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Now that Chevrolet has revised their EPA mileage estimate for the Chevrolet Cruze Diesel, from 42 mpg to 46 mpg, we need to revise our own estimates.
At the height of “bailout fever,” after TARP had been instituted but before the automakers had been completely bailed out, one argument that we heard a lot of from Detroit’s defenders was “how can you begrudge the manufacturing base a few billion when speculators at the banks are receiving far more support?” At the time, the argument seemed to me like a convenient way to shift attention away from Detroit’s failures and undercut the argument that consumers, not a credit crunch, were responsible for killing off GM and Chrysler… but at least then it still had some validity. Fast forward to today, and history has stripped it of all relevance, as it turns out the banks will likely be picking up the automakers’ bailout tab.
I am sorry I am being brash but when you owe money to people and you pay them back you shouldn’t be celebrating. You just cut them a check and send them home and say thank you on your way out
We’ve given Fiat/Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne some grief for his somewhat unseemly self-congratulation at his repayment of “every penny loaned less than two years ago.” This quote, given to CNBC, is more what we were looking for. After all, one imagines that Chrysler doesn’t hold such celebratory spectacles for folks who finish paying off loans on their Calibers and Caravans. Acknowledging the mundanity of Chrysler’s Wall Street re-fi is a much better way for the firm to re-boot its post-bailout relations with the American people. For this quote, as much as for the promising but still-wildly-uncertain turnaround of Americas most troubled automaker, I am happy to extend Mr Marchionne and his team a modest, unceremonious word of thanks.
Speaking at a Brookings Institution summit on cities affected by the auto downturn, National Economic Council director Larry Summers said that taxpayers will likely see “most, if not all” of its $42b outstanding “investment” in GM returned when the automaker goes public. According to the Detroit Free Press:
Summers’ comments were backed up by an analyst estimate today that suggested the new GM’s equity could be worth between $75 billion and $78.5 billion – giving the government more than $42 billion for its 60.6% stake.
Obama Administration officials had previously said that taxpayers stand to lose as much as $34b on its bailout of the auto sector, including GM, Chrysler and their finance unit formerly known as GMAC (now called Ally Financial).
What, you want more context from a headline? It’s not like we’ve lied to you or anything. Technically, every word of it is true. OK, OK, here’s the fine print: CGI Holding, owners of “Old Chrysler” and Chrysler Financial paid $1.9b of a $4b pre-bankruptcy TARP loan, according to Automotive News [sub]. Though far less than face value, that payback “is significantly more” than what Treasury was expecting in return. In other words, this is great news if you thought the bailout would be a complete loss. Otherwise, it means that the various remains of Chrysler have repaid $3.9b of the $14.3 invested by taxpayers into the company pre-bankruptcy… and unless Chrysler’s IPO brings in about $100b, Treasury will still take a bath on the rescue.
GM’s now-infamous advertisement touting the payback of government loans “may have elasticized the reality of things,” in the words of Steve Rattner, but stretching the truth apparently pays off. Automotive News [sub] reports that a London public perception-tracking firm surveyed some 5,000 consumers, and found that The General’s image has improved since the ad started running. Of course, on YouGov’s brand image scale of 100 to negative 100, GM is up only five points to “17.” Clearly there’s still work to do.
In response to Senator Chuck Grassley’s concern that GM’s claim to have paid back taxpayer loans was misleading, the US Treasury is now saying that it has no problem with The General’s statements. According to the Freep, a Treasury letter to Grassley explains that:
GM’s decision to pay off the loan signaled the automaker did not face “extraordinary expenses,” and that Treasury approved the loan payoff.
“The fact that GM made the determination and repaid the remaining $4.7 billion to the U.S. government now is good news for the company, our investment and the American people,” said Herbert Allison, assistant Treasury secretary for financial stability.
Strictly speaking, GM’s claim to have paid back all US Government loans is correct. The only issue is that GM’s ad touting the payback makes no reference to the fact that it still owes the Treasury upwards of $40b. If that misleads folks, well, apparently the Treasury Department isn’t going to do anything about it.
My commitment is to the American taxpayer. My commitment is to recover every single dime the American people are owed… We want our money back and we’re going to get it.
Without even getting into the politics of President Obama’s proposed “financial crisis responsibility fee,” it’s easy to see that the initiative holds a wealth of implications for America’s TARP-recipient automakers. In Obama’s new rhetoric, taking TARP money put businesses in a new category of special obligation to the taxpayers. Though the fee is targeted at financial institutions, the principle applies just as much to Detroit.
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- ToolGuy "At risk of oversimplification, a heat pump takes ambient air, compresses it, and then uses the condenser’s heat to warm up the air it just grabbed from outside."• This description seems fairly dramatically wrong to me.
- SCE to AUX The UAW may win the battle, but it will lose the war.The mfrs will never agree to job protections, and production outsourcing will match any pay increases won by the union.With most US market cars not produced by Detroit, how many people really care about this strike?
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And the Ladies’ Choice Award for Worst Quote of the Year Goes to….
By Jacqueline Murphy | Dec. 19, 2013, 1:17 p.m.
Category: Abortion Access
2013 had its up and downs; its moments of brilliance and its….errr lesser moments. Many of these lesser moments occurred when anti-women’s health politicians got hold of a microphone. It’s not that they put their foot in their mouth; it’s that they spoke their mind.
So here are the top five nominees for Worst Quote of the Year…
NOMINEE: Texas Governor Rick Perry
When thousands of Texans called, sent letters, marched the streets, packed hearing rooms until 4 a.m., and filled up the state capitol to oppose HB2 and SB5 the world saw democracy in action — but Governor Rick Perry still didn’t get it.
Less than a day after Senator Wendy Davis’ successful filibuster, he called a second special session just to pass the omnibus abortion bill, showing contempt for the thousands of Texans who believe they should be able to make their own health care decisions without the interference of politicians. And here’s his infuriating quote:
The louder the opposition screams, the more we know we’re doing something right.
- Texas Governor Rick Perry, (June 27, 2013)
It doesn’t mean you’re doing something right, it means, they want you to STOP attacking their rights.
NOMINEE: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli
It was hard to choose which Ken Cuccinelli quote deserved to make this list. Already on record calling birth control a sterilization mandate and an example of tyranny, he really never learned to choose his words carefully. But ultimately, the quote that made our list was when Cuccinelli suggested opponents of the birth control benefit engage in civil disobedience and go to jail rather than allowing their employees to get health care coverage for birth control. Allowing employers to deny women access to birth control isn’t a civil right, it’s discrimination. It was this type of extremism that helped contribute to his ultimate loss to women’s health champion and Governor-Elect Terry McAuliffe:
...You need to go to jail.
- Ken Cuccinelli, (January 9, 2013)
NOMINEE: U.S. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)
When Arizona Congressman Trent Franks introduced a 20-week nationwide abortion ban, many were outraged — in fact even Republicans spoke out against the extreme and blatantly unconstitutional legislation. But his comments in the committee markup explaining why he opposed an exception for rape really elevated just how out-of-touch he was:
the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.
- U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, (June 15, 2013)
Franks’ comments were not only insensitive, they were wrong — an estimated 25,000 women become pregnant from rape annually.
NOMINEE: Missouri State Senate
Majority Caucus Whip Brian Nieves
Missouri State Senate Majority Caucus Whip Brian Nieves makes the list for a comment he made on his Facebook page about a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion. Demonstrating a complete lack of understanding for the tragic and heartbreaking situations often surrounding the complex decision to have abortion, Nieves dismissed the need for lifesaving abortions, going so far to say that an abortion to save a woman’s life is a:
“matter of convenience.”
- Brian Nieves, (July 2013)
WINNER: U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC)
Our last contender for the Worst Quote of 2013 goes to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who not only sponsored the bill to ban abortion after 20-weeks in every single state, but who had this to say about what would happen if this legislation would become law:
If we can convince the American people to provide assistance and prevent abortions at the 20th week, nothing bad is going to happen. Good things will happen.
- U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), (November 7, 2013)
I don’t really think the women and families who have been put into unimaginable situations — such as needing to end a pregnancy for serious medical reasons but unable to do so — would agree with Senator Graham. Ninety-nine percent of abortions occur before 21 weeks, but when they do happen, it’s often in heartbreaking and unusual circumstances.
That’s why, when voters learn about the variety of circumstances in which abortion would be made illegal under most 20-week ban proposals (like the ones sponsored by Senator Graham), they overwhelmingly opposed them. Graham’s bill marginalizes women with limited exceptions for rape, incest, and the health of the woman — and yet he so casually claims “nothing bad is going to happen.” Politics has no place in preventing doctors and other health professionals from informing patients about ALL their health care options — and doctors shouldn’t be criminalized for providing constitutionally protected care, but that’s the type of legislation that Senator Graham supports.
The lack of empathy and failure to understand the complexity surrounding the decision to have an abortion, has earned Senator Graham the honorable distinction of having uttered the worst quote of 2013.
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The New York Times today leads the pack of hyenas in the Western press corps decrying the Chinese decision to do away with term limits for their Presidents and Vice Presidents.
“Xi Sets China on a Collision Course With History,” screams the Times’headline, quoting none other than loser Hillary Clinton, who declared that China was on a “fool’s errand, trying to uphold a system of government that cannot survive in the modern world.”
Kesha Rogers, the candidate for Congress in Texas backed by the LaRouche Political Action Committee, responded to this hysteria against China by reminding our citizens of the words of Martin Luther King, (who, unlike Hillary, was qualified to be President), who said: “The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” Of course, that is precisely what China is achieving, both for their own citizens (by 2020) and for the world, through their historic Belt and Road Initiative. What nation exemplifies the “civilized world” today?
Global Times, the paper of the Chinese Communist Party, notes today that “the Western media began bad-mouthing China in their usual and various ways” after the announcement that China was ending term limits. “The biggest reason for all this,” the editorial continues, “is that the rise of China has reached a critical point where some Westerners cannot psychologically bear it any longer. They wish to see misfortune befall the country. Even if it might hurt their own interests, they are willing to see China crumble first.” Further, they note: “Over the years, the authority of the CPC Central Committee and the prosperity of our Chinese society have both risen. The authority of the Central Committee is the most outstanding part of China’s competitiveness. It is the source of the country’s efficiency and ability to mobilize people and make adjustments. It is the thing the outside world most envies about China and the target of Western anti-China rhetoric.”
Many in the West respond that, despite the great progress in China, the Chinese people are not free, do not have basic human rights, as if the right to a decent livelihood, free of poverty, free to contribute to the future of the nation and the future of mankind, is not the most fundamental of human rights.
But we must also ask, what is the state of human rights in the United States? What is being done to our children, millions of whom have been denied any hope of a productive future, who are offered instead the “freedom” to take drugs, to be “entertained” by movies and video games and popular music that teach them to de-humanize their fellow men and women through violence and pornography, who are denied any education regarding the beauty of classical western culture, let alone the beauty of classical Chinese culture, or any other of the great cultures in human history? There should be no question about why hundreds of our children are being turned into killers. Nor should there be any question that the entire economy and the entire culture must be transformed for the horror to end, and for the world to enter a new paradigm based on human progress and dignity.
President Trump awakened hope in the American people, promising to rebuild the industrial base and the collapsing infrastructure, ending the scourge of drugs, reminding people of the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, promising to end the useless and dangerous confrontation with Russia and China. These are the issues which Lyndon LaRouche has championed for half a century, while the political leadership was transforming the nation into a post-industrial scrap heap and a permanent war machine on behalf of the British Empire.
The hope for restoring America’s greatness must be consummated now in the only way possible — not piece by piece, not small steps, but by the full restoration of the American System through LaRouche’s program, and fully embracing the New Silk Road spirit unleashed by China’s Belt and Road. A civilized society can do no less.


