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New York Agrees to Reform Harsh Drug Laws
Baby steps. We often make progress in baby steps. Changing the drug laws in New York state is a small step in the right direction of ending drug prohibition altogether. I don't advocate an end to the "drug war" because I favor drug use. I do not. I favor it because drug prohibition is not working and has not worked. Just as our nation found that alcohol prohibition did not work in the 1920s and 1930s, so too will it one day end the failed policy on drugs.
Gov. David A. Paterson and New York legislative leaders have reached an agreement to dismantle much of what remains of the state’s strict 1970s-era drug laws, once among the toughest in the nation. The deal would repeal many of the mandatory minimum prison sentences now in place for lower-level drug felons, giving judges the authority to send first-time nonviolent offenders to treatment instead of prison. The plan would also expand drug treatment programs and widen the reach of drug courts at a cost of at least $50 million.Emphasis on drug education and treatment for non-violent drug offenses is the best and least expensive way to go. The fact that more politicians are standing up and making these hard decisions is a reflection on how public opinion is changing and how bad states are suffering in this economy. For more information on the advantages of drug law reform, visit this link.
Under the plan, judges would have the authority to send first-time nonviolent offenders in all but the most serious drug offenses — known as A-level drug felonies — to treatment. As a condition of being sent to treatment, offenders would have to plead guilty. If they did not successfully complete treatment, their case would go back before a judge, who would again have the option of imposing a prison sentence.
The deal comes as the state is facing a $16 billion budget deficit for the coming fiscal year. And finding the money needed to pay for drug addiction programs, which could reach near $80 million, will prove difficult, those involved in the negotiations said. But in the long run, the changes are expected to save money because sending offenders to treatment is less expensive than spending $45,000 a year to keep them confined.
New York already has one of the most extensive drug-treatment networks in the country. Drug policy experts said that with the proposed changes in the law, the state could have the sentencing policy it needs to fully utilize those treatment programs.
“New York could actually become a national leader,” said Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance, a national group that urges relaxation of certain drug sentencing laws. “We’re going in a public health direction here. We’re making that turn, and that’s what’s significant.” [NY Times]
Another thing to consider is that the United States has made huge improvements in public health relative to tobacco use through extensive education over the last few decades. Tobacco use has so declined and public knowledge of the health hazards has increased to the point that public support for restricting smoking in most public places is now almost universal. Few people doubt the effects of second-hand smoke.
What if we spent similar amounts of money to educate the public about the harm of drug use? Many drug education programs often resort to scare tactics instead of fact-based information. Factual education has a greater chance to succeed and scare tactics can often backfire. What do you think?


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This is the fourth book in Shinn's Twelve Houses series. Each volume focuses on one of the six companions and this one follows the youngest--Cammon. The boy who reads souls. Heretofore, Cammon has been something of a delightful enigma. The scruffy little brother with a good heart, not an ounce of tact, and the ability to gauge a person's true intentions. In this volume, he comes into his own and it was a treat to be one up on the rest of the characters for once. To actually be inside his head. Cammon is still Cammon, but we do get a little more information on his background and abilities as a reader. When he is chosen to assess the true intentions of Princess Amalie's suitors, the inevitable humorous and dangerous consequences follow. In fact, this was the most predictable of the four novels so far. Although I was surprised (and perfectly delighted) with how much of it was Senneth's story. She is my favorite character and, in the end, all the books are about Senneth, the people she gathers around her, and the ways in which she binds them together. As in Mystic & Rider, her sheer strength took my breath away. Now that I think about it, it makes sense that we get so much of Senneth in this book as it becomes clearer and clearer as the story goes on how much Cammon relies on her. How, even when he disagrees with her logic, she has come to fill a space in his life that was empty until she walked into the tavern and freed him with a swipe of her knife. As always, Shinn's strength is her dialogue and her strong characters. They leap, gleefully and disreputably, off the page, making me wish I knew them. Wish I could talk with them and watch their faces. Become familiar and chummy with them. Until I was one of them. One of the six. No, seven now. That's the sign of a good book. That's the reason I'll read anything she writes. That, and finally having the satisfaction of watching Tayse cleave Halchon Gisseltess in half without blinking an eye. The good news: Ms. Shinn is in negotiations to write a fifth installment in the series. All is right with the world.
I haven't wanted to talk about this. With anyone. But I think I probably need to. That like Georgina, I need to use my words to break the curse. I think that like Sam, I need to believe in my cure. So I'm going to talk about it here, and maybe you can help. Since pandemic type things got real in my neck of the woods, I haven't been able to read. I haven't been able to reread . This has (and I am not exaggerating) never happened to me before in my life. I know it happens frequently to most everyone. And I have certainly always been a mood reader. It's not in any way uncommon for me to drift from book to book, from shelf to shelf in my library, until I land upon the right thing. But that drifting tends to occur over the course of a few hours. Not ever does it occur over the course of a few days or, God forbid, weeks. I feel like I'm losing my mind. And, yes, I am fully aware of where this problem likely rates on the triviality scale in the current scheme of

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Journey Under the Midnight Sun is the culmination of writer Higashino Keigo’s masterpiece, depicting his essence of the ingenious inner art of depictions, along with the ability to unravel the knot in a detective story grimness. “I wish I could walk in the sun next year.” Ryo told two of his staff members, when asked about their wishes on New Year’s Eve. To the others, they considered it the wish of a grade 1 child. For Ryo, it was his lifelong desire. Because to Ryo, his life is like walking in a white night, wrong with no escape!
At the age of 11, a fate happened to Ryo, and since then, his life has only one goal, to protect the beautiful girl Yuhiko. Ryo considers himself a crayfish, attaches himself to the white goby, symbiotic and quietly lives in the dark night that always haunts them.
The special thing in Journey Under the Midnight Sun is the author that describes Ryo and Yuhiko with the eyes of an outsider. There is not a single line of text that the author let the two characters talk about, and there is no quote describing them actually meeting each other. Readers can only imagine a series of links between them by stories that are interrupted, time series are constantly changing. In the book chapters depicting these intermittent stories, there are two main artifacts with a seemingly contradictory life, but in the end when their black curtain is lifted, the reader can only be horrified. fear in sympathy, quiet and pensive. To be more precise, it is difficult to properly assess these two people. The so-called morality, crime, love … the contradictory values in this story appear as thin as a thread, unable to demarcate.


