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1. e4 c5 We are going to witness a sicilian game today!
2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 So far going as the first game Kamsky - Topalov
6. Be3 Kamsky goes away from the plan a4-a5. It was clearly Topalov specific preparation, now against Gelfand he continues with standart theory.
6... e5 7. Nf3 Be7 8. Bc4 O-O 9. O-O Be6 IM Gozzoli: Kamsky and Gelfand are also playing a fashionable line the Be3-Nf3 setup against the Najdorf ..e5. The players are playing moves very quickly and are still following theory. A big battle will start to win the control of the d5 square while Black will try to organize counterplay against the c2 and e4 as quick as possible.
10. Bb3 Nc6 11. Qe2 Na5 12. Rfd1 Nxb3 13. axb3 Qc7 14. Bg5 Nh5 IM Gozzoli: ....Nh5 is still a theorical move. Black don't want to let white exchange the Bg5 against the Nf6 because it will let Black with a bad dark square bishop while White will get two knights in order to reach the d5 square. The text move prevents this exchange and is planning to exchange the bad bishop in order to keep the Knight to fight for the d5 square. FM Jonathan Rosenthal: the forcing line 15.Nxe5 Bxg5 16.Qxh5 Bf6 17.Nf3 Bxc3 18.bxc3 Qxc3 should be ok for black. IM Gozzoli: White has two moves ( and a third which is Bg5-e3 but it's allowing repetition. ) 14.Ne1 and 14.Nxe5. The first one looks more "logical" to me ! White has a spacial advantage and a fine outpost for the Knighs on d5 so why to open the center ? after 14.Ne1 Bxg5 15.Qxh5 white can continue with Nd3-b4-d5 for exemple while Black will try to developp typical "Sveshnikov" counterplay by pushing a quick ...f5 in order to contest the White cramp on the center
15. Nxe5 Bxg5 16. Qxh5 Bf6 17. Nf3 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Qxc3 19. Nd4 IM Gozzoli: after the forced moves the position is still theorical and Blacks seem to be fine here. Ok we can point out the weakness of the d6 pawn, but what about c2 ? There is a dynamical balance here, the counterplay on c file seems to be enough to compensate the slighly worse pawn structure
19... Rfe8 20. Qa5 IM Gozzoli: Kamsky Gelfand is still following theory. White wants to exchange Queens in order to releave the pressure over the c2 pawn. Then the dominating Nd4 will have an edge over the Be6 locked behind white's structure.
20... Rac8 21. f3 Qxa5 22. Rxa5 Rc3 IM Gozzoli: So we have finally obtained this interesting ending with the eternal question whom from the Bishop or the Knight is stronger ? Visually it seems that Nd4 is clearly better, he is in a great central position, protecting the only white weakness on c2. But how to improve the position ? Maybe there is an interesting idea to bring the King to b2 then playing Rd2-e2 in order to chase the annoying c3 rook then trying to play c2-c3 or c2-c4 and reorganize pieces against the d6 pawn. The big problem of moving the c pawn is that it weakened the b3 pawn, that's why i would like to bring my king first to b2. But ok Black will not stand and wait to be crush...
23. Kf2 IM Gozzoli: Furthermore, the White's rooks are perfectly placed for the moment, especially the a5 one because it controls all the possible pawn advance on the 5th rank, especially the d6-d5 push !
23... Kf8 24. Rda1 IM Gozzoli: Rda1 is not so mysterious ! The point is to reach the b4 square in order to put pressure on the b7 pawn and from there it can also reach b6 to fix the queenside structure and attack the two weaknesses on b7-d6
24... Rec8 25. Ke1 Ke7 26. Kd2 R3c5 IM Gozzoli: Gelfand contests the 5th rank which will allows him to find counterplay on the Kingside by pushing pawns and on the center, pushing d6-d5, that's why 27.c4 looks to be a very serious candidat. White has a slight but lasting advantage. You can also appreciate the prophylactic 24.Rda1 which allows white to push c4 in time. If the rook wasn't there so black would be threatened to take the rook or to play d6-d5 ! 27. R5a4 IM Gozzoli: Kamsky is applying a very important rule in chess ! "the side that has spacial advantage shouldn't exchange opponent pieces !" This is a very hard move to play because it means that Kamsky accepted the pressure over his c2 pawn. He is still planning to play c2-c4 and/or Ra4-b4.
27... f5 IM Gozzoli: 25...f5 ?! it looks very strange to me.. Blacks are weakening their pawn structure.. After 26.exf5 Bxf5 27.Rb4 followed by Re1 and g2-g4 it looks that white has a very good advantage..
28. Rb4 R8c7 29. exf5 Bxf5 30. Re1+ Kf7 31. Rb6 IM Gozzoli: A very unpleasant position for Black. Kamsky is applying maximum pressure over the weaknesses and it's not so easy for Black to create counterplay..Time pressure is here for Kamsky but not sure it will be decisve because at this level they can play the position "with hand"
31... Rd5 32. c3 Bc8 33. b4 Re7 IM Gozzoli: it looks like Gelfand missed a good opportunity to activate his position with 33...Rc6. After the forced 34.Rc6 bc6, the threat c5 is very annoying for White but it looks like after a long sequence starting with 35.Kd3 c5 36.bc5 dc5 37.Kc2 Rg5 38.h4 Rxg2 39.Kxc5 we have a complicated ending with passed pawn for both players and where it's not clear whom of the bishop or the knight is stronger...
34. Ra1 FM Jonathan Rosenthal: what happens if black decides to just bring his king to c7? on b5 he may be able to sacrifice with a5!?
34... Ke8 35. b5 Rc7 36. bxa6 bxa6 And draw was agreed. White is slightly better but Black can organize counterplay against c3 pawn now.. probably the key point for white was at move 33 when he decided to push b4, which weakened definitly the c3 pawn... Will be interesting to see how Gelfand will deal with Kamsky's Grunfeld tomorrow, but I bet on 1.c4 ! Stay tuned for a video analysis here and more news, thanks for following with me IM Gozzoli on ChessBomb.com and Chessdom.com! ½-½
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MGM Cotai in Macau Site of Suspected Double Homicide
Posted on: May 9, 2022, 06:49h.
Last updated on: May 10, 2022, 10:41h.
MGM Cotai was the sight of a double homicide over the weekend, local police say.
In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 7, Macau first responders answered emergency calls from the multibillion-dollar integrated casino resort regarding two unconscious females. While the Macau Fire Department was first on the scene, it became quickly apparent that the incident was a double homicide.
Police arrived at the 9th-floor hotel room around 1 am local time on Saturday to find two naked women strangled to death. The crime scene was closed off, and a double homicide investigation ensued. Detectives combed the room for some eight hours, as police launched a probe to identify and locate the killer or killers.
Macau’s Judiciary Police said each woman is thought to have been strangled to death with a bathrobe belt. Detectives believe the person(s) responsible for the violent deaths attempted to clean the room before fleeing. While it has not yet been officially confirmed, police think the two women were likely illegal prostitutes.
Police did not detail what caused the emergency call for assistance, or who first discovered the lifeless bodies. MGM Cotai said it is cooperating with authorities.
MGM Cotai opened in February of 2018 at a cost of $3.4 billion. Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts owns and operates the five-star casino property.
Macau is best known for its glitzy casino resorts. But legal gambling isn’t the only permitted escape from ordinary life on the mainland that draws many to the Chinese Special Administrative Region (SAR). Unlike everywhere else in the People’s Republic, prostitution is legal in Macau. Selling one’s body for sex is also legal in Hong Kong, the second and only other SAR in China.
However, street prostitution — the act of a sex worker soliciting customers in public, including in casinos — is illegal. Instead, legal brothels are permitted across the enclave.
Pimps and other sex organizers not conducting their business in a licensed parlor or brothel also face heavy penalties. One of the more noteworthy recent cases involved Alan Ho, the nephew of the late Stanley Ho, who controlled Macau’s gaming industry for decades until the early 2000s.
Alan Ho was convicted of running a street prostitution ring whose workers often solicited men inside casinos. Alan Ho in October of last year was sentenced to eight years in prison.
MGM Working to End Human Trafficking
MGM Resorts’ Cotai integrated resort might have been the site of the double murder involving the assumed prostitutes. But the global casino giant has for years been supporting efforts to end human trafficking and sex slavery.
In early 2018, MGM China signed an international pledge to help end modern slavery. By signing the Mekong Club pledge, MGM agreed to develop actionable steps to help rid the world of slavery and sex trafficking.
MGM executives at the time acknowledged that street prostitution is alive and well throughout Macau, including inside its own casinos. MGM China says it has since better probed its vendors and third-party partners to make sure each business is complying with anti-slavery standards.
The US State Department says Macau “does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking,” but “it is making significant efforts to do so.”
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Preliminary hearing for teens in Sheboygan Falls murder case
MILWAUKEE - On Tuesday afternoon, two 13-year-olds were due in court after being accused in a brutal killing of an elderly woman.
Antonio Barbeau and Nathan Paape allegedly beat Barbeau's 78-year-old great-grandmother, Barbara Olson, to death last month in Sheboygan Falls.
Police initially said the boys wanted to rob her.
A status hearing happened in their case Tuesday to see if they would be moved to juvenile court, but it was ruled their case would remain in adult court.

