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Bart Tali writes in WUWT Tips and Notes:
Great article in the WSJ.
"Climate Change Has Run Its Course"
Its descent into social-justice identity politics is the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality.
By Steven F. Hayward
Some excerpts:
Climate change is over. No, I'm not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue. All that remains is boilerplate rhetoric from the political class, frivolous nuisance lawsuits, and bureaucratic mandates on behalf of special-interest renewable-energy rent seekers.
Judged by deeds rather than words, most national governments are backing away from forced-marched decarbonization. You can date the arc of climate change as a policy priority from 1988, when highly publicized congressional hearings first elevated the issue, to 2018. President Trump's ostentatious withdrawal from the Paris Agreement merely ratified a trend long becoming evident.
A good indicator of why climate change as an issue is over can be found early in the text of the Paris Agreement. The "nonbinding" pact declares that climate action must include concern for "gender equality, empowerment of women, and intergenerational equity" as well as "the importance for some of the concept of 'climate justice.' " Another is Sarah Myhre's address at the most recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, in which she proclaimed that climate change cannot fully be addressed without also grappling with the misogyny and social injustice that have perpetuated the problem for decades.
Archived here: http://archive.is/a6sXH
On a supporting data note, these two Google Trends graphs, for the USA and for the world, show a clear picture of interest on the topic of global warming, or lack thereof. Note the big spike in 2006 from Al Gore's movie, and the next spike (smaller) in 2009 from ClimateGate. Then, there's the slow ride into obscurity. "Climate change" as a search topic has grown slightly over the same period, but runs about equal to the global warming topic today.
Source: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=climate%20change,%2Fm%2F0d063v

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So sad, too bad, Lara. No one told her to go there. She knew the risks. And she should have known what Islam is all about. Now she knows. Or so we'd hope. But in the case of the media vis-a-vis Islam, that's a hope that's generally unanswered.
This never happened to her or any other mainstream media reporter when Mubarak was allowed to treat his country of savages in the only way they can be controlled.
Now that's all gone. How fitting that Lara Logan was "liberated" by Muslims in Liberation Square while she was gushing over the other part of the "liberation."
Hope you're enjoying the revolution, Lara! Alhamdilllullah [praise allah].
As you can imagine this sick and virtually unbelievable statement has received substantial coverage from many of us on the Left, including a segment tonight on the Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
In response to that blowback Ms. Schlussel has posted the following:
I've received many moronic insults and threats of violence from the left in the hours since I posted this, showing me more and more that there is very little difference between the left and the dominant, violent, fanatical forces in Islam. In fact, there's really no difference at all. My favorite part of all of the responses is their common claim that the "real rapists" of the world are white males and American soldiers. Uh-uh, you keep telling yourself that, as you live here under the protection of American soldiers. Riiiight–It's not Muslims who don't respect women and treat them as baby factories, sex toys, and property. It's America and the West. You keep tellin' yourself that, morons.
Personally I would like to see some of these "threats of violence" that this horrible excuse for a human being cites. Because while I have no doubt she is receiving many insulting and angry letters in response to her comments, I somehow doubt that anybody angry about Ms. Schlussel's insane response to the attack on Lara Logan would then turn around and threaten her with physical violence themselves. (It kind of reminds of all of those "threats" that Sarah Palin supposedly receives.)
Speaking just for myself I certainly do NOT want Ms. Schlussel to suffer the same fate that befell Lara Logan, nor do I want her to suffer any harm whatsoever. However I would really like it if she could perhaps visit a women's shelter and see for herself the emotional and physical devastation that is the result of a sexual assault. And while she is at it perhaps she could do some fact checking and see for herself that yes the rape statistics within our own military are shockingly high as well.
Rape is a crime of aggression, not sex, and sadly it has been used by men to dominate and objectify women since the very beginning of time. These men did NOT assault Lara Logan because they were Muslims. They did so because for some reason they allowed their most primitive and aggressive instincts to dictate their actions.
Those very same hateful actions are performed all across the world every day by Christians, and Jews, and Buddhists, and Hindus, and Sikhs. and Muslims who, for whatever reason, suddenly forget the laws laid down by their religions and allow the very impulses religion exists to control to be unleashed on somebody they perceive to be weak and less important than satisfying their own base desires.


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After kicking things off with the awesome into song written by our recent guest Frank Allison, we jumped right into things with University of Michigan Associate Professor Rebecca Hardin, the host of WCBN's environmental news show It's Hot in Here, and avid hunter Ben Connor Barrie, the editor of the Ann Arbor blog Damn Arbor. […]
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Deer assassination in Ann Arbor, habitats for fish sex in Ypsi, the music of Heather Evans, and our first in-studio bat infestation… on episode 33 of the Saturday Six Pack
By Mark | November 18, 2015
Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Environment, Local Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Aja Marcato, bats, Ben Connor Barrie, dams, darters, deer, deer cull, ecosystem, Elizabeth Riggs, Erika Nelson, ethics, fish, fish habitat, fishing, Frank Allison, Fred Bear, Geddes, guns, guns in parks, guns in schools, Heather Evans, hostas, hunting, Huron River, Huron River Watershed Council, It's Hot in Here, James Hughes, Jim Cherewick, kindness, large mouth bass, Lyme Disease, Marquette, Matt Jones, native plants, Organization for Bat Conservation, public health, public parks, rabies, Rebecca Hardin, River Street Anthology, RiverUp!, Schultz Outfitters, shrubs, small mouth bass, suckers, Ted Nugent, The Who Guy, ticks, USDA, vampires, white bass, White Nose Syndrome, Wildlife Conservation Society, wildlife management | 32 Comments
Toby Hemenway to speak in Ann Arbor on permaculture
By Mark | May 11, 2010
I received word through several sources that Portland State University adjunct professor Toby Hemenway, the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, will be speaking next weekend in Ann Arbor. He will be speaking at the Ann Arbor Public Library on Friday, May 21, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM, and he will […]
Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Environment, Food, Sustainability | Also tagged Agriculture, carbon sequestering, Designing and Installing a Food Forest, events, food forests, forest gardens, fruit trees, Gaia's Garden, How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth but not Civilization, Jared Diamond, Kris Kaul, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Monica King, natural soil building, nut trees, permaculture, Permaculture Solutions for City and Suburb, Portland State University, SE Michigan Permaculture Guild, Sustainability, sustainable communities, Toby Hemenway, Transition Town, Transition Ypsilanti, urban ecovillages, vegetables, woodland garden | 14 Comments


text: SCOTT KOFFMAN BAND, or SKB, brings a non-stop dance party to every venue they perform. Based in Clearwater/St. Pete, they've performed from Orlando to Tampa, to Ft. Myers, to New Port Richey, to Boca Grande, to Sarasota, to Cape Coral and everywhere in between. Check out the calendar to see them live at a club near you, or use the contact button to book them for your Wedding, Event, Night Club, or Beach Bar.


