Wilmington Farmers Market Seeking Artisans For Arts Fest On September 9
WILMINGTON, MA — The Wilmington Farmers Market is inviting all Wilmington artists to participate in its Second Annual Arts Fest on Sunday, September 9, from 10am to 1pm, on the Swain Green, across from the Town Common.Artists will not be charged a booth fee. Products must be handmade no reselling. A limited number of spots are available.If interested, please email wilmingtonfarmersmarket1[at]gmail.com or message the Farmers Market’s Facebook page.Like Wilmington Apple on Facebook. Follow Wilmington Apple on Twitter. Follow Wilmington Apple on Instagram. Subscribe to Wilmington Apple’s daily email newsletter HERE. Got a comment, question, photo, press release, or news tip? Email wilmingtonapple@gmail.com.Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading… RelatedWilmington Farmers Market Seeking Artisans For Arts Fest On August 11In “Community”What To Expect At The Wilmington Farmers Market On September 1In “Community”What To Expect At The Wilmington Farmers Market On Sunday, September 8In “Community”
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You know Daleks and Davros and Missy the Master, Angels and Silence hell-bent on disaster. But do you recall the most underrated Doctor Who villains of all?Each week, I will dig into the depths of the Whoniverse to examine one rejected, misjudged, or altogether forgotten big bad. This porcelain profligate is not to be trusted.Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below (via BBC)SMILERSFirst appearance: “The Beast Below” (2010)—season 2, episode 5Home environment: Starship UKDoctor: EleventhCompanion: Amy PondSince the first time I saw Zoltar grant 12-year-old Josh Baskin’s wish in Big, I wanted an antique arcade fortune teller machine for myself.Until I saw “The Beast Below.” Now I get anxious even walking past a carnival grounds.The Steven Moffat-penned episode provides our first real glimpse at the Eleventh Doctor as a spiteful Time Lord. And Amy Pond’s sleepwear.Amy’s first trip in the TARDIS lands the pair in the 29th century, where all of the United Kingdom (apart from bonnie Scotland, which “wanted their own ship”—a surprisingly prescient comment by Moffat) live aboard the Starship UK.But something’s not right: People are scared of “the smiling fellows in the booths,” and no one seems to notice the little girl crying—”crying silently.”Amy stalks calms the child—young Mandy (christened, I can only hope, after Barry Manilow’s 1973 No. 1 hit of the same name)—who warns of the robot-like Smilers and monk-ish Winders that maintain order on the ship.Reminiscent of the clockwork repair droids stalking young Reinette aboard the SS Madame de Pompadour, with their sculpted grins and painted-on faces, the Smilers serve primarily as ship security, but also play the part of aide and teacher. When someone (like little ginger Timmy) breaks the rules or is simply deemed unnecessary, they are dropped into a hellish hole in the ground, never to be seen again.Winder division one, reporting for duty (and not happy about it) (via BBC)Still trying to prove her worth as part of Team TARDIS, Amy nonchalantly investigates, and is soon met by a group of cyborg police officers (labeled Winders, I suppose, for their twisting heads—one side unassuming human, the other hideous monster).Elsewhere, the Doctor is staying out of trouble (“badly”) in the control room, where the power couplings are dummies, and the walls are hollow.“If I didn’t know better,” he hypothesizes, “I’d say there was…”“No engine at all,” a masked woman, who goes by Liz 10 and seems to know the professorial alien, chimes in.So, how does one travel among the stars on a spaceship that could never fly?By torturing an endangered Star Whale.Upon turning 16, every Starship UK passenger is authorized to watch a film repeating the “truth” of their vessel: If enough people choose to release the giant creature quarterbacking the ship, their floating colony—and everyone on it—will be destroyed.Protest and face your fate, or choose to forget (as Amy did), and continue living, unburdened by the reality of this nationalistic land.You wouldn’t like the Smilers when they’re angry (via BBC)“Once, there were millions of them. They lived in the depths of space and, according to legend, guided the early space travelers through the asteroid belts,” Queen Elizabeth the Tenth explains in a recorded video. “This one, as far as we are aware, is the last of its kind. And what we have done to it breaks my heart.”When deadly solar flares forced humanity to evacuate Earth, “it came, like a miracle”: The last of the Star Whales, trapped, a ship riding to safety on its back.Which begs the question of who the real villain is:Her Majesty created this world to protect her subjects; she appointed Hawthorne (a one-name character like Angel or Columbo) as head of the government.Hawthorne made the Smilers to police the ship, and directed the Star Whale through painful torment.Smilers kept watch over all people, their booths an extension of the Starship‘s security system; the creepy mechanical men administered brutal punishments with no remorse.A, B, C, or D—all of the above?Still haven’t settled on a Halloween costume? Print out this Smiler mask, throw on a velvety cloak, and scare the crap out of the neighborhood kids.Stream all of Doctor Who now for free with your Amazon Prime membership.
