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Dr. Kjersti Aagaard received the 2023 Translational Impact Award from the Society of Toxicology for advancing our understanding of how key exposures during pregnancy, including environmental chemicals, impact fetal development and disease later in life.
The award is presented to a scientist whose research has improved human and/or public health in an area of toxicological concern.
“I am very grateful for this award. It is incredibly meaningful because it raises awareness of the science and clinical issues which accompany environmental health research in pregnancy,” said Dr. Aagaard, a maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) specialist and professor and vice chair of research in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “Our lab is dedicated to understanding what exposures during pregnancy, whether they are environmental chemicals, nutrition, drugs, or maternal comorbidities like diabetes and hypertension, mean for the lifelong health and trajectory of the mother and her child.”
A physician-scientist for now more than two decades, Dr. Aagaard’s clinical and translational research interests focus on the role of the microbiome and epigenome in pregnancy and early developmental programming, and understanding the developmental origins of health and disease. Research from her lab has yielded groundbreaking advances in medicine and science.
“The underlying premise of our work is to understand the molecular mechanisms which we and others have identified as exposure-specific changes to our epigenomes and our microbiomes. Early on, we felt that if we knew what exposures were driving which specific alterations and modifications, then we could use those to predict subsequent changes to our kiddos’ metabolism, immunity and development years later. That ability to measure a more proximal event and reliably tie it the onset of a disease like diabetes gives us targets for intervention and disease mitigation. We felt that would really make a difference to both personalized or precision medicine, as well as population health,” explained Dr. Aagaard.
Recently, her team studied the impact of proximity to superfund sites and the links between maternal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and the risk for preterm birth. “We have some idea of the key regulatory molecules that are altered and changed, and what mechanisms underlie those changes,” she said.
Their research has also raised awareness of environmental justice and how vulnerable communities disproportionately experience environmental chemical exposures, noted Dr. Aagaard. “We do this work out of a love for our field of obstetrical medicine and our passion for discovery science, and a deep shared belief that all of us deserve to live healthy lives.”
“I’m humbled by this toxicology award. And pleased that the world seems to be coming around and caring as much about pregnancy today as I did three decades ago when I first entered this field. The more folks who are interested in the science and medicine of pregnancy, the more likely we are to answer the many questions which really matter to the health and well-being of our world.”

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Afghan Flag Raises Above Khan Neshin
2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade
Story by Cpl. Aaron Rooks
KHAN NESHIN, Afghanistan - The Afghan national flag was raised above Khan Neshin castle in the Rig District Center July 8 for the first time, signaling the arrival of Afghan governance in the southern reaches of Helmand province.
Khan Neshin and the areas south of the Helmand River have never experienced the sustained presence of coalition forces or Afghan national security forces, until now, seven days after the beginning of Operation Khanjar.
"The number one question we get from the people is, 'when are you leaving?'" said Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, commanding general of Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan. "The answer is we're not leaving until the transition for security is made to the provincial government, to include the Afghan forces."
Afghans from the local populace came to Khan Neshin shortly after the flag was raised, where they heard statements from Helmand Gov. Gulab Mangal and newly-appointed Rig District Gov. Massoud Jan. Dozens of locals then gathered around a large courtyard within the district center to sign up for voting in the upcoming national elections.
"Look at them," said Gen. Muhaidin, brigade commander, 3rd Afghan National Army Brigade, 205 Corps, gesturing toward the crowd. "Now they know that the government is here and they have security. [The Afghans] have hope, that's why they're here."
B-roll of U.S. Marines and the Afghan national army occupying the Khan Nechion castle in south Helmand Province. Scenes include a firefight between Marine and Afghan army soldiers against insurgents, various views of the castle, a Marine Corps bulldozer that hit an improvised explosive device (IED) and interviews with Marines discussing entering the Khan Nechion castle and surviving a IED explosion.
• Pfc. Ryan Martin of Tracy, CA.
• Cpl. Wilfredo Jimenez of Laredo, TX.
• Cpl. Markus Hillman of Ann Arbor, MI.
• Cpl. Derrick Unitaowski of Slippery Rock, PA. (Who says what his parents "don't know won't hurt them". Well... they know now, Cpl!)
And finally, a podcast interview with Brig. Gen. Nicholson from Afghanistan via @MarineCorpsNews.
See also: Life with the Marines in Helmand (photos) and Op Khanjar (photos).


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Ripple, one of the most important companies in the cryptocurrency industry, said Monday evening that the Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to file a bombshell lawsuit against the company over the alleged sale of unlicensed securities.
That fall, Mehta delivered a bombshell with anonymous Jets players ripping quarterback Tim Tebow.A divisive Jets reporter, accused of bullying, loses his place on the beat|Ben Strauss|December 11, 2020|Washington Post
Ruby is the chocolate world’s newest bombshell, eliciting strong reactions, defying conventions and capturing everyone’s attention.Glam up gluten-free amaretti with a ruby chocolate dip|Rose Wilde|December 2, 2020|Washington Post
That could create a bombshell of sorts, depending on how the topic comes up.How do you explain your resume gap in a COVID job market?|Kristine Gill|September 25, 2020|Fortune
Elsewhere, the banking sector is under fire for bombshell revelations disclosed over the weekend in the “FinCEN files.”COVID lockdown fears and bank woes slam the global markets|Bernhard Warner|September 21, 2020|Fortune
Another bombshell: There is no statute of limitations on rape in the Commonwealth of Virginia.I Was Gang Raped at a UVA Frat 30 Years Ago, and No One Did Anything|Liz Seccuro|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now that Lohan is no longer an A-list celebrity, he washed his hands clean of the redheaded bombshell.
And instead of choosing to drop the Thor bombshell at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, Marvel revealed the change on The View.DC Comics’ Diversity Crisis: Why the Status Quo Rules|Liz Watson|July 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In addition, the blond bombshell-ish McCarthy never connected with the largely female audience to which The View is pitched.Massacre at ‘The View’: Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy Reportedly Fired|Lloyd Grove|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A monumental political bombshell, his obscene downfall was a cinematic gimme, sure to set screenwriter hearts aflutter.French Political Sex Movie About DSK Sets Cannes Aquiver|Tracy McNicoll|May 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Had a bombshell fallen into the midst of the ladies of the harem, they could not have been more surprised.Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks|Bracebridge Hemyng
It was not that, however, which brought their hilarity to an end, abrupt as though a bombshell had burst in their midst.The Vee-Boers|Mayne Reid
If a bombshell had exploded under his feet our middy could hardly have been taken more by surprise.The Middy and the Moors|R.M. Ballantyne
He describes this vigorous polemical treatise as "flung like a bombshell among my opponents."
Had a bombshell been exploded among the fossilized professors it had been less disturbing.Pioneers of Science|Oliver Lodge
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Turquoise and Tanzanite
All of December’s birthstones are best known for their beautiful shades of blue. These gemstones range from the oldest on Earth to one of the first mined and used in jewelry, to one of the most recently discovered.
December’s birthstones are relatively inexpensive, but their beauty rivals even precious gemstones. Tanzanite often substitutes sapphire, and turquoise is unmatched in its hue of robin’s egg blue.


