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Mirador Mining Project Puts Rights of Nature Laws to the Test in Ecuador

February 28, 2013 | By Dina Buck

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Above: President Correa at the contract signing for the Mirador mining project

The Condor Highland in the southeastern section of the Ecuadorian Amazon is rich in biodiversity, and home to Shuar indigenous communities.  The Condor Highland is also, like other areas of the Amazon, a target for resource extraction.

This time it's minerals – copper, gold, and silver – that threaten to destroy the area and, for those who wish to save it, time is running short.  Ecuador's government has already granted China's EcuaCorriente permission to do open-pit mining in the region. The mine is called Mirador One because it is the first of six open-pit mines proposed.

The Severe Impacts of Open-Pit Mining

The mines would affect a 25,000 acre area, including more than 6,000 acres of protected forest.  An Environmental Impact Assessment found several species of amphibians and reptiles endemic to the Condor Highland that will be at risk of extinction if the mines move forward.  The assessment found other vulnerable species in the area that will also be at risk, as well as the incredibly diverse flora the area habors.

Likewise, waterways and aquifers will be at risk of severe contamination. Open-pit mines are deeply polluting, and can continue to pollute for decades, and sometimes centuries, after they are created.  The mines will also require enormous amounts of chemicals, water, and electricity.

Standing Up for Rights of Nature

NGOs, Human Rights Organizations, and Ecuadorian lawyers, including Mario Melo of Fundación Pachamama (FP), have brought a suit against Ecuador's government for violating Articles 71-73 of its own constitution.  These Articles specifically give rights to nature.  Article 73, for example, states: The State shall apply preventive and restrictive measures on activities that might lead to the extinction of species, the destruction of ecosystems and the permanent alteration of natural cycles.

On February 22, a court hearing was held.  As Fundación Pachamama noted in a January post, What 2013 Could Hold for Ecuador's Amazon and Indigenous Peoples, "A verdict upholding Rights of Nature in this case would add significant weight to legal arguments used by indigenous peoples and their advocates in other cases resisting extractive industry in their territories."

What you can do:

  • Please share this news far and wide with your networks.
  • Please send statements of support and sign this petition on the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature's website asking the judge to recognize and protect the Rights of Nature.
  • If you are a lawyer please send an Condor Highland Amicus Curiae (friend of the court - this is a .pdf download) formal opinion on why the Rights of Nature should be protected in this case.  Deadline is Thursday the 28th of February in the afternoon.  Apologies for the short notice. Use this form here.

Please send the amicus curiae to: Nati Greene (ngreene@pachamama.org.ec) in Ecuador who will translate it into Spanish and send it to the court on your behalf. Additional information to send to Nati include: color photocopy of your passport, and an electronic signature as an image, preferably on the letterhead of your organization with a logo and address.


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21 Penn Staters set to participate in Tokyo Olympics

July 20, 2021

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – As the long-awaited start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics nears, Penn State will have a strong presence with 21 participants representing five countries when the Games of the XXXII Olympiad begin competition July 21. The Tokyo Olympics were delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

For exclusive content and information on Penn State’s Olympians, including a full listing of Penn State's Tokyo 2020 Olympians by sport and graduation year, visit GoPSUSports.com.

The Opening Ceremonies for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics take place Friday, July 23 and the closing ceremonies are Sunday, August 8. The first Penn Staters in action are former Nittany Lion standout Alyssa Naeher and current head coach Erica Dambach when the women’s soccer team takes on Sweden Wednesday, July 21 at 4:30 a.m. (ET).

Not including the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where 65 countries did not participate, Penn State has sent athletes to each Summer Olympic Games since 1948, a streak of 18 consecutive Games. Penn State sent a school-record 22 competitors and coaches to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

The 2020 Nittany Lion contingent consists of 15 competitors in eight sports, including both male and female competitors in swimming and volleyball, an assistant coach in women’s soccer, a head coach in women’s basketball, a team physician in women’s gymnastics and three personal coaches in wrestling for a total of 10 sports with Penn State representation. Fifteen Penn Staters will represent the United States, two will represent Mexico, two will represent Japan and one each will represent Ireland and Egypt.

Penn State’s 2020 Olympians:

  • 13 former student-athletes competing (9 USA, 1 Mexico, 1 Japan, 1 Egypt, 1 Ireland)
  • 1 current student-athlete competing (Mexico)
  • 1 former student-athlete coaching (Japan)
  • 4 current coaches coaching (USA)
  • 1 former club student competing (USA)
  • 1 former student-athlete serving as team physician (USA)

Men’s volleyball standout Matt Anderson is competing in his third Olympic Games after appearances in the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games. Four Penn Staters are making their second Olympic Games appearance after competing in Rio in 2016: Max Holt (men’s volleyball), Joe Kovacs (men’s track and field), Alyssa Naeher (women’s soccer), Shane Ryan (men’s swimming; Ireland).

Women’s soccer head coach Erica Dambach is coaching in the Olympics for the second time as an assistant coach for the US women’s soccer team. She also served as an assistant coach for the US in the 2008 games in Beijing. Men’s basketball letterman Tom Hovasse is in his second Olympic Games as the head coach of Japan’s women’s basketball team.

In addition to the above contingent, Penn State also will be represented in Tokyo by the following competitors: David Taylor (wrestling), Micha Hancock (women’s volleyball), Haleigh Washington (women’s volleyball), Kaito Streets (men’s fencing; Japan), Mohamed Hassan (men’s fencing; Egypt), Andrew Mackiewicz (men’s fencing), Melissa Rodriguez (women’s swimming; Mexico), Gabe Castano (men’s swimming; Mexico), Michael Shuey (men’s track & field) and Kayla Canett-Oca (rugby).

Penn State wrestling coaches Cael Sanderson, Casey Cunningham and Cody Sanderson are serving as personal coaches at the Tokyo Olympics, while former women’s gymnastics standout Dr. Ellen Casey is the women’s gymnastics team physician for the United States.

Including Taylor, there will be seven Nittany Lion Wrestling Club members wrestling in Tokyo: Thomas Gilman, Kyle Snyder, Helen Maroulis, Franklin Gomez (Puerto Rico), Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (Uzbekistan) and Jane Valencia (Mexico).

In addition to the 21 competitors and coaches, a trio of Nittany Lions were selected as Olympic alternates: Aaron Russell (men’s volleyball), Megan Courtney (women’s volleyball) and Erin McCloud (women’s soccer; Canada).

The 10 first-time Olympians boost Penn State’s total to 118 all-time competitors or coaches (not selections).

Penn State competitors have won 33 medals, including five gold-medal efforts, from its 108 previous Olympians. The Nittany Lions’ record contingent at the London Games won one silver and four bronze medals in men’s track and field (Joe Kovacs), men’s fencing (Miles Chamley-Watson), women’s fencing (Monica Aksamit), women’s volleyball (Christa Harmotto Dietzen and Alisha Glass) and men’s volleyball (Matt Anderson, Max Holt and Aaron Russell).

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USC’s Street Medicine team delivers COVID-19 vaccines to homeless clients

It’s not easy for people experiencing homelessness to find their way to a vaccination site. That’s why the Street Medicine team is focused on bringing the vaccines to them.

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Frank Jauch receives a COVID-19 vaccination from Brett Feldman. (USC Photo/Gus Ruelas)

Every afternoon, Kevin Mowrey rides his bike a half hour from the San Gabriel Foothills to Azusa to purchase food and supplies for the night while his partner, Frank Jauch, stays at their camp. It’s a routine born out of necessity: Food goes bad quickly when you’re homeless, and your belongings are vulnerable when left alone.

For the past year, that daily trek has come with the added stress of a pandemic that not only increased their personal health concerns but also further isolated the pair from some of the services they use. Thankfully, by receiving a COVID-19 vaccine on a Monday morning in April, they came one step closer to ending those worries.

The Street Medicine team, part of Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been caring for the 58-year-old Mowrey and 60-year-old Jauch for several months now, two of several hundred patients they see on a regular basis. And on April 12, they were the first two patients to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine that Keck Medicine has allocated for the Street Medicine team.

“Getting the COVID-19 vaccine for people experiencing homelessness, especially at this point, can really be a life-changer for them,” said Brett Feldman, physician assistant and director of the Street Medicine team. “For some, for the past few months, they have really been stuck in this place of experiencing homelessness because things have been closed. Now that they’re opening back up, having a vaccine gives them a pass to begin on that path back into society and back into a home that they can get on their own.”