Casey Toohill, overshadowed by Joey Alfieri and NFL-bound Peter Kalambayi earlier in his career as a Stanford outside linebacker, is making the most of his starting opportunity this year.
The redshirt junior had a career-high seven tackles, a sack, two quarterback hurries and a pass breakup in the win over USC on Saturday night, helping extend the Cardinal’s streak of not allowing a touchdown to 107 minutes, 38 seconds.
“I was excited by our passion, and our preparation for the game — I thought that was really stellar as well,” Toohill said. “There’s a lot of aspects I think we need to get better at, but the passion and effort we played with was really impressive.”
The ninth-ranked Cardinal will try to slow down an up-tempo UC Davis offense that has rolled up yardage in a 44-38 win at San Jose State and a 54-21 rout of San Diego. The Aggies are ranked No. 23 in the FCS Stats poll. In the FCS coaches’ poll, the Aggies were listed just outside the top 25. Among FCS teams, they are tied for second nationally in points per game (49) and are fifth in total offense (530.5 yards per game).
Stanford missed quite a few tackles in the opener against San Diego State, but improved in that respect against the Trojans.
“We still gave up too many big plays,” Toohill said. “That’s kind of our focus going forward.”
Victories over San Diego State and USC will enable Toohill and other players from Southern California to claim bragging rights in their communities, he said. Toohill, safety Frank Buncom and inside linebacker Jordan Perez are all from the San Diego area.
Toohill credited defensive coordinator Lance Anderson with giving him plenty of playing time as a reserve in his first two seasons after redshirting in 2015. Despite what Toohill said were numerous mistakes, Anderson “always let me play. So I wasn’t too concerned about who was ahead of me.”
Head coach David Shaw raves about Toohill’s athleticism.
“Casey runs a 4.5 (in the 40) and he’s explosive,” Shaw said. “He has a 34- or 35-inch vertical (leap). As young ballplayers become veteran players, you challenge them differently. The thing with Casey that coach Anderson has been pushing for a while is: Show that athleticism on the football field.
“He’s such a conscientious guy, he wants to get everything right. Sometimes you’ve got to cut loose. In training camp, you saw him cut it loose as a pass rusher — being physical at the point of attack, getting off blocks, showing great hustle. I couldn’t be more pleased with where he is.”
A two-time Pac-12 All-Academic selection, Toohill will get his degree in political science in June but doesn’t envision a career in politics. The teammates he thinks are most likely to run for office someday are inside linebacker Bobby Okereke and cornerback Alameen Murphy. Both are “great leaders and well-spoken,” he said.
Briefly: Stanford had 29 former players make NFL opening-day active rosters or practice squads this season. Only USC (36) and UCLA (30) had more among Pac-12 schools. … The 11 a.m. kickoff for the UCD game is the earliest home start in program history. The Cardinal’s last game that began earlier than 11 a.m. Pacific time came at Northwestern in the 2015 opener (9 a.m. PDT). Stanford lost 16-6.
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The ousting of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army is a military coup d’état pure and simple. It qualifies as a military putsch, which is by definition the illegal removal of the head of the state by the army or a faction within it, or the security services, through the use of force or the threat of it. Past experiences such as the toppling of the Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953, Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, and the military takeover in Algeria in 1992 remind us that military coups are never a smart tool for conflict resolution.
The coup in Egypt is a regrettable testament to the failure of all political activists and stakeholders to manage the transition period. Now that the constitution has been suspended and the army has taken over, what are the challenges faced by Egypt today?
Domestically, the coup may aggravate further an already parlous situation. The measures taken by the army to arrest the top leadership and middle-ranking cadre of the Freedom and Justice Party of the Muslim Brotherhood, together with the decision to take off-air at least five of the pro-Morsi satellite TV channels, constitute a decapitation of the movement’s leadership. A militant base cut off from its leadership in times of political crisis may push radical elements to a violent response.
Having removed a democratically elected president, it will be an uphill task for the new leadership to establish its authority in the absence of constitutional legitimacy. The new leadership will inevitably be reliant on the support of the military, thus turning Egypt into an authoritarian country – as has been the case in Pakistan and Algeria.
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Regionally, the coup in Cairo is a setback for aspirations for freedom and democratisation expressed after the 2011 uprisings. Regional stability is at stake: the coup may provide further justification for jihadist groups and also discredit the Islamist Salafi movements which had resolved to enter politics and abandon the use of violence.
Jihadist groups may once again deploy the argument that the West supports democratisation in the Arab region only when it does not bring Islamists to power, as was the case with the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria and Hamas in Gaza. Moreover, this regional challenge will be compounded by the precarious security situation in Libya and the free flow of trafficked weapons.
Internationally, the failure of Western capitals to condemn the ousting of Morsi will reinforce the perception in Arab societies that the establishment in the West is never genuine in its support of democratisation and freedom in the region. This may also add fuel to jihadist arguments at a time when the Arab region is unstable and the Sahel has become a hotspot.
From the outset we advised all those involved that failure to manage the transition period might lead to extreme polarisation, and that this could provide justification for calls for the securitisation of public affairs, or even force a return to authoritarian rule. Developments in Egypt show once again that, during transition periods following political upheavals, the goal must be to achieve wide-ranging national coalition governments and the integration of consensual codes of conduct into new constitutions or laws.
For the political transition to succeed, elections and constitution-drafting processes should avoid serious polarisation in general, and specifically between secular political parties and those with a religious dependency. Coalition-building as a mechanism for defusing, or at least lessening, polarisation is therefore one of the key instruments in building just and sustainable societies.
There is now a need to call on all Egyptian political activists and stakeholders to launch an inclusive national dialogue in order to reach a consensual agreement capable of reversing the dangerous measures that have derailed Egypt’s political transition and exacerbated antagonism within Egyptian society.
But ultimately the international community must also help ensure that such an initiative takes place and succeeds.
Dr Lakhdar Ghettas is a scientific adviser for the Cordoba Foundation of Geneva.


