled into our seats for the long ride back, I was struck again by the diversity and easy camaraderie of my fellow passengers. Everyone's friendly. Everyone knows we're all in it together for the next eight hours. So the vibe is, 'chill, enjoy the ride.' With any luck, everything will stay on track. And with any luck, by the time you read this, the country will be back on track — or at least headed in the right direction.


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For more than 2000 years the hot springs of Aachen have been well known and up to today inseparably connected with history and the name of the town. The name Aachen can be derived from the Old High German word "ahha" (Water) as well as from the early medieval "Aquisgrani" and from Latin "Aquae granni" derived from this, which again refers back to the saviour god "Grannus".
After Celts and Teutons it were first of all Romans who found out about the healing and alleviating effect of the Aachen springs and celebrated a holistic therapeutical concept of bathing culture. Already at that time bathing in hot mineral thermal water had not only health reasons. It was courteous to meet each other in the bath house and on this occasion also discuss important business affairs. Under the reign of Charlemagne, who himself was so deeply convinced of the hot spring's healing effect that at the end of the eights century he declared Aachen his favourite palatinate; Aachen's bathing culture again experienced a heyday.
Until today Aachen is a famous and highly frequented health resort, in which 2000 years of bathing tradition are still alive and which has been enriched by the Carolus Thermen opened in the year of 2001.