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Street Medicine team members Gabrielle Johnson, Sandra Valencia and Jessica Jimenez, from left, tend to Kevin Mowrey. (USC Photo/Gus Ruelas)

Getting COVID vaccines to people who are homeless includes building trust

Efforts that get COVID-19 vaccine doses out of the clinic and directly to people who are homeless are vital because something as simple as going to a vaccination site can often be an obstacle, said Gabrielle Johnson, a nurse practitioner with the team. Transportation costs can be prohibitive, and leaving belongings unattended can be risky. For many, their day-to-day survival needs — finding a safe place to sleep or their next meal — leaves little room for maintaining their health.

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The temperature of the COVID-19 vaccine is closely monitored in the field. (USC Photo/Gus Ruelas)

“One of the reasons street medicine has to exist is that the people we serve just can’t access health care the way other people do,” Feldman said.

The Street Medicine team’s Monday morning vaccination effort went directly to the patients at their campsites or nearby meeting points, which allowed them to safely administer the doses and monitor the patients for 15 minutes afterward.

And because the team has been treating each of the patients regularly, they have built up trust. For Mowrey and Jauch, that meant talking about the vaccine’s efficacy, its side effects and their personal risks of COVID-19 before the Street Medicine team even received their allocation.

“We heard all kinds of stories about the vaccine, and we looked it up on the internet,” Jauch said. “But after we talked to [the Street Medicine team] and heard they had shots, we decided to go ahead with it.”

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CloudPlexo Launches Cloud Cost Forecasting Tool for AWS

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CloudPlexo Launches Cloud Cost Forecasting Tool for AWS

Cloud cost optimization and operational efficiency SaaS platform provider, CloudPlexo, announces the launch of its Cloud Cost Forecasting Tool for AWS. A handy tool for FinOps, finance managers, consultants, researchers and cloud solution deployment teams or experts.

Powered by machine learning models, this new CloudPlexo tool allows users to predict future monthly, quarterly, and yearly cloud spending based on historical spending patterns, current offerings, workload ratios and other cost analysis essential metrics.

CloudPlexo Cloud Cost Forecasting Tool for AWS offers more capabilities to users than the native or crude tools through the delivery of streamlined features for the generation of well-calibrated and more accurate predictions. Some of the enviable capabilities of this new tool include the following;

Short and Long Period Forecasting

CloudPlexo forecasting tool provides support for short (monthly) and long (yearly) term predictive analysis, enabling the flexible planning of cloud spending based on specific periods or workload life cycle.

Business Alignment

This new tool has been designed to dynamically represent cloud costs in alignment with a company, organization or agency’s units of business metrics to enable a more streamlined or personalized analysis and further generate substantial forecasts.

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CloudPlexo delivers it’s analysis data or reports in an organized and traceable format, further displaying outcomes through visually-appealing dashboard interfaces to aid understanding and exposure to significant conventionally-hidden details.

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With the sound use of artificial intelligence to dynamically implement prediction models, CloudPlexo Cloud Cost Forecasting tool provides information with long-lasting accuracy, having low and proportional discrepancies amidst unforeseen changes within the forecast period.

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With simplicity at its core, the new cloud cost forecasting tool provides friendly and easily understandable controls and functions, making it a comfortable and easy tool for users with moderate or higher knowledge of cloud cost management.

CloudPlexo is committed to providing tools that will enable the optimized and efficient operations of cloud workloads/resources, and with this forecasting tool, our users are given the ability to save cloud costs and avoid surprises, enhance risk management efforts, as well as efficiently offer advisory services.

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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (pictured) has reportedly announced that he will not be appealing a federal court ruling that his state’s tribal gaming compacts had automatically renewed at the end of last year and are to now remain valid until the conclusion of 2035.

According to a Friday report from the Associated Press news service published by US News and World Report, the 47-year-old Republican came out on the wrong end of the federal lawsuit brought by the casino-operating Chickasaw Nation, Cherokee Nation and Choctaw Nation in the summer before being hit by a United States Supreme Court decision that officially designated almost half of his state as tribal land.

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Stitt reportedly declared that this subsequent five-to-four ruling in the case of McGirt v Oklahoma means that his state is now facing ‘unprecedented uncertainty’ and should be working towards finding solutions ‘that respect the unique relationship between the state of Oklahoma and its tribal citizens’ while providing ‘certainty and fairness’ for every one of its over 3.9 million residents.

Reportedly read a statement from Stitt…

“Therefore, it is essential for state and tribal leaders to join together to resolve the challenges this ruling presents for Oklahomans and their businesses.”

Mistaken move:

Stitt reportedly believed that the 15-year gaming compacts his state inked with its 35 casino-operating tribes had expired on December 31 and subsequently went on to sign new agreements with the federally-recognized Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria Tribe. However, these deals were later invalidated by the Oklahoma Supreme Court to leave all tribal casinos in ‘The Sooner State’ operating under the same conditions as those laid out in their 2004 contracts.

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In related news and the Associated Press moreover reported that a special task force earlier established by Stitt to investigate the impact of the United States Supreme Court ruling issued its findings on Thursday. Although this body did not make any specific recommendations, it did purportedly call for the formation of uniform laws and regulations with regards to tribal enterprises in areas such as zoning, taxation and business regulation.


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Women’s World T20- England Women won against West Indies Women by One wicket

Dharamsala: In ICC Women’s World T- 20 series, the match between England and West Indies is won by England’s Women team, yesterday on 24th day of March. The match won by a single Wicket. In the match, it was witnessed by the viewers that the team- England which dished out a performance of disciplined bowling for restricting team- West Indies up to a unpretentious 108 runs for 4 wickets in only 20 overs.

In the opening of the match, for West Indies team its skipper- Stafanie Taylor won the toss and choose to bat first, and this let the England’s team to bowl for West Indies. However, in the opening overs, it was seen that H Matthews’s wicket down at 9 (10). Katherine Brunt for England was bowling the second over when she took H Matthewes’s wicket.

Later, S Quintyne for West Indies was required to leave the battle after her wicket was taken away by Jenny Gunn in twelfth over. And in the last over, S Taylor and D Dottin were also loosen their wickets.

Now, in the match, England required to grab 109 to win, Charlotte Edwards and Tammy Beaumont were to open the battle, and they shared 49 balls for 59 runs in partnership, however, thereafter, it was seen that things went terribly wrong for them, as they kept losing their wickets at regular intervals.

Till eight over in the match, England women fight strongly, thereafter, in the ninth over, they lose their first wicket of T Beaumont. These openers for England gave 10 boundaries hit and one six in 49 balls.

In the last overs for England, the Quintyne who began the 19th one, get a wicket in her first ball, and K Brunt was out. Again she took Gunn’s wicket in the same over and in the last over, West Indies’s Dottin who bowled the final over took wicket of Shrubsole, when England was to have 3 needed off 2. And in the last ball, a single 1 needed off 1 and England Women won.

The match was played and viewed by the number of audience in Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium.

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Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) has announced that Gregory Anderson has been appointed to serve as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He will also continue as the company's principal accounting officer, a role he has served since January, 2015.

"Greg has been an exceptional leader, and epitomizes the kind of dedication that not only makes our company successful, but also attracts other talented team members," said Allegiant President John Redmond. "His financial experience and work ethic will serve Allegiant and all our stakeholders well into the future as we continue to grow."

Anderson, who joined Allegiant's accounting department in 2010, has served as the company's senior vice president, treasury since January, 2017. Prior to joining Allegiant, he worked in corporate accounting for U.S. Airways. A certified public accountant, Anderson previously worked in public accounting for the multinational professional services firm Ernst & Young. He is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Anderson's appointment became effective on April 23, 2019. Scott Sheldon, who has served as Allegiant's chief financial officer since 2010, will continue to serve in his role of executive vice president and chief operating officer.


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The term “S corporation” is an acronym that means a “small business corporation”

An S corporation is a closely held corporation or, in some cases, a limited liability company or a partnership that makes a valid election to be taxed under Subchapter S of Chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code. In general, S corporations do not pay any federal income taxes. Instead, the corporation’s income or losses are divided among and passed through to its shareholders. The shareholders must then report the income or loss on their own individual income tax returns.

S corporations are ordinary business corporations (or, in some cases, limited liability companies or even partnerships) that elect to pass corporate income, losses, deductions, and credit through to their shareholders for federal tax purposes. The S corporation rules are contained in Subchapter S of Chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code (sections 1361 through 1379). S status combines the legal environment of C corporations with U.S. federal income taxation similar to that of partnerships.

Like a C corporation, an S corporation is generally a corporation under the law of the state in which the entity is organized. However, with modern incorporation statutes making the establishment of a corporation relatively easy, firms that might traditionally have been run as partnerships or sole proprietorships are often run as corporations with a small number of shareholders in order to take advantage of the beneficial features of the corporate form of business; this is particularly true of firms established prior to the advent of the modern limited liability company.