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In a hydraulic circuit, net positive suction head (NPSH) may refer to one of two quantities in the analysis of cavitation:
1. The Available NPSH (NPSHA): a measure of how close the fluid at a given point is to boiling, and so to cavitation.
2. The Required NPSH (NPSHR): the head value at a specific point (e.g. the inlet of a pump) required to keep the fluid from cavitating.
NPSH is particularly relevant inside centrifugal pumps and turbines, which are parts of a hydraulic system that are most vulnerable to cavitation.
The calculation of NPSH in a reaction turbine is is based on the fact that the cavitation will first occur at the outlet of the impeller, at the entrance of the draft tube.
|Available NPSH in a turbine (m)
|Total pressure at the lower free surface (m-1*kg*s-2)
|Density of the fluid (kg/m3)
|Pressure of vapor (m-1*kg*s-2)
|Elevation of the tube entrance (m)
|Elevation of the lower free surface (m)
|Turbines minor losses (m)


Efficient Silicon carbide (SiC) Technology is central to the design of on-board and off-board chargers in the field of e-mobility. The selection and characterization of suitable products takes a lot of time. In order to be able to implement projects quickly and at the same time to investigate new technologies, Angst+Pfister Sensors and Power (formerly Pewatron) developed the BeFAST Evaluation Kit. It combines low-loss SiC FETs with products optimized for efficient and safe operation into a performance half-bridge. The very low switch-on resistance RDSon of the SiC Cascoden from United Silicon plays an essential role. The lower switching losses allow faster and more efficient charging.
On the BeFAST Kit, NVE Corp.'s IL7 series products tested according to IEC60747-17 ensure very good isolation of the data to and from the gate driver. In addition to a very long service life, these products also offer high CMTI values. The supply is carried out via a correspondingly approved DC/DC converter of the MGJ2 series from Murata. The Eval Kit is accompanied by a set of different assembled temperature sensors. These very fast analog sensors enable correct monitoring of temperature e.B. during loading and unloading of energy storage systems. The BeFAST can be adapted to the next generation of SiC FET with little effort.