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If you have been in Cumbria and southern Scotland recently, you can't fail to have noticed a lot of military activity.
Thousands of troops from around the world are taking part in a huge military exercise called Operation Joint Warrior.
Hannah McNulty went to see them in action:
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As there are just few days left for the next year so there are many upcoming predictions and surveys being made for many latest trends which can be related to social media marketing, technology, science, research etc. The most talked about survey is the Social Media Today which discusses all the major details about the social media platforms and the trends for the upcoming year 2019. The survey was being taken by Social Media Today or the SMT community. There were over 500 social media marketers who responded to the SMT community survey.
The whole survey is broken down into few major portions which will cover the whole survey in general. The first major thing which is discussed in the SMT’s survey is the “Key Social Media Channels to focus for the marketers. The second major topic discussed is the “Where the brands are going to post their ads and the ads budget in 2019”. The third major topic in the SMT’s survey is the “What are the key goals that the digital marketers focus on in the upcoming year”. The fourth major topic which is discussed in the SMT’s survey is the “ What organizational challenges marketers face in achieving success”. For this article we will discuss about the fourth topic which is the organizational challenges that are being faced by the marketers.
Social media marketers were firstly asked about that which team manages their social advertising? This question was the first because many companies have their own team inside the company which manages the social media advertising. Some companies hire agencies and some go for social media consultants. The majority portion was of the companies which have their own social media advertising teams to handle the social media business.
The reason behind it was that many companies feel comfortable being able to control the social media messages and always being there to influence their brands position in the social media platforms. Due to this reason there are now very less companies that go for Social media consultants as all the major brands are now fully invested in developing and training their own team of social media advertisers which will help them their brand to be successful in the advertising campaigns. Another main question asked in the survey on the basis of organizational challenges is the support of the social media from the executives of the companies which the answer was ‘Yes’ in the majority that the executives do support social media.
Nowadays the social media marketing is being changed, it is not just about that how much the companies are earning from the advertising campaigns, but it is about how much the brands have created their influence in the social media platforms. This influence comes in the shape of followers. The more followers on Instagram you have, the more are your chances to increase the sales. Through the influence brands has an advantage position in social media community which is very helpful and good for the brands and other businesses.


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Caroline Bottomley discusses Shiny Awards' mission of levelling the commissioning playing field for emerging filmmakers who and wherever they are.
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It's Monday What Are You Reading? is a weekly bookish meme created by Book Journey where we tell you lovely followers what we've been up to for reading in the last week! So let's get started shall we?
Synopsis: Evan and Claire Jones are typical teenagers, forced to go with their parents to yet another boring museum ... that is, until something extraordinary happens to make their day a little more than interesting. After following a strange little creature into a closed exhibit, Evan and his older sister, Claire, discover the Serpent’s Ring, one of the magical relics formed from the shattered Mysticus Orb. Purely by accident, they have awakened its powers and opened a portal to Sagaas, land of ancient gods.
Before the siblings can comprehend what has happened, the Serpent’s Ring is wrenched from Evan’s hand by an enormous bird and flown back to Aegir, the Norse god of the sea. Evan and Claire, accompanied by a band of unlikely heroes, must retrieve the Serpent’s Ring before Aegir uses its immense powers to flood all the lands on Earth.
Synopsis: Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret
Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcast—and nearly got someone killed.
Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silence—to learn to keep her mouth shut, and to stop hurting anyone else. And if she thinks keeping secrets is hard, not speaking up when she's ignored, ridiculed and even attacked is worse.
But there's strength in silence, and in the new friends who are, shockingly, coming her way—people she never noticed before; a boy she might even fall for. If only her new friends can forgive what she's done. If only she can forgive herself.
Synopsis: Intelligent and fiercely independent, sixteen-year-old Mia Marchette has never had a childhood. After her father’s disappearance when she was six, she has alone borne the burden of her mother’s bipolar disorder.
When her mother is institutionalized after a failed suicide attempt, Mia is abruptly forced to live with the estranged father she has not known for ten years. She is shocked to discover that he has created a new, picture-perfect life for himself, and is now living with a stepmother and a half-sister Mia never knew she had. Together, Mia and her new family must face the bitterness, mistakes, and long-hidden secrets that threaten to destroy their precarious happiness.
Finding Mia follows Mia's journey as she searches to find the unanswered questions from her past, leading to her own self-discovery.
Ultimately, this is a story of confronting pain and finding freedom, of letting go and learning to search for love in unexpected places.

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All kinds of different people get hemorrhoids. The majority of the times, people do not know what they are, so are not sure how to go about treating them. For you, this is about to change. In the following paragraphs, you’ll learn some surprising ways you can make your hemorrhoids easier to cope with.
Rutin is an ingredient that can be helpful in the treatment of hemorrhoids. One possible cause of hemorrhoids is weakened blood vessels. Flavonoids like rutin make it easier for the body to absorb vitamin C, which plays a large role in fortifying the blood vessels. It is most commonly found in vegetables, such as onions and broccoli, as well as in citrus fruits. The supplementary recommended daily dose is 500mg.
Using alternating ice and heat can be the simplest way for you to help your hemorrhoids at home. Alternating ice and heat will shrink the hemorrhoid and help it to heal. Ice can become painful in itself to leave it on too long, so aim for about 5 to 10 minutes with the ice. Then apply heat for approximately 20 minutes.
Were you aware that there are many items in your kitchen that can relieve your hemorrhoid symptoms. You can create your own ice pack for instance. Ice packs can numb the pain and reduce swelling. If you place ice packs on you hemorrhoids, they can cut down on the amount of swelling.
Add a bit of lemon to any water you drink; this can help relieve the hemorrhoid pain you may be experiencing. Lemon offers soothing properties and can lessen any irritation caused by hemorrhoids. A simple glass or two of lemon water throughout the day can leave you feeling great.
It may not seem like it, but sitting on a small cushion can help reduce the pain from hemorrhoids. You might not want to use it while you’re working, but when you’re on the way home, or home already, the cushion will help soothe the hemorrhoid pain you’re experiencing.
Natural remedies can work just as well as expensive treatments. After you have a bowel movement, soak for about 15 minutes in a sitz bath. Hemorrhoids are often incredibly itchy, but do your best to avoid scratching them, as this can only worsen the problem overall. Instead, use witch hazel pads and put them on the itchy spots for relief. You can also reduce irritation by eating plenty of fiber, and drinking plenty of water. These steps can prevent constipation, which can lead to straining while passing stool.
Though laxatives can temporarily relieve constipation, they are not a good solution for frequent hemorrhoids. These should not be used for more than an occasional boost to your normal body function. If you have recurring problems, alter your diet to help you achieve more consistent bowel movements.
To help ease constipation, try taking a brisk walk before your regular bowel movement. Walking gives your body needed energy, which may help get your bowels moving. Doing so will help avoid straining that will cause hemorrhoids to become more irritated and painful. Try walking briskly for about 15 minutes or so.
You want to make sure you get yourself checked out by a physician, just so you know exactly what you’re dealing with. Blood in the stool or bleeding from the rectum can point to more serious causes, such as colon cancer. For peace of mind, have your symptoms checked by a professional. You doctor is the best person to diagnose the problem, and recommend the proper treatment.
As previously mentioned, hemorrhoids are common with just about everyone. The one thing many hemorrhoid sufferers have in common is that they’re unsure of how they should treat them. This is often due to the fact that the topic is not frequently discusses, so information about hemorrhoid remedies is hard to come by. Take full advantage of what you’ve learned and kick hemorrhoids out of your life permanently.