Thanks to this, the taxation of S corporations resembles that of partnerships. As with partnerships, the income, deductions, and tax credits of an S corporation flow through to shareholders annually, regardless of whether distributions are made. Thus, income is taxed at the shareholder level and not at the corporate level. Payments to S shareholders by the corporation are distributed tax-free to the extent that the distributed earnings were previously taxed.

Unlike a C corporation, an S corporation is not eligible for a dividends-received deduction. Additionally, unlike a C corporation, an S corporation is not subject to the 10 percent of taxable income limitation applicable to charitable contribution deductions.

A corporation is “eligible” to be an S corporation if it:

  1. Has no more than 100 shareholders,
  2. Has shareholders who are all individuals (exceptions are made for various tax-exempt organizations, estates, and trusts)
  3. Has no nonresident aliens as shareholders, and
  4. Has only one class of stock.

A limited liability company (LLC) is eligible to be taxed as an S corporation under the check-the-box regulations at § 301.7701-2. The LLC first elects to be taxed as a corporation, at which point it becomes a corporation for tax purposes; then it makes the S corporation election under section 1362(a)

S Corp Tax Rate

There is really no set tax rate for S-corporations. The reason why S corporations do not exactly have tax rates is that they don’t pay corporate income taxes.

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Monday 6 July 2020 by Runi Talwar

BooHoo praised for raising social awareness of Black Lives Matter by introducing slavery to its supply chain

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Online fashion retailer and company that named itself after how feeling everyone has after watching one of their ads, BooHoo, have been widely praised for their effort to support the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement after it was confirmed that they had introduced modern slavery to their supply chain across the UK.

It was reported earlier this morning that a Leicester-based supplier to BooHoo has been significantly underpaying and overworking warehouse and factory workers, with some reports likening the working conditions to “modern day slavery”.

BooHoo have now confirmed that this move was actually a conscious decision in their new marketing strategy of highlighting to the world just how much they support the Black Lives Matter political movement.

“BooHoo has always been a company about equality and saying no to racism,” said a spokesperson for the billion-dollar retailer.

“I mean, it’s mainly been about selling cheaply made clothes that you have to rebuy every two months. But it’s also been about equality and saying no to racism.

“BooHoo stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Our decision to employ literal slavery in our warehouses is about reminding everyone how terrible the legacy of slavery has been for black people across the Western world.”

While many have praised the company for their strong and clear “anti-racism/pro-slavery” message, some critics have been outraged at what they say is a “blatant attempt to make everyone forget they are genuinely using slaves to make clothes right now”.

Despite the criticism, however, the company is confident that it’s consumers will appreciate their moral stance.

Their spokesperson went on, “We know our customers, and we know what’s important to them, and what isn’t.

“For example, it’s important to them that there is social justice for black victims of police brutality, and it’s not important to them how little we pay people to make cheap clothes for them.

“It’s a pretty good system”.

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By CBSNewYork Team

BOSTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — Scott Wedgewood made 40 saves, Kyle Palmieri scored out of a scramble with 4:37 left and the New Jersey Devils snapped a five-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory over the Boston Bruins on Sunday.

Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask made 24 saves and remained stuck at 299 career victories. The Bruins have lost four of six games.

All four games between the teams have been decided by one goal, including one in overtime and another by a shootout. The Devils are 3-0-1 against Boston.

Palmieri scored about two minutes after Wedgewood robbed Craig Smith’s bid at the end of a Bruins’ power play. Wedgewood came out to cut down the angle on Smith’s shot from the right circle.

Wedgewood had not played since Jan. 30.

“Once I got back in it, it felt like home and it was fun,” he said. “I definitely had some nerves that I hadn’t felt in a while.”

Boston pulled Rask and had the puck in the Devils’ zone for nearly all of the final 90 seconds, but Wedgewood blocked several good chances to preserve his fourth career shutout.

“At the end of the day, we defended well against them,” Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Just didn’t do enough on offense.”

Coming off a pointless, five-game homestand that closed with a sloppy 6-3 loss to the Rangers on Saturday, the Devils looked determined and disciplined from the start, bottling up the neutral zone and limiting Boston’s chances.

“Obviously the game (Saturday) afternoon was a bit of a low point for us,” Palmieri said. “It was time to take a look at things that make us successful. As a group we can be proud of our effort tonight.”

Wedgewood made two nice stops on David Pastrnak; the second came with 4 ½ minutes left in the second period when the star forward shifted around defenseman Sami Vatanen and fired a wrister from the slot that the netminder stopped with his right pad.

In the opening period, Wedgewood slid across the crease to rob Pastrnak’s close bid from near the left post after he collected a pass from Charlie McAvoy.

“We played the way we needed to play,” Devils coach Lindy Ruff said. “We got a great effort by four lines and six defenseman, and a great effort by Wedgewood.”

New Jersey looked for long, breakout passes in the second period and nearly converted when Pavel Zacha went in on a semi-breakaway, but he had his backhander turned aside by Rask’s left-pad save.

New Jersey had two power-play opportunities in the opening period but was limited to a few relatively harmless shots.

“They’re not up there in the standings, but they’ve had our number this year,” Boston forward Charlie Coyle said.

Ruff had his team watch video Sunday morning of their loss to the Rangers.

“Today was all video, all review, all real hard honestly about how poorly we played,” he said during a pregame videoconference. “Those meetings are 95% head coach because ultimately I feel responsible for how the team played. That’s on me.”

Cassidy said Sunday morning that defenseman Brandon Carlo “is feeling better” and home after a head hit into the glass by Washington’s Tom Wilson sent him to the hospital in an ambulance Friday night.

“He’s obviously going to be out for a while,” Cassidy said.

Wilson was suspended seven games by the league.

Devils: At the Capitals on Tuesday night, the second of a three-game road trip.

Bruins: At the Islanders Tuesday. Boston has lost all three meetings against them this season.

(© Copyright 2021 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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The co-creators of the TD Niagara Jazz Festival (Juliet Dunn and Peter Shea) strongly believe in mentoring and empowering youth in their community and beyond. They have developed a program for youth called: ‘Jazz 4 the Ages’. Under this umbrella, the festival produces an annual ‘Jazz 4 the Ages’ Youth competition as well as various workshops and Master Classes for youth. The festival works and partners with various schools such as Ridley College, Laura Secord High School, Mohawk College and many more to help bring this program to fruition.

This program has provided learning opportunities for various young and upcoming musicians as well as performance opportunities for them in a professional environment (sometimes up to 700 audience members) and chances for the participants to meet and network with established and successful musicians.

The auditions are curated by a panel of professional jazz musicians with background in the following: Piano, guitar, vocal, saxophone, trumpet, drums, organ, producing and more…

Auditions for the ‘Jazz 4 the Ages’ Youth Competition are announced here on our website and take place in the spring.

In 2020 the Finals will take place at Vieni Sparkle Fest on Sunday, June 28th.

Categories for the competition are 12 and under / 13 – 17 and 18 – 23. Vocalists*, solo instrumentalists* and bands may apply.

* Vocalists and solo instrumentalists will perform their audition piece with a jazz duo (made up of our professional judges).

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2019 Jazz 4 the Ages Winners and Finalists

Armineh Soreen-Ghazarian

Category: 13 – 17 – Solo Vocal

An Ontario born Armenian-Canadian, Armineh Soreen-Ghazarian grew up around music: she grew up listening to her father playing keyboards. Armine was singing from age 2. Although she has not performed on stage before, her dream is to perform worldwide. She wants to inspire other young singers to be true to yourself and always believe! Because no matter what you are someone important.

Armine gives thanks to her mother, father, brother, sisters and her close family and friends for always supporting her in everything she does and giving her the strength to always do her best! and above all, she is thankful to God for giving her this beautiful gift!

Dexter Sonier

Category: 18 – 23 – Solo Instrumentalist

Dexter Sonier is a musician and actor from St. Catharines ON. He has been playing in the Niagara region And the GTA for 12 years and is now a performer at Oh Canada Eh Dinner Theatre in Niagara Falls. He recently finished his first year at Humber College’s Jazz program and has studied with Joey Goldstein and Ted Quinlan.

Emilio Geremia

Category: 12 and under – Solo instrument FIRST PLACE

Emilio is thrilled to be a finalist in this year’s 2019 Jazz for the Ages Youth Competition.  He is an 11-year old inspiring musician and has been studying piano since the age of 3 ½ here in the Niagara Region.  Not only is he a talented pianist, but an accomplished drummer as well. In 2015 and 2017, Emilio was the recipient of the Canadian National Conservatory’s “Silver Medal Award” for the highest mark in Canada in piano musicianship and performance.  He attends Wheatley School in St. Catharines, and is the accompanist for their Junior and Senior Choirs, while also playing piano at his local church parish. Emilio has a natural flair for improvisation and enjoys playing various genres of music. One of his musical inspirations is the Canadian jazz legend, Oscar Peterson.

