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When small group plans are medically underwritten, employees are asked to provide health information about themselves and their covered family members when they apply for coverage. When determining rates, insurance companies use the medical information on these applications. Sometimes they will request additional information from an applicant's physician or ask the applicants for clarification.
Types of Coverage: All of the health plans sold through the Marketplace are offered by private insurance companies and are required to meet minimum requirements. All of the plans are required to cover a comprehensive set of benefits that includes hospital care, doctors’ visits, emergency care, prescription drugs, lab services, preventive care, and rehabilitative services. Before choosing a plan, individuals will be able to see whether their healthcare practitioner participates in the plan’s network (if choosing a network plan). Individuals will be able to choose the plan that best meets their needs and budget. Individuals with low-incomes may instead qualify for free or low-cost coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Health insurance is a benefit provided through a government agency, private business, or non-profit organization. To determine cost, a provider estimates collective medical expenses of a population, then divides that risk amongst the group of policy subscribers. In concept, insurers recognize that one person may incur large unexpected expenses, while another may incur none. The expense, then, is spread among a group of individuals to make health care more affordable for the common good of all. In addition, public health programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP are federally-funded and state-run to provide additional medical coverage to those in vulnerable groups who qualify, such as seniors and those with disability.
If you are relocating the United States, it is important to know that the US does not require all expatriates (or US citizens) to have medical coverage. However, the risk of being in the US without medical coverage is massive hospital bills or even no access to medical care. There are newer requirements for certain expats on select visa types that may require you to have health coverage.
Carrin, Guy; James, Chris (January 2005). "Social health insurance: Key factors affecting the transition towards universal coverage" (PDF). International Social Security Review. 58 (1): 45–64. doi:10.1111/j.1468-246x.2005.00209.x. Retrieved 10 March 2013. Initially the health insurance law of 1883 covered blue-collar workers in selected industries, craftspeople and other selected professionals.6 It is estimated that this law brought health insurance coverage up from 5 to 10 per cent of the total population.
President Harry S. Truman proposed a system of public health insurance in his November 19, 1945, address. He envisioned a national system that would be open to all Americans, but would remain optional. Participants would pay monthly fees into the plan, which would cover the cost of any and all medical expenses that arose in a time of need. The government would pay for the cost of services rendered by any doctor who chose to join the program. In addition, the insurance plan would give cash to the policy holder to replace wages lost because of illness or injury. The proposal was quite popular with the public, but it was fiercely opposed by the Chamber of Commerce, the American Hospital Association, and the AMA, which denounced it as "socialism".
The remaining 45% of health care funding comes from insurance premiums paid by the public, for which companies compete on price, though the variation between the various competing insurers is only about 5%. However, insurance companies are free to sell additional policies to provide coverage beyond the national minimum. These policies do not receive funding from the equalization pool, but cover additional treatments, such as dental procedures and physiotherapy, which are not paid for by the mandatory policy.
Health insurance premiums have risen dramatically over the past decade. In the past, insurers would price your health insurance based on any number of factors, but after the Affordable Care Act, the number of variables that impact your health insurance costs have been reduced dramatically. We conducted a study to look at how health insurance premiums vary based on these characteristics. In our data we illustrate these differences by using an example 21 year old. Older consumers will see higher rates with 30 year olds paying 1.135 times more, 40 year olds paying 1.278 times more, 50 year olds paying 1.786x and 64 year olds paying 2.714 times the cost listed.
The shared responsibility provision is part of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ACA or Obamacare. The goal is to ensure that all US citizens and permanent residents have access to quality health insurance. Any non-resident aliens, including international students on F, J, M and Q visas (and certain family members of students) are not subject to the individual mandate for their first 5 years in the U.S. All other J categories (teacher, trainee, work and travel, au pair, high school, etc.) are not subject to the individual mandate for 2 years (out of the past six).
Fringe benefits are generally included in an employee’s gross income (there are some exceptions). The benefits are subject to income tax withholding and employment taxes. Fringe benefits include cars and flights on aircraft that the employer provides, free or discounted commercial flights, vacations, discounts on property or services, memberships in country clubs or other social clubs, and tickets to entertainment or sporting events.
In November 2017, President Trump directed "the Department of Labor to investigate ways that would "allow more small businesses to avoid many of the [Affordable Care Act's] costly requirements." Under the ACA, small-employer and individual markets had "gained important consumer protections under the ACA and state health laws — including minimum benefit levels." In a December 28, 2017 interview with the New York Times, Trump explained that, "We've created associations, millions of people are joining associations. ...That were formerly in Obamacare or didn't have insurance. Or didn't have health care. ...It could be as high as 50 percent of the people. So now you have associations, and people don't even talk about the associations. That could be half the people are going to be joining up...So now you have associations and the individual mandate. I believe that because of the individual mandate and the association".
In January 2013, Representative Jan Schakowsky and 44 other U.S. House of Representatives Democrats introduced H.R. 261, the "Public Option Deficit Reduction Act", which would amend the Affordable Care Act to create a public option. The bill would set up a government-run health insurance plan with premiums 5% to 7% percent lower than private insurance. The Congressional Budget Office estimated it would reduce the United States public debt by $104 billion over 10 years. Representative Schakowsky reintroduced the bill as H.R. 265 in January 2015, where it gained 35 cosponsors.
The United States health care system relies heavily on private health insurance, which is the primary source of coverage for most Americans. As of 2012 about 61% of Americans had private health insurance according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that in 2011, private insurance was billed for 12.2 million U.S. inpatient hospital stays and incurred approximately $112.5 billion in aggregate inpatient hospital costs (29% of the total national aggregate costs). Public programs provide the primary source of coverage for most senior citizens and for low-income children and families who meet certain eligibility requirements. The primary public programs are Medicare, a federal social insurance program for seniors and certain disabled individuals; and Medicaid, funded jointly by the federal government and states but administered at the state level, which covers certain very low income children and their families. Together, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for approximately 63 percent of the national inpatient hospital costs in 2011. SCHIP is a federal-state partnership that serves certain children and families who do not qualify for Medicaid but who cannot afford private coverage. Other public programs include military health benefits provided through TRICARE and the Veterans Health Administration and benefits provided through the Indian Health Service. Some states have additional programs for low-income individuals.
In March 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed The Small Business Health Fairness Act (H.R. 1101), which established "requirements for creating a federally-certified AHP, including for certification itself, sponsors and boards of trustees, participation and coverage, nondiscrimination, contribution rates, and voluntary termination."
Public insurance cover increased from 2000–2010 in part because of an aging population and an economic downturn in the latter part of the decade. Funding for Medicaid and CHIP expanded significantly under the 2010 health reform bill. The proportion of individuals covered by Medicaid increased from 10.5% in 2000 to 14.5% in 2010 and 20% in 2015. The proportion covered by Medicare increased from 13.5% in 2000 to 15.9% in 2010, then decreased to 14% in 2015.