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Internet Frankenstein – Digital Prometheus
Frankenstein is still with us. It is the Internet. A creature assembled from bits and pieces of hundreds of other things – some alive, some dead, some beautiful, some criminal, some incomprehensible – all stitched together and “scientifically” endowed with life. The result for Mary Shelley, as it is for us, is an over-sized, somewhat dangerous, hideous yet beautiful creature.
And with the monster loose, the town’s people are panicking. The politicians, listening to the loudest and least informed town folk, demand that the monster be destroyed. People hate it, people fear it. Pitchforks are sharpened, torches are lit - the monster must be controlled or destroyed, the Internet must be legislated into mediocrity.
The monster, for its part, is largely misunderstood. Nothing like it has ever lived before. It is viewed with awe and suspicion. It is always in danger. It is always striving to find its true nature.Just as the monster from the book forces us to examine our humanity, so the Internet forces us to confront our darker side. Don’t rush to kill the monster.


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Poultry 101 Travel & Lodging Information
Poultry 101 starts early Tuesday morning and ends by noon on Thursday.
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) (www.flyxna.com) is the local airport and is approximately 20 min to Fayetteville. Car rental and shuttle services are available on their website.
Tulsa International Airport (TUL) (www.tulsaairports.com) is located directly west of the NWA region with a Hwy 412 serving as the main route. It is approximately 1 hour 45 minutes from Fayetteville.
Fort Smith (FSM) (fortsmithairport.com) is located south of Fayetteville. It is approximately 1 hour away with options of interstate (I-49/formerly I-540) or scenic route travel (Hwy 71) (both scenic views).
Branson Airport (BKG) (flybranson.com) is located northeast of Fayetteville. It is approximately 2 hours away, but on a very scenic route.
A detailed schedule of meeting times and transportation will be e-mailed to you a week prior to the course start date. Please note that due to COVID related precautions, transportation will not be provided between hotel and university or dinners. Parking will be available at the venue.
September 19-21, 2023
Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences
1371 Altheimer Dr.
Fayetteville, AR 72704

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Hazel wouldn't take payment for the task, so I told her I'd make her a scarf. It should have, and would have, been done long before now, but with the Butterfly dress being my first priority, the scarf, and most other projects, have been moving slowly. Yesterday, though, I finished it. When I finally gave it the attention it deserved, it worked up very quickly.
Here is the Backyard Leaves scarf, from Interweave's "Scarf Style". The yarn, if I remember correctly (I don't have the ball bands anymore) is a Louet worsted weight. It's worked on 5.0 mm needles and took 2 skeins, with very little left over. I worked one less repeat of the leaves than the pattern called for (it called for 11 reps per half; I worked 10) as it's recipient is petite. Even so, this scarf is about 6' long, plenty long enough, I think.
I like how this scarf turned out. If I were to make it again (and I might), I'd be careful to use a looser cast on. The two halves are worked separately and joined at the middle. I had thought about using a provisional cast on, but I'm not sure it would have worked out correctly. I'll have to play with that idea a little. Anyway, the center seam is a little tight, but not overwhelmingly so.
All in all, it's a satisfying FO. I hope Hazel likes it.
Oh! We have some news concerning the Butterfly dress. When I spoke to Stacey this week, she'd been unable to find the little ball of yarn I'd given her; she went online to order another ball of the yarn and said it was a rush. Yesterday, she called to let me know that the yarn had arrived! Now, I have plenty to finish the dress. I had started to sew the dress together as per the instructions in the book (backstitch seam), but I didn't like how it was looking. I took out the stitching and will re-do the seam using a mattress stitch. It has to look right; it has to look perfect.
Hopefully, this week I'll be able to sit down with a good light, sew it all together, graft the ruffles and finish the edgings and straps. I can see the finish line now and I'm ready for the final sprint.


Victories still might be hard to come by, but the Orlando Magic open their fourth NBA season tonight against the Miami Heat with a higher profile and new expectations.
The Shaquille O'Neal era officially begins.
Orlando, which was hardly noticed during its first three seasons, is pinning its drive toward respectability on O'Neal, the most celebrated player coming into the league since David Robinson.
Although O'Neal, a center, will not guarantee instant success on the court, he has guaranteed an enormous amount of attention for a team that had the second-worst record (21-61) in the league last season.
Because of O'Neal, the opening minute of tonight's game will be broadcast live as part of TNT's pregame show before its opener between the two-time defending champion Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers.
Because of O'Neal, 180 media members - including ones from Spain, France, Japan and Latin America - will chronicle the game. ESPN will have its own film crew here for a highlights show.
Because of O'Neal, the game has been sold out since Oct. 11, the day single-game tickets went on sale. Because of O'Neal, the Magic will have four games broadcast this season on TNT and two on NBC. Only one Magic game was on TNT last season, and that was because all 27 teams had to be on at least once.
''You could say he's changed some things around here, in a big way,'' Magic forward Dennis Scott said. ''His presence alone takes us to another level.''
The Magic are hoping O'Neal, 7 feet 1 and 300 pounds, can become a dominant player, although most saw during the exhibition season it won't happen instantly. He was in foul trouble a lot, and he had trouble at the free-throw line.
The Magic's success this season will hinge on health. Dennis Scott, who can provide a balance to O'Neal with his outside shooting, is coming off an injury-marred season. Brian Williams, who can provide help inside, missed most of training camp.
''All I can do is play hard and intelligently with my teammates,'' O'Neal said. ''I don't believe in pressure or living up to expectations. All I know for sure is that we're going to have some fun out there. And if I don't play hard, you can remind me.''
O'Neal was smiling on Thursday after announcing his third major endorsement contract, this one with Spalding and worth an estimated $3 million over 5 years. He wore his signature ''Shaq Attaq'' basketball shoes for the first time.
''It's going to take some time, but someday I want to be the man around here,'' O'Neal said.


