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Don’t get excited or fearful just yet. The IRS has not yet announced a tax amnesty for people who failed to report their gains and income from Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. But there has long been speculation that it might happen. And given recent developments, we may now be one step closer.
It is well-known that the IRS is looking hard at Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transactions, hoping to scoop up some tax dollars. Frighteningly, much of the IRS attention now appears to be focused on the criminal end of the spectrum. IRS Criminal Investigation Agents evidently are being trained in the field.
The IRS Criminal Investigation Division not only ordered training for its agents. It also entered into a contract with Chainanalysis for tracking. We may expect this area to unfold materially in the coming years and not in a happy way.
A Justice Department attorney recently noted that IRS scrutiny on tax reporting could prompt new procedures for users to get right with the IRS. Mark F. Daly, senior litigation counsel in the Justice Department Tax Division, made the remarks in a Nov. 3, 2017 symposium held by the State Bar of Texas Tax Section. It was released by webcast on Nov. 9.
Mr. Daly also noted the widely publicized statistic that only 807 people reported Bitcoin to the IRS between 2013 and 2015. In contrast, there are hundreds of thousands of Coinbase account holders and climbing all the time. The sheer transaction volume of all those property transactions is frankly staggering. The IRS is not blind to this.
Then there is the Coinbase summons case, mentioned below. There have been more than a few comparisons raised with the Swiss and other offshore bank controversies. For models on special amnesty programs, the IRS has good examples. The Swiss bank controversies of a decade back prompted two programs, and they are both still in existence.
If you have undisclosed offshore accounts or income, you can enter the IRS program called the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, or OVDP. It involves filing up to eight years of amended tax returns, other disclosure forms, and paying taxes, interest and penalties. But it is formulaic get out of jail free card. What’s more, you can fix your other tax problems too, even if they have nothing to do with offshore income or accounts.
For less serious offshore tax problems, the second IRS program is called the Streamlined program. It involves only three amended tax returns, up to six years of FBAR foreign account reports, and paying taxes and interest you owe. The penalties are much smaller than the OVDP. Moreover, if you live outside the US, you don’t even pay any penalties in the Streamlined program.
These could be helpful blueprints. Way back in 2013, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) said that the IRS needed to ramp up for digital currencies. The IRS started watching such issues in 2007. In 2009, the IRS posted information on its website on the tax consequences of virtual economy transactions.
However, other than the 2014 “it is property” notice, the IRS has not provided taxpayers with more information. Some kind of amnesty seems almost inevitable, eventually. After all, IRS efforts to find untaxed offshore funds hidden in offshore accounts were wildly successful. Some of it was clearly hardball. The IRS has prosecuted big foreign banks for helping Americans stash money and assets overseas. The IRS collected handsome and in some cases punitive settlements.
The IRS has also prosecuted high-profile individuals for hiding their money in offshore accounts. The IRS used whistleblowers and foreign bankers who had to take deals or go down with the ship. The IRS also strong-armed foreign governments, as well as foreign banks to make them turn over more data about US taxpayers holding accounts overseas.
But perhaps the greatest coup in the IRS’s strategy was a type of limited amnesty. The IRS has won big. It has collected more than $10 bln in these efforts. The money train isn’t done yet either. Remember, it all started with the John Doe Summons to UBS, the Swiss bank. It was a John Doe Summons against Coinbase too.
Both the IRS and Coinbase have declared partial victories in that dispute. But some records are going to start flowing like a river. US Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled that the exchange must supply the tax agency with the identities of all users in the US who conducted at least one Bitcoin transaction equivalent to at least $20,000 between 2012 and 2015. The order says that a "reporting gap" gave the IRS legitimate reason to demand the information.
Magistrate Corley wrote in her judgment:
"That only 800 to 900 taxpayers reported gains related to Bitcoin in each of the relevant years and that more than 14,000 Coinbase users have either bought, sold, sent or received at least $20,000 worth of Bitcoin in a given year suggests that many Coinbase users may not be reporting their Bitcoin gains."
With the order, Coinbase will be required to turn over the names, addresses and tax identification numbers on 14,355 account holders out of its nearly six mln customers. The UBS release that started the Swiss avalanche was only 4,250 names. The Court has ordered Coinbase to produce the following customer information: (a) taxpayer ID number, (b) name, (c) birth date, (d) address, (e) records of account activity, including transaction logs or other records identifying the date, amount, and type of transaction (purchase/sale/exchange), the post transaction balance, and the names of counterparties to the transaction and (f) all periodic statements of account or invoices (or the equivalent).
This has to be at least unnerving to affected taxpayers. At least this information is limited to those accounts with at least $20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year from 2013 to 2015. No other records must be produced now. Still, it seems highly unlikely that this is the end of the story, with Coinbase or more generally.
Bitcoin values have gone meteoric. It seems likely that the IRS will start formulating some way to offer carrots to taxpayers who have not been reporting their Bitcoin and other digital currency gains. So, stay tuned. In the meantime, the latest in the Coinbase saga can be read here.


On Monday, a Chinese manufacturer Gionee made a presentation during which presented its new smartphone Marathon M5 Plus. Gionee said that the Marathon M5 Plus is an updated version of Marathon M5, which was presented in June 2015.
Let’s start with the principal – the price of Marathon M5 Plus is 2499 yuan, or about $385. The smartphone will be available for sale in China since December 25, 2015. In addition, the company announced lower prices for Marathon M5. Now the price of old model is $300.
It should be noted that the new smartphone will have several variations with different hardware and software characteristics.
The main feature of Gionee Marathon Plus M5 is a big battery. Even though the battery Marathon M5 Plus (5200mAh) is less than the Marathon M5, however, it is much more other mobile devices on the market. Also, the manufacturer says that the battery of Marathon M5 Plus retains 90 per cent (4500 mAh) of its original capacity after 600 charge cycles. Thus, the battery life is about 2 years.
Gionee reported that it has made great efforts to reduce energy consumption at the level of software. Marathon M5 Plus will warn the user about the programs that consume large amounts of battery power. An interesting feature of the new smartphone is a fast charge, thanks to which the smartphone is charged from zero to 100 percent in just 117 minutes.
Marathon M5 Plus runs on Amigo 3.1 based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. The front panel is a 6-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080×1920 pixels. The smartphone is powered by an unknown octa-core processor with 3GB of RAM. The basic version of the Marathon M5 Plus has 64 GB of internal memory, expandable via MicroSD card (up to 128 GB).
William Lu, CEO Gionee, said:
«Marathon M5 Plus is smartphone of new generation, that is why it is equipped with a large screen”.
Marathon M5 Plus has a fingerprint reader on the button Home, similar to the Touch ID from Apple.
“We asked users of Weibo, where it is more convenient to use a fingerprint reader: on the front or rear panel. Nearly 80 percent of members voted in favor of the front panel”.
Series of smartphones Gionee Marathon is known for its long battery life. That’s why all smartphones in this series are quite heavy and massive.
Software Gionee has several new features, such as Ami Clone. This feature allows users to back up all data on smartphone. When user makes a recovery, the program remembers the little details, such as icons on the home screen. Also, the operating system has a child mode which allows parents to restrict access to applications. The mode can be activated or deactivated using a password or a fingerprint sensor.
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East end areas should expect drop in service
For the past few years, Mesa County commissioners and administrators have advised they can’t continue to provide urban levels of service to the densely populated but unincorporated east end of the Grand Valley.
They claimed the amount of money being spent on law enforcement and infrastructure was disproportionate to the population, leaving other areas of the valley to pick up the bill.
Now that an effort to petition the city of Grand Junction to annex Clifton and portions of Fruitvale has come up short, county officials appear prepared to make good on that advisement and pull back at least some of the resources.
That may be exactly what some annexation opponents want: to be left alone to live in the county and pay lower property taxes. But others say they’re worried a decline in services could lead to dilapidated homes, yards and streets and a drop in property value.
“I have no doubt we’ll get some reduced services,” said Diane Wheeler, a nine-year resident of Clifton who served on a citizen committee that studied annexation. “With the economy being down, the county has to do cutbacks. To me, there really is going to be a downside to this.”
To ask the city to annex Clifton and Fruitvale, petitioners had to collect signatures from more than 50 percent of the property owners, and those signatures had to represent more than 50 percent of the total acreage and parcels.
The area to be annexed was divided into three sections, and petitioners initially focused efforts in the northern-most section, believing its residents were most in favor of becoming a part of the city. But county officials halted the process when it became clear petitioners wouldn’t be able to collect enough signatures by the April 16 deadline. In the end, signatures favoring annexation were obtained on only 31 percent of the eligible parcels. Signatures favoring annexation were obtained on less than 18 percent of the eligible acreage.
Commissioner Janet Rowland said the county is spending 40 to 55 percent of its revenue in areas that were proposed for annexation, even though the 18,000 or so residents who live there make up just 17 to 19 percent of the population of the unincorporated portions.
She said that level of spending won’t continue. As a result, she believes the potential exists for property conditions to deteriorate and residents to relocate into the city.
Commissioner Craig Meis said the lack of support for annexation indicates to him that residents prefer a lower level of government service.
“When we get calls for service, we’ll now have the rationale to say, ‘We cannot do that and, more importantly, you decided not to (annex),’ ” he said.
Meis, too, said he’s concerned land values may suffer. If that happens, he said that could prove to be the impetus for residents to annex or form a special-improvement district.
Kimberly Bullen, county senior management analyst, said she was surprised by the number of people who refused to sign the petition, indicating the vast majority of citizens she heard from wanted to be annexed.
She also noted more people couldn’t be contacted by petition circulators or didn’t respond to contact attempts than those who signed or refused to sign the petition.