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Archive for "Crackdown 3" Tag
"There’s so much stuff that you need to keep in memory, due to the destruction, that there are limits," says...
Though the Azure-based destruction took a "lot of investment", the additional time helped the campaign side as...
“We think Crackdown has a lot of potential, it's a really fun game, we hope people love it.”
That’s a refreshing change of pace, and coming from Microsoft no less.
You can, in fact, pre-load Crackdown 3 via Game Pass right now.
Two maps and two gameplay modes showcased during Microsoft's X018 event.
Gear up for the upcoming threequel by going back to the beginning.
More and more we are getting proof that, yes, the game is actually about to come out for real this time.
It’s not the catchiest name, but I think it will do.
It looks like we are finally near the light at the end of the tunnel...
It looks like the final game will deliver on one of its initial promises.
Microsoft's upcoming exclusive will be playable for the first time since 2017.
Microsoft boss says the open world title's development is progressing nicely.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture developer outlines future game plans, along with teasing "something bigger".
The developers are certain that Crackdown 3 will be a very different game from its predecessor.
The game better be in a shippable state by this February, apparently.
Crackdown creator is not too bitter at not being involved with the game's development anymore.
Reagent Games and Cloudgine seemingly no longer involved.
I guess delays to ensure game quality are fine...
Microsoft showed off a brand new trailer for Crackdown 3 at their E3 press event.

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By Jane M. Von Bergen
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Great Q&A with activist Diane Cornman-Levy on what is driving her to fight for the health, safety and welfare of women.
One look at Diane Cornman-Levy’s resume tells you that her new post as executive director of Women’s Way isn’t much of a stretch.
There’s the requisite set of credentials — executive positions in the nonprofit arena, and a couple of entrepreneurial nonprofits she established herself — all appropriate for the leadership of an enterprise that makes grants to organizations helping women: Women Against Abuse, Women Organized Against Rape, and Women’s Law Project, to name a few.
Two key credentials, however, don’t show up on her resume: survivor of attempted rape and a close relative of a rape victim.
What happened to Cornman-Levy’s family member is horrific, and Cornman-Levy wants to keep it private. The relative, badly traumatized, is fragile, but gaining strength, amid setbacks.
“Actually, doing this work and always doing work around social justice and gender equality has helped keep me sane,” said Cornman-Levy, 56. “It gives me passion, determination, resilience.”
Question: What happened to you?
A: It was 11 on a Sunday morning. I was going to get my mail at Brown University. This guy said, “I just got kicked out of my home.” He pulled me behind bushes, down to the ground. I just started screaming and kicking, and I managed to kick him in the balls and I got away. I’ve also worked with a lot of women that have been raped. I’ve done a lot of work with homeless women that didn’t have a choice but to get on the streets. I’ve worked with women coming out of prison that had been traumatized. I think this addiction epidemic is totally connected to trauma. Also, a lot of boys have been raped. That is really a hidden issue in this country.
Question: How does this impact you in this job?
A: It drives me. Frankly, at the state and federal level, there’s literally an attack on women, on choice, on reproductive health care. We have a president that says it’s OK to sexually assault women. It’s sending a message to boys and men that it’s OK, and to girls, that it’s OK if someone assaults you, especially someone who has power. So it gives me the constant reminder and energy to do this work when it gets really hard. It’s not my [relative] and me. It’s all the women I have met over the years.
Question: Well, lots of women voted for Donald Trump — and you met some of them last year when you ran, and lost, as a Democratic candidate for state representative in Delaware County.
A: During the campaign I knocked on over 7,500 doors. I talked to a lot of women who were never going to support Hillary Clinton. I always approached without judgment, just compassion and empathy. What are you struggling with and why do you think someone like Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton is going to help you?
Question: What did you learn?
A: There’s this whole notion of feminism where they look at it as an elitist thing, like she was part of the elitist class. She’s going to break the glass ceiling, but they felt like she wasn’t connecting with working-class women. What are you going to do to bring jobs back for my husband? It was always about economics, because their salaries have gone down and their expenses have gone up and they feel stuck.
Question: How will you bring this knowledge to Women’s Way?
A: One of the things that has informed me for Women’s Way is we need to be very inclusive and very strategic about bringing organizations and women together across class, race, and ethnicity and to create a safe place to start having these hard conversations.
Question: Organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have seen an uptick in donations since the election. Has Women’s Way?
A: We’re getting a lot of calls right now from people saying I want to become a member, I want to give.
Question: What are your funding priorities?
A: Women’s Way has an incredible legacy and history, which we are building on. We are restructuring to become the leader on women’s issues in this region. We also want to be more nimble and responsive to emerging needs and emergencies. In philanthropy, it’s hard for [funders] to respond quickly and adapt. We’d like to create a separate fund, an emergency fund.


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12 Armadillos Barndo: 7 acres; 3 miles from downtown Brenham; sleeps 28
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12 Armadillos on Main Street/Alamo Street (Downtown Brenham): 2 houses rented together: Combined 6 bedroom/5 baths/9 beds
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Welcome to 12 Armadillos! We have a barndo nestled on 7 acres in the country but only 3 miles from downtown Brenham. We also have The 12 Armadillos on Main Street and Alamo Street which is walking distance to all of the downtown Brenham establishments. We have a new property in Downtown Brenham that we are currently renovating. We should have it ready around October for rent. (This depends on our renovation though). Check out our INSTAGRAM to see videos of each room in the highlights! We will also have progress on renovations for our Washington House on Instagram.
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In any sneakerhead’s ever-expanding shoe collection, there’s always room for one (or a lot) more. Here are seven sneaker releases that’ll make your wish list.
Vans X Thrasher Magazine
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You’ve seen the Thrasher tee everywhere, and soon, you’ll see the fiery emblem on shoes as well. The iconic skating magazine announced a capsule collaboration with Vans, which includes a line of sneakers and apparel. Expect reworked classics like the Slip-on Pro and the Sk8-Hi Pros, which will be available from 29 July.
Nike Air Max 97 Premium
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There’s no denying the appeal of the Air Max silhouette – sleek, sporty, and sexy. Fluid lines run through, with a full-length Air cushioning to add that sporty appeal. As part of its 20th anniversary, Nike will be releasing four new colour ways (wolf grey, beige, pumice-grey, and light bone) on 4 August.
Nike Flyknit Trainer Retro
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This cult classic is making a triumphant return, this time is everyone’s favourite black-and-white colourway. The quintessential Flyknit shape has graced the feet of Kanye West, and its set to return on 27 July in a revamped low-top silhouette. This is one ridiculously photogenic sneaker we all can’t get enough of!
New Balance ‘Flimby 35th Anniversary Pack’
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To celebrate 35 years of their iconic UK manufacturing factory, New Balance will be launching four exclusive ‘Made in UK’ styles: the M991FA, M770FA, EPICTRFA and M1500FA. Built with premium nubuck and leather in timeless combinations of navy, light blue, white, black, and grey, it’ll be hard deciding which design to pick out. These kicks will be released on 5 August.
Adidas Pharrel Williams Tennis Hu
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Pharrel Williams has teamed up with adidas Originals to create Tennis Hu, a stunning collection that’s as vibrant as it’s stylish. It comes in a breathable Primeknit material, contrasting soles, and four different iterations to match any personality and style. Slated for release on 28 July 2017, wear summer on your feet with these bright kicks.
Adidas ‘Black Friday’ EQT Support 93/17
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The first all-black Black Friday special has been revealed by adidas. And although it’s only coming out on 24 November 2017, we can’t help but fall in love with this fully black runner of the EQT Support 93/17. Mark your calendars!
ASICSTIGER X PATTA GEL-LYTE
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Once again, ASICSTIGER has partnered Patta to reimagine the the classic GEL-LYTE. This time, the colourblocked sneaker comes with dark purple nubuck overlays, gentle pink details for contrast, and Patta-branded lace locks. Available from 31 July 2017, put a spring in your step with this lightweight shoe.
What are some of the sneaker releases you’re looking forward to? Share them in the comment section!
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Patients with previous surgery of a right frontal meningioma subsequently irradiated
Postoperative and post-radiation therapy follow-up performed late (3 and 4 years) with MR morphologic and perfusion sequences
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Dear reader, you’ve guessed the next chapter: Ursula, as a pretty young woman now relatively independent, falls in love with Sydney, the son of the widow who owns the rooming house. Sydney and Ursula marry, and when the widow dies (after a long time of enjoying her status as mother-in-law, reveling in her son’s happiness, and experiencing a secret pleasure that her decision to put Ursula to work in the kitchen led to this outcome, as if she’d planned it all along), when the widow dies she leaves her house to Sydney and Ursula.
In Ursula’s retelling of all this to Marilyn, her granddaughter and future doyenne of Pine Street, the marriage is a happy, uneventful one. The fact that Sydney and Ursula manage only one child who lives into full adulthood, Marilyn’s father, is shared in a way that glosses over all the heartache of miscarriages and another child lost to polio. Sydney’s death at the young age of sixty-seven, from a sudden heart attack, is presented to his granddaughter as a relative blessing, given the early signs of dementia he had been showing. “God took him before he could fall apart,” is how Ursula told it, and Marilyn was in her thirties before she began to question her grandmother’s accounts.
“There must have been so much sadness, so much grief, but she never talked about her life that way,” Marilyn told Franny during one of their long walks around the town. “Grandma Ursula took the joy of life with her into old age, and left the sadness behind, in the past.”
But in all their conversations, Marilyn never mentioned that her grandmother’s house was the same green one that Allison bought so many years later. Nor did she ever share the reasons why it was sold.
That story belonged to Marilyn’s father, Ernest, the only surviving son of Ursula and Sydney. And it would come to light much later, after the Pine Street friends had researched the chain of ownership of Allison’s house, and realized just how much of the community’s history it contained.


