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Live From Wimbledon: ESPN’s Jamie Reynolds on Wimbledon Innovations, the Road to the US Open
The network’s tennis coverage continues through late August
Wimbledon comes to an end this weekend, but, for those involved with ESPN’s tennis coverage, that will mean not a chance to take a breather but rather to keep the momentum going. The network will extend a streak that began on July 2 of tennis coverage appearing on at least one ESPN platform.
“It’s not stopping,” says Jamie Reynolds, VP, production, ESPN. “When we made a presentation internally for how many resources we would need, we realized it was a massive extension for the expanding level of content. It’s become a very dense organization.”
The US Open Series of events, for example, kicks off on July 23 in Atlanta before going to San Jose, CA; Montreal; Cincinnati; Winston-Salem, NC; and New Haven, CT without a single break day. Action in New Haven ends on Aug. 25, and then it is straight over to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York for the start of qualifiers on Aug. 27. And the qualifying stage of the tennis majors is increasingly important. ESPN, for example, will deliver five courts of qualifying coverage.
“It’s in order to make it more attractive as a three-week event,” Reynolds explains. “You also need to invest in the next generation of players and create a more visceral attachment to those players. And there are a great many countries who would love to celebrate the rise of the players that are coming through.”
But, before ESPN shifts its attention back to the U.S., there is still coverage and stories to be told from Wimbledon. The men’s and women’s semifinals are just ahead, and, thankfully, there should be some attractive matchups.
This is the first year that ALETC has taken over production of the host coverage from the BBC. The vast majority of the production personnel who have become synonymous with court coverage are still onsite, but there have been a number of technical changes in the facility itself, including some new production-control rooms and quality control. In addition, the facility has embraced IP signal transport, which provides more flexibility in signal availability and lays the groundwork for next-generation formats (Centre Court is also being covered in UDH with HDR).
“It’s impressive what Paul [Davies, head of broadcast and production, AELTC] and the team have done,” says Reynolds. “It’s an impressive undertaking for a facility that is, ostensibly, hot for only two weeks a year. It’s impressive from a central acquisition point, and the organization and flow of content coming in is very, very good.”
Over the years, Reynolds and the ESPN team at Wimbledon have developed a friendly relationship with the BBC and AELTC. The three have historically worked closely on figuring out shared resources and unilateral resources.
“We have blended some of those camera positions and given back control, so they could be used to enhance the world feed,” says Reynolds. “In exchange, we have gained some more resources to stylize around the edge with things like features and elements around the grounds that can enhance our coverage rather than replicate what is already being done.”
He says the biggest advantage in having AELTC take over host responsibilities is that the event is streamlined in terms of where to go for requests or to solve a problem. “It’s a smarter venue and eased the burden of figuring out who to go to for a feed or asset. That reduces the stress and tension and lets us get back into the creative process.”
The long-range plan, says Reynolds, is to continue to figure out how to amplify Wimbledon for viewers. “It’s not necessarily about focusing on the competition but about the character and legacy of this event and bringing those ingredients together for 14 days.
“It’s about the nuance and special ingredient we can add to the coverage,” he continues. “We all pride ourselves on creating a unit that puts the best product on-air.”
One new element at Wimbledon this year is a Telstra Netcam mounted in the net on Centre Court and providing shots of players charging toward the net. Reynolds says it offers a wow factor for viewers and gives a different perspective from traditional coverage, which typically has players running from left to right or right to left.
“The more you have a chip-and-charge sort of player, the better it is,” he says. “You can see a player coming at the lens as opposed to always running across the screen. I think it’s a great shot, and our play for the US Open is to use it on Arthur Ashe Stadium, Armstrong, and the Grandstand court. We are going to raise the stakes and deliver it for three courts.”
DirecTV viewers were also treated to an opening week of ITV Wimbledon coverage via a Mosaic channel that offered up to five matches on screen at once. ESPN took advantage of world feeds, unilateral cameras, studio cameras, and content on the EVS network to deliver the experience. Don Colantonio, executive producer, AT&T content creation, says the transition to working with Wimbledon Broadcast Services has been seamless for the team of six production and 12 technical staffers.
“If you look at the new facilities they have, it is really remarkable to see the quality of the facilities and the aesthetics of the area and physical design,” he says. “They also added more commentators, so we don’t have to juggle our own commentators. It has made things better on several fronts.”
This was the second year that Colantonio and the team worked alongside ESPN in Control Room B. On the last day of production, known as “Manic Monday” because of the large number of crucial matches, the Mosaic team shifted to an ad hoc control room in the transmission area that was smaller but configured properly so that the team could meet their objectives.
This is also the third year that the Mosaic service has a studio set overlooking Court 14.
“From a content perspective, we had more access to players and ESPN analysts,” says Colantonio.
The US Open this year will have a special energy from day one, with the USTA Billie Jean Tennis Center sparkling after years of renovations. A new Louis Armstrong Stadium, complete with roof, will open and mark the end of a five-year $600 million transformation of the facility.
“For viewers at home, the event needs to feel big,” Colantonio says, “and we need to give them the experience of being there and see how it will present itself as a state-of-the-art facility. On Opening Day, we have to enhance the presentation of the finished venue and the US Open team’s accomplishments.”

