|St. John's basketball has been phenomenal this season under new coach, Steve Lavin.|
St. John's basketball back in the day, was like Duke basketball, or The Chicago Bulls. After the departure of Ron Artest, and a couple of other stars, the team got worse and worse. In the Big East, they used to be one of the elite teams, but the last decade, they were the easy game in the schedule to help players rest for the big games. Now St. Johns is back, with a new coach, recruiting class, and will to survive in the NCAA's top basketball conference.
Steve Lavin is one of the greatest coaches in college hoops today, and this year i would give him the coach of the year award. He took over the Red Storm this season, after working with ESPN the last few years. Before ESPN, Lavin was coach of the UCLA Bruins and had a 145-78 record there. He led them to the tournament every year except his last, and made it to four sweet sixteens, and even a elite eight run.
Lavin is back to prove his skills, and is transforming St. John's back to a power basketball school. Lavin currently hast he St. Johns Red Storm in the top 25, with a 17-9 record. St. John's arguably have the toughest schedule or RPI, in the land. Over the season, they have already played nine top 25 schools, with one still to go. Also the Storm have defeated other tough opponents like West Virginia, Cincinnati, and Marquette.
The Red Storm started off the season pretty weak, and the odds looked like another crappy season. The Storm dropped the first game of the season, vs the Saint Mary Gaels. After the next five games which they won, they dropped two in a row. Later after another group of wins, the Storm would get themselves in another hole, dropping five of six games in a row.
After that final loss against #20 Georgetown, the Storm transformed into a hurricane, and upset #3 Duke, #9 UCONN, and most recently #4 Pittsburgh. With the only ranked team left on the schedule being Villanova, the Red Storm are in good shape going into the Big East Tournament, and even the great 68 team tournament.
The Red Storm play at the worlds most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, and have been excellent there this season. They have had 5 upset wins vs ranked teams in MSG.
St. John's top player this year is guard, Dwight Hardy. Hardy is a Senior out of the Bronx and is the key leader of this team. He is currently averaging 17.2 points per game, along with a steal, a few assists, and close to four rebounds. He has hit many clutch shots this season, and had a season high 32 points per game vs UCONN.
Many Bracketology experts have St. John's being a high single digit ranked team, like a eight or nine. Many analyst though, have St. John's being that team to upset a potential one, two, or three seed, since they have done it many times this season already.
St. John's basketball has definitely improved under Lavin, and it is good to see great New York City College Basketball being played in the garden.


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Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Road Fund have signed an agreement to collect annual vehicle license renewal fee. On Thursday 4th of March 2021, Kidane Mengesha, deputy president of Central Region and Rashid Mohamed, director of Road Fund Office have signed the agreement on behalf of their respective office.
The agreement is expected to benefit 1.2 million car owners in Ethiopia according to Kidane, “Customers will be able to pay their payment through bank branches, POS machines and online banking services without any hassle.”
As Kidane said, since 53 percent of the overall Commercial Bank of Ethiopia services is through digital system, this step could also help as part of its effort to a cash less transfer and modern society.
According to Rashid, more than 3 billion birr will be collected annually; making the payment service through the commercial bank beneficial to the customers and the office. Money is often lost through eliminating fraud and using fake documents that should have been deposited in to the road fund, since the transaction is now wireless it shall increase the office collection capacity, according to him.
Customers will pay their bills at the bank and submit their receipt and vehicle libbers to the post office after receiving the confirmation to their payment.
The bank has previously collaborated with Addis Ababa water and sewerage, Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopian Electric Service, Ethio Telecom and other public and private organizations.
Road Fund Agency has collected 1.46 billion birr in the first half of the current fiscal year 2020/21.
According to the agency, from its five sources the agency has collected 98 percent of its plan which was 1.5 billion birr.
Road Fund Agency works on road condition surveys and road maintenance by collecting its budget from oil tariff tallying to about 1.39 billion birr and 2.1 million birr from vehicle oil and grease. Moreover it gains revenue from: Road Value Purchase 1.526 million birr, the Treasury 8.978 million birr, Document Weight-based vehicle license renewal 64.746 million birr and the Weight-based vehicle license renewal 51.778mllion birr.
While it was planned to carry out 12125.028 km of road maintenance in the first half of the budget year, 12007.988 km has been carried out by the office thus far. Out of the 1861 km planned repairs, 1252 km of repairs have been completed.
In the last six months, the office has paid 622,779,447 Birr for regular repairs according to the office whilst 138,484,750 birr was spent on monitoring and support. 1.05 billion Birr was further paid by the office for Prepaid and Certificate of Payment for the Road Agencies Basis.
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In the late '80s, bathhouses and sex clubs largely fell out of favor. In San Francisco, health officials blamed them for rabid spread of diseases--especially HIV. Down the West Coast, health regulators saddled the bathhouses with strict regulations and lobbied for their closure. As AIDS has faded from the forefront of health concerns, sex clubs are enjoying a renaissance. But along with their return, some government agencies are scrambling to put health regulations in place.
Last month, the LA County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to require its health department to draw up recommendations for licensing and regulating all gay bathhouses and sex clubs. Relying on an LA Health Department study showing that 11% of men tested in two gay bathhouses were HIV-positive and that risky behavior like barebacking [anal sex without condoms] does occur, the health department is reportedly drafting strict guidelines. Those guidelines will likely curtail sex clubs in LA. It's an approach that has sex club owners there bristling and gearing up for battle.
"The regulation efforts in LA are disappointing because they didn't collaborate with sex club owners and staff," said Jeff Bailey, the LA Gay & Lesbian Center's Health Education and Prevention Director. "We risk alienating them," he added.
Meanwhile, Portland has taken an opposite approach to policing sex. Instead of setting in place stern new laws, a few weeks ago, Multnomah Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Oxman agreed to voluntary guidelines for sex club owners. The risks in Portland sex clubs are certainly as alarming as those in LA. Only one in three gay men report that they ever use a condom during anal intercourse, with 50% saying they did not use a condom the last time they had sex. Even so, Dr. Oxman does not believe a paternalistic approach will be effective in changing community norms and behaviors.
Dr. Oxman also points out that regulations and policing efforts are expensive. Like the rest of Oregon, the county health department is a little short on cash these days.
The new guidelines ask that sex club owners post clear and positive messages throughout the clubs to encourage condom use. They also ask owners to crackdown with zero tolerance on drug and alcohol use.
But the most surprising news about these regulations is that the call didn't come from county health supervisors--it was from the sex club owners themselves. David Anderson, co-owner of Steam Portland, instigated the process. Several weeks ago, he called Dr. Oxman, requesting a meeting to hammer out a set of new regulations, who quickly met with the club owners to write a draft. The collaborative approach is unique in the U.S. and, according to club owners, has been met with resounding acceptance.
But the club owners have not stopped with voluntary guidelines. To help expand their efforts, Tom Lavoie, co-owner of Portland sex club Club XES, has agreed to invite all gay bar owners to a meeting with Dr. Oxman within the next month. Lavoie hopes the meeting will generate more ideas about how to encourage safer sex and the promotion of HIV/STD testing.
Yet, in spite of the headway being made, advocates within the gay community say that health officials are effectively putting out one fire while an inferno rages nearby: online chatrooms. Even the author for the study used to support regulations in LA admitted that more unsafe sex is being solicited online than in bars and sex club. In Portland, it's estimated that as many as 500 queer men visit chatrooms like gay.com each weekend night. These hook-ups happen in an environment completely void of any health warnings.
"Why is that the people who seek to regulate sex never seem to have any clue where people are actually having sex?" asked one exasperated sex club owner.
But it's unlikely health officials will be regulating chatrooms any time soon. In addition to basic freedom-of-speech protections, county health officials don't have the personnel to conduct online safe sex outreach. In fact, the health department doesn't even have a computer capable of reaching a gay chat line.

