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The Virginia baseball team blanked Appalachian State, 8-0, Saturday in the Caravelle Resort Tournament at TicketReturn.com Field.
The Virginia baseball team starts its 2016 season this weekend as it competes in the Caravelle Resort Tournament in Myrtle Beach.
Lynchburg plated just one run on a solo homer by Joe Sever, but Myrtle Beach pitching held the Hillcats’ offense in check as the Pelicans took a 4-1 victory on Saturday night at TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark.
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans scored five times in the fourth inning and cruised to a 9-3 victory over the Salem Red Sox Thursday night at LewisGale Field, taking the rubber game and winning the series 2-1.
Billy McKinney’s solo home run leading off the last of the tenth inning gave the Myrtle Beach Pelicans a 2-1 walk-off win over the Salem Red Sox on Thursday night at TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark.
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans scored all five of their runs in the last of the fourth inning and made it stand up in a 5-2 win over the Salem Red Sox on Tuesday night at TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark.
Jake Dahlstrand was dominant on Wednesday afternoon, spinning seven innings of three-hit baseball as the Salem Red Sox snapped a three-game losing streak and beat the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 4-1 at LewisGale Field.
The Salem Red Sox bullpen surrendered five runs on Tuesday night at LewisGale Field and for the second straight night the Red Sox were defeated by the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, 7-4.
The Salem Red Sox dropped a marathon contest with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans on Monday night, 7-4 in 11 innings. The game featured two separate rain delays totaling 93 minutes.
The UVA baseball team improved to 9-0 on the season with a 4-1 win over Seton Hall Saturday afternoon at The Ripken Experience’s Griffith Field in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
UVA baseball will move its upcoming weekend round-robin tournament with Seton Hall and Hartford from UVa’s Davenport Field to Myrtle Beach, S.C., because of field conditions from recent inclement weather in Charlottesville.
The Potomac Nationals (5-1, 4-0) captured their fifth championship in franchise history with a 5-1 victory over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (3-4, 0-2) on Wednesday night.
DH John Wooten pelted two home runs including the go-ahead two-run shot in the fourth inning as the Potomac Nationals (4-1, 3-0) defeated the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (3-3, 0-1) 12-7 to take a 2-1 series lead in the Mills Cup Championship.
DH John Wooten propelled a three run home run in the top of the sixth inning to left field to give the Potomac Nationals (3-1, 1-1) a 3-0 win over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (3-2, 3-2) in Game Two of the Mills Cup Championship Series.
The Potomac Nationals (2-1, 0-1) could not muster up any offense despite a solid pitching performance from RHP Ian Dickson (L, 0-1) and the P-Nats’ relievers in their Game One 2-0 loss to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (3-1, 3-1).
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans shut out the Salem Red Sox in the deciding game of the Southern Division championship series 5-0, to advance to the Mills Cup Championship against Potomac.
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans used a three run third inning to pick up a 4-1 victory over the Salem Red Sox in game two of the Southern Division Championship series Thursday night. The series will be decided in game three tomorrow night in Myrtle.
Salem catcher Jake Romanski’s controversial two-run blast in the top of the 10th inning gave the Salem Red Sox a 3-1 victory over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in the first game of the Southern Division Championship Series.
Kevin Ahrens hit his league-leading 41st double of the year, and Jose Martinez and Sean Godfrey each notched an RBI Monday, but the Lynchburg HIllcats fell to Myrtle Beach in the regular-season finale at TicketReturn.com Field, 3-2.
The Salem Red Sox coughed up multiple leads and fell to Wilmington 7-6 in 10 innings on Monday afternoon, with Logan Davis’ RBI triple off Kyle Kraus sending the Rocks to the winners’ circle in their season finale.
Lucas Sims pitched six scoreless innings, and David Peterson tossed the final three to preserve a 2-1 victory for Lynchburg at TicketReturn.com Field Sunday night.
Righthander Simon Mercedes delivered seven spectacular innings on the hill and catcher Jake Romanski crushed four doubles with the bat to help the Salem Red Sox surpass Wilmington 4-1 on Sunday afternoon.
With Lynchburg leading 2-1 with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, Ryan Cordell hit a grand slam to left field to catapult Myrtle Beach to a 5-2 victory at TicketReturn.com Field Saturday night.
Two teams involved in separate Wild Card races needed 10 innings to determine a winner, but the Hillcats prevailed in an extra-inning thriller with a 5-4 victory at Carolina Friday night to maintain a one game lead over Frederick in the Northern Division standings.
Johan Camargo hit his first career home run in the United States, but the Lynchburg Hillcats dropped their regular-season home finale against Myrtle Beach, 10-4, at Calvin Falwell Field Monday night.
Johan Camargo’s sacrifice fly in the 11th inning gave the Lynchburg Hillcats their 11th walk-off victory of the season, 6-5 over Myrtle Beach at Calvin Falwell Field Sunday night.
Lynchburg snapped its eight-game losing streak after claiming a rain-shortened victory against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, 2-0 after six innings, in front of 3,975 fans on Fan Appreciation Night at Calvin Falwell Field.
Blake Brown went 2-for-3 with an RBI double, but Lynchburg’s losing streak increased to eight Friday night as the Myrtle Beach Pelicans used two different four-run frames to claim an 8-2 victory over the Hillcats in the series opener at Calvin Falwell Field.
Off the bat, it looked like the teenager had a two-run triple. Salem’s Manuel Margot, the 19-year-old in his third Carolina League game, had other ideas.
Manuel Margot launched a three-run homer that broke a 3-3 tie in bottom of the third, opening the floodgates as the Salem Red Sox pounded Pelicans pitching for a season-high 21 hits in a 17-9 triumph on Saturday night.
The red hot Salem Red Sox needed extras to earn their sixth consecutive victory on Friday night, plating the winning run on a wild pitch to prevail 3-2 over Myrtle Beach in the series opener at LewisGale Field.
After not playing any baseball for about 140 hours, the Salem Red Sox won four games in a 29-hour span over Potomac, bolting past Carolina and Winston-Salem to lead the race for the final playoff spot.
The Potomac Nationals (63-49, 25-18) used two home runs and six RBIs from LF Randolph Oduber as well as six scoreless innings from LHP Matthew Spann (W, 8-5) to rout the Winston-Salem Dash (54-61, 24-22) 10-2 on Wednesday night.
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, beating the Salem Red Sox 7-6 Sunday night on a walk-off wild pitch by Madison Younginer.
Down 3-1 after six innings, the Salem Red Sox scored three in the top of the seventh and went on to a 5-3 victory over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans at TicketReturn.com Field Saturday night.
The Salem Red Sox took a 4-0 lead after five and a half innings and held on the rest of the way for a 4-3 victory over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans at TicketReturn.com Field Friday night.
The Potomac Nationals (58-49, 20-18) and Myrtle Beach Pelicans (66-43, 22-19) took 16 innings to complete their series-ending contest at Pfitzner Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. The
The Potomac Nationals (58-48, 20-17) dropped game two of a three game series against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (65-43, 21-19) by an 8-6 count on Tuesday night.
The Potomac Nationals (58-47, 20-16) had their four game winning streak snapped at the hands of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (64-43, 20-19) with an 11-2 loss on Monday night.
Pat Light surrendered a lone run in a career high seven innings of work, as the Salem Red Sox beat the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 7-1 at LewisGale Field Sunday night.
Royce Bolinger and Jorge Alfaro both hit homer runs as the Myrtle Beach Pelicans beat the Salem Red Sox 4-2 at LewisGale Field Saturday night.
Cody Kukuk looked about as dominant as you can look, tossing six scoreless innings in the Salem Red Sox 6-0 win over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans Friday night.
If a 10 run night Tuesday seemed good, a 12 run night was even better for the Salem Red Sox, who routed the Lynchburg Hillcats 12-3 at City Stadium Wednesday night.
The Lynchburg Hillcats rallied for six runs in the sixth inning in a 6-2 win over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans tonight. Jarett Miller surrendered two early runs but settled down to throw his sixth quality start in seven outings for Lynchburg.
The Lynchburg Hillcats snapped a five-game losing streak with a 7-1 win over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans tonight.
The Lynchburg Hillcats racked up 14 hits tonight, but lost their fifth straight game 8-6 to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. The ‘Cats committed three errors, which led to four unearned runs.
The Lynchburg Hillcats lost a pitchers duel 2-1 to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans tonight. Lucas Sims was the tough-luck losing pitcher allowing two runs, but only one was earned, over 6.2 innings.
The Potomac Nationals (8-8) had their opportunities but could not rally past the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (11-7) who blanked Potomac in a 2-0 victory on Sunday night at Pfitzner Stadium.
The Potomac Nationals (8-7) swept a makeshift doubleheader on Saturday night against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (10-7). The first game, a resumption of the game suspended from June 27th, saw Potomac win 11-6. Game two supplied late drama when SS Stephen Perez slapped an extra-inning single to right field to lift Potomac to a 1-0 victory.
The Potomac Nationals (6-7) dropped the opening game of their series against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (10-5) 4-2 on a sold out Independence Day extravaganza at Pfitzner Stadium. LHP Chad Bell (W, 3-0) allowed just two hits in five innings to earn the win for Myrtle Beach.