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A new trailer for Sky: Children Of The Light was revealed last night at E3, alongside a release that signals the end of its beta period.
You can now pre-order Sky: Children Of The Light from the iOS store and it's due for release on July 11, 2019. Android and PC players will be able to purchase it at some point in the near future.
Sky: Children Of The Light has had a lengthy beta period, and fans will be pleased to see that a release date isn't too far away.
At launch, you'll be able to explore seven dreamlike realms to uncover mysteries, socialise with other players around the world and customise your character in a number of ways.
You'll also be able to create music with other players, gift candles of light to grow friendship and team up to explore realms, save spirits and find ancient treasure.
Players can also expect seasonal events and regular updates, as well as expansions of realms over the coming months.
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Bollywood Dance Class Hen Party in Cardiff
- Learn a classic routine from Bollywood films
- Nice warm up to kick the class off
- Be taught by a friendly dance instructor
- Learn all the traditional steps & hand movements
- Practice the moves as you go
- For the finale, the group will perform the full routine together to some Bollywood music
- Private room in a central venue
- Spectators come free of charge
- Have your own Hen House or Venue? No problem! We can bring the dance class to you – just ask.
What Do You Do on a Bollywood Dance Hen Party in Cardiff?
Bring an exotic edge to your day and celebrate the bride-to-be’s last days of freedom with a Bollywood dance hen party in Cardiff. With a trained dance instructor to lead the session, your unique dance party in the Welsh capital will be hosted at a venue in the heart of the city. We will ensure this is private, such as a mirrored dance studio or a hotel/bar function room. This will give you girls enough space to let out your sassy side and move your feet! After an energetic warm-up, your tutor will teach you some iconic Bollywood steps and moves as you practice them. When your tutor thinks you’re ready, it’ll be time to put together your fully choreographed routine to show off with a final performance that will be open to spectators to come and watch.
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Local news for Shawnee, OK continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
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Samantha Crain is up for Single of the Year at this year's Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards. Maggie Moose is a 22 year old Winnipeg writer, filmmaker and musician from Nelson House First Nation.
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When longtime Shawnee businessman, banker and civic leader Ken Fullbright heard there was an opening for a Santa Fe Depot Museum executive director, he decided to check out the museum. 'I came down, toured the museum and realized it was a hidden jewel,' Fullbright said Tuesday, 'and that the people of Shawnee, for the most part, didn't realize how big an asset it really is.'
More than one year after a devastating EF-4 tornado tore through the countryside near Shawnee, one tornado victim is making new strides in her recovery.
The dog days of summer have not kept faith groups, including the women's ministry at Greater Marshall Memorial Baptist Church in northeast Oklahoma City and the Maryland-based American Jewish Society for Service, from reaching out to the community-at-large.
Four different kinds of elections will greet voters going to the polls Tuesday, including the Runoff Primary, City of Tecumseh Primary, Town of Bethel Acres Special Sales Tax vote and Asher Public Schools Bond elections.
Ret. Major Cecil Eldridge Johnston, 94, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, died Sunday, August 17, 2014 in a local nursing home.
M.L. 'Doc' McKey, 72, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, died Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, at his home.
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The Heath company from Benton Harbor, Michigan produced a series of three QRP transceiver kits, starting in the 1970's. The first was the HW-7 which sported a direct conversion receiver and a 2 watt transmitter. Band coverage was the CW portion of 40, 20 and 15 meters. It suffered from poor receiver sensitivity and probably was not an effective rig. The HW-7 was manufactured between 1972 and 1975.
The second QRP transceiver kit was the HW-8, produced from 1976 to 1983. It had an improved direct conversion receiver and covered 80, 40 , 20 and 15 meters .
The final QRP kit was the HW-9, offered between 1984 and 1991. It had a very good superhet receiver and with the optional WARC band kit, covered all bands from 80 to 10 meters.
I built the HW-8 in the photograph above in 1977. The direct conversion receiver was pretty good on the three lower bands and not so hot on 15 meters. I got 1.5 watts of output power on the lower bands and less than 1 watt on 15 meters. The direct conversion receiver does suffer from common mode hum when operated from an AC power supply. There is an adjustable time delay on the T/R switching circuit (a relay), not quite QSK, but the rig does has have pretty good CW keying characteristics.
Back in 1977, Heath sold these rigs by mail order for $129. Anyone else remember drooling over the latest Heathkit catalogs? Heathkit was famous for the quality of their instruction manuals. Even today, Heath manuals are the standard by which all other kit manuals are measured.
The HW-8 orginally used a RCA jack as the antenna connector, however many builders changed them to a SO-239 coaxial connector. High impedance headphones must be used with this transceiver. There is a built-in audio filter with a front panel wide / narrow selectivity switch.
Lots of HW-8's were sold by Heath and they appear often at hamfests. They are still very usable on the air once
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A proud Noongar man and WAAPA graduate, actor and theatre maker Ian Michael’s theatre and creative development credits include Let the Right One In (Black Swan State Theatre Company), HART (She Said Theatre), Blak Cabaret (Malthouse Theatre), The Kid (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Jandamarra (Bunuba Films). Screen credits include Offspring (Endemol Australia), Where are the Warriors (Wirrim Films) and Needle (Nexus 6 Films).
Michael was a theatre facilitator at Mobfest in Ti Tree, Alice Springs and Lightning Ridge, New South Wales in 2012. Mobfest combines performance opportunities for remote Indigenous youth on the main stage with workshops covering a broad cross section of the creative arts. Whether it be dance, theatre, instrument making or music technology, Mobfest engages students at a deep level, and gives every student the chance to perform at a community showcase. In 2018 he became a resident artist (actor/director) at Black Swan State Theatre Company, working closely with artistic director Clare Watson and the company’s artistic team.