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AUSTIN -- A UT student is one of the survivors of the San Francisco plane crash.
Varun Bhatnagar was sitting toward the center of the plane when it slammed into the runway. He escaped uninjured.
Saturday's accident killed two people and injured dozens more.
The pilot of the plane says shortly before the crash, a flash of light blinded him. It's unclear whether that's what led to the accident.
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text: Green tea: friend or faux? 15. August 2006 William Davis (0) The www.HealthCastle.com website is a helpful website on healthy eating that sends out a free newsletter. The content is all produced by licensed dietitions and nutritionists. Although I don't agree with everything said on the site, there's still some good information. I'm a fan of green tea. Although I believe the effects are relatively modest (weight reduction, cholesterol reduction, anti-oxidation, etc., with theaflavin and/or green tea as a beverage,) they alerted me to the fact that the Lipton Green Tea product is one you should steer clear of. Here are their comments:"More like Soft drink than Green Tea!With 200 calories, 13 teaspoons of added sugar and a long list of artificial ingredients, Lipton Iced Green Tea is more like a bottle of soft drink than tea, in our opinion."The Lipton website lists the ingredients:Water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, green tea, sodium hexametaphosphate, ascorbic acid (to protect flavor), honey, natural flavors, phosphoric acid, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), potassium sorbate (preserves freshness), calcium disodium edta (to protect flavor), caramel color, tallow 5, blue1.An 8 oz serving yields 21 grams of sugar. If you drink the full 20 oz. bottle (not hard to do!), that yields 52.5 grams of sugar! You will also notice that the second ingredient listed after water is high fructose corn syrup. This ingredient, you may recall, causes triglycerides to skyrocket, causes an insatiable sweet tooth, and is a probable contributor to obesity and diabetes.In their defense, the Lipton people do also offer a sugar-free alternative without the excessive sweeteners and empty calories. Do the Lipton products offer the same kind of benefits from green tea catechins (flavonoids) offered by freshly brewed teas? This product has not been formally tested by an independent lab to my knowledge, though, in general, commercially prepared and bottled teas tend to have dramatically less catechin/flavonoid content compared to brewed. (The USDA website provides access to an extraordinary collection of flavonoid food content at their USDA Database for the Flavonoid Content of Selected Foods - 2003. You'll find it at http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=6231.)I think the HealthCastle people got it right: Brew your own, making sure to steep for at least 3 minutes. Alternatively, a green tea or theaflavin supplement provides many of the benefits. (Theaflavin has been used in trials at doses of 375 to 900 mg per day.) An in-depth report on green tea will be coming in a future Special Report on the www.cureality.com Membership website.

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While Iran has not publicly responded to a UN suggestion that it temporarily store some of its uranium abroad, Turkey’s willingness to cooperate is a positive sign for the West.
Turkey could be key in mediating between Iran and the West
Turkey's energy minister said he would be willing to accept low-enriched uranium from Iran for temporary storage, responding to a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday.
"There is no problem from the side of Turkey with Iran storing its low-grade uranium in Turkey. We cannot say no," Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters.
Tehran has been hesitant to export its uranium stockpile in exchange for more highly-enriched uranium to power a Tehran medical reactor. In response, the IAEA suggested keeping it in a friendly third country, like Turkey, while waiting for the fuel.
Turkey is both a NATO member and a friend to Iran, and has said it would also be willing to mediate discussions between Iran and the West over Iran's nuclear program.
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The West fears Iran is building up its uranium stockpile to build a nuclear bomb
The IAEA presented a plan to Iran on October 21 which would have them export 70 percent of their low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for further enrichment before returning it to Tehran.
Western powers supported the plan as a way for Iran to prove its nuclear program is peaceful, as it has repeatedly insisted.
Tehran has not officially accepted or rejected the proposal, but instead responded with calls for amendments and further negotiations, which the United States has rejected.
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In 1983, OSHA published its Hazard Communication (HAZCOM) Standard, which requires that the hazards of all chemicals used in the workplace be communicated to employees so that responsible protective measures can be taken. Today, HAZCOM remains near the top of the list of most frequently violated OSHA standards that result in a citation. The 1917 Halifax Explosion, one of the world’s largest nonnuclear explosions, testifies to what can happen when you don’t have—or don’t follow—an effective HAZCOM program.
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), more than 30 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous chemicals in their workplaces. To protect against chemical source illness and injury, OSHA published its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), also referred to as HAZCOM, in 1983. The purpose of the HCS was to ensure that the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported are properly understood and that information concerning those hazards is conveyed to employers and employees.
The HCS standard requires those hazards to be communicated through a company’s HAZCOM to employees—typically, by using three separate means: container warning labels, material safety data sheets (MSDSs), and employee training. The HCS can be found in its entirety at 29 CFR 1910.1200, Hazard Communication.
Since the HCS rule became effective, it has been amended to address the fast-growing list of chemicals used in the workplace. OSHA currently regulates exposure to approximately 400 substances. The OSHA Chemical Sampling Information (CSI) file contains listings for approximately 1,500 substances; the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substances Inventory lists information on more than 62,000 chemicals or chemical substances; and some libraries maintain files of MSDSs for more than 100,000 substances. As you can see, there are numerous hazardous chemicals in the workplace, regulated or not.
Review Your HAZCOM Program
The accessibility and use of MSDSs should already be a part of your company’s standard business practices. Usually, they are included as part of the company’s right-to-know program. Typical HAZCOM training information that should be disseminated to all employees includes the following:
- Reason for a HAZCOM plan.
- The HCS and the standard operating procedure that addresses HAZCOM.
- MSDS books and their importance.
- Common types of materials expected to be encountered on-site.
- Container labeling and disposition.
- Building postings.
- Employee protection and responsibilities.
MSDSs are used worldwide to transmit detailed information about a chemical—for example, how it should be used, its effects, and how to protect against those effects. Many employers routinely review MSDSs before they purchase a chemical and compare it to acceptable alternatives in order to ensure that the least hazardous material is selected. This practice is perhaps the most important use of the MSDS, as it prevents unnecessary exposure to a hazardous chemical.
In addition, MSDSs help identify what protective measures should be used when handling the material, such as the type of respiratory protection to prevent an inhalation exposure or the type of glove material required to prevent skin exposure.
For MSDSs, warning labels, and employee training to be effective, the hazard information they convey must be complete and accurate. It’s therefore critically important for every company to obtain comprehensive and correct information about the hazards associated with particular chemicals. The process of evaluating available scientific evidence in order to determine if a chemical is hazardous, as required by the HCS, is referred to as a “hazard determination.” The hazard determination provides the basis for the information provided in its MSDS.
Chemical manufacturers and importers are required to perform hazard determinations on the chemicals they produce or import. Under the HCS, an employer that manufactures, processes, formulates, or repackages a hazardous chemical is considered a “chemical manufacturer.” Distributors and employers may also choose to conduct hazard determinations if they are concerned about the adequacy of hazard information for the chemicals they use in their business or distribute to others.
Two primary resources are required to conduct a hazard determination. First, complete, accurate, up-to-date literature and data concerning the chemical is required. Second, the analyst must be able to understand and interpret the information retrieved in order to identify and document the hazards. Specifically, any chemical that presents either a physical or health hazard is considered a hazardous chemical. The HCS uses the following definitions for physical and health hazards:
- “Physical hazard” means a chemical for which there is scientifically valid evidence that it is a combustible liquid, a compressed gas, explosive, flammable, an organic peroxide, an oxidizer, pyrophoric, unstable (reactive), or water-reactive.
- “Health hazard” means a chemical that may cause acute or chronic health effects in exposed employees, such as chemicals that are carcinogens, toxic or highly toxic agents, reproductive toxins, irritants, corrosives, sensitizers, hepatotoxins, nephrotoxins, neurotoxins, agents that act on the hematopoietic system, and agents that damage the lungs, skin, eyes, or mucous membranes.
Clearly, the HCS definition of a hazardous chemical is very broad but also very inclusive. The standard does not require chemical testing, only the collection and analysis of currently available data. Conservatively, untested chemicals are usually considered hazardous, as are chemicals with suspected hazardous properties.
An employer’s comprehensive HAZCOM program is the means of applying the HCS to company-specific conditions. The information is usually disseminated to employees in the form of a policy or procedure. Employees should receive HAZCOM training at the time they are assigned to work with hazardous chemicals, on a regular basis (such as annually), or following significant changes in the workplace. However, the HCS training provisions are not satisfied solely by having employees read product labels and/or the MSDSs. An employer’s HAZCOM training program is to be a forum for explaining to employees not only the hazards of the chemicals in their work area but also how to properly use the information (Figure 2).
|2. A HAZCOM compliance checklist. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) Hazard Communication Standard provides a very useful HAZCOM checklist to ensure that a company is in compliance with the standard. Source: OSHA
OSHA’s “Top 10”
Despite the requirement for chemical manufacturers and importers to evaluate the hazards of the chemicals they produce or import, and the requirement to prepare labels and safety data sheets to convey the hazard information to their downstream customers, HAZCOM continues to rank high on OSHA’s “Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards.” In fiscal year 2010 (October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010), for example, OSHA handed out approximately 94,000 citations related to HAZCOM violations. That put HAZCOM in third place, behind only fall protection and scaffolding violations. HAZCOM is a perennial top five finisher in OSHA citation issues year after year. Specific reasons for the citations usually fall into one of five main categories:
- Failure to develop and maintain a written HAZCOM program.
- Failure to maintain training.
- Lack of employee training.
- Failure to have an MSDS for each hazardous chemical.
- Failure to label each container with the identity of the hazardous chemical within.
OSHA publishes an annual list of the categories and reasons for citations as a way to alert employers so they can take steps to find and fix common, easily corrected hazards in the workplace before an OSHA inspection occurs. All the HCS standards, publications, training guides, and statistical information are available on the OSHA website (http://www.osha.gov).
Practical Applications of HAZCOM
Video training is effective because it matches the learning styles of about 95% of the population, which are visual and auditory. Furthermore, simultaneous audio and video increases information retention by as much as 50% over printed materials alone.
Employee training can be conducted in many different ways—including classroom instruction, interactive videos, and computer-based training, to name a few—and should provide opportunities for employees to ask questions to ensure that they understand the presented information. Moreover, videos and electronic media can be a cost-effective and time-efficient method for training employees, regardless of company size and complexity.
However, the key to effective training is creating genuine interest and motivating learners to use the information. Therefore, HAZCOM training must also have practical application in the field and instill an awareness of the logical consequences (often tragic) of ignoring the hard-learned lessons of history, such as those taught by the 1917 Halifax Explosion (see sidebar). When you read through the description of the Halifax events, how many HAZCOM deficiencies can you identify?
Hindsight is often 20/20, but if standard HAZCOM processes and procedures had been followed that wartime day in 1917, chances are that the explosion—which resulted in approximately 2,000 dead, 9,000 injured, 25,000 homeless, and, according to one conservative estimate, roughly $500 million (today’s dollars) in damages—would have been avoided.
— James M. Hylko ([email protected]) is a POWER contributing editor.