Romulan Light Fighter
The Romulan fighter is an example of the state of the art weaponry that the Romulans can produce. Although the fighter is not as fast as the Klingon light fighter, the destructive power of its plasma weapon makes it the most destructive fighter ever produced. The plasma weapon is very slow to fire, taking so long as 2 minutes to recharge, but is able to produce heavy damage against multiple targets. To compensate for the slow rate of fire the craft is equipped with a disruptor that can fire as often as a Federation phaser. The craft has a low-power cloaking device which, while not able to make the craft invisible, is able to disrupt the sensors of other fighters.
The main body is a long flat multifaceted design with a falcon pennant painted on the lower hull. The cockpit is located on the top of the main body at the front of the craft. The pilot and the gunner / navigator sit back to back to reduce the size of the cockpit. The cockpit is entered by lifting the canopy to the port side. The main propulsion is provided by two radial units located on each side of the craft. Secondary propulsion is provided by two engines located at the rear of the main body. Located on the top of the main body id a short stabilizer fin to assist the craft in atmospheric flight. (Salmeterol)
The plasma projector is located at the front of the main body. The disruptor pod is located on the underside of the main body. Located in the main body behind the cockpit is the cloaking device. The craft uses two retractable landing skids which allow it to land on almost any surface.


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By Alistair Smout
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government needs to set out its vision for Brexit, the head of two of the country's biggest airports said on Thursday, reflecting exasperation building among the business community.
Discussions with the European Union have stalled this week, throwing the whole timetable into doubt, and finance minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet had not yet discussed what it wanted from its final deal.
Executives within the airlines industry are increasingly alarmed because the aviation sector does not have a natural fallback arrangement that will keep flights in the air if Britain leaves the EU without a deal in March 2019.
"It's important that the government move quickly, and it's a bit worrying when you hear senior politicians saying there is no end state for Brexit agreed in cabinet," Charlie Cornish, chief executive of the Manchester Airport Group (MAG), told Reuters.
"I do think that the government need to seriously up their act and get that end-state vision for the future relationship with Europe sorted."
Chief executives rarely comment on politics in Britain but many have become increasingly concerned in recent weeks about slow progress towards a transition deal to help ease the path out of the EU.
Cornish, who at MAG also runs Stansted airport, said that while Brexit was his biggest concern, he believed that a compromise would be found. The industry has warned that it needs clarity soon because it sells flights so far ahead.
The government should also think about legislation around airport take-off and landing slots, he said, after a controversial court decision to allow administrators of failed airline Monarch to sell slots at Luton and Gatwick even though it did not intend to operate any more flights.
"It seems odd and unfair to customers and airports. There is a need for a fundamental review of how slots are managed when an airline goes into administration," Cornish said.
Monarch's slots at Manchester were returned to a "pool" to be reassigned by a regulator. MAG said that Jet2.com, Thomas Cook and TUI were already operating flights out of some of the slots, and that other slots for next year would be filled.
(Editing by Stephen Addison)


19 Dec 07. Raytheon Company has been awarded a $2.9m contract to develop a Stand-Off Radiation Detection System (SORDS) for the Department of Homeland Security. In developing a SORDS solution for DHS, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is utilizing its OpenAIR(TM) business model, leveraging the best of large and small businesses, as well as academia, to drive the best solution. Raytheon IDS is working with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.; Bubble Technology Industries, Chalk River, Ontario; Radiation Monitoring Devices, Watertown, Mass.; Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass.; and experts from MIT and the University of Michigan. SORDS is a 6-month contract managed by DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. It represents the first of a four-phase program to develop advanced nuclear detectors that can determine the type and location of radiation sources at much greater distances than current technologies. If all four options are exercised, the research and development contract could grow to $9.8m.
20 Dec 07. The Netherlands Police Agency has signed a contract today for two AgustaWestland AW139 medium twin turbine engine helicopters. These two helicopters will be used by the Dutch Police KLPD (Korps landelijke politiediensten) for law enforcement and homeland security purposes.