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Adding self-sustainability would make this perfect I reckon. There was a stage back after the last crash where whole neighbourhoods of houses were selling for $10k/house. That would have been the perfect timing to do such a thing too.
As much as we wish it weren’t so, friends will come and go. As circumstances change, friendships can dissipate. Childhood friends, for example, typically lose touch over time. When it comes to our adult friends, things like switching jobs or moving can cause a loss of connection. The fact is, situations change, and changes in friendships are going to happen.
However, this isn’t the case for a group of best friends in Texas. They wanted to ensure their friendship would last through time, so these 8 friends (4 couples) did just that by purchasing ten acres of land just outside of Austin, near the Llano River.
There, the “Llano Exit Strategy” became a reality as they created “Bestie Row,” a neighborhood all their own. As fans of the tiny house movement, this group of friends built their own community of small houses just for themselves.

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OAKLAND, CA — The four traffic lanes at the far right-hand side of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza will be closed from 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, until 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
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Four Lanes at Bay Bridge Toll Plaza to Close This Weekend for Installation of New Tolling Equipment
Bay Area Toll Authority Schedules San Francisco Hearing on Proposed Toll Hike for Earthquake Safety
OAKLAND, CA — The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) has added a fourth public hearing to receive public testimony on options for a proposed toll increase on the seven state-owned Bay Area toll bridges
Bay Area Toll Authority to Hold Public Hearings on Proposed Toll Hike for Earthquake Safety
OAKLAND, CA — The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) will host the first of three public hearings at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the Joseph P.
Bay Area Presented With Nearly $1 Billion Price Tag for Seismic Upgrades to Dumbarton and Antioch Bridges
Now that seismic upgrade work is complete or well under way on five of the Bay Area’s state-owned toll bridges, MTC’s Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) is turning its attention to the remaining two:


President Donald Trump on Friday denied instructing then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller, despite the special counsel finding evidence he did so — including via direct testimony from McGahn himself.
The president might have stirred a political hornets’ nest when he declared he answered questions “perfectly” about the deadly August 2017 protests in Charlottesville, Va., that were spawned by white supremacist groups rallying there. He claimed his comment that there were “good” people on both sides — a counter-protester was killed — was spot on, saying he was referring to the pro-white protesters who opposed taking down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
“People were there protesting the taking down of the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general, everybody knows that,” Trump said.
Several Democratic presidential candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden, have sharply criticized Trump for that remark. Biden made the Charlottesville violence and Trump’s reaction a central part of his Thursday campaign kick-off video.
Watch – Trump on Mueller report: ‘Nothing wrong with firing’
“I see what you get when you fire people. I never told McGahn to fire Mueller,” the president told reporters on the South Lawn as he left the White House for a speech at a NRA conference in Indianapolis.
But, the ever-defiant Trump, mindful of the Mueller report suggesting his attempts to remove Mueller could lead lawmakers to conclude it was an attempt to obstruct justice, also claimed this: “We had the absolute right to. I’m a student of history.”
“If I wanted to fire Mueller, I would have done it myself,” the president said. “I had the right to.”
Since the Mueller report was released in redacted form, the president, top White House aides and external surrogates have denied that Trump ever demanded Mueller be fired.
But the special counsel interviewed former White House Counsel Don McGahn for over 30 hours. And the former White House lead attorney provided details of what he claims were direct orders to oust Mueller.
“On Saturday, June 17, 2017, the President called McGahn and directed him to have the Special Counsel removed,” according to the report, citing the Mueller team’s interviews with McGahn, who left the White House last fall.
“In interviews with this Office, McGahn recalled that the President called him at home twice and on both occasions directed him to call [Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein] and say that Mueller had conflicts that precluded him from serving as Special Counsel,” the Mueller report said.
McGahn told the special counsel’s team that Trump told him to “‘Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can’t be the Special Counsel.’”
McGahn admitted that the exchanges left him “worn down” and during the second call he “just wanted to get off the phone.” He said he felt “trapped,” and eventually informed Trump’s chief of staff at the time, Reince Priebus, he planned to step down.
Why? Because he had grown uncomfortable with Trump asking him to do “crazy shit,” according to testimony Priebus gave to Mueller’s team. Ultimately, McGahn was talked out of quitting by Priebus and others.
The president also weighed in on Biden jumping into the 2020 presidential race, saying, “I think we beat him easily.” But head-to-head polls show Biden leading a hypothetical Trump-Biden general election.
In a swipe at Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Trump said the Democratic 2020 field is “making me look very young, both in terms of age, and I think in terms of energy.”
“I’m so young. … I am a young, vibrant man,” said the 72-year-old POTUS. Biden is 76-years-old and Sanders is 77-years-old; Trump considers both legitimate threats in a potential general election fight.
Meantime, the president broke with some conservatives who are anti-vaccine amid a Measles outbreak.
“They have to get their shots,” he said. “It’s very important.”