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AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - A 22-year-old Akron man was convicted Tuesday of shooting two men in 2019, killing one of them.
A jury found Jeremiah Alexander guilty of felonious assault and murder.
On Aug. 14, 2019, Alexander shot Douglas Norman, 21, and Tion Anthony, 18, near Rosemary Boulevard and Dahlgren Drive in Akron.
Norman, who had been shot in the back, survived his injuries.
Anthony was shot in the head and died from his injuries.
Norman told Akron police he and Anthony were walking when they were shot.
Alexander will be sentenced on June 1.

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The Asian Education Advisory Council (AEAC) presented awards to honor our Asian students, families and community members during their virtual awards breakfast on May 2. An amazing 70 videos were submitted — watch them here! The AEAC was established, under court order, in 1985 by the DPS Board of Education. AEAC seeks to improve educational opportunities and to provide quality education for all students, particularly students of Asian American/Pacific Island (AA/PI) heritage. Learn more on the AEAC website or Facebook page.


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As we age, it is no secret that our needs change too. Sometimes, the sad part is that not everyone gets to enjoy the life after retirement. This often happens when one is too busy doing many household chores that they already forget what they need. This has paved way to the rise of independent living communities and old folks home in Singapore. They intend to provide the appropriate care and comfort to make the lives of ageing loved ones better, brighter and happier.
Housekeeping, food, and health-related needs
One major benefit of senior care facilities is that they provide a consistent round-the-clock care for older loved ones. For instance, housekeeping, one of the harder things to accomplish in old age, will no longer be a problem. Most nursing home staffs will do all of the chores for the senior residents.
Part of this is also meal plans for the elderly. Apart from the daily medications, the seniors also need to have a healthy diet to prevent serious illnesses. Even in old age, it is necessary for people to ensure that their older loved ones are getting what they need to maintain their health.
Adding to everything are the individual expenses that will accumulate, should one opt to live alone at home. The benefit of an old nursing home is that all of these — food service, health and medical care, and even household chores and needs will be met and attended to by trained individuals.
A social environment
More than physical needs, older individuals also need an environment where they will continue to thrive. It is common to assume that all they need are the basic provisions to have a comfortable life, but in reality, there are more to the services that they would need for the best quality of life.
Old folks home Singapore offers an environment where ageing individuals can meet other people in the same stage in life. These old nursing homes serve as a way to nurture their social circles to keep them in touch with fellow seniors.
For the best experience, nursing homes often hold social events where residents can have a great time. Activity centres for seniors can offer a refuge where they can meet and make friends, enjoy social activities and find support that they need, especially those who may be suffering from serious conditions and ailments.


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DC Defenders vs Seattle Dragons Odds & Info
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|Date & Time||Saturday February 8, 2020, 2:00 PM (EST)|
Audi Field Audi Field, 1st St SW, Buzzard Point, Washington D.C., Washington, Washington, D.C., 20024, USA
The Seattle Dragos are going to face the DC Defenders in the first game of the new XFL league. Now, what is interesting is Seattle is headed up by Jim Zorn at the coaching position. Zorn is also the general manager so he did have the chance to build the team to match the coaching style he is bringing to the table.
The Dragons do have Brandon Silvers and B.J. Daniels guiding the team at quarterback. The running back for the Dragons could be one of 3 players from Kenneth Farrow, Trey Williams or even Ja’Quan Gardner. Those three definitely give the Dragons some options.
The Defenders get to play at home in this game here and that could really help out DC. The Defenders have gathered a good group of talent on their roster well. The head man for the Defender is Pep Hamilton and like Zorn is the GM as well which allowed for the shaping of the roster.
With the Defenders the team has picked up a couple of great quarterbacks to lead the team with Tyree Jackson and Cardale Jones leading the team. Now, the running back position may be questionable for the Defenders with 4 different running backs on the roster with none of them being a big time standout.
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The Defenders are playing at home and that will definitely help the Defenders out however, what else does help the Defenders is the quarterbacks had a lot of experience in college and for Jackson led a Buffalo team that was far from the best. Look for the quarterback position to be the turning point for the Defenders. Final Score Prediction, DC Defenders win and cover ATS 25-16.

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Arjen de Korte
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Sun Nov 12 12:33:14 CET 2006
>> Assuming that the monitoring works (which looks like it), it probably
>> will, as you already found out during earlier tests where your system
>> kept on rebooting when the serial cable was not connected. This is
>> essentially the same as OB LB for upstype=7.
> Yes, but I just want to be sure tht the state "LB" is going to show up.
> When this happens I'm pretty sure the thing will do what it's supposed
> to do.
Just remember to verify that the UPS is able to provide power long
enough for your system to shutdown after signalling LB. It may take some
time to shutdown your system cleanly and some UPSes simply don't have
the stamina to keep powering the load long enough. So make sure your
server is not powered by the UPS (and use a suitable load of
incandescant lamps to simulate the server load).
> I'm also wondering if the system will boot up when the powerline comes
> online again. That would be very nice!
That depends both on the UPS and system configuration. Most 'dumb' UPSes
will turn on again once power returns, so I don't expect surprises here.
The second thing to check, is whether your system will startup when
power is applied. In the days of the AT power supplies (until about a
decade ago), this was no issue since they had a hard power switch. Since
the introduction of the ATX power supply, this usually requires a
jumper/dipswitch on the mainboard or a BIOS setting.
Kind regards, Arjen
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Fernando Alonso will mark his record F1 points tally with a special helmet design for the Indian Grand Prix.
New Ferrari technical director James Allison has targeted an improved performance from the team over the final four races.
Pirelli believe its change of tyre compounds for this weekend’s race in India will lead teams to use more aggressive strategies.
Force India co-owner Vijay Mallya expects a “real fight” with Sauber who are putting their sixth place in the constructors’ championship under pressure.
Pirelli will bring a different tyre allocation for the Korean, Japanese and Indian Grand Prix to those used at the races in 2012.


