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Every once in a while, I feel compelled to write about things that have nothing to do with museums.
December 22, 2015A eulogy for the only music streaming service I've ever truly loved.
December 30, 2010
I’ve never done a year-end wrap-up post here at kovenjsmith.com before, but this seems better than doing real work, so here we are. A few things that I liked (or at least noted) in 2010:
- Most important conversation I had in 2010: At Museums and the Web in Denver in April this year, Bruce Wyman had a long conversation that began with him saying, “you should really consider applying for the Director of Technology job at the Denver Art Museum.” And here we are!
- Honorable Mention: The conversation I had with Madelyn five minutes after that, in which she said, somewhat tentatively, “yeah, I might consider moving to Colorado.”
- Best Concert: Tune-Yards at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Holy crap! She blew us all away with just a uke, a floor tom, her voice, and a bad-ass bass player.
- Honorable Mention: Pearl and the Beard at Union Pool for the Farm to Folks fest. If you haven’t seen these peeps yet, you need to do that right now.
- Honorable Mention Runner Up: The True Love Always reunion show at the Rock Shop. Seeing John Lindaman on stage always makes me smile.
Best Moment With Madelyn: After driving three days (in separate vehicles stuffed with luggage and cats) out to Colorado, we stopped at the overlook on the Denver/Boulder Turnpike at Mile 42 to see Boulder Valley all lit up, just before driving to our new house for the first time. Yeah, that was the shit.
December 16, 2009Earlier this year, I posted some in-progress music for a short film I’d been asked to score. Well, the film is now finished, and it is called “Homunculus.” The film was produced by Humble and conceived and directed by Sam Stephens. I love it. Check it out: Homunculus from HUMBLE TV on Vimeo. …aaaand just for fun, here’s the score alone, for those of you who want to check to see if the math works out (it doesn’t):
November 2, 2009
Allow me to take a moment away from my thrilling and dynamic series of posts on “Museums and the Digital Domain” to post a photo of my costume from from this past weekend’s Halloween shenanigans, courtesy of Ms. Morgan Holzer:
Oh yeah, that’s me, your humble narrator, dressed like freaking Number Six! Although I ended up having to explain all night long who I was supposed to be, and the balloon I was using as Rover flew away during the day, it was still totally worth lining my good jacket with gaff tape and wearing white pants.

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Hearing a lot of classical music in the parking garages or on the drug dealers’ corner lately? (Hey, how do you know what’s playing on the druggie corner?) If you wondered why—hypothetically, of course— you might be interested in the video of a presentation hosted at the Library of Congress.
Music and the Brain: Music, Criminal Behavior, and Crime Prevention has introductory remarks and real-world examples from Norman Middleton of the LoC’s Music Division. Spinning deep into the album cuts re: divergent subcultures and hypermasculinity is expert guest Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott, Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Seattle University. From the YouTube description:
A fascinating discussion of the use of classical music by law enforcement and other cultural institutions as social control, to quell and prevent crime. Their conversation touches on how classical music is viewed in contemporary culture, how it can be a tool for discouraging criminal activity and antisocial behavior, as well as its history as a mind-altering experience.
Befitting its venue, the program is somewhat lengthy and academic, but so worthwhile if you want some contextualizing within criminological theory (yes—for the double jargon-score!). And behold one of the actual presentation slides:
As long as royalties are paid, Barry can laugh all the way to the bank. And, of course, if his music really does squelch youthful excitability, he’s a cop’s best friend. That’s got to be good for a speeding ticket or two, right?
Dr. Helfgott goes on to discuss the more controversial implications of the approach and whether it does harm to the listener (shades of A Clockwork Orange?) or perhaps even to the legacy and value of the composition to employ music for this purpose. As she points out, “…we all have a media-mediated understanding of crime, and media and pop culture and aesthetics and style has a lot more to do with crime and how we respond to it as a society than we all think about.”
So, go watch and get brainy!
Despite Clare Toohey’s checkered past in art and music, she gives store-bought greeting cards and plays the ukulele poorly. As a writer, she aspires to genre hack-dom, and as a fan, appreciates both the trashy and inventive. She’s the site editor and manager of CriminalElement.com, Tweeting @clare2e and blogging more foolishness at WomenofMystery.net
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Kohima: Lanuakum Imchen, a farmer from Nagaland, has bagged the 2018 Best India Organic Farmer Award for North and Northeast India.
Imchen, who has been promoting organic farming for the past five years, was given the award by Union minister of state for agriculture and farmers’ welfare Krishna Raj at a function held in New Delhi on December 28 last year.
He got the recognition for his pro-active involvement and contribution in organic farming and towards the organic movement in the state and country. The award was given by Jaivik India Award and International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture.
Imchen owns Cold Mountain, a brand that promotes and sells local products of Nagaland. Cold Mountain is a team of 13 young people with its farm based in Mokokchung. The final packaging of the products is done in Dimapur. Besides selling organic products, the establishment also trains farmers to be self-sufficient and to undertake environment-friendly farming practices.
In the wake of providing employment, young coordinators are employed across the state to promote its products. It further aims to promote the state’s produce at international markets.


