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CyclingCycling
Sky to end backing of Team Sky after 2019 season
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Sky to end involvement in Team Sky after 2019 season
Geraint Thomas (left) and Chris Froome (right) celebrate making the Tour de France podium in Paris Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Sky will end its involvement in cycling after the 2019 season in a move that could end Team Sky's participation in professional road races such as the Tour de France, the team announced Wednesday.
The team, which has won eight Grand Tours since 2012, will continue to race under a different name if a new sponsor is secured to provide funding from the beginning of 2020.
"We can't predict what will happen from 2020 and there are no guarantees," Team Sky admitted in an open letter to fans.
"Whatever happens, we will make sure there is clarity one way or the other about the future of the Team before the Tour de France next July."
Team Sky was founded in 2009 and raced for the first time a year later. The aim for the team was to see a Brit win the Tour de France for the first time within five years. An aim it achieved in just two with Sir Bradley Wiggins' historic victory in 2012. Five further Tour de France titles followed for the team, four for Chris Froome, while Geraint Thomas triumphed earlier this year.
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However, the team's rise to the top of professional cycling has been controversial with Sky's huge budget dwarfing that of its rivals -- the media giant has invested more than £180m over the last 10 years in the team. There have also been several allegations of cheating in recent years, the most high-profile of which was UK Anti-Doping Agency's [UKAD] investigation into the team over a 'jiffy-bag' delivered to Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011.
UKAD dropped its investigation in 2017 because of "the lack of contemporaneous evidence". However, following that investigation, a parliamentary inquiry launched by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport ruled that the team had "crossed an ethical line" in its manipulation of the anti-doping system.
There was also controversy last year with Froome returning an urine test at the Vuelta a Espana, a race he went on to win, that found he had double the permitted level of asthma drug Salbutamol in his system. The presidents of the UCI and WADA went on to agree that Froome had no case to answer.
On Sky's decision, team principle Sir Dave Brailsford said: "While Sky will be moving on at the end of next year, the team is open-minded about the future and the potential of working with a new partner, should the right opportunity present itself.
"We aren't finished yet by any means. There is another exciting year of racing ahead of us and we will be doing everything we can to deliver more Team Sky success in 2019.
"For now, I would like to thank all Team Sky riders and staff, past and present -- and above all the fans who have supported us on this adventure."
Comcast has recently completed the takeover of Sky in a deal valued at around £30bn ($38bn) after outbidding 21st Century Fox. With that in mind, Sky's chief executive Jeremy Darroch believes now is the right time for the company to review the projects they are involved in.
In a statement, Darroch said: "The end of 2019 is the right time for us to move on as we open a new chapter in Sky's story and turn our focus to different initiatives including our Sky Ocean Rescue campaign."
The team's riders, including Thomas and Froome were told of the decision overnight during a winter training camp in Mallorca.
Team Sky have recently signed new long-term contracts with some members of its roster. Thomas signed a new three-year deal with the team in September while promising 21-year-old Colombian rider Egan Bernal, who is seen by the team as a future Grand Tour winner, signed a new five-year deal in October.
21st Century Fox has also announced it is ending its association with professional cycling. The organisation held a minority stake of 15 percent in Team Sky.
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Broken Symmetries
Paul Preuss
“Paul Preuss has done a fine thing. He has written a magnificent book in BROKEN SYMMETRIES. I admire his knowledge and artistry.” —Roger Zelazny
BROKEN SYMMETRIES introduces theoretical physicist Peter Slater and world-traveling photojournalist Anne-Marie Brand. They meet in Hawaii, where Anne-Marie is in pursuit of a story about the giant atom-smasher TERAC, the newest and biggest particle accelerator in the world, built amidst the pineapple fields of Oahu. Dr. Martin Edovich is the triumphant scientist behind the project—he claims that “his” discovery of I-particles will win him the Nobel Prize and change the face of physics.
But Peter Slater predicted the existence of I-particles long ago and suspects that they are unstable—explosive and potentially cataclysmic. And as TERAC ramps up, Slater’s theory is about to be tested.
The symmetries of matter itself are about to be unexpectedly broken, unleashing the fury of self-annihilation…
Preuss, Paul
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County may raise litigation fees to cover judges' pay
The Rutherford County Commission may raise litigation fees by $3.65 to cover pay for General Sessions Court judges.
County may raise litigation fees to cover judges' pay The Rutherford County Commission may raise litigation fees by $3.65 to cover pay for General Sessions Court judges. Check out this story on dnj.com: http://on.dnj.com/1Rb9Prl
Scott Broden, sbroden@dnj.com Published 7:00 p.m. CT Jan. 6, 2016 | Updated 7:00 p.m. CT Jan. 6, 2016
Lisa Nolen(Photo: Helen Comer)
MURFREESBORO — The Rutherford County Commission may raise the litigation tax by $3.65 to cover the salary and benefits of General Sessions Court judges.
"It's a user fee," said Lisa Nolen, County Finance director, during an interview at her office at the County Courthouse on the Square in Murfreesboro.
The seven-member County Commission Budget, Finance & Investment Committee will consider the proposal during a meeting scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 205 on the second floor of the courthouse.
The full 21-member County Commission may approve increasing the existing litigation tax from $10.35 to $14 during a meeting scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Jan. 14 in the second-floor courtroom of the courthouse.
The county government in the previous fiscal year collected $230,271 in revenues from the litigation tax, and that fell short of covering the $406,969 needed to pay for the three judges' salaries and benefits, said Nolen, noting that money from other taxpayer revenues had to be used to make up the difference.
The pay for the General Sessions Court judges in the previous fiscal year that ended June 30 was an annual salary of $158,636 if they served the whole year. This fiscal year's salary for General Sessions Court judges Ben Hall McFarlin, Barry Tidwell and Toby Gilley is $161,175, based on state law that required a 1.6 percent increase to keep up with inflation, the finance director added.
McFarlin won re-election and started another eight-year term in September 2014, while Gilley and Tidwell won their seats to start similar terms at that time.
Commissioner Will Jordan supports the proposal to raise the litigation fee by $3.65 per lawsuit.
Will Jordan (Photo: Helen Comer/DNJ)
"I know the state sets the judges' salary and the county is obligated to pay it," said Jordan, who is chairman of the budget committee.
The increase is "going to cover the expense of the courts to try to take some of the burden of the taxpayers and make the court be more self-sustaining," Jordan said.
"It just makes more sense to let the ones using the services pay for them," Jordan said.
Contact Scott Broden at 615-278-5158. Follow him on Twitter @ScottBroden.
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Students get immersed in 5-day MTSU language classes
Amy Campbell needed no more than five days of Spanish class to start speaking sentences in the language.
Students get immersed in 5-day MTSU language classes Amy Campbell needed no more than five days of Spanish class to start speaking sentences in the language. Check out this story on dnj.com: http://on.dnj.com/1RiYCoO
Brian Wilson, bwilson@dnj.com Published 6:54 p.m. CT Jan. 11, 2016 | Updated 6:55 p.m. CT Jan. 11, 2016
Middle Tennessee State University offers five language courses as part of the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition.(Photo: Brian Wilson / DNJ.com)Buy Photo
MURFREESBORO — Amy Campbell needed no more than five days of Spanish class to start speaking sentences in the language.
The Murfreesboro resident was pleasantly surprised by her progress during the five-day course that's part of the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition at Middle Tennessee State University.
“As someone who’s never studied a language before, I find it very approachable,” Campbell said. “There’s a can-do attitude associated with it.”
Students, teachers and the public can attend the center’s week-long classes for an intense introduction to a variety of languages, said Brian Roberts, the assistant director of CALA who has taught the accelerated courses since 2006.
While the center has offered two Spanish courses and a Chinese course during the winter break, instructors plan to teach five-day courses in at least seven languages during the summer.
Roberts said the short timeline is enough to drill key words and language rules into students’ memories.
“What was unique about CALA Language Institute was that it used very hands-on, immersive methods,” Roberts said.
Roberts described the courses as enveloping experiences where students are exposed to a few hundred of a language’s most commonly used words.
By the end of the 17-plus-hour course, people become more familiar with those terms and can use them in basic conversation, Roberts said.
“We’re very strategic in making sure these students interact with the words,” Roberts said. “They have it. They speak it. They read it and write it.”
On the last day of the center’s Spanish course held at MTSU’s honors college last week, Spanish was the only language used for the first 20 minutes.
Students rushed around the room responding to Roberts’ instructions to find objects, act out parts of a story or dance in place.
After that, they examined the different parts of the story they acted out. Roberts wrote out the sentence structures tied to the story and paired students to read the story again out loud to each other.
“We’re always moving and interacting with each other,” Roberts said. “Of course we make it very fun, too.”
Campbell, who wanted to learn some basic Spanish as a marketable job skill, said Roberts’ teaching methods made the class more fun and memorable than she expected.
The methods that make the accelerated class successful, Roberts said, include two ways of teaching that build language through physical learning and education through reading and storytelling.
By interacting with the environments around them and creating stories together, students can commit what they're absorbing to their long-term memories, Roberts said.
Those techniques also make what students learn teachable to others, said Marie Barker, a second-grade teacher at Scales Elementary School, who enrolled in last week’s Spanish course.
Barker knew about these learning practices while studying for an English Language Learner endorsement, but said experiencing them firsthand made them easier to teach and implement in her own class.
“I think I can use these teaching methods to help my students learn,” Barker said. “I love it.”
Some enjoyed the class enough to want to return for a second, more expansive course the following week.
Reach Brian Wilson at 615-278-5165. Follow him at Twitter @brianwilson17.
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Moldova Sign Language
A language of Moldova
17,500 total signing deaf in Moldova in all sign languages (2014 IMB).
Scattered.
5* (Developing). Recognized language (2012, Article 25(1), Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, No. 60).
None known. Relatively high lexical similarity to sign languages in Russia [rsl] and Ukraine [ukl] (Bickford 2005).
Agency: Association of the Deaf of the Republic of Moldova.
OLAC resources in and about Moldova Sign Language
Unwritten documents [Zxxx].
Sign language recognized as the official language of Deaf people, as the first language in deaf education, and as the main means of communication between Deaf people and others. Government measures to encourage media to make their information services available to Deaf. Christian.
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Public Release: 2-Jan-2014
EARTH Magazine: Geological travels in Antarctica
Following in the footsteps of giants
American Geosciences Institute
Alexandria, VA - Yesterday, 52 scientists, journalists and tourists were rescued from frozen Antarctic waters, where their ship, the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, had been stuck in ice since December 24th, 2013. Everyone was safe but what would make people travel in such perilous conditions to the southernmost part of the planet? Adventure, history and tremendous scientific research opportunities is what continually draws people to explore the frigid continent.
There, people can see species that exist nowhere else on Earth, can see the remains of ancient supercontinents and can walk in the footsteps of scientific giants like Darwin and Shackleton -- experiencing an environment incomprehensible, and far too inhospitable for most. In the January issue, EARTH Magazine takes you an expedition to the Antarctic through a geoscientist's eyes http://bit.ly/1g3c8Hl.
Get the full geoscience perspective from EARTH Magazine, including articles about farm to table experiences in China and an op-ed on the role of vital energy discussions from documentary filmmaker and geoscientist Scott W. Tinker, by downloading the January 2014 issue or subscribing at http://www.earthmagazine.org.
Keep up to date with the latest happenings in Earth, energy and environment news with EARTH magazine online at http://www.earthmagazine.org/. Published by the American Geosciences Institute, EARTH is your source for the science behind the headlines.
The American Geosciences Institute is a nonprofit federation of 50 geoscientific and professional associations that represents more than 250,000 geologists, geophysicists and other earth scientists. Founded in 1948, AGI provides information services to geoscientists, serves as a voice of shared interests in the profession, plays a major role in strengthening geoscience education, and strives to increase public awareness of the vital role the geosciences play in society's use of resources, resiliency to natural hazards, and interaction with the environment.
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msever@earthmagazine.org
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By cutting ozone pollution now, China could save 330,000 lives by 2050 EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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CDs & DVDs > DVDs > J. Krishnamurti (The World of Peace series): (Brockwood Park, England, 27 August 1983. Talk 1) How can the brain transform itself? (DVD)
J. Krishnamurti (The World of Peace series): (Brockwood Park, England, 27 August 1983. Talk 1) How can the brain transform itself? (DVD)
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd. (2006)
1 hr. 8 min. Approx
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Artist: J. Krishnamurti
Audio: English, French, German, Russian
Format: NTSC Colour DVD
Duration: 1 hr. 8 min. Approx
About The DVD
This series of four talks given in Brockwood Park in 1983 serves as an excellent introduction to Krishnamurti’s teaching, especially for those not previously acquainted with it. Krishnamurti’s statements here are simple and direct and cover all the aspects of life that he generally touched upon in his talks and writings –chaos in the world, conflict between human beings and within oneself, the limitation of knowledge and thought, the burden of fear, the universality of sorrow, the mystery of death, the meaning of meditation, and the search for something beyond the measure of man.
Krishnamurti says in this talk that only a small part of our brain is active, and the rest stays in abeyance. We are so concerned with ourselves that we never have the awareness of the whole of life. Is it possible not to be affected from the outside? Are you aware that you are conditioned, or do you accept another’s statement that you are conditioned? Experience and knowledge condition the brain, and the ‘me’, the self, is essentially a movement in knowledge. You are nothing but memories. Memories are dead things, and on these dead things you live. How do you see these memories-as separate from yourself, the observer? When you realize the fact the observer is the observed, something extraordinary happens. As long as there is a division between memories and the observer of those memories, the division creates conflict.
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Xiaomi MIUI 9 Global Beta ROM for the second batch of devices announced, here is the full list of smartphones that got the upgrade
New Delhi | Updated: August 27, 2017 6:31:42 PM
Xiaomi has released the Beta version of the MIUI 9 Global ROMs for the second batch of the devices. The Chinese Smartphone and electronics maker posted the details on a blog post.
Xiaomi has released the Beta version of the MIUI 9 Global ROMs for the second batch of the devices. (Reuters)
Xiaomi has released the Beta version of the MIUI 9 Global ROMs for the second batch of the devices. The Chinese Smartphone and electronics maker posted the details on a blog post. The MIUI 9 ROM update is available for Xiaomi Mi MIX, Mi Note 2, Mi 5, Mi 5s, Mi 5s Plus, Mi Max 2, Mi Max, Redmi 4 and Redmi 4X. Moreover, smartphones like Redmi 4 with Qualcomm chipset, Redmi 4X and Xiaomi Mi 6 were part of the first batch to receive the Beta version. Xiaomi is currently testing its MIUI operating system with the new changes to ensure that everything is optimised of the vast line-up of devices. According to the blog post, Xiaomi pointed out that the recommendation rate’ for MIUI 9 update stands at a staggering 94.62 percent in a poll conducted. For the uninitiated, MIUI is a heavily customised version of Android that Xiaomi uses in all its smartphones and MIUI 9 is the latest version based on Android Nougat 7.0.
Those interested can go to the blog post (https://en.miui.com) to download the Global Beta ROMs for their devices if they are interested in running the latest and greatest.
One thing that the users should note is that before going for the upgrade backup all the important data, contacts and pictures in case anything goes wrong. Meanwhile, amidst the hype created by the iconic iPhone maker Apple which is all set to launch its tenth-anniversary edition iPhone in September, there is another smartphone from China slated to announce its own bidding around the same date.
According to a report by International Business Times, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, popularly known as the ‘Apple of China’, is considering to come up with its next flagship model on the same day as Apple’s flagship launch.
The report goes ahead to state that Xiaomi is likely to launch its much awaited Mi Mix 2 smartphone on September 12. The market is flooded with speculations and estimates that whether the Chinese smartphone maker will be able to steal the spotlight from Apple on its D day.
However, several experts also believe that the Mi Mix 2 surely has something extraordinary and that is why the company has decided to announce the launch date to clash with Apple. It will be interesting to see how these two arch-rivals will attract customers with their flagships.
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Microsoft On Cloud Nine
October 20, 2016 · 2 min read
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Microsoft’s stock price jumped 5% to an all time high late on Thursday after the software giant reported financial results that were significantly better than expected – and it’s mainly thanks to the cloud.
Over the past few years, Microsoft has shaken off its image as a stale software producer (think: Windows and Office), and transformed itself into a leader of what it calls the “intelligent cloud.” This business goes beyond simple cloud-based storage to support things like secure transactions and other, more technical services (e.g. predictive analytics driven by machine learning). Revenue in this division more than doubled versus a year ago and, unlike basic cloud storage, the more dynamic businesses are maintaining high margins (which means, in short, it’s a growing and very profitable business).
For the stock: Microsoft’s stock is soaring – and its new-ish CEO is getting much of the credit. (tweet this)
When Microsoft’s stock price hit its previous all-time high, its investors partied like it was 1999 (because it was 1999!). Perhaps the main reason that Microsoft has been able to (finally) drive its stock to a new high is a sea change in the attitude of its senior management (its CEO Satya Nadella was appointed in 2014). He has successfully refocused the company on products of the future, and re-cast Microsoft as a growing enterprise.
The bigger picture: Earnings season is starting to look rosier.
Microsoft has set a very positive tone for software-based tech firms (Alphabet, Facebook and others will report soon), while all the major banks managed to perform better than expected. We’ll know more about the “industrials” when General Electric reports its numbers to investors on Friday. But so far, almost a quarter of the way through “US earnings season,” the picture isn’t as bleak as some had feared.
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Boy dies after getting electrocuted by wearing headphones while charging
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A 16-year-old boy in Malaysia died from electrocution by his headphones. He was charging the headphones while using it, according to the police.
| Updated: Dec 11, 2018, 05:01PM IST
NEW DELHI: In another gadget-related accident, a 16-year-old boy in Malaysia died after getting electrocuted by headphones while they were being charged. According to a report by New Straits Times, the incident took place in Kampung Gaing Baru Pedas, Rembau. The police officially declared the reason for the death to be related to electrocution.
While not much is revealed about the incident, the boy appears to have been using a wireless Bluetooth headphones plugged to a charging source.
The victim was found dead by his mother around 12:45PM. When the boy’s mother was leaving for work in the morning she found him to be “lying on the floor” but she thought he was “sleeping”. It was only when she came back from work during noon to check on him that she found him to be sleeping in the exact condition in a cold state. There were reportedly no injury marks or bruises on the body, only some bleeding in the boy’s left ear.
Earlier this year in June, Malaysia-based Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan died after one of his phones exploded while charging. Cradle Fund is owned by the Malaysian Ministry of Finance. Hassan was using BlackBerry and Huawei smartphones. Both the smartphones were kept on charging in Hassan’s bedroom. The explosion led to a fire on the mattress in the room and the impact was so devastating that it was difficult to identify as to which of the two smartphones actually exploded due to overheating.
In India, a teen from Odisha died this year in March after an old Nokia 5233 phone had exploded while she was talking to someone when charging it. The victim had suffered injuries to leg, chest and hands and was knocked out unconscious before ultimately succumbing to the injuries.
PS Kumar
First of all, people do not read the guideline when using any gadgets, and smartphones!! The guideline comes with the phone, may be very small size letters, but you have to read it before use the gadget. Never do anything when your smartphone is charging.
Michaelalok
AND IS TERRIBLY AND ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING INCIDENT. AN INNOCENT LIFE IS LOST DUE TO A SILLY IGNORANT LAPSE ON THE PART OF HIS OWN FOLLY. RIP.
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Boy Lost in Woods for 2 Days Tells Mom He Hung Out With a Bear
By: Gaia Staff | Jan. 30, 2019
A boy who went missing in the woods for two days told his family he “hung out with a bear” before he was discovered by rescuers. The boy’s aunt made the claim in a Facebook group, describing his experience as miraculous, and the bear a divine gift.
Three-year-old Casey Hathaway went missing last week when he wandered off while playing in his grandmother’s backyard. Rescuers found him a few days later tangled up in a patch of thorns. He was found crying out for his mother less than a mile from where he went missing.
Questions about whether the bear was imaginary or real are being debated, but Hathaway’s mother believed her son enough to include it in the police report. According to sources, the county Sheriff thought the claim was cute, but probably not real — that didn’t stop his office from posting a picture of the boy next to a picture of a bear on its Facebook page.
“He made a comment about having a friend while he was in the woods — his friend was a bear,” Maj. David McFadyen of the Craven County Sheriff’s Office told CNN.
According to reports, the boy survived two nights in 20 degree weather with heavy winds and pouring rain, making it more believable he received protection of some sort. Psychologists plan to conduct further interviews with Hathaway, but are giving him time to recover from the traumatic experience.
Though the boy’s story may be hard to believe, it’s almost impossible to disprove. And there are certainly plenty of stories of animals coming to the rescue of humans in dire situations.
Online, people in the more conspiracy-minded forums proposed the possibility that Hathaway’s mysterious savior may have been Bigfoot or the strange Missing 411 phenomenon researched and written about by David Paulides.
Paulides has devoted his career to researching hundreds of strange disappearances throughout the U.S. after a park ranger told him thousands of odd and unexplained disappearances have occurred in the National Park Service’s history. Could this have been one such case that fortunately turned out to have a happy ending?
There are others who have speculated that the bear Hathaway referred to may have been a benevolent spirit that helped him find shelter and keep him safe during his harrowing time alone.
Until the boy is a little older, we may never know whether he was saved by his guardian angel or a real life Baloo. In either case, the story is pretty miraculous.
For more on David Paulides’ Missing 411 documentation of strange National Park disappearances check out this episode of Beyond Belief:
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James Pond revival coming to Kickstarter on September 20
"I have no idea if there are enough people that still care about James Pond after all these years," says original creator Chris Sorrell.
By Martin Gaston | @squidmania on September 13, 2013 at 4:46PM PDT
James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod
The '90s platforming character James Pond will be attempting a comeback via Kickstarter, series creator Chris Sorrell has announced.
A Kickstarter campaign for the aquatic agent will commence on September 20.
"I have no idea if there are enough people that still care about James Pond after all these years," said Sorrell. "If you do, and if you can help us to fund this thing, then for my part i'd be very happy to do anything I can to help create a brand new game."
"But maybe this time we'd skip the chocolate biscuits," he added, referencing the product placement of McVitie's Penguin biscuits in the UK version of James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod in 1991.
The original James Pond launched in 1990, and was successful enough to spawn two sequels, with James Pond 2 having been ported to many other platforms over the years. An iOS game, James Pond in the Deathly Shallows, was launched in 2011 to poor reviews.
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Homelessness is a growing problem in the UK and an increasing number of homeless people have dogs. The bond between many homeless people and their dogs is profound and the health and wellbeing of their canine companions is often a major priority for their owners. Homeless dogs can also have health problem.
StreetVet is an award-winning team of volunteer veterinary professionals delivering free care to the homeless and their dogs on the streets of London, Sam Joseph says.
”StreetVet was born in 2016, inspired by the incredible bond between a homeless man, Gary, and his dog Lola”, Sam Joseph, one of the founders of StreetVet says.
Like many other vets, when he sees a homeless person and their dog on the street, he wants to do something. So, one evening in 2015, when he was still a student at Bristol vets school, he decided to go out with his stethoscope and check over any homeless people’s dogs that he came across.
”What stuck with me after meeting a few people that night was how happy and relieved they were when I told them that their dogs had a healthy sounding heart”, Joseph tells.
After graduating and moving back to London he decided to try and create a more sustainable and structured way to provide veterinary service to those dogs. Together with Charlie and another colleague, they visited many homeless people in North London, taking with them worming tablets and a bag of veterinary supplies.
“Soon after going out a few times in London, I met Jade in April 2017. Jade had been doing the same thing in Westminster, coincidently operating under the same name. That was when StreetVet was born! Since then we have
been working together, assisted along the way by our amazing team of volunteers, to try to marry the passion and willingness of veterinary practitioners with the need for veterinary care for homeless people’s dogs.”
To the other parts of UK in future
Now they have close to 50 people in the team, vets and nurses.
Together the StreetVet team takes their experience out onto the streets of London, seeking out people and their dogs living rough, and delivering care and support required to ensure their combined wellbeing. They are out in the London community at least 4 days a week.
“In the past year, we have helped care for over 100 street dogs. We have vaccinated and microchipped; treated for fleas and protected against lungworm; prescribed pain relief and helped fight infections; performed surgeries; and sometimes just sat and listened”, Sam Joseph says.
Today they operate in London alone but they expect to expand to other parts of the UK in the near future.
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StreetVet needs your support to do their work. “We need your support to help us care for more of the Lola’s in this world.
By supporting StreetVet, your donations will fund an increase in our outreach so we can have more vets on the streets helping more people and dogs in need”, Joseph says.
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Ernest Caldecott is probably the most important Bracknell sportsman you’ve never heard of
From scoring goals for Bracknell to catching out the second in line to the throne at cricket
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One of the most important characters in 19th Century Bracknell football was Ernest Caldecott. He was the first captain of Bracknell FC, a prominent local corn merchant and a fine sportsman. He came from an interesting family. His great uncle John Caldecott was an astronomer and had set up an observatory in India in the 19th Century.
Caldecott captained Bracknell FC from one of the five forward positions football clubs played with at the time. During the late 1880s and 1890s no one scored more goals for the club as him.
An impressive four goal haul against Winkfield in a 14-1 trouncing was perhaps his greatest achievement, but whenever Bracknell won a match Caldecott was nearly always among the goals. He was accompanied in the forward lines by A. Darling who clearly knew Caldecott well as they played cricket together.
Related: Why 1896 isn’t the birth of football in Bracknell
As a multi-talented sportsman Caldecott would regularly play for Bracknell CC during the summer months. At the time the cricket club played where the current Bracknell town centre lies. It was still a few years before cricket (and football) moved permanently to Larges Lane.
Perhaps the most famous incident he was involved in was in 1887 when he caught out Queen Victoria’s grandson Prince Albert Victoria when Bracknell CC defeated Windsor Great Park. Despite his German background Prince Albert was an enthusiastic cricketer and played many times for Windsor. This incident means Caldecott is almost certainly the only Bracknell football captain who has caught out the second in line to the throne.
4th August 1887 Scorecard from Bracknell Cricket Club vs Windsor Great Park
Later in life he moved to Terrace Road in Wokingham. He continued his interest in sport by becoming club secretary at Wokingham FC around the same time that Old Bracknell Wanderers were founded in 1896.
As you may expect, coverage of local football in the late 19th Century was sporadic at best and often simply included the result. It’s likely that newspapers often didn’t even report match results every week. However we have collated all of the reported goals scored by Ernest Caldecott for Bracknell teams by the Reading Mercury, Reading Observer and other local newspapers:
13/11/1886 – St. Bartholomews – 6-1 (2)
29/1/1887 – Winkfield – 14-1 (4)
5/2/1887 – East Reading – 6-1 (2)
11/11/1887 – St. George’s (Reading) – 5-1 (1)
21/12/1889 – Runnymede Rangers – 2-0 (1)
Information and images from the excellent britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
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Meet The Zentrepreneur: A New And Emerging Breed Of Entrepreneur
David K. Williams Contributor
Using the soft skills for organizational success
“While an entrepreneur creates a business, a Zentrepreneur creates a business and a life.”
“Believe. There is no bigger word. None.”
What is a Zentrepreneur? It’s an inside-out executive who remains calm under every circumstance while adding value to the world and achieving impossible goals.
In the words of Ron Rubin, owner of The Republic of Tea (founded by the same executives behind The Banana Republic), “While an entrepreneur creates a business, a Zentrepreneur creates a business and a life.”
“While an entrepreneur pretends to know what’s next, a Zentrepreneur imagines what’s next and believes in it deeply,” he said in an interview with Awareness Magazine. “Believe. There is no bigger word. None.”
The Republic of Tea is an example of Zentrepreneurship in action. With revenues of $25MM in 2015, as reported by Forbes, the company could be worth as much as $125MM, but like our own company, Fishbowl, has no desire to sell. Rubin would rather create a company that is sustainable for multiple generations. Like us, he avoids unwarranted debt and is more intent on maintaining happy customer relationships than relentlessly searching for new.
“A true Zentrepreneur believes in their right to live the life they imagine,” Rubin has said. “They adhere to the mantra that the positive force of a pliant attitude is the most powerful source of energy available, allowing to adapt to circumstance and attend to things that can be controlled — your thoughts, your emotions, the self-directness that gives you the endurance to act, excel and succeed.”
"A Zentrepreneur creates both a business and a life" (Image courtesy of Randy and Lauren Scott)
It sounds like a great set of business ideals. To learn more about this emerging breed of executive, I spoke this week with a Zentrepreneur in our own community, Randy Scott. Randy is a business and personal empowerment coach who has transitioned from a career of corporate leadership to create his own new company, Zenpowerment, in which he coaches and counsels other entrepreneurs.
Scott has always been an executive who marched to his own kind of drum. In his role as a PR marketing and executive he was known to conduct the majority of his work in lotus position, seated on a yoga mat and facing the sun. He prefers his motorcycle to any luxury vehicle, and has lived through accidents most humans would never endure, determined to “suck the marrow from every minute of life.”
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Here’s how Scott describes what it means to be a Zentrepreneur: “Zentrepreneurs have a strong sense of self and of purpose. They are poised and centered. They have discovered their ‘why’ (per Simon Sinek), which allows their ‘what’ to carry the greatest impact that it possibly can.”
“Zentrepreneurs have a strong sense of authenticity and individuality. They realize that many of life’s past decisions have come from ‘programming’ and ‘artificial rules,' which makes them quick to dismiss any kind of rules or authority that are not based on principles they can uphold.” (Asking a Zentrepreneur to mislead customers or investors, then, would be an inadvisable plan.)
“They believe fervently that ‘your vibe attracts your tribe,'” he says, and the principle applies to both employees and clients. “People buy into purpose.”
"They are believers in karma, as well, knowing that all service to others benefits the whole, including the self. Additionally, they believe that the journey is more important than the goal or destination, because it’s in the journey that growth occurs.”
How can you become more “zen” as an entrepreneur? Scott suggests entrepreneurs build time into their schedules for thinking, meditating and investing in themselves holistically to achieve spiritual, mental, financial, relationship, physical and emotional growth and most importantly, balance. Zentrepreneurs make great leaders and great hires, he believes. Since they are very centered and know their purpose, Zentrepreneurs handle stress extremely well because they keep things in proper perspective.
They value people, relationships and meaningful conversation, and understand that true communication involves both giving and receiving words and intent. They are more effective and efficient than most, as part of their life philosophy involves essentialism and minimalism, which applies to both material items and also to the way time is spent. As we discuss Scott’s philosophy, I realize that Zentrepreneurship is an area in which I would like to improve.
Randy Scott, ZenPowerment--a true Zentrepreneur (Image courtesy of MyZenpowerment.com)
Scott’s own Zenpowerment principles include the following:
Always coming from a place of love. This is a balance of love for self and love for others
The power of choice and meaning. This helps us stand in our power and accept responsibility for our choices
Power in the present, living in the here and now
Understanding and eliminating unworthy filters and programming
Emptying the cup / unlearning
Essentialism / minimalism
Energy and oneness
Anyone interested in learning more about Scott’s principles of Zenpowerment growth can reach out to him directly through MyZenpowerment.com. And while yoga poses and meditation are optional aspects of the Zenpowerment model, perhaps all of us, in every stage of business, could benefit from being a little more zen.
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Designer Spotlight: Poshmark Announces Mobile Resale Marketplace Now Includes New Retail Fashions
Kristina Moore Contributor
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Designer Spotlight is a regular column focusing on style and the professional woman.
Poshmark, the Silicon Valley e-commerce startup whose popular mobile app provides the professional woman a convenient way to buy and sell pre-owned merchandise is expanding into a new market, Retail on Poshmark. Recently, the company, headed up by Tracy Sun, announced that it has teamed up with more than a dozen indie apparel and accessory makers to allow its most successful sellers to purchase new items wholesale. The new channel aims to achieve a business trifecta by broadening buyers’ and sellers’ product options, widening independent designers’ markets, and opening opportunities for Poshmark in a crowded space of other resale platforms like eBay, ThredUp, and TheRealReal.
Sun and cofounder Manish Chandra, who sold his shopping startup Kaboodle to the Hearst Corp. in 2007, have raised over $47 million in outside capital, since launching Poshmark’s mobile marketplace for fashion in 2011. The app has a strong, active buyer/seller community. “There are millions of users and over a million sellers on Poshmark uploading the inventory equivalent of a Nordstorm store every week”, says Sun. Merchandise ranges from ‘fast fashion’ to luxury name brands. Poshmark reports $2-million worth of inventory is uploaded into the marketplace every day with 95% of sales coming via mobile phones. The new indie designer partnerships include Style Mafia, Snob Essentials, and Lia Larrea, who designs edgy office and casual wear, among others. Poshmark’s app is available to US-only iOS and Android users.
Prior to Poshmark, Sun founded a social commerce startup, Established Today, and was Brooklyn Industries Merchandising VP. She earned her MBA from Dartmouth after graduating from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Kristina Moore: Tell us how Poshmark works and how it differentiates itself in the e-commerce space?
Tracy Sun: Poshmark is the largest community marketplace for fashion where millions of women come every day to buy, sell and share their personal style. We’ve made it really easy for women to sell items, either casually or professionally - straight from their mobile phones. We made a huge bet to build the marketplace 100% on mobile, available through a free app. You just download the app, take a few photos of the item you’d like to sell, write a quick description and in less than 60 seconds it’s available for sale.
When we first started four years ago, people thought we were crazy, that there was no way women were going to buy and sell on their phones. Now everyone is seeing the huge opportunity in mobile shopping - and we have a pretty good head start. We set out to make buying and selling fashion simple and fun for any woman, creating a social platform where they could easily connect with one another and shop each other's style. Just like any social network, women find and follow each other on Poshmark and share what they love - except unlike traditional social media platforms, everything on the app is available for sale from the person on the other end. This creates a real, authentic social shopping environment unlike anything that currently exists.
“We’re seeing a shift where women want to shop directly from one another in a social setting. Our goal is to make that easier for them.”, says Poshmark Founder, Tracy Sun. [Image courtesy of Poshmark]
Moore: What is Retail on Poshmark?
Sun: We are so excited about the retail expansion on Poshmark. Now women can shop retail and resale fashion together, all in one app.
Initially when women join Poshmark, they are looking to sell a few things they are no longer wearing or want to shop the closets of other women whose style they admire. What ends up happening is that they begin to have so much fun and become so successful on the platform that they then start going out and sourcing new items, so they can continue to sell more and more on Poshmark. Many are attending trade shows, visiting wholesale markets in Los Angeles and New York, and buying items at sample sales and physical consignment stores with the intention of selling them on Poshmark. Some of these women, who are already taking advantage of the opportunity to sell new items on the platform to their hundreds of thousands of followers, are making up to $500,000 in sales. Because we’ve made it so simple, everyone from teenagers to millennials to moms are able to become entrepreneurs as they turn their love of fashion into a lucrative retail business on the app. Just last week, we announced we will be further supporting these women by connecting them to new inventory inside the app via a new wholesale portal where they can buy directly from brands and then turn around and sell to their loyal followers who love shopping their style.
This is also the first time we’re opening up our massive marketplace to the fashion industry, giving both big and independent fashion brands the opportunity to sell merchandise to influential sellers on Poshmark. By adding these influential sellers as a new retail force, brands can reach a huge mobile shopping audience of millions of women already spending 25 minutes per day in the app and opening it 7-8 times daily. Over a dozen brands have signed on to take part in the wholesale portal ranging from millennial favorite Style Mafia to fashion blogger must-have handbag and accessory line Snob Essentials.
We’re seeing a shift where women want to shop directly from one another in a social setting. Our goal is to make that easier for them.
Moore: What inspired you to launch Poshmark?
Sun: When I met my co-founder Manish Chandra over four years ago, we connected over the idea of creating a fashion marketplace that was built around people. I had spent the first part of my career in the fashion industry in New York and Manish is a Silicon Valley veteran, previously founding the first ever social shopping site Kaboodle. We both felt very passionately that women want more than just a platform for shopping - they want to be part of a community where they can connect with one another and share their love for fashion.
We set out to build a very engaged community of women who would come together in the app to shop each other’s closets. We took away all the pain points associated with buying and selling (payments, shipping, customer service and marketing), creating an engaging and fun experience that women could participate in no matter where they were. Since there was a very obvious problem to be solved in the resale industry - there was no shortage of inventory that needed a place to go. Women in America put over one trillion dollars worth of fashion in their closets every three years. Nearly a third of this is never worn and another third is worn once or twice. That’s a ton of inventory and money just sitting around. We made it simple and fun to take what’s already in your closet and create your own boutique on your phone.
Poshmark: A mobile marketplace where women buy and sell clothes and accessories via their smartphones. [Image courtesy of Poshmark]
Moore: How do you see your company empowering professional women?
Sun: We’ve made it so easy for a woman to start a boutique right from her closet, that we now have over one million sellers on the app - that’s roughly ten times as many boutiques that exist in the country. Over one million women have essentially raised their hands and said I want to participate in this new economy. As a result, Poshmark is enabling and supporting female entrepreneurship on a mass scale. Women are following their passion for buying and selling on the app - some have left their corporate jobs because of their success on Poshmark, started six-figure fashion businesses while in college, are financially supporting their families or are just making money doing something they love. What's great about Poshmark is that whenever you shop from someone, you are essentially supporting a female entrepreneur who is fulfilling her dreams.
Moore: Poshmark has developed a strong, active community. What value does social engagement bring to the company and the customer experience?
