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Physical and Chemical Properties of Extruded Pea Product
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Peas (Pisum sativum L.) are a good source of protein, dietary fibre, and certain minerals, thus making them valuable nutrients in human diet. Unfortunately, peas are not commonly used in human diet due to their long cooking time. New products should be manufactured to increase the presence of peas in human diet. In order to make the grey peas easier for people to consume, extrusion cooking was used. Due to varying recipes, different products were obtained. Peas of the variety ‘Bruno’ with and without the addition of wheat and oat flour and egg powder were used in the experiments. Protein, fat and starch content of these products was analysed chemically but their pH, size, hardness, and volume mass was measured using physical methods. The average pH for all the samples was 7.3 ± 0.5, size differences ranged from 5.4 ± 0.4 mm to 10.3 ± 0.5 mm in length and 6.4 ± 0.2 to 11.7 ± 0.8 mm in width. More fat was found in the sample with onion flavour – up to 9.5 ± 0.5 g 100 g-1 – but the least amount of fat was found in the sample without any seasoning – 0.6 ± 0.05 g 100 g-1 on average. The average starch content was 23 ± 2 g 100 g-1, while the highest protein content was discovered in the sample where grains and egg powder had not been added – 26.9 ± 0.2 g 100 g-1, and the lowest – 18.6 ± 0.5g 100 g-1 – in the sample with the largest grain proportion. The samples with the highest volume mass were the ones with added egg powder – 43 ± 2 N and 387 ± 2 g L-1. The obtained results show that the largest and crispiest sample was acquired using only pea flour, and pea and wheat flour mixed in the proportion 1:1.

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Feb. 23, 2013
STONY BROOK, N.Y. - Mark Cockerton scored five goals and the No. 6 Virginia Cavaliers (3-0) outlasted the Stony Brook Seawolves (1-2) on Saturday afternoon at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. Virginia held a narrow one-goal lead going into the intermission, 6-5, but the Cavalier defense clamped and limited Stony Brook to only four shots in the second half.
"In conditions like this against a team that was fired up to play us, and to have a game that was back and forth almost the entire time until we took control of it in the fourth quarter, it was a very satisfying result for us," said Virginia head coach Dom Starsia. "I applaud the kids. We battled the whole time. In the fourth quarter we probably played our best lacrosse overall. I thought we were just a hair off offensively most of the day, just a step slow more often than not. I thought we had a chance to get some more goals early on in the game. But, the guys kept working at it and in the end the offense put it together for us in the fourth quarter and carried us to the win. I thought, overall, it was a good effort."
Matt White had six points and reached 100 career points with three goals and three assists. White finished the game with 102 career points.
Cockerton started the game's scoring with his unassisted goal at 13:14. The Cavaliers held the 1-0 advantage until Mike Andreassi found nylon on the pass from Jeff Tundo with 5:56 left in the first period.
Cockerton answered again on a pass from Matt Whitewith 3:12 left in the first period, giving UVa a one-goal lead at 2-1. Mike Rooney found the cage with six seconds left on an extra-man opportunity to even the score after one quarter of play, 2-2.
UVa stormed out to start the second quarter, scoring four goals in a row to take a 6-2 lead. Ryan Tucker scored on a White pass to start the run, followed by a Cockerton goal and a Scott McWilliams goal. Cockerton scored his fourth goal of the game at 10:30, capping the run. UVa did not score the rest of the half.
Andreassi scored again at 8:47, followed by two Tundo goals, the second with three seconds left, sending the game into the intermission.
Virginia shot out of the cannon in the third quarter, scoring back-to-back goals to take an 8-5 lead. White and Charlie Streep scored the goals, UVa's only of the period. UVa was held scoreless for the final 11:16 of the third quarter and Stony Brook made a run of its own. The Seawolves scored back-to-back goals to bring Stony Brook within one, 8-7. Mike Rooney capped the run with 4:14 left in the quarter.
Stony Brook scored no more, as UVa held the Seawolves scoreless for the final 19:14.
James Pannell scored his first collegiate goal on a streaking pass from Owen Van Arsdale 28 seconds into the fourth period. White scored a goal unassisted, followed by Cockerton's fifth of the game. White and Pannell finished out the scoring as UVa clinched the road victory.