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Skip to comments.Regina police recover missing hard drive (Financial, health records of 1 million+ compromised)
Posted on 02/04/2003 11:44:52 PM PST by Timesink
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Regina police recover missing hard drive
Last Updated Tue Feb 4 18:53:26 2003
REGINA-- Regina police said Tuesday they have recovered a missing computer hard drive that contained sensitive personal information on more than one million people.
Police have scheduled a news conference for Wednesday, but did say there is no indication that the information contained on the drive was targeted, nor that it was used.
Charges are reported to be pending against one person.
The hard drive was reported missing by ISM Canada, a major information management and outsourcing company, on Jan. 16. Police treated the case as a theft and began investigating.
The disk contained up to 750,000 files on clients of Investors Group, Canada's biggest mutual fund company.
Investors Group said the data contained on the disk included clients' names and addresses, account numbers, portfolio holdings and beneficiaries. The company said the information could not be used to access clients' holdings.
The missing disk was also reported to contain files on 180,000 clients of the Co-operators Insurance Company, 10,000 customers of SaskPower, 60,000 Saskatchewan government employees and 56,000 Saskatchewan farmers.
A class-action lawsuit has already been launched in Saskatchewan against the companies and agencies that stored information the missing hard drive.
A Regina law firm, the Merchant Law Group, filed the suit on behalf of people whose personal information is contained on the hard drive.
The suit named the Government of Saskatchewan, ISM-Canada, the Co-operators Insurance Company and Investors Group as defendants in the case.
Written by CBC News Online staff
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Investors Group says customer information on missing hard drive
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REGINA-- Information on hundreds of thousands of clients of Investors Group was on a computer hard drive that is presumed stolen last month from ISM Canada in Regina.
Up to 750,000 customer files may have been on the missing drive, the Globe and Mail reported Monday.
Investors Group, the biggest money management company in the country, said the data contained on the disk included clients' names and addresses, account numbers, portfolio holdings and beneficiaries.
Hoping to allay consumers' fears, the money manager said there is now way for anyone to use the missing data to access client accounts in any way. The missing information doesn't include personal information normally involved in the misuse of personal data, such as social insurance numbers, dates of birth, or banking information, Investors Group said.
"I understand the concern this may cause for our clients," Jeff Orr, Investors Group's president and chief executive officer, said in a release.
"The security of our clients' information is a top priority for Investors Group, and we take this incident very seriously," he said.
The report of the missing data is the latest involving lost information on hard drives missing from ISM Canada, a subsidiary of IBM Canada.
Data on about 180,000 customers of the Co-operators insurance company is also reported to be missing.
The disk drive may have also contained information on 410,000 customers of SaskPower. About 10,000 of those customers may have had bank account information, social insurance numbers, provincial health plan numbers and driver's licence numbers taken. The other 400,000 customers are thought to have only had their names, addresses and electrical consumption data taken.
The Saskatchewan government also said last week that files on 60,000 public servants and 56,000 farmers may have been on the missing disk.
A subsidiary of IBM Canada, ISM said it is cooperating with the Regina City Police, which is treating the incident as a theft.
"We deeply regret the disruption and concern that this incident has caused our client organizations and their customers and we are committed to working through this with them every step of the way," Dan McMurtry, the CEO of ISM Canada, said.
"We respect our customers' wishes that we keep their business with us confidential," McMurty said.
ISM indicated that a spokesperson for the Regina City Police has said there is no evidence to date that the material on the drive has been used illegally.
Written by CBC News Online staff
Newsworld's Christopher Thomas talks with Jesse Hirsh, a computer security expert and president of Openflows Network.
Both in RealVideo format.
The company at the centre of what experts say is Canada's biggest privacy disaster was once the country's shining information technology star, a firm that had built a thriving multimillion-dollar business providing data processing services for a blue-chip client list.
Its success in building a healthy services business was the big reason International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., acquired ISM Canada Inc. of Regina in 1995 for more than $140-million. At the time, IBM was beginning a long process of transforming itself from primarily a maker of computer hardware to a services and consulting firm.
But today, ISM, which employs about 315 people in Saskatchewan, faces its darkest hour and its parent, IBM Canada Ltd. of Markham, Ont., must deal with some embarrassing questions about its ability to protect sensitive customer information. On Jan. 16, during a routine upgrade of a computer in ISM's Regina facility, a computer hard drive went missing and police are investigating.
The disk contained detailed personal financial and health information for, it now appears, more than one million Canadians, including Saskatchewan government employees and customers of Investors Group Inc. of Winnipeg and Co-operators General Insurance Co. of Guelph, Ont.
"It's bad practice to put two financial institutions on the same disk," said Ira Winkler, chief security strategist for Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., one of IBM's biggest competitors. "You should never co-mingle customer data on the same disk."
ISM has said it will not comment on the specifics of the security procedures it had in place for its customers.
Michael Power, an Ottawa-based lawyer for Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, said it was Canada's biggest privacy disaster.
"There's the potential for lawsuits here, including class-action lawsuits in a worst-case scenario and that's why I refer to it as the Exxon Valdez of privacy," Mr. Power said.
Indeed, late yesterday, a lawsuit was filed by a Regina law firm on behalf of those whose customer records the suit alleges were put at risk, naming ISM, Investors Group, Co-operators and others as defendants.
"This is an obligation they can't expect to avoid at a senior management level. They are assumed to have been aware of these issues and will face the consequences if they're not," said Mary Kirwan, a lawyer and senior director at Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd. of Mississauga, a maker of computer security products and services. "This does expose management and directors to civil suits."
Mr. Power, who helped draft Canada's federal privacy legislation, agreed: "The obligation is on the Co-operators and other organizations that collect personal information to make sure that any third-party contractors that they use maintain adequate security procedures."
Almost all of Canada's largest financial services companies, including banks, credit unions, mutual fund companies and insurers use third-party firms such as IBM, HP, EDS Canada, CGI Group Inc. and others to perform a host of data processing tasks. All of those firms routinely handle sensitive personal and financial information on behalf of their financial services customers.
But industry sources say it's difficult to persuade chief executive officers, chief financial officers and other non-technical executives at those financial services companies to spend money on information security, because it's difficult to gauge the return on that investment.
In other words, there's no formula a CEO can point to in order to say to his or her shareholders that for every dollar invested in computer security, there will be a corresponding improvement to the company's overall profitability.
"Only with catastrophic events, you have the benefit of hindsight to say, 'We should have . . .," said Robert Everett, an Ottawa-based vice-president with EDS Canada, another of IBM's biggest competitors. "This stuff costs money. Encryption, for example, provides a significant burden on your [IT] infrastructure and puts significant challenges on the efficiencies of an IT environment. Your response times drag and business policies have to be wrapped around it."
Dan McMurtry, who was named president and chief executive officer of ISM early in 2001, declined to discuss the specific computer security measures in place for the Co-operators, Investors Group or any other ISM customer. He conceded, though, that as each customer contracts for different services, so each customer has different security requirements and agrees to pay for different levels of security.
"It's kind of like a level of insurance. What are you prepared to pay? As you evaluate the sensitivity and the nature and likelihood associated with encryption and all of those security measures do, I think, come down to a matter of cost," Mr. McMurtry said.
Ms. Kirwan, of Kasten Chase, said the incident should serve as a wake-up call for senior executives across Canada.
"Unfortunately, this is extremely commonplace. These issues are not brought up enough in terms of the value chain, in terms of things that have to be looked at. Companies you would expect to know better do not have information security policies in place; do not have people who are responsible for information; and there is a dissociation between senior management and security personnel," Ms. Kirwan said. "What we have to do is establish a culture of security in Corporate Canada."
David Akin is national business and technology correspondent for CTV News and a contributing writer to The Globe and Mail.
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NTT West and TelWel West try to establishment of the map base technology which can share the map among service robots. They started “the joint research towards realization of map sharing between different species robots.”
This research proves the map integrated technology which unifies the adjoining land figure generated by the differentness time zone or the differentness robot on one map. Moreover, they prove the map conversion technology which they convert into the map set by robot specification.
They distribute map information to the office cleaning robot, and evaluate whether the robot can complete business.
They check whether the field staff can carry out operation of the
map agg and conversion satisfactorily.
NTT West has aimed at realization of the society which provides service with various robots, in order to solve the labor shortage problem.


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The governor of Lagos State reaffirmed the commitment on Monday. Lagos State will continue to be accessible and to offer all displaced people looking for safety from violent conflicts and disasters non-discriminatory support.
The state will continue to be a refugee-friendly metropolis, according to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and will offer employment possibilities to displaced people who are sincerely trying to start over.
During a commemorative event held in Lagos to mark World Refugee Day, the Governor made the commitment. At the occasion, Sanwo-Olu also acknowledged Lagos as a city with refugees by signing a document.
An estimated 84,000 refugees from other African nations have arrived in Nigeria. Lagos is home to 1,656 registered refugees and 611 asylum seekers from 34 countries; the majority of these people have been integrated into communities to begin new lives.
According to Sanwo-Olu, Lagos views providing protection to refugees as a moral duty enshrined in human rights rather than a privilege. He claimed that regardless of a person’s gender, age, nationality, religion, or place of origin, the state had maintained a non-discriminatory policy to uphold their rights when seeking safety.
He said: “It gladdens our heart as a Government to receive the validation that Lagos is a city with refugees. I make further pledge that we will continue to make the State a refugee-friendly city and a land of opportunity for refugees legitimately seeking to rebuild their lives here. As a Government leader, my administration will continue to offer protection and provide the ambience for displaced persons to improve their well-being.
“No matter what the political belief, religion, tribe or gender of anyone seeking safety in our communities from violent conflicts, we will not do anything that will make them uncomfortable living in the State. Once we give the refugees social protection, we believe they can use their talents and energy to flourish, thereby contributing their own quota to the development of their host communities and the State’s economic growth.”
Sanwo-Olu, however, spoke to the root cause of the refugees’ proliferation, appealing to political actors to fashion out ways to amicably resolve disagreements that have the potential to result in violent conflicts.
This, the Governor said, is necessary to stem the growing number of persons running away from their communities due to violent conflicts. He said the global refugee figures remained an “embarrassing number” to humanity, calling for restraint among warring global leaders.
Sanwo-Olu hailed the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs (NCFRMI), United States Government and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for responding to the challenges of displaced persons.
“I’m also using this platform to enjoin Lagosians to exhibit the true spirit of the State, by welcoming all asylum seekers who have genuine interest to be part of their communities. The refugees must not be forced to return to where their lives and well-being would be threatened again,” the Governor said.
Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, called for more action to address discrimination against refugees in non-conflict zones, pointing out that the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War had aggravated the crisis of refugee.
Represented by Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, the minister said Nigeria would continue to respect the provisions of the 1951 Convention on Refugee, stressing that international best practice would be employed in handling the IDPs across the country.
NCFRMI Federal Commissioner, Hajia Imaan Ibrahim-Sulaiman, said the signing of the Declaration of Lagos as a ‘City With Refugees’ signified “a defining moment” with global significance.
The signing, she said, underscored the place of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons and other Persons of Concern (PoCs) in the heart of Lagos.
“Under the current leadership, Lagos has created inclusiveness and promoted hope for refugees and other PoCs through favourable policies in the areas of education, health and social services. With the signing, Lagos is going to join other league of towns and cities in the world that have signed the Declaration”, Ibrahim-Sulaiman said.
UNHCR Representative to Nigeria, Ms. Chansa Kapaya, said the commemoration was created as a day to build empathy, celebrate the strength and courage of refugees, while also recognising their resilience and taking action to solve their plight.
She urged global leaders to step up and work together to solve the global refugee challenges.
A Cameroonian refugee, Zemkwe Nekuna, a lawyer, who spoke on behalf of international refugees in Nigeria, delivered the appreciation note of IDPs to the Government for offering them the platform to grow beyond their predicament.