By Doug Padilla
BOSTON – If John Lackey was standing on a mound, it’s likely a roaring lion or a charging rhinoceros would not even earn a flinch.
This guy needs a safari hat and an elephant gun since “Big Game” is the most appropriate tag for the right-hander, whose safe haven has been a hill of dirt 60 feet, 6 inches from home.
There seems to be no pressure when Lackey stands in the center of the infield, surrounded by a stadium of fans. There is only an increase in intensity when the stakes are high and the challenge is the toughest.
“He’s not scared at all,” catcher Mike Napoli said. “He wants that. He wants to be that big-game pitcher. He wants to be out there and be the one that can say he was there for that big game and took it home.”
When the American League ERA title was there for the taking during his last start of the season last week, Lackey pitched seven shutout innings and took home the honor. When the Angels failed to clinch the division in their first two tries, Lackey shut down the Mariners on Sept. 23 and the champagne started flowing.
Already with a successful start in Game 7 of the 2002 World Series on his resume, Lackey has built his big-game credentials.
And he’s tough. After Oakland’s Jason Kendall charged Lackey on the mound last season, the next time Lackey faced the A’s it was pure vengeance. Lackey retired 27 consecutive batters, missing a perfect game only because he gave up a leadoff double.
Lackey continues to brush aside those feelings of panic that can humble even the best of players. He has a 1.88 ERA in three previous Division Series outings (two starts). He has a 1-1 record and a 3.75 ERA in two American League Championship Series games. And there was the huge effort against the San Francisco Giants in the 2002 Series as a rookie.
“I’ve been in enough (big games) that I know you can’t get too excited about it,” Lackey said. “You have to do what brought you here. You have to be able to execute pitches. You’ve got to get beyond all the flyovers and the pregame stuff. Once you get between the lines, you’ve got to make pitches.”
His manager, Mike Scioscia, caught Orel Hershiser during the right-hander’s record-breaking 1988 season, so he knows a thing or two about outstanding starters. And he puts Lackey up there with the best of them.
“(Lackey’s) one of the best competitors I’ve been around in 30-plus years,” Scioscia said. “And I think his ability to slow the game down on the mound has developed from the time he was a rookie to where he is now. He’s channeled his emotions into something that’s positive out there to get to the next pitch.”
Experience figures to be a wash today in Game 1. Josh Beckett has big-time playoff and World Series credentials after pitching the Florida Marlins to the title in 2003. Beckett pitched a five-hit shutout to finish off the Yankees in Game 6 of that World Series.
Lackey will use his World Series experience to gain any advantage he can.
“It’s definitely something I can draw upon,” Lackey said. “I’ve pitched in a few playoff games and that’s obviously the biggest one. My mind-set in that game, when I was a rookie, was that I was coming up with a lot of veterans. I was just hoping to contribute. I wasn’t going to try to do too much.”
Against Beckett, he figures to take on more responsibility.
“He’s been in these games just like I have and done extremely well,” Lackey said. “I mean, throwing a shutout to win a World Series, it doesn’t get much better than that. He’s obviously got great stuff and it’s going to be a great challenge for us. I’m going to have to pitch well to give our guys a chance.”
But as focused as Lackey can be, on occasion he can also appear distracted by his moods. When the Angels were in Boston last, Lackey was certain he would pitch against Beckett in the second game of a doubleheader that would have Cy Young implications.
The matchup didn’t happen and a disappointed Lackey was crushed for seven runs (six earned) and 11 hits in four innings. It was just one of a number of rough starts against the Red Sox.
So, many of the questions in Lackey’s interview session Tuesday centered around his 1-6 record and 6.27 ERA against the Red Sox in his career. He is 1-4 in Fenway Park with a 7.68 ERA.
“They’ve obviously got a great lineup and a good team,” Lackey said. “But I’m not going to look too far into that and I’m certainly going to show up (today) and give it a run. I think we have a good team, too. And if I pitch up to my capabilities, I like my chances against pretty much anybody.”


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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
Xavier is a faun-like wanderer/seeker who is traveling across the land to find out the truth about his mysterious origin. Facing rednecks, inflicting righteousness and preaching about the 'strong, silent types' and morality, this hero has his work cut out for him.
After causing an accident that left his daughter Christiane severely disfigured, the brilliant surgeon Dr. Génessier works tirelessly to give the girl a new face. He does so however by kidnapping young women and attempting face transplants. He has been woefully unsuccessful to date. The doctor's world begins to collapse around him when his daughter realizes just what he has been doing.Written by
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"Eyes Without A Face" is a groundbreaking and trendsetting artistic nightmare! The plot of this film has often been copied but never has it been done in such an eerily effective style. The sight of the masked daughter playing with the dogs evokes many emotions in the viewer. There are shots in this movie that will stay with you long after you have seen it! Heavily recommended!
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A variety of solo horn works/transcriptions, many first recordings of these modern works. Excellent!
Interesting contemporary horn-based works with accompanying winds and piano.
Mostly slow, lyrical horn pieces, modern, a variety of composers.
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Toward Community in a Polarized World
What are the stories we tell ourselves about community today?
According to the Pew Research Center, many of those stories are grounded in a declining public trust in both the federal government and in our fellow citizens. Three-quarters of Americans say that their fellow citizens’ trust in the federal government has been shrinking, and 64 percent believe that peoples’ trust in each other is shrinking. Trust in nonprofits has also decreased. For those who think interpersonal trust has declined in the past generation, numerous reasons and rationales are brought to bear that make this assumption correct.
Eroding trust in our public and interpersonal lives fundamentally corrodes at the hearts of our fellow citizens--and corrodes what used to be our communities. For many, this is a deeply personal spiritual story and outcome.
Declining trust in government and increasing polarization in society result in an unenviable outcome of citizens feeling isolated and divided. A Kaiser Family Foundation study notes that 1 in 5 Americans always or often feel lonely or socially isolated, including many whose health, relationships and work suffers as a result. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, the rate of Americans ages 10-24 who died by suicide rose by 56 percent from 2007 to 2017. Depression rates among teens shot up 63 percent in the same time period.
Our media environments and ecosystems make it easy to adopt and opt-in to various community symbologies that give us and our communities shorthand for identities. For instance, Red vs. Blue America, which sprouted out of the 2000 Bush v Gore election fiasco and has led to folks fundamentally conceptualizing decisions like where they live based on whether it aligns with these political labels. This example is one in a larger phenomenon that the journalist Bill Bishop has coined as The Big Sort – the process of the self-segregation of Americans into like-minded communities. Bishop suggests that Americans choose to live in neighborhoods where most residents share beliefs similar to their own. The media social and political echo chambers that exist online are also geographically spatialized where people can avoid interacting with anyone who disagrees with them on political issues.
Greg Martin and Steven Webster, in an article in The Atlantic, agree that there is rapid growth of geographic polarization in the United States, but disagree with Bishop on the cause. They describe a political polarization manifesting itself geographically largely because partisan preferences are strongly correlated with population density. Further, they speak to how partisan identities now align with social identities, such as race, religion, geography (i.e. rural vs. urban) and education level, far more closely than they did a generation ago before the political re-alignments associated with the 1960s.
Certainly, the COVID-19 pandemic is unearthing additional stories.
Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic,
“Normal times do not offer a convenient news peg for slow-rolling catastrophes. When we look at the world around us—at outdated or crumbling infrastructure, at inadequate health care, at racism and poverty—it is all too easy to cultivate an attitude of small-minded resignation: This is just the way it has always been. Calamity can stir us from the trance of complacency and force us to ask first-principle questions about the world: What is a community for? How is it put together? What are its basic needs? How should we provide them?”
These are the questions we should be asking about our own world as we confront the coronavirus pandemic and think about what should come after.
These are the questions we should be asking about our own world as we confront the coronavirus pandemic and think about what should come after. The most important changes following past catastrophes went beyond the catastrophe itself. They accounted fully for the problems that had been revealed and conceived of solutions broadly. New York did not react to the blizzard of 1888 by stockpiling snow shovels. It created an entire infrastructure of subterranean power and transit that made the city cleaner, more equitable, and more efficient.
And of course, there are stories told to us. Silicon Valley is good at creating this kind of narrative, as author and co-founder of the Sacred Design Lab, Casper ter Kuile, notes:
“Venture capitalists are investing in companies that put community at the heart of their strategy.” As one VC wrote recently, “The 2020’s will belong to the entrepreneurs who can help build authentic communities.”
This is exciting stuff! Just imagine, a whole new generation of products and services that intentionally foster human connectivity! But can they live up to their promise? And isn’t it also a little scary?
Just as social networks, especially Facebook, used the language of friendship to describe the simple act of allowing our attention to be captured by someone's status update, we're already seeing the denigration of the word 'community.'
My team at Sacred Design Lab and I call this 'community-washing'. The language is inspired by the term 'greenwashing' - wherein companies claim environmental brownie points without changing anything significant in their operations. Think of oil and gas companies releasing ads featuring windmills and solar panels despite massively investing in fossil fuels, for example.
The danger with community-washing is two-fold.
- First, that we are promised community (a rich, complex experience) but what we get is a second-rate, emoji-enabled soulless product or service that never gets anywhere deep.
- And second - more dangerously - that the poverty of community experience that we experience through these products and services diminishes what we think is possible for community itself.
There are also stories and examples that we build together across differences and shared purpose in formal and informal ways. What do these types of actions and initiatives look like and reveal? In examining these constellations of stories we arrived at the beginnings of a typology of community that fits into a 2x2 matrix represented through formal/informal community and inclusive/exclusive community.
For example, your average, run-of-the-mill campground is representative of an informal, inclusive community. Anyone is welcome and boundaries of such a community are ever-changing as the campground becomes more or less inhabited.
A key point of revelation within our research is that so many of us are motivated by similar desires and fears in regards to how we wish to live our lives – and the act of finding our allies and conspirators in this work is of primary significance in activating change. This is why we are so excited to hold an inaugural Community Gathering in early February 2021 with 50 educators, organizers and activists, from a breadth and depth of overlapping and differing communities, who can be together in a peer-led space for true and necessary praxis of learning, connection and action.
Call to Action
How might we challenge and re-imagine our idea of community?
Our goal is to foster leadership and connectivity, to work across lines of difference, and to build social-civic muscles to engage in deep and difficult conversations in our neighborhoods, organizations, and institutions. Our essential question is: How might we challenge and re-imagine our idea of community? We’d love to hear from you. Drop us a line at [email protected], or join us for a Community Conversation on April 2, 2021, for a conversation about this research and lessons learned from our inaugural Community Gathering.
Read the full report, American Community Today.