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Harry Potter has a lot to answer for. It’s now fashionable for young people’s novels to be of a positively Victorian length. The success of The Da Vinci Code also means that a once neglected bit of ‘foreign’ history is now deemed mainstream. Neither fact, however, diminishes the merits of Breslin’s new epic: a story of plots, murders and betrayals with a cast that includes not only Leonardo but the Medicis, Machiavelli and the Borgias.
Its central character and narrator is a boy on the brink of manhood known as Matteo and apparently the orphan of travelling folk or gypsies. Pursued by villains, he falls into the care of Leonardo and becomes his assistant as the inventor and artist journeys through the northern states of Renaissance Italy. It’s a journey with plenty of macabre twists (including a memorable night in a morgue where Leonardo dissects a body in the pursuit of learning) and, if episodic, is a serious ‘page-turner’.
Yes, it’s possible to criticise the novelist for sharing too much of her considerable research with us (the fashion details, for example, are interesting but not intrinsic to the plot or atmosphere) and for the fact that, like many a historical novelist, she has problems creating convincing period dialogue. Matteo has had little formal education but speaks in perfect grammatical sentences.
These are small blemishes however. The reader will be swept along by the action and, on the way, learn a great deal about the heartless families who ruthlessly battled for power while commissioning some of the world’s greatest artworks.

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Putin: Russia coming under pressure for not bargaining its sovereignty
Amsterdam court receives Ukraine’s statement on Scythian gold
Russia ready to export Iskander missile complexes to Saudi Arabia
Two Ukrainian traffic officers defect to side of DPR
Serbia has taken no decision on participation in Turkish Stream project
Finnish foreign minister does not believe in cooling of relations with RussiaWorld July 04, 3:33
BRICS, SCO, EEU leaders to discuss geopolitical, security problems in Russia’s Ufa July 9Russia July 03, 21:59
Moscow notes growing politicization and use of double standards at UN Human Rights CouncilRussia July 03, 21:54
Greek premier asks for 30% debt write-offWorld July 03, 21:47
Several dozen NGOs among contenders for 'patriotic stop list’ — Russian lawmakerRussia July 03, 21:22
About 4,000 extremists marching in central Kiev demanding revocation of Minsk agreementsWorld July 03, 20:55
Putin: Russia coming under pressure for not bargaining its sovereigntyRussia July 03, 20:36
Rosnano chief Chubais to testify in favour of ex-colleague Leonid MelamedRussia July 03, 20:28
Western sanctions aimed at changing Russian leadership — Russian security chiefRussia July 03, 19:58
MOSCOW, July 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, a member of the Russian Public Chamber and chairman of the Public Council set up under the Russian Interior Ministry, said on Saturday that it was impossible to exchange Edward Snowden, the former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency, for Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bout convicted in the United States.
"It would be impossible to exchange Snowden for Viktor Bout or Konstantin Yaroshenko primarily because Edward Snowden has not committed any crimes in the territory of our country. That is why the exchange would have been legally incorrect,” Kucherena said in a live interview with Russia’s Dozhd (Rain) television channel.
Kucherena noted that Edward Snowden was facing a death penalty under U.S. laws. “Snowden is being accused of espionage and government property theft. Both violations imply a very tough sentence, including capital punishment,” Kucherena went on to say.
Last week, Kucherena held legal consultations with Edward Snowden in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport in connection with the latter’s intention to seek political asylum in Russia.
Viktor Bout, a Russian businessman, is serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States. He was convicted of illegal arms trade and support of terrorism in 2012.
Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot, was arrested in Liberia in 2010 on charges of transporting large shipments of cocaine. He was later extradited to the United States where he was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
Earlier, Yaroshenko’s mother had asked the Russian Foreign Ministry to exchange her son for Edward Snowden.
LDPR’s leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky has made similar proposals on Bout and Yaroshenko.

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The cardiometabolic effect of current management of polycystic ovary syndrome: strategies of prevention and treatment.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects 5-10% of women in reproductive age and is characterized by oligo/amenorrhea, androgen excess, insulin resistance, and typical polycystic ovarian morphology. It is the most common cause of infertility secondary to ovulatory dysfunction. The underlying etiology is still unknown but is believed to be multifactorial. Insulin-sensitizing compounds such as inositol, a B-complex vitamin, and its stereoisomers (myo-inositol and D-chiro-inositol) have been studied as an effective treatment of PCOS. Administration of inositol in PCOS has been shown to improve not only the metabolic and hormonal parameters but also ovarian function and the response to assisted-reproductive technology (ART). Accumulating evidence suggests that it is also capable of improving folliculogenesis and embryo quality and increasing the mature oocyte yield following ovarian stimulation for ART in women with PCOS. In the current review, we collate the evidence and summarize our current knowledge on ovarian stimulation and ART outcomes following inositol treatment in women with PCOS undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and/or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