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Swapan Kumar Chakraborty v/s Rita Chakraborty
C.O. No. 1023 of 2021
Decided On, 01 October 2021
At, High Court of Judicature at Calcutta
By, THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HIRANMAY BHATTACHARYYA
For the Petitioner: Tanmoy Mukherjee, Emon Bhatacharya, Pampa Dey (Dhabal), Pooja Sah, Rudranil Das, Advocates. For the Respondents: Rahul Karmarkar, Abir Lal Chakraborty, Advocates.
The instant application is at the instance of the husband and is directed against the order dated February 8, 2021 passed by the learned Additional District Judge 4th Court at Alipore in Misc. Case No. 27 of 2005 arising out of Matrimonial Suit No. 31 of 2005.
By the order impugned, the husband was directed to pay a sum of Rs. 22,97,687/- towards the arrear alimony till January 2021 less the amount already paid. The husband was further directed to pay alimony pendente lite at the rate of Rs.11,000/- per month till disposal of the suit. Being aggrieved, the husband preferred the instant Civil Order.
Mr. Mukherjee, learned Advocate appearing for the husband/petitioner herein contends that the learned Trial Judge directed the husband to pay 1/3rd of the retirement benefit by totally misinterpreting the order passed by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court in CO 768 of 2018. He further submits that the application for enhancement of alimony was filed sometimes in the month of September 2010 but the learned Trial Judge, by the order impugned, directed the husband to pay the enhanced maintenance with effect from January 2010. He contends that the learned Trial Judge calculated the arrear maintenance for the period from January 2010 to January 2016 at the rate of 1/3rd of the gross salary without appreciating that alimony is to be calculated on the net salary after allowing the admissible deductions from the gross salary. He submits that the amount of alimony calculated for the period from February 2016 is also excessive.
Per contra, Mr. Karmakar, learned Advocate for the opposite party submits that the learned Trial Judge was justified in directing the husband to pay 1/3rd of the retiral benefits including gratuity, leave encashment and other benefits as a coordinate Bench of this Court in CO 768 of 2018 already fixed the rate at which the husband has to pay maintenance. He further submits that the husband cannot now take the plea that maintenance is to be calculated on 1/3rd of the net salary and not on gross salary as such issue has already been settled by this Court in the earlier Civil Orders. He submits that the learned Trial Judge after taking into consideration the salary, pension as well as the retiremental benefits received by the husband directed the husband to pay maintenance both current as well as arrears in tune with the directions passed in the earlier Civil Orders. Thus, according to Mr. Karmakar, the order impugned calls for no interference by this Hon'ble Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India.
I have heard the learned Advocates for the parties and perused the materials on record.
This case has a chequered history. On an application filed by the wife under Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure for enhancement of alimony pendente lite, the learned Trial Judge by an order dated August 29, 2017 held that the wife will get Rs.4,000/- per month as enhanced maintenance pendente lite with effect from April 2014 after adjustment with maintenance award passed in other cases between the same parties. The wife challenged the said order by filing CO No. 768 of 2018 which was disposed of by a co-ordinate Bench on February 18, 2019 by setting aside the impugned order. The co-ordinate Bench directed the learned Judge of the Court below to decide the matter afresh on the basis of the settled principles of grant of maintenance which is roughly 1/3rd of the salary amount. The learned Judge was further directed to take into consideration for the purpose of calculation of arrears of maintenance payable to the wife on and from year 2010 along with all revisions until January 31, 2016 till such time the husband superannuated from service. The learned Judge was further directed to recalculate the maintenance amount both in arrears as well as the current enhanceable of maintenance amount payable on the basis of the pension and retirement benefits received including gratuity and leave encashment payable and other benefits to the husband.
The husband filed an application for review being RVW 77 of 2019 for review of the order dated February 18, 2019 passed in CO 768 of 2018. The said review application was dismissed by an order dated August 5, 2019 with costs assessed at Rs.11,000/- and such amount was directed to be included in the amounts payable by the husband to the wife.
Mr. Karmakar, learned Advocate for the wife submits that the husband has not paid the aforesaid amount of Rs.11,000/- till date.
Pursuant to the order passed in CO 768 of 2018, the learned Trial Judge passed an order on September 2, 2019 directing the husband to pay a sum of Rs.10,07,962/- on account of the arrears for the period from January 2010 to January 2016. For the period from February 2016, the husband was directed to pay a sum of Rs.11,000/- per month till the disposal of the suit. However, the learned Trial Judge held that the claim of the wife as 1/3rd of the retirement benefit of Rs.18,89,183/- cannot be entertained.
Being aggrieved against the aforesaid order dated September 2, 2019 the husband preferred Civil Order No.3635 of 2019 which was disposed of by an order dated December 24, 2020. By the said order, the Civil Order was allowed by setting aside the order dated September 2, 2019 and remanding the matter to the learned Judge of the Court below with a direction to decide the application afresh in the light of the directions contained in the order dated August 29, 2017 passed in CO 768 of 2018. It was observed in the said order that the learned Trial Judge while recalculating the maintenance amount acted contrary to the directions passed in CO 768 of 2018 inasmuch as the retirement benefits received including gratuity, leave encashment and other benefits were not taken into consideration for the purpose of recalculating the maintenance amount. By the said order, the husband was directed to pay a sum of Rs.10,000/- per month as an interim arrangement on account of the alimony pendente lite starting from January 2021 till the disposal of the said application.
After remand, the impugned order was passed. It is not in dispute that the application for enhancement of maintenance was filed sometimes in the month of September 2010. It is wellsettled that the amount awarded towards enhanced alimony has to take effect from the date of filing of such application and not from any date prior thereto. Since the application for enhancement of alimony was filed sometimes in the month of September 2010, the enhanced maintenance amount shall be effective only from the month of September 2010 and not from any date prior thereto. Thus this Court is of the considered opinion that the wife is entitled to alimony at the enhanced rate with effect from September 2010 and not from January 2010 as directed by the impugned order.
The co-ordinate Bench in CO 768 of 2018 has specified that the maintenance is to be calculated roughly on 1/3rd of the salary amount. However, the rate at which the maintenance amount is to be calculated on the retirement benefits as well as pension has not been specified in the order impugned. Since the husband retired on superannuation with effect from February 1, 2016 and from February 2016 he was only entitled to pension and the amount of pension receivable by the husband is less than the salary which he used to earn during the period of his service, the co-ordinate Bench in CO 768 of 2018 directed the maintenance amount to be recalculated on the basis of pension and retirement benefits received including gratuity and leave encashment payable as well as other benefits. Pension is a fixed sum which a retired employee is paid by his employer as a retirement benefit per month. Since pension is received by the husband per month the rate at which maintenance was directed to be paid on salary is to be applied in case of pension also.
However, the dispute lies as to whether the husband should be directed to pay 1/3rd of the retirement benefits or an amount calculated on income earned out of such retirement benefit.
Mr. Karmakar, learned Advocate for the wife submits that the wife is entitled to 1/3rd of the retirement benefits as per the direction passed in CO 768 of 2018 which is vehemently opposed by Mr. Mukherjee. The purpose for grant of maintenance pendente lite is that the wife can sustain herself during the pendency of the matrimonial proceeding. It is well settled that a wife is to be maintained according to the status of her husband. Since husband has in the meantime retired from service, at present the wife is to be maintained according to the status of a retired employee and not like the status of husband while in service. However, while fixing the amount of maintenance, the Court shall have to take into consideration several factors including the amount which is necessary for the support of the wife as well as the income of the husband.
Admittedly the husband has received a sum of Rs.18,89,183/- under several heads, namely, retiring gratuity, commuted value of pension, leave salary, final payment of GPF and group insurance after his retirement from service. A reasonable person is not expected to keep his retirement benefits idle. It is reasonable to presume that the husband has also invested the amount which he received as retirement benefits and earning income on account of interest or otherwise on such amount. The income earned by the husband is within his special knowledge and it is his duty to disclose such income. The husband has, however, not disclosed his income from investment of the amounts which he received on account of the retirement benefits. It is also not the case of the husband that he is not earning any income out of the amount received as retirement benefits. The Court has no other option but to draw an adverse inference against the husband for not furnishing such income before the Court below.
Considering the prevailing market rate of interest and making a conservative calculation, it is presumed that the deemed income of the husband on investments of the amount received at the time of retirement is more than Rs.10,000/-per month. Accordingly this Court is of the considered view that the husband should be directed to pay a sum of Rs.3,500/- per month on account of the deemed income from investment of the amount of the retirement benefits amounting to Rs.18,89,183/-.
Now coming to the question of the entitlement of the wife from the amount receivable by the husband as pension, it appears that the amount of pension receivable by the husband varied between Rs.19,000/- as on March 2016 and Rs.32,000/- as on January 2021. It appears that the learned Trial Judge applied a flat rate of Rs.11,000/- per month on account of pension for the period from February 2016 to January 2021 without taking into consideration the amount of pension received by the husband during the aforesaid period. After taking into consideration the pension received by the husband for the period from February 2016 to January 2021, this Court is of the view that the amount of Rs.11,000/- per month directed to be paid from February 2016 to January 2021 is excessive and the husband should be directed to pay a sum of Rs.9,000/- per month on account of pension for the aforesaid period. Over and above the said amount of Rs.9,000/-, the wife shall be entitled to a further sum of Rs.3,500/- on account of deemed income from investment for the period from February 2016 till January 2021.
However, taking into consideration the amount received by the husband on account of pension as well as the deemed income from investments, this Court is of the view that a sum of Rs.(11,000+3,500), i.e., Rs.14,500/- per month shall be reasonable and just towards alimony pendente lite on and from February 2021.
Now this Court has to consider the argument of Mr. Mukherjee that the amount of alimony is to be calculated on net salary after allowing admissible deduction from gross salary. The petitioner did not raise such issue before the learned Judge of the Court below. As such the petitioner cannot be permitted to raise such issue at this stage. Accordingly, the impugned order insofar as the calculation of enhanced maintenance for the period from September 2010 to January 2016 is not interfered with by this Court.
The husband shall pay alimony for the period from September 2010 to January 2016 as per the rate directed to be paid by the impugned order. He shall also pay a sum of Rs.7,50,000/- for the period from February 2016 to January 2021. He shall pay a sum of Rs.(11,000+3,500), i.e., Rs.14,500/- per month with effect from February 2021 till the disposal of the suit. The husband shall be entitled to adjustment of the amounts which he has already paid to the wif
e either lump sum or monthly pursuant to the directions passed by this Court from the arrear maintenance amount payable by the husband to the wife in terms of this order. The arrear amount on account of alimony for the period from September 2010 to September 2021 at the rate/rates indicated hereinbefore after adjustments of the amounts already paid shall be paid by the husband to the wife in three equal monthly instalments and the first of such instalment shall be paid on or before October 11, 2021 and the next two instalments will be paid on or before November 10, 2021 and December 10, 2021. The husband shall go on paying alimony pendente lite at the rate of Rs.(11,000 + 3,500), i.e., Rs.14,500/- per month on and from the month of October 2021 till the disposal of the suit and such amount is to be paid by the husband to the wife within the tenth of the next month for which it would become due. In addition thereto, the husband shall pay a sum of Rs.11,000/- on account of the costs which was directed to be paid by an order dated August 5, 2019 in RVW 77 of 2019 on or before October 8, 2021. The revisional application being CO 1023 of 2021 thus stands allowed. The order impugned stands modified only to the extent indicated hereinbefore. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties on priority basis upon compliance of all requisite formalities.