Also:– Buy, Sell, or Hold LeBron over Harden for MVPThe Rockets lead the NBA in wins, and most in the media think that James Harden the clear cut choice for NBA MVP. Today, Colin sized up the MVP race and thinks LeBron should get the nod over The Beard, even if it’s not the “cool” choice.Not only is LeBron averaging more rebounds, assists, has a better field goal percentage, and is a superior defender than Harden, he’s also currently doing it without a coach and with a roster that was completely overhauled in the middle of the season. LeBron isn’t ashamed to say he should win the MVP. Colin isn’t either, and he doesn’t care what anyone thinks. NFL replay adds more confusion than clarityYesterday, Raiders head coach Jon Gruden said he would be in favor of the NFL eliminating instant replay because slow-motion replay is deceptive and can even make correct calls look questionable. Colin agrees with Gruden and thinks that less replay is better for the game.Colin believes that replay is used far too often and kills the momentum of a game and that reviewing a play at 1/20 speed distorts the reality of the play that happened rather than clarify it.
Guests:Nick Wright – Host of FS1’s First Thing’s First joins the show to talk Mike Tomlin’s comments on celebrations; why Harden should win the MVP over LeBron;Joel Klatt – FS1 College Football Analyst is in-studio talking Saquon Barkley; why he’s a Baker Mayfield believer; and why Jim Mora shouldn’t be getting killed for saying Sam Darnold should go first over Rosen.Stephen Jackson – 14-year NBA Veteran is in-studio to explain why he’s not down with LeBron posting his own stats on social media; and why LeBron should consider the Spurs in free agency.
The BlazingDB team announced a new and free version of BlazingDB’s query execution engine for RAPIDS open-source software by NVIDIA, called BlazingSQL, yesterday. BlazingSQL provides query datasets from enterprise Data Lakes directly into GPU memory as a GPU DataFrame (GDF). GPU DataFrame (GDF) is a project that offers support for interoperability between GPU applications. It also defines a common GPU in-memory data layer. To provide this data lake integration, and to enable SQL queries on the software, critical open-source libraries were built inside the RAPIDS open-source software. These libraries were then layered on a series of modules from BlazingDB. GDF provides users with PyGDF or Dask_GDF that offers a simple interface similar to the Pandas DataFrame. BlazingSQL BlazingSQL also allows Python developers to execute SQL queries directly on the flat files that exist inside the distributed file systems. Moreover, it comes with cuML and cuDNN that comprises GPU-accelerated machine learning and deep learning libraries using GDFs. The GPU DataFrame offers developers the ability to run complete machine learning workloads inside the GPU memory. This reduces the cost of data exchange between different tools, as well as the transfer overhead over the PCIe bus. The BlazingDB team has given a demo and binary roadmap for the upcoming BlazingSQL releases. BlazingSQL 0.1 uses PyBlazing connection to execute SQL queries on GDFs loaded by the PyGDF API. It will be releasing in the next couple of weeks before 25th October. BlazingSQL 0.2 involves the integration of BlazingDB’s FileSystem API. This adds the ability to directly query flat files inside the existing distributed file systems. This will be releasing sometime between 25th October to 8th November. BlazingSQL 0.3 comprises the integration of the distributed scheduler so SQL queries are fanned out across multiple GPUs and servers. This will be releasing between 8th November and 30th November. Finally, the BlazingSQL 0.4 will have Integration of the distributed, multi-layered cache. The release date for BlazingSQL 0.4 hasn’t been assigned but it is expected to release in 2018. For more information, check out the official BlazingDB blog post. Read Next Introducing Watermelon DB: A new relational database to make your React and React Native apps highly scalable MariaDB acquires Clustrix to give database customers ‘freedom from Oracle lock-in’ RxDB 8.0.0, a reactive, offline-first, multiplatform database for JavaScript released!