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The games business has actually generated a multitude of different computer game, which is actually why players have actually been actually seeking a way to boost their game skills and take on qualified gamers. This competitors has created numerous chances for gamers, and they have actually managed to create good money coming from their abilities.
Several gamers have actually begun their occupations through being actually personal trainers for computer game console players. This task may certainly not be actually as elegant as the extra highly profitable ones yet the pay is still good as well as may lead to some very high spending projects if one is identified enough to pursue this occupation course.
There are additionally lots of people that offer computer game at internet public auctions that come to the community. The quality of the video recording activities is actually generally much reduced than that sold in retail stores, these sites still supply an excellent source of amusement for gamers. Some individuals have even ended up being effective marketing video recording activities for a living, though this needs a significant quantity of capability and experience.
An additional opportunity for folks to receive involved along with the video games online is actually by blogging about computer game online. A writer can produce articles for these websites, which can be helpful for both players and also video game gamers.
Lots of people really love to participate in online video games. Computer game have modified over the years coming from an easy activity for the tv to advanced computer system video games. An activity console is just one of the absolute most popular forms of video games today.
A video recording game is actually typically an electronic video game which includes inputting a button on the console or even on a handheld operator in order to create aesthetic responses for the gamer. The activity is typically configured and made in a method similar to a game of chess.
Some people prefer to play a personal computer video game which does certainly not demand the gamer to have any sort of previous take in with pcs or even games. Others select to play a video game which has actually actually been set. Other gamers take pleasure in using concentrated controllers created for particular objectives.
The majority of online video games are created to ensure that they may be participated in by individuals of any ages. In some cases, the video games are actually developed for certain environments and for details players. Computer game are actually sold via several retailers, online video game outlets, and also through on the internet retailers.
In enhancement to participating in online video games, folks sometimes acquire activity systems specifically designed for their make use of. Each of these pc gaming devices has a range of online video activities on call for it.
When buying a video recording activity device, it is necessary to consider the reason that the system are going to be used for. A video gaming device designed for a much older child or grownup should have limited functions. Kids that are actually certainly not but efficient in finding out exactly how to function the managements might certainly not intend to discover the complex controls of the managements of a racing activity, like steerage or even hopping. As an example, a game device designed for an adult would be much better off as an informative tool for more mature kids.
Specific video games might be actually better for an individual’s age. Some moms and dads that acquire game units for more mature kids often perform not know why they are actually buying all of them until they discover that the games are certainly not age appropriate. For instance, some video games such as Nintendo’s Wii Fit and other high effect sporting activities video games might not agree with for more youthful little ones. For these styles of games, it might be actually more advantageous to commit in an extra typical computer game body like the PlayStation or even Wii.
A lot of pc gaming units are appropriate along with accessories to include additional complexity. to the games. Some add-ons include controllers, a cam, a DVD drive, as well as a mic.
While a lot of online video games are actually quick and easy to work, some video games demand a great deal of skill and practice prior to the player can easily master them. It might be actually needed for someone to obtain extra software program and equipment for the game to advancement in the game. For instance, one player might yearn for to evolve to the next level of the video game prior to the other gamer. Some video games have level innovation constructed right into all of them, players who are actually trained enough in the video game may in fact make the gamer’s life much simpler by preparing their own degree advancement purposes. Some video games might enable the playing of both players at the same time.
The majority of computer game are offered with a guide or a resource to aid the player to gain proficiency over the video game device. These overviews also provide measure through action instructions on exactly how to evolve to a variety of amounts of the activity. Some overviews are going to additionally give ideas on specific functions of the activity that could be of support to those that do not recognize where to begin.
One of the most prominent kind of computer game for adolescents are actually competing games. They are typically offered for sale by retail outlets since adolescents delight in dashing games therefore considerably. Some young adults, in reality, will certainly buy the absolute most expensive as well as advanced racing video game systems that are actually offered.
Video clip video games are exciting and appealing for every person. They have actually ended up being an indispensable component of most individuals’s lives. Also youngsters that are actually old sufficient to steer. Many folks that have grown playing computer game will typically carry on participating in these video games in to adulthood.

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Transformation of naturally occurring (3R,3'R,6'R)-lutein and its fatty acid esters to (3 R)-β-cryptoxanthin and (3R,6'R)-α-cryptoxanthin.Arch Biochem Biophys. 2018 09 01; 653:107-112.AB
The objective of this study was to develop straightforward processes that could be applied to the large-scale production of β-cryptoxanthin in an attempt to facilitate investigation of its biological activity. An oleoresin obtained from crude extracts of marigold flowers (Tagetes erecta) with approximately 24% total lutein fatty acid ester content was directly used as starting material for partial synthesis of (3 R)-β-cryptoxanthin under mild reaction conditions at ambient temperature. Therefore, acid-catalyzed deoxygenation of lutein esters from marigold oleoresin followed by hydrogenation in the presence of catalytic amount of platinum (Pt) supported on alumina (5%) at ambient temperature gave a mixture of (3 R)-β-cryptoxanthin fatty acid esters (major) and (3 R,6'R)-α-cryptoxanthin fatty acid esters (minor). Saponification and Z-to-E isomerization of the product followed by crystallization gave a mixture of (3 R)-β-cryptoxanthin as the major product. Similarly, acid-catalyzed hydrogenation of unesterified (3 R,3'R,6'R)-lutein with Pt/alumina in ethyl acetate gave a mixture of (3 R,6'R)-α-cryptoxanthin acetate (minor) in a one-pot reaction. Alkaline hydrolysis and Z-to-E isomerization of the mixture followed by crystallization provided (3 R)-β-cryptoxanthin.

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Morning! Can you believe it's only two weeks until Christmas! I am so, so excited :D
I did my little sisters nails the other day and she chose a mad mani, TEN different colours! We decided to use five different really bright colours on one hand and the replicate it in more muted colours on the other hand.
On her first hand we used; Calvin Klein bombshell, three unnamed Cynthia Rowley polishes in blue, pinky/purple and blue and a Barry M gelly in satsuma.
For the more muted colours we used; models own in raspberry crush, three nails inc polishes in Sheraton Street, Grosvenor Crescent and Northumberland Avenue and lastly Calvin Klein in crushed rose.
These are the bright colours starting with Barry M gelly on her thumb and ending with Calvin Klein in bombshell. The Cynthia Rowley polishes in the middle are pictured with topcoat as they dry matte.
These are the more muted colours starting with models own in raspberry crush and ending with Calvin Klein in crushed rose. As you can see although it is a pink colour it is quite orange, so it works as an opposite to the Barry M in satsuma.
I think this mani is so cool and love that my little sis lets me do crazy things with her nails!

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The Berlin state government wants to freeze the rents (Mietendeckel). The federal government wants to regulate at least the market in favor of tenants, but also for the buyers of home ownership.
The Grand Coalition wants to extend the rental price brake until the end of 2025. Introduced in 2015, it stipulates in fixed distressed areas that the rent for the re-letting of existing housing may not exceed 10 percent of the local standard rent.
The calculation period for the local comparative rent is to be extended from four to six years. This will reduce the comparative rent. In addition, tenants should be able to reclaim overpaid rent 30 months retroactively. At present, excessive rents have to be reimbursed only as of a complaint.
A change in the purchase of home ownership is also planned. If brokerage fees are due, the person who did not appoint the broker should pay a maximum of 50% of the fees – and only if the client has already paid his share. Usually brokers are commissioned by the seller of a property.


Holden’s Camry rival spied
Malibu likely to go on sale alongside Opel-sourced Insignia.
General Motors has been caught testing an update to its mid-sized Chevrolet Malibu sedan in Germany.
Insiders suggest the Malibu is likely to remain in showrooms despite less than 1500 sales for the year to date – well less than rivals such as the Mazda6 or Toyota Camry that have 5000 and 17,700 sales respectively.
As to whether there is room for it at the table, Holden has already confirmed the Cruze will continue on sale alongside the Europe-sourced Astra returns in 2015, despite an overlap in size and purpose across the two hatches.
General Motors has not released prices or specifications for the facelifted Malibu, which is yet to make its debut at a major motor show.
The car is expected to feature a revised look likely to include updated LED lighting along with a revised front fascia and updated cabin.
It's possible the refreshed Malibu will bring additional power in the form of a turbocharged 2.0-litre engine available in the US that makes around 190kW and 350Nm, well more than the current Australian model's 123kW, 225Nm 2.4-litre motor.
A spokesman for the brand could not say when the next-generation Malibu will arrive in Australia.