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Consisting of Philadelphia stage veterans (and Pig Iron Theatre Company regulars) Alex Torra, Ben Camp, and Makoto Hirano, Team Sunshine is a theater-making organization which focuses on audience experience and the community building potentials of theater.
Among other things, they love play fighting and projects that sound insane. In that vein is their current collaboration with Shakespeare in Clark Park, HENRY IV: YOUR PRINCE AND MINE. It will be an over an hour and a half long smashup of two Shakespearean histories featuring 100 non-professional performers creating an epic battle scene.
"Shakespeare in Clark Park," says Alex Torra, Sunshine's resident Shakespeare nerd and director of Henry IV, "has become this center-point of the summer, this moment when people come together from all over the city and sit in a park for an evening and watch a play and eat food and lie on blankets.
Alex describes long, dreamy conversations of massive war plays in the big bowl at Clark Park, particularly one image of line after line of soldiers pouring over the top of the hill to fill the bowl and charge the audience.
"Of course, it's that dreaming that artists do and can never figure out how to do it, 'cause it's just too impossible," he adds.
But then the Knight Arts Foundation instituted the Knight Arts Challenge to fund projects specifically benefiting the community. Suddenly, the concept of a massive, Shakespearean battle scene populated by one hundred neighborhood non-actors was doable. After three intensive rounds of proposals, Knight decided to fund the project.
For Team Sunshine, it was the perfect combination of doable and insane. But the concept wasn't entirely unprecedented; the 2012 FringeArts Festival featured Canadian choreographer Sylvain Émard's Le Grand Continental, a touring, city-specific dance starring 200 local and largely untrained dancers.
Their next step was to experiment. In December, Team Sunshine recruitment manager Liz Green invited me to participate in a series of workshops as a "non-professional performer." The December workshops featured mostly experienced and working actors and dancers, with five or six of us "non-professionals" thrown in as a first hack at working with untrained performers.
Sunshine started with a basic structure and a jumble of aspirations—a bunch of "wouldn't it be cool ifs." It was our job to propose ideas of how those cool ifs might happen, and to model what they'd look like with a large number of people.
Over the course of two weeks, they assembled a sort of "script" for the battle, a choreography for the army's movements, forms, and gestures. Then over another two weeks in January, thirty of us (this time mostly non-performers ranging from government employees to museum curators to stay-at-home-parents and high schoolers), overseen by army general Ben Camp and his "lieutenants," were taught those movements. This time our job was to, in six short rehearsals, learn the thirty minute battle sequence and reproduce it in toto.
We were successful, in a messy kind of way, and Sunshine got a concept of both the gritty details and the sensational largeness of the piece.
Actual army members will have five casual weeks of rehearsal throughout June and July, two nights per week. Then there will be "hell week," with rehearsals nightly, and then actual performances for another week at the end of July.
Non-professional performers will be divided into groups of ten or twelve under the specific direction of one "lieutenant." This will help keep order and foster cohesiveness.
The experience of being in the army, Ben says, "is about doing something that's challenging but not too challenging, being a part of something that feels bigger than any of us, and a way to make really great new friends." It should also be a bit of a workout, he adds, so participants can cut out their gym visits for a month or so.
But this still leaves the question: how does a great big battle scene, per the Knight Foundation's grant stipulation, benefit Philadelphia?
Well, that goes back to Team Sunshine's mission statement, the concept that creating outrageous, community-involvement art provides a benefit. What they're offering is a radical opportunity for non-performers to get a window into the theater-making process and to get involved in an innovative, maybe more enriching way, beyond sitting, watching, or donating money.
Henry IV: Your Prince and Mine will run July 30-August 3, 2014. Try-outs for the army are April 5-6. Visit Team Sunshine's website to sign up for a slot.
Images courtesy Team Sunshine Performance Corporation.


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Lugaw is the Filipino name for congee. Otherwise similar to Cantonese-style congee, Lugaw is typically thicker, retaining the shape of the rice but with a similar texture. It is boiled with strips of fresh ginger. Other flavors may be added according to taste. Most often it is topped with scallions and served with crispy fried garlic. Lugaw can also be served with tokwa't baboy (diced tofu and pork), goto (beef tripe), utak (pig's brain), dilâ (pig's tongue), litid (beef ligaments), hard boiled egg, and with calamansi, fish sauce (patis), and soy sauce. It is often served to the ill and the elderly, and is favored among Filipinos living abroad in colder climates because it is warm, soft, and easily digestible.
Some provinces prefer the Spanish-influenced Arroz Caldo (literally "broth rice"), which is often thought to be a European dish because of its name. Arroz Caldo is actually a Chinese congee that was adapted to the tastes of the Spanish colonial settlers who patronized Chinese restaurants in the Philippines.
Arroz Caldo is usually spiced with saffron and black pepper in place of or in addition to the more traditional ginger and scallion. Arroz Caldo more closely resembles risotto than congee, from which it can be distinguished by its bright yellow saffron color and the relatively larger pieces of meat. Arroz Caldo is more popular among people of Ilokano heritage, although those of other provinces such as Cebu often eat it with the addition of prawns, olive oil, bay leaf, and Chinese sausage.
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"Severe river flood warning" in the valley and Sierra
by: Matthew Nobert
(KTXL) — The National Weather Service issued a "severe river flood warning" on Saturday for Sacramento County and several surrounding counties.
The included counties are: Alpine, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento and San Joaquin.
Storm Updates: Flooding and power outages during winter storm
In Alpine County, minor flooding is predicted along the east fork of the Carson River near Gardenville from Saturday afternoon until Sunday morning.
The flood stage for the Carson River is 14 feet and levels are expected to reach 14.3 feet Sunday evening.
In El Dorado, Sacramento and San Joaquin counties, the Cosumnes River is the biggest threat as it has risen above the flood stage of 46 feet.
In El Dorado County, the most severe flooding will be seen in the Michigan Bar area from Saturday until Sunday evening.
Rescue effort made on raging Roseville creek
The river is expected to crest at 17.5 feet Saturday afternoon, which will impact homes and roadways along and near Wilton Road whose flood stage is marked at 13.5 feet.
The river is then expected to drop below its flood stage of 12 feet by Sunday morning.
For Sacramento County and San Joaquin, the Cosumnes River around the area of McConnell where overflow channels and roadways may be impacted.
The river is expected to crest at 47.1 feet Saturday evening and flood Dillard Road from Highway 99 to Riley Road. Twin Cities Road may also be flooded from Hardesty Lane to Christensen Road.
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There currently is no estimated time of when the river will drop below flood stage in this area.
In Truckee, the Truckee River is expected to rise above the flood stage of 5.5 feet Saturday night, impacting homes and campgrounds in low lying areas.
Landscaping, basements and crawlspaces is expected to see the most damage, but no more than that, according to NWS. Flooding is predicted to end Sunday morning.