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City council has agreed to spend up to $1.46 billion for a diminished version of the transit plan that formed the cornerstone of Mayor John Tory's 2014 election campaign.
The decision to move ahead with SmartTrack had broad support, and was approved in a vote 37 to 6 on Wednesday despite some members' concerns about the high cost of the proposed stations and uncertainties about the plan to finance the project.
In a speech before the vote, Tory described the approval as a landmark for Toronto's transit ambitions.
Read more:
City staff adjusted numbers to boost case for GO station promised by John Tory, documents show
Cost of Mayor John Tory's SmartTrack plan could rise, report shows
Scarborough residents criticize SmartTrack plan at public meeting
"This is the stage at which we are moving forward to start to build transit stations within the city of Toronto," he said.
Citing the projected 33 million trips that will be taken using SmartTrack by 2041, he argued the investment represented the "cheapest transit we're ever going to get inside the city."
SmartTrack piggy backs on a previously planned expansion of GO Transit service known as regional express rail (RER). As part of SmartTrack, the city will pay Metrolinx, the provincial agency in charge of GO, to include six new SmartTrack-branded stations within Toronto.
The city is expected to raise $878 million of the $1.46-billion cost itself, and tap a federal transit fund to cover the remaining $585 million.
The plan is less ambitious than the version the mayor made the basis for his campaign four years ago, which proposed 22 "new" stations. The original plan also included a new heavy rail spur to Pearson Airport that has since been replaced by a proposed extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.
Like most critics of SmartTrack on council, Councillor Gord Perks (Ward 14 Parkdale-High Park) said he agreed it was a good idea to add stations on lines that pass through Toronto neighbourhoods to provide residents with local access to GO. But he argued the province, not the city, should pay for it.
"The question we have to ask is, if you had a billion-and-a-half dollars, would building six GO stations be the best investment you can make to improve transit in the city of Toronto?" he asked.
"The answer to me is, compared to other options we should be considering, no."
Councillor John Campbell (Ward 4 Etobicoke Centre) asked why the new GO stations, which are typically cheaper than subway stops, will be so expensive. The six SmartTrack stations could cost an average of more than $240 million, while the six stations on the recently-opened Spadina Subway Extension cost an average of just $215 million, and that included some tunnelling work.
"How can I as a councillor have confidence that we're not getting taken to the cleaners on this?" Campbell asked.
City planners said the cost of the SmartTrack stops was higher because they're being built in densely populated urban areas.
Other councillors expressed doubts about tax increment financing (TIF). Tory initially told voters the largely untested financing mechanism could be used to pay for the entire SmartTrack cost, but it will now be counted on to raise just $292 million. A consultant report warned the development projections the TIF scheme relies upon could be "out of date" and its methodology "undocumented."
The city plans to use development charges and a special fund created through property tax increases to pay the rest of its share. Tory has denied that this means he has broken his promise not to raise property taxes to pay for SmartTrack, on the grounds the fund was established last year for the purpose of funding transit in general, not SmartTrack specifically.
The success of Tory's plan hinges heavily on Ontario government policy. On top of the province's planned RER expansion, its ridership projections rely on the Ontario Liberals' pledge to lower GO fares within Toronto to $3 starting next year, which would make it equal to the cost of riding the TTC.
Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale) raised the possibility that "everything that we're discussing at this moment in time could entirely change" if another party wins the Ontario election in June.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Ontario NDP said the party is committed to RER and the $3 GO fares.
A spokesperson for Ontario PC leader Doug Ford wouldn't commit to supporting SmartTrack.
"Doug Ford has spent his whole career fighting to (build) more subways and transit in the city of Toronto. Folks across the province know that he (supports) the modes of transit that will actually relieve congestion and get people moving," she said.
Josh Colle, the TTC Chair and councillor for Ward 15 Eglinton-Lawrence, told his colleagues they were right to scrutinize the SmartTrack plan. But argued healthy skepticism shouldn't derail the proposal, which he described as one of several pressing transit priorities.
"We need to build it all," he said. "We no longer have the luxury of not building transit in every corner of this city ... We have taken too many years off. We know what the consequences of that are."


text: Is there a general rule regarding whether one should enter a limit order vs. a market order, and how far the limit order should be placed away from the market price? A limit buy order saves the difference between the ask and the limit price, but the limit order may never execute. So, I'm wondering if there is a general rule that says, e.g., by placing a limit buy order at the current bid, the order will execute 95% of the time, saving the spread, and more than making up for the opportunity cost associated with the 5% of trades that do not execute. Any thoughts on how to think about this would be appreciated.


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So I think that the first week of #the100dayproject has gone quite well. Luckily I've been quite busy going places/doing things which makes it a lot easier to find interesting triangles, but I'm having to train myself to be on the look out constantly. If you're looking, you can discover lots of triangles in our daily lives, and I want the project to have a good balance of triangles that I create and find!
01 – Project intro (which took me 2 hours to make because I'm so indecisive)
02 – Kings Cross' famous triangular roof
03 – Custom stamp from France by paper merchants, Arjo Wiggins
04 – Bunting at the Lost & Found exhibition party at Print Club London
05 – Spotted this platform pattern waiting for my train home to visit family for the weekend
06 – A little triangle of chocolate heaven and catching up with my best friend from home
07 – The triangle that is my 'hood – East London.
Hope you enjoyed? Remember that you can follow my project (& me) on Instagram @natashanuttall. I've gained quite a few Instagram followers this week, which is encouraging, so head on over and show #100daysoftriangles some love if you haven't already!
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14/04/2015 at 9:48 am
I love that idea of searching triangels in your daily live. Good luck!
