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MOSES LAKE — The Grant County Republicans will hold their 2019 Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Pillar Rock Grill, 1373 Rd F.2 NE, in Moses Lake, at the golf course. A reception and silent auction will be held at 5 p.m., with dinner at 6 p.m. A live auction and speakers will be held after dinner. |
Speakers include former Chairperson for the Washington State Republican Party and a former candidate for the U.S. Senate, Susan B. Hutchison. |
Other speakers at the event will include elected officials from various state and county offices. |
A live and silent auction will be held. The silent auction will start at 5 p.m. The live auction will begin after dinner, with the speakers to follow. Among the items up for auction this year are a chair with a patriot motif, a load of sand or gravel from Tommer Construction, a 40-person bowling party with taco bar at ... |
The Lincoln Day Dinner is the annual fundraiser for the Grant County Republicans. Usually 100 to 115 people attend the event. |
Tickets are $50 per person and may be purchased online at www.grantcountygop.com and on Facebook. Tickets may also be purchased from Grant County Republican committee members or by calling 951-218-8209. Tickets will be available at the door. Space is limited. |
Some of you may not know but Neil used to be an professional international athlete, representing Great Britain across the globe. |
His best time for running the 'mile' in competition was 3 mins and 55 secs but since he hung up his trainers, well to be frank - he's let himself go a bit. |
So after an invitation for Neil set off the Santa Sprint for CHICKS in Callington last year, Tim Bunting paid a visit to the studio to re-issue the invite for 2014, and this time there was an extra little invitation! |
As Neil's about to turn 40, he was cajoled by Tina to accept! |
As I wrote last Thursday, Karl Rove is making it clear that he does not think the mass firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, now under investigation by both the House and Senate, is a big deal. It appears that perhaps the president’s adviser is insisting that the purge is a non-issue because of his potential implication in t... |
Man and his truck ended up on terrace in 900 block of South 26th Street around 3:05 p.m. Tuesday. Officers had to give him Narcan. |
MANITOWOC - A 31-year-old Whitelaw man passed out behind the wheel of his pickup truck while overdosing on heroin Tuesday and he and his truck ended up on the terrace in the 900 block of South 26th Street, a Manitowoc police report said. |
Officers responded to the scene around 3:05 p.m. Tuesday. Bystanders reported the driver was slumped over and unresponsive and they believed he had overdosed on drugs. |
When officers arrived, they found the driver, Lucas J. Munson, unconscious and convulsing. The responding officer said in the police report that Munson "was blue and not breathing and I could clearly see a large purple injection site on the inside of the operator's left arm." |
The officer gave Munson a dose of Narcan, a medication used to block the effects of opioids. The police report said Munson's symptoms immediately changed after he was given the Narcan, and he began breathing normally and regained consciousness. |
Munson was able to exit the truck on his own and was taken to the hospital for evaluation. |
In a search of the pickup truck, officers found a sunglasses case in the center console that contained one straw scoop with a white powder inside, one used hypodermic needle, one small piece of tinfoil and two cooking tins, one of which had a dark-colored substance inside and a cotton ball. |
The police report also said a pair of men's pants found on the front seat of the pickup truck contained one glass pipe, one plastic bag, one straw scoop with a white powder inside, one small pink container, one used hypodermic needle and one cooking tin. |
Munson later told police the sunglasses case was his "rig" for using heroin. He also told police heroin is his drug of choice, he is a daily heroin user and he had injected heroin at a house on Clark Street 15 minutes before dozing off behind the wheel. |
Police arrested Munson on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia and suspicion of methamphetamine. |
Watermelon-Based Cocktail Recipes From Bars Around the U.S. |
National Watermelon Day is on Friday, August 3, and whether or not you plan to celebrate the holiday, there’s arguably nothing better than a refreshing watermelon cocktail on a hot summer day. |
With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of six watermelon-based cocktails from famous bars around the country that can help you up your prepared drink game. |
Check out the complete list below! |
Private firms are continuing to get a lighter rap on the knuckles compared to the public sector when it comes to the fines for data breaches being handed out by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). |
This time last year the ICO was embarrassed into admitting it didn't hand out fines in the majority of cases and again a freedom of information request from ViaSat UK has revealed further details of the way penalties for being careless with data are distributed. |