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Two killed in separate accidents in Dundalk on Friday
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BALTIMORE COUNTY, md. — Two people were killed in separate accidents in Dundalk on Friday.
The first incident happened around 5:40 p.m. when Evelyn Ann Cornell of the 2300 block of Searles Road, was crossing Wise Avenue east of Church Road. She was struck by a 2019 Nissan Altima.
Cornell was transported to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center where she was pronounced deceased. The driver of the Nissan remained at the scene.
Just after 7:30 p.m. officials were called to Rolling Mill Road near North Point Boulevard. A 1993 Honda Accord, was traveling southbound on Rolling Mill Road when it crossed the oncoming northbound traffic lane and left the road into a wooded area.
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Students will love using visual images to spark creative writing!
This App Flow provides students the opportunity to photograph the world around them and use the images to spark creative writing. Using a variety of websites and apps, students can share their creative thoughts through blogging.
Access websites to analyze photographs for story creation potential.
Capture, transfer, and upload photographs taken on a digital device.
Communicate thoughts through digital writing in a blog format.
Edit and enhance digital writing by inserting photos in a blog format.
Reflect on their creative writing journey through an online poll.
Introduce lesson with Edmodo by logging into your class group and inserting this website link into a Note. Direct students to click on the link and view photos, thinking about which photos spark their imaginations for storytelling. Students can reply to the Edmodo note to share their insights.
*NOTE* Prior to lesson, create an Edmodo group for your class and add website link. Share code with students so they can set up an Edmodo account and join your group.
Introduce or review the concept of blogging using this video link on BrainPOP. Explain to students that they will be sharing their creative writing stories on a blog, but will use their own photos for inspiration. Discuss the differences between blog types (photo blog, video blog, etc.) and explain that this blog will be focused on showcasing their creative writing skills.
If needed, show students how to take photos with a digital device. If your district has a BYOD policy, this is a GREAT opportunity to build a lesson incorporating students' personally owned devices. Students will need to download the Dropbox app, or have the app loaded to school owned devices such as iPads and/or tablets.
Have students take a photo of something around the school that sparks a story in their mind, similar to images they saw on the website in the "Hook" section. Model for students how to upload photos from their device's camera roll into the Dropbox app. This will allow students to transfer pictures from their digital device to a laptop or computer.
*NOTE* Prior to lesson, create a Dropbox account for your class and share the login/password with students or log in to the Dropbox account on school owned devices.
If Dropbox is blocked by your district's filter, you can also transfer images using Google Drive or email depending on the device settings.
Provide students the link to your Kidblog and have students login using a laptop or computer (see NOTE at the bottom of this section for more details about setting up student Kidblog accounts.) While there is a Kidblog app available, the web version is easier to use for typing and adding media. Model for students how to create a new post, drawing attention to the various editing features of font color/size, spell check, etc. Show them how to add tags and categories. Distinguish the difference between Save Draft and Publish.
Before students begin writing, show them how to import their photo from Dropbox. Students will go to the web version of Dropbok (http://www.dropbox.com) and use the class account information to login (see directives in Guided Practice). Direct them to find their photo and download it to their laptop/computer. Then have them return to the Kidblog website and select Upload/Insert Media and select file. Students can then adjust the size of the photo as needed.
After importing the photo, briefly review the basic requirements of a creative writing story (Setting, Characters, Conflict, Resolution). Remind students that the photo they added should directly correlate with their creative writing story. Also remind students to add a Title.
When finished, students may click Publish to have their story available for viewing on the class Kidblog.
Create a Kidblog site for your students and adjust Settings to your comfort level (i.e. public vs. private blog, requiring approval for posts and comments, etc.) To add students you can either create student accounts yourself with a generic password (i.e. Logins are Student 1, Student 2, Student 3 with all passwords as the school acronym which they can change when they login) or under Settings, share the Class Signup Code and have them create their own accounts. You can also personalize your Kidblog site by changing options under General, Themes, and Widgets.
To close out this creative writing lesson, have students reflect on the various aspects of this lesson (i.e. taking photo, uploading/downloading photo, digital writing, etc.) by completing a survey on Google Drive. This will provide valuable feedback for the classroom teacher on how to reteach or extend aspects of this lesson related to the objectives stated.
*NOTE* Prior to lesson, create a Google Form including questions that will provide information you want to know about your students' learning process in this lesson. Make the first question on the poll their name and the second question their class block (if doing this lesson with several different classes).


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Arts abound in this culturally diverse region, with different experiences and styles all over the Bay Area. Start in Golden Gate Park,where manicured gardens cradle a cultural hub. At the copper-clad de Young Museum, see major touring collections and a massive permanent collection of classic paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts. The museum's dramatic 144-foot/44-meter tower offers a stunning view of the city and bay—and tower entrance is free. Across the park's concourse is the California Academy of Sciences, with a natural history museum, aquarium, and planetarium housed in the greenest museum building in the world.
On a promontory overlooking the mouth of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge is another artsy stop, the Legion of Honor, with ancient and European works presented in a Beaux Arts building where Rodin's iconic bronze sculpture, The Thinker sits in the museum's Court of Honor. San Francisco is also home to The Walt Disney Family Museum, in the Presidio, focusing on the accomplishments and innovations of the man behind the mouse.
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Q: Unable to call server side method in asp.net I am working in asp.net. I have this HTML tag
HTML tag:
<button id="submit" class="button" onserverclick="delete_Click">Login</button>

Serverside Function:
 Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");

When I click the button it should go to Login.aspx page. But button is not working. Where am I mistaking?

A: Use OnClick instead of onserverclick and better to use ASP.NET control if you are achieving this
<asp:Button ID="submit" runat="server" CssClass="button" OnClick="delete_Click">Login</asp:Button>

A: You need to add:
runat="server"

to the html tag.
Also, you need to make use of the OnClick event handler.
In essence, you tag should look like this:
<asp:Button ID="submit" runat="server" class="button" OnClick="delete_Click">Delete</asp:Button>

Hope this helps!!!