As Spain rethinks its commitment to industrial wind, Gamesa looks to expand in the U.K. This graphic accompanied a Times story on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2010, by Robert Lea.
460 [Gamesa] turbines currently installed offshore
1.3 gigawatts of power capacity operational off the coast of Britain
6,000: the expect number of Round 3 turbines
Gamesa’s 7 megawatt wind turbine will be 125 metres in diameter – about the diameter of the London Eye.
The turbine will sit on a tower 110 metres high – about the height of St Paul’s.
It will weight about 300 tonnes – the weight of an Airbus A340.
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Dani Speegle will be going to the CrossFit Games (pending video review of 19.1 and 19.3). Speegle, one of the rising stars in the sport finished 5th worldwide in the CrossFit Open. She has also competed in three Sanctional events so far, but this weekend she will make it her fourth.
Speegle will be in Washington, D.C., this weekend to compete in the Mid-Atlantic CrossFit Challenge (MACC). It is the first Sanctional following the Open this season and there will likely be much less pressure than her previous three Sanctionals.
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It begins TODAY! #gamestraining #roadtothegames • • •throughout this season I’ve made the mistake of rushing back into training after events and I found myself burnt out, exhausted -both mentally and physically – and I struggled to keep intensity in my training. Not this time. After the open I took time off to relax and recover. I spent time with amazing friends, ate too much food, got too much sun, slept a lot, and did stuff outside of the gym. • • •we’re about 4 months out from the @crossfitgames and I feel ready for the training to change. I feel ready to attack my workouts again. I feel ready to pour everything I have into these next 4 months. See you soon Madison. ✊🏼 #trainlikedelle #crossfit #delleathletics • • 📸 👉🏼 @furyphotography @bornprimitive
Heading into the weekend, Speegle is the favorite to win. After two 5th place finishes and a 3rd place finish at previous Sanctional events, Speegle will be squaring off against CrossFit Games veterans Meg Reardon, Paige Semenza and multi-year Regional athletes like Kristine Best, and Katie Trombetta.
While Speegle is the favorite to win, her Open finish means that an invite to the CrossFit Games will go to the next best finish. To make things even more interesting, Kristine Best finished in the top 20 of the Open and Katie Trombetta is just one spot away from getting an invite via the Open. Trombetta is two spots below the “blue” line, but would be next in line to qualify if an athlete declines their invite. Trombetta would get an invite if Tasia Percevecz declines her invite and officially goes team.
Assuming both Best and Trombetta are in, it will come down to the next best finish. That could mean 2016 Games athlete Meg Reardon or 2017 veteran Paige Semenza could receive an invite to the Games. Reardon and Semenza will have to fend off Amanda Hardeman, Sarah Scholl and Paige Henry, all Regional athletes.
The MACC begins Friday, April 12.
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Lizzy Borden Interview
LIZZY BORDEN INTERVIEW:
October 11, 2010
Websites: www.lizzyborden.com – www.myspace.com/lizzybordenband
Interviewer: Dirk Ballerstadt
My entire life, I wanted to meet one of the idols from my wild teenage years, and for me it was mostly musicians from bands that rocked the Los Angeles scene in the glory years between 1981 and 1992. Sometimes, if you want something so bad, that little dream can come true many years later… and on a day you least expect it.
Back in 1983, there was a sampler named ‘Metal Massacre’, released by an independent record label called Metal Blade — and on that vinyl there was thesong “Rod Of Iron” by an unknown band named Lizzy Borden… a shocking and theatrical melodic power metal act from the fast growing rock scene of Los Angeles. Besides their classic songs, for me it was “Love You To Pieces” that rocked me the most because of its high and clear singing style and the attitudeof Hannibal Lecter or Freddy Krueger going opera. Lizzy Borden regularly released an album per year until the epic masterpiece ‘Master Of Disguise’ hit the record stores in 1989, when the band consisted of singer Lizzy, drummer/brother Joey Scott and several guest musicians. After close to eight years apart (and eleven years after the ‘Master Of Disguise’ CD) they came back with ‘Deal With The Devil’ in 2000 before another break. The band released their last recording ‘Appointment With Death’ in late 2007, a horror-meets-metal two-fists-in-your-face album that showed that some L.A. bands survived it all.
This summer Lizzy Borden toured Europe with performances on big festivals such as Wacken (Germany), Alcatraz (Belgium), Leyendas del Rock (Spain), Elsrock Festival (Netherlands) and Stockholm Rock Out Festival (Sweden) and also did some club shows throughout Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. During one of those gigs, in my hometown of Berlin, they did a fantastic show in a smaller club that was as big as Lizzy’s living-room… or the cellar from the movie Silence Of The Lambs. After the show and the meet-and-greet with the fans, Lizzy Borden took some time to talk with Sleaze Roxx.
Sleaze Roxx: What was it like being in a band during the beginning of the west coast metal explosion back in the early 1980’s, and how was the so calledfamous L.A. scene?
Lizzy Borden: Back in 1983, as I formed the band with my brother Joey (drums), there was more unity between the bands in L.A. We played a show together– for example on a six-bands-a-night-battle — and after the show we all had a beer, discussed when that bass player joined what band and so on.Most of the bands knew each other. We were all a part of the L.A. rock scene with all the Hollywood clubs and bands that wrote good songs.
It was an exciting time back when we had that song “Rod Of Iron” on the sampler called ‘Metal Massacre’ by Metal Blade Records, then released our first EP ‘Give ‘Em The Axe’ before we came out with first full-length LP ‘Love You To Pieces’. Until that time we were the greatest local act in Los Angeles before we started touring nationwide with the following records ‘Menace To Society’ and ‘Visual Lies’, but every time when we returned to L.A. periodically we gave shows in our hometown and sold them out. It was a great time.
What I probably miss the most of these times is… the unknown. As a young band you’re lucky to play a 600 or 700 seat club and dream about performingat arenas or festivals, so you climb up with every little success. And with every further step everything’s new to a young band as we were.I wrote the song “American Metal” in 1983 and the L.A. scene was totally different, then in 1987 a lot of bands immigrated to Los Angeles to havea little piece of the glam-metal cake — standing on Sunset Strip Blvd. and posting their band flyers in front of the hottest clubs in town.You can watch all this in the film documentary ‘The Decline Of The Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years’ where we opened the movie with theSteppenwolf classic “Born To Be Wild” and it shows that we were always a theatrical band and have been for the last 27 years.
Sleaze Roxx: It was a wild time, and brings back lots of good memories, but is there a rock scene in L.A. today?
Lizzy Borden: It’s not really a scene anymore. We have clubs like the Key Club or the House Of Blues, but no club scene or circuit like it used to be in the 1980’s.We play more shows all over the US and do only headliner shows in L.A. with a package of bands to draw more people and get the costs under control.That’s why festivals are so popular and also successful in handling the costs.
Sleaze Roxx: Around 1992 Lizzy Borden broke up and for a couple years… I missed your band being around. What was it like in the 1990’s?
Lizzy Borden: After the release of ‘Master Of Disguise’ in 1989, more my project than a band project, I did some touring. The album did well, but the videos for that record, “Love Is A Crime” and “We Got The Power”, were banned from MTV and around that time it was important to get a video on the air.We had a break, then in 1993 we formed that punk metal band Diamond Dogs, but released no records and didn’t tour. Then we reunited in the late 1990’s, around 1997, and did some shows in 1999 and then recorded the comeback album ‘Deal With The Devil’ which lead us to the next level in the band’s history, and then did some touring throughout the world.
For the 1990’s, it was a bad time for metal but a great decade for the world. Then there was something missing in rock entertainment that the ’90s did not have… no rockstars and no big shows.And eventually the people got tired of not being entertained and that door opened again as bands like Kiss and Iron Maiden once again played with those bigger stageproductions.Then there was another break, and in 2004 we formed a hard rock piece called Starwood and released an album named’If It Ain’t Broke, Break It’ before doing another reunion in 2006 and bringing Lizzy Borden back finally with the latest output ‘Appointment With Death’ in 2007.
Sleaze Roxx: Is it hard for an artist to watch the old fans go crazy when you’re playing the classic songs like “Red Rum”, “American Metal”, “Give ‘Em The Axe”,”Me Against The World”, or “Master Of Disguise”, and when you play the new tunes they go “…oh… okay”?
Lizzy Borden: Exactly. With ‘Appointment With Death’, when the first single came out, “Tomorrow Never Comes”, we had some airplay on MTV and finally gotnominated for video of the year (Heavy Metal) and our next single, “Under Your Skin”, was also highly aired on MTV and younger metal fansdiscovered us and so we mix old and new songs in the songlist. But yes, the classics are the songs the fans want to hear and more and morekids see us on festivals like Sweden Rock, Wacken or Balingen and get in touch with Lizzy Borden and to them it’s like, “Wow, I heard about that band who played 20 years ago, like Motley Crue or so, and they’re still around”. It is their kind of rock rebellion like we allhad when we were kids. And it’s hard to say to the old fans, but it’s judged by the sales of our t-shirts after the shows… small or medium sizes are sold out on the recent tour.I think it is a phenomena that belongs to all bands who are in the music biz now, and then… like Kiss or Iron Maiden, and so is Lizzy — 27 years around!
Sleaze Roxx: How was touring Europe in 2010 and how were the fans?
Lizzy Borden: We had good experiences because of touring over Europe the past few years. Because with performing on big festivals like Balingen or Wacken in Germany,Sweden Rock, or Leyendas del Rock in Spain, you can reach so many people… you can’t get that from playing in clubs. But we do also like to play the clubs onour days off and have that intimate contact with the fans… face to face, you know?
The European fans waited so long to see Lizzy Borden live on stage, back in the ’80s record companies gave no support for touring Europe becauseit was so expensive. Now it’s a bit different when the bands keep their eyes on the money. Every night I hear how the old fans missed us playing in their countries, so this time, aside from the festivals, we play smaller clubs so that the fans can party hardy with us.I just love my job when I hear that fans travel a long way to come to our shows and see what Lizzy Borden is all about… the Murderess Metal Road Show from 1985 transferred into 2010 and so we brought the blood back!Touring Europe is so cool, because travelling by bus you can see a lot of the places we play and we do have spare time to do sightseeing… to me it’s country-hopping, I love that.
Sleaze Roxx: It’s time to focus a little on upcoming plans, what comes next?
Lizzy Borden: In November we are going to tour Japan and after that probably South America and Europe again.Right now we are writing material for the next album being released in 2011, and it’s gonna be more song orientated and I wanteach individual song to really have something to say. I always like to sing about the darker side of life — it’s just more interesting to me than… happy things.And through all the years, and after several recordings, I can say I’m a better singer and a betterperformer than back in the ’80s because I’m more open-minded to all different styles of music and my way of singing.Nowadays I’m able to sing more the full range and it sounds good to me. And when you want to know the reason for my high and clear singing… it’s the P.A. system of my band that is much too loud that I have to sing over (laughs).And back to the new songs… all I want is to come out with the record of our lives!