Sun: Our focus on community has not only created an inclusive and inviting social environment, but it is also the key to product discovery and personalization in the app. Women on Poshmark are very active and are constantly sharing items, acting as stylists for their followers as they curate the best products from over 12 million items for sale. It’s this constant community curation that helps match supply and demand in the marketplace, leading to better discovery for buyers and more sales for sellers. Women are sharing over two million items daily, creating an addictive community-driven shopping experience. We also process billions of pieces of social data to deliver people and products that are personalized for each individual.
Moore: What excites you most about working in today’s fashion-tech space?
Sun: People are discovering and consuming fashion in an entirely different way from even just five years ago - whether it’s the shift to mobile or all the new social communication channels. I’m energized to combine the innovation that is happening in Silicon Valley with all the creativity pouring out of the fashion industry. I look forward to bridging the two worlds to see what kind of lasting impact we can create when we work together.
Moore: What are the benefits to having more than one company founder, particularly as a startup?
Sun: We all have such different perspectives that both complement and balance each other. This is really important when you are building a business, such as Poshmark, which relies on combining algorithms and style without one canceling the other out. You really need both perspectives - fashion and technology.
Another benefit is that being a founder can be really hard and really rewarding at the same time. I’ve been grateful to have partners-in-crime who can share the challenges and celebrations throughout the journey.
Moore: Any advice for fellow entrepreneurs on raising capital for products or services geared towards supporting women?
Sun: It’s okay if most people can’t get behind your vision. You don’t need consensus. Just one (or two) strong believers.
Poshmark’s app lets you shop the closets of women across America and sell yours too. [Image courtesy of Poshmark]
Moore: What’s next for Poshmark?
Sun: We are continuing on our mission to build the most connected shopping experience ever. We’re excited to support our community as they keep growing their businesses on the app - whether it's offering them additional inventory channels, selling tools or financial resources like our Fashion Entrepreneurs Fund. You can also expect to see more exciting brand partners in our wholesale portal rolling out soon and we’ll be introducing a few new categories in the coming year. Stay tuned!
Moore: How do you replenish your creativity and energy?
Sun: I garner quite a bit of energy and enthusiasm from being around people doing amazing things. Seeing people in their element always fills me with so much pride - even if they are complete strangers. So, interacting with the Poshmark community is obviously a continuous source of inspiration for me. I also love getting outside and walking. Whether at the beach or the mountains, fresh air helps me reset and come back with a fresh perspective. If I’m in a big city like New York, I’ll put on my favorite playlist and just walk for miles soaking up the energy of the city. This reinvigorates me every time.
Do you have a fashion designer, brand or company you would like featured on Forbes Style File: Designer Spotlight? Let us know in the comments section.
Kristina Moore is a style expert focusing on visual presentation as a dynamic professional tool. She is the founder and editor of Corporate Fashionista. Kristina welcomes your comments and questions.
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Could a Second Bill of Rights and capitalism merge?
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By: Jim Dean
I recently saw a film clip, embedded in a movie, that gave me great pause for thought. I thought it worth sharing, in a different context than the movie.
Every year a wonderful film festival is held in Sedona, Ariz. This year, one of the movies shown was Michael Moore’s latest: “Capitalism: A Love Affair.”
Just so you know where I am coming from, I don’t like Michael Moore’s work. Although he picks important topics that need to be addressed, the way he deals with them is counter to everything I believe. He shows only one side of the story and is prone to exaggeration. His keen sense of humor is offset by his narcissism. And he offers few solutions, and when he does they are weak -- like here, where he seems to propose a change to socialism as the solution to all the ills of capitalism.
Moore ignores questions of fundamental human behavior. Any economic or governmental system is only as good as the morality, integrity and commitment of the people involved. When the latter deteriorate, when greed sets in, when people focus on their own short-term maximization at the expense of others and the future, the unhappy results are easily predictable. Every system devised by mankind suffers this vulnerability -- and it is superficial to think that changing the system, without addressing the underlying behavioral and moral issues, will make much difference.
Thousands of years of recorded history seem to support this tenet. Moral failures and lack of commitment are factors that allow otherwise good systems to be abused, just as the benefits of automobiles or fine wines can be reversed by misuse.
Recently, a note from a friend on a totally different subject addressed at least one aspect of this issue. He said, “The very capitalism that brought huge wealth to my part of South Carolina, allowed millions of Americans to buy homes and all kinds of whatnots ... this is the capitalism that we want to throw away just because Mr. and Mrs. Nitwit maxed out their seven credit cards?”
It wasn’t only individual behavior that concerned him. He went on to talk about the need for government regulation of the capital markets and the need for integrity and balance within regulatory processes.
But this is not an article about Michael Moore positions. It’s about the film clip contained within the movie showing Franklin Delano Roosevelt presenting a portion of his Jan. 11, 1944, message to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Union. In that address, given just three months before his death, the president outlined a second “economic” bill of rights.
The president praised the political rights granted by the Constitution: “They were our rights to life and liberty.” However, he went on to say, “these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness” and “true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.”
"'Necessitous men are not free men.’ People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
And so he proposed “a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all -- regardless of station, race, or creed.” He stated, “among these are: the right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; the right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; the right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; the right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad; the right of every family to a decent home; the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment; the right to a good education. All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.”
Moore’s movie contends that these rights are inconsistent with capitalism. But are they? This is the question that the film clip raised for me and which I want to present for your consideration. I guess if the idea is that you give everyone what they need without demanding anything in return, we’ve got a problem. But this need not and should not be the way.
For me, the key to everything that President Roosevelt presented in his second Bill of Rights seems to rest in his first four points. I would take some liberties by paraphrasing these four points as following: providing every American with the opportunity to obtain a reasonable-paying job or engage in a business endeavor in an environment which is fair and devoid of control by special interest groups. Homes, medical care, elimination of economic fears of old age and education are likely to flow from the prosperity that these first four “rights” can provide.
My sense is that the system we currently live under can provide this if we can figure out how to address two interirelated needs. One is to build confidence in the future -- so businesses expand, so people have jobs, so consumers spend. The second is to achieve a balance (and here I see the most vital role that government must play) so that special interests are held in check and so that unfettered competition does not lead to monopoly and greater inequalities. With those checks and balances in place, trust is formed which builds optimism which is likely to pave a self-fulfilling road to all the other things contained in Roosevelt’s second Bill of Rights.
But now comes the catch: how do we achieve these two critical elements, trust and balance? I believe it will happen only through widespread citizen involvement. The interplay between democracy and capitalism is critical. “Democracy” is more than a political concept -- it is an imperative, requiring involvement.
Removing incentives to create, to achieve, to excel -- is a path to nowhere. But developing a moral code that reaches out to everyone, that provides opportunities for individuals to contribute to society in their own ways and to take pride in those contributions, that will move us onward and upward. It is my belief that the goals FDR enumerated in his second bill are worthy objectives to strive for, and that capitalism, with moderation, may be the best route yet devised to get us there. What do you think?
Dr. Melvyn Copen lives in both Georgia and Arizona. He is an educator and businessman who has worked and lived in many foreign countries and provides consulting services throughout the world. His column appears every other Wednesday. Please share your comments with him via e-mail at melcopen@hotmail.com.
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Fulfillment of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Grade 3 - 3-LS3 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
LS3.A: Inheritance of Traits
• Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents. (3-LS3-1)
• Other characteristics result from individuals’ interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment. (3-LS3-2)
LS3.B: Variation of Traits
• Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information. (3-LS3-1)
• The environment also affects the traits that an organism develops. (3-LS3-2)
Performance Expectations Students who demonstrate understanding can:
3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing. [Clarification Statement: Examples of cause and effect relationships could be plants that have larger thorns than other plants may be less likely to be eaten by predators; and, animals that have better camouflage coloration than other animals may be more likely to survive and therefore more likely to leave offspring.]
3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. [Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence could include needs and characteristics of the organisms and habitats involved. The organisms and their habitat make up a system in which the parts depend on each other.]
Amsel, Sheri. "Variation of Traits in Animals - Authentic Performance" Exploring Nature Educational Resource ©2005-2019. July 16, 2019
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Wolf (Timber Wolf or Gray Wolf)
The timber wolf is found in Canada and Alaska and the northern United States in the Rocky Mountains, western Great Lakes, and the northeast.
Wolves are found on open prairies, in forests and mountainous regions.
Timber wolves are also called gray wolves, and are the largest wild members of the dog family. Males are bigger than females. They can grow to 5.5 feet (164cm) long, including the tail and weigh from 70 to over 100 pounds (45kg). Timber wolves vary in color from silvery-brown to yellowish-gray. They have white bellies and bushy tails.
Wolves are territorial and defend the area where they hunt and den. Wolves can run 25mph for a short distance when chasing prey. But usually they trot along at 5mph and can cover 10 - 30 miles looking for food. Wolves live in a pack, which is a family group. A family group is one pair of adults and their young, plus young from past years.
Most of their diet is made up of white-tailed deer (80%). They also eat beaver, moose, fish, muskrat and rabbits.
Their only real predator is man.
Only the lead female (alpha) in a pack breeds every year. The breeding female is pregnant for 9 weeks (gestation) and has about 6 pups in February in their underground den. By the fall they are large enough to hunt with the pack.
Lifespan and/or Conservation Status
They can live up to 17 years in the wild. They are listed as vulnerable on the CITES List (International List) and endangered on the U.S. Federal Endangered Species List.
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Class: Mammalia
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Canidae
Species: Canis lupus
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The "Mystiscope" Fortune Teller - The Device That Thinks.
33 pp. booklet containing a numbered list of questions and specific instructions for how to find the answers using the enclosed multicolored cardboard wheel of fortune, which is comprised of a metal spinner and three concentric colored cardboard circles containing letters, numbers, and symbols. Central pages of booklet separated from... More about The "Mystiscope" Fortune Teller - The Device That Thinks
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1942: Jaarboek van het Instituut voor Rijksgediplomeerde Architekten.
85 pp. annual publication produced by the architectural school, featuring the designs of graduating students, including churches, libraries, a stadium, and commercial buildings, also with commentary on recently constructed buildings, notes, bibliography, illustrated throughout with floor plans, elevations, artistic renditions, cross-sections, and images from photographs. 8vo. Wrpps., covers slightly stained... More about 1942: Jaarboek van het Instituut voor Rijksgediplomeerde Architekten
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20 Jahre Friedrich Wolf Theater.
Presentation of twenty-three 15 3/4" x 12" photographs showing images from various traditional and modern productions put on in the theater, including close-ups and long shots with views of the scenery, list of plays laid in. Photographs loose as issued in boards and wrpps. portfolio. N.p., n.d. (circa 1974). During... More about 20 Jahre Friedrich Wolf Theater
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Aberdeen Fifty Years Ago: Being a Series of Twenty-one Engravings of Buildings in and that were about Aberdeen; along with Wood Engravings of some of the Wells, &c., &c.
VIII, 129 pp. presentation of architecture in the Scottish city at the beginning of the 19th century, list of buildings, detailed descriptions, numerous text illustrations, double-page map of the city drawn by James Gordon, plan of the center city by Alexander Milne, 21 fine engraved plates showing buildings. 8vo. Boards... More about Aberdeen Fifty Years Ago: Being a Series of Twenty-one Engravings of Buildings in and that were...
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Agfa. Kine-Handbuch. I. Allgemeiner Teil; II. Negativ-Film; III. Positiv-Film; IV. Film-Muster-Tafeln.
Four sections in three volumes(86, 26, 16 pp. and 7 leaves) of the German handbook on cinematographic film material in colors by the Aktiengesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation (Agfa) company. Illustrated throughout from photographs, Vol. IV with seven plates of colored film samples. 4to. Orig. light brown publisher's cloth, Vol. IV portfolio-style... More about Agfa. Kine-Handbuch. I. Allgemeiner Teil; II. Negativ-Film; III. Positiv-Film; IV....
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Agit 883 56 51. Alternative title: Agit 883. [Various subtitles: Flugschrift für Agitation und Sozialistische Praxis; Kampfblatt der Kommunistischen Rebellen; Revolutionäre Aktion.] No. 1 (15 February 1969) through No. 84 (16 October 1971).
58 issues (of 88 total published), most 12 pp., of the well-known journal of the West Berlin neoanarchist student movement, becoming increasingly radical and militant during the period of its publication, advocating the strategic use of violence by urban guerilla groups (Rote Armee Fraktion) and armed resistance to conservative and... More about Agit 883 56 51. Alternative title: Agit 883. [Various subtitles: Flugschrift für Agitation und...
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Ah! Nana. No. 1 (October 1976) through No. 9 (September 1978) (all published).
A complete run in 9 issues of the groundbreaking French feminist quarterly "bande dessinée" or comics magazine, featuring work almost entirely by international women artists, together with essays on other female-centric media and culture including books, television, film, and music, and special features on often provocative social and political themes..... More about Ah! Nana. No. 1 (October 1976) through No. 9 (September 1978) (all published
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Album Salon. Primera Ilustracion Espanola en Colores. Ano 1897 through Ano 1907. (all published).
Eleven issues bound in ten volumes (384, 292, 292, 292, 296, 260, 236, 212, 204, 212 pp.) comprising a complete run of the Catalonian fine arts annual published by Miguel Segui, providing an overview of the year's developments in painting, sculpture, architecture and theater, primarily focused on Barcelona, with additional... More about Album Salon. Primera Ilustracion Espanola en Colores. Ano 1897 through Ano 1907. (all published
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AmBEATion. Zeitschrift fur Junge Dichtung, Grafik, Kritik, Versuch, Versuch. Nos. 0 (November 1963) through 7/8 (February 1968) (all published).
A complete run of the avant-garde journal, under the editorial direction of Riewart Tode and Hartmut Konig, offering cutting-edge poetry, prose, and criticism, some of which was informed by radical politics, presented in a rough-hewn, experimental manner, with some of the writings in typescript, some in the hand of the... More about AmBEATion. Zeitschrift fur Junge Dichtung, Grafik, Kritik, Versuch, Versuch. Nos. 0 (November...
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The Amphibious Sketch: Its Function In Amphibious Training and Operations, Its Preparation and Reproduction Afloat, Together With Technical Hints on the Operation of Seagoing Map Reproduction Units.
68 pp. restricted military publication on amphibious warfare including chapters on the preparation of panoramic drawings, the development of beach sketches, the development of shoreline sketches, variations in design, and technical information for drafting and reproduction. Profusely illustrated throughout with diagrams, 15 large folding maps and diagrams, and transparent overlays... More about The Amphibious Sketch: Its Function In Amphibious Training and Operations, Its Preparation and...
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Antique Italian "Tombola" Game.
Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards... More about Antique Italian "Tombola" Game
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Archive of Ephemera and Material Related to the Protestant Episcopal Church's Task Force on Homosexuality.
Collection of materials related to the groundbreaking convention held by the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1976 supporting legal rights for homosexuals, housed in two binders, approximately 200 leaves total, many printed recto only, some printed recto and verso, including photocopies of news clippings on topics including surrogacy, teen pregnancy, women... More about Archive of Ephemera and Material Related to the Protestant Episcopal Church's Task Force on...
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Archive of Performance Flyers for the Big Boys Punk Band.
Collection of 73 flyers documenting assorted performances from the influential Texas hardcore punk band, Big Boys, the performances taking place mainly within Texas but also with some flyer examples from out-of-state shows in California and Washington D.C., for concerts where the Big Boys headlined, played with, or opened for other... More about Archive of Performance Flyers for the Big Boys Punk Band
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ART, NO-ART and ANTI-ART: A Collection of Relics.
Unpaginated (38 plastic sleeves filled with text and various types of material, some filled recto and verso and some filled recto only) presentation of short texts and chapters on approximately 25 important Fluxus and affiliated artists, with most texts accompanied by an art object, printed work, or ephemeral item, objects... More about ART, NO-ART and ANTI-ART: A Collection of Relics
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Artes; Monuments et Mémoires. Vols. 1-8 (all published in the first series).
A complete set of the first series of the annual, ed. by Wilhelm Wanscher, each of the 8 volumes containing 200 to 300 pp. of annotated articles (in English, French or German) on Danish art and architecture, ancient, Italian, and Oriental art that relates to Danish collections, and some general... More about Artes; Monuments et Mémoires. Vols. 1-8 (all published in the first series
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Artisjok. Driemaandelijke Tijdschrift voor Hedendaagse Kunsten. Year I, No. 1 (31 January 1968) through Year II, No. 1 (31 January 1969) (all published).
1968. A complete run in 5 issues of the short-lived Antwerp-based serial under the editorial direction of Werner Spillemaeckers, devoted to the dissemination of avant-garde art and literature and 1960's culture, with poems, prose, reviews, essays, and analysis by numerous progressive cultural figures. Illustrated throughout after photographs and artworks by... More about Artisjok. Driemaandelijke Tijdschrift voor Hedendaagse Kunsten. Year I, No. 1 (31 January 1968)...
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Artitudes. Revue Mensuel. No. 1 (October 1971) through No. 8/9 (July/August/September 1972) (all published in this series).
A complete run of the 8 issues (one double issue) of the avant-garde periodical dedicated to presenting information about recent developments in the international art scene with a focus on Action, Body, and other manifestations of Conceptual Art, as well as installations and cutting-edge painting and sculpture, with articles, reviews... More about Artitudes. Revue Mensuel. No. 1 (October 1971) through No. 8/9 (July/August/September 1972) (all...
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Atmos, Sport-Magazin.
96 pp. journal discussing German achievements in various sports, including golf, kayaking, swimming, fencing, bowling, archery, running, tennis, flying, rugby, sailing and equestrian events, heavily illustrated throughout. 8vo. Wrpps. Dresden (Atmos-Verlag) 1931. (Year 1, Vol. 2). As of April 2018, WorldCat does not locate any copies of this text in North American libraries. More about Atmos, Sport-Magazin
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Avanguardia Comunista. Per la Costruzione del Partito Marxista-Leninista. Per la Dittatura del Proletariato. Year I, No. 1 (February 1974) through Year III, No. 50 (28 October 1976) (all published).
A complete run in 50 issues of the Italian Communist and avant-garde journal which served as the official organ of the organization of the same name (full name: Organizzazione marxista-leninista Avanguardia comunista), born out of the unification of the groups Il Comunista and Il Comitato Comunisti Romani Marxisti-Leninisti, each issue... More about Avanguardia Comunista. Per la Costruzione del Partito Marxista-Leninista. Per la Dittatura del...
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Ball. Vol. I, no. 1 (1969).
The premier issue (24 pp.) of this New York pornzine, under the editorial direction of Mark Sherwood, published at a moment when the distribution of pornography was about to enter the mainstream, including articles of prurient interest, including some with violence and sexual deviance, as well as women (and one... More about Ball. Vol. I, no. 1 (1969
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Bijster. Year 1, No. 1 (1969) through Year 1, No. 6 (May/June 1970). (All published).
Altogether 6 issues, 30, 32, 33, 33, 33, 33 pp., of the Dutch cultural and literary journal with a political edge, including artistic contributions from noted artists, illustrators, photographers, and cartoonists, such as Willem (Bernard Holtrop), Oscar de Wit, Taetske Hellinga, and Ed van der Elsken among others, with articles... More about Bijster. Year 1, No. 1 (1969) through Year 1, No. 6 (May/June 1970). (All published
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Black Rose. Journal of Contemporary Anarchism. Nos. 1 (1974) and 2 (1975) (all published).
2 vols., 96, 120 pp., comprising a complete run of the journal described by its editors as "a creative theoretical contribution to left anarchist and libertarian thought and praxis," including articles by Murray Bookchin, interviews with Noam Chomsky, poems by George Therese Dickenson, profiles of wildcat strikers at Chrysler auto... More about Black Rose. Journal of Contemporary Anarchism. Nos. 1 (1974) and 2 (1975) (all published
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Bomber-Kommando: Bericht des Luftfahrtministeriums über die Offensive des Bomber-Kommandos gegen die Achse, September 1939 - Juli 1941.
124 pp. propagandistic account published by the British Air Ministry describing the Bomber Command's sorties against the German army and raids during which they dropped propaganda material, including anecdotes from the pilots and crew members, heavily illustrated throughout with images from photographs. Small 4to. Illustrated wrpps., bottom of spine slightly... More about Bomber-Kommando: Bericht des Luftfahrtministeriums über die Offensive des Bomber-Kommandos gegen...
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Boxer. Moderne Bildgeschichten. No. 1 (1989) through No. 4 (1994) (all published).
A complete run in 4 issues of the German comics journal, each issue approximately 50 pp., edited by Karlheinz Borchert, with contributions or works from some of the most important cartoonists and artists of the 20th century, including Frans Masereel, Mark Marek, Gerald Poussin, Rube Goldberg, Pablo Picasso, George Herriman... More about Boxer. Moderne Bildgeschichten. No. 1 (1989) through No. 4 (1994) (all published
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Bremer Lazarettzüge, V1. - Z2. - No. 23.
A fascinating and unique World War I German Red Cross hospital train photograph album, with an accordion-folded sheet the length of 10 pages, containing the title page, 8-leaf colored blueprint of the layout of the train, and 1-page description of the layout, followed by 11 original photographs, 9 of which... More about Bremer Lazarettzüge, V1. - Z2. - No. 23
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10 Facts about Robert Ripley
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Facts about Robert Ripley inform the readers about the American cartoonist. He was born on 25th December 1890 as LeRoy Robert Ripley. He died on 27th May 1949. He was also known as an amateur anthropologist and entrepreneur. The famous work of Ripley was Ripley’s Believe It or Not! It was launched as a TV show, radio show and newspaper panel series. The primary ingredient of the show is to present odd facts around the globe. If you want to know more about Robert Ripley, check the following post below:
Facts about Robert Ripley 1: the common themes in his work
The common themes found in the texts or cartoons of Ripleys include the unusual facts and sports feats. He used the drawings to depict the photographs, which captured the odd animals, unusual shapes of vegetables and other subjects.
Facts about Robert Ripley 2: marriage
Beatrice Roberts and Robert Ripley got married in 1919. In 1922, Ripley had the journey around the globe for the first time. It inspired him to create cartoons based on the unique cultures and locales in foreign countries that he visited.
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Facts about Robert Ripley 3: a full time assistant
He had a full time assistant named Norbert Pearlroth as his polyglot and researcher in 1923 because he concerned much with his work. He shifted to New York Post from New York Globe in 1926.
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Facts about Robert Ripley 4: improved popularity
Ripley was capable to improve his popularity because he could widen the topics of his work in 1920s. In 1925, a guide to the game of handball and a travel journal of Ripley were published. He also published a book about boxing. He appeared as a handball champion for New York State in 1926.
Facts about Robert Ripley 5: William Randolph Hearst
Have you ever heard about William Randolph Hearst? He was considered as a publishing mogul during his era. The King Features Syndicate was under his management. The attention that Ripley got the from public made Hearst interested with him as an artist and writer.
Facts about Robert Ripley 6: Believe It or Not!
Hearst made it possible for Ripley’s work to reach widespread viewers. Believe It or Not! was debuted in 17 papers in 1929 around the world because of Hearst. Ripley became a headline after his syndicated cartoon stated that actually America did not have a national anthem on 3rd November 1929. At that time, people believe that The Star Spangled Banner was their American national anthem. The fact was not because the Congress never made it official. Therefore, President Herbert Hoover signed a law about the Star Spangled Banner as the US national anthem on 3 March 1931.
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Facts about Robert Ripley 7: media
Ripley had his work in various media whether they were TV shows, radios shows or drawings.
Facts about Robert Ripley 8: the first museum of Ripley
In 1933, Ripley opened the first museum in Chicago called the Odditorium.
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Facts about Robert Ripley 9: the most popular man
The New York Times called him as the most popular man in America at the peak of his career.
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Facts about Robert Ripley 10: death
Ripley died in New York City because of heart attack at the age of 58 on 27 May 1949.
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Landowners: The new EFS needs you
Brian Malcomson, MICFor, Scottish Woodlands Ltd
As many of you will be aware the new Environmental Farming Scheme opened to applicants on Monday, February 27, writes Brian Malcomson, MICFor, Scottish Woodlands Ltd.
This voluntary scheme is designed to provide assistance to farmers and landowners who wish to implement environmentally beneficial farming practices on agricultural land.
Since the Forest Expansion Scheme was opened by Forest Service which is designed to encourage woodland creation greater than five hectares there has been no funding available to assist landowners to create new woodland with less than five hectares.
The scheme is open to applicants who have a DAERA category 1 or Category 2 Business ID, has at least three hectares of eligible agricultural land which they have management control of and is actively farming that land. If the land is currently still within a previous agri-environment scheme agreement then applicants will not be eligible to apply for EFS until this has expired.
The scheme is separated into three levels, the main two are called the Wider level and the Higher level.
The Wider level is aimed at delivering benefits across the wider countryside, but excludes environmentally designated areas. This is the scheme which will be relevant to the majority of landowners.
There are a number of options available to landowners for planting trees and woodland under the wider scheme, which include:
o Establishment of Agro-forestry – this is the practice of growing trees amongst agricultural and horticultural crops;
o Planting native tree corridors;
o Planting new hedgerows including new protective fences;
o Creation of riparian buffers with trees adjacent watercourses;
o Establishment of native woodland less than five hectares.
Deciding which one is most suitable will be determined by the landowners’ aims, objectives and vision for his own farming enterprise.
Beef industry must look to production contracts in future
Additionally, extra costs associated with planting trees on part fields such as fencing and installing new gates and drinkers including pipework may be claimed through the additional capital items.
The Higher level is aimed at those that farm within environmentally designated areas such as ASSI’s, SAC’s and SPA’s and is designed to maintain or enhance priority habitats and species. Within this level scrub control and control of invasive species such as Rhododendron ponticum, Himalayan balsam, Japanese knotweed and Giant hogweed may be eligible for funding.
Applications to the scheme can only be made online through DAERA online services. This online application process will help to guide the applicant through the process which is simple to follow and will minimise mistakes by warning the user if they have not completed a section. For those that have not used the DAERA online services before you will need to register with Government Gateway. To do this call 0300 200 7848 or go to https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/daera-online-services.
The five week application period which is very short commences from Monday 27th February and is due to close on Friday 31st March. For this reason there is no time to lose and therefore, I would encourage all who are interested in the scheme to submit their application without delay. Scottish Woodlands Ltd staff are available to assist you with this process.
The agreements from the scheme will last for five years, however, agreements from tranche 1 may last for 5.5 years.
The majority of the tree planting options have a retention period of between 10-15 years after the expiry of the EFS agreement. The landowner is eligible for the Basic Payment Scheme throughout the agreement and retention period provided SFP was claimed and paid on the land in 2008.
The Environmental Farming Scheme information booklet can be downloaded from the DAERA website at: https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/articles/environmental-farming-scheme-efs.
For further advice and support please contact: Brian Malcomson, MICFor, Scottish Woodlands Ltd, telephone: 028 276 38026, mobile: 07795471006, email: brian.malcomson@scottishwoodlands.co.uk.
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Handy Idea for Refilling Fuel Tanks
FARM SHOW Magazine » Handy Idea for Refilling Fuel Tanks
Darel Todd, Hillsdale, Mich.: Here's a handy idea for refilling fuel tanks on lawnmowers, chainsaws and other small engines without using a gas can. Darel installed a "T" fitting in the fuel line on his 1982 Ford F-150 between the fuel pump and carburetor. He attached a flexible length of fuel line hose to the fitting and put a small shut-off valve at the end of the hose. With the 300 cu. in. engine in the pickup running, the powered fuel tank filler will deliver between 1/2 and 1 gal. of gas per minute, depending on engine speed. Darel says the idea works great for filling any small fuel tank. "It's much easier than handling a gas can or trying to fill small tanks from a fuel storage tank. On many occasions, I've used the fill hose to help stranded motorists who have'run out-of gas.
Handy Idea for Refilling Fuel Tanks FARM SHOP Handy Hints 17-5-34 Darel Todd, Hillsdale, Mich.: Here's a handy idea for refilling fuel tanks on lawnmowers, chainsaws and other small engines without using a gas can. Darel installed a "T" fitting in the fuel line on his 1982 Ford F-150 between the fuel pump and carburetor. He attached a flexible length of fuel line hose to the fitting and put a small shut-off valve at the end of the hose. With the 300 cu. in. engine in the pickup running, the powered fuel tank filler will deliver between 1/2 and 1 gal. of gas per minute, depending on engine speed. Darel says the idea works great for filling any small fuel tank. "It's much easier than handling a gas can or trying to fill small tanks from a fuel storage tank. On many occasions, I've used the fill hose to help stranded motorists who have'run out-of gas.
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Handy Cart Used In Stanchion Barn
FARM SHOW Magazine » Handy Cart Used In Stanchion Barn
I built this handy cart to use in our stanchion barn so we don't have to bend down to reach wash pails and other equipment.
I attached wheels and handle off an old lawn mower to the top of a 55-gal. plastic drum. I cut the bottom third of the drum off so it's open at the bottom. The wheels mount to the side of the drum with 1/8 by 1 1/2-in. flat stock. The handle bolts to the side of the drum and the other side was cut off and mounted to a bolt on top center of the drum. I cut three holes in the top of the drum large enough to accommodate three wash pails and made a smaller hole under the handle for a trash bucket I hang underneath. I made a paper towel holder from a piece of 1-in. dia. plastic water pipe. It has a hole in one end to fit over a 12-in. by 3/8-in. dia. bolt and a slot in the other end to slide over the head when putting on a new roll of towels.
A holder for teat cup dip water completes the cart. It's made of a 3/8-in. dia. rod bent in a circle with a clip welded on to hold the bucket. (Michael Dwyer, 97 Leigus Rd., Wallingford, Conn. 06492-2517; ph 203 949-8043).
Handy Cart Used In Stanchion Barn DAIRY EQUIPMENT & IDEAS Dairy Equipment & Ideas 21-3-36 I built this handy cart to use in our stanchion barn so we don't have to bend down to reach wash pails and other equipment. I attached wheels and handle off an old lawn mower to the top of a 55-gal. plastic drum. I cut the bottom third of the drum off so it's open at the bottom. The wheels mount to the side of the drum with 1/8 by 1 1/2-in. flat stock. The handle bolts to the side of the drum and the other side was cut off and mounted to a bolt on top center of the drum. I cut three holes in the top of the drum large enough to accommodate three wash pails and made a smaller hole under the handle for a trash bucket I hang underneath. I made a paper towel holder from a piece of 1-in. dia. plastic water pipe. It has a hole in one end to fit over a 12-in. by 3/8-in. dia. bolt and a slot in the other end to slide over the head when putting on a new roll of towels. A holder for teat cup dip water completes the cart. It's made of a 3/8-in. dia. rod bent in a circle with a clip welded on to hold the bucket. (Michael Dwyer, 97 Leigus Rd., Wallingford, Conn. 06492-2517; ph 203 949-8043).
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Improved pass rush should help Carolina Panthers secondary
By Nate Wimberly | June 12, 2019 at 9:13 PM CDT - Updated June 13 at 10:20 AM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - With the prospects of Gerald McCoy, Dontari Poe, and Kawann Short as part of a dynamite front line mixed in with speed rushers like Bruce Irvin, Mario Addison, and Brian Burns, the Carolina Panthers pass rush should be much better in 2019. That is great news for the Panthers secondary and James Bradberry.
“Hopefully that will lead to more interceptions,” said Panthers cornerback James Bradberry. “When you got a pass rush like that, quarterbacks have to get the ball out fast. Usually they make errors when they do that so I’m looking forward to interceptions, tipped balls, and overthrows.”
Last year, the Panthers had 13 picks as a team which was tied for 15th in the league. Bradberry only had 1, but has long been one of the best cover corners in the NFL holding down some of the best wide receivers week in and week out since being drafted from FCS program Samford in 2016.
In his 3 year career, he only has 5 picks and that is something he wants to improve this year.
“As far as going forward, just go out there and get more interceptions,” said Bradberry. “That’s the one thing I lack now. Just get my hands on the ball more.”
How does he do that?
“Just get repetition throughout practice, throughout the off season. Put yourself in difficult situations to catch the ball."
He also is looking forward to playing more press coverage in 2019 as the Panthers continue to change their defensive philosophy. As a whole, they are switching from the 4/3 base front to the 3/4 and more pressure at the corners is a part of the change.
This is a very pivotal year for Bradberry as he has 2 years left on his rookie contract. He is in line for a bigger pay day as he has out performed his 2nd round contract but he isn’t too worried about his future earning power.
“Just go out there and not put too much stress on yourself,” said Bradberry. “It’s already hard enough to play in the NFL. Just go out there and play and let the rest take care of itself. I’m just going to be patient for sure.”
Panthers mini camp wraps up Thursday morning.
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Demi Moore heading to ‘Brave New World’ adaptation
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Actress Demi Moore at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. (AFPrelaxnews pic)
The two-time Golden Globe nominee joins “Solo” star Alden Ehrenreich in USA’s upcoming Brave New World series.
“Brave New World,” based on Aldous Huxley’s dystopian literary classic, takes place in the future, in the new World State, a ‘utopian’ society which has achieved stability via a social hierarchy based on intelligence, behavioural conditioning, and a soothing, happiness-producing drug called soma.
Harry Lloyd (“Game of Thrones, The Theory of Everything”) and Jessica Brown Findlay (“Downton Abbey,” “Harlots”) star as Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowe, two New Worlders who journey to the Savage Lands, where they meet John the Savage, a man raised outside the confines of their society, and his mother Linda.
When they bring John the Savage and Linda back to New London, their arrival will set in motion a series of tumultuous events.
Moore (“Ghost,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” “Empire”) will play Linda, described as “brash” and “hard-living.”
David Wiener, a writer on Amazon’s Homecoming, will serve as showrunner and executive producer on “Brave New World.”
Owen Harris, who directed Black Mirror season three episode “San Junipero” and season five episode “Striking Vipers,” will direct the first two episodes and also executive produce the series.
Grant Morrison, Brian Taylor, and Amblin Television co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will also executive produce.
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Burt Reynolds revealed he was born in Lansing, Michigan
Burt Reynolds' birthplace was the subject of debate, but he finally cleared it up in his book, "But Enough About Me."
Burt Reynolds revealed he was born in Lansing, Michigan Burt Reynolds' birthplace was the subject of debate, but he finally cleared it up in his book, "But Enough About Me." Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/2NoGJZV
Eric Lacy, Lansing State Journal Published 3:36 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2018 | Updated 6:53 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2018
Burt Reynolds was 82 Michael Schwab/USA TODAY NEWTWORK - TENNESSEE
Burt Reynolds returned to his hometown of Lansing in September 1987. He was in town as a radio commentator for the Florida State-Michigan State football game at Spartan Stadium.(Photo: Lansing State Journal file photo)
For years, Burt Reynolds' birthplace was the subject of heated debate.
Some fans insisted he was born in Lansing. Others said he really was born in Waycross, Georgia.
Reynolds, who died Thursday at age 82, finally cleared up the issue in his 2015 book, "But Enough About Me." Reynolds was born on Feb. 11, 1936, in Michigan's capital city.
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"If there's any confusion about my birth place, it's my fault," Reynolds admitted. "I was born in Lansing, Michigan. We moved to Florida when I was five. I grew up a Southern boy who didn't want to be a Yankee."
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Despite the clarification about his Lansing birthplace, which appears on page 210, the first sentence of the first page of Reynold's new book states that he "grew up" in Palm Beach County, Fla.
Lansing historian David Votta previously told the Lansing State Journal that the Lansing connection in the book made him smile, because he researched the star's origin in 2011. Votta studied birth and property records that showed Reynolds was born to Burton Milo and Fern (Miller) Reynolds in Lansing in 1936. Reynolds lived with his parents in a two-bedroom house on Donora Street until 1943, the year it was sold.
"It is nice any time Lansing gets the recognition it deserves," Votta said of Reynolds' birthplace clarification.
Reynolds' first autobiography entitled "My Life," published in 1994, mentions Lansing, but doesn't clarify that it was his birthplace.
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By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk News Editor | @magnoli
The panel staff is recommending a 20-year permit, with conditions, on the revetment
Goleta Beach Park may finally get permission to keep its rock revetment now that the California Coastal Commission staff is recommending a 20-year permit, with conditions, for the as-built structure at Santa Barbara County’s most popular park.
The county Board of Supervisors asked to keep the 1,200-foot-long, 11-foot-high rock wall that was installed with emergency coastal development permits in 2004, as an effort to protect park facilities and the land itself from washing away during winter storms.
Coastal Commission staff accepted the county’s application and are recommending that commissioners leave the rocks be, according to the agenda for May’s meeting.
The recommendation includes a 20-year conditional permit with an assessment 10 years in, after which the Coastal Commission can require a new coastal-development permit from the county.
The rock seawall is likely to stay buried under sand most of the time, so it’s “not expected to result in significant adverse effects on coastal processes and sand supply,” according to the Coastal Commission staff report.
Over time, the use of the rocks will have to be reevaluated to “ensure that adverse impacts to the beach, down-coast areas and public access are avoided or minimized.”
Environmental impact reports determined that the rock structure helped the beach stand up to storms in the last decade, and helped sand move naturally along the South Coast, assistant county executive officer Renée Bahl said in a statement Monday.
Goleta Beach hosts 1.5 million visitors a year, and the county is planning to renovate the public restrooms, re-pave one of the parking lots, and replace the access bridge to make it easier for pedestrians, bicyclists and vehicles to get to the park.
