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Temu, the controversial Chinese e-commerce giant, wants to take it over AmazonHe returns to the big game on Sunday with a Super Bowl ad that lawmakers are calling for Paramount Global and CBS isn’t running.
The company, owned by PDD holdingsrose to rapid notoriety last year after running an ad during the big game just months after its founding.
Last year’s advertising touted Temu’s low prices and urged consumers to shop “like a billionaire.” The multi-million dollar investment put Temu on the map and by the end of 2023 it was the #1 most downloaded app in the US with monthly active users exceeding 51 million in January, up nearly 300% year over year, according to data from Sensor Tower.
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The details of this year’s ad have not yet been revealed, but it is already mired in controversy.
The company wants to win over U.S. shoppers by being the next best “everything store” with lower prices than competitors, but lawmakers say it uses slave labor in its supply chain and spies on its customers.
On Wednesday, 11 Republican lawmakers sent a letter to the CEOs of CBS, which airs the Super Bowl, and parent company Paramount, urging them not to run the ad.
“Since last year’s Super Bowl, Congress, through the House of Representatives Special Committee on the Chinese Community Caucus, has uncovered alarming findings indicating that Temu has a pattern of non-compliance with illegal products entering the U.S. market,” it said Write.
“In particular, Temu does not have a system in place to ensure compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). This virtually guarantees that shipments from Temu containing products made using forced labor will regularly enter the United States in violation of the UFLPA,” it said, citing the House committee report.
Airing Temu’s commercial “would be a touchdown for the Chinese Communist Party against the home team,” the letter said.
The letter was sent by Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.V., and signed by Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., Jim Banks, R-Ind., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Christopher Smith, R-N.J. signed ., Pete Stauber, R-Minn., Ronny Jackson, R-Tex., Michelle Steel, R-Calif., Beth Van Duyne, R-Tex., James Baird, R-Ind. and Mike Carey, R-Ohio.
Paramount and CBS declined to comment.
Temu, along with Shein and other clothing retailers with production sites in China, have been under investigation by the Chinese Communist Party’s House of Representatives Special Committee since May.
While cotton and other raw materials derived from forced labor remain a problem throughout the fashion industry, Shein regularly provides data on how often banned cotton appears in its garments and publishes the results of the audits it conducts on its manufacturers . Other retailers also publish audit results.
Temu has not yet made such data publicly available.
“Company officials casually point to standard terms and conditions requiring suppliers not to use forced labor, but Temu does not conduct audits and has no compliance system in place to prevent supporting atrocities,” said committee member and Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo ., in a Friday bulletin. “The company even admitted that it “does not expressly prohibit third-party sellers from selling products based on their origin from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region” and completely disregards the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Law.”
In a statement to CNBC, Lütkemeyer called Temu’s ad “disgusting.”
“Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials as much as the game. “It is disgusting to think that a company based on slave labor and with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party would suddenly make a direct appeal to millions of Americans,” Lütkemeyer said. “I hope that when people see it, it will only draw attention to the sinister backgrounds of Temu and Pinduoduo. A conspicuous advertisement for the site’s cheap products is lipstick on the ugliest pig in existence.”
In response, a Temu spokesperson told CNBC that its standards and practices related to the use of forced labor “are no different from those of major e-commerce players such as Amazon.” Ebay And Etsy“and the allegations “are completely unfounded.”
“Before opening their stores and listing products on Temu, each seller must sign an agreement. “This document represents a commitment to maintaining lawful and compliant business operations and strictly adhering to the legal standards and regulations of its specific markets,” a spokesperson said.
“The use of forced, penal or child labor is strictly prohibited. The employment of all our dealers and suppliers must be strictly voluntary. They must respect freedom of association and workers’ right to collective bargaining. Temus dealers, suppliers and other third parties The parties must pay their employees and contractors on a timely basis and comply with all applicable local wage and hour laws.”


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Di Morrissey is one of Australia's most successful writers, with more than 2 million books sold. Her books have touched the hearts and emotions of readers around the world. Rain Music, is her latest novel which will be published in November.
Enjoy Devonshire Tea as Di talks about her latest book and life as an author. Caroline Hutchinson will be Master of Ceremonies at this event.
About the Author:
Di trained as a journalist, working in newspapers, magazines, television, film, theatre and advertising around the world.
It was her fascination with different countries; their landscape, their cultural, political and environmental issues that has been the catalyst for her novels which are all inspired by a particular landscape.
About the book:
Rain Music is a classic Australian tale of secrets, adventure and family.
Following the sudden death of their father, Ned and Bella Chisholm each face uncertain futures. When Ned takes off to pursue his musical dreams in Far North Queensland, Bella follows seeking her own answers to a dark family schism. In lush Cooktown, they are each rocked by tumultuous changes and forced to make choices to redefine their lives.
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Let’s Get Digital: Top 3 Findings from Arbitron Survey
Nearly 90 percent of U.S. households have access to the Internet. Two-thirds of homes with Internet access have Wi-Fi network. More than half of Americans 12 years and older have a Facebook page. These are just some of the highlights that Arbitron, a radio rating and media research company, and Edison Research released in the results of their recent survey, Navigating Digital Platforms.
The survey combines a cross section of previous research spanning thirteen years of inquiries into traditional, new, and digital media preferences and user habits.
Here are the three top takeaway trends, discoveries, and significant implications that will affect marketing decisions today and tomorrow.
1. The growth of smartphones requires a re-evaluation of customer relationships. Smartphone ownership has tripled since 2009. Now, 31 percent of 12+ year olds, nearly 50 percent of 18-34 year olds, and 39 percent of 35-44 year olds own a smartphone. Nearly 6 in 10 smartphone owners say they would give up television before giving up their smartphone.
Businesses must be prepared to accommodate smartphone users by implementing marketing tactics and incentives, like a website designed for mobile functionality.
2. Social media proficiency should become a skill set. It’s essential today for companies to follow these three rules: establish a social media policy; consider requesting social media experience when hiring new employees; and assign social media duties to principals or staff members.
Facebook is on a trajectory to become a mainstream media platform. Every business should have a Facebook page and they should be engaging their customers’ interaction.
3. Digital platforms are helping Americans consume more of all forms of media. HD, XM and satellite radio, Pandora, and Internet video are not taking away from traditional radio listeners and TV viewers. According to the survey these digital resources are just providing additional options for consumers to get an added variety of their audio and video content.
Below is an overview of the digital platform landscape: 2001 vs. 2011.
This chart demonstrates that though very little movement has occurred in television and radio users/owners since 2001, access to online radio and online video has more than doubled.
One of the most intriguing outcomes from this study is that although new platforms and devices have made their way into everyday lives, they have had little impact on TV viewership and radio listenership.
The study found that the majority of 12-34 year olds turn to the internet first for music discovery, while radio leads among 35+ year olds. Digital audio users spend as much time with radio as the average listener, not less. Heavy usage of one medium is not necessarily associated with less time with other media. The combined time spent per day with radio, TV and Internet has increased 20 percent since 2001. (2001: 6 hours, 50 minutes; 2011: 8 hours, 11 minutes).
Consumers have quickly embraced online technology as a resource. Marketers must embrace it as well, and use research like this to help prepare and direct our messaging effectively.
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Tyianna "Davarea" AlexanderAge 28
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Chicago, Illinois (USA)
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Tyianna was one of two people shot and killed by a gunman in a vehicle at around 5am on Wednesday 6th January. She died at the scene and Brandon Gowdy, 31, died in hospital.
A Black transgender woman from Chicago was shot to death earlier this month, marking the second recent murder of a trans woman in the city.
Davarea Alexander, 28, who was also known as Tyianna, was one of two individuals who were shot and killed near a railroad line at 817 West 75th Street, police told Gay City News. The other victim, who was 31 years old, was shot in the lower left side and upper left bicep.
So far, there’s not enough information available to indicate whether the killing of Alexander was motivated by anti-trans bias. The killing came just weeks after a different trans woman, Courtney “Eshay” Key, was fatally shot to death in Chicago on Christmas.
