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ATLANTA — When you hear Jeff Daniels’ name, you might think of his sublime acting in “The Squid and the Whale.”
Or maybe his Tony-nominated turn on Broadway last year in the wickedly funny “God of Carnage,” in which he starred alongside James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden.
If you’re a different type of entertainment fan, Daniels might be most familiar as the dopily amusing dog groomer friend of Jim Carrey’s character in 1994’s “Dumb and Dumber.”
But for all of his quiet ubiquity in a nearly 30-year career, Daniels isn’t often recognized for his talents as a playwright and musician.
In 1991, he founded the non-profit Purple Rose Theatre Company in his hometown of Chelsea, Mich. (Daniels was born in Athens, but spent only the first six weeks of his life in Georgia) and just debuted his 14th play, “Best of Friends.”
The theater also served as the backdrop for Daniels’ fourth album, “Live at the Purple Rose Theatre.”
While some of Daniels’ bluesy folk repertoire references the career that pays the bills — such as the wryly funny “Dirty Harry Blues” off his first record — his musical interests go far beyond an actor’s vanity project.
Daniels, 55, is a solid guitarist and expressive singer as capable of writing a tender homage ( “The Michigan in Me” ) as a grin-worthy foot-tapper ( “How ’Bout We Take Our Pants Off and Relax” ).
But don’t think Daniels is shirking his acting career: He’s just signed a development deal with Showtime for a series about “a guy who ends up becoming a folk singer and he has absolutely no business being that,” he said in a recent phone interview.
Here’s what else he had to say:
Question: How does your life work as far as pacing? When do you decide it’s time to look into another movie or play rather than stick close to home?
Answer: I’m usually planned out a year ahead so I can schedule myself pretty well so I’m not doing three things at once. Two things I can handle. You get the “(God of) Carnage” gig and you know it’s going to be most of 2009, so I’m doing that from Feb. 1 through Thanksgiving and I know I’m in New York; and I owe a play to the Purple Rose, so I spend my days finishing the play, so that gets turned in.
Then you pick up the guitar and work on whatever you’re playing. To me, it all comes from the same place. If I’m not getting movie roles that I want, I’m at the age that I don’t have to do them. There’s a method in the madness. Spreading yourself in different directions, you get away from the image that Hollywood wants of you.
Question: Everything you do has a low-key element to it. Are you just that kind of guy?
Answer: I’ve always tried to let whatever talent I have lead the way. You either like what I do or you don’t and that’s fine; but I really try to be good or great. I can’t control anything else, as much as publicists try. I just want to be known as a good actor and that’s what I try to do. “Carnage” is going to create opportunities on Broadway, which I love. “Dumb and Dumber’” bought me 10 years.
I want to do things I want to do, after having spent many days waiting for other people to decide when it’s time for you to do things you want to do. I’m out here on the road because I love doing it. I enjoy the challenge of walking out onstage with just a guitar, dropping the songwriting on (the audience) and the guitar playing on them.
Question: Do you care that there are probably a certain number of people in the crowd who are there only for the curiosity factor?
Answer: There are those, but what they don’t realize is that after 10 minutes they have seen me, and that there is a whole other 80 minutes left and I could be god-awful. I choose to deal with the elephant in the room in the first five minutes. I refer to it in the show that I’m known for something else. I have fun with it and make sure they have fun with it. I’m a big fan of clarity.
Question: Are you as comfortable on stage as a musician as you are an actor?
Answer: I am now. It’s taken several years to get past that fear. The first time an actor walks out with a guitar you realize you’re naked, you’re doing your words, there is no filter between you and the audience as a safety net. It’s just you singing your stuff — all the glory, all the blame. Once you figure out how to do the character of someone who wants to entertain, which is a technique right out of Broadway, you’re good.
Question: “God of Carnage” — was it as much fun as it looked?
Answer: It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and we knew it. We’d all been up and we’d been down (in our careers), but we knew in previews that we had something good. The box office indicated right away we were a monster hit. Most plays on Broadway do 60 percent (capacity). We were standing room only for six months.
As much as a grind that eight shows a week can be — the grind is living up to the legendary status that has been bestowed upon you on the marquee (laughs) — to get out there and do it and have (the audience) rolling in the aisles, it’s pretty special.


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The Community Season Four Opener Was Awesome

Community fans rejoice! Your show has finally returned, and its Fourth Season opener did not disappoint. For those of you who have not been following along, the NBC show has been replete with drama causing many fans to wonder what the hell is going on here? First or maybe second, the show loses its creator Dan Harmon for seemingly no reason, although I'm sure there were many reasons.

Then in November, it was announced that Chevy Chase would be exiting the show. He previously had some very public altercations with Harmon, but Harmon or not, Chase was out. He will be in most of this season's episodes.

Then the network decides to postpone the season until last night. Why? Ratings are low for the show, but ratings are low for every show on NBC so why knock this one? Community is one of the smartest situational comedies of all time. Its humor is off the wall and not of the status quo, and perhaps this is why the network executives are against it - they aren't smart enough to understand it.

Last night's opener kicked off with a twist. The study group is in some type of alternate reality, but not their usual type of alter-world where they are video game characters or claymation. The study group is in a cheesy version of their own show complete with corny jokes, a live studio audience and laugh tracks. It is a brilliant stab at the audience's fear that the show was going to change without Harmon on board. Further playing into the rumor mill, Chevy Chase's Pierce is being played by Fred Willard. Genius.

But this pseudo-reality is going in Abed's (Danny Pudi) head as he agonizes over the group's senior year.

In the real world, where the possibility of the study group actually graduating, Jeff (Joel McHale) tries to make sure that the gang can all take the one history course being offered that semester, the History of Ice Cream, naturally. But there has been some over booking and to get a spot in the class Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) sets up a Hunger Games style competition. Jeff really wants to get in the class because, without the group's knowledge, he is one history credit shy of graduating.

"You're graduating early?" says Annie (Alison Brie). "I'd hardly call graduating after 30 'early.'" And of course community college should not take four years to graduate, but who's counting?

Jeff's admission of early graduation plays into Abed's anxiety over the group's inevitable demise, which is a nice parallel to the show's probable cancelation. So he goes into his happy, laugh-track place where the dean has lost all of the student's class records forcing the study group to start over as freshman. Of course, if the group has to start over then they will be together forever, as Abed wants them to be.

In case you forgot, at the end of last season Brita (Gillian Jacobs) and Troy (Donald Glover) realize they have some weird romantic feelings for each other. Brita and Troy perform Abed and Troy's first day of school tradition by throwing pennies in the school water fountain to make their school year wishes. Of course, Brita does it all wrong because she is not Abed, who Troy is really in love with. Let's just say that out loud.

Jeff makes it his mission to win enough "Hunger Deans" competitions to get each of the study group members into the History of Ice Cream class, and by doing so he is forced to tango with the dean. The dean admits to Jeff that he made it difficult to take the only history class because he doesn't want Jeff to graduate. Apparently, no one wants Jeff to ever leave community college (myself included).

In Abed's made up world, where the study group has to start over as freshman, Annie finds a way to get their records back and they won't have to take the past three years all over. Even in Abed's fantasy world the show has to end, or does it? Abed finds another "happy place," the Greendale Babies! They are baby cartoon versions of themselves, a la Muppet Babies. God this show is so amazing!

Of course, as with every episode Jeff has to give a heartfelt speech about what the episode is really about and for this one it is the fear of change. Even though Abed has actually dreamed this speech in one or more of his made up "happy places," it is exactly the speech that Jeff would have given had he not been off winning the Hunger Deans.