The Coastal Commission will discuss Goleta Beach at its May 13 meeting at the Board of Supervisors hearing room, at 105 E. Anapamu St. in Santa Barbara.
Commissioners also will discuss construction plans for Santa Barbara City College’s classroom and office buildings on the West Campus, and Venoco, Inc.’s vested-rights claim to produce oil out of its Haskell’s Beach piers in Goleta.
— Noozhawk news editor Giana Magnoli can be reached at [email protected]. Follow Noozhawk on Twitter: @noozhawk, @NoozhawkNews and @NoozhawkBiz. Connect with Noozhawk on Facebook.
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QPR v Fulham
Jack J Collins 28th September 2017
With an important if slightly scrappy three points taken in Nottingham on Tuesday night, Fulham’s attentions turn to the noisy neighbours down the road, and a visit to one-time temporary home Loftus Road beckons for the Whites.
Fulham might have won on Tuesday, but the performance was particularly unconvincing at times, and if it wasn’t for some particularly poor finishing from Nottingham Forest (h/t Daryl Murphy), then we could have been staring down the barrel of another damning defeat to a struggling side.
There are positives though, with another goal and a decent performance from Aboubakar Kamara pre-eminent amongst them. Kamara is a funny one, and whilst I’m delighted that I’m having to eat my words about him in terms of scoring goals, it’s important to look at the bigger picture. Fulham looked disjointed at the City Ground, and it remains to be seen whether the cause of that was having a direct player rather than a link-up man in the centre-forward position.
Rui Fonte, playing against Middlesbrough, did all of his best work with his back to goal, bringing the midfield into play and facilitating the slick, elegant play that made Fulham such a force last year. There was very little of that against Forest, and even when Ollie Norwood came on to shore up the midfield, Fulham lacked their usual fluidity.
That said, a win is a win, and teams who have got promoted scrappily will tell you it doesn’t matter how you get the points. Talking of wins, Fulham face a side without many of them in the league recently in Queens Park Rangers.
Holloway has his side playing better football than many expected, and has, perhaps more predictably, turned them into a team that are quite hard to beat. To be perfectly honest, their record is pretty similar to that of Fulham, with just three losses and four draws as opposed to the Whites’ five draws and two losses.
Something that should worry Fulham, however, is Rangers’ knack of scoring late goals to salvage points. We’ve seen at home this season where Fulham have already dropped six points from winning positions late in games, that the Whites look defensively suspect without a cushion, and this is something that Holloway will be keen to remind his players of.
In Luke Freeman, Conor Washington, Jamie Mackie and (don’t even tempt fate) Matt Smith, the Hoops have plenty of players who know how to put the ball in the back of the net, and whilst Fulham definitely have the quality to put Rangers to the sword, Holloway will want blood and thunder under the lights at Loftus Road.
There’s plenty at stake beside bragging rights here, and a win for Fulham could kickstart the season and get a positive attitude around the Cottage throughout the international break, alongside providing a glorious evening in W12 for the 3000 Fulham fans who will make the short hop. Fingers crossed.
Last 5 Championship Results:
D: Barnsley 1-1 Queens Park Rangers
D: Queens Park Rangers 0-0 Burton Albion
L: Middlesbrough 3-2 Queens Park Rangers
D: Queens Park Rangers 2-2 Millwall
W: Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Ipswich Town
We know that this is going to go against some people’s wishes, and it’s not what Slavisa would do, but I’d use Kamara as an impact sub. Now his confidence is up and running, bringing on that kind of weapon against tiring legs who will have been chasing Rui Fonte around for 70 minutes could be a masterstroke. Sess goes back to left-back, Norwood returns, and Kebano and Mollo get the nod for us.
Key Battle:
Josh Scowen v Stefan Johansen
The battle of the engines, if you will. A few envious eyebrows were raised around the Championship when Rangers picked up former Barnsley midfielder Josh Scowen on a free transfer at the beginning of the window. They’ve been proved right because Scowen has been almost an ever-present in the Rangers midfield since, linking up tidily with Massimo Luongo (not the best midfielder in the Championship, Ollie) and Luke Freeman.
Scowen’s industry and ability to recycle possession has been incredibly well-received by QPR fans, who have praised his performances since his arrival. In contrast, Stefan Johansen has not quite had the start to the season that Fulham fans were hoping for. Despite chipping in with his customary goals – StefJo is Fulham’s joint top-scorer (Shock) – the Norwegian’s performances have been somewhat below the par we’ve come to expect from him.
Perhaps missing the vision of Tom Cairney beside him, Fulham’s No8 has been partly anonymous for some of the season, when many of us were hoping that he would step into the void created by the absence of the talismanic No10. That said, Stef’s industry and workrate have remained solid, and it’s refreshing to see that even when things aren’t technically going his way, he’s willing to commit even harder to the industrious nature of his game.
He’ll be tested by Scowen, however, and Fulham’s midfield will need to step up to the plate if we’re to dominate the midfield battle. If Johansen can rediscover his touch, and connect nicely with Norwood and McDonald, then the Whites will have a solid platform on which to push for the bragging rights over our neighbours down the ‘Bush.
It’s going to be scrappy and horrible and, if Fulham come out on top, absolutely gorgeous. We’re going for 2-1 Fulham with a last minute winner from Sessegnon, and limbs all over White City.
Don’t forget to listen to next Monday’s episode of Fulhamish for all the reaction to this game and Friday’s short trip to Queens Park Rangers , and make sure that you’re subscribed on one of the following platforms.
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Microsoft releases Family Guy Windows 7 clips
By Matthew Humphries 11.30.2009 :: 8:01AM EDT 11.30.2009
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The Windows 7 / Family Guy project never really happened. Microsoft decided to pull the plug on the 30-minute episode it originally had planned, but that doesn’t mean some work wasn’t done on it by the MacFarlane team.
Surprisingly Microsoft has released four clips which were going to feature in the episode. All four are included below for you to make up your own mind about whether the full episode would have been funny or not and worthwhile for Microsoft:
Read more at Mashable
Matthew’s Opinion
Two of the four made me chuckle when Stewie draws a ski bunny and Peter is at the spelling bee, but they weren’t up to the usual Family Guy standard. They seem to have been sanitized or Microsoft handed MacFarlane a rule book telling him what he couldn’t do in the episode and this was all he could get away with. Alternatively, these were the only bits Microsoft felt were appropriate to share publicly without causing anyone upset.
If a true episode had been created then most likely it would have been a very scathing and embarrassing attack on Microsoft and its operating system. However, that probably would have worked for marketing. It would have been highly memorable and Microsoft would have won some respect for allowing it to be made.
I am kind of glad the episode never appeared if the clips above were the height of the humor Microsoft would allow. I’ll go back to watching regular episodes of the show which never fail to entertain.
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This is the new Razer Phone 2 with a Snapdragon 845, new display and more
7:32 am October 11, 2018 By Roland Hutchinson
We have been hearing rumors about the new Razer Phone 2 for some time, the handset is now official and we have all the details on this new gaming smartphone.
As we saw previously the design of the Razer Phone 2 is similar to the original handset, the device has had an upgraded display which is designed to be brighter than the previous handset.
The display on the new Razer Phone 2 is a 5.72 inch IGZO LCD display with a QHD resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. The handset is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and it comes with an Adreno 360 GPU.
The device features 8GB of RAM and comes with 64GB of included storage, there is also a microSD card slot which supports up to 1TB cards.
Thje cameras on the handset have also been upgraded, on the from there is an 8 megapixel camera for selfies and video calls. On the back there is a dual camera setup with two 12 megapixel cameras. One camera has a wide angle lens and the other a telephoto lens.
The handset comes with a 4,000 mAh battery and Qualcomm Quick charge 4.0+, it also features wireless fast charging.
The Razer Phone 2 will go up for pre-order from today for $799 and you can see a full list of specifications for the handset below.
Razer Phone 2 specifications:
Processor & Cooling:
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 845 (2.80 GHz) with Adreno 630 GPU, Vapor Chamber Cooling
System Memory:
8 GB (LPDDR4X)
Storage – Internal:
64 GB UFS
Storage – External:
SIM + micro SD slot (up to 1TB)
5.72-inch IGZO LCD 1440 x 2560
120 Hz, Wide Color Gamut
UltraMotion™ Technology
Anti-Fingerprint Protection
Rear Cameras:
12 MP AF f1.75 Wide with OIS
12 MP AF f2.6 Telephoto
Dual PDAF (Phase detection Autofocus)
Dual tone, dual LED flash
Video: Up to 4K video recording with stereo audio
8 MP FF f2.0
1080p Video
Stereo front-facing speakers
Dual Amplifiers / Dolby Atmos Technology
USB-C to 3.5 mm Audio Adapter with 24-bit DAC
4,000 mAh Li-Po battery
Qualcomm QuickCharge 4.0+
Wireless Fast Charging
802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Dual-band (MIMO), Antennae 2×2
RGB Illuminated Razer Chroma Logo
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA: 1/2/3/4/5/8
FDD-LTE: 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/14/17/18/19/20/26/28/29/30/32/66/71
TDD LTE: 38/39/40/41/48
TD-SCDMA: 34/39
LAA: 46
4×4 MIMO: 1/2/3/4/7/30/38/48/66
Up to 1.2 Gbit/s (Cat18)
158.5 mm x 78.99 mm x 8.5 mm
Source Razer
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Catch a Show at the Neighborhood Theater: Earphunk - May the Phunk Be With you - September 2015 Tour / the Main Squeeze
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Take a break from basic venues and come listen to handpicked music in a place that's known for its unassertive size and old school feel. There's just enough room to praise an artist in the front row, dance the night away in the middle, and enjoy a drink with a comfortable distance in the back. There's also a lot of local art hanging on the walls and it's all for sale.
You'll get a mixed bag of underground and almost-famous acts, but also art markets, movie screenings, beer festivals, and Rocky Horror Picture Show reenactments. The cozy vibe and full bar make for a unique experience that goes against the grain of arena concert culture, and just as the name suggests, this venue brings together the whole neighborhood under one colorful roof.
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Everyone who clamored to buy the new iPhone 7 may cringe when they read this: A new report shows that you paid three times the amount it costs Apple to make the phone.
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That's right. According to IHS Markit, the materials to make an iPhone 7 cost Apple about $219.80, plus an additional $5 to assemble in its factories. And you paid—or will pay, over the course of your installment plan—a whopping $649 for that 32GB model. (Unfortunately, similar cost analyses aren't available for higher GB models or the iPhone 7 Plus.)
To add insult to injury, Apple has come under fire in recent years for deplorable factory conditions, with reports showing that workers are forced to stand during 12-hour-long shifts, and forced to work overtime shifts without any choice. An undercover reporter interviewed one worker who'd clocked in 18 days in a row without a break, while observing other employees who were so exhausted that they fell asleep on the job. (And none of this touches on the child labor used to collect the various materials, such as tin, that Apple uses in its devices.)
If it makes you feel any better, IHS Markit says that the profit margin for the iPhone 7 is the smallest Apple's had in recent years. But that being said, Apple is still outpacing it's chief competitor, Samsung, when it comes to making more off its hardware.
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Protests against Iran hijab ban highlights years of evolution
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A spate of unprecedented protests against Iran’s mandatory headscarves for women have been tiny in number, but have still reignited a debate that has preoccupied the Islamic republic since its founding. Walking through central Tehran with a loose scarf tossed lightly over her head, Samar, a dentist, is typical of the relaxed approach to headgear many Iranian women have adopted since the 1990s.
“Everyone should be able to decide for themselves what to wear. I don’t think a few loose hairs can provoke anyone to anything,” she said. She was referring to the conservative claim that men are unable to stop themselves assaulting women if they can see their hair.
A typical sign — at a hammam in Kashan, south of Tehran — compares the veil to a pearl’s oyster: “The oyster keeps the pearl safe from the hazards.”
Powerful parts of the establishment still see the headscarf as a crucial symbol of their revolutionary identity, up there with supporting Palestinians and opposing the United States.
Many agree.
“In our country, men are raised with the idea that women must be seen with a headscarf. I will never remove my headscarf in my country for as long as I live,” said Hanieh, a journalist, wearing a much tighter scarf around her head.
The issue has returned to the fore in recent weeks after several women took the unprecedented step of protesting in public without their headscarves. Police say 29 people have been arrested.
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Iran is the only country in the world to impose a mandatory headscarf on both Muslim and non-Muslim women as part of its ill-defined “hijab” rules that require modest clothing, including a ban on shorts for men. In practice the rules have been steadily eroding for years.
But even in this part, things are changing. A new level of tolerance and acceptance is emerging,” said Jalaipour. ”Social phenomenon are not like teeth that can just be ripped out. There has to be a gradual evolution, and that’s what is happening.
Particularly in wealthier areas, the all-body black “chador” robes have been increasingly replaced by jeans, make-up and loose, colourful scarves which many let drop around their shoulders entirely.
Rouhani’s Evolution
To see how much Iranian society has evolved, one need only listen to the president, Hassan Rouhani. He once boasted of personally imposing the compulsory headscarf on women in the years after the 1979 revolution, starting with military centres.
“The women employees… started moaning and making an uproar but I stood firm,” he wrote in his memoirs. But since he became president in 2013, the morality police that enforce clothing rules have largely disappeared from the streets.
And just days after police announced the 29 arrests, his administration released a report showing that half of Tehranis opposed enforced hijab. The timing of the release, four years after the study was conducted, was seen as a shot against Rouhani’s conservative critics.
“Some say that wearing the headscarf allowed women to come out of the house, but we should not forget this was always conditioned on the permission of the husband or father,” said rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is representing one of the women arrested in the recent protests.
“Rouhani has evolved a lot,” said Hamid Reza Jalaipour, a sociology professor at the University of Tehran. “In a way, everyone has changed and we must forget the positions and statements of 20 or 30 years ago,” he said.
The report said a substantial number — 40 percent — still support mandatory hijab but that figure has dropped from 55.5 percent in 2006. “In a society where at least 40 to 50 percent believe hijab is a personal and optional matter, it is very difficult to demand enforcement,” it concluded.
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That is not a point that conservative clerics and officials are likely to concede easily. On Sunday, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said the arrested protesters had either been duped, drugged or were working for foreign enemies.
Supporters said the hijab allowed religious families to send their girls to school and work for the first time. But activists say that masks a deep-seated patriarchy, seen as anachronistic to many of the girls that benefited from that education.
“If it is proved that they have had links with a particular (foreign) organisation, a heavy file will be opened against them and they and their families will be in trouble,” he told reporters.
Gradual Change
The forced hijab did not come immediately after the revolution. First it came to schools and government buildings and within a few years, shops were putting up signs telling women they were not welcome without a headscarf.
The revolution’s founders were keen to break with Western influences, and the policies of the deposed monarchy which had sought to suppress outward symbols of religion.
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Canon Celebrates the Global Success of Océ CrystalPoint Technology
Melville, N.Y., February 2018 – Canon Solutions America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc. a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to announce an important milestone for its long-heralded Océ CrystalPoint® technology: 10,000 Océ ColorWave engines, powered by this technology, have been installed worldwide as of December 2017, helping customers work with a vast and dynamic range of high-quality large format print applications.
“This accomplishment demonstrates the expansive reach our products can have around the world and is ultimately a testament to the progressive approach we take when evaluating the print market and developing reliable solutions to help our customers experience continued success,” said Toyotsugu Kuwamura, Chairman and CEO, Canon Solutions America. “This recognition is not made possible without our valued customers who remain an integral part of our development process and help push our technology forward.”
The Océ ColorWave engines are sold and serviced both by Canon Solutions America as well as trained, authorized dealers of Canon Solutions America. TAVCO Services, Inc., a longstanding and loyal authorized dealer for Canon Solutions America, has a customer who stated the following about their Océ ColorWave 700 engine: “TBG Partners received our first Océ ColorWave 700 in June of 2015 and have never looked back,” said Greg Nichols, chief technology officer at TBG Partners. “I have to say; these machines are as robust and reliable as our TAVCO service. I have never experienced a plotter I could depend on more or one that manages our workflow more effectively. Our Océ’s take everything that we throw at them.”
The genesis of Océ CrystalPoint technology began in 2008, when it was first introduced to the industry alongside the product line it still powers and supports today – the Océ ColorWave portfolio. This highly-efficient and robust portfolio comprises a family of versatile and productive large format color printers that help customers of all sizes around the world expand their large format print offerings. Now in its tenth year, Océ CrystalPoint technology offers users the best of both inkjet and toner: crisp, high-quality, waterproof color and black & white prints, even on economical uncoated media and recycled paper. The technology remains as prevalent and important as event, and is ideal for a wide range of applications that include CAD plots, maps and posters.
Why Océ CrystalPoint Technology?
Utilizing Océ TonerPearls, the Océ CrystalPoint technology works on the principle of Solid In – Solid Out. The Océ TonerPearls come in see-through cartridges, allowing users the benefit of seeing the remaining toner level per color in the system. Once the Océ TonerPearls are fed into the system, they are then heated into a gel. Subsequently, the gel is jetted onto the media by the imaging devices. The gel droplets are positioned with extreme precision and keep their shape even on recycled paper, ensuring crisp print quality with no feathering.
A mere few months before its tenth anniversary, the Océ CrystalPoint Technology is still at the core of the newest line of Océ ColorWave products – the Océ ColorWave 500 and 700 large format color printers. Designed to enable a wide range of print applications for print service providers, in-house or remote work groups and central print rooms worldwide, these large format devices feature cloud integration, multiple user support, workflows with security features, optional built-in scanner and a range of integrated output options.
To learn more about Océ CrystalPoint technology and the Océ ColorWave family of products, visit the www.csa.canon.com.
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Gold Investor, July 2018
The role of gold in a multicurrency reserve system
Italy and European political risks suggest defensive positioning
Where has the volatility gone?
The vital role of gold in technology
Gold and the electronics sector
Replacing mercury with gold: a catalyst for good
Realising the healthcare potential of gold nanoparticles
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Technology is transforming the way we live, work and play, changing almost every aspect of our world, from industry to financial services to healthcare. Gold plays an integral part in this societal shift.
Over the past decade, the technology sector has accounted for more than 380 tonnes of gold demand annually, a significant figure in itself and almost 13% ahead of central bank net purchases during the same period. Yet gold’s role in this vibrant and growing industry is broadly unrecognised and often misunderstood.
This edition of Gold Investor focuses on technology, analysing gold’s current use and future potential across a range of applications.
To date, gold has primarily been associated with electronics, used in devices such as phones, cars, televisions and hospital monitors. In the first part of this decade, electronics demand faltered, as manufacturers sought less costly alternatives. Now, however, demand is rising again, testament to gold’s unparalleled properties of high conductivity, resilience and flexibility (see "Gold and the electronics sector").
Even as electronics demand rebounds, a number of other forward-thinking industries are turning to gold.
In healthcare and biotech, there is growing excitement about the potential of gold nanoparticles in such wide- ranging areas as diagnostic testing, gene therapy, skin reconstruction, and antiviral drug production. And, as Canadian biotech firm Sona Nanotech highlights, gold nanoparticles may soon play an integral role in cancer treatment too.
Speciality chemicals and sustainable technologies company Johnson Matthey has pioneered the use of gold as a catalyst in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). This would replace mercury, which is extremely toxic and associated with serious health issues, when not handled with exceptional care. Using gold therefore, could prove highly beneficial and Johnson Matthey is actively working to drive this change.
Gold’s contribution to the technology sector underpins its value in the modern world and its ongoing role as an industrial commodity.
However, gold remains a valuable financial asset too. Dr Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute, advocates that central banks should increase their gold holdings, as the world moves from an international monetary system dominated by the US dollar to a multi-polar currency system. Dr Sheng points to gold’s multiple benefits as an asset that delivers long-term returns while reducing risk and increasing liquidity.
Brunello Rosa, economics expert and CEO of Rosa & Roubini Associates, also subscribes to the benefits of gold within a diversified portfolio. Assessing the political situation in Italy, he predicts that volatile times lie ahead and suggests that gold could be a useful asset to hold in such an environment (see: "Italy and European political risks suggest defensive positioning"). And Matthew Turner of Macquarie also points to the stability of gold in recent years – in stark contrast to many other asset classes.
Across the world, gold is increasingly entering the mainstream and becoming part of the global dialogue among policy-makers, opinion formers and leading institutions. Our inaugural Investment Summit, held in New York earlier this year, analysed key challenges within the investment community and gold's potential contribution as a long-term, stable, store of value. Some of the central themes are discussed in "Seeking solutions to investment challenges".
We are keen to hear your views about Gold Investor so please email [email protected]. We hope you enjoy the read.
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West Va. broadband council's grant fails to attract applicants
Sep 14, 2012 11:30am
West Virginia's Broadband Deployment Council on Thursday said that while it has $4 million in funds to distribute to telecom service providers and other nonprofit groups to use, it has not been able to attract any interest.
Anyone interested in using the money has until the close of business Friday to apply for grants to extend broadband services into the rural segments of the state.
As of the end of Wednesday, the council said it had not received one application.
"We have no applications officially submitted," said Jan Fox, a broadband council member, in a Charleston Gazette article. "Nobody's going to go early."
The council did say that 11 organizations began filling out applications and 36 groups registered at the council's website, www.broadbandgrants.wv.gov.
When the deadline expires on Friday, the council said that while it would reveal applicant names and proposed projects on the West Virginia secretary of state's website, it would not say how much money each applicant was requesting.
West Virginia has been traditionally dominated by two main broadband service providers--Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) and Lumos Networks (Nasdaq: LMOS).
Frontier, which became the largest telco in the state when it purchased Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) rural lines in 2010, has, not surprisingly, made West Virginia one of its key broadband expansion targets. Earlier this week, the service provider announced that it would start delivering up to 25 Mbps DSL services to 405,000 West Virginia residential and business customers.
Meanwhile, Lumos Networks, which was created when nTelos separated its wireless and wireline divisions into two separate companies, has been continually upgrading its metro and long-haul fiber network in West Virginia and surrounding states via its own organic initiatives and the acquisition of FiberNet in 2010. These initiatives have allowed Lumos to serve its rural customers with up to 6 Mbps copper-based DSL and 10-20 Mbps FTTH-based tiers.
- The Charleston Gazette has this article
Frontier to serve up higher broadband speeds in West Va.
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Joanna Newsom & Red Krayola @ Somerset House
Posted by Andy on 21 July 2008
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Mayo Thompson of Red Krayola is a funny guy - he wandered on stage dressed like an undertaker and spent a couple of minutes trying to attach his set list to the mic stand, he eventually gave up and placed it on the floor and then reached into his pocket to get out his specs - I felt empathy given the state of my eyesight recently and it made me laugh - as did most of the set. The band was a Mayo, a drummer, a (British) singer who (mis-)read her lyrics from sheets of paper and a saxophonist who used his leg as a mute. Baffling and bizarrely brilliant.
Joanna came on stage in a(nother) silly billowing dress (I really wish she'd dress in jeans and a t-shirt because a dress like that would flatter no one). She played alone opening with Bridges & Balloons and then playing Emily, Sadie, Colleen at which point she moved from the harp to a piano where she played a few new songs (and an old one - Inflammatory Writ) before heading back to the harp for the finale Peach, Plum, Pear, Cosmia and a beautiful finish of Clab, Cram, Cockle Cowrie. No encore - probably too cold and maybe a bit too close to curfew but the crowd were yearning so it was a disappointment when the courtyard lights came up.
While the venue was interesting I'd have preferred to have been indoors, without the smokers, the bells, the seagulls and the cold. There was no Sawdust & Diamonds - which had been so astounding solo at the RAH - and that was a disappointment but all told it was a good show and will tide me over until she's hopefully over with a new album soon.
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MRP rules under GST released. Read here
The government on Tuesday announced rules regarding MRP or maximum retail price for goods under the GST (goods and services tax) regime that was rolled out at the midnight of Friday and Saturday. There has been ample confusion among both consumers and retailers regarding how the MRP changes will reflect under GST.
“Under the GST regime, if a price of a product has increased the manufacturer/ importer/ packer will have to give an advertisement in two newspapers about the new MRP and put a revised sticker on the packaging,”, Department of Consumer Affairs Secretary Avinash Srivastava said. Both the new and the old MRP must show on the packaging, he added.
Legal action would be taken against those who don’t comply with the new rules, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on micro-blogging site Twitter.
The tweet roughly translates to — If the revised MRP under GST of a product is not furnished, then legal action will be taken against the shopkeeper.
Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has extended a three-month dispensation to all manufacturers and traders till September 30 on old stock they are holding and they can simply follow the rules released on Monday and continue trade.
For products whose prices have come down under the new tax regime, no newspaper advertisements would need to be published. However, a sticker mentioning the new MRP is a must, and the old price should show too on the packaging, the Finance Ministry said.
“Packing material is quite costly so traders can be use their existing stock upto September, by just putting a new MRP sticker,” Srivastava said.
The government will also be conducting a “masterclass” on GST for all stakeholders including citizens in the form of an hour-long program for six days which will be telecast live on the state-run television channel Doordarshan, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said. The live telecast will be available on the web as well, he said.
The government is closely monitoring the price and supply situation post GST implementation, the Revenue Secretary said, adding “a central monitoring committee, comprising 15 top secretaries, will meet every Tuesday to monitor GST.”
The government has categorically time and again said that they expect teething troubles initially as GST rolls out — as is the case with anything that’s new — but hopes things would be ironed out soon and is making efforts to educate all stakeholders.
GST is India’s most ambitious tax reform since its independence+ in 1947 and subsumes over a dozen central and state taxes that were levied on goods and services bringing India under a uniform tax regime. The new tax regime implemented by the Narendra Modi government which has been in the works for over 15 years is expected to add 2 per cent to the country’s GDP (gross domestic product).
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/mrp-rules-under-gst-released-read-here/articleshow/59440789.cms
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Healthy Chocolate Recipes
Chocolate Recipes For A Happy Heart And Soul
By Pamela Sadler on Fri, 12 Jul 2019
Chocolate doesn't just taste amazing, it is great for your whole body, and this eBook shows you how eating plenty of chocolate can help you live longer. This book contains a large variety of recipes to help you get the most out of your chocolate. Chocolate reduces the risk of heart disease, promotes good blood flow, and helps with alertness. You will also learn how chocolate helps to lessen pain and anxiety, and how it has powerful antioxidant properties. You don't have to always eat foods in very small amounts that taste amazing. Chocolate is the best guilt-free indulgence food that is possibly. This book was penned in 1896 by Fannie Farmer, and contains time-tested and proven recipes that are great for your health and even better: they taste amazing. This book has recipes for everything from cakes to bonbons to truffles, and all of them work together to improve your health and well-being. Read more here...
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Significance to humans
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Formerly important as food and hunted for its fur by aboriginal tribes, this marsupial has gained an iconic status today as a symbol of Australia's threatened indigenous wildlife. Adopted as a mascot by the Commonwealth of Australia Endangered Species Program, the species has gained wider public awareness thanks to a campaign that began in the 1980s to replace the Easter bunny with an Easter bilby. Every Easter, thousands of chocolate bilbies are sold, often with a percentage of the profits channeled back into bilby conservation.
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Cooperative breeding is common in the family, and has been studied in several thornbills and scrubwrens. Mostly, though, acanthizids breed as pairs with some being assisted by a third or fourth bird. The breeding season is typically late winter to early summer and several attempts are made each season. Nests are domed, often with a clear hood above the entrance, and those of gerygones are pendant, attached to foliage. Although usually placed in trees or shrubs, crannies and hollows are also used and some species nest on the ground. The most common clutch is two eggs, though up to five eggs have been recorded. Egg color ranges from white in the rock-warbler, and white with sparse spotting in Acanthiza and Gery-gone, to cream or buff with heavier spotting in many genera to plain chocolate in redthroat and speckled warblers (Chthon-icola sagittatus). Eggs are laid at 48-hour intervals and are incubated by the female alone. Incubation periods and dependency of the fledglings are long....
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Sexually dimorphic and dichromatic. The male is slender-bodied and cylindrical in shape the body has a slight curve to the dorsal surface. The head tapers to a terminal mouth, and the caudal peduncle is compressed and tapering. Dorsal fin is small and set far back, with its origin over the midpoint of the anal fin. Dorsal surface is chocolate brown, and anterior flanks are light metallic blue red spots and splotches are scattered over the body and on the dorsal and anal fins. All fins show color, the dorsal and anal fins with orange and red margins. Anal fin tapers to a point, with its color grading into white the upper and lower parts of the caudal fin have curved white extensions, giving this fin its characteristic lyre-tailed shape. The female is smaller, usually without much color. Sometimes golden, gray, or muddy, with rounded fins and iridescent bluish white margins on the pectoral fins. Body and unpaired fins have tiny red dots. All color and color...
Chemical Components
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Cocoa is among the most concentrated sources of the flavanols, catechin and epicatechin, with four times the catechin content of tea (Arts et al 1999). Chocolate also contains additional flavonoids not found in tea, with high concentrations of oligomeric procyanidins (Lazarus et al 1999). Post-harvesting and processing pro 2007 Elsevier Australia cedures can have a striking influence on the flavanol content of chocolate and cocoa (Hollenberg et al 2004). Dark chocolate has the highest total catechin content with approximately 53.5 mg 100 g, whereas milk chocolate contains approximately 1 5.9 mg 100 g (Arts et al 1999). White chocolate primarily contains cocoa butter with minimal levels of polyphenols. Cocoa also contains the methylxanthines, caffeine and theobromine, the biogenic amines phenylethylamine, phenylalanine and tyrosine (Bruinsma & Taren 1999) and the cannabinoid-like fatty acid anandanine analogs, N-oleoylethanolamine and N-linoleoylethanolamine (Di Tomaso et al 1996)....
Inhibit Platelet Function
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In another randomised trial of 30 healthy volunteers 100 mg of dark chocolate, but not white or milk chocolate, were found to significantly inhibit collagen-induced platelet aggregation (Innes et al 2003). The alteration of eicosanoid synthesis has been suggested as a plausible mechanism by which procyanidins can decrease platelet activation, and has been observed in an in vitro study of the effect of procyanidin on aortic endothelial cells, as well as in a randomised, blinded, crossover study of high procyanidin chocolate (4.0 mg g) (Schramm et al 2001).
Psychological Effects
Chocolate is purported to have a range of psychological effects, including enhanced arousal and cognitive function, stimulation of feelings of wellbeing and euphoria, as well as initiating cravings. The orosensory aspects of chocolate, including its taste, smell and texture, certainly contribute to chocolate's positive appeal. Chocolate contains large amounts of fat in the form of cocoa butter, which melts at body temperature producing a pleasurable melt-in-the-mouth experience. Chocolate also often contains large amounts of sugar and thus satisfies the seemingly innate preference for sweet, high-fat, foods (Bruinsma & Taren 1999). In addition to unique sensory properties, chocolate also contains many pharmacologically active substances. Several endogenous biogenic amines with sympathomimetic properties are found in chocolate, most notably tyramine and phenylethylamine (Hurst 1982). Phenylethylamine is an amphetamine analogue structurally related to methylenedioxymethamphetamine...
Inhibition Ofdental Caries
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Cocoa contains substances that protect against dental caries (Palenik et al 1977, s'Gravenmade et al 1977) and in vitro experiments have shown that monomeric polyphenols and tannins from cocoa may interfere with glucosyltransferase activity of Streptococcus mutans and reduce plaque formation (Kashket etal 1985). Similar results were reported in hamsters, with a marked caries-inhibitive effect found with a water-extract of cocoa (Stralfors 1966). Cocoa bean husk, while not used in cocoa or chocolate, demonstrates antibacterial properties attributed to its unsaturated fatty acids and antiglucosyltransferase activities attributed to epicatechin polymers, as well as being shown both in vitro and in vivo to possess significant antiplaque activity (Matsumoto et al 2004).
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Dark chocolate, but not white chocolate, was observed to significantly improve endothelial and platelet function in healthy smokers, with increased flow-mediated dilatation, increased total antioxidant status and reduced shear stress dependent platelet function seen 2-8 hours after ingestion (Hermann et al 2006). Dark chocolate has also been shown to increase insulin sensitivity and decrease blood pressure in healthy people (Grassi et al 2005a). Similar results were obtained in a RCT using 100 g of dark chocolate containing approximately 500 mg polyphenols which was consumed daily for 1 5 days. Chocolate was found to decrease DBP by -11.9 7.7 mmHg, decrease serum LDL-cholesterol from 3.4 to 3.0 mmol L, improve flow-mediated dilation, and reduce insulin resistance and increase insulin sensitivity in patients with newly diagnosed essential hypertension (Grassi et al 2005b). Similarly, a study of male soccer players found that consumption of 105 g of flavanol-containing milk chocolate...
Magnesium deficiency may contribute to the symptomology of PMS, which may be improved by chocolate or cocoa powder, which contain a high concentration of magnesium ( 100 mg 100 g in chocolate and 520 mg 100 g in cocoa powder). There is also some evidence to suggest that serotonin levels are low premenstrually, and it is possible that premenstrual chocolate cravings are the body's attempt to raise CNS concentrations of serotonin (Bruinsma & Taren 1999).
Enhanced Cognitive Function
The results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled study suggests that both milk and dark chocolate, but not white chocolate, improve cognitive function. A second double-blind study suggests that this improvement is due to the methylxanthin content of chocolate, with 11.6 g of cocoa powder producing identical improvements in cognitive function and the mood construct 'energetic arousal' as a mixture of caffeine (19 mg) and theobromine (250 mg) (Smit et al 2004). Consumption of a 65 g chocolate bar was shown to significantly increase driving accuracy and reduce collisions compared to an equicaloric snack of cheese and biscuits or no snack in a controlled trial of 12 volunteers (Smith & Rich 1998).
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It is believed that chocolate is a trigger for migraine, yet there is inconsistent support for this. In one small double-blind, parallel-group study of 12 patients who believed that chocolate could provoke their attacks, chocolate ingestion was more likely than placebo to trigger a typical migraine episode, with the median time until the onset of the attack of 22 hours (Gibb et al 1991). Three other double-blind placebo-controlled trials suggest that chocolate on its own rarely precipitates migraine (Marcus et al 1997, Moffett et al 1974), with the results of one trial suggesting that chocolate was no more likely to provoke headache than was carob in typical migraine, tension-type, or combined headache sufferers (Marcus et al 1997). There is no evidence that chocolate contributes to acne (Ravenscroft 2005).
Behavior And Reproduction
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Some ornithologists believe that the greater painted snipe of Australia is a distinct species, a third painted snipe. It has longer wings, a shorter bill, and shorter legs than greater painted snipes found elsewhere in the world. Coloration in Australian populations is also different, since the males' gray tail is paler and females have a chocolate-brown rather than reddish brown head, as well as round tail spots. Finally, the calls of Australian painted snipes sound different from the low booming call of other greater painted snipes.
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
Last Updated on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 | Adverse Effects
Adverse effects orthostatic hypotension, agitation, tremor, seizures, muscle spasms, urinary retention, paresthesias, jaundice, tyramine-induced hypertensive crisis (e.g., some cheeses, chianti wine, chocolate, liver, fava beans, avocados) exaggerated response to indirect-acting sympathomimetics interaction with opioids (may cause excitatory or depressive reactions excitatory reaction thought to be central serotonergic overactivity manifesting as hypertension, hypotension, tachycardia, diaphoresis, hyperthermia, muscle rigidity, seizures, coma meperidine has been associated with fetal excitatory reactions) inhibition of hepatic enzymes
Geneticization and BRCA1
Last Updated on Thu, 11 Feb 2016 | Genetic Information
Consider, for example, the ways in which biomedicine directs attention primarily to the level of the individual by encouraging each woman to develop high levels of fear about her own risk of contracting breast cancer. In the name of health promotion, women are repeatedly warned of the risk each faces of developing this disease. Many women are easily frightened into a mind-set where they are preoccupied with monitoring their bodies for threatening signs of change (or where they guiltily avoid checking their breasts for fear of discovering some suspicious lump) if a lump is detected, they are primed to quickly seek expert advice and biomedical interventions. This focus on individual responsibility and surveillance occurs as part of a much larger public health campaign aimed at self-regulation not only are women asked to pay worried and regular attention to their breasts, they are also advised to change lifelong eating habits, develop healthy exercise programs, learn stress management...
DNA Analytical Methods
Last Updated on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 | Precautionary Principle
DNA-based detection methods are primarily based on multiplying a specific (for example genetically modified) DNA with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. Two short pieces of synthetic DNA (called primers) are needed, each complementary to one end of the DNA to be multiplied. During the reaction, copies of the target DNA sequence are made and subsequently visualised. No copy is detected if the target DNA is not present. It is possible to detect DNA in fresh plant tissue, but also in highly processed foods like cakes or chocolate. The PCR results can be quantified giving an estimation of the amount of GM component in the sample tested.
Purplebearded Beeeater Meropogon forsteni
Physical characteristics Purple-bearded bee-eaters are easily identified from other bee-eaters because they have a purple-blue head, throat, and breast. They are colorful birds, with dark green upper-parts, wings, and tail streamers dark brown lower belly green and russet (reddish brown) tail feathers blackish forehead and crown (the top of a bird's head) chocolate on the sides and back of the neck. The long, broad throat feathers hang over the breast, and the neck and nape feathers form a coat that is sleeked down or fluffed out. When flying, they look mostly green, with broad rounded wings, a longish tail, and short-to medium tail streamers. Purple-bearded bee-eaters are 9.8 to 10.2 inches (25 to 26 centimeters) long without
Nonneoplastic Conditions
Last Updated on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 | Lymph Nodes
Endometriosis within the ovary may take the form of an endometriotic cyst. These can be single or multiple and are often bilateral. They generally have a thick fibrous wall which is yellow to brown in colour with a ragged internal surface. The cyst contents are typically brown fluid which may be inspissated, giving rise to the term chocolate cyst of the ovary. Rarely, tumours can arise within ovarian endometriotic cysts and these usually take the form of a thickened area within the wall. Endometriosis within the ovary may also be non-cystic, appearing as small red, blue or brown spots. Often, endometriotic foci are not apparent to the naked eye.
