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After wrapping up a game-high eight tackles in the game, Singleton was able to share the Grey Cup with his family, including his sister Ashley, who has Down Syndrome and competes in the Special Olympics, in a moment that went viral online.
“She was just happy it wasn’t that heavy,” Singleton told TSN last week. “I play this game, but they’ve been with me my entire life.
Singleton, who presented the Grey Cup to the crowd at the Calgary Flames’ home game against Dallas on Wednesday, was part of Calgary teams that fell to Toronto and Ottawa, respectively, in the last two Grey Cup finals. He’s had 19 tackles in the last three Grey Cups.
“The past is the past, but we’re 2018 (champions),” Singleton said.
The CFL’s Most Outstanding Defensive Player last season, Singleton had 138 tackles and two forced fumbles in his third season north of the border.
He officially returned to the All-CFL team on Tuesday.
Calgary finished the season with a league-best 13-5 record and edged Winnipeg 22-14 in the Western Division final to reach the title game.
Former Cal Lutheran University star Eric Rogers, who had a team-high six catches for 64 yards in the final, caught all three touchdowns in the win over Winnipeg, which ended with Singleton recovering an onsides kick.
Calgary’s two stars, Singleton and quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, have been linked to offseason moves to the NFL.
But the former Seattle, New England and Minnesota practice squad player wouldn’t discuss the potential move when TSN asked during the parade.
After two years spent recovering from knee injuries, Rogers told the Calgary Herald last week that this was the most rewarding season of his career.
The question is will it be his last?
Rogers reveled after the Grey Cup win that he had suffered another knee injury, a meniscus tear, between his second and third touchdown catches in the Western Division final.
The former Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers receiver admitted that he’ll have to consider retirement in the offseason.
Rogers, who had already recovered from an in-season knee procedure that allowed him to return for the postseason, said an MRI performed during the week leading up to the Grey Cup had revealed new damage.
“It’s tough, if I’m able to figure something out this offseason to make it improve or just make it more consistent, then I’d love to be back,” Rogers said. “The real goal is to be able to play for as long as you can, maybe three or four more years, but if not, I want to be able to run around a little bit.
Jake Constantine is making another playoff run.
The former Camarillo High and Ventura College quarterback had five touchdowns — four passing and one rushing — as second-seeded Weber State opened the NCAA Division I-FCS playoffs with a 48-23 win over Southeast Missouri State last Saturday.
Constantine threw four touchdowns in the second quarter as the Wildcats, after trailing 7-0 early, blew the game open with 34 straight points.
No. 2 Weber State (10-2) hosts No. 7 Maine in the quarterfinals Friday night. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
A boating and water sports basin proposed as part of a retail and recreation complex along the San Francisco waterfront could be contaminated several times a year by sewage that empties from an overflow pipe, environmentalists said Tuesday.
The environmentalists raised the concerns one day before a public meeting on the complex at Piers 27-31 at which officials with the Port of San Francisco and the developer, Mills Corp., will discuss an environmental study for the project.
Mills won the exclusive right in 2001 to develop the 23-acre waterfront site. The company's plan calls for a 110,000-square-foot YMCA, space for offices, shops and restaurants, and the sailing and boating basin, which has been touted as a main recreational use of the property.
A coalition of residents and business owners along the Embarcadero has protested the project, saying it will draw more cars to the already congested area and focuses too heavily on commercial uses.
Now environmentalists say boaters could be sickened by millions of gallons of sewage that could flood into the proposed basin from a combined sewage overflow pipe located at Sansome Street and the Embarcadero.
The overflows could even force the closure of the basin, which will not be used for swimming, after heavy rains, the Sierra Club and the environmental group San Francisco Tomorrow said in a letter to Port Director Monique Moyer.
"Having one of these pipes in the marine water sports basin is a serious problem," said John Rizzo, chair of the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club. "According to one that we tested, 40 percent of the time it had disease- causing bacteria in it, serious stuff like E. coli. If you're going to have people in the wa...
Jennifer Clary of San Francisco Tomorrow said, "When you have overflows, you have bacteria and you won't be able to use it. I would think it would be a concern for Mills."
David D'Onofrio, a spokesman for Mills, said Tuesday that concerns over the sewage pipe were not new and that the company was working with environmental groups to limit any potential exposure.
"There are actually 43 of these outflow pipes around the city ... and during overflow events San Franciscans need to be cautious about the water quality in the bay," he said. "Certainly, we all wish there was zero discharge into the bay, but this is not the case.
"We agree with the Sierra Club and S.F. Tomorrow that water quality in the basin is a critical issue, and the Piers 27-31 team will continue to do everything within our power to protect visitors to our site," D'Onofrio said.