In the end, all is good. Change is inevitable. Whether we are talking about the changes that have gone on behind the scenes of the show or the changes we will find with our friends in the study group.

And if this episode couldn't get any better, we close with a naked Ben Chang (Ken Jeong) randomly walking up to a postal worker with a note saying he is suffering from "changesia."

In terms of writing, "History 101" was one of the tightest, well-constructed episodes that may well exist in the history of this show. It was like The Sopranos, in how well it was written. Ever single piece fit in perfectly with each other. It was funny and smart and hopefully alleviated some of the fear that this show was going to tank without Harmon.

That being said, it was written by Andy Bobrow who has been involved in the show for some time and as it was rumored they specifically let him write the season opener for continuity. Will the perfection continue is anybody's guess.

Taking wild stabs into the air about the future of Community, it might very well go the way of Arrested Development. Cult hits have been finding new funding on other television platforms and we might all wind up watching Community on Netflix or Amazon next year. Who knows? For now, I'm sticking this season out.

Totally awesome side plot - Annie and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) are playing "senior" pranks on the dean and they fill his car with unpopped popcorn and set up mirrors to reflect the sunlight in his sunroof to pop the corn. What? I love you.

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In Reliably Red Texas, Cannabis Entrepreneurs Hope For Green

Along with the typical challenges of any business, companies that work in the cannabis industry in Texas must navigate conflicting state and federal laws, risk backlash from banks and state agencies, and overcome the stigma of selling a product that some consider dangerous or taboo.

Marijuana plants named for state Rep. Stephanie Klick, are seen in a flowering room under sodium grow lights at Compassionate Cultivation, a licensed medical cannabis cultivator and dispensary, on Dec. 14, 2017, in Manchaca, Texas.

As state after state loosens laws on the sale of marijuana, a whole industry has sprung up to serve the fast-growing market for cannabis and related products.
Even in Texas, which hasn’t legalized marijuana, some entrepreneurs are planting their flags early, wagering that the Lone Star State will one day have its own “green rush.”

For legal reasons, they operate mainly on the periphery of the industry. But there’s plenty of business to be had — selling everything from cannabis oil tinctures to the flooring used in greenhouses that grow marijuana.

Along with the typical challenges of any business, companies that work in the cannabis industry in Texas must navigate conflicting state and federal laws, risk backlash from banks and state agencies, and overcome the stigma of selling a product that some consider dangerous or taboo.

But being a part of a young and thriving industry also comes with a shot of adrenaline, said Peter Ricca, executive chairman of Ricca Chemical. In the late 1970s, Ricca’s father founded the Arlington company, which makes industrial testing kits used for quality control by Fortune 500 food and beverage companies. About two years ago, it began getting phone calls from West Coast cannabis companies looking for products they could use for extracting cannabis oil and testing the quality of their products.

Now the company sells testing kits for the cannabis industry and blends terpenes — organic compounds found in plants like basil, lemons and rose petals — that can be added to cannabis products to create unique flavors and aromas.

“If you buy into this and say cannabis is a miracle drug, it’s exciting as all hell because you sense you’re changing the world,” Ricca told The Dallas Morning News .
And, he said, by developing its brand and selling in other states, the company will have an edge when Texas changes its laws.

The market for cannabis is growing as more states legalize the use of medical marijuana and open up the market to recreational use. Twenty-nine states and D.C. have legalized the sale of medical marijuana, and some, including California and Colorado, allow the sale of marijuana to adults at retail shops, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Even in Texas, a reliably red state, public opinion is changing. Eighty-three percent of Texans support the legalization of marijuana for some uses, such as medical use, according to a 2017 poll by University of Texas/Texas Tribune. More than half of Texans polled in 2017 said they’d allow possession of marijuana for any type of use.

But prominent Texas politicians have voiced strong objections, with U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, a Republican who represents Dallas, describing marijuana as a gateway drug and calling those who grow it “merchants of addiction.”

And in January, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened the door to new enforcement by rolling back an Obama-era policy that kept federal authorities from targeting the marijuana industry in states where sales are legal. The federal government classifies cannabis as a Schedule I drug, putting it in the same category as heroin and ecstasy.

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In 2015, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law that permits some Texas companies to grow cannabis, but only for a narrow use. The law created a license for companies to grow, process and distribute a type of cannabis oil to Texans with intractable epilepsy.

So far, only three companies have received licenses under the Texas Compassionate Use Act. They grow cannabis that’s low in tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the compound associated with the plant’s high, but rich in cannabidiol, or CBD, a compound used as a treatment for epilepsy and other medical conditions.
But regulations don’t make it easy or inexpensive to cultivate cannabis in Texas.

Long before planting a seed, the companies had to make a pricey bet. They put together thick applications for state officials, demonstrating they had the capital to finance a business and comply with strict safety and security requirements.

Once approved, each company had to pay the state nearly a half-million dollars for a license. The license will have to be renewed every two years at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Compassionate Cultivation’s application for the state license was more than 300 pages, CEO Morris Denton said. It opened the state’s first dispensary in February and has had 40 customers so far, with some making multiple purchases, he said.

In its corrugated steel building about 12 miles southwest of Austin, row after row of marijuana plants stretch to the ceiling. The plants hang upside down and dry out next door in a chilly room that’s a wine cellar equivalent for cannabis before churning through an extraction machine and becoming a specific kind of cannabis oil.
Across the state, Miami-based Knox Medical, licensed as Cansortium Texas, is cultivating cannabis in modular units in the small town of Schulenberg, about 100 miles west of Houston and 100 miles east of San Antonio. The company sells drops of cannabis oil and plans to roll out suppositories, said Jose Hidalgo, the company’s founder and CEO.

A third company with a license, Surterra Texas, is starting up its business in the Austin area.

For now, at least, the companies have a small market. The cannabis products they make can’t cross state lines. Only Texans with intractable epilepsy — a population estimated between 102,000 and 136,000, according to the Epilepsy Foundation of Texas — are allowed to legally purchase their products. That shrinks further after subtracting Texans who don’t have the two legally required doctors’ recommendations and those who object to using cannabis as medicine.
But Denton and Hidalgo take the long view.

Knox Medical began in Florida, which initially had a law similar to Texas’ but has added more eligible medical conditions over time. Hidalgo said he expects Texas to follow the same path. Knox Medical sells in Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas and Puerto Rico.

Before starting the company, Denton said, he and his four Austin business partners thought long and hard about the downsides of starting a cannabis business in Texas, from political uncertainties to personal risks. He said he worried about how the career choice might make life harder for his spouse and two teenagers.
“We spent the better part of a year trying to talk ourselves out of doing it,” he said.

But he said he couldn’t resist the business opportunity and the chance to be part of an industry that he believes will transform Texas’ politics, economy and view of medicine. He said phone calls and emails from people with intractable epilepsy and their families cemented his decision.

“I don’t spend my days worrying about things I can’t control,” he said. “I can’t control what our federal administration does or doesn’t do. I can’t control what Jeff Sessions may or may not do. The only thing that I can control is the performance of this business.”

Once the company got the state’s approval, Denton had new challenges: raising money to fund the business and finding a bank. The company raised more than $6 million from 13 high net-worth individuals who live in Texas. He said the company struggled to find a bank, since most are insured through the federal government, but found a Texas bank “that was willing to take the leap with us.”

Another major challenge, Denton said, is educating physicians. He visits neurologists around the state. When Austin hosted a conference for the Texas Neurological Society, he sent luxury buses to drive about 30 doctors and their spouses out to the facility for a tour.