“It’s really difficult to prove unless you have someone in custody,” Sally Brown, a public information officer for the Chicago Police Department, said in an interview with Gay City News. “It’s just so hard to classify something as a hate crime without a lot of evidence pointing to that.”
Chicago police — who originally misgendered Alexander — did not directly respond to a question about whether the 31-year-old victim was transgender. The Chicago Police Department currently does not have a process for collecting a victim’s gender identity. Instead, they conflate gender with a person’s sex assigned at birth. Brown said officers were not trying to “insult” the victim but were documenting the sex listed on her government-issued ID.
“I know people were upset about that at first, but that’s the reasoning behind it. We’re very sensitive to those things,” Brown said. “It’s just they have to put something down on the report like that.”
Meanwhile, police have yet to make headway in solving Key’s death. Nobody has been taken into custody and sources told the Chicago Tribune the motive is unclear, but Key’s family believes she was killed because she was a trans woman. The family is requesting that the department investigate the case as a hate crime.
Two months earlier on 6th November Tyianna's car had been shot at while she was driving. On that occasion she had escaped without injury.
Tyianna's Facebook profiles are https://www.facebook.com/tyianna.alexander.35/ and https://www.facebook.com/davarea.alexander/. Her Instagram profile is https://www.instagram.com/tyiannaalexander27/.

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Jordan School District holds public hearing on proposed tax hike
Jul 30, 2019, 12:28 PM
RIVERTON — It’s time for people to weigh in on proposed tax hikes, and Monday night, the Jordan School District got an earful.
The meeting at Riverton High school got a little tense at times when people disagreed about the proposal to raise property taxes in the Jordan School District.
“I support teachers getting pay raises but enough is enough,” said resident Corey Nebeker. “This is seven people deciding how much money they are going to take from our checks.”
But others say good teachers will leave their district to get more pay somewhere else.
“The vote has to be yes or (we) will lose teachers to other districts,” said Shirleen Larsen to KSL TV. She’s a teacher and mother of students living within the district boundaries. “The other districts have not given the public as much input as Jordan has. Everywhere else, it’s passing.”
The Davis and Canyons school districts will hold truth-in-taxation hearings on August 6. Murray plans to hold its public tax meeting on August 8. The Park City School District has a meeting scheduled for August 20 about proposed property tax hikes.


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TOMRA Sorting Food specialises in the manufacture of sensor-based sorting machines and post-harvest solutions for the food industry.
The machines are designed for processing a wide range of products, including fruit and dried fruit, seeds, meat, poultry, gummies, nuts, potatoes, seafood, vegetables and tobacco.
The company’s innovative sorting technologies utilise advanced peeling, analysis and grading technologies to precisely sort products and optimise production flow.
Sorters for the food processing industry
TOMRA Sorting Food offers an efficient, high-capacity solution for sorting food products that assures consistently high-quality food.
The sensor-based sorting solutions are designed to boost processing capacity and availability, as well as quality and food safety. Their energy-efficient design helps optimise yield and recovery and reduce waste.
The Field Potato Sorting Machine (FPS) is a robust potato sorter that removes soil clods, stones and other foreign materials. Its unique vision system precisely separates unwanted materials, including glass, metal, rubber and plastic at high unloading speeds. It has applications with white, brown, yellow, red and purple varieties, as well as seed, processing and speciality potatoes.
The Genius™ Sorting Machine is an optical belt sorting machine that utilises multiple sorting technologies for a wide range of food products. The unit is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the food industry and individual food processors. It removes discoloured products and foreign materials to ensure high food quality consistently throughout its service life.
Benefits of TOMRA’s food sorting machines include:
- An increased processing capacity
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- Lower labour costs
- Consistent high quality food and safety
- Ease of use and reliability
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TOMRA Sorting Food offers a wide range of peeling solutions for the removal of skin from vegetables and fruit, including potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, swedes, celery, red beets, peppers, pumpkins and chilli.
With more than 40 years of experience in potato and root vegetable peeling, TOMRA Sorting Food’s machines can handle between 1,000kg and 65,000kg of product an hour, catering to all production scales. Focus is placed on improving efficiency, yield and food quality, as well as reducing peel loss.
Benefits of TOMRA’s steam peeling equipment include:
- Highly consistent and quick peeling times for a wide range of vegetables
- Reduction of product waste with a precise peel
- High-performance solutions with real-time adjustment
- Low operating and maintenance costs
- High yield due to optimal steam supply and steam exhaust
Inspection solutions for the vegetable and meat industry
TOMRA specialises in inspection solutions with process analytics and in-line analysers.
The company has 10,000 food sorters installed worldwide and offers a support and service network.
The Blizzard Sorting Machine is a cost-effective unit for processing individually quick-frozen (IQF) vegetables and fruit. It provides consistent inspection abilities to ensure misshaped and discoloured products are removed, as well as unwanted foreign objects. The machine is also easy-to-use with its intuitive graphical interface.
The QV-P in-line analyser is designed to quickly identify muscle myopathy in chicken fillets, removing them from the manufacturing line to improve product quality. The machine utilises multi-spectral lights for processing at high speeds. It can also accurately grade chicken, reducing the need for labour-intensive manual checks.
More than 8,000 food growers, packers and manufacturers worldwide have benefitted from TOMRA Sorting Foods’ sorting, peeling and inspection solutions. The company aims to improve its client’s returns, operational efficiency and food safety through the prevision of sophisticated, innovative technologies.
TOMRA Sorting Food is a member of the TOMRA Group. The company has installations is more than 80 markets, reaching revenues of Nkr7.4bn. The group focuses on providing innovative solutions within its Collection Solutions and Sorting Solutions business areas. TOMRA’s sorting solutions help increase the yield of produce by around 10%, which is the equivalent of 25,000 trucks of potatoes every year.
TOMRA Sorting Food operates centres of excellence, regional offices and production facilities within the US, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia.

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Laois hurling manager Eamon Kelly has made two changes and a raft of positional switches ahead of Sunday’s trip to face league leaders Wexford.
Borris-Kilcotton’s Eoin Fleming replaces Abbeyleix’s Eoin Fleming in goals while Clough-Ballacolla’s Lee Cleere comes into the full back line with Paddy Whelan dropping out.
Cleere’s inclusion sees Cahir Healy move to the half back line while Ross King and Paddy Purcell will form a new midfield partnership.
This sees Cian Taylor and Ben Conroy move to the half forward line while Aaron Dunphy will wear the number 15 shirt.
Laois can still qualify for the quarter finals if they can manage to beat Davy Fitzgerald’s Wexford side.
However, with the recent fortunes of the two teams, it seems most likely that Laois will be heading for a relegation playoff with either Offaly or Kerry.
LAOIS TEAM IN FULL:
1. Eoin Fleming (Borris-in-Ossory-Kilcotton)
2. Lee Cleere (Clough Ballacolla)
3. Leigh Bergin (Shanahoe)
4. Dwane Palmer (Camross)
5. Cahir Healy (Portlaoise)
6. Ryan Mullaney (Castletown)
7. Sean Downey (Ballinakill)
8. Ross King (Rathdowney Errill)
9. Patrick Purcell (Rathdowney Errill)
10. Cian Taylor (Portlaoise)
11. Charles Dwyer (Ballinakill)
12. Ben Conroy (Slieve Bloom)
13. Willie Dunphy (Clough Ballacolla)
14. Neil Foyle (Borris-in-Ossory-Kilcotton)
15. Aaron Dunphy (Borris-in-Ossory-Kilcotton)

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — In less than two weeks schools across KELOLAND will begin welcoming students back into the classroom. This week on Inside KELOLAND we are focusing on student health ahead of the new school year.
We sit down with Sanford doctor Jeremy Cauwels to discuss COVID-19 and going back to school.
Sitting down with clinical mental health counselor Katelynn Beldin to discuss mental health and children.
We spoke with Hy-Vee dietician Melissa Vondrak on what parents need to keep in mind when it comes to healthy eating.
Back to school means student athletes are gearing up for fall sports. A local study could have a big impact on youth football across the country.