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Which wines to crack open for summer BBQs: big reds for meats and flavourful whites for seafood and veggies. Seven Deadly Zins, Menage a Trois, Innsikillin Riesling, St. Nicholas Cider and Errazuriz Sauvignon Blanc.
Do you have to pay much a lot for good wine? No, and here's why.
We chat about this and other tasty topics on CJAD radio, one of the largest morning talk shows in the country.
Wines for Summer BBQ, Picnics, Seafood: CJAD Radio
Barry: 7:41 summer's here, although it's kind of tough to tell this morning, but summer is here. So what wines go best with barbeques and warm sunny days. That's a question for Natalie MacLean, Natalie's a wine expert. You get all sorts of terrific information from here website, nataliemaclean.com. Natalie, good morning.
Natalie: Good morning, Barry, how are you?
Barry: I'm well, how are you?
Natalie: I'm great, thanks.
Barry: So what makes a wine ideal for summer, Natalie?
Natalie: There's a wide range. I would say it would just have to be wet, but no.
Barry: Good enough. See you later.
Natalie: Yes, exactly, I'm done. Well, we look at a wide range of reds and whites because barbeques, traditionally, Canada Day barbecues aren't just about big, hunking slabs of meat, although many of us still love that.
Barry: That's true.
Natalie: We're grilling seafood and portobellow mushrooms and veggies and so on. So whether you are a white or a red wine lover, there's a wine for you. Now, that said, I would pick wines that do have full flavour whether they are reds or whites. So where would you like to start?
Barry: How about red?
Natalie: Okay. So you've got burgers or steak, or even grilled pork chops, whatever you've got on the grill, meat-wise, I would go with a full bodied red. One of the ones that I like, even for the label alone, but the stuff inside the bottle is good too, is called Seven Deadly Zins.
Barry: Oh, I like that.
Natalie: Yes, it's a Zinfandel from California. Zinfandel is plush; it's got big, juicy, black plum flavours and aromas. This is a dry wine. Those are the fruit flavours that come through. It's not tannic. Tannic is that furry mouth feeling you get if you drink over steeped tea. You don't want that with grilled and chary flavours of your meat. You want something that's juicy and vibrant. So that's a terrific red to start with. Ménage a Trois, another fun named wine.
Barry: Excuse me, oh, I see, we're still talking wine. Okay, thank you very much.
Natalie: Don't get off topic.
Barry: I won't.
Natalie: So it's Folie a Deux, Ménage a Trois, another California red. It's a mix of red grapes, Cabernet is in there. Again, juicy, delicious, very giving. I like that in a wine.
Barry: Okay, how about some white wine suggestions?
Natalie: So if we go for a zesty white, zippy wine, we can try Inniskillin Riesling from Ontario. You know what I also love is St. Nicholas Cider. If you want a bit of lower alcohol from Quebec, a lovely apple zest. It's wonderful with fresh seafood. That would be Inniskillin Riesling or Errazuriz Sauvignon Blanc. Errazuriz, I know that's a tricky one to get your tongue around but it's actually easy to drink. It's from Chile, zesty, like salad in a glass.
Barry: As long as you don't have to pronounce it and just consume it.
Natalie: Yeah, you just point to the bottle and say "pass me that".
Barry: Exactly. Natalie, I don't like to spend a fortune on wines and I suspect most people don't. Does that mean I have to settle?
Natalie: No, you don't have to settle at all. That Errazuriz Sauvignon Blanc is $13.78 cents, thank you.
Barry: Oh, there you go.
Natalie: The Cider is $12, the Ménage a Trois, $17. I mean, I do focus on wines, that are reasonably priced because you know most of us don't have a trust fund, so…
Barry: That's fair enough. Natalie MacLean is the author of the bestseller Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World's Best Bargain Wines. She's also editor of Canada's largest wine site and you could check out more of her picks and food pairings at http://www.nataliemaclean.com. Pleasure speaking with you.
Natalie: You too, Barry. Have a great long weekend.
Barry: And you, cheers! It's 7:45.


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So I haven't really done a "Favorites" in a few months. Fail! It's not been because I haven't
liked/loved things it's just that I had more exciting things to talk about at the moment, but I have some real stand outs that I keep reaching for again and again, so here they are, my July 2014 Favorites!
Urban Decay Naked Palette The original naked product from UD and possibly the start to the neutral palette craze that has taken over the world. I was not really drawn to this when it launched or after and I still do not own Naked 2. I just wasn't into neutrals at the time. I loved wearing tones of colors and I had single neutrals I used when the mood struck me. It's been a few years and I'm older, more mature and looking for more sophisticated looks and after falling for Naked 3 I had my eye on this baby and I couldn't stop using it.
I did a full post here on this little number and I am obsessed! This finishing powder sets makeup without looking powdery or weighed down and flat. It gives the skin a soft luminosity that is beautiful and healthy looking.
This is one of my top five foundations and I did a rave post here if you want to know more about it. The reason I kept reaching for this is because southern Nevada has been getting a lot of rain combined with high temperatures (110F+ degrees) resulting in humidity and a powder foundation is just the way to go when things get sticky. I am loving this weather as I adore rain and grey skies and also it is bringing down the temperature and this foundation wears so well in this weather.
This dual ended bush has a flat edge brush and a spooly brush. I got this mostly for the spooly, but I like the flat brush for getting a defined outline for my brows. It's great for getting very structured brows and the spooly is very nice!
I have a full review of this guy here, but as it is in my favorites I guess you can deduce that I like this product, which when first purchasing and trying this I did not anticipate at all. My first few goes at this liner were hate, hate, hate, but once I got the hang of this I used it a lot.
I used this blush a lot this month because I kept doing bold lips and/or eyes and I didn't want too much going on on my cheeks, but I also didn't want to look dead and this did the trick!
This is my absolute favorite glitter eye makeup primer. It doesn't feel heavy or sticky once glitter is applied. I used this a lot along with my Naked 3 palette this month as they it has some very pretty high/shimmer shades that I didn't see showing up as intensely as I wanted. I wanted it to look as intense as in the pan, so I would prime my eye as normal and then I would top just the inner third of my lid with Glitter Glue and I would immediately follow up with the shimmer shade before it dried and it was just like the in pan shade.