“The best way I know how to address whatever questions they have is show them what we do,” he said.

Other uses
When Dallas-based Roots Juices began stocking its shelves with cannabis oil, its smoothie and juice shops in Oak Lawn and Lakewood attracted a loyal clientele and also some unwanted attention from law enforcement.

In October, health department officials seized about $5,000 or $6,000 of products from the juice shop. Owner Brent Rodgers watched as state officials carted it away in cardboard boxes wrapped in yellow caution tape.

“You would have thought I was running a meth lab,” he said. “I thought it was kind of silly.”

State health officials haven’t yet decided what to do with the products, said spokesman Chris Van Deusen. He said the state detained them because cannabidiol, also known as CBD, hasn’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food or food additive.

The shops stopped making drinks with the cannabis oil, but Rodgers shrugged off the run-in with state officials and restocked shelves. He said it’s just part of being on the leading edge of a new market.

Rodgers said he’s had to overcome other obstacles, such as finding another point-of-sale system for credit card payments after the one the shops used flagged his sale of CBD oil and sent him a letter saying it violated their bank’s policies.

Roots Juices sells a range of cannabis oil products, including brownies and muffins made by the shop and prepackaged drops, capsules and salves from Colorado, Oregon and California. They range in price from $3.50 for a muffin to $260 for a bottle of cannabis oil. The products have an even smaller trace of the psychoactive compound of THC than those sold by Texas cultivators, so they are classified as hemp.

Sales of the cannabis oil products have become about half of the shops’ business since sales began last summer, Rodgers said. White- and gray-haired customers looking for relief from arthritis and joint pain started coming to the shops, which usually cater to health-conscious 20- and 30-somethings. He said customers have driven from as far as Weatherford, Waxahachie and Oklahoma City.

“When I came to Dallas (in 2012), no one was juicing,” he said. “Now there’s a juice bar on every corner … It was a lot of work to educate people on the benefits of juicing. Now I am finding the same thing. I’m educating people about the benefits of CBD.”

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GrowLife, a Seattle-area company that makes potting plants, lighting and other supplies to grow marijuana and other plants indoors, opened a facility in Grand Prairie in January. The company will manufacture FreeFit Floors, flooring that reflects light and saves energy. Its flooring has become popular among cannabis companies.

It plans to expand to 50 employees over the next 18 months, GrowLife chief executive Marco Hegyi said.

The state’s central location and low cost made it an ideal logistics hub, said Keith Pocock, general manager of operations for GrowLife Innovations. He said the company will use the facility to test new products, too, such as a ready-made grow kit that resembles a camping tent and comes with supplies like lighting and fans.
There’s one catch, though, he said: The company will have to test its new products by growing salad greens or herbs instead of marijuana.

In Arlington, Ricca Chemical mixes clear liquids in giant flasks in a room that’s a cross between a chemistry lab and an industrial kitchen. It sells terpenes that it filters of impurities, blends together and bottles to create unique flavors and aromas. Companies add them to cannabis products stripped of their natural flavors during the oil extraction process or use them to enhance flavors and stand out from other brands.

Linda Hurley, the company’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, said she gets interesting reactions from friends and family when she talks about her latest work project and her business trips to marijuana trade shows. But she sees Ricca Chemical’s new division, Cannabis Solutions, as just another way the 43-year-old chemical company can break into an emerging market.

Cannabis Solutions sells 21 strains that range in flavor from dead leaf to strawberry cheesecake. It also works with companies that want their own unique flavors. Since it can’t test on cannabis products in Arlington, Hurley said the company goes back and forth with its clients, shipping multiple versions until the flavor profile they’d like is just right.

About 15 percent of business comes from the cannabis industry, Ricca said. He said terpenes brought in $4 million of revenue in its first 15 months of sales.
Companies have bought the terpenes to use in vape pens and e-cigarettes, gummy bears and gourmet cannabis cooking oils.

Patrick Moran sees the cannabis business as a natural extension of Texas’ history of wildcatters and cowboys. Moran, who lives in McKinney, helped start the Texas Cannabis Industry Association in 2014. The trade group advocates for policy change and acts as a voice for the small but growing number of cannabis-related companies in the state. It’s made up of about a dozen companies and has 32 supporting members, he said.

Moran started Aquiflow, which advises cannabis companies in California and Canada on products from soil and lighting to plotting systems. His application for a license under the Texas Compassionate Use Act is pending, so for now, he’s turned his facility in Gunter — a town of 1,500 about 60 miles north of Dallas in Grayson County — into a laboratory to test different technologies. He’s using basil and tomatoes.

“We dug in because I’m not giving up Texas,” he said. “This is the right thing. It may not be easy, but it’s the right thing and the right side of history.”

By MELISSA REPKO, The Dallas Morning News

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School Shootings

When you started school (think back to being in kindergarten) – I’m willing to bet that your parents said “school is a safe place, your teachers are safe adults.”

Most kids only worried about trading their carrots for someones pudding cup. Or if they were going to go to the playground after school – no child ever thought “today could be the last day of my life”.

If you ask parents now what they say to their kids before going to school, “be careful, remember I love you.”

Imagine saying “be careful”? School is supposed to be safe a place, teachers go to school to educate our kids, to have fun, expose them to new things, new concepts not to be doing lock down drills, not to be a literal human shield. Of course our teachers will jump in front flying bullets without thinking twice, but that shouldn’t be the case. Their spouses shouldn’t be afraid when they kiss them good-bye in the morning that it could be the last moment they share together.

So what’s it going to take to get something done around here? Seriously, how many kids need to die in order for the laws to be changed – for people to be protected, for our KIDS to be protected, innocent kids who love openly, accept everyone and love unconditionally.

This isn’t a Democratic or Republican issue, this is a common sense issue.

The NRA is the enemy here, the NRA is at fault, their hands are covered in blood. Now before you say, “Emily, lets just put retired police officers in schools.” OR “if our teachers are armed this won’t keep happening.”

Well, I got news for you, kids who are under the age of 21 can still get ahold of alcohol and in Florida where the most recent shooting happened there was a police officer there, with a gun, but he didn’t go in. Maybe he was scared, maybe he thought it was a hoax, maybe he didn’t get the call in time. I don’t know, I haven’t talked to him – but with someone with training and a weapon for protection he didn’t go running in – so your argument doesn’t hold up – and please don’t say “that’s one guy”.

I want action, I want something to be done, something should have been done a long time ago, but there’s no community immune from it. No area is 110% safe, the first question i ask when I look at schools for our kids is “what is your school shooter policy?” I want to know what they will do to protect my kids and what their plan is.

I have a kid in school, I have more friends who are teachers than in any other profession and I want them to go in not worrying they won’t come back out.

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This report presents the findings from the core audit of the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP). NCAP was previously known as the National Audit of Schizophrenia (NAS) from which two reports were published: NAS1 in December 2012 and NAS2 in November 2014. NCAP is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme (NCAPOP), which is funded by NHS England and the Welsh Government.

The audit has focused on four issues relating to the quality of care provided for people with psychotic disorders: management of physical health, prescribing practice, access to psychological therapies and outcomes. Twelve audit standards and two outcome measures were developed to address these issues.

People with psychosis often require intensive, long-term treatment and care from a multi-professional team and a range of service types. This means that the quality of care they receive is an indication of the overall quality of mental health services. Thus, this report is a valuable source of information about the quality of NHS mental health care across England and Wales. The fact that all Mental Health Trusts and Health Boards in England and Wales participated is a testament to the work of the audit team at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the commitment of NHS staff towards assessing and improving quality of care.