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“Grandpa” Harrow is an elderly tabby cat who adores foster kittens who need his friendship and cuddles. That’s why when Lilac came into his home as a foster baby who had lost her brother and needed feline companionship, he was happy to volunteer his snuggle services.
Sad little Lilac took to Harrow immediately, burrowing and nuzzling into his warm fur coat like a little earthworm would dig its way into soft, damp soil. When foster volunteers temporarily separated the two felines, Harrow responded to her plaintive cries by jumping into her nest to offer his comfort.
Lilac relied on Harrow’s purring and steady heartbeat to calm her, gaining confidence and strength from the larger cat’s reassuring presence. When she was nuzzled against him, she felt no more need to cry. Even when little Lilac needed to be away for testing at the veterinary clinic, she immediately ran to her “grandpa” upon her return, and let her own purring mix with his to soothe her to sleep.
The time that Lilac spent with Harrow helped her to thrive. She regained her appetite, which had waned, and her strength flourished to the point where she was finally healthy and as strong as any kitten her age. Now Lilac has moved to the next chapter of her life, having been adopted into a loving family. That leaves Harrow available and waiting for the next waif to come along to partake in his signature snuggles and purrs.

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Located in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Thistledown is a family run farm which has been managed organically since we moved here in 1994. Thistledown offers an alternative approach to camping: green values are emphasised, campfires are encouraged, the lower fields are car-free and we have no allotted pitches.
Our farm offers more than just a spot to pitch a tent. Footpaths wind their way through 70 acres of ancient meadow and woodland; past streams, woodland ponds, Roman troughs, animal paddocks, picnic spots and land art. We have set up a farm shop so that visitors have an opportunity to buy local produce from small scale suppliers (ourselves included), as well as local art and crafts. We are developing a clay oven and café space, which we hope to use soon for pizza evenings and slow-cooked lunches.
The farm has a rich and varied history. We have found neolithic hand tools, a rare iron age storage pit, the remains of various roundhouses, and evidence for Roman occupation. In later centuries, the farm was part of the Woodchester Park Estate. You can still see the remains of the seven mile-long deer wall that enclosed the valley. After purchasing the farm in the 1990s we re-instated the green-top organic dairy and also established the largest elderflower orchard in the world in partnership with Bottle Green Drinks! The old pastures are now car-free camping fields, whilst clearings are mown into the elderflower orchard for campervans and those who prefer to be near their car. Our focus is now primarily on camping and environmental education and management, and we no longer accept day visits from the general public. We are keen to establish more courses using the land, and we are also a wildlife receptor site, rehoming species that have been disturbed by development.
You can learn more about the history and natural environment of the farm by visiting the pages in this About section. To find out more about our shop and café please see the section on the menu bar. If you have any questions then please do get in touch. Our contact details are on the Directions & Contact page.
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For countless families, the thought of finances and budgeting can be daunting. Many people would just prefer to not even know how their money is spent for fear of realizing that they might be worse off than they even assumed. More so than that, the thought of teaching their kids to understand budgeting only builds on that stress!
Establishing a household budget and learning to manage money is much more likely to reduce your stress than to increase it. The unknown is the most intimidating factor of all. It is both liberating and encouraging to know that you are in control of your money and you are the one that determines how it is spent.
Teaching your children how to manage money is not only beneficial for them, but also helps to alleviate stress in your own life. Helping children to understand finances sets them up for both present and future success, while also steering them towards financial independence.
Dennis Miller, the Senior Editor of Miller’s Money Forever, outlines five strategic practices to help Fathers teach their children financial wisdom:
Set Expectations Early “When baby boomers were growing up, they were expected to go to college and then move out on their own. Mom and dad made that crystal clear by about fifth grade and helped their kids prepare.”
Make Independence the Goal “Parents need to make independence the more attractive choice.”
Teach Good Financial Habits Early “It’s never too early to start showing children how to earn their own way. At what point do you stop handing out no-strings attached allowances and assign chores to make them earn that money?”
Saving is a Must “When your children earn money from chores or little jobs and when they receive money as gifts, help them put a certain percentage in savings.”
Be a Financial Mentor “She wasn’t calling to ask for money, she was asking for advice. I thought later about what a disservice I would have done to her marriage if I had helped financially.”
To read the entire post by Dennis Miller, click here: 5 Financial Keys to Fatherhood, Not Friendship

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Farmers in Wonogiri Hope Pidekso Dam Can Boost Harvest, Improve Welfare
Following the inauguration of Pidekso Dam in Wonogiri Regency, Central Java province by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, on Tuesday (12/28), a number of farmers expressed their hopes upon the construction of the 232-hectare dam.
One of the farmers from Kebunharjo village, Surahmin, felt grateful upon the construction of Pidekso Dam. Surahmin said that the dam will bring enormous benefits and welfare for the people.
“We are grateful and insya Allah it will bring benefits for the people. We used to harvest one or two times a year, insyaAllah next time we will harvest three or four times a year,” Surahmin said.
Surahmin also expressed hope that Pidekso Dam will bring benefits to the irrigation, so farmers’ productivity will increase. To date, Surahmin continued, the farmers can produce about 6-7 tons for one hectare in the village.
“We hope that if we can harvest three times a year, we may increase our production,” he added.
Another farmer from Balepanjang village, Trianto, also echoed the same response and expressed hope that with the construction of the dam, local production of foodstuffs will grow higher.
“According to my experience, before Pidekso dam was built, we could only harvest once a year. Hopefully, later we can harvest two or three times a year after Pidekso dam is built,” Trianto said.
Moreover, the farmers requested that the Government pay attention to the tertiery irrigation of Pidekso dam. Mariyono, a farmer from Ngancar village expressed hope that the irrigation of this dam can be on target.
“In the future, if one day the irrigation channel reaches my area, please consider that the tertiary irrigation is not working well, so I think the irrigation will probably not be on target,” Mariyono said. (Bureau of Press, Media, and Information of Presidential Secretariat/UN)(AW/MUR)

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Why can't they just land on their floor? If it's for stability, they could still use skids which are less taller than what is used.
Larger helicopters have landing wheels, and as we can see on the picture above, they are placed as far outward as practically possible in order to provide stability in the landing. Touch down one wheel on an sideways inclined slope, lower the collective, and the helicopter will align itself onto the slope with:
- The location of the Centre of Gravity (CoG) always in between the wheels. The higher the CoG, the wider the landing gear impact points must be.
- The weight being supported on clearly defined and structurally reinforced points. Even if the bottom of the helicopter is perfectly flat, the landing ground may not be, and to support all of the weight at any random point at the bottom requires a lot of relatively useless weight for the re-inforcement.
- The behaviour after first wheel touchdown being clearly defined. The wheel is a point of impact upon the landing plane, mathematically much more defined than a plane of impact upon a landing plane if the latter is curved.
All the above is for wheels, which allow the helicopter to taxi on-ground. Skids perform all of the above functions apart from the on-ground taxiing, and are cheaper and lighter than retractable landing wheels. Of course, the other downside is that they have more drag.
One would not want to land this helicopter without the skids!
Physically they likely could, but helicopters (and all aircraft for that matter) tend to have stuff mounted to the bottom like antennas, probes, cameras etc. so adding some kind of landing gear or skid helps to provide clearance for all that. This question covers a bit about whats mounted where.
The belly of a helicopter also tends to not be perfectly flat (depending on the model) so belly landing can lead to some roll which may allow the rotors to scrape the ground.
Skids are especially beneficial when the helicopter is supposed to land on rough ground, e.g. grass.
They move the body and the rotors farther away from the ground, thus giving both more clearance.
Compared to extending the body to the ground to achive the same effect, skids add less weight and significantly less air resistance.
Compared to wheels they are better suited for rough ground, as they have a larger contact area and thus tend to sink less into the ground.
Wheels on the other hand have the advantage when the helicopter usually lands on concrete or other solid ground. Here they allow taxiing.
That's why you tend to see skids on smaller helicopters which tend to land on grass or other uneven terrain, while larger helicopters, which tend to land on more solid ground, tend to have wheels.
Also, skids are simpler than wheels, which also suits smaller, cheaper helicopters better.
Skids, as opposed to wheels, allows the pilot to get some sense of balancing tail rotor counter torque before lift off. Skids would provide more drag until the pilot "got it". Same thing moving forward, backwards, or side to side. The skid friction limits movement (or damps it if you will), rather than creating a nightmare of correct/overcorrect in 2 dimensions.
Skids also add an important amount of rotor clearance, and offer simplicity, reliability, and light weight.
An additional benefit of longer skids is some energy absorption upon a vertical crash. The skids are generally designed to bend outwards and up during impact. This can be seen occurring on many helicopter crash videos. The design of impact absorbing skids is covered extensively here.