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The Greenport Board of Education is expected to vote on a resolution tonight to grant elementary school principal Joseph Tsaveras tenure.
If approved, Mr. Tsaveras’ tenure will go into effect July 1. He has been the elementary school principal for three years.
In addition to discussing Mr. Tasaveras’ tenure, Superintendent Michael Comanda will likely update the school board on next year’s school calendar, the lockdown drill that took place on Jan. 30 and shared-service agreements with the Southold School District, according to the agenda.
Tonight’s meeting is at 7 p.m. in room 126.
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Michael Jones KC is a highly respected new silk experienced in a broad range of tax issues, who has a focus on corporate and commercial matters, including shareholder taxation and employment tax issues. He is regularly instructed in high-value litigation both for the taxpayer and for HMRC. “Very affable, intelligent and collegiate.” “He is incredibly thorough and has a high knowledge and command of all corners of the tax system.”
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Hello and welcome,
I have some very exciting news to share with you today.........
A Vintage Journey has asked me to be Guest Designer for Challenge #10 Distress & Dies. I immediately jumped at the chance. What an honor! This is my very first time as Guest Designer and I have had a wonderful time creating this piece for you. I hope you like it......http://www.vintagejourney.com/2014/07/guest-inspiration-and-newest-winners.html
My Tim influence is everything distressed and vintage, because I just can't get enough of it. I love altering items like Tim does. Here I have used a lot of Tim Holtz Dies and all the Distress Products. I had all the distress products except for the embossing powders so a good crafty friend of mine was kind enough to loan me her distress embossing powders.....Thank-you Paula ......OMG! If you haven't tried these powders....and you love grunge/distress....you really must give them a go. Apart from Tim's Vintage/Grunge Style I also love the different effects you can achieve with these distress powders.
The Sponsor for this challenge is Country View Crafts http://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/, they are offering a 10 pound voucher to the winner. Please head on over to
A Vintage Journey http://www.vintagejourney.com/2014/07/challenge-10-dies-and-distress.html to see all the amazing entries and inspiration.
It all started with an old book.......
Start cutting your desired shape through the front cover of your book with a craft knife. As you get further down you will need to place a cutting mat so as not to cut all the way down into the book. I cut down roughly half way. I flipped the book over so I am now looking at the back cover. Place a craft mat in between your last quarter of the book and the part you don't want to cut into. Start cutting a smaller window through the back cover cutting roughly a quarter of the way into the book.
Now you should have the front part of your book cut into half way. The back of the book cut in a quarter of the way. In between the front and back cut should be some pages that are not cut. Hope that makes sense.
Starting on the outside of the cover: Cover this in Picket Fence Distress Paint. Allow to dry. Now with modge podge randomly stick down some scrunched up pieces of tissue paper. Dry. Then get your desired stencils and add the texture paste with them. Allow to air dry. Once desired look is accomplished seal with modge podge.
Now for the color: Start adding your Distress Stains until you like what you see. I did use a heat tool and also let it air dry a couple of times and kept going back till I was happy with it. Then I added some Distress paint with my finger here and there.
Cut desired die cuts from water color paper and grunge paper. I then used a variety of items... Tim's scratcher, some rub-on's, crackle paint and some have embossing paste then distress inks.
Then you will need to add Distress Powders. You will notice I didn't end up using all of these pieces.
Grab Tim's Lost Relatives, distress edges, add some rub-ons and distress marker through the spritzer.
Stick one of the Lost Relatives in front cover and one in the back.
Using the Ink pads ink the pages on all three sides of the book and add some Distress marker through the Spritzer.
Now lets alter those pearls....if it has a hole place it onto your tweezer end then add embossing ink and roll it in your desired embossing powders, then heat set. Don't forget to shake the powders before use.
Once you have decided where your acetate and cut dies will be placed. then you will need to glue your pages together. I started gluing the pages around the acetate so I could add more elements if I decided to do so at the end. I glued the pages over a couple of nights and left them with some heavy books on top.
Add your altered pearls to one or more sections of the book. I placed mine with the boy and his dog in the front.
Now I am gluing the pages together. I placed some glue in the tray then sprayed roughly 4 or 5 sprays of water so it is easier to spread with the brush.
Once you have glued all the pages together you can then add Distress Embossing Powder to the three edges of the pages and heat set.
On the front cover you will see I placed the mini pocket watch behind the mini globe.
Back window with another of Tim's Found Relatives.
A close up of the the distressed pearls.
Mini Globe, Mini Pocket Watch, Mini Jalopy, Mini Key & Padlock, Clock Key, Bottle Top, Mini
Clipboard bottom , File Tabs, Torn Notebook, Plaque & Postage
Botanicals & Numbers
Festive Berries, Gathered Twigs, Vintage Photo, Pumice Stone
Distress Ink Pads:
Embossing Ink, Black Soot, Pumice Stone, Vintage Photo, Iced Spruce, Peeled Paint, Pine Needles
Distress Embossing Powder:
Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Numbered, Cargo &Bubble
Dylusions Letter Jumble
Prima (Valerie Foster Designs)
Old Book, Acetate, Craft Sheet, Heat Gun, Tweezers, Water Spray Bottle, Paint Brush, Pearls, Craft Knife
Water Color Paper, Embossing Paste, PVA Glue, Modge Podge, Double Sided Tape, Tissue Paper (white)
Crackle Accent, Grunge Paper, Metal Plate & Brads, Metal Corner Flourish, Metal Chain, Philosophy Tags, Tims Scratcher, Distress Tool, Distress Marker Spritzer, Rub-Ons Botanicals & Numbers by Tim, Found Relatives
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For employees who are not linked with any job sites (meaning their mobile phone number is not associated with any job sites) the system has the ability to automatically update their Time Entry with the closest job site. This is useful when you have a fixed set of job sites and you want to track your employee’s hours according to the job site they are working at.
Here’s how automatic job site matching works:
Any time we see a call from and employee who is not linked to a job site, the system will examine the GPS coordinates that the employee shares with us, and then update their Time Entry accordingly. The system will compare the GPS coordinates against all of the job sites that you have configured in the system, and update the employee’s Time Entry with the job site that is the closest match. This way, you can track your employee’s hours by the job site they are working at, yet they will not have to choose from a list of all possible job sites. In fact, they won’t have to make any choice at all. We do the matching automatically as soon as we receive their GPS information.


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First Engineering Faculty in Canada Named after a Woman: Business Leader Gina Cody Makes Historic $15 Million Donation to Montreal’s Concordia University
Three decades after becoming the first woman to earn a PhD in building engineering from Concordia University, Gina Parvaneh Cody, MEng 81, PhD 89, has made history by giving $15 million to her alma mater. In recognition of her transformative gift to the “Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen. Now”, the university has named its faculty of engineering and computer science after the alumna.
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The Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science is the first engineering faculty in Canada — and one of the first internationally — to be named after a woman.
Gina Cody, a top business leader and building engineer, credits much of her success to Concordia because the university provided her with an entrance scholarship. “I arrived in Canada as a young student from Iran in 1979 with $2,000,” she says. “Concordia welcomed me and provided me with support that changed my life. My gift to the university is for the next generation, so that more people can succeed like I did.”
Gina Cody believes that the best way for anyone to succeed is through higher education. “University is a platform for women, people of colour, Indigenous populations and other minorities to pursue their dreams. That is why I am deeply committed to Concordia, and why I am making this donation. I hope my gift inspires other proud Concordia graduates to come forward to support more students and help them pursue their dreams.”
- Watch a video featuring Gina Cody at https://youtu.be/UuCvEkfBGzE.
Gina Cody’s gift will support graduate and undergraduate scholarships, as well as next-gen research on smart cities. Her gift will allow the creation of three new chairs — in data analytics and artificial intelligence; the internet of things; Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing. Part of her gift, which Concordia will match, will go towards a special fund for equity, diversity and inclusion programming.
By lending her first and last name to the faculty of engineering and computer science, Gina Cody hopes to break down the barriers that may prevent women from pursuing a career in engineering. Nationally, according to Engineers of Canada, only 20 per cent of university engineering students are women. Statistics Canada reports only 12.8 per cent of working engineers are women.
“Gina Cody is a role model for all of us and her generosity is a watershed moment for engineering and computer science in Canada,” says Concordia President Alan Shepard. “Her gift will have a profound impact on our institution. Our engineering and computer science programs are among the strongest in Canada and the world. This gift allows us to build on the incredible strength that is already known, recognized and respected globally and to make it even stronger for the next generation.”
Amir Asif, dean of the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, says the gift’s impact is significant: “Our faculty has made big strides and this donation will allow us to rise to the next level. It will provide the resources to train future engineers and computer science leaders who will develop next-gen technologies for the benefit of society. The name change is a reflection of our desire to achieve equity, diversity, and inclusion with a particular emphasis on gender balance. Gina will be a perfect role model for young women and inspire them to join this exciting profession.”
Gina Cody distinguished herself as an engineer and a female entrepreneur. She was executive chair and principal shareholder of a Toronto-based, national leading engineering consulting firm. In 2010, Profit magazine named her among its top 10 female entrepreneurs. Gina Cody sold her shares in the company and retired in 2016.
About the Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen. Now
The Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen. Now — the largest appeal in the institution’s history — will raise $250 million to support the university’s ambition to rethink higher-education teaching and research. Launched November 1, 2017, the Campaign for Concordia will support the university’s nine strategic directions. According to rankings by the Times Higher Education, Concordia is among the top two per cent of universities in the world and number two in North America for universities under 50 years old. The Campaign for Concordia will support research and teaching that benefit the university’s 48,000 students, 7,000 faculty and staff and more than 215,000 alumni. Learn more at www.concordia.ca/campaign.
- Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science: www.concordia.ca/ginacody
- Concordia University: www.concordia.ca
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Telna Launches New eSIM Solution at MWC Barcelona 201924.2.2019 00:00:00 | Pressemelding
Telna, a vertically integrated Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider of global end-to-end connectivity solutions, today is adding eSIM technology to its platform. The new resilient and efficient eSIM architecture will be showcased at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2019, from February 25th - February 28th at Telna’s booth in Hall 1, Stand 1B80. “eSIM technology is another example of a global trend in digital transformation set to disrupt cellular connectivity,” says Gregory Gundelfinger, CEO of Telna. “Our customers now have access to both Consumer and IoT/M2M eSIM that is bundled with the rest of our software-defined network services.” eSIM is an embedded SIM card, meaning there is no physical SIM card and no physical swapping of SIM cards. It's easy to add data plans and is endorsed by the GSMA. “The virtualization of the SIM card removes one of the largest barriers when switching between networks, the physical SIM card,” says Gundelfinger. The Telna eSIM allows users to access their
Hilton Launches New Brand, Signia Hilton, Delivering Sophisticated Travel While Reimagining Meetings and Events22.2.2019 17:00:00 | Pressemelding
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Axonics® Granted Expanded CE Mark Label; First and Only Sacral Neuromodulation System Approved for Use with Full-Body MRI Scans22.2.2019 16:30:00 | Pressemelding
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Fantastec Joins Forces with Arsenal FC Launching Official Blockchain Collectibles App22.2.2019 14:30:00 | Pressemelding
Fantastec announced today its first football licensing agreement with Premier League club Arsenal FC for a new blockchain authenticated collectibles app called Fantastec SWAP. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190222005277/en/ Arsenal players appear on Fantastec SWAP in official licensing deal (Graphic: Business Wire) London-based Fantastec is a leading sports fan technology innovator, and its blockchain based ‘SWAP’ app will have broad appeal to global sports fans, gamers and sports card collectors alike. Fantastec SWAP unlocks unique and authentic club content through the app, like player autographs and exclusive footage. With its innovative blockchain technology, fans around the world can now discover, collect and swap officially licensed club collectibles with other fans with complete trust. “Fantastec SWAP is a game-changer for international football fans as well the sports collectibles industry,” commented
Volkswagen Protects Virtual Key Sharing App with Trustonic Application Protection22.2.2019 13:42:00 | Pressemelding
Volkswagen is working with mobile cyber security leader Trustonic to enable customers to use smartphones to access their vehicles, and to securely share their digital car keys to grant access to others via a smartphone app. Volkswagen is using the Trustonic Application Protection (TAP) platform to secure the mobile app and ensure that sensitive information and key transfer requests are securely displayed to, and approved by, a real authenticated user on a trusted device and not by hackers or malware simulating a user or device. “The smartphone is becoming the vehicle key of the future and our We Connect service is the interface for this today in the new Volkswagen Passat,” comments Alf Pollex, Head of Infotainment and Connected Car at Volkswagen AG. “The user installs the We Connect app on their smartphone which is then authorized via the infotainment system with a Transaction Number. The Mobile Key will be compatible with Android-based Samsung devices. No mobile network connection is
Mundipharma EDO GmbH: US FDA grants Orphan Drug Designation for etoposide toniribate in relapsed/refractory biliary tract cancer22.2.2019 13:30:00 | Pressemelding
Mundipharma EDO GmbH, part of the Mundipharma network of independent associated companies, and Imbrium Therapeutics L.P., an operating subsidiary of Purdue Pharma L.P., today announced that the US FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to etoposide toniribate for the treatment of relapsed/refractory biliary tract cancer, also known as cholangiocarcinoma.3 This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190222005126/en/ Biliary tract cancer is a rare tumour with approximately 8,000 patients diagnosed in the US every year and 10,571 in Europe.4,5 The FDA grants ODD status to medicines intended for the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of rare diseases or disorders that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the US. Radical surgery is the only curative treatment for biliary tract cancer but, in most cases, the cancer is inoperable. Patients who fail first-line chemotherapy have limited treatment options and the standard of