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07/05/2016 10:57 am ET Updated Jul 06, 2017
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The 2016 BET Awards started with a sound we know--the voice of genius that we're told is no longer: Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by team Beyoncé and followed by her collaboration with super emcee Kendrick Lamar, King's voice was the haunting to a night that both idolized the visionary brilliance of Prince and Muhammad Ali and suggested that there's so much more yet to be done. The disembodied voice of King was, perhaps, an indictment of absent leadership but this recurrent concern is not about missing bodies. If we look and listen closely enough, we see and hear these powerful women and men, youth and elderly all around us. What we are nostalgic for is not a person but perhaps a style--not a group of readily identifiable people but a genealogy of thought.

The distinction between the loss of a figure and the loss of a tradition was powerfully displayed during Jesse Williams's acceptance speech for the Humanitarian award. His comments sparked a standing ovation from his BET audience as well as the admiration of and hallelujah hand-waves from those of us at home. He began with an acknowledgement of those who made his work possible: his parents, wife, and the "real organizers...the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students" who are standing against "a system meant to divide and impoverish." His descriptions of our world were delivered as clear, declarative statements; there was no pleading, no pandering, no equivocating. And all of this without sacrificing its poetry.

The beauty of his comments were in the candor and clarity of his thinking. His language moved listeners between the local and national conditions of Black life with ease, from praise for Black women who provide disproportionate care in our communities to the devastating murders of Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd, and others. He argued that these lost loved ones are the evidence of a failed progress narrative; they mark "how far we've come," which is not enough distance at all. Williams's new timeline was also a mirror to the audience whose money, he argued, is not enough to protect us. Drawing parallels between the hot iron branding of enslaved people and the chosen branding of celebrities with designer names, his challenge was tailor-made for that extravagant event even as his critiques followed in a long history of artist activism.

It may be difficult to see through contemporary eyes but Williams is one of many. Paul Robeson was one of the most hyphenated artists of the twentieth century and used his stages to sing and speak for the rights of workers, liberation of African descended peoples, and a global peace agenda. Beginning in the 1930s, he argued against impartiality, famously proclaiming that "The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative." A student of radical intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois, Robeson too mentored others in this way, including actor-singer-activist Harry Belafonte. That Williams has assisted in bringing to the screen and will portray Belafonte in an upcoming biopic displays the integrity in casting that eluded the most recent efforts to document the large life of Belafonte comrade Nina Simone. Like Robeson, her unapologetic love for Black people and rebellious performances cost her the career that her talents warranted, forcing her into exile for more than twenty years.

These artists were and are beloved because they used their access to the stage to both expose corruption and encourage those communities abandoned by the systems and nations that claimed to protect them. Each one of them insisted on the word that Williams repeated on Sunday--freedom--and made it mean and do new things in the organizing that was already happening around them. This is why people listened. This is why people followed. This is also what made them dangerous. The cost of being Robeson, Belafonte or Simone is well documented; surveillance, censorship, erasure, and violence are not only possible but likely, meaning that artists like them are few and far between. Many artists are well-intentioned. Some have their moments. But few consistently lead. And even fewer take the challenge from of the organizers to the stage. That is the tradition that Williams attached himself to and enlivened on Sunday.

This isn't an ode to Jesse Williams. He wisely knows that the recognition is not about him. This is instead a love note to a tradition populated by Robeson, Belafonte, and Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Abbey Lincoln, and Janelle Monáe. And this is a wish for more artists who trust themselves and us enough to be visionary, to be courageous, and to ask tough questions of their art and careers. Ten years ago Black feminist scholar Hazel Carby posed the single most important question that I've ever received: "What's at stake?," she asked. This is the question that organizers ask themselves almost everyday and every thinker, writer, actor, singer, dancer, artist, and politician should ask themselves on a regular basis for the answer may get us closer to this elusive freedom.


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‘Fat Girls Traveling’ Is The Stereotype-Shattering Movement We All Need To See

It's really taking off.
09/01/2017 04:48pm ET | Updated September 6, 2017

Wanderlust isn’t one size fits all, but it sure can feel like it. Not only do the people often depicted in travel blogs and in media usually look the same (thin), but the internet is rife with horror stories of larger women being fat-shamed or feeling uncomfortable on a trip.

Annette Richmond is the creator of “Fat Girls Traveling,” a public Instagram and corresponding private Facebook group. She not only hopes to eliminate the notion that travel is for thin people, but also provide a support group for women to share experiences and advice. So far, with nearly 2,000 followers on Instagram and 1,082 group members, it appears to be taking off.

Richmond, a self-proclaimed fat girl with a travel obsession, told HuffPost that although long haul travel is uncomfortable for everyone, “people living in bigger bodies are often shamed because of it, making travel even more uncomfortable.”

Some of the most common thoughts expressed in her Facebook group come from women who are too afraid to travel in the first place, she told Mic.

“Maybe the [airplane] seat is a little too tight or maybe their leg is spilling over or they want to ask the person next to them to lift the armrest or they’re having anxiety about asking for a belt extender,” she said. “People have a lot of anxiety around this stuff, and it’s nice to have a community where we can talk about it and encourage each other and let them know, like, ‘Girl, the person that’s snoring is going to be worse [to sit next to than] someone who’s a little fluffy.’”

On the FGT Instagram, she highlights women who submit photos of themselves traveling, a move she hopes increases visibility and representation for people not typically seen on famous travel blogs or branded accounts.

“My goal with creating Fat Girls Traveling was to build a safe and inclusive community, as well as help take the stigma out of the word ‘fat,’” she recently wrote on her blog, explaining why she uses the word. “Fat does not mean ugly. Fat does not mean lazy. Fat does not mean unhealthy.”

Richmond’s movement echoes the mission of “Unlikely Hikers,” a community of outdoor enthusiasts that aims to highlight the many different shapes, sizes, ages, races and degrees of mobility that exist in hiking. That activity’s not just for skinny people, either, despite other body types being virtually ignored in photos, ads and articles.

In taking the stigma out of the word “fat” and celebrating a life-enriching activity like traveling, Richmond is doing more than just creating a community. Visibility and representation are what will ultimately dictate inclusive change, both on ground and at 30,000 feet.

“I think that people [that would shame larger travelers] need be more compassionate,” she said. “I think our differences are what make us unique and that no two people are the same on the outside or the inside. There are people struggling with invisible illnesses everyday, whether it be physical or mental, and the bottom line is, you don’t know what that person is going through. So just be kind. Pretend that’s your mother, or sister or daughter, how would you want them to be treated? There’s so much truth in the simple adage of ‘Treat people the way you want to be treated.’”

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How to Set Up and Use Google My Business Listings Page

Authors: joy mukherjee
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If you want to get your business found on local searches, then you have to have GMB setup properly. In addition, you should also have your NAP consistent everywhere online.

What’s NAP? (Name, Address, Phone Number)
Establishing a N.A.P. (Name, Address and Phone Number) across the Internet is a critical first step in developing a strong local online presence. Without consistency on your listings, you could be fighting yourself and make it harder for potential customers to find you via search. More importantly, having a unified N.A.P. builds trust with search engines and eliminates any penalties you may incur due to inconsistencies.

You can do a quick check of your current N.A.P. using MOZ local and create a spreadsheet with any inconsistencies you find, as well as where the errors are located.

Get Your Business Claimed on Google
To claim or create a Google business page, the first thing you need to do is sign in to your Google account. Once you have signed in to your Google account, search for Google My Business and click on the start now button.