The Perversion Mascara is new to the Urban Decay range and this is the first UD mascara that I have ever used, which as a big Urban fan is a bit surprising even for me, but I guess I was waiting for the best! Subversion I believe has been out for a while, but I have never been drawn to it as I have always found primers to never do much for me and I never got a black finish because the white primer would turn my mascara more of a grey tone. Well this is a hit! These two work wonders together for the blackest, black, long lashes.
This deep berry shade has a beautiful kind of crushed blackberry shade and looks so lovely with a smokey eye or no-makeup makeup. It reminds me of a very turned up version of what I picture woman is Wuther Heights to wear or a Marc Jacobs fashion show. (Same thing, right? haha) Swatched for this are here. Even though I got eight shades from the new re-launched I kept wearing this every day and I loved it for the rainy weather and I think it's perfection for autumn/winter.
RCEP by Rusty Clanton
I got this EP a few weeks ago and keep on playing it. It was released last year and is so good! You can check out some of his stuff on YouTube here if you haven't before. If you like the sing songwriter/folky vibes you will enjoy this. I can not stop playing this!
RCEP by Rusty Clanton
I got this EP a few weeks ago and keep on playing it. It was released last year and is so good! You can check out some of his stuff on YouTube here if you haven't before. If you like the sing songwriter/folky vibes you will enjoy this. I can not stop playing this!
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The protest was the latest in a wave of demonstrations calling for fair local elections in the capital.
Moscow: Police in Moscow said they arrested more than 1,000 people Saturday at a banned opposition protest calling for city authorities to reverse decisions to exclude key opposition candidates from the ballot paper.
The protest was the latest in a wave of demonstrations calling for fair local elections in the capital.
Around 3,500 people took to the streets for the unauthorised rally, according to official figures. Several of the arrests were violent and police used batons against protesters, AFP reporters at the scene saw.
In all, "1,074 people have been arrested for a variety of offences during an unauthorised demonstration in the centre of the capital", Moscow police were quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
The rally came a week after the capital's biggest protest in years, when some 22,000 marchers called on officials to reverse rulings and allow opposition activists to stand for the city council in September.
Since then investigators have raided the homes and headquarters of several disqualified candidates, while top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was jailed for 30 days for calling the fresh protest.
"Honestly, I'm scared," 42-year-old IT worker Alexei Sprizhitsky told AFP at the demonstration on Saturday.
He said the last time he had seen this level of pressure on activists was in 2012, when President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin after four years as prime minister sparked popular dissent.
Other leading opposition figures and would-be candidates were arrested in the hours leading up to the Saturday's protest, which comes amid declining living standards and a fall in Putin's approval ratings.
Local polls are a rare opportunity for dissenting voices to participate in political life as anti-Kremlin parties have been squeezed out of parliament over Putin's two decades in charge.
Groups of protesters had tried to blockade several streets in central Moscow in the early evening, but large numbers of police were quickly deployed to the area and broke it up, AFP journalists said.
'We want free elections'
"This is our city!", "Shame!" and "We want free elections," the crowd chanted earlier.
Politician and disqualified candidate Dmitry Gudkov was arrested shortly before the march and released in the evening. Earlier he had said the future of the country was at stake.
"If we lose now, elections will cease to exist as a political instrument," he said.
"What we're talking about is whether it's legal to participate in politics today in Russia, we're talking about the country we're going to live in."
While pro-Kremlin candidates enjoy the support of the state, independent candidates say they have been made to jump through countless hoops in order to get on the ballot for the city polls.
After activists and ordinary Muscovites staged pickets last week, including outside the local election commission building, investigators said they were launching a criminal probe into obstructing the work of election officials.
If found guilty, organisers risk up to five years in prison.
'Excessive force'
Rights group Amnesty International denounced what it said was the police use of "excessive force" and called for the immediate release of peaceful protesters.
Navalny ally Ivan Zhdanov said he had been arrested shortly ahead of the demonstration. Barred candidate Ilya Yashin was released after being detained in the early hours of Saturday morning following a raid on his home.
"The authorities have lost all sense of reason. They are behaving in a way that is almost sadistic," Yashin said on Twitter, announcing another Moscow protest for August 3.
Would-be candidate Lyubov Sobol, who this week launched a hunger strike, was arrested at the demonstration before also being later released and fined 30,000 rubles (USD 475).
Elena Rastovka, a 68-year-old pensioner at the demonstration, told AFP: "I've been afraid all my life, but enough is enough. If we stay at home, nothing will change."
Some said it was the authorities' heavy-handed response that had turned a local issue into a major protest movement.
"Who would have thought it would become important to take part in such a bizarre and boring affair as the Moscow parliament election?" asked Viktoria Popova, a 30-year-old illustrator, ahead of the rally.


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She struts into the room with an air of confidence that cannot be beat. Her smile rivals the sun and some might say her mannerisms are at times somewhat exaggerated.
She can't help it. It's just her way.
The other day an elderly woman struggled with the door to a cafe. Our heroine bound up from her seat in a mad dash to offer her assistance. In the course of her efforts, however, she managed to upset another patron's drink and knock a plant over.
Ah, yes, the eccentric blonde. Always so willing, not always so able.
Of course she purchased a drink for the person whose drink she had maligned. He turned out to be quite fetching in appearance, so she offered her phone number as well. Never know, there just might be a stain on those pants that she would be happy to remove.
He was of course enraptured by her golly gee good nature and assured her that he would indeed take his pants off for her should the need arise.
And the plant? Amazing what a little duct tape will do.'
The eccentric blonde is a character I created about twenty-five years ago, if not longer. I took a creative writing class and one of the assignments was to come up with a character that could be used in a variety of scenes and settings.
And this was the birth of a character who has indeed endured the test of time. I have written some really silly scenes such as the one noted above. The premise of the character is her well meaning and somewhat clueless personality. No matter how much she screws up, no one ever gets angry or upset with her.
The creation of this character also allowed me to try my hand writing light, comedic sketches.
I've been thinking about the confidence lately and oddly enough the eccentric blonde character popped into my head. Confidence is an attribute she always possessed. There is no 'wrong' in her world. Everything always works out for her and she expects nothing less.