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Last Updated on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 | Angelman Syndrome
It was therefore tempting to determine why or how a rather consistent sequence length of chromosome material could accidentally be deleted from the whole chromosome as would, to use a comparison, a chocolate square easily be split off from the whole plate As a result of this search, '' hot spots'' prone or predisposed to repeated breakage accidents were characterized by studying the breakpoint regions in YAC clones (Kuwano et al., 1992), the identification of restriction fragments positive for the same genomic DNA probes (Amos-Landgraf et al., 1999), or by FISH analyses in which more than one hybridizing signal was detected after hybridization with the same probe (Carrozzo et al., 1997).
Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Physical characteristics The cactus wren measures in length from about 7.2 to 8.5 inches (18 to 21.6 centimeters) and is the largest species of wren in North America. In color, the bird is a chocolate brown on top with a plain cap. Its back is streaked very prominently in black and white, and the wings, which can spread to a length of 10.7 inches (over 27 centimeters), are barred with buff and black tones. The tail feathers vary between having blackish brown and gray-brown bars. The outer tail feathers are very noticeably barred black and white. The underparts of the bird are buff-white and are spotted heavily with black, especially on the chest. Eyes are reddish brown with a dull black bill that has a paler base. Its legs are a pinkish brown.
Graeme J Poston and Louise E Jones
Last Updated on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 | Colorectal Cancer
The clinical course of patients with nonresectable metastatic carcinoid is highly variable and largely unpredictable (1-4). Patients with high tumor burden can remain relatively asymptomatic for years, totally oblivious to their disease. Others with minimal residual (but nonresect-able) disease in the small-bowel mesentery can suffer all the symptoms of the carcinoid syndrome without having disease in the liver (vide supra). However, the majority of patients with carcinoid metastatic to the liver will exhibit at least some, if not all of the symptoms of the carcinoid syndrome (1-4). These symptoms include facial and sometimes torso flushing which may progress to rosacea and scleroderma (5), and may include the cutaneous manifestations of pellagra (5). Other symptoms include diarrhea, breathlessness, and wheezing and may be precipitated by certain foods including alcohol and chocolate. The exact hormonal mechanism of these symptoms remains unknown.
Nucifraga caryocatactes
Last Updated on Sat, 02 Jan 2016 | Birds
Physical characteristics Spotted nutcrackers are named for their appearance and the way they use their large bills to take the shells off of nuts. There are white spots and streaks in their feathers. The spotted nutcracker's brown body plumage is the color of chocolate. The lower part of the body is white. The wing and tail feathers are a shiny black. There are white tips at the ends of the wings and feathers. The spotted nutcracker's bill, legs, and feet are black.
Mints Spearmint And Peppermint
Last Updated on Thu, 31 Aug 2017 | Spice Blends | 1 comment
How Prepared and Consumed Greeks and Romans used peppermint in condiments, cordials, and fruits. Europeans use it in sweet products such as desserts, candy, jams, jellies, chocolates, cordials, liqueurs, and cigarettes. In Europe, the crystallized leaves are also used as decorations in cakes and pastries. Today in the United States, peppermint is mainly used in bakery products, teas, and confectionery. In England, peppermint is used in savory products, such as sauces for roast lamb, boiled mutton, peas, potatoes, and in teas, chocolate, and vinegar. Middle Easterners use chopped peppermint in many dishes yogurt dressings, dips, salads, vegetables, grilled lamb, poultry, fish, and in teas. Dried leaves are popular in many North African and Middle Eastern cuisines including Turkish and Iranian cooking. They are used in dry blends, meat and fish marinades, and beverages. Mint tea is widely consumed by Arabic cultures.
Minerals and mental health
Last Updated on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 | Personality Disorder
The richest sources of the trace mineral copper in the diet are organ meats, seafood, nuts, seeds, whole grain breads and cereals, and chocolate. In addition to other functions, copper is involved in iron metabolism in the body and in brain function. Deficiency of copper causes anemia, with inadequate oxygen delivery to the brain and other organs. Copper deficiency also impairs brain functioning and immune system response, including changes in certain chemical receptors in the brain and lowered levels of neurotransmitters.
Last Updated on Tue, 11 Jun 2019 | Brain Tumors
Azo-PCB into two separate azoxy-PCB derivatives, which have significantly greater antitumor activity than PCB or azo-PCB 90,91 . Once activated, PCB alkylates DNA at the O6 position of guanine 92 . In addition, PCB can induce DNA strand breakage and inhibit DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis. PCB has further pharmacological properties, including activity as a monoamine oxidase-inhibitor and a disulfiram-like effect 8,21 . Potential interactions (i.e., acute hypertension) can occur if PCB is taken concomitantly with sympathomimetic drugs, antihis-tamines, tricyclic antidepressants, and food, high in tyramine content (e.g., wine, beer, cheese, chocolate, bananas, and yogurt) 93 . Due to the disulfiram-like effect, alcohol should be avoided while taking PCB, or severe gastrointestinal distress will develop. Although water soluble, PCB and its metabolites readily cross the blood-brain barrier, with rapid equilibration between plasma and cerebrospinal fluid.
Plant Parts Used
Cocoa is produced through a process of fermenting the seeds from the pods of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao. The beans are dried, roasted, and crushed to produce high-fat, unsweetened chocolate, which is also called baking chocolate. This intermediate is pressed and alkalised to form cocoa powder, which is then homogenised with sugar and cocoa butter, and sometimes milk, to ultimately form chocolate. Dark chocolate generally contains more than 50 cocoa, whereas mass-produced milk chocolate only contains around 10 cocoa. White chocolate is based on cocoa butter (or theobroma oil) without the cocoa solids. Although many different types of cocoa beans grow throughout the world, three varieties of cocoa beans are mainly used to make chocolate products (a) criollo (meaning 'native'), distributed to the north and west of the Andes, (b) forastero (meaning 'foreign'), found mainly in the Amazon basin, and (c) trinitario (meaning 'sent from heaven') (Bruinsma & Taren 1999).
Food Source
Last Updated on Fri, 28 Sep 2018 | Beta Carotene
Cocoa and chocolate are nutritious foods that contribute to caloric as well as trace mineral intake (Steinberg et al 2003). Milk chocolate has a relatively low glycaemic index of approximately 40 (Foster-Powell et al 2002) and this is attributed to the fat in chocolate slowing gastric emptying and thus the rate of subsequent digestion and absorption. The glycaemic effect of milk chocolate can be further reduced by replacing the sucrose with fructose or isomalt (Gee et al 1991). Foods containing cocoa have been shown to lead to a greater postprandial insulin secretion in healthy young adults than foods with alternative flavourings, despite having a similar glycaemic index. It is suggested that specific insulinogenic amino acids or greater cephalic phase insulin release may explain this finding, although the clinical implications are uncertain (Miller et al 1995). Milk chocolate has also been shown to be a cheap, effective and palatable form of fatty meal for producing gall bladder...
Conservative therapy
Last Updated on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 | Gastroesophageal Reflux
- Dietary modifications - avoid caffeine,fatty foods, chocolate, spicy foods, peppermint, onions, garlic, tomatoes,and citrus products 50 . However, this life style modification is being recommended less often given effectiveness of proton pump inhibitors in treating GERD. Other lifestyle changes include weight loss and decreased alcohol intake. Several foods contribute to reflux symptoms, and should be avoided. Foods with an acidic pH can both lower the LES pressure and increase gastric acid secretion, and can precipitate symptoms 30 . Caffeine irritates the esophageal mucosa and increases acid secretion, while fatty foods delay gastric emptying 29 . Additional culprits include chocolate, peppermint, spicy foods, and onions.
Last Updated on Sun, 16 Sep 2018 | Spice Blends
The Caribs, Mayans, and other Native Americans dyed their bodies with annatto oil to protect against the sun, thus giving rise to the term redskin by the early European settlers in the Americas. Aztecs used annatto seeds to intensify the color of their chocolate drink. This practice of coloring traveled to Europe, where annatto is now used to give a deep yellow color to butter and cheese. Often called saffron by Puerto Ricans, this spice was introduced to India by the Portuguese and to the Philippines by the Spanish.
Last Updated on Sat, 02 Jan 2016 | Intestinal Microbiota
Proanthocyanidins are dimers, oligomers, and polymers of flavan-3-ols and are formed by enzymatic or chemical condensation. These so-called condensed tannins contribute to astringent tastes in fruits (e.g., grapes, peaches, apples, pears, berries etc.), beverages (e.g., wine, cider, tea, beer etc.) and chocolate. At a lower degree of polymerization they are colorless and bitter to taste, but with greater polymerization the taste becomes astringent and the color yellow to brown. Proanthocyanidins purely consisting of catechin and epicatechin monomers are called procyanidins, which are the most common type of proanthocyanidins. Less abundant are the prodelphinidins, which include both epicatechin and gallocatechin monomers.
Harpy fruit bat
Last Updated on Thu, 14 Apr 2016 | Mammals
Head and body length, 5.5-6 in (14-15.3 cm) forearm length, 3.2-3.6 in (8.2-9.2 cm) no tail weight, 2.9-5 oz (83-142 g). Pelage is chocolate to dark brown, ventrum is lighter. Differs from all other fruit bats in its dental structure. The molars have 5-6 cusps, the lower canines have three cusps, and the incisors are directed forward.
Some Considerations
Last Updated on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 | Meta Analysis
Medium, large, and extra large respondents answer either yes or no manufactured parts either pass or do not pass quality control or dessert choice is sorbet, tiramisu, chocolate mousse, or apple tart. In many analyses, discrete variables are the grouping variables (treatment group vs. control) for a main analysis such as analysis of variance (ANOVA) or logistic regression. Assumptions for discrete variables relate to the frequency of cases in the various categories. Problems arise when there are too few cases in some of the categories, as discussed later.
Redrumped agouti
Last Updated on Mon, 08 Feb 2016 | Mammals
Forelegs, and mid-back are a greenish brown the rump is a dark red to bright fire orange (this may not be visible unless the rump hairs are erect). There is sometimes a crest of longer black hairs between the shoulders and up to the top of the head. The belly varies from shades of muddy to pure orange, sometimes with a white midline. Populations on Caribbean islands tend to be smaller than those on the mainland and are less colorful, being dark brown with long chocolate-colored hairs forming a cape over the shoulders.
Thickbilled weaver
6.7-7.5 in (17-19 cm) female 1.1-1.6 oz (31-45 g), male 1.5-2.1 oz (43-60 g). Breeding male chocolate brown with white forehead, white patch in wing conspicuous in flight. Heavy black bill. White on forehead variable, absent in non-breeding plumage. Female has brown upperparts, underparts white heavily streaked with brown. Heavy yellowish bill. Juvenile like female, more rufous above and buffy below. Bill dull brown.
Experimental Studies
Last Updated on Mon, 11 Jan 2016 | Rasch Model
In many studies of cognitive, language, and motor development, infants or children participate in tasks designed to examine children's abilities and knowledge using habituation dishabituation paradigms in infancy (Baillargeon, 1994) and actual cognitive motor tasks (Campos, Bertenthal, & Ker-moian, 1992 Newcombe & Huttenlocher, 1992 Werker, 1989). For example, in work on theory of mind, researchers have used tasks such as the false belief task. In this task, children see a scene where a character, Maxi, puts chocolate in a drawer, and while Maxi is out of the room another person moves the chocolate. Children are asked where Maxi will look for the chocolate to determine at what age children can understand the difference between what they believe to be true and what others believe (Wimmer & Perner, 1983). These types of studies rarely use a multimethod approach, instead relying primarily on the experimental tasks to assess a specified cognitive ability.
Black flying fox
Last Updated on Thu, 14 Apr 2016 | Mammals | 1 comment
Head and body length (19-28 cm), forearm 6-7.5 in (15-19 cm), wingspan up to 3.3 ft (1 m) weight 1.1-2.2 lb (500-1,000 g). The fur on the head is black, the mantle ranges from chocolate brown to reddish brown, and white hairs frequently appear over the body, including the underside.
How Prepared and Consumed nutmeg loses its flavor quickly when ground, so generally it is grated just before cooking or baking. Also, to retain its flavor, nutmeg is added toward the end of cooking. It complements chocolate, fruits, custards, vanilla, coconut milk, lemongrass, and kari leaves. Europeans use it in mashed potatoes, rice dishes, pastas, soups, rice puddings, pies, eggnog, biscuits, and milk-based drinks. Nutmeg provides an intense, sweet, spicy aroma to pastries, cakes, sweet rolls, banana bread, pumpkin pies and apple pies, ice cream, chocolate, and lemon desserts. Nutmeg is also used in cheese fondues, and it enhances savory products such as vegetable stews, bechamel sauce, tomato sauce, processed meats, and pork patties.
Antireflux barrier
Last Updated on Sun, 14 Oct 2018 | Gastroesophageal Reflux
LES resting pressure exhibits a significant diurnal variation. During daytime, LES pressure is lower in comparison to the postprandial and nighttime periods 1 . Additionally, various substances such as hormones, drugs and foods influence the LES basal pressure. Substances that increase LES pressure include gastrin, motilin, substance P, alfa-adrenergic antagonists, beta-adrenergic agonists, protein, histamine, me-toclopramide and prostaglandin F2a. Substances that decrease LES basal pressure include secretin, chole-cystokinin, glucagon, somatostatin, progesterone, alfa-adrenergic agonists, beta-adrenergic antagonists, fat, chocolate, ethanol, peppermint, theophylline, prosta-glandin E2, serotonin, morphine, calcium channel blockers, diazepam and barbiturates 2 .
Siberian ibex
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 | Mammals
The largest and heaviest member of the genus, with the longest horns. Head and body length 67 in (171 cm), height 43 in (110 cm), and weight 286 lb (130 kg). Horns are scimitarlike, swept back and laterally compressed, with prominent transverse ridges on the front surface and reach 60 in (148 cm). Horns of females are much shorter. Males have a long beard. Color is very variable, from light gray to dark chocolate brown.
Banded leafmonkey
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 | Mammals
There is considerable variation in coat coloration between subspecies. Fur ranges from off-white gray through reddish orange to chocolate dorsally and from white through cream to pale orange ventrally. There is relatively little sexual dimorphism in body size, with males being only slightly bigger than females. Head and body length 19.5 in (49.0 cm) for males and 20 in (49.5 cm) for females tail length 28.5 in (71.0 cm) for males and 28.5 in (71.0 cm) for females. Body mass 14 lb 8 oz (6.59 kg) for males and 14lb 4 oz (6.47 kg) for females.
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Residents want more town dialogue on I-11 plan in Sahuarita
By Jorge Encinas jencinas@gvnews.com
Jorge Encinas
Sahuarita residents opposed to a plan that could bring an interstate through the west part of town say they're having a tough time getting the attention of local leaders and want the community to have a bigger voice in the decision.
The plan, which likely wouldn't come to fruition for 20 years, if ever, would connect the proposed Interstate 11 with I-19 at El Toro Road just north of Anamax Park. It would be part of a highway system connecting Mexico to Canada.
Jan McClellan and Dorian Dodson live within the recommended corridor's path in Sahuarita, west of I-19, and represent a group not happy with what they see as a lack of transparency on the part of the town and a failure to publicly engage with residents who are concerned about what the new interstate would do to Sahuarita and Southern Arizona.
Farther north, the plan also is meeting with opposition. During a May 8 public hearing in Tucson, groups from Avra Valley showed up to voice their opposition. Like the Sahuarita residents, the recommended corridor would pass through the rural community and residents are worried it would permanently alter their way of life.
The I-11 corridor
The recommended corridor is a 2,000 foot-wide study area stretching from Nogales to Wickenburg. The I-11 project is part of the Canamex corridor that would open a transportation route from Mexico to Canada and is intended to facilitate trade among the three countries. At times, the route would share an existing road, such as I-19 south of Sahuarita.
The Tier One study is in its final stages with public comments being collected before the Arizona Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration makes a final decision. That decision is whether to use the current recommended route as the preferred route or not build at all. The public comment period ends July 8.
A future Tier Two study would reduce the 2,000 foot-wide corridor to a 400-foot roadway. There is currently no funding or timeline for that study. Any potential construction would not occur for decades and would only begin if or when a need for more highways was determined.
ADOT held six public hearings earlier this year — Buckeye, Wickenburg, Casa Grande, Marana, Tucson and Nogales — and added what it called an "information session" in Green Valley. ADOT spokeswoman Laura Douglas did not specifically address repeated questions about why a hearing was not held in Sahuarita, which would be directly affected by the proposal.
Residents concerned
McClellan has been a Sahuarita resident for 17 years, Dodson has lived here two years. Both think now is the time to take action, while the route is being determined.
Their group of residents is concerned with the impact a new interstate would have on the desert scenery and wildlife in the open area west of Tucson and the effects on Sahuarita.
Dodson said the corridor will transform the town from a unique and special community and turn it into another town with freeways cutting through it that bring problems of their own.
"Which includes more gas stations, more business that cater to truckers and other people transporting goods as opposed to catering to people who are enjoying the lifestyle and a very lovely community that is oriented towards family, towards nature, towards culture and will turn it into another town along the freeway," Dodson said. "And we've all seen what those look like."
Mayor Tom Murphy favors the proposed interstate because he said it's important to stay ahead of growing needs.
Murphy pointed to how roadwork on I-19 sometimes leaves a single lane open, causing delays and congestion. Fast forward to 2040 or 2045, and with population and traffic increases, the problem grows, he said.
"I don't think the no-build alternative would be the correct way to go," Murphy said. "Just getting behind on transportation corridors, I just don't think as a country or a region we always do a great job keeping up in front of what the needs are until it kind of hits a crisis point. I also think it's important to have the least amount of impact."
McClellan is worried that putting a freeway through the west side of town would damage a long-established part of Sahuarita, and farther north.
"To run a freeway through would add noise, light, emission pollution to not just the people whose homes may be affected by having to clear it, but also those surrounding the area for quite a distance," she said. "We're concerned also where that route goes in terms of when it goes over through the beautiful desert areas of the Saguaro National Park, the Desert Museum, the Ironwood Forest National Monument. All of those are areas of concern too because we love those areas."
Murphy said that while impacts should be minimized, change is nevertheless inevitable.
"We're celebrating our 25th year incorporating as a town and that was almost a 50-50 split at the time," Murphy said of the public vote to take that step. "It's always a tough call because roads will change a community. How we are at 30,000 (population) is obviously different from how we were at 2,000 people around incorporation time, but I think we've done a good job working with our partners to manage that growth and I wouldn't see this as any different."
Residents want action
McClellan and Dodson said they have been trying to arrange a meeting with the town with no luck.
McClellan tried to have I-11 added to the Town Council's May 28 agenda but was unsuccessful. Town Manager Kelly Udall contacted her to arrange a meeting but it didn't happen because of a scheduling conflict. McClellan, Dodson and two others attended the May 28 council meeting and voiced their concerns during call to the public.
Another meeting with Udall, Murphy, the town engineer and Jay Van Echo, ADOT's project manager for I-11, was scheduled for June 11. It was later canceled and conflicting reasons were given. A Sahuarita spokesman said ADOT canceled over "timing conflicts." ADOT told the Green Valley News the meeting was canceled because it was intended to be between town officials and ADOT without members of the public present. The meeting was canceled shortly after McClellan, who was invited by the town to attend, asked ADOT to allow a reporter from the Green Valley News to be present.
After the June 10 Town Council meeting, McClellan and Dodson said they asked Udall again to hold a meeting for residents to speak with the town and have their concerns addressed.
"It was after the meeting that we went up and tried to convince (Udall) to still hold the meeting with the mayor, the engineer and himself with us, but he wouldn't do that," McClellan said. "He just said they can't without an ADOT person, but he didn't say why they couldn't."
McClellan said they were also told by Udall that the I-11 issue could not be put on the agenda without an ADOT representative present. Dodson said Udall told them that I-11 was not their jurisdiction since it is an ADOT project and that they have nothing to do with it.
"I would characterize it as mystifying," Dodson said. "Just perplexing and mystifying that something so important cannot, would not be discussed with people within a community who are interested in it and see it as very important."
Udall declined to speak with the Green Valley News about I-11.
The town has confirmed that discussion on the I-11 corridor will be on the June 24 Town Council agenda. Udall has also confirmed the agenda item with McClellan by email. Murphy said there are a few things he hopes residents take from the meeting.
"One, I want the residents to know that they're being heard," he said. "Two, to hope they keep it in context what a Tier One is and when they would move to a Tier Two and move to construction. So how that could be an ever-changing landscape. But for me, it's kind of hard to weigh in when they're still working through their initial process."
McClellan and Dodson also want to see more transparency from the town going forward. They were unaware until shown by a reporter that the town had sent a letter signed by former public works director and town engineer Sheila Bowen to the Highway Administration in 2016 expressing support for I-11 and an El Toro Road connection. (Read the letter at gvnews.com.)
McClellan and Dodson want the the town to oppose the I-11 project despite officials having already given its endorsement with a connection at El Toro Road.
"I bet if we took that letter and showed 100 citizens out there that they would have no idea that the town has officially endorsed it," Dodson said. "So while it does represent the town, I don't think it represents the sentiments of the residents of Sahuarita."
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FACEBOOK CRYPTOCURRENCY LIBRA ORIGIN AND PROSPECTS
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Facebook is on the verge of creating independent cryptocurrency Libra, find out more about the history, some main features, and possible prospects of
Facebook is on the verge of creating independent cryptocurrency Libra, find out more about the history, some main features, and possible prospects of Libra
Blockchain technology continues to penetrate into various spheres and this time Mark Zuckerberg himself turned his attention to them. The creator of Facebook has initiated the development of its own cryptocurrency called Libra, and this is perhaps the most discussed topic of recent days. What is this coin and what is the use of it, we'll try to figure out in the article below.
What is known about the Libra coin?
Yesterday , June 18, 2019, the Facebook Libra cryptocurrency was officially announced and the project's Internet resource began its work. Such an event did not go unnoticed - the entire progressive world paid attention to it. Why is there such interest in the novelty? Yes, because the author of the cryptocurrency is not some kind of no-name person, it was Mark Zuckerberg himself - this fact makes the coin extremely promising.
Facebook is positioning its cryptocurrency as a means of payment for people who do not have bank accounts. Anyone who has a smartphone, regardless of country of residence, will be able to use Libra for their needs. According to Mark Zuckerberg, "funds transfer be as simple as sending messages." And if initially Libra will be represented in Facebook itself and partner services, then very soon it will be easy to pay for coin purchases offline. Thus, the cryptocurrency will be focused not on speculators, but on ordinary consumers.
One of the key features of the Libra coin is that the project will not be decentralized. It will be supervised by a specially organized fund of the Libra Association, which includes major investors. It is known that 28 companies have already invested in the coin today, in particular, Mastercard, PayPal, Visa, eBay, Coinbase and Uber. All of them contributed $10,000,000 to participate in the Libra Association. By the time of launching the cryptocurrency network, the number of participants in the fund plans to expand to 100, in order to collect the amount of investments in the amount of $1 billion. Obviously, the company-investors will introduce the coin into the work of their services.
At the moment, little is known about Facebook cryptocurrency, but some information still leaked onto the network:
• Cryptocurrency will be secured with several fiat currencies and low-risk securities. This does not mean that in exchange for Libra, it will be possible to receive some kind of security, just in this way, the coin will be protected from volatility and will give it value.
• Users will be able to carry out operations with the coin through the Calibra wallet, which will work both independently and integrated into instant messengers.
• The full implementation of the Libra coin in Facebook and partner services will be completed in 2020.
• There is some information in`the web that special ATMs will be installed to work with the coin offline.
• Libra Association will not only manage the cryptocurrency reserve fund, but also fully issue coins and destroy them if necessary.
• According to available information, operations with Libra cryptocurrency will not be subject to a commission or it will be very low and will affect only sellers, and not ordinary customers.
The history of the cryptocurrency from Facebook
Initially, there were more rumors and conjectures around the project than official reports. It was plainly not even known that Facebook was preparing the release of the cryptocurrency, but there were assumptions that the project would be linked to the blockchain. It can even be said that the development was strictly classified and just a few months passed between the first official announcement of the creation of a crypt and the launch of the official website.
The idea of developing independent cryptocurrency came to Zuckerberg much earlier, because about a year ago, former PayPal president David Marcus, who was also on the board of directors of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, moved to Facebook. On the Internet, it was announced that Marcus headed a certain "secret project" and a group of 50 specialists was assembled for that. And while everyone was wondering why Facebook was a new team, this team worked hard on the cryptocurrency Libra.
For the first time conversations about the need to create exlusive means of payment within the Facebook system arose in early 2018. Zuckerberg later announced the development of a project called Facebook Coin. Closer to the summer, the project got rebranded and the cryptocurrency began to be called Libra.
Why Facebook has its own cryptocurrency?
It is safe to say that cryptocurrency is not created with the goal of making money on the hype and getting a bit of fame from Bitcoin. Obviously, Zuckerberg is interested in technology, and not in earnings from the rates highs and lows - as you understand from the information described above, the coin volatility will be low. The option that Zuckerberg, having a reputation and a multibillion-dollar fortune, wants to collect investment and scam investors, is excluded by itself.
It is possible that Mark Zuckerberg is building more far-reaching plans, and the Libra project is a kind of "multi-step" that will solve all Facebook problems at once. We will not exclude the fact that the social network developer has enormous plans to seize the world of mobile payments. Still, Facebook already has a huge base of potential customers in the form of its users, which will easily make Libra a world leader.
Libra cryptocurrency prospects
What does the creation of cryptocurrency by Mark Zuckerberg say, and also with such well-known investors who have invested $10,000,000 in the project? It says about the very big prospects of the coin, which in the blink of an eye can blow up the list of traditional cryptocurrencies. This is a very big event for the world of digital money, and it won't take long for the universal introduction of the coin to be implemented. Too serious people are behind the project, and the interest of investors only confirms that something great should be expected from Libra.
Mark Zuckerberg has already expressed his opinion that regulators can stand in the way of cryptocurrency. Of course, there is no clear legislation on digital money, but this does not prevent authorities in various countries from encroaching on the freedom of cryptocurrencies. Nevertheless, there is information that Zuckerberg has already met with representatives of the US Treasury, Western Union and the commodity futures commission.
Now we can observe a big rush around the Libra project, because the largest companies are ready to invest in cryptocurrency. Against this background, it is surprising that investment giants Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan did not support the Zuckerberg project. This is explained by the fact that companies themselves do not mind creating their own cryptocurrency, and the Facebook coin is a strong competitor for them.
Summarizing all mentioned above, we note that the Libra cryptocurrency is simply obliged to blow up the world of digital money. And here we will not recall the coolness of the developers of the coin, major investments or its features. The fact that the Mark Zuckerberg family of projects brings together billions of users will make cryptocurrency popular in the blink of an eye. And if transactions with Libra are really as simple as sending a message, then it seems that cryptocurrency will not have competitors.
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Federal Reserve: US still on track for rate rise but Greece and China woes spark concerns
By Joe Millis
July 8, 2015 22:52 BST
US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen expects to raise interest rates later in 2015 Reuters
Minutes from the US Federal Reserve June 2015 policy meeting have revealed that the Central Bank believes there will be interest rate rise later in the year - but there are concerns about the ongoing crisis in Greece.
Although the meeting took place on 16-17 June - before Athens defaulted on a loan to the IMF - it said: "[M]any participants expressed concern that a failure of Greece and its official creditors to resolve their differences could result in disruptions in financial markets in the euro area, with possible spillover effects on the United States."
The minutes from the meeting, released on 8 July, added: "Most participants judged that the conditions for policy firming had not yet been achieved; a number of them cautioned against a premature decision.
"Many participants emphasised that, in order to determine that the criteria for beginning policy normalisation had been met, they would need additional information indicating that economic growth was strengthening, that labour market conditions were continuing to improve, and that inflation was moving back toward the Committee's objective."
Concerns over Greece and China
Analysts believe that the Fed is still on track to raise rates in September.
"Our initial reaction is that they don't contain a lot of surprises," Laura Rosner, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York, told Reuters.
The minutes also showed worries about the slowing pace of China's growth. The Chinese government has been forced to step in after the stock markets there plunged.
"You can't ignore that potential impact, not just market-wise but economically of what's going on in Europe and what's going on in China," Kathy Jones, fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab, told CNBC. "They're prepared to deal with market events globally. They'll say that's not really their concern. But when it drags on to this extent and as significant as it's been, it has to give them pause."
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The Spheres: Amazon's rainforest space may look cool, but wouldn't you rather work in an office?
Amazon employees can work in an environment that's more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office. Like that's a good thing.
By David Sim
Updated January 30, 2018 16:47 GMT
Amazon creates mini rainforest for its employees Reuters
The Amazon rainforest has come to Seattle. The online shopping giant has launched the latest addition to its campus: three glass domes filled with 40,000 plants of 400 species, including a 50-foot (15.2-metre) fig tree.
Amazon calls it an "alternative work space" where "employees can work in an environment that's more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office". Which raises the question: wouldn't you rather work in an office?
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"The sound of running water and the scent of flowering plants create an instant botanical immersion that takes visitors far away from the urban landscape," the Amazon press release gushes.
"There are no enclosed offices, conference spaces, or desks," Amazon says (like that's a good thing). "But employees can meet in treehouses or in sitting areas and paths alongside cascading waterfalls. During the day, the interior is maintained at 72 degrees with 60 percent humidity, to emulate a cloud forest ecosystem. Lighting mimics a position near the equator, with 12 hours of shade and sun."
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The company quotes a study that suggests that "spaces which embrace biophilic design can inspire creativity and even improve brain function". One could quibble and point out that the study was talking about getting out into the open, not being cooped up in a steel and glass climate-controlled bubble.
In fact, the study by Richard Louv goes on to discuss the problems caused by stresses such as "increasingly busy schedules, ... competition from electronic media, and culture of fear," stresses that may be all too familiar to Amazon employees
An August 2015 New York Times investigation into the secretive retail giant's employment culture painted a picture of a bruising environment that pushed workers to breaking point. Amazon was "conducting as an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable," according to the NYT.
The newspaper interviewed more than 100 former and current Amazon employees, who spoke of colleagues crying at their desks and being pitted against each other to increase productivity. Amazon was accused of encouraging employees' willingness to erode work-life boundaries and making them feel as though their self-worth was defined by their success within the company.
Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos denied the allegations. "This article claims that our intentional approach is to create a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard. I don't recognise this Amazon and I very much hope you don't, either," he wrote in a memo to all staff. He urged employees to email him personally if they had experienced any of the behaviour described in the piece. Amazon hasn't revealed whether any took him up on the offer, but it has since made changes to the way it assesses the performance of its employees.
While Facebook and Google were building over weirder and wackier office spaces featuring indoor slides and caravan meeting rooms, Amazon was content to be based in a few anonymous office blocks. But now Amazon finally has its own architectural folly.
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Man arrested for raping minor sister
Police have arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly raping his minor sister for the last two years.
The accused was arrested from Fort William, the headquarters of the army’s eastern command, in the city on Saturday after his 17-year-old sister called Childline, the national helpline for child abuse.
The accused and his sister are younger siblings of a junior army official posted in the engineering section and lived in an apartment inside Fort William, police said.
“After getting the call from the girl, we contacted the Maidan police station and the girl was rescued. She is traumatised and will be counselled,” said Monideepa Ghosh of Cini Asha organisation which runs Childline in Kolkata.
The girl gave her confidential statement to a magistrate on Tuesday. A court has remanded the accused, who works for a private security agency, in police custody till Friday.
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Posted on January 31st, 2018 at 9:33 PM
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At Valle de Anton’s India Dormida – only 2.5km of walking, but most of it was uphill!
I’ve just finished hosting my first visitor to Panama! My friend Aurelia and her boyfriend Clayton spent two weeks in Panama at our invitation, and I think they enjoyed themselves fully. It’s the sunny and dry season now in Panama – well, as dry as this tropical country seems to be able to get – and I’m sure coming down here was a welcome respite from the cold of Washington D.C. and even Los Angeles.
Since Decreto 331 one went into effect at the beginning of 2018 and hurt the ability of Uber and other ridesharing drivers to work in Panama, Aurelia got the unintended chance to experience the bus system right away. Thankfully it was a direct bus over the South Corridor toll road, so we were able to escape the far-as-we-could-see traffic on Avenida Domingo Diaz pretty quickly. Arriba was fairly polite to our guest; we’ve noticed that she gets sassy and more hyperactive when there’s lots of human voices talking to each other and ignoring her. It’d been a full day of travel for Aurelia though, so she wasn’t able to stay up late enough to be nipped at too much.
With the helpful (and thankfully easygoing, since my Spanish is so bad) hat salesman
No trip to Panama City can begin without a trip to Casco Viejo, unarguably the main tourist area for the city. The last time I was a tour guide in a foreign city for guests was Jordan 2015, but at least there I could draw upon two years of recalled Arabic to get me around. But this tour guide doesn’t speak Spanish – not well, at least! But since she was able to buy a Panama Hat and haggle prices for tribal artwork on the street, perhaps I did a little better with my muddled translations than I’m giving myself credit for.
Later that afternoon we saw a double rainbow up on our rooftop pool!
The next day, we took “the fancy method” of getting to the city of Colon, on the other side of the country (!!) straddling the Atlantic coast – the Panama Canal Railway. A classic and classy mode of transport to be sure, but I hope that the monthly commuter rail pass is more affordable than $25 each way! I can’t find any documentation on their website that tells me how much that rail pass costs. It’d be astronomically pricey for the average working class Panamanian to be paying $50 a day on transport when a bus between the city and Colon costs 50 cents. I enjoyed the free coffee service and being able to easily step out into the “smoking area” between the cars to watch and listen to the jungle rushing past.
The train goes over a narrow causeway through Lake Gatun
We didn’t spend much time in Colon, just walked up from the train station to the bus station to catch an onward bus to the village of Portobelo, further northeast up the Atlantic coast. As we walked through the squelching mud at the side of the road, we were politely hassled by smiling, English speaking women in tight shirts advertising Colon city tours and local restaurants. I felt bad; we had been told by basically everyone to avoid Colon as much as possible and spend as little time in the city possible. Desperately poor, the city is considered a mugging hotspot for tourists and foreigners, and I’ve heard that in fact, it’s dangerous enough for even locals, that the city pays for thousands of those commuter train tickets for canal workers at the Atlantic port, so that its workers can live in the safety of Panama City but work in Colon each day. If a place is supposedly dangerous enough that workers in its most famous nationalized business have to be shuttled in and out each morning and night, I probably am going to avoid it, just to be safe. But my heart went out to those bravely smiling guides with their laminated cardboard menus of trip activities. I hope there are tourists out there braver than us bringing a bit of tourist money into the city.
This was Aurelia’s first time on a Diablo Rojo, the “Red Devil” school buses that provide the absolute backbone of Panamanian cross-country travel. In the City we’ve got modern air conditioned metro buses that accept RFID payment cards. To go between the major cities you have USA-style coach buses with TVs and bathrooms, or even simple but serviceable white “chiva” mini-buses. But to reach all the myriad tiny villages that sprawl out through the jungle, you look to your last option – the Diablo Rojo. You have to pay with cash, as each bus is independently owned and operated, and while they are amusing to look at with their complicated, detailed, and unique paint jobs, their pollution and lack of safety is legendary. They’re in the process of being phased out throughout Panama City, where there’s a bland and modern Metro Bus being constructed to take each route, but I don’t see how they will ever replace every Diablo Rojo in the country. There’s just too many small villages with people who expect to be able to reach the town over. The local governments are going to casually look the other way when the national government says “so, you’ve gotten rid of all those buses in your district, right?” Unless the Federal administration has suddenly found the money and planning skill to acquire a 1:1 metrobus to diablo ratio, people – both passengers and diablo owner – are flat out not going to accept their routes going away. The painted bus, much like the plastic grocery store bag (which was banned 8 months ago to absolutely zero effect besides the gales of laughter of Panamanians when we foreigners ask about the ban’s status) is going to be around for the foreseeable future.
Where were we? Oh yes, bouncing (literally, to our spines’ extreme displeasure – installing shocks is a sign of weakness to a Diablo Rojo driver) along the narrow, winding coastal road to Portobelo. Dry season or not, the skies were looking drearily overcast (“It’s not supposed to be like this on your vacation; I swear it’s not!”) and the bus was uncrowded; not too many people heading out of the city into the countryside during the weekday work hours. Once we passed the moldering, fungus covered stones of the Spanish Battery on the outskirts of the village, we knew we’d arrived.