You will then see a map and a form in the top left corner where you can start typing your business name. Addresses should start filling in—if your business shows up as one of the drop-down options, click it, and if it doesn’t show up, continue to fill in all the information as needed to set up your listing.

mportant: You will be asked to check the box if you are authorized to manage the business listing. If you are, check the box and continue filling out the information. Once you have filled out all the necessary information, click continue.

At this point, you will have the ability to verify your business. Depending on the type of business, you will have one of four ways to complete this verification:

Request a postcard
Phone call or text
Instant verification
Video verification

If your business has already been claimed by someone else and you are the business owner, you can take the necessary actions to claim your business here.

Once you have verification, it’s time to build out your business page. Start by filling out all pertinent information, including:

Phone number
Website URL
Appointment URL
Business hours
Company Logo
Profile Photo
Internal and external photos
Virtual Tour (if applicable)
Advanced Features for Google My Business
Now that you have taken the long road to set up and claim your listing, it’s time to take full advantage of some of the advanced features that will allow you to maximize your local search capabilities and take your listings to the next level.

GMB is constantly changing and adding new features, and it can be difficult to keep up with all the updates. Below are a list of 3 new features we think you can implement on your page right away and see some great results.

Google Posts
A great feature rolled out recently by Google is what they are calling Google Posts. This new feature allows you to create content directly on the platform. These posts will show up directly in your SERP sidebar on desktop and on top of SERPs when they appear on mobile devices.

Similar to a blog post, announcement, or advertisement, you have control over the content of the post up to 300 words, the ability to add an image and, most importantly, the option to add a compelling call to action.

Until recently, these posts had to be manually created on the platform’s posts section and would only be “live” for 7 days. Google has just updated the Google My Business API to add support to posting and creating content. Similar to how you manage your social media accounts, the new API allows you to automate the posting process.

Direct Messaging
Another cool feature on the Google My Business platform recently introduced is the ability to directly message customers. You can set up a direct number that visitors can use to send a direct message. Once set up, mobile customers will see the message button directly on their device. You can also set up an auto-respond message once you have verified the number you want to use. It’s a great feature that gives direct access to your business via messaging.

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Q&A Feature
Lastly, the question and answer feature allows visitors to ask questions about your company before they even visit the website. They can easily click on the Q&A section from their phone or desktop and submit any question or concern they might have prior to visiting your business, or even before going to your website.

Another unique feature of the Q&A is that it allows visitors to mark up answers to helpful questions that could help your business improve listings. You may also add your own response from within the company.

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You walk towards Dan and wrap your arms around his neck, looking in his deep blue eyes. “I want you to make love to me. True love. Show me that you are done with that slut.”

Dan tosses the stuff aside and quickly lifts you up. You yelp in surprise, but then smile naughtily and kiss him passionately. He drags you over to your room. When you have arrived, he walks to the window and pushes you between his hot body and the glass.

“Now,” you manage to say, “I want you in me.”

He sets you gently down and starts to undress. You watch in delight as he pulls his shirt over his head. His body is just… magnificent. Perfect. Like a god.

When he takes his pants off his cock springs up as if he missed you. You take it in your hand and start to stroke it. God, you really missed that thing.

Dan groans slightly at your touch. He reaches out and helps you undress. You start to feel that nice, warm excitement in your stomach when you both stand nude in the room.

He launches himself towards you and takes one of your breasts in his hand. The sensation of his hand kneading your warm flesh is just amazing. You can feel the tip of his dick sliding across your crotch, nearly missing your already soaking wet pussy.

“Now,” you moan.

He looks at you, a slight worried expression at his face. “Emma, shouldn’t you take the pill first? And I need to put a condom on.”

“Later. Please, don’t use a condom. Not this time. I want to feel your dick in me, pure nature.”

Dan seems to be hesitating. “If that’s what you want…”

He grabs your ass and hauls you up. His cock placed at your entrance, he slowly pushes forward. You both groan in this moment of pure ecstasy. “God, Emma, you’re so tight.”

You lock your ankles behind his bottom and lean forward to whisper in his ear, “Fuck me.”

Obeying, he slowly starts to thrust his dick in your hugging cunt. You close your eyes and throw your head back, almost hitting the window. This is perfection. Almost as if it’s meant to be this way. Being one in a moment of pure love and passion.

You look to Dan. He has a concerned expression on his face, making sure that you get the full amount of pleasure. That’s why you love him so much.

He feels that you’re in need of some more action. He starts to pound you faster, thrusting his dick faster and faster. His balls slap hard to your bottom.

Dan bents his head and digs it in your breasts. He starts to lick your nipples, sometimes sucking them into his mouth. You’re trying to meet his thrusts and draw him deeper into you with your legs.

Of course, it doesn’t take much time to reach the ultimate climax.

“Oh… my… god…” you pant. “Dan, I’m going to cum!”

He releases one of your nipples with a wet plop and looks up to you. “I think… me too.”

You get a fantastic idea. “L-let’s cum together!”

Of course, he agrees. You launch your lips towards his and you engage in a passionate kiss. You can feel his dick swelling up. Your pussy is wetter than ever and you know that you’re going to cum soon.

With a muffled scream you reach your orgasm. It feels like your body is hit with a giant lightning strike. You tremble in his strong arms. Your pussy tightens around his dick, over and over, causing him to cum, too. Your tongues fight with each other like they have their own orgy. You feel the sensation of warm, sticky love being shot in your body and finding its way inside.

Dan stumbles backwards and you both collapse on your bed in a sweating heap of passion. You lie on top of him, his dick still buried deep in your cunt. You break the kiss and look in his eyes.

“I love you,” he says.

“I love you too,” you smile. You rest your head on his chest, his arms wrapped around you. It feels so right. You could spend your entire life lying there, in his arms.

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C msl - Combat missiles
D msl - Disruptors
R msl - Remotes missiles
L msl - LDSi missiles
Pen - Penetration (to use against target armour)
Pod - number of weapons in a cargo pod.
Mag - number of weapons in a missile launcher magazine.
Lifetime (nb) - seconds the weapon will be active (duration of effect).
Dam - Damages
Blast - radius for the explosion/effect.
Expl - threshold below which explosion is triggered.
Sensor - sensor range for proximity fused/seek weapons.

Times are given in seconds, range are given in meters unless specified otherwise.

When you see AM in the damages it stands for antimatter, it's usually enough to wipe out anything.

Note on Tactical Resource Interface (TRI):
The TRI setting apparently does not modify launched weapons behaviour in any way.

Note on salvo fire mode:
Salvo fire mode is compatible with all launchable weapon types except Remote missiles, if you have several launchers with the kind of launchable weapons selected you'll fire one per launcher.

Note on Rockets:
Since they're often fired continuously, the refire delays for Gnat, Hammer and Blizzard respectively are 0.5 second, 0.7 second and 0.15 second.

Note on using fire and forget missiles:
Using fire and forget missiles, the best chances to score a hit seems to be when you shoot between 10 and 1 km from the target (if it has decoy capabilities otherwise you can shoot from much farther than this).

Note on counter measures/decoys:
The "Time to engage" seems to correspond to the time between the missile acquisition and threat evaluation by the system before it automatically fires the decoy, this would mean that in some cases where missiles are coming hot from different directions and you are moving (ie. changing the distance between the missiles and yourself), the system could switch from missile to missile before deciding to fire the decoy (time to engage delay finished), so no decoy is launched and it's up to you to evade the missiles.

Addendum on counter measures:
The Official Gameplay FAQ mention that you can load counter measures in a standard missile launcher and fire them manually, this is not correct the extra counter measures are still fired automatically but since you now have several counter measure launchers it makes counter measures more efficient.