Instead of an Otto cycle engine, which is the conventional solution for gas-powered vehicles, the Volvo FH LNG and Volvo FM LNG are powered by gas engines utilising Diesel cycle technology. Volvo’s 460 hp gas engine delivers maximum torque of 2300 Nm while the 420 hp version produces 2100 Nm. This is the same as Volvo’s corresponding diesel engines. What is more, fuel consumption is on a par with Volvo’s diesel engines, but 15 to 25 per cent lower than for conventional gas engines.
The fuel used is natural gas in the form of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) or biogas, known as bio-LNG. Both fuels consist of methane. If biogas is used, the climate footprint can shrink by as much as 100 per cent and if natural gas is used, the reduction is 20 per cent.
In order to maximise the driving range, the tanks are filled with LNG, which is stored at 4-10 bar pressure at a temperature of -140 to -125 °C. The biggest fuel tank variant contains enough LNG for a range of up to 1000 km. Refuelling takes about the same time as filling up with diesel.


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A group of seven students from Tezpur in the Assam region of India have travelled to Queen’s University Belfast to begin a new chapter of their lives after they were awarded government of India sponsored places to complete their PhDs.
20 July, 2018
Representatives from Sohar University Oman, and Orpic visited Queen’s University Belfast today to discuss potential collaboration projects with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
1 August, 2018
Around 200 students from seven institutions in China have arrived at Queen’s for a summer school with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
Two scholarships are being offered to provide the opportunity for any level 2 UG student from across the Faculty of EPS to study at Beijing Institute of Technology for 1 year.
3 June, 2020
An online tool for people to calculate their risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19, ‘Your COVID-19 Risk’, has been launched by a group of Queen’s academic alongside colleagues from 35 countries.
1 June, 2020
The research survey from Queen’s University Belfast explored the psychological impact of lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic on people in Northern Ireland.
society | 27 May, 2020
An academic from Queen’s and an international team of researchers have responded to the current global COVID-19 lockdown by developing a framework for public health research into the impact on physical and mental health.
SCIENCE | 13 May, 2020
Academics from Queen’s University have been awarded $310,738 for research towards intelligent welfare monitoring of chickens farmed for their meat.
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Rep. Ann Kuster attends Hanover meeting on "Ready for 100" campaign
On Monday morning, community members, students and a group of panelists including Rep. Ann Kuster ’78 (D-NH) convened at Hanover’s Town Hall to discuss the town’s “Ready for 100” action campaign. During the event, panelists and community members showed support for the town’s renewable energy plans and discussed the progress of the initiative, while some attendees also voiced criticism of College’s proposed biomass heating plant.
The town’s plan, which Kuster supports, commits Hanover to 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030, and to 100 percent renewable heating and transportation sources by 2050. The proposal, which was voted upon and approved by Hanover community members in 2017, would make Hanover the first municipality in the United States to enact a renewable energy campaign through popular support.
Monday’s round-table panel consisted of nine members, who worked for various organizations such as the Appalachian Mountain Club, Clean Energy New Hampshire, the League of Conservation Voters, the Revers Center for Energy, the Sierra Club, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, The Nature Conservancy and Vital Communities. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin also participated in the panel discussion.
Throughout the meeting, Kuster consistently emphasized the urgency of climate change, particularly in the Northeast. Kuster, whose father owned Wildcat Ski Resort, mentioned her personal connection with the changing climate in the state of New Hampshire, where many industries are intimately tied to the environment and outdoor recreation.
“In New Hampshire, we are living it day-to-day,” Kuster said.
Kuster noted that New Hampshire is well-versed in environmental action, which she hopes will galvanize action throughout the state.
“These are environmental organizations that have been active in New Hampshire for 100 years and have shown leadership on land conservation, energy conservation and renewable conservation,” Kuster said. “We are not starting from scratch.”
Kuster said New Hampshire can use its base of support to prompt further climate action campaigns.
“I feel very good about this –– I hope there is this kind of local energy and grassroots support in congressional districts around the country,” Kuster said. “I know New Hampshire can lead the way.”
Sarah Nelson, research director of Appalachian Mountain Club, began the meeting with several statistics about climate changes in Northeastern weather patterns. According to Nelson, New Hampshire has experienced 18 fewer freezing nights per winter and 21 fewer days of snow cover over the past century. She added that winters in the state have become three weeks shorter overall –– all alarming statistics in a state where the ski industry is paramount to economic success.
“We are calling them winter weather whiplash events,” Nelson said.
Nelson stressed the importance of long-term monitoring of air, freshwater and forest health, adding that New Hampshire’s trend towards reforestation will play an important future role in carbon sequestration.
According to April Salas, Hanover sustainability director and director of the Revers Center for Energy at the Tuck School of Business, several communities in New Hampshire have already reached out to Hanover, hoping to emulate the town’s adoption of the “Ready for 100” action proposal. She said Hanover’s implementation of the campaign has involved a three-pronged approach — first, working with residents, then small businesses and eventually with larger entities such as the College.
“Since the vote, and since Dartmouth’s endorsement, they have installed upwards of 13-plus solar systems on the roofs of buildings across the campus,” Salas said of the College’s commitment to sustainability.
Some attendants of the meeting criticized the college for its plan to replace its oil-burning energy plant with a biomass plant. Miriam Osofsky, a resident of the Upper Valley who is involved in the Upper Valley Clean Air Committee, mentioned her concern for the College’s heating plans.
“Biomass is a false solution,” Osofsky said in an interview after the event. “I’m concerned about the toxic air pollutants that will be emitted in Hanover if Dartmouth proceeds with its plan to incinerate biomass near my home.”
Despite these concerns, most panelists and attendees seemed supportive of the College and the town’s progress.
New Hampshire Sierra Club chapter director Cathy Corkery praised Hanover’s success as a leader in the clean energy movement, particularly as a small community.
“People really are learning from example from what a small town can do with this program, and really dig in,” Corkery said.


O’Connell’s debut dealing with transhumanism has become the first non-fiction book to receive the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
On Monday (23 September), Kilkenny-born author Mark O’Connell was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019 at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). O’Connell won the award for his debut book, To Be a Machine, which is an exploration of transhumanism.
O’Connell, who has a PhD in English literature from TCD, is the first author to receive the Rooney Prize for a work of non-fiction. Prior to completing his PhD, O’Connell studied English and philosophy at the university as an undergrad.
Member of the prize jury Prof Michael Cronin said: “In his book which takes a personal look at the transhumanist movement – a movement which hopes through technology to enhance human capacities and eventually overcome human mortality – Mark O’Connell shows himself to be a writer of the first rank.
“His faultless characterisation, his deep interest in the humanity of his transhumanist, his engagingly precise but poetic style, his richly insightful observations on questions which are literally life and death issues, marked him out as a writer of unquestionable promise.”
O’Connell said that it was “a delight and a real surprise” to win the accolade. “It’s especially thrilling to be the first writer of non-fiction to be awarded the prize. I’m deeply grateful to the prize committee and to the Rooney family for this wonderful honour.”
The author was awarded €10,000 as part of the prize.
O’Connell’s 2017 book was highlighted by The Guardian as Book of the Day shortly after its release. At the time, the publication called it “a captivating exploration of transhumanism [that] features cryonics, cyborgs, immortality and the hubris of Silicon Valley.”
While presenting the award to the author, Dr Peter Rooney, whose uncle Dan Rooney set up the prize, said: “I am delighted to see the award go to a writer of such original and fresh writing. The vision for it has always been to reward new talent and Mark is most deserving of this year’s award.”
Dan Rooney was the former US Ambassador to Ireland and was president of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team. He passed away two years ago. The prize is administered by the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish writing at TCD’s School of English.
Former winners include Anne Enright, Frank McGuinness, Sara Baume and Colin Barrett, among others.
Elsewhere, six writers are in the running for The Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019, which honours popular science books from around the world that are aimed at non-specialist readers.