Thankfully, there were no pirate ships sneaking up on her while her back was turned
We spent a relaxing couple of hours wandering the small city, first looking at the Iglesia de San Felipe, or the Church of Black Jesus as it’s more colloquially called (Aurelia can’t understand much Spanish, but her fluency in French allowed her to puzzle out the sign at the door that said, essentially, that wearing shorts that fell above the knee was prohibited. It wasn’t until after we left that I realized the sign also said that free loaner “dresses” would have been provided at the main office, had we asked!). Afterward, we squelched through the soaked grass of first the east, then west fortresses that had once protected this Spanish port, made to help facilitate the safe, pirate-free transfer of South American gold between carts and ships. The ancient cannons still sat (albeit on the ground, without their original gun carriages; anything wooden in the outdoor climate of Panama is not going to survive more than a decade or two) facing out toward the sea in this perfectly shaped natural port. There were cute little guard towers on most of the corners with gunner’s slits cut in them, which made for good photo ops. After a filling lunch of Old Clothes (ropa vieja, a common Latino dish of stewed vegetables with chewy pulled beef) for me and garlicked shrimp for Aurelia, we were back on another Red Devil back to Portobelo and home.
Our little boat’s “punter” is ready to steer us through the narrow back channels of the Changres River
It was finally the weekend, and Christine was able to join Aurelia and I for a trip out to the Embera Village, an hour and a half east of the City. Interestingly enough, Christine had come here when she was 13, on her very first international trip with her school. She was even able to remember a lot of the locations we saw, frozen in that strange kind of twilit memory that we only have for our childhood recollections (but are unable to make again as adults). Sadly, none of us were wearing swim attire, but while Aurelia and I contented ourselves with merely wading into the waterfall pool, Christine decided to go for a full-on swim regardless!
The little waterfall near the village is a popular spot to take tourists
I loved the trip around the Changres River on the carved wooden boats with their outboard motors. The motors were relatively quiet, or the surrounding forest was so dense and dark that it seemed to swallow almost all their sound, and the narrow, shallow boats threw up almost no wake at all. In the village, we were greeted by a group of children and young adults beating drums and playing flutes as we climbed the steps up from the river (Christine would later ask if playing that ceremonious welcome got a bit boring day after day for them – “yes!” was the laughing response). Mateo, a jovial middle aged guide who spoke clear and simple Spanish (which makes sense, as it’s his second language after his native Embera) and a bit of English to us, welcomed us to the guest lodge, presented some of the crafts and tattoo art (called jagua, after the plant it’s made from), then bid us to enjoy a lunch of patacones and deliciously fried tilapia caught mere meters away in the Changres. I’m not usually a fish person but…that was some darn good fish.
The young men and women of the village are quick to offer a free tattoo (it lasts a week) to all their guests
Christine pointed out that besides the increases in technology (more motors on the boats and cell phones/radios) over the past 18 years since she’d last been here, there had been a culture shift. All of the women had been topless in the village before, same as the men. The men still wore what they had before – a single long, mono-colored loincloth, draped and looped casually (but obviously with expert attention), but while the women before had only worn elaborately colored skirts and let their upper regions be as bare as the men, now it appeared that something had changed their opinion of the female breast, as every woman older than 7 was wearing a glinting, silvery metal covered chest piece. We were all kind of wondering Mateo would mention what cultural shift had happened in the past two decades, but he did not, and we were too shy to ask. On the car ride back later on, we theorized that it could be because all the tourists would now have an easy-sharing digital camera on them, leading to a bit of of a privacy crisis. Or because of the increase in university education for the women; more and more Embera were traveling out of their villages to Panama City for school or other things, and they took back their Western ideas of prudishness with them. Remember, in Panama City it’s technically illegal for even a man to walk around without his shirt on, much less a woman doing so. A step backwards for body freedom, in my opinion, and I hope that it’s more the latter theory. I’d hate it if the only reason these women feel compelled to cover themselves is because tourists are disrespectful assholes and take photos of things that they shouldn’t be.
Really, the only thing we were a little disgusted to see was a small white-faced monkey with a rope around his neck. The white cord was attached to a beam of a house and when he saw us, he started, wide-eyed, then ran in circles and chittered, upsetting a nearby dish of water. Sensitive to culture differences or not, I don’t think any of us were happy to see a wild, non-domesticated primate being held in human captivity with a rope around its neck. None of us said anything, though. What can you say that’s appropriate and tactful in these situations? We’re just tourists passing through an indigenous people’s home for a few hours. Bottom line is that their culture is (apparently?) okay with putting a rope around a monkey’s neck and treating it like a pet. Nothing else we can really do except mention it on our blogs that it was something that we saw, and we didn’t like. If we had complained to Mateo it would have looked like the height of Western snobbery, “Heavens to Betsy, that monkey being on a rope offends my sensibilities! Release it immediately or I shall summon the constabulary!”
Although we didn’t do much during the following day’s sunlit hours (besides lounge by the pool and attend a free neighborhood outdoor salsa lesson led by a very sassy man in orange shoes and marijuana leaves printed all over his pants) it was in the evening that Aurelia and I picked up her boyfriend, Clayton, from the airport. He’d be joining Aurelia for a more adventurous part of their vacation – first to the Panama Canal museum at the Miraflores Lock the following morning, taking a little tour of the Chorillo neighborhood with my friend Victor as our guide, then onward to Valle de Anton, Boquete, and Bocas del Toro. Interestingly, there’s a law for tourists in Panama that states that a guest without a Panamanian drivers license can only drive for the first 90 days of their visa. After that, no driving or car rental for you. Aurelia already had experience driving in Latin America on the little Antilles island of Martinique, but after hanging out with us in Panama City for the past week watching how Panamanians drive (standstill in heavy traffic, with intermittent bursts of deranged speeding in a vain hope to somehow not be in traffic again. It never works, by the way) she was a bit worried about ferrying the four of us across the Canal and into the wilds!
My friend Victor and I volunteer in Chorillo, teaching the local kids some basic English. Here he’s showing us a monument wall to the famous Panamanian futbol players that are from the neighborhood
I’d not been to the Museum before, so it was nice to get another perspective on the Canal, since I’d already seen it last year!
Everything went fine, though, besides the usual horrendous afternoon traffic of “everyone attempting to leave Panama City at once through the one highway that goes from the city over the Canal.” When your city is boxed in on half of its sides by the sea to the south and the canal to the west, horrible traffic jams on its single national highway are the norm. But once we were 20-30 minutes outside the city, even though it was dark and the potholes were gigantic, it was an easy, pleasant nighttime drive to the pleasant little town of Valle de Anton. It wouldn’t be until I was taking the bus on my way back two days later that I’d get a chance to see the beautiful mountain vistas we’d been driving next to!
The hotel Aurelia and Clayton stayed at had a few rescued sloths that couldn’t live in the wild. Probably one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken.
Our goal for the trip was to hike the India Dormida – the Sleeping Indian Girl trail. A popular stop for both locals and tourists, the trail’s admission fee for foreigners was a mere $3 and included not only the beautiful mountain trail itself, but also to see some ancient rock coverings on the face of nearby bluff, and then swim in a shockingly refreshing waterfall fed pool on our way back. The four of us scrambled our way up the slightly muddy trails (we were told later on that this was a seriously uncommon amount of rain for late January) but thankfully, our hiking day saw absolutely perfect weather. Valle de Anton is an ancient extinct volcano: the entire village is built in the slumped and flattened crater itself! This makes for some great views from the lip of the crater that makes up the shape of “the sleeping indian girl” herself. It’s a pretty famous picture so I didn’t bother taking any myself; you can see what the Indian girl looks like from the ground here. It was a great feeling to break above the humid tree line and get the cool, constant mountain breeze hitting you instantly in the face. If we had time, or the expected energy, we could have hiked the full 15km trail that follows the rim of the western part of the crater, but we could see threatening storm clouds moving around in the north so we decided to head back down, pop in the waterfall pool, and get back to the rental car.
We all took turns jumping off the top of the waterfall!
The next day, Aurelia and Clayton would be continuing on to cool and spring-ish Boquete (how I envied them the lack of humidity I knew they’d find!) and then afterward, to the surfer’s beach paradise of Bocas del Toro. For Christine and I though, it would be the end of our westward travels; it was time to get on one of the little chiva mini-buses (thankfully, no Diablo Rojos required for our journey back) and head back to Panama City. We could only hope that the little tips and tricks we’d picked up over our 5 months of living here would be of some help!
Christine finally has a chance to sit down and relax near the top of the trail. Just another 100 meters to go!
Epilogue: The two of them returned tanned and happy a week later (the day before yesterday) and said that they really enjoyed their trip. They would be staying with us just one last night before catching their respective planes back to D.C. and L.A. the following day. They had some great stories for us which were told over plates of my burritos, but I’ll let Aurelia tell those herself, over at her blog!
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face off over gun control
By Dayo 18/01/2016
US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off on gun control last night at the final Democratic debate before primaries begin.
Clinton leads in nationwide polls but Sanders has been gaining more traction in key states lately too.
Hillary Clinton criticised Sanders’ “flip-flop” on gun control and dismissed his position on the issue as vulnerable following the recent mass shootings in the country.
Last June, nine black congregants were shot dead at a church close to the venue of this debate.
Sanders said Clinton’s attacks on him are “disingenuous”. He also took the chance to remind everyone that he’s always had a D-minus rating from the National Rifle Association, which is against proposed gun restrictions.
He said, “We have seen in this city a horrendous tragedy, of a crazed person praying. This [gun control issue] should not be a political issue. What we should be doing is working together.”
“As a senator from a rural state with virtually no gun control, I believe I am in an excellent position to bring people together to fight for gun control.”
Clinton didn’t pass up the opportunity to skewer her opponent. She said about Sanders, “He has voted with the gun lobby, with the NRA, numerous times. He voted against the Brady campaign five times. He voted for what we now call the Charleston loophole” – a rule that helped the Charleston shooter get a gun when he otherwise would have been barred one.
“Let’s not forget what this is about. Ninety people a day die from gun violence in our country, that’s 33,000 people a year. One of the most horrific examples happened just a block from here, where we had nine people murdered.”
Gun control has been one of the most controversial issues in the ongoing US presidential race, and this month President Barack Obama unveiled new restrictions on gun purchases despite Congress disapproval.
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Ryan Tubridy and Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain announce their love split
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Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain and Ryan Tubridy
Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain and Ryan Tubridy at the launch of Ryan Tubridy's book " The Irish are coming" which took place at Residence Private Members Club in Stephen's Green Dublin Pictures:Brian McEvoy No repro fee for one use
23/9/2012; Ryan Tubridy with his girlfriend, Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin pictured before the All Ireland Football Final between Mayo and Donegal at Croke Park. Pic credit: Damien Eagers
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The former couple announced they have gone their separate ways in a statement released this evening.
Late Late Show host Ryan (41), who has two daughters from his previous marriage to RTE producer Ann Marie Power, and broadcaster and scientist Aoibhinn (31) were together for four years.
However, they largely kept their relationship out of the limelight. were only occasionally pictured together and rarely mentioned their relationship in interviews.
Read more here: Tubridy thanks 'my love' Aoibhinn but denies new book signals move abroad
A statement issued by Noel Kelly, whose company NK Management acts as representation for the couple, confirmed the split and said they would remain friends.
"Aoibhinn and Ryan are no longer together," the statement read.
"They will remain friends and ask for privacy at this time. There will be no further comment on this personal matter."
Ryan Tubridy, Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain
Mayo native Aoibhinn first came to public prominence when she was crowned Rose of Tralee.
Read more here: Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain: 'I owe the Rose of Tralee my career'
Since then, talented Aoibhinn has become a familiar face to TV fans, thanks to fronting popular series 'The Science Squad' as well as a travel series.
All the while, she has continued teaching as well as researching as part of the School of Mathematical Sciences in UCD.
Aoibhinn and Ryan Tubridy first started dating in 2009 after he interviewed her for his Saturday night chat show. The loved up pair were first snapped together strolling hand in hand in Powerscourt Gardens.
Read more here: 'I'd break your legs,' Tubridy tells caller who beat wife
The pair split briefly in 2010 - but soon got back together and their relationship seemingly went from strength to strength.
Last Christmas, the pair bought a house together in Monkstown, South Dublin.
But earlier this year, Tubridy, who hosts a daily morning programme on 2FM, said he wouldn't rule out a move to the UK to further his career.
He has often filled in for Graham Norton on the BBC.
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Ingrid’s local following, friends and clients secretly call her “Queen of Cakes” and whisper Dessert Diva amongst themselves as they compare ooohs about her luscious cakes and desserts. Her recipes have been featured in Sunset Magazine, The Sacramento Bee and Vine Times Magazine.
Ingrid Fraser is native to California, born in Berkeley and a self taught baker. She has thirty years experience, primarily creating fine pastries, cakes and desserts for restaurants and in her own business: Ingrid Fraser Elegant Cakes. In the fifteen years since its inception, Ingrid has created hundreds of gorgeous delectable cakes for every occasion.
It is most assuredly Ingrid’s acute sensibilities of taste and her refined and discerning palate that make her combinations of flavors, textures and visual design come to life in a specialty, fine dessert or wedding cake. Ingrid has made countless exquisite and delicious wedding cakes and invites you to view The Event page for a delightful viewing of her artistic works in cake.
Ingrid held the position of pastry chef at the acclaimed, historic Imperial Hotel in Amador City, completed advanced training at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, and has held numerous positions executing fine desserts and pastries throughout the Bay Area, including Oliveto’s in Oakland.
Ingrid holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art from the California College of the Arts in Oakland.
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ASIC plays in RegTech sandbox
Julia Walker: The cost of compliance is going one way - up
The Australian and Securities and Investment Commission has turned its attention to the burgeoning regulatory technology sector, raising the possibility that its innovation hub and regulatory sandbox could be extended to startups working in this area.
ASIC held its first RegTech round table in Sydney and Melbourne this week to explore how technology can be applied to help companies meet their compliance and regulatory requirements.
ASIC Commissioner John Price said that ASIC’s Innovation Hub had already engaged with 30 RegTech companies, that the field was evolving rapidly and had the potential to both save companies time and money as well as to support agencies with their regulatory roles.
Attendees were told that the compliance burden in the financial sector alone was now so onerous that the four major banks spend around $300 million each on compliance initiatives every year.
And the regulatory challenge continues to rise. Thomson Reuters’ head of market development for risk in Asia, Julia Walker, said that for all organisations: “The cost of compliance is going one way – in 2016 there was an average of 200 regulatory alerts,” facing enterprises.
She said that six technologies held great promise for organisations seeking to streamline compliance and reduce risk – namely blockchain, cognitive computing, the Internet of Things, open source and APIs, the cloud and big data.
Each of these areas is being explored by both RegTech startups and seasoned technology giants such as IBM which are applying technology to regulatory challenges.
However Ms Walker acknowledged that RegTech could be highly disruptive, referencing the recent Davos World Economic Forum which in January was told that as many as 50,000 finance sector compliance jobs were under threat from RegTech solutions.
Although RegTech is on the rise, it remains dwarfed by fintech.
KPMG’s co-lead of global fintech Ian Pollari said that there were around 600 fintech businesses in Australia, compared to about 30 RegTechs, which were also receiving less funding than their fintech siblings.
Part of the challenge according to the RegTech startups that attended the roundtable is the inertia in large corporates, and the speed at which regulators are prepared to accept RegTech solutions.
Simple KYC co-founder and CEO Eric Frost said he had presented to large financial organisations and found himself competing with internal projects. Simple KYC has developed a solution intended to help organisations covered under the ‘know your customer’ provisions of the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorism Financing legislation.
“Decision making in bureaucracies is a huge challenge around the time to decision and information security. We have had people spent nine months doing a review.” Mr Frost said that sort of slow progress was a “huge barrier” for startups.
It may also reflect the fact that the banks are taking more of a DIY approach to RegTech, running their own distributed ledger, API and big data initiatives, for example.
According to Mr Pollari, this is certainly the case with the Wall Street banks. He said that 50 per cent of the patents registered by US banks in the last 12 months were in the RegTech area.
Delegates also felt that there was a reluctance to buy into RegTech solutions that had not received a clear stamp of approval from the regulators themselves.
Henry Davis York lawyer Vinod Kumar warned that could prove a long wait. “Getting ASIC to sign off on a platform? I can't fathom that – that's where lawyers come to play.”
He also noted that Australian principle based legislation and regulation could be difficult to reduce to a binary technology solution, which some led to attendees at the round table calling for regulators to move to more machine readable regulation, which was not ambiguous or open to interpretation.
Tyro executive director Jost Stollman said that RegTech provided an opportunity for a rethink about regulation and compliance, so that it was seen not as a hindrance but as an enabler of good business.
“Imagine a world where the regulator achieves openness and transparency in the financial services industry and people look after compliance themselves.”
He argued for a; “Cultural revolution when compliance moves from policing to doing the right thing.”
That however will require a new class of information system able to deliver genuine operational clarity according to Blackhall & Pearl managing partner, Harry Toukalas.
He said organisations felt that they were “drowning in information, but starving for insights.”
He said Blackhall & Pearl has been working with MIT’s innovation lab on AI solutions that explore employee conduct and attempt to identify and stamp out rogue behavior which he said could be the hardest element of regulatory compliance.
“Will AI be able to monitor, yes, analyse, perhaps, predict and shape human behavior? That’s the real challenge,” he said.
Wrapping up the session – which attracted about 100 people, including bankers, lawyers and technologists – ASIC commissioner John Price said the key challenge for regulators when thinking about fintech and RegTech was that “Consumers want a flawless experience, but they want to be safe.”
He said that there were risks associated with RegTech particularly around cyber security, and that some organisations might adopt RegTech as a tick-and-click expediency rather than a genuine compliance and risk reduction exercise.
Nevertheless he said that he felt RegTech offered an “Opportunity to move from a rear view mirror to a learning and predictive approach – to change the role (of regulators) from policeman to coach. I think that's very powerful.”
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NBA Trade Rumors: Iman Shumpert ‘Most Intriguing Option’ For Houston Rockets, Per ‘House Of Houston’
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In the recent offseason, the Houston Rockets lost two players, Trevor Ariza and Luc Mbah a Moute, who played a major role in their success in the 2017-18 NBA season. Ariza joined the Phoenix Suns as an unrestricted free agent while Mbah Moute returned to the Los Angeles Clippers. As of now, the Rockets remain active on the trade market, searching for a defensive-minded player who can fill the huge hole in their wing.
Kelly Iko of the Athletic recently named some of the potential trade targets of the Rockets. These include J.R. Smith of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Iman Shumpert of the Sacramento Kings, Joe Harris of the Brooklyn Nets, C.J. Miles of the Toronto Raptors, and Kelly Oubre Jr. and Markieff Morris of the Washington Wizards. Of all those wingmen, T.A. Mock of Fansided’s House of Houston believes Shumpert is the “most intriguing option” for the Rockets.
“This may be the most intriguing option for the Houston Rockets at the present. Iman Shumpert has been widely regarded as one of the wiliest defenders in the league despite his smaller size. He stands at 6’5″ but consistently draws tough assignments on defense, regardless of the opponent’s size. This has made Shumpert an asset to teams and a player to covet. In today’s NBA, teams can never have too many ace defenders on the court. The Rockets are no exception to this and they probably actually need another defender to deploy on the wing.”
Iman Shumpert is undeniably one of the players who could serve as the perfect replacement for Trevor Ariza in Houston. Aside from being an incredible defender, Shumpert will also give the Rockets a reliable option from beyond the arc. In the 19 games he played with the Kings this season, the 28-year-old small forward is averaging 9.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 1.2 steals on 43.8 percent shooting from the field and 40.7 percent shooting from beyond the arc.
Shumpert is currently happy with the Kings, but if he can make his own decision, he definitely wants to play again on a team where he can contend for the NBA championship title. Though he is receiving a decent playing time in Sacramento, the Kings already made it clear that their main focus right now is the development of their young players.
Instead of losing him in the summer of 2019 without getting anything in return, the Kings may consider trading Shumpert for assets that could help them speed up the rebuilding process. A trade package including Brandon Knight or Marquese Chriss, together with a future second-round pick, could be enough to convince the Kings to send Shumpert to Houston.
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Rider strategies affect likelihood of Endurance eliminations, study shows
February 2, 2018 February 8, 2018 Horsetalk.co.nz 4374 Views 0 Comments
The judgment calls of Endurance riders over their speed, especially in the early loops, are major factors in their elimination or failure to finish 120km races, the findings of a new study show.
British researchers David Marlin and Jane Williams said race-pace strategies had been extensively studied in running, cycling and swimming. However, it appeared to have been largely ignored in equestrian sport, despite its potential to optimise performance.
The pair analysed publicly available data for electronically timed FEI 120km CEI** Endurance races that took place in Europe and the Middle East in 2016 and 2017, in what is believed to be the first peer-reviewed published study on race-pace strategy within the discipline.
They assessed the competition records for 389 horses across 24 races, each consisting of four loops.
The researchers found that riders who adopted a more variable and aggressive pacing strategy were less likely to finish, with their mounts more likely to suffer gait-related or metabolic issues.
Riders who adopted a more consistent pacing strategy throughout the race were more likely to complete.
The pair, writing in the journal Comparative Exercise Physiology, found that 56% of the horses successfully completed the races analysed, with the other 44% failing to finish.
Seventy-four percent of the horses that did not finish were withdrawn for gait-related reasons.
Most withdrawals occurred during the veterinary inspection for loop 3 (70%). No horses were withdrawn on loop 1 for metabolic reasons, with the remaining 30% eliminated from the races after loop 2 (15%) or the last veterinary inspection (15%).
“Across the duration of the races, horses that successfully finished recorded 7% slower average speeds compared to those that did not finish,” the pair reported.
Loop speeds decreased sequentially throughout races from loops 1 to 3 for all horses but, crucially, the rate of decrease was greater in horses that did not complete.
Horses withdrawn at the first veterinary check for gait-related issues recorded a 36% faster average speed than those withdrawn at the finish.
Horses withdrawn for metabolic reasons at the finish recorded a significant increase in loop speed from the third loop to the last loop, with their speed increasing by an average of 7% on the final loop.
Horses that failed to finish races completed loop 1 at a faster speed than those that finished and subsequently had a greater reduction in speed across the remaining loops. In contrast, horses that finished successfully had a slower loop-1 speed and completed subsequent loops at a higher percentage of their loop 1 speed.
The pair said their findings showed that race-pace strategy in equine endurance racing may be a tool to reduce gait and metabolic eliminations and increase the chance of completion.
Marlin and Williams said Endurance racing had undergone rapid growth in the past 20 years, from a minor, predominantly amateur sport to the second-largest FEI discipline after showjumping.
“The sport has seen an increasing level of professional trainers and riders and a dramatic increase in speed at all distances, including the championship distance of 160km,” they said, while also noting the growing popularity of 120km contests.
Between 1986 and 2002, winning speeds at World Equestrian Games or Endurance World Championships over a one-day 160km distance ranged from 14.8kmh to 17.8kmh.
“However, at the 2004 World Endurance Championships held in Dubai, the average speed of the winning horse was 22.7kmh and, four years later, on the 12th January 2008, a world record of 24.7kmh was set; again during a race in the United Arab Emirates.”
They said that in many endurance sports, such as marathon running, cycling and long-distance swimming, the contribution of race strategy or pacing to success had been clearly identified and extensively studied, yet in equestrian sport it had received little attention.
“It would be anticipated that pacing strategy would have a marked impact on success in equine endurance racing given the length of the races and the potential for different tactics.”
While horses withdrawn for gait-related reasons recorded average faster speeds for loop 1 compared to horses that completed the race, the strategic approach for the second loop also appeared to also be crucial in terms of a horse’s likelihood of withdrawal for metabolic reasons.
Horses withdrawn at the finish completed loop 2 with a 21% increase on loop 1 speed compared to horses who left the race after the second loop.
“Interestingly, the average loop 1 speed of horses eliminated at the end of the second loop was not significantly higher than horses leaving the race at the third and final veterinary checks. This could suggest a lack of fitness may be related to early metabolic withdrawals.”
Discussing their findings, they said the decisions riders made on the speed to adopt for each loop would be expected to take into account many factors, including horse fitness, ability, temperament, soundness, course going, terrain, the weather, the number of competitors, stage of the race, and their ultimate goal (for example, a completion versus as a good placing).
The use of inappropriate and highly variable pacing strategies have been associated with poor performance in human endurance running, they noted.
“Interestingly riders who adopted a more consistent pacing strategy were less likely to be eliminated for metabolic or lameness related problems.
“In particular, the speed selected to complete loop 1 of races was influential to non-completion. Faster loop-1 speeds was a significant risk factor for subsequent gait-related elimination. Therefore, riders who selected unsustainable initial speeds on loop 1 were more likely to not complete races.
“The overall race strategy, combined specifically with a consistent loop 2 pace, appears key to preventing elimination for metabolic reasons.”
The authors suggested that GPS could be used by riders to accurately identify and monitor speed during races to help them employ consistent pacing strategies. This could potentially improve competition success and optimise horse welfare by increasing completion rates.
“Further studies evaluating the use of different pacing strategies on endurance horse performance during races and within training are warranted to identify the optimal approach to facilitate completion and protect equine welfare, as well as enhancing competitive success,” they said.
A fast-paced initial loop also had the potential to aggravate subclinical musculoskeletal issues and may partially explain the high level of gait-related eliminations reported across the CEI** races surveyed, they said.
“Foot pain is consistently reported as a key causal factor in endurance horse lameness.
“Racing at faster speeds over variable terrain causing increased concussion in the feet could also contribute to the high incidence of gait-related eliminations reported.”
The main reasons for a compromised metabolic status of an exercising endurance horse have been reported to be dehydration or tying up.
In the current study, the pacing strategy applied across loop 1 and, specifically, the higher percentage of loop 1 speed adopted during loop 2 completion compared to horses that finished certainly influenced metabolic eliminations.
“These horses then recorded a relatively slower final loop suggesting development of fatigue as a result of the pacing strategy used by their riders.”
They said more work was needed to understand the impact of different pacing strategies within the discipline. A more extensive study including a larger sample, across a broader range of competitive levels, was required to confirm their findings, they said.
David Marlin is an independent scientific consultant based in Cambridge, England. Jane Williams is an epidemiologist with the Centre for Performance in Equestrian Sports, in Hartpury, Gloucester.
Equine endurance race pacing strategy differs between finishers and non-finishers in 120 km single-day races
D. Marlin and J. Williams
Comparative Exercise Physiology ISSN 1755-2540 print, ISSN 1755-2559 online, https://doi.org/10.3920/CEP170027
The abstract can be read here.
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Bulk TV & Internet receives DIRECTV L&I provider award
Jan 29, 2015 10:44am
Bulk TV & Internet was recognized as DIRECTV L&I dealer of the year for the seventh time. The award recognizes the top DIRECTV provider for lodging and institutions, excelling in new television programming activations, customer service and retention throughout the year.
"Bulk TV's commitment and passion for serving our partners with excellence has set the bar for all DIRECTV dealers in this market and we are thrilled to present them with this award for the seventh year in a row," said Doug Eichler, vice president of commercial sales for DIRECTV.
Bulk TV & Internet recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and has become a consistent leading provider of DIRECTV free-to-guest television programming services for hospitality and healthcare properties nationwide. Bulk TV & Internet provides its video, data and voice services to more than 300,000 rooms in all 50 states.
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08/14/2015 10:29 am ET Updated Jan 09, 2017
The 10 Best Teen Choice Awards Speeches Of All Time
And the award goes to...
By Carly Steyer
In celebration of the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday, let's take a moment to remember the stars who took their acceptance speeches much further than "I'm so honored" and "thanks to the cast and crew," and instead came up with witty, thoughtful words and encouragement for their fans.
Check out HuffPost Teen's 10 favorite speeches made at the Teen Choice Awards:
10 Ellen Degeneres, Choice Comedian, 2011
"When I was a teen, I was not a teen's choice. So, all of you teenagers out there who are not a teen's choice -- look at this; it's never too late!"
9 Ashton Kutcher, Choice Movie Actor: Romantic Comedy, 2011
A clearly unscripted speech, including a piece of advice for teenagers and a Katy Perry cover... and it's hilarious.
8 "Harry Potter" Cast, Choice Movie: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, 2011
Points for the great accents, the humility and of course, the fact that they went the extra mile to have Daniel weigh in on the acceptance speech!
7 The Cast of "The Fault In Our Stars," Choice Movie: Drama, 2014
The cast reminds fans to appreciate every moment they have and live to the fullest.
6 Demi Lovato, Inspire Award Winner, 2011
Demi received an award after being remarkably brave in speaking out about mental health issues, and she thanks fans in a very genuine way.
5 Sophia Grace and Rosie, Choice Web Stars, 2012
One word: adorable.
4 Miss J. Alexander, Choice Fab-U-Lous, 2009
Miss J. from "America's Next Top Model" gives a beautiful shoutout to LGBT teens in his speech.
3 Zendaya, Choice Style Icon, 2014
FIERCE.
2 Shailene Woodley, Choice Movie Actress: Action/Adventure, 2014
Shailene discussed the importance of the character who won her the award, and being a strong woman.
1 Ashton Kutcher, Ultimate Choice Award Winner, 2013
The ultimate speech by the winner of the Ultimate Choice Award.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 10: TV personality Kim Kardashian attends FOX's 2014 Teen Choice Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on August 10, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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Team Stars
It's not a Mario sports game without some sort of bizarre techniques you can put on the ball. All characters have what's called Star Pitches and Star Swings. Executing these will do something to the ball depending on the character doing the action. Most of the sub-characters merely put a different spin or speed on the ball, but captain characters will have some deranged effect.
Executing a Star Pitch or Star Swing is simply a matter of holding down the R button, then tapping A depending on whether you're on offense or defense. Doing that will eat up at least one Team Star, of which you can only hold 5. This means you'll have to time when to do them, as using up all your stars early will be very bad, especially long games.
There's a simple formula for how many Team Stars you can hold. Your team's captain will use one Team Star. Any sub-characters will also use only one. However, captain-class characters who are not your team captain will use two.
EXAMPLE: Let's say you've got Mario, Luigi, and Shy Guy on your team. Mario is the team captain, and he'll only use one Team Star anytime he activates his Red Fireball (pitching or batting). Shy Guy will only use one also when he uses his unnamed Star Skills. Luigi, however, will use two, because he's a captain-class character but is not the captain.
You can recover Team Stars while playing. Some of the ballparks have specific ways to do so (which I'll detail in a second), but throughout the game you'll have what's called "Superstar Match-ups" (although they seem awfully random). When this occurs, you'll see a star symbol followed by the word "chance" in the corner of the screen between the pitcher's and batter's portraits. This is, logically, called a "Star Chance."
While a Star Chance is active, if the batter gets a hit, his team will gain a Team Star. If the batter gets out, the defense will gain a Team Star. If the team that earns a star already has five, the star is ignored.
Character Compatibility
The characters of the Mario universe are not all on friendly terms with each other. (And the award for the most obvious statement in an IGN guide goes to... me!) This chemistry, or lack thereof, is important to on-field play.
If two characters are compatible (such as Mario and Luigi), they gain some temporary powers when they interact with each other. A throw from Mario to Luigi, for example, will be extremely fast regardless of distance and the fielding ratings of Mario. On offense, if Luigi is on base and Mario is up to bat, Luigi will run just a hair faster when you give him a steal order.
Compatibility works the other way, too. A throw from Mario to Bowser will be slow, and Waluigi will run very slowly if he steals while Luigi is up to bat. Think about that when you're composing your team's line up and positions.
Compatibility also affects a team's starting number of Team Stars. The more players who are neutral or friends with the captain, the more Stars the team starts with up to five. Take Mario and surround him with Magikoopa, Bowser, Hammer Bro, Shy Guy, and Wario, and you may only start with one Team Star, if any. However, in that same setup, if Bowser is the captain, Mario's presence on the team won't hurt anything because there are enough bad guys to make up for him.
There are six fields for playing America's pastime. Each one has its own gimmick and extra "stuff" to work around.
Mario Stadium: Mario's choice of a ballpark is, oddly enough, totally normal. No gimmicks, nothing weird, just green grass and brown dirt. Playing here and disabling Star Skills is about as close to a "true" simulation as you can get.
Peach Garden: The princess is so into baseball that she converted the entire front courtyard of her castle into a ball park. On the ground, the obstacles in the way are hedges and a fountain. The fountain is mainly just to distract your eye, but the hedges will actually do something; namely, they will kill ball speed after hits. (Note that throwing through the hedges won't affect the speed.) Floating above the park are blocks that may contain Team Stars, and are for all intents and purposes considered air as far as the rules go. That means if the ball is hit, bounces off a block, and is caught, the batter is out. Finally, with the castle serving as the centerfield wall, this park is very unfriendly to power hitters.
Wario Palace: Physics are not exactly a major concern in this game, so the ball will have the same speed whether it's rolling on grass or this sandy desert. Team Stars are buried in the sand, which are earned by the offense if the ball hits them. Two birds guard the foul lines, and they'll create a tornado to disrupt ball movement if the ball comes close to them. Finally, there's a giant Chain Chomp in each corner, who will chase the ball if it comes close. Be careful, because you don't want your left or right fielders hit by them!
Yoshi Park: This one is almost gimmick-free. There are a few strategically placed Piranha Plants that will gobble balls hit to them and will them spit them out in a random direction. There will be an occasional gold Piranha Plant that, when hit by the ball, will cough up a Team Star to the offense.
Donkey Kong Jungle: The two gimmicks here will really make their presence known to you. First up are the alligator-like Klaptraps, who roam around in the thin river splitting the infield from the outfield. If a fielder gets too close, the Klaptrap will bite, and the fielder is then slowed down until the sides chance. The offense can hit a ball into a Klaptrap to earn a Team Star, so it's not all bad. Also in the outfield are cannons that fire barrels to disrupt the defense, making quick throws extremely important.
Bowser Castle: Bowser's stony park is pretty dormant, although there's just enough to drive you crazy. Thwomps will artificially raise outfield walls and make home runs difficult to hit. Fireballs will jump from lava under the field to set the defense ablaze, and several targets pepper the outfield for the offense to earn Team Stars. Like the other parks, the field itself (stone instead of grass) will not change the speed or bounce of the baseball.
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Paramount Pictures has launched an official, 100% bona-fide YouTube channel packed with free full-length movies.
“The Vault” offers 100+ titles from the studio’s back catalogue that’s naturally absent of the studio’s major moneymakers. This isn’t a move to combat online piracy. This is an opportunity to give audiences a helping hand in their cinematic education. You’ve got to wade through a selection of dreck before you get to the good stuff — most of which is in standard definition — but don’t worry, we’ve done the heavy lifting for you. Read on for our top 15 picks.
‘Bound’
Bound is the Wachowskis’ at their pot-boiling best. A stylish, visually adventurous crime caper produced as a kind of “dummy run” for the studio before they were handed the keys to the kingdom on The Matrix. Watch for a surprisingly good performance from Jennifer Tilly.
‘Ironweed’
Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep play a couple of homeless alcoholics during the Great Depression. He’s a washed-up baseball star whose past continues to haunt him as he wanders the streets of Albany trying to find work, occasionally shacking up with his on-off lover. Not quite as lightweight as Heartburn — the Nicholson-Streep comedy from the previous year — yet worth checking out for two of their most underrated performances.
‘Hamlet’
Mel Gibson might not be the most obvious choice to play one of Shakespeare’s most nefarious figures, and yet there’s a reason Alicia Silverstone quotes him in Clueless. Directed by Bard enthusiast Franco Zefferelli — behind the Olivia Hussey ‘60s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet — it also features a stunning score from Sergio Leone’s go-to composer Ennio Morricone.
‘The Loved Ones’
Rocking a 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, this Australian high school gorefest takes its cues from the French new wave of horror. A teenage lad turns down one of his classmates when she invites him to the prom, later regretting his decision when she kidnaps and tortures the poor kid in her grotty family homestead.
‘King Creole’
One of Elvis’ first forays into acting is arguably his best movie. The King gets embroiled in a plot involving gangsters playing a teenager whose attempts to make ends meet finds him in a spot of bother. A massive hit with critics and fans.
‘Margot At The Wedding’
Another of Noah Baumbach’s emotionally-heavy dramas inspired by his own family. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nicole Kidman play Pauline and Margot, two estranged sisters who reunite at the former’s wedding. Both are rather distant and self-serving, turning the weekend into a nightmarish rumination on sibling politics.
‘The Stooge’
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis top-line this jaunty comedy musical, with the latter playing the comedy foil to the former as part of a vaudeville double act. Lesser known than the duo’s other outings, it’s nevertheless a fun frolic. It’s interesting to revisit knowing that the studio originally held it back from release due to the way Martin’s character behaves towards Lewis.
‘I Married A Monster From Outer Space’
With a title so brazen and outlandish this cult sci-fi horror sounds as though it might share a passing similarity to John Carpenter’s Starman… but it doesn’t. Lumped in with many sub-par ‘50s paranoia flicks, it manages to ground itself in good performances and a clutch of genuinely scary moments as a housewife (the “I”) discovers her husband’s sudden change in behavior is the work of aliens.
‘Love Streams’
Not every movie is granted a Criterion Collection Blu-ray release. That fact alone should serve as an indicator of quality when it comes to watching Love Streams, Nick Cassavetes’ brilliant 1984 drama starring he and Gena Rowlands as a grown-up brother and sister who come to terms with their shortcomings together. A shame U.S. audiences weren’t granted the same melodramatic flourishes as France, where it’s known as Torrents D’Amour.