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, Balta is in the south-western part of
(6 km), Guler (2 km) and Haripur (4 km) are the neighboring places. Palace of Dada Siba and
are the nearest attractions.
, at a distance of 10 km, is a perfect venue for angling.
Jwalamukhi Road Railway Station
Kangra Railway Station
are the nearest important rail junctions.
is the nearest airport.
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Minnesota Land Use/Cover: Recent (1969-present)
This page identifies modern land use/cover data and maps. Nationwide data sources are described in the first section followed by statewide sources and then regional and county sources. Note that the regional sources are usually more detailed than the state or national sources.
Quick-start comparison table: An overview of Minnesota land use/cover sources by geographic area, time period, scale/resolution, classification, and data type.
National Land Cover Data (NLCD)
NLCD 2019 offers land cover for years 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2019, along with impervious surface and impervious descriptor products updated to match each date of land cover. These products update all previously released versions of landcover and impervious products and are not directly comparable to previous products. Also included is the NLCD Land Cover Change Index which visualizes change from all 8 dates of land cover in a single layer.
- GAP Land Cover
The Gap Analysis Project creates land cover datasets as part of its mission to identify habitats that need further protection. Based on the same satellite imagery that is used for the National Land Cover Data described above, its classification is more detailed and places special emphasis on natural plant communities.
National GAP program overview from the USGS
- Upper Midwest GAP Image Processing Protocol (PDF) provides the details of the data set's creation; see Appendix A for the classification system.
GIS data from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- National GAP program overview from the USGS
- National Resources Inventory (NRI)
NRI is a statistically based survey that has been designed to assess conditions and trends of soil, water and related resources on non-federal lands in the United States. Initially, the Natural Resources Conservation Service conducted the inventory on a 5-year cycle (1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2001) but changed to an annual program starting in 2001. Data on land cover and use is one of the many attributes that NRI captures at more than 800,000 scientifically selected sample sites, of which more than 8,100 are in Minnesota.
More information on NRI, including statistical tables, reports and procedures for obtaining data
- More information on NRI, including statistical tables, reports and procedures for obtaining data
- Cropland Data Layer (CDL): U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service
This data emphasizes agricultural land cover and is produced using satellite imagery.
- Coastal Change Analysis Program, Regional Land Cover and Change:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
These nationally standardized, raster-based inventories cover coastal intertidal areas, wetlands, and adjacent uplands for the coastal U.S. Data are derived from the analysis of multiple dates of remotely sensed Landsat imagery. Data is available as individual dates of land cover and change files comparing one date to another. This 30-meter data is updated every five years using consistent procedures.
- LANDFIRE: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior
This multi-partner program produces consistent, comprehensive, geospatial data and databases that describe vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes.
"Existing vegetation" layers: vegetation type, canopy cover and height
- "Existing vegetation" layers: vegetation type, canopy cover and height
- Land Use / Land Cover (LULC): U.S. Geological Survey
The 21-class LULC data was based primarily on the manual interpretation of 1970s and 1980s aerial photography.
- 2013 Land Cover Classification and Impervious Surface Area by Landsat and Lidar
A 15-meter raster dataset created using a combination of multi-temporal Landsat 8 data and lidar data with object-based image analysis.
- 2000 and 1990 Level 1 Landsat Landcover Classification
Seven land cover types were derived via multitemporal, multispectral supervised classification of satellite imagery.
- 1990s Census of the Land
Eight categories were generalized from more detailed regional and county inventories (described below) to produce a statewide poster-size map (now out-of-print). Note that the detailed inventories were done at different time periods and used different classification systems.
- 1969: This statewide inventory classifies land use into 9 categories mapped at a 40-acre resolution.
- Agricultural and transition counties (1988-90)
- Forested counties (1991-96)
Twin Cities metropolitan area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington counties; MLCCS covers portions of these counties and also includes areas in some counties near the metro)
- Land Cover 2015: A 1-meter raster dataset created using a combination of 2015 FSA NAIP data, LiDAR, and other datasets, using object-based image analysis.
- Metropolitan Council: A variety of land use datasets are available from the Minnesota Geospatial Commons, including generalized land use for 2020, 2016, 2010, 2005 and 2000, historical generalized land use (2016, 2010, 2005, 2000, 1997, 1990 and 1984 combined), 1945 and 1959 residential land use, and planned land use.
- Metropolitan Council land use maps and reports
- Minnesota Land Cover Classification System (MLCCS): This data system was developed beginning in 1998 to categorize urban and built-up areas in terms of land cover rather than land use. The project is ongoing; check DNR's status maps for geographic areas that are completed, planned and proposed.
- Land Cover and Impervious Surface Area 2002: Map and statistics; also available for 1998, 1991, and 1986. Statistics are available by county, city and township.
- Land Cover Change Classification project: This project evaluates the potential for satellite remote sensing for land cover classification and change analysis (Landsat, 1991 and 1998). The website contains maps, a viewer, statistics and a description of the project and is maintained by the University of Minnesota's Upper Midwest Regional Earth Science Applications Center.
- Duluth and Rochester (2015): 1-meter raster dataset created using a combination of 2015 FSA NAIP data, LiDAR, and other datasets, using object-based image analysis.
- Olmsted County (1992 and 2000)
- Clearwater and Beltrami Counties (1986)
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- "There is a big problem for Italy and big problem for Italy's lack of investment and the duration of the public finance situation," former Prime Minister of Italy Enrico Letta told CNBC at the Ambrosetti Workshop.
- Speaking at the Ambrosetti Workshop on the shores of Lake Como, Padoan told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick that "the issue of lost confidence is still hanging over the country."
- Italy slipped into recession when its economy contracted for the second consecutive quarter at the end of 2018.
Investors have lost confidence with Italy and its future remains uncertain, former prominent politicians in the country have told CNBC, taking aim at the current coalition government seated in Rome.
Former Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said the current Italian government has damaged confidence and investment into the southern European economy. Speaking at the Ambrosetti Workshop on the shores of Lake Como, Padoan told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick that "the issue of lost confidence is still hanging over the country."
Meanwhile, Enrico Letta, the former prime minister of Italy called it a "worrying situation." "There is a big problem for Italy and big problem for Italy's lack of investment and the duration of the public finance situation," Letta told CNBC at the Ambrosetti Workshop.
"I think it is a worrying situation with no ideas for the future from the present government. It is just redistribution with no idea on how to grow. The country will face the second quarter for the year very very hard," Letta said.
Both Letta and Padoan had prominent roles for their center-left Democratic Party during its time in power. In June last year, a coalition of the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement and the right-wing Lega took office following elections in March which resulted in a hung parliament.
Italy slipped into recession when its economy contracted for the second consecutive quarter at the end of 2018. Gross domestic product fell a quarterly 0.2% between October and December, following a 0.1% decline in the third quarter, and was up 0.1% on an annual basis, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported in January.
The present Italian government has often pointed out that the country's economy has been weakening since early 2017 and has recently been hit by a slowdown in Italy's main trading partners.
The coalition approved an expansionary budget in December aimed at heading off recession. The budget, which was watered down after European Commission said it would not lower Italy's high public debt, features a new income support scheme for the poor and allows people to retire earlier. It also slashes taxes for the self-employed.
However, Padoan told CNBC that these reforms haven't had much impact on the economy.
"They were badly implemented and added to the uncertainty. The net effect is the economy is entering recession and will stay there for some time," Padoan said.
Italy's public debt pile is 131% of its GDP, and at 2.3 trillion euros ($2.6 trillion) is the second largest in the euro zone.
Reports of Italy cutting its growth target have been in the news lately. Last week, Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore reported that the government is set to downgrade its GDP forecasts along with introducing a package to boost growth. Bloomberg on Thursday reported that Italy is set to cut its 2019 growth forecast from 1% down to just 0.1%.
"Italy has had a growth issue for about two decades now. It's just that it is becoming more acute in a world that is as uncertain as it is today with trade tensions, with all the complexity of politics in Europe," Laurence Boone, chief economist at thee OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) told CNBC in Italy.
"So it is really becoming to the fore. What we need to address first and foremost for Italy is really the growth and productivity issue as well as the inequality one," Boone said.
Meanwhile, Italian economic woes along with larger uncertainties around the world pushed the European Central Bank (ECB) to announce another series of cheap loans in March. The loans, aimed at stimulating bank lending is the third injection of stimulus of this kind from the ECB.