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OLATHE, Kansas –– Recognizing his leadership on law enforcement issues, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe and Sheriff Frank Denning announced Tuesday their endorsement of Gov. Sam Brownback for a second term in office.
Howe and Denning, the top law enforcement officials in the largest county in Kansas, told a gathering on the grounds of the Johnson County Courthouse that Brownback has a proven record of working with prosecutors and law enforcement to address pressing issues that affect public safety.
“The governor has always provided support for those who work in public safety,” Howe said. “Thank you for making public safety a top priority.”
The Republican governor thanked Howe and Denning for their support and praised their efforts to combat human trafficking and drugs in the county, as well as working with his administration and legislators to make common sense changes to state law.
“This election is about choices. I’m proud of our record of standing as a strong partner with local law enforcement to give them the tools to fight crime and protect victims,” Brownback said. “I will continue to work to fight the scourges of human trafficking and illegal drugs that lurk the back rooms and dark alleys of our state.”
Joining the Governor at the event was Olathe Mayor Mike Copeland and Attorney General Derek Schmidt. The governor also toured the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistic Laboratory.
Denning said the Governor’s support to give law enforcement the tools and training to effectively fight crime was making a difference.
“Being sheriff, my first obligation is the public’s safety. Governor Brownback has worked to ensure that communities are safe and remain safe,” Denning said. “I’m a strong advocate for what he has done for criminal justice and law enforcement on a daily basis.”
Governor Brownback has a record of fighting human trafficking. As U.S. Senator in 2000 he was a co-sponsor of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which provides federal funding for anti-trafficking provisions and new assistance programs. The act also provides severe punishment for persons convicted of operating trafficking enterprises in the United States and possibility of punishment for those located in other countries.
As Governor, he worked with Attorney General Derek Schmidt, legislators, prosecutors and law enforcement to strengthen Kansas human trafficking laws and end the exploitation of women and children. That included stronger penalties for those convicted of human trafficking, as well as programs to provide assistance to the victims of these horrible crimes.
In 2013, Governor Brownback acted quickly to call a special session to address the state’s Hard 50 prison sentence following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Virginia case that had implications on Kansas law. He kept legislators on task and on time, finishing their work and reinstating the law.
“This gave prosecutors the ability to insure that some of the most heinous murderers never walk the streets again,” Howe said.
The Governor also signed a law in 2014 that reformed the state’s premeditated murder law to be a minimum of 50 years in prison without the possibility of parole, ensuring harsher punishment for the worst of crimes.
Brownback also signed a bill that authorized that state’s partnership with Washburn University to build a new crime lab for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that will increase the state’s capacity to collect, process and preserve evidence in criminal cases and increase the speed of justice.

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In 2007, Portikus, an exhibition space in Frankfurt, presented “Ben van Berkel & the Theatre of Immanence”, a combined exhibition and architectural installation wherein different parts were synthesized into a complete whole. We developed a projection work, “On Things Off Things On”, that elaborated on the installation by dynamically embellishing it with moving images which activated its surfaces.
The exhibition presented a theater or communication space between the visitors and the exhibited works, the virtual and the real, and the visitors in the gallery and the different parts of the exhibition.
The architectural installation was designed by Ben van Berkel together with Johan Bettum and Luis Etchegorry and consisted of an upper level, which served as a type of theater, and a lower level, a more traditional exhibition space. The two levels were separated by a volumetric surface, which was perforated by open holes to visually and audibly connect the two areas.
The installation also served as a hub for various events including lectures, art-performances, talks with invited guests, and broadcasts of DJ-sessions.
The projection work, “On Things Off Things On”, is a case study in augmented architecture. It is an attempt to create a reactive surface of extraordinary spatial complexity.
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On the Hill: Professor Shon Hopwood Advocates for Entrepreneurship for Ex-Offenders
November 13, 2019
“I committed a violent crime. But I am not a violent criminal.”
That’s part of the standard introduction offered by Georgetown Law Professor Shon Hopwood ― who as a young man was convicted of bank robbery and spent more than a decade in federal prison.
Hopwood recently testified on reintegrating ex-convicts into society during a congressional hearing of the House Committee on Small Business in October titled “Prison to Proprietorship: Entrepreneurship Opportunities for the Formerly Incarcerated,” which was held at the Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington.
Hopwood studied the law in prison, going so far as to get two cert petitions granted by the U.S. Supreme Court. After his 2009 release, he earned a J.D. as a Gates Public Service Law Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law before clerking for Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Today, he’s an appellate lawyer and an associate professor of law at Georgetown Law. But on the Hill, Hopwood discussed his presumptions concerning his acceptance by society, as well as his employment prospects, upon his re-entry.
What he found was that having served his sentence didn’t matter to society, and that ex-offenders struggle to obtain affordable housing and stable employment, especially since many lack education. Those barriers often lead to more offenses and repeated trips down that same path “95 percent” of the time, he said.
Hopwood feels the passing of the entrepreneurship bill would address the unemployment issue, since the rate of ex-convicts is “five times higher” than that of the average American.
“For many people that come out, particularly those who have committed violent offenses and sex offenses, entrepreneurship is the only way for them to get gainful employment,” he said, “and so because this bill will get at that particular problem, I encourage [Congress] to pass this into law.”
Hopwood offered his appreciation for the passing of the First Step Act, which gives non-violent offenders a chance to reenter society. Calling it “still quite modest reform,” he added, “It’s the best criminal justice reform bill to come out of Congress in my lifetime.”
Still, “we need so much more” to reduce the recidivism rate of the “600,000 people” coming out of American prisons each year, he said.
Character is not static, he said. “People change and the law should recognize this and we should be in the business of giving second chances to people coming out of prison.”


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How to Promote Gut Health
If you’re suffering from digestive issues, understanding how to improve your gut health is important. This article will provide tips on how to eat a balanced and avoid hidden monosaccharides. Avoid processed foods, sugar, and NSAIDs. Take a wide range of whole foods that are rich in polyphenols and away from drugs like aspirin. Your digestive tract is composed of billions of bacteria, and it’s essential to ensure it is well-functioning and healthy.
Diversify your diet
One of the most effective ways to boost the health of your gut microbiome is to diversify your diet. Western diets are characterized by a lack of variety due to high levels of sugar, fat, and processed foods. However, a varied diet will promote the growth of beneficial bacteria. Make sure you are eating whole fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to broaden the range of your diet. These foods can be incorporated into your meals and snacks.
American food is full of processed foods, sugars and dairy products with high fat content. These foods can cause our digestive systems to work harder, which can cause toxic by-products to accumulate. In addition, diets that are high in refined and processed carbohydrates cause inflammation and decreased microbiome diversity. A varied diet can to improve digestion and overall health. You can improve your gut health by including more fruits and vegetables in your meals every day.
Beware of Monosaccharides with hidden sources
You can make dietary changes to cut down on hidden sources of monosaccharides, and improve your gut health. Focus on eating fermented vegetables and unprocessed meat, as well as fiber-rich vegetables. Certain foods can cause damage to the beneficial bacteria that reside in your gut. If you’re looking for a diet plan that improves gut health, consider cutting out foods that cause digestive symptoms like gluten and sugar. Probiotic supplements can also be an option. Probiotic supplements can help build beneficial bacteria in your body. Chronic stress can damage the beneficial bacteria that live in your gut.
Research has demonstrated that a diet high on fiber and omega-3 fat acids can help reduce the amount of pro-inflammatory bacteria found in the gut. Gut health is also improved through flavonoids. Flavonoids are plentiful in foods that belong to the cabbage family soups, vegetable broths, as well as other vegetables. These are important to promote healthy gut bacteria. Drink plenty of water, stay clear of drinking alcohol and limit consumption of processed foods.
Eat foods rich in polyphenols
Polyphenols are a kind of antioxidant found in a broad range of plants. They protect the body from diseases and also have beneficial effects on the microbiome. Polyphenols are particularly abundant in colorful fruits and vegetables. A diet that is rich in vegetables and fruits is beneficial for those at lower risk of developing diseases. Try to include more natural foods in your diet, such as fruits and vegetables and stay clear of foods that are processed or that contain added chemicals.