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Actress and YouTube star Stevie Ryan has been pronounced dead by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. The office says that Ryan committed suicide by hanging on July 1. Ryan was only 33 years old.
Ryan was most famous for her YouTube series Little Loca, before transitioning to popular celebrity parodies. Reflecting on her rise to popularity, she said in a 2012 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “It just kept going and then I did this Paris Hilton thing and then it literally was just growing and growing. And I just became so obsessed with all of it.” She began using her then boyfriend’s recording equipment to do silent films with only Windows Movie Maker as editing software. Once she began receiving negative feedback, she created a sassy character known as “Little Loca” in 2006. She eventually began developing popular impersonations of Kim Kardashian and other reality television personalities.
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RIP @StevieRyan 💔❤💔The coolest girl I've ever known.
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A 150kg giant squid is to be displayed at Kaikoura's Marine Centre and Aquarium.
The creature was spotted floating near Shark's Tooth point in South Bay yesterday.
Christchurch's Jack Osikai towed it ashore behind his boat.
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Former Cbus chief executive and recently-appointed AMP Capital deputy CEO David Atkin has joined the board of ME Bank.
The position is a new one for the board as a seat was added following the retirement of John Nesbitt.
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ME Bank chair James Evans says that Atkin's experience in the Australian financial services industry will provide value for ME Bank. "He has a demonstrated track record of leading growth and transformation projects that create long-term sustainable value for customers and stakeholder, for some of Australia's largest financial services businesses."
Atkin left his role as chief exec of Cbus in late 2020. He's also currently the chair of SuperFriend and previously held a board position for ASFA, Frontier Advisors, and Principles for Responsible Investment.

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3 Ways Perfectionism is Holding You Back
- Emily Maust Wood Crosswalk.com Contributor
- 2014 31 Jul
As a recovering perfectionist, I keep uncovering new ways that this obsession has held me back. Until recently, I would have admitted to being perfectionistic the way someone might confess to being especially pretty: It’s harmless. It’s kind of cute. It’s just the way I am.
But perfectionism is a lot darker than it seems at first glance and not half as cute as I would like to think. It masquerades as a desire for excellence, but with a few important differences. For starters, a real desire for excellence doesn't stir panic when you miss one point out of a hundred. Excellence acknowledges the beauty in the journey; perfectionism is obsessed with the illusion of an impossible destination.
Perfectionism makes performance the measure, surpassing normal bounds of moral obligation and creating new, extrabiblical rules. Suddenly leaving a carton of milk to spoil on the counter is a moral failing. The empty toilet paper roll is a symbol for all that is wrong with humankind. How do these people sleep at night?
The habits that keep us entrenched in perfectionism take time to overcome, but with intention and awareness, we can learn to live with grace for others – and for ourselves.
Problem 1: We stop giving ourselves grace, stifling our unique growth and dishonoring God’s design.
Solution: Acknowledge that both your strengths and weaknesses are part of you. Instead of competing with the status quo, focus on becoming a better version of yourself.
As a kid in the church, I knew that I was supposed to extend grace to others when they did wrong things, but the idea of having grace for myself seemed outlandish. Am I not supposed to be my biggest critic? Shouldn’t I take the plank out of my own eye before worrying about anyone else’s specks? Who’s going to tell me I’m terrible if not my own inner dialogue?
One problem with focusing so intensely on your own flaws is that you stop seeing past them to your strengths – the ones you worked on and the ones the Lord saw fit to let you be born with. You dishonor not only your own accomplishments but the artistry of your Creator. I would have been so ashamed – and friendless – if I ever had directed one half of one percent of my bullying self-talk to other people.
Often when we demand some version of “perfection” from ourselves, we automatically subscribe to the definitions of perfection set for us by our culture – expectations made with the priorities of the majority, and not our individual gifts and obligations, in mind. These are hard to purge, and they sneak in without our realizing it. We can claim to others – and even convince ourselves – that we only want to be the best version of ourselves, but if the best version of ourselves suddenly equals thin and pretty (for women) or capable and tough (for men), we have to consider the looming possibility that we might be fooling ourselves.
Recruit some tough self-love and ask yourself the hard questions: Will I still feel okay if the best version of me contradicts the standards of my family or culture? Get specific. What if the best version of me writes folk music instead of symphonies, never makes the Dean’s List, never gets promoted, or still gets passed by elderly runners wearing funny costumes in a 5k, no matter how hard I train?
(Not that, ahem, I can relate or anything.)
We’ll all have our own customized versions of this. That’s the point.
Problem 2: Our perfectionistic insecurities hinder our relationships with others.
Solution: Kick the comparison game for good, and cherish the unique ways that your friends are making their own mark on the world.
While a mature, gracious desire for excellence celebrates individual accomplishments, perfectionism whips out a measuring stick. Deciding that no celebration is in order until we beat everyone else, perfectionism places us constantly in the fluctuating position of being either one up or one down.
If the standards you’ve created are based on being better than everyone else, feeling good about everyone else’s successes gets tricky. Their success jeopardizes your status, and if your jealously guarded status means anything to you, you’ve got two options: put your friends down or hustle harder to get better than them again.
Your third and last status-based option is to decide that if you can’t be first place you might as well not play the game. You can stop contributing.
If none of these sounds appealing, you can let real life pry out of your stubborn, little fingers the impossible dream of being the best all the time and just contribute. You can stop checking your progress against anyone else’s, and the only person you can worry about beating is who you were yesterday.
I believe in testimonies, accountability, and healthy competition, but when the comparison game leaves your own value as a person in the balance, it’s time to kick your performance-based worries to the curb and embrace healthy, stable self-esteem. Only when you stop obsessing about your status can you be free to share your real, raw self in safe relationships.
We’re all imperfect. And people already know it. Any investment in some false projection of ourselves only holds us back from letting our real selves be seen and known – and truly loved.
Problem 3: We can’t stand to do anything badly, so we don’t do anything.
Solution: Get over it, even if you don’t feel over it, and just do it.
Land that high dive on your face. It’ll feel awful, but it’ll be good for you.
When it comes to most decisions in my life, I’m like a little kid waffling on the edge of a pool. I stall painfully for time – calculating the depth of the pool, taking the temperature with my toes, reapplying sunscreen for an hour and stopping for a corndog – only to squeeze my eyes shut and take a running, ugly leap into the water, screaming like Tarzan.
It’s quite freeing.
Nothing runs us right into our fear of failure quite like taking a chance we don’t feel ready for. It’s exactly the reason why I’ve spent much of my life keeping risks at the minimum level required for human functioning. I was determined that I wouldn’t learn my lessons the hard way. It’s done a lot of good things: for instance, it’s kept me focused enough to get through school and helped me sort through my doubts before I’ve made serious decisions.
But by not wanting to learn anything the hard way, I learned this the hard way: You can either take a chance on doing things, or you can take a chance on not doing things. There is no other option.
My obsession with doing my best all the time has terrified me and held me back from doing good things – pursuing jobs I won't be good at right away, entering a 10k, writing letters to a friend in grief – and, consequently, made me a less adventurous and helpful person.
When my fear of failure outweighs the real consequences of my not acting, when “I can do better” becomes “I can’t stand to fail,” I know I’m in dangerous territory. Perfectionism is, at its core, a fear of being flawed, of being found out, and when I get there, my creativity is shot and my stress levels are through the roof, whether I’ve confessed that to myself or not.
I know now that the only cure is grace, friends, and something completely embarrassing, like signing myself up for a something I’m terrible at – a class, a sport, a race – or brewing an unwholesomely large pot of coffee and sitting up all night writing something utterly unpublishable.
Find your (safe, moral) risk and take it. Your growth, and your willingness to let your real self be seen, known, and a little embarrassed, will be worth it.
Taking the Plunge
This is a hard thing to say in some Christian circles. Sometimes introducing the idea of having grace for weakness flips the “cheap grace” (a la Bonhoeffer) alarms in our brains, and people cry foul and talk about slippery slopes and the importance of discipline and calling sin sin.
Discipline matters, and so does grace. As my friend put it one day in a coffee shop (where my profoundest thoughts take root), “Eden is in the middle of the road.” I would love never to fail again, but I’m going to – and it’s going to be in about one minute – so what am I going to do when it happens?
I believe that some of our perceived weaknesses are actually sins – failures to live up to God’s expectations – and that some of them are just failures to live up to others’ expectations. With that in mind, I believe that some of what we consider weaknesses are actually strengths; they’re part of the mystery of God’s making all kinds of people and weaving us together as one big beautiful body that transcends time and culture.
In order to reach our potential, individually and together, we need to walk this road better, to treat each other with excellence, to push each other on toward becoming the people we were meant to be – but we need to do it all with grace.
Emily Maust Wood is a freelance editor and fitness coach. She lives with her husband and shelter dog, collects old books and broken things, and worries about where her running shoes come from. Charmed by the idea of restoring an old home, she chronicles the adventure at lacorbeille.wordpress.com.
Publication date: July 31, 2014