San Francisco's Public Health Department has been concerned about the effects of sewage overflows on kayakers at the site and suggested that the water be monitored and warning signs posted, according to a May 2003 letter sent by city health inspectors to the Planning Department as part of a review of the project.
John Mundy, an environmental inspector for the port, said overflows into the basin could occur three to five times a year and should not pose a hazard to sailors operating larger watercraft.
"I understand that there's a public perception issue around having kayaking lessons and rowing lessons with children, with them being exposed to small amounts of runoff," he said.
Port officials have talked with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission about monitoring water at the site. And Mills has suggested closing the basin for 48 hours after any runoff.
The Port Commission gave its approval in November to the Mills project, which still faces a host of environmental reviews and could ultimately be appealed to the Board of Supervisors.
Rizzo said there is no evidence that Mills has tested the water quality at the site.
"There are state laws that would be violated by having activities here," he said. "We don't believe they have taken any measurements of disease-causing bacteria after heavy rainfall. They need to take the measurements to see what we have there. Then they need to come up with a plan to deal with it."
Dan Gecker, a member of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, is the 2015 Democratic nominee for the 10th District state Senate seat in Virginia. Gecker served on the Chesterfield Planning Commission from 2000-2007 and subsequently has been elected to two terms on the Board of Supervisors. Gecker holds a degree...
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Find out how you can make money when the stock market falls.
Most investors focus on owning stocks with the expectation that they'll rise in value. During bull markets, that strategy works very well. When bear markets strike, however, owning stocks is often painful.
Bear funds can help those who want to make money when stocks fall because they're designed to have their prices rise when the market declines. The market has done so well recently, and bear funds have gotten crushed lately, but investors stand ready to reap rewards if the market turns.
There are a couple of different ways that most bear funds structure their investments to benefit from falling markets. Index-based bear funds use derivatives to produce a daily return that's equal to the inverse of the return of the target market. For instance, with the Short S&P 500 fund above, if the S&P 500 drops 2%...
By tailoring derivative exposure, you can also get leverage through bear funds. The UltraShort S&P 500 ETF is a two-times leverage bear fund, meaning that a 1% decline in the S&P 500 should produce a 2% rise for the fund shares. Funds that look at a variety of different tracking indexes are available.
Other bear funds use active management strategies, seeking to take advantage of the most overvalued markets. The Prudent Bear Fund has short positions in ETFs that track the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 small-cap index, as well as certain sectors such as energy and industrials. Interestingly, it also has long positions in ...
Grizzly Short Fund uses an individual-stock approach, but it doesn't typically use long positions. Instead, the fund has 77 different stocks that it has sold short, with information technology and industrials being the sectors with the biggest short positions.
For short-term purposes, bear funds can be extremely valuable. Bear markets tend to be shorter than bull markets, but they are also often much more violent in their movements. As a result, if you get the timing right -- and that's a huge if -- then owning bear funds tactically can let you profit from bear markets and p...
The problem with bear funds is that their track records over the long haul are poor. From year to year, stock-market returns can be positive or negative. Over periods of a decade or more, it's rare for stocks to post declines, and over longer periods, they're nearly unheard of.
Moreover, some bear funds use strategies that don't lend themselves well to long-term investors. Index bear funds that use derivatives can lose ground even in flat markets because of the tactics they employ and their relatively high expenses.
Should you own bear funds?
If you're planning to bet against the market, then owning a bear fund has some advantages over more aggressive alternatives. Bear funds are safer than having short positions in stocks, because losses are limited. You can also invest retirement-account assets in bear funds, even though you can't short stocks in a retire...
As long-term plays, bear funds rarely make sense because of the overall upward trajectory of the market. For tactical positions that you don't expect to hold for a long time, however, bear funds can be useful.
Despite this being the former French colony's first trip to the World Cup finals, they undoubtedly have the strike power to achieve greatness. Many of their players play in Europe's best leagues, and many more could join them should the Elephants play to their potential.
Key question: Can The Elephants become the first African team to reach the semi-finals?
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We are hiring an Aquaponic Program Manager and have taken possession of a 3000 sq ft greenhouse on campus to establish an Aquaponic Research Facility.
We have two new PhD. candidates joining us this fall. One from the Animal Biology Graduate Group and the other from the Graduate Group Ecology.
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Salesforce seeks to grow its Japanese business with the appointment of Shinichi Koide as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its Japan operations.
Salesforce.com is attempting to expand its operations in Japan with the appointment of executives assigned the task of growing the business in to a billion-dollar industry.
The CRM software developer has appointed former Hewlett-Packard Japan head Shinichi Koide as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its Japanese operations. Koide has been charged with the task of expanding the firm's Japanese operations in to a $1bn a year business able to support over 2,000 employees.