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Many women use some form of birth control at some point over the course of their lives. While your doctor probably gave you the low down, there are probably still some mistakes that you’re making when you use it. Birth control is pretty important, so you don’t want to make mistakes, no matter how big or small.
Although you may suspect there might be something regarding birth control that you’re just not doing exactly right, there are also some surprising mistakes that women make that they never would have thought would qualify as a mistake. In fact, some of the birth control mistakes that women make are things that they think are absolutely correct, but really aren’t. Regardless, here are the mistakes that anyone taking birth control should know about.
Taking time off
You might have heard friends, family members, or well-meaning strangers tell you that being on birth control for years and years (say, all of your 20s and much of your 30s) and then going off it when you decide you want to try to have a baby is a bad idea and not good for your heath. If you think you need to alternate long stretches of time on a hormonal birth control method with time off, it’s just not true.
Dr. Katharine O’Connell White, the director of the Fellowship in Family Planning at Boston University and Boston Medical Center and assistant professor of OB-GYN at the Boston University School of Medicine, told me, “That ‘taking a break’ thing is like my arch-nemesis because, with the exception of the shot, all methods of birth control are out of your system within 48 hours of stopping it and you go right back to your state of health after that. The shot can take a while, the shot can take up to a year, so that’s no joke with regards to how long it lingers, but no method is bad to stay on for a long period of time just because, in fact, the longer you’re on birth control, the more you prevent a whole list of things.”
This list includes anemia, fibroids, certain types of cancer, endometriosis, and more. Give yourself a break and don’t stress so much about it. You just might be doing yourself some good.
You probably know that if you take the pill you need to take it every day, but a lot of women are inconsistent with their birth control — and it matters more than you might think.
“They do not know how to use back up protection after missing birth control pills and not taking them consistently as instructed,” Dr. Sunny Jun, co-medical director at CCRM San Francisco said. “They are inconsistent. This can lead to unwanted or unexpected pregnancies to occur if not using back up protection such as condoms after missing birth control pills. Also, they should always know that Plan B or emergency contraception is available.”
Using breastfeeding as birth control
This is a popular piece of birth control advice on the mom-to-be message boards — and it is, technically, true and possible — however, there are a number of stipulations that a lot of new moms aren’t fully aware of.
“You have to be exclusively breastfeeding, which also means no pumping,” White shared. “So, exclusively nursing, your periods have not come back, and it still only works for six months. The portion of women that applies to is very small. And intermittent breastfeeding — breast and bottle — which is what a lot of women do, doesn’t provide birth control for you.”
Given that, as White explained to me, you can get pregnant very quickly after you’ve given birth, you probably shouldn’t rely on breastfeeding as your sole method of birth control, unless you’re prepared to potentially get pregnant again.
Not trying an IUD
Chances are, if you’re a woman in your 20s or early 30s, you’ve heard friends or acquaintances share their feelings on IUDs. You may have heard that they’re painful to have inserted, that they’re the best form of birth control ever, that you can’t even tell when they’re inserted and you’ll never notice, that your IUD made you smell like metal, the list goes on and on.
“Some women are scared of trying a hormonal IUD,” Jun said. “This form of contraception is one of the most effective and can also reduce the amount of bleeding as well as cramping. For women, who hate taking pills on a daily basis and are forgetful, IUD is an effective way to prevent unwanted pregnancies.”
Not using the right condom
A lot can go wrong if you’re not using the right condom, but not everyone even knows what that means.
“Not using the right type of lubricant with a condom can weaken it — you might not have the protection that you think you have,” Dr. Ronald D. Blatt, chief surgeon and medical director at the Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery, said. “Not choosing the right condom puts you at risk for pregnancy. If a condom is too small it can break. Polyurethane condoms may break more frequently than latex ones. If a condom is too big, it can fall off.” Making an appropriate choice will help make your birth control method of choice more effective.
Not keeping your doctor well-informed
You might not think that taking a new supplement, using natural treatment products, or starting a new breakfast routine warrants a phone call to your gynecologist, but they might need to know these things more than you realize.
“A lot of women who are taking these products that they get from a health food store or otherwise, don’t think of them as medicine, they think of it as natural therapy for something,” White said. “And then also the problem is that we don’t know what a lot of these will do to your birth control. St. John’s Wort, the fact that we even know that was a stroke of genius by the researchers who thought, ‘huh, I’m seeing patients have birth control failure who have on this, let’s study it.'”
White also explained that, yes, grapefruit can interfere with the effectiveness of birth control, but it has to be a very large amount. An occasional small glass of grapefruit juice or a cocktail that includes it is no big deal. Talking to your doctor can help avoid a birth control failure and make sure everything is working as it should. You don’t have to tell your doctor about absolutely everything, though. “The exception to this is antibiotics,” White said. “Those are fine! Those get a huge bad rap, that’s not a mistake! Those are fine!”
Using only a period tracking app
Period tracking apps are getting more popular, but if that’s the only form of birth control you’re using, it might not be enough to effectively do the trick. “Birth control might go wrong if you use a period tracking app,” Blatt said. “Many are not as accurate as they should be and/or not user-friendly.”
Using that as your sole method of birth control could be a bit of a gamble, which is fine if you’re mostly concerned with tracking and don’t so much mind if you get pregnant (because you’re ready), but not so good if you’re actively trying to avoid getting pregnant.
Leaving a gap between methods
Switching from one birth control method to another isn’t a bad thing, especially if you think the one you’re switching to will be a better option for you than the one you’re currently using. That being said, make sure you do not leave any time in between using one method and switching over to another.
“This pill or this ring is causing some kind of problem for you, whether it’s giving you headaches or giving you discharge, or the patch keeps falling off, whatever it is that you decide that you’ve had it with this method. And one of the benefits with these methods is that you get to control when you’re on it,” White said. “You control when you start and you stop and that’s a great thing. The mistake is that you stop it and you don’t immediately start something else because the body’s march towards ovulation is powerful and if you give it an opening…”
If you’re actively trying to avoid pregnancy, that opening could mean trouble. Use a back-up method if you’ll end up with a gap between methods.
Using the wrong kind of birth control for you
You don’t have to stick with one kind of birth control if it’s not working well for your body or your life and some women make the mistake of just dealing with the wrong kind.
“You might find that you are forgetful when it comes to taking the pill every day, or that you are experiencing mood swings from hormonal contraception, or that the IUD is just not for you,” Nicole Telfer, scientific researcher for the female health app Clue told me. “There is nothing wrong with experimenting with the different methods of contraception available, until you find a method that suits you. Consult your healthcare provider before you make any changes to your current method and keep track of how each change affects you, until you find one that works best.”
Don’t make yourself sick or miserable because you think the birth control method you’re on is the best one. If it’s not the best one for you, it’s not the best one.
Not using hormonal birth control because you think it will affect fertility
While some people worry that taking birth control for long stretches in their 20s and early 30s will make it more difficult to get pregnant once you’re ready, you shouldn’t stay away from hormonal birth control because you think it will affect your fertility.
“The birth control doesn’t alter anything, it just covers it up and makes it regular and predictable and all those great things that we love about birth control,” White explained. “I’ve also had patients say, ‘Well, if I’m not ovulating for 15 years, does that mean I’ll have more eggs when I’m 35?’ No, it doesn’t mean that, unfortunately, eggs are a use them or lose them kind of a problem, and egg quality goes down over time and it does get harder for a lot of women in their mid to late 30s, but that’s not the birth control’s fault, that’s the fault of biology that doesn’t respect a career.”
It’s understandable that you’re worried about these kinds of things if you want to be a mom later, when you’re ready, but it’s not your history taking birth control that makes things harder, it’s just that you’re older.
Thinking you don’t need birth control because you “can’t” get pregnant
How many times have you heard a woman say she can’t get pregnant? In some cases, it might be true that they can’t or the likelihood is extremely slim. However, in other cases, your doctor probably should have said “shouldn’t” not “can’t.”
“[W]omen who are struggling with chronic disease, [whose] doctors tell them they can’t get pregnant… what doctors mean is you shouldn’t get pregnant, but what patients hear is ‘I can’t,'” said White. “A world of difference in how you interpret that word ‘can’t’. No one’s too sick to get pregnant.”
If you have a chronic condition and were told you couldn’t get pregnant, you might want to talk to your doctor to find out if it’s truly that you can’t or if it’s that you shouldn’t, in which case you might want to have a conversation about birth control so that together you can find the one that’s right for you.

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Alamein Liberal Democrats are calling for a rethink on the discredited parking restrictions installed on Roman Way and King Arthurs Way. Andover Town Councillor Barbara Carpenter is leading the campaign.
Barbara who originally called for yellow lines on the corners along Roman Way only says “the council’s response to put yellow lines all along the roads has caused nothing but aggravation for local residents. The decision was made by borough councillors with no knowledge or understanding of the area.”
Local campaigners have recently launched a petition calling for a rethink of the yellow lines. You can sign the petition here


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The presentation was prepared and held by dr Milton Packer, Cardiologist at Baylor University, Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA
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Pipeline Welding Certification
Welding is one of the most fundamental metal-fabrication skills, widely used in both manufacturing and construction. This makes it a useful certification for tradesmen who are willing to follow the work wherever it leads. For example, pipeline work tends to be cyclical, with major projects employing large numbers of welders for just a few years each. By earning a specialized certification in pipeline welding, a tradesperson can improve the likelihood of being hired for these lucrative jobs. The American Welding Society offers this certification through its authorized testing centers.
Pipeline Welding Certification Process
The American Welding Society's certification process is as straightforward as it is possible to be for those who want to learn how to become a pipeline welder helper or professional. There are no prerequisites, and no academic training requirements. Candidates for certification need only set up a testing date and deliver a demonstration weld. They're required to read and understand the specifications for that weld, and are judged on fit-up, assembly and positioning, as well as the soundness of the finished weld. Candidates who demonstrate an ability to do the job are certified after they complete the pipeline welding certification test and a qualified inspector scrutinizes their work. Those who fail can retest at a later date. In practice, successful certification usually requires a combination of training and practical experience.
Pipeline Welder Assessment
Pipeline welder certification is deliberately job-specific to ensure the welder's proficiency with the appropriate materials and equipment. The requirements for pipeline work are stringent enough to require a special certification and test procedure. Test welds for pipeline certification are subject to visual tests assessing their appearance and neatness; mechanical tests to verify the strength of the weld; and radiographic testing that uses X-rays to reveal any weaknesses in the bond. Candidates must demonstrate good technique in cutting, positioning and welding the pieces in their test assembly, and must weld the assembly as it's positioned by the test inspector.
AWS Pipeline Welder Certification Renewal
An AWS pipeline welder certification has no specific expiration date, but it must be maintained on a six-month cycle. Before the end of any given six-month period, every certified welder must submit a renewal form. That form documents continuing employment in pipeline welding, stating the last date on which the welder performed those duties. The renewal is valid for six months after that date, as opposed to a simple semi-annual renewal. If the welder doesn't actively work in the field for six months or longer, the certification will lapse and must be renewed through another examination.
Welder Career Outlook
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 8 percent job growth for welders between 2020 and 2030, approximately the same as the average for all occupations. Many job opportunities will result from the need to rebuild and repair the nation's infrastructure as it ages. Most openings will occur due to people retiring or leaving the field. Prospects are best for welders who are willing to travel. The BLS reports that welders earned median wages of $47,010 per year as of May 2020. In contrast, metal workers and plastic workers earned a median annual salary of $42,960. The highest paid industry is specialty trade contractors, with a median annual income of $48,020.
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Matchroom Boxing announced today that Callum Smith is out of his March 11th main event against Pawel Stepien due to injury. The show will proceed with Diego Pacheco vs Jack Cullen and Robbie Davies Jr vs Darragh Foley as “co-headlin[ers].”
Smith (29-1, 21 KO) had hoped to fight for the first time since smashing Mathieu Bauderlique in a WBC eliminator last August, a win that set him up for a shot at unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev. Mauricio Sulaiman had intimated that he would enforce this obligation rather than allow Beterbiev to face Dmitry Bivol for undisputed status, but depending on the severity of the injury, that could be off the table for a good while.
It’s another frustrating turn in Smith’s career. He’s looked like a monster since moving up from 168, but has fought just twice in the last two years. He should still have a few years of prime left at 32, so fingers crossed he can squeeze in some of the genuinely interesting matchups light heavyweight has to offer.