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Reacting to Beijing's decision to restrict elections in 2017, Tai indicated he had another trick up his sleeve. "Shadow elections" would help "build up the democratic capacity of Hong Kong," Tai told me. Recognizing that the central government will always have final say on the Special Administrative Region's constitutional development, he said there was nothing stopping citizens from boycotting the next elections and voting for a shadow leader.
Speaking two weeks ago at Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondent's Club, he elaborated: "A deliberation on issues related to the post-occupation era" would lead to an alternative "Hong Kong Charter." This document would be developed and voted upon by the people. Although it would not hold any official or legal weight, Tai suggested the charter would act as a platform on which a candidate could stand in a free, city-wide unofficial vote.
A second chief executive would then act as a de facto opposition leader to the officially chosen candidate. Unlike Beijing's pre-screened nominee, anyone would be able to stand in the unofficial elections and every citizen's vote would be worth the same.
The exercise would be perfectly legal and would likely anger Beijing, even though the informally elected leader would be effectively powerless. The Chinese government already has to battle for its officially endorsed Tibetan spiritual leader to be respected over the more widely accepted Dalai Lama, who lives in exile. Beijing would probably not appreciate seeing a figurehead in Hong Kong wielding the kind of moral authority their pre-approved candidate lacks.
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codeSpark Academy extends The Foos Coding App with Pet Pals
Elbrie de Kock Thursday, 8 June 2017 Edit this post
We've been fans of The Foos app for a long time. In 2016 The Foos rebranded to include codeSpark Academy and now you can play a subscription-based edition of the award-winning coding app.
This move enables the development of more content and features and improving the user experience of The Foos app. Last week they launched their latest feature - Pet Pals.
Disclaimer: codeSpark Academy sent us a complimentary subscription to review the app and test out the new Pet Pals minigame. (We also met them at the BETT Show earlier this year)
Exclusive offer to Tech Age Kids readers: Subscribe to The Foos with PETPALS code for the first month at USD$0.99.
(After one month you will be charged the full monthly fee of $7.99. You can cancel at any time.)
What is The Foos?
The Foos and codeSpark Academy rebranded in 2016 and its now - codeSpark Academy with The Foos (we'll say The Foos for short in this post!). It's a learning app that introduces children from ages 4 - 9 to computing concepts.
The app has three elements:
Puzzles - different worlds in which kids complete levels. Each world covers a different coding concept and will become playable as kids complete levels in preceding worlds
Game Maker - a platform where kids can make their own games, buy items with coins earned in the puzzles for their game maker and also share their game with others. Kids can also play other kids games (more on safety later)
Minigames - 3 minigames including Wild West Pets (Stacks & Queues), Sweet Sorter (Booelan Logic) and the latest addition Pet Pals (Automation)
What kids will learn?
The Foos helps your kids learn the 'ABCs' of computing. Using the app kids will learn about sequencing, loops, conditional statements, events, Boolean logic and sorting and variables.
They will learn skills such as perseverance (some of the levels are not easy), problem-solving and critical thinking and well as design skills in the game maker.
The Foos is recommended for ages 4-9, but younger kids can play with adult support. I think my youngest started playing when he was 4. Different parts of the app will appeal to different kids. The game maker element will be appealing for older kids as they can code their own levels for the game and requires more skill and problem-solving abilities. However this doesn't mean it won't appeal to younger players.
In fact the game maker is currently my son's favourite part of the app. He's creating games and then testing them out on his brother. If they are too easy, he changed them. This process of developing something, testing it and getting feedback is a valuable skill for kids to learn.
The use of pictorial blocks for commands means it is perfect for pre-readers. And the app is available in a wide range of languages too.
Why do you have to pay?
Well, it costs money to make apps like The Foos! As parents, we can easily fall into a trap of only getting free apps for our kids, because there are SO much available. But the REALLY good ones are not free.
You pay so that you are guaranteed no in-app advertising or in-app purchases which mean no nasty surprises for kids clicking something they shouldn't or unknown amounts of money being spent.
Also see: Tinybop's The Robot Factory App
There is currently have a 7-day free trial on iOS and Android. Thereafter it's a recurring subscription of USD$7.99/month. With the PETPALS promo code, you'll get your first month for USD$0.99 (although there's no free trial with that). After the first month, it's USD$7.99/month.
There is a "lite" version on the web (thefoos.com/webgl) which is still called The Foos and is free for everyone. There are only first 3 chapter levels. But you can get a feeling for the app and if you'd like to make the investment.
Which Tablet?
The Foos is a tablet app and currently, it is available for Andriod and iOS with plans to develop for Amazon Fire (we approve!). Most young kids these days are pretty nifty on a tablet and so it makes sense to make a coding platform on a device they can easily manage and learn with.
Also see: Scratch Jr Coding App
On the subscription, you can add up to 3 children profiles and they can be played on 3 different devices. They also don't have to be the same operating system.
We've got The Foos running perfectly well on my old iPad 2.
Profiles and Safety
You need to create profiles for your kids to play, but you don't need to provide any personal information. In fact, they can't choose their own profile names, they make up a name from 3 different variables. You can get very creative! My kids loved this and thankfully with the new Pet Pals, you can name your pets in a similar way - we've got some very creative names for pets like - the rabbit 'Captain SneezyDoofer' and a sheep called 'Mr. WigglePuff'.
codeSpark is COPPA-compliant which means they don't collect any private data on the kids.
In the game maker where kids can share games, they can only give a thumbs up or thumb down on games, with no other interaction available.
Teachers, Homeschoolers and Parents
The Foos is free to use in schools not-for-profit organisations. You need to first set up a codeSpark Academy Teacher Dashboard account at dashboard.thefoos.com. And they are coming out with a homeschool plan soon too!
They offer lots for free resources including lesson plans, offline coding activities, how to videos, colouring sheets and more. You can even design your own Foo and give it a name and special powers.
If your kids completed the Hour of Code you can download a certificate for them to hang somewhere special.
What's Pet Pals?
Pet Pals is the latest addition on THe Foos minigames. Kids learn about automation by earning and caring for pets. The game is based on days (game days, not real one!) and you need to complete certain tasks before the sun goes down.
At night the pets sleep and during the day you need to feed them, clear up after them and play with them to earn heart points. You can collect common, rare, wild and exotic pets!
My 6-year-old loves this minigame. As we were reviewing it he soon realised the need for automation "I can't manage all these pets! Glad I can program someone to help". And it seemed to have a positive effect on how he can care for his own pet, "This helps me learn how to look after Ruby." We have an actual dog called Ruby!
Here at Tech Age Kids we like to find things that really help kids learn the skills they need for a digital future. The Foos is a brilliant tool to learn coding skills but also problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
It's not a cheap subscription, but there is a lot to explore in the app.
There are lots of resources available to make The Foos part of your learning toolkit.
It gets a thumbs up from us!
Subscribe to The Foos with PETPALS code for the first month at $0.99.
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Fibre Channel (FC) uses a high-speed network technology for data storage that has become a common connection type for SAN enterprise storage. It is especially suited for creating SAN topologies for virtualization, data centers or other demanding platforms that deal with large amounts of data. Fibre Channel helps users to avoid collisions and congestion and allows a better saturation of the network connections than other protocols.
The ZFS- and Linux-based Open-E JovianDSS is a data storage software designed especially for enterprise-sized storage environments. It includes support for the Fibre Channel technology as an initiator which allows users to connect external Fibre Channel devices, and as a target, which in turn allows users to serve virtual volumes via the Fibre Channel protocol. With its unique features, the product ensures highest data reliability and integrity, and addresses the needs of Enterprise users seeking a SAN solution with thin provisioning, compression and deduplication.
Open-E JovianDSS with Fibre Channel supports many kinds of topologies, including SAS and FC JBODs, and ranging from single host FC targets up to active-active MetroClusters.
1. Why should I use Open-E JovianDSS with Fibre Channel?
Open-E JovianDSS with Fibre Channel offers a straightforward, stable and high-speed solution due to the plain structure of the protocol. Additionally, dedicated wizards in Open-E JovianDSS help you to configure the system, while the WebGUI is designed to be used with as few clicks as possible.
2. For whom has the Fibre Channel Target Feature been created?
The ZFS-based Open-E JovianDSS with FC Target is a perfect fit for Enterprises or SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises).
3. Can Fibre Channel Target in an Open-E JovianDSS server appliance be used as storage for virtualization with ESXi?
Yes. This solution is a perfect option when it comes to virtualization. A Fibre Channel Target set up with Open-E JovianDSS and used as storage for ESXi is an excellent solution due to Fibre Channel's low latency, which is of extreme importance for virtual machines to work properly and efficiently.
4. Does Open-E JovianDSS Fibre Channel Target implementation require specific hardware?
Solutions with Open-E JovianDSS and a Fibre Channel Target require Fibre Channel HBAs (Host Bus Adapters). The solution supports Qlogic FC HBAs up to 32Gbps.
5. Is this solution cost-effective?
Yes. Fibre Channel solutions require higher investment cost. However, the high quality of the solution compensates users for the price. Additionally, you can easily expand your storage space as your data grows with Open-E's storage capacity licensing model.