‘No Man Of Her Own’
Everyone loves a stolen identity yarn. And especially when Barbara Stanwyck’s involved. This ‘50s piece places her unmarried pregnant damsel on a train that later suffers a terrible crash. She is mistaken for a fellow passenger — also pregnant — who died during the collision and so begins this over-the-top slice of melodrama. It’s no Sirk but don’t let that deter you.
‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2’
Every cinephile needs schooling in the ways of the terrible horror sequel. The pointless returning characters, recycled story, and generally incomprehensible plotting are the backbone of every awful second chapter. This fulfills every item on that checklist, plus, it stars Dennis Hopper as the lawman investigating all the skin-stealing shenanigans.
‘The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek’
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‘King Solomon’s Mines’
This ‘80s action adventure is the fourth go at adapting the classic novel. It wishes it packed the starry clout and assured sass of Romancing The Stone, but it’s still a riot watching Richard Chamberlain star opposite Sharon Stone.
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Let's get Hampshire noticed in the BBC Food and Farming Awards
The BBC Food and Farming Awards are now open for nominations and we are determined to get Hampshire people voting for some of the many inspirational people involved in our county’s food and farming.
The awards and the awareness they bring to the winners can really change the fortunes of the hardworking people behind our food and farming. It only takes a moment to nominate an individual or organisation in one of the nine categories.
Categories include: Best Food Producer, Best Drinks Producer, BBC Future Food Award, Countryfile Young Farmer Award, Best Food Retailer, You and Yours Best Takeaway or Street Food, The One Show Cook of the Year Award, The BBC World Service Food Chain Programme Global Champion Award and Derek Cooper Outstanding Achievement Award.
Hampshire is bursting with flavour with such a variety of produce reared and grown across the county. Take just a few moments to nominate in one or more of the categories. The awards close on 29th January so there isn’t much time.
Advice for completing your nomination form:
Get to grips with the award criteria so you can be sure you're telling the judges exactly what they need to know
Bring the person or business you are nominating to life with a story or description that paints a picture of them
Competition is stiff so be sure to tell the judges why you think this person or business is truly outstanding
Nominate here today.
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Posted by John Plant on September 6, 2016 at 5:50 PM
My friend John Barnstead, discussing Julian Barnes' new novel about Shostakovich on Facebook, said something so precious and precise about what should happen when a composer sets words to music, that I can only add a fervent Amen. After quoting Pushkin's poem in Russian, he very kindly appended John Fennell's prose translation, so I shall follow suit.
'Barnes really does have the kind of fine, unobtrusive control of language, allusion, and narrative voice that is one of the signs of a master craftsman. Where I find he falls short of mastery is in his use of aphoristic language, "для констатации факта," as it were, when the facts asserted are in fact not facts at all, and run contrary to what we know of Shostakovich as an artist, e.g. (on the same page) "Let Power have the words, because words cannot stain music. Music escapes from words; that is its purpose, and its majesty." No way José, folks. It's not an escape: music doesn't *escape* words; words *release* music the way the prisoner dreams of releasing the eagle in Pushkin's poem "Узник" ' (J.A.B)--
The Prisoner (Pushkin, trans. J. Fennell)
I sit behind bars in a damp prison My sad companion, a young eagle reared in captivity, flaps its wings and pecks at its bloody food beneath my window.
It pecks, then stops, and looks in through the window as though it shared the same thought as I. It calls me with its look and its cry and would say 'Let us fly away!
'We are free birds: it is time, my brother, it is time! Thither, where the mountain shines white behind the cloud, thither, where the expanses of the sea are blue, thither, where only the wind roams - and I!'
After reading John's inspired words and Pushkin's poem, I was haunted by the appropriately soaring key phrase from Janacek's Dostoevsky opera, From the House of the Dead: Orel car lesu! The eagle, king of the forest!
The prisoners free the caged eagle just as the hero is released from prison.
And this brings me, circuitously, to a mild rant. The current issue of Diapason, an indispensable French monthly devoted to 'l'amour du classique' contains a stimulating debate on operatic staging. Christian Merlin is encouraged by stagings whose 'dramaturgical viewpoint is so strong that a plot which we considered superficial suddenly begins to speak to us,' such as Tcherniakov's staging of Verdi's Il trovatore - which is transformed into 'a role-playing game for idle members of the bourgeoisie.'
That anyone could experience Il trovatore as superficial takes my breath away; that a work of such intense, committed passion and vitality could somehow be improved by turning it into a role-playing game is beyond my grasp.
I do not wish to place any limits on a director's imagination. Even the most outrageous transpositions of time and space in the work of Peter Sellars are clearly inspired by a profound love and knowledge of score. The same applies to many inspired radical stagings by Katie Mitchell, David McVicar, Harry Kupfer and others. I am objecting to the kind of reductionism whose purpose seems to be to disenchant the listener, to persuade us that what we thought was beauty, passion and truth was in reality a cheap, empty, lifeless husk. Brünnhilde and Waltraute can eat corn flakes in their trailer park, whose entrance is posted with warning signs: 'Transcendence Forbidden.'
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They ARE Giants in Providence
To know me is to know that I love – and HAVE loved – the band They Might Be Giants, or just TMBG. From the first moment that I discovered them – a cassette of Flood blasting on endless repeat over a giant, portable boombox back in the early 90s – I have been smitten. What other band can weave in deep, obscure literary references along with quirky riffs and hooks? Or have a song where “Minimum wage!” and a whipcrack are the entire thing? And do it over and over again? And make the accordion cool?
I first saw the Giants live in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall. The night I saw them, it was just the two John’s on stage. After playing a couple of songs and riffing with the crowd, they pulled out a boombox that they turned to the FM dial and just spun around until they heard songs that they liked. Then they immediately started played along. Then they played their entire first album from cover to cover. The show was brilliant. And if I was in love before, I was in total LURV after.
Ever since I’ve made it a goal to see the Giants in concert whenever possible. I’m up to 10 shows so far and almost every show is different and clever and hip and awesome in its own way. The thought of following them around for several legs of their tour is incredibly appealing to me, and it has taken TMBG for me to actually understand the appeal and why people would become Dead Heads.
The Giants pulled a fast one on me when we moved to Myrtle Beach. We arrived on a Monday, and they were playing here, in Myrtle Beach, at the House of Blues on Friday night. I thought, “Oh my God! We’re one of the tour stops! I’ll get to see them every year!” But, alas. That was back in March of 1998, and they have yet to return to Myrtle since. You used to be able to count on them playing at the Music Farm in Charleston, but sadly that too has fallen off the tour schedule for the past couple of years. Charlotte and Raleigh continue to get the TMBG treatment, but they are both about 3+ hours – one way – from Myrtle and tough to schedule.
So, when I saw the latest Giants’ Join Us tour schedule, I looked first for stops that would work for me – NOOOOOO! WHYYYYYY?!?! – and then for stops that might work for my friends. (A Twitter exchange with the Giants themselves said "we love Charleston; not sure why it isn't on the schedule" didn't really help to assuage the pain.) I tried to get Glasses to see them in Salt Lake City – and I mean I *tried*. Every manner of guilt and persuasion at my disposal, but still no go. Then when I saw that the second-to-last stop was in Providence, Rhode Island I reached out to the good folks at Caster Communications over Twitter. And, Nick Brown immediately rose to the challenge! (Though, to be fair, I’m not sure he was aware it was a challenge at the time.)
For a long time, Nick was the sole Y-chromosome carrying member at Caster. He also occasionally attempts non-violent, Foursquare Mayor takeover coups of the Caster home office. And being surrounded by all of that estrogen and beauty has made him soft, supple and able to take a joke in the form of a badly edited MS-Paint photo that might have involved him, a unicorn and non-consensual relations with John Mayer. Seriously, though, Nick is great, and when he agreed to go to the show AND blog his experience, I knew it was going to be the awesome. Take it away, Nick! (My comments set off in italics when I felt the need to interject...)
Contributing to the John Sciacca Writes blog is a bit like being asked to paint a border around the Sistine Chapel pinch hit for an all star slugger who spent the previous night making it rain before waking up in a puddle of DNA , malt liquor and regret. (Based on the contents of the most recent puddles, it would be 21-year single malt. But, tomato, tomahto...) In all seriousness, I know John enjoys others living vicariously through his blog, so when he asked me to re-cap this weekend’s They Might Be Giants concert in Providence, I decided to return the favor, and gladly agreed.
My first experience with They Might Be Giants was from an episode of the animated series Tiny Toons where Istanbul (Not Constantinople) played over a cartoon following the pursuit of a jade duck. I also recall the Animaniacs producing a cartoon using TMBG’s Particle Man that featured a dynamic accordion solo and representation of Person Man that reminds me of Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. Ultimately, this led me to buy the Flood album. (Flood is clearly the gateway TMBG album for those of us belonging to the “born before the 80s” set. “Birdhouse in your soul” remains one of my favorite songs and – being an entire song sung from the viewpoint of a small nightlight – remains quintessential TMBG.)
In college, I lost touch with TMBG, choosing to pursue more urban music flavors, but history has a way of re-connecting. So when my son turned four, I asked around for decent kid’s music at CES 2009 and was steered towards TMBG by Al Griffin of Sound+Vision magazine. This led me to purchase Here Come the 123s and ultimately teach my son the value of trumpet practice (and also the equally important lesson of NEVER going to work...) and dinosaurs balancing soup.
(This was also Lauryn’s intro to the world of the Giants. We started with the ABCs and 123s – along with a healthy dose of Schoolhouse Rocks -- and then moved on to Science. The CDs come with a DVD that has a little video for each song. The great thing is that even though these are songs geared towards kids, they Giants don’t slack on the song writing or arranging. Just listen to the awesome horn section flourish at the end of Electric Car. Plus, that is Flansberg’s wife on vocals. A pic of Lauryn at her first concert: )
Fast forward to 2012 and TMBG is now touring with a stop at the dog-eared but intimate Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, RI. It was here that I saw my first show ever, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, when it was called The Strand. (My first show was The Beach Boys with my parents at the Concord Pavilion. I remembered cringing whenever they said “a swear.”) At the time it was a night of firsts. First time seeing an adult man in a diaper acting funky, first time drinking outside a friend’s basement, and the first (and last) time I passed out standing up. What could TMBG have in store?
Before entering the venue, my guest (who we’ll just call Driver X) and I decided to stop into a watering hole for a little pre-game. Not looking at the sign, just moseying in the first door after a Mexican restaurant, we enter The Stable. Almost immediately it became quite clear this was not a typical equestrian-themed sports bar. Colorful wall-decor, muted lighting, two unisex bathrooms, perfectly groomed bartenders in skin tight shirts, Gloria Gainer techno covers playing to video of sweaty guys dancing together, I think you see where this is going.
As a securely heterosexual male, drinks are drinks and the Johnnie Walker on the wall serves the same purpose no matter who is serving and who is surrounding. Seeing that it was mostly empty, Driver X had no problem with the surroundings, and we were in close proximity to the concert venue, we bellied up to the bar and ordered a round. If there’s one thing I hate more than soggy mini wheats, it’s the measured pour. A bar that serves exactly one shot of liquor in a rocks glass as a drink should be in Canada (literally, that’s the law there). Not so at The Stable. A smattering of rocks and fill to the brim, that’s a drink. Three of those and a brief visit to the bathroom, which involved zero door locks and two people barging in (accident?), and we were ready for the show. (In my mind, I can't help but picture The Stable having a glory hole… Also, Nick happened to accidentally stumble into a gay bar called The Stable…? Come on. We were all thinking it.)
Lupo’s has a spacious standing area downstairs and 20+ rows of seats in the upper level. It used to be called The Strand, with no seats, two standing levels, the top level catering to a more provocative audience, but those ships have sailed. On arriving, a 14+ age limit gave the show a Backstreet Boys on wine coolers/Phish-light feel before broadening later in the night with a more diverse and older crowd filling in. (You would be challenged to find a venue more packed with young, glasses-covered eyes and filled with geek cred than a TMBG show.)
Taking seats upstairs while opening act Jonathan Coulton performed rock n’ roll, we (cough) waited for TMBG to take the stage, the venue at about 2/3 capacity. After a 10 minute intermission, TMBG appeared suddenly, uttered a few words of welcome before immediately rolling into Can’t Keep Johnny Down, Birdhouse in Your Soul, Damn Good Times, a couple songs I can’t remember, and the expected Particle Man, done worthily. (They’ve opened with Alphabet of Nations the past few times I’ve seen them. Thought I love Johnny, an upbeat number from their new album, that would be a good starter.)
Many of the songs were unknown to me, but soon after Particle Man, a screen appeared on stage featuring a pair of sock puppets called the Avatars of They, which, to my understanding, are doppelgangers to John and John from TMBG. (They narrowly avoided being burned up in a trailer fire and now have their own Twitter account , @AvatarsofThey.) It was hard to hear what they were saying from the upper level, but the puppets performed in between and sometimes during Snowball in Hell, Pandor, and Spoiler Alert, narrating a mix of commentary about drugs, I think, and semi-coherent, stream of conscious nonsense. To their credit, it did hold people’s attention, allowing the Johns a brief recess from the stage. (I would be remiss if I did not admit to you that I fancy myself the third John. Yes. Even with absolutely no music experience whatsoever. Thus is the level of my fanship.)
More music ensued, some highlights included a flamboyant saxophone solo on Cloisonné and a brief cover of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, less about biting the heads off bats and more about getting the crowd to go bat shit crazy (they did), even if only for a few riffs. The accordion made a few appearances, always welcome since it deserves more than just the occasional Polka. One of my notes appears to say “Accordion, Incandescent Legos sardine” so I think I was really impressed.
TMBG, Driver X and I kept things moving at a steady pace, and at some point Don’t Let’s Start comes on and I know it’s getting later, so we work our way to the floor. A few more songs and When Will You Die (a surprisingly upbeat song, given its title) brings it to a close, with the expectation of an encore. Three minutes, back onstage, three more songs, including Mesopotamians, nice, but it can’t be over. Applause, cheers, lighters, onstage again, Why Does the Sun Shine? (I think that’s where “incandescent” came from), a fitting end. (Further Giants scientific study has revealed that the sun is really a giant miasma of plasma; forget all that stuff they told you before...)
But wait, just one more, and then the familiar strum of Istanbul. Floor level with Lupo's, the audience, and TMBG all as one amorphous being, moving, breathing synchronously, TMBG the puppeteers and we the marionette, responding to the plucking of strings, time passing insentience until the final chord and a well-earned, “Thank You Providence.” That’s how you send the house home happy.
TMBG played what we wanted with energy and made it feel distinctive, the most important concert judging criteria. It may have been the sound system or my advanced commitment to enjoyment, but my only criticism is that there were times when the lyrics seemed completely garbled, even when I squinted. For $30 it was worth it to see them in an intimate environment with an enthusiastic crowd and I would definitely recommend. Driver X and I even made a few new friends, but that’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Awesome, recap! Thanks, Nick! And with that, Nick joins the pantheon of other great Sciacca Writes guest bloggers. They’ve tackled such compelling topics as Oprah’s Favorite Things, Kitchen Nightmares (by ex-Caster employee, PR Buddha), silenced weapons and drinking in strange cities. If you’ve got an interesting story, tell me about it…
And if you need any public relations work -- or just want a little extra humor in your life -- follow Nick on Twitter at @prnick or contact him at Caster Communications.
Categories: March 2012, Guest Blog, Music
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Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II
Journal of the Meteorological ...
Volume 95 (2017) Issue 6
Climatological Relationship between Warm Season Atmospheric Rivers and Heavy Rainfall over East Asia
Youichi KAMAE, Wei MEI, Shang-Ping XIE
Youichi KAMAE
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, California, USA
Wei MEI
Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Shang-Ping XIE
Keywords: ENSO, atmospheric river, Indo-western Pacific Ocean Capacitor, heavy rainfall
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2017 Volume 95 Issue 6 Pages 411-431
DOI https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2017-027
J-STAGE : jmsj 97 2 pp.541-545
Browse "Advance Publication" version.
Published: 2017 Received: May 30, 2017 Released on J-STAGE: November 14, 2017 Accepted: August 29, 2017 [Advance Publication] Released: September 07, 2017 Revised: -
Eddy transport of atmospheric water vapor from the tropics is important for rainfall and related natural disasters in the middle latitudes. Atmospheric rivers (ARs), intense moisture plumes that are typically associated with extratropical cyclones, often produce heavy precipitation upon encountering topography on the west coasts of mid-latitude North America and Europe. ARs also occur over the northwestern Pacific and sometimes cause floods and landslides over East Asia, but the climatological relationship between ARs and heavy rainfall in this region remains unclear. Here we evaluate the contribution of ARs to the hydrological cycle over East Asia using high-resolution daily rainfall observations and an atmospheric reanalysis during 1958-2007. Despite their low occurrence, ARs account for 14-44 % of the total rainfall and 20-90 % of extreme heavy-rainfall events during spring, summer, and autumn. AR-related extreme rainfall is especially pronounced over western-to-southeastern slopes of terrains over the Korean Peninsula and Japan, owing to strong orographic effects and a stable direction of low-level moisture flows. A strong relationship between warm-season AR heavy rainfall and preceding-winter El Niño is identified since the 1970s, suggesting the potential of predicting heavy-rainfall risk over Korea and Japan at seasonal leads.
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Canadian Jews seek ban for Palestinian clerics
By Ron Csillag March 27, 2009 7:20 pm
TORONTO (JTA) – A Canadian Jewish group is asking the government to consider barring two Palestinian clerics scheduled to speak in Toronto next month from entering the country.
The Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center say Ekrima Sabri say the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who is to speak at Toronto’s Palestine House, has publicly supported suicide bombings, questioned the Holocaust and preached hatred against Jews.
The group cites an interview with an Egyptian paper in which Sheikh Sabri allegedly said, "I am filled with rage toward the Jews. I have never greeted a Jew when I came near one. I never will. The Jews do not dare to bother me, because they are the most cowardly creatures Allah has ever created."
The other cleric, Atallah Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, has described Jerusalem as an "Arab city," the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a news release.
The two clerics are scheduled to speak at an April 5 event sponsored by Palestine House, an educational, cultural and social centre for the Toronto-area Palestinian community.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal says “these Jerusalem-based clerics will likely offer a divisive message of hate, racism and radicalization to Canadian audiences; one that incites violence over dialogue."
B’nai Brith Canada also has conveyed concerns to federal officials over Sabri, who, the group says, "has devoted his entire career to vilifying Jews, denying the Holocaust and inciting children to become ‘martyrs’. That Palestine House has chosen to invite this individual to be their keynote speaker speaks volumes about the values the organization is promoting."
A spokesman for Palestine House called both men "moderate."
The controversy comes just days after Ottawa banned pro-Hamas British MP George Galloway from entering Canada — a move greeted positively by B’nai Brith and Canadian Jewish Congress.
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A Hasidic rabbinical student falls in love with his teacher’s daughter. A punk band gives a small but raucous concert in a Tel Aviv basement. A religious couple travels to a rabbinical court to file for divorce, only to find their relationship tested in the strangest of ways.
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In the past few years, Israel has produced a veritable outpouring of feature-length movies, short films, and animated work. The new website Omanoot.com collects some of the best of these films and allows you to watch them online.
Some films (including “Willingly,” the film about the divorcing couple) are products of Ma’ale, an Israeli film school for religious Jews. Other films were made by major Israeli studios, and still others are independently produced. There are films representing young and old, religious and secular, Jewish and Arab. Of course, there’s no way to show the diversity and breadth of all of Israel, but visiting Omanoot is one effective way of exploring the country in all its weirdness and wildness from far away. Its films are funny, moving, and sometimes difficult–much like life in Israel itself.
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National / History | THE LIVING PAST
The prosaic state of ancient Confucianism
by Michael Hoffman
Special To The Japan Times
Online: Sep 16, 2017
“Confucianism,” says historian Hiroshi Watanabe, “is perhaps the most powerful political ideology yet conceived by the human race.”
Indisputably, a set of doctrines associated with an ancient Chinese sage known in the West as Confucius (551-479 B.C.) held sway over much of East Asia for close to 2,000 years — an extraordinary achievement. But then modernity came along and Confucianism was either outgrown, as in Japan, or overthrown, as in China, and who missed it? Few, probably, among the masses whose poverty it countenanced, or women whose subordination it endorsed, or lovers of freedom to whom it had little to say.
Confucian metaphysics is prosaic in the extreme. Watanabe (in “A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901”) boils it down to this: “In this world, there is heaven and there is Earth. Between heaven and Earth lives mankind. There is no other world. What Buddhists and others may say about this world being illusory is simply not the case.”
Heaven, Earth, man. Nothing else. No gods, no transcendent reality. There is nothing special or elevated about mankind. “Each thing,” Watanabe explains, “has its naturally appropriate way of being.” Proper to mankind’s way of being are the “five relationships” and the “five virtues.” The five relationships link father to son, ruler to vassal, husband to wife, elder brother to younger brother, friend to friend. The five virtues are benevolence, righteousness, rites, wisdom and faithfulness. Individuals and societies ruled by them are in harmony with the universe. Deviation from them invites chaos.
All the virtues are (or at least seem) readily comprehensible, excepts rites. To moderns, rites are either irksome or aesthetically pleasing; peripheral either way. To Confucius they were crucial. They replace laws. More accurately, they render laws, lawyers, law courts and policing unnecessary. Central to rites, hardly distinct from them, is music. Confucius sees life as an intricate dance, every step orchestrated, every word, gesture, facial expression, scripted. The scriptwriter, so to speak, is “Heaven.” A benevolent ruler who follows the script is a “son of Heaven”; he will reign over a state as orderly as the motions of the planets or the progression of the seasons. A ruler who is not benevolent will dance out of step, and his state fall into anarchy. Such a ruler has forfeited the mandate of Heaven and is fair game for a popular uprising. So the master taught.
In Japan, Confucianism was warped by the rulers who governed in its name. The Tokugawa shogunate (1600-1867) and the Confucianist scholars it sponsored stressed obedience, ruthlessly enforced, over benevolence, lovingly tendered. Wherein lay the Tokugawa regime’s claim to represent Heaven? That question eventually toppled it, though the uprising was aristocratic rather than popular.
There is a peculiar fascination in philosophies that time has passed by. Nakae Toju (1608-1648), samurai-born, retired from active official life to found a Confucian school in his native village in Shikoku, where he wrote “Dialogue with the Elder.” The dialogue is between a sage-elder and an eager disciple. In answer to the disciple’s question, the elder discourses on filial piety.
“Each of us,” Toju’s elder said, “possesses a spiritual treasure unique under Heaven.” This is filial piety, the reverence and obedience children are bound by nature to show their parents, and subjects their rulers. “This treasure is fully in accord with the sun above us and is fully apparent to the four seas below us.” The filial piety in those below calls forth benevolence from those above — and vice versa. “When you order the realm under Heaven, all under Heaven are pacified; when you govern the state, the state is in order; when you organize your household, your household is regulated … when you follow it in your heart your heart is clear. … When people take good care of it, the ruler has a long, prosperous reign over the four seas; the various lords live in splendor in a unified realm … and the common people store up their goods and take pleasure in them.”
How charming, how quaint! Is it, perhaps, something more as well? Surveys conducted in the 1990s by Danish scholar Geir Helgesen show 90 percent of South Koreans agreeing with the statement, “The ideal society is like a family.” More surprising, to Helgesen, is that 75 percent of Danes felt the same way. Denmark is probably as un-Confucian as South Korea is Confucian. Might the Confucian “family-state” be some kind of universal ideal?
One of the most innovative and influential Confucian scholars of his day was Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725). In his autobiography, he recounts a criminal case he was involved in as a magistrate. Here we see Confucian justice in action. It’s a bewildering spectacle.
It concerns the murder, in 1711, of a man by his wife’s father and elder brother. The victim is a merchant of Edo (present-day Tokyo) who vanishes while traveling on business. His wife, awaiting his return at her father’s house in the country, grows anxious. What can be keeping him? One day a body is found floating face down in the river. Fearing it’s her husband’s, the woman implores the village headman to investigate. Her fear proves justified. Worse still, her father and elder brother turn out to be the murderers.
The question Arai is called upon to settle concerns not them but her: Is she guilty of a crime against filial piety? True, when she appealed to the headman she had no idea she was inculpating her father. That merited consideration, to be sure. Arai reports: “The head of the (Confucian) Academy submitted the opinion that if this woman had knowingly reported her father’s murder of her husband to the authorities, she should be condemned to death. But if she had acted out of ignorance, she should be sentenced to penal servitude.”
Arai’s more liberal interpretation saved her — on one condition: that she shave her head, become a nun and retire to a convent. This she did — with gratitude for having been spared? With resentment at having been convicted? We shall never know.
Michael Hoffman is the author of “In the Land of the Kami: A Journey into the Hearts of Japan” and “Other Worlds.”
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Donated Personal Stock Film Collection
Moving image recordings, 1930-1968 (bulk 1960-1964). Amateur "home movie" recordings of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and other members of the Kennedy family campaigning, on trips, and in candid situations; funeral and memorial events for John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy; amateur films showing Ernest Hemingway camping, fishing and hunting.
KFC2026N. Kathleen Kennedy Dines on Patio with Friends at Marworth Estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Kathleen Kennedy (seated) poses on a covered patio while dining with friends at Marworth, the Scranton family estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania, during a house party given by William Warren "Bill" Scranton and Gaspard d'Andelot "Don" Belin; Kennedy family friend, Grace "Gay" Sloane, sits at back right. [Notes: Fogging is original to the negative.]
KFC1621N. Kathleen Kennedy Attends House Party at Marworth Estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Kathleen Kennedy poses on a terrace outside Marworth, the Scranton family estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania, during a house party given by William Warren "Bill" Scranton and Gaspard d'Andelot "Don" Belin.
KFC1615N. Kathleen Kennedy Attends House Party with Friends at Marworth Estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Kathleen Kennedy (center, seated at end of table) dines with friends at a house party given by William Warren "Bill" Scranton and Gaspard d'Andelot "Don" Belin at Marworth, the Scranton family estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania; those pictured include Grace "Gay" Sloane (second from left, partially visible). [Notes: Negative is double exposed.]
KN-C19606. President John F. Kennedy Sits in Crowd at Army-Navy Football Game
President John F. Kennedy watches the Army-Navy Football Game (United States Military Academy Cadets versus United States Naval Academy Midshipmen) from the Navy side of the stands. Also pictured: Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, Rear Admiral John F. Davidson; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Governor of Ohio, Mike DiSalle; Myrtle England DiSalle (wife of Governor DiSalle); Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. "Smokey" Stover; Mary Lee Lamar Anderson (wife of Admiral Anderson); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Secretary of the Navy, John B. Connally. Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
President John F. Kennedy watches the Army-Navy Football Game (United States Military Academy Cadets versus United States Naval Academy Midshipmen) from the Navy side of the stands. Also pictured: Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, Rear Admiral John F. Davidson; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Governor of Ohio, Mike DiSalle; Myrtle England DiSalle (wife of Governor DiSalle); White House Secret Service Agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn; Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul “Red” Fay; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.; Mary Lee Lamar Anderson (wife of Admiral Anderson); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Secretary of the Navy, John B. Connally. Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Faculty Summer Reading 2019
Each summer, the UPrep faculty reads from a selection of books related to our strategic initiatives and professional growth areas. This year’s selections examine deeper learning, identity, and inclusion through research and memoir. Special thanks to Emily Schorr Lesnick and Veronica McGowan for selecting this year’s titles.
In Search of Deeper Learning
The Quest to Remake the American High School
Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine
Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. Harvard University Press
This book dives right into our ongoing work to bridge academic challenge and diversified ways of learning.
Whistling Vivaldi
How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Claude M. Steele
Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities. W.W. Norton & Co.
While this book has been out for a while, it is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the long-term and deeply-personal impacts that cultural inequality has on individuals, particularly with relation to achievement gaps in schools.
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele
Patrisse Cullors’ first book cowritten by ashe bandele, is a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. A New York Times Best Seller – necessary and timely, Patrisse’s story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful. In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable. MacMillan
The memoir of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors describes her childhood and family encounters with the criminal justice system, her experiences in schools, and her work to co-create the hashtag that has rocked the world.
A Coming-of-Gender Story
Jacob Tobia
From Jacob’s Methodist childhood and the hallowed halls of Duke University to the portrait-laden parlors of the White House, Sissy takes you on a gender odyssey you won’t soon forget. Writing with the fierce honesty, wildly irreverent humor, and wrenching vulnerability that have made them a media sensation, Jacob shatters the long-held notion that people are easily sortable into “men” and “women.” Sissy guarantees that you’ll never think about gender–both other people’s and your own–the same way again. Penguin Random House
The memoir of media sensation Jacob Tobia outlines their childhood experiences with gender and a path to gender healing.
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
Michael Bennett adds his unmistakable voice to discussions of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice. Following in the footsteps of activist-athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, Bennett demonstrates his outspoken leadership both on and off the field.
Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, Things that Make White People Uncomfortable is a sports book for our turbulent times, a memoir, and a manifesto as hilarious and engaging as it is illuminating. Haymarket Books
This book by former Seahawk Michael Bennett breaks down his perspective on race and racism, college and professional sports, and an athlete’s impact in the world.
Category: Professional Development, Teaching and Learning | Tags: deeperlearning, diversity, equity, inclusion, socialjustice, summerreading
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From Explo Lab to User Lab, or how Keolis and Netexplo effectively merged their working methods
Blending the working methods of a big public passenger transport group with those of a digital technologies observatory: this is the wager successfully won by Keolis and Netexplo with Keoscopie Digital.
Netexplo's know-how is gathering digital innovations and selecting them on the basis of their value for real use – and the possibility of adapting them, reforming them and diverting them from their original function for new uses, always for the benefit of citizens. The know-how of Keolis is based on observation of transport users' behavior with the aim of offering them new services that meet their needs.
international selected innovations among 2000
interviews to evaluate citizens expectations on digital mobility
At the start of this adventure, Netexplo opened way by initiating what sociologist Bernard Cathelat, member of the Netexplo network, calls a "trawling" operation « Every year our trawlers drag up thousands of digital innovations. In 2015, we collected around 2000, while focusing on mobility. ». A total of 167 dedicated to transport or with the potential to be adapted to mobility services, ended up in the trawlers' nets. Like iButterfly, for instance, an application that uses a butterfly to guide consumers towards the best deals of the moment and which could easily be transposed to guide passengers in a city. Then there's Nectar & Pulse, a collaborative tool – a mix of Meetic and Trip Advisor – that lets passengers find their soulmate in a city – a person with the same tastes and interests who can pass on information, good deals, smart ideas and addresses in a given region.
Netexplo took this valuable raw material and subjected it for six weeks, in the framework of Explo Lab, to a working group consisting of some 30 Keolis employees – front-line employees working in operations, maintenance, marketing, customer relations and accounting, whether or not in direct contact with passengers, who were also exposed to Keoscopies findings and the big sociological trends emerging from them. « There are seven of them," says Éric Chareyron, director of forecasting, lifestyles and mobility at Keolis. "The passenger demand for simplicity to understand how, the transport network operates, and for transparency to find out what doesn't work and why; the demand for fast reaction so as rapidly to propose an alternative in the event of a problem; the performance guarantee of "door-to-door" guidance; the demand for permanent coaching; the demand to be able to feel at home in a place that you don't actually live in, and, lastly, the need for a rehumanization of transport faced with the arrival of new technologies. ».
At the finishing line, only four of them were left
Netexplo's teams coached the Keolis working group for a creative workshop day – a creative camp to use the jargon of consultants. Their mission? To "shake up" the 167 innovations selected by Netexplo, retain only the most promising and test them as an experience and digital pathway. Fifteen scenarios emerged from this crash test. They were grouped together then tested through four passenger scenarios, corresponding to four main passenger categories and expected benefits.
All in all, four avenues of work were tested, on a life-size basis, with 3,000 people across France, in the framework of a large national and regional study - a work phase, baptized User Lab, that precedes formulation and testing of new digital applications to serve mobility, which is the raison d'être of the Digimobility Observatory created by Keolis and Netexplo.
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Korn Ferry Futurestep Presence Growing in Dallas Area
Los Angeles. October 9, 2017
-- Dallas Serves as a Major Hub for In-Depth Training Programs and Onboarding of Firm’s Employees From Across the Nation -
Los Angeles, Oct. 9, 2017 – The Futurestep division of Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) today announced that its suburban Dallas location is expanding. Already the largest Futurestep office in the company’s network, the company is currently adding to its employee base at its Texas location to meet growing client demand for recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and talent acquisition support.
The new recruits who will be permanently based in the Dallas Talent Delivery Center (TDC) will work on a variety of engagements with Fortune 100 clients across multiple sectors. At the center, Futurestep professionals actively monitor the progress of client recruiting programs taking place around the world, starting from the inception of an engagement through sourcing, interviewing, hiring and tracking progress of new employees.
Dallas is also home to Futurestep’s North American “Talent Academy,” which provides enhanced learning, development and onboarding to Futurestep employees from across the nation. Hosted in Dallas since 2015, the program is geared to develop the firm’s own recruiting and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) specialists at all levels of the Futurestep organization and is the newest part of the company’s in-depth training initiative.
“Futurestep is enjoying tremendous success and consistent year-over-year growth,” said Futurestep Global Operating Executive Bill Sebra, who is based in Dallas. “Clients trust that we will bring them best-in-class professionals to service their business, and our Talent Academy helps effectively develop participants to be the most qualified recruiting and RPO talent in the industry.”
Talent Academy participants spend eight weeks in Dallas as part of the training program, and then return to their respective offices to begin work on client engagements.
Futurestep is now accepting applications for the January 2018 Talent Academy.
Korn Ferry is the preeminent global people and organizational advisory firm. We help leaders, organizations and societies succeed by releasing the full power and potential of people. Our more than 7,000 colleagues deliver services through our Executive Search, Hay Group and Futurestep divisions. Visit kornferry.com for more information.
More information on Futurestep can be found at www.kornferry.com/futurestep
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Coalition Created to Promote and Protect Native Limestone
It was formed around 100 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous era and has been used in fencing, architecture, grave markers, art, and just about anything you can imagine in central Kansas. Now a group of people passionate about native Kansas limestone has joined together to create a coalition promoting the area.
The Kansas Post Rock Limestone Coalition was recently organized with a mission of “promoting, preserving, and protecting the history, art, and architecture of the Kansas Post Rock Limestone region through education and tourism.”
The group is comprised of businesses, economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, tourism organizations, art centers, preservationists, and private citizens interested in the native stone. Their geographic area covers 18 Kansas counties stretching from the northern border of the state (Jewell, Republic and Washington counties) flowing southwest down to the Dodge City area (Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee and Edwards counties).
The Grassroots Arts Center in Lucas received a grant from the Russell Area Community Foundation earlier this year to establish the organization. Still in an infancy stage, the Kansas Post Rock Limestone Coalition has great plans to tell others about the region’s limestone heritage.
“For 25 years, the people living in the ‘Land of the Post Rock’ have talked about forming a unique tourism region in Central Kansas centered around the Kansas Limestone,” said Rosslyn Schultz, Director of the Grassroots Arts Center. “It’s so exciting to be finally planning various activities in the region like ‘Limestone Adventure Trails’ to share our one-of-a-kind architecture, heritage, geology, archeology and customs of this region.”
The Coalition’s new Board Chair agrees with Schultz.
“The Post Rock limestone is unique to this part of Kansas. Many of these century-old buildings have fallen into disrepair and hundreds of miles of Post Rock fences have been removed. It is our goal to raise awareness of this part of our heritage and to preserve what remains for future generations before it is lost forever,” Bradley Penka, chairman of the coalition, said.
The organization is in the process of filing for federal non-profit status and will be hosting various events throughout the year, along with educational programs to promote the area. They are working with the Kansas Historical Society on cataloging various buildings constructed of the native stone.
The area covers these Kansas counties: Barton, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Hodgeman, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Ness, Osborne, Ottawa, Pawnee, Republic, Rush, Russell, and Washington. This area is where the Greenhorn Limestone formation can be found and is where early Kansas pioneers used the native stone for multiple uses, including fence posts and building construction.
The newly-elected board members are:
Bradley Penka, LaCrosse
Andy Stanton, Hays
Jeannie Stramel, Lucas
Terry Bailey, Beloit
Christina Hayes, Great Bend
Tami McGreevey, Ellsworth
Lisa Goodheart, Mankato
Kris Heinze, Lincoln
Stacey Jackson, Osborne
Charma Craven, Luray
Terry Rowe, Stockton
Rosslyn Schultz, Lucas
The group has established a website located at www.kansaspostrocklimestone.org and is active on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kansaspostrocklimestonecoalition and Instagram at instagram.com/kansaspostrock.
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Eating Disorder Special Interest Group - Postponed until August
Eating Disorders in Gender and Sexual Minorities - Postponed
When: Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Where: The office of Dr. Lauren Muhlheim
4929 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 245
Contact: Dr. Lauren Muhlheim
Unfortunately, as of 6/5/19 this SIG has been postponed until August. Date to be determined.
Date: Thursday, June 6, 7:30 pm
Presenter: Jonna Fries, Psy.D.
Title: Eating Disorders in Gender and Sexual Minorities
Hegemonic masculinity, the dominant culture’s feminine and masculine ideals, homonegativity, and transnegativity collude to create a hostile environment toward those identifying as anything other than cisgender and heterosexual. This stigma makes its way through the minds of those identifying as LGBTQIA and manifests in some functional (advocacy, community building, pride, etc.) and some dysfunctional patterns, including manifesting as body image distress and EDs.