Nick Nobilo’s Vinoptima produces Gewurztraminer from deep, rich, alluvial clay soils in inland Poverty Bay. The pumpkins growing through the fence next door tell a tale of fertility. Vinoptima Estate (right); Warren Moran (farright) characteristics. They are extremely young, most being deposited since 1930 when accelerated erosion in the headwaters resulted in regular flooding at an average of more than one flood a year for the following 20 years before flood control was in place. The deposited materials aggraded the Gisborne Plain with layers of sediment. These regular floods restricted vegetation growth so that organic matter and nitrogen in the soils was initially low.
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But with the fine sediments also came lime (calcium carbonate). Pullar suggests that with every 8 centimetres of silt deposited came about 25 tonnes of lime per hectare. The high calcium of the Waipaoa soils means that they take up water in winter and dry out in summer. Vines are able to perform in this regime especially if the reduction in soil moisture occurs slowly. Indeed it may be an advantage if, as the season advances and ripening of grapes proceeds, the vines access deeper soil moisture and nutrients. Managing the available nitrogen in the vineyard and in the wine is important, but possible here, given that in many soils it started out low. Now that flooding is better controlled, cover cropping and other organic practices are common and grape growers are managing the nitrogen status of these soils.
Other soils of the flood plain are older and deeper with better-developed topsoils largely because they have been inundated less frequently and have been consistently growing crops for longer. These include the five phases of the Matawhero soils and the seven phases of the Waiherere soils that Pullar identified. In addition, he recognised a separate group of soils (with nine categories within it) that he called ‘gleyed recent soils’. These are sticky, clay-based soils. Most needed artificial drainage before they were suitable for cropping or intensive grazing. The Poverty Bay flats present, therefore, a more subtle diversity of soils than many other winegrowing regions of New Zealand.
Enterprises in the New Zealand filiere: wine producers and grape growers
The intense competition between Montana and Corbans that enlivened New Zealand winegrowing during the last four decades of the twentieth century was sparked in Auckland, lit in Gisborne in the late 1960s, before jumping Cook Strait to Marlborough in 1973. By far the most important stimulus to growing grapes in Gisborne was the decision by Montana, followed closely by Corbans and other Auckland wine enterprises, to expand aggressively there by letting contracts to local grape growers. Gisborne was the first region where the two companies were in direct competition for grapes, although Frank Yukich had already begun to use his West Auckland connections to buy grapes from anyone who would sell them. But things moved quickly and by 1973 Yukich had extended Montana’s interest to the South Island and Corbans again followed. Despite Montana planting rapidly in Marlborough, Gisborne continued to have a larger area in vines. Not until the early 1990s did Marlborough’s vineyard reach 2000 hectares, an area that Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay had both attained in the early 1980s.
The form that the New Zealand wine filiere would take for the next half-century emerged in Gisborne in the late 1960s. The rapid growth of New Zealand winegrowing required considerable capital for both vineyards and cellars. Wine companies offloaded some viticultural costs and responsibilities by offering contracts to landowners interested in growing grapes, but as mentioned above, Corbans was the only Auckland wine enterprise to buy land in Gisborne and plant grapes on it. This family – almost communal – company continued to act as it always had, assessing land carefully and proceeding cautiously, even planting a small experimental vineyard with a wide range of varieties on each site that it purchased. In 1969, Corbans purchased a total of 121 acres on the Poverty Bay flats (almost 50 hectares) – 76 acres on Riverpoint Road near Matawhero and 45 acres off Bond Road in Ormond.
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Protests are allowed under the Cuban constitution. However, the government had vowed not to allow the demonstrations planned on Monday – to demand greater political freedoms – claiming they were an excuse to stir up trouble on the communist-run island and that they were secretly organized by Cuban exiles and the USA.
The city of Havana saw a heavy police presence Monday morning as authorities prepared for potential protesters. Ultimately, however, the streets remained calm – proof of the chilling effects of the government’s warnings.
According to the Havana-based independent human rights organization Cubalex, the Cuban police arrested 11 people while another 50 were “besieged” in their homes to prevent any public gathering.
On Monday, Cuban activist Saily Gonzalez Velazquez said on a live video broadcast on Facebook that government supporters blocked their home in Santa Clara to prevent them from participating in the protests.
“At 5:30 am, people called by the Cuban government arrived in my neighborhood. I know they were called by the Cuban government about the signs they were wearing, “she told CNN, adding,” They were playing music and when I came out of my house they started yelling at me and my family . ”
The activist also alleged that people outside her home gave her death threats.
The videos featured a group of people in front of their house holding signs and yelling, and “traitor” chants could be heard from the crowd. The crowd holds signs that read “Nothing can conquer us” and “Fatherland or death”.
Cuban activist, journalist and Washington Post columnist Abraham Jimenez Enoa also tweeted Monday, saying he was “besieged by plainclothes police and agents.”
He tweeted: “Neighbors tell me that today’s business is bigger than yesterday’s. I can’t see it from my balcony because a tree is blocking my view. I only see his feet truth? ”
According to Cubalex, among those arrested on Monday were the Cuban citizen Agustin Figueroa Galindo, who often writes for the opposition blog “Primavera Digital en Cuba”, and Berta Soler Fernández, chairwoman of “Damas de Blanco”, an organization that campaigns for the release of political prisoners arrested on the island.
Cuban officials had been nervous for fear of the spontaneous island-wide protests that rocked Cuba in January and led to over 1,000 arrests, according to activist groups.
But on Monday afternoon, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla declared Cuba to be “calm” and “outside Cuba, expectations have been raised that have not been met”.
At the weekend, supporters of the Cuban government also blocked the apartment of activist and playwright Yunior Garcia Aguilera in Havana to forestall the demonstration. Garcia Aguilera is the most prominent organizer of the event.
A government supporter who lives in the neighborhood of Garcia Aguilera told CNN that he was proud to have locked the activist in his home.
American officials have threatened Cuba with further sanctions if the protesters are arrested by police.


Recently, a video of the ‘BLACKPINK‘ concert in the US was uploaded on various online communities and Twitter.
The released video was shocking in itself. Jennie was performing brightly. Then, firecrackers exploded on the stage and got caught in Jennie’s body as she ran down.
Jennie approached the members with a firecracker net wrapped around them. The bewildered members did not know what to do and removed the firecracker net from Jennie’s body. Jennie sat down and burst out laughing.
Netizens who saw this showed reactions such as “It’s so funny,” “Cute,” “Why is this real?”, “It’s like a spider’s web,” “You must have been embarrassed,” “It’s a dangerous situation,” and “It’s dizzy.”


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Sorry about the big "gap" in between! I just got back from Sarawak for work and I foresee myself traveling a lot in the coming month. However, I do hope to be able to update this site as often as I can, so keep reading! =)
Due to the busy schedule, I haven't had a lot of time to experiment new recipes, but here is a simple papaya smoothie made with soy instead of milk, the recipe is very simple (makes 2 glasses)
- 1 glass drinking water
- Ice cubes (personal preference)
- 1/2 newly riped Papaya
- 2 tbs Soya Milk powder
Simply blend everything together following the sequence above! I recommend the ingredients be blended for at least 1 1/2 minutes to prevent any papaya chunks and to achieve a smooth and creamy texture. Simply filling & nutritious! Makes a perfect mid-afternoon snack, especially when your sweet tooth is itching =P like mine. I have gained a lot of weight after all the heavy 3 meals a day and kek lapis from Sarawak, so I am saying no to sweet food for a while and substituting my junkies with other healthy options.
Next attempt -yogurt! Which is also my temporary craze =) no promises but shall try my best