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It has been reported by PWInsider that WWE is considering changing the name of the WWE UK Championship. If the name is changed, it will likely be to NXT UK Championship.
This would be done to keep the title more in line with the other titles on the brand. Currently it is the only title in NXT UK without NXT in the name. The NXT UK Women’s Championship and the NXT UK Tag Team Championships both share the name of their brand.
The WWE UK Championship was created prior to the launch of the NXT UK brand. Now, it appears that the company will be rectifying the name of the main title on the show.
The title is currently held by WALTER. He won the championship from Pete Dunne at NXT Takeover: New York last April.
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- WWE Champion Predicts His Reign Will Surpass Roman Reigns’ Title Run
- SmackDown Star Teases Big Change For WWE Draft
- Uncertainty About Injured WWE Star’s In-Ring Return
- New WWE Tag Team Revealed?
- WWE Stars Send Emotional Messages To Released Talent
- Released WWE Star Called ‘Comeback King’ After Departure

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“I believe in the power of design to shape human experience and transform services, organizations, and communities”.
Vivian is a product designer graduated from Product Design, Faculty of Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung, particularly interested in design for social innovation including service design, design thinking, system thinking, management design, and business design. Born in Jakarta and raised in Bogor, she loves to listen to the stories people have to tell, to find out how they negotiate their roles and relationships in life. She always finds inspiration from travelling, cooking, and reading non-fiction books.
Since 2012, she was involved in the community activities and services. Vivian is passionate about social design projects and aspires to be a social innovation design expertise, working to solve humanity problem and empowering the right economic value for the people. Her works related to inclusive design and sustainability.
Her designer role models are Dieter Rams and Singgih S. Kartono.
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Prepare for a flood of compliments on these sterling sliver stud earrings, each handmade with Bristol Blue Glass drops.
Internationally renowned for using traditional techniques, no moulds or machines are used at any point during the process.This means no matter how popular this product is, you are guaranteed to have a unique piece of jewellery unlike any other.
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This sweet little squinting crochet owl travelled with us for years to different locations and finally we decided to release the crochet kit. The pattern for the crocheted owl was designed a long time ago by our crochet friend Kim van Oekimoeki and recently revived. With this kit you can crochet an Amigurumi owl and have fun at the same time. The crochet pattern is easy to follow, but not suitable for absolute beginners!
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2 x 50g. Eco Barbante Lima
1 x 50 g. Eco Barbante Popcorn
8-meter white Eco Barbante
1,5-meter black Eco Barbante
Crochet hook 4 mm (US size 6)
Please note: Our pattern uses UK crochet terms.
UK = US
Double Crochet (dc) = Single Crochet (sc)
Half Treble (htr) = Half Double (hdc)
Treble (tr) = Double Crochet (dc)

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The ACT has recorded 15 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases.
There are five people in hospital with the virus, including two people in intensive care – one person requires ventilation.
93.6 per cent of Canberrans aged 12 and over have now received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
There are currently 141 active cases of COVID-19 in the territory.
Cluster grows at Wanniassa School
The junior campus of Wanniassa School in Canberra's south has been closed due to a growing COVID-19 cluster.
An individual was unknowingly infectious with COVID-19 while at the school campus or at the out of hours school care service from Monday to Friday last week, and on November 2.
"I can confirm that we have 17 cases linked to the emerging cluster at the Wanniassa School junior campus," ACT Chief Health Officer Kerryn Coleman said.
"We also know that we have more than 120 close contacts from the Wanniassa School junior campus, who are we working with at the moment."
Dr Coleman also said the children affected did have COVID-19 symptoms.
"I'm aware that the majority of children are symptomatic," she said.
"So this isn't an example of where the majority are asymptomatic — so that hits my plea around getting children tested when they're unwell."
ACT Health advised anyone who has been on the school's junior campus since Monday, October 25 to get tested and quarantine until they receive a negative result.
ACT Health also said it was working closely with the Education Directorate to provide support to staff and students.
"We know we can't keep COVID out of schools. But what we know is that we can minimize the impact as far as possible."
Over the border in NSW, Queanbeyan Public School has also been closed after a member of the school community tested positive for COVID-19.
All staff and students have been asked to self-isolate until they receive further advice.
The school will remain closed while contract tracing and cleaning is carried out.
Travel restrictions ease but 14-day vaccination clause stands
On Monday, travel restrictions in the ACT eased.
Vaccinated travellers are now permitted to enter the ACT for any reason.
But unvaccinated travellers coming from high-risk geographical areas are only permitted to enter the ACT for an essential purpose.
Among those considered "unvaccinated travellers" by the ACT government are people who have received their second vaccine dose within a 14-day window of travelling.
Anyone who has had their second shot within the past fortnight, and who has travelled to a high-risk location, is subject to stay-at-home orders and testing requirements upon arrival in the ACT, as per other unvaccinated people.
This morning, Dr Coleman refuted the suggestion that communication around this requirement was unclear.
"If it's not [clear on the ACT's COVID-19 website] we will look at making sure that it is even clearer.
"I think it is a relatively small number of people who are impacted across the whole population."
By early afternoon, the government's website was updated to include a line on the travel advice page that states:
In order to be considered fully vaccinated you must have received your final vaccination dose at least 14 days before your proposed date of travel.
Everyone entering the ACT from a high-risk location must complete an exemption form — with exemption documentation automatically approved for fully vaccinated travellers.
Travellers under 12 years of age will be asked to comply with the same requirements that apply to their parents or guardians depending on their vaccination status.
High-risk areas, which at the moment include parts of Victoria and New South Wales, will be listed on the COVID-19 website.