Isabella Milano

Category: 13 – 17 – Solo Vocal FIRST PLACE

Isabella Milano, 14 years old, started singing and learning about music at the age of 5. Isabella is a Kiwanis music Festival award winner for the most promising voice which she received in April of 2018. She is a student at the Royal Conservatory of Music and is currently in her 7th year of training. Isabella plays the piano, guitar and is a  singer/songwriter who has partaken in various events within the community through participating at Niagara Music Festivals and volunteering for the Niagara Falls History Museum. Isabella recently competed at the 2019 OMFA provincial music festival in Niagara Falls.

Jack Tredway

Category: 12 and under – Solo instrument

Ten year-old Jack is thrilled to be participating in the Jazz for the Ages Competition! He’s a proud Ridley College Tiger, who studies piano with Janice Fralick. His musical influences include Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and Bruno Mars. He’s passionate about sports, both as a player and as a fan. He’s looking forward to studying percussion at the Niagara Symphony Music camp this summer. Jack would like to thank his family, especially his brother Jonah, teachers and friends for their continued support in his artistic and athletic pursuits.

James Dunbar

Category: 13 – 17 – Solo instrument FIRST PLACE

At the age of 15, James’ has played a combo of jazz standards and original compositions in venues throughout Toronto and southern Ontario. These have included a residency at the Jazz Bistro, gigs at the 120 Diner, performance at the 2016 Youth Day Festival, guest appearances with the Honey Runners and Samantha Martin and a number of private functions. James’ talent has been recognized at the 2016 TD Niagara Jazz Festival where he was the winner of the “Jazz for the Ages” youth category, and the nation-wide 2015 Kelloggs Nominate Talent Contest.

Kate Stevens

Category: 18 – 23 – Solo Instrumentalist FIRST PLACE

The recipient of the 2018 YYC Music Awards Female Artist of the Year and the Zackari and the Prophets Memorial Award, the vocal talents of Calgarian Kate Stevens has been described as a diverse mix of emotive folk, soulful pop, with distinctive melodies and meaningful lyrics. Kate is a community builder, collaborator, and supporter of young musicians. She is the creator of Youth Musicians of Music Mile Alliance (YOMOMMA) which connects, provides mentorship and performance opportunities for aspiring youth She performs as a soloist and more recently with the Calgary-based band, Sweet Barry Wine. Stevens was a participant and performer at Canadian Music Week 2019 and is a  featured Alberta artist for a new Canadian television show called The Moment, which airs in September 2019. Her latest single, Meant for Me, comes as a dual release. Both tracks feature her expressive vocals and create images of a sweet romance on a hot summer night. The A-side features the full single, recorded and produced by Juno award-winning musician Russell Broom at OCL Studios, while the B-side acoustic version of Meant for Me was recorded in Toronto while participating in the CMI Artist Entrepreneur Program. In2018, Stevens released It’s Real and Right Choice; these followed her debut EP, Handmade Rumours. You can find Stevens on all social platforms under Kate Stevens Music.

Sophi De Luca

Category: 18 – 23 – Solo Instrumentalist

Sophi DeLuca is a classically trained vocalist, receiving 5 years of operatic vocal lessons, in both English and Italian, and as well, is a self-taught guitarist. As an artist, she showcases her versatility performing various genres of music including, but not limited to, blues, classic rock, jazz, country, pop, and contemporary. Sophi has performed on numerous stages as a member of the former duo, “Tuscany”, including opening up for Virginia to Vegas in 2018 at his show in St. Catherines, Ontario. Sophi DeLuca is currently a solo artist and songwriter, actively collaborating with other artists of the Niagara community and working towards the release of her first official EP.

Category: 13 – 17 – Group FIRST PLACE

Brought together by their school’s jazz ensemble, 535 has only been playing together for 6 months. Despite being so new, the band brings out a refreshing yet cohesive sound through the variety of musical backgrounds present in the band, and through the most solid foundation, a band could have: friendship. They’re perfect for basically any event, so you know who to call if you need a band to play your wedding, trivia night, bar mitzvah, bachelorette party, or even jazz festival if you want your socks rocked off.

Vasily Shugaev

Category: 13 – 17 – Solo instrument

Vasily Shugaev was born in St. Petersburg Russia, but was raised and lived most of his life in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He first discovered his love for music with the piano which he played since the age of 6. However, he realized his calling when he picked up the alto saxophone in 7th-grade playing for his school band. He started playing jazz almost immediately and fell in love with the graceful patterns. He has been playing the alto sax ever since, playing everything from cool jazz and funk to bebop and fusion. Vasily now spends much of the time he doesn’t spend studying, playing the saxophone and honing his skills.

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TM # 214 – To Be Great Is To Be Misunderstood

“Are you going to kill me next,” Kazzim asked. He was never more regal than he was now, even as I must have appeared never more ruthless and frightening. In his gaze I saw reflected the fears and doubts of every inhabitant of the Fortunate Island.

“No,” I said softly as one of my waiting women attached the diadem and insignia of High Lady of the Island,”Morgienne was the only one left that was complicit in this. You were cleared, as the others who were not are already dead.”

“You destroyed her name,” ya Anessa,” he said, “consigned her to the Second Death from which there is no hope, no esca – .”

“I consigned her to what she deserved,” I cut him off gently,”Tell me, were you testing me by speaking her forbidden name now, inciting sedition – ” I paused and fixed him with a harder stare now, ” or were you merely forgetful, old friend,” I asked.

“It was you who said her name,” Kazzim corrected, “not I.” He knew quite well that he could get away with such impertinence with me. He also was well aware that I needed him now to solidify my power base. “The succession was clear, but everyone knows now how it happened.”

“But they do not know ‘why’,” I said, “They do not know that my mother was one of how many priestesses who gave her youth and her life to her so that she might continue? She thought she was the bridge between the Sidhe and Humanity.”

“You would have inherited -”

“After how many centuries would that have happened?” I cut him off waving my waiting women away from me. One scurried and tripped over her own skirt spilling her headlong onto the stones. I did not even look down at her as I came toward him, “How many young women need die? How much further would we sell ourselves in servitude to that woman in the name of her ambitions for something she could never have?” Each step punctuated each point until at last I was close enough to feel the heat from Kazzim’s body coming through the heavy silk brocade of his garments, “How much blood would the throne be soaked with so that I could wallow in the carnage that she created?” I spat.

Kazzim nodded his old and dark head, “I understand it,” he replied, “but there are those who will not. They fear your Halfling blood, ya Anessa. Whatever carnage that was wrought will now be worsened. They know that the war between Humans and the Fae will now come.”

“Of course it will come, Kazzim,” I said, “because now that the former High Lady is dead, she cannot simply hand our island and us over to Prince Itet as part of her dowry.”

Kazzim reeled back with a horrified look on his face, “What?” he was incredulous, “What are you saying, Faelyn?”

“I am saying that our former High Lady had every intention to making us a vassal state in return to become Itet’s bride, ” I gave him a death’s head smile, “She wouldn’t have survived the year with him – and you and I everyone here would have been subject to Itet.”

“But there would have been unification!” Kazzim wailed, “the Kingdoms would have been united and now there is war….war coming!”

“Yes,” I said simply. “War is coming.”

Kazzim did not understand, and few did at the time of my ascension that sometimes war is the lesser evil against a peace that would enslave. Even though he would be forsworn among the Sidhe, to someone like Prince Itet, it did not matter. He would use every one of the catspaws at his disposal in order to appear as if his Unseelie hands were kept pristine. Now the plan was upset. My foster mother was dead, Itet would not receive the dowry that he had been promised in the preliminary negotiations between my foster-mother’s emmisaries and his. It was no secret that though technically Prince Itet and I were kin, there was no love lost between us. I would never negotiate for such an alliance so the Fortunate Island would fall into what he must have imagined as his entirely deserving lap.

There may have been those among my people who may have misunderstood what I was doing. But by doing it, the Fortunate Island retained its sovereignty, and I kept them free and autonomous even after the Fae Wars. I do not know that this makes me what some would call ‘great’. I never stopped to consider that what I was doing was for greatness at all. I do know, however, the uses of Power and how to insure that it continues and grows. Greatness, Power, Sovereignty, all of these are fickle things – but while I hold them, I surely intend to wield them.

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Meredith Nicholson: A mid year update 2013

Building on her long history of providing legal services to low-income families, Meredith is pleased to announce that she was recently awarded one of the contracts with NC Indigent Defense Services to provide misdemeanor defense in the 14th Judicial District.

A frequent speaker, Meredith has recently presented on behalf of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice on the issue of traffic law, and on LGBT issues in Spanish to the Durham community. She is part of a project initially funded by a USAID grant to train Mexican judges and attorneys while Mexico transitions to an oral criminal justice system and travels to Mexico periodically to teach oral advocacy skills to Mexican lawyers. In the firm’s commitment to supporting women’s rights, she serves on the Executive Board of the Women’s Birth & Wellness Center. Fluent in Spanish and French, Meredith is currently learning Italian.