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CORN (ALL TYPES) - PREPLANT (FINE)
Charger Max ATZ Lite is a herbicide recommended before planting, before or after emergence (see directions) for control of most annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in corn. Charger Max ATZ Lite can also be used before crop emergence for control of most annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in grain or forage sorghum, provided the sorghum seed has been properly treated by the seed company with Concep. This product may be tank mixed with Balance PRO, Banvel, Dual MAGNUM formulations, Lorox or equivalent, or Princep 4L (Princep Caliber 90) for weed control in conventional tillage corn. This product may also be tank mixed with other herbicides specified on the label for weed control in conventional, minimum-till, and no-till corn, grain sorghum, or forage sorghum.
Note: Tank mixtures are permitted only in those states where the tank mix partner is registered. Refer to and follow the label of each product used for precautionary statements, directions for use, geographic and other restrictions.
When tank mixing or sequentially applying atrazine or products containing atrazine to corn or sorghum, do not exceed an application rate of 2.0 pounds active ingredient of atrazine per acre for any single application or 96 fl. ounces of Charger Max ATZ Lite per acre for any single application and the total pounds of atrazine applied (lb. a.i. per acre) must not exceed 2.5 pounds active ingredient per acre per year or 120 fl. ounces of Charger Max ATZ Lite per acre per year. Following many years of continuous use of atrazine (one of the ingredients in Charger Max ATZ Lite) and products chemically related to atrazine, biotypes of some of the weeds listed on the label which are controlled by the atrazine component have been reported to develop resistance to this and chemically related herbicides. Where this is known or suspected, and weeds controlled by this product are expected to be present along with resistant biotypes, we recommend the use of Charger Max ATZ Lite in combination or in sequence with registered herbicides which do not contain triazines. Consult with your State Agricultural Extension Service for specific recommendations.
Precautions: (1) If sorghum seed is not properly pretreated with Concep, Charger Max ATZ Lite will severely injure the crop. (2) Injury may occur to sorghum following the use of Charger Max ATZ Lite under abnormally high soil moisture conditions during early development of the crop.
Charger Max ATZ Lite alone or in tank mixture with Balance PRO, Banvel, Dual MAGNUM, Dual II MAGNUM, or Princep may be applied early preplant, preplant incorporated, preplant surface, or preemergence on corn in water or fluid fertilizer. Apply postemergence treatments of Charger Max ATZ Lite to corn, alone or in combination, using water only as the carrier. Charger Max ATZ Lite may be applied in tank mix combination with Gramoxone MAX, Landmaster BW, Touchdown, or Roundup with or without the above herbicides early preplant, preplant surface, or preemergence to corn. Charger Max ATZ Lite alone may also be applied on sorghum early preplant, preplant incorporated, preplant surface, or preemergence in water or in fluid fertilizer.
Charger Max ATZ Lite may be applied in water by aircraft. Applications in fluid fertilizer should be only by ground equipment.
To avoid spray drift, do not apply under windy conditions. Avoid spray overlap, as crop injury may result.
Do not apply this product through any type of irrigation system.
Do not apply under conditions which favor runoff or wind erosion of soil containing this product to nontarget areas.
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1. Avoid treating powdery dry or light sand soils when conditions are favorable for wind erosion. Under these conditions, the soil surface should first be settled by rainfall or irrigation.
2. Do not apply to impervious substrates, such as paved or highly compacted surfaces.
3. Do not use tailwater from the first flood or furrow irrigation of treated fields to treat nontarget crops, unless at least 1/2 inch of rainfall has occurred between application and the first irrigation.
Where reference is made to weeds partially controlled, partial control can either mean erratic control from good to poor or consistent control at a level below that generally considered acceptable for commercial weed control. Dry weather following preemergence application of Charger Max ATZ Lite or a tank mixture may reduce effectiveness. Cultivate if weeds develop in conventional tillage corn or sorghum.
Observe all precautions and limitations on the label of each product used in tank mixtures. Thoroughly clean sprayer or other application device before using. Dispose of cleaning solution in a responsible manner. Do not use a sprayer or applicator contaminated with other materials, or crop damage or sprayer clogging of the application device may occur.
FOR ALL SOIL APPLICATIONS PRIOR TO CROP EMERGENCE
- On Highly Erodible Land (as defined by the Natural Resource Conservation Service) If conservation tillage is practiced, leaving at least 30% of the soil covering with plant residues at planting, apply a maximum of 2 lbs. of atrazine/A as a broadcast spray.
If soil coverage with plant residue is less than 30% at planting, a maximum of 1.6 lbs. of atrazine/A may be applied.
- On Land Not Highly Erodible
Apply a maximum of 2 lbs. of atrazine/A as a broadcast spray.
FOR POSTEMERGENCE APPLICATION TO FIELD CORN
If no atrazine was applied prior to field corn emergence, a maximum of 2 lbs. a.i./A may be applied postemergence. If a postemergence treatment is required following an earlier herbicide application containing atrazine, the total atrazine applied may not exceed 2.5 lbs. a.i. per acre per calendar year.
FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS FOR USE AND PRECAUTIONS ON THE LABEL MAY RESULT IN POOR WEED CONTROL, CROP INJURY, OR ILLEGAL RESIDUES.
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Notes: (1) If a follow-up application of Dual MAGNUM or Dual II MAGNUM is needed, do not exceed a total of 1.6 lbs. a.i. of S-metolachlor per acre, including the preplant Charger Max ATZ Lite application on medium- or fine-textured soils. On fine-textured soils with more than 3% organic matter, do not exceed 1.9 lbs. a.i. of S-metolachlor.
(2) To the extent possible, do not move treated soil out of the row or move untreated soil to the surface during planting, or weed control will be diminished.