Beams Legend
Range - Length of the beam in meters.
Dam - Damage per second of contact.
Pen - Penetration (to use against target armour)
Heat - Heat generated per second of use.
Recharge - Recharge time to fully recharge beam after complete discharge (ie. 0 power left)
Beams Range Pen Dam Heat Recharge (secs)
Comm Laser 2500 20 300 10 12
Mining Laser 1500 55 1000 100 12
Cutting Beam 2500 60 1500 100 10
AM Beam 3000 70 4000 250 7.2 Antimatter based
Note 1:
Any fully charged beam weapon can sustain 6 seconds of continuous operation.

Note 2:
Beam weapons fire straight ahead (toward your cockpit center, not the HUD center), targetting cannot be used for these.

Note on Tactical Resource Interface (TRI) for beam weapons:
Energy allocation through the TRI does not affect range or recharge time but still impact damages (-/+50%).

Cannon Legend
Pen - Penetration (to use against target armour)
Dam : Maximum Damage.
Refire : Refire delay between shots (lower with weapon link on chain mode) in seconds.
Arcs : Firing arcs in degrees
Heat : Heat generated by each shot
Range : Max range (not much damage left)
Half Rng : see note below

Notes on Tactical Resource Interface (TRI)
Use of TRI energy allocation modifies Base damage (+/- 50%), Max range (+/- 50%), rate of fire (+/- 25%) [Slug Throwers and Energy Cannons] and recharge rate [Energy Cannons only].

Note on half_range usage:
Half_range is used to computed the loss of energy of a projectile (both for Energy Cannons and Slug Throwers) across distance, It works in 3 parts:
- Anywhere inside the first segment (0 to half_range) the weapon does full damages.
- Then the decrease is linear for intermediate segments.
- The last segment is also linear but the 0 damage value correspond to the weapon's maximum range.

The formulas to use are (when referring to Base damage, it stands for the weapon damage eventually modified by TRI allocation):

First segment (from 0 to first half_range increment):
Base damage value applied anywhere in the segment.

Intermediate segments (ie. not the first, nor the last):
Damage = (Base_damage / 2^(seg_number - 2)) * half_range / (Distance - (half_range * (seg_number - 2))

Last segment (from highest range increment multiple lesser than max range to Max weapon range):
Damage = (Base_damage / 2^(seg_number - 2)) * (Max_range - Distance) / (Max_range - (half_range * (seg_number - 1))

For a standard PBC, the first segment is between 0 and 2100 meters, full damages (160 #in this case) are applied all across this segment.

Second segment is between 2100 m and 4200 m, damage at lower limit (2100m) is 160, #damage at upper limit (4200 m) is half the value at the lower limit, so it's 80. Between #these two limits the damage value decrease linearly across distance. So damages at 3000 #m (inside 2nd segment) would be:

Damage = (160 / 2^(2 - 2)) * 2100 / (3000 - (2100 * (2-2))
Damage = 160 * 2100 / 3000
Damage = 112

Still using our trusty PBC at a range of 5000 m, in the 3rd segment, it gives:

Damage = (160 / 2) * 2100 / (5000 - 2100)
<=> Damage = 80 * 2100 / 2900
<=> Damage = 57.93

Using the PBC at long range (say 9000 m, fifth and last segment) will give the #following calculation:

Damage = (160 / 8) * (9600 - 9000) / (9600 - (2100 * 4))
<=> Damage = 20 * 600 / 1200
<=> Damage = 10

Cannons using ammo (Gatling and Longbow Sniper) apparently benefit/suffer from TRI setting, even though they logically should not.

Note on Assault and Gatling Cannons:
These weapons are essentially the same, the only difference is that the Assault Cannon mounts a dedicated energy ring (which explain why it uses one internal cargo space and has a slightly lower rate of fire) to provide energy instead of using ammunitions.

Note on Longbow Sniper Cannon:
The Longbow Cannon was especially designed for long range use and is recoiless to provide better aim, it can use the sniper zoom function to give long range subcomponent targetting (same as Imaging module) and since it's a Meson based weapon it bypass conventional LDA shields.
Addendum: Despite the Longbow's range of 53.55 km when maximizing energy to weapon through TRI allocation, due to targetting sensors limitations the maximum range a target lock can be achieved is 50km (same as maximum REM link range).

Note on weapon penetration and target armour effect on damages:

Here is a formula to compute the effect of armour on the damage caused/dealt by a weapon.

[*] Armour Modifier = (Target Armour - Weapon Penetration) / 100
[*] If Armour Modifier is negative damages are unchanged.
[*] If Armour Modifier is positive, you can compute the Damage Modifier by multiply the calculated weapon damage by the Armour Modifier (do not round the result up or down, keep the exact number).
Damage Modifiers = Calculated Damage * Armour Modifier
[*] You then substract the Damage Modifiers to the Calculated Damage to get Final Damage.
Final Damage = Calculated Damage - Damage Modifiers

The target hit points, after applying the Final Damage, should be rounded down if the hit points are above 50% of its max hit points and rounded up if they are equal or under 50%.

You're shooting a cargo pod (armour 50) with a light PBC (penetration 35) at point blank range the Armour Modifier is:
AM = (50 - 35) / 100 = 0.25

Since you're shooting at point blank range, damage done by a light PBC is 130,the Damage Modifier is:
DM = 130 * 0.25 = 32.5
FD = 130 - 32.5 = 97.5

If the pod still has 1000 hit points before you shoot it, it goes down to 902 (1000 - 97.5 = 902.5, 902 rounded down since a cargo pod max hit points is 1000).

If the pod had 510 hit points before you shoot it, it goes down to 413 (510 - 97.5 = 412.5, 413 rounded up since the hit points left is less than 50% of max hit points).

Note on TRI settings:
* When talking about High/Max TRI setting if mean that it gives max power to weapons.
* Balanced TRI setting is the TRI equalizing the power distribution to Propulsion, Shields and Weapons
* Low/Min TRI setting is Max power to either shield or propulsion.

Note on ammunition usage:
Ammunitions is kept track of using to things, the number of pods that are full and the exact remaining ammo count in an uncomplete pod (current pod) for this type of ammunition (the uncomplete pod is showed as a complete one in the inventory screen).

When you use ammunitions in combat the exact number of units fired is substracted from the uncomplete pod, when the pod's content is depleted the number of full pods is decreased by one and the leftover number of shots fired is substracted from the max units number contained in a full pod to give the number to use for the current pod.

A table to summarize weapon damages at each half-life value for low/balanced/high TRI setting.

For damage reference, a cargo pods has 1000 hit points.

for the first segment the damage value does not decrease, full base damage for the weapon is applied from 0 to the first half-range value.

for other segments, damage value decrease linearly (see formulas for details).

Entries can be read like this (all range are expressed in meters):

  • x. name of weapons concerned (base damage with balanced TRI, max range with balanced TRI, half-life value)
  • Range values define segment the last digit of the range correspond to the end of the segment.
  • Damage values indicated the damages done at the end of the segment they're included in to have an exact damage value for a specific range refer to the formulas.
  • The last number on the Damage lines indicates the max range of the weapon at this TRI setting (and the end of the last segment).

Turrets (Point-defense or Dock-on) are equiped with a Light PBC cannon, refire rate is faster on Point-defense turret (0.4 second), normal (0.8 second) on a Dock-on turret.

Target re-acquiring time is 1 second for Dock-on turrets, Point defense turrets have a re-acquire time of 0.16 second.