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Sep 25, 2012, 6:18 PM EST
Yu Darvish won’t be on the mound as the Rangers try to put more distance between themselves and the A’s tonight. He’s been scratched due to a stiff neck, the team announced.
Scott Feldman will pitch in his place.
Darvish has been on a terrific roll of late, having gone 4-0 with a 1.46 ERA and a 42/8 K/BB ratio in his last five starts. There hasn’t been any word yet on when he’ll pitch again, but his injury isn’t considered serious.
Feldman lost his rotation spot after giving up six runs in 2 2/3 innings against the Mariners on Sept. 15 and had pitched once in relief since, throwing three scoreless innings versus Seattle on Friday. He’s 1-1 with a 16.20 ERA in two starts against Oakland this year.
- UPDATE: Mariners planning to offer nine years, $225 million to Robinson Cano 85
- MLB, NPB nearing new posting system agreement 9
- Report: Talks between the Mets and Curtis Granderson have “intensified” 31
- Yankees agree to seven-year, $153M contract with free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury 159
- Marlins sign free agent catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia to three-year, $21 million contract 44
- Yankees agree to seven-year, $153M contract with free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury (159)
- Report: Mariners willing to offer Robinson Cano a 10-year, $240 million deal (143)
- When will the Yankees regret the Jacoby Ellsbury contract? (98)
- Robinson Cano met with the Mariners in Seattle (87)
- UPDATE: Mariners planning to offer nine years, $225 million to Robinson Cano (86)


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The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) Releases Position Paper on Sector’s Use of Horseshoe Crabs
- The PSCI - representing 75 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies - launches progressive position paper on the use of Horseshoe Crab blood in the industry
- Position paper addresses a range of issues to ensure sustainability and welfare of the Horseshoe Crab populations
22nd May 2023 – The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) just released a position paper on the use of Horseshoe Crabs in the pharmaceutical sector. The paper takes a progressive stance, noting the potential animal welfare and sustainability impacts of the use of Horseshoe Crab blood within the industry, and aims to encourage its member companies to minimize their use and seek out safe alternatives for their supply chains.
Horseshoe Crabs are an ancient group of crab species who have been around for more than 400 million years. Their blood has the remarkable property of indicating certain types of endotoxins. For this reason, it has been harvested by the medical and pharma industries to use as a test for these harmful compounds. Endotoxin testing using approved methods is a key demand of the regulators who authorize pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.
While this process does not require the death of the animal, there are still questions over possible animal welfare, biodiversity, and sustainability impacts from the collection of these materials from populations of wild crabs. Of the three affected species of Horseshoe Crabs across the US and Asia, one Asian species is listed as endangered, with concerns over the other Asian species where data is deficient.
The connection between the Horseshoe Crab species and the pharmaceutical sector highlights the importance of biodiversity for human health and acts an excellent example of interdependence between medicine and biodiversity. It also illustrates the complexity of biodiversity-related sourcing in a regulated industry.
However, it also emphasizes the need for the industry to take an active position, and so the PSCI has launched its progressive position paper on what it believes to be good practice for the use of Horseshoe Crab blood within the pharmaceutical industry.
“The PSCI is releasing this position paper to encourage our members to protect the endangered species, seek out alternatives to these materials, and to adopt an intentional approach to sourcing where it is remains necessary.
Our commitment is to work together now, to drive this transition towards a long-term sustainable position and to play our part in protecting these remarkable species.”
– A spokesperson for the PSCI
Representing 75 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, the PSCI will encourage its members to commit to no further collection from endangered species, minimising the use of these materials, and sharing information to understand the animal welfare and conservation questions.
While this paper is not a membership requirement for the PSCI, it does outline the organisation’s views on good practice as it continues its commitment to the protection of all endangered species. It is important the industry has a strategy for reducing its dependence on Horseshoe Crab-derived products, and the PSCI is committed to working with its members to facilitate their progress and report the position across the whole industry.
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Helping suppliers meet industry expectations. The PSCI was formed as a project between the 6 founding members in 2006 and was legally established in the United States as a non-profit membership organization in 2013.
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A.HID kit installations start with preparation. You have to make sure the vehicle is off the battery is disconnected, and the engine is cooled down. This is will ensure your safety. Now we can move to the actual installation. If you have a single low beam kit, locate your low beam dust cover on the back of your headlight assembly. Remove the cover by twisting it counter clock wise. This should unscrew the dust cover giving you access to the bulb. Make sure you unplug the bulb from the wiring harness before you attempt to remove it. Now you can continue to place the xenon bulb in place of the halogen bulb you just removed, just make sure you don’t touch the glass part of the bulb.
B.: Installing the ballast. First thing is to find a good location to place the ballast, somewhere close enough to able to reach the bulb with the wiring plugs. Once you have the ballast secured then you can proceed to plug the wiring to the bulb, and plug the old harness to the ballast.
C.: In HID kit installation is to double check all the wiring plugs to make sure everything snapped into place correctly. Also double check to make sure that the ballast is securely attached to the vehicle. Now you can reconnect your battery and test out your new HID upgrade.
Watch the below installation video done on a Jeep. Your vehicle will be similar: Please note the procedure does not require you to remove the front bumper on most vehicles, as the ballast can be installed right behind the headlight aread on an existing bolt. Some vehicles may require the headlight to move removed because of tight space behind the headlight. Usually 90% of vehicles you can install an HID kit within 30 minutes.
Installation on a 2006 Audi A3 (Below)
Sometimes the connector you insert into the ballast must be reversed!. Some cars wiring is reverse polarity, so you may need to switch the polarity and that fixes the problem 99% of the time. Some vehicles simply require problem eliminators to solve "not turning on" or "Flickering effect".
I think my ballast or bulb is defective? Watch below
I start my car with the HID kit turned on and one or both of the lights turn off.
The lack of power and pulsing voltage when your starter is cranking may activate the safety circuit in the ballast and turn one or both off to protect its self.
Solution: a: Start car with headlights turned off.
b: Install a wire relay harness.
What do I do with the rubber grommet pre-installed on the wires?
If your halogen high beam turns on for your low beam on 9007. Or if on your 9004 vehicle your lights seem to be acting wrong: This is a common problem associated with polarity from the HID kits connector. Each vehicle manufactures uses a different configuration for (Ground / Low Beam / High Beam). You can easily swap the pins on the hid connector. Here is how you do it. Stick your finger inside the plug where the pins are and bend them down toward the CURVED surface of the plug. Then raise them up a bit and pull from the back. This is the easiest way to swap the pins.
Please look at the procedure below in installing an HID kit on various bulb types.
H1 HID Bulb Size Installation
1. Get access behind the headlight or remove your headlight and remove the H1 bulb as shown below:
2. Installation the replacement HID H1 bulb without damaging it or touching the glass with your fingers.
3. Attach the yellow and brown wires shown in our pictures to the HID kit wire supplied. The HID kit wires are males and the original cars connectors (usually yellow/brown) are females.. You are getting power from these exisiting Drill holes for the wire of the bulb to be ran outside if your headlight had a cover. Run the wires through the new holes you drilled and use the supplied rubber garmet if neccessary.
4. Connect the wires from the bulb and from the cars original wiring to the ballast. Mount the ballast in a sercure location by either zip-tie, double back tape, or screw.
H7 HID Bulb Size Installation
1. Get access to your bulb by removing parts or covers. Each car is different, please consult your owners manual for getting access to the bulb. Disconnect the original vehicles connector that is attached to the bulb and carefully REMOVE the bulb.
2. Drill hole in the cover if one exists for your vehicle to run the HID wires. 1 set of wires runs for the bulb connection and 1 to get power from the cars original wiring plug. You simply have to stick in the terminal connectors into the cars original connector or plug in the H7 connector shown below if supplied. Install your new HID bulb carefully without touching the glass. Run the wires from the location where you will mount the ballasts to the bulb area. Make connection
3. Mount your ballast in a secure place and make sure the connections are tight. You can use zip-tie, double back tape or screws.
H4 HID Bulb Size Installation
1. Get access behind the headlight or remove your headlight and remove the H4 bulb as shown below. Install the HID bulb supplied without touching the glass. If you do you must remove with alcohol.
2. Mount the ballast in a good location. Run any wires through any covers, if any, of your headlights. Connect the bulb wires labeled above to the ballast wires. Connect the dangling red/black wires to your cars appropiate terminal, as shown above.
H13 HID Kit Installation
1. Remove stock bulb
2. Insert HID bulb carefully
3. Plug HID bulb to ballast
4. Ballast has two connectectors, positive and negative, connect these into your stock H13 connector.
Stick the terminals from the ballast into your original connector above.
H13 HID Installation
9004 & 9007 HID Installation