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|About Souheila Yacoub|
|Birth||June 29, 1992 Geneva, Switzerland|
|Alumni||Cours Florent, National Conservatory of Dramatic Art|
|Awards||Miss Suisse Romande in 2012|
|TV Show||Plus belle la vie|
|Movies||Les Affames, Climax|
Souheila Yacoub was a gymnast who represented Switzerland in several competitions before she changed course and became an actress. She studied at prestigious art institutions and worked in theater before making her debut in films and on TV. Souheila Yacoub’s movie, Climax, will be screened during Midnight Madness at TIFF 2018 in Toronto, Canada, which takes place from September 6 to September 16, 2018. It’s possible she could be one of the breakout stars at the festival!
Former gymnast Souheila Yacoub has been getting a lot of buzz over the last few years as a talented young actress, even though she has only acted in a few films so far.
The Swiss Miss is being talked about as one of the brightest new hopes in French cinema, capable of making it big even in America. Now, people are curious to know more about this gifted young actress.
Get to know Souheila Yacoub better with these interesting facts about her.
Who Is Souheila Yacoub?
Born on June 29, 1992, Souheila Yacoub’s age is 26. She hails from Geneva, Switzerland, so Souheila Yacoub’s nationality is Swiss. However, her father is of Tunisian descent.
She is an actress who has appeared on the TV series, Plus belle la vie. The show is about the everyday lives of people who live in a fictitious neighborhood called Le Mistral.
In her fledgling career, Yacoub has also acted in a few movies like Les affamés and most recently Climax, which looks to be one mind-bender of a thrill ride for TIFF attendees!
Climax Will Be Screened at TIFF 2018
Climax is in the news because it is one of the 10 films that have been selected to be shown during Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2018. The preview alone has viewers on the edge of their seats and scratching their heads, so this could be a good one to keep an eye out for!
TIFF 2018 will take place from September 6 to September 16, 2018, in Toronto, Canada.
Climax is a 2018 French musical horror film. The plot centers around a group of hip-hop dancers who experience strange symptoms after they accidentally ingest psychedelic drugs.
Yacoub plays a character who is a victim of her drugged colleagues.
She Has Acted in Theater
Yacoub has worked in theater as well under the assured direction of acclaimed directors like Wajdi Mouawad and Guillaume Vincent.
However, Yacoub wasn’t always an actress in films and the theater. Before she turned to acting, she made her mark in sports as a gymnast.
Souheila Yacoub’s Gymnastics Career
For more than six years, Souheila Yacoub was a gymnast on Switzerland’s national team. She competed at world championships, including at the 2009 and 2010 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. Also, she was an elite sports woman at the Federal Sports Office of Macolin.
Yacoub studied at Cours Florent, a French theater school created in 1967 by Francois Florent. She later studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, a French public higher education institution in Paris, France.
She Was Miss Suisse Romande
At the age of 20, Yacoub was elected as the 24th Miss Suisse Romande on December 15, 2012, in Geneva.
Miss Suisse Romande is the title of an annual beauty contest, which is awarded to the winner of the competition.
Souheila Yacoub Could Be TIFF 2018’s Breakout Star
TIFF 2018 is a prestigious film festival, and Yacoub will undoubtedly get a lot of exposure when Climax is screened before an eager audience.
With her good looks, oodles of talent, and graceful personality, Souheila Yacoub could well be one of the breakout stars of the TIFF 2018! So, be sure to keep an eye out for this dancing queen!

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WASHINGTON: The United States carried out its first federal execution in 17 years, putting to death an Oklahoma man who was found guilty of murdering an Arkansas family in the 1990s, the Associated Press reported.
Daniel Lewis Lee was killed by lethal injection over the objections of the victims’ family after the US Supreme Court in a late-night opinion ruled that the execution could go ahead.
Before he was put to death, Lee reiterated that he was an innocent man, saying, “I didn’t do it. … I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer.”
Under the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts – at a national level – or in state courts, at a regional level.
Last year, the Trump administration said it would resume federal executions.

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Cutest Little Thing
This October, Evil is Kawaii
When Renny receives a mysterious package in the mail, it seems like someone mistakenly sent him an adorable bobblehead from Japan. His friends think it's the cutest thing ever... until it comes to life and starts brutally hunting them for sport. Now, the only way to avoid a gruesome end is to figure out the rules that govern this giggling little monster, and to find a way to get the demon back in the box.
Some cuteness is best seen from a distance. And through bulletproof glass.
"Get it off me! Get it off me!" he squealed, trying to bat it off
Renny's plans for a romantic evening are ruined when his friends show up for a half-baked intervention. But when they get their hands on a just-arrived package — an adorable toy trapped in a scratched wooden box — things go from awkward to blood-soaked, as the mysterious toy comes to life and lays waste to everything it sees.
As Renny and his friends desperately scramble to survive, they start to notice little quirks that might help them stop the monster... weaknesses that could save their lives against an unstoppable foe. The only question is: can they live long enough to do anything about it?
Cutest Little Thing is a horror comedy in five parts, with different-but-connected characters and scenarios all tumbling towards a climactic showdown against a demon whose power grows with every soul it claims. Originally created as a weeklong livewriting adventure where participants threw names, props and details into the mix in realtime this new edition brings things to a whole new level of crazy, with new dimensions and exciting plot twists to keep you on the edge of your seat!

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Fructose – too much sugar for the heart?
The impact of a high level of sugar intake on heart health will come under scrutiny this year in a new research project probing the link between fructose and diabetes.
The three-year Health Research Council funded project will be led by Dr Kimberley Mellor from the University of Auckland.
The investigation, titled 'Fructose and the heart: targeting novel mechanisms of diabetic cardiomyopathy', aims to produce a significant advance in our understanding of the causes of heart abnormalities commonly seen in diabetic patients.
The ultimate hope is that this project will generate new information which can be used to develop treatment strategies to achieve health benefits for the large number of diabetic patients in New Zealand who have a high risk of heart disease.
"The rate of diabetes and death from diabetic complications in New Zealand is rising dramatically and is disproportionately high in Māori populations," says Dr Mellor.
"It is estimated that more than 80 percent of diabetic patients have heart failure," she says. "Heart abnormalities in diabetic patients are distinctive - and a specific treatment is not currently available."
As the diabetic epidemic has escalated in New Zealand and globally, so too has the dietary consumption of refined sugars – especially in the form of fructose.
"Most of the fructose that we eat is in the form of sucrose, which is half fructose and half glucose," says Dr Mellor. "Fructose is the sweet sugar – it's sweeter than glucose, so it is often put into foods and drinks to make them sweet."
"Most studies, including our own, have so far looked at the relationship between consuming lots of sugar and the development of heart problems," she says. "Now we are working to understand the links between the type of sugar consumed and the nature of the heart damage".
Dr Mellor says that her project focuses on the particular question "does fructose inflict direct damage on the heart, in addition to the more general problems which arise due to excess sugar calorie intake".
"Our studies suggest that fructose sugar may be a key instigator of heart damage in diabetes." says Dr Mellor. "This could arise from fructose in the diet, or activation of a pathway in the heart which produces fructose (the sorbitol pathway) which is known to be upregulated in diabetic hearts."
The project will be led by Dr Mellor with assistance from her Auckland colleague, Professor Peter Shepherd and an international collaborator, Professor Lea Delbridge from the University of Melbourne.
"This is the first study to focus on how fructose contributes to heart muscle damage from a molecular perspective and to look at how these molecular responses influence the heart in diabetes," says Dr Mellor.
"We think that there could be some heart muscle cell death pathways activated as a result of excess fructose metabolism," she says. "We also know that fructose can attach to proteins, alter the protein shape and function and cause cell dysfunction."
"Some of these pathways are well characterised already in relation to glucose sugar, but we're putting forward the proposition that fructose has the potential to trigger differentdamage responses and this may be an important factor in explaining why the heart is vulnerable in diabetes" she says.
The three year project will include cell culture work (incubating heart muscle cells with fructose to see what happens); experimental intervention studies to manipulate the genes that can regulate fructose metabolism; and investigation of fructose pathways in human heart tissue (from patients who have had cardiac surgery) from both diabetic and non-diabetic patients.