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And the bav.sock file is created and other binaries that depends on libmilter.so (like scan_and_unsubscribe and filter_or_forward) now also work.
Maybe this workaround helps others (or can be documented).
Hi!! Thank you for that i had the same problem, now sending emails Ok!
But now i have another problem. Openemm seems not to be parsing correctly links and images from contents.
When i load content on the contents tab, save and then go to links or images tab, there is nothing. No links and no images parsed. So no click tracking possible.
I'm not a java expert so... i'm lost.... Any ideas?
Thanks! and sorry about my english.


I have always worked to support my lifestyle. I have gaps in my employment due to unfortunate events. I have about six months worth of fast food crew experience and about 4 other jobs which I took as needed. I specialize in food preparation and waitering.
When I was in a boy's home I worked as a waiter for about 4 months, then I was promoted, above others applying, to crew chief. Considered for multiple positions in a rehabilitation center due to my enthusiasm. Worked for over eight months on two separate occasions.
While at olive vista I started out as a social services assistant. I helped decorate functions by setting up the meals and preparing for the event. After about a month I was sent to another desk, with the same title, and given the opportunity to work with my peers by entertaining them. In this position I organized a clothing closet, donated to goodwill, served refreshments, troublshot electronical devices, cleaned the patio for music, managed a community store, shopped for snacks and assited with staff related tasks. The emplyer liked me so much she did not want me to leave.
During this training program for the youth, I was sent to work at Smart and Final and the Pomona reparatory opera. While at Smart and Final I was busy restocking shelves, returning carts from the store lot, sweeping and mopping the aisles, recieving supplies from trucks and organizing shelves. When I was at the opera I was responsible for making props, setting up scenes, cleaning up prop area, decorating props, consulting with the actors and moving furniture.
I took this job in the fall and was looking to have money for the holidays. What I got instead was useful skills. My boss taught me how to fill out and document shipping and recieving forms. I was able to learn the function of a pallet jack and move items from our storage to the warehouse. He taught me how to store merchandise on various heights of shelves. Plus I got to send out packages through Fedex.
Being on the team at Fatburger I was taught to equally pull my part doing assigned all around tasks each and every day. Each shift I had different tasks including: French frying, burger and drink preparation, order taking, dishwashing, cleaning, and closing.
One of my first jobs that I had I went into this position happy with my luck. Here I used my knowledge of waitering to: Take orders, make sandwiches, wash dishes, clean floors and tables, communicate with my team, clean up the store, and close the store.
My first job outside of an institution, I took it with glee. Basically the task was to entertain the guests as best as I could and keep a positive attitude. I did everything from: Go-kart observation, rock wall safety, laser tag coordinator, cleaned up after parties, swept up the facility, and served food.
I was sent to the boy's home as a means to finish school. While I was there I was privileged enough to earn a job as a waiter. We had the duty of making the dining room clean enough to look nice and enjoy. I was assigned to various duties such as: Wiping tables, cleaning chairs, cleaning floors, restocking cereal. On the weekends we would do a deep clean; scrubbing floors, washing windows, waxing. After about three months I was promoted to crew chief. I was responsible for making sure the areas were neat and clean.


"1. My lynx point himalayan cat, Toulouse, sitting on a vintage radio/side table that I found in my grandparents' attic and had restored. And yes, it still works!
2. My shih tzu, Molly, resting in her favorite spot on our sofa.
The little helpers Leroy & George, too cute.
I love this post. Made my morning. Adorable pets, so funny, such joy.
I ADORE Pete! I want the shot of Pete on the chair on my wall!
Ooooh!! I am loving Norman!
I LOVE Toulouse! So cuddly.


Regular readers of Ear of Newt may have noticed that I, the Newt, really like posting excerpts from my four interviews with Dickey Betts.
It's not just because he's a guitar legend. Or because he was in the freakin' Allman Brothers. Though that's part of it.
But I also just like listening to his voice. As a northerner–north of the United States, that is–that southern drawl gets me. And it doesn't hurt that Betts seems to put a lot of thought into his comments. As he is onstage through a Les Paul, he's a great communicator over the phone.
So here's another audio excerpt from the interview I did with Dickey back in 1991, when the band was touring behind its Shades of Two Worlds album. At one point in the conversation I asked him who he'd been listening to in his spare time lately, and it turns out he'd been gettin' all jazzy with it.
imagine if this had a proper title- "Dickey Betts talks about what he listens to in his spare time" it would have so many more clicks and views and maybe even comments!