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A lot of people want Oklahoma's governor to stop state officials from executing Julius Jones on Thursday.
Jones, 41, was convicted and sentenced to death for killing businessman Paul Howell during a 1999 carjacking in Edmond, Oklahoma. Jones has insisted all along that he is innocent and wasn't at the scene of the crime. He and his defense attorneys point the finger at co-defendant Christopher Jordan, who got a deal from prosecutors in exchange for testifying against Jones. Jordan has served 15 years in prison and is free now.
A change.org petition has more than 6.4 million signatures asking for mercy. Celebrity and criminal justice reform advocate Kim Kardashian spent time with Jones and his mom and is supporting his cause. On November 11, five Republican Oklahoma lawmakers called on fellow Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt to grant Jones clemency. The lawmakers' request comes on the heels of a 3–1 recommendation on November 1 from Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board supporting clemency for Jones. Many officials are clearly uncertain of Jones' guilt and think executing him at this point is a bad idea.
"The last thing the state should be doing is taking the life of someone who may be innocent," said Oklahoma state Rep. Gary Mize (R–Edmond) in a prepared statement. "There is too much doubt here, especially given that Julius Jones' codefendant has confessed to being the real murderer. We can't move forward with an execution under these circumstances in good conscience. I hope and pray Gov. Stitt accepts the recommendation of his Parole Board."
Stitt has not yet announced his decision, and the "Justice for Julius" campaign is urging folks to call Stitt's office and request clemency on Jones' behalf.
Stitt has overseen the return to executions in Oklahoma after a six-year moratorium prompted by concerns that the drug the state is using, midazolam, is causing painful reactions in prisoners while they die. At the first execution since the moratorium ended, John Marion Grant vomited and went into convulsions as he was dying.
Jones, like Grant, had sued (along with many other Oklahoma death row inmates) to try to stop this drug protocol, arguing that the dangers of midazolam violated their constitutional right to avoid "cruel and unusual punishment." Both Jones' and Grant's lawsuits were tossed because neither proposed any alternate methods for their executions.
Jones' separate lawsuit with four other inmates challenging Oklahoma's execution drug cocktail was rejected Friday by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Based on previous rejections, it seems unlikely that there are enough votes on the Supreme Court to consider intervention. So that just leaves hopes that Stitt, like this small group of Republican lawmakers and like the state's Pardon and Parole Board, has doubts about Jones' guilt.
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Good example of a simple Louis XV frame. Note the re-cut sight edge ornament, the flattened shell motifs in the corners, the shallow carved leaf ornament trailing from the corners.
A lovely French frame, yellowy colour with much of the original detail retained.
The French Transitional pattern is possibly the most developed of French generic frame patterns. The ‘transition’ is that between between Louis XV style, rococo/swept/full of movement and Louis XVI style with a change towards neo-Clasicissm, more stylised, less naturalistic and with elements from the neo-Classical repetoire of lamb’s tongue, ribbon twist and fluting.
There is a label on the back of the frame suggesting that it had once housed a Degas painting of dancers. Clearly the gilding and red clay has been washed off this frame, quite carefully, leaving traces of the original surface. This is a finish that the French call decapé which is associated with the framing of Impressionist paintings.
Corner detail showing remains of yellow ground, red clay and gilding on gessoed surface.
Below another frame of similar pattern, with original gilding.
Small French frame, lovely carving and surface – this photograph taken in low light to imitate candlelight, in which gilding is at its very best.
The finish is the result of ‘dry-stripping’ (picking off) a later layer of oil gilding laid on a thin coat of gesso. This oil-over-gilding of watergilded frames is often seen on French 17th and 18th Century frames that made their way to England in the 19th Century where a flatter, brighter finish was much more popular. It is a lot of work picking it off (about 60 hours on this small frame) but, I think, well worth the effort.
This frame has a blindstamp on the reverse with the makers name – E L INFROIT – which was required by French law. Other famous makers known by these blindstamps include Cherin and Pepin.
Two frames, the outer one is a French 19C moulding with composition sight edge, with a lovely speckled finish that one sometimes sees on frames of this type – not sure why it is, perhaps a deterioration of a top layer of animal size?
The inner frame is a very specific kind of Italian 19C frame where the ornament is not carved in the wood but cut into thick gesso. The flat tops of the carving create an effect that catches the light beautifully.

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Lockheed Martin has integrated its solid state radar platform with the Aegis Ashore system in an effort to demonstrate the capability of the combined systems to detect and counter ballistic missile threats.
Tony DeSimone, vice president and chief engineer at Lockheed“™s integrated warfare systems and sensors, said in a statement published Thursday the combination of SSR and Aegis Ashore seeks to provide warfighters with “expanded situational awareness“ and intelligence.
Lockheed“™s SSR is a gallium nitride-based building block of the Long Range Discrimination Radar designed to provide target acquisition, discrimination and tracking data to the country“™s ballistic missile defense platform.
LRDR is on schedule to begin operations in Alaska by 2020 following the completion of the platform“™s critical design review in November 2017.
Aegis Ashore is the Aegis Combat System“™s ground-based component that is now available in Romania and is expected to be deployed in Poland.
The configuration of SSR with Aegis Ashore facilitated the transmission of command tasks and target tracking data as well as the detection of long-range targets during the demonstration.
Lockheed said it plans to conduct missile engagement simulations and live tracking demonstration in the first half of 2018.


How Greed is Destroying the Earth
The Earth does not have infinite resources, and there is a limit to the amount of abuse it can take. Oil is big business, and it is no secret that oil companies make over 375 million dollars per day. That is a lot of money, and many would agree that it is dirty money. In essence they are getting paid to kill the planet on a daily basis. Everyone is well aware that burning fossil fuels such as oil and gas creates pollution. Everyone is wide awake to the knowledge that by using oil and gas, we are killing the planet more and more each day. So why do we keep doing it is the big question.
The answer to that question lies in the way the system is set up. First of all, automotive companies could create only electric cars now if they wanted to. The technology is now available for car companies to create only electric cars. Yet they continue to manufacture gas-powered cars, knowing full well that they could produce electric cars instead. Why do they do this you may ask? The answer is that they are in bed with the oil companies. The automotive industry is in ties with the oil industry and they have an agreement together to keep building gas-powered vehicles.
The reason they have this agreement is greed, the oil industry wants to keep getting richer even though it is rich beyond anyone’s hopes and dreams. The oil and gas industry is responsible for much of today’s global warming epidemic. Another portion of the global warming epidemic is due to deforestation which is also linked to the oil industry. Without oil and gas many of the forests that were cut down would not have been cut down. The machinery used to cut down forests uses gas to power itself so without the gas the trees would still be there. The oil industry is linked to a lot of disgusting stuff over the years.
The newest and most terrible of the oil industry’s exploits is the tar sands in Canada. The gasoline that a small car burning fuel from the tar sands is as if it were a large SUV burning the same amount of fuel. The oil from the tar sands is dirty and it is leaving a huge mess behind. The Alberta oil sands are also producing large lakes of toxic sludge. Producing a barrel of oil from the tar sands produces three times more greenhouse gases than it would take with a conventional barrel of oil.
If the oil industry were to exploit the oil sands to their full potential it would create more climate pollution than the USA and China combined. The motivating factor in all this destruction is greed. You see it on TV shows where they show eager young oil drillers going out to find places to drill for oil. They are eager to make money and they don’t hide from that fact either. People are ready to kill their own home just to make money. What good is making money if one day you aren’t around to use it. It doesn’t make sense, why kill your own home just to make money. You can’t eat money, and you can’t drink oil. The oil is in the ground for a reason, it should stay there.
When you burn a tire in the street it creates a disgusting smell and toxic fumes. Burning oil is just as gross, and we shouldn’t do it, oil is meant to stay in the ground.
We need to create awareness about this problem and let people know that they should stop buying gas-powered vehicles. By completely ignoring gas-powered cars we can slowly win the war on this terrible problem. It would be great too, if someone were to come up with an invention that we could fit onto our tailpipes to completely remove the pollution our cars create. Why no one has come up with such an invention is a mystery to me. It is shocking to me that our lawmakers have not forced the oil companies to shut down. The truth is that our economy is so dependant on oil that even our lawmakers are afraid to do anything about it. The truth is that we need to completely stop using oil and suffer for it for 5 to 10 years. During that transitional period we would learn to live without oil and gas, no matter how hard it would be. We would get around with electric cars, bicycles, and boats. We should be willing to go back in time technologically in order to fight the oil and gas problem. Suffering through 10 years of not having fast transportation would be worth the risk and hardship. The result would be that we would win back our dignity as a species, and we would prove that are able to live without greed.
Are we truly going to let greed kill our planet, or are we going to kill greed and live like respectable human beings for a change. What is it going to take for someone with some guts to stand up to the oil and gas industry and to tell them enough is enough.
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An Illawarra mother who got hopelessly drunk at a child’s birthday party then drove erratically with her three-year-old son in the backseat has been sparred a jail sentence.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was discovered slouched over in the driver’s seat of her Nissan X-Trail when intercepted by police at the bottom of Mount Ousley on the evening of June 16.
Officers said she was unable to follow simple instructions and her words were slurred. A breath test revealed she had been driving with more than four times the legal alcohol limit in her system, prompting police to condemn the woman’s actions.
“The accused’s manner of driving whilst affected by alcohol was so poor that it prompted numerous triple-0 phone calls and witnesses to record her actions and follow her,” they wrote in a statement tendered in court.
“The accused has placed herself, her child and other road users in extreme danger.”
Court documents said fellow motorists alerted police to the woman’s dangerous driving on the M1 around 5pm, with one driver so concerned they began filming her.
The driver followed the woman up Mount Ousley, later telling police she had several near-misses with other cars and almost hit a gutter. She then did a U-turn and headed back towards Wollongong, hitting the concrete dividing barrier on the way down the mountain before she was stopped by police near Fairy Meadow.
The child was released into the custody of his father, while the woman was taken to Wollongong Police Station and charged with high-range drink-driving.
When questioned about her alcohol consumption, the woman initially said she didn’t know how much she’d had to drink but then admitted she’d had at least five glasses of champagne at a children’s birthday party earlier that afternoon.
Officers found several unopened bottles of alcohol in the woman’s car when she was arrested.
In sparing the woman a jail sentence, Magistrate Robert Rabbidge accepted submissions from her lawyer that she had no prior record and had ceased drinking alcohol since the incident.
She was placed on a two-year bond and disqualified from driving for six months.