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February 14, 2008
Research presented at the World Congress on Neck Pain shows that the proper use of well-engineered head restraints dramatically reduces serious neck injuries from automobile accidents.
The World Congress brought together health care experts on neck pain, automobile safety engineers, and others to review current best evidence about causes, prevention and clinical care for neck pain related whiplash injuries and other causes.
Neck pain after automobile collisions, commonly referred to as whiplash associated disorders, costs the insurance industry $9 billion annually in claims costs, and is considered an epidemic by many medical and insurance professionals. Yet many whiplash injuries could be minimized or prevented altogether by the proper engineering and/or adjustment and use of head restraints.
Head restraints are not head rests; they are essential safety devices which act to reduce the likelihood of sustaining a whiplash injury. Studies by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) have found that head restraints in more than 60 percent of car models fall short of current state-of-the art protection from neck injury or whiplash. They found that many head restraints were not high enough, or close enough to the back of an occupant’s head, to provide effective protection against neck injury in rear-end crashes. Even when the head restraint is well-engineered, people don’t always position them properly.
To reduce or prevent neck injury, the top of the restraint should be positioned even with the top of the head or at least to the top of the ears. The distance from the back of the head to the front of the restraint should be less than 4 inches.
In 2009, new vehicles sold in the U.S. will start meeting more rigorous structural standards for head restraints.
The Congress held January 20 through January 22 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles also launched the release of the 7-year study by The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders.
“Neck pain is not a trivial condition for many people,” says Task Force President, Dr Scott Haldeman. “It can be associated with headaches, arm and upper back pain and depression. Whether it arises from sports injuries, car accidents, workplace issues or stress, it can be incapacitating. Understanding the best way to diagnose and manage this problem is of high importance for those who are suffering and for those who manage and pay for its care.”
Primary study findings from the Task Force report revealed the following:
· Health care providers can apply scientifically validated screening criteria to determine which patients with neck pain after auto accidents will have serious structural damage, and which need only temporary help with symptoms.
· Once serious underlying conditions have been screened out, imaging tests, such as X-rays, CT scans or MRI scans are typically not needed, and will seldom identify the cause of neck pain.
· Aging changes of the spine [commonly called degenerative changes], frequently seen on X-ray in middle age adults, are not predictive of neck pain.
For the majority of neck pain the following treatments show evidence of being effective for reducing symptoms: exercise, mobilization, manipulation, massage, acupuncture, low level laser therapy, analgesics.
Prolonged treatment was not shown to be beneficial. It was recommended that patients do not continue treatment that doesn’t provide improvement within a reasonable period of time, and instead seek out alternative treatment options.
The study revealed that the following treatments were unlikely to help in relieving neck pain: collars, ultrasound, electrical muscle stimulation, most injection therapies, radio frequency neurotomies.
For further information on the findings of the Congress, neck pain treatment recommendations, current auto restraint ratings, or Congress abstracts:

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In some 17 years of following the race from afar, the 2018 edition wouldn’t rank in my top ten or fifteen. On the positive side there were some prominent highlights: a worthy winning team, a true test of endurance among the new LMP1 cars, some fascinating F1 visitors with very different approaches, a much better GT race than expected. And I once again enjoyed being a tiny part of the online endurance racing family.
24 Heures du Mans / 24 Hours of Le Mans
Circuit des 24 Heures, Le Mans, La Sarthe, France
Before this year’s race Toyota as a factory since 1998 had entered 19 cars and recorded 10 DNFs, a sprinkling of podiums – and no win. With the pain of 2016 where they fell 8 miles short, I don’t begrudge them this success just because Porsche and Audi were not there.
Toyota spent pre-season working on reliability to ensure both cars made it home 1st and 2nd this year. Nobody really knew what the new privateer teams would bring. The rules were weighted in Toyota’s favour as well, yet Rebellion Racing were not far behind at Test Day. Toyota could not afford to have yet another race with 30-minute delays in the garage.
They not only succeeded but were on record pace for most of the race, on target to set a distance record! (The record didn’t happen due to Safety Car and Slow Zone periods.) They may not have been going absolutely flat out as they would be if Porsche were here, by the same token, they were not just cruising around to pick up an easy win.
Overnight the no. 7 car had a lead of a couple of minutes, the no. 8 car having had a penalty. I’m not sure Lopez in no. 7 has ever been the fastest in the Toyota line-up and he was chased down by Alonso and then Nakajima in the no. 8 car for a on-track pass in the small hours.
Where they gifted the win? Not entirely. A rules advantage helped. But they still had to work hard to make the cars reliable – if they’d left it unchanged since 2017 the car may well have yet again failed to finish. They still had to complete the 24 Hours quickly.
Fernando Alonso taking the next leg of the unofficial Triple Crown was a massive story, of course. It overshadowed the Toyota win, yet also provided a big PR boost which ensured it was everywhere. And he was fast. At one moment he nearly crashed into the wall while trying to work through heavy traffic.
Seb Buemi as ever was fast and solid all race.
Kazuki Nakajima had the honour of crossing the line. The man who was driving when the car conked out one lap from victory in 2016, of course he had to be the man to take the chequered flag this time. Vindication. He put those demons to rest.
Although the no. 7 car got hit with a load of fuel use penalties near the end, the 2 lap gap was in reality nothing near as much. Conway, Kobayashi and Lopez maintained the pace.
As for the privateers, a mixed bag.
Rebellion were the quickest. The margin was nothing like the results sheet show. The timesheets show the two cars 12 and 13 laps behind respectively, the real pace gap was probably 6 laps, with the difference being time lost in the pits due to various repairs. Lotterer even lost the nose of the car at the first corner of the race and had to drag the car back straight away.
6 laps is a lot more than the rules seemingly intended, which was about 2 laps. The unknown here is whether the ‘equivalence of technology’ was right and the 4 lap difference was in the performance of the team and car – remember they’re private teams with brand new cars, racing a factory team with a fully-ironed-out 3 year old car.
Or, whether the EoT was just wrong. If we see the Rebellions and SMPs and so on close the gap without any regulation changes we’ll know it was new car development – if not, it’s the rules.
Aside from that debate, all of Rebellion’s drivers were excellent, especially Thomas Laurent in no. 3. A 3rd-placed result a great reward.
SMP showed similar pace once the race got going. The no. 11 got amongst the Rebellions for a long time until it crashed out, the driver spending ages ripping the bodywork off to be able to drive back to the pits – only for the engine to blow after 50 yards! The no. 17 of Jenson Button had a rough time, a 3 hour garage spell ending their hopes very early. When they got going JB was flying and was grinning from ear to ear, enjoying his night stints. Then their engine blew with an hour to go.
Once SMP get the car sorted they’ll be fighting Rebellion for the rest of the WEC season and next Le Mans.
Dragonspeed ran very well, better than I expected. Their engine is probably more reliable than SMP’s at this stage. Unfortunately the car was crashed into retirement.
The ByKolles car was having a promising run until it was crashed out, the first retiree.
The Ginettas were slow and kept visiting the garage. Manor kept working away at it but poor reliability beat them – this was largely expected due to their lack of testing. This car has a lot of promise, a compliant race-able car that just needs development.
A dominant display by G-Drive (run by TDS Racing) – until a post-race disqualification for modifying fuel equipment. Jean-Eric Vergne & crew losing the win by the team taking a chance on a technical part that was later ruled illegal.
Signatech Alpine take the win instead. The race for second was really good, different teams in the running all the way, including Panis Barthez Competition and United Autosport both making the Ligier work. PBC hit trouble late on. Graff-SO24 Oreca took 2nd, United Autosport took 3rd with Juan Pablo Montoya on the driving roster.
The Oreca again was the better car to have, but the best Ligier teams were involved too – mostly run by ELMS teams, interestingly. The Dallara was again relatively nowhere.
I found the LMP2 race quite hard to follow. I suppose I’m just less interested in the class now – the new cars are really quite impressive as race cars go, they are at LMP1 pace of 2010 so they are NOT slow!
The all have the same engine and there are only three makes of car. It allowed for a 20 car grid and some new teams and faces. Perhaps it didn’t hold my attention because I didn’t know half of them. It could also have been that my attention was elsewhere.
Read my GTE review for Brit Pack Drivers.
Some said the Porsches would walk it, others that it would be closer in the race. It turned out to be a bit of both. The Fords were really pushing the Porsches at times, lined up taking turns to have a go at attacking them. The first chunk of the race was brilliant.
Unfortunately the safety cars split the leader from the pack and that was pretty much that for the win. Perhaps that’s hindsight talking, because anything could’ve happened in the race.
Behind the leader, the Fords raced well and were strong as the race wore on. Ferrari, BMW and Corvette race pace was a little closer to that of Ford and Porsche than in qualifying but still were dropped after a while – though in part due to them hitting one problem or another.
We saw long trains of GTE cars passing and repassing! This was good fun. It proved the Balance of Performance brought various cars together, giving a slight advantage to the best cars and keeping others close enough that they could capitalise. That is how it is supposed to be. It isn’t meant to completely overcome a deficit and gift someone else the win.
The lack of clarity leaves questions though. I don’t know whether Porsche had the fastest car and BoP brought the field closer to them, or if someone else had the faster car and BoP favoured Porsche on their 70th anniversary (as it seemed favoured Ford in their 50th). I’d like to think the former, but conspiracy theories were everywhere. FIA: just be clear with what you are doing and it’ll be fine.
The new BMW proved itself well. It has already run Daytona and Sebring and looks well-suited to Le Mans. Qualifying lower down, they both raced their way up the field until trouble later.
The new Aston Martin wasn’t quick at all though. It has potential, good through corners, but slow on straights. Was this engine power or drag? If it is drag the team can work on it. If it is engine power that’s probably a major BoP error. The car is so new it might be early development problems.
Unfortunately this class now has to run mandated 13 lap fuel stints, throwing any idea of race strategy out of the window. I am not sure what the point is – if you want it to be about the drivers then make it a single-chassis class. One of the hallmarks of the Pratt & Miller Corvettes was that even in years they were slower they’d throw a strategy play and come out on top. Can’t do it now.
And some weird post-race drive time penalties were applied: the 67 Ford lost 11 laps in penalties after Tony Kanaan was 44 minutes short on time. Very strange that a Ganassi team would get this so wrong.
Dempsey-Proton’s Porsches were quick all race. The Gulf Porsche was also in the lead too. It again threatened to be a Porsche Party. But nobody told the Ferraris. The Spirit of Race and the JMW Ferraris were competitive, so even though Dempsey-Proton led much of the race, it was never a foregone conclusion.
No. 77 Dempsey Porsche beat the no. 54 Spirit Ferrari of Fisichella by just 2 minutes. I was pleased to see the no. 85 Keating Motorsports Ferrari take 3rd, the Jeroen Bleekemolen / Ben Keating car was basically Risi Competizione by another name.
4th was the US-crew of Pat Long & co in the German Proton Porsche, the bright green one.
Paul Dalla Lana had an ‘off’ and spent a good hour or two trying to get the car fixed, to no avail. He’s so determined to win this one day.
While 77 led for much of the way it looked like a bunfight behind them, every time I looked at live timing it was in a different order. Good stuff happens in this much-maligned class where funded drivers keep the show on the road. Without them the race would have 10 fewer cars.