Meredith and her family are fostering a newborn who will soon celebrate her first birthday. Now that she’s getting enough sleep on a regular basis, she’ll be training with Sharon for the Rambling Rose mini-triathlon in Chapel Hill.

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BISAC: Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Physical & Emotional Abuse

Danny Meyers is a kid with a plan—he’s smart, goal-oriented, and the definition of a goody-two-shoes. So how does an A+ student get mixed up with the school bully? In the summer of 1995, Danny is about to learn that people aren’t always what they seem, that sometimes the best-laid plans fail, and that the ordinary events of day-to-day life can be important—even if you don’t think so at the time. Danny is on the verge of turning a corner and he won’t be able to go back. But what he learns after turning that corner, and a few more, just might help him make sense of things after all.

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Netgear XRM570 Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router and Mesh System Setup

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Netgear XRM570 Nighthawk Setup

A new member in the Nighthawk family, Netgear XRM570 Nighthawk pro gaming WiFi router and mesh system utilizes the latest 802.11ac WiFi standard. With mesh technology, the extender eliminates WiFi dead zones and provides seamless connectivity all around your home. Once paired with Netgear EX7700 WiFi range extender, the XRM570 router offers super-fast speed together with marvelous performance.

Netgear Nighthawk XRM570 gaming router and mesh WiFi system comprises of the XR500 router and Nighthawk mesh extender EX7700. Therefore, users face a lot of issues while setting up the XRM570 router and mesh system. Sensing this need, we have come up with this post to help you set up your Netgear Nighthawk pro gaming XRM570 router and mesh WiFi system. Read on.

Netgear Nighthawk XRM570 Setup

There are two ways for Netgear Nighthawk XRM570 gaming and WiFi mesh setup – using the router’s web interface and via the Nighthawk app. Both of the setup methods are mentioned here. You can choose the one as per your preferences.

Using the Router’s Web User Interface

Let’s have a look at the steps to set up and install your XRM570 Nighthawk pro gaming router and mesh system using the web user interface.

  1. First of all, place your extender as well as router in the same room.
  2. Attach and position the router’s antennas.
  3. Turn on your router and extender.
  4. Make sure that the Router Link LED is solid green.
  5. Connect your router to the existing modem using an Ethernet cable.
  6. After that, turn on your computer and launch a web browser on it.
  7. Access web address.
  8. Now, Netgear Genie Setup page will appear.
  9. Walk through the steps given on your computer screen to complete the XRM570 setup.

Once done, you will see the router’s Internet LED lights turning into white color. This shows that your router is successfully connected to the Internet. If you don’t see any such LED light on your router, contact our experts at and let them help you out.

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Found the aforementioned method a bit tricky? No worries! We have another setup method of XRM570 Nighthawk pro gaming router and mesh system for you.

XRM570 can also be set up using Netgear Nighthawk app. To do so, all you need is to follow the below-mentioned steps:

  1. Keep your extender and router in the same room.
  2. Connect the power adapters to your extender and router.
  3. After that, plug the power adapters into outlets.
  4. Now, check the status of Router Link LED. It should be white.
  5. Download the Nighthawk app on your smartphone.
  6. Once done, open the app.
  7. Follow the on-screen prompts and set up your Nighthawk XRM570 gaming router and WiFi mesh system.

That’s it! You have been successfully set up your XRM570. After Netgear Nighthawk setup, move your extender to a new location. However, keep in mind to place your extender away from concrete walls, metal objects, and electronic appliances as these devices might degrade your extender’s signal strength.

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NISGUA denounces the State of Siege in three municipalities in Sololá

[Español abajo] Image reads: Liberty! No to the State of Siege (Photo credit: Festivales Solidarios) On May 30, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei declared a State of Siege in Santa Lucía Utatlán, Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, and Nahualá in Sololá due to territorial conflicts in these regions. [...]


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Electrical plant to be built in North Kazakhstan region by Kazakh investor

Electrical plant to be built in North Kazakhstan region by Kazakh investor

"Alageum Electric" will launch a plant for the production of electrical equipment in the North Kazakhstan region. The enterprise plans to start operating next year and it's supported by "KAZAKH INVEST” National Company" JSC.

There is now reconstruction work of the former Petropavlovsk small displacement engine plant. According to experts, the new enterprise with an area of about 22 thousand sq. meters is planning to produce 13 thousand electrical equipment annually. The project with a total cost of 7 billion tenge will create about 300 workplaces.

“The plant will be one of the most modern and technologically advanced in the CIS. The equipment will be delivered from Europe. The main task this year - is to complete the construction and installation work, to start interior works in wintertime and at the beginning of next year, we will start the installation supervision of the technological equipment and launch the plant approximately in the 3rd quarter of 2021. I would like to note the great interest of the regional leadership in this project, and as investors, we receive huge support from the Akimat of North Kazakhstan region and KAZAKH INVEST", - said Mr.Sultan Ilyasov, Business Development Director of "Alageum Electric" JSC.

As an investor noted, in addition to creating new workplaces, the construction of the plant will ensure the development of the economic and industrial potential of the territory increasing the revenues of the regional budget.

“The project will be implemented on the territory of SEZ “Qyzyljar”. It provides a number of preferences, including exemption from taxes, customs duties when importing raw materials and equipment, in addition, special tariffs for utilities will increase the production profitability”, - said Mr.Daniyar Shalabayev, Regional director of KAZAKH INVEST in North Kazakhstan region.

Such a project is the first in North Kazakhstan region. According to experts, electrical products have always been in demand in the CIS market. This project will allow not only to reduce the share of imported goods in the Kazakhstan market but also to increase the country's export potential - about 95% of products are planned to be exported.

 «Alageum Electric» – the largest electrotechnical company in Kazakhstan, includes more than 30 large enterprises and plants successfully operating in the field of electric power, electric machine industry and construction. Including such enterprises as Kentau Transformer Plant (Kentau city), and specialized company JSC "Electromontazh" performing wiring works of any complexity, with extensive experience and 10 special construction departments, including "Plant of wiring accessories", the only enterprise in Kazakhstan that produces a system of cable route.

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Come Around Sundown van Kings of Leon

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At this point in Kings of Leon's careers, the Southern rock and garage influences marking their earliest releases are all but gone -- and so is the youthful exuberance. A good portion of Come Around Sundown consists of moody, mid-tempo ruminations on alienation and estrangement. In other words, this is the band's celebrity-life-is-wearing-on-us record. Sonically, Kings of Leon aren't doing anything terribly unique: post-grunge fed through a vaguely post-punk gloom. However, tunes such as "Mary," "Beach Side" and "The Immortals" reveal a newfound interest in dream pop and tropical retro-pop.

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Membership Month 2019

September is Membership Month at NLIHC! This year we are celebrating the impact and relevance of NLIHC members in the ongoing movement for economic justice and social change. The theme is “Join the Movement” as NLIHC has always led the movement for affordable homes for those most in need. To highlight the breadth of our membership, Membership Month will showcase the many different kinds of advocates who support our work and build the momentum of NLIHC campaigns.

NLIHC members form an impressive network of committed housing and social justice advocates across the nation. With over 1,000 dedicated individual and organizational members nationwide, we are confident that together, with sustained advocacy, we can end homelessness and housing poverty in America once and for all.

NLIHC is committed to our members! We ensure they have a voice in the Coalition and the support they need to make the case for federal affordable housing solutions. Members also receive benefits like a hard copy of the NLIHC Advocate’s Guide, an opportunity to provide input to NLIHC’s policy priorities, and a discount at our annual Housing Policy Forum.

By recruiting new NLIHC members this month, our Coalition for affordable homes will grow even stronger!

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"How can I help NLIHC during Membership Month?"

Recruit! As a coalition of members across the country, NLIHC relies on current members to bring friends and colleagues to the table with them. Share this link within your networks, let them know you are a proud member of NLIHC, and ask them to join to help ensure homes are within reach for those most in need!

Promote Membership Month with #JoinNLIHC on Twitter and Facebook! Your social media platforms are a great way to tell people and organizations in your network why you're proud to be an NLIHC member and why NLIHC’s work is so important. Please share any of our sample social media posts below or get creative and post your own! Just make sure to tag your posts using #JoinNLIHC and #NLIHCMember to maximize the strength of our collective voice.

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I am an #NLIHCMember because I believe housing is a human right. #JoinNLIHC today because our collective efforts are changing the narrative & building political will

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I am an #NLIHCMember & as a member, I’ve supported the development of new housing for nearly 100k deeply poor renters & advocated for NO rent hikes & NO benefit cuts for low-income families #JoinNLIHC

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October 29, 2018

Lujan Grisham: Internal poll shows her up by 9

With ten days to Election Day, the Michelle Lujan Grisham campaign released a poll that showed the Democrat leads in the race for governor by 9 percentage points.