I wonder if the characters I create hold some ideals that I would like to exhibit? Perhaps its just a way to emote various expressions. I enjoy how characters come to life in my mind's eye. Quite often it occurs from simply seeing someone on the street. They may come across as being removed from their surroundings. They may be someone of high energy. It could just be the way they walk, the fluidity of it or even an awkward gait.
Once cataloged, when I have an idea that flashes in my head for a story, this bank of characters and their mannerisms that is tucked away in my grey matter is accessed and one of them is brought to life. Sometimes it evolves into a first chapter with the basic story line posted in point form to come back to at a later date. More often though, the character is shelved as the idea doesn't merit further development at the time.
When I think of guys like Steven King and the genre that he writes in, I wonder how he develops his characters and where they come from. I don't think I could ever write horror novels on a consistent basis. It would be a very dark a place to have go to and 'create' on a daily basis. I can see the interest in wanting to explore the depths of human depravity and our ill-begotten ways. There is s an odd fascination with the dark side to humanity.
I do have disturbing characters tucked away that shall otherwise remain nameless but will likely turn up as a foil or the end to a tragic means in a book waiting to be written.
Writing gives us license to do just that. We create stories and explore the outcome for our characters. Impossible odds are meted out in circumstances that are nothing less than extraordinary.
We flock to movie theatres to watch Godzilla trample a City such as San Francisco. I've been watching these movies since I was a kid and I've forgotten why he is so pissed off and for reasons I can't explain, I have always felt sorry for the big guy.
Then again if you've been blown up, set on fire, shot at, etc. as many times as he has then you'd probably have a chip on your shoulder as well.
We have the action hero movies where one guy saves the world and always quite selflessly. And sometimes I'll think, what if they changed the ending and our hero didn't save the day or what if he died in order to be successful? I do get tired of cliched endings that have a happily-ever-after tone to them.
Then we have superheros. Would we really embrace a guy in tights and a cape who could fly? Somehow I think if I saw a guy spinning a web from his arms and swinging down main street I may just call the authorities.
These movies always have the ultimate evil to offset the ultimate good. Of course ultimate good wins out every time.
I have a few characters that I've created over the years. Some are timeless such as the Eccentric Blonde. I can take that character and put her into anything and make it work. Other characters are on the shelf waiting to be dusted off and featured in a story at some point.
I would love to hear how other writer's develop their characters. What's your inspiration? Also, I would love to hear from everyone on what some of your favourite characters are and why?
For example, now that "Lord of the Rings" has been made into a movie will we always think of Frodo as he was cast by Peter Jackson?
The movie is one man's vision of the book. When I read the book years before the characters spun in my mind's eye were very different from Peter's.
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Paper or Plastic by Vivi Barnes
Release Date: 3rd Feb 2015
Genre: YA Contemporary
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Welcome to SmartMart, where crime pays minimum wage...
Busted. Alexis Dubois just got caught shoplifting a cheap tube of lipstick at the local SmartMart. She doesn't know what's worse—disappointing her overbearing beauty-pageant-obsessed mother for the zillionth time…or her punishment. Because Lex is forced to spend her summer working at the store, where the only thing stranger than the staff is the customers.
Now Lex is stuck in the bizarro world of big-box retail. Coupon cutters, jerk customers, and learning exactly what a "Code B" really is (ew). And for added awkwardness, her new supervisor is the totally cute—and completely below her social sphere—Noah Grayson. Trying to balance her out-of-control mother, her starting spot on the school softball team, and her secret crush on the school geek makes for one crazy summer. But ultimately, could the worst store in the world be the best thing that ever happened to her?
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Author: Your first job—do you remember it? I worked in a drycleaner (manning the front), which was kind of fun, actually, because my best friend worked there as well. Shenanigans ensue when you work with your friend—as Lex quickly finds out during her summer at SmartMart.
I backed up, hefted the can in my hand and rolled it toward the boxes. Jake and I both laughed as boxes flew everywhere.
"Your turn to set up," he said.
I couldn't help myself. I crouched down to pick up the boxes and built a macaroni box pyramid—proud that I made four tiers instead of Jake's three.
"Okay, your turn," I said, turning to face Jake, but Noah was standing in his place, frowning, his arms crossed. Jake was nowhere to be seen—probably ran as soon as he caught sight of the manager.
"What are you doing?" Noah asked.
"Oh, um, I was just—"
"You can't stack boxes of food like that. What are you thinking?"
Crap. "I'm sorry. I'll pick it up." My face burning, I turned back to the pyramid of boxes. It sucked being called out by Noah like that. I'd have hoped he'd have a better sense of humor. Or at least not make me feel like such a slacker.
A can rolled past me, knocking into the pyramid and scattering boxes everywhere.
I whipped around to see him smirking. "Told you," he said. "You didn't build it with enough support at the bottom. Way too easy."
I picked up the can of green beans and hefted it in my hand, walking toward him slowly. His eyes widened as if he thought I was going to throw it at him, though the shit-eating grin still lingered on his face. "Your turn to set it up," I said when I reached him. "Let's see if an architect can build a better a pyramid."
I was initially attracted to this book because of the cover. It's a really cute cover and so I figured the book was gonna be just as cute. I was looking for something light and fun and this one seemed like the perfect fit.
And it was. I really enjoyed this book, it was super fun and super cute. I really liked Alexis as a protagonist. She wasn't perfect but that made her more likable. She might come across a little condescending and entitled but she showed a great amount of growth as the book went on. She was actually a very compassionate and caring person. And I loved that she stood up for her friends and for herself. Although I wish she would have stood up to her mother more. I really did not like her mother. She was so stuck up and entitled and was constantly putting Alexis down because she was more into sports than her "looks". She's a pageant mom and is obsessed with Alexis' seven year old sister's "career". I cannot stand pageants, especially for little kids, so she really grated on my nerves. I would have told her off so many times if I was Alexis.
The romance in the book was really sweet and progressed at a nice pace. There was no insta-love, and Noah and Alexis had great chemistry. Noah was so sweet and kind and was so nice to everyone. He's so loyal to his friends and family and my heart broke for him when I found out what he had to deal with.
There was also a great host of secondary characters and I would actually love books about a few of them. There's some of them that I really want to know more about.
A great story-line, full of excitement, laughter and romance, I wholly enjoyed this book. The perfect choice if you're looking for a quick, entertaining read.
