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At our last meeting in May we welcomed Sue Terry and Barbara both puppy walkers for Guide Dogs for the Blind with two adorable well behaved dogs, Toffee and Esme. Sue explained that only two-thirds of all dogs make it through training and when they are ready they are matched carefully with their new owners taking into ... |
There will be excellent prizes to be won on the raffle and a selection of books and puzzles in the library to be bought or borrowed. |
If you have ever worked for the NHS in any area, why not try our ever growing friendly group. We are the local branch of the National Fellowship and meet once a month at The Health Centre, Bexhill Hospital. For further details phone the chairman on 01424 210934 or the membership secretary on 01424 539283. |
Sophomore left-hander Elliott Surrey threw a four-hit shutout to give the host Anteaters their second complete game in as many days in the nonconference game Saturday. |
Surrey struck out six and did not walk a batter to improve to 2-2. He threw 97 pitches. |
Junior third baseman Taylor Sparks tripled in a run in the first and scored on a single by junior catcher Jerry McClanahan. |
Singles by Kris Paulino, Mikey Duarte and Adam Alcantara produced a run for the hosts (15-7) in the fifth and McClanahan doubled in a run in the eighth to cap the eight-hit attack. |
McClanahan and Sparks were two for four. |
Grand Canyon, for which former UCI assistant Nathan Choate and former UCI player Gregg Wallis are assistant coaches, is 10-11. |
The three-game series concludes Sunday at 1 p.m. |
PHOENIX — Freshman Brandon Sandoval went a combined six for nine with five runs batted in to lead visiting Vanguard to a Golden State Athletic Conference sweep over Arizona Christian on Saturday. |
Sandoval lifted his team-leading batting average 26 points to .388 and also took over the team lead with 24 RBIs. HE was three for five with three RBIs in a 12-4 Game 1 triumph and was three for four with two RBIs in the 4-1 Game 2 win. |
John Schwer was two for four with two RBIs and Nick Rodda was two for three with one RBI in the opener, while John Collins was two for three with one RBI and Taylor McKnight was two for four with one RBI in the second game. |
Clayton Voechting allowed one run on 10 hits in a seven-inning complete game in Game 2 to improve to 4-2. |
Eddie Rivera (4-1) got the win and Richard Perry earned his second save in the first game. |
Vanguard (20-11, 13-8 in conference) swept the three-game series against the Firestorm (10-20, 4-17). |
PHOENIX — Alexandra Olvera threw a five-inning one-hit shutout to help visiting Vanguard University sweep Golden State Athletic Conference rival Arizona Christian on Saturday. |
Olvera struck out three and walked three in a 10-0 Game 2 win that followed the Lions' 2-1 opening-game win in seven innings. |
Taylor Hallahan and Summer Penner drove in runs with hits in the opener. |
Breanne Gomez was three for three with three runs batted in in the second game, in which both Shelby Kuryllo and Haley Croce were two for three with two RBIs. |
Taylor Wilson and Brittany Cooper were two for three with one RBI apiece and Hallahan was two for four in Game 2. |
Rachel Stalford allowed six hits and one unearned run to improve to 10-3. |
Vanguard is now 23-12, 5-5 in conference. |
The Firestorm is 8-18, 1-9. |
UC Irvine junior Itos Aikhionbare won the shot put and discus throw on Saturday at UCI, the third consecutive week she has accomplished the feat. |
Her shot put mark was 50 feet, 10 1/4 inches and she went 156-7 in the discus. |
UCI freshman Megan George won the 100-meter hurdles in 13.94 seconds and freshman Ariel Cheng won the pole vault (12-5 1/2 , the second-best mark in UCI annals). |
Chelsea Schneider (2:14.96) and Lauren Hall (2:15.95) finished third and fourth, respectively, in the 800 and Ericka Nowell was third in the 400 hurdles in 1:00.09. |
Kaulyn Lee-McNeill was fifth in the 400 hurdles in 1:02.45. |
Saniya Syed was fourth in the 400 in 57.65 and Melanie Speech was fourth in the javelin (120-3). |
UCI finished third among eight teams with 114.5. Northern Arizona won with 155.5. |
The Anteaters compete in the UC Riverside Spring Classic Thursday through Saturday. |
Freshman Isaiah Thompson won the 800 meters, freshman Brandon Howard won the 400 hurdles and junior Mason Miller won the shot put to highlight UCI performances on Saturday at Anteater Stadium. |
Thompson topped the field in 1 minute, 52.22 seconds, while Howard's winning time was 53.02. |
Miller's winning mark was 55 feet, 9 inches. He was third in the discus (153-2). |
Lloyd Sicard was second in the 110 high hurdles (14.29) and Stephen Brown was second in the pole vault (15-7). |
Cameron Vaca (fourth in 400 hurdles in 54.60), James Douglas (fifth in the high hurdles in 14.61) and Kyle Hubbard (sixth in the high hurdles in 14.84) also stood out for the Anteaters. |
UCI was fourth as a team, 57 points behind victorious Cal State Fullerton. |
The Project Zero all-electric vertical-lift aircraft. |
AgustaWestland last month received the 2014 American Helicopter Museum and Education Center’s achievement award for “advancements in rotary-wing technologies,” based on the Project Zero tiltrotor demonstrator program. Dr. James Wang, the manufacturer’s research-and-development vice president, accepted the award. Led by... |
“Project Zero’s stunning design, disruptive innovation and accelerated development represent a significant accomplishment and is an inspiration to all,” said Marc Sheffler, chairman of the museum’s board. The American Helicopter Museum and Education Center is located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. |