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Dwyane Wade after Heat’s win against Rockets: ‘I feel like we’ve turned a corner’
Five takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 101-99 win over the Houston Rockets (16-15) on Thursday at AmericanAirlines Arena.
1. The Heat’s defense continues to win it games. Miami (14-16) owns the league’s ninth-best defensive rating, allowing 106.4 points per 100 possessions this season. That top-10 defense limited a hot Rockets offense, which made an NBA record 26 threes the night before in a win over the Wizards, to 99 points on 35.4 percent shooting. It marked just the third time this season Houston has been held under 36 percent shooting.
“Consistency with it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said when asked what’s been going right for the team’s defense. “We’ve had stretches during the season where we’ve defended really well. We’ve been basically a top-10 defensive team all year long, but we’ll have a great performance holding somebody under 40 percent, then the next time it’s giving up 130 points at home with no rhyme or reason to it, so this is the first extended period of time where we’ve actually defended.”
After the Rockets made nine of their first 15 shots, they converted on just 20 of their final 67 shots (29.9 percent). Miami really tightened up in the second half, as Houston hit just 11 of its 41 shots (26.8 percent) over the final two quarters.
The Heat is now 8-1 this season when holding its opponent under 100 points. An even more indicative stat of the Heat’s gritty identity is its 4-4 record when shooting 40 percent or worse, with the rest of the NBA 9-105 this season when shooting that poorly from the field.
“I feel like our identity is trying to make it ugly,” said Heat guard Tyler Johnson, who finished with 19 points on 6-of-10 shooting. “A lot of teams aren’t used to that. So, I feel like in the three years that we’ve been here, we’ve had to win ugly a lot. In most of our games, we’re not running away with anything. It’s a two-point game, one-point game going down the stretch. It’s always been part of our identity.”
There might not be a team in the NBA that relies on its defense more to win games than the Heat.
2. We know the defense has to be good for the Heat to win most nights. But what’s been a hidden key to its winning formula? Offensive rebounds. And it played a big part in Thursday’s victory, as Miami outrebounded Houston 61-41. That advantage on the glass included 20 offensive rebounds for the Heat, which has become a strength this season. Miami is averaging the second-most offensive rebounds at 12.7 per game.
The offensive rebounds have helped create extra opportunities for an inefficient Heat offense that has the worst team shooting percentage in the league. Second-chance points have helped make up for some of those shooting struggles, with the Heat averaging the second-most second-chance points in the league at 15.8 per game. Miami’s success on the boards resulted in a 28-9 edge in that department against Houston.
While all of this takes a team effort, Derrick Jones Jr. has a played a big part. He finished with six offensive rebounds Thursday, and has now come up with five or more offensive rebounds in four of his past six games.
Center Hassan Whiteside also deserves some credit. He finished Thursday’s win with nine points and 17 rebounds, including six offensive boards. Whiteside turned in a strong fourth quarter, grabbing seven rebounds in six minutes in the period. It marked his first fourth-quarter minutes since a Dec. 2 home win over the Jazz.
“DJ and Bam [Adebayo], those athletic guys that are giving us opportunities, second, third. [Whiteside] came in in the fourth today, he got some big offensive rebounds,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. “We need that, we need those extra possessions. It’s great when we have the game where we’re making all our shots, but that’s not going to happen all the time.”
3. Jones continues to impress. The best stretch of his NBA career continued Thursday, as he finished with 15 points and eight rebounds off the bench in 27 minutes. The 21-year-old forward is averaging 10.3 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.2 steals and 1.5 blocks over his past six games. The Heat has outscored teams by 46 points with Jones on the court during this stretch.
“[Jones] is a game-changer,” said Josh Richardson, who recorded a team-high 22 points for the Heat. “He’s doing so much for us right now. He’s defending, he’s rebounding, he’s playing tough down the stretch, he’s in the game in the fourth quarter. And he just really started playing. When he’s flying through the air like that, people are looking around and then other guys are getting open lanes. So he’s a big help.”
After starting the season as a situational player, Jones has turned into an essential part of the Heat’s rotation with his ability to grab offensive rebounds and defend multiple positions with his elite athleticism. He’s now played in seven consecutive games and is averaging 22.6 minutes of playing time during that span. Jones’ emergence has come at the expense of Wayne Ellington, who played just five minutes against Houston.
4. Rockets point guard Chris Paul exited the game with 6:43 to play in the second quarter with a strained left hamstring and never returned, and the Heat took over from there. When Paul left, the Rockets led 45-37. Miami outscored Houston 64-54 the rest of the way.
The Rockets shot just 28.8 percent from the field after Paul’s departure. His backcourt mate James Harden had a tough shooting night, as he finished with 35 points on 7 of 23 shooting from the field. With Harden missing shots and Paul out, Miami took advantage.
5. Don’t look now, but the Heat is in the middle of its longest winning streak of the season. Miami’s victory over Houston is its third consecutive win. That’s a mark the Heat had not reached over the first two months of the season, with four two-game win streaks the best it had done before Thursday.
“We know we can’t exhale,” Whiteside said. “Let’s keep our foot on the gas and let’s keep pushing. We’re going to keep coming in and getting better.”
The Heat has used long winning streaks over the past two seasons to make up for slow starts. In 2016-17, it was the famous 13-game streak that helped Miami dig itself out of a 11-30 hole. In 2017-18, it was a seven-game streak that helped it earn a playoff spot despite a 11-13 start.
Is the Heat in the middle of this season’s streak? Miami hasn’t just won three straight, it’s also won seven of its past 10 games. And eight of the Heat’s next 11 games come at home.