This presentation and interactive dialogue will focus on research, theory, and interventions for gender and sexual minorities with eating disorders.
Bio: Jonna Fries, Psy.D. is a psychologist with a clinical focus on diversity, trauma, and eating disorders. She is the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Cal State LA, adjunct faculty for The Chicago of Professional Psychology's forensic psychology program, is an EMDR certified therapist, Approved Consultant, and Facilitator, an Integrative Body Psychotherapy Instructor, she co-facilitates iaedp's bi-monthly consultation group, and has a private practice in the Mid-Wilshire area. Her co-edited book, Eating disorders in special populations: Medical, nutritional, and psychological treatments was published in 2018.
Location: The office of Dr. Lauren Muhlheim (4929 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 245, Los Angeles) – free parking in the lot (enter on Highland) or street parking
RSVP to: drmuhlheim@gmail.com
SIG meetings are open to all LACPA members. Nonmembers wishing to attend may join LACPA by visiting our website www.lapsych.org
"The opinions of presenters at informal forums, such as Special Interest Groups (SIGs) or club meetings, and their approach to psychological issues and interventions do not represent a formal endorsement of any position by the Los Angeles County Psychological Association or its members. The opinions, ideas, and concepts expressed are purely those of the presenter."
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Pinango, Henry, MD
Internal Medicine (Board Certified)
Henry Piñango, MD is a board-certified specialist in Internal and Geriatric Medicine, and the Livingston HealthCare Hospice Medical Director. Henry attended high school in Indianapolis and later college at Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tenn., where he earned his degree in biochemistry. While working as a chemist in a battery factory, Henry realized he loved to explore how things work, but the lack of human interaction reminded him of life-affecting experience he had as a young adult. While still a teen working as an aid in a nursing home, Henry discovered he had a passion for caring for the aged. This discovery led him to enroll at Loma Linda University to study medicine and meet his future wife, Kyra.
“Part of what I liked about the idea of moving to Livingston, was the opportunity I have to serve the older generations here,” Henry says. “I bring a perspective to geriatric care that includes the whole picture of health – physical, mental and emotional – that this population faces.” This population, incidentally, includes Kyra’s 87-year-old grandfather who still drives a tractor.
Medical school: Loma Linda University
Undergraduate school: Southern Adventist University
Board Certified Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency/Geriatric Medicine Fellowship: Florida Hospital
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Latin Times | Jul 14 2017, 10:12PM EDT
Carmen Salinas is one of the most beloved actresses in México for being a straight shooter. She is so in tune with her audience that even millennials find her endearing and made her into a meme superstar. There is a rumor going around that Televisa is planning a bioseries about her life just like subjects like Juan Gabriel, Luis Miguel, Celia Cruz, Jenni Rivera and Selena Quintanilla. With her unique style she broke her silence and said: "Juan Osorio [producer] told me that they asked him to make a series about Carmen Salinas, but I told him, why me there are nicer people."
Carmen Salinas is no stranger to controversy and because she tells it like it is, reporters always go to her to ask of her opinions. During the scandal with Gerardo Ortiz and the video where he is abusive to a woman, she asked for the video to be removed for promotiong violence. "It's horrible," she said in an interview. "They shouldn't have been able to work on something so frightening. I have granddaughters and I am terrified that they end up with a fool like that. It invites people to generate violence against women. If I am working to promote gender equality, I need to protest because it's not fair that a woman gets treated like that."
In a separate interview Carmen Salinas also said: "It's to incentivize femicides. What if they did that to his sister, a niece, they shouldn't do that, those types of videos invite crime and to kill women. We want the video to be taken down the Internet." The video clip for "Fuiste Mía" with Ortiz, shows a man and a woman who are in a relationship. The man (Ortiz) leaves and upon his return, catches his girlfriend/wife in bed with another man. He takes out his gun and shoots the woman's lover in the head and leaves him for dead. Ortiz then makes mends by tying the girl up and putting her inside a car's trunk. We are then made to believe that he sets the car on fire with the woman still inside.
Carmen Salinas has embraced change and knows how to work social media to boost her profile. In her spare time she video blogs in an effort to keep in contact with the public that adores her. Over the years she has embraced the multiple memes she's been part of and poking fun of herself in the process like when they joked about her being a congresswoman or named the education ambassador. Salinas even has a Tinder profile, if this commercial is any indication of what she does on her off time. Let's not forget Carmen's infamous scene in this telenovela dancing on a stripper pole!
In telenovelas Carmen Salinas was last seen in "Sueño de Amor" where she played a villanous role. Her character was named Margarita, she ws an exceptional grandmother. Margarita is Silvana’s mother and Kristel and Salma’s grandmother. She is cheerful and fun; she lives and lets others live. She doesn’t have a good relationship with her daughter and with Salma, whereas she gets along pretty well with Kristel. She is smart, manipulates all the modern technology devices very well. Despite her age, her dream is finding someone with whom she can travel, chat, and do everything she loves to continue enjoying life.
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National car design contest success for young Kenilworth engineers
The triumphant Firecrackers from Crackley Hall
Karen Almond
A team of five Year 4 pupils from Crackley Hall have triumphed in a national car engineering competition organised by a top motor manufacturer.
The Firecrackers, Amelia Hunt, Jasper Nicholls, Woody Osborn, Henry Verity and Thomas Zanyi, took the crown at the finals of the Jaguar Primary School Challenge at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, beating off 38 other primary school entrants.
The five had been working hard, after school, all year to prepare for the day and the challenge which required teams to research, design, manufacture, test, promote and race the fastest car possible.
They had to use standard chassis and engine housing nets with a car body made only from card. It is a technical brief but one that has proven to really engage potential future engineers.
Each team took part in an engineering judging where the team were examined on their car design and manufacturing process as well as a verbal presentation and a portfolio and pit-stop display inspection where the team had to carefully explain their displays to the judges.
During the day, the Firecrackers also had to complete an additional design technology challenge, to design and manufacture a car of the future. The focus was once again to test the team’s ability to work together, delegate, design and manufacture.
Finally, they had to race their car head-to-head down the racetrack. Standards were high but the children were confident, and when the results were announced, they were delighted - they’d won the award for Best Engineered Car.
A spokesman said: “What an amazing day. Our pupils have worked so hard. They’ve dealt with the pressure of competition brilliantly and we are so very proud of them.”
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Judgment Search Results Home > Cases Phrase: mediation Year: 1992 Page 7 of about 885 results (0.018 seconds)
Nov 25 1992 (HC)
The Assistant Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments ...
Court : Andhra Pradesh
Reported in : 1994(2)ALT190
..... . the recitals in the document considered by the madras high court in that decision were quite different. as found by the learned judges, the parties contemplated taking the advice of mediator in settling the details of the trust they desired to create and incorporating the same in a formal deed of trust. moreover, the learned judges observed:'the language of ex .....
Jan 09 1992 (HC)
Mangal Prasad Vs. Vth Additional District Judge, Basti and Others
Court : Allahabad
Reported in : AIR1992All235
order1. sri satyadeo lal, who is arrayed as respondent no. 3 in the writ petition filed, suit no. 32 of 1985 in the court of the civil judge, basti for partition of the disputed house and sehan inter alia on the ground that the plaintiff and the defendant are the real brothers, they have inherited the disputed property after the death of their father and purchased the land jointly shown by letters d] [k] x] ?k] n- since there is a dispute between the two brothers regarding their shares, it has become necessary to get the property divided by metes and bounds. the suit was contested by mangal prasad, who filed a written statement and, inter alia, contended that the property has already been partitioned by metes and bounds in the year 1978 and a memo of partition has also been executed between the parties on 27-3-78. this alleged memo of partition embodying the factum of partition was filed on behalf of defendant mangal prasad in the suit. the plaintiff filed an application on 5-3-1986 saying that the said document which is alleged to be memo of partition is actually a deed of partition which is unregistered as well as insufficiently stamped, hence the document is liable to be impounded under o. 13 rule 8 of the code of civil procedure. the defendant mangal prasad objected to the said application and contended that the document is simply a memorandum of partition and not the partition deed and as such no stamp is required on the same nor the document required any registration. .....
Sep 16 1992 (HC)
Padartha Amat and anr. Vs. Siba Sahu
Court : Orissa
Decided on : Sep-16-1992
Reported in : AIR1993Ori92
s.c. mohapatra, j.1. this civil revision arises out of a judgment under section 6 of the specific relief act.2. plaintiff filed the suit claiming that 'a'schedule property was under ownership and possession of one purna chandra bhukta of village maheswarpinda who had sold sale deed for a consideration of rs. 200/ and delivered possession thereof. while he was possessing the same after purchase by raising crops, defendants forcibly dispossessed him on 11-6-1983 and sowed paddy on it. plaintiffs protest remained unheaded and defendants threatened to assault him. plaintiff applied for mutation on 23-4-1988 but the same has been refused. accordingly, being dispossessed within six months, the suit isfiled for recovery of possession. 3. defendants in their joint written statement stated that suit land was in possession of purna chandra bhukta. however, the same was not sold to the plaintiff by purna. they denied assertion of possession by plaintiff since 1969. they claimed to be in possession of the suit land six years prior to 1988 when it was lying vacant as government land. mutation is also claimed to have rightly been refused.4. plaintiff examined five witnesses and produced certified copy of the sale deed as ext. 1. defendants examined three witnesses and produced two reports of the revenue supervisor in support of their case. on appreciation of these materials, trial court held that the case of the plaintiff that he is dispossessed within six months of the filing of the suit .....
Jun 29 1992 (HC)
Lucy Narona Vs. Raghunath Jew Bije
Reported in : AIR1993Ori153; 74(1992)CLT463
p.c. misra, j.1. the defendant in o.s. no. 85 of 1980-1 of the court of additional subordinate judge, pud is the appellant in this appeal against the reversing judgment passed by the second addl. district judge, puri in title appeal no. 74/83 of 1983/82. the suit is one for permanent injunction restraining the present appellant from dispossessing the plaintiffs from the suit land and from cutting and removing the trees standing thereon.2. the case of the plaintiffs is that plaintiff no. 1 is a deity and plaintiff no, 2 is the head of the institution and marfatdar of the deity. the suit properties are said to be originally belonging to l. g. naronah who acquired the same by permanent lease on 5-1-1950 from one durga charan jagdevray and thereafter he sold the property to plaintiff no. 1 through plaintiff no. 2 as its marfatdar by a registered sale deed dated 18-10-1965 on receipt of proper consideration pursuant to which the plaintiff was put in possession and he has been possessing the same all through. the disputed plot according to the plaintiffs was a vast sandy area near the sea and was lying waste. after purchase plaintiff no. 2 claims to have reclaimed the said area by raising casuarina and cashew nut plantation as a result of which it became highly productive giving good profits. alternatively the plaintiffs have claimed that in the event it is found that the suit land does not appertain to their purchased area, they having been in possession thereof for more than the .....
Feb 27 1992 (HC)
Kanduni Dei and ors. Vs. Ananta Charan Mohapatra
Decided on : Feb-27-1992
Reported in : 1992(I)OLR491
a. pasayat, j. 1. during pendency of this revision application filed by petitioners, eleven in number, an application under section, 391 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973 (in short 'the code') was filed for acceptance of additional evidence. a counter affidavit has been filed by the opposite party to the application.2. background facts in which the revision came to be filed before this court are to the following effect.the opposite party herein filed a complaint inter alia on the ground that his deceased father had purchased 62 decimals of land in plot no. 1403 of khata no. 204 in the year 1964 from one rama chandra naik, his father and after him, he was in peaceful possession of the same. in the year 1984 he had raised various varieties of paddy on the disputed land. on 21-11-1984 the accused persons cut and removed the unripe crop notwithstanding protest by the opposite party complainant.the accused persons took the plea that the disputed land was in cultivating possession of petitioners 1 and 3, who had raised crop in the year 1984. it was their case that since they had raised the crop they had cut and removed the same.the learned subdivisional judicial magistrate, banki (in short 'the sdjm') found that there was no material to sustain the plea that the removal of paddy was in furtherance of a bona fide claim of right to property. therefore, he found the petitioners guilty under section 379, indian penal code, 1860 (in short 'ipc') but acquitted them of the charges .....
Jul 03 1992 (HC)
BipIn Bihari Das Vs. State of Orissa and ors.
Reported in : 74(1992)CLT830; 1993CriLJ245
..... stated in the affidavit that there are 43 other cheating cases connected with the present case and therein attempt is being made to seize the relevant documents. of the two mediators, viz. prasad sundhi and sankarsan palti, prasad sundhi has been examined and sankarsan pati is yet to be examined since he is not available at koraput and is reported to .....
Aug 06 1992 (HC)
indraj Vs. Sham Lal
Court : Punjab and Haryana
Decided on : Aug-06-1992
Reported in : AIR1993P& H95; (1993)103PLR81
orderg.r. majithia, j. 1. whether the court to whom a reference under section 30 of the land acquisition act, 1894 has been made by the land acquisition collector for apportionment of compensation can add a person as a party who has not asked for a reference from the collector is the question referred to us for determination.2. the reference was necessitated because the learned single judge found that there was a conflict between single bench decisions of this court reported as beer singh v. union of india, 1988 (2) llr 413, on the one hand, and murti shree ram chander ji maharaj v. state of haryana, 1987 plj 131 : (air 1989 (noc) p&h; 133) and bagh singh v. the special land acquisition collector, district courts, jalandhar, 1984 (i) llr 59 : (air 1984 p&h; 177): 1984 plr 568.3. section 30 of the land acquisition act, 1894 (the act, for brevity) provides an alternative remedy for the land acquisition collector for apportionment of compensation amount settled under s. 11 of the act in complicated cases. he may himself decide the question of apportionment and complete his award as required by s. 11 leaving it to the parties to bring a reference under s. 18 in case they feel dissatisfied with his award. if they accept the award, he would no doubt record the same as contemplated in s. 29, but if he experience any difficulty on the question of apportionment of compensation, he might act under s. 31 although he is not compelled to do so. a reference under s. 30 is in the nature of .....
Apr 01 1992 (HC)
Om Prakash and Others Vs. Chhaju Ram
Reported in : AIR1992P& H219; (1992)102PLR75
order1. this revision petition is directed against the order of addl. district judge, kurukshetra, dated 18th of march, 1992, whereby the order passed by senior sub-judge, kurukshetra dated 10th of march,1992, was set aside and temporary injunction was granted restraining the defendants from raising any sort of construction over the suit land till the decision of the suit on merits. the trial court was directed by the appellate court to decide the case expeditiously not later than six months.2. in brief, facts relevant for the disposal of this revision petition are that chhajju ram plaintiff filed a suit against om prakash and other defendants for grant of permanent injunction restraining the defendants from raising any type of construction over the suit land measuring 12 kanals 15 marias situated in village bir pipli district kurukshetra, on the averments that ram saran dass was owner in possession of the suit land, which, after his death was inherited by his widow smt. rameshwari devi and his daughters. smt. rekha, one of the heirs, sold her 1/6th share out of the suit land to the plaintiff vide, registered sale deed daled 28th of may, 1991 and as such the plaintiff is in joint possession of the suit land. it was further pleaded that defendant nos. 1 and 2 in collusion with defendant no. 3 halga patwari got the suit land partitioned by playing fraud upon the plaintiff and therefore the plaintiff was constrained to file present suit for declaration that the mutation on the .....
Mahant Mela Ram Chela Mahant Inder Dass Vs. Shiromani Gurudwara Parban ...
Reported in : AIR1992P& H252; (1993)103PLR385
orderg.r. majithia, j. 1. this appeal isdirected against the decision of the sikh gurdwaras tribunal, punjab, chandigarh, dated april, 12, 1974, holding that the agricultural land measuring 475 bighas 19 biswas situate in village sanghera, patti sujja and the muafi of rs. 114/3/- belong to and vest in the institution known as 'dera baba dan dass', but the building situate in patti sujja of village sanghera, tehsil barnala, district sangrur is the property of the notified sikh gurdwara 'gurdwara sahib dera patti sujja' mentioned at serial no. 337 of schedule i of sikh gurudwaras act, 1925.2. facts first:--on the publication of a consolidated list under section 3(2) of the sikh gurdwaras act, 1925 (the act, for short), late mahant mela ram filed a petition under section 5 of the act claiming that the properties mentioned in the consolidated list and the building allegedly belonging to the gurdwara known as 'gurdwara sahib dera patti sujja' belong to and possessed by dera baba dan dass (for short, the dera). this petition was, in due course, forwarded by the state government to the sikh gurdwaras tribunal, punjab chandigarh (for short, the tribunal) for adjudication. in the petition under section 5(1), it was stated that the building allegedly belonging to the gurdwara sahib: dera patti sujja did not belong to the said gurdwara but is a building of the dera, which is an udasi dera of religious and charitable nature of which the appellant late mahant mela ram was the mahant; that .....
Smt. Jaswant Kaur and ors. Vs. Hardial Singh and ors.
Reported in : (1992)102PLR107
n.k. kapoor, j.1. ishar singh, 'karbans kaur, jaswant kaur, rajbans kaur; tejinder singh, minor son, inderprit kaur and manpreet kaur, minor daughters of sukhdiai singh, husband of rajbans kaur; narain kaur and satwant kaur filed a suit against hardial singh and others for declaration to the effect that they are owners-in-possession of the land shown in sub-heads (a) and (b) as given in the plaint or in the alternative for possession of 6/7th share of the land measuring 41-ic 9-m comprised in hadbast khasras detailed as a b c d e (as per plaint) situated in the area of village kokari kalan, ajitwal and kokari hairan, tehsil moga, on the ground that a distance arose between ishar singh, defendant for the reason that the latter was cultivating the land as son of ishar singh and started claiming hostile possession whereupon ishar singh, instituted a suit against him the case of the plaintiffs further is that smt. attar kaur, wife of ishar singh died and hardial singh set up a will claiming ownership of the land left by her on the basis of the will which was the subject-matter of dispute between the parties. in fact, appeal filed by the plaintiffs against the mutation sanctioned in favour of hardial singh was accepted by the collector and thereafter at the behest of near relations a compromise-cum-family settlement was executed and put in the court in the aforesaid suit which was acted upon. as per the said document, ishar singh was given 260 mounds of grains also. this order of .....
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SC tells office holders to refrain from commenting on Padmavati
Published on 29 Nov 2017 by Team
The Supreme Court today took strong exception to statements made by persons holding high offices against the film “Padmavati”, saying the remarks were tantamount to pre-judging the movie which is yet to be certified by the Censor Board.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra dismissed the fresh petition that had sought an order to restrain the producers of the movie from releasing it abroad.
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Lawyer M L Sharma had also sought a direction to the CBI to register a case against director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and others for various offences including defamation and violation of the Cinematography Act.
The bench which also comprised Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud termed as “misconceived”, the prayers sought by Sharma in his fresh petition and said that the court cannot pre-judge a movie which is yet to be certified by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
The irked bench, however, did not impose cost on Sharma keeping in view the fact that he has been a practising lawyer of the apex court.
Source – PTI
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South Africa’s Elections; Economic Turnaround Ahead?
Stéphane Monier
Lombard Odier Private Bank
South Africans are expected to elect the ANC to the National Assembly on 8 May, making Cyril Ramaphosa president for the next five years
A structurally weak economy hands Ramaphosa challenges in public spending, land ownership and mining reforms that are key to attracting foreign investment in Africa’s financial centre
Investors should watch Moody’s rating agency decision expected this month
The rand stands to strengthen if Ramaphosa can show that he is able to push reforms through
Ramaphosa’s ability to reform the economy will largely depend on the scale of the ANC’s win.
South Africa’s voters are scheduled to elect a new National Assembly on 8 May, which is widely expected to hand President Cyril Ramaphosa a five-year term. The open question for Africa’s financial centre is whether the scale of the presidential mandate will allow for much needed public spending reforms while facing down internal dissent and the risks of industrial unrest.
The open question for Africa’s financial centre is whether the scale of the presidential mandate will allow for much needed public spending reforms while facing down internal dissent and the risks of industrial unrest.
As we wrote one year ago, the resignation of Jacob Zuma after a period of sustained political crisis and his replacement by his deputy Mr Ramaphosa offered some hope to South Africa’s troubled economy, tempered with understanding of the scale of challenges ahead. Their party, the African National Congress, is the country’s dominant political presence, winning every election since 1994, with a share of more than 62% of the vote five years ago.
Despite the optimism of early 2018, South Africa’s unhealthy macroeconomic picture has deteriorated since President Ramaphosa took office. Structurally weak fundamentals with economic growth averaging little more than 1% a year has given the South African economy a widening current account deficit, falling productivity and unemployment of over 27%. Compounding its economic problems, South Africa still has the highest HIV infection rates in the world according to UNAIDS, and the virus has cut life expectancy to 55 years old.
The ANC’s opponents include the Democratic Alliance, which won 22% of the 2014 vote, but which has suffered years of in-fighting and controversies. The third largest party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, is a splinter of the ANC’s youth league and advocates land expropriation without compensation and nationalisation for the South African Reserve Bank and mines. In the 2014 election it won 6.4% of the vote.
Under President Ramaphosa, the ANC has also pledged to change the constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation, which while boosting support, has done nothing to improve foreign investors’ confidence in the economy. Still, the process being set up in parliament should mean that at least the process is orderly and avoids a Zimbabwe-like land grab.
Monetary policy and the rand
On the fiscal front, the South African Reserve Bank raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 6.75% in November in the face of poor economic growth as part of its efforts to settle inflation expectations in the middle of its target range and improve its credibility. While further hikes would be in line with orthodox monetary policy, it would inevitably continue to limit economic growth.
Crucially, Ramaphosa promised earlier this year that the ruling ANC has no intention of interfering with the Reserve Bank’s independence.
However, the government last month promised a 23 billion rand (USD 1.62 billion) bailout for state power company Eskom, weakening the outlook for its 2019 budget. Eskom, which supplies 90% of South Africa’s energy, has a debt burden of 420 billion rand, and was forecast to show losses of more than USD 1 billion per year through 2020. Ramaphosa last month proposed splitting Eskom into three separate entities, although the ANC has ruled out privatising the monopoly.
The bailout was announced ahead of a review of South Africa’s credit rating (‘Baa3’) by Moody’s at the end of this month. Moody’s is the last of the three main ratings agencies to classify the South African economy as investment grade.
With a lack of private sector investment in South Africa, the country has been forced to turn to government spending in an effort to boost the economy. The saving factor is that much of the country’s public debt is denominated in rand, making it easier to finance.
Rand outlook, mining
For the South African rand (ZAR), the country’s economic situation translates into few reasons to think that the currency is anything but overvalued. Nevertheless, in the event that there are meaningful reforms under the new National Assembly, it is possible to build a case for the rand to rise in the context of a weaker US dollar with the Federal Reserve’s interest rate normalisation on hold.
in the event that there are meaningful reforms under the new National Assembly, it is possible to build a case for the rand to rise in the context of a weaker US dollar with the Federal Reserve’s interest rate normalisation on hold
A further challenge facing President Ramaphosa is South Africa’s mineral resources, in the form of (mostly costly to extract) gold, extensive platinum reserves and some uranium. Mining in South Africa lacks a sound regulatory framework, without which the sector cannot meet its potential. However, the industry is highly unionised and uncertainties over the future of land reform are hindering investments.
Broadly speaking, with the US rate cycle paused and slowing global growth, we are convinced that carry strategies (involving borrowing at low interest rates and investing in high-yielding assets) offer investment opportunities, especially in emerging currencies and emerging fixed income. Unless the global economy slows more quickly than expected, emerging debt in local currencies, we believe, will benefit from more dovish emerging central banks as inflation remains muted.
Whether President Ramaphosa can turn the South African economy around will largely depend on the scale of his win on 8 May. The ANC has never scored less than 62% of the vote and the party’s loyalty is still divided between Zuma and Ramaphosa, which may create tensions as the new president is committed to investigating past corruption. While widely respected, both for his integrity as well as his business record, President Ramaphosa must win back many voters who abstained in 2014 if he is to drive the reforms South Africa needs to attract foreign investment.
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UK Lotto EuroMillions Live App Review
Many lottery apps try and center themselves around big-name international lotteries in their attempt to stake their claim of the lottery application market. An example of this is UK Lotto EuroMillions Live. In this UK Lotto EuroMillions Live Android app review, we will look at what the app can do and how well it functions in bringing you a convenient lottery experience.
When you first launch the app, it will be clear that its main function is to bring you the latest lottery results of four of the most well-known UK lotteries (listed below). The home screen is divided into four equal sections that each host the results of one of the supported lotteries. The lottery in each section is easily identified by its prominently displayed logo on the left-hand side of your screen.
The results in each section are accompanied by the draw number and draw date of the results. This allows you to instantly see if you are viewing the results for the correct (and latest) draw.
Unnervingly, the home screen also displays a bold notice that the developer does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of any of the results displayed—something that should immediately be a given for an app that is built for the sole purpose of bringing you the latest results. Imagine throwing out a winning ticket just because an app like this showed you the incorrect numbers!
UK Lotto EuroMillions Live offers you four additional features. These features are:
Results: This function allows you access to the results of draws older than just the most recent draws. As with the results on the home screen, the results are each accompanied by their draw number and date and are limited to the previous 10 draws only. To change which lottery you are viewing the results for, you will need to tap on the logo of the lottery you would like to view. The logos of the supported lotteries are located in a banner at the top of the results screen.
Checking: The Checking feature of the app has two distinct functions. The first is to act as a random number generator. By shaking your device or tapping on the flashing banner at the top of your screen, the app will randomly generate a number sequence that can be used to play in your selected lottery. The randomization algorithm that the app uses is relatively good but does not quite stack up against other algorithms used by the top lottery apps for Android and iOS.
Numbers generated by the Checking feature can be checked against the past 10 draws of the selected lottery to see if there are any matches by tapping on the Check button located at the bottom of the screen. Matching numbers are highlighted in bold.
Alternatively, you may manually enter in your own numbers by selecting them from the displayed grid of numbers. These numbers—as with those generated—can then be checked against the previous 10 draws.
You will be able to save any generated or manually entered sequence by tapping on the Save icon located next to Check at the bottom of the screen. This saves these numbers for if you would like to check them against results later.
Results Analysis: This feature is pretty basic, and we are not quite sure what its purpose is. When viewing the results analysis, you will see the list of results for the last 10 draws for the selected lottery. On the right-hand side of these results you will see a total column that totals the numbers drawn and tells you the final sum of the numbers. Next to this, the app will tell you whether this total number is an even or odd number. This all seems completely useless to us, so you should probably just ignore it.
My Favourite: This tab is where you will find all your saved numbers. Once a number sequence is saved in the Checking section of the app it cannot be edited and can only be deleted from your My Favourites
The four lotteries supported by UK Lotto EuroMillions Live include:
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The design of UK Lotto EuroMillions Live is—to be blunt—terrible. Navigation is handled by tabs that are in a bar at the bottom of your screen. However, the text which explains what each tab does is displayed over the icon for that tab and is often unreadable. We put this down to the fact that we don’t think the developer of the app planned on the app running in full-view mode—even though this is natively supported.
The graphics in the app are also decidedly ‘childish’ and make use of bright colours that are distracting and would not be out of place at a circus. Add this to the lack of refinement and the slight lag when switching between features and the app becomes somewhat annoying to use.
Aside from the constant banner ad that is ever-present at the top of your screen, the app also makes use of full-banner ads that occur sporadically when using the app. Mercifully, these can easily be dismissed and do not occur too often.
Conclusion – UK Lotto EuroMillions Live Review
There are many good lottery results apps out there that cosy up to the name of an international lottery to try and help their download stats. Unfortunately, UK Lotto EuroMillions Live is not saved by the big-name lotteries it represents. If the developer can sort out the horrid graphics and user interface, and possibly change the Results Analysis to include something of actual use, then this app may stand a chance. Until then, this is not an app that we would look at twice.
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Clouded Yellow Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785)
Superfamily: Papilionoidea Family: Pieridae Status: Resident in Madeira
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Clouded Yellow Description
A medium-sized butterfly whose upperparts colours vary from pale yellow to bright orange. “A form in which the yellow on the upper side of the wings is replaced by white (f. helice Hübner) is rather frequently seen, mainly on Porto Santo.” (Aguiar & Karsholt, 2006)
Its undersides are yellow with greenish tones on the hind-wings and outer edge of fore-wings. Both sexes have a white roundish discoidal spot on the underside hind-wings and a black one on the fore-wings. Males upperparts have a continuous black contour on the wings while females have an irregular contour with yellow submarginal spots.
Colias croceus Caterpillars
Its caterpillars are green, normally matching the colour of its host plant, with very short whitish hair coming out from the black spots all over the body. It has a pale spiracular line with yellow orangey spots along it.
Host & Food Plants
The larva feeds on Leguminosae species mainly from the genus Trifolium, Medicago, Viscia, Lotus and others. (Haahtela et al., 2011)
Habitat & behaviour
It is found in most habitat types though it is more common in warm places, abundant of flowers. In Madeira is not so common on the higher altitudes but might be seen there in hot summer days.
Distribution in the Atlantic Islands of Macaronesia:
Occurs in Madeira, Porto Santo, Deserta Grande, Azores and Canary Islands (Aguiar & Karsholt, 2006)
Regional status according to Aguiar & Karsholt, 2008: Native to Madeira, Porto Santo & Desertas Islands
Regional status according to Wakeham-Dawson et al., 2001: Common, resident migrant
Status according to the European Red List of Butterflies, 2010: Least Concern
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China hoping Trump-Xi meeting will help bridge differences
BEIJING (AP) — China hopes a meeting later this week between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will help build trust and resolve "outstanding issues," a foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
A woman browses her photo after taking with her friend near the American latest animated film "Toy Story 4" promotion decoration on display at the capital city's popular shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. China says its trade negotiators are talking to their U.S. counterparts on how to resolve disputes ahead of an expected meeting between their two heads of state at the G20 meeting in Japan later this week.
Women step out from a fashion boutique at the capital city's popular shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. China says its trade negotiators are talking to their U.S. counterparts on how to resolve disputes ahead of an expected meeting between their two heads of state at the G20 meeting in Japan later this week.
Women stand near the American latest animated film "Toy Story 4" characters on display at the capital city's popular shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. China says its trade negotiators are talking to their U.S. counterparts on how to resolve disputes ahead of an expected meeting between their two heads of state at the G20 meeting in Japan later this week.
Geng Shuang gave no details at a daily briefing, but there are hopes the planned encounter at the G-20 summit in Japan will help lower the temperature in the trade war between the world's two largest economies.
As part of preparations, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spoke by phone Monday with the top Chinese negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He. "We certainly hope that the meeting will help the two states to promote mutual trust, resolve their differences, and resolve some of the outstanding issues we are facing now," Geng said.
China remains "committed to working with the U.S. to develop China-U.S. relations based on coordination and cooperation," Geng said. The meeting in Osaka is the first opportunity for the two leaders to discuss the trade dispute face-to-face since Trump said he was ready to target the $300 billion in Chinese imports that he hasn't already hit with tariffs, extending them to everything China ships to the United States.
Trump has already imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports and China has retaliated with tariffs on U.S. goods. The sides are at an impasse after 11 rounds of talks that have failed to overcome U.S. concerns over China's acquisition of American technology and its massive trade surplus.
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For nearly 20 years, Foster Corporation has been at the forefront of medical and materials solutions based on extremely precise polymer technology. Foster Corporation is a leading supplier of custom biomedical polymers for the medical device industry, including custom compounds for minimally invasive devices, polymers blends for implants, and drug/polymer blends for combination products.
USA-based polymer compounder and distributor Foster Corporation (www.fostercomp.com), who has a specialism in medical devices, has introduced static dissipative polymer blends specifically designed for medical devices and equipment. These blends use a non-migratory, polyether block amide (PEBA) polymer additive that retains continuous antistatic properties and cannot be wiped off with medical cleaning agents.
Dissipation of static electricity is critical to avoid damage to electronic circuitry and reduce particle build-up on medical devices and surrounding surfaces. New devices, such as vascular imaging catheters, utilise highly sensitive electronics for enhanced diagnosis and treatment. Dissipation of static electricity that can build up on surrounding surfaces is critical to avoid damage to sensitive electronic circuitry in these devices. In drug delivery devices, such as dry powder inhalers, static charge can cause accumulation of drug particles on the device surface and lead to variability in dose delivery. As a leading provider of specialty compounds for medical devices, Foster says it recognises the need for static dissipation in emerging devices and offers these USP Class VI complaint blends for use in regulated applications.
The PEBA polymer additive used in Foster’s static dissipative blends, disperses throughout the entire base polymer. When melt blended in quantities of 10-20% by weight into other polymers it provides immediate and permanent antistatic properties of 1010-12 ohm/sq [ohms per square, a measure of the resistance of a thin film or sheet commonly used to characterise materials made by semi-conductor doping] depending on the loading and the base polymer. These antistatic properties are maintained in the polymer blend even at low humidity levels.
This unique polymer additive can be compounded into other polymers with compatible melting temperatures, including thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
“Traditional antistatic additives, such as ethoxylated amines, migrate to the component surface where they attract atmospheric moisture that helps dissipate static charges. These materials require time to migrate and a minimum level of moisture in the air. They can also easily be wiped off the surface with cleaning agents," said Bill Blasius, Manager of R&D and Polymer Science for Foster Corporation. “The PEBA additive provides a continuous polymer network throughout the host polymer that is intrinsically antistatic and permanent.”
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Meat trade body ditches TV for press and digital activity
Beefy and Lamby characters to go as body focuses on its ‘Quality Standard’. By Camille Alarcon
By Marketing Week 21 May 2009 12:00 am
EBLEX, the trade body representing the beef and sheep industries, is changing its advertising strategy in favour of heavyweight press and digital activity rather than television advertising.
The body is moving away from the “Lamby” and “Beefy” characters previously featured in its TV ads, which were based on legendary English cricketers Sir Ian Botham and Allan Lamb.
As part of its new strategy, EBLEX will not launch a TV ad this year but will instead launch a national print and digital campaign created by TBWA/London. The agency was appointed to the 4m ad account in February.
The campaign will push EBLEX’s “Quality Standard” label found on British beef and lamb products. It will use the strapline “Tough standards. Tender results”.
As part of the online activity, consumers will be able to “cook” their own steak in real time. However, if the on-screen instructions are not heeded, the steak will burn and smoke will start to fill the screen.
As the steak is sizzling, scrolling text will appear to explain the regulations EBLEX has in place as part of its quality assurance scheme.
The body says the decision to move more marketing activity online is reflective of the trend among its core target market of 30- to 50-year-old women to spend more time online.
EBLEX has also redeveloped its website to have more of a “magazine” feel. It has created a Quality Standard Recipe Club in a bid to better engage consumers.
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Marquette is participating in a campus climate survey to support the theme of Enhancement of Organizational Effectiveness from the university's Strategic Plan, which was approved the Board of Trustees in May 2013. The university similarly seeks to make itself a learning organization that embraces diversity and asks its employees to commit to a culture of respectful collaboration, personal wellness and continuous improvement to grow Marquette's reputation as one of the country's premier employers in higher education. Over the years, many members of the Marquette University community have expressed the desire to better understand the campus climate. Today, campus climate studies have become standard practices for understanding organizational and intergroup dynamics inside colleges and universities.
What is the campus climate study?
The climate study is a way to measure the climate of diversity and inclusiveness on Marquette's campus with regard to race, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation, religious affiliation, veteran status, etc. Dr. Susan Rankin of Rankin & Associates Consulting, which is serving as the outside consultant for Marquette's climate survey, defines university climate as "the current attitudes, behaviors, standards, and practices of employees and students of an institution."
Learn more about the campus climate study (PDF) and the process behind it.
Who is conducting the climate study?
The Climate Study Working Group, which includes a cross section of students, faculty and staff, is charged with conducting Marquette's climate survey. After a review of potential vendors, the committee selected Rankin & Associates Consulting to conduct the survey. Rankin & Associates reports directly to the committee. Although the CSWG will regularly update the Marquette community about its progress, the committee — in consultation with Rankin & Associates — is solely responsible for the development, implementation, and interpretation of the survey and its results. Rankin is the consultant working directly with the CSWG on this project.
Rankin is an emeritus faculty member of education policy studies and college student affairs at Pennsylvania State University and a senior research associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education. She has extensive experience in institutional climate assessment and institutional climate transformation based on data-driven action and strategic planning. Rankin has conducted multilocation institutional climate studies at more than 120 institutions across the country. She developed and uses the Transformational Tapestry model as a research design for campus climate studies.
The model is a "comprehensive, five-phase strategic model of assessment, planning and intervention. The model is designed to assist campus communities in conducting inclusive assessments of their institutional climate to better understand the challenges facing their respective communities" (Rankin & Reason, 2008).
What are the next steps after the climate study?
Embarking on this campus-wide assessment is further evidence of Marquette's commitment to ensuring that all members of the community live in an environment that nurtures a culture of inclusiveness and respect. The primary purpose of the project is to assess the climate within Marquette, including how members of the community feel about topics related to inclusion and work-life issues. At a minimum, the results will add empirical data to the current knowledge base and provide more information on the experiences and perceptions for several sub-populations within the Marquette community. However, assessments and reports are not enough. A projected plan to develop action initiatives and subsequent implementation of those actions is critical. To that end, a process that is community driven will be implemented to develop the action initiatives.