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DJ Shimmy's site dealing with the current garage punk scene in NYC. Links, news and continuously updated gig listings by Capt Heartlock, Charles Gaskins and Drew Redmond.
Chas Kit's exhaustively detailed site on the 1960s groups that inspired the past and present garage punk scene.
Iron Leg Digital Trip #11
Great recollections from a former member of NJ's Phantom V, Larry Grogan, on the New Jersey mod/psych scene in the 80s. With photos by fan and former Maxwells soundman, Andy Peters.
Iron Leg Digital Trip #12
Larry Grogan's followup on the New York City garage band scene with more photos by Andy Peters.
Kicks Magazine honchos (and A-Bones members) Miriam Linna and the late Billy Miller's record label resurrecting vital sounds from the last six decades.


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Guest Post: Beijing Internet Institute’s Linjian Song analyses China’s IPv6 deployment challenges and the path forward.
APNIC participated at the CNNIC OPM 2017 in Kunming, China from 12 to 13 June 2017.
APNIC’s Adli Wahid joined 900+ attendees at the second CNCERT Conference, held in Qingdao, China from 22 to 24 May 2017.
Guest Post: Murdoch University’s Sebastian Zander and Xuequn Wang discuss their research on IPv6 progress in Australia and China, asking what can be done to accelerate deployment.
Guest Post: One year since the opening of CHN-IX, the IX concept is slowly but surely gaining acceptance.
APNIC hosted a two-day Member Gathering in Guangzhou, China from 20 to 21 April.
Guest Post: CERNET2 plans to continue expanding in 2017, with IVI used as the core translation technology between IPv6 and IPv4.
More than 1,600 guests from over 110 countries and regions attended the third World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, China.
Guest Post: Internet and language linguistic experts from China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan have been working together to reduce unsolved IDN Han characters for new gTLD applications.
APNIC staff attended GSMA’s 2016 Mobile World Congress held in Shanghai, China.


Throughout the years, airsoft has are a very popular sport for young and old the same. This is a personal game that simulates military moments. Instead of using live guns, they use composite replicas of the weapons that military and police organizations use. These guns fire small, round, plastic balls instead of live ammunition. These pellets are fired utilizing use of compressed gas, an electric gearbox or maybe a spring. As these games are really realistic, people get a significant thrill from re-enacting these missions. Provides a good dose of adrenaline rush that keeps people coming back again for more and more.
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Siemens to supply gas turbine packages for Cleveland County generating plant
The purchaser of the equipment is Birmingham-based Southern Power, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, which provides power to the southeast US. The plant will be able to generate approximately 720MW at the summer peak and is scheduled to come on line in early 2012. The Siemens scope of supply for the Cleveland County plant encompasses four SGT6-PAC-5000F gas turbine packages, including service contracts. Each package consists of a SGT6-5000F gas turbine, air-cooled generator, auxiliaries, the innovative SPPA-T3000 control system and an option for the exhaust stack. The fast-start capability of the SGT6-5000F gas turbine is expected to allow Southern Power to deliver power to the grid quickly, while also helping to keep per start emissions low. Randy Zwirn, president and CEO of Siemens Energy, said: "To enhance the value and environmental compatibility of new power generation assets, the US market requires power plants to provide a much higher level of operating flexibility, including low start-up emissions and fast start-up capabilities."


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Johannes Kepler, was a German astronomer and natural philosopher, noted for formulating and verifying the three laws of planetary motion. These laws are now known as Kepler’s laws. Johannes Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt in Swabia, in southwest Germany. From 1574 to 1576 Johannes lived with his grandparents; in 1576 his parents moved to nearby Leonberg, where Johannes entered the Latin school. In 1584 he entered the Protestant seminary at Adelberg, and in 1589 he began his university education at the Protestant university of Tbingen. Here he studied theology and read widely.
He passed the M. A. examination in 1591 and continued his studies as a graduate student. There he was influenced by a mathematics professor, Michael Maestlin, an adherent of the heliocentric theory of planetary motion first developed by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Kepler accepted Copernican theory immediately, believing that the simplicity of Copernican planetary ordering must have been God’s plan. In 1594 Kepler accepted an appointment as professor of mathematics at the Protestant seminary in Graz in the Austrian province of Styria.
He was also appointed district mathematician and calendar maker. For six years, Kepler taught, geometry, Virgil, arithmetic, and rhetoric. There he worked out a complex geometric hypothesis to account for distances between the planetary orbits-orbits that he mistakenly assumed were circular. Kepler then proposed that the sun emits a force that diminishes inversely with distance and pushes the planets around in their orbits. Kepler published his account in a thesis entitled Mysterium Cosmographicum (“Cosmographic Mystery”) in 1596.
This work is significant because it presented the first comprehensive and logical account of the geometrical advantages of Copernican theory. Kepler held the chair of astronomy and mathematics at Graz University from 1594 until 1600. Because of his talent as a mathematician, displayed in his thesis, Kepler was invited by Tycho Brahe to Prague to become his assistant and calculate new orbits for the planets from Tycho’s observations. Kepler moved to Prague in 1600. Kepler served as Tycho Brahe’s assistant until the Brahe’s death.
On the death of Brahe in 1601, Kepler assumed his position as imperial mathematician and court astronomer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman emperor. In 1609 his Astronomia Nova (“New Astronomy”) appeared, which contained his first two laws: planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun as one of the laws, and a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. This means that the closer a planet comes to the sun, the more rapidly it moves. Whereas other astronomers still followed the ancient precept that the study of the planets is a problem only in kinematics, Kepler took an openly active approach, introducing physics into the heavens.
In 1612 Kepler became mathematician to the states of Upper Austria. Between 1617 and 1621 Kepler published Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (“Epitome of Copernican Astronomy”), which became the most influential introduction to heliocentric astronomy; in 1619 he published Harmonice Mundi (“Harmony of the World”), in which he derived the heliocentric distances of the planets and their periods from considerations of musical harmony. In this work we find his third law, relating the periods of the planets to their mean orbital radii.
Equally important, it became the first textbook of astronomy to be based on Copernican principles, and for the next three decades it was a major influence in converting many astronomers to Keplerian-Copernicanism. The last major work to appear in Kepler’s lifetime was the Tabulae Rudolfinae (“Rudolfine Tables”). The new tables, based on Tycho Brahe’s accurate observations, were calculated according to Kepler’s elliptical astronomy. The English mathematician Sir Isaac Newton relied heavily on Kepler’s theories and observations in formulating his theory of gravitational force.
Kepler was a great author by many standards. Besides his astronomical books, he is credited with having written the first science fiction novel, his Somnium, published in 1634 and describing a voyage to the Moon. He wrote extensively on geometrical optics, and was the first to correctly sort out once and for all the production of real versus virtual images by mirrors and lenses. Kepler also made contributions in the field of optics and developed a system of infinitesimals in mathematics, which was a forerunner of calculus. Kepler died on November 15, 1630, in Regensburg.