The internal poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research shows Lujan Grisham leads Steve Pearce 53 percent to 44 percent.

The polling memo says Lujan Grisham “is well positioned to be New Mexico’s next Governor.”

Internal polls should always be taken with a grain of salt because campaigns usually only publicly release those portraying favorable news to their candidate.

According to the poll, 45 percent of likely New Mexico voters have a favorable view of Lujan Grisham, while 37 percent have an unfavorable opinion. Meanwhile, 39 percent have a favorable opinion of Pearce compared to 42 percent with an unfavorable opinion.

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research surveyed 600 likely voters both on landline and by cell phone between Oct. 22 and Oct. 26. The results have a +/- 4 percentage point margin of error, which means either candidates’ numbers can vary by four points in either direction.

A KRQE-TV poll released on Oct. 26 showed Lujan Grisham leading 48 percent to 39 percent.

Republican Party of New Mexico chairman Ryan Cangiolosi called that KRQE poll “a joke” because the poll used an online sample, and because of the high number of undecideds.

“If the Lujan Grisham campaign believes the results of this survey, they are welcome to release their own internal polling to back it up,” Cangiolosi said at the time.

A spokesman for the Lujan Grisham campaign said they hadn’t seen Cangiolosi’s statement and so the release was not in response to his quote.

“However, if he and Steve Pearce have recent polling they want to release we certainly look forward to seeing it,” James Hallinan said.

Pearce campaign spokesman Kevin Sheridan said their internal poll showed a two-point race but did not produce a polling memo, saying that since some media outlets said they would not report on them, the campaign stopped sending them out.

“The [Lujan] Grisham campaign is releasing a doctored internal poll by the firm that predicted Hillary Clinton would be president. All of the Democratic Party behavior is the exact opposite of this poll,” Sheridan said. “The [Lujan] Grisham campaign is nearly 100 percent negative, the lobbyists the [Lujan] Grisham campaign has running their dark money effort are 100 percent negative.”

  Lujan Grisham internal poll 10-28-18 by New Mexico Political Report on Scribd


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being alive’ – diaspora short stories

Written by – K S Sivakumaran –

“The Surreptitious Cobras ” is the story by Ravi. It’s a satire on the mindset of a sample
character of a person belonging to the older generation and a set of young people running a flourishing restaurant in Melbourne. The so-called love for the birthplace (Valvettithurai) in Yaalpaanam (Jaffna) seems to be withering away in the light of materialistic reality in Australia.

The next story has a long title – Can the fragrance of the Land be Forgotten – and it’s by
Kallodaikkaran. The opening description of too cold Melbourne is well written.The character in the story is from Maddakkalappu (Batticaloa). He works hard with his machines and reminisces his fond memories in his own birthplace during the cold season in December. However, as the description goes “His whole house looked beautiful filled with many different electronic items
and beautiful furniture. Though his house was filled with prosperity, his mind somehow was not fulfilled. He felt an identifiable vacuum there.” This story would be interesting to a non-Thamil reader who knows English as it gives aspects of Lankan Thamil life and customs. The male character dreams nostalgically of the lost past in distant Lanka. His wife brings him down from the clouds saying: ” Look here! Please think practically about what I tell…Why do you want to spoil the happiness we have hereby always thinking about our home village?” The story is a
positive one in that it is not idealistic in the sense of blind mouthing of ‘patriotism’ from my point of view.

The late T Nithiyakeerthi wrote, “That was a Game of Age.”Here too the descriptive portrayal from the beginning makes one read further. Just two lines from the first paragraph: ” The cold air of Wellington coming through the space in the door was pricking her legs sharply and disturbing
her waves of thought. Vaani raised her legs and folded them over the chair” The writer’s evocative and effective writing is beautiful and so is the translator’s ability and I wonder which of the two did the rendition. This story is an unfulfilled love story of a married woman with her son in America liberating herself from her unloving domineering man. Though the story takes place in New Zealand most of the happenings told had been in a rigid closed class conscious Yaalpaanam (Jaffna)

A Chandrahahasan’s story “Riding a Horse in a Round Frying Pan” loses its focus point by the irregularity in the narration but picks up at the end. The hypocrisy among a set of Lankan Thamils in Sydney is exposed satirically. While the father elected as President of an association
wanted the parents to speak in Thamil so that their children would know Thamil, his wife scolds their son speaking to her in Thamil in public for she feared that the public would come to know that she couldn’t speak English.

” Meanings” is the title of Buvana Rajaratnam’s story. Hers is a story of a Grade 12 schoolboy in Australia, whose parents go for work before he awakes and they return only late in the night, thus depriving of his needs. Being frustrated he takes to smoking and drugs. The parent’s eagerness to earn more money to meet the expenses led them to ignore the needs of their son
who became a drug addict. It was too late for the parents to realize that their earnings were meaningless.

Nadean’s Story “Possums” (Mammals) is a sort of story that reflects racist mentality. I quote a passage that traces the history of human habitation in Australia: ” Before humans could possess Australia in this manner from time to time, the animals called ‘marsupials’ were living here’ Love for the humankind and love for the animal kind should be the same as what the writer
implies. It has a deeper meaning.

“Enmity” by Aavuuraan is about a Lankan family in Australia. Let me quote an observation by the
writer: “They were people of several different cultures living in the province of Victoria. Perhaps the permanent Australians had the fear that their benefits and identities may change in the future ” This is a nice story reflecting love and human kindness transcending racial prejudices. But the writer forgets that in a short story particularity is essential instead of going here and there in the narration.

Ruthi’s story “A Pang of Guilt” has nothing to do with Lankan people although for a brief presentation of a Yaalpaanam Tamil woman in Chennai. The story is about two Malayalam couple and an exposition of the Mother -in -Law problem which is common in India.

Aasi Kantharajah’ “The Stolen Childhood” is about a Lankan girl studying in 4th standard in Australia. The typical insistence of mothers particularly that their children should be the first in class and force them to attend all the tuition classes without having a breath of freedom to enjoy the children’s childhood dreams. The satire comes through well.

” Turning Point” is the story by Arun Vijayarani. It’s an assurance of a disabled Lankan woman who was a victim of shelling in the North. She regains confidence in life in Australia after seeing a less-abled white woman driving a car and getting down from it and wheeling her chair with
ease into a store. Her tomentation and the indifference of her husband makes her choose to live
with her child in Australia. She asks her husband to leave her and go back to Lanka.I feel that
the story could have been structured well. The translation too could have been better.

“Yet to Learn” is the title of L Murugapoopathy;s story. it’s an interesting one as it calls the relationship between a teacher and a student both of whom now live in Melbourne. Writing about life’s journey, the conversation includes this passage: “They (the Sinhala brethren)” says the teacher “tapped in 1958, tapped in 77, tapped in 81.tapped in 83. The people who were asleep have woken up brother…of those who woke up one section lost their lives….another portion like we found our way into foreign countries…the rest who could not have a way out, are under the bombing and shelling, holding their lives in their hands and keep moving and moving. Thus is a story with no end..”

The narrator in the story (the student) adds: “Master-a widower and a father who had given away his son to the freedom movement-was narrating the world affairs very enthusiastically while driving a car in a foreign land”

What most of the stories in this collection do as in this story is to narrate some aspects of life experienced by the diaspora in foreign lands. The Lankans who emigrated to foreign lands did so out of helplessness but they made their homes in foreign climes reassured and begin to erase out the bitter memories of their native land-Lanka.

“Those Transient Days with a Young Princess” by Aaliyaal is a well-written story in the first person present tense and translated beautifully by N Rajadurai.(This is the only place where the translator’s name is mentioned). But to be honest I didn’t understand the significance of the story. What I learned was that the conversation is between a grey-haired person and a boy whose mother is a ‘blend of Afghan and Pakistani Kashmiri races’

T Gnanasekeran’s story “Earthworm” is the story of Lankan grandparents witnessing shocking scenes in Sydney on their visit -for instance, two white Caucasians embracing as lovers in public places- The grandfather was shocked to hear from his grown-up grandson of the ‘Gay Festival’.But at the same time, the expatriates have not forgotten their cultural customs as one person in the story says -Even if they have migrated our people have not let go of the culture and traditions. Even here it is all celebrated like back home. Makes me very happy to see it” It is a fine story of the generation gap showing the reality in a fast-changing world.

Finally, a story by T Kalamani called “Michelle”. As the narrator in the story says ” The illusion to’lie like an Australian in Australia’ became the darkness in my life”. That is part of the theme in the story in relation to a co-worker in a factory -Michelle. But the story ends with a twist showing Michelle not as a flirt as generally believed by gossip mongers but a person who loves her lover who lost his fingers in the factory. I liked this story.