Flavonoids are the largest class of polyphenols. They include quercetin, which is well-known and anthocyanin. Both black and green teas have high levels of polyphenols. Certain of these compounds are known to possess anti-cancer properties. Here are some tips to help you incorporate enough polyphenols in your diet.
While NSAIDs are commonly prescribed to treat pain, they may have adverse effects on the gut. Inflammation can cause bleeding, ulcers and other symptoms and they may contribute to long-term digestive issues which include leaky gut syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, and Crohn’s disease. To ensure gut health and avoid side effects, it is best to stay away from NSAIDs.
While antibiotics are an effective treatment for serious bacterial infections they are often misused and over-used. The use of antibiotics is only prescribed by your doctor and should not be used for self-treatment. The normal bacterial balance of the gut is disrupted by antibiotics and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). This is why avoiding NSAIDs is vital to promote gut health.
Drink fermentable fiber
One of the most effective ways to improve your health is to eat more fiber. This is not a hard task, and you’ll discover a variety of sources of fiber, including fruits and vegetables Whole grains, as well as VINA sodas. All of these foods contribute to a healthy gut microbiome. Alongside helping you feel fuller fiber is essential to keep cholesterol levels in check and helping to lower blood pressure.
Recent advancements in microbiome research have led to a growing number of prebiotic and probiotic ingredients that can improve gut health. The research continues to show that the fermentation of prebiotics can improve the immune system as well as improve blood cholesterol levels. Although the exact role of these supplements is yet to be determined however, there are numerous advantages. One study has found that fermentable fibers could improve the control of glycemic levels, while other studies didn’t show any effects.
In a study that was just published, researchers from the University of New Mexico found that regular exercise is beneficial for the gut health. Exercise can promote healthy growth of bacteria, which is crucial for our overall well-being. This is a good thing, as it can improve our mood and psychological well-being. It also plays a crucial role in neurogenesis, which ensures the growth of new neural connections in the brain. The kind of exercise you choose should also promote gut health.
The effects of exercise on gut microbiome were discovered in a study which was conducted on two previously inactive people and women for six months. Both groups showed improvement in the composition of gut bacteria as well as higher levels of compounds that are physiologically relevant. Both aerobic exercise with high intensity and voluntary wheel-running led to an increase in the amount of bacteria in the gut. But while these results are promising, they must be confirmed by more studies.


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Nautilus Mobile will bring you to lead your favorite Australian T20 team to battle with opponents and win in the match of Bash Down Under which is the biggest cricketing competition
At first, just select your favorite team which consists of a lot of superstars then compete against the best rivals to get your own champion
To be the top of this game, just use all arsenal consisting of 27 cricketing shots to experience the most dynamic sport on your mobile devices.
In related to the control options, you will be served with some buttons to move your teams in the field
With Virtual D Pad, you can easily select the direction in which your player wants to hit the ball in which you can move and place the ball cursor to a desired position with this control button.
Also, you can set The Virtual D-Pad to dynamic or static one, and you can toggle this by accessing settings.
And, when the bowler starts his run-up, you can simply hold as dynamic control or move as static control that you can sue with the joystick towards the direction of which your player wants to hit the ball.
On the other side, using shot buttons will allow you to execute the kind of shot that you want to hit.
At this point, when the ball is in the “hitting” area, you can merely tap shot button to hit the ball to your desire spot.
Here, the “timing” of this execution is important, as you will be able to get the best result based on your shot at the ball.
Once hitting the ball with perfect shot, you can see the timing meter that displays how well you have timed your shot
At this point, Perfect Timing usually gets you to the best results
Meanwhile, you can use OK button to confirm the various elements that you will need to bowl such as bat, cursor, position, speed and movement
If you want to change the ﬁeld setting, you can just tap on the mini ﬁeld view as this will show you the current ﬁeld setting
In addition, movement meter will indicate the swing or spin when you want to hit the ball
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BENGALURU: Karnataka recorded 149 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, crossing the 100-mark in 24 hours for the first time. With this, the total number of cases in the state stands at 1,395.
The highest number of cases — 71 — during the day was reported from Mandya, followed by 22 from Davanagere, 13 Kalaburagi, 10 Shivamogga, six Bengaluru, five Bagalkot, four each from Udupi and Uttara Kannada, three Hassan and one each from Bidar, Vijayapura, Raichur, Yadgir, Gadag and Chitradurga.
Chikkamagaluru district, in the green zone till now, reported five cases: A doctor, a pregnant woman and three Mumbai returnees. Only Ramanagara and Chamarajnagar districts are untouched by Covid-19 in the state now.
Of the 149 new patients, 113 (or 75%) had travel history to other states: 105 to Maharashtra, three each to Gujarat and Kerala and one each to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. All 71 positive cases of Mandya are linked to Mumbai.
3 Covid deaths in 24 hours
Three Covid-19 patients — one each from Ballari, Vijayapura and Bengaluru — died in the past 24 hours. All three were male and had comorbidities. Karnataka now has 40 Covid-19 fatalities. A 61-year-old man with travel history to Bengaluru died in Ballari. He had developed severe acute respiratory infection, besides suffering from cardiac ailments and undergoing a surgery.
A 65-year-old man from Viajyapura, who suffered from hypertension, diabetes mellitus and heart ailment, was brought dead to a hospital in Vijayapura on May 18. His throat swab taken for testing turned out to be positive on Tuesday.
In Bengaluru, a 54-yearold man admitted to a private hospital with cardiac issues died on May 18. His reports came positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. Sixty-eight of the freshly infected are women.


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This ongoing trilogy tells the story of Tessa Young, an optimistic freshman at Washington State University, and the dark, troubled guy who has stolen her heart. After is reading that you can’t get enough of: a story as addictive as TV with new chapters added every few days. It is mobile: you read it on your phone and receive notifications for every new chapter. It is also social, with fans commenting on the story and messaging the writer directly as the story is being written. Only on Wattpad.
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Twilight was always the best time of the day. In summer it fell late; hung suspended a full hour after dinner was over, waited patiently for the neighborhood to venture outside to enjoy it. And when the dishes were cleaned up and put away, while the fathers were leisurely perusing their evening papers and peacefully puffing on their cigars, the mothers would escape from housework for a time and come out to relax on their peeling painted front porches in the darkening light, relishing the cool breeze which would waft away the sweat of kitchen life. They would sit, two or three or maybe four of them at a time, and talk abstractedly together and watch their children play, allowing them even to stay out past dark, because their mothers were sitting right there watching them, making sure they were safe.
It was only on nights like these that she got to see the streetlights turning on, waking one by one for their night’s work. She loved that. How simple a thing each day to create, after a nearly-imperceptible sunset occurring beyond the hills around the town, this half an hour of silent electrical beauty. The lamps nestled amongst the trees would brighten first, scattering the evening that grew dimmest fastest in their natural shadows. And as dusk settled in, as if lit in roundabout succession by a dazed firefly which drifted distractedly from the trees to the sidewalk to the road, each in turn blinked tranquilly, almost naturally, into an evening of life.
Their street was lined with trees of all kinds, though she couldn’t identify any of them but the maples, which littered the gutters and sidewalks with helicopter seeds in the spring. But the unnamed foliage which merely shaded the street during the day enchanted it at night. There was one particularly magical section of road just a block up from her house, where one of the electrical light-poles was isolated from the others. In summer, when the coat of leaves arraying the occupants of the tree-belt was thick and full, it stood like a lonely sentinel earnest in its duty, casting its beam in the center of a vast shadow the other streetlights could not or would not penetrate, describing a near-perfect circle of yellowish brightness on the asphalt.
She would strap on her tag-sale roller-skates and head for that spot, telling her mother only that she wouldn’t go far, knowing that she would be hidden from view by the hedge lining the neighbor’s yard and that idiosyncratic bend in the road. She was a good child, and worthy of trust. But if her behavior was open, her thoughts were kept secret. Private dreams and imaginings were her own.