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Middlebury College volleyball player Jamie Wong (San Francisco, Calif.) has been named to the All-NESCAC second-team. The senior ends her career at Middlebury with more kills (2,074) than any other player in school history.
Wong had another solid season on the Middlebury defense, leading the team with 500 digs in '05. She averaged 5.01 digs/game, ranking her fourth in the NESCAC, while playing in 101 games. Wong had a season-high 38 digs in Middlebury's 3-2 win at Plymouth State on October 19th.
Her 2,074 career digs are almost double (1,244) that amassed by any other player in school history. She is also fourth all-time with 414 games played in her four seasons.

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Choquequirao Trek 4 Days / 3 Nights
You will be picked up from your hotel in Cuzco at 4:00 am. We will head for the town of Cachora where we will make final arrangements for the team of horses and mules that will carry our gear. Capuliyoc, the start of the trek, is a short drive from here. After loading our gear on the pack animals here, we will begin our descent from the pass of Capuli
yoc to the Apurimac river, nearly 5000 feet below. Along the way, we will stop for lunch at the shaded settlement of Chuquisqa. After lunch, we will cross the Apurimac River by bridge, and climb 2000 feet in the afternoon shade up to Santa Rosa where we will have dinner and camp for the night.
Day 2: Santa Rosa – Choquequirao
We will get up before dawn for a hot breakfast. The day’s hike will take us through the lovely community of Marampata, and then along an amazing trail cut right into the sheer cliff walls flanking Choquequirao. We will set up camp on terraces just below Choquequirao, and have lunch here. We will spend the rest of the day exploring the archeological site. We will see how Choquequirao falls on both sides of the ridge, and how an aqueduct, following the very crest of the ridge, carried glacial meltwater to the site for irrigation, and domestic and ceremonial use. A striking feature of the terraces of Choquequirao is found on the west side of the ridge. Lines of white llamas ascend the terraces diagonally, culminating at a zig-zag pattern representing rain. A new viewing platform has been built just across a small drainage allowing you to see this intricate design in its entirety. We will return to camp for dinner and stargazing.
After a hot breakfast at our Choquequirao camp, we will retrace our steps back down to the Apurimac river. This entire descent will be in the shade until we cross the river. We will stop for lunch again at Chuquisqa, and rest until later in the afternoon when the sun is lower in the horizon. We will make our way up to our last camp, Cocamasana with a commanding view of the Apurimac Canyon flanked by soaring, snowcapped mountains.
We will wake before sunrise to beat the intense sun on this southern side of the canyon. After breakfast, we will climb the final 2000 feet back up to the pass of Capuliyoc, where we began our trek. We will eat lunch here and unload our gear from the pack animals. After lunch, we will drive back to Cusco, arriving back at your hotel in the late afternoon.

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The integrated combat system includes procurement of combat system equipment including the helicopter control radar and decoy system. Saab will also provide combat system engineering services including system design, integration and integrated logistic support.
“Saab will deliver an integrated combat system based on the latest Saab 9LV Combat Management System. Thanks to system integration, Saab’s products can communicate seamlessly over different platforms, which means that resources can be utilised more efficiently,” says Thomas Kloos, head of business unit Combat Systems and C4I solutions within Saab business area Surveillance.
The majority of the combat system engineering work will be undertaken in Adelaide with installation and acceptance testing of equipment to be completed in Spain.
“As Australia’s most experienced combat system designer and integrator, Saab welcomes the continued investment in both the latest generation 9LV technology and our highly skilled combat system engineering team in Adelaide, South Australia,” says Dean Rosenfield, managing director of Saab Australia.
The Saab 9LV system is already in service with both the Anzac and Canberra class ships, and the selection of this capability for the two new replenishment ships further cements 9LV as the combat management system of choice for the RAN.


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By Alexander Bolton - 06/11/09 12:11 PM EDT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has rejected a Senate proposal floated in recent days to create privately-run healthcare cooperatives in place of government-run insurance plans.
Pelosi told reporters on Thursday morning that House Democrats want healthcare reform to include a government-run insurance option to ensure that all Americans can receive affordable healthcare.
“In our house there is strong support for a public option,” Pelosi said.
The Democratic leader, however, said that a government-run plan should not have to depend on subsidies from the government and should be put on a “level playing field” with private plans.
“It should be actuarially sound, it should be administratively self-sufficient. It should be a real competitor with the private sector and not have an unfair advantage.”
Republicans such as Sen. Chuck GrassleyChuck GrassleyHouse oversight asks for private meeting with EpiPen maker Grassley: Mylan not going far enough with EpiPen discounts Five things to know about the Clinton Foundation and its donors MORE (Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, have charged that creation of a widely available public insurance plan would lead to a single-payer healthcare system where the government would dominate.
Democrats such as Sens. Mary LandrieuMary LandrieuFive reasons the Trump campaign is in deep trouble Louisiana gov: Trump helped 'shine a spotlight' on flood recovery Giuliani: Trump 'more presidential' than Obama in Louisiana visit MORE (La.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Tom CarperTom CarperCarper pushes DHS for elections to be classified critical infrastructure US Postal Service posts .57 billion loss Centrist Dems wary of public option push MORE (Del.) and Maria CantwellMaria CantwellFeds crack down on coal cleanup financing Tim Kaine backs call to boost funding for Israeli missile defense Remembering small business during the presidential election MORE (Wash.) have been reluctant to sign onto a robust government-run insurance plan, which liberals favor.
Senate Republicans and Democrats who met with President Obama on Wednesday raised a possible compromise: creating non-profit cooperatives to expand insurance coverage.
Co-ops would not be controlled by the government but would compete with private, for-profit health plans.
Although the proposal has gained momentum in the Senate in recent days, Pelosi dismissed the idea as a possible substitute for government-managed healthcare.
Pelosi also vowed Thursday that Democrats would find ways to pay for the full cost of healthcare reform.
Pelosi’s pledge puts pressure on lawmakers to raise taxes or find other ways to finance a healthcare overhaul, which will likely exceed a trillion dollars.
“That is our intention, that is the work we’re doing now,” Pelosi told reporters. “It will be paid for.”