Between 22 March last year and 17 February this, there were 730 self-reported data breaches, for which the private sector was responsible for 263 but only received one financial penalty. The £1,000 handed out to ACS:Law in May last year is dwarfed by the £790,000 in fines handed out to eight councils. |
The majority of breaches were down to information mistakenly being disclosed in emails or with documents being sent to the wrong addresses. Public sector is the biggest offender with 88 cases of human error accounting for half of all the self-reported breaches. |
"While the ICO has shown great progress in ensuring the public sector regains control over data security practices, the private sector still has a relatively free rein," said Chris McIntosh, CEO of ViaSat UK. |
"As the public increasingly trusts the private sector with its information we need to ensure this information is managed responsibly, especially as the private sector reported the most thefts of data or hardware in the past year. Nobody wants to deal with the consequences of further breaches like Sony's loss of 77 mill... |
JOB OVERVIEW: Assure cleanliness of guest floor corridors, foyers, stairwells, and public vending areas, and assist room attendants in order to maintain Crescent's high standards of quality. REPORTS TO: Executive Housekeeper ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: 1. Stock linen closets with amenities and supplies for room attendants... |
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is like a massive train wreck — so hard to watch, yet you cannot look away. Watching her attempt to answer even elementary questions is like watching Paula Abdul try to stay awake during an episode of “American Idol” — I’m on the edge of my seat wondering if today is the day she does it. Rep. O... |
Why does Ocasio-Cortez struggle so much with basic facts and concepts? Because she admittedly isn’t interested in precision, facts or accuracy. In a now-famous interview with Anderson Cooper, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think there’s a lot of people more concerned with being precisely, factually and semantically correct tha... |
Americans are, by definition, anti-socialist. So if the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is going to attempt to sell socialism to the American people, they might want to choose a representative with an intellectual capacity greater than that of Ocasio-Cortez. |
After shutout wins during the week, men’s and women’s soccer ended their games in overtime on the road against Yale University on Saturday. The men conceded a game-tying goal with 40 seconds left and finished overtime with no goals to finish 2-2. The women’s team went into overtime deadlocked at 1-1 but conceded a goal... |
The men started off the week with a victory against Hofstra University on Tuesday, getting a 3-0 win at home. Wyatt Omsberg ’18, Justin Donawa ’19 and Noah Paravicini ’19 each scored goals in the shutout. |
The team played its third game in eight days against Yale, which lasted 110 minutes with no side able to grab a winning goal. |
“Yale was a good competitive game, but I think we’re disappointed in the end with the result.” Riley said. |
It seemed that Dartmouth was the stronger side early in the game, jumping out to an early two-goal lead within the first 25 minutes of play. |
Dartmouth had the added challenge of going on the road to New Haven. The turf field at Yale’s Reese Stadium proved difficult for the Big Green, which is accustomed to playing on the grass of Burnham Field. |
“It’s a challenging turf field, and it’s not the prettiest game you’ll ever see,” Riley said. |
Yale spent the second half consistently on the attack to cut into Dartmouth’s two-goal lead. Yale defenseman Cameron Riach got the Bulldogs started early in the second half, scoring four minutes in. With the game on the line, midfielder Miguel Yuste created and finished a chance with 40 seconds left, forcing the game i... |
Despite strong play and some dangerous chances made, Dartmouth was unable to find a winner in overtime. |
The women’s team was on the opposite side of a comeback against Yale, scoring in the second half to force overtime despite eventually losing. The team mood was not all negative after the loss, as many saw positives in the comeback and the competitiveness of the game. |
In the end, the hard fought battle against Yale was decided with a late goal toward the end of the first overtime by Yale’s Ariel Chavarin. Because of the sudden death rules of overtime, Dartmouth had no chance to respond. |
It was Dartmouth’s third game against an Ivy League opponent and its third loss. |
“We were unlucky against Yale but also against Brown [University] when we lost in overtime,” Gordon said. |
Despite a slow start, Rainey said the team feels prepared after a difficult slate of non-conference games before Ivy League play began. |
“Most of the teams in the Ivy League are at the same level as the teams we played in the preseason like Northeastern [University] and [Boston University],” Gordon said. |