Travelweek Group CALGARY — In an effort to stimulate travel to new destinations, Swoop has announced a new weekly feature on its website that rounds up the week’s best sale-fares.Called ‘FlyDay Fares’, the feature will appear each Friday on FlySwoop.com at 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. MST, with markets offered varying from week to week.Travellers can choose to check back weekly during the sale window or sign up for email notifications of FlyDay fares of the week.“FlyDay Fares are a fun way to play with spontaneous travel,” said Karen McIsaac, Senior Advisor of Communications at Swoop. “Let the weekly sale determine which city you will explore next or check back every Friday for a sale-fare on that certain trip you’ve been planning. The weekends just got a little more Swooper.” Posted by Swoop to offer FlyDay Fares every Friday Tags: Sales, Swoop
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Sponsored Stories Associated PressMANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) – A U.S. citizen jailed for nearly two years on money-laundering and drug charges in Nicaragua will be freed after a court unanimously upheld his appeal, his lawyer said Wednesday.Attorney Fabbrith Gomez said the appeals court vacated the charges against Jason Puracal, 35, of Tacoma, Washington, and ordered him released immediately.“We are happy, everyone that worked for this is happy,” he said. The University of Washington graduate made the Pacific coast surfing town of San Juan del Sur his home after a two-year stint in Nicaragua with the Peace Corps. He married a Nicaraguan woman and they had a son with Down syndrome in March 2007.Puracal was featured in a 2007 episode of HGTV’s “House Hunters International” showing beachfront homes to Americans. The same year he got a Re/Max real estate franchise with three other Americans living in Nicaragua.On Nov. 11, 2010, masked policeman carrying AK-47 assault rifles raided his real estate office and took him to Nicaragua’s maximum-security prison. Prosecutors charged that Puracal was using his business as a front for money laundering in a region used to transport cocaine from Colombia to the United States.He was convicted in August 2011 of all charges and later sentenced to 22 years in prison.Puracal’s family and friends and human rights groups maintained the charges were false. Seeing the case marred with inconsistencies, U.S. lawmakers supported Puracal by sending letters to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega asking to intervene.Defense attorneys complained the judge who convicted Puracal and 10 other defendants was not fully certified with Nicaragua’s Supreme Court and had just been appointed. Mary Coyle ice cream to reopen in central Phoenix Gomez also said that if authorities had been building a strong case against Puracal years before his arrest, as they claimed, he wouldn’t have obtained his residency from the Nicaraguan government days before the arrest.The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had ruled that Puracal should have been freed because he had not received a fair trial and was arrested illegally in a raid conducted without a warrant.Puracal’s family claimed that he was suffering from unsanitary conditions at La Modelo prison and was denied food, drinking water and medical care. They said he lost more than 40 pounds before he was moved earlier this year to solitary confinement.The David House Agency helped Puracal’s family navigate international justice. Volz, the founder, was convicted in Nicaragua of the 2006 strangling death of his ex-girlfriend but absolved by an appeals court and released from prison.___Associated Press writer Adriana Gomez Licon reported this story from Mexico City and Luis Manuel Galeano reported in Managua.___Adriana Gomez Licon is on Twitter http://twitter.com/agomezlicon How Arizona is preparing the leader of the next generation Gomez said it could be a matter of hours or days before the American who worked as a real estate agent in Nicaragua is released from the prison right outside Managua, the capital. He said the three-judge panel also ordered the release of the other defendants in the case.The court was supposed to have announced its ruling by Sept. 4, according to Nicaraguan law, but Gomez said he wasn’t notified until Wednesday.Eric Volz, managing director for the Los Angeles-based David House Agency that helped Puracal file petitions and publicize the case, said the order for his release had not been handed over to the prison.“The family is thrilled to hear the news that they are another huge step closer to bringing Jason home,” Volz said in an emailed statement. “There is one thing we have known all along over the past two years: Jason is innocent. The annulment of the oral and public trial is testament to this fact.”Details of the decision to free Puracal were not immediately available. There was no immediate confirmation from court officials.Gomez had argued to the appeals court that Puracal’s home sales were legitimate business deals and were not related in any way to drug traffickers. Construction begins on Chandler hospital expansion project Top Stories Bottoms up! Enjoy a cold one for International Beer Day Former Arizona Rep. Don Shooter shows health improvement (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Patients with chronic pain give advice 3 international destinations to visit in 2019 Comments Share 