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Irish M&A tally falls in wake of $62bn Shire deal
M&A deals slipped 6pc to €18.4bn in first half of 2019 when tie-up with Takeda was stripped from figures
The value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving Irish entities plunged 75pc to €18.4bn in the first half of 2019.
But the huge slide was the result of a single deal announced in the first half of last year, as Takeda moved to buy Ireland-headquartered pharma group Shire for $62bn (€55bn).
The massive swing highlights the outsized impact of big, largely US, corporate transactions on the Irish data.
Excluding that deal, the first-half tally for 2019 was down 6pc. There were a total of 204 M&A deals involving Irish entities in the first six months of this year, compared with 260 in the corresponding period of last year.
Global uncertainty fuelled by Brexit and the continuing US-China trade battle has generally weighed on M&A activity. So too has weak sterling and concerns about wider global economic growth.
The Refinitiv data shows that in the first half of 2019, Arthur Cox was the top legal adviser to deals with an Irish link, acting on 19, followed by A&L Goodbody with 12 and William Fry's 11 mandates. Deloitte was the busiest financial adviser, acting on eight Irish deals.
Deals announced in the first half of the year that involved Irish entities included the recently announced plan by Bank of Ireland to sell its UK credit card business for €591m. This includes Post Office and AA credit cards issued by the bank, as well as its own branded cards. Also included in the tally compiled by Refinitiv for the 'Irish Independent' is the €300m-plus sale by CRH of its European shutters and awnings business to Stella Group.
The €90m acquisition by Smurfit Kappa of the 30pc of Carton de Colombia that it did not previously own is also included. So too is the £209m (€233m) acquisition announced in May of Irish financial services firm IFG by UK private equity group Epiris.
The failed €700m bid by Cavan-based Kingspan for some or all of Belgian firm Recticel is included in the deal table, although in May Kingspan CEO Gene Murtagh said that the offer was unlikely to be revived.
The start of the year has also seen an agreed €145m sale of 'Irish Independent' publisher INM to Belgian-Dutch group Mediahuis.
That sale was approved by INM shareholders last week.
Irish M&A figures can be skewed by deals involving large firms that may have a corporate headquarters here for tax purposes, but not an operational headquarters.
A recent example includes a €186m acquisition of Turkey's Ulusoy Elektrik by US power management company Eaton.


text: We have determined the time course of the neuroendocrine response of Piebald-Viral-Glaxo (PVG) rats during the development of mycobacterially induced adjuvant arthritis. Anterior pituitary POMC mRNA increased at the time of onset of mycobacterially induced arthritis, but, paradoxically, coincident with the first signs of arthritis there was a consistent fall in CRF mRNA in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. Coincident with this fall in CRF message, there was a corresponding decrease in CRF-41 peptide release into the hypophysial portal blood (HPB). In contrast, however, vasopressin release into the HPB was increased. There was an increase in adrenal weight associated with the development of arthritis, reflecting chronic activation of the HPA axis, which was reflected by increased circulating corticosterone concentrations. The synthetic adjuvant CP20961, which has different antigenic determinants, also caused an increase in POMC mRNA in the anterior pituitary, a decrease in CRF mRNA in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, and a decrease in CRF-41 peptide release into the HPB in PVG rats 28 days after the induction of the arthritis. The arginine vasopressin level was not significantly different from the control value. In Sprague-Dawley rats, mycobacterial adjuvant resulted in a similar increase in POMC mRNA in the anterior pituitary 28 days after injection of the adjuvant. In this strain of rat there was no corresponding change in CRF mRNA. While there are some strain differences in the degree of change in CRF mRNA, both strains showed a common paradox of a marked increase in adenohypophyseal POMC mRNA not associated with increased CRF mRNA or peptide release. In the PVG strain of rat, CRF actually appears to be inhibited. The mechanisms involved in this disparity are unclear.

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A&P Group has had a busy summer so far with a number of projects being carried out across our yards in Tyneside, Tees and Falmouth.
The impressive-looking pipelay and construction vessel Seven Oceans has been in dry dock at A&P in Tyne undergoing repairs. Subsea 7 S.A, one of the most well-known subsea construction and installation companies in the world, owns the ship. The vessel, which can lay rigid and flexible pipelines in waters up to 3000 metres deep, has been at the Hebburn yard for refurbishment and repair work to its thrusters, which are used to manoeuvre the vessel.
The Tyne yard also started work on the European Supporter – a ship owned by P&O Maritime Services Australia, a new client to the business – carrying out conversion work on the cable-laying vessel.
A&P Group have been involved in many projects over the years whereby older vessels are repaired or converted in order to set them back to work on the seas. At the Tees yard work has started on the Hanson Aggregate dredger Arco Beck, which has been laid-up since August 2009. The vessel is expected to be in the yard for some eight weeks for a full re-activation and life-extension.
It’s non-stop ship repair and conversion at A&P’s site in Falmouth this month where the yard is seeing one of its busiest month’s this year. The LD Lines ferry Norman Bridge, and International Telecom Marine’s IT Interceptor have undergone repairs at the Falmouth yard over the past month and the Government owned research ship the James Cook is currently in drydock for docking and survey work. Owned by the Natural Environment Research Council the ship sails around the world collecting environmental data in relation climate change.
As part of the MoD ‘Readiness and Sustainment’ program, where A&P support government-to-government sales with the delivery of ex-Royal Navy and RFA vessels to overseas navies, the RFA Largs Bay commenced a 3-month refit and upgrade work package. The ship has been at the Falmouth yard since July and is due to be delivered to the Royal Australian Navy in October.
Marine Designs Limited, a subsidiary of A&P Group, has recently been awarded a contract to build and install their award winning Dockmaster pontoon system within the Grimsby Fish Docks. As part of an ongoing agreement between the Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprise and Centrica the companies will use the pontoons as a docking station to enable the safe transfer of offshore and marine personnel from port to their offshore wind farm. Six of the innovative Dockmaster concrete pontoon units will be supplied by September 2011.


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Four former railway tunnels in the Peak District National Park will reopen later this month to walkers and cyclists after laying disused for more than 40 years. The £2.25 million project has been undertaken by the Peak District National Park Authority as part of its Pedal Peak District project and has been funded by the Department for Transport.
The four tunnels – called Headstone, Cressbrook, Litton and Chee Tor – are each between 400 and 500 metres long and housed part of the route of the Midland Railway prior to their closure in 1968.
They have now been cleared, repaired, resurfaced with environmentally friendly materials and provided with long-life lighting ahead of their official reopening on Wednesday 25 May by Transport Minister Norman Baker.
Together they will provide an extra 1.5 miles of public access through creating an extension to the Monsal Trail which links Bakewell and Buxton. The reopening of the tunnels is the first phase in a long-term project to create a circular cycle link between those two towns and Matlock, although for that to become reality, further funding is needed.
One of the aims of the Pedal Peak District project is to encourage people in the area to take up cycling, with training, bike maintenance courses and a variety of events on offer. It is also designed to provide a boost to the local economy, in part through employing local contractors to carry out work.
We at Peak District View were saying this 6 years ago – so better late than never.


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I know that I need to make Hajj, yet the way the so-called government runs over there really repulses me. If it’s not some psychotic twisting of the Qur’an, it’s something so incredibly stupid and pointless that it makes me want to tear my hair out. If you want to know what a Mike Huckabee administration would probably enforce, look no further than Saudi Arabia. That’s what the fundamentalists of this country want.
Tangent. I know. My point is that now the country is banning anything red leading up to Valentine’s Day:
“As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration, especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women, ” Sheikh Khaled Al-Dossari, a scholar in Islamic studies, told the Saudi Gazette, an English-language newspaper.
Can we agree that Sheikh Khaled Al-Dossari is an idiot? Look at me. I’ve never celebrated Valentine’s Day. I think it’s a stupid holiday and there’s no reason to get riled up wondering what you’re going to get or waste money buying more crap after you just bought a buttload of crap for Christmas. Now, I’m married. My husband and I use Valentine’s Day as a break from being broke. We buy each other books, we got to a nice dinner…one year I got a sewing machine. If my husband bought me flowers, chocolates or–poke-my-eyes-out–jewelry, I’d have to laugh at him. Hard, loud and long…I’d laugh my ass off.
Ahmed Al-Omran, a university student in Riyadh, told CNN that the government decision will give the international media another reason to make fun of the Saudis “but I think that we got used to that by now.”
“I think what they are doing is ridiculous,” said Al-Omran, who maintains the blog ‘Saudi Jeans.’ “What the conservatives in this country need to learn is something called ‘tolerance.’ If they don’t see the permissibility of celebrating such an occasion, then fine — they should not celebrate it. But they have to know they have no right to impose their point of view on others.” (emphasis mine)
You hear that you nutjobby Christianists? That goes for you guys too. The report goes on to state the obvious, how now that there’s a crackdown, prices have been driven up and there’s a lot of sneaking around.
But any country that has a Vice and Virtue Squad is one where I don’t want my hard earned money to go. I’ll probably never make Hajj unless something drastically changes in Saudi Arabia…or they move Mecca to Syria or something. That’s not going to happen, is it?