With a thrill of apprehension, she would approach that spotlit stage, pausing with trepidation in the shadows at its edge before daring to expose herself to the circle of light. Then, abruptly, it would happen; she would be drawn irresistibly into it. Skating shyly at first, in simple ovals, and, when she had gathered her nerve, daring to progress to figure eights. Wise she felt, tracing infinity with the motions of her body, wise enough even to pretend that her surface was smooth, her steps inaudible, her very presence undetectable. And when at last she had forgotten the fathers, and the mothers, and the neighbors, and was aware only of the dark, and the light, and the street, then it would come, the highlight of her performance: right leg extended in a slow perpendicular, erect in what she imagined was a perfect arabesque, maintained until her momentum bore her resolutely into the shadows. It was the only move she knew, but it was the only one she needed. For she was strong, she was beautiful, she was graceful. Even if it was only in twilight that it showed.
Then her mother’s familiar shrill tongue-whistle would sound, and she would hurry back home, the scarred rubber wheels rolling roughly and noisily across the worn asphalt, the memory of her performance still replaying itself before her eyes. She would sleep well that night.
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Britain’s Beth Potter won gold for the first time at a World Championship event when landing the opening WTCS race of the season in fine style in Abu Dhabi as the qualifying process for the Paris Olympics got under way.
The campaign began where it ended in 2022, with perfect conditions greeting a huge women’s field – with World Champion Flora Duffy the one notable big name not lining up.
Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR), wearing the No 1 bid, was only 15th – the first time since 2019 that she’s been outside the top two in a WTCS event.
Swim – Coldwell in control until penalty
The swim was all about Coldwell who was to the fore from the outset – literally!
Leading it out she strung out the big pack behind her and was out of the water first in 9:27 for the 750 metres but at exactly the moment she reached dry land it emerged she’d been hit with a 10-second penalty for going into the water too early.
She had to serve that in T1 but such was her swim display, she was still able to get in the front group on the bike with the five women who had been just behind her – Vittoria Lopes (BRZ), Summer Rappaport (USA), Lena Meißner (GER), plus Spivey and Potter..
Bike – Six of the best see off the rest
Unlike the WTCS Grand Final last November, the bike course was now back on the F1 course and the front six from the swim were quickly able to assert.
It didn’t take them long to hammer home their advantage either, opening up a lead of 24 seconds to what was a huge chase group after the first of five 4km loops.
But the size of that group proved unweildy and the gap went further and further out – up to 28 seconds after lap two, then 36 seconds and 47 seconds before it shrank a fraction to 45 seconds at T2.
Would that be too much with just 5km to come?
Run – Duel in the sun
With the likes of Potter in that front group with her run prowess (she set an unofficial world record of 14:41 in 2021) the deficit was always likely to be too much for the chasers to overcome and so it proved.
The front six were initially locked together, with Lopes the first to drop back. But the other five were all in close contact until towards the end of the first of two laps when Potter kicked on an incline.
That suddenly changed the whole complexion, with big gaps appearing and Coldwell the only one to stay in range. Indeed she did more than that as she managed to get back up to Potter and it soon became apparent that pair had it between them, with Spivey a distant third.
Potter and Coldwell were neck and neck for much of the last lap until the exact point where the former had kicked on the opening loop and the tactic paid dividends as it effectively put the race to bed.
As well as Potter’s first WTCS victory, it was also a best display yet in the series for Coldwell after three bronzes, while Spivey was also delighted with her podium after a series of fourth places.
And the dominance of the break was illustrated as the top five positions were all taken by those who were part of it, with Rappaport and Meißner coming next.
Beaugrand proved best of the rest in sixth place and nine of the first 10 were made up of Britons, Americans, French and German athletes, Austria’s Verena Steinhauser the exception in ninth.
And a notable mention too for Katie Zaferes (USA) who finished 37th in her first race back since the birth of her first child.
World Triathlon Championship Series Abu Dhabi 2023 Results
Friday March 3 2023 – ELITE WOMEN
750m / 20k / 5k
- 1. Beth Potter (GBR) – 57:56
- 2. Sophie Coldwell (GBR) – 58:14
- 3. Taylor Spivey (USA) – 58:27
- 4. Summer Rappaport (USA) – 58:35
- 5. Lena Meißner (GER) – 58:39
- 6. Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA) – 58:39
- 7. Nina Eim (GER) – 58:45
- 8. Emma Lombardi (FRA) – 58:46
- 9. Verena Steinhauser (AUT) – 58:48
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An introduction to the life and work of andy warhol, one of the world's most famous artists, through exploration of five thematic framings of his. Inside the platonic love affair between two of art's favourite faces andy warhol and jean-michel basquiat at the factory at 860 broadway, 1982 claims that he was responsible for the pair's proper introduction tamra davis testified warhol's almost parental role in basquiat's life, insisting, “andy really. Inspired by warhol's art and life, rob pruitt (b 1964, washington dc) created the andy monument as a tribute to the late artist it stands on the street corner, just.
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Warhol's iconic images of marilyn monroe, elvis, soup cans, and coke bottles defined pop art and changed the way people appreciate art altogether. High-art demigod, consummate businessman or a blurring of the two it's a continual debate when it comes to the life of artist andy warhol learn more at. In 1963, andy warhol drove from new york to los angeles with his friends that the brief episode in warhol's life was a turning point in the artist's career davis begins the book with an introduction to warhol's upbringing in. —andy warhol gagosian gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition comprised of works from the last eighteen years of warhol's life, as a cultural phenomenon and zeitgeist, andy warhol needs little introduction.
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ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS: On March 30, 2015, the Magistrate Judge issued a Report and Recommendation (Docket No. 15), to which no timely objections have been filed. The Report and Recommendation is therefore ACCEPTED and made the f indings of fact and conclusions of law of this court. For the reasons expressed therein, it is hereby ORDERED that the plaintiff's Motion For Judgment On The Administrative Record (Docket No. 11 ) is DENIED, and the decision of the Commissioner is AFFIRMED. This case is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. This Order shall constitute the final judgment in this case. It is so ORDERED. Signed by District Judge Aleta A. Trauger on 4/23/2015. (eh)
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH & HEALTH SCIENCES, vol.8, no.1, pp.28-33, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Objective: Sarcopenia is a risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients, however, to diagnose sarcopenia is difficult in these patients since they are generally obese. There is more than one method used to diagnose sarcopenia. The present study aimed to compare different formulas that evaluate muscle mass among age and BMI groups in overweight and obese DM patients. Methods: The study included DM over the age of 18 years with BMI >= 25 kg/m(2). In all patients, body weight, total appendicular muscle mass (ASM), total muscle mass, and total fat mass were measured by bioimpedance method. Thereafter, skeletal muscle index was calculated dividing ASM by height (kg/m(2)); appendicular muscle mass percentage (%) was calculated dividing ASM by body weight; total muscle mass index (kg/m(2)) was calculated dividing total muscle mass by body height (kg/m(2)); and total muscle percentage (%) was calculated dividing total muscle mass by body weight. Results: Of the 486 DM patients enrolled in the study, the mean age was 54.47 +/- 8.82 years, and the mean BMI was 38.58 +/- 6.25 kg/m(2). Skeletal muscle index was 8.16 +/- 0.95 kg/m(2) in overweight, 9.23 +/- 1.04 kg/m(2) in class-1 obese, 9.95 +/- 1.05 kg/m(2) in class-2 obese, and 11.59 +/- 1.58 kg/m(2) in class-3 obese (p<0.001). Total muscle percentage was 66.18 +/- 6.63% in overweight, 58.89 +/- 5.77% in class-1 obese, 54.35 +/- 4.51% in class-2 obese, and 51.19 +/- 3.92% in class-3 obese (p<0.001). Conclusions: Total muscle percentage may be useful in assessing muscle mass in obese subjects like DM patients.


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The church Holy Saturnin is one of the most former of the city of Blois. On preRomanic bases (10th century), it is rebuilt repeatedly around the 13th and 15th centuries. Thanks to the donations of Anne de Bretagne, a general reconstruction of the building is begun at the beginning of the 16th, but the death of this one prevents the completion of the works.