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This study investigated the psychometric properties (reliability and validity) of a battery of scales and subscales used to measure Robert Johnson's "mature coping" construct.
Robert Johnson (1996) used mature coping as a construct to argue for the creation of meaningful offender rehabilitation and prison reform efforts. According to Johnson, "mature coping" means "dealing with life's problems like a responsive and responsible human being, one who seeks autonomy without violating the rights of others, security without resort to deception or violence, and relatedness to others as the finest and fullest expression of human identity." Although Johnson agreed that most inmates had not been equipped or trained to behave in those ways, he believed that all people had inclinations toward autonomy, security, and relatedness to others. The incarceration experience should build on these inclinations, not thwart them. In the current study, 545 adults from two boot camps completed the testing instruments designed to measure Johnson's construct of mature coping. The comparable number of juveniles included in the study was 370. Consistent with prison populations in general, both sets of participants had low levels of formal education and exhibited weak employment patterns. The battery of instruments included a Program Attitudes Scale, a Coping Strategies Inventory, a Social Problem Solving Inventory, a Self-Esteem Inventory, a Depression Scale, and an Anti-Social Attitudes Scale. Statistical results showed the factorial validity, internal consistency reliability, and the construct validity of each scale. Descriptive statistics for these scales are reported for the adult and juvenile boot camp samples. Overall, the data revealed that the psychometric properties of each measure of "mature coping" were well within acceptable ranges and measured what they were intended to measure. 6 tables and 47 references
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Plagued by injuries, the Pakistan cricket team is left with no choice but to look for replacements following Naseem Shah's shoulder injury which has raised questions over the right-arm pacer's availability for the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2023. The right-arm pacer suffered a shoulder injury during Green Shirts' match against India in the 2023 Asia Cup. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in a statement on Saturday, provided an update on Shah's health that read: "The PCB's medical team has been monitoring the status of Naseem Shah’s shoulder injury sustained during the Asia Cup 2023. Medical consultations with the experts are underway to provide the best possible care to Naseem." "The PCB medical panel will decide on the fast bowler's return to cricket based on further assessments," the statement added. The injury has raised doubts over the 20-year-old's availability for the upcoming ICC World Cup 2023.
Plagued by injuries, the Pakistan cricket team is facing a tough situation as they prepare for the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2023. One of their key players, Naseem Shah, suffered a shoulder injury during a match against India in the 2023 Asia Cup, casting doubt on his availability for the World Cup.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has provided an update on Shah's health, stating that their medical team is closely monitoring his shoulder injury. They are consulting with experts to ensure he receives the best possible care, and his return to cricket will be determined based on further assessments.
Shah's injury is not the only concern for Pakistan's fast-bowling department. Haris Rauf was also ruled out of the same match against India as a precautionary measure due to discomfort in his oblique muscle. Additionally, fast bowler Ihsanullah is dealing with an elbow injury and will be unavailable for the next two months. Mohammad Hasnain is also undergoing rehabilitation for an injury in England.
In light of these injuries, the team management is exploring replacement options for Naseem Shah in the 15-man squad for the ICC World Cup 2023. Here are a few contenders:
Zaman Khan: The 22-year-old made his debut against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup 2023. While he didn't take any wickets in his six-over spell, he impressed with his death bowling skills. Known for his slingy action, Zaman's List A record includes six wickets in eight games.
Shahnawaz Dahani: This 25-year-old fast bowler was called up as a backup for the Asia Cup but didn't officially join the squad. He bowls at over 140 kph and has represented Pakistan twice in ODIs, taking a wicket in his debut game against the West Indies. His List A record is also promising, with 56 wickets in 31 matches.
Hassan Ali: With extensive international experience, the 29-year-old Hassan Ali is a strong candidate for a replacement. He has taken 91 wickets in 60 ODIs and was named the Player of the Tournament in Pakistan's 2017 Champions Trophy victory. Hassan Ali's batting skills could also give him an edge over other contenders.
While Pakistan has several options to consider, they will undoubtedly miss Naseem Shah, who has been a crucial part of the team across formats since his comeback last year. The ICC World Cup 2023 is scheduled to take place in India, featuring 10 teams competing across 10 venues from October 5 to November 19. The tournament will follow a round-robin format with all teams playing against each other in 45 league matches. The top four teams will qualify for the semifinals, with reserve days set for the knockout matches. Teams must finalize their 15-player squads before September 28, with any replacements requiring approval from the ICC after this date.
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Omega8 is well known throughout the cannbis community as "Miraculous"
Up until now, the relationship between cannabis and stroke has been a complicated one. A major study published in early 2017 suggested that cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of stroke and other cardiac problems. The study reviewed over 315,000 hospital discharge records. However, just a few months later, another study calls bunk on the stroke claims. Here’s why science says cannabis reduces the risk of stroke.
Smoking tobacco is considered a major risk factor for. Now, however, a recent study announced to the press in August 2017 suggests that smoking cannabis is linked with a significant decrease in stroke risk. The research recruited 74 cannabis consumers and 101 non-consumers.
All of the canna-friendly individuals were well-acquainted with the herb. They had consumed the plant at least 5,000 times in their lives, most often via smoking. After getting an MRI, a test that uses magnetic fields to generate images of organs in the body, the researchers found that cannabis consumers had greater global oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2).
OEF measures the percentage of oxygen removed from the blood and into surrounding tissues. Cerebral metabolic rate refers to the brain’s ability to oxidize glucose (sugar) for energy.
When the oxygen supply to the brain is cut off, such as in the case of stroke, the brain cannot use glucose for energy and you’ll lose consciousness within five to 10 seconds or so. A few minutes without oxygen causes permanent brain damage as brain functions essentially stop due to lack of energy.
More oxygen traveling into tissues and the improved ability to use oxygen to make energy would drastically decrease the risk of stroke. As this study suggests, cannabis changes the blood flow of oxygen to the brain.
The study also found that cannabis consumers had greater blood flow to regions of the brain responsible for learning, the putamen.
Dr. Francesca Filbey, the lead researcher, explains that the effects of cannabis on blood pressure have a huge role to play in its ability to seemingly get more oxygen into the brain. This is important, as high blood pressure is one of the primary risk factors for stroke. She states,
primary psychoactive ingredient present in cannabis -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – relaxes arterial walls resulting in lower blood pressure and increased blood flow to tissues.
Filbey isn’t the only medical researcher to find that cannabis lowers blood pressure. As early as the 1970s, scientists have discovered that psychoactive cannabis lowers blood pressure in humans. Additional research suggests that regular consumers can become tolerant to these effects.
However, Filbey’s research of consumers who have toked up over 5,000 times suggests that even with this regular consumption, cannabis fans were still more likely to have improvements in the levels of oxygen delivered to organs.
In the study, consumers were asked to abstain from cannabis for 72 hours prior to the examination. They had also used the herb daily for 60 days prior to the study. Before the examination, they were given urine tests to ensure that they had not consumed cannabis.
The research was published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
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Nissan to begin across-the-range Apple CarPlay and Android Auto roll-out in Australia from June
Nissan owners' wait for true smartphone mirroring is almost over, with the Japanese brand to begin rolling-out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its Australian vehicles from June this year.
The very first car to offer the technology will be the new Nissan Leaf, set to arrive around the middle of 2019, but the brand's Australian team says the smartphone-mirroring technology will appear in every new or updated model that arrives from that point on.
It's important to note that the change currently applies to all-new or face-lifted models, with a retro-fit solution for existing vehicles unlikely to be possible.
"The launch of the new Nissan Leaf will also mark the introduction of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to vehicles in the Nissan Australia range," a spokesperson told CarsGuide. "You can expect this technology to be incorporated into other Nissan vehicles as they are progressively updated in the future."