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The New Zealand Defence Force has arrived in Papua New Guinea with around 6,000kg of essential supplies to fight the incessant battle in recent months against surging numbers of Covid-19 cases.
The deployment follows a request from the PNG government for greater humanitarian and medical support.
The personnel will provide health planning and logistics support to assist their hosts with a Covid-19 response.
The arrival of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757-2K2 that included hand sanitizer, gloves, safety goggles, face masks, face shields, gowns and sharps containers came just as a spike of cases hit this week.
Numbers had reached an all-time daily high of 896 cases on October 24 while also having an average of 512 daily cases for that previous week, to not one single case occurring on November 18.
But just five days since a clean bill of health for the country, a further 1,268 cases were recorded on November 23.
Commander joint forces New Zealand rear admiral, Jim Gilmour, said the defence forces had trained its personnel to use their skills in a wide range of situations and would be assisting PNG for about four weeks to get medical supplies and services “to those who need it most”.
Gilmour also felt it was a “challenging situation” for any country dealing with Covid-19 in their communities despite New Zealand itself escaping any significant surges in the past 18 months of the pandemic.


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The band releases a music video for Rest Your Love. The video features cameos from Dynamo, Maynard, White and Williams.
The Vamps release a music video for their single Wake Up. The video features The Vamps performing on the roof of a high rise radio tower and includes a cameo from Beckham. This video was something we had never done before; we performed on top of a radio tower, 100 feet in the air. It […]
The Vamps release their single Wake Up. This track is featured on their album with the same title. The song is a collaboration between The Vamps and producer Steve Mac. Wake Up is the first song off our second album. And, it’s the first song we ever did for the second album. That’s kinda how […]
Lovato performs Stone Cold at Billboard Women in Music. The song is featured on her album Confident.
Lovato performs a medley of her songs Cool For The Summer and Confident at the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Both songs are featured on her fifth studio album Confident.
Lovato performs her single Confident at the American Music Awards. The song is featured on her album with the same title. I have never been confident enough in my own skin to feel sexy. Now that I’m feeling great and I feel confident, I’m proud of the skin that I’m in.
Lovato releases a music video for Confident. The video is directed by Robert Rodriguez and is the second music video from her album Confident.
Lovato release her album Confident, her fifth studio album. The album is a collaboration between Lovato and producers Mitch Allan, Babydaddy, Johan Carlsson, Peter Carlsson, Jason Evian, Carl Falk, Ilya, Steve Mac, Max Martin, Ali Payami, Laleh Pourkarim, Rami, Stargate and Gustaf Thorn. I have never been confident enough in my own skin to feel […]
Lovato releases her single Confident, the second single and title track on her album Confident. The single is a collaboration between Lovato and writers Ilya Salmanzadeh, Max Martin and Savan Kotcha.
Cara performs a cover of Shawn Mendes’ song Stitches on On Air with Ryan Seacrest. I love this song and Shawn Mendes was the first person to ever to shout me out on social media before I was ever sign, before my song (Here) came out he posted my cover (of his song) and we’ve […]
Cara performs a cover of Taylor Swift’s song Bad Blood on BBC Radio 1. Cara performs the remixed version of the song, originally featuring Kendrick Lamar, acoustically with a piano and guitar arrangement.
Cara performs her single Here at New Years’ Rockin’ Eve. Cara’s performance is part of the 2015 new years eve live celebration hosted by Billboard.
Cara releases a music video for her single Here, her first official music video. The video is directed by Aaron A.
Cara releases her first single Here. The song is featured on her album Know-It-All. Here is about a party I went to, two years ago, and I hated it. I felt so uncomfortable because it was just awkward, and it was just not my kind of scene at all. So I just made a rant […]
Cara performs her single Here on The Ellen Show, from her album Know-It-All.
Cara releases her first studio album Know-It-All. The album features songs Here, I’m Yours and Wild Things. The album is a collaboration between Cara and executive producers Robert Eleazer and Tony Perez. A lot of the album was done like two years ago, so it’s been a long process for me. It seems like it’s […]
Cara releases her single Wild Things. The single is featured on her debut studio album Know-It-All. Wild Things is an anthem. It’s written like an anthem, the production is very anthem-like, and the lyrics are very anthem-like, and I wanted it to be like that. I wanted it to be something that people could really sing […]
Cara releases her single I’m Yours. This track is featured on her EP Four Pink Walls and her debut album Know-It-All. I’m Yours is a humorous/sassy/layered song. And it’s about being reluctant to fall for somebody, because you’re so happy with yourself initially, and things are fine, and then somebody comes along, and they’re so […]
Jonas performs a medley of his songs Chains, Levels and Jealous. Jonas starts his performance on the piano and ends with a gospel choir. I'm so excited for @TheAMAs on November 22nd! What song do you guys think I should perform? #AMAs pic.twitter.com/0qgZyWUCR9 — Nick Jonas (@nickjonas) October 29, 2015
Jonas performs Levels at the MTV Video Music Awards. The performance takes place on the red carpet of the VMAs before the award show begins.
Jonas releases a music video for Levels. The video is directed by Colin Tilley. The concept for the video — basically, we are in this big space, lot of really interesting art decoration, some tires, some barrels, some beautiful women.
Chvrches perform Clearest Blue on The Late Late Show with James Corden. This song is featured on their second studio album Every Open Eye.
Chvrches release the music video for their single Leave A Trace. This is the first music video for their album Every Open Eye.
Chvrches release the music video for their single Empty Threat. The video is directed by Austin Peters and shot on location in Miami.
Chvrches release Every Open Eye, their second studio album, which is self-produced. The album’s title comes from the lyrics of the third single off of the album, Clearest Blue. Cook: People don’t make albums any more. They make 11, 12 songs, and they put them out as an album but they feel like a greatest hits, or a […]
Chvrches release the track Clearest Blue, the third single off their second studio album Every Open Eye. Doherty: Clearest Blue was the 17th song we wrote, and it sort of informed the rest of the production. To me it came to define how the rest sounds. How is that? Well, it’s big and happy and sad and […]
Chvrches release Never Ending Circles, the second single from their album Every Open Eye. Mayberry: When I look back at the first record, the songs I wrote about relationships on there were a bit more playing the victim kind of. I think there was a time and a place for that because that was what I was […]
Chvrches releases Leave a Trace, the first single from their second album Every Open Eye. Mayberry: Leave a Trace is the middle finger mic-drop. It’s about that point where you’re like, There’s no point having this conversation anyways: There will be no resolve, I won’t feel better about it, you won’t feel better about it, no outcome from […]
Jonas releases his single Levels, the first single from the album Nick Jonas X2, which is the re-release of his album Nick Jonas. The song is a collaboration with producers Ian Kirkpatrick and The Monsters and the Strangerz. Amazing to see all your tweets about #levels and to see it climbing up the iTunes chart! Thank […]
Gomez releases single Good For You. The track is a collaboration with A$AP Rocky and is featured on her album Revival. It’s my time to embrace who I really am. I’m not going to sit down in a chair and talk about something that doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. Good For You isn’t in […]
Gomez releases the music video for her track Hands To Myself. The video is directed by Alek Keshishian and is available on Apple Music. It’s here! Watch the #HandsToMyselfVideo directed by @AlekKeshishian on @AppleMusic! https://t.co/XllymAOZ0M pic.twitter.com/Za1ozuwXyY — Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) December 21, 2015
Gomez teams up with ex-boyfriend Zedd to perform I Want You To Know at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2015.
Gomez performs Hands To Myself at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball. The song is Gomez’s third single off her album Revival.
Gomez performs her single Same Old Love on The Ellen Show, her first live performance of this song.
Gomez performs Can’t Keep My Hands to Myself and My Girls during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Both songs are on Gomez’s album Revival.
Gomez releases the music video for Good For You. The video reworks the track with string instruments and removes A$AP Rocky’s verse in the original release of the audio track. The video is directed by Sophie Muller. There’s no love interest in the video, it’s all me. The reason why I wanted it to feel […]
Gomez releases her album Revival, her second solo record and features singles Same Old Love and Good For You. The album is a collaboration with executive producers Danny D and Tim Blacksmith. I think after four albums, I finally feel a little more like myself than I ever have. I have this confidence and I have […]
Sivan releases a music video for Happy Little Pill. The video is written and directed by Koren. Making this video perfectly represent the song and it’s message was super important to me, and I hope you guys connect with it as much as I do.
Sivan releases TRXYE. The EP features his single Happy Little Pill as well as four additional songs, and is a collaboration with producers Tat Tong, SLUMS, and Alex JL Hiew. For me, I’ve seen around a lot on the internet people censoring swear words with an ‘x’ or an asterisk. It was just an interesting concept to […]
Sivan releases his debut album Blue Neighbourhood. The album is a collaboration between Sivan and artists including Betty Who, Broods and Jack Antonoff. It was just about keeping it honest and not really holding anything back. Really it’s just things that I thought, things I’ve written about life, things that I’ve thought about doing and […]
Sivan performs his song Talk Me Down during a Vevo LIFT session. The session is sponsored by McDonald’s and is featured on Vevo’s YouTube channel.
Sivan performs his single Youth on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, his debut television performance.
Sivan performs a medley of Selena Gomez’s song Hands To MySelf and Justin Bieber’s Sorry. The performance is a web exclusive for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Gomez performs Same Old Love at the American Music Awards. Same Old Love is the second single featured on Gomez’s album Revival.
Gomez releases her single Same Old Love, the second single from her album Revival. Same Old Love is a writing collaboration between Gomez, Tor Hermann, Mikkel Eriksen, Benjamin Levin, Charlotte Aitchison and Ross Golan. I think Same Old Love represents a different kind of identity with love. The first people you love in your life are […]
Sivan talks about how he wrote his album Blue Neighbourhood on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. This is a web exclusive for The Tonight Show’s YouTube channel. I wrote it in a lot of places like garages and apartments and bedrooms and hotel rooms and stuff like that. One of the songs the power […]
Sivan performs his single Happy Little Pill during a Vevo LIFT session. The session is sponsored by McDonald’s and is filmed in black and white.
Sivan performs his single WILD. This song is the first single featured on the album Blue Neighbourhood. The performance is for Vevo LIFT and is sponsored by McDonald’s.
Sivan releases the single Happy Little Pill, from his EP titled TRXYE and is a writing collaboration with Brandon Rogers and Tat Tong. I wrote this song during a bit of a rough time for someone super close to me, and for myself, and it still means as much to me as the day I wrote it.
The group sings on the artist’s track, LVL. The track is featured on his album, LONG.LIVE.A$AP. Danielle: We sang at the very end. (All begin singing ‘All you need is love’) That story was crazy because we met A$AP at a festival like a year ago.