Comments Share Top Stories Former Arizona Rep. Don Shooter shows health improvement Construction begins on Chandler hospital expansion project Spector told Congress this summer that the regime could lose control over chemical weapons sites, even as it holds on to Syria’s urban centers. The rebels control stretches of countryside in the north and the west, close to where the main production facilities are believed to be, said Spector, a former senior U.S. arms control official. With front lines shifting, such sites could fall behind rebel lines or its regime guards could abandon them.Hezbollah fighters, meanwhile, could take advantage of the chaos and try to loot installations. Israel, which fought a war with Hezbollah in 2006, has warned it would act, presumably by striking suspicious Hezbollah convoys.However, the possibilities for military action are limited because of the size and decentralization of Syria’s arsenal. Bucci and Stewart said airstrikes carry too much risk of harming civilians, while targeted operations would not be able to secure all sites simultaneously.Using special forces “would necessitate putting troops in harm’s way, without overwhelming support,” said Stewart, a former anti-terrorism investigator at the U.S. State Department. “The only way to secure all the sites in a comprehensive manner is through a large ground force, which is politically untenable at this point.” Mary Coyle ice cream to reopen in central Phoenix Syria’s secrecy compounds the problem. Damascus hasn’t signed non-proliferation agreements, long denying it has chemical weapons. Syria “is a black hole for us,” said Michael Luhan of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, declining to give an estimate of the size of the arsenal because foreign inspectors are barred.Other experts acknowledge there is no firm data and say they base their estimates largely on U.S. intelligence reports.Syria is believed to have hundreds, if not thousands, of tons of chemical agents, said Leonard Spector, deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. This includes mustard gas, a blistering agent, and the more lethal nerve agents sarin and VX, he said.The chemical agents are believed to be designed for use in artillery shells, aerial bombs and ballistic missiles, said Scott Stewart of the U.S. security think tank Stratfor.It is not known to what extent the chemical agents have already placed in munitions. Bucci, of The Heritage Foundation, said he believed “most of it” has been put into artillery shells and rockets.Bucci and Stewart estimate some 50 sites are associated with the program. Bottoms up! Enjoy a cold one for International Beer Day For now, the main storage and production sites are considered secure. However, some suggest the civil war poses one of the gravest risks of losing control over non-conventional weapons since the breakup of the Soviet Union two decades ago.Syria’s suspected arsenal is scattered across a number of locations, mainly in the north and west, where fighting between Assad’s forces and rebels seeking to oust him has been heaviest.“We need to be up front that this is not something very easy to do,” Steven Bucci, a former senior Defense Department official, said of attempts to keep the weapons locked up.The price of military action against the arsenal is prohibitively high, Bucci and others say.Airstrikes on chemical weapons depots could inadvertently release toxic clouds or expose them to looters. A ground operation would require thousands of troops, and the U.S. administration has pushed back on any suggestion of direct military action in Syria. Pinpoint operations by special forces could easily go wrong.The issue has been a topic in the U.S. presidential campaign. Republican nominee Mitt Romney has said he would send U.S. troops into Syria if needed to prevent the spread of chemical weapons, while President Barack Obama has said that movement or use of chemical weapons would have “enormous consequences.” A map by the Monterey think tank shows four production sites: one 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and a major battleground, and three outside the cities of Hama, Homs and Latakia. Storage sites have been identified near Hama, Homs and the capital Damascus, which also has a research and development facility. Three sites are marked as having dual use infrastructure, for both civilian and military purposes.Anxiety rose over the summer after the regime warned it might use chemical weapons against foreign attackers. Obama warned Assad that the threat of chemical warfare is a “red line” for the U.S. Even key Assad ally Russia told him to stand down.Syria has not used chemical weapons, unlike Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein. Analysts say the bigger threat is that the weapons fall into the wrong hands.Such worries over the fate of advanced weaponry were highlighted on Friday, when a shadowy militant group known as Jabhat al-Nusra joined Syrian rebels in seizing a government missile defense base.U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said late last month that Washington believes the main sites are secure but the regime apparently moved some chemical weapons to protect them. Panetta acknowledged that the U.S. doesn’t know what happened to some of the weapons. On Thursday, Jordanian officials confirmed that U.S. special operations forces and their Jordanian counterparts have been training at a compound some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Syrian border how to protect civilians from possible chemical attacks.