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Surprise Birthday Party Makes a Difference
When Priya turned 8 this year, her family had a party for her with her extended family. Grandparents, aunts and uncles came to celebrate and she received many presents for which she was thankful. Since her birthday falls on New Year’s Day, it’s hard to include her school friends in a birthday party, so her parents arranged for a pizza party for her classmates once school had resumed after the holidays. But even though she was grateful for all these efforts, something had changed for this perceptive girl.
Over Christmas, Priya had been involved with other fundraising events and enjoyed the opportunity to help others. She had also been to a friend’s “toonie” birthday party: a party where each guest brings two dollars instead of a gift, with one dollar going to a charity of the child’s choice and the other dollar going towards one gift for the child. Her friend raised funds for the Foodbank. All these experiences got Priya thinking that she didn’t really need all the gifts she’d received and that she’d rather do something to benefit others by raising money for a charity. Her parents, Tania and Amanjit decided to honour this wish in a special way.
“My husband and I decided to have a surprise party for her in February,” Tania explains. “I sent out invitations to her entire class with the help of her teacher. None of the children told Priya!”
The invitation encouraged her friends to bring a cash donation rather than a gift, with half the money going to charity of Priya’s choice and the other half going to a larger gift for Priya. The surprise party was held at the local community pool and was a great success.
Priya was surprised by her party and grateful for all the donations for Matthew’s House
When it came time to choose the charity, Priya remembered what she had learned at a recent assembly at school. A presentation had been made about Matthew’s House, which supports families by providing quality care for children who have complex care needs. When she remembered how Matthew’s House makes a difference to families, she knew she’d chosen her charity.
“I thought of Matthew’s House because I thought that they might need money to help the children.” Priya, generous birthday girl.
The party raised over $200 for Matthew’s House and Priya is thrilled to be able to support children and families.
“It feels really good,” she says, adding that other children should consider doing something creative with their birthday party to support a charity.
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“Ending Anita,” written by Anthony Adams for Aaron Huntsman and Lee Jones, was published this month and is sale on Amazon. It puts a bookend on South Florida’s LGBTQ history by referring to the 1977 anti-gay crusade that Bryant led on behalf of a group called Save Our Children.
Adams will interview Huntsman and Jones at a book launch party set for 6 p.m.Thursday at the Sidebar at Aqua Bar, 504 Angela St.
Just after midnight Jan. 6, 2015, Huntsman and Jones donned tuxedos and traded wedding vows on the steps of the Monroe County Courthouse in Key West, having in 2014 won the first Florida court ruling that declared the state’s 2008 same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional.
The couple, who met at Key West Pride in 2003, told their story to Adams, who says he will donate all profits to two Key West nonprofits: The LoveIsLove Fund, which supports marriage equality, and the Sacred Cloth Project, which sends activists across the world with a section of the 1.25-mile-long Sea to Sea Rainbow Flag unveiled in 2003 across Duval Street.
“We were never in it for the money,” Huntsman said, recalling missing work and traveling as part of the legal battle and after the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land. “We figured we lost probably about $70,000. It was about doing the right thing.”
“Ending Anita” also includes profiles of others who fought alongside the Key West couple and has a few moments of levity, including one from Huntsman’s Vegas childhood.
“Once, Liberace’s limousine nearly ran me over,” Huntsman said. “That’s in the book.”
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(More on the zone in a minute.)
You had the sense this would be another terrific night defensively for the Heat when Milwaukee – which arrived in Miami at 4 a.m. after beating Boston on Friday - scored only eight in the first quarter (on 4 for 21 shooting) and missed its first 13 three-point attempts.
The Bucks closed at 37.3 percent from the field -- well below their 47.7 percent average entering the game – and 9 for 43 on threes (20.9 percent).
Keep in mind that the Heat entered holding teams to 44.1 percent shooting, third best in the league.
And the Heat played suffocating defense on Bucks star Giannis Antetokounpo, who missed his first seven shots and didn’t hit a shot from the field until an alley-oop dunk with 5:13 left in the third.
James Johnson (and during stages, Derrick Jones Jr., Bam Adebayo and others) did excellent work on Antetokounpo, who managed only nine points after entering sixth in the league in scoring at 26.8 points per game and 10th in field goal percentage at 59.1.
He finished 3 for 12 from the field – including of all things, an airball on a driving layup - and Heat defenders often kept him out of the paint.
“The Heat put a ton of bodies in front of him,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “To loosen them up, we have to make more shots.”
Miami played zone very briefly in the first 45 minutes of the game but then went to the 2-3 zone with an 84-81 lead in the final three minutes. That seemed to flummox the Bucks, and Miami then unleashed an 8-2 run to seal it.
Playing zone “gets you communicating,” Josh Richardson said. “You have to move more in the zone, and it’s a challenge but we really enjoy it.”
Before the game, Budenholzer said the zone has “had a big impact on their team.”
One difference on Saturday, though, was it was Whiteside, not Bam Adebayo, anchoring that zone late.
“I love playing the zone,” Whiteside said, adding that he hadn’t played it since high school and wishes that Syracuse would have offered him a scholarship so he could have played it there.
“It’s so easy for me to play a zone,” he said. “All that length [that opponents must deal with]. I’ve got a 7-9 wingspan. Our length takes up the whole court.”
Whiteside, incidentally, noted that “we’re on a four-game win streak since I came back” from the birth of his child.
The disparity between the Heat defense during the first quarter of the season – and since then – is pretty striking.
Miami allowed 110.5 points per game and 44.7 percent shooting during its 7-13 start.
But in the 10 games since – Saturday was the 11th – Miami has permitted 101.3 points per game while opponents shot 42.9 percent.
▪ The Heat remains offensively challenged at times but has been able to win on its worst shooting nights more than other teams.
While the rest of the league entered the weekend 10-110 when shooting under 40 percent, the Heat are 5-4 in those games after shooting 38.2 percent in Saturday’s win.
“They are long; they get you out of your comfort zone,” coach Erik Spoelstra said. “They got us deep into the clock a few possessions. One of these nights, we will probably break out and shoot 60 percent. I think our offense will improve.”
On Saturday, Miami closed at 31.2 on three-pointers (10 for 32)and 69.6 percent on free throws (16 for 23). Miami entered last in the league in shooting percentage at 43.1, 29th in free throw percentage at 69.8 and 24th in points at 106.6.
Nevertheless, the Heat’s best three-point shooter – Wayne Ellington – remains an afterthought this season. He was a DNP-CD (did not play/coach’s decision) for the sixth time on Saturday and has played just 10 minutes combined over Miami’s past three games.
But it’s difficult to question that decision with the Heat in the midst of its best stretch of the season.
▪ The Heat’s bench continues to outplay opponents’ reserves.
Miami’s quintet of Dwyane Wade (13 points), Kelly Olynyk (11), Tyler Johnson ( 7), Bam Adebayo (four) and Derrick Jones Jr. (five ) outscored the Bucks’ reserves (D.J. Wilson, Sterling Brown, George Hill, Thon Maker and pat Connaughton) by a margin of 40 to 25.
Entering Saturday, the Heat’s bench had outscored their opponents’ reserves by 19.2 points per game (51.1 to 31.9) over the past 12 games. Miami’s bench is second in rebounds and seventh in points this season.
Wade shook off a scoreless first half on 0 for 3 shooting to score 13 in the second half, including critical two critical jumpers in the final two minutes to highlight a seven-point fourth quarter.
▪ James Johnson’s revival continues and for the first time all season, he played late in a close game.
The Heat is so much better when Johnson is at his best, and these past two games are the best he has looked since returning Nov. 18 from May sports hernia surgery.
On Saturday, he was splendid defensively while adding 11 points, six rebounds and four assists and two steals, including a nifty fourth-quarter pass to Whiteside for a dunk.
And he had the biggest block of the game, on Khris Middleton, with 38 seconds left.
“He’s moving so much better, in so much better rhythm,” Spoelstra said. “Where you notice the most is laterally, someone his size who can move and slide like a guard and still have the strength. He’s starting to get his jumping back. Guys that have been out a long time; game minutes are different than all the stuff you do behind the scenes.”
Asked if he’s finally starting to feel like himself, Johnson said: “My legs feel way better. I can move more fluidly. Justise [Winslow] lets me handle the ball to get more rhythm.”
Whiteside also played the closing minutes for the second game in a row and scored five consecutive points during one stretch, closing with 11 points (5 for 17 shooting) but 13 rebounds.
▪ Miami is back in a familiar spot – holding a playoff seed.
That doesn’t mean a ton in December, but as Spoelstra said, “clearly it’s something we want.”
By climbing to within one game of .500 at 15-16, the Heat will enter Sunday’s game at Orlando in eighth, a full game ahead of the 14-17 Magic.
Miami stands one half game behind No. 7 Detroit (15-15) and one game behind No. 6 Charlotte (16-15) and three behind No. 5 Boston (18-13).
These four wins in a row follow an 111-84 drubbing at Utah.
That loss was “maybe the kick in the butt we needed,” Richardson said. “Sometimes it takes to get to rock bottom to figure it out.”
Getting back to .500 would be a “great accomplishment,” James Johnson said. “We definitely want to make a playoff push and be on top of the Eastern Conference. There’s a lot of work ahead but we’ve got the guys to do it.”
Barry Jackson has written for the Miami Herald since 1986 and has written the Florida Sports Buzz column since 2002.
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Should Michigan create toll roads to pay for pothole damage?
March 8, 2014 by Steven M. Gursten
As our roads become ever more pocked with deep potholes, many drivers are wondering what to do as they bump along.
Road crews have been working overtime to repair the giant potholes that are appearing everywhere. As immense piles of snow from the most miserable winter I can remember melt and then freeze again and again, there are more and bigger potholes causing all sorts of havoc. This includes everything from flat tires to major car damage to serious automobile accidents as people dodge the potholes and steer into into oncoming traffic.
And now there’s pending legislation that would allow Michigan to spend $100 million more this year, in part to repair the influx of potholes due to the extreme winter season.
State and government officials are warning of a pothole emergency.
But the additional $100 million – which would be added to the $230 million portion of the state transportation budget for the roads – is good and bad news for road agencies, according to a recent story on Detroit CBS Local, “Michigan Panel Plans $100M For Plowing, Potholes.”
Under the legislation, Michigan road agencies would receive emergency help. Keep in mind, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Flint have all had record-breaking winters this year, according to the National Weather Service. But the aid would come from funding that would have otherwise been allocated to longer-term road projects instead of to pothole maintenance, says CBS News.
And everyone has an opinion.
How do you want to deal with fixing the potholes?
How does this get paid? Should tax payers be responsible via the state budget? Or should the state go as far as to consider making toll roads to help pay for the extensive pot hole damage?
Let us know by making a comment below, or on our Michigan Auto Law Facebook page.
Where the heck do potholes come from, anyways?
According to MDOT, there’s a good explanation:
Potholes occur when snow and ice melt as part of Michigan’s seasonal freeze-thaw cycles. The resulting water then seeps beneath the pavement through cracks caused by the wear and tear of traffic.
As the temperatures cool to freezing at night, the water becomes ice and expands below the pavement, forcing the pavement to rise. As the weight of traffic continues to pound on this raised section – and the temperatures once again rise above freezing – a shallow divot occurs under the surface and the pavement breaks, forming a pothole. A pothole is typically fixed by cleaning out the loose debris and filling it with hot and cold asphalt patch.
You can report a pothole to the state by calling (888) 296-4546. FYI, most state roads begin with M, I or US designations (e.g., I-75, M-28, US-23, etc.).
Pothole safety tips
While we’re discussing the major annoyance, and in some cases serious threat from potholes, our attorneys wanted to share some tips on how to avoid car accidents caused by potholes.
Next to an actual car-on-car accident, the sound of your vehicle making a hard hit on a pothole is one of the most unforgettable, off-putting noises you will ever hear. You also have to think about your car’s tires, chassis, suspension and rims — all of which can be compromised after a serious encounter with a pothole.
The good news is, you can follow these simple safety tips to avoid an accident caused by a pothole:
Do not veer into another lane of oncoming traffic to avoid a pothole. Very similar to the danger posed by deer (don’t veer for deer), you have to consider it is a lot worse to drive head-on into an oncoming semi truck or car going the speed limit, than it is to hit that pothole.
Beware of puddles. There can be massive potholes looming under puddles, sometimes even large enough to do severe damage to your vehicle.
Grip your steering wheel tightly. Firmly hold your steering wheel at 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock, for optimal control of the vehicle, as a pothole can send enough of a shock through your steering system to propel your car into the next lane.
Don’t brake: It might sound counter-intuitive, but hitting your brakes just before a pothole is dangerous. Instead, slow down as much as possible if contact is inevitable and let off the brakes the moment before you hit the pothole, allowing the car to absorb the blow.
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Should you miss the opportunity to register for this event, please remember that ACM members will have free access to the webinar recording from 10:00am AEDT on the 20th of April 2018. If you are not an ACM member and would like to find out more about this amazing member benefit, please visit https://www.midwives.org.au/free-access-acm-webinars.
We are thrilled to announce the online webinar 'Diagnosing and Managing Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Pregnancy', presented by Dr Elle Knight.
Dr Elle Knight graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 2010. Since then, she has become a familiar face at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and more recently at the Women's and Children's Hospital in South Australia, where she currently works as an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar.
Elle's passion for education and clinical improvement projects lead to her becoming involved in a joint venture with the Australian Red Cross, which aimed to reduce red blood cell transfusion at delivery by managing anaemia during pregnancy.
Join Elle and our Education Unit as they refresher your understanding of anaemia, including normal physiology, signs and symptoms, and the most common cause for pregnancy iron deficiency anaemia. We'll also explore the following:
ordering routine blood tests for anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy,
interpreting routine blood tests for anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy,
how to manage iron deficiency and anaemia in pregnancy, and
appropriate iron prescribing, including oral iron preperations and when to organise an IV iron infusion.
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Bring Friends or Go SOLO, This is One Star Wars Story You Don’t Want to Miss
I’ll admit. I honestly was a little skeptical when I saw the first trailer for SOLO: A Star Wars Story.
I already had my reservations, as I’m not a big fan of prequels simply for the fact that they remove the threat of uncertain death from the film. I mean, we know Han Solo ends up meeting Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi at the Cantina Bar on Tatooine in Star Wars: A New Hope. So short of being cloned, there’s no way Han was going to bite it in SOLO.
That said… I am ecstatic at how wrong I was. (Not the cloning or death part, but the movie itself.) SOLO is nothing like what the trailers set me up for and yet it is everything that I absolutely love about Star Wars. This movie is jam-packed with action, humor, new characters, introductions, mysteries resolved and new ones dropped in our lap.
Read on for my spoiler-free review of SOLO!
Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo and Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca in SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY.
SOLO: A Star Wars Story Spoiler-Free Review
Above all else, SOLO is 100% pure fun. And that, to me, is what is so unbelievably amazing about the Star Wars Universe. The Original Trilogy had all sorts of danger but it also completely embraced entertainment. Getting stuck in a garbage compactor! Becoming popsicles on the ice world of Hoth. Chilling with the adorably dangerous Ewoks. No matter the movie, these were characters that you wanted to just hang out and binge watch Netflix with on a Saturday night.
SOLO fits in seamlessly to the entire Star Wars Universe, filling in a number of gaps in Han Solo’s past including how he came to own the Millennium Falcon and even how he first met Chewbacca the Wookiee. I won’t give any spoilers at all except to say that just about everything that is explained not only fits in with continuity, but it makes a ton of sense. The Han and Chewie meet-up is probably one of my favorite parts of the film.
As for Alden Ehrenreich as the young Han, what can I say about him except he nailed it. He’s probably 50% Harrison Ford and 50% his own man, which is 100% perfect. He’s young, a bit cocky and a bit of a scoundrel. A scoundrel with a heart of gold, that is. By the end of the film, I seriously believed I was watching a younger version of Harrison Ford, as I could easily see how Ehrenreich’s Solo grows up to to be the smuggler centerpiece in Jabba the Hutt’s palace.
Even Harrison Ford himself agrees. During the SOLO press junket, Ford completely surprised Ehrenreich by sneaking up behind him to crash his Entertainment Tonight interview. The two hadn’t talked since before filming had begun. Take a look:
The chemistry between Ehrenreich and Emilia Clarke is also quite natural. Clarke (who plays Daenerys Targaryn on Game of Thrones) plays Han’s love interest Qi’ra, not an easy feat considering every fan knows that Princess Leia is his true love, right? The two have apparently grown up together and are quite the thieving couple on the planet of Corellia.
Peter Bettany (Vision from Avengers: Infinity War) trades in his yellow cape for a black one as he plays one nasty villain Dryden Vos. A big fan of intimidation and torture, Dryden is easily born from the Empire but has a real maniacal bent to his character, one that we haven’t really seen in the Star Wars Universe to date. Even Woody Harrelson’s Tobias Beckett comes across as a lovable grump. He’s a thief who quickly becomes a mentor for Solo as they plan some pretty big heists.
Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo, Donald Glover is Lando Calrissian and Phoebe Waller-Bridge is L3-37 in SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY.
Donald Glover as a young Lando Calrissian had me cracking up big time. As cocky as Billy Dee Williams was as Lando in the Original Trilogy, Glover goes a few steps further. And that’s completely believable, since most people are cockier in their younger days. His relationship with the rebellious droid L3-37 (played by the hilariously awesome Phoebe Waller-Bridge) is the best on-screen “romance” I’ve seen since the Titanic days.
Chewbacca, of course, is as incredible as always. He’s even funnier than usual and much more physical. Yes, that Wookiee can move!
Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca, Woody Harrelson is Beckett and Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo in SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY.
As for the other star of the film? Yeah, the Millennium Falcon herself. Not so much a beat-up piece of junk, but a shiny, intact ship that’s stocked with a classy bar and a cape room. It’s amazing to see what it looked like in its prime, while still hinting at the future yet to come.
SOLO really does a wonderful job of weaving a new story into an existing one, dropping small nods to fanboys and fangirls throughout, while also setting up a whole new story unto itself. If they want, they could keep making a slew of SOLO adventures and I’d keep watching. George Lucas may not have been involved in this one, but Director Ron Howard sure did him proud.
Whether you go with your friends and family or hit the movies on your own, this is definitely a movie worth seeing SOLO.
SOLO: A Star Wars Story in theaters May 25
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I think we were both skeptics but elated that it turned out amazing. Glad I was able to experience this movie with you friend.
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Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like
Social media controversy is what democracy looks like.
In India…Facebook (+1.21%) has axed hundreds of pages and accounts it said were working in cahoots to spread misinformation and spam ahead of elections starting April 11.
The fake accounts included some traced to the PR unit of the Pakistani military, with others tethered to the opposition Indian National Congress party.
India is one of FB’s largest markets with more than 200 million users. But so-called “fake news” has spread like wildfire there, especially on FB’s WhatsApp platform.
And in Israel…A watchdog group found an extensive network of mostly fake social media accounts smearing opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who’s running in a tight election one week from now.
But when actual *people* stepped forward to claim ownership of some of the accounts mentioned in the report, Netanyahu mocked the conclusions.
+ Bonus story: Getting ahead (maybe) of election season “fake news,” Singapore is close to passing a law that could force websites including Facebook and Twitter to issue corrections side-by-side with content officials consider false.
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Posted on June 24, 2015 by morrowcountysentinel
Locos hold off Graders, 5-4
Local Sports, Sports, Top Stories
Galion Graders pitcher Nick Muse stares down a baserunner during a 5-4 loss to the Lima Locos on Tuesday at James D. Heddleson Field at Heise Park. Muse pitched three shutout innings. Galion coach Ray Neill said Muse will be the Graders starter on Friday against the Lake Erie Monarchs.
Galion’s Jake Krupar takes a lead off third base during the eighth inning of the Graders 5-4 loss to Lima on Tuesday at James D. Heddleson Field at Heise Park. The Graders were unable to score in the eighth and left two runners on base.
Alexander Malinsky of Galion squares to bunt during the Graders 5-4 loss to the Lima Locos on Tuesday at James D. Heddleson Field at Heise Park.
GALION — Chalk up another hard luck loss for the Galion Graders in the wake of a 5-4 defeat at the hands of the Lima Locos Tuesday evening at James D. Heddleson Field at Heise Park.
Despite pounding out 12 hits, Galion (4-8) was its own worst enemy, committing five errors and leaving 10 runners on base. The Graders left two runners stranded in scoring position in the third, seventh and eighth innings.
“Early on, we didn’t help (starting pitcher) Matt Sullivan a whole lot defensively,” said Graders head coach Ray Neill. “(Lima) just bled him to death in the three and the five hole. I told him, ‘We didn’t help you defensively, but they didn’t square you up, but they found those two holes and put up those crooked numbers.’”
Sullivan (0-1) was saddled with the loss after giving up five runs on seven hits in four innings. Only one Lima run was earned. Galion committed three errors behind Sullivan in the first and second innings, contributing to the team’s collective woes. He shut out the Locos in the third and fourth innings before leaving the game. Sullivan recorded three strikeouts and one walk.
A single and an error allowed Lima’s first two batters to reach base and Brett Murray slapped a double to left field that drove in both runners to give the Locos a 2-0 lead. Murray collected his third RBI of the game in the second inning as Lima extended its lead to 5-0. Luke Reynolds added a RBI double and Will Kilgore had a sacrifice fly for the Locos.
After the rough start for Sullivan, the Graders bullpen held Lima in check for the rest of the game. Nick Muse was dominant during his three-inning stint. He struck out four batters and walked one while holding the Locos without a hit. Josh Peterson and Ben Hamilton each pitched one shutout inning.
In his last five innings pitched, Muse has not allowed a hit or a run and has recorded seven strikeouts and just three walks. In five appearances this season, Muse has a 5.40 ERA. His good work over the past week hasn’t gone unnoticed.
“Muse is starting Friday,” said Neill. “He’s sneaky fast and he’s been competing out there for us. He earned that today.”
As the bullpen did its work, Galion chipped away at the Lima lead. J.T. Core’s single in the third drove in Nick Riotto to cut the deficit to 5-1. Tyler Ocker’s ground-out to shortstop in the fourth allowed Jake Krupar to score and cut the gap to 5-2.
Riotto and Core combined once again in the seventh to put a run on the board. Riotto slapped a double to left field and scored when Core laced a two-out double to left field that trimmed the Lima lead to 5-3.
In the ninth, Riotto led off with another double, this time to the gap in left center field. Mark Delas punched a single through the right side of the infield that drove in Riotto and pulled the Graders to within one run, 5-4. Unfortunately for the home side, Krupar hit into a double play to end the game.
“Our bullpen did a great job for us,” Neill said. “We nickeled ourselves back into the game, but we couldn’t get the quarter. We just couldn’t get the big hit. I think in every inning we scored one (run), we had a chance to get something after that and we just weren’t able to get that hit.”
Murray led the Lima attack, going 2-for-4 with three RBI. The Locos (8-5) finished with seven hits.
Tyler Miller (1-0) picked up the win for Lima. He worked three innings and gave up two runs on four hits. Miller recorded four walks and three strikeouts.
Seth Kinker pitched two innings to earn the save. His stat line read one run on four hits with one strikeout.
Riotto continued to have the hot hand for Galion, going 4-for-4 with a pair of doubles and scoring three runs. He also drew a walk. Riotto is now batting .533.
Core went 3-for-5 and drove in two runs. Delas and Ocker each had a RBI.
The two teams will meet again Wednesday at Simmons Field in Lima. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m.
Will Ore (2-1, 2.45 ERA) is scheduled to pitch for the Graders. Lima will send Travis Edgar (0-0, 5.78 ERA) to the mound.
Galion travels to Flat Rock, Mich., on Thursday to face the Lake Erie Monarchs. Lake Erie visits Galion on Friday.
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Obama’s Record
There’s a land office business these days explaining why Barack Obama sucks. Aaron David Miller takes to the pages of the LA Times today and, after a long bit of throat clearing about the greatness of Washington, Lincoln, and FDR, he proposes this explanation for Obama’s lack thereof:
First, he was convinced that the country was so badly served by his Republican predecessor that most Americans understood the need for sweeping change and were prepared to support it. Second, he misread his crisis: the recession….Finally, unlike some of his predecessors who grounded change in values that many Americans found familiar and functional, Obama hasn’t found a unifying message situated in an American experience that is universally shared.
….Obama may have had no choice but to introduce a large stimulus bill to stop the economic bleeding, but healthcare reform (and the way it was done) represented an overreach and stressed a political system that was already dysfunctional. It also convinced many, however unfairly, that he was a man of the left and a big-spending liberal to boot.
….Americans aren’t so much looking for great presidents, big ideas or historic transformations. They want satisfaction on mundane matters such as prosperity, keeping Americans safe from terrorist attacks and an end to the roller-coaster ride of partisanship, name-calling and celebrity politics that is Washington today.
Is this such a sophisticated argument that I don’t get it? Or just plain dumb? In order to attain greatness, Obama needed to understand that the country wasn’t in the mood for greatness and just wanted him to focus on mundane matters? WTF?
Look: Obama passed a huge stimulus package, a historic healthcare bill, a pretty serviceable financial reform bill, has withdrawn 100,000 troops from Iraq, negotiated the New START treaty with Russia, made some decent progress on education reform and Pentagon procurement, and appears to be on track to repeal DADT. A terrible economy has hurt his fortunes, but let’s face facts: Republicans and centrist Democrats wouldn’t have allowed him to do anything more about this even if he’d wanted to. And in any case, as plenty of people have pointed out, Obama’s popularity is actually nearly identical to that of most other modern presidents at this point in their presidencies:
I don’t really understand where this general strain of writing comes from. Obviously Obama came into office with high expectations, but were there really a lot of people who expected him to be the second coming of FDR? If there were, I sure wasn’t reading them. The plain, boring fact is that Obama, like all presidents, is constrained by circumstances and by Congress, and he just hasn’t had the Congress to do much more than he’s done. FDR and LBJ won landslide victories and enjoyed enormous congressional majorities. By contrast, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton won solid victories and had sizeable congressional majorities (though only in the Senate for Reagan). That’s who Obama should be compared to, and on that score he shapes up pretty well: clearly better than Carter and Clinton and quite possibly the equal of Reagan. (We’ll know for sure in another six years.)
There are plenty of things I wish Obama had done differently. I wish he’d pushed harder for transformative financial reform. I wish he hadn’t escalated the war in Afghanistan. I wish he hadn’t reappointed Ben Bernanke. I wish his record on civil liberties were better. I wish he’d use his undeniable rhetorical gifts to really sell a liberal vision to the American public, the way Reagan sold a conservative one.1 But this is real life, and no president does everything his supporters want him to do. By any measure aside from having your face sculpted on Mount Rushmore, Obama’s had a pretty good run so far. It’s crazy to pretend otherwise.
1I wish he’d pushed harder for a climate change bill too, but honestly, I don’t blame him much for this. Congressional support just flatly wasn’t there for anything even remotely ambitious, and there’s not much point in banging your head against a brick wall. For now, I’ll judge him by what the EPA ends up doing.
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Home / News / '97 Toyota Camry - Trends
'97 Toyota Camry - Trends
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Toyota Camry Sedan News
by writer: Phillip Bingham writers: Michael Cotton photographers: Duane Kuchar June 02, 1995
New Look For '97 CamryToyota's popular Camry lineup likely will get a reskin for the '97 model year. While its overall proportions will remain the same, a revised greenhouse and C-pillar plus a raised rear deck should give the car a bolder look. Up front, the next-generation Camry will sport a trimmed-down grille opening flanked by new headlamps. A restyled, lower-valance panel also contributes to a slightly more aggressive appearance. New taillamps and a cleaned-up rear fascia complete the cosmetic changes. Although a number of minor mechanical tweaks are in the works, the midsize Toyota is expected to retain a fair amount of its existing powertrain and suspension hardware.
First Drive'9511/42 Honda PassportLast year, when Honda signed on with Isuzu to sell a rebadged Rodeo as its Passport sport/utility entry, part of the attraction was the upgrades planned for mid-'95. They're now reality. The first new version to arrive at our offices was a '9511/42 Honda Passport, sporting some well-received ergonomic and design changes.
A new front bumper and air dam (and 16-inch wheels, 245/70R16 tires, and wheelwell moldings on high-end EX models,) are the only external cues to be found on the 9511/42 variants. Inside is an all-redesigned, more user-friendly dash, highlighted by dual airbags; this makes it only the fifth SUV to make the jump to dual bags. In addition to a more contemporary look and an array of large, nicely contoured buttons, other interior improvements include repositioned audio switchgear for better access, stalk-mounted headlight and wiper controls, power door-lock buttons, ceiling-mounted rear speakers, and a single cupholder (in LX and EX models). Naturally, all of the Passport's changes also appear in the new Rodeo, since both are built on the same assembly line at the Subaru-Isuzu Automotive plant in Lafayette, Indiana.
Both models retain their current powertrain selection, which includes Isuzu's smooth and spirited 3.2-liter/175-horsepower 24-valve SOHC V-6. While the vehicles already offered ample rear legroom, easy entry, and plenty of cargo space, these mid-season modifications have added even more consumer appeal to already very popular packages.
In 1994, Honda sold 25,758 Passports, well over its original 20,000-unit projection. This year, the company expects to hit the 30,000 mark. The Rodeo, meanwhile, ranked as the third best-selling import SUV of 1994, with 59,721 sales.-Rik Paul
Compact Crossover Sales: Toyota RAV4 Outsells CR-V in March
Midsize Sedan Sales: Toyota Camry Leads in a Declining Segment
The 2019 Toyota RAV4 is Almost as Big as the Original Highlander
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Police quiz Tory MP over claim he got a dog drunk and brawled with friend
Mark Menzies is alleged to have angered a friend by feeding alcohol to his pet but he claims he was the victim of an unprovoked assault and is the victim of a smear campaign
Russell Myers
The MP for Fylde in Lancashire has strenuously denied the allegations (Image: Getty)
Shamed Tory MP Mark Menzies was quizzed by police over claims he locked himself in a friend’s house and got a dog drunk.
After a boozy afternoon, the politician is alleged to have enraged his pal by giving the pet alcohol.
The pair are then said to have become embroiled in a drunken brawl which spilled out on to the street.
Both claim they had been attacked by the other.
The homeowner allegedly ran to a neighbour’s property to call the police.
Officers took statements from the dog owner and the neighbour, who also allegedly reported her car had been damaged with a deep key mark down one side.
The MP for Fylde in Lancashire has strenuously denied the allegations, claiming he was the victim of an unprovoked assault.
A dog which reportedly was given alcohol by the MP (Image: i-Images)
He said: “These allegations are false and I believe are malicious. The police investigated the claims and dismissed them.
“I co-operated with the police investigation and officers were handed more than enough evidence to completely clear me of any wrongdoing whatsoever.”
He also claimed the police had dropped any further action after he presented them with picture evidence of his former friend getting the dog drunk on a variety of alcoholic cocktails.
A spokesman for Thames Valley police said: “Thames Valley police officers responded to a report of an incident in Langford, Oxfordshire, on 6 August 2015.
“It was reported there had been a verbal argument followed by an assault of a man aged in his 40s inside a property.”
He said there had been no arrests but a 45-year-old man was voluntarily interviewed.
He added: “Following a thorough investigation, the case was filed pending further information coming to light.”
The dog owner disputed Mr Menzies’ version of events. Documents seen by the Mirror show a bill for nearly £500 from an emergency vet with a diagnosis of “intoxication” and “poisoning”.
In 2014 Menzies resigned as parliamentary private secretary to International Development Minister Alan Duncan over claims in the Sunday Mirror he paid a teenage boy for sex .
A source close to Mr Menzies – running again for the Fylde seat on June 8 – last night said he was a victim of a “smear campaign”.
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Cespedes joins Griffey as repeat Derby champ
Frazier falls in final after upset of Stanton in semifinal round
By Anthony Castrovince MLB.com @castrovince
MINNEAPOLIS -- This night -- the night of the 2014 Gillette Home Run Derby -- could have belonged to Giancarlo Stanton, who darn near hit one all the way out of Target Field in a first-round display that left many mouths agape.
It could have belonged to Jose Bautista, whose 10 first-round homers set an early standard. Or to Todd Frazier, who took a circuitous path to the finals that was very much indebted to a new bracket format. Or to Justin Morneau, whose Minnesota homecoming was met with a thunderous standing ovation.
Heck, it could even have belonged to the elements, as rain delayed the start of the All-Star Week event by about an hour and returned with a final flourish near night's end.
But if one thing is becoming increasingly clear in this exhibition -- an event that raised $465,000 for worthy charities -- it's this:
Yoenis Cespedes owns the Derby.
Cespedes owned it Monday night just as he owned it a year ago at Citi Field, and in so doing, he joined Ken Griffey Jr. (1998-99) as the only Derby participants to successfully defend their crowns. Cespedes' pure power was once again a sight to behold. His effortlessly majestic, arching blows routinely reached the second and third decks as he amassed nine home runs in the final round to easily dispatch Frazier, the National League's finals representative, who hit just one.
"I'm somebody who's very conscious of the power that I have," Cespedes said. "So I don't need to put more of a swing or more of an effort in order to hit a home run. I just have to look for a good pitch and put a good swing on it, and it usually takes care of it."
Indeed, Sean Doolittle, Cespedes' A's teammate, probably summed it up best: "A regular Monday batting practice for Cespy."
Of course, it didn't start out that way. Once the rain cleared and the batting-practice pitches started coming, Bautista and Stanton were the ones who dominated the Derby early on.
Bautista has always done his part to destroy Target Field's reputation as a pitcher's park, having hit 11 regular-season homers in just 59 at-bats here. So it probably should not have come as a surprise that the American League captain came out swinging in a big way. His 10 homers traveled an average estimated distance of 389 feet and earned him a second-round bye.
And Stanton (briefly) did what actually seemed impossible: He lived up to the enormous hype that preceded his first Derby performance.
Stanton's third homer was the first of the night to reach the third deck. His fourth was a 430-foot shot to the second deck in dead center (even Stanton was smiling at that one). His fifth was a line-drive bullet to dead center, 413 feet from home plate. And Stanton capped it all off with a final-out FlexBall homer that had a projected (not actual) distance of 510 feet.
That one looked like it probably could have cleared the rainbow that had briefly formed above Target Field after the rain deluge.
"That was the charity ball, too," said Stanton, referring to Gillette's fundraising initiative tied to homers hit using the orange balls. "You never know how those are going to fly. It's tough to pick those up as well, so that's definitely cool."
When it was over, Stanton stood in the box, faced his fellow All-Stars and held his arms out to his side as if to say, "How was that?"
It was good.
It was not, however, a preview of things to come.
The preview, it turned out, came in the swing-offs that ended the first round. Troy Tulowitzki and Adam Jones had joined Stanton and Bautista in advancing, but Cespedes and teammate Josh Donaldson were tied for third place in the AL with three apiece, while Frazier was tied with Morneau for third in the NL with two apiece. A three-swing tiebreaker followed, with Cespedes and Frazier advancing and, as it turned out, paving their way to the finals.
Interestingly, Frazier hit just 10 home runs total between the first round, the swing-off, the second round and the semifinals. But what he lacked in total tally, he more than made up for in timeliness. Frazier edged Tulo, 6-2, in the second round. And the semifinals round brought the night's biggest surprise: Frazier surviving against Stanton despite hitting just one home run.
"I can't believe I goose-egged my second round," Stanton said with a smile.
Cespedes, meanwhile, was traveling a distinctly upward path. He found his groove in the second round to make short work of Jones, 9-3. And Cespedes' seven-homer total in the semifinals was enough to beat Bautista, who finished with four after a long layoff.
"I thought I would put a little pressure on him by making him hit first," Bautista said, "but apparently that was the wrong decision. If I had to do it again, I'll hit first."
Frazier might have made the same mistake, letting Cespedes bat first in the finals. Cespedes didn't miss a beat, cranking out nine homers with an average distance of 409 feet, including one that traveled 452 feet -- the longest recorded distance of the night.
"He's tough to beat once he gets rolling," Donaldson said. "I feel like he could've sat down for an hour and still keep popping them out, just because he loves this stuff."
Frazier, frankly, didn't stand a chance.
"To be the National League guy for Cincinnati, at least I bring that back home," Frazier said. "I'm defending National League champ. I can put that on my résumé."
Cespedes' résumé already included some victories in various home run hitting competitions in his native Cuba, and now he's gone back to back here. This Derby raised $50,000 for the charity of his choice, at least $95,000 for the Minneapolis Boys & Girls Club programs and Major League Baseball's Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program, $20,000 to the charities of Cespedes' Derby teammates, $25,000 each to the two captain's charities of choice and $8,000 to the charities of the choice of the NL participants.
But it also further puffed up the profile of a guy whose swing is tailor-made for the Derby.
"I'm very happy and proud," Cespedes said. "I wish there was another word that would describe it even better than that to win this competition in consecutive years."
2014 Home Run Derby results
Rd. 1
Brian Dozier 2 1 6 2 Todd Frazier
Jose Bautista 10 Bye 4 Cespedes 9 2 4 Troy Tulowitzki
Adam Jones 4 3 Frazier 1 0 Yasiel Puig
Josh Donaldson 3 0 Bye 6 Giancarlo Stanton
Yoenis Cespedes 3 9 7 2 Justin Morneau
Round 1 tiebreakers: Cespedes 2, Donaldson 1; Frazier 1, Morneau 0
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.
Read more: Oakland Athletics, Jose Bautista, Yoenis Cespedes, Todd Frazier, Giancarlo Stanton
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