With training camp right around the corner and rookie drafts taking flight, we’re all looking for the next big breakouts if we’re unable to land our prized rookies. In today’s article, I’ll be taking a look at a few linebackers who are under the radar and could be had for a cheap price if you’re looking to make a couple of IDP moves in your leagues.
As you read through this article and see historical trends, you’ll quickly find most linebacker breakouts usually come from second-year players or from those who’ve been waiting in the wings and their opportunity to shine is there for the taking. With that said, let’s look at some candidates.
Jerome Baker, LB MIA
Entering his second season with the Dolphins, Baker is ready to take the next step in his development. In fact, he could become a weekly starter in IDP leagues. Baker is coming off a decent rookie season, playing 678 snaps and posting a high 70s grade against the run via PFF. Kiko Alonso has two years left on his contract but has a little under $2 million that would count as a dead cap hit in 2020 if Dolphins consider cutting ties with him – that would clearly show Baker made the jump in development and can lead the linebacker unit into the future.
In 2018, Baker played a total of 62% of the snaps, racking up 56 solo tackles to go along with 23 assists with three sacks, one interception, and three pass deflections. He scored 9.50 points per game during the season and ended on a positive note as Alonso missed week 16, and Baker played 97% of the snaps.
I would like to see the Dolphins utilize Baker much as Brian Flores used Kyle Van Noy in New England. If that was the case, he would be their all-around ace amongst the linebackers unit. Right now we’re taking a chance on Baker in leagues where we start up to four linebackers and potentially next season he’ll be included in the top 24, where he becomes a weekly LB2 option for IDP. Baker is set to break out and jump ahead of Raekwon McMillan, with the upside of pushing Alonso for the Dolphins linebacker to own in IDP.
Ja’Whaun Bentley, LB NE
Bentley is one of my favorite breakouts this upcoming season. However, we have to temper any sort of expectations. He only played in three games last season before going on season-ending IR with a biceps injury. You can see some promise here as his snap count for those three contests was as follows:
- Week One: 69%
- Week Two: 42% (didn’t start)
- Week Three: 78%
The former fifth-round draft pick impressed the coaching staff enough to earn those starts and see the field last year. Bentley has shown solid coverage ability – via PFF, his grade was in the mid-80s. In those three games, he saw a total of 138 snaps (51 against the run, 73 in pass coverage). He might also have only Elandon Roberts as competition.
I believe Bentley can lead the charge in the foreseeable future. With the Patriots bringing in Jerod Mayo to coach the linebackers, Bentley will learn a lot from the ex-Patriots linebacker who wasn’t so bad himself. Bentley gets compared to Mayo a lot and I’m just going to imagine that’s Bentley’s ceiling because, at one point in time, Mayo was the top LB in IDP.
Just keep in mind the Patriots often rotate their linebackers and it’ll become a weekly headache on when you should or should not start Bentley. Don’t get me wrong, he does have every down upside, it’s just a matter of the opportunity and if the Patriots lean more on him.
Harold Landry, LB TEN
The rising stud in Tennessee is about to take a leap in 2019 as he’ll be entering the season as one of the starters at OLB on an underrated Titans defensive unit. Landry has shown flashes as a rookie and showcased his quick bend around the edge that gets him to the quarterback in the blink of an eye. In his rookie season, Landry put together 34 quarterback pressures, 33 tackles, and four sacks while playing 592 snaps – 371 of them coming in pass-rushing situations.
Landry won’t be a volume tackler (not all edges are and that’s not what you’re expecting from them). Instead, you’re expecting them to rack up sacks and create turnovers from getting into the backfield. A good IDP profile for Landry could be Matt Judon of the Ravens, whose averaged around 44 tackles per season with a career-high of eight sacks in 2017. I believe Landry can easily hit that tackle floor, but he can also definitely hit double-digit sacks for years to come as well.
A bigger role is on the horizon for Landry in 2019 – Brian Orakpo averaged about 920 snaps from 2015-2017 on the Titans prior to last season (he only saw 584 snaps) and if Landry comes anywhere close to 900 snaps, the sky’s the limit. The Titans also brought in a savvy vet, Cameron Wake, who will help take some pressure off Landry. The Titans need to and should cut him loose in 2019 and you as an IDP owner should be looking to acquire Landry in all your leagues as a weekly x-factor.
Shaun Dion Hamilton, LB WAS
The second-year linebacker from Alabama was looking forward to a rotational role entering 2019, but those plans have changed with the injury to Reuben Foster – who is out for the season – and the recent release of Mason Foster. Hamilton had been prepping like one of the starters at ILB for the Redskins so should be ready to go – and it looks like Josh Harvey-Clemons will be Hamilton’s competition in camp.
This will be a camp battle to keep tabs on, but I believe it’ll be Hamilton’s spot to lose and although it still may be a rotation in Washington, he should stay on the field on early downs while Harvey-Clemons comes in in sub-packages. The Redskins need some fresh legs at linebacker and some speed, and will get that from Hamilton and the other young linebackers on the roster.
Hamilton can rush the passer (five quarterback pressures in eight pass rush snaps) and drop back in coverage. However, he needs to improve his run defense to help boost his three-down potential. If he can shore that up, I won’t be surprised if Hamilton sees the most snaps at linebacker for the Redskins this season and as long as he can stay on the field, he’ll shine. He’s going unnoticed in a lot of IDP leagues and he’s more than likely still on your waiver wire. If I were in a league that started three or more LBs with a deep enough bench, I would be running to grab and stash him.
Best of luck this year folks, Aloha.
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Hastings Fire Prevention Officer Linda Waldron says more home fires start in the kitchen than anywhere else.
"The number one problem for the kitchen fires is people forget they are cooking, they leave things unattended, get busy, interrupted by something else, maybe even leave the house and forget that it's on," says Waldron.
That has local fire departments like Hastings and Grand Island talking about kitchen fires in particular as they talk safety during Fire Prevention Week.
GIFD is using their mobile safety house to let students experience what it would be like to escape from a home fire, and Hastings is getting kids as young as pre-school into the fire house so they can get to know firefighters and their gear.
"The kids know what they look like, they're not going to hide, they're not going to pull away from them, we want them to come to the firefighter and know that the firefighter is their friend," says Waldron.
GIFD Capt. Ed Carlin says Prevention Week is a way to get families talking about fire safety.
"The main thing is to spark conversation at home with their parents - you know when the kids go home and ask their mom and dad about smoke detectors maybe the parents will realize that they need to add a couple more smoke detectors," says Carlin.
Carlin says it's an important chance to make escape plans, and to pick a meeting place outside the home - a small step that can save many lives.
"Firefighters will do a lot to go in and save a life - they'll risk their own lives, but if we don't have to go into a fire because everyone is out of the house and we can attack the fire from the outside that's always a good scenario," says Carlin.
"If there's a meeting place, if everybody's out there, we go wow! Then we don't have to worry about rescuing someone and it makes our life a whole lot easier," says Waldron.
And with the upcoming Daylight Saving Time change, firefighters say it's a good time to change smoke detector batteries.