A great story-line, full of excitement, laughter and romance, I wholly enjoyed this book. The perfect choice if you're looking for a quick, entertaining read.
Vivi Barnes is the author of Olivia Twisted and the upcoming release, Paper or Plastic. She was raised on a farm in East Texas where her theater-loving mom and cowboy dad gave her a unique perspective on life. Now living in the magic and sunshine of Orlando, Florida, she divides her time writing, working, goofing off with her husband and three kids, and avoiding dirty dishes. www.vivibarnes.com
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In Loving Memory of Bishop Emeritus Manuel Soto (1927 – 2016)
"For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain (Philippians 1:21)."
Esteemed Bishops, Pastors and Members of the Apostolic Assembly,
¡Paz de Cristo!
On behalf of the honorable General Board of Directors I inform you that the Lord has called Bishop Emeritus Manuel Soto to his presence yesterday Wednesday, June 9, 2016 at the age of 89.
Bishop Manuel Soto was a former Bishop Supervisor of the Central California District for 12 years from 1975 to 1983, and for a second period from 1987 to 1991. He also served as an Auxiliary Elder and a Pastor in Vista, 1st Fresno, Sanger and Clovis, California.
He was born in Buen Ventura, Chihuahua, México on January 8, 1927 to Mr. and Mrs. Miguel Domínguez Soto. At the young age of eighteen he obeyed the Gospel and was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ on September 25, 1945 and three months later in December he was filled with the Holy Spirit.
In 1947 he would be initiated to the ministry in Ojinaga, Chihuahua. His wife was our highly distinguished sister Josefina. Together they shared fifty-three years of marriage. He immigrated to the United States in the company of his family and in 1962 he founded the Apostolic Assembly in Clovis, CA. In San José, CA he would be ordained to the ministry at the XXII General Convention on August 8, 1964 by then Bishop President Antonio C. Nava and in 1966 he would be recognized as a Pastor of the Apostolic Assembly. Finally, after soldiering for forty-five years as a Pastor, he handed over the church of Clovis, CA in 2007.
Bishop Manuel Soto is survived by his sons Daniel, Joel and Alfred Soto and his eight grandchildren. We shall inform you of the funeral arrangements in the days that follow. We ask for your prayers for the entire Soto family that the Lord would send his sweet comfort by His Holy Spirit.


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Futuremusic will run for the next few weeks here on Just Played, looking at how our access to music is changing, how people spend their money on music and some of the artists attempting to do things their way. To begin, the really rather wonderful, Tom Williams & The Boat.
I blame Steve Lamacq for this one. During a not especially sunny week spent in Northumberland almost exactly a year ago, I found myself tuning in to Lammo's 6music afternoon show rather a lot. This was partly down to me reading his excellent autobiography at the time and partly because it was pretty good at drowning out the sound of incessant rain. One afternoon, his guests were Tom Williams & The Boat. Thinking back now, I can't be absolutely certain what about them caused them to click so perfectly with me, but they were only half way through their first song as I reached for my phone to store the name of this curious new band. Since then, I've immersed myself in the world of their leader and ridiculously keen publicist, Tom Williams.
The music is what you'd broadly term 'indie' but each EP they've thus far put out meanders backwards and forwards across that rather vague terrain, at times sounding rather folksy, with some very well utilised violin on certain tracks. They fit into the finest indie tradition of ridiculously catchy, storytelling jingle jangle which has kept the NME staff in beer money for decades. At times they gather momentum like Arcade Fire in a power cut, while the love of late sixties folk is hard to deny. The slightly rough around the edges sound also brings to mind recent records by Malcolm Middleton, only less Scottish. Tracks like 'Got Fuel', 'Half Mast', 'Train Station Car Park', 'Concentrate' and marvellous new single, '90mph' (particularly for fans of Middleton's recent single, 'Red Travellin' Socks') all deserve the opportunity to caress your ears.
But, I hear you cry, why are Tom Williams & The Boat getting a mention in the rather brilliantly-titled new feature, 'Futuremusic'? Well, dear reader, this band are putting in extraordinary levels of effort in their hunt for popularity. Tom has embraced the idea of giving away bits and bobs via the internet and building your online support with aplomb and, having already furnished fans with numerous demos, live tracks and advance songs in recent months, he's just undertaken a month of extreme generosity, giving away four volumes of 'Home Recordings' via his website. You simply need to fill out a request form and the lovely chap will email you a download link for the recordings. Naturally, these are of variable quality – both in terms of songwriting and audio recording – but they give you a pretty good idea of what makes him really rather special.
In addition to the free music, Tom appears to spend most of the time that he's not using for recording or playing live online, sending endless updates on Myspace and Facebook and taking the time to respond to each and every email that comes his way. Just see what happens if you take him up on his offer of free 'Home Recordings' downloads. Finally, Tom Williams & The Boat have thus far released their records themselves in beautiful, handmade packages featuring lyrics sheets, random inserts and even the chance to get a cut price T-shirt. Wireboat Recordings as the label is known, still have stock of some of the earlier EPs and I would suggest you treat yourself right now. If you want to go for one in particular, I'd recommend the 'Got Fuel EP'.
Regular readers may remember me banging on about Tom's track 'Half Mast' last summer, with its marvellous line, "I don't have a hoodie set at half mast, sitting on my fringe like balaclava on my chin". For a short while, here's a chance to hear that track. Clicky. Naturally, if anyone involved with Tom Williams & The Boat objects to this being here for a little while, I'll take it down. But I doubt they will. And that's kind of the point. They want you to hear them, they want you to enjoy their tunes and I suspect you will.


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For decades, Mormon conservatives have believed their politics on a number of issues matched with the positions of their church. They opposed abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment and same-sex marriage, for example, and so did their religion.
But now comes an issue that puts the two seemingly at odds: immigration.
The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has called for compassion not just strict enforcement, as these members demand when dealing with undocumented immigrants. It has urged politicians not to divide families, while some members support detention and deportation. The faith has unequivocally lauded Utah's guest-worker bill, HB116, which some leading Mormon conservatives are pushing to repeal.
Unlike LDS liberals, who long have struggled to balance support for their church with disagreement over some of their faith's stances, these conservative members find themselves in an unfamiliar place.
And it's as uncomfortable as it is unexpected.