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Islamabad : ‘The Lighthouse’ has been launched to provide a home to orphans to nurture them into empowered and confident individuals.Located near the Srinagar Highway in Islamabad, it is...
Islamabad : ‘The Lighthouse’ has been launched to provide a home to orphans to nurture them into empowered and confident individuals.
Located near the Srinagar Highway in Islamabad, it is a boarding and education facility for orphaned and less privileged children to provide them with a home that will ensure that they receive a quality education and necessary life-skills, and other emotional and developmental support without discrimination.
Amina Wattoo Kasuri, Founder and Executive Director at ‘The Lighthouse’, and Project Director at Concordia Colleges in Pakistan, said “We have over the years worked tirelessly towards the development and uplifting of deserving members of our society. ‘The Lighthouse’ is an extension of our efforts and has been a dream for many years." She said our vision was to invest in children’s lives today in order to transform their future, while we work to create a safe and stimulating environment where they receive adequate nutrition and are healthy, and are given ample support for their education.
“Positive changes inevitably take time, but we are committed to improving the lives of disadvantaged children for the long haul. As our name suggests, we aim to be the guiding light that safely leads children towards a secure future,” she said. Amina Wattoo Kasuri said the resident children at ‘The Lighthouse’ would also be given necessary medical services and treatments, transportation facilities to educational and recreational institutions, nutritious meals, financial support to facilitate their marriages once they are of appropriate age.

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The search for the University of Toledo's next athletic director is about to get under way.
President Daniel Johnson yesterday named 12 people to serve on the search committee, including five faculty and staff members, five community members, and two UT students.
Jim Klein, professor of law and NCAA faculty representative, will chair the committee and act as its spokesman.
Others on the committee include Brian Bushong, director of budget and planning; Joan Katz, a former UT Board of Trustees member; Calvin Lawshe, interim vice president of student services; Clint Longenecker, professor of management; Megan Mamarella, student trustee; Kelly Savage, former Rocket women's basketball player; Ed Scrutchins, commissioner of the Toledo City League; Alice Skeens, associate professor of sociology; Chuck Sullivan, a member of the UT Foundation Board of Trustees; Brian Weinblatt, former speaker of the Student Senate, and Jim White, a local attorney.
“The committee, with the help of an executive search firm, will be conducting an open, national search in order to assure that we are selecting the best person for the position,” Johnson said in a statement. “I will then make the decision for the new athletic director based on the three to five finalists the committee presents to me.”
A date for the first meeting of the committee has not been set.
Pete Liske had served as UT's athletic director the past five years, but his contract was not renewed. Mike Karabin has been interim AD since June 19.
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A circa late 1970s vintage wrap dress by Diane von Furstenberg. The yellow jersey knit dress features an abstract white print, a wide shirt collar, a surplice neckline, a wrap bodice, long sleeves and flared cuffs. The interior includes a maker’s label.
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Microsoft today released the new update KB5035849 for Windows 10, as part of Patch Tuesday, but some users are now reporting failures when trying to install it.
Based on reportsthe update fails at installation time, both on Windows 10 and on Windows Server, with error code 0xd0000034.
The failure occurs when users try to install the new update via Windows Update, and the reports seem to focus more on Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019, which reached end of mainstream support in January, but should remain with extended support until January 2029.
So far, Microsoft has not yet confirmed that there are problems with the update, and the update page still indicates that there are no known defects.
However, many users have started reporting this issue on the company's support forums. Direct installation via Windows Update appears to be causing the issues, as downloading the installation package manually seems to allow for the correct update.
For anyone experiencing this issue, the update can be downloaded directly from Microsoft's update catalog.
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Sharp has drastically cut-back production of 9.7-inch touchscreens for Apple's iPad, shifting its focus to the 7.85-inch screens that it makes for the iPad Mini at its Kameyama plant in Japan. The news...
The NHS has been ridiculed for its continued use of outdated equipment but it lacks the funding to improve
Telcos and platform providers to be given 10 days to hand over data or face fines
Experts disagree on NHS use of legacy communications technology
Cloud-based platform from Cyclia will be used to put small-molecule therapies to the test