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In Part 1 of our interview with Sean Cleary, he talked about learning the hard way why backflow preventers should be placed in an outdoor, above-ground backflow enclosure. He’s the vice president of the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) and the Backflow Prevention Institute (BPI). He shared some of his thoughts with us on backflow enclosures.
In this post, he’s answering a few questions about the cost-effectiveness of above-ground, outdoor backflow enclosures.
Why Should Backflow Preventers Be Outside?
“I’ve seen what a valve can do inside. I’ve seen the flooding that could happen. I’ve seen enough instances of that occurring to understand that large valves definitely do not belong where there’s no drainage capacity for them. I’ve seen fire system backflows installed in penthouses, on roofs of hotels, so they would have the roof to dump out onto because there is no way the building drain could handle the amount of water. If you can install the valve somewhere where it can naturally drain outside of the building—that does make perfect sense.”
Are People Beginning To Move Valves To Outdoor Backflow Enclosures?
“You do see with the education and training that is going on, people are learning their lessons. I mean, more valves are going in backflow enclosures, more valves are going above ground, which, to be honest, is where they belong.”
Are Outdoor, Above-Ground Backflow Enclosures More Cost-Effective?
“For me to test a backflow preventer in a meter vault, as a confined space, it’s going to (increase) the cost of that test. I’m going to need three people, I’m going to need a lift, I’m going to need a harness, I’m going to need to monitor the conditions inside the vault. When you factor all of those things in, on a yearly basis, it makes sense to move it outside and put it in an enclosure.”
Is Testing and Maintenance Easier With a Backflow Enclosure?
“It definitely makes it easier than a pit or a vault. When you’re in a pit or a vault, you have all of those issues related to confined spaces. And in the long run, if you balance the costs, it simply makes more sense to put the valve where it’s accessible because it is a mechanical device that is going to need maintenance. The International Plumbing Code says the valve has to be accessible.”
Cleary says you always have to consider drainage capacity, testing and maintenance. For those reasons alone, your backflow preventer is typically better off outside.
You can find out more about backflow prevention assemblies and where they should be installed by looking through our guide “Trends in Backflow Preventer Installation.” It’s a great resource for anyone responsible for commercial water supply and infrastructure.


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State Senator John A. DeFrancisco (R-I-C, Syracuse) announced that Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation to restore up to $90 million in funding for programs for people with developmental disabilities.
On September 30, 2013, State Senators John A. DeFrancisco and David J. Valesky honored two Onondaga County men who helped rescue a 10-year-old girl, and comfort Lori Bresnahan, after a brutal assault in Clay.
State Senator John A. DeFrancisco (R-I-C, Syracuse) will host his ninth annual Senior Fair on Tuesday, September 24, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Horticulture Building at the New York State Fairgrounds. This informational event is FREE and open to all Central New York senior citizens and their caregivers, who are searching for local programs and services.
The state Health Department has opened its hotline to help customers sign up for New York's health-care exchange. The enrollment period runs from October 1 through March 31. You can reach "NY State of Health" program at 1-855-355-5777. The line will be open Monday through Friday 8 a.m to 5 p.m. Also for more information, please visit www.nystateofhealth.ny.gov.
Senators DeFrancisco & Marcellino To Chair Hearings on Reducing and Reforming NYS Taxes To Ease Burden on Taxpayers and Create Jobs
The state Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator John DeFrancisco (R-C-I, Syracuse), and the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, chaired by Senator Carl L. Marcellino (R, Syosset), have scheduled five statewide public hearings on how New York’s tax policies can be changed to reduce the burden on taxpayers and to help businesses create more jobs.
The PFC Joseph Dwyer Program provides peer-to-peer counseling and assistance to veterans who are living with the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury. Since its inception, the program had been operating in four test counties. Senator John A. DeFrancisco was instrumental in helping to expand the program in the 2013-14 State Budget to additional counties, including Onondaga County. State funding for the program will be routed to Clear Path for Veterans.
New legislation will require all homeowners receiving a Basic STAR exemption to register with the New York State Tax Department in order to receive STAR exemptions in 2014 and subsequent years. Registration will begin on August 19 and continue through December 31, 2013. For more information on this registration requirement, please click on the box below for a STAR fact sheet.
On July 29, 2013, State Senator John A. DeFrancisco (R-I-C, Syracuse) joined Kate McCaffrey, representing Onondaga County public libraries, to announce the individual libraries in Onondaga County that will receive state mini-grants for cultural programming. Last year, Senator DeFrancisco secured $90,000 in state funds to be awarded to libraries in Onondaga County over two years.
Assemblymember Sam Roberts held a press conference on July 26, 2013, with Senator John A. DeFrancisco to urge the Governor to sign into law a bill they authored to reduce the number of part-time hours needed to qualify for the NY Youth Works program (A.7928-A/S.4762-A). The press conference was held at Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, a nationally recognized Syracuse City youth development and dropout prevention program that helps students stay in school and successfully graduate high school ready for post-secondary education and employment.
The New York State Senate passed an historic package of nine bills that would ensure equal pay for women, strengthen laws against human trafficking, provide greater support for victims of domestic violence, stop sexual harassment, and curb discrimination of women in the workplace. The "Women's Equality Agenda" would:
The New York State Senate today gave final passage to legislation (S4777D), sponsored by Senator Martin Golden (R-C, Brooklyn), that would protect providers of services for the developmentally disabled from state funding cuts.The legislation would appropriate up to $90 million, or as much as is needed, to the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) to protect providers from funding reductions if recommended savings measures
Senator John A. DeFrancisco has announced that the New York state Legislature has restored funding cuts to protect people with developmental disabilities.
“When significant budget cuts for people with developmental disabilties were proposed earlier this year, I was very concerned about the impact that the cuts would have on those who live with developmental disabilities,” said Senator John A. DeFrancisco.
Some of the cuts were restored during the budget process, and commitments were made to target the reductions to administrative costs, rather than direct services. To the extent the administrative cuts are not sufficient to cover the remaining budget gap, the bill will completely restore funding for the disabled. Governor Cuomo has committed to sign the bill.
Senator John A. DeFrancisco today announced that his legislation (S4512-A), which would give the city of Syracuse the authority to add unpaid code violation penalties, costs and fines to the property tax bill of the homeowner, passed the Senate.
“By allowing the uncollected fees to be added to the property tax bill of the homeowner, it will reduce the administrative costs associated with collecting delinquent fines,” said Senator DeFrancisco.
Senator John A. DeFrancisco announced today that the New York State Senate has passed his bill (S552) that would authorize public welfare officials to withhold rent from landlords who have not paid their real estate taxes. The bill would give broad discretion to the Department of Social Services.