ATLANTA - Georgia's Republican governor said Wednesday that changes to federal health care law proposed by his party in Congress shouldn't "punish" the 19 states that refused to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Gov. Nathan Deal said he's not certain yet that the package backed by congressional Republicans and the White House will do that. But he wants states that didn't expand, like Georgia, to be considered as the proposal moves toward a House vote, not just states that ultimately accepted broader Medicaid coverage offered under former President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
"What we're finding out is what I knew all along: When you give somebody something for nothing, it's going to be very difficult to take it away," Deal said. "And that's what is happening in those states that expanded their Medicaid rolls."
Deal said he still doesn't regret refusing Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. He has argued that it was too expensive long term because the federal government committed to paying the entire cost of expansion for three years, before dropping to 90 percent starting in 2020.
Deal's administration hasn't released any estimates on the effect of House Republicans' plan in Georgia since Monday's release of a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. But it's clear that the plan will mean less federal money for states over time.
The report said the GOP plan would lead to 24 million Americans losing health care coverage over the next decade, without providing details for individual states. Based on Georgia's population and current Medicaid enrollment totals, it's reasonable to estimate that 450,000 people would be without private health insurance and 300,000 people could lose Medicaid coverage by 2026, said Bill Custer, a professor of health administration at Georgia State University.
Under the proposed health care bill, states would be reimbursed a fixed rate per Medicaid enrollee rather than a percentage of a state's total expenses. The per-enrollee would be locked in, and Georgia's current figure is among the lowest by state.


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A primary school has withdrawn its availability as a polling station because of ‘serious concerns’ over pupil safety.
School bosses from Peel Park School in Accrington blamed past incidents of adults ‘wandering into school’ from the polling station as well as moving playground barriers for the decision.
The school, on Alice Street, was critcised at a town hall meeting for withdrawing its availability for election polling.
Speaking at a meeting of Hyndburn’s full council, Huncoat councillor Dave Parkins launched an
attack on the decision.
He said: “I would just like to say that I am more than disappointed in Peel Park school. There were a lot of people from the area that used to vote when they picked their kids up.
“It is now going to be a good hard struggle for them. I would have thought the school would have come to the council to explain themselves. I am very disappointed in the head of Peel Park school.”
A replacement mobile station will now be erected around a quarter of a mile away from the school at Taskers on Queens Road for future elections.
Speaking after the meeting, the school’s headteacher Judith Williams defended the decision and said the school had offered an alternative, including a mobile polling station on the car park.
She said: “We have always tried hard to accommodate the needs of the council over many years in acting as a polling station. The governors of our large school have serious concerns about safeguarding and keeping the children safe, as there have been instances of adults wandering into school from the polling section and moving the barriers in the Year 5/6 yard.
“Members of the public have also struggled and complained due to lack of disabled access and tried to use the ramped main entrance. There is also disruption to staff and lessons as they cannot deliver their normal curriculum timetable including use of alternative entrance/exit points on that day.
“To close the school on polling day would significantly inconvenience parents and further disrupt the children’s education.”
The move came after Hyndburn council was required to review its polling districts by the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013. Polling stations remained unchanged in most areas.

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Microsoft announced yesterday that its board of directors has approved a new $40 billion share repurchase program (via Business Insider). As the company's market capitalization reached $442,7 billion yesterday, this means that Microsoft will buy back roughly 9% of its own shares. This is not the company's first stock repurchase program as the company explained in a press release that it expects to complete a current $40 billion stock repurchase program by December 31, 2016.
Companies often use stock buybacks to deal with excessive cash and reward shareholders, by using some of that cash to repurchase outstanding stocks, making the remaining stocks more valuable. Dividend payouts is an alternative solution to do it, and Microsoft's board of directors also announced yesterday that it has agreed on a quarterly dividend of $0.39 per share, which represents an eight percent increase over the previous quarter's dividend. The company also announced that their annual shareholders meeting will be held on November 30, 2016.

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Filmmaker Judy Lieff chronicles a journey of self-realization for deaf teen Aneta Brodski, as she reveals her passions, frustrations, and sense of humor through her exploration of American Sign Language poetry. Unique among her deaf high school friends, Aneta longs to fully participate in the hearing world. Her artistry evolves within her ASL poetry group, and eventually she decides to compete in a spoken word poetry slam.
With ties to rap and hip hop culture, the U.S. National Poetry Slams for youth are widespread, but Aneta is among the first deaf teens to brave that highly verbal arena. The film captures her experiences as she conveys her inner self to hearing audiences.
In a remarkable twist of fate, Aneta, a deaf Israeli, meets and then collaborates with Tahani — a hearing Palestinian slam poet. They create a hearing/deaf duet touching on their shared personal and cultural experiences — generating a new form of slam poetry that speaks to both the hearing and the deaf.
Deaf Jam utilizes innovative techniques to convey the beauty of sign language poetry to hearing audiences. It is a three dimensional language that exists, like dance, in space. In the hands of a talented poet, shapes in relation to one another create the visually stunning equivalents of rhythm and rhyme.
Deaf Jam is a celebration of the beauty and power of American Sign Language poetry, a unique and endangered art form.
- Judy LieffProducer/Director
- Steve ZeitlinCo-Producer