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Cookson murder trial begins
by Contributed November 28, 2001 August 31, 2011
BANGOR – Jurors had an intense and emotional day as the double-murder trial of a New Gloucester man got under way Tuesday with a tour of the Dexter crime scene and testimony from the sister of one murder victim and the mother of the other.
After hearing opening arguments from Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese and defense attorney William Maselli at Penobscot County Superior Court, jurors were loaded onto a bus and taken to Dexter where they went through the house where 20-year-old Mindy Gould and 21-month-old Treven Cunningham were killed two years ago.
Later in the day, jurors heard from 36-year-old Melanie Bragg, Gould's sister, who owns the Dexter home and who found the bodies on her bed on Dec. 3, 1999.
Cassie Cunningham, Treven's mother, also testified, recalling the moment shortly after her son's birth in 1998 when Jeffrey Cookson, then the boyfriend of her best friend, cradled the newborn in his arms. She later described the events of the day the toddler was killed.
Cookson, 38, is accused of murdering Gould and Cunningham, who were alone in Bragg's Church Street home the morning of the murders. Gould, who was baby-sitting Treven that morning, was trying to end a three-year relationship with Cookson and had obtained a protection from abuse order against him just days before she and Cunningham were shot to death "execution style."
Maselli continued to stress Tuesday that Cookson had consistently maintained his innocence and told jurors Tuesday that Cookson was sleeping at his brother's Guilford home when the murders occurred. He told jurors Cookson did not have time to commit the murders and suggested his client also did not have possession of the gun prosecutors say was used to kill Gould and Cunningham.
The gun never was recovered, but ballistic evidence will show that the gun did belong to Cookson, according to Marchese, who told jurors that a shell casing taken from the ground on Cookson's New Gloucester property matched the shell casings found at the murder scene.
After jurors arrived in Dexter at about 11:30 a.m., a court officer led them on a brief tour that started in the parking lot of the Armory where prosecutors claim that Cookson often parked to watch Bragg's home where Gould was living the weeks before she died.
With Justice Roland Cole, Marchese and Maselli maintaining a distance, the jurors were led by a court officer down Lakeview Avenue and across Church Street to the two-story gray home where the killings took place. Jurors took a tour of the home that lasted about five minutes.
They then were shown the back of the house and led a short distance along Church Street to a small dirt road that led to an abandoned railroad bed that runs behind the home. Jurors walked along the dirt path being instructed to look at the house from the railroad bed.
The path curved back up to Route 7 behind the Dexter Redemption Center and Agway and jurors were told by the court officer to make note of the redemption center and the Dexter Fire Department located nearby.
Cookson declined to attend the crime scene tour.
Jurors then were returned to the Bangor courtroom where Bragg took the stand. There are more than 70 witnesses expected to testify during the trial that could last well into next week.
Wearing a light-blue dress shirt, dark slacks and a dark-blue tie, Cookson showed no emotion as Bragg described to jurors how she found Treven and Gould lying face down on her bed with pillows over their heads. Both died of bullet wounds to the head.
"I looked in my room and could see their feet on the bed," Bragg testified, her voice shaking with emotion. "They were lying face down with pillows over their heads. The pillows had [circular] black marks on them. … I lifted the pillows off their heads. I knew they were gone."
Bragg said Cookson had been stalking Gould and had threatened her in the days prior to the murders. Gould had moved in with Bragg a few weeks before.
On Tuesday, Bragg said family and friends made sure Gould was never alone and that the sisters even slept together on the couch because Gould was too afraid to sleep in a bed upstairs.
But on the morning of Friday, Dec. 3, 1999, everyone needed to go to work and Gould was left alone. Gould had offered to baby-sit for Treven while Cunningham went to work at a nearby nursing home.
Gould and Cunningham grew up together and had remained best friends throughout their lives, Cunningham testified.
Treven was dropped off at the home at 8:25 a.m. according to Marchese, who acknowledged Cookson's window of opportunity to commit the murders was narrow.
Investigators know Cookson made phone calls from his brother's Guilford home at 9:11 a.m. that day, meaning that he would have had 45 minutes to commit the murders and drive back to Guilford. The two towns are located approximately 13 miles apart.
But Marchese maintained Tuesday that Cookson had the time, the opportunity, the motive and the weapon.
"His gun caused their deaths," Marchese told jurors. "The baby's mother had testified against him at a [protection from abuse] hearing days before. These were crimes of anger, hostility and revenge."
Maselli, however, said the trial would not prove his client guilty, but instead show he is innocent and said the state had shaped circumstantial evidence to fit its own theory.
"There is not a single piece of physical evidence that links Jeff Cookson to these crimes," Maselli told jurors.
Testimony resumes at 9 a.m. today.