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This isn’t the first time the rapper’s fashion choices have come under fire, or his constant bitching.
Ye went on a rant during his performance one night, complaining about songs and albums that were snubbed by the Grammy, how the media treats him, and his fashion line being criticized.
Ugh, boy bye!
How Kim deals with all his whining is beyond me (oh yeah I forgot, he’s rich), but the shit needs to stop and West needs to sit his ass down!
How ungrateful can this little turd get?
Never mind the countless awards he’s already received for his work as a rapper and a producer.
Never mind the fact, that even without experience (or good taste for that matter) he was able to debut his female fashion line at Paris Fashion Week; with resources and funds that most other starting professionals could only dream of.
Yes, let’s all forget about the many accomplishments and accolades he has received thus far in his career, because as Ye stated during his rant:
“I ain’t crazy, I’m just not satisfied…”
The most I’ve heard him be thankful for as of late has been Kim ass… which I’m guessing he’ll marry as soon as the divorce from her 72-day marriage is finalized.
Speaking of Ye digging in Kim’s ass, I guess congratulations are in order for the entertainment industry’s most overexposed and annoying couple.
Mr. West announced that he and the reality TV starlett are expecting!
Here’s hoping a reality show WILL NOT be in the works for this.
Last thing anyone needs to see is “Kimye” whoring their brand new bundle of joy out for everyone (with enough money to pay for magazine covers and endorsements) to see.
Check out the videos below of Kanye’s performances at Revel!

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Charisma Carpenter is hitting back at her former boss after his overtly non-apologetic interview this week.
In case you missed it, Joss Whedon finally spoke out about the accusations he was a bully on set — and probably just made things worse. In an interview with New York magazine, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator denied, deflected, and disrespected the actors who have spoken out against him.
He said Gal Gadot misunderstood him as threatening her career on the set of Justice League because “English is not her first language.” He said one of the reasons he reduced Ray Fisher‘s role in the superhero film is because he was “a bad actor.” And as for Charisma? Well, he was a little subtler there, saying most of his time with her was “delightful and charming” but then immediately shaded her:
“She struggled sometimes with her lines, but nobody could hit a punchline harder than her.”
If you’re trying to prove you’re not a jerk, why throw in that “she struggled” with remembering lines??
Well, Charisma isn’t standing for it. The one and only Cordelia Chase took to Twitter and Instagram on Tuesday to blast the implication that she was somehow tricked into what she’d said about Whedon by Fisher, who himself was influenced, the article suggested Whedon or his defenders believed, by Zack Snyder:
“IStandWithRayFisher, the ‘malevolent force’ and ‘bad actor in both senses’ who poisoned my feeble mind with trendy buzzwords and corrupt ideas about my experiences with a former tyrannical narcissistic boss who is still unable to be accountable and just apologize.”
Damn. How’s that for hitting a punchline? But that wasn’t all. She added:
“I believe Gal Gadot not only understands career threats in English, but also in Hebrew and Arabic. Possibly French, Spanish and Italian too.”
Finally, she jabbed at the fact the profile mentions Whedon is in treatment for addiction yet can’t nail the whole making amends thing:
“To anyone struggling with alcoholism (or addiction of any kind) today: It is never too late to get help. If you are willing to seek treatment, practice rigorous honesty, and are of service to others; there is a very good chance you will be free to live your life on life’s terms – with compassion, humility, and love in your heart.”
OK, she’s definitely implying Whedon isn’t doing all that, right? Why include it in the same statement? Savage. She added:
“Oh, I neglected to add the most integral ingredient to spiritual wellness…Finding a higher power. A power greater than yourself.”
Reading between the lines? Joss can’t get his inflated head around that notion! Wow!
The response got likes from Buffyverse leaders Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz. And Ray Fisher RTed it as well, writing his own complementary statement, saying:
“Joss Whedon had nearly two years to get his story straight. He’s likely spent tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars on PR, crisis management, and coaching. And his response to the allegations is: ‘They all misunderstood and/or are out to get me — also my mom is sexy’ ???
“#IStandWithCharismaCarpenter who (like this ‘bad actor in both senses’) has no agency in determining matters of abuse or race, but for the influence of a White male shadow puppeteer.”
He added that New York magazine and the writer of the Whedon article “should be ashamed for regurgitating this nonsense.”
#IStandWithCharismaCarpenter who (like this “bad actor in both senses”) has no agency in determining matters of abuse or race, but for the influence of a White male shadow puppeteer.@NYMag and @lilapearl should be ashamed for regurgitating this nonsense.
— Ray Fisher (@ray8fisher) January 18, 2022
He finished with a similar sentiment to Charisma — that there is a path forward for those who have done wrong. But people have to actually walk it:
“Last thing: Please don’t put me on a pedestal. I’ve made more mistakes and apologies in life than I can count. Taking accountability for our actions, and how they may have affected others, can be some of the hardest work to do. But we must try, in earnest, to do it.”
What do YOU think of that Whedon interview??
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Six months in creation, the Montoya Rapier was created as a reproduction of the 17th century style swept hilt rapier from the movie The Princess Bride. This sword is a spectacular piece where function meets craftsmanship in a stunning example of the swordmakers Art.
The blade is EN45 spring steel, reflecting the style of blade seen on early to mid C17th rapiers. The hilt and detail reproduces that of Inigo Montoyas sword from the movie, the legend being that it was ordered by the rich though dastardly six fingered Count Rugen and created by Inigo`s father, Domingo Montoya.
It was a swordmaker's sword, being tailored and balanced for a six-fingered man and featuring gold and jewels throughout. When Rugen collects the sword, he refuses to pay the full amount and runs Domingo through the heart in front of his son, Inigo. Inigo swears revenge upon Rugen from that day on and spends his life studying the Art of swordsmanship and seeks out the Count for their climactic duel where Inigo defeats Rugen with the very rapier that killed his father.
The hilt is 24 karat gold-plated bronze, bearing hand carved detail on each branch that tells the stories of Rugen, Domingo and Inigo. Their paths are interwoven throughout the hilt, bringing the story of the sword together as one. Each sword bears 32 inset garnet and lapis lazuli stones that give a deep rich accent to the gold hilt and pommel. A matching dagger is also available separately or to compliment the sword itself.
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By Sarah Klein
Consumers who purchase new or used vehicles in Manitoba will be better protected under the proclamation of the Business Practices Amendment Act.
Consumer Affairs Minister Gord Mackintosh announced Wednesday regulations aimed at protecting buyers by having specific information about the vehicle disclosed.
“We know the majority of car dealers are honest and don’t withhold information from their customers. Unfortunately, we also know that sometimes, consumers are misled when buying vehicles,” Macintosh said in a statement. “We want to avoid situations where consumers discover important facts about their car after they have purchased it.”
Effected December 31, 2011, dealers will need to provide more information about the history of the vehicle, such as whether it was ever used as a taxicab, police car or rental car.
Other information that will need to be disclosed includes whether the vehicle has had significant repairs, was ever declared an insurance write-off, was damaged in a flood, or whether it was declared a lemon in another jurisdiction.
Dealers who don’t comply with the new rules could face fines and/or imprisonment, or court-ordered consumer compensation.
The Manitoba government also plans to later introduce rules when it comes to advertising vehicles.