7-Jan-2014 Source: University of Miami
The University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) is adding to its fleet of specialized research vessels with its latest acquisition – a helicopter equipped with state-of-the-art technology that converts a commercial aircraft into a flying scientific laboratory.
This one-of-a-kind Helicopter Observation Platform (HOP) will allow scientists to obtain vital information on environmental processes and mechanisms that affect our climate and impact human health.
“HOP will support the research missions University of Miami (UM) scientists and a host of other research institutions around the world by improving our understanding of the Earth’s environment – in particular the Earth’s surface, whether marine or continental, and the thin atmospheric boundary layer above it, where much of the action for the climate system is taking place,” says Dr. Roni Avissar, Dean of UM’s Rosenstiel School and experienced helicopter pilot.
“This is a major advance for UM’s recently launched Exploration Science program whose mission is to broaden interest in field-based scientific research,” says Dr. Kenny Broad, Director of UM’s Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy and Chair of Marine Affairs and Policy at RSMAS. He and Avissar will lead this project and will serve as HOP pilots during scientific missions and expeditions.
The novel aircraft, which is based on a commercial Airbus Helicopter AS350B3e, is being transformed to include advanced technology for studying key physical, chemical and biological processes near the Earth’s surface.
“No other aircraft offers the flexibility of a helicopter, in terms of payload, maneuverability and safety. HOP will uniquely fill an important gap in research airborne observations,” says Avissar.
HOP will also facilitate new observations of seasonal events, including Saharan dust storms. The dust, swept up by strong winds in Africa, travels thousands of miles across the Atlantic carrying microbes and fine airborne particles that affect air quality. The dust particles also have an impact on marine ecosystems, the climate and hurricane formation.
The new aircraft will complement an array of cutting-edge research resources at RSMAS, including the F.G. Walton Smith, an advanced research catamaran designed for tropical oceanography; the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) a real-time, high-resolution satellite imagery facility; and the new one-of-a-kind SUSTAIN (SUrge-STructure-Atmosphere INteraction) research facility that will open for research and education in Spring 2014. Currently under final construction steps, the facility will be the only place in the world with a wind-wave-storm surge simulator capable of generating Category 5 hurricane-force winds in a 3D test environment.
RSMAS has been involved in the engineering, building and testing process of the technological innovations made to the helicopter. Procurement of the Airbus Helicopter was funded by the Batchelor Foundation, which provided nearly half of its acquisition cost through a challenge grant. The G. Unger Vetlessen Foundation and an anonymous donor contributed a significant portion of the matching funds.
Established in 1990, the Batchelor Foundation supports numerous programs, organizations and projects benefiting the environment, including research and education programs and those focused on animals, wildlife and natural resources.
The G. Unger Vetlessen Foundation voluntarily aids and contributes to religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes throughout the world.
About the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School The University of Miami is the largest private research institution in the southeastern United States. The University’s mission is to provide quality education, attract and retain outstanding students, support the faculty and their research, and build an endowment for University initiatives. Founded in the 1940’s, the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has grown into one of the world’s premier marine and atmospheric research institutions. Offering dynamic interdisciplinary academics, the Rosenstiel School is dedicated to helping communities to better understand the planet, participating in the establishment of environmental policies, and aiding in the improvement of society and quality of life. For more information, please visit http://www.rsmas.miami.edu.
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Riley Burruss Reveals What Mama Joyce Is *Really* Like at Home
The Real Housewives of Atlanta kid and Kandi Burruss' daughter opened up about her grandma like never before.
Riley Burruss knows a side of mom Kandi Burruss' mom, Mama Joyce Jones, that most people do not. While Mama Joyce has become a an icon in The Real Housewives of Atlanta franchise, Riley's grandma is just that: the woman known to her family as Memo.
"I think it's definitely different for people at home seeing her on TV, and then me just [being] there. Whenever there's stuff about her on TV, when she has an argument or something, I just find that really funny. I don't really take it seriously," Riley shared in an exclusive interview with Bravo Insider.
She then revealed what Joyce is like as a grandmother: "She's really caring. She's always trying to make sure the kids are OK. I feel like the kids are her main concerns, but that's probably why I find it funny 'cause I'm like, 'Oh well, it's good for me.' I know a lot of people try to make her seem like she's really mean and stuff. But I think it's just like a little sass, I guess a word for myself. So I just find it funny."
But whatever Riley, who is currently away at college at NYU, knows about the events that transpire on RHOA with her family, including with her grandma, she really only learns about from other ways. "Honestly, I don't really watch the show. Of course, if [my mom] tells me, 'Oh, you're in this episode,' then she might send me a video clip or something, or tell me when I'm going to be on. But I don't typically watch it, especially because I am here, so I already know what's going on," Riley said. "Sometimes there are things that I don’t realize. Like, if they have an argument with my grandma or something, and then I'm like, 'What? I didn't even know that happened.' And then I'll talk to her about it way later than it happened, and then she'll tell me what happened, but yeah. So it is kind of interesting to watch at times, but I don't really."
She added, "I think it's funny just to see. Sometimes I enjoy watching and then seeing what other people have to say. But for me, it's just like funny to see from an outside point of view, because when you're just having conversation and talking to your family you're like, 'Oh, whatever.' But then when you, like, have the chance to re-watch it, you're like, 'Oh, wow, like, I didn't realize I said that,' or, 'I didn't realize that's how I sound,' or something like that. I think it's definitely interesting to see it kind of like from an outside perspective."
Over the years, mom Kandi, has even shared some important advice about living a public life: "Ignoring people who speak ill of you."
Riley painted a picture of what life is like when she's back home in Atlanta with her entire family. "I'm always in the kitchen, I'm always with the kids," she said. "I feel like Todd's always working in one of the restaurants, making sure everything's good over there. Of course, my mom's schedule is always full. But we always ended up seeing each other in the kitchen area mostly. Ace will be in there sitting, watching TV on his iPad. Blaze will be running around, so that's kind of like the dynamic. Of course, Kaela lives in New York, so she hasn't been around there that much, similar to me now."
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BEVERLY HILLS – I absolutely love talking to Sir Ben Kingsley. He has a cadence, a swagger, a rhythm of speech that I find easy to tap into, understand, and bounce off of, like a surfer off waves. His passion for his craft is always on the surface. He delights in its specificity. And with “The Boxtrolls,” he has carved out another memorable piece of work in one of cinema's most laureled filmographies.
Nominated for four Oscars, having won the first time out for his iconic “Gandhi” performance, Kingsley continues to impress with his versatility. When Laika came calling, he discovered an opportunity to dive headlong into an extreme, manic, villainous character, Archibald Snatcher, and come away with the most memorable beats of the film. It's enough to make you wonder what other characters he might be able to manifest from those vocal chords, because he's certainly not lazily going through the celebrity voice motions here.
You can read about that and a whole lot more in our back and forth below.
“The Boxtrolls” opens Sept. 26.
HitFix: It's funny, when I went into the movie I honestly wasn't too studied on the voice cast or anything. So when I heard your character I was trying to peg the actor, and I got it wrong. I was thinking it was Bill Nighy!
Sir Ben Kingsley: Oh, right!