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It’s over 20 years since Jacob had run away from home. We’ve been looking at the story of Jacob over the past three or four weeks. Jacob had bought, under very dodgy circumstances, his brother’s birthright. He then went on to steal his brother’s blessing. And what was the result of all of that? Well, very simply, his brother, Esau swore to kill him. And so Jacob had run for his life and had made his way to his uncle Leban and there he had married Rachel and Leah and had a large family, 11 sons and a daughter. Jacob was prospering.
20 years on, God comes to Jacob and says to him, Jacob, it’s time to go home. It’s time to return home. It’s time to go back to Esau. And I don’t know how you would’ve reacted if you would have received that message from the Lord, but I can imagine Jacob would have been filled with some anxiety. Go back to the brother that has vowed to kill you. Jacob obeys though, and he begins the journey back. It’s a journey of about 500 kilometers. And as he’s traveling, news comes to him that Esau is coming to meet him with 400 men.
Is Esau coming to throw a party? Is this a welcoming committee? I think Jacob concludes that Esau is coming out to fulfil his vow to kill him. And in Chapter 32 , 22 to 32, the reading that Tom brought us, this passage describes the night before Jacob meets Esau. Do you remember how you felt the night before your exams? Do you remember how you felt the night before you went to the dentist to have two teeth out? The night before you got married? The night before? We all know what that’s like. And so here is Jacob the night before he faces Esau. And could you just look at the passage with me? I’ve just noticed, how this is described for us. Verse 22. That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his 11 sons and crossed the ford of the Jabuk. And after he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. Verse 24. So Jacob was left alone. Do you picture it? Jacob is left completely alone. All of his possessions, all of his possessions have gone across the river, his wives, his children, everything has gone across the river. He’s on his own. He’s stripped bare.
And it’s pitch black. It’s dark, it’s night.
And out of the darkness Jacob is grabbed. He’s grabbed by two hands. Is it a contract killing? Has Esau contracted somebody to knock him off? Whatever it is, Jacob fights back. And we have as a result of that, this incredible story of Jacob wrestling – initially we’re told with a man – for the whole night. Pitch black so he can’t see, can’t see his face all he’s wrestling with is his physical body. We have this amazing story of Jacob wrestling. It’s mysterious, isn’t it? It’s intriguing. It’s slightly troubling as well. And as we read into the passage a little bit later on, we discovered this is not a contract killing. This is not an assassin. That in fact Jacob is wrestling with God. God has come. And Jacob ends up wrestling with him. Now, that shouldn’t surprise us because in the earlier chapters of Genesis, we already see how God comes in physical form. So Adam and Eve in the garden. God walking with Adam and Eve in the garden. Hagar, Abraham and Sarah. God comes on numerous occasions in the book of Genesis to his people in physical form. And so perhaps Jacob had those stories in his mind and perhaps as this wrestling match goes on, the penny begins to drop. This is no mere man. Perhaps I’m actually wrestling with God. And the story comes to a climax where Jacob is wounded, he’s wounded by God. And the story then shifts. There’s a transition from this is a wrestling match to Jacob refusing to let go. There’s this transition in the story, and we’ll think about that in a moment’s time. Where this transition from Jacob defending himself, resisting God, trying to get caught away from him to this point where Jacob is saying, I’m not letting go. That’s a very important transition in the story.
That’s why I want us to think about two things tonight. I want us to think about reshaping and renaming. Because at the end of this story, Jacob, gets a new name. So reshaping and renaming. And then the second thing I want us to think about this evening, is blessed to be a blessing. Jacob gets blessed, but it’s not just for him. So I want to think about those two things briefly today. Because what God is doing in Jacob’s life, I want to suggest you tonight, God is doing in all of our lives. What God is doing in Jacob’s life in Genesis 32 he’s doing in all of our lives. So here’s the first thought, reshaped and renamed. If you have a look at a verse 24 in the English, we don’t quite, we don’t quite get this in the English. It says, so Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him. In the Hebrew, I’m not a Hebrew scholar, I understand this. Is that what it literally says in the Hebrew is that a man Jacobed with him. A man, Jacobed with Jacob. The name Jacob means to wrestle. It means to grab, it means to grapple with and so a man comes and Jacobs with Jacob. A man comes and wrestles with Jacob. It’s a play on words because at this point in the passage we want to be, we’re being reminded of the fact that, Jacob’s life has been a life of wrestling. It’s been a life of grappling, a life of grasping for things. So Jacob has been someone presented to us who is always trying to get the upper hand. Someone who’s jockying for position. Somebody who is trying to find an advantage. Somebody who wants to steal a march.
That’s how Jacob was presented to us in this story. And what Jacob has been doing to others, Esau and Laban in particular, is now being done to him. A man came and Jacobed with Jacob. Here’s the question and I think this is the question being drawn out by this particular passage. The question is, who has Jacob been wrestling with all his life? Who has Jacob been wrestling with all his life? Jacob was a child who wanted to be someone else. Did that ever happen to you? Did you ever want to be someone else as a kid? He wanted to be Esau in fact. That’s who Jacob wanted to be. He wanted to be his elder brother. Do you remember Jacob was born holding on to Esau’s heel. He, under very dodgy circumstances, bought Esau’s birthright. He stole Esau’s blessing.
And when his blind father asked him the question, who are you? Jacob replied, I am Esau your firstborn. Jacob was a child who wanted to be someone else. Jacob was a child who wanted to be his big brother. Why? Because his big brother was the first born. That’s what Jacob wanted to be. Why? Because Esau was strong. He was mature. He was a hunter and above all else, he was his father’s favourite. Jacob grew up wanting to be Esau. There was a French anthropologist. He’s dead now, called him René Girard, and he developed this idea, which he called the mimetic theory and it goes something like this. In his observations of people, he noticed that people who struggled with a sense of identity, people who were not confident of their own identity, consciously or unconsciously found someone they wanted to be and began to mimic them.
And he talked about the impact that that had upon them, but also the people close to them. People who struggled with a sense of confidence in who they were, often mimic someone else, the person that they wanted to be like. I don’t know whether I’ve asked you already that question. As a child, was there someone that you wanted to be? As an adult have you ever experienced the same temptation? I would just love to be like you. I’d love your life.
I’m not comfortable with myself and I’m not comfortable in my own skin and I would like to be like you. If you are, then can I suggest to you that you’re not on your own? It’s interesting that in our culture, our 21st century culture today, identity plays a massive part. So we, we hear today about people who self identify. We hear about identity politics and that’s why this passage is so prophetic for our day because in this passage what we see, as God wrestles with Jacob, what is happening is that Jacob is actually being shifted away from this life of wanting to be Esau, this identity that was rooted in Esau, that God is shifting Jacob away from that and actually rerouting Jacob’s identity. That Jacob’s identity is no longer I want be my big brother. That Jacob’s identity is actually an identity in God.
Isn’t it fascinating? In verse 27 do you see there, verse 27 do you see the question that Jacob is asked? What’s the question? Anybody see it there? The man asked him, what is your name? And the last time Jacob was asked that question, he said Esau. What does he say now? Jacob. You see the shift and at the end of the passage, Jacob is actually renamed. He’s renamed Israel. He gets a new name. He gets a new identity. I want to suggest to you to this evening that actually this is a significant part of God’s work in all of our lives. Do you know what? Jacob is 62 in this passage. You would think by 62 he knew who he was. But the reality is that even at 62 you can still struggle with your sense of identity
And maybe at 72 and maybe at 82. I suggest to you that actually no matter what age we may find ourselves at what age and stage in life, there are times when we struggle with that question, who are you? And God is answering that for Jacob in our passage. And so we see God asking Jacob who are you? Because that’s the question of your life, Jacob. That’s the question that you’ve been wrestling with all your life. So tell me who you are you? And Jacob says, I am Jacob. I am the grappler. I’m the wrestler, I’m the grasper. I’m the cheat. And God says to Jacob, no, you’re not. You are Israel. God’s giving Jacob a new identity. And there is this transitional moment where, and it’s the moment where’ Jacob is wounded by God. They’re wrestling. God dislocates Jacob’s hip. God wounds Jacob. And it’s in the wounding that the penny drops for Jacob. And it goes from Jacob wrestling with God to Jacob clinging onto God. And God says to Jacob, let me go. And Jacob says to God, I will not let you go. Verse 26 then the man said, let me go for it is daybreak. But Jacob replied, I will not let you go unless you bless me. And it’s gone from this wrestling, pushing God away, trying to get free of God to I’m not letting you go. I am refusing to let you go unless you bless me. Now what’s going on there? I think this is what’s going on. That Jacob in that moment is suddenly realizing that for all his life what he has sought has been the affirmation and the validation of his father Isaac. He wanted to be his father’s favourite. And he realizes in this moment that the only true validation of someone comes from God. And Jacob has for all his life sought to find someone who will love him. And he thought that he’d found that in Rachel his wife, and he’s in this moment, he suddenly realized that actually the source of true love is not Rachel, but it’s God. And for Jaocob, for all his life. He’s wanted someone to bless him and that’s why he wanted to steal it from his brother. But in that moment of wounding, Jacob realizes that the source of true blessing isn’t to steal it from someone else. It’s to receive it from God.
In that moment, Jacob realizes that God is the source of true validation, true love. That God is the source of true blessing. And that’s why Jacob says to God, I’m not letting you go. When our son was born on the 15th of September, 1998, we called him Jacob. And he’s 20 years old now and he’s a big lad, he’s much taller than I am. He probably could put me over his back and carry me now. Phil Corrigan, he was a pastor of a church in Belfast, Belfast city vineyard, wrote Jacob, our newborn, a letter and he and his wife said that they had a prayer for Jacob and the prayer for my son would be this, that my son would not let go of God until God blessed him. And I think that’s just a beautiful attitude for all of us, not just my son and not just Jacob from Genesis, but for all of us that we say to our heavenly father, I’m not letting you go unless you bless me because you are the source of love. You are the source of validation. You’re the source of true blessing. I’m clinging onto you.
Just a tiny tangent and then we’ll get back on track. We’re nearly finished. I wonder whether it makes you feel uncomfortable, and I guess it ought to make us all feel uncomfortable at the thought of God wounding Jacob. I think that should make us all feel uncomfortable. The song we just signed “Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me. “
It’s got a lovely little tune, doesn’t it? A very nice tune, but have you looked at the words? Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me. That’s lovely, isn’t it? Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me. And then what comes next? Make me. Some versions of this song are a little bit more courageous. They say, break me, melt me, mold me, fill me. There should’ve been a warning, actually a health warning before we had sung this. This little chorus. Did I mean that when I prayed that song? Break me, make me, melt me, mold me?
We have a God who is willing to wound us in order to bless us. Tim Keller says this. God out of love becomes the enemy of our old self. God out of love becomes the enemy of our pride. God out of love becomes the enemy of the wicked me. And he brings me to weakness in order to heal me. And, and I’m suggesting that that’s not an easy thought to reflect on this evening. But I wonder at times whether my pride, Clive Atkinson’s pride is so strong, that the old Clive Atkinson is so strong that actually sometimes God has wound me in order to heal me. Reshaped and renamed. Finally, and this is, this last thought is a quick thought. Is that Jacob was reshaped and renamed. He was blessed in order to be a blessing to others. The promise that God gave to Abraham and Isaac – grandfather, father now to Jacob, is that Jacob’s descendants not only would be a blessing to themselves, but they would be a blessing to all nations. And so what God is doing in Jacob right now is actually not just for Jacob, It’s for everyone.
And, and I find that quite comforting that whatever the making and the breaking and the melting in the molding is in me, it’s not just for me, but that God would make me into someone who would be a blessing to others. If I’ve told this story before, would you forgive me and look surprised. If this is the first time, then that’s good. My brother in law, his name is Ronnie Cartmel and he’s a magnificent man. Ronnie’s now in his 60’s probably the same age as Jacob in our story. And Ronnie is married to my Gillian, who is quite a remarkable woman. Ronnie was a member of the police force in Northern Ireland during the 70s and the 80s. If you knew anything about Northern Irish history, you’ll realize that being a police officer in Northern Ireland during that time was exceptionally dangerous.
And he experienced losing colleagues, durng the troubles and the main way in which Ronnie coped with that trauma was through alcohol. And he became an alcoholic. It was well hidden. And so when my sister married him, it wasn’t something that was dominating his life, but the older that he got, the less able he was to deal with the trauma that he was experiencing. And it got to a stage – they had two boys at that stage – that it was either going to be separation or Ronnie had to face what he was going through. And eventually he said yes, and he went into to rehab and in rehab he managed to face the pain of his trauma. He came out, he got involved with Alcoholics Anonymous and he rediscovered his faith, his childhood faith and returned to the Lord. I visited them in February again and I have to say he is one of the people, one of the men in my life who I admire the most. He’s been dry now for well over 20 years. That experience transformed him. It was a blessing to him. But that transformation in his life was not only a blessing to him, it was a blessing to his marriage. They have a fantastic marriage and it wasn’t just a blessing to their marraige but it was a blessing to their two boys who grew up with a father who faced his alcoholism and has beaten it.
They are blessed as a consequence. So whatever the Lord is doing in your life right now, whatever, making and melting and molding, he may do to you. Can I just encourage you today, tonight, can I encourage you? Because that may be difficult. It may be a wrestling match right now. It may be painful. You may feel that you’re being wounded, but what the Lord is doing in you today can have such a blessing upon those around you. And reshaped, renamed, finding our identity in God and being blessed not just for ourselves, but being blessed for those around us. So Genesis 32 describes a God who’s at work in us, how God wants to shift our center of gravity our center of identity away from unhealthy things, from the Esaus’ of life into himself. And he does that so that he can bless us and by blessing us, bless others.