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SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- A press event for KBS 2TV's new television series "Are You Human Too?" took place in Seoul on May 31, 2018.
The story centers on Nam Shin, a third-generation chaebol heir who falls into a coma following an accident, and his mother, who creates a robot duplicate of him called Nam Shin III.
Actor Seo Kang-joon plays the double role of the sick man and the robot, while Gong plays the man's bodyguard, Kang So-bong.
Producer Cha Young-hoon said the series paints an ironic picture of a world in which a robot exhibits more virtuous human characteristics than actual humans.
"I hope the story raises the question of whether people conveniently ignore many ethical principles that define humanity," he said.
The first episode of the series will air at 10 p.m. on June 4. It succeeds the drama "The Miracle We Met," which ended Tuesday with a 13.1 percent viewership rating.


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BEYOND 2001: New Horizons
Excerpt of animation created for exhibition 'Beyond 2001: New Horizons' (London College of Communication, January 2018).
The exhibition took place in London, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Six animators were then invited to interpret different sections of the film's original introduction, cut out of the final edit, and of which only transcripts remain.
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Alita Serra; Rosa Beira; Matthew Collie; Rodrigo Rodriguez; Jiaqi Wang


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On Friday, Arizona Diamondbacks World Series hero Luis Gonzalez once again made headlines for all the right reasons when he helped an 82-year-old woman escape from her vehicle following a head-on collision in Scottsdale.
Gonzalez and his friend, Art Cuffari, assisted passengers in both vehicles following the accident. Word spread about their heroism after Cuffari posted this video on Twitter.
— Artie (@artcuffari) June 3, 2017
On Tuesday, TMZ Sports posted video of Gonzalez, who's currently an executive assistant to the Diamondbacks' president, explaining the series of events from that Friday afternoon.
"We were just going down the road and we saw a car right in front of us just kind of barreling through, hit the median and jump the curb, and went across the other side of the road and hit a car going the opposite direction head-on," Gonzalez told TMZ.
"(We) jumped out of the car. (My friend) went to the other car and obviously I went to where the elderly lady was. And then the fire started breaking out into the car that hit her. That's when I really started to panic because I was trying to get her out of the car."
At that point, Gonzo tried to get the lady to open the car door. After being unresponsive at first, she was finally able to do so, although she didn't realize what had just happened.
"I told her the car behind me started to catch on fire and we needed to get out," Gonzalez said. "I didn't know if the car was going to blow or anything like that, so I was in a panic also, but trying to get her to stay calm and get her out of the car at the same time."
Gonzalez said the most important thing is no one suffered serious injuries, including the lady he assisted.
"It's just one of those things that you don't really think about it. You just react when it happens. And that's what we did: We just kind of jumped into action," he said.


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Alt-Rock Group, At Any Moment brings a unique flair to the table with new EP 'Letting Go'
Young Lyonne Releases His R&B and Hip-Hop Amalgamating Sound On New Song, "I Forgive You"
MuQaBaLa Permeates a Nostalgic Vibe Over His Debut Single, "Back Ta College"
Artist Spotlight: Xodu$ Wins Us Over with His Charm and Good Vibes
Banshee Continues their Unflinching Sonic Assault on EP "Events Occur in Real Time"
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Are Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani having a baby to "save" their romance? That's what one of this week's tabloids is claiming. Gossip Cop, however, can exclusively shoot down the false and flawed report.
According to the National Enquirer, "A baby is bringing battling lovebirds Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton back together." The supermarket tabloid, which has published several provably untrue stories about the couple, then quotes a so-called "source close to the musical duo" as alleging, "Gwen is committed to having a child and Blake has no intention of letting her be a single mom." The same either completely misinformed or possible made-up "source" further maintains, "They've had their share of conflicts, but Blake… knows how badly she wanted a child… He wasn't about to let her go it alone."
Seemingly operating in a totally different universe, the magazine goes on to claim without any proof whatsoever that Blake had "recently walked out" on their relationship. And after somewhat deceptively pointing out how "the couple has not been pictured in public since July 30," the tabloid asserts they seemed "very tense" at the People's Choice Awards on November 11, and only interacted "when the cameras were on them." But now that Stefani is exploring various avenues for having a baby, contends the outlet, Shelton has "come running back to her side."
The article's entire premise, however, is a giant fib. Stefani and Shelton were never "battling," nor have they "had their share of conflicts." The country singer also never "walked out" on Stefani. Tellingly, the often discredited magazine doesn't offer one single example of something they've fought over. The reality is their relationship has, by all accounts, been rock solid and loving for the past three years.
And while the tabloid carefully parses words about how they haven't been "pictured in public since July 30," the truth is they spend virtually all their free time together and sometimes share those private moments on social media. Just a week before the People's Choice Awards, for instance, Shelton posted a photo on Instagram of him and Stefani chilling by a fire pit on his ranch in Oklahoma. On the topic of the PCAs, the magazine is simply regurgitating a false narrative its sister publication, Life & Style, tried to push about Shelton and Stefani's relationship being in trouble and them only faking it for the cameras.
What would their motivation be for pretending? And if they truly were unhappy together, why would Stefani have attended the awards show when she could have easily stayed home? Also, if their relationship were so bad, why would Shelton have kissed her after he won an award and then publicly proclaim before millions of viewers, "I love her," during his acceptance speech?
As opposed to the magazine's phony assertion, Shelton never had to "come running back to her side." He's been by Stefani since November 2015. Unlike the tabloid, which relies on falsehoods uttered by an unnamed and seemingly fabricated "source," a rep for Stefani has repeatedly told Gossip Cop their relationship is perfectly intact.
Curiously, the frequently disproven publication doesn't mention in its current article some of the related stories it got dead wrong in the past year. For instance, just one month ago, Gossip Cop busted the outlet when it falsely swore up and down in a cover story that Stefani and Shelton had split up. In that work of fiction, the tabloid similarly maintained the alleged breakup took place after "constant fighting and two months apart." But as noted above, they're often together, as witnessed in a video Stefani shared on Instagram in which Shelton serenaded her on her tour bus. The No Doubt singer captioned that footage, "I'm so grateful."
Also glaringly omitted in the new article is the magazine's story from earlier this year that falsely contended Stefani suffered a miscarriage with Shelton's baby. At the time, Stefani's spokesperson exclusively told Gossip Cop that the Enquirer disgustingly "made up" the claim. Regardless of whether they ultimately have a baby or not, their romance does not need saving. We have reached out for official comments about the latest tall tale.
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