These Mormons have many ways of explaining their newfound dissonance denial, picking on details, parsing words, downplaying differences or blaming the church's global distractions.
"This is a real crisis for some people," says Todd Weiler, former chairman of the Davis County Republican Party. "They want to be good Mormons, yet they are absolutely convinced that HB116 is amnesty and is bad."
They are, he says, "freaking out."
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Not one conservative Mormon contacted by The Salt Lake Tribune even those against the guest-worker law the church is for acknowledged opposing their religion on immigration.
Freshman Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, campaigned on eliminating the constitutional amendment that gives any baby born in America automatic citizenship and has expressed reservations about HB116, saying it would be hard to get Congress to act on a proposal that "has the look and feel of amnesty."
Yet Lee also says he applauds his church's emphasis on compassion and humanitarian concerns.
"I don't think they were saying if you are a Latter-day Saint, you should say nothing but wonderful things about HB116," Lee says, "or that anyone who voted against it has betrayed their religion."
Lee favors a piecemeal approach to federal immigration reform, starting with improving the path for legal immigration. He doesn't see himself against the church's stance in any way.
Like Lee, Cherilyn Eagar, who sought the Senate seat Lee now holds, sees herself in step with the LDS Church, even though she is spearheading a campaign to repeal HB116.
"Many would like to see changes in the bill," Eagar says. "To the degree that this particular law is unconstitutional, we need to work together to fix those loopholes."
Eagar says she supports principles spelled out in the new LDS handbook, which encourages members to stay in their home countries, and, if they choose to emigrate, comply with their new country's laws. She also says she has urged national opposition groups not to criticize her church.
The Holladay activist understands, she says, that her 14 million-member faith has a responsibility to "protect its interests. I don't disagree with that at all."
The LDS Church, or any church with an international membership, "has to protect its diplomatic relations," she says. "That's important to keep their missionary efforts going forward."
Free agency
To its credit, Eagar says, the church does not expect members to follow blindly but rather encourages them to think for themselves, study the issues and come to their own conclusions.
"We don't have to agree with every policy and everything that is spoken from church leaders' mouths,"she says. "Nobody [from the church] has called me and suggested that I should be challenged on my membership."
Even so, she is amazed at the amount of "hate mail" she has received from members, demanding she be excommunicated because of her opposition to the bill.
That same kind of furor and antagonism surrounded Mormons in California, who opposed Proposition 8, recognizing marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman.
In the heat of that campaign, LDS general authority L. Whitney Clayton said Latter-day Saints are free to disagree with their church on that issue without any sanction.
"We love them," Clayton said, "and bear them no ill will."
That same tolerance is in place this time as well, LDS officials say.
Eagar sees no comparison between her efforts against illegal immigration and those of Prop 8 opponents.
That was a "doctrinal issue," Eagar says. "This [immigration] is not a doctrine; it's a policy."
"We can have differences of opinion," she adds, "but we never want to be criticizing the church in a way that is tearing it down."
That is something, Eagar says, she never has done and never would do.
Says who?
Throughout the current debate, some Mormon opponents of illegal immigration have tried to pin their church's position on the faith's public-affairs department, its lobbyists or individuals.
These members rightly point out the message has come from news releases and Web postings, not from a First Presidency letter, like it did with Prop 8. Or they claim that Presiding Bishop H. David Burton attended the signing of Utah's immigration bills as an individual, though he noted his presence "testified" of the church's approval.
"I have yet to see that this is coming down from top officials of the church," insists Ron Mortensen, co-founder of the Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration. "I see this as coming from the public-relations officials."
If LDS President Thomas S. Monson whom Mormons view as a "prophet, seer and revelator" issues a statement to the whole church, Mortensen says, "I'd have to look at it and make my decision. It would take some soul-searching."
Responding to such views, the LDS Church issued its most explicit statement yet, reiterating its immigration position and mentioning its approval of HB116.
The LDS Church Public Affairs Department "does not act independently of church leadership," spokesman Scott Trotter said this week. "Official statements on the [LDS] church websites are approved at the highest level."
The spokesman went further, pointedly adding: "The church is naturally concerned when some members deliberately misrepresent its leaders and actions. In such cases, the church reserves the right to publicly correct the record."
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Gayle Ruzicka, whose Eagle Forum opposes any legislation that it sees as leaning toward amnesty, accepts her church's position. Yet she shares Eagar's view that HB116 should be scrutinized and amended.
"There might be some good things we can keep, but it's unconstitutional," Ruzicka says. "Let's sit down together and look at it."
She does worry, however, about the hostility over the church's immigration stance in some LDS quarters.
"There's some angry people and some hurt people," she says. "It's time for them to exercise their faith. If you believe President Monson is a prophet, you're not going to leave the church over this."
Ruzicka urges such members to calm down.
"If you disagree, you are not going to lose your temple recommend or membership. You are not going to be treated poorly [by members of your ward or the church.] People have their agency," she says. "Get on your knees and take it to the Lord. You decide how you fit into this picture."
Ruzicka says she has found herself to the right of her church on abortion and on gay-rights issues, and had to work through the differences.
"It had nothing to do with my faith," she says. "As time passes, I always find out why [the prophet] was right. That's why he's the prophet and I'm not."
And, Ruzicka adds, she's in that place again.
Differing dilemmas
In his book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, George Lakoff describes the two camps using separate familial metaphors. The best metaphor for the conservative worldview, Lakoff writes, is the "strict father." In this model, self-control and self-discipline as well as respect for and obedience to authority are the highest values.
By contrast, the liberal ethos is more like the "nurturant parent," model, Lakoff notes, which emphasizes empathy for others and helping those in need, both in the family and in the community.
Each category includes the other values, he writes, but assigns them different priorities.
Given this perspective, liberal Mormons may have an easier time negotiating differences with their church than conservatives, says Utah Valley University professor Boyd Petersen, since obedience is less important to them than compassion.
"A liberal might feel like she was being true to the spirit of the law, even if she were disagreeing with the rules of the church," Petersen says. "But conservatives, with their obedience-oriented frame, are faced with obedience to competing authorities - their church and the rules."
In the case of immigration, he says, some may be "obeying" their political party more than their church.
Advice from the Left
Laura Compton, a California Mormon who helped organize Mormons for Marriage to oppose Prop 8, wrestled with this dilemma for years so she can empathize with some conservative Latter-day Saints on immigration.