John Cockerill Defense presents , for the first time in the world, its new product called Cockerill® i-X (“i” for “interceptor” and “X” for “modular multi-weapons system). It’s the first ever ground interceptor and is a breakthrough combat system for territorial defense interception: engage and defeat incoming threats before they reach their objective.
The Cockerill® i-X is born from the merger of the technological excellence of weapon systems and the expertise of rally raid performance, the Cockerill® i-X represent a break with traditional concepts and imposes a new paradigm of military land operations.
The vehicle is capable of moving at very high speeds on-road and off-road (with a thermal or hybrid thermal-electric drive train), light, stealthy (appearance management with adaptive camouflage, and modification of IR and acoustic signature), integrating multi sensor data fusion technology (Smart Helmet, on-board intelligence AI, cameras, sensors : LWS, Acoustic Gunshot detection and localization) and capable of integrating a suite of effective weapons (such as 25mm, 30mm, Missiles, Rockets,…) depending on the threat to be neutralized, as well as to foresee the integration of a new generation of effectors.
Other striking innovative aspects concern the weapon system which will be completely retractable to ensure its stealth and speed. The vehicle will be quickly transportable by Air (plane, helicopter, droppable by parachute), Sea and Land (train, truck).


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PCB Designing using Eagle
PCB Designing using Eagle based workshop.
HIGHLIGHTS OF WORKSHOP
1. Introduction to the terms related to PCB,Schematic Design and Annotation.
2. Software and basic library installation.
3. Single side and double side PCB design.
4. Create your own symbol and Footprints.
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1. Basic knowledge of electronic componenets.
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Roman designer, Alessandro Michele has officially been introduced the new Resourceful Director of Valentino, and will realize success Pierpaolo Piccioli, who lead the Italian manner house for 25-yrs.
Previously the Creative Director of Gucci given that January 2015, Michele provides a wealth of working experience and experience to Valentino and will be showcasing his 1st assortment during September Fashion 7 days for Spring/Summer time 2025.
Above the many years, he has designed a supporter-foundation amongst celebs like Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, Billie Eillish, Harry Kinds and so a lot of many others for his maximalist patterns. Let us just say, he has challenged the status quo in extremely avant-garde means.
Taking into consideration that manner is a pretty shut-knit neighborhood, the declaring goes, “it’s not what you know but somewhat who you know,” and Michele has worked with legendary figures in the industry like Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Ford, and Silvia Venturini Fendi. In simple fact, Michele will be rejoining Valentino CEO, Jacopo Venturini who he labored with along with throughout his time Gucci.
We seem forward to seeing Michele’s fashionable tactic, blended with his exceptional vision at the forefront all through Valentino’s hugely predicted exhibit this September!