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In this proof of principle study, we applied our approach to data from three patients and from healthy controls. Samples were stimulated as described and fixed at 8 minutes after stimulating BCR signaling [3
]. Six phospho-proteins were profiled, three at a time, with SYK, ERK and p38 measured in one stain set panel, and CBL, SFK and BTK in a second panel. Two stain sets were used because measuring phosphorylated forms of all 6 proteins together, along with the necessary surface markers for identification of the relevant cell types, would have caused logistical and technical difficulties. Additionally, the data were not originally generated for multivariate analysis, and so no attempt was made to increase the dimensionality of each experiment. We augmented the data matrix as described above, adding a state node for each patient. Because both stimulated and unstimulated data were included, a stimulation state node was included as well, to avoid confounding the distributions. This state node was fully connected as anticipated, so it has been eliminated from the results graphs for visual convenience. Data were discretized to 6 levels, and structure learning was performed as previously described [7
], with all state nodes constrained to be root nodes. The resulting model () shows very high, nearly full, connectivity, with nearly all patients pointing to nearly all phospho-proteins. None of the patients pointed to p38, in spite of the fact that p38 is higher in these patient samples than in the normal controls (see [3
]). Although the abundance of phosphorylated p38 changed in the disease state, this difference was explained by the influence of ERK on p38. Thus, the absolute amount of phosphorylated p38 was altered, but the conditional distribution P
) remained the same. Patient 1 alone did not point to ERK. Consistent with this, the correlation between ERK and SYK in the Patient 1 sample was similar to that in the healthy samples (R
≈ 0.8, data not shown), while the correlation in the Patient 2 and Patient 3 samples was distinct.
Model results. Structure learning was performed on the phospho-protein variables augmented with A. patient nodes only or B. patient nodes in addition to a disease state node. All state nodes are constrained to be roots.
The disease state results in general changes, making the patients as a group distinct from the healthy samples. These differences obscure individual patient to patient variation in the model results. We addressed this by including a disease state node, which indicated for each cell in the data whether it was from a healthy sample or a disease sample in a patient nonspecific manner. The resulting model () is significantly more sparse than the original model, with general disease differences indicated by the disease state node. From stain set 1, the disease state node points to SYK, but not to ERK or p38. Irish et al. [3
] reported a difference in activation of all three of these phospho-proteins, but our model was able to discern that the difference was due to the difference in SYK; their conditional distributions remain unchanged from the healthy to disease state. Additionally, the original study did not explore the role of CBL or SFK, but our model discerned a change in these phospho-proteins. Examination of the data revealed a change in the distributions of these molecules (), however, because the data are non-normal and nonunimodal, the summary statistics employed in [3
] missed these changes. Thus, our approach successfully identifies differences between healthy and disease states.
Raw data. A. 3-dimensional and B. Histogram plots of stain set 2 phospho-proteins. Patient 7 corresponds to patient 1, patient 10 to patient 2 and patient 11 to patient 3. A healthy control is included for comparison.
Differences among the patients could be seen more clearly once the major disease/healthy alterations were represented separately (by the disease state node). As before, Patient 1 did not point to ERK because the SYK, ERK correlation was similar to healthy samples. Note that the disease state node did not change this, because it itself did not point to ERK. Patient 2 did not point to SYK, which is consistent with the data – the SYK distribution was about average among the patient samples. However, the SYK, ERK correlation for Patient 2 was different from the other patients, explaining the presence of an edge from Patient 2 to ERK. (See )
Raw data. 2 dimensional plot of SYK versus ERK. Patient 7 corresponds to patient 1, patient 10 to patient 2 and patient 11 to patient 3. A healthy control is included for comparison.
Prominently, for the stain set 2 phospho-proteins, Patient 3 pointed to no phospho-proteins. This is unsurprising, as the values of three phospho-proteins were about average for the disease state for this patient. Patient 2 had a level of CBL that was about average for the disease state, but a drastically altered distribution of SFK and BTK, as discerned by the model. A visual inspection of the data demonstrates that the joint distributions of the stain set 2 phospho-proteins were different among the three patients, though it does not clearly demonstrate the specific points of difference for each patient, aside from those mentioned above (). In general, the technique was more sensitive to changes, as compared to what can be discerned by visual inspection. As the dimensionality of our data increases to 4 dimensions and beyond, a thorough visual inspection of the complex interactions becomes impossible, necessitating a computational examination of patient differences.

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“Because any diet which includes dark chocolate, red wine, goat’s cheese, avocado and black coffee, and involves health potentials like this has me super interested.”
If your ear is to the ground regarding health these days, you will have heard about lectins already. The first time I remember reading about them was in The Blood Type Diet, which honestly was too complicated to follow in a practical kitchen. And this from someone who has embraced many different diets, seeking health and answers to life’s common diseases.
Fast forward a few years (bear with me, this might be a long one..) and Dr Stephen Gundry entered my life. Indirectly of course, and I was less-than interested in my health at the time, so I paid scant attention. In my (delusional) mind, my strong background in health should last a lifetime, and I could (should) get away with being lazy about self-nurture for awhile, right? Wrong Suki, so wrong.
The theory is that lectins create an inflammatory response in the body because they are clever, naturally occurring pesticides – designed to prevent bugs and animals eating them. Unless we have strong allergic reactions to these foods, we’re unlikely to notice tiny negative side-effects of these lectins, which build up in our bodies, added to which, our hunting/farming lifestyles have progressed at different rates than our already compromised immune systems. Any intake of penicillin, steroids and antibiotics has the potential to drastically unbalance us for months or years. Things is, most people have become so used to suboptimal health that they are never really able to pinpoint what is wrong, let alone remember when they last felt really great.
The second time Gundry made an appearance was when more friends started following The Plant Paradox which eliminates all lectins. The positive results were clear to see, yet I was still disinterested in making the effort back into the world of health again. A few months later, as I witnessed more exciting transformations, this tiny mysterious part of my brain switched on, I began reading the book, and that was it – my health brain reignited!! Initially I failed terribly – I hadn’t read the book fully – the more I read and understood, the easier the diet became. For the first 3 weeks I felt the results inside, but there was little visible evidence externally. But then my body began changing shape slowly. Any aches and pains disappeared, my back problems vanished, and I started to feel strong and clear.
Unfortunately, going gluten-free is not the answer. In fact, many replacement foods many be as problematic as the original gluten containing foods.
My initial trial was in Vietnam, and then I continued when I returned to Bali – letting go of my staples – cashews, corn chips and chickpeas! Gundry is having incredible results with his clients from Alzheimer’s, to diabetes, cancer and arthritis – illnesses which are supposedly incurable. It’s mind blowing.
There are however, huge holes in his theories. He has little understanding of cleansing, and he doesn’t believe in fruit or fresh juices. Like any diet which allows healing – macrobiotic, raw vegan, vegan, paleo, keto, bulletproof, blood type (and on and on) it is the foods which are excluded which save you.
And recommending the use of microwaves – hey, if it helps thousands of people heal from degenerative diseases, that’s awesome. But, understand that it has limitations.