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Bengaluru cops intensify probe into serial blasts
July 27, 2008 19:42 IST
Last Updated: July 27, 2008 19:50 IST
The investigation into the serial blasts in Bengaluru has intensified with the police on Sunday questioning an unknown number of people as the needle of suspicion still pointed towards banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India, with the crack team pursuing leads.
The Bengaluru police are also in touch with their Ahmedabad counterparts following reports that the blasts there on Saturday were similar in nature to that took place in Bengaluru a day earlier.
"We are anticipating a report from the Gujarat government," a senior police official said.
The crack team headed by Joint Commissioner of Police Gopal Hosur, entrusted with the task of uncovering the plot, is in the process of piecing together the clues.
Bengaluru police are leveraging on the expertise of the National Security Guards and forensic experts to pin down the perpetrators of the blasts.
The cement pots used in the explosions in Bengaluru has given rise to the argument that the perpetrators had "local support".
Unlike the Ahmedabad blasts, no group had so far claimed responsibility to the explosions in Bengaluru.
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said the time had come to put up a united face, irrespective of party affiliations, to put down acts of such nature.
He said the Centre should infuse strength in state governments to fight the menace of terrorism.
The state government is expected to make a statement on the ongoing investigation in the blasts case, in the sssembly which is in session.
Meanwhile, there were at least three hoax bomb calls in the day. One said a bomb had been planted near the house of Kannada actor Vishnuvardhan, another said it was at Garuda Mall and the third one said it was at K C General Hospital.
Senior police officials, including DGP R Srikumar, on Saturday night visited Channapatna in Ramanagara district, where a blast had taken place on July 24, but had largely gone unnoticed.
This blast was ignored because it was thought to be of no consequence and was believed to be part of quarrying or some other harmless purpose, according to police sources.
"Remnants from the spot have been taken. It was similar to the blasts that took place in Bengaluru on Friday. Ammonium nitrate was used there (channapatna)", a senior police official said.
Meanwhile, an elite expert team on explosives from the Centre met Yeddyurappa and held discussions with him, official sources said.
A team from the National Security Guards is already sharing its expertise with state police to crack the case.
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The Duke’s Daughters Series: A Sweet Regency Romance Boxset
by Rose Pearson
Genre: Historical Romance/Regency
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Five full-length Regency romance stories about the Duke of Westbrook’s four daughters. Pushed into marrying to secure their future, each daughter’s path to love and marriage is filled with obstacles, misunderstanding, and sometimes, danger! The fifth book is the prequel to the series and follows the future Duke of Westbrook and future wife, and shows how love is powerful motivator for change.
A Rogue for a Lady – The story of Amelia, the eldest daughter, as she navigates her way through the London marriage mart and finds that the man she wants has secrets he is too ashamed to tell. A scheming cousin, blackmail and family responsibilities push Amelia into a spiral of confusion and a sense of betrayal. When all is finally revealed, she must decide what to do with the man who holds her heart – and choose whether love can forget the sins and mistakes of the past.
My Restless Earl – Jessica, a free spirited woman, who doesn’t want to marry and prefers to continue with her life at her father’s country estate. But George, a military man, catches her eye, and love starts to creep into their hearts. A dastardly betrayal put her life in danger. Can she and George manage to save her and find true love?
Rescued by an Earl – Jacintha is a beautiful woman who prefers to to sit out from the dances and watch other people. She knows she must marry but she still remembers the close friendship she had with her childhood friend, Harry. But Harry is a rake and thus she allows Lord Slate to court her. Can Harry reform in time to save her from a disastrous marriage or worse?
In the Arms of an Earl – The youngest daughter, Harmonia, is sweet and sensible. She thought she would take care of her father as he grew old but he insists she must marry as well! Perhaps she will marry her distant cousin, Luke? When she meets blue-eye Phillip, a newly-instated earl, she falls for him quickly. But is Phillip a gentleman or a rake? What about her father’s wish for her to marry Luke? Harmonia can’t avoid a tricky path to a love-filled future, just like her sisters!
The Reluctant Marquess – Marquess Hugh Seaworth is far too busy enjoying himself in London to think about matrimony. The future duke is quite put out by his father’s request to sponsor the daughter of an old friend, Miss Molly Newton, for a London season and help her find a husband. The more he becomes involved with Miss Newton, the more he discovers that it is not only his mind that is caught up with her – it is his heart. Miss Newton, however, shows no inclination towards him and, when one of her suitors proposes, Hugh finds himself caught between his duty and his heart. Which one will win out in the end?

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Mrs Jones says that they had previously taken out small credits from their house banks, but the banks had limited the amount of money available to them and thus limited their possibilities. "The Circle was so much simpler and gave us everything we needed on-line. Finance Technologies (fintech) supports small businesses in many ways, from advanced bookkeeping tools to finance administration, assurance and business valuationservices.
According to a recent Business Insider Intelligence survey, small companies have been undersupplied by small companies because they are generating less revenues than bigger companies. However, Finnish technology suppliers are able to find ways to provide even the smallest companies with a profitable service. Suzanne Chishti, Managing Director of the financing group FINTEC Circle, says that these new instruments will help companies devote much more attention to the growth of their business than to dealing with pecuniary problems.
Among the most far-reaching changes is the small business finance system, especially as the competition authority's open regulations came into effect in January. The purpose of these is to make it easier for the nine largest UK financial institutions to exchange information with other companies, giving financial start-ups a fairer way of accessing their clients.
Prior to Open banking, when a new company in Finance wanted to work with a financial institution to create a solution, they had to take several time-consuming and demanding steps, such as winning agreement from purchasing team. Mrs Chishti says this will move controls from the big houses to the big ones and strengthen the small businesses.
So, will new financial institutions be hurting Fintech's bank? It is believed that large financial institutions would end up "dying by a thousand cuts" as they were progressively superseded by a large number of finishtech applications, says Ms Chishti. Rather than cross cutting knives, bankers and financiers will exchange information for idea and innovations to improve small business outcomes.
The Fintech solution, such as the Funding Circle, is already having a major influence on economic integration by offering a credit space for small companies that avoids conventional banking. Founded in 2010, it has awarded 5 billion to companies worldwide since then, directly and indirectly generating 100,000 direct and indirect job opportunities. According to studies conducted independently by Cebr, 21 percent of borrower on this site thought they could not obtain financing elsewhere.
Fundsing Circle says that many of them are profit-making deals, but assets lighter, and conventional banking only loans to secure enterprises. Funding Circle's UK CEO and co-founder James Meekings says the launch of the Funding Circle was in reaction to the fact that banking was trying to avoid small loans after the global economic downturn. "A decade later, credible firms are still struggling with this battered system and miss out on the opportunity for economic recovery, despite being important to the British economy," he says.
Traps and challanges exist at FINtech. The World Bank Group has indicated that this includes protection of personal information, as clients progressively pass on their information against personalized service, whether they are fully conscious of the risk in peer-to-peer credit, and whether they have sufficient oversight capabilities to fully appreciate and supervise new use.
Commenting on the technology-based approach to credit risks for legacy banking, challengers and start-ups, Aaron Hughes, CEO of Equiniti Riskfactor, said: "Fintechs improves client retention. However, they do not necessarily have the capabilities, ressources and processes to make the right credit decision. Vice-Chairman of Finastra, the third biggest Finnish technology company in the global market, Simon Paris, says banking must play a better role in all challenging situations because as today's technology grows, small businesses' demands for quick, easy, customized and networked service will increase.
"As an example, these clients will not only request loans, but will be directed smoothly to other pertinent service areas such as business card facilities, cash flow management, business mortgage or even business opportunities," he says. Being able to use information could also mean faster accessing finance and better visibility into their financials, Mr Paris added.
It will also give us easy entry to finance administration utilities and applications that can help with areas such as managing your liquidity. It will create much needed visibility and help them make better business choices and eventually enhance the small business integration process.