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We All Sing with the Same Voice is full of inclusive joy. I must admit to not knowing the Sesame Street song that it comes from but the book works beautifully as a standalone. Each page shows children celebrating their similarities and their differences in a brilliantly simple way.
The children sing about their different hair colour, the different places they live and the different ways they feel. The repeated refrain ‘and my name is you’ grabs the reader and pulls them in. It includes them in the song. Then we get the chorus, ‘we all sing with the same voice, the same song, the same voice. We all sing with the same voice, and we sing in harmony.’ Beautifully matched with illustrations of a diverse group of children dancing together. What a clever and gentle way to introduce young children to the ideas of diversity and inclusion. How much they can unconsciously learn from reading or listening to this book, singing the song or looking through the pictures.
I love the nearly-last page with children floating on their pillows and the nod to the power of bedtime stories. But obviously this is my favourite page:
Diverse and inclusive in every sense of the words! Did I mention I love this book?
And guess what I found… A lovely video linking this book and the song. Play it to yourself with a smile, play it to your kids, put it up on that whiteboard and get your class dancing. Enjoy!
YouTube – We All Sing with the Same Voice
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Republican Proposals to Extend Estate Tax Breaks Would Deliver Huge Cuts to Wealthy but End Credits for Lower-Income Americans
As I noted yesterday, Republican leaders in both the Senate and the House want to extend the lucrative estate-tax rules that policymakers included in compromise tax-cut legislation at the end of 2010 — but not the tax-credit improvements for working-poor and near-poor families and students that were also in the legislation. Yesterday, we focused on what the end of these tax credit improvements would mean for lower-income Americans. Here, we look more closely at what the estate-tax extension would mean for the nation’s wealthiest estates.
Compared to President Obama’s proposal to return to the already-generous 2009 estate tax rates, the Senate and House Republican proposals would provide further tax breaks averaging over $1 million per estate to the heirs of the biggest 0.3 percent of estates.
As we explain in a new analysis, the proposals each would:
- Cost $119 billion more in forgone revenues over the next ten years than the President’s proposal. The Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC) found that all of the $119 billion would flow to the heirs of the estates of the wealthiest three of every 1,000 people who die, since those are the only estates that would owe any estate tax under the 2009 rules (see chart below).
- Give taxable estates an average of more than $1.1 million each in tax reductions, compared to what they would owe under the 2009 estate-tax rules. The bigger the estate, the more lavish the tax break. Estates worth more than $20 million would receive an average tax cut of $4.2 million in 2013.
What’s more, as the paper explains, the small number of estates that would benefit from extending the 2010 estate-tax break would not owe particularly high taxes even under the 2009 rules. Under the 2009 rules, taxable estates would pay an average effective tax rate of 19.1 percent in 2013, far below the official statutory rate of 45 percent, TPC estimates.
And as I explained yesterday, the Senate and House Republican leadership proposals would end provisions of the same 2010 legislation that extended improvements in tax credits for millions of low- and moderate-income working families and substantial numbers of college students.
Providing more than $100 billion in tax windfalls to the largest three out of 1,000 estates would be hard to justify in the best of times. It would be particularly egregious in the current fiscal climate. For policymakers to propose this lavish tax windfall to the wealthiest Americans while they would let tax credits for millions of low- and middle-income working families with children expire is all the more remarkable.
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Local Government, Rural and Urban Development minister Ignatius Chombo this week summoned Harare City Council to seek an explanation on the controversial Easipark deal that has sparked furore at Town House.
Chombo met acting Harare mayor Emmanuel Chiroto, town clerk Tendai Mahachi and members of the council’s business committee in a bid to find a lasting solution to the problem.
Chiroto confirmed the development.
“We held a meeting with Chombo and he said Upfumi Kuvadiki should get something to do far from Easipark,” he said.
“He (Chombo) was told of the city’s plans to sign a shareholders’ agreement by May 30 which was resolved by the business committee and adopted at a full council meeting,” Chiroto said.
The meeting came after Upfumi Kuvadiki, a pro-Zanu PF group, invaded Easipark offices early last month and claimed they had taken over the South African company.
Chombo last night confirmed the meeting and said he wanted to ascertain what the problem was with the Easipark deal.
He said he told the city fathers to speed up the signing of the shareholders’ agreement so that the city “is not run by a foreigner”.
“I just wanted to know how they did it and what the hullaballoo was all about. They explained to me and I had no problem, but I told them to sign a shareholders’ agreement which was not there in the first place and that it has to be in the interest of the public,” Chombo said.
Councillors who attended the meeting said they convinced Chombo that the City of Harare would “inherit” a lot from Easipark after the five-year deal.
“The bottom line is we want their knowledge and expertise that we will inherit after five years,” said one councillor who attended the meeting, but refused to be named. Councillors said they were happy with the outcome of the meeting with Chombo.
The Harare-Easipark deal had become a source of anxiety in the city with pressure groups arguing that it had become more of a South African business, rendering locals irrelevant.
However, the city council resolved to have the shareholders’ agreement by May 30 to change the uniforms by removing South African colours and to alter the management from being wholly Easihold.


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After a lovely visit to the Makinos this weekend, I’ve decided on my reading material for our trip. My thirsty-for-life/college roomie Liz lent me this book, “My Life in France” by Julia Child and her grandnephew, Alex. It sounds perfect, all about Julia’s life abroad, food, writing and love (according to the foreword & intro). The book has now gained a reserved spot in my tight luggage.
While it’s not like I can’t read while I’m at home, I unfortunately just don’t really. But I feel that reading is a privileged activity I do while I’m traveling, just like exploring new cities. Looking forward to diving in…I can see myself now, relaxing after long walks or reading on the beaches of Rio…ahh.
Thanks Liz! xoxo
PS: This was the first post I’ve ever written on my phone. How is it? Please excuse any typos.


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Creating a modern fairy tale: A conversation with Olivia Ellson ’21
Brandeis offers many opportunities for individuals who are interested in theatrical production. Whether you want to pursue performing, directing or working backstage, there is an opportunity for you to shine. Last week, I had the chance to speak to Olivia Ellson ’21, who wrote the play “Of a Mirror and Its Fragments” which will be performed next weekend, Nov. 8 through 10. Through our conversation, I was able to get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process for this production and get some of Ellson’s, the creator’s, insight about it.
According to Ellson, the story of “Of a Mirror and Its Fragments” is based on Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen.” Ellson’s adaptation is set in modern times and focuses on themes of grief, mental health and losing someone to suicide. When describing why she decided to write this play, Ellson explained that the role of female characters in Anderson’s original work was particularly striking. In “The Snow Queen,” the male and female roles are shifted from the usual fairy tale structure, with this story only including one male character who plays, as Ellson said, “the damsel in distress,” which is a stereotypically female role in fairy tales.“I just thought that that was a really interesting look at female stories and female perspectives,” she explained.
Ellson’s play will be performed in a slightly different format than a traditional theatrical production. This play has actually been developed in a workshop process, meaning the script was edited throughout the rehearsal period. Many of the early rehearsals were table-reads where the cast, the director and Ellson sat around a table and read the script, and then gave her feedback on it so she could make some edits before the next rehearsal. “It’s been a very collaborative process between me and the director and the cast all working together to turn this from a bunch of words on a page into an actual production,” said Ellson.
Because of the unique way the play was produced, the show is going to be presented as a staged reading, meaning the actors will have the scripts on stage. This also means that the performance will have very few set pieces and props. One of the actors will actually read the stage directions so the audiences can be aware of some of the components that are not actually seen on stage in this production. When asked about this creative choice, Ellson explained that for the audience, a staged reading shifts the focus from the performance and focuses on the actual words of the play. When actors are holding scripts, “you’re constantly aware that they're holding the words on the page in their hands so you as an audience member have to recognize the fact that this [is] a play, these are actors, this isn’t real.” She explains that this is different than a full production because of the difference in production value. “I think a staged reading showcases the script more than say a full production that has a lot more tech elements,” she said.
After spending two years writing this play, Ellson is very excited for an audience to see her work on stage.“It is kind of something that I have been thinking [about] intermittently for so long that I think it will be really interesting to see the responses [from the audience] and get the perspective of people who are approaching this work for the first time.”
— This article was updated to correct grammatical errors.