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'Pensions crisis may sink firms'
THE looming pensions crisis could send some companies to the wall, a leading insolvency expert warned today. Rising pension costs, combined with a less buoyant economy, could send already cash-strapped companies into receivership, according to accounting firm KPMG.
The warning came as carmaker Peugeot UK, which employs 3,500 people in Coventry, revealed that its pension pot is facing an £86m shortfall. The firm has called on workers to increase their pension contributions and has closed its final-salary scheme for new recruits. Other companies with pensions deficits include Marconi (£ 137m), Securicor (£54m) and ICI (£453m).
KPMG partner Jim Tucker said companies in manufacturing and others which have cut back workforces were most at risk. 'These companies may only have a small number of existing members to fund a scheme which is supporting a large number of pensioners or deferred members,' he said.
John Davies, a pensions expert at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, said: 'There have been bigger shortfalls than Peugeot's but £86m is still a fairly worrying figure,' said
Peuegot said the company would have to pay a contribution equal to 43% of the overall wage bill for the next year and 28% for the following four years to meet the full cost.
In a letter to workers it called that 'an unacceptable situation'. Instead it wants staff to raise their contributions from 3% to 5% of their wages. The final salary scheme will be closed to new recruits who from April will have to join a company-backed stakeholder scheme. Union Amicus MSF is fighting the changes.
Scores of companies have already switched from final-salary schemes, which guarantee a certain level of benefit on retirement, to money purchase schemes, where payouts are dependent on stock market performance. The burden of risk is shifted from employer to employee.
The change has been triggered by poor returns from shares in recent years and an anticipated change in accounting rules next year. Companies will be forced to keep final- salary pension pots fully funded rather than topping up over time.
Pensions consultancy Bacon & Woodrow recently named a handful of companies in the FTSE 100 index that it estimates are not fully funded, including Allied Domecq, Six Continents, Carlton Communications, Compass and Granada.
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Ducati Monster 695: review, history, specs
|Ducati Monster 695|
|Production||2006 - 2008|
|Predecessor||Ducati Monster 620|
|Successor||Ducati Monster 696|
695cc v2, four-stroke
|Bore / Stroke||88.0mm x 57.2mm|
|Horsepower||70.54 HP (52.6 KW) @ 8500RPM|
|Torque||44.99 ft/lbs (61.0 Nm) @ 6200RPM|
|Air Filter||K&N DU-9001 `07-08|
|Spark Plug||NGK `08|
|Transmission||Gear box: 6-speed
Final Drive: chain
|Suspension||Front: marzocchi 43 mm upside-down fork
Rear: progressive linkage with preload and rebound sachs adjustable monoshock
|Brakes||Front: double disc
Rear: single disc
|Wheelbase||56.69 inches (1440 mm)|
|Seat Height||30.31 inches (770 mm)|
|Weight||370.38 pounds (168.0 Kg) (dry), 168.0 kg (wet)|
|Fuel Capacity||3.7 Gallon (14.00 Liters)|
The Ducati Monster 695 was a v2, four-stroke Naked motorcycle produced by Ducati between 2006 and 2008. Max torque was 44.99 ft/lbs (61.0 Nm) @ 6200 RPM. Claimed horsepower was 70.54 HP (52.6 KW) @ 8500 RPM.
The bike has a 6-speed transmission. Power was moderated via the APTC wet multiplate with hydraulic control.
It came with a 120/60-zr17 front tire and a 160/60-zr17 rear tire. Stopping was achieved via double disc in the front and a single disc in the rear. The front suspension was a marzocchi 43 mm upside-down fork while the rear was equipped with a progressive linkage with preload and rebound sachs adjustable monoshock. The Monster 695 was fitted with a 3.7 Gallon (14.00 Liters) fuel tank. The bike weighed just 370.38 pounds (168.0 Kg). The wheelbase was 56.69 inches (1440 mm) long.
2006 Ducati Monster 695
The 2006 MY Ducati Monster 695 has, at its heart, an air-cooled, four-stroke, 695cc, 90-degree V-Twin desmodromic powerplant paired to a six-speed manual transmission, and can reach a maximum power output of 73 horsepower and 61 Nm of torque.
Standard fittings include a 43mm Marzocchi upside-down telescopic fork, a Sachs adjustable monoshock with progressive linkage as a rear suspension, Brembo brakes with dual front discs and a single disc in the rear, a steel, trellis frame, a large, round headlight, a dual seat, blacked-out, three-spoked cast-aluminum wheels, and analogue instrumentation dials.
2007 Ducati Monster 695
The 2007 MY Ducati Monster 695 has features such as a 43mm Marzocchi upside-down telescopic fork, a Sachs adjustable monoshock with progressive linkage as a rear suspension, Brembo brakes with dual front discs and a single disc in the rear, a steel, trellis frame, a large, round headlight, a dual seat, blacked-out, three-spoked cast-aluminum wheels, and analogue instrumentation dials.
In the engine department, it sports a four-stroke, air-cooled, 695cc, 90-degree V-Twin desmodrmic powerhouse, mated to a six-speed manual transmission with a chain final drive, that can produce a claimed 73 horsepower and 61 Nm of torque.
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On September 21, 2008, a gathering of Ducati Monsters in Hamme-Moerzeke, Belgium, broke the Guinness Record for the "largest parade of motorcycles of the same brand and type." 405 Ducati Monsters were tallied.
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- The bikes that made us: Ducati Monster. Motorcycle News, December 14 2016, pp.30-31 Accessed October 22 2017.