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Centerless ground bars are an essential part of many machining processes. By providing increased accuracy, reduced waste, and a smoother finish, centerless ground bars can help take your machining process to the next level. Are you interested in learning about the benefits of using centerless ground bars, and why they are essential to a successful machining process? This centerless ground bar supplier in Phoenix, Arizona is going to explain below.
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Several Hanna Hall residents experienced one last Halloween scare Monday morning when they witnessed mice scurrying through the second-floor hallway and into students’ rooms. Though Maintenance Department staff have since placed wooden snap traps in the hall, it is still unknown where the rodents went, if they are still alive or whether or not they will be seen again.
Saurav Pandey ’23, the Community Advisory (CA) for second- and third-floor Hanna residents, was the first person to encounter a mouse, when one ran under the crack of his bedroom door around 7:20 a.m. as he was getting dressed to leave for the Lowry Center. “It came in so fast. It wasn’t like squeezing, squeezing, squeezing, and then it came out, otherwise I would [have had] time to act immediately,” he said. “It just came in like that, as if the space was too big for it, and then I was so frightened when I first saw it.”
The mouse ran across Pandey’s room and underneath his bed before it emerged and terrified him again as he scrambled to call Campus Safety. “That made me freak out even more,” he said. “I was talking calmly when it came out, and then [it] approached towards me, my voice intensity also increased, and then I just told them, ‘Can you please send Maintenance quickly?’”
The mouse darted so quickly around Pandey’s room that he lost track of where it went. When Maintenance staff came to address the issue, they moved around furniture and boxes in an effort to find the mouse but were unsuccessful. They resolved to place two wooden, spring-loaded bar mouse traps in Pandey’s room, where they remained for only a few hours before a mouse was reported by residents in another room down the hall. “Maintenance knocked on my door and they said that they got a phone call from another room,” Pandey said. “Then they were like, ‘Can we take out the mousetraps from your room and put [them] in the hallway instead? Because it’s now become more like a communal problem.’”
Also around 9 a.m, Chiara Rothenberg ’25 was walking from their room to the bathroom when they, too, spotted a mouse scampering from door to door. Whether or not these incidents included the same mouse or multiple remains unclear, and residents have expressed anxiety about the many unknowns of the situation. “I’ve been a little bit concerned every time I leave the room. I’m like, ‘Oh, I gotta be on the lookout for a mouse, I guess, to make sure it doesn’t get into our room and make sure I’m not walking by a mouse caught in the mousetrap,’” Rothenberg said. “I do not want to walk by a decapitated mouse.”
The two traps were ultimately moved to more discreet locations on Tuesday morning, according to Associate Director of Housing and Operations Josh Kusch, so as not to cause alarm if a mouse were to be caught and killed. Besides the traps, Maintenance staff also plugged a small, electronic rodent-repellent device into an outlet in the middle of the second floor hallway to release high-frequency sounds that drive mice away.
Rothenberg acknowledged that despite the unfortunate decision, they believe the College handled the incident well, though they are still unsure of where the situation stands due to the lack of communication. “I think the measures that were taken were pretty appropriate,” they said. “I would love to know, like What happened? Is there still a mouse in our building? Did it get trapped or did it escape? What’s the status?”
Although the reasons why mice have only been reported on the second floor of Hanna remain unclear, Pandey suspects that they were attracted to food in the hallway trash cans. Like Rothenberg, Pandey finds the lack of information about the origins and whereabouts of the mouse unsettling. “I wish there was some security camera footage, and someone would just have to see the video in detail and figure out when exactly the mice came into the room,” he said.
Assistant Manager of Facilities Services Tom Pfleiderer noted that the mice were likely looking for food and warm shelter and were able to reach the second floor by accessing the interior of walls, ducts and pipes. Kusch agreed and emphasized that a few mice entering buildings during this time of year is normal. “In this area in Ohio, as the temperatures change from warm outside to cold outside, all the things that live outside want to find the warm inside,” he said. “[We’re] not seeing an infestation.”
In order to prevent more mice from entering the building, Pfleiderer recommends that students keep their living spaces clean and throw away their trash in designated locations. In the meantime, Kusch assures students that this will likely not be an ongoing problem as the transition from warm to cold weather ends. “We’re going to find the ones that are inside, they’re going to find other places outside and hunker down for the winter, and so I don’t anticipate that that would extend into other times,” he said.


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Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl enjoy the sparks in the early years, but eventually settle into a comfortable friendship, and all passion disappears from their marriage. That s just the way it goes, right? As many as one in three long-term marriages in America are sexless, and most people accept this as the inevitable course of a romantic relationship. In this groundbreaking book, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach explains why the prioritizing of love and companionship in marriage is all wrong, and why we should not go quietly into that dark night of celibate marriage. It is not love, Rabbi Shmuley shows, but lust that is the glue of a marriage.
In this book you will learn how to restore lust to its rightful place as the central pillar of marriage. You will learn about the three principles of lust, and how to tap into them to keep the flames burning in the family hearth. Finally, you will discover the incredible emotional and spiritual potential of the intimate marital bond. In a wide-ranging discussion that plumbs the depths of the erotic mind, Rabbi Shmuley delivers a revolutionary message with the power to completely transform your most important relationship.
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The title put me off - I very nearly didn't buy this book, but wow, I now wish I knew this when I got married 35 years ago!! Brilliant insight. Practical and potentially life-changing!
All young men should be taught this before they start getting involved with the opposite sex.
I am not sure if I could have coped with the tension and relationship anxiety all those years ago, but I know I never did fully understand what my wife really meant when she wanted me to be more 'romantic' back then - now I know!
I few words are mis-pronounced, but this is very minor.
The book helped me to see why some of my husbands behavior is the way it is. And things that I need to work on and things we can work on together. very eye opening.
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Very honest and real information about what's really important in a successful marriage. It was time will spent listening.
Educational ... will definitely help our marriage as I was struggling with infidelity for a third time. I will definitely read more than one time. this book was extremely helpful and opened my eyes to a lot of things in our marriage. Very helpful. I feel the narrator did a great job!
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Everything said in this book could be done in one chapter of a real book.
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The Senate Democrats are to release their $1 trillion infrastructure plan
As part of his ‘America First’ vision, President Donald Trump pledged to invest $1 trillion in the US’ infrastructure, which is in need of strengthening and modernisation to reflect country’s current population growth. Since his inauguration, Senate Democrats have been working behind the scenes to draft up a potential plan in driving this to fruition, according to the Washington Post.
Focusing on the development and construction of roads, bridges, highways, airports and various other transportation networks, the works would provide economic growth and increased employment for construction workers with over 10,000 new roles over 10 years. However, funding for these works, let alone the scale of these investments and building works, have yet to be finalised and agreed.
Led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democrats have stated to ABC News, “Senate Democrats are walking the walk on repairing and rebuilding our nation’s crumbling infrastructure.” We ask President Trump to support this common sense, comprehensive approach.”
Although Democrats have claimed the government should be footing the bill, there are already significant debts to keep in mind, yet to place the financial responsibility to the financial sector could lead to the potential for companies to effectively ‘cut-corners’, or could also lead to an increase in bridges and toll roads, which are not favoured by commuters throughout America.
The American Society of Civil Engineers have stated that by 2020, in order to improve the country’s infrastructure, approximately $3.6 trillion will be required in order to prevent future casualties. Trump’s pledge to provide tax credits for private companies to undertake such vast work could prove lucrative, yet despite this, alongside the potential for thousands of new construction roles, is this enough to improve the US’ infrastructure?


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Charles Eisenmann (October 5, 1855 – December 8, 1927) was a famous New York photographer during the late 1880s who worked in the Bowery district.
Eisenmann’s photography was sold in the form of Cabinet cards, popular in this era, available to the middle class. The book Victorian Cartes-de-Visite credits Eisenmann with being the most prolific and well known photographer when it comes to Cabinet cards.
His work was the subject of a 1979 monograph, Monsters of the Gilded Age, focusing on his work on human oddities from the Barnum and Bailey circus, with a notable widely circulated picture of Jojo the Dog-faced Boy. Although a number of his photographs were of obvious fakes (called “gaffed freaks”), many others were genuinely anomalous, including the giant Ruth Goshen, the four-legged girl Myrtle Corbin, and the Siamese twins Chang and Eng and Millie and Christine.
The address was 229 Bowery, which now is the home of a ministry and recently underwent a 3 million dollar renovation. At the time the Bowery district was an eclectic mix of artists, transient people and prostitutes. The depiction of this area in the movie Gangs of New York is judged by experts to be fairly accurate. The fallout of the New York City draft riots would have made for an era in New York that was unbridled and experimental: an ideal setting for unusual and cutting-edge photography.
In his book, Secrets of the Sideshows, Joe Nickell points out that Eisenmann used a number of notable humbugs or gaffs. These included his “Circassian beauties“, women with teased, large hairdos who were said to have escaped from Turkish harems. The models were locals from the Bronx with hair made frizzy and wild by washing in beer, who earned money for posing.
In the late 1880s, A new phenomenaon appeared with Victorian society’s fascination and sympathy for people who appeared to have genetic abnormalities. There was much publicity, for example, over Princess Alexandra’s attention to Joseph Merrick, the “Elephant Man.”
Eisenmann saw the golden opportunity in this fascination, and photographed circus people dressed as Victorian society, and conversely Victorian society with circus props. In New York city circus people were quite well received, as evidenced by the proliferation of dime museums and the PT Barnum circus located in New York.
One of Eisenmann’s subjects, Charles Stratton (Major Tom Thumb) was quite well known, and his wedding was quite the affair. “The couple’s elaborate wedding took place in Grace Episcopal Church in New York City. The Astors and the Vanderbilts were said to have attended as Barnum sold tickets for $75.”
Other prestigious clients included Mark Twain, and Annie Oakley. In some ways Eisenmann can be considered a kind of Annie Leibovitz of the Victorian Bowery district. His career suffered a downturn with the introduction of Gelatin silver process photography which made photographs more inexpensive and available for mass consumption. Also, Vaudeville overtook circuses in popularity at this time as well.
In 1898 Eisenmann closed his studio and was succeeded by Frank Wendt. Frank was a sort of intern of his. For a few years, he sold photographic equipment and took conventional portraits in Plainfield, New Jersey but by 1907 he had disappeared from the public record, some believing he went to Germany. This was the second time he went off the radar, the first time being when his first wife died. At that time he was believed to have gone to Asia.
Eventually, in the early 1900s, he resurfaced as the head of the photography department for DuPont taking pictures of employees. He died in 1927.
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A co-founder of Mercury Records and an innovator in the digital music industry has died. Irwin Steinberg was 94.
Publicist Scott Gorenstein says Steinberg died Dec. 29 at his home in Brattleboro, Vermont.
A Chicago native, Steinberg graduated from the University of Chicago and served in the Air Corps before beginning his career in the music business.
After starting up Mercury Records and serving at its helm for several years, he became chairman and CEO of Polygram Records, where he remained for more than 30 years.
He later taught courses on the music business at Columbia College of the Arts in Chicago and was a consultant to numerous digital music enterprises, including MusicMaker.
He is survived by his wife, Dominique Moyse, three children, four grandchildren and two sisters.