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Propust ALU

Bastl Instruments

triple passive filter

Propust is a compact tripple passive filter with with fixed cutoff frequencies for highpass and lowpass stages. It is a simple RC filter with 2 stages for HP and one stage for LP. There is a drop in signal loudness.

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No power connection is required. Simple fixed filters can help you to clean up your final mix and make room for each sound, or they can be used for filtering noises and other signals when generating drum sounds, for instance. When the signal goes thru both HP and LP stages, it creates BP.

  • tripple highpass 2-pole filters (cutoffs are cca 7kHz, 3.5kHz and 220Hz)
  • tripple lowpass 1-pole filters (cutoffs are cca (1.5kHz, 4.1kHz and 880Hz)
  • passive design > signal drop + no power connection

Technical details

  • 2HP
  • 15mm deep
  • passive design – no power needed

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Quattro Figaro ALU

Bastl Instruments

4 channel VCA

Quattro Figaro is a 4 channel VCA (voltage controlled amplifier) with one CV inverter per channel and outputs of mixed channels. Each channel A,B,C and D has its GAIN knob, CV IN jack with ATTENUATOR knob, INVERTED CV OUT, SIGNAL IN and SIGNAL OUT jacks.

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The signal gets amplified with gain linear to the control voltage. Control voltages above 6 volts get compressed non-linearly (property of VCA chip). Maximum gain is a little above 2. Amplified signal is outputted from the SIG OUT jack.

Internal routing

Internal routing enables you to use the QF as a simple and powerful panning /crossfading tool. Two pairs (A+B and C+D) are internally routed via the jack switches, which enables you to quickly setup the panning situation. Because the internal routing is done via the connector switches, you can use all the channels independently by plugging in the cables, which disconnects the internal routing.

Signal from channel A is routed to the switch on signal jack of channel B (the same with C and D), which means that the signal from channel A is connected to channel B as long as there is no jack plugged into the signal jack of channel B.

INVERTED CV OUT of channel A is also connected to the switch on the CV IN of channel B (the same with C and D), which means that the inverted CV is connected to the CV input of signal B as long as there is no jack plugged into the signal jack of channel B.

Mixed outputs

The mixed outputs enable you to use QF as voltage controlled mixer or stereo panning voltage controlled mixer. There are outputs of signal A mixed with signal C, signal B mixed with signal D (note that these two outputs are inverted), all signals mixed together and all signals mixed together but inverted.

  • 4 channel VCA
  • CV attenuator per channel
  • Gain knob per channel
  • each CV input has inverted CV output
  • mixed outputs -(A+C), -(B+D), A+B+C+D, -(A+B+C+D)
  • internally routed CVs and signals via connector switches (for easy panning /crossfading setup)
  • handmade in Brno, Czech republic
  • front panel from oak wood, handmade custom knobs

Technical details

  • 10 HP
  • 35mm deep (skiff friendly)
  • current +12 < 40 mA , -12 < 35 mA
  • PTC fuse and diode protected 16 pin power connector

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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

American Gods by Neil Gaiman + a Giveaway

Happy Tuesday, readers! Today I'm super stoked to be part of the TLC blog tour for Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past decade, Neil Gaiman has to have popped up on your radar in some form or another by now. Most recently, of course, is the long awaited American Gods show, based on the book, currently airing Sunday nights on Starz.

I'd vowed to start the book before watching the show, but failed in that regard. I couldn't resist! I did catch up quickly, though, as the first three episodes (which aired before my review date here) were just the first 100 pages or so of the book.

I have to say, now having read it and trying to sum up my feelings, I don't envy anyone who worked on this book and had to write a synopsis or pitch for it. I can't figure it out! I've tried and it turns into this long, rambly thing that makes no sense.

And in a way, that's the book. Except that under Gaiman's deft hand, a story that could easily have gone off the rails and landed readers in confusion land works. It works so much so that it's equally praised and revered by just about everyone out there (though as Gaiman tells it, folks seemed to passionately love it or vehemently hate it).

That being said, here's the good old Goodreads synopsis to kick things off:

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.

But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow’s best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.

Life as Wednesday’s bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined. Soon Shadow learns that the past never dies... and that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing—an epic war for the very soul of America—and that he is standing squarely in its path.

So we've got Shadow who's just been released from prison. His wife is dead under circumstances that are definitely adding salt to the wound of now being widowed, and he's been offered a job by a man he kind of doesn't trust. What's more, he's been knocked about by a giant calling himself a leprechaun and hounded by folks out for his new boss. And that's all before Wednesday's world REALLY starts opening up to our hero.

Gaiman's world of American Gods is one where gods and goddesses of the world's mythology have traveled to the shores of American with its believers. And now those once worshipped beings have all but been forgotten.

Shadow's travels and adventures are punctuated by tales of immigrants. A varying cast of characters and timelines, the stories illustrate the range of people and beliefs that built America. These pauses in the main plot might throw off some readers, but I found they added yet another layer to the already rich story. Sure, any student of mythology can likely identify, at the very least, the bigger of the Egyptian and Norse gods. But Gaiman doesn't stop there by any means.

And it's not just gods and goddesses that make appearances. The landmarks, the odder the better it seems, that are stops along Wednesday and Shadow's travels, are in large part real. House on the Rock, for example, and its carousel, really exist. Whether it plays hosts to a conference of powerful beings of folklore is the real question!

American Gods is yet another example of Neil Gaiman's genius. I may be a fan girl for saying it, but I'm in good company in that belief. And if you've got the chance, the show is definitely well worth the watch. It's Gaiman's story, visualized by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green. Fuller, who was also the mind behind Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, and Hannibal, brings along his flair for tantalizing and graphic visuals as well as much of the cast he's worked with in the past. And the show is, so far, a quite true adaptation of the Gaiman's work.

And now for the giveaway. I've got two this round - first is for a copy of the movie tie in version AND a coloring book. Second is for just a coloring book. To enter to win, simply fill out the Rafflecopter of your choice (or both) below. Open US only.

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To see more stops on the tour be sure to check out the official TLC tour page here.

For more on Neil Gaiman and his work you can visit his website here. You can also like him on Facebook and follow him on TwitterInstagram, and Tumblr.

Purchase Links: HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Dianna said...

Ooooh, this book is on my wishlist! Just love N. Gaiman, although his stories are usually a bit above my head.

traveler said...

Thanks for this treasure of a giveaway which is lovely.

Danielle H. said...

I have this book on my wish list too. We are big fans in this house.

Jennifer said...

I haven't read American Gods yet, but I loved Neverwhere. Neil Gaimain is so amazing.

techeditor said...

You're right: I've been hearing about this book for a long time. Now I want to read it because my nephew, who is well read and likes the kind of books I do, is looking for this book. So, if I win, I'll pass it on to him after I read it.

We'll see if my review is long and convoluted like you say yours was.

Burma Turner said...

Have heard good things about this book. Thank you for the chance to win!

Jennifer | Book Den said...

At some point I need to try this book again. It's been a long time since my first attempt, and I'd like to know what the fuss is about. :)

rhonda said...

On my wishlist😍

rhonda said...

On my wishlist😍

Jennifer Tar Heel Reader said...

I recently listened to a Neil Gaiman book, The House at the End of the Lane, which he narrated. I really enjoyed it. Very different. Great imagination. I am recording American Gods on my DVR and would love to read the book first before watching.

Heather J @ TLC Book Tours said...

Gaiman is so incredibly talented and original - I may not love all of his books but I find all of them very fascinating. This one in particular is so different than anything else I've ever read!

Thanks for being a part of the tour.

Tracy Shafer said...

I love Neils books!! I can't wait to read this.

Tracy Shafer said...

The coloring book looks great

MichelleCat said...

Thank you ~ Read it before but, do not own it and want to read it again!

MichelleCat said...

Interesting coloring book, wouldn't ever have thought about one for this book.

wabashriver1 said...

This book is on my reading list!

Dynalroberson@gmail.com said...

I love Neil's works!


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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Fox News culture warrior Todd Starnes is appalled -- as are some of his fellow wingnuts, including a rather famous one from Alaska -- because a completely fictional class assignment in a Florida high school bears a disturbing resemblance to ... the completely fictional thing wingnuts found in the Affordable Care Act a few years ago:
A classroom of 14 and 15-year-old Illinois high school students were assigned the task of deciding the fate of ten fictional characters in an exercise that critics called a lesson in death panels.

The assignment was part of a sociology unit for freshmen and sophomore students at St. Joseph-Ogden High School and was first reported by writer Lenny Jarratt.

The lesson involves 10 people who are in desperate need of kidney dialysis....