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Mobile check-in isn't new for a hotel to roll out, but the Starwood Preferred Guest promotion could help it go more mainstream.
A new promotion that Marriott is running for its its Starwood Preferred Guest loyalty program may indicate how much weight the hotel operator is putting behind the program’s mobile app in the future.
Through the middle of June, anyone who uses the mobile check-in functionality on the Starwood Preferred Guest mobile app will automatically earn 250 points per stay. The promo and online check-in is only available at a portion of the former Starwood’s hotels, including the lion’s share of Four Points by Sheratons, Le Meridiens, Sheratons, The St. Regis and Westins, but with multiple visits, balances can add up quickly.
View from the Wing initially shared news about the promotion.
Starwood points are generally treasured among loyalty enthusiasts because of their broad utility – notably among airline transfer partners. The Points Guy values SPG points at 2.7 cents each (the blog values Hyatt points at 1.8 cents each). A typical free room costs between 6,000 and 20,000 points, though many travelers use the points for other purposes.
Beyond the simple promotion, Marriott’s move is a sign of the operator’s increasing interest in remote, mobile tools to handle guest reservations and check-in. In the same way that airlines moved to kiosks and online check-in earlier this decade, hotels now have an opportunity to cut labor costs and streamline guest flow by pushing much of the arrival process through a mobile app.
The only touch point in which a real human may need to be involved – and that many hotels still can’t avoid – is the process of picking up a key. Already, however, Marriott is working on solving that problem. Late in 2014, before the 2016 merger with Marriott, Starwood started piloting keyless entry at a handful of properties around the world. Since then, the program spread, although it’s hardly in full use across the former Starwood network.
As Starwood and Marriott move closer to a fully merged company, Marriott has its own suite of technology to bring to the table. In 2013, Marriott launched mobile check-in through its own app, and the company has been experimenting with kiosks to automatically issue keys to mobile visitors.
Broadly distributed mobile check-in hasn’t happened overnight — or even as smoothly as the airline transition went. But by slowly integrating the changes and incentivizing travelers to use the online tools, Marriott’s Starwood unit appears to be leading the way among hotel operators. Soon, a traveler may never see a human being between arrival and the mattress.
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This year's Virgin London Marathon field lost and gained today as it was announced that world 5,000 and 10,000 metres record holder Kenenisa Bekele has pulled out, but that the Kenyan who once held the unofficial world best time over 26.2 miles, Geoffrey Mutai, had been signed up.
Bekele's Ethiopian compatriot Aselefech Mergia, winner of the Dubai Marathon in January for a record third time, has been added to the women's elite field for the 35th anniversary races on Sunday April 26.
Race director Hugh Brasher welcomed all the new additions.
"Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, it has," he said.
"In most marathons around the world Geoffrey Mutai and Aselefech Mergia would be headline names in their own right.
"While, of course, we are disapppointed to lose Kenenisa, we are delighted to have added Geoffrey and Aselefech to our already bursting fields and welcome them back to London along with all our elite athletes.
"With these 'fantasy' fields, Paula Radcliffe's farewell run, and the IPC (International Paralympic Committee) Athletics World Championship marathons as well, our 35th anniversary promises to be a very special day."
Bekele, who broke the Paris Marathon course record on his debut at the distance last April, has been forced to withdraw with a right Achilles tendon injury sustained during the Dubai Marathon.
"Unfortunately, I have had to pull out of this year's Virgin Money London Marathon because of the problems I had while running in Dubai," said Bekele.
"I desperately wanted to run in London this year, but the injury to my Achilles has not healed sufficiently for me to compete against such a great field.
"I hope to be back in 2016 and ready to challenge the best marathon runners in the world in London."
Despite the Ethiopian's withdrawal, the men's line-up remains one of the best ever seen,
Mutai, twice a winner of the New York City Marathon in recent years and victor at the 2012 Berlin Marathon, famously set an unofficial world best when he won the 2011 Boston Marathon in 2 hours 03min 02sec, although the time was not acceptable for official records because of the downhill course.
The 2011-2012 World Marathon Majors champion joins a field brimming over with talent.
It features the first ever marathon meeting between world record holder Dennis Kimetto and defending London champion Wilson Kipsang, plus the second fastest marathon runner in history, Emmanuel Mutai, the reigning Chicago Marathon champion, Eliud Kipchoge, and last year's London Marathon runner-up Stanley Biwott.
The line-up contains the three fastest marathon runners of all time, and six of the 10 quickest men in history, while Geoffrey Mutai, who has a legitimate personal best of 2:04:15, is one of only nine men to have run the distance in under 2:05.
A training partner of Kipsang and Kimetto, the 33-year-old was due to compete at the Tokyo Marathon on February 22, but had to withdraw from that race because of a niggling injury and instead has prepared himself to compete with the rest of the world's best in London.
The race field has already described as "ridiculously good" and "fantasy track and field" by the influential Let's Run website.
Mergia won her third Dubai title after returning from pregnancy.
Her personal best of 2:19:31 makes her the third quickest on paper in a women's field containing the last three London Marathon champions - Edna Kiplagat, Mary Keitany and Priscah Jeptoo - plus last year's runner-up, the world half marathon record holder Florence Kiplagat.
Mergia will take on Kenya's fab four in London alongside fellow Ethiopian Tirfi Tsegaye, the 2014 Tokyo and Berlin Marathon champion, another new addition to the talented roster.
Tsegaye broke the course record when she won the Tokyo Marathon 13 months ago, and ran a personal best of 2:20:18 to take victory in Berlin last September.
While this will be Tsegaye's London Marathon debut, Mergia runs for the third time having reached the podium on her first appearance in 2010.
The addition of these two champions means the race now features four women who have run quicker than 2:20 and eight who have broken 2:21.
Another new name further down the women's list which features in the second wave of entry announcements is that of Elvan Abeylegesse, the Ethiopian-born Turk who won Olympic silver medals at 5,000m and 10,000m in Beijing 2008, and earned a 5,000/10,000m double on the track at the 2010 European Championships.
A former world record holder at 5,000m, she moved up to the marathon two years ago and finished fifth at last summer's European Championships in Zürich.
The 32-year-old will be hoping to make her breakthrough at top level in her first World Marathon Majors race.
Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]
February 2015: "Integrity" key as World Marathon Majors announces unprecedented anti-doping and prize money format"
January 2015: Ethiopian double at Dubai Marathon but Bekele forced to withdraw
January 2015: Mike Rowbottom: Fingers crossed for Radcliffe's London Marathon swansong - a decade after Holmes bade farewell on a TV camera buggy
January 2015: Kenya's "Fantastic Four" will contest a 2015 London Marathon due to be Radcliffe's swansong
January 2015: Kimetto and Kipsang to clash in star-studded men's London Marathon field


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From today's Robert Feder column:
This weekend’s celebration of Dick Biondi’s 50th anniversary on the air in Chicago just got 50,000 watts bigger: The live special from 7 p.m. to midnight Sunday will air not only on Citadel Broadcasting oldies WLS-FM (94.7), where Biondi still holds forth every weeknight, but also on news/talk sister station WLS-AM (890). Biondi was among the stars who launched the Top 40 format on WLS-AM on May 2, 1960. Fans are invited to leave voice-mail messages of congratulations to Biondi at (312) 984-5350. In conjunction with the 50th anniversary salute, Scott Childers is adding new features and additional enhancements to his website at WLSHistory.com. Childers is the author of Chicago’s WLS Radio, published in 2008 by Arcadia Publishing.
-- Robert Feder
Now in all fairness, Biondi hasn't REALLY been on the air for the past 50 years here in Chicago ... but he certainly has spent MOST of the last 50 years coming to us live from right here in The Windy City.
Dick Biondi debuted as one of the "originals" on WLS-AM in 1960 when the station switched over to its Top 40 / Rock format but was then famously fired in headline-making fashion three years later, the true details of which seem to be foggy in virtually EVERYBODY's memory after all this time.After being the first disc jockey in America to play a Beatles record at the station in '63, he then departed for Los Angeles where he also introduced The Beatles live on stage at The Hollywood Bowl! (You can see our landmark feature on this whole topic on the OTHER Forgotten Hits Web Page here: Click here: Forgotten Hits - Who Played The Very First Beatles Record In America?)
A return gig to WCFL in 1967 brought him back to Chicago for a short while ... subsequent spots on WMAQ and WBBM-FM kept him in our consciousness until he landed at WJMK (Magic 104) in 1984, Chicagoland's then premier oldies station. He held THAT spot for nearly 20 years (until WJMK switched over to the Jack-FM format), paving the way for Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel to SAVE the oldies nationally after a similar incident occurred in New York City. WLS-FM, our local True Oldies outlet, snatched Biondi up immediately and he's been back on the air ever since.
Other famous on-air time was spent in Buffalo, NY (BEFORE his first stint at WLS ... in fact, Biondi was one of the jocks featured in that "Cruisin'" Vintage Radio LP Series) and KRLA in Los Angeles ... but without question his BEST radio years have been spent here in Chi-Town where Dick Biondi is literally an institution. (Jim Pilster of The Cryan' Shames has been campaigning for quite a while now about renaming one of Chicago's streets "Dick Biondi Way" ... a fitting honor for one who has done so much for our great city over the years. In fact, watch for many of our "local heroes" to show up during Dick's very special broadcast Sunday Night.)
Congratulations, Dick ... we love ya! Thanks for being so much a part of our lives these past 50 years ... and here's wishing you 50 more!!!


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“Listen! My beloved!
Behold, he is coming,
Climbing on the mountains,
Leaping on the hills.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Behold, he is standing behind our wall,
He is looking through the windows,
He is peering through the lattice.
My beloved responded and said to me,
‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come away.’”
— Song of Songs 2:8-10
The Lord stands behind your wall. This indicates that He is ready for action; He is standing, not sitting. He stands there waiting for you. As soon as you are ready, He will immediately take action. As soon as you are ready, He will lead. As soon as you are ready, He will take you on another journey. As soon as you are ready, He will bring you on to another stage in your spiritual growth. The Lord is never idle when it comes to your going on. He is always ready to go.
Adapted from The Journey of Life, page 183.
Tomorrow: “He is Standing Behind Our Wall (2)”


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