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Little C is a larger area development that encompasses 15 warehouse-like buildings with an authentic and industrial vibe similar to The Village in New York and the Pearl District in Portland. This unique project, the first of its kind in the Netherlands, features a mix of lofts, regular apartments, studios, roof gardens, public squares, offices, food and beverage outlets, workshops and small-scale retail outlets. In addition to the 209 rental apartments purchased by Bouwinvest, the developers will also deliver 111 apartments to the buying market in a similar loft-like concept, with high ceilings, large windows, steel frames and communal roof terraces.
Michiel de Bruine, Director Dutch Residential Investments at Bouwinvest said: “Little C adds real value to our residential fund because of its unique offering in a prime location. The integration of the residential space for the mid-segment rental market with offices, catering and recreational spaces will markedly increase the liveability of the area and is fully in line with Bouwinvest’s holistic approach to sustainable area redevelopment.”
The architects of the project are CULD Inbo and construction is expected to start in Q1 2018. Completion is expected for Q2 2020.


COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Los Angeles County keep rising with the county reaching a new all-time high on Saturday. Meanwhile, the availability of ICU beds continues plummeting, with the Southern California region reaching an all-time low on Saturday.
Some 226 more people were hospitalized on Saturday than on Friday, with a total of 3,850 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19. That 3,850 people hospitalized is a new record for the county, beating the previous record of 3,624 which was set on Friday. Of those hospitalized, 22% are in the ICU.
The 11-county Southern California region’s availability of ICU beds now stands at 5.3%, down from 6.2% on Friday, 7.7% on Thursday, 9% on Wednesday, 10.1% on Tuesday and 10.9% on Monday.
Los Angeles County reported 11,476 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down from the all-time high of 13,815 which the county recorded on Friday.
That brings the county to a cumulative total of 512,872 cases since the pandemic began in March.
The county announced 70 more people dead from the coronavirus on Saturday, pushing the county’s cumulative death toll to 8,269 people.
More than 4,091,000 people in LA County have been tested for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The test positivity rate currently stands at 12%.
West Hollywood saw 16 new cases on Saturday for a cumulative total of 1,092 cases. There were no new deaths from COVID in the city. WeHo’s cumulative death toll remains at nine deaths.
Below are the daily numbers for areas near West Hollywood:
- Beverly Hills – 25 new cases for a total of 1,194 cases.
- Culver City – 17 new cases for a total of 831 cases.
- Hollywood – 49 new cases for a total of 2,410 cases.
- Melrose neighborhood – 67 new cases for a total of 3,498 cases.
- Miracle Mile – 7 new cases for a total of 370 cases.
- Park La Brea – 4 new cases for a total of 248 cases.
- Santa Monica – 47 new cases for a total of 1,872 cases.
For information about the many resources available to West Hollywood residents who have been impacted by COVID-19, CLICK HERE.
Can we get some real numbers for WeHo and Beverly Hills area not LA County?
What do you mean? WeHo has 1092 cases, as of Saturday.
Beverly Hills – 25 new cases for a total of 1,194 cases.
The ruling oligarchy’s refusal to pay businesses to close and pay people to stay home is deliberate. They are causing this misery.
Wonder how Cedars capacity is holding up


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As readers, we sometimes have the complicated task of loving stories that disappoint us. Early on in the wildly imaginative Lovecraft Country, both the novel by Matt Ruff (Harper Perennial, $16.99) and the HBO adaptation, comes the observation, "Stories are like people.... Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though.... Sometimes, they stab me in the heart."
H.P. Lovecraft's racism is no secret, and it falls under sharp critique in the gleefully irreverent I Am Providence by Nick Mamatas (Night Shade, $15.95). The hilarious murder mystery set at a Lovecraft convention holds nothing back as it grapples with the racism, misogyny and overzealous fan cultures that persist in literature. But the wounds it exposes are deep: "I kept reading Lovecraft, but at a distance," the narrator says. "I was one of the bad people in his work, who terrified the good people just by existing."
Leila Taylor presses those ideas further in her elegant work of literary criticism Darkly: Blackness and America's Gothic Soul (Repeater, $14.95). An admitted fan of Edgar Allan Poe's work, Taylor is not unaware of what he might think of her Blackness. "He doesn't have H.P. Lovecraft's blatant xenophobia," she writes, "but a more liquid unease wrought with guilt which seems more appropriate for American horror. Poe's anxiety is an American anxiety, wary of... the Blackness we brought to our shores and the darkness we fostered." This context is made especially compelling when Taylor goes on to assess many of Poe's most famous stories as being about attempts "to get away with murder and the effort to deny it."
It's hard to let go of writing that, for whatever reason, grips us. I deeply admire readers like this, who, as James Baldwin said about his love for America, love flawed stories enough to criticize them perpetually. --Dave Wheeler, associate editor, Shelf Awareness


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Although Alia wore a zebra print dress, Suhana was seen in a grey dress. She wore a thigh-slit gown. Alia took the picture on her phone. The cover of her phone appears to have a picture of her and Suhana together. Although Alia accessorized herself, Suhana kept it simple in a small necklace.
Here’s the picture:
In the previous viral picture, Suhana posed against her bed which was sewn together with buttons. Leaving her hair unkept, she wore a dress and posed candidly while seated on the white pillows on the bed. The starkid used the help of make-up. The tone of her lipstick matched the shade of the bed.
Although she looked drop dead gorgoeous, Suhana had a hilarious caption, proving she might have thought otherwise. “Gonna post this before i stare at it long enough to start hating it,” wrote Suhana while posting the photo on her Instagram page. Alia had reacted to the post with heart-eyed emojis.
Suhana is the daughter of superstar Shah Rukh Khan and her interior designer wife Gauri Khan. The couple is also blessed with two other sons – Aryan Khan, aged 21, and AbRam, aged 6-year-old.
Suhana had recently enrolled in New York’s Columbia University but had to fly down to Mumbai during the lockdown. She graduated from England’s Ardingly College last year, and has pursued further education to prepare herself for a film career.

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Found a pair of Ferraris branded electronic lung heath monitors in the back of a cupboard. A PiKo-6 and a KoKo Peak Pro6. Bought a couple of 357 batteries and both monitors appear to work.
Both devices appear to have IR interfaces. However, a web search for Ferarris didn't find any information that might lead to software that might be available for download. I suspect that they may have changed name, merged or disappeared for some other reason.
Is anyone using either of these devices to upload data to a computer? Otherwise it's back to the Mini-Wright and typing ...
I also have a Fitbit One which uploads data via Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy. Does anyone have experience with Bluetooth lung heath monitors such as the Vitalograph Asma-1 Bluetooth or similar?