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Funeral services for Phyllis Schwarck, 88, were held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, September 8, 2017, at the Union Community Church, Union, IA, with Rev. Rick Schill officiating. Organist Gary Hauser provided the music.
Casket bearers were Kris Hull, Jeni Christensen, Jeremy Harris, Megan Cross, Garrett Schwarck, Lauren Schwarck, John Hanson and Heidi Mossman.
Honorary casket bearers were Don and Delores Hauser, Diane Paglia, Paul and Helen Eckerman, Brent and Ann Rogers along with all of her former students from Whitten, Union-Whitten and BCLUW.
Phyllis was laid to rest in the Sheller Center Cemetery in Wellsburg, IA.
Those in attendance were her former students and the Red Hat Ladies.
Anderson Funeral Homes was entrusted with arrangements. Online condolences may be sent www.andersonfhs.com.


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There seems some confusion over when a receipt must be issued. So I decided to check on behalf of our clients.
In some places eg Victoria under consumer law it states that a receipt must be issued if the transaction is over $75 EX GST, which is where people are getting confused.
So if someone purchased $80 worth of goods in Victoria, the merchant would probably be okay under Victorian consumer law not to issue a receipt.
However, if they purchased the same $80 worth of goods in QLD, the merchant is required under their consumer law to issue a receipt as it is over $75.
However, in all of Australia, the retailer under ACCC is required on all sales over $75 to issue a receipt
So I think that our software is correct.
You need to issue a receipt if someone purchases over $75.
Another point to consider here is that regardless of the amount, all state consumer laws and the ACCC agree that a receipt must be issued on any transaction if the customer demands one.
I hope this clears up the confusion.

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Posted on Mon, Apr. 15, 2013
Medicaid expansion saves lives, money
BY MARTHA BAKER
The Medicaid expansion debate raging in Tallahassee can seem pretty abstract at times, as lawmakers consider whether and how to move billions of federal dollars to help millions of people access quality healthcare in communities across Florida.
But here’s a fact that isn’t abstract at all — Medicaid expansion could mean $35 million extra dollars flowing to Jackson Health System every year. That’s according to JHS CEO Carlos Migoya. He wrote a memo on the subject, noting that the issue is complicated for Jackson because of unanswered questions about changes to reimbursement rates and other factors.
The nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals who work at Jackson support expansion because it will help our hard-working citizens who make just a little too much to get Medicaid coverage, yet not enough to afford private insurance. Expansion would mean that a family of three making less than $26,000 a year could get covered. It would cover more than 200,000 residents in Miami-Dade alone.
Many of us who work on the front lines of our public hospital have stories about patients in this situation who wait until they have a health crisis to finally see a doctor, usually in our ERs, where the cost of treating them is five times higher than it would be if they could access primary care. We treat them, and then send them back home, where they have limited, if any, access to prevention and follow up care. It is an expensive and unhealthy cycle.
I have heard so many stories from my colleagues about patients they wish they could help escape this cycle.
• The young single woman with lupus who uses the emergency room to treat her flare-ups because she has no other option.
• A young man who came in with a testicular mass only when it got so bad he couldn’t go to work.
• The 62-year-old with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who is not quite old enough to qualify for Medicare, not quite ill enough to qualify for disability, and makes just a little too much to get Medicaid.
The stories about cancer patients whose lives are shortened by their lack of access to a continuum of care would break your heart.
Expanding healthcare is a major step toward changing the paradigm from “sickness” care to “wellness” care.Medicaid expansion will allow more access to healthcare, thus shifting the cost curve. Prevention and wellness are much more cost-effective than emergency rooms, not to mention the improvement in health and quality of life for our citizens.
There’s a reason for the old adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Currently, we won’t give an uninsured diabetic patient access to insulin, but we will surgically remove his leg in 10 years when his health has declined to the point where it is a matter of life or death.
Guess who pays for that? The taxpayer does. Why wouldn’t we pay a small amount upfront to keep this patient healthy and our long-term costs down? That is the real question facing our legislators in Tallahassee.
Expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare is an opportunity Florida legislators have less than three weeks to accept. With the federal government picking up 100 percent of the cost in the first three years (90 percent after that) and the potential for some 120,000 new jobs, it is a no brainer.
We’re calling our legislators to urge action now. Anyone who cares about the health of our community should do the same.
Martha Baker, RN, is president of SEIU Local 1991.


text: Ordinary Love is the movie about a loving couple. They get challenged when the wife is diagnosed with cancer and they have to deal with the issues of whether she might die or not die and how to deal with it. You get a really good performance from Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville. The movie does drags quite a bit. It’s so so as a movie but it does tell a good story and it lets all know what it’s like to have something like this happen when you have a good marriage and you are tested. For that reason I would see it though I wouldn’t say it was a great movie. I would give it 2 and 1/2 stars. Running time is an hour and 32 minutes.


U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters today announced $4,281,492 in funding for 29 Michigan counties through the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. Michigan is home to more than three million acres of federal lands, and as a result, county governments throughout Michigan miss out on critical property tax revenue every year.
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) today applauded the inclusion of his bipartisan Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Safety Technology Investment Flexibility Act of 2015 in the surface transportation reauthorization bill, which was unanimously passed by the Senate Environment and Public Works committee yesterday. Peters introduced the bill along with Republican Senator Roy Blunt (MO) and Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI) earlier this month.
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters today announced $199,996 has been awarded to Volunteers of America-Michigan to support job training for homeless veterans in Bay, Genesee, Saginaw, and Shiawassee counties. The funding, which is part of the Department of Labor's Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP), will go towards assisting veterans with job training for in-demand jobs and help them transition out of homelessness and into more sustainable housing
U.S. Senators Gary Peters (MI) announced today that he is co-sponsoring legislation to permanently authorize and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which is set to expire September 30. The LWCF uses revenues from offshore oil and gas to create and protect national parks, areas around rivers and lakes, national forests, and national wildlife refuges, and to provide matching grants for state and local parks and recreation projects.
U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow today announced a $34,241 investment in the Upper Peninsula to provide assistance to help end veteran homelessness. The assistance is part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) today joined 14 of his colleagues in calling for robust funding to support at-risk veterans and their families and end veteran homelessness. In a bipartisan letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, Peters and his colleagues requested that the Supporting Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program and the Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem (GPD) Program continue to receive strong funding in the FY 2016 budget
$8,000 Credit, Which Is Helping Home Sales Rebound, Is Set to Expire at the End of Next Month. Washington, D.C. - October 22, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Gary Peters today urged House leadership to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit, a measure enacted in February that saves new homebuyers thousands of dollars and has helped the U.S. housing market rebound in recent months. The credit is set to expire November 30th. Congressman Peters, along with a bipartisan group of colleagues, today sent a letter (text below) to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner expressing their desire to extend the credit’s deadline.