Redfin today unveiled a new free “Redfin Data Center” tool that lets anyone download, visualize and share the latest data on home prices, sales and inventory, and more. |
Redfin utilizes MLS data that its agents already have in order to improve the quality of information on the platform, which is powered by Tableau to help people create and share data visualizations. It also provides info related to homebuyer demand — a percentage change in the number of Redfin customers asking for tour... |
At launch, there are 159 metropolitan areas represented in the Redfin Data Center, with more to come on a monthly basis. |
I heard a story recently about a fairly well-known evangelical figure who was confronted about public statements he had made in writing and interviews. A fellow believer met and reasoned with him for several hours, explaining that he believed the leader had deceived his audience. When the facts became overwhelming, thi... |
You’re wondering who this evangelical leader is, but in a sense it doesn’t matter, because he could be just about anybody. The belief that American voters must be manipulated rather than reasoned with if we want to institute any meaningful change is endemic. But this belief is essentially nihilist because it makes all ... |
Last week CNBC invited me to debate former Morgan Stanley star economist Andy Xie for about 20 minutes in a China "Bull vs. Bear" showdown. You can see the three segments here, here and here. Xie has been one of the most vocal bears on China's economy for years. He even wrote a few weeks ago that some real estate marke... |
Scary stuff. But how credible are Xie's arguments? Xie overestimates the dangers of high prices and empty apartments, because he wrongly dismisses the role leverage plays in causing bubbles. Leverage, not high prices, causes systemic risks. China has policies that force residential buyers to have enough cash in hand (3... |
However, although I disagree with the bears' fear of imminent collapse, all is not rosy in China's real estate sector. There are some very real concerns that the government needs to address. |
First, there simply is not enough low- and middle-income housing, because developers build luxury apartments where the fattest margins are. The government recognizes this problem and has slowed the construction of heavy-land-use standalone villas (most homes in China are in skyscrapers). It also has limited the number ... |
What the government should be doing is forcing developers who build luxury apartments to also build cheaper units farther away from downtown. These should include a large number of rental units at below market rates that are available for people not originally from the locality. But they should have owners, too, to kee... |
During the great privatization of homes, state-owned enterprises sold housing units to their employees at below market rates. The result is that if you are from Shanghai or another urban area, you probably have decent housing now. However, people who move to Shanghai from other cities can't find adequate housing. Gradu... |
Second, building quality homes in the middle of nowhere does no good without cheap and convenient transportation, so China actually needs to invest more, not less, as many argue, in infrastructure. Many bears like Prof. Michael Pettis of Peking University fret that China is relying too heavily on infrastructure investm... |
Japan's infrastructure investment is incredibly wasteful. Roads and projects prop up tiny hamlets that are unsustainable without subsidies. China, on the other hand, is investing in projects like subway systems in its major cities like Chengdu and in railroads that increase productivity, much as Japan did in the 1960s,... |
There is still more room for growth, however. China has more than 100 cities with a million or more people, and most of those cities still don't have subways. Traffic snarls are horrible. And faster railroads are needed to connect those cities. Last year it took 12 hours by rail to travel between Shanghai and Wuhan, wh... |
Finally, though there's no real estate bubble right now, China is absolutely not immune to bubbles and economic cycles. At some point, the country's growth will slow, perhaps a lot, and there certainly will be recessions. But that time is not now. China's economy is still starting from a low point, and its market remai... |
My firm, the China Market Research Group, interviewed executives from several hundred big multinationals over the past quarter, and 80% of them said they planned to substantially increase domestic investment over the next three years. Most expect increased profits this year. |
China has very real economic challenges to face. However, these challenges do not threaten a systemic collapse. On the contrary, the difficulties and opportunities to provide more housing and infrastructure for an urbanizing and increasingly wealthy population mean that China still has years of growth left, much as Jap... |
A prominent computer hacker who believes it was a Democratic National Committee insider who stole the DNC emails that were made public by WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign is doubling down on his claim. |
The hacker, Kim Dotcom, said in a tweet Monday that “the DNC hack wasn’t even a hack,” reported Tyler Durden at the Zerohedge blog. |
“It was an insider with a memory stick. I know this because I know who did it and why. Special Counsel Mueller is not interested in my evidence. My lawyers wrote to him twice. He never replied. 360 pounds,” Dotcom wrote. |