Both the men and women continue their Ivy League seasons this upcoming Saturday against the University of Pennsylvania. The women also play non-conference opponent College of the Holy Cross on Tuesday. |
Satirists, cartoonists and graffiti artists have a field day as politicians eye elections scheduled for March 4. |
Nairobi, Kenya - A vulture-like politician sits in Kenya’s parliament, scoffing at the tribespeople who vote for him despite his money-grabbing ways. |
This eye-catching graffiti image, decorating a wall in downtown Nairobi, attacks voting along ethnic lines and corruption in national politics. |
Kenya has seen an explosion of such political satire in cartoons, television and street art that mocks politicians in the run-up to next month’s elections. “There is a secret in the picture,” said James Kamba, who runs a gift shop beside Nairobi’s best-known example of hard-hitting graffiti. |
Only weeks before the March 4 presidential vote, Kenyans are gripped by a round-the-clock drama of personalities, ethnicities and policies. The leading presidential candidates hail from the tribal dynasties that have dominated Kenyan politics since independence from Britain in 1963. |
Raila Odinga, the current prime minister, hails from Kenya's sizable Luo community, which has never had a tribesperson in the nation’s top job. |
Uhuru Kenyatta is a member of Kenya’s biggest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, and is the millionaire son of the nation’s independence leader, Jomo Kenyatta. |
The disputed 2007 election still casts a long shadow over Kenya. Inter-ethnic bloodletting claimed more than 1,100 lives and pushed the country towards civil war. |
Kenyatta is also due to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in early April as one of those accused of orchestrating the 2007-08 violence. |
With such high stakes, Kenyan graffiti artists, comics and cartoonists have not been short of material when devising political parodies. |
Boniface Mwangi is the spray-paint provocateur who conceived the suit-wearing vulture that decorates Nairobi’s business district. “It’s against both the politicians and Kenyan voters. The frontrunners in this election, Kenyatta and Odinga, are both tribal kingpins,” said Mwangi. |
Kenya’s newspaper illustrators have embraced a softer approach to lampooning those seeking power in East Africa’s biggest economy. |
One cartoon from The Star pictured Kenyatta and his running mate, William Ruto, wearing prison outfits while using computer control pads in a jail cell. The candidates were repeatedly asked how they planned to govern Kenya while standing trial at the ICC in The Hague. |
The answer surprised many. They said they could manage the affairs of 43 million Kenyans via the internet from Holland. “See ... we can run Kenya from The Hague!” said the caricatures of Ruto and Kenyatta, staring at a computer screen. |
The veteran cartoonist Godfrey Mwampembwa, better known as Gado, said cartoons convey simple and powerful messages to readers. |
His illustrated send-up of Kenya’s first-ever televised presidential debate on February 11 poked fun at the hackneyed slogans used by all eight candidates. |
Gado also created The XYZ Show, a weekly television parody that uses life-size latex caricatures to lampoon public figures. |
One popular sketch had Kenya’s prime minister rapping “this is my time, Odinga time” to the beat of Dr Dre’s hip-hop anthem "Still D.R.E.". |
Another depicted Kenyatta and Ruto’s political union as a wedding ceremony in which the former rivals made pledges to each other. The alliance shocked many because Ruto, an ethnic Kalenjin, and Kenyatta are accused of orchestrating bloodshed from opposing sides of the tribal divide in 2007-08. In the satirical sketch, ... |
Gado said that Kenya has witnessed a boom in political satire since he became a newspaper cartoonist more than two decades ago. Back then, Kenya was ruled by president Daniel arap Moi, a dictator who was accused of corruption and human rights abuses. |
The US-based watchdog Freedom House measures civil liberties around the world and ranks Kenya as “partly free”. This beats many African countries. But satirists have faced criticism. Government minister Dalmas Otieno accused The XYZ Show of ridiculing public figures “in the name of making money”. |
Kenya’s cartoons struck a chord with Angelique Pitteloud, the wife of Switzerland’s ambassador to Nairobi, who hosted an exhibition of scathing art. She witnessed carnage during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, when more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in a three-month killing spree. |
While Kenyan satirists are lampooning the election process, it seems unlikely that they will play a decisive role in shaping the outcome of the vote. Most polls show Kenyatta and Odinga well ahead of rival candidates, but few indicate that either front-runner will achieve a first-round win. |
Mwangi, the Nairobi-based street artist who admires Britain’s hooded graffiti doyen, Banksy, said he will continue agitating regardless of who wins the election. He led protests downtown last month after lawmakers' attempt to grant themselves $107,000 in end-of-term bonuses and guarantee themselves perks such as state ... |