Virginia won the battles in shots (55-16), ground balls (41-28), faceoffs (16-7) and had fewer turnovers (12-24). The UVa transition game held Stony Brook to only 18-of-27 on clears.
Virginia returns to action on Tuesday night when Mount St. Mary's invades Klöckner Stadium. Faceoff is slated for 7 p.m.
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Needlesongs began in 2001 when Carol finally decided it was now or never! With the generous assistance of her husband, Olen Bruce, it was soon underway… A cottage industry operated from home in Las Vegas.
With a passion for creativity, Carol Bruce refuses to be limited to one medium. In the spring, she usually finds herself searching the desert for “that perfect wildflower” to photograph. Then, the next week she may be using the resulting image as the basis of an oil painting or original quilt.
According to Carol, “When I’m quilting, I feel guilty that I’m enjoying it so much and think that I should be working to finish a painting or out taking pictures-but when I’m painting, I feel the same way about photography or quilting.”
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So then, why Needlesongs?
“I see quilts as meaningful personal statements of art that most people relate to-and are not afraid of as ‘art’,” says Carol. “This soft, cuddly art form has a greater impact than photography or wall murals on most people. Nearly everyone has a story about a favorite quilt handed down through his or her family.“
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Jersey Shore beauty Jenni “JWoww” Farley is engaged. The reality-TV star told In Touch that Roger Mathews, her boyfriend of two and a half years, proposed during a skydiving lesson. “The whole time I’m screaming, ‘What are you doing? What’s going on?’” she told the magazine. “He’s like, ‘I want to spend the rest of my life with you! Will you allow me to?’”
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The father of Snooki’s first child is fiancé Jionni LaValle. When she first started on Jersey Shore she declared her ”ultimate dream is to move to Jersey, find a nice, juiced hot tan guy and live my life.” Baby makes three.
A Jersey Shore cast member has been arrested in the New Jersey town where the MTV show is based. Seaside Heights Police Chief Tommy Boyd tells WNBC TV in New York that Deena Cortese was arrested Sunday afternoon on a disorderly conduct charge. Boyd says a borough officer saw Cortese “a little intoxicated” and standing in the middle of a street, slapping cars that were driving by. Boyd says Cortese was taken to police headquarters and later released on a summons.
MTV publicists did not immediately respond to requests for a comment on Sunday night, and a number for Cortese could not be located. The popular reality show just recently started shooting its new season in the Ocean County community.
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A rep for Polizzi had no comment at this time. Reports of LaValle’s paternity and Polizzi’s pregnancy in general are still unconfirmed by Polizzi’s camp.
Polizzi’s reported pregnancy has already been picked up by Saturday Night Live‘s writers, who spoofed the reality show star on Saturday’s telecast.
Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is pregnant, according to a report by the New York Post.
Although Polizzi has denied pregnancy rumors in recent weeks, the report alleges that she is three months pregnant carrying the child of boyfriend Jionni LaValle, who has also appeared on the MTV reality show the past two seasons.
Polizzi went on Good Morning America on Feb. 2 and told host Lara Spencer, “I definitely do want kids, but I’m not pregnant. Being pregnant should be a real thing and a happy thing, and I’m not.”
A rep for Polizzi declined to comment at this time.
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“(Beyler) thought we were total idiots,” said Doug Fogg, a Corsicana firefighter for 31 years, who conducted the local arson investigation after the fire.
The Corsicana Daily Sun has been making up for lost time lately in the Willingham case, publishing several articles about the case since the report was released by Dr Craig Beyler that concluded that the fire in the Willingham case was not arson. The local paper started out Aug 29 publishing a column by Judge John Jackson that was so embarrassingly unprofessional coming from a judge that it could land him in trouble with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for casting discredit on the Texas judiciary. Now, the Corsicana Sun has a piece in which it rounds up the people who were involved in the trial and lets them embarrass themselves and the town of Corsicana by having them defend Willingham’s guilt even though a scientific analysis has concluded that a “a finding of arson could not be sustained”. Willingham’s defense lawyer David Martin comes across in the article as perhaps the biggest embarrassment not just for Corsicana but for the whole Texas justice system. Martin says “the Innocence Project is an absolute farce,” and Willingham “had no conscience.” “Why do monsters kill? They like killing, ” said Martin, the one person in the system at the trial that was supposed to defend Willingham. No wonder an innocent person got executed, having to rely on someone like Martin to defend him.