Burned in 1568 by the Protestants, the church is restored from the end of the 16th. We can admire the Gothic choir, the nave with vaults of diagonal ribs of the 16th century, the hexagonal turret of staircases of Gothic style and the chapel Saint Pierre (chapel of the bargemen) style the Renaissance. Inside, we find a large number of ex-voto dedicated to Our Lady Of The Aydes, the stained glasses, the paintings, the statues…
The aître Saint-Saturnin is one of four monumental cemeteries with gallery remaining in France. Contemporary of François Ier's administration, it presents on the pillars of one of its galleries a returning decoration and a sculptured macabre dance. It kept its funeral custom till the beginning of the 19th century and shelters the concise museum of the City of Blois today.
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Meat food safety has been an important indicator of meat processing, for meat sterilization, you can use an ultraviolet sterilization machine, with vacuum packaging, to ensure the safety of meat products, the ultraviolet sterilization machine has been widely used in food processing, convenient, safe, and environmentally friendly. Do you know what is the meat ultraviolet sterilization machine advantages?
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This highly efficient food sterilization equipment uses high-frequency C-band ultraviolet light to destroy the DNA of various microorganisms in food within 20 seconds to 1 minute, killing 99% of bacteria and viruses, including influenza, hepatitis virus, salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, bacillus, and various mold sources, allergens, etc. UV food sterilizer is especially suitable for the rapid sterilization of food, drugs, cosmetics, tableware, personal and public goods, and other items.
UVC sterilizers extend the shelf life of meat products
There are many kinds of bacteria, often used freezing technology can not completely eliminate the bacteria in meat, some bacteria in the colder the environment more active, the general name “cold bacteria” this type of bacteria is most suitable for survival between -15 ~ 20C, cold bacteria will not only be controlled but also accelerated reproduction, rapid growth. This time it is necessary for a meat food UV sterilization machine, with 254nm wavelength of strong ultraviolet light on the surface of meat food sterilization, can quickly break the bacterial virus DNA, so that it is inactivated to complete the sterilization, bacterial inhibition work. After testing, the use of ultraviolet sterilization machine sterilization will enhance the shelf life of meat food.
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- Efficient sterilization of bacteria and viruses using ultraviolet light sterilization generally in 1 to 2 seconds can reach 99% to 99.9% of the sterilization rate.
- The UVC sterilization machine eliminates most bacteria, sterilization of the broad spectrum is the highest, and it is able to kill almost all bacteria and viruses with high efficiency.
- No secondary pollution, ultraviolet sterilization, without adding any chemicals, so it does not produce secondary pollution of the water and the surrounding environment, without changing any components of the water.
- Safe and reliable operation, traditional disinfection techniques such as the use of chlorine or ozone and disinfectants, itself with highly toxic and flammable substances and UV disinfection system does not exist such a safety hazard.
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Whenever a bank problems you a compensating balance loan, it needs you keep a banking account here with a minimal stability. This functions as form of security and may lead to a diminished rate of interest. But, the effective rate of interest on that loan by having a compensating balance is really greater than a loan that is balance-free.
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More often than not, if you should be taking right out a compensating balance loan, it really is a compensating balance and installment loan. Many financing in the usa takes the proper execution of installment loans. a car or mortgage loan, as an example, will pay you a swelling amount at the start, then you spend the funds back regular installments.
If you are maybe not taking right out an installment loan, you’ll have to pay the mortgage back a swelling amount. Such loans usually result from individuals from whom you purchase products or solutions. As an example, if a provider enables you to purchase on credit, the supplier is theoretically loaning you cash before you pay off the bill. It is not likely you should have a balance that is compensating.
A bank might also need you to deposit a compensating stability if you request a credit line. In place of a $20,000 loan, a $20,000 balance that is compensating of credit enables you to borrow funds through the bank as much as that quantity once you want it. You merely spend interest from the cash you borrow, although the bank will charge a payment for maintaining the relative credit line open.
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Concerning additional information that has been submitted for the following planning application Publicity for Applications for Planning Permission Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 Notice under Article 15(4) or (5) or Article 16 of ApplicationsforPlanningPermissionPlanning (Listed Buildings And Conservation Areas) Act 1990 The Planning (Listed Buildings And Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 Application ref: 18/000025/REG3 Applicant: Worcestershire County Council Proposal: Proposed Improvements to Highways Infrastructure in the Churchfields area to the north of Kidderminster Town Centre includingthe Demolition of the CMS/Vauxhall Building at Churchfields Location: Land adjacent to St Marys Ringway (A456) and Churchfields/Blackwell Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire I give notice that in June 2018 the applicant wrote to Worcestershire County Council submitting Revised General Arrangement Plans, Proposed Plan, and Lighting Plan for the above proposed development. The County Council are now seeking comments on this additional information. On 16th May 2018, Worcestershire County Council applied to Worcestershire County Councilforplanningpermissionfortheaboveproposal. The development would affect the Church Street ConservationAreaand mayaffectthesettingofListed Buildings. The County Council sought comments on this planning application between 7 June and 28 June 2018. You may inspect copies of the additional information together with copies ofthe application, plans and other documents submitted with it at: Kidderminster Library, Market Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10 1AB; County Hall, Spetchley Road, Worcester WR5 2NP www.worcestershire.gov.uk/ planningapplications during office hours from 5th July 2018 until 26th July 2018. You maymakerepresentationsaboutthisapplication totheCouncil,eitheronlineusingthelinkaboveorby email/post to the address below. The period for making representations about this proposal ends on 26th July 2018. Please state whether you would wish to address the Planning & Regulatory Committee if given the opportunity.
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Source: Palm Beach County) — Palm Beach County Emergency Management officials continue to actively monitor Hurricane Dorian and its progress toward our area. All residents and visitors should be aware of the potential impacts from this powerful storm. The Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center is at full activation (Level 1) as of 12 noon Sunday.
Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for residential structures in Zones A and B, effective at 1 p.m. Sunday. Zone A includes mobile homes, sub-standard housing and low-lying areas prone to water intrusion. Zone B generally includes the barrier islands, land areas north and south of the Jupiter Inlet, and other surge-vulnerable areas south along the Intracoastal Waterway to Broward County.
If you choose not to evacuate to a shelter, please evacuate miles, not hundreds of miles. Most of Palm Beach County is not being evacuated and residents should shelter locally, if possible. With the unpredictable nature of Hurricane Dorian, evacuating north is not recommended. To determine if your home is in a storm surge evacuation zone, go to readyPBC.com or download our free app “PBC DART.” If you are not in an evacuation zone, please shelter in place.
As of 5 p.m. Sunday, Palm Beach County opened nine of its 15 general population shelters, as well as the special needs shelter at the South Florida Fairgrounds and the pet-friendly shelter at West Boynton Recreation Center.
The general population shelters are:
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Elem. School, 1501 Avenue U, Riviera Beach
Independence Middle School, 4001 Greenway Dr., Jupiter
Lakeshore Middle School, 425 W Canal St N, Belle Glade
Pahokee Middle School, 850 Larrimore Rd, Pahokee
Palm Beach Gardens High School, 4245 Holly Dr., Palm Beach Gardens
Palm Beach Central High School, 8499 Forest Hill Blvd, Wellington
Park Vista High School, 7900 Jog Rd, Lake Worth
Forest Hill High School, 6901 Parker Avenue, West Palm Beach,
Atlantic Community High School, 2455 West Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach
The special needs shelter is located at 9067 Southern Boulevard, West Palm
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The pet-friendly shelter is located at 6000 Northtree Boulevard, Lake Worth. This shelter is available to Palm Beach County residents residing in a mandatory evacuation zone or in mobile homes. Proof of residency is required. Space is limited and restrictions apply. Each pet must be accompanied by only one owner who will stay at the shelter. Other family members will need to stay at nearby Park Vista High.
Two shelters are open in the Glades area for those who live in a manufactured or mobile home, have substandard construction or live in a flood-prone area.
The Sheriff’s Office is assuring everyone that immigration status will not be checked for any person coming to a shelter. All bags you bring with you to a shelter are subject to search. Weapons are not allowed.