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By Nate Thompson
HUDSONVILLE – Because of their offensive struggles, Grand Haven’s varsity boys basketball team has often needed to scrap, claw and outwork the opposition to find the victory column this season.
The go-to-war mindset wasn’t fully present against O-K Red Conference-leading Hudsonville on Friday, and the Bucs were dealt a hard-fought 52-44 setback, erasing any momentum they had following a victory over rival Rockford earlier in the week.
It was the tenth time this season the Bucs have been held under 50 points, but Grand Haven Coach Greg Immink was more frustrated about another statistic.
“They hammered us on the offensive glass,” said Immink, a graduate of Hudsonville High School. “That’s a very, very nice team. They’ve got a lot of nice pieces and they play well together. They do the little things that it takes to be successful. That’s why they’re 14-2 right now.”
Grand Haven got off to a tremendous start in the first quarter, jumping out to a 10-1 lead barely three minutes into the contest.
But the Eagles slowly began climbing back, thanks largely to their activity on the offensive glass. Immink said the Eagles had 14 second-chance points in the first half alone, with their trio of John Miller, Jack Joldersma and Stone Smeenge extremely active around the rim.
Grand Haven’s offense hit a dry spell in the second quarter, when the Bucs failed to record a field goal and their only points came from a pair of makes at the free throw line by senior point guard Casey Constant.
Hudsonville led 25-18 at the half, and the Eagles appeared to be ready to put the game away late in the third quarter, extending their advantage to 32-22. But the Bucs closed the quarter on a 7-0 run, keyed by a pair of low-post buckets by Owen Ross and Adam Strom, respectively, and a three-pointer by freshman Owen Worthington with three seconds left in the third.
Ross, who tied for the team lead with 10 points, continued his strong play early in the fourth quarter, scoring back-to-back buckets, including a nice turnaround jumper to bring the Bucs to within 34-33.
“Owen had a really nice stretch for us,” Immink said. “He made a couple nice moves down low and guys were finding him for his scoring.”
But Hudsonville closed the contest like a potential league champion, starting with a dunk in traffic by Joldersma, then another strong finish by the 6-foot-3 junior in the paint on the Eagles’ ensuing possession.
And the Eagles continued to pester the Bucs on the boards. Hudsonville scored off an offensive rebound after a missed free throw attempt with 1:18 to play, then did the same thing with 1:05 left, to put the Bucs in a 50-44 hole on the scoreboard.
Grand Haven never scored again, and fell to 9-7 overall and 4-4 in the O-K Red. The Eagles lead the conference with a 7-1 record.
Constant scored 10 points for the Bucs, while Drew Sinke scored eight.
Joldersma and Smeenge led the Eagles with 11 points apiece, while Miller scored 10.


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Film geeks know Luca Guadagnino‘s Suspiria, which stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, as the long-awaited remake of an Italian horror classic, noted not only for its chill-inducing fright but for its sublime stylishness. Everyone else may not be as informed, but they will be soon.
After a previous teaser tailer, the first full-length trailer is here, and it promises to please both those wanting a worthy successor to the original and those who just want to watch a bunch of famous actresses in a surreal horror film.
The basic plot finds Johnson playing an American ballet student who is accepted into a prestigious European dance school, only to find that the school may harbor certain terrors when another student, played by Chloë Grace Moretz, flees from the academy.
The trailer opens with voice over from Moretz’s character in the midst of a breakdown. “She wants to get inside of me,” whimpers Moretz. “I can feel her.” That “her” is almost certainly the school’s headmistress, played by Swinton. Later another student played by Mia Goth warns Johnson of the school’s dark side, but, obviously, she gets in too deep. The rest of the trailer is a montage of glimpses of horror like creeping demonic hands, people being disfigured by unseen forces, and women crawling up the walls. Critics who caught a glimpse of one full scene from the movie have claimed it was one of the most disturbing things they’ve ever seen. Johnson, meanwhile, said she had to go to therapy after making the film.
Film geeks should be enticed by the prominent mention of “the three mothers.” The original 1977 Suspiria was directed by Dario Argento, and was part of a loosely connected trilogy, with each film centering on one of those three mothers. While Guadagnino only has plans to remake Suspiria, it seems he may give nods to the rest of the wider Argento mythology.
The only people this trailer probably won’t please: those hoping Guadagnino would follow up Call Me By Your Name with another bittersweet love story. Oh well. The sequel to that movie is still a possibility.
Suspiria will open in New York and Los Angeles on October 26 before going wide on November 2.


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Sometimes you just need a brownie. Nothing fancy or spectacular here.
Recipe time! Brownies adapted from Chocolate Bar
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder (I used Ghirardelli)
- 4oz/1 stick unsalted butter
- 5oz semisweet chocolate
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 3 large eggs (room temp)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Cacao nibs or chocolate chips to mix in!
- Pre-heat the oven to 350° F
- Butter and 8in baking tin, instead of using flour to dust, use cocoa powder
- Sift/whisk your flour, salt and cocoa powder together in a bowl
- In a double boiler, melt the butter and then the chocolate.
- Take the melted butter/chocolate off the heat and mix in your sugars
- Making sure your mixture isn’t too warm, mix in your eggs one at a time. Then add the vanilla.
- Make a well in your flour mixture and mix in the chocolate/sugar mixture. Add in your mix-ins here.
- Pour mix into your tin, bake for 28-30 minutes.
- Let cool and eat. Bam! Brownies. Perfect.
The original recipe calls for 3/4 tsp espresso, but my husband and I don’t like coffee flavor, so that was eliminated. You can do what you want though, I’m not your mom.
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Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari has no reason to fear any of the races coming after this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix, where it is expected to be the team to beat.
Having seen Mercedes claim back-to-back victories in Belgium and Italy, the championship momentum is expected to swing back to Ferrari at the high-downforce Marina Bay street circuit. Ferrari's best results this year have come at Monaco and Budapest, similar circuits to Singapore, and looks set to be its strongest circuit of the seven remaining on the calendar.
In contrast, Mercedes is braced for a difficult weekend but the races following the floodlit event are expected to swing the advantage back to the world champions. Vettel disagrees with that assessment and sees no reason his team cannot stay competitive after this weekend.
When told the circuits after Singapore might not suit Ferrari, Vettel said: "Well, I know how to read but I don't really care what's written on the paper. They're all tracks that I like, to be honest, so I'm very much looking forward to them. I think we are here to race, so if it's hard it's good. Easy is boring. I think that's what we all want and I'm definitely looking forward to it."
Hamilton's two recent wins propelled moved him three points clear of Vettel in the championship, the first time the German has not led this season. Though Mercedes has worked hard to understand the car Toto Wolff labelled "a diva" earlier this year, Vettel is more excited by the upgrades he expects from Ferrari in the coming races.
"At the moment you can say that Mercedes has an edge. Saturdays they're very strong which obviously has its contribution to Sundays, it's not a big secret but I think we are strong, we don't need to hide and there's plenty of positives. Things are coming, I'm sure they are developing their car. We are developing ours so I'm not so fussed about what they doing.
"I'm more focused on what's going on inside us, inside Ferrari and it makes me quite positive, what's coming, so we just need to see and then there's always the extra element of racing that you can't predict, that you can't put down on paper and that's usually the most exciting bit so I'm very much a fan of that and a fan of the moment and see what we can do."