"It's not easy when you find yourself on the opposite side of the fence from the men you believe are prophets, seers and revelators," Compton writes in an email. "But I don't have to agree with somebody 100 percent in order to sustain them, to recognize their wisdom, to acknowledge them as leaders and assume their good intentions."
She advises any Mormon, conservative or liberal, to develop a "thick skin" against hurtful comments and to remember that LDS "scriptures and church history are jampacked with humans who make mistakes, disagree, debate and understand the gospel differently."
State Sen. Ben McAdams an Avenues Democrat who helped in the negotiations that led the LDS Church to endorse Salt Lake City's ordinances protecting gays against housing and job discrimination is at peace with who he is as a faithful Latter-day Saint, striving to follow his conscience while respecting those who differ.
"The LDS Church does not have a doctrine of infallibility," McAdams says. "Faith is not about an institution. The institution exists to help me to develop attributes I need to be a better person."
In the end, he says, what's important is the courage to stand up for what you believe.
Faith is so much more than the tide of current events, McAdams says. "We're in this for the long haul."
Many Utahns in the dark about LDS stance
Nearly 50 percent of Utah voters were not aware that the LDS Church favors HB116 which authorizes a guest-worker program allowing undocumented immigrants to pay fines and stay in the state according to a recent Utah Voter Poll.
The poll found that same uncertainty among active Mormons and among active Mormons who also are Republicans (42 percent and 43 percent, respectively, didn't know their church's stand on HB116).
Among those who said they knew the LDS position, a fifth thought incorrectly that the church opposed the guest-worker bill.
The results show "a significant lack of clarity among Utahns about the LDS Church's stance and the challenge of moving individuals away from their predispositions," writes Chris Karpowitz on the website, http://utahdatapoints.com, associated with Brigham Young University's Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy.
Karpowitz, an assistant professor of political science at BYU, added that more educated respondents were "significantly more likely to believe that the [LDS] Church supported the immigration bills."
This connection between education and awareness of the LDS position may be explained by the fact that the Utah-based faith did not express its immigration positions through ecclesiastical channels such as LDS General Conference or a formal letter to Mormon congregations, Karpowitz writes, but rather through "the media, the church's own website and its presence at the governor's signing ceremony at the end of the legislative session."
This Utah Voter Poll was conducted March 30-April 9, with 743 respondents who were randomly sampled for participation in an Internet survey. The poll does not reflect the LDS Church's April 19 statement clarifying its explicit support of HB116.
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For some reason, they love me in Texas April 11, 2008Posted by Jeff in Movies, Zook.
For the second year in a row, one of my screenplays has won a Remi Award from the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
This year's award winner is Equity, my original script about the 1919 Actors Equity strike of Broadway performers, which will be honored in the category of Dramatic Screenplay.
Last April, I travelled to Houston to pick up my Platinum Remi for Eighty-Eight Frequencies. This year I'm not going to Houston, so I'll have to wait until after the WorldFest awards banquet to learn the metallurgical level of my prize (bronze, silver, gold, platinum or the Grand Jury Prize a/k/a the Mithril Armadillo).
I was about to say that I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for these guys, but since I'm sitting at work at the moment and they had nothing to with that, I'll just say once again how grateful I am for my Thursday night crew and their years of support.
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- 1. Tina - April 11, 2008
seems like you're rockin' Texas' world – way to go.
- 2. Thaddeus - April 11, 2008
Muchly with the congratulations.
What's the story with the Equity strike? I've never heard of it.
- 3. Shannon allbright - April 11, 2008
- 4. joe - April 11, 2008
CONGRATS! you have lived with that script a L O N G time. it now gets a texas, att boy!!! yeeeeeeee haaaaaaaw.
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A WOMAN reported her father to the police when she found an indecent image of a child on a computer he had given to her.
At Edinburgh Sheriff Court today 75-year-old Richard Nichol of Parkdaill, Hawick, was jailed for nine months and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.
Nichol had pled guilty previously to being in possession of indecent photographs of children between January 1, 2011, and January 20 last year. Sentence had been deferred for background reports.
Fiscal Depute, Ann MacNeill, told Sheriff John Beckett QC at the first hearing, that Nichol's daughter had been given the computer by her father after he bought himself a new one. On checking his computers, the police found a total of 5198 indecent still images. Ms MacNeill said 1066 were at level A, the highest level; 953 at B; and 3179 at C, the lowest level.
At that hearing, defence solicitor, Robert More, told the court that his client was a first offender at the age of 75. He had, said Mr More, made a "comprehensive and candid admission" at the police interview. Nichol, he added, had served in the Armed Forces for 20 years and then spent another 20 years working for a paint supply company and reaching a managerial position.
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Today I decided to explore a little more of Norfolk, I had heard via Twitter about a Farm shop and restaurant near Holt.
Back to the Garden is in Letheringsett North Norfolk on the Fakenham road. Very easy to find.
The Barn Cafe and Restaurant were very nice, set in a renovated threshing barn.
I loved the photographs on the walls, the restaurant felt very new. As well as the beautiful barn the restaurant and cafe also has a lovely garden where you can eat alfresco. A lovely sun trap too.
I was excited to see what choices there would be for Coeliacs and gluten intolerant customers. I was pleased to see two choices of cakes. A orange and almond polenta cake and a lemon cake. I chose the lemon cake and a English breakfast tea. I would have preferred a caffeine free tea or camomile tea but neither was available. I wished I'd had more time to have a meal but will definitely return with the family to try it very soon.
The lemon gluten free cake was absolutely delicious and had a sharp lemon and sugary taste. A lovely treat!
I was pleased to see that the gluten free cakes were covered with glass display lids and that my waitress used a new separate knife to cut my cake slice.
Next to the Barn restaurant is the amazing Farm shop possibly the best farm shop I have seen. Great to see so much local produce, organic vegetables, organic meat including gluten free sausages and beef burgers made on site by the farm shop's butchers, who had good knowledge of cross contamination. There is also a Deli well stocked with wines and cheese. Brays cottage famous Pork pies and fresh bread for gluten eaters , and gluten free Muffins and cakes from Wow muffins, definitely worth trying.
I will be returning to this farm shop and restaurant very soon. Definitely worth the drive!