Note on Point Defence Turret:
Despite the fact it mount a Light PBC cannon, the Point Defense turret only has a 2km #engagement range.

The point defence turret is located on top-backward side of the propulsor cone facing backward. It thus gives firing arcs of 80 degrees up/down/left/right facing backward from the direction you're currently heading toward.

Aggressor Shield Legend
Coverage: The arcs the shield encompass in degrees.
Duration: Time in seconds for which the shield is on after activation.
Sweet speed: Optimal collision speed, basis for damage computation.
Dam Factor: Damage multiplier.
Self Dam: Ratio of damages applied to aggressor ship.
Agressor Shield coverage duration sweet speed Dam Factor Self Dam
Normal 90 deg 3 sec 800 mps 1 0.1
Navy 140 deg 5 sec 1200 mps 1.5 0.05
Base Damage is calculated by taking the agressor ship's max hit points (ie. the bigger the better), multiplied by the Damage factor for the shield. Then a modificator is applied according to the speed at the collision moment (sweet speed is the reference and has a modificator value of 1).

If you hit at or below the sweet speed no damages should be applied to you. Otherwise the self-damage ratio is used.

LDA Shield Legend
Chance: chance the shield will activate to block incoming fire.
Capacity: number of energy units the shield can store.
Cost: number of energy units drained from the shield when it activate.
Recharge: number of energy units restored in 1 second.
Cover: hostile ship tracking coverage in degrees.
Fld Cover: the actual cover of the field in degrees for blocking purpose.
Hold: field hold time, the minimum delay in second between two activations.

  1. Particle Screen:
    Allow the LDA shield to stop fire from Meson based weapons (such as theLongbow Cannon).
  2. Shield Booster:
    Activation Chance increased by 5%
  3. Shield Synchronizer:
    Reduce field hold time by 0.05 second and increase Activation Chance by 2.5%

Sensor Legend
Base Range: base detection range.
ID Range: Identification (and IFF) range.
ID incr: ID Range increase for active sensors when activated.
Bright: brightness (likelyness to be detected) increase when active sensors active.

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Jeep Unveils 2017 Jeep Renegade Altitude And Deserthawk Limited-Edition

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Jeep Unveils 2017 Jeep Renegade Altitude and Deserthawk Limited-Edition
2017 Jeep Renegade Deserthawk limited-edition model
  • Two New Renegade Models Introduced by Jeep
  • New 2017 Jeep Renegade Deserthawk limited-edition model
  • 2017 Jeep Renegade Altitude

These two new Jeep Renegade models will make their debut at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show

Two new jeeps will be introduced by Jeep in the 2016 LA motor show. The company is going to provide its customers with unique and special editions of this capable and small SUV in the market.

The Jeep Renegade models that will be introduced at Los Angeles motor show launched due to the success of company’s SUV around the globe.

“These two new Jeep Renegade models help to extend our popular small SUV’s continued global success since its launch last year, and to provide customers with the choice of two distinctive and unique special editions,” said Mike Manley, Head of Jeep Brand – FCA Global.

“The Jeep Renegade Deserthawk takes the best-in-class capability of the Renegade Trailhawk and combines it with a unique look and additional features that include rock rails and a towing package – all inspired by the desert’s extreme conditions. For customers looking for an edgy and aggressive appearance, the Jeep Renegade Altitude offers just that, building on the popularity of the other Altitude models across the Jeep lineup.”

These models will be available for customers around the globe too. It is inspired from Deseret’s extreme conditions and especially designed for towing abilities too.

2017 Jeep Renegade Deserthawk Limited-Edition

The Jeep Renegade Deserthawk will be one of the two jeeps introduced by company at the Los Angeles Motor Show 2016. The SUV is supposed to take its design from Renegade Trailhawk, which is famous for its beastly and rugged design. However the company has made it more exclusive by including features that make it a desert special vehicle with the capability of legendry Jeep.

It will be available in Anvil, Alpine white and Black color. the Jeep Renegade Deserthawk will be available in 17 inches black wheels a new hood with rear body lids that make it look extreme.

The interior is customized as well with black leather, light frost stitching and all weather floor mats. It will be a 4x4 Jeep with towing capacity of 2000 pounds.

Its price is set to be $28,140. The new 2017 Jeep Renegade Altitude model arrives in showrooms later this month.

2017 Jeep Renegade Altitude

The Jeep Renegade Altitude 2017 is given a new blacked out kind of look. This look has made this vehicle’s appearance more aggressive in nature. It will be available in wide variety of exterior colors along with 18 inches Gloss black wheels. It will cater Gloss black accents, tail lamp rings and grille rings too.

The vehicles has been given a black interior and all black accessories. It will have a 1.4 liter MultiAir Turbo Engine with six-speed manual transmission. The price set for 2017 Jeep Renegade Altitude is $22,390 and the model arrives in showrooms in coming January.

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Iran – Stop the execution of Abdolreza Ghanbari

Abdolreza Ghanbari

Abdolreza Ghanbari, a 44-year-old lecturer of Payam e Nour University, was arrested at his home in Pakdasht on 4 January 2010. He was charged with Moharebeh (enmity towards God) for receiving unsolicited emails from an armed opposition group, to which he does not belong. While in detention at the notorious Evin Prison, Prof. Ghanbari was interrogated for 25 days in a row and forced to confess under duress to unproven charges. Nasrin Sotoudeh was his lawyer until he was himself condemned to a six year sentence in Evin prison for “propaganda against the regime” and “acting against national security”.

In 2007, Prof. Ghanbari had already been detained for 120 days and sentenced to a six-month suspension from teaching and exiled from Sari to Pakdasht. Prof. Ghanbari has no known political connections. He was previously involved in teacher union activities until his union ITTA was dissolved in 2007.

Prof. Ghanbari’s death sentence has been confirmed by Tehran’s Appeal Court, Branch 36 in April 2010. He has since been waiting on death row. A request for pardon was rejected on February 28 by the Commission of Justice in Tehran. It means that authorities are allowed to proceed with the execution.

The Education International calls on the Iranian authorities to stay the execution of Prof. Abdolreza Ghanbari and revoke the death sentence; to drop all charges against all detained trade unionists and release them immediately; to comply with the international labour standards and respect the rights of Iranian workers to freedom of association, assembly and expression.

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The Otter shop is coming soon! As per usual Otter Keeper is really slow with this kind of thing, which is annoying. I wish I was good enough on the computer to make the shop, but it’s harder than it looks. I also have colouring in commitments.

Hopefully we will be able to sell Otter T-shirts and mugs. I’ve been telling Otter Keeper for ages that everyone (including me) would love to have these kind of things. I think they would be really nice to give to people as gifts and presents. Especially if you’ve drawn on the wall by mistake, or broken the electric window in the car because you kept playing with it when you were told not to.

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Indiana legislators OK tougher sex-trafficking law

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A bill to toughen Indiana's penalties for sex trafficking is on its way to Gov. Mitch Daniels for him to sign into law ahead of next weekend's Super Bowl in Indianapolis.

The Indiana House voted 93-0 Friday morning in favor of the bill that cleared the state Senate in a 48-0 vote earlier this month.

The governor had asked legislators to approve the tougher measures so they could be used in any Super Bowl-related cases

Prosecutors and other supporters say the bill would make it easier to prosecute sex trafficking cases involving victims younger than 16 and broaden the law for cases with older victims. The bill makes recruiting, transporting or harboring anyone younger than 16 for prostitution a felony punishable by 20 years to 50 years in prison.