So that tells you how far away from your natural cadence you got.
Yes quite far. I did. I did.
It sounds like a fun character. He's so extreme.
He's like an animal in his pure form. He is completely socially inept. He lives in a state of total social panic. He doesn't know what voice to use with whom. He's eaten up with ambition. He's completely incapable of dealing with rejection of any kind. And he's a man who wants to join a club that doesn't want him as a member. [Laughs.] Of all the people in the world, of course it's him, you know? Classic, isn't it?
Right. He's such a manic person.
Manic. Eaten up. Obsessed.
How did that feel as a performer, to wiggle into that space? Does it come to a point where it just naturally starts to flow out of you?
It does. It came to a point very early on in the recording sessions because my response to the script was so strong it did enable me to kind of visualize a voice – if you can accept that – but not quite hear it. Because his physical shape is very different from mine. And there is somebody – I've not seen him for a while – in my circle of acquaintances and colleagues whose voice I borrowed as a starting point for Archibald Snatcher. This person is immensely kind and generous, a lovely man. It's just that his voice comes from a different place from my voice. So I decided to recline, to get horizontal in the recording studio to be as relaxed as possible. And then I was completely relaxed and did not allow any body language to augment what my voice was doing – only the voice. I said, “Only the voice. Don't move.” I'm even doing it now, look. I didn't even do that. Only the voice. And all those ingredients, the narcissism, the grandiose narcissism, the ambition, the preening, the vanity. It all started to come through the voice.
Is that hard, to focus on just the voice and eliminate any physical movement that it might register?
I find it very freeing actually.
Because when you see B-roll and stuff of people doing voices for animation, it always seems like something about doing the voice makes them act it out. I guess I would think that maybe that would make it easier.
Just for me, for this particular character, it released a lot of layers by being utterly still.
I guess that makes it come from even a deeper place.
That's interesting. As far as being directed on this, what did Tony and Graham do to kind of bring you to that place? I mean I'm sure there was a lot of talk about the character beforehand and how you were going to play it but what were they trying to get out of you in particular?
Anthony was in the studio with me quite a lot in the UK. And his input was an absolute lifeline because – here's an example: Snatcher has three acolytes, three stooges around him. But we never recorded in the same studio. Yet you see it on the screen. It honestly looks as though we did workshops together. We rehearsed together. We broke for lunch together. The rhythms of that quartet were perfect. Now whilst recording, Tony, of course – because I'm all by myself – he would say, “You're addressing that. You're talking to that. You're hearing that.” So I could pitch that hierarchy more skillfully and also out of context. Sometimes he'd say the animation's very vivid. So it could be a whisper but it's like a harsh whisper putting me in a context that I couldn't see or feel that he had it all in his head. So that was immensely valuable. Tone, volume, motivation. I was clear, but how to express that motivation, Anthony was hugely helpful in guiding me that way.
Also he interjected something really interesting early on. When I got really relaxed and into it – about five minutes in, he said – I started to elongate my vowels. Like when Snatcher says, “Aaaallllll the waaaaaayyy ooouuuuut heeeerrree.” I decided to do that and he said, “The animators love that! When you stretch your vowels.” He said, “You are giving them so much to work with.” It was then that I realized that, although I am not doing any body language, I'm saying, “I did the voice bit. You do the body bit.” Although they were thousands of miles away and wouldn't get recordings maybe for a day or two, I was able to give them something.
It makes sense. In that particular scene Snatcher is doing this kind of pirouette, so they can have some playfulness with the movement.
I'm glad you mentioned that particular moment in the movie because that's certainly, for me, a moment where it seems like you're really enjoying the cadence of the character as the performer. When you're performing voice work like this, do you ever find a spot where you can look objectively at what you're doing and maybe enjoy it in that way? Does that make sense?
Oh, it makes total sense. I think there are, because hopefully I'm a storyteller and as a storyteller I think that there should always be the element of “you are addressing something to somebody even though you can't see them.” You are passing on some story, some pattern of human behavior, something. So the objective, I think, is there to some extent, yeah. It comes and goes. Sometimes in a not straight character-driven narrative, live action movie, between “action” and “cut,” I can be in a zone where I've let go of everything. And they don't last very long. I mean I could measure them in seconds. But one has to let go of everything. And later on if I am able to see the film and that take is in the film, there is something in me that says, “I don't know how I did that. I have no idea where that came from.” Other times there is that control of technique, of breathing, of body language, like trying to make my performance as economic as possible so that I throw away everything that could be distracting to the audience from the main narrative function of the scene or drive with my character. So I'm trying to get stiller and stiller and stiller, so then to allow someone else to be in charge of my natural body movements, it's quite extraordinary.
Well that's very illuminating as to your previous point about it being a freeing experience.
A little story from early on in the shoot: they got together a clip of Snatcher walking down the stairs talking about ambition and how it's limited in some people and limitless in others. And there was a vowel sound I used and they accompanied it with such a narcissistic preening gesture. I thought, “OK, I've got it. I can let them go and my body – they absolutely got what I'm trying to do, which is great.”
Awesome. Just wanted to go off topic here a bit on a couple of other movies briefly, if it's alright. Jonathan Glazer. He's made, like, two movies since “Sexy Beast,” which was such a bold debut and of course a ripe opportunity for you at the time. Why do you think that is?
I honestly don't know. But he is extraordinary. He's absolutely – he's unique. And I think he – I mean he can sustain himself by making commercials easily and I'm sure that there are loads of commercials out there that are Jonathan's and we don't know they're Jonathan's. And then he nurtures his own projects. He's quite reluctant to involve himself in other people's projects. I emailed him recently and I hope we're going to catch up soon because I saw “Under the Skin,” which I found fabulous, fascinating, a useful film. I still haven't seen “Birth.” But he allows the actors to occupy such a free, released, vulnerable and at the same time confident space that he's a joy to work with. A joy.
So I imagine you want to work with him again?
And then another one that I just happened to catch recently, because I've been rewatching all of Roger Deakins' work, is “House of Sand and Fog.” It had been a while. I must have forgotten how much of an absolute downer that was.
It is a tragedy.
Yeah, absolutely. And filmed as such. I just wanted to get any comments you might have about working with Deakins.
I guess it's a key to great narrative filmmaking, the light and how much light or lack of light there is on a situation. Whether the light is scorching and merciless or whether there is some softening of light, some shadow. Roger is a narrative director of photography. He's not one of those grandiose – “I want the light to be 'beautiful.' 'Beautiful.'” No. He's not that. He wants to tell the story. What tells the story? If I put the lamp there, he's just sitting in a room. If I put the lamp there, he's the loneliest man in the world.
And with Roger, and Vadim [Perelman], bless him, I could be totally, totally still knowing – and with James Horner, his music – that that moment will come together, light, sound and my stillness, not doing anything at all: there's the loneliest man in the world, or the angriest man in the world, or some state. Roger can create a condition in which something is illuminated and we receive it in that frame.
That's interesting because it gets right back to what you said about the Laika guys working with the movement of your character and you could trust that fully.
Fantastic. Well congratulations on this. It's an amazing character.
Thank you so much. Great to see you again.
“The Boxtrolls” opens in theaters Friday, Sept. 26.
For more with Sir Ben Kingsley, check out the supplementary video interview embedded at the top of this post.