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A number of American Super Seniors are continuing to do well this week in the ITF Individual World Championships in Villach, Poertschach and Klagenfurt.
In the 60s, Mary Ginnard and Tina Karwasky started their march through the draw today, with Tina taking on a tough opponent, Wendy Gilchrest from Australia. Tina won 64 62. Mary beat a German player 60 60 and takes on Austiran in the next round.
In the 65s, Brenda Carter advanced to the quarters where she faces top seed Gail Benedetti, to whom she lost in the team event last week, and who is also the defending world champion, while Carol Clay and Betty Wachob fell to tough opponents.
Charleen Hillebrand scored the upset of the week thus far, taking out world #1 and defending champion Heide Orth by the remarkable score of 62 60 in Orth’s first round. She’s continued to build on that play and has reached the quarters along with Cathie Anderson, who had a tough match with Switzerland’s Suzy Bugraff but prevailed in two close sets. Donna Fales has reached the quarters without dropping a game and could be on track to play either Hillebrand or Frances McClennan in the final; Frances and Charleen play in the quarters.
In the 75s Roz King has advanced to the semis with an easy 60 61 win over New Zealand’s Jean Stevens (a 3 set winner yesterday over 4th seeded Brigitte Jung) and faces defending champion Inge Weber there. Ria Graham is playing Elisabeth Von Boemmel, the top seed and world #1 while Lyn Tietz is playing Australia’s Nola Collins in another quarter.
Margaret Canby is playing Frenchwoman Mirelle Giraud in her first round today.
In the 85s, Rita Price and Jane Lutz have easily reached the semis and don’t play further today in that division.
In the 60s, Fred Robinson has advanced to the quarters where he takes on the second seed in his next match.
In the 65s, Richard Johnson eked his way in the quarters with a 36 64 76 win over the 6th seed, Van de Loo. Jerry Thomas fell in the second round while Les Buck edged the #8 seed Keith Bland 76 in the third in the round of 32 and then lost today in the round of 16 to Schmidle of Germany, the 12th seed. Bruce Barrett fell to Peter Adrigan.
In the 70s, Jimmy Parker and Fred Drilling are winning comfortably, Parker 60 60 and Drilling 75 63 (over an unseeded Czech player).
The entire Bitsy Grant Cup team is playing in Villach. Lester Sack has advanced to the quarters and Herm Ahlers, King Van Nostrand and Fred Farzanegan are still on court (or at least the scores aren’t yet online). Nick Ourusoff won his first round but lost in the second round.
The Gardnar Mulloy Cup team also stayed to play in the individuals and George McCabe has reached the quarters and plays top seeded Lorne Main next; John Powless plays Joe Russell (unseeded, he beat the #7 seed) in another quarter. Doss retired while leading yesterday.
Clem Hopp in the 85s beat Trevisan 64 64 to reach the quarters.
Most of the doubles and mixed is just getting underway. Rita Price is in the mixed 85 final though.
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Honduras has the largest chili production area under a protected environment in Central America, with 35 hectares planted with colored chili of the bell peppers variety in the department of Choluteca under the administration of the company Agro Alpha.
8 to 10 containers of colored chili peppers produced in the company's greenhouses located in the municipality of San Marcos de Colon, in the southern part of Honduras, are shipped each week to the United States market.
In November 2021, the company sent its first container to the North American country, where it has positioned itself, currently managing to export 638 thousand kilograms in its first phase and generate foreign currency for the country.
This achievement was also possible thanks to the technical support it has received from the National Service for Agrifood Health and Safety (SENASA), stated Ivan Martinez, the coordinator of the National Export Certification Unit at the Agricultural Quarantine Technical Directorate.
"We've been able to achieve these results because once we began monitoring for fruit flies in August 2020, a requirement established in the Export Protocol, we discovered we had a low prevalence of fruit flies," he said.

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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) --West Nile worries worsen, new virus details kept secret
Fresno County health officials are issuing a West Nile warning as the virus is spreading with unprecedented speed this year. Ten new cases have popped up just in the last week.
Mosquitoes are causing major illness and major worries throughout California in what is quickly becoming the worst year ever for West Nile.
An area of Fresno County near McKinley & Valentine could possibly be of great concern. You can see a ditch with some standing water and just on the other side of that ditch is a man suffering from West Nile virus.
David Renovado's family built him a wheelchair ramp to help him get inside his home. He returned from the hospital a couple weeks after he remembers being bitten.
Once a 291-pound man, the 60-year-old is down almost 30 pounds because he hasn't been able to eat more than a couple bites at a time.
"It's been really hard seeing a man who is so vital and he gets around and he moves around every day and he's always doing something, to where he's gotten to this point where he is literally bedridden," said his wife, Linda Renovado.
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"Actually, I bought a big can of that Cutter with Deet in it and I'm even sprayed down right now," she said during an interview with Action News.
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"It was in the Caribbean area," said Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District director Steve Mulligan. "They were in that area, they got bitten by an infected mosquito."
Abatement crews spotted a mosquito that can transmit Chikungunya in Clovis, near Shaw and Temperance. But health officials wouldn't tell Action News whether the victim lives anywhere near the mosquito that could carry it from the traveler to new victims, citing privacy laws.


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ERIC Number: EJ483857
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
Using Picture Books to Teach Mathematical Concepts.
McMath, Joan; King, Margaret A.
Day Care & Early Education, v21 n3 p18-22 Spr 1994
Describes picture books that can provide a foundation for the development of young children's understanding of mathematics. Includes specific activities for teachers to use along with picture books to enhance children's understanding of the concepts of classification, seriation, number, spatial relations, and time. (MDM)
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Santa Clara, Calif. –
the developer of electronic program guide and metadata platforms, said Thursday
it reached a definitive agreement to add Sonic Solutions to its growing
portfolio of entertainment service company acquisitions.
the RoxioNow video distribution platform, and supports a number of software and
cloud-based streaming video platforms with key retail partners.
The company also provides DVD and Blu-ray player software for
PCs, among other things.
The RoxioNow video distribution platform is used with Boxee,
CinemaNow, Blockbuster to rent and sell digital copies of movies over the
Sonic Solutions also owns DivX and MainConcept, a leading
licensor of A/V codecs to the PC and CE industry.
The enterprise value of the deal, which is expected to be
finalized in January 2011, is approximately $720 million. The acquisition is
structured as an exchange offer for all of the outstanding shares of Sonic
common stock, to be followed by a merger, the companies said.
In a statement on the acquisition, the companies said “Sonic will
enable Rovi to broaden its solutions to content owners, device makers,
retailers and operators.”
The combined company will be able to power the next generation of
digital entertainment offerings with content discovery, delivery, and enhanced
interactivity capabilities that support advertising and drive consumer
engagement, the statement said.
Integration between RoxioNow and TotalGuide has already occurred
as part of the TotalGuide general availability release – RoxioNow’s retail
customers are supported through TotalGuide. In the future, Rovi expects to
power RoxioNow’s user experience with the same web services that power
TotalGuide, Rovi said.
Rovi added that “it
believes this integration will result in accelerated uptake of premium
“For our Hollywood studio partners, eager to expand digital
delivery, the larger footprint of our combined company enables them to market
their content broadly,” stated Dave
Habiger, Sonic Solutions president and CEO.
Fred Amoroso, Rovi president and CEO, added: “We believe Sonic
has built an exciting portfolio that complements Rovi’s TotalGuide as well as
our broad portfolio of solutions. Together, we believe the two companies will
be able to address the expanding digital entertainment market with unique
capabilities that will bring enhanced value to consumers.”
In explaining the move, Corey Ferengul, Rovi product management
and marketing executive VP, told TWICE that Rovi made the move at this time
because its investments in cloud services and other technologies were
continuing to mature “and in the last six months of the year we began to
believe that cloud services was really the way to go for the future and we
should find other investments there.”
The two companies had a long working relationship in the past,
and after Sonic acquired DivX “they became more appealing to us as well because
it broadened the touch points between the companies and customers.”
“We are always looking to acquire the right companies, and this
of course signals we are in a more aggressive posture,” Ferengul added. “This
is such a fast moving space that we have concluded that there is no way you can
build everything from the ground up. Time to market is so critical.”
Ferengul said that Rovi can now walk into a prospective CE
manufacturer customer and say: “We can help power your technology, we can help
power your search and recommendations and we can bring in a video delivery
capability whether you want to create your own private label store or bring in
these branded customers we have, like a Blockbuster on Demand or a Best Buy. We
can then have a much broader conversation with the customer about what pieces
they need to help build up their value proposition.”
Ferengul said Rovi will offer a range of customizable solutions
that each CE manufacturer can use to differentiate their offerings from their
“The more we have to offer them, the more flexibility we allow
for them to create uniqueness,” Ferengul said.
As for advancing Sonic Solutions’ platforms, Ferengul said Rovi
expects to build on the streaming HD options available through various service
partners and it will continue to study the 3D market for possible new
offerings, “but right now there is no rush to build a 3D catalog.”
Ferengul said Rovi will be making decisions on the integration of
the management teams in the near future, and no staffing decisions have been
determined at this time.