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In the middle of a successful academic career, art historian Janet Catherine Berlo found herself literally at a loss for words. A severe case of writer's block forced her to abandon a book manuscript midstream; she found herself quilting instead. Scorning the logic, planning, and order of scholarship and writing, she immersed herself in freewheeling patterns and vivid colors. For eighteen months she spent all day, every day, quilting. This book penetrates to the very heart of women's lives, focusing on their relationships to family and friends, to work, to daily tasks. It is a search for meaning at midlife, a search for an integration of career and creativity.


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Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair

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What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one another and to what's sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable? These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Anne Lamott's follow-up to her New York Times-bestselling work, Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book, she explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped sheets of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together - one stitch at a time. It's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth, humour and humanity.


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Remy lasted just 23 minutes at Villa Park before being replaced.

Loic Remy faces a spell on the sidelines after limping out of Chelsea's win over Aston Villa with a groin injury. The French striker made a second straight start in the Premier League for the first time this season but lasted just 23 minutes before being replaced by Alexandre Pato, who made his debut appearance for the Blues after arriving on loan from Corinthians.

The Brazil international wasted little time in opening his account for the club, scoring from the penalty spot to double the visitors' lead after Ruben Loftus-Cheek's maiden top flight goal had given Guus Hiddink's side an early advantage. Pedro netted twice after the break and Alan Hutton was sent off for Villa as Eric Black's interim spell in charge began with a heavy defeat.

Captain John Terry and fellow defender Gary Cahill were both absent for Chelsea with respective injury problems, which saw Branislav Ivanovic partnered by another debutant in the form of American Matt Miazga. Terry, having recently returned from a hamstring problem, has an Achilles issue, while Cahill returned from international duty with England with an unidentified problem.

"The doctor has to be make his analysis and tomorrow we will know more," the Chelsea boss said of Remy, according to West London Sport. "But if you go off with that kind of injury, you will not recover within a few days.

"[Cahill] was on the bench [against the Netherlands], did the warm up, didn't play but came in the club [Chelsea] a day later and appeared to have an injury. I cannot neglect the facts as they are. He didn't play but he came in to us with an injury. We will see what will happen with his progress in the upcoming days."

Speaking to BT Sport ahead of Chelsea's 4-0 win, Hiddink added on the injured defensive pair: "John Terry had a little problem in the tendon in his Achilles . Gary we still have to know from the doctors, it is a bit of an odd situation. He was working with the English team but he didn't play and he came back and he was injured so he couldn't play today either."


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Computational analysis of fitness landscapes and evolutionary networks from in vitro evolution experiments

In vitro selection experiments in biochemistry allow for the discovery of novel molecules capable of speci- fic desired biochemical functions. However, this is not the only benefit we can obtain from such selection experiments. Since selection from a random library yields an unprecedented, and sometimes comprehen- sive, view of how a particular biochemical function is distributed across sequence space, selection exper- iments also provide data for creating and analyzing molecular fitness landscapes, which directly map function (phenotypes) to sequence information (genotypes). Given the importance of understanding the relationship between sequence and functional activity, reliable methods to build and analyze fitness landscapes are needed. Here, we present some statistical methods to extract this information from pools of RNA molecules. We also provide new computational tools to construct and study molecular fitness landscapes.

Xulvi-Brunet, R., Campbell, G.W., Rajamani, S., Jimenez, J. I. and Chen, I. A.
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An ICH Working Group (WG) is established for each technical topic selected for harmonisation.

There are several different types of ICH working group:

  • EWG: Expert Working Group is charged with developing a harmonised guideline that meets the objectives in the Concept Paper and Business Plan.
  • IWG: Implementation Working Group is tasked with developing Q&As to facilitate implementation of existing guidelines.
  • Informal Working Group: Is formed prior to any official ICH harmonisation activity with the objectives of developing/finalising a Concept Paper, as well as developing a Business Plan.
  • Discussion Group: Is a group established to discuss specific scientific considerations or views i.e. Gene Therapy Discussion Group (GTDG), and ICH & Women Discussion Group.

ICH Members and Observers appoint experts to participate in the WGs in line with the applicable procedures in the Assembly Rules of Procedure and EWG/IWG Standard Operating Procedures. A Rapporteur from one of the Members is designated by the Assembly to lead the scientific discussions of the WG.

The Management Committee oversees the work of the WGs on an ongoing basis, while the Assembly receives reports on each WG’s progress at the time of its biannual face-to-face meetings.

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Indigenous Reconciliation and Municipalities Some Calls to Action

January 12, 2016

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report in December 2015 - a massive 3700 page tome resulting from the six year investigation by the TRC into the residential school system for Indigenous youth and the legacy of the system. Prior to the report, in June 2015, the TRC released 94 reconciliation recommendations, or calls-to-action (CTA), to address that legacy.

The 94 CTAs are recommendations that all levels of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians can undertake on the path to reconciliation. In this article we have responded to a frequently asked question “what can municipalities do for reconciliation” and have assembled the CTAs that apply to municipalities and local governments and list them below with their CTA number:

  1. We call on all levels of government, in collaboration with Aboriginal people, to create adequately funded and accessible Aboriginal-specific victim programs and services with appropriate evaluation mechanisms.
  1. We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation.

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  1. We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to provide education to public servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal–Crown relations. This will require skills based training in intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights, and anti-racism.  Note: Our training meets many of these objectives and much of our most recent training has been provided to local governments.
  1. We call upon all levels of government that provide public funds to denominational schools to require such schools to provide an education on comparative religious studies, which must include a segment on Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Aboriginal spiritual beliefs and practices developed in collaboration with Aboriginal Elders.
  1. We call upon the federal government to work with governments, churches, Aboriginal communities, former residential school students, and current landowners to develop and implement strategies and procedures for the ongoing identification, documentation, maintenance, commemoration, and protection of residential school cemeteries or other sites at which residential school children were buried. This is to include the provision of appropriate memorial ceremonies and commemorative markers to honour the deceased children.

 76. We call upon the parties engaged in the work of documenting, maintaining, commemorating, and protecting residential school cemeteries to adopt strategies in accordance with the following principles:

i. The Aboriginal community most affected shall lead the development of such strategies.

ii. Information shall be sought from residential school Survivors and other Knowledge Keepers in the development of such strategies.

iii. Aboriginal protocols shall be respected before any potentially invasive technical inspection and investigation of a cemetery site.

  1. We call upon provincial, territorial, municipal, and community archives to work collaboratively with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to identify and collect copies of all records relevant to the history and legacy of the residential school system, and to provide these to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
  1. We call upon all levels of government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, sports halls of fame, and other relevant organizations, to provide public education that tells the national story of Aboriginal athletes in history.
  1. We call upon all levels of government to take action to ensure long-term Aboriginal athlete development and growth, and continued support for the North American Indigenous Games, including funding to host the games and for provincial and territorial team preparation and travel.

And here are a couple of other examples of Indigenous reconciliation and municipalities. In late 2015, Victoria, BC, moved to repatriate the top of Beacon Hill Park, a famous lookout, to the local First Nations, who will build a traditional longhouse in its place. The new longhouse will be used to teach traditional carving techniques to youth from Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. It will also be a place to share the history and stories of the Lekwungen people with the public. The Cities of Regina and Saskatoon are both considering initiatives to work with local Aboriginal organizations on renaming streets with traditional names.

On a personal note, I have really enjoyed and appreciated every opportunity to share my knowledge and information with governments, corporations, schools, health care departments and individuals. It’s the reason I started this business and the blog - to make the world a better place for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Thanks for reading and keep on sharing.

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