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SUPERIOR, WI — The University of Wisconsin-Superior is shuffling up its leadership.
Maria Stalzer Wyant Cuzzo has been appointed the interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
She’s been with the university for 25 years and is currently a professor of legal studies.
Meanwhile, Nicholas Danz will take over the dean of academic affairs and graduate studies title.
He has been with the university for ten years and currently works in academic affairs. He’s also a professor of plant and natural sciences.
Both will move into their roles on July 1st.


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But in less than two weeks, Momoko Nojo’s #DontBeSilent campaign organised with other activists gathered more than 150,000 signatures, galvanising global outrage against Yoshiro Mori, the president of Tokyo 2020.
He quit last week and has been replaced by Seiko Hashimoto, a woman who has competed in seven Olympic Games.
The hashtag was coined in response to remarks by Mori, an octogenarian former prime minister, that women talk too much. Nojo used it on Twitter and other social media platforms to gather support for a petition calling for action against him.
“Few petitions have got 150,000 signatures before. I thought it was really great. People take this personally too, not seeing this as only Mori’s problem,” said a smiling Nojo in a Zoom interview.
Her activism, born from a year studying in Denmark, is the latest example of women outside mainstream politics in Japan taking to keyboards to bring social change in the world’s third-largest economy, where gender discrimination, pay gaps and stereotyping are rampant.
“It made me realise that this is a good opportunity to push for gender equality in Japan,” said Nojo, a 4th-year economics student at Keio University in Tokyo.
She said her activism was motivated by questions she has often heard from male peers like, “You’re a girl, so you have to go to a high school that has pretty school uniforms, don’t you?” or “Even if you don’t have a job after graduating from college, you can be a housewife, no?”
Nojo started her nonprofit “NO YOUTH NO JAPAN” in 2019, while she was in Denmark, where she saw how the country chose Mette Frederiksen, a woman in her early forties, as prime minister.
The time in Denmark, she said, made her realise how much Japanese politics was dominated by older men.
Keiko Ikeda, a professor of education at Hokkaido University, said it was important for young, worldly people to raise their voice in Japan, where decisions tend to be made by a uniform group of like-minded people. But change will come agonisingly slowly, she said.
“If you have a homogeneous group, it’s impossibly difficult to move the compass because the people in it don’t realise it when their decision is off-centre,” Ikeda said.
Nojo dismissed a proposal this week by Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party to allow more women in meetings, but only as silent observers, as a poorly-executed PR stunt.
“I’m not sure if they have the willingness to fundamentally improve the gender issue,” she said, adding that the party needed to have more women in key posts, rather than having them as observers.
In reality, Nojo’s win is only a small step in a long fight.
Japan is ranked 121st out of 153 countries on the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Gap Index — the worst ranking among advanced countries — scoring poorly on women’s economic participation and political empowerment.
Activists and many ordinary women say drastic change is needed in the workplace, and in politics.
“In Japan, when there’s an issue related to gender equality, not many voices are heard, and even if there are some voices to improve the situation, they run out of steam and nothing changes,” Nojo said.
“I don’t want our next generation to spend their time over this issue.”