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19 June 2007
Cauliflower Gratin with Vegetarian Souvlaki on Wild Rice
If I were smart, I suppose I could make that amount, with the full amount of cheese, and then eat half. But why would I want half when it tastes that good?
Anyway, the vegetarian meat replacement on a stick wasn't bad. One of the better ones I've had, though I found the texture a bit weird. (I think they were trying too hard to make it like real meat.) Taste-wise it was good enough, but could have used a shot of lemon.

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Lost in the kerfuffle of the Cleveland Indians allegedly polling season ticket holders about their opinion on Chief Wahoo was the fact that said inquiry was literally one of roughly three dozen questions pertaining fans and how they relate to various aspects of the team. Drowned out by all of the noise and nostalgia surrounding the polarizing mascot was the fact that the team was conducting an exit interview of sorts, gauging fan thoughts on items like concessions, ticket prices, and most importantly, the roster of players who wear Cleveland on the fronts of their uniforms.
We have long discussed how attached fans are to the current roster. Gone are the days of having the same group of guys fill the Indians lineup card season after season; Kenny Lofton isn’t walking through that door, as much as he would probably like to. And while the stark reality of another 455 straight sell-outs continues to loom as an impossibility, the team wants to know how much they—despite still rocking their faded navy blue t-shirts with “BAERGA” on the back—assimilate with guys like Swisher and Kipnis and Bourn and Brantley. They want to know how important it is for the owner to be more out in the open, discussing the team’s direction and their plans for the future. They want to know, in addition to price adjustments at the concession counter and box office, what it would take to get that season-ticket base back up—how can they get you to invest in this team’s future?
Poll a large portion of Cleveland fans, varying in degree in terms of fandom of the Indians and Major League Baseball in general, and the majority will say that the odds of the Cleveland Indians repeating—or trumping—a 92-win season are very slim. The team had to rattle off an epic winning streak just to make the postseason; Ubaldo Jiménez and Scott Kazmir are free agents and could be eying up a nice payday; the bullpen situation has the makings of being a huge mess; Asdrubal Cabrera has had year-over-year declines in production since 2011—the list goes on. Paul Dolan, fresh off of his payday from the sale of SportsTime Ohio and knowing that it was now-or-never in terms of getting fans (however many) to buy in, finally decided to spend in free agency. Chris Antonetti, despite missing wildly on Mark Reynolds and Brett Myers, struck gold with Ryan Raburn and Jason Giambi. His acquisition of Yan Gomes and Mike Aviles for Esmil Rodgers was Executive of the Year-type stuff. But for as successful as these low-risk moves were, how repeatable are they? Will the Indians’ win total rely on finding the next Giambi and Raburn year after year?
[Related: It’s time to say ‘goodbye’ to Chief Wahoo]
Some fans want to poke holes in the return on investment in guys like Swisher and Bourn, but in a season where every single win was important, having a few loss leaders on board aren’t exatctly a bad thing when marginal victories are obtained.
The issue arrives in building off of this success, realizing that unlike the offseason that followed the 2007 run, merely acquiring someone like Masa Kobayashi while resting on the laurels of an overachieving season would not be enough to keep fans coming. The price of a ticket or a 12-ounce beer is likely impactful to the fringe fan—there’s a reason the survey asks how big of a fan one is, how many games they have attended over the years, and how many they plan to attend in the future. But at the end of the day, consistent winning is all that the city of Cleveland covets. Yes, the hardcore fans will be there every night; the TD’s and Jon’s of the world will watch every pitch, home or away. But to get Progressive Field to be filled at a respectable level, it’s player development, smart front office acquisitions, and consistent winning. The logos and uniform layout are fantastic talking points. Dynamic ticket pricing is still a new way of life, and people largely hate change. But these would be entirely ancillary if the team had a fraction of the success of other Midwestern squads like the St. Louis Cardinals or Detroit Tigers. At the end of the day, they could be renamed to the Cleveland Bachelorette Parties; their hats can be festooned with neon dildos; every at-bat could be accompanied by obnoxious screaming and off-tune singing of a Dixie Chicks song; every drink stand could limit their menu to cosmos and drinks made with Apple Pucker. If the team can provide fans with a consistent roster of players who they can relate to as they rack up 90-plus win totals, corporate investment will increase and the season ticket base will grow.
Hopefully, this is what the team will take away from yesterday’s fan survey. It’s tough to not recall the comments made by Mark Shapiro from a season ago, saying that if all fans want to see are wins, that they shouldn’t come to the park. It’s also tough to not believe that Shaprio would gladly erase those comments from the memory banks of fans across Ohio. Winning is hard. Consistently winning is harder. But if the goal of this team is to increase attendance, increase the emotional connection to players that was there many moons ago, they have to do it on the field. Again. And again.