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If I don’t eat, I feel sick, but then every time I do eat I have pain in my stomach for hours following.
I’m 8+ weeks.
Anyone else have stomach pain after eating? It’s not heart burn, it’s almost like a mild food poisoning type pain.
I feel worse each time after I eat and yes it's like an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach - almost like a stomach bug. I feel best in the morning when I wake up actually. Don't understand it and wish I could stay asleep all day so I wasn't conscious of this horrible constant feeling!
I had this around 5-8 weeks. Seems to have shifted now. It really depends on what you eat i think. I can NOT digest some foods right now. Like i made a lovely cucumberand avacado salad. Came right back up after massive pain. The cucumber didn’t even break down. I am cooking veggies and trying to eat easily digestible food. It’s a process.....
I had this too! And it was miserable, so I sympathize. I also had it from about 5-8ish weeks. I will say that at 10 weeks it seems to have shifted. But I also feel like I learned that I have to eat smaller portions than normal. Like I would try to eat a piece of fruit and a piece of toast for breakfast. But it was too much, I'd feel awful. I felt better if I spread it out. Fruit first, toast an hour or two later etc. Hope that helps!


Another multi-day severe weather outbreak – the fourth in four weeks – is targeting the Plains, Midwest, and South, where thunderstorms will be capable of spawning several tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail.
This latest outbreak kicked off late Monday when baseball- to softball-sized hail pelted parts of Arkansas. A hailstone of 4.5 inches in diameter was reported Monday evening in New Blaine, Arkansas, which was the largest hail in the state since May 4, 2020, according to the Storm Events Database compiled by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
There were also six reports of tornadoes in Arkansas on Monday evening, including at least one twister that was confirmed by the weather observer at Little Rock Air Force Base, which triggered the National Weather Service to issue a rare Tornado Emergency.
Showers and storms are ongoing Tuesday morning in parts of the central U.S., but they have mostly stayed below severe limits so far. That will eventually change as the atmosphere becomes more unstable by late Tuesday afternoon.
Scattered severe thunderstorms are expected to fire up beginning late Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Tuesday night across a broad area from the Central and Southern Plains to the Mississippi Valley.
The greatest threat of severe weather will be in portions of western and northern Iowa, where wind shear – the change in wind speed and/or direction with height – will be favorable for the development of supercells capable of EF-2 or stronger tornadoes and hail larger than 2 inches in diameter.
Very large hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes are all threats in the other areas at risk for severe storms as well.
Numerous severe thunderstorms are likely on Wednesday across a large area from the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley to the Midwest, Ohio Valley and Southeast.
Destructive winds, including some gusts over 75 mph, several tornadoes and large to very large hail are all significant threats. Some of the tornadoes could be EF-2 or stronger.
The severe weather threat will diminish on Thursday as the low-pressure system responsible for this outbreak reaches the East Coast.
However, isolated severe thunderstorms might linger from parts of the Southeast to the mid-Atlantic and southern New England. Damaging wind gusts are the main concern.
Heavy rain, flash flooding threats
Rainfall totals between 1 and 3 inches are predicted from the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley through Thursday. Locally higher amounts over 3 inches are possible where the heaviest rain sets up.
Flash flooding could develop in some areas because soils are saturated across this region after the recent siege of severe storms and heavy rainfall across the South and Ohio Valley.
If your town faces the threat of severe weather or flash flooding this week, make sure you are prepared by following these steps.
That includes having multiple ways of receiving watches and warnings from the National Weather Service and knowing where to take shelter in the event a Tornado Warning is issued.
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|This product has been discontinued.
It cannot be purchased in retail stores. The only way to obtain it is through second-hand websites and stores.
Not to be confused with the 2015 N-Strike Modulus Blast Shield.
The Blast Shield provides protection from dart fire. It is designed so users can hide behind it in heavy fire so darts do not hit them. It wraps around from the top of the blaster to the blaster's barrels' sides. The shield can be removed from the blaster and attached to other blasters via tactical rail. The shield also has a wall of criss-crossing plastic that the user may view their opponent through. Incoming darts, including Streamline Darts, cannot fit through this opening. This attachment will block most oncoming fire to the head area, but older users will find that the scalp is still open to oncoming fire.
The Blast Shield was specifically designed for the Stampede, so attaching it to other blasters will cause it to wobble significantly whenever movement occurs; however, the Recon CS-6 seems to be an exception to this.
The Blast Shield has been released in the following color schemes:
- Some blasters, such as the Vulcan EBF-25, cannot use the Blast Shield, due to it being too wide. Others will be too small to fit on properly, causing the shield to wobble. Using this with the Deploy CS-6 makes it impossible to compact the blaster fully. On many blasters, it tends to painfully pinch the person's hands. Surprisingly a Spectre REV-5 is still able to reload with the Blast Shield attached, but it is limited down to one dart at a time. On the Barricade RV-10, it cannot conventionally fit at all, but it is still held in place between the battery casing and the revolving barrel.
- When the Blast Shield is used on the Stampede ECS' forward tactical rail (i.e. where the box, all promotional images, and the blaster's enclosed instruction manual portray it to be) the blaster's iron sight is rendered useless because it blocks user's view down the barrel.


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Economist Roberto Campos Neto was approved by the Senate to lead Brazil’s Central Bank. He takes on the role having earlier been an executive at Banco Santander Brasil SA .
An advocate of blockchain technologies, Mr. Campos had earlier written to the Senate outlining his track record in technological innovation.
In his letter, Mr. Campos explained his intention to prepare the Central Bank to adopt blockchain. He had earlier conducted a study on this industry and technology.
According to Reuters, at the confirmation hearing Mr. Campos indicated there would be little change to monetary policy.
The new administration continues the fintech efforts started by the current president of the Central Bank, Ilan Goldfajn who had earlier spearheaded the implementation of instant payments with real-time bank transfers.
Although the government’s administration has not set an official position on the market of cryptocurrencies, there was an earlier study completed that would use blockchain technology to allow a fast and secure exchange of data between regulatory agencies.
While analysts argue over the scope and speed of the ‘blockchain revolution,’ there are the reasons we’ll likely watch more blockchain adoption unfold in Brazil.
Government initiatives and policies are helping fuel demand for blockchain technology. “With national governments simultaneously exploring blockchain implementation in public institutions while also helping encourage its development in the private sector, blockchain penetration into the broader population is likely to occur at a faster and faster rate,” according to Amyn Gillani, CEO at Talos Digital, which has offices in South America.
Mr. Campos mentioned similar comments on the nation’s economy as the President had, including that reducing public spending and controlling inflation were key to fostering economic growth in the country.
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A MULTI-MILLIONAIRESS hotel owner has told of her nightmare 16-hour return journey from Spain.
The flight Stephanie Booth, who owns the Bryn Howell Hotel, Llangollen, was on from Malaga depressurised and had to return to the Spanish Airport.
The plane taxied to a remote part of the runway and passengers were taken back to the airport.
After two and a half hours waiting for news, Mrs Booth spotted a 6.45pm Monarch flight destined for Manchester.
It finally took off at 7.30pm and landed in Manchester at 10pm.
She said: “Unbelievably the walkway breaks down and it cannot connect to the plane to let us disembark.
“Another 30 minutes pass before we flee the aircraft only to run in to huge queues at passport control.”
She was driven from the airport – but the M56 motorway turned out to be was closed for night-time resurfacing, necessitating a drive towards Manchester before being able to turn round in torrential rain.
Mrs Booth added: “We arrive home at midnight, 16 hours after leaving home in Spain to a rapturous welcome from 4 dogs and 3 cats.
“We spent an hour with them before retiring wearily to bed.”