If you choose to go to a hurricane shelter, please bring the following with you:
• Bedding materials (sleeping bag, blankets, pillow); cots are not provided
• 2 changes of comfortable clothes
• Flashlight with extra batteries
• Cell phone and a battery-operated charger
• Snacks and any special diet foods
• If you prefer bottled water, please bring your own. Water will be provided on site, but not necessarily bottled.
• Games, books and playing cards for entertainment during your stay
• Space is limited, so please pack accordingly
Important: The available space for each person at a general shelter is 20 square feet. That’s 4 feet by 5 feet of floor space. Please bring snacks with you.
Palm Beach County shelters are currently housing 2616 residents and that includes special needs and pet shelters.
· Public schools will be closed through Wednesday, September 4, 2019
· All court activities have been suspended through Tuesday, September 3.
· Palm Beach County government offices are closed Tuesday, September 3.
· All county-operated Parks & Recreation facilities are closed until further notice.
· Please visit www.pbcgov.com for the latest advisories and to review your checklists and emergency plans. At this time, you and your family should be completing all your preparations and deciding the safest location to be during the storm.
Good Samaritan moved its 64 patients…transferred to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center and St. Mary’s. They are currently closed.
JFK Medical Center has closed both Free Standing EDs, Palm Beach Gardens and Boynton Beach. JFK Medical Center Main will be on lock down at 2pm to all visitors. They are still accepting ER to ER transfers at this time.
The West Palm Beach VA Medical Center and outlying clinics will be closed on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. The Vet Centers in Jupiter and Greenacres will also be closed. The rural clinics in Clewiston and Moore Haven will be closed through the remainder of next week.
VA staff will be contacting all those with appointments to reschedule.
There has been no Palm Tran fixed-route bus service on Monday, September 2. A decision has not yet been made for Tuesday. Palm Tran Connection will conduct evacuation and shelter trips only until conditions make it too unsafe to perate. Continue to monitor www.palmtran.org and Palm Tran on Facebook and Twitter for updates.
Palm Beach International Airport (PBIA) closed to all carriers effective 2:00 a.m. and to all traffic effective 9:00 a.m. Monday, September 2, 2019.
The traveling public should contact their individual carrier for any flight information.
Also, a reminder that the airport is not an authorized shelter.
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Arbitrated robot control on the Web, system design and implementation
Author(s)Theobald, Daniel Andrew, 1971-
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A prescription error is a form of medical malpractice where a doctor makes a mistake in prescribing a drug to a patient. Whether it’s a vaccine like Zostavax or a medication to treat nausea like Zofran, a prescription error can be committed for either types of medication.
What are Some Common Types of Prescription Errors?
The most common types of prescription errors committed by doctors include:
- Prescribing the wrong drug
- Prescribing the wrong dosage
- Prescribing a medication that the patient is allergic to
- Prescribing medications that are incompatible
What are Some of the Difficulties in Bringing a Lawsuit for a Prescription Error?
One of the biggest difficulties in bringing a lawsuit for a prescription error is proving that the harm suffered was the consequence of the prescription error. Simply proving that you have suffered some harm and that the doctor has committed an error is not enough to win a lawsuit. Instead, you must show that if the doctor had not made the prescription error, you would not have suffered from your current harm.
Should I Hire a Lawyer?
If you believe you have been injured by a doctor’s prescription error, you may want to contact a personal injury lawyer. A personal injury lawyer can help you determine the value of your case and represent you in a lawsuit.


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A golden retriever is a very friendly dog. He is very friendly to both people and dogs. At the same time, they are very family-friendly, and there are many other reasons why these magical dogs are such a popular breed. For example, Golden retrievers are easy to train, and they love to please their owners. Golden retrievers are also very attentive and loving, so do you want to know if your retriever is a hugger?
So, do golden retrievers like to hug? Yeah, golden retrievers like to hug. Golden retrievers are by nature affectionate and lovable. If your golden retrievers hug and snuggle a lot, they really like you. It’s their way of showing you they love you. While not all golden retrievers actively seek out hugs, most allow family members to hug them and are likely to enjoy it. There are many different reasons why your Golden Retriever loves to cuddle, snuggle, and spend time with you. As any golden retriever owner will tell you, they are an amazingly rewarding breed and welcome to your family. Not only do they like to cuddle, but retrievers are usually calm, friendly, and very cute.
Golden retrievers are known for being super friendly and cute. They are a great breed of dog and are considered “family-friendly” because of their incredibly peaceful temperament. The Golden Retriever is known for being intelligent, loving, and friendly. It’s no secret that cuddling and cuddling are a favorite of most retrievers. There are several reasons why the Golden Retriever is so cute. Anecdotal evidence from many different owners suggests that some golden retrievers think of themselves as pugs and happily crawl into their owners’ laps for hugs, seemingly unaware of their size! Did you know that hugging releases chemicals that make dogs feel good, just like humans do? Your Golden Retriever may be so cute because hugging you makes them feel good! The love and trust you build with your pet, including the feelings you share in a hug, releases a chemical called oxytocin into your golden retriever’s brain. The 2017 study concluded that by testing 60 golden retrievers, dogs have evolved unique human-like social skills that not only enable them to communicate and cooperate effectively with humans, and it suggests that they have developed a contact-seeking behavior. Often referred to as the love hormone, other scientific studies have shown that even five minutes of petting and cuddling with your dog can increase oxytocin levels in their bodies. It has to do with connecting with your pet and winning their trust and affection.
Golden Retriever is known to be a very friendly and sociable breed, so why cuddling might be a big part of their pet’s agenda! When your hounds hold you, they are developing and strengthening their connection with you, and in so doing, showing their love and devotion. Like all dogs, Golden Retriever has a unique personality, and it’s well worth it to know your pet’s personality, traits, and quirks. While most retrievers seek physical contact (such as cuddling) with their owners, this is not the case for all Golden Retrievers. If your hound is far from cuddling, don’t be intimidated. There are many reasons why this should be the case. It may be too hot, they may be hungry, or they just don’t like hugs. Like you, it’s not a problem at all. There are many other ways for your Golden Retriever to express their love.
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Burma’s general elections on Nov 8th may either be a watershed, or more of the same. Much depends on how well Aung San Su Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party, or NLD, and several ethnic-based parties fare.
As part of a European awareness-raising tour, two well-known Burmese activists arrived in Sweden this past week to discuss the historic vote.
Each has a deep personal commitment to change after escaping from Burma over two decades ago.
Ric Wasserman has the story from Stockholm:
Min Zin and Aung Myo Min are standing before a whiteboard full of election statistics.
Min Zin, in self-exile from Burma since 1990 is a PhD student at Berkeley University in the United States.
He specializes in transition in civil-military relations. The military in Burma, he says, should feel worried as Aung San Su Kyi’s party, the NLD, gains momentum.
“After the 2012 by elections they got 46 seats. Less that 10 percent of the parliament, but it’s very symbolic,” he says, “It gave a clear message to the military. You guys are going to lose soon.”
One must remember Burma’s constitution guarantees that 25% of parliament seats go to the military.
It’s important the European Union member governments don’t simply view the upcoming elections as an end station for the reform process in Burma – rather the beginning. Work person to person, says Min Zin:
“Find reform-minded people within the regime and also to support and empower the opposition so you will see more negotiated transition,” he says, “That’s the best scenario. The international community should be instrumental to facilitate political contract, political agreement between the opposition and the military.”
He also stressed the importance of avoiding becoming too one-sided.
“If you have been seen to favor one side, either the opposition or the government that would not be productive,” he says, “The problem now is that the government and the military don’t find any incentive to pursue this path. So that’s where the international community could give more incentive or dis-incentive if they fail to pursue this path.”
While Min Zin has the objective of helping European countries better understand Burmese politics, his co-activist friend Aung Myo Min has a different agenda – to highlight human rights in Burma – especially for the LGBT community.
In another life the self-effacing Aung Myo Min might have been a standup comedian. His contact with the gathering at the Stockholm seminar was direct, at times comical.
Min fought alongside his student colleagues in the ABSDF, the All Burma Students Democratic Front in 1988.
But he couldn’t stay and fight with them. He was gay – unacceptable among his comrades. He went into exile in the U.S., remaining there for more than two decades.