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Source: (1994) Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town Institute of Criminology, 60p.
This paper offers proposals for policy and legislative changes to create an effective juvenile justice system in South Africa. The proposals emphasize accountability, encourage young people to take responsibility for their behavior, promote restorative justice and conflict resolution, bring young people and their families to the center of the decisionmaking process, protect the rights of young people and victims, provide alternatives at every stage of the juvenile justice process, prevent reoffending, minimize the need for institutionalization, and ensure cultural appropriateness. The proposals cover alternatives to arrest, family group conferences, and juvenile court proceedings.
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The Stand Review: A Fresh and Faithful Adaptation of Stephen King's Iconic Novel
To call Stephen King's The Stand both epic and iconic is not hyperbole. From its release in 1978, [...]
To call Stephen King's The Stand both epic and iconic is not hyperbole. From its release in 1978, the novel has frequently appeared on "best of" lists and impacted popular culture and beyond with its post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy tale of the collapse of human civilization and the battle between good and evil. It's also a substantial book, well over a thousand pages in its "complete and uncut" edition, making an adaptation a massive undertaking and, while it's been done before with ABC's 1994 miniseries, CBS All Access is approaching the novel again in its own, nine-part series event that kicks off on Thursday, December 17th. Despite this adaptation making some changes and shifts its approach in telling the story, it may just be the most spiritually faithful adaptation yet.
In broad strokes, The Stand tells the story of the survivors of a world in collapse. A weaponized strain of influenza (called "Captain Trips") is accidentally released from a secret U.S. Department of Defense lab in California and quickly decimates nearly the entirety of the human population. The few survivors who remain find themselves being drawn to either Mother Abigail, an elderly woman whom God speaks through or the Dark Man, Randall Flagg, a mysterious figure who pretty quickly feels like the representation of evil. The story is, at its core, less about the pandemic and more about that final stand of good versus evil in a battle for the very soul of humanity and is told through a large cast of characters, each one with a unique role to play.
With that broad and complex narrative to navigate, this adaptation -- developed by Josh Boone and Benjamin Cavell -- takes the unique approach of telling the story in a nonlinear fashion, one that introduces viewers less to the pandemic itself and more to the characters, the hearts, and souls that the story is ultimately about. It's a move that may not sit well with some die-hard King fans, but it's one that injects a new life into the story. Starting with people, not with plague, immediately sets the series out on a much better foot and will hook audiences quickly.
The structural shift also sets the stage for some other changes. Even just from looking at the casting of The Stand, it's clear that there have been updates. The cast of characters is more diverse than ever before, something that organically looks and feels more like the world we live in, but the updates go beyond that. This version of the story more richly develops some of the key characters from the novel and even from the previous live-action adaptation. Frannie Goldsmith (played by Odessa Young), for example, is fleshed out in a more grounded and realistic way while Tom Cullen (Brad William Henke) is given more humanity than perhaps we've seen before. It helps that both Young and Henke deliver solid performances that feel less like archetypical characters and more like people we can easily identify from our own lives.
Going beyond the changes from page to screen, this take on The Stand being much more character-oriented is truly carried by some powerhouse performances. Young, in particular, delivers a rich and nuanced take on Frannie, one that allows the viewer to go on the journey with her. James Marsden had big shoes to fill in playing Stu Redman, given Gary Sinise's well-received take on the character in the 1994 adaptation, but he does an exceptional job at playing the quiet, genuinely good everyman who finds himself in many ways at the center of humanity's last stand. Henry Zaga's Nick Andros is heartbreakingly pure and Owen Teague will make your skin crawl as Harold Lauder. Katherine McNamara's Julie Lawry is also a surprising standout.
While Jamey Sheridan's Randall Flagg will probably remain the gold standard for many with his somewhat over-the-top 1994 performance, Alexander Skarsgard's sophisticated and artful version is a much more chilling and intriguing figure. He's unsettling more than he is charismatic and, while that loses something overall, it also brings a whole new and extremely fitting tone to the entire story. There is something about this version of Flagg that is almost more darkly seductive than he is even in King's written word -- particularly when the story shifts to New Vegas. It's impossible not to be drawn in.
That isn't to say that every performance in The Stand is perfect. Ezra Miller's Trashcan Man is almost too cartoonish and a little underdeveloped (at least in the episodes provided for review). Amber Heard's Nadine Cross is a performance that may take some time to fully settle with viewers; she captures the complexity of the character very well, but there are times when the performance feels uneven and some of the chemistry between her Nadine and Jovan Adepo's Larry Underwood is a bit lacking. There are also some spots in which the overall thrust of the story feels just a little bloated, despite the careful and skilled ways the novel's often-rambling prose has been trimmed but those are surprisingly few and far between in the series.
Like all adaptations, this one's not perfect and there will likely be plenty of viewers who will point to various changes or omissions as shortcomings of the overall project. That's to be expected, perhaps even more so with a story as beloved as The Stand. However, between smart updates, stellar performances, and incredibly well-thought-out cinematography, sets, truly chilling moments, and other fine details that tread into the space of spoilers, this version of The Stand comes across perhaps most true to King's book. The Stand has never been a pandemic story and this adaptation gets that right in the best ways possible. This is a story about humanity that happens to have a pandemic running through it and, as is the case with actual humanity, it's the little imperfections that make it so relatable, so admirable, and ultimately beautiful. Simply put, this adaptation gets it right.
Rating: 4 out of 5
The Stand debuts on CBS All Access Thursday, December 17th.


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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth
MARCH 16, 2017
She took an active role in the independence movement aimed at relinquishing Ottoman rule over Greec e, investing her own fortune into securing arms, ships, and otherwise equipping the soldiers under her command. Rosalind Franklin. Laskarina Bouboulina. Laskarina Bouboulina was a naval commander and heroine of Greek history. Kamala Harris.

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Shin splints are a common issue that occurs with runners, jumpers, and any athlete that is on their feet for a long period of time (basically everything except swimming).
It is okay to run with shin splints as long as it’s not making symptoms worse. Shin splints, depending on where they are located, can be caused by anterior tibialis or posterior tibialis muscle tendinitis or tendinosis.
It is possible that shin splints can also be related to a bone stress injury, namely a stress fracture. This is more common to occur with women who have a very low body fat percentage and who engage in high-volume endurance events like cross country where the training can often be 50+ miles/week of running.
In this article, we’ll cover what you can do to keep yourself running and we will briefly cover some things you can do to reduce symptoms in the short term. In a separate article, I will write about a step-by-step rehabilitation program for shin splints.
Should you run with Shin Splints?
As I mentioned above, this depends. If symptoms are severe enough and every time you run, no matter how fast or slow you go, they get worse, I would recommend halting your running and working with a physical therapist, now.
On the flip side, if you can run and it actually makes it feel better due to a warm-up effect, then continuing to run is okay.
The caveat to this is that if you experience worsening symptoms 24 hours later after a training session you will also want to reduce the amount of running you are doing, decrease the intensity, or stop altogether.
If I can’t run, how can I maintain my aerobic capacity and strength?
If you’re concerned about losing your fitness levels (as most high-level athletes are), my recommendation is to cross-train while you go through a rehab process for the shin.
What this typically looks like is training time on the stationary bike and or assault bike (upper and lower body workout), and resistance training.
If you maintain your aerobic conditioning with the bike and maintain your muscle mass and work on getting stronger with weights, you’ll likely come back without having lost much of your pace at all, assuming you are a cross-country runner, jumper, or other type of track and field athlete.
Will Swimming Help Maintain My Fitness?
Swimming is a great low-impact way to maintain or improve your cardiovascular fitness levels if you need to take some time off from running.
Additionally, if you have access to an underwater treadmill or an alter-G device, this can be a great way to maintain your running form but with a much lower impact.
Running underwater on a treadmill is very difficult as there is added resistance, particularly when bringing the leg forward with each stride as we aren’t used to added hip flexion resistance. This can be great as a cross-training exercise even if you aren’t having any symptoms.
What type of resistance training will help shin splints?
Calf raises, single-leg calf raises, toe walks, heel walks, lunges, and weighted single-leg calf raises are among a few exercises that can help with shin splints.
The challenge with shin splints is that it can be related to several different factors. If it is related to the posterior tibial tendon then performing plantarflexion with inversion is one way to load the tissue in such a way that can help you improve symptoms.
If it is a bone stress-related issue, the main thing to do for this will be rest and sometimes unweighting or the utilization of a boot. It’s important to receive a proper diagnosis that includes a physical exam and full medical history and mechanism of injury.
In a future article, i’ll go into more depth of the step-by-step rehab process for shin splints.
- You can run with shin splints however you’ll want to make sure that you aren’t making symptoms worse
- If symptoms are worsening even with reduced running you will want to remove all running and cross-train on the bike, swimming, and with lifting weights
- Be aware that you could have a bone stress injury and that this will require more rest than just a regular tendon issue.

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