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South Carolina Covid-19: What You Need to Know Today
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control today provided the following update on COVID-19 vaccine:
From December 14-16, South Carolina received its first allocation of COVID-19 vaccine: a total of 42,900 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were received by direct shipments from the federal government. As of early this afternoon, 19,644 doses of vaccine have been administered to phase 1a individuals, with shots continuing to be administered each day.
This week, South Carolina is receiving its second round of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Fifteen health care facilities are receiving a combined 30,225 doses of the vaccine to continue to administer to phase 1a individuals.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) released its recommendations on December 20 for phase 1b individuals. South Carolina's Vaccine Advisory Committee is using this federal guidance to complete phase 1b guidelines in South Carolina, which will be provided as soon as it's finalized.
Those phase 1a individuals who have received their Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will require a second shot 21 days later. Their second shot will come from a future allocation of vaccine that's specifically being held by the federal government as the second dose for those individuals, to ensure they receive both required doses.
Any and all Moderna vaccine made available to South Carolina will be allocated to the CDC's Long-Term Care Program. This federal program works with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies to provide vaccine to a state's long-term care facilities. DHEC has a limited role in this federal program, other than dedicating doses of South Carolina's vaccine allotment to the program.
It's expected that CVS and Walgreens will begin vaccinating long-term care facilities in South Carolina with Moderna vaccine beginning the week of December 28. DHEC has been told that skilled nursing facilities will be the first type of long-term care facilities vaccinated through this federal program. Dr. Brannon Traxler, interim Public Health Director, provided additional information about this federal long-term care facility program during a media update on Friday.
We continue to expect that South Carolina will received between 200,000-300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, by the end of the year, however, this estimate is subject to change.
South Carolina Governor Tests Positive for the Coronavirus
Gov. Henry McMaster has tested positive for the coronavirus and was slated to receive outpatient antibody treatment for "mild symptoms," his office said…
DHEC will continue to provide regular updates on COVID-19 vaccine in South Carolina. A new data element is being developed that will provide vaccine-specific data reporting on the COVID-19 webpage, and this is anticipated to be available on the website at the beginning of January. For current vaccine information, visit scdhec.gov/vaxfacts.
South Carolina Daily COVID-19 Update (December 22, 2020)
DHEC today announced the following COVID-19 updates. As a reminder, DHEC will not report daily COVID-19 numbers on Christmas Day or New Year's Day. Data that would be reported December 25 and January 1 will be available online the following day.
We encourage all South Carolinians to safely celebrate this holiday season and to remember the importance of mental and emotional health. It's important to take breaks from watching, reading, or listening to news stories and social media and to make time to unwind. DHEC and the South Carolina Department of Mental Health provide several resources for coping with the prolonged stress of this public health crisis.
Today's cases and deaths (scdhec.gov/COVID19)
New confirmed/probable total cases: 2,055/32 Summary click here
New confirmed/probable total deaths: 15/0 Summary click here
Cumulative totals (scdhec.gov/COVID19)
Confirmed and probable cases: 257,340/20,715
Confirmed and probable deaths: 4,602/374
Tests performed for South Carolinians: 3,370,118
Testing opportunities (scdhec.gov/findatest)
Testing opportunities available statewide: 321
Percent positive (scdhec.gov/COVID19dashboard)
11,356 new individual test results reported statewide (not including antibody tests)
18.1% percent positive
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The review details what is currently known about the flow of medical tourists between countries and discusses the interaction of the demand for, and supply of, medical tourism services, 10 essential points need to be kept in mind. The following is a summary of the full article titled "Medical Tourism: Treatments, Markets and Health System Implications: A scoping review" Posted by OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.
1 Some places may be simultaneously acting as countries of origin and destination in the medical tourism marketplace. High-income countries may service overseas elites whilst at the same time their citizens choose to travel as medical tourists to Lower and Middle-Income Countries for treatments. Thus, Harley Street in the UK and facilities including the Mayo and Cleveland Clinics in the United States have longstanding reputations in the international provision of healthcare. Conversely, the emergence of lower-cost treatments in Thailand, India or parts of Eastern Europe will attract individuals from higher incomes countries who pursue treatments on the basis of cost. In trade parlance, this concerns the services that a country imports (if their patients go overseas to receive care, then effectively they are importing a service). It explores a range of financial, social, political, ethical and legal issues, and implications for the local industry.
2Currently, there is no universal "official agency/group", such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Tourism Organization or the World Trade Organization, engaged in either the delivery of accreditation, the coordination of delivery of accreditation, or licensing or studying the existing schemes that deliver accreditation. Mandatory accreditation may appeal to governments and commercial health care purchasers such as third-party payers (e.g. insurance companies and occupational healthcare providers). Accreditation has most often been used as a marketing tool by wealthier provider hospitals, medical tourism facilitators and the governments of provider countries seeking to grow their share of the medical tourism business.
3 The use of IT information by professionals and how patient information flows across national boundaries are further important questions for the regulation of the medical tourism industry. Continuity of care can be facilitated by the sharing of patient records. Data protection regulations among countries – even within the EU, however, make difficult ease of access to medical records. It is not clear to what extent the European Health Card will foster improvements in this regard.
4 Patient satisfaction is an important dimension of healthcare treatment. Relatively little is known about the experience and satisfaction of medical tourists. According to Ehrbeck et al (2008, p.7), patients report generally high satisfaction with the quality of care received overseas but it is not clear that this can be extrapolated outside of the US and to a range of treatments. Patient clinical outcomes and satisfaction do not necessarily go together and satisfaction is not always the primary indicator of some treatments such as dental work.
5 There is a gap in understanding of patient expectations and how these may be raised by individuals paying a market-price and taking responsibility for choosing a provider.
6 There is the likelihood that large numbers of medical tourists will impact on the source country's own health system, perhaps increasing trends that are encouraged by the current domestic private provision. Outflows of high-income patients will reduce both revenues and dilute political support for developing local services. Such flows also reduce the pressure for investment in particular facilities and technology. Indeed, there is an argument that some types of outflows of medical tourists for treatments that could be provided locally signal a failure of policy and delivery in the sender country.
7 Medical tourism has historically been from lower to higher income countries, with better medical facilities and more highly trained and qualified professionals. However, this trend is now reversing, and most recently "hubs" of medical excellence have developed which attract people regionally (Horowitz et al., 2007, Lautier, 2008).
8 There are also financial costs to be borne by inviting medical tourists into a country. often there are requirements for upgraded infra-structure – either specifically within the health sector (e.g. hospital facilities) and/or outside of that sector, such as roads, telecommunications etc. However, such infrastructural investments will create favourable spillovers for non-medical tourists and the local population. There are also likely to be costs concerned with appropriate staffing of facilities, possible accreditation schemes, and other requirements to attract medical tourists.
9 In the event of an adverse outcome arising from failings in clinical and professional practice, how do patient fare in seeking redress given there is no international regulation of medical tourism? There are warnings that clinics overseas are not necessarily regulated according to source-country standards and regulations. Choosing an overseas treatment centre brings a number of challenges – difficulties in assessing comparative quality and performance of alternative providers, differences in legal liability and knowledge concerning the processes of how to pursue complaints and receive redress (MacReady, 2007).
10 In terms of management of services and treatments, there are continuing questions about the range of information and its quality. Given the role of the internet, how (if at all) the quality of medical tourism information is best addressed is unclear: ranging from codes of conduct, through quality labels, user guidance tool, third-party quality and accreditation labels, to educating users and assisting those wishing to search (Lunt et al., 2010). Frontier medicine and the marketing of biotechnologies present a particular issue (Murdoch and Scott, 2010) given that such treatments may not be based on proven clinical trials.
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SGOCO Group, Ltd. Nominates New Director for Annual Meeting
SGOCO Group, Ltd.
HONG KONG, Nov. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SGOCO Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: SGOC) ("SGOCO" or the "Company"), a company focused on product design, distribution and brand development in the Chinese display, computer and virtual reality ("VR") product markets, as well as energy saving products and services, today announced that the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") has received notification dated November 21, 2017 from John Chen a member of the Board of Directors of the Company that he will not stand for re-election as a director at the Company's 2017 annual shareholders' meeting. Mr. Chen indicated that his decision was due to personal reasons and not because of a disagreement with the Company.
On November 27, 2017, the Board nominated Christina Leung as the new candidate for a position on the Board to be approved by the Company's shareholders at its 2017 annual meeting.
Christina Leung, aged 46, has been a qualified accountant registered in Hong Kong for over 14 years. Ms. Leung obtained her bachelor honour degree in Accountancy from Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1994 and started her career with Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department in the same year. From 1998 to June, 2007, Ms. Leung worked at the tax and business advisory team and tax investigation team of a Big 4 international accounting firm in Hong Kong, where she has been involved with various kind of businesses and clients, both local and international.
From August, 2007 to January, 2017, Ms. Leung worked as Financial Controller of a family-owned business in Hong Kong which has 50-year history. Ms. Leung's responsibilities as Financial Controller included accounting, financial function and participation in business planning and strategic development and management. Ms. Leung also led an ERP project and supervised the Industrial Engineer of that company with an objective to modernize the production management and improve the production productivity. In February, 2017, Ms. Leung established her own company - Siona Property Investments Ltd in Hong Kong, which is a Hong Kong incorporated company principally represent LRC Group in the sales of its commercial and residential properties investment projects in Asia.
The Board has determined based on its investigation and the information supplied to the Board with respect to Ms. Leung that she is "independent" under the independence requirements of Rule 10A-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and as defined by NASDAQ Rule 5605(a)(2), and that Ms. Leung does not have a relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director, if elected at the Company's 2017 annual shareholders meeting.
About SGOCO Group, Ltd.
SGOCO Group, Ltd. is focused on product design, brand development and distribution in the Chinese display, computer and visual reality ("VR") product markets as well as energy saving products and services. SGOCO sells its products and services in the Chinese market and abroad. For more information about SGOCO, please visit our investor relations website: http://www.sgocogroup.com
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
Tony Zhong
Email: ir@sgoco.com
Safe Harbor and Informational Statement
This announcement contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, including, without limitation, those with respect to the objectives, plans and strategies of the Company set forth herein and those preceded by or that include the words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "future," "will," "intend," "plan," "estimate" or similar expressions, are "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements in this release include, without limitation, the effectiveness of the Company's multiple-brand, multiple channel strategy and the transitioning of its product development and sales focus and to a "light-asset" model. Although the Company's management believes that such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee that such expectations are, or will be, correct. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which could cause the Company's future results to differ materially from those anticipated. These forward-looking statements can change as a result of many possible events or factors not all of which are known to the Company, which may include, without limitation, requirements or changes adversely affecting the LCD and LED and energy saving and VR markets in China; fluctuations in customer demand for our services and products generally; our success in promoting our brand of our services and products in China and elsewhere; our ability to have effective internal control over financial reporting; our success in designing and distributing products under brands licensed from others; management of sales trend and client mix; possibility of securing loans and other financing without efficient fixed assets as collaterals; changes in government policy in China; the fluctuations and competition in sales and sale prices of our services and products in China; China's overall economic conditions and local market economic conditions; our ability to expand through strategic acquisitions and establishment of new locations; changing principles of generally accepted accounting principles; compliance with government regulations; legislation or regulatory environments; geopolitical events, and other events and/or risks outlined in SGOCO's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 20-F and other filings. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of the issuance, and SGOCO does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
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