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Earlier this week, a man was arrested in the rape of a woman on a Washington, DC metro train. That's Washington, DC, USA, not Washington, DC, "Somewhere-over-there-where-women-have-it-much-worse-so-shut-up." He is charged with brazenly assaulting her at knifepoint, on a moving train, at 10 a.m in the morning on a weekday last month. The already beleaguered DC Metro is under fire for not having informed riders of the assault.
Last month, the same man was identified as a suspect in an episode of indecent exposure, an every day form of street harassment.
This rape has made the police and media sit up and pay attention to street harassment, which is common on DC streets and elsewhere. While the DC Metro system can be faulted for many egregious and dangerous faults, in point of fact, the system is pioneering in it efforts to understand and address the risks that users, particularly women, face in public transit.
For more than a year now the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMTA) has been working with Stop Street Harassment and Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS) to raise awareness and develop responses to the problem. CASS and Stop Street Harassment worked with the WMTA to create system-wide public service announcements and to conduct the nation's first comprehensive public transit safety survey. Among the findings, released last month, were that:
- 20% of the people surveyed had experienced sexual harassment on public transportation.
- Women are three times more likely than men to be sexually harassed on public transportation.
- 62% of people were harassed while on metro trains.
- 77% never reported experiences.
- 41% of were familiar with the coalition's anti-harassment awareness campaign.
- Those who were aware were twice as likely to report any episodes of harassment.
The survey asked questions about leering, groping, verbal harassment, public exposure, public masturbation, homophobic abuse and more. Twenty-six percent of people harassed reported "being rubbed against in a sexual way" and 28% reported being followed.
These findings confirm other research conducted by both Stop Street Harassment and Hollaback revealing that more than three-quarters of surveyed US women (77%) under 40 have been followed during the past year (that number is 70% percent globally.) More than 50% of women report being groped, fondled or assaulted by passing men. But, hey, can't a guy tell a woman she's pretty anymore????
I have been writing and talking about street harassment and sexual assault for years and it still amazes me that most people think harassment is flattery. At any rate, inconsequential in the larger scheme of things to worry about. That's a deliberate head in the sand move, particularly from people who harass. Whether a harasser, overwhelmingly men regardless of whom is being harassed, intends to unsettle or threaten a woman is completely irrelevant because, regardless of what the man may believe, given the facts, more often than not harassment is interpreted by women as a reminder of vulnerability and, specifically, vulnerability to male-perpetrated rape.
Most men I talk to don't think the threat of rape is a real consideration on a regular basis for the women they know and many openly dismiss the idea that women think of rape when they experience street harassment. However, more than two-thirds of women say they are "very or somewhat concerned" that harassment will escalate into "something worse"; almost twice as many women (25%) as men (13%). A regular parade of tragic incidents, usually covered in media in ways that fail to make this critical connection, attests to why women are rational in their concerns.
We aren't walking around petrified, saying to ourselves, "I could get raped today," eagerly anticipating having legendary victimhood status, but by the time we are adults, at school, going to work, shopping for food, we have all been taught to adapt silently to the threat, and society's leveraging of that threat to limit our public and civic engagement. We learn early to bury the lessons deeply. It's why we are far more likely to be hypervigilant and exhibit, confusing to some doctors, higher symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Fifty percent of women report that their first memory of harassment happened before they were seventeen. Most don't talk about it.
I was nine years old the first time I was openly threatened with rape in a public place - a school yard. I remember not really knowing what the word meant, but understanding it was threatening. I never told an adult, but I went to school with this boy, seeing him every day for several years. One day, six years and literally countless episodes of street harassment later, another boy came up behind me in a class and wrapped his arm around my neck. He whispered in my ear and squeezed his arm until I started to black out. Classmates did nothing because, clearly, he liked me. Sexual and gender based harassment like this is common today.
When I told my brother all of this, decades later, explaining that that his teenage daughter was undoubtedly dealing with variations of these situations, he couldn't fathom how he and I, so close in age, growing up as friends and in the same house, could possibly have had such different experiences of the world.
Additionally, many people go to bat arguing that harassment like this has nothing to do with rape, which most people think of as a moment in time, a discreet episode with a beginning, middle and end. But, for almost all women, rape is thousands of moments in a lifetime.
For a girl, the threat of rape exerts itself early in ways boys and men are frequently unaware of. It's the day that you realize you can't walk to a friend's house anymore. It's the afternoon when a stranger on the street grabs your arm to "get a good look at you." It's the day your aunt tells you to be nice because the boy was just "stealing a kiss." It's the evening you stop going to the corner store because the night before a stranger followed you in his car. It's the midnight when a father or brother or uncle climbs into your bed uninvited. It's the hour it takes you to write an email explaining that you're changing your major even though you don't really want to. It's when you're racing to catch a bus, hear a person say you you'll be prettier if you smile for him, and turn to see that it's a police officer. It's being so sure that the price of freedom is your assault that you take birth control pills when you otherwise wouldn't need to. It's the second your teacher tells you to cover your shoulders because you'll "distracting the boys and what will your male teachers do." It's the minute you decide not to travel to a place you've always dreamed about visiting and are accused of being a "girl" and "not adventurous like boys." It's the sting of knowing that exactly as the world starts expanding for most men, for women it begins to shrink. For a shockingly high number of women, rape is all of this and one, two, several, sometimes dozens of assaults and their aftermaths.
All of this is going on all day, every day without anyone really uttering the word "rape" in a way that grandfathers, fathers, brothers, uncles, teachers and friends will hear it and seriously reflect on what it means when they do. In many ways the silence is constructed to protect masculine ideals. If you are a man who has grown up hearing that you have to protect the women around you, the fact that you can't is an overwhelming one. For many men, acknowledging rape's harms means admitting, at some level, failure to do a job that rigid masculinity norms insist is yours. For many others it means acknowledging their own assaults, a shameful and feminizing victimization.
In an NPR interview, Jon Krakauer, author of the book, Missoula, a story about college town rapes, describes his own coming to terms with rape and the chagrin he felt at his ignorance after a friend told him what it was like to be a woman. His epiphany is hardly rare, but what is rare was his response. Krakauer described feeling shame and dismay and then he acted expressly to shed light on the problem and to debunk rape myths.
Far more common, unfortunately, is a parade of articles and opeds that persistently deny rape's private and public costs, doubling down on the more comfortable notion that rape is a "he said/she said" problem between troubled individuals. Rape is almost uniformly represented in media in ways that isolate it, take it out of context and depoliticize its effects on society.
Rape is what gives pervasive and damaging harassment its power. Thirty-seven percent of girls in high school report not wanting to go to school because of harassment. A recent study found that one in three women, cutting across race, age, education, income and sexual orientation, reports being sexually harassed at work. Between 65% and 85% of women in the US report experiencing street harassment.
None of this means that boys and men aren't sexually assaulted or publicly harassed, because they clearly are, especially LGTBQ people, who often experience exceptionally high levels of violent harassment. Trans women, especially trans women of color, embody multiple challenges to social norms and are violently policed as a result. Stop Street Harassment's survey found that LGBT men are 17% more likely to experience physically aggressive harassment than men who are not gay, bisexual, queer or transgender.
What it does mean is that girls' socialization is significantly pegged to cultivated rape and rape myths, in ways that boys' are not and that that socialization has far-reaching inhibitory social effects. For example, in the wake of this DC rape chances are the the parents of girls are being far more restrictive about their using public transportation than the parents of boys, especially straight boys. Boys, even if they are not taught to restrict themselves, or subject to evergreen risks, are actually made more vulnerable as a result, one of the ways that patriarchy backfires on men.
If people abhor rape and would like to make the world a safer place in general, a good simple first step is listening to women when they say that street harassment is a problem.