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The name says it all with this award winning sauce. Thick and rich with plenty of real honey and natural sweetness. This was Rufus’s first sauce and still a favorite with all who try it. Great for grillin’, dippin’ and drinkin’ straight out of the bottle. Product of the US. Certified kosher. GMO free. Gluten free. Contains soy, celery and mustard.
Ingredient: tomato puree (tomato paste, water), brown sugar, sugar, honey, molasses, distilled vinegar, water, salt, raisin paste, Tamari soy sauce (water, soybeans, salt, sugar), natural flavour, orange juice (from concentrate), dried onion, garlic powder, spices (including mustard flour), smoke flavour, celery seed.
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Black Walnut Cookies
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This is another Farm Journal One.Fresh cracked black walnuts are best if your lucky enough to have them.Either light or dark brown sugar can be used.Light will make them softer,brown will make them crunchier.
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- 6 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 3⁄4 cups butter or 1 3/4 cups margarine
- 2 1⁄4 cups brown sugar, firm packed
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1⁄2 cups black walnuts
- 1 1⁄2 cups flaked coconut
- Sift together flour,salt,soda and cream of tarter.
- Cream butter,add brown and white sugars gradually and beat until fluffy.
- Add eggs and vanilla,mix well.
- Grind nut and coconut (or finely chop) together.
- Add to creamed mixture.
- Add sifted dry ingredients and blend well.
- Chill 1 hour.
- Shape dough into four rolls about 2 inches in diameter.
- Wrap tightly in wax paper and refrigerate.
- Cut rolls into 1/8 inch slices,place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove and cool on wire rack.
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Hollywood Palladium | Los Angeles, California
For a second night in a row rap and hip-hop legends Atmosphere will spit their finest lyrical content at the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday 6th September. The show will support their critical acclaimed album 'Southsiders' Which is the first release for the group since the 2011's Family Sign Album. Check out their new single in the video below, tickets available now!
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Publications in Scientific Journals:
R. Hollerweger, H. Riedl, J. Paulitsch, M. Arndt, R. Rachbauer, P. Polcik, S. Primig, P.H. Mayrhofer:
"Origin of High Temperature Oxidation Resistance of Ti-Al-Ta-N Coatings";
Surface & Coatings Technology,
Alloying Ti-Al-N coatings with Ta has proven to enhance their hardness, thermal stability, and oxidation resistance. However, especially for arc-evaporated Ti-Al-Ta-N coatings only limited information on the detailed influence of the elements on various properties is available. Therefore, we have developed arc-evaporated Ti1-x-yAlxTayN coatings with various Al (x = 0.50 - 0.65) and Ta (y = 0.00 - 0.15) contents. While the thermal stability of our coatings during annealing in inert He atmosphere increases with increasing Ta content, best results are obtained for specific Ta-Al ratios during oxidation. Single phase cubic Ti0.32Al0.60Ta0.08N yields a mass-gain of only ~5 % after 5 h at 950 °C in synthetic air, whereas Ti0.35Al0.65N is completely oxidized after 15 min. This is in part based on the suppressed anatase and direct rutile TiO2 formation at a defined Ta-Al content. Consequently, the anatase-to-rutile transformation, generally observed for Ti1-xAlxN, is absent. This reduces the generation of pores and cracks within the oxide scale and especially at the nitride-oxide interface, leading to the formation of a protective rutile and corundum based oxide scale. This is also reflected in the pronounced decrease in activation energy for the protective scale formation from 232 kJ/mol for Ti0.35Al0.65N down to 14.5 kJ/mol for Ti0.32Al0.60Ta0.08N. Based on our results we can conclude that especially phase transformations within the oxide scale need to be suppressed, as the connected volume changes lead to the formation of cracks and pores.
TiAlTaN, AlTiN Anatase, Rutile, Oxidation kinetics
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Created from the Publication Database of the Vienna University of Technology.

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One of the last great musical discoveries of my college era was The American Music Club. One day I heard them being played from the basement of my apartment building. While following the sound, I found my friend sorting stuff with Engine playing in the background.
From that day on, The American Music Club became one of my favorites, if not my favorite band. Its leader Mark Eitzel, who has released a few solo albums on his own is (or is that was?) the man behind the San Francisco based band.
On Engine, their second album, a rough country western meets punk style may have been due to individual influences, but the often slow and introspective lyrics from Mark Eitzel prompted a new musical definition called slowcore (sometimes sadcore).
On Engine, Eitzel develops his witty method of songwriting that mixes humor and sadness in an early formula that would eventually become the band’s hallmark. Three of the band’s early core members were present: Mark Eitzel, Vudi and Dan Pearson. They with others provided a mostly indie rock meets country western sound. The occasional steel strings lent some country flavor, but the songs are stark and modern by virtue of Eitzel’s grounded yet poetic lyrics.
Some of the albums more upbeat highlights like “Outside This Bar” and “Clouds” exemplify the straight forward rock with punk undertones from the band’s debut. It would be the slower songs like “Nightwatchman”, “Mom’s TV” and “Asleep” that pointed to the band’s future reputation as kings of slowcore indie rock. Humor too was becoming a staple of the band’s work, specifically in Eitzel’s writing. Although not always as out right goofy as in “The Art of Love”.
AMC’s first three domestic releases, The Restless Stranger, Engine and California all feature an evolving degree of polish on the way to the lush sound of Mercury, the band’s major label debut. Eitzel’s songwriting also evolved,but even in early material it was clear that he was a step above the average rock song architect. It would easily put him in the same category as Morrissey, Joni Mitchell or Kate Bush in that regard. Rolling Stone magazine thought so too and would call Eitzel, the greatest songwriter of the year in 1988.
“Outside This Bar” is one of the band’s concert favorites as are a few others from Engine. It’s where Eitzel refines his punk and new wave influences to the point of creating a unique style of his own quite literally starting the slowcore (or sadcore) genre. Whatever you might want to call it, it’s a sound with few imitators today and holds up well over time. That may be one of the reasons I keep going back to this album.


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Friday, 27 December, 2002, 08:52 GMT
Flat plunge mother alerted medicsPolice are waiting to interview the boy's mother
The mother of a five-year-old boy who was found beaten to death on Christmas morning had spoken to her doctor before she fell from a two storey window, it has emerged.
The doctor arranged an urgent voluntary hospital admission for Alison Gorrie and called an ambulance to her home in Leith, in Edinburgh.
But when it arrived she said she felt better and sent the ambulance away.
The police have still not been able to interview Mrs Gorrie, who remains in hospital.
The police were called out on Christmas morning
The revelation about the ambulance came after Brendan Gorrie's father Bruce spoke about his anguish at events on Christmas Day.
Brendan's body was discovered in a flat after his injured, 35-year-old mother was found on the pavement outside New Bell's Court in the Leith area at around 0830 GMT.
She was taken to the city's Royal Infirmary where her condition was described as stable.
In a statement released by Lothian and Borders Police, Bruce Gorrie said: "This has been a devastating blow to me and my family.
"The loss of my son Brendan, who I love with all my heart and soul, is unimaginable.
"I am still struggling to accept he is no longer here and I will never see him again."
Mr Gorrie was estranged from his wife.
A police spokesman said a post mortem examination had been carried out on Brendan and its findings would be reported to the procurator fiscal.
He said no further details about the incident would be released at this stage.