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For many years the Society has held its Annual Open Exhibitions in the Westminster Gallery at Central Hall Westminster. In 2005, due to ill health, Suzanne retired as President and sadly passed away in December 2008. Vice President and Founder Member Margaret Stevens was elected as her successor 2005 and Vickie Marsh took over the Presidency in 2010. The new President in 2013 is Sandra Wall Armitage and the Society continues to move forward in her capable hands.
In 2004 The Art of Botanical Painting was written by Margaret Stevens for the Society and published in association with Harper Collins. Initially designed for those searching for a practical guide to the subject of botanical art, the book has been a resounding success and the American edition was published by Harper Collins US in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution.
A new book The Botanical Palette, again written by Margaret Stevens for the Society, was published by Harper Collins in October 2007.
Realising that The Art of Botanical Painting would be an ideal textbook on which to base a course, the Society launched its Distance Learning Diploma Course in January 2005. Ten Courses have completed, two are underway and Course 13 commences in 2016. Enquiries for enrolment in 2017 should be directed to the Executive Secretary [email protected]
In March 2010 Anova Books published Botanical Sketchbook by SBA Member and former DLDC student Mary Ann Scott, under the auspices of the SBA and with Margaret Stevens acting as consultant and co-editor.
In 2012 Anova Books published a heavily revised and expanded update of a classic text by Ernest E. Clark, Handbook of Botanical Forms for Botanical Artists, which features the contemporary work of tutors and students of the Society’s Distance Learning Diploma Course.


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Our panel looks at the big stories in the news.
When Tornado Destroys Band’s Equipment, ‘Sound Guy’ Steps Up
No one was seriously injured last Saturday night, after a tornado touched down in the rural Goshen and Conway, Massachusetts. But buildings collapsed, and personal belongings were destroyed. Friends — and strangers — have jumped in to help out. One “donation” happened just by chance.
As More Asylum-Seekers Flee To Canada, Taxi Rides To The Border Raise Red Flags
As high volumes of migrants flee the United States to apply for asylum in Canada, one popular route into Quebec is just west of Lake Champlain. To get to the snowy illegal crossing, many are calling a cab. But there’s a catch: Some of those cabbies are coordinating with U.S. Border Patrol, and that practice has some civil liberties advocates concerned.
Exploring The ‘Villas’ of Oplontis, Pompeii’s Often Overlooked Neighbor
The city of Pompeii was destroyed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Some may be familiar with the ancient site. It’s been a tourist destination for over two hundred fifty years. Not so familiar? Nearby Oplontis. That’s the focus of a new exhibition in Northampton at the Smith College Museum of Art.
What Could Another Connecticut Casino Mean For East Windsor And Springfield?
This week, Connecticut’s two federally recognized Native American tribes picked East Windsor as the site of a third casino in the state. It’s just a few miles from the MGM casino under construction in Springfield.
Poet Ocean Vuong On The Refugee Experience And Literature
More than a million Vietnamese refugees have come to the U.S. in the decades that followed their civil war; more than 65,000 Vietnamese make New England home. Syrians are another massive wave of people dislocated by war. These two very different cultures share a common experience, yet through literature and poetry, one Vietnamese refugee who grew up in Hartford is making the experience universal.

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Well, apparently they were back then and still are today for people of all ages. Here we have collection of car logos coloring pages. You can find here many logos: Ferrary, BMW, Lambordhini, Ford, Nissan, Porsche, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi and others. We are to plan make more colorings with cars logos. You'll see here logos of famous brands, american and japan cars, european cars. Its easy to color logos of cars here. You can see hints for coloring - just press the eye icon. And you'll see colorfull example of car logo. Also, if you don't like the colors you made - you can reset all colors to white and start coloring from beginning. Adult coloring books are all the buzz of late. It is clear that it revolves around colored pencils or crayons and coloring pages. But, it is just coloring, right? How can something like staying within the lines be a benefit to me?
Other uses of color printing are mainly in the production of office documents that need to be circulated widely to an inattentive audience. These include business cards and job cards, usually made colorful to attract a client. The technology is also used in the production of title pages and back pages of paperbacks and other book forms. Business establishments use color printing for promotional and advertorial purposes by creating beautifully illustrated ads that capture the attention of the viewer. It is important to have the right approach to kids education. Boys and girls love arcade games but don't like school at times. Still, the years as a child are the best time to get education. And thus, it is actually a good teaching method to combine different games and the learning process. In that way your child can enjoy some interesting online games and simultaneously learn something new. Children do not like studying math because it is too difficult. However fortunately there's a solution to this particular problem. Nowadays it is easy to find many different color by number video games, which could become fairly effective. Some cool crayons that you can find are the metallic or glitter ones. Kids love playing with the new media that manufacturers are coming out with these days. Gel pens are even good for the kids to play with. Hopefully you'll put a blanket down in the backseat so that the kids won't get ink or crayon wax on the upholstery while you're driving. You can choose coloring pages in any number of different themes, for either boys or girls. At Thanksgiving, select holiday themed sheets and encourage the youngsters to put them up around the house.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who gets fond of exploring the different places in the space. Everybody was amazed because in spite of her young age, she has a brilliant mind for knowing numerous dialects. Could it be the effect of her continuous quest? It can be hard to host a party or other gathering at your home if you don't have lots of activities for the kids to be involved with. You can have a supply of crayons, markers, colored pencils, and even water paints on hand. These will allow them to complete the Spongebob coloring sheets in a creative way. Doing a search for winter coloring pages will bring up more than enough sites that your children can then choose their favorite pictures that they will want to print out and color. It will be more fun for them and they will take a greater interest in coloring if they can choose the pictures they will be coloring. There are hundreds of pictures available so there will be something that will appeal to almost every child's taste. You will be pleasantly surprised at all the activities that are available to keep a family busy and engaged in different activities during the long winter months. Most of these sites have put a lot of thought and effort into providing activities for children of all ages and adults as well. You can find recipes of different things to make such as pop corn balls, taffy, glass candy and even edible play dough. Many of these Internet sites offer puzzles and games that will keep kids occupied for hours. And not everything is fun and games. If you want to help keep the little ones minds sharp and learning many sites offer an educational section where your children can learn about things as diverse as how to count money or how the body works to famous people of the world. Mario illustrates a short American-Italian plumber who lives with his brother Luigi in the Mushroom Garden. He soon becomes a hero, as he stops the plans of Bowser to kidnap Princess Peach and dominate the whole mushroom garden. He also confronts his other enemies, like Donkey Kong, and every time he gets triumphant. This character appears on many video game genres, special designed for children. If you are eager for a smile on your children's face, the result is always made of Mario coloring pictures and the time for coloring them, time assigned by your little ones. The kids will be intrigued by these pictures and will want to finish them and having them coloured in the way they want as soon as possible.