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The next collection of archive Doctor Who strips from Doctor Who Magazine will be published in June, titled The Good Soldier.
Wrapped in a gorgeous cover by David Roach, the volume features a range of Seventh Doctor strips I edited back in the title’s Marvel UK days, a number of them I’m particularly proud of commissioning as an editor. The strips – which all feature Ace as the Doctor’s companion – are accompanied by a background commentary featuring recollections of the creation of strips from some of the writers and artists involved. The Panini editorial team have pulled the stops out, again, to deliver the best quality in terms of strip reproduction – helped by numerous art collectors who provided scans of original art in some caes.
In this volume are:
- “Fellow Travellers” by Andrew Cartmel (the first of several strips to be written by the TV series Script Editor and featuring elements considered for the show’s never-produced 27th season) with stunning art throughout from Arthur Ranson, his only Doctor Who strip work to date
- All the “Mark of Mandragora” related stories (including the prequel stories “Darkness Falling” and “Distractions“) by Dan Abnett, with art by Lee Sullivan and Mark Farmer, a follow-up tale to the TV story Masque of Mandragora set on Earth and featuring UNIT and a guest appearance of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, with kind permission of the late, grate actor who played him, Nicholas Courtney
- The deliberately fun “Party Animals” by Gary Russell, with art by Mike Collins, inked by Steve Pini, intended at the time to offer some relief after the more downbeat Mandragora tale
- “The Chamleon Factor” by Paul Cornell and Lee Sullivan, again inked by Mark Farmer, featuring a beautifully re-designed TARDIS control room
- “The Good Soldier“, perhaps my favourite Andrew Cartmel story of those I commissioned that ran in the regular DWM, with art by Mike Collins, inked by Steve Pini (I still get a chill at some of the Cybermen scenes)
- “A Glitch in Time” by myself and Richard Whitaker, edited by Paul Neary, a last-minute shoe-in when another Andrew Cartnel-penned tale, “Evening’s Empire” drawn by Richard Piers Rayner, experienced technical dificulties in the time vortex
- “Seaside Rendezvous” by Paul Cornell, with art by Gary Frank, inked by Stephen Baskerville
Also featured are two text stories, “Teenage Kicks” by Paul Cornell, illustrated by Cam Smith, and “Scream of the Silent“, written by myself, illustrated by Lee Sullivan, the latter featuring in the Doctor Who 25th Anniversary Special that was edited by Louise Cassell. Lee’s illustration of the Seventh Doctor catching a glimpse of the First in a mirror is one of my favourite Who images of the the tales I wrote.
Included in the commentary is some prelim art and script notes for a propsed Doctor Who newspaper strip I write, pitched at the Daily Express, drawn by Gerry Dolan; and other previously unseen art by Lee and Mike.
I hope you’ll agree, if you’re a Doctor Who comics fan that this one’s a doozy! I hope you enjoy it.
• Doctor Who: The Good Soldier is out on 5th May 2015
The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.


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iquorice and its natural sweetener, glycyrrhizin, can have long-term harmful effects on the development of the foetus.
Chilling news if you’re expecting a baby, so do please spread it around.
Don’t blame liquorice though. It tried to warn us with its putrid taste.
A new Finnish study supports food recommendations for families with children in that women should avoid consuming large amounts of liquorice during pregnancy. The limit for safe consumption is not known.
In the study, youths that were exposed to large amounts of liquorice in the womb performed less well than others in cognitive reasoning tests carried out by a psychologist. The difference was equivalent to approximately seven IQ points.
Those exposed to liquorice also performed less well in tasks measuring memory capacity, and according to parental estimates, they had more ADHD-type problems than others. With girls, puberty had started earlier and advanced further.
The Glaku study carried out by the University of Helsinki, the National Institute for Health and Welfare and the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital districts compared 378 youths of about 13 years whose mothers had consumed “large amounts” or “little/no” liquorice during pregnancy. In this study a large amount was defined as over 500 mg and little/no as less than 249 mg glycyrrhizin per week. These cutoffs are not based on health effects. 500 mg glycyrrhizin corresponds on average to 250 g liquorice.
The study report was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The first author of the article is Academy Professor Katri Räikkönen from the University of Helsinki.
Researchers suggest that pregnant women and women planning pregnancy should be informed of the harmful effects that products containing glycyrrhizin – such as liquorice and salty liquorice – may have on the fetus.
In Finland, this is already reality. In January 2016, the National Institute for Health and Welfare published food recommendations for families with children, in which liquorice was placed in the ‘not recommended’ category for pregnant women. According to the recommendations, occasional consumption of small amounts such as a portion of liquorice ice cream or a few liquorice sweets is not dangerous.
Researchers underline that things should be kept in proportion. A large number of Finns have been exposed to glycyrrhizin in the womb. Glycyrrhizin is one of many factors that affect the development of a fetus but it is impossible to say whether it was glycyrrhizin expressly that affected the development of a certain individual.
As a result of animal experiments, the biological mechanism of the effects of liquorice is well known. Glycyrrhizin intensifies the effects of stress hormone cortisol by inhibiting the enzyme that inactivates cortisol. While cortisol is essential to the development of a fetus, it is detrimental in large amounts.
It has long been known that glycyrrhizin causes higher blood pressure and shorter pregnancies in humans, but such long-lasting effects on the fetus have not been proven before.
Source: Eurekalert/University of Helsinki
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Edison Yu's team believes investor sentiment should be close to bottoming for several reasons.
After issuing a catalyst call on NIO earlier this month, Deutsche Bank's Edison Yu's team has updated it.
In a research note sent to investors on November 21, the team said NIO stock fell 9 percent last week, a performance that fell short of its Chinese peer XPeng Motors, which fell 3 percent, and Li Auto, which rose 1 percent.
"While we were clearly early with our Catalyst Call, underestimating several tactical factors," the team wrote, adding that they believe investor sentiment is nearing a bottom because of several reasons.
Here's what they wrote:
NIO announced Friday it completed its at-the-market offering, implying it issued about $800m worth of stock since 11/9.
Retail momentum has been favoring US-listed EV companies in our view as illustrated by large outperformance last week (LCID +26%, GGPI/Polestar +7% last week). While it is unclear how long this could continue, we think this could change going into NIO Day on 12/18 where the company can create much more excitement around its future products and technology.
China tech ADRs were broadly under pressure last week following weak results from internet e-commerce companies (KWEB - 7% vs. NASDAQ +2%); this appeared to spill over to China EV stocks but we emphasize the Chinese government continues to be super supportive of the industry and sales volumes are trending upward along with penetration.
NIO should report November monthly deliveries around 12/1 and we expect large MoM improvement to around 10k units vs. October's 3.7k.
Yu's team reiterated a Buy rating on NIO and a $70 price target.
NIO closed Friday's trading up 0.65 percent to $38.66.
The company announced after the market closed on Friday that it completed an at-the-market offering, raising gross proceeds of about $2 billion. Its stock rose 2.69 percent to $39.70 in after-hours trading following the news.


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Little signs transgender restroom bill
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) - Idaho has a new law restricting transgender students' choices in school bathrooms.
On Friday, Governor Brad Little signed legislation banning transgender students from using restrooms that do not align to their assigned gender at birth.
The ban goes into effect on July 1.
It does not apply to single-occupancy restrooms.
Under the law, students could take legal action against a school if they encounter someone of the opposite sex in the restroom.
The legislation also requires schools to have separate male and female bathrooms and to make accommodations for students who do not want to or cannot use multi-occupancy restrooms or changing facilities.