“With chemical weapons, it starts to get so beyond the pale,” Bucci said of the potential threat. “It scares the heck out of everybody, rightfully.”(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) – The U.S. and regional allies are closely monitoring Syria’s chemical weapons _ caught in the midst of a raging civil war _ but options for securing the toxic agents stuffed into shells, bombs and missiles are fraught with risk.President Bashar Assad’s embattled regime is believed to have one of the largest chemical weapons stockpiles in the world. Fears have risen that a cornered Assad might use them or that they could fall into the hands of extremists, whether the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, an Assad ally, or al-Qaida-inspired militants among the rebels. Arizona families, Arizona farms: A legacy of tradition embracing animal care and comfort through modern technology Sponsored Stories Quick workouts for men Technical and political restraints could decrease the risks of militants obtaining and using chemical weapons.Militant groups may lack the proper gear, training and logistics to move chemical weapons, said Michael Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Some chemicals are stored in heavy bulk containers, while so-called binary munitions for missile warheads require separate components that are likely stored separately, he noted.Smaller munitions, such as an artillery shell filled with chemical agents, would be easy to move, Bucci said. Militants could “fit it in a suitcase, carry it around and use it by hooking it up to other munitions,” he said.Hezbollah could be deterred by the threat of Israeli retaliation, said Stewart. Such payback would jeopardize Hezbollah’s standing as a key military and political force in Lebanon.“The largest concern is jihadist actors getting their hands on chemical weapons munitions and using them in the region,” such as firing rockets at Israel or targeting Western diplomatic missions in the area, he said.For now, the West’s best options are deterrence and containment, analysts said.This includes warning the regime and the rebels of the dire consequences of using or losing control of chemical weapons and working with Syria’s neighbors, particularly Jordan and Turkey, to prevent chemical weapons from being smuggled out of Syria. Clean energy: Why it matters for Arizona
INDIANAPOLIS – The Commission on College Basketball danced around whether college athletes should be able to cash in on their names, images and likenesses, but Condoleezza Rice’s remarks to the NCAA suggested she thinks it is good idea.“We don’t believe that the NCAA can legislate in this area until the legal parameters become clearer,” the former U.S. Secretary of State said Wednesday morning while presenting the commission’s findings to NCAA leaders. “That said, most Commissioners believe that the rules on name, image, and likeness should be taken up as soon as the legal framework is established.“It is hard for the public, and frankly for me, to understand what can be allowed within the college model – for the life of me I don’t understand the difference between Olympic payments and participation in ‘Dancing with the Stars’ – and what can’t be allowed without opening the door to professionalizing college basketball,” Rice said.Rice, the chairwoman of the commission, presented a 60-page report to NCAA leaders Wednesday that recommended sweeping changes for college basketball — from NBA draft rules to youth basketball to NCAA rules enforcement.The commission clearly stated it did not believe college basketball players should be paid a salary for competition. But something similar to an Olympic model, where athletes are compensated by outside sources, could be workable — once the courts work though the issue.In a case brought by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon , a judge ruled that the NCAA for years inappropriately used the names, images and likenesses for athletes and said the NCAA should be required to allow schools to pay athletes for NIL. An appeals court vacated that requirement to allow payments of limited deferred compensation.Rice’s mention of “Dancing with the Stars” was a reference to Notre Dame basketball star Arike Ogunbowale’s upcoming appearance on the popular ABC show. Ogunbowale became a national star during the women’s Final Four when she made game-winning buzzer-beaters in the semifinals and final.She was asked to go on the show, but needed a waiver from the NCAA to participate and accept any benefits. Otherwise, she could have put her eligibility in jeopardy. The NCAA granted the waiver because the show was unrelated to her basketball abilities.In another case involving a college athlete earning money away from the field, Central Florida kicker Donald De La Haye was ruled ineligible last year for running a YouTube channel that sold advertisements. De La Haye gave up football rather than his channel.“Personally, I hope that there will be more room in the college model today for this kind of benefit to students without endangering the college model itself,” Rice said. “And let me just say that I hope Arike wins “Dancing with the Stars.”___For more AP college basketball coverage: http://collegebasketball.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_Top25 Commission dances around name, image and likeness debate by Ralph D. Russo, The Associated Press Posted Apr 25, 2018 9:15 am PDT Last Updated Apr 25, 2018 at 10:00 am PDT AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to RedditRedditShare to 電子郵件Email