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This Roe Anniversary Reminds Us It’s About Us
On this Roe anniversary, one might feel down about the direction reproductive rights are headed. Most notably, there is a major case in front of the Supreme Court this Term that will determine whether states can make up crazy laws that target abortion clinics and providers with the goal of shutting them down. It’s pretty depressing that this case even had to go to the Supreme Court because the abortion clinic and providers lost at the lower court level.
I am usually the Debbie Downer in my office, which kind of makes sense given the ridiculous federal attacks on reproductive health that we fight on a daily basis (take your pick: the attempts to: defund Planned Parenthood, overturn a D.C. law that protects women from being fired for their reproductive health decisions, or impose a ban on abortion after 20 weeks). But on Roe day, I am not Debbie Downer about the state of reproductive rights. Nope. On this day, I am absolutely thrilled about its future.
Why the sudden turnaround?
Well, as part of the big abortion Supreme Court case this term, a bunch of women submitted amicus briefs stating for all to hear that they had an abortion. Take, for example, the amicus brief signed by 112 women in the legal profession [PDF] “who have exercised their constitutional right to an abortion.” Boom. This one makes a legal nerd’s heart swoooon. There are partners, law professors, staff attorneys, students, a former state supreme court justice, on and on. It’s awesome.
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There is an amazing brief filed by Advocates for Youth that includes a bunch of stories from a broad range of women who have had abortions [PDF]. They use their real names, tell their real stories. No story is the same, but they carry similar themes. And that’s what abortion is. It’s every woman’s own decision, for her own reasons. And when you read these stories, you are in awe. That these women are putting themselves out there because they care so much about other women’s access to abortion. I am humbled by them, their stories, their names.
These stories move me because we have a momentum going here. And I am inspired (if saddened that it had to get to this horrible state of affairs to necessitate these stories) because when you read these women’s names and their stories, you can’t deny how central the right to an abortion is to women’s lives – central to their dignity, to their equality, and to their economic security.
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Is Homosexuality An Unnatural Tendency? Debunking Myths About Homosexuality
Homosexuals are viewed with a suspicious eye in our society. A number of myths surround homosexuality, here's a list of the top 5 myths about the same.
Debunking myths about homosexuality
- Homosexuality is subjected to a lot of shame and disgust
- A persons sexual orientation is purely biological
- Criminalising homosexuality will not increase or decrease its incidence
So what is homosexuality, it is a disease, a mental illness or just a temporary phase that would just pass with time? Homosexuality is not anything that has been stated above!
We live in a society where homosexuality is subjected to a lot of shame and disgust and even today, it is regarded as a mental illness. Even today in some cultures of our society, homosexuals are taken to psychiatrists and mental hospitals and are given electric shocks, hormonal injections and are subjected to torture just so that they 'come back to a normal state'. Sad it is that our world is such an unfriendly and intolerant place to live in for people with a different sexual orientation.
Shouldn't sexual orientation be treated as a matter of choice? Shouldn't it be treated as normal? Well, they should be but that wouldn't be easy to digest for some sections of our society.
So here's a feed of the top five, most common myths around homosexuality and, the facts that are associated with them.
1. Homosexuality is a disease of the mind
'Your son is gay! He must visit a psychiatrist or a Baba to heal him from this illness.'
A person's sexual orientation is purely biological and a matter of personal choice. There is nothing absurd or incorrect with it. Scientific evidence shows that homosexuality is not a disorder and does not pose any threat to humanity whatsoever. It is just a form of sexual orientation as normal as heterosexuality. Hence, it must not be treated as an illness or a disorder of the mind.
2. Homosexuality will disturb marriages
Some people feel that homosexuality will disturb the male female ratio and the number of marriages taking place will decrease. Criminalising homosexuality will not increase or decrease its incidence. The institution of family and having kids will not get disturbed due to homosexuality. All that is required is acceptance.
3. It is a result of western influence
Some groups tend to believe that gay and lesbian nature is actually coming from the western regions of the world. But here's a question, how can someone badger a person's sexual orientation in the name of his or her nationality? And even if you can, this uncultured and traditionally unacceptable tendency is actually mentioned in ancient scriptures like Manusmriti, Arthashastra and Kamasutra, then why do people consider it as an influence from the west? Indian mythology has a number of references of people engaging in homosexuality. Sex is just sex; it does not have any specifications of natural or unnatural.
4. Homosexuality is the result of sexual perversion
Sexual perversion is a form of non-consensual sex. It is not subject to sexual orientation of a person. Hence, if a person is homosexual and is engaging in consensual sex, it cannot be termed as an act of or a form of perversion. In some cases, homosexuality may not involve a sexual component hence eliminating all aspects of perversion. It is just a form of affection and love for a person of the same sex. When a person holds affection for another person, it must not be termed as an act of perversion.
5. Homosexuality is a tendency
Spiritual Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar recently stated in a lecture at the Jahawarlal Nehru University New Delhi, that 'homosexuality is a tendency'. When a student asked him what he should do about being abused at home and elsewhere for being gay, the spiritual leader told him that this is just a tendency and it shall pass too.
He explained that the boy should feel good about him and accept this tendency. This is a phase and it shall pass. During this speech, the word 'normal' was used for straight or heterosexual people. But is homosexuality really a tendency?
For this comment, the spiritual leader received a negative response from Sonam Kapoor who tweeted, "Homosexuality is not a 'tendency' it's something you are born as and is absolutely NORMAL. To tell someone you can change is irresponsible."
Why is homosexuality viewed with a suspicious eye in our society? If it really was unnatural, it would not have existed in the first place. Think about it...
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