But there's a problem. The local hospital only has enough machines to support six patients.

"That means four people are not going to live," the assignment states. "You must decide from the information below which six will survive."

According to the worksheet I received, the student opted to spare the doctor, lawyer, housewife, teacher, cop and Lutheran minister....

Among those unceremoniously dispatched to the hereafter were an ex-convict, a prostitute, college student and a disabled person.

It sure looked like a lesson on death panels to Jarratt.

"The first thing I thought was they were desensitizing kids to death panels," he told me. "They are preparing them for it."
Yeah, right -- this assignment is preparing impressionable young people to accept a thing that doesn't actually exist. You'll recall that what the right referred to as "death panels" were actually completely voluntary end-of-life medical planning sessions. The Affordable Care Act, as originally written, would have covered the cost of these sessions. But they were struck from the bill because right-wingers were horrified at what they thought the discussions were (or, rather, what political hatchetwoman Betsey McCaughey claimed they were).

And as for this completely fictional classroom assignment? Brian Brooks, the principal of the school in question, strenuously disputes the wingers' interpretation:
The assignment you are referring to is not a "Death Panel" assignment. The assignment is one in the sociology unit of our Introduction To Social Studies class. The purpose of the assignment is to educate students about social values and how people in our society unfortunately create biases based off of professions, race, gender, etc. The teacher's goal is to educate students in the fact that these social value biases exist, and that hopefully students will see things from a different perspective after the activity is completed. The teacher's purpose in the element of the assignment you are referring to is to get students emotionally involved....
Well, Sarah Palin is certainly emotionally involved:
Friends, please see the article linked below. Consider this school teacher's assignment which mandates that kids undertake the task of deciding the fate of characters in an exercise that can obviously be considered a numbing lesson in "death panels." Unbelievable.

We’ll be in NJ this Saturday to rally for Steve Lonegan for the U.S. Senate to thank his supporters for pushing back against Obamacare and to halt D.C.-inspired nonsense like this.

We should hope that influential adults could teach the next generation that it is never ethical, it is never right, for our government to take steps towards the destruction of the sanctity of innocent life. And the way to do that is for our culture to condemn and reject the insensitive callus that grows in a society by this kind of thinking. The teacher could hopefully explain how Orwellian and wrong this thinking is. And she'd go on to declare our right to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit if happiness, upon which American exceptionalism was built. I challenge her to do so.
What does this have to do with American exceptionalism? Or Steve Lonegan? Beats me. I don't even know what the hell it has to do with the government, or D.C. The point is to get kids thinking about ethics and values and prejudices.

And by the way, Sarah, there's a thing called triage that is an actual part of actual medicine. Real medical professionals sometimes actually have to decide how to apportion limited medical resources. It's even constitutional!

But no, this has nothing to do with "death panels." Now, I only hope, for their sakes, that this teacher and principal have unlisted phone numbers. And bodyguards.

(Via Fox Nation.)

aimai said...

Maybe its because I'm quite old but I remember when it was common knowledge that there was a "god squad" of "important" people who made the actual decisions about who got which organs transplanted when. The supply of organs, let alone the supply of medical professionals and money, has always been tight. Before modern matching techniques and the development of the (theoretically fair) system of ranking and national sharing of organs individual decisions were made all the time on the basis of race, class, social status, etc..etc...etc...

At any rate the really interesting thing about the leap from classroom excercise to fox news piece is tha tthey are literally incapable of grasping the notion that education is open ended--that the purpose of a real classroom excercise is not to desensitize students, or make them get the "right" answer--its to teach them to explore the complexity of a situation--ethical, moral, historical, sociological. You have to hold the exercise to bring up the issues but there isn't one right way to resolve any given issue.

For fuck's sake this is Philosophy 101--you've got to ask questions and bat around the ideas. But to the authoritarian mind nothing can be stranger. They believe as a matter of course that the teacher has a plan and that that plan is indoctrination. Because that is wha tthey think teaching is for.

Anonymous said...

I remember doing something like this when I was in 8th grade, and I am over 40! It wasn't transplants then, but who you would take into a bunker before a nuclear attack. (the 80s rocked!)

I suppose if the class was asked about 'Who would you let be Saved when Jesus returns?' I'm sure THAT would pass muster.

Anonymous said...

We did this in Spanish class in 1987, as an exercise in Spanish vocabulary: who shoud get the heart transplant? I did my presentation in the form of a rap song. Most people did comedy skits of some sort. This is beyond weak.

Dark Avenger said...

Even before organ transplants, the concept of limited resources was covered in Bernard Shaws' The Doctors' Dilemma, which was inspired by a question a doctor asked about a patient who wanted a new and experimental treatment for his condition, "Is he worth it?"

Caribou Barbie should go wrestle a moose or find something else to do besides apply her word salad politics to current affairs.

Victor said...

Maybe the teacher was preparing the students for careers in health care companies in case the Republicans do, indeed, repeal Obamacare.

And if that happens, they'll have to decide who to exempt from coverage, and whose operations to pay for, and whose health coverage to drop - you know, the "Death Panels" we had until PPACA passed.

Philo Vaihinger said...

First come, first served.

Anything else involves a pretense at valuing human lives that can only be grossly offensive.

And, no, babies are not intrinsically more important than adults.

"Baby on board"?

Big whoop.

aimai said...

Yeah, babies are intrinsically more important than most adults. Sad, but true.

aimai said...

I'd also like to complement the person with the string of apparently random symbols and numbers upthread--alas a difficult to remembernym, for pointing out that "who gets into heaven and who goes to hell" would obviously be a very popular evangelical philosophy game lesson plan and one that they would not bat an eye at having delivered to their child.

Danp said...

For pity sakes. Shouldn't these decisions be made by insurance companies?!?!? At least the kids knew to save the rich and powerful. They even showed mercy toward the Lutheran.

Ten Bears said...

Apparently the stupid squaw has never watched an episode of M*A*S*H.

Lutherans ate "Christians". "Christians" are animals, egg-sucking dogs, and this world will never know Peace until they're all taken out back of the barn and summarily executed.

No fear.

The New York Crank said...

On the other hand, I do wonder whether the kids were also encouraged, at least a little bit, to think outside the box. Only a couple of dialysis machines and too many kidney patients? How about buying a third machine? Or helicoptering the hooker and the disabled person and the college student to another hospital? Or hunting around for a transplanatable kidney?

Oh, that costs money and might end up upping the doctor, lawyer or minister's taxes? Screw it then. Kill the hooker, the gimp and the college nerd, who's too pointy-headed intellectua anyway. Just so long as we don't have death panels.

Or something.

Very crankily yours,
The New York Crank

Lawrence said...

We'll take the ninjas, but not the Irish. All right, everybody then.

And really, no love for the hooker? Is the disabled person Stephen Hawking, or Tammy Duckworth? They picked the Lutheran mountebank over the college student? The lawyer might want to die. It's the only way to get out from under those student loans. Have these kids seen what cops are up to these days? This sounds like a semester's worth of teachable moments.

Glennis said...

It's too bad the kids weren't asked to recreate the nuclear bomb exercise - news of that would send Caribou Barbie right to the bunkers and at least shut her up for a while!

Phoenician said...

OFFS - this is just an updated version of the "lifeboat" dilemma we were batting around in class back when I was eleven or twelve.

@Philo :

First come, first served.

Anything else involves a pretense at valuing human lives that can only be grossly offensive.

And, no, babies are not intrinsically more important than adults.

So you'd give a heart to a 80 year old smoking diabetic who has a 40% chance of surviving the operation in preference to an otherwise healthy 15 year old with an 80% chance of surviving if the former got sick first?

Examinator said...

What if the 15 year old was a gang banger,psychopath, mentally retarded, etc..
And the 80 yo was a research scientist on the verge of discovering an injection against Tea baggerism or something less important like a cure to cancer ?

The point is those sorts of decisions can't be meaningfully made WITHOUT consideration of the specific individuals involved.

Aimai is correct Education doesn't make geniuses/experts it can only teach the basics and the tools to be able to go further. It is what comes after education or what the individual does with the tools that define the Genius/ expert. The world is full of educated idiots.
One only needs to look at experts/ specialists in one field who take it upon themselves to pontificate on other fields.

i.e. the geologist who emphatically denies AGW or the anthropologist who ignores genetics, Epigenetics, brain research, brain psychology, etc. and confuses cause and effect.


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Four mannequins wearing clothes

Mannequins are furniture items in Animal Crossing: New Leaf that the player can display clothing on. Outfits for a mannequin can be changed it while in a house/display room. The player can switch clothes with a mannequin, provided that it is theirs. Mannequins cannot be sold, dropped, traded via Re-Tail, wear Wet Suits, be mailed, or be discarded.

There are a total of four mannequins available. They can be obtained from the following characters:

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