XiByte, a Tampa company with artificial intelligence technology to help entrepreneurs, has been accepted into AI Ventures, an Australian tech incubator.
XiByte will participate in a 12-week cohort, which is being held virtually because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Participation in the program will help XiByte enter the Australian market and raise capital, said Sat Ramphal, CEO.
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Right. Well, first up, a quick reminder to you about the post which lies a bit below this one – the most pleasing way to say goodbye to the Revue and the Royal will be to check out tonight’s Kung Fu Friday at the Revue (Crippled Avengers, people! The Wu-Tang Clan like it! What’s stopping you?) And then checking out Dion Conflict’s Trailer Trash 2 at the Royal on Saturday. And then cry buckets of tears, probably. Torontoist expects to have a bit of a bubble at the end of the final Kung Fu Friday, anyway (hey. It means a lot to us.)
It’s a week of death, we suppose. The Ninth Annual Splice This! Film Festival is also the finaleth annual appearance of the Super-8 film festival. Eye’s Jason Anderson covers the festival’s last gasp better than we could, with a particular spotlight on Who is Bozo Texino? – All showings tonight and tomorrow at the Xpace, 303 Augusta.
Other festivals continuing this week are the Reelheart International Film Festival, the Toronto International Portuguese Film Festival, and the Art of Love International Film Festival, and it’s a good thing too, as this is one rank week for cinemagoers.
It’s like, everyone saw Superman Returns on the horizon and then they gave up. But Superman? Frankly? Who cares about a film about some invincible jerk, even if it is directed by Bryan Singer? Torontoist probably cares about Adam Sandler’s new vehicle, Click, more, but that’s only because Christopher Walken is in it. Eye’s Adam Nayman, actually, hated it, but writes a gloriously fitting recursion when he refers to Walken’s character as a ‘Christopher Walken-ish weirdo’.
Oh, yeah, actually, Superman Returns is available in Imax 3D, I guess. That’s kind of interesting. The trailers show Supes totally taking a bullet on the eyeball and not flinching, too. I mean, come on – wouldn’t he blink at least? Wouldn’t it have at least been slightly irritating? What a dick.
Well, anyway, at least Cinematheque Ontario are reliable as always, with this week’s finest picks their Amir Kahn retrospective. If you haven’t had a chance to see some of Bollywood’s finest, you can do little better than checking out Lagaan (Tuesday 27th, 6:30pm), a three and a half hour epic mixing cricket with a tale of Indian uprising against the British. It’s far, far better than it sounds.
Plus! Musical numbers! (It’s showing at Jackman Hall, AGO, 317 Dundas W.)


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- Capital Funding
- Expense Funding
- Manhattan Delegation Funding
- Jewish Caucus Funding
- Cultural Development Funding
Capital funds support an organization's physical infrastructure. Capital funds, at a minimum, are limited to projects costing $35,000.00 and above and with a useful service life of at least 5 years.
To apply for capital funds from the City Council, you must complete and submit the forms by close of business Monday, March 26, 2018 at the following link: http://www.nyc.gov/html/capgrants/capgrants.html
Please note that this application is only for private, non-profit organizations.
Expense funds support an organization’s operating or programmatic work. Expense funding requests must have a minimum cost of $5,000.00.
To apply for expense funds, you must complete and submit all of the following:
1. The City Council's Organization Qualification Form available on the Council's website by Tuesday, February 20, 2018. The documents at the end of this application (some of which will require notarization) must be mailed to:
NYC Council, Chief Compliance Officer
250 Broadway, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10007
2. The HHS Accelerator Prequalification Form, if you are applying for more than $10,000 in total Council expense funding. The Application is valid for 3 years, as long as the organization submits proof on an annual basis to HHS Accelerator that they are in good standing with the Charities Bureau and the IRS. After three years, organizations will need to re-apply for prequalification to HHS Accelerator.
Funding through borough delegations is also available with similiar criteria as district requests. Please see the following supplemental aplications for further details:
Funding through the caucus is available following similiar criteria as district requests. Please see the following supplemental aplications for further details:
The Cultural Development Fund application is available at the link here. This application is required for cultural organizations seeking initiative funding via CASA, SU-CASA, or the Cultural Immigrant Initiative or wish use the DCLA as their contracting agency for discretionary funds.
This application deadline is Tuesday, February 13, 2018.

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This film was very cathartic after the loss of a fellow Riverdale cast member.
Synopsis: Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old… she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a Cystic Fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control – all of which is put to the test when she meets an impossibly charming fellow CF patient named Will Newman (Cole Sprouse). There’s an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. Further complicating matters is Will’s potentially dangerous rebellion against his ongoing medical treatment. Stella gradually inspires Will to live life to the fullest, but can she ultimately save the person she loves when even a single touch is off limits? (eOne Films)
Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse and Moises Arias
Director: Justin Baldoni
Writers: Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis
Rating: PG (Canada)/PG-13 (United States)
Running Time: 116mins
Directed by Justin Baldoni, Five Feet Apart follows the story of Stella Grant (Richardson), a seventeen-year-old Cystic Fibrosis patient. She lives her life in and out of hospitals on routines and self-control. That is until she meets a rebellious fellow CF patient named Will Newman (Sprouse). As they find themselves stuck together, they slowly grow closer. The only issue is that they have to maintain a safe distance between them to avoid potentially fatal consequences. Can these two love birds resist their feelings to keep each other safe?
Films like this play out in the same manner. Two sick kids find themselves on opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to their illness. One is living for the sake of survival while the other has given up on living entirely. It is through their fateful meeting that they both change for the better. Much like The Fault in Our Stars, Five Feet Apart excels at setting itself apart from the others in this genre.
Firstly, the cast is very charismatic filling the shoes of some extremely likable characters. Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse play their hospital-bound Romeo and Juliet’s beautifully with some touching and reserved performances. Their chemistry is evident, despite having the restriction of being unable to ever touch each other. However, the scene-stealer of the movie is Moises Arias as Stella’s gay best friend. His witty one-liners and deeply moving character arc make for a strong supporting subplot.
The film excels in a number of other areas including cinematography, direction and some story elements. The cinematography was breathtakingly atmospheric which was essential for this film’s success. It mixes the use of handheld, immersive shots with well-framed wider ones. This showed the distance between these characters, despite their close proximity.
The direction was another highlight as first-time feature director Justin Baldoni (Jane the Virgin) showed his take on a terminal romance. His stylistic choices for cinematography, editing and score mixed with the direction of the actors proved to create the perfect tone for this teary-eyed story.
And finally the story, which while being a generic format, did manage to hit its emotional mark. The exploration of themes like living to live, the fear of dying and overcoming this fear were all center stage. The cast and crew managed to make great commentary on these themes and did not shy away from the seriousness of them. Despite this, the film managed to have a surprisingly amount of comedy throughout. It was a good blend of morbid, cynical and optimistic humor.
However, one area that the film seemed to falter was in its final third act. It brings a melodramatic twist that changes the tone and feel. While this brings some closure to one character’s story, it still has a slightly ambiguous ending which felt a little off-putting with the rest of the film.
Overall, Five Feet Apart is a heartfelt and bittersweet romantic drama that brings hope to its forbidden love story. While the film itself plays out in a generic fashion with some overtly melodramatic twists, the charisma of the cast, bold themes, well-framed cinematography and surprising amount of cynical comedy make this hospital story one worth getting a little closer to. It is powerful, emotional and above all, real.
*Five Feet Apart will be released on March 15th.*
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Aviation Turbine Engine Mechanic
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Job Duties and Responsibilities:
The Aviation Turbine Engine Mechanic will complete teardown of aircraft turbine engines for repair/overhaul as well as the removal, testing, repairing or replacement of components as required through inspection conducted by technical guidelines.
- Disassembly, complete internal documentation for high level teardown findings.
- Assembly of turbine engines, components and accessories.
- Read, understand and interpret maintenance manuals, illustrated parts catalogs, service bulletins and follow technical data to carry out tasks.
- Provide support to production and other departments as may be requested.
- Other duties as assigned and requested within the general and technical engineering capacity.
- Communicate effectively to team members.
- Detail oriented, able to stay on task, and self-motivated.
- Be compliant with safety procedures and policies.
Qualifications and requirements:
- A&P or equivalent experience through a combination of education and experience.
- 4 years of practical experience with overhaul and repair of turbine engines.
- J-85 engine a plus.
- Proficient with English language to interpret and follow various technical data.
- Must be willing to perform other functions and duties as assigned by managers and supervisors.
- Must be willing to work any shift.
- Must be willing to work overtime (as requested).
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Must have reliable transportation to and from the job site.
- Must pass pre-employment drug screen and background check.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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