In addition, senior VP and head of enterprise sales at Salesforce Japan, Hitoshi Kawahara, will step up to a new role as President and COO. Kawahara will lead the company's enterprise sales and distribution teams, and will also oversee business operations.
"Our dream is to build Salesforce Japan into a billion dollar business with more than two thousand employees," said Keith Block, president and vice chairman. "With Shinichi Koide joining our exceptional Japan leadership team, Salesforce Japan is well-positioned to deliver on its next decade of growth."
Koide began his career at IBM in 1981 before spending seven years at HP Japan, where he led the PC maker's hardware, software, and service businesses.
In April, Salesforce announced the creation of the New Industries Business Unit, which aims to deliver social, mobile, and connected cloud solutions for financial services and insurance, healthcare, consumer products, communications and media, the public sector, and manufacturing. In addition, Salesforce is constructin...
A white moggy called Theo, who pawed and sat on his owner all night to stop her falling asleep after she developed a blood clot, was crowned British Cat of the Year yesterday.
Theo, who died a few days ago, beat hundreds of other champion felines to take the top honour at the annual awards ceremony, held at London's Savoy Hotel, where his owner Charlotte Dixon collected the prize.
"The paramedic said he thought I had a blood clot and it was a good thing I hadn’t slept, as I probably wouldn’t have woken up again," said Dixon, who had nursed Theo back to health from serious illness as a kitten.
Other prize winners included black and white cat Arthur, who helped his owner overcome mental health issues and two-year-old Toby, who alerts his owner to the onset of a debilitating seizure.
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Albrecht, Dylan Judd, "Applications of Holographic Dualities" (2013). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539623624.
She even alluded to “a figure on the side of a bus a while back of £350 million a week in cash” – the now-infamous suggestion from the Leave campaign that the UK could spend more money on the NHS if we quit the EU.
But is this funding boost for the ailing health service really thanks to a Brexit dividend?
Is this the £350 million a week?
Regular FactCheck readers will know that the £350 million a week figure that was bandied around ahead of the Brexit referendum has a bad reputation round these parts.
For new readers, suffice it to say: our net contribution to the EU budget is more like £234 million a week. Still a fair whack, of course, but significantly lower than the headline figure.
But this week’s announcement – according to Mrs May – will see the NHS better off to the tune of £600 million a week in real terms by 2023-24.
That’s more than double the more accurate £234 million sum, so it’s hard to see how this can be wholly funded by what we save on EU membership fees by leaving the trade bloc.
And either way, the money we could have saved has already been earmarked to cover the costs of leaving.
The divorce bill – the severance fee that the UK has agreed to pay the EU in order to leave the trade bloc – is expected to cost Britain about £40 billion.
The government has also committed to replace EU funding so that any UK businesses, universities and industries that currently receive cash from EU institutions will have those costs covered by the government.
In other words, we’ve already spent our pot of savings from membership fees.
In the long term, there will be a saving of some kind from membership fees that we no longer have to pay. But we don’t know whether a future Brexit deal will involve contributions to the EU budget.
Could it be from some extra economic boost caused by Brexit?
Let’s ignore membership fees for a second: could this be about wider economic gains from Brexit?
We can argue indefinitely about whether in the long (or very long) term, Britain will be better off outside of the EU.
What we do know is that analysis from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility predicts Brexit will leave UK public finances £15 billion a year worse off by the early 2020s. They put this down to lower than expected investment growth, lower future net immigration, and greater inflation. A no-deal Brexit would b...
Indeed, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, has conceded that even if Brexit delivers no economic benefits, the extra funding for the NHS will still go ahead.
Many take this as a sign that the extra cash will have to come from tax hikes and increased borrowing. It’s been reported that the government is considering a freeze on tax thresholds to cover half of the £20 billion boost.
Is it about politics rather than economics?
There’s an argument that goes like this: the £350 million a week figure – although wrong – may have created an expectation among voters that leaving the EU would free up money for the NHS. Therefore, the vote to leave the EU creates a political – or some might say, moral – obligation on the government to meet that expe...
But there’s two big flaws in that argument.
First, the £350 million a week figure was not put forward as a formal pledge, like the sort of thing parties campaign on in a general election. Some say this is one of the problems of holding referenda: it’s harder to hold politicians to account when they’re campaigning on a single issue rather than forming a governmen...
The second problem with this argument is that it’s entirely possible that the government would have – eventually – felt obliged to increase funding for the NHS.
After all, the main pressures on the health service are independent of Britain’s membership of the EU.
We have an ageing population, a crisis in social care, and have seen eight years of government cuts. It’s likely that at some point – Brexit or no Brexit – the government would have succumbed to pressure from campaigners and the public to inject some cash into the system.
By the way, you might think that the pressures on the NHS will ease up if we have fewer EU migrants as a result of Brexit. But it’s not so clear-cut.

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