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- 1 Ways to Keep Your Pet Happy and Safe When Moving Into Your New Apartment
- 1.1 Plan ahead before your move and pack a “pet survival kit.”
- 1.2 Make sure your new apartment is pet-friendly
- 1.3 Introduce your pet to their new surroundings slowly.
- 1.4 Don’t leave them alone for too long.
- 1.5 Provide plenty of food, water, and toys
- 1.6 Exercise them regularly
- 1.7 Keep their vaccinations up to date.
- 1.8 Consider having your pet microchipped and register the chip info in a local database.
Moving is a busy and chaotic time, and it can be hard to remember everything. One important thing to remember is your pet – here are eight ways to make sure your pet stays safe and happy during the move.
If you’re moving with a pet, it’s essential to plan ahead. One of the most important things to remember is to pack a “pet survival kit.” This kit should include everything your pet might need during and after the move, such as food, water, bowls, leashes, toys, and a litter box for cats.
If you’re planning to bring your pet with you when you move, it’s essential to make sure your new apartment is pet-friendly. This means that the apartment should be equipped with things like a designated pet area, a place for your pet to sleep, and easy access to food and water.
Moving is a busy and chaotic time, and it can be hard to remember everything. One important thing to remember is your pet – here are ten ways to make sure your pet stays safe and happy during the move.
Leaving your pet alone for too long can be stressful and dangerous for them. Make sure you always have someone around to keep an eye on them, and if you can’t, consider hiring a pet sitter.
When you’re moving with a pet, it’s important to make sure they have plenty of food, water, and toys. This will help keep them calm and happy during the move. Make sure to pack plenty of food, water, and toys for your pet survival kit, and don’t forget to bring their leash and collar too.
Regular exercise is vital for your pet’s health and well-being. Dogs need at least 30 minutes of exercise per day, and cats need around 15 minutes of exercise per day. Make sure to take your pet for regular walks or runs and play with them indoors or outdoors to keep them active and healthy.
It is essential to keep your pet’s vaccinations up to date, as this will help protect them from diseases and illnesses. Most pets need to be vaccinated against rabies, distemper, hepatitis, and parvovirus, and it is important to talk to your veterinarian about which vaccinations are right for your pet.
Microchipping is a safe and permanent way to identify your pet in case they get lost or stolen. When your pet is microchipped, a tiny chip is implanted under their skin, and the chip’s unique ID number is registered in a local database. If your pet ever gets lost, their microchip can be scanned, and their information will be retrieved from the database.
Now that you know how to keep your pet safe and happy during the move, it’s time to enjoy your new apartment with them! Make sure they have a designated place to sleep, plenty of food and water, and plenty of toys to play with. Take them for walks or runs regularly, and make sure to give them lots of love and attention. Congratulations on your new apartment – enjoy it with your furry friend!

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Definicja ALM simulation
Function that is part of ALM. This function is used to simulate how a position may develop. The simulation is based on the user's expectations, such as 10% growth in balance sheet volume in the next year.
In addition to the actual position, for all three simulation categories this function generates the following positions:Simulation position = simulation - position
(contains suggested new transactions only)Actual + simulation - position
(depicts the effect of the suggested new transactions on the actual position)
In the ALM analysis processes, generated new transactions are valued in the same way as the actual position.
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text: Addition of anti-PD1 antibody enhanced these anti-tumor actions. shown a potent cytotoxicity against the prospective cells, as well as the addition of anti-PD1 antibody improved the cytotoxicity. In the effector: focus on percentage of 16:1, cytotoxicity was 39.8% with CAR-T cells alone, and risen to 49.5% with the help of anti-PD1 antibody. In immune system skilled syngeneic mouse model, CAR-T cells had been found to be there in tumor stroma, inhibited tumor growth and significantly improved tumor apoptosis. Addition of anti-PD1 antibody enhanced these anti-tumor actions. Twenty-one times after treatment, tumor pounds was decreased by 50.0% and 73.3% in CAR-T group TZ9 and CAR-T plus anti-PD1 group weighed against blank T group. Our outcomes indicate that anti-PD1 antibody may raise the efficacy of anti-HER2 CAR-T against HER2-positive solid tumors greatly. Cytotoxicity Assay The cytotoxicity assay was essentially as referred to (34). Quickly, anti-HER2 CAR-T cells (effector cells) in the lack or existence of 20 g/mL anti-PD1 antibody had been incubated with HER2+ 4T1-Luc-HER2 cells (focus on cells) in the effector: focus on ratios of 2:1, 4:1, 8:1, and 16:1 for 18 h inside a 96-well dish. The co-cultures of anti-HER2 CAR-T cells in the presence or lack of anti-PD1 antibody with HER2? 4T1 cells, the empty T cells in the lack or existence of anti-PD1 antibody with HER2+ 4T1-Luc-HER2 cells had been used as adverse controls. Particular lactate Fes dehydrogenase (LDH) released in to the cell-free supernatant from the prospective cells was established using the cytotoxicity LDH recognition package (Genmed, Addlestone, UK) based on the manufacturer’s guidelines. The quantity of released LDH was utilized to measure the extent of focus on cell lysis, which may be translated in to the performance of effector cells. TZ9 Percent cytotoxicity was determined relating to OD ideals utilizing the pursuing method: Cytotoxicity (%) = (Experimental lysis ? Effector spontaneous lysis ? Focus on spontaneous lysis)/(Focus on maximum lysis ? Focus on spontaneous lysis) 100%. Building from the Syngeneic Mammary Tumor Model Protocols for the pet studies had been authorized by the Institutional Pet Care and Make use of Committee of Wenzhou Medical College or university. All pet experiments were performed relative to the relevant regulations and guidelines. BALB/c feminine mice with an intact disease fighting capability (6-week-old, weighed 17C20 g) bought from GemPharmatech (Nanjing, China) had been used for tests. After a week of casing in the pet service, 4 106 of 4T1-Luc-HER2 cells in 0.1 mL PBS blended with 0.1 mL matrigel (Corning, Bedford, MA, USA) had been injected subcutaneously into each of 24 mice at back region on day time 0. On day time 14, when the size from the engrafted tumors reached about 6 mm, mice had been randomized into four organizations for remedies. The test was repeated for 3 x. Anti-tumor Remedies = 6): empty T group (shot of empty T cells), anti-PD1 group (shot of anti-PD1 antibody), CAR-T group (shot of CAR-T TZ9 cells), CAR-T plus anti-PD1 group (shot of CAR-T cells and anti-PD1 antibody). The tumor-grafted mice had been administrated via caudal vein shot with empty T cells or CAR-T cells, 1 107 cells in 0.1 mL PBS/each mouse/each period, on day time 14 and 21. The tumor-grafted mice had been administrated with anti-PD1 antibody intraperitoneally, 250 g in 0.1 mL PBS/each mouse/each period on day time 14, 18, 22, and 26. All of the mice had been injected with 20 intraperitoneally,000 IU IL-2 once every 2 times from day time 14 to day time 34. Monitoring Tumor Development and Collecting Tumor Cells Tumor development was supervised on day time 14 (right before anti-tumor treatment) and 28 (after anti-tumor treatment for two weeks) using Lumina Series III IVIS imaging program (PerkinElmer, MA, USA) as referred to (35). Briefly, on the entire day time of IVIS TZ9 imaging, mice had been 1st anesthetized with isoflurane (RWD Existence Technology, Shenzhen, China) and injected with 150 mg/kg luciferase remedy (PerkinElmer) intraperitoneally. Pictures had been captured using the IVIS program and analyzed using the Living Picture @4.3.1. software program. Through the above anti-tumor test < 0.05 was considered significant statistically. Results Successful Era from the Mouse Breast.


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Risks of Online Thinspiration
In the alternate reality of anorexia and bulimia, no thin is too thin, and control and perfection are codes for continued starvation. Facing social disapproval, some “anas” and “mias” form their own supportive communities—which the Web now makes easier than ever.
“For almost any high-risk behavior nowadays there’s a website community,” says Dina Borzekowski, EdD, EdM, MA, an associate professor in Health, Behavior and Society. “There are websites for people who are into cutting behaviors or suicidal ideation. So it’s not surprising that there are websites for pro-ana and pro-mia behaviors.” Anorexics eat rarely or not at all; bulimics binge but then purge by vomiting or using laxatives or enemas.
In the June 17 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Borzekowski and colleagues at the Bloomberg School and Stanford University report the most comprehensive content analysis to date of pro-ana/mia websites. Nearly all (91 percent) of the 180 sites they found were easily accessible to casual browsers, and most (84 percent) presented pro-ana content, while about two-thirds presented pro-mia content.
Such content typically included “thinspiration” images of skinny models or celebrities (85 percent), and helpful guides for ana/mia behaviors (83 percent), including purging tips and the concealment of weight loss from loved ones.
Yet as Borzekowski and her colleagues found, there are also many ambiguous and contradictory messages on these sites. More than a third (38 percent) contained recovery-related information, for example. In part this may reflect a desire to evade legal liability or adverse action by website hosting companies, says Borzekowski. Earlier in the decade, under pressure from health professionals, Yahoo and MSN shut down many pro-ana/mia sites, some of which later reappeared with new names and less one-sided content.
The thematic ambiguity on some of these sites may also simply reflect their role as virtual communities of tolerance. “People who suffer from these disorders face a lot of isolation,” Borzekowski says.
Sarah Brotsky, PsyD, a psychologist in private practice in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, spent two months participating in these online communities for a research project published in 2007. “In conversations I had with different members, they seemed to need frequent reassurance and validation, and it appeared that their offline relationships often weren’t very strong,” she says.
That sense of social validation can derive from the content too, Brotsky adds. Nowadays her patients who struggle with eating disorders often come to her having obviously picked up online pro-ana/mia material, such as the Thin Commandments (“Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty”…). Says Brotsky: “It tends to make therapy more difficult by keeping the person more enmeshed in the eating disorder.”
Borzekowski and her colleagues have been conducting a formal, soon-to-be-published study of these websites’ effects on eating-disorders patients who are in treatment. But even in this initial, just-published study, they made preliminary ratings of ana/mia website themes. “About a quarter of them conveyed what we regarded as very harmful messages,” Borzekowski says.
Borzekowski notes that the Web has now evolved so that proportionately fewer sites are under the authority of large, publicly minded service providers such as Yahoo, so a widespread shutdown even of the most militant pro-ana/mia sites is unlikely to happen. “But we as public health researchers can clarify the threat they pose,” she says. Reliable evidence can be useful for those who want to reach out more effectively to people who are suffering from these disorders, she says.
That threat is clearly a dynamic one. Even in the short time since Borzekowski and her colleagues finished gathering data for this study, more and more havens for ana/mia communities have sprung up online, for example on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites. “These days you can even get ‘thinspiration’ through Twitter, and tweets with extreme dieting tips,” Borzekowski says.