“I was a student activist in 1988, that’s the reason I had to leave the country. I spent my time in the jungle in the military environment,” he says, “So it was very difficult for me to come out because the environment was so military, so structured, so difficult for me. But I have some friends who know my sexual orientation and support me a lot.”
His boyfriend, also in the military was later tortured to death. It left a deep emotional scar on Min, buthe turned his inner rage outward, to fight for human rights.
Today, Aung Myo Min is the founding director of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma. He has been awarded seven international awards for human rights and research on human rights violations in Burma.
Aung Myo Min’s life and work was made into a documentary film called This Kind of Love, which Min recently showed in 22 US cities and will now tour Europe with.
“I’m now based in Yangon after 23 years in exile. Some people may say that, oh, this is a big improvement but I want to say that that there is a real situation on the ground that every day I’m dealing with,” he says.
Fighting for gay rights is dangerous in Burma. Aung Myo Min gets death threats and regular hate messages via sms. Buddhist monks tell him he should hope he will be reincarnated as heterosexual in his next life.
In spite of that he made the right choice, he says. There are so many prejudices and misconceptions in Burma he wants to address.
The issue of homosexuality is changing slowly, support from the international community has helped, says Min.
“The homosexual issue was a taboo and very sensitive and no media covered it before… because it was under the censorship,” he says, “But the country is a bit more open right now. There’s more coverage, more writing about homosexual people. That’s good.”
The upcoming election he says, can put focus on human rights issues and discrimination. It’s all about changing peoples attitudes.
“I have to prove that gay, we are like other human beings,” he says, “We are not a problem only, but we are part of the solution.”


The patented process for the Welte-Mignon reproduction of keyboard playing might be construed either as a sophisticated gimmick or a kind of musical time-machine that allows us a glimpse into the musical past as transposed to a modern, brilliant-sounding Steinway. Artur Schnabel (1882-1951), the otherwise conservative exponent of the Leschetizky school of pianism, sat before the Vorsetzer mechanism in 1905, when for all intent, he was still committed to a more “romantic” ethos than his later, almost exclusively Viennese and German inscriptions permit. The music of Johann Strauss and Joseph Lanner from Schnabel places him in the salon of virtuoso pianists from which he later would prefer to have been excluded. Harold C. Schonberg once designated Schnabel as “the man who invented Beethoven,” an epithet meant to segregate Liszt and Chopin from Schnabel’s heady list of revered Vienna masters, Schubert, Brahms, and Beethoven. Schnabel called Chopin “the composer for right-handed geniuses.”
So, this Tacet issue from the vaults of time proves most illuminating, as it places Schnabel into a circle of devotees of the Vienna waltz and Schubert evenings that could also embrace the “pretty” compositions of Chopin and Weber. Schubert’s noble waltzes flow effortlessly directly from the same fount as Lanner’s Old-Vienna Waltzes. The one Impromptu–the later recording of which for EMI remains a classic–has a brisker, risky element absent from the reading some 33 years later. The otherwise slight Intermezzo in C by Brahms gains anxious demonism in the course of its metric transitions, a real tour de force in a nutshell. Chopin’s F Minor enjoys an eccentric pulse without any break in the motoric regularity. Schnabel did commit to disc a later version of Weber’s charming Invitation to the Dance; here, the music proceeds both literally and tenderly, the accents suggestive of the rustic origins of the waltz form. The bravura passages ripple as briskly as anything from Hofmann, Brailowsky, and Arrau. Schnabel’s Bach always had an accent; in the Welte-Mignon incarnation, he sounds like Gould or Serkin.
The caveat about all this is in fact the loss of legato as a trait in Schnabel’s playing; more damning critics find all personality missing from the Welte-Mignon process. For Schnabel, whose touch identified him above all others, the mechanism may totally distort his keyboard persona: but to have this particular repertory, the Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, the second of the Schubert Klavierstuecke, the investment yields some fascinating results. [Yes, though it was far superior to all the other piano-roll processes, the Welte-Mignon was not perfect, but would you rather listen to this music thru the roar of noise on 1905-vintage acoustic discs? (If there were any such.)…Ed.]
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A Ukrainian mayor and her family were reportedly killed in an “execution style” slaying by Russian troops before being thrown into a pit in a forested area, a local resident told the Associated Press on Sunday.
Olga Sukhenko, the mayor of the Ukrainian town of Motyzhyn, which is located near Kyiv, was allegedly shot alongside her husband and son for refusing to comply with Russian demands, the AP reported. The resident who spoke to the news outlet was identified only as a man named Oleg for security purposes.
Oleg told the AP that Russian troops targeted local officials across Motyzhyn and murdered those who did not cooperate. After the mayor and her family were shot, the man said they were thrown into a pit behind a plot of land that contained three houses that Russian forces occupied.
Prior to Oleg’s account, Sukhenko and her family had been reported as kidnapped by Russian forces on March 23, the AP noted. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed the mayor’s murder to the news outlet on Sunday, and said there are currently 11 other mayors or community leaders being held in Russian captivity across Ukraine.
The reported killing comes as Russian forces have been accused of committing brutal war crimes against Ukrainian civilians this weekend. Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians were found strewn across the Kyiv region after Russian troops withdrew from the area, according to the AP.
Ukraine’s defense ministry accused Russian troops of massacring civilians in Bucha, a town located northwest of Kyiv. Graphic images have shown corpses with their hands tied behind their backs, while dozens of bodies were found in yards, cars and alongside streets.
A report from Human Rights Watch, a global advocacy organization, also accused Russian troops of raping and torturing Ukrainian civilians as well as looting. Russia, in turn, has denied it committed any war crimes, and has described the disturbing footage of dead bodies as a “provocation” and a “staged performance” by Ukraine, Reuters reported.
The United States and other Western officials have since condemned Russia’s actions, with several lawmakers calling the reports “barbarous” and “horrifying,” while demanding further sanctions against Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Russia’s actions are akin to “genocide,” telling CBS News that the country is attempting to destroy and exterminate his people.
Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, tweeted on Sunday that he was “shocked by haunting images of atrocities” committed by Russian troops, and announced that more European Union sanctions against Moscow “are on their way.”
The war in Ukraine is set to enter its sixth week of fighting. So far, Russian troops have been met with fierce Ukrainian opposition and have failed to capture any major city. However, the war has lead to widespread devastation across cities and villages, and has forced millions of Ukrainians to flee their homes, according to the United Nations.
Newsweek contacted Ukraine’s foreign ministry for additional comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.


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Part 2 – Tabitha (Dorcas)
36 At Joppa there was a certain disciple named [a]Tabitha, which is translated [b]Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did. 37 But it happened in those days that she became sick and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. 38 And since Lydda was near Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them. 40 But Peter put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. 41 Then he gave her his hand and lifted her up; and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive. 42 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord.
Although the bible doesn’t tell a lot about Dorcas, these few verses can give us a few powerful thoughts. Dorcas was a seamstress, a kind and compassionate woman that was known as a person who cared for and helped others. She died, and was brought back to life. And, through this story, brought others to believe in Christ.
Making clothes to help the poor may seem insignificant compared to what the apostles did, but the impact she had on others allowed God to restore her life. The community was hoping for a miracle and that is what they got.
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. 1 Peter 4:10 — 10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
How many times have we said “I wish I had that talent?” I know I have. However, when we really think about it, we all have a special gift, or talent. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what it is, but, anything can be used to help others. To use those gifts we have been given no matter how small or insignificant we think it is can mean bringing God into someones’ life, and giving them the peace that we all need.
20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your [a]unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Dorcas used her gift to help widows and those in need, by making them something so basic such as clothing. She made such an impact by those who knew her, that when she died, they were devastated. They knew that Peter was near, they wanted her back, and because of that fierce love and what she had accomplished, God brought her back. I also believe that God used the situation with Dorcas to create more believers and help spread his word.
I think if we use the analogy of the mustard seed, no matter how small of a deed we do, or positive interaction with an individual, it can make an impact. It can mean bringing someone close versus further away from God. And, it does not go unnoticed by Christ.
I hope this can encourage you to use whatever gift God has blessed you with.