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I first noticed it around the edge of our flower garden that was created with a sheet of black plastic. Black Plastic was put down till the grass died and then I ran timbers around the rectangle shape of the space created. I didn't run the timbers right to the edge and left a bit of bare ground just outside the timbers. Inside the area framed by timbers, I scratched the ground and broadcast some perennial flowers and those came up along with other wildflowers. No where on the interior of this garden space did Gaura Biennis grow. It only grew, and quite thickly, right along the outside edge of the timbers where the grass had been killed but the earth not scratched. In this area it was dense, healthy and grew about 6 feet tall in the full sun. I've read it likes shade, but it did great in the full sun.
The other areas it grew last year were a few places that were mowed the prior fall and winter and then left uncut in the spring. This year almost none is growing on the bottom land even though it went to seed because I didn't mow down there last fall/ winter.
This year, it's growing like crazy on the hill around the edge of a burn pile. It's not growing in center of the old burn pile, but only along the edge right where the grass and burn area meet. In this area it's growing thickly and is tall. Just out from that thick growth a few are growing here and there where the grass was cut in the fall, but it's much shorter.
I'm going to try to get it to come back near my garden next year by mowing around the garden this fall and laying down cardboard or old cotton clothes till the grass dies. Then I'll pick up the cover and just leave the area alone. I hope that does it.
This is a wonderfully beneficial plant so I've really been paying attention to how to get it back! To see plants that would be attacked by the Japanese beetle if Gaura Biennis wasn't around, see the "Host Plants" section of this Wikipedia article.
I may have mentioned this before, but I read that if you remove OVER 50% of the Japanese Beetles, as a group they will all move somewhere else (like to your garden). It's very easy to reduce the Japanese Beetle population by getting a jar of water with a little soap in it. Then hold the jar right below the beetle and tap the branch it's on. They fall off very easily. I was careful just to remove some to reduce the population, but not to remove all. Like I mentioned in a prior post, the Guara Biennis was hanging over the garden with Japaense beetles all over it and there were none in the garden. If they fell off, they got right back the Guara and stayed out of the garden.

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PHOTO: New tax measures that were signed into law in December benefit borough residents and business owners. Photo Courtesy of the Parsippany-Troy Hills Public Library System
By Forum Staff
With the deadline to file your annual tribute to Uncle Sam a little more than a week away, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) has reminded borough residents and business owners about new tax breaks, signed into law by President Barack Obama in December, that individuals and small-business owners can claim during this year’s filing season.
“It is important for individuals and entrepreneurs to be aware of the critical tax breaks that they are entitled to receive,” said Meng, who voted in favor of the below breaks. “Residents and small business owners in Queens deserve to keep as much money as possible in their pockets, and this new tax relief will help allow that to happen. I urge borough residents to claim all the tax breaks for which they qualify.”
The measures that benefit individuals include:
The Child Tax Credit: Helps with the cost of raising children by allowing a $1,000 tax credit per qualifying child.
Commuter Tax Credit: Provides relief to mass transit commuters by increasing the amount of pre-tax dollars that can be used for bus and train transportation to work; the previous $130 per month limit has been raised to $255 per month, the same amount that those who drive to work can use for parking fees.
The American Opportunity Tax Credit: Assists with college tuition costs by permitting a tax credit of up to $2,500 per year for tuition and expenses.
The Earned Income Tax Credit: Aids low and middle income individuals who work. The amount of the credit depends on the employed individual’s income, marital status and number of children.
Teachers’ Tax Credit: Allows teachers to deduct up to $250 for money they personally spend on classroom expenses and professional development.
And some of the new tax breaks for business owners include:
Research and Development Credit: Tax credit for research and development costs for start-ups and established businesses; designed to spur innovation and research.
Small Business Expensing: Increases expensing limits for small businesses under section 179 of the tax code by allowing entrepreneurs to expense up to $500,000, up from $25,000, for equipment costs.
Landlord, Restaurant, Retailer Tax Break: Permits landlords, restaurants and retailers to recover the costs of renovations to commercial buildings over 15 years, a much quicker period of time than the law previously allowed.

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Madie Nicpon, a junior defender on the Tufts women’s lacrosse team, died in an accident on Saturday, according…
October 19, 2021
The DII and DIII men’s lacrosse championships are determined. The victors of the season are the only thing…
May 25, 2021
Lenior Rhyne took care of Wingate in the SAC championship game, helping complete the conference’s self-cannibalism, Belmont Abbey…
April 29, 2021
With the Sunday of NCAA Championship Weekend reserved for the DII and DIII finals, it seemed fun look at the past five years and the game-changing moments.
May 24, 2020
The Mens' NCAA D3 Lacrosse tournament has long been incredibly exciting, but this year has been truly special. Not only do we get huge games on weekends, but we are also seeing some of the best lacrosse of the year played on weekdays!
May 14, 2018
National Champion Dan Levanthal has used his talents to take lacrosse to unchartered corners of Israel and right into the heart of the Bronx. The game has no borders for Levanthal and it starts with confidence.
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Apa (american psychological association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences this resource, revised according to the 6 th edition, second printing of the apa manual, offers examples for the general format of apa research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. The american psychological association (apa) system is commonly used for academic journals, especially in the social sciences, and utilises author/date in-text citations all cited texts should be included in a reference list, ordered alphabetically, with full publication information provided for each source. The basic format for a book citation requires listing the author's name, the title of the book, the place of publication, the publisher's name, and the date of publication edited books, when cited in full, will list the editor's name instead of an author’s name. Apa (american psychological association) is the most common style to cite with in the social sciences this online citation guide contains resources regarding citing, writing, and formatting papers in apa style.


Temperatures & Power Consumption By joe
Temperature sensors are DS18B20's and are in celsius. The CO2 sensor is an MH-Z19. The PM2.5/PM10 sensor is an SDS011. Power consumption is determined by a CurrentCost 433MHz transmitter which is received using rtl_433. Radiation CPM is determined using a homemade geiger counter with an SBM-20 tube.


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Do the distance on the Airborne Hob Goblin 29. We went all-in on this one with a carbon fiber full suspension XC-oriented frame for the lightest, most responsive ride. A tapered head tube set at 68 degrees keeps things solid and stable at all speeds. Internal cable routing makes for a clean, snag-free look. Balance out the Monarch RT 110mm-travel rear shock with a Rockshox Reba RL 120mm-travel fork for nimble handling, control, and on-the-fly adaptability to any terrain. Tubeless ready rims mounted with Kenda 29 x 2.4” and 29 x 2.2” tires give you options, as well as traction, on the climbs and descents. On the subject of hills, a SRAM Eagle 1x12 drivetrain gives you a limitless range to get the job done. Sealed bearings roll fast and maintenance free. SRAM Level T hydraulic brakes give effortless speed control to this adventure machine in all weather conditions. For hammering out the miles or an after work session at the local trail, the Hob Goblin 29 is as good as it gets.
The Hob Goblin 29 is assembled in Dayton, Ohio.


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Nice! My favorites are Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Jamie McMurray, and Trevor Bayne.Ay i dig it. Was going to make a thread like this before Daytona actually haha thanks for doin it. I've been a NASCAR fan since 09, not super passionate about it but i know quite a bit. So happy Truex Jr. won the title last year, super happy for the dude.
Favorite current drivers for me:
Daytona is always one of my favorite sporting events of the year, lookin forward to it. Just sucks so many drivers are retiring but i like a lot of the new family.
Hell yeah man always down to chat about it. Nice list of favorites as well, i dig it.Nice! My favorites are Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Jamie McMurray, and Trevor Bayne.
I honestly thought I'd be the only one here that likes NASCAR. Glad to have another guy to hoot the sh*t with.
That is a fantastic first to watch! Damn i'm jealous there, one of my favorite moments for sure.Oh, and I've been a fan of the sport hardcore since 2005. My first race I really watched was the final race of the 2004 season where Kurt Busch won the title.
My dad use to watch all the time back in the mid to late 90s.