Dotcom previously claimed DNC staffer Seth Rich, whose murder in July 2016 remains unsolved, was behind the leak of the emails to WikiLeaks and was developing technologies to expose corruption and the influence of corporate money in politics. |
The comments came after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment on Friday of 13 Russians for allegedly trying to spread chaos in the 2016 election. The indictment specifically noted any Trump campaign operatives who may have been spotted during the investigation were unaware of the scheme. |
If you would like to see more investigative reporting about the unsolved murder of Seth Rich, consider supporting WND’s project through its GoFundMe campaign. |
Rich, who was officially working on voter-registration systems for the DNC in the summer of 2016, was gunned down by unknown attackers in the early hours of July 10, 2016, just blocks from his home. The official police investigation into Rich’s murder has turned up no suspects or any motives for the crime. |
The official explanation that his murder likely was a robbery gone bad remains unconvincing to many because his watch, wallet and other valuables were left untouched. |
WikiLeaks began publishing tens of thousands of Clinton campaign and DNC emails 12 days after Rich was killed. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is offering a $10,000 reward to find Rich’s murderer or murderers and has suggested that Rich may be the source of the leaked emails. |
The leaks revealed a panoply of questionable activities on the part of the DNC, which clearly was all in for Clinton even during the primary. |
The report explained why that issue is so significant today, especially to Democrats still faithful to the theory that it was Russians in collusion with the Trump campaign that stole the computer data. |
“The local transfer theory of course [blew] the Russian hacking narrative out of the water, lending credibility to the theory that the DNC ‘hack’ was in fact an inside job, potentially implication IT staffer, Seth Rich,” Zerohedge said. |
Significantly, the DNC declined to allow anyone, law enforcement included, to examine the server that allegedly was hacked. |
Dotcom has volunteered to testify to Congress regarding the Russia investigation and the DNC email leak. |
WND has reported the allegedly hacked DNC email server is the key piece of forensic evidence in Russia’s suspected interference in the 2016 presidential election. The intelligence-community assessment released in January 2017 on purported Russian meddling in the race, conducted by the CIA, the FBI and the NSA, conclude... |
But the intelligence agencies attributing the sweeping cyber-intrusion to Russia-backed hackers have yet to provide any evidence. Not a single government agency has even viewed the hacked computer servers to conduct a forensic data-breach investigation. |
The father of Mesut Ozil said Sunday his son should quit Germany’s national squad after he was “made the scapegoat” for Die Mannschaft’s shock first-round defeat at the World Cup. |
Ozil, 29, has come in for hefty criticism in Germany after the World Champions crashed out in Russia, finishing bottom of their group. |
Pressure had already been mounting on the Arsenal midfielder in the World Cup run-up over a controversial photograph with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that was seized on to question his loyalty to Germany. |
On Thursday, Germany’s team boss Oliver Bierhoff sparked a new round of outcry over a statement suggesting Ozil, who has Turkish roots, should have been dropped after his failure to publicly clear up the Erdogan meeting. |
“This statement is insolent. In my opinion, it is aimed at saving one’s own skin,” said the mid-fielder’s father Mustafa Ozil in an interview with Bild am Sonntag. |
Bierhoff later backtracked, apologising that he “was wrong”. |
Ozil senior said he believed his son had agreed to have a photograph taken with Erdogan only out of “politeness” and that it was never meant to be a political statement. |
He also defended Ozil for not having spoken out to clarify his position. |
“He no longer wants to explain himself, he no longer wants to have to defend himself all the time. He has been playing for nine years in the German team… including becoming world champions with the A-team. |
“He has contributed a lot for this country. It has always been: if we win, we win together. |
“But when we lose, we lose because of Ozil? He is now getting whistled at and made a scapegoat. I can understand if he feels insulted,” said the midfielder’s father. |
“The hurt has grown too strong. And who knows what’ll happen at the next match. In Mesut’s place, I would step down. But that’s just my very personal opinion,” he said. |
trading partner ahead of a key U.S. labor report due on Friday. |
Markets faltered after data showed tepid growth in the U.S. |
index fell to 53.5 in April from 56.0 in March. |
rate hike, got caught up in the downward spiral. |
probably weighing on sentiment a little bit. A weaker U.S. |
positions as those expectations come off," he added. |
finish at C$0.9865 against the greenback, or $1.0137. |
including the euro and Japanese yen. |
and C$0.9900 against the greenback. |
from now, a Reuters poll showed. |
crisis have given traders pause. |
Nonfarm payrolls data is expected to show hiring by U.S. |
was up 20 Canadian cents to yield 2.086 percent. |
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