In response, demonstrators torched 221 coffins in a mock funeral and waved placards bearing slogans such as, “Bury the vulture with your vote”. |
I received yet another email today that insisted that we all speak English only and rid ourselves of all those foreign languages. |
English is not our language, it belongs to the peoples of Great Britain and requires in some cases an interpreter for Americans to understand, for instance Cockney. It is spelled differently than our language, pronounced differently, some of the same words have different meanings, and it is even used differently. |
The people of the USA speak American and although it is based on English it is full of words from all those foreigners the email wants to kick out. It also contains words from the original people that welcomed and nurtured our foreigner forefathers when they migrated here. |
Another thing, which version of American does the emailer want us all to speak? The one from Maine? The one from Boston (they claim to be the first)? How about the version from rural Tennessee or even Nashville? Or Texan? How about we all speak Cajun? When we select an American language to speak how about we all learn ... |
I would like those narrow, little, hateful emailers to please think about this and present a reasonable argument as to why the foreign languages are inconsistent with the American way (other than they are not able to learn them or it”s just the conservative way). Also which foreign words would they strip from the Ameri... |
Archinect News Articles tagged "prison architecture" |
Rikers Island looms large in New York’s imagination. It is home to a notorious complex of prisons, one whose excesses are still being discovered by the media and the courts. Many would like to see the Rikers Island closed forever, or barring that, to at least change the name to something that does not honor a slaveowne... |
Top Dawg Entertainment’s ScHoolboy Q knows fans are begging for his next album but that’s not stopping him from having fun. Footage has surfaced of Q enjoying more life parasailing. |
A hilarious clip shows ScHoolboy living it up on a parasailing adventure. |
When the Astor Piazzolla-influenced World Sinfonia came out in 1991, one of the members of Al Di Meola’s band (who had also recorded on the album) dismissively told me that it was “muscle music.” I disagreed, but I could get his point — the album was gorgeous, but it was so filled with virtuosity that the more visceral... |
Eric Brandt, the Adams County free speech advocate who faces three criminal charges in Morgan County stemming from profanity-laden comments he gave at a December Brush City Council meeting, is now in jail in Adams County after he turned himself in there Thursday morning. |
Brandt was charged with disrupting government operations, disorderly conduct and disrupting a peaceful assembly after he yelled and used obscenities in public comments he made to the Brush City Council in response to its censure of council woman Jeanine Anderson over comments that allegedly appeared on her Facebook pag... |
A Morgan County judge issued a warrant for Brandt's arrest last month after he did not show up for his scheduled arraignment hearing on those charges in Morgan County District Court. |
A post made to Brandt's personal Facebook page Thursday stated that he was "finally heading to jail." |
"I will be in Adams for the next five weeks and then after that it is a crapshoot," the post stated. |
Regan Benson, a friend of Brandt's who had accompanied him to the Brush City Council meetings, said Brandt landed in jail after losing an appeal on another free-speech related case in Denver that resulted in him having to turn himself in Adams County. |
Benson wrote in a comment on Brandt's post: "We all know with certainty the man is being incarcerated for speech. Period." |
According to the Adams County Detention Center website, Brandt has current cases or warrants in Jefferson County, Denver County and Arapahoe County, in addition to Morgan County. He has a March 29 court date in Denver. |
With Brandt now in custody, he could eventually be brought to appear in Morgan County. However, Benson said she feels that case is a farce and that the charges Brandt faces in Morgan County should be dropped. |
"I think the people of Morgan County should know they are funding a travesty if they continue with the prosecution and incarceration of this man who harms no one," Benson said. "How can anyone equate using this county's limited resources on this kind of prosecution with public safety? It is the responsibility of the DA... |
One thing Benson said could work in Brandt's favor: many law enforcement agencies simply do not want Brandt in their jails. |
"He teaches inmates about their rights," Benson said. |
Benson also said that she felt the police department's decision not to arrest Brandt when he yelled and used profanity in comments he made to the Brush City Council in February had solidified Brandt's case that he had been wrongfully arrested last December. |
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