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SJ - April 19, 2022
Panthers linebacker Damien Wilson was arrested in Frisco, Texas last week on an assault charge. His ex-girlfriend said he threatened to kill her and destroyed her laptop after they broke up.
Wilson's attorney disputes the assault claims. He says once the facts in the case come out that Wilson's name can be cleared.
From The Dallas Morning News:
Former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson was arrested in Frisco last week on an assault charge after his ex-girlfriend said he threatened to kill her with a tire iron and destroyed her laptop after a breakup.
Wilson, who was signed last month by the Carolina Panthers, faces a charge of assault with bodily injury of a family member, Frisco police Sgt. Stephen Byrom said in an email. Byrom said he had no information about which jail Wilson was booked in, or whether he had bonded out.
Wilson’s attorney, Toby Shook, disputed the assault allegations.
“Damien Wilson did not commit any type of assault,” Shook said. “We look forward to all the facts coming out so his name can be cleared.”
The offseason continues to be insane in all aspects. Arrests have been part of that insanity. We'll have to wait for all of the facts in this case to come out, but something tells me there wasn't a baby monitor present when the breakup went down.
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The 2-star Americas Best Value Inn Santa Rosa offers comfort and convenience whether you're on business or holiday in Santa Rosa (CA). The hotel has everything you need for a comfortable stay. To be found at the hotel are Wi-Fi in public areas, car park, family room. Each guestroom is elegantly furnished and equipped with handy amenities. The hotel offers various recreational opportunities. Convenience and comfort makes Americas Best Value Inn Santa Rosa the perfect choice for your stay in Santa Rosa (CA).
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Not Our First Choice But More Than Met Our Needs
Reviewed 15 november, 2020
When we couldn't get our first choice for an overnight stay in Santa Rosa, we settled on the American's Best Value Inn mainly because of its cheap room rate and minimal pet fee ($67 total). This is an older two story motel (the physical building could use some updating) but there is plenty of parking including large turnaround space. Check in was handled efficiently. The room was large with a couch and mini-fridge. We had good cable and internet services. While on the outskirts of town, it was a relatively short drive to restaurants, stores, and sites. It was fairly quiet even being near the highway exit (which made our departure very convenient!)
Reviewed 2 december, 2019
Excellent Stay, Clean Rooms, friendly guest greeters, good breakfast, reasonable price We spend lots,of time in motels traveling don't run across many as clean as this was. Will always stay here when we pass through Thank you!
Clean Rooms. Good Location.
Reviewed 19 october, 2019
Stayed here 1 night for an event in Santa Rosa. Based on the reviews of Santa Rosa hotels, this seemed like one of the better places to stay for the price. And I was not disappointed. Driving into the parking lot I noticed the property was very clean and neatly landscaped. We were greeted by friendly staff at check in. The room was very clean and neat. Seemed updated recently. No carpet. The wood flooring is really nice. New paint. New tile in the bathroom. Shower was very clean. AC worked great. Slept comfortably. Continental breakfast is offered. Hotel is in a good area with lots of restaurants and stores nearby. I would highly recommend this property.
Nice place at a nice price.
Reviewed 13 october, 2019
Bed was very comfortable. Enough pillows to be very comfy. The room was very clean but has a funky smell in the room. All in all was a nice place to stop over on our way to Pagosa Springs Co. would stay there again.
Friendly staff, clean and comfortable and just a 5 minute drive from downtown Santa Rosa
Reviewed 28 july, 2019
I arrived early and was accommodated by the friendly management staff. The hotel is located just off the freeway and just a short 5 minute drive to downtown. The rooms are modern, clean and very comfortable. The fridge was very welcome in the heat! The bathroom was basic but very clean and the shower was excellent. Definitely a great base to explore Santa Rosa and the surrounding area.

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A three-step approach identifies novel shear stress-sensitive endothelial microRNAs involved in vasculoprotective effects of high-intensity interval training (HIIT)
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Boris Schmitz1,*, Franziska L. Breulmann1,*, Bothaynah Jubran2, Florian Rolfes1, Lothar Thorwesten1, Michael Krüger3, Andreas Klose3, Hans-Joachim Schnittler2 and Stefan-Martin Brand1
1 Institute of Sports Medicine, Molecular Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
2 Institute of Anatomy and Vascular Biology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
3 Department of Physical Education and Sports History, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
* These authors contributed equally to this work
|Boris Schmitz,||email:||[email protected]|
Keywords: miRNA; shear stress; performance; endothelium; high-intensity training (HIT)
Received: November 17, 2018 Accepted: April 03, 2019 Published: June 04, 2019
Circulatory microRNAs (c-miRNAs) are regulated in response to physical activity and may exert anti-atherosclerotic effects. Since the vascular endothelium is an abundant source of c-miRNAs, we aimed to identify novel vasculoprotective exercise-induced c-miRNAs by the combined analysis of published endothelial miRNA array data followed by in vivo and in vitro validation. We identified 8 different array-based publications reporting 185 endothelial shear stress-regulated miRNAs of which 13 were identified in ≥3 independent reports. Nine miRNAs had already been associated with physical activity. Of the remaining novel miRNAs, miR-98-3p and miR-125-5p were selected for further analysis due to reported vasculoprotective effects. Analysis in two different 4-week high-intensity interval training (HIIT) groups (group 1 [n=27]: 4x30 s, group 2 [n=25]: 8x15 s; all-out running) suggested significantly elevated miR-98 and miR-125a-5p levels in response to acute exercise at baseline and at follow-up. Endothelial in vitro shear stress experiments revealed increased miR-125a-5p and miR-98-3p levels in medium of human umbilical vein endothelial cells at 30 dyn/cm2 after 20 and 60 min, respectively. Our results suggest that miR-98-3p and miR-125a-5p can be rapidly secreted by endothelial cells, which might be the source of increased c-miR-98-3p and -125a-5p levels in response to HIIT. Both miRNAs attenuate endothelial inflammation and may mediate vasculoprotective effects of physical exercise including HIIT.
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A letter from George Washington to the governor of North Carolina, thanking North Carolina for ratifying the US Constitution.
The Governor & Council of the State of North Carolina
I entreat you to be persuaded that nothing could have been more agreeable to me, than the proofs contained in your affectionate address of the friendly sentiment entertain-ed by you for my person, as well as for the Government which I have been appointed by my Countrymen to administer. And I reci-procate, with heartfelt satisfaction, your con-gratulations on the completion of the Union of all the States: an event, in my judgment, pregnant with more salutary consequences, than can easily be expressed or conceived. It will ever be my first wish and most strenuous endeavor, to justify, so far as may be in my power, the confidence which my fellow citizens have thought proper to repose in me, by exerting every pow-er vested in the President of the United States by the Constitution, for the happiness and prosperity of our Country; and by giving efficacy to such a system as will ensure the general welfare and conciliate the public mind.
I desire, Gentlemen, to make acceptable to you my acknowledgments for the kind concern you take in the restora-tion of my health and preservation of my life; and in the retribution I may receive after the conclusion of this mortal existence. May you, and the State in whose government you have the principal agen-cy, be also the peculiar care of Divine Providence.
United States August 26th 1790


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Here’s a map of the EU. Nothing more to it than that. I just like the fact that, making it look like a globe, it’s more engaging and eye catching. I decided in the forthcoming dataviz book to divide the design into encoding, format and aesthetics. This map is not dataviz, but you could imagine how the aesthetics could be used to good effect.
I found it at http://blog.nycdatascience.com/student-works/forecasting-economic-risk-eu-2020/ and they got it from http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/new-priorities-for-the-european-union-at-60


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|Voice roles||Rarity (singing)
Kazumi Evans is a voice actress and singer for both series, My Little Pony Equestria Girls and Friendship is Magic. Her most prominent roles in the series include Rarity's singing voice and Adagio Dazzle.
Evans' professional voice credits include Harmony in Barbie: Princess Charm School, Skipper in Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale, Rogue in Marvel Knights: Wolverine vs. Sabretooth, Eleanor in Under Wraps, Jan in Monster Beach, and Iris in LoliRock. She has also been a featured singer in Littlest Pet Shop.
In live-action, Evans played Julia in the independent film Last Night in Suburbia and Raven in the children's television series Gumboot Kids, and she had a guest role in The Troop. Evans also has professional roots in dance and musical theater, having competed in the Canadian reality television series Triple Sensation in 2007 and performed with several theater groups.

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