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Approve Hyatt’s land-lease extension already
IT seems that the ongoing land-lease discussion between Hyatt and DPL is nothing more than old fashioned, negotiated extortion. “You've got a nice hotel here. It would be a shame if something happened to it.”
DPL may say that it is only following the law. If true, then that law is senseless and should be amended or repealed. How indeed can you “protect the local workforce” when you’re trying to shut down their place of employment and kick out their employer — amid a global pandemic and the worst economic crisis in CNMI history? Is DPL intentionally trying to evict a long-time investor and one of the island’s exemplary corporate citizens? Because that will be the end result of DPL’s haggling over what should be a simple land-lease extension deal.
DPL keeps mentioning numbers and figures, including those on its wish-list. But there is actually only one number for the CNMI and its people, and it is zero if the Hyatt is chased out of the island. Instead of zero, however, the CNMI can continue collecting tax revenue from a major business entity which can continue employing mostly local workers, all of which generate more economic activities and government revenue that will benefit everyone, especially the local people.
We keep mentioning DPL. But no one believes that DPL is doing what it’s doing without the approval, tacit or otherwise, of the central government. In any case, this hotel-fiasco-in-the-making is more unforgivable than the Mariana Resort blunder. And this time, there will be no one else to blame but the Torres-Palacios administration.
How to really help PUA applicants
COMPLAINING PUA applicants want their applications processed as soon as possible. Politicians who say they feel the applicants’ pain should try to find out what exactly is causing the delay. This may involve (if possible) sitting down with CNMI DOL and the complaining applicants, and examining each and every problematic application to pinpoint specific deficiencies, and to fix them (if possible).
We should also remember that every time we haul CNMI DOL officials and/or staff from their ongoing work we may be causing more delay in the PUA review and approval process.
Oh the things they say so they won’t say what should be said
THE House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a resolution to oppose a pay raise for the Settlement Fund trustee that the federal court has already approved. So what is the point of the resolution?
It may be non-binding but the resolution is supported by a vocal group of retirees (voters). It also involves criticizing a lawyer from Guam and, in a way, an outgoing federal judge from the same island, so there is not much of a downside from denouncing these legal luminaries (who don’t vote in CNMI elections).
For the more politically discerning members of the community, however, the 12-7 vote in the House was the highlight of the whole shebang because it could indicate the contours of the incoming House leadership.
As for the claim that the Settlement Fund is getting regular payments because of the “hard work” of the federal court and its trustee, and the “cooperation” of the CNMI government — really? The CNMI government is mandated by a federal court ruling to make regular payments to the Settlement Fund which owns a consent judgment totaling $779 million. The Settlement Fund may enforce the judgment against the Commonwealth in federal court if the CNMI government “fails to timely pay its obligations due under the Settlement Agreement.” To say that the CNMI is “cooperating” with the federal court is like saying that an arrested person in handcuffs and legcuffs is “cooperating” with his armed captors by not trying to run away.
The CNMI government, in short, must meet its obligation to the Settlement Fund with cold hard cash, amounting to tens of millions of dollars each year. And as the trustee herself noted in a report submitted to the federal court, the CNMI government “is able to make the weekly $1 million payments, in part, because of the increased Casino GRT revenue…. The Casino GRT has developed into a primary source of revenue for the Government.”
That primary source of revenue is now gone. So, the House adopted a non-binding resolution over a moot issue, and passed a bill to ban foam food containers which are most helpful for many fundraising events and for distributing food following a natural disaster.
Good riddance to the 21st House of Representatives, and thank you Rep. Edmund Villagomez, who could be the next House speaker, for voting no to another useless, virtue-signaling piece of legislation.


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Scale the Summit’s name says more about the music it makes than any of the pre-approved genres typically applied. Any of the numerous adjectives one might apply to a steep climb — complex, harrowing, thrilling and so on — work better than “metal,” which is where the instrumental band thus far tends to be filed.
From a strictly visual perspective the clean-scrubbed local band doesn’t fit the usual metal trope, which doesn’t mean STS can’t and won’t play alongside rougher bands, like a black metal show in Victoria not too long ago when the band arrived to a particularly evil-obsessed type of music on the PA. “That was a little frightening at first,” says guitarist Chris Letchford. “We didn’t want things thrown at us. But the fans were great, it was our job to win over the crowd.
“Still I don’t really consider our music metal. We don’t have a screamer.”
Instrumental rock is hardly the rare bird it was 20 years ago, still its practitioners have to feel like they’re swimming upstream when most lyric-less music gets filed under jazz and classical. Two albums ago Scale the Summit — Letchford, guitarist Travis Levrier, bassist Jordan Eberhardt and drummer Pat Skeffington — found queries about the absence of a singer irritating, and not without cause. The band’s compositions are delivered such that the two guitars carry the melodic parts that a singer would in another band. The absence of lyrics creates an open-ended relationship with listeners looking for interpretation.
“The music goes through so many moods, we’ll get fans writing us saying a song reminds them of this or that. That’s actually how we come up with the track names. We write the music and listen to it and say, ‘OK, what do you think about it? What do you envision when you listen to it.’ It’s more creative then just telling the listener what it’s about.”
Letchford mentions that he prefers taking in music at IMAX theaters because of the aural experience. “You get these compositional pieces,” he says, “I walk in and it gives me chills, it’s so dark and evil. And then it shifts to something happy and peaceful and builds over 15 minutes into something epic-sounding. Sure people are on their cell phones zoning out, but I much prefer that to Coca Cola commercials.”
Those sorts of shifting tones and textures and moods also appear in Scale the Summit’s music. On Tuesday the band released its third album, The Collective, which features 11 such pieces. The album breaks with a punishing sound on Colossal, but no one mood or theme lingers too long. It’s music of movement, even more so than on the band’s last record Carving Canyons.
“Those songs didn’t shift quite the same way,” he says. “This time I think it’s a crisper loud-to-quiet, loud-to-quiet thing, there are more layers to the sound. There are more dynamics in the compositions.”
The group’s roots are in northwest Houston. Letchford and Levrier grew up 10 blocks from each other and first met at Oak Forest Elementary. Neither knew the other played guitar until high school, at which point they tried to start a band, “Dillinger Escape Plan-type band,” Letchford says, “more chaotic stuff.” But they couldn’t find a permanent drummer in Houston, so they left for Los Angeles to attend the Los Angeles Musicians Institute with the intention of becoming luthiers.
Both learned to build guitars and both never need outside assistance to fix their own instruments. But two months into a six-month program a teacher urged them to give up building guitars.
“They told us that if we wanted to play full-time, don’t build,” Letchford says. “They said your hands start to hurt. It takes up too much time. It’s not that there was no money in building, they just thought it gets in the way of playing.”
The two then enrolled in a 18-month guitar performance school at the institute, where they met Skeffington and Eberhardt, who they had to convince to first, play in an instrumental band, and second, leave Los Angeles for Houston.
“They were so against it,” Letchford says. “But I drew them a timeline: ‘Here’s what we do, we’re going to move back to Texas, record a full-length album, shop it around to labels, and then tour.’
“What they didn’t know is I’m one of the most hard-working, diligent people around. I put my mind to a goal and then I don’t give up.”
The band released Monument independently in 2007.
Letchford dreamed that after five or six years the band might open for Dream Theater, the legendary progressive metal band beloved by Letchford’s father. When the opener on a Dream Theater tour fell out, the still wet Scale the Summit, which had by then signed to the Los Angeles metal label Prosthetic, was picked to take that spot.
“It felt a little like we stepped into the big leagues instantly, and the label seemed concerned,” he says. “We looked so young. They’d have a rep come out to our show to make sure everything went OK. The hired a tour manager, which we didn’t need. None of us as a drinking problem. Only big touring bands or bands that need a parent figure to keep from getting messed up need that.
“It’s tough to make a career in instrumental music like this, but we’re committed to this.”
SCALE THE SUMMIT
With Fair to Midland and Periphery
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel
Tickets: $13; 713-225-5483 or www.warehouselive.com