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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Okay. This has been a work out. I told Husband to remind me not to make such a big quilt again. I started quilting it yesterday and then spent a marathon quilting the rest of it today. I had the really silly idea to quilt it closely with straight lines. Let's just say they are straight-ish. On such a big quilt, I found it tricky to manage the weight of the quilt and keep perfectly straight. At one point, Husband sat at the end of the long harvest table and used a broomstick to guide the rolled up quilt back onto the centre of the table. It was really quite funny. Our own version of a long arm. The long arm being a broom handle attached to a human.
Then it was time for binding. Years ago, I can remember wondering where quilters got the lovely rolls of binding I would see photographed with quilts. Silly me. So naive. Now I know. You make the stuff and roll it up pretty and then take a picture of it.


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With the winner keeping its slim state playoff hopes alive, Dunbar and Lake Clifton didn't need any more incentive going into their Baltimore City non-league game yesterday.
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The Poets (8-2), who were holding the 11th spot in the Class 2A playoff race entering yesterday's game, gained 15 points with the win, not counting bonus points. Dunbar, which to qualify must jump over four teams -- Fort Hill (seventh), Lackey (eighth), Fallston (ninth) and Glenelg (10th) -- won't learn its fate until today or tomorrow.
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"We weren't going to give up because of the mistakes we had in the first half," said Lipscomb, who had an interception from a safety position. "We just had to pick up with our defense."
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Keen Toons is the Flash animation arm of online entertainment megapage, Keenspot. Founded in February 2000 by comic creators Chris Crosby and Darren Bleuel – who also has a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering – as a host for their own material, the site quickly grew into a portal for independent comic artists. Keenspot has retained the primary position, and is an invitation-only collection of more than 50 comics. The two founders, along with Chris’ mother, Teri Crosby, and Nate Stone maintain that list, but they added Keepspace (now Comic Genesis) as a free, all-inclusive hosting space for web cartoonists worldwide. The group has also published their own collections. More recently, Keen Toons was added as a forum to highlight a handful of artists for whom Flash animation is the preferred medium.
There is some turnover on the Keen Toons site, but the roster generally has, almost literally, a little bit of everything. “Evil Josh & Billy” – the adventures of a young mad scientist and his delinquent brother and reminiscent of such cult classics as Dexter’s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls in both sensibility and animation style – is updated on Mondays. Before the “terminator” canceled the show, Tuesdays used to bring new spots from Danny Washington and Educational Egg – an educational television inspired premise, where the live action, nerdy, backwards cap-sporting Washington speaks to the floating, animated Educational Egg. “Robotbox and Cactus” is about just that – the adventures of a surly, square robot and his more timid friend, a talking cactus, updated Wednesdays. Thursdays bring new episodes of “Space Tree,” in which another talking plant species, this one eyeless, is the captain of a space ship. Weekends were the territory of “Bonus Stage,” about a group of video game obsessed friends, featuring music from classic game titles. However, it appears that spot will soon be given over to another toon by the same creator, “The Stupid Adventures of Mark & Tony.” As you can tell by the titles, they all lend themselves to the surreal material so often encountered in Flash animation.
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Swallowing gum does not cause any harm or get stuck in your stomach for years, contrary to common belief. The myth likely originated as a way to discourage children from chewing gum. Normally, swallowed gum will pass through the digestive system and be excreted unchanged. Swallowing three or more pieces of gum per day would be considered excessive and may cause an obstruction in infants and children, but such cases are rare. Chewing gum has no nutritional value and is made from various ingredients that do not contribute to a healthy diet. However, ancient civilizations such as the Mayans and Pima Indians used natural latex from trees like the sapodilla and spruce to chew on and stave off thirst and hunger.
While swallowing gum is generally not a cause for concern, it may pose issues for individuals with gastrointestinal tract problems or narrowings. Conditions like Crohn’s disease, certain surgeries, or types of cancer can cause inflammation and narrowing of the GI tract. In such cases, consuming indigestible substances like gum may lead to problems. Doctors usually recommend a low-residue diet for patients with Crohn’s disease, which avoids foods like gum that cannot be broken down easily. However, it is important to note that instances of gum causing physical problems are extremely rare. Overall, for the average person without any underlying health issues, swallowing gum accidentally will not have any long-term effects.


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Adam Henson meets Surrey’s conservation cows on Countryfile
PUBLISHED: 09:31 04 May 2016 | UPDATED: 09:40 04 May 2016
Two Surrey Life columnists collide on this week’s BBC Countryfile, with presenter Adam Henson and his camera crew paying a visit to Surrey Wildlife Trust’s grazing team.
They spent two days filming at Pond Farm, near Wisley, finding out about the important role livestock plays in conserving Surrey’s wildlife.
“Surrey Wildlife Trust is running a really effective programme, where they actually breed their own livestock for use in conservation grazing, which is very beneficial for wildlife,” says Adam.
“They’ve got a great team at Pond Farm and they made us very welcome – the Belties were also very well behaved and we had a super couple of days filming with them.”
The stars of the show were the Trust’s herd of Belted Galloway cows, but the sheep and goats were also featured for the different roles they play in managing various habitats.
The TV presenter, who runs his own farm in Gloucestershire and has a particular interest in rare breeds and grazing animals, chatted with James Adler, head of Surrey Wildlife Trust’s grazing team, about the different grazing capabilities of the animals.
“Grazing is just one of the tools we use to manage land in the best way for conserving wildlife,” says James.
“Our animals can access areas that machinery can’t and livestock have less impact than burning or cutting would, so allowing wildlife to thrive.
“The weather was very kind to us and the BBC team, which allowed for some greats shots of our 30-acre acre farm in Wisley.
They say never work with children or animals – but our animals were truly on their best behaviour and performed right on cue for the camera. Even our rather camera-shy goats were tempted into the spotlight with some tasty gorse.”
Farm manager Steve Proud also introduced Adam to some of the Trust’s gorgeous new-born calves – more than 80 new arrivals are expected this year.
The Countryfile team also filmed the cows as they were released on National Trust land at Petersham Meadows, near Richmond – as part of the Trust’s contract grazing programme.
The Trust started its conservation grazing project with just three animals in 2007. As well as some 375 cattle, it now has goats and sheep. It also uses deer for managing habitats in the county.
The Trust’s five minutes of fame on BBC Countryfile is due to be broadcast on Sunday May 8 – so tune in to BBC One on Sunday evening to spot Surrey Wildlife Trust on TV!
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text: The beautiful Montgomery Station. Built in 1898 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, this station is now used as office space, a Montgomery Area Visitor Center, and a restaurant. In 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and in 1976 was designated a National Historic Landmark (a much more restrictive honor). The station, built in Romanesque Revival Style, has a 600 foot shed with 6 tracks and another covered shed for a coach yard along with a Railway Express Agency. The train shed now serves as a parking lot. Throughout the years the station served numerous railroads including the L&N, Atlantic Coast Line, Western Railway of Alabama, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, and the Southern. Notable trains included L&N's Humming Bird, Azalean, Florida Arrow, Pan-American, and South Wind. At numerous points Southern's Crescent and Piedmont Limited were routed through Montgomery also. At its peak 44 trains stopped daily. In 1979 service to the station ended. The short-lived Gulf Breeze stopped at a pair of silos that once stood on the other side of the track. The Alabama River is in the background.

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