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The California Dept. of Water Resources has revised again the state's proposed plan to convey water from the northern part of the state to the southern part. The proposed changes, released on Aug. 15, would shrink by 50% the total permanent footprint of the project and shift more than 400 acres of permanent and temporary construction impacts from private to public lands.
The $25-billion draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) for California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has gone through a number of changes over the past decade. The project's goal is to reduce reliance on the southern Delta's large pumps, which environmental advocates say are harmful to wildlife, particularly Chinook salmon and Delta smelt. The latest proposal is one of a group of alternatives that must go through a public comment period. Though it is unclear which proposal will be selected by state and federal officials, the current BDCP proposal is the preferred plan, says Nancy Vogel, a spokeswoman for the California Dept. of Public Resources.
The latest changes are in response to Delta residents' concerns. Specifically, the capacity of the proposed northern Delta intakes has been downsized to a maximum of 9,000 cu ft per second from 15,000 cfs. The number of intakes along the Sacramento River has dropped to three from five. Further, the proposal has been modified to move water using gravity, rather than pumping, from the intermediate forebay to the main forebay. Using gravity rather than pumps will reduce energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions, Vogel says.
The American Council of Engineering Companies of California is pleased with the changes. "We think it's moving in the right direction in terms of getting a project the state can get behind," says Paul Meyer, executive director.
But Gary Bobker, program manager for the San Francisco-based Bay Institute, says that although the revisions "are a step in the right direction," the state can do more in the area of conservation, water recycling and reclamation.

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The brand new sanctuary at downtown Montgomery's First Baptist Church is finally finished. The addition cost $23 million to build and is considered one of the most unique places to worship in the country.
The stained glass windows came from the same company that designed the windows in Washington's National Cathedral. And, the new organ has more than 4,000 pipes, making it one of the largest in the southeast.
Many church members saw the new sanctuary for the first time Sunday morning. "It's a joyous day. A glorious day. And obviously glory of god," said member Matt Bishop. "We're so thankful for this opportunity. It is such a blessing."
First Baptist's pastor, Dr. Jay Wolf, says he's proud of the new building, but he admits his ministry is not about "bricks and sticks." He hopes the facility will increase church membership and stewardship in the community.


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Some high school seniors counting on San Diego State University next year have just days to figure out what to do after the school recently changed its admissions policy.
SDSU President's Stephen Weberrecently announced the university’s decision to eliminate guaranteed admission for students living south of state Route 56 who meet minimum requirements and apply on time.
The state’s budget crisis is forcing SDSU to cut costs. By cutting the perk for locals, SDSU hopes to cut enrollment by 10 percent.
Several high school students and educators, criticized the move at a special hearing of the San Diego Unified School Board Monday night.
“It infuriates me to the point I can’t focus,” city college student Paul Porter told board members during public comment. “I feel offended, like it’s a slap in the face.”
Porter said he had been planning to go to SDSU since he was 12. “ I’ve grown up knowing that if I do this regimen I’m guaranteed admission to the SDSU,” he said.” “What am I supposed to do now? Just come up with another way? Get the money somehow?”
Lincoln High School student, Kayla Andrews, called the policy catastrophic.
“They put it in front of our faces and say work as hard as you can and get it and it will happen,” Andrews said. “It’s like having a dream and your goal snatched right out from under you.”
Even a state lawmaker vowed to take action if SDSU doesn’t delay the policy change.
Assem. Marty Block who represents the 78th District called the policy "misguided." If SDSU doesn't delay the policy for a year to allowe students to prepare, Block said he and other lawmakers will propose legislation to require community input before decisions like this that impact a large number of students.
During Monday night meeting, school board members heard from educator after educator that the message from SDSU is at best uninspiring.
“Two weeks before the admissions period for SDSU to begin is far too late to make this kind of drastic change to admissions policy,” said educator and community activist Pat Washington, Ph.D.
Washington along with other educators like Nikki Eddy, who teaches at Castle Park High School, encouraged the board to continue fighting the policy change.
“If you could see the faces of my kids working so hard every day. Most of them compete at a level I could never imagine doing in a second language,” said Eddy. “They deserve an opportunity for people to stand up on the right side of education for them.”
At the last meeting held on this issue, the board approved a resolution condemning SDSU's admissions policy change.
President Weber has said that the university is considering input from the community but he insists local students will still be given priority during admissions.
In a recent interview with KPBS, Weber said points would be given to applicants from the school's service area.
“Historically, about 40% of our freshmen have come from that service area of south of 56 and Imperial County. So we will give enough extra points to local students to preserve that historic ratio which has held for the last eleven years,” Weber said.


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Selena was known as an American singer-songwriter. She was named the top Latin artist of the 90's and best selling Latin artist of the decade by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the top Latin Songs chart, including seven number one hits.
April 16, 1971
Selena was raised a a Jehovah Witness.She started singing at the age 3. When she was nine years old her father launched a vocal group consisting of several of his children.
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Selena was murdered in 1989. Selena visited local schools to talk to students about the importance of education. She also donated her time to civic organizations. Selena scheduled her English album for release in the summer of 1995.Selena recorded her first album for a record company.
I chose this picture because she is on the cover of a famous Spanish magazine.
I chose the second one because she have little smirk on her face.
I like this last picture a lot because she just seemed so happy in this picture


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Arsenal vs Chelsea: Fabregas picks winner of FA Cup final
Cesc Fabregas has admitted he would rather see Arsenal win the FA Cup instead of Chelsea.
Fabregas played for both Premier League teams and won the FA Cup with Arsenal in 2005 and the same trophy with Chelsea in 2018.
The Blues defeated the Gunners in the 2019 Europa League final.
Arsenal last won a trophy in 2017, when they beat Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley to win the FA Cup.
The trophy was their third major honour of the decade, a period in which Chelsea won 11 cups and Fabregas feels the North London side needs silverware more.
“Arsenal need it more. Chelsea basically every year has won a trophy, so it’s a different animal in this case.
“In terms of trophies, Arsenal needs it more and for confidence for next year and getting into Europe. Chelsea are in the Champions League and Arsenal has nothing at the moment,” Fabregas told the Daily Telegraph.
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Eat Tilapia while watching the Volcano erupt !
At the Hotel Volcano Lodge you can also witness the Arenal Volcano right from your room ! Located between La Fortuna de San Carlos and the Arenal Lake, one of the most exciting things to do in Costa Rica is to witness the activity of one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
Arenal is truly is one of the five active volcanoes in Costa Rica. Its very loud and low rumblings can be heard intermittently throughout the day and night. In addition, in clear weather small eruptions can be seen against the night sky. Volcano Lodge is surrounded by many beauties of the nature of the tropical humid forest. You can see Tucans (Ramphastus sulfuratus), (Ramphastus swainsonii), Oropendolas (Montezuma Oropendola), Tangaras (Ramphocelus passerinii) and many other species of birds as well as a Congo-monkey (alouatta palliata). The River La Palma is passing by the lodge.

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