Sign the petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man.
The whole cast of characters who speak in this article making their cases that they still believe Willingham was guilty, including the judge, the prosecutors, the fire investigators, the police and even the defense lawyer bring to mind the picture accompanying this post from another era of representatives of the Southern justice system.
Those closest to case shed no tears for Willingham
By Janet Jacobs
The undeniable facts of the Cameron Todd Willingham case are these:
• On Dec. 23, 1991, 2-year-old Amber Louise Kuykendall, and 1-year-old twins Karmon Diane Willingham and Kameron Marie Willingham died in a mid-morning house fire at 1213 W. 11th Ave. in Corsicana.
• Willingham, 23, the children’s father, and the only adult home at the time of the fire, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death on Aug. 21, 1992.
• After five appeals and 12 years on death row, he was put to death by lethal injection on Feb. 17, 2004.
Everything else is controversial.
Carrying the torch
To people opposed to the death penalty under any circumstances, the holy grail is an innocent man who was executed, preferably in Texas, home of the nation’s busiest death row. Some argue Todd Willingham is that innocent man.
The latest argument for Willingham’s innocence comes from a report by Craig Beyler, of Hughes Associates in Baltimore, Md., and submitted Aug. 17 to the Texas Forensic Science Commission, a panel formed in 2005 to deal with forensic errors.
Beyler was contracted to review the case following a complaint by the Innocence Project. The Innocence Project is best known for using DNA analysis to exonerate wrongly convicted men.
The report claims the Texas investigators didn’t understand fire science, and didn’t use modern methods in the Willingham case. Because one of the investigators was with the Texas fire marshal’s office, the marshal’s office will have a chance to respond to Beyler’s findings, and the commission should deliver a verdict next spring.
This week, the New Yorker published an article by David Grann which condemns the science and the system which sent a seemingly innocent man to his death. Part of the article is based on Willingham’s relationship with a woman who visited him on death row, and became an amateur sleuth on his behalf. Previous articles questioning the Willingham verdict have also appeared in the Dallas Morning News and the Chicago Tribune.
Leaders of the Innocence Project say this is proof of a failed death-penalty system.
“There can no longer be any doubt that an innocent person has been executed,” said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, in a release. “The question now turns to how we can stop it from happening again.
“As long as our system of justice makes mistakes — including the ultimate mistake — we cannot continue executing people,” Scheck stated.
In Corsicana, the attempts to make Todd Willingham into a martyr aren’t well-received.
“He’s not a poster child for anybody,” said Sgt. Jimmie Hensley of the Corsicana Police Department.
Doug Fogg, a Corsicana firefighter for 31 years, was the first responder to arrive at 1213 W. 11th Ave. in Corsicana that Monday morning. He conducted the local arson investigation.
Fogg calls Beyler an “armchair quarterback” and riles at the accusation that Corsicana and state detectives used nothing more than folklore to come to their conclusions.
“A lot of this stuff (in Beyler’s report) is misspoken or misinterpreted,” Fogg said.
The report accuses state arson investigator Manuel Vasquez, now deceased, of not securing the scene, of missing or mishandling crucial evidence that might have exonerated Willingham, and not using scientific fire analysis.
Willingham had a lot of excuses for the fire, Fogg recalled, including that a stranger entered the house and set the fire, that the 2-year-old started it, that a ceiling fan or squirrels in the attic caused an electrical short, or the gas space heaters in the children’s bedroom sparked it.
The investigators searched for electrical shorts, but found none; the gas-powered space heaters were off because the family’s gas supply had been cut off at the meter; and “we didn’t find a ceiling fan. Willingham said there was one, but we didn’t find any signs of one,” Fogg said.
The other explanations just didn’t add up, Fogg said, adding: “We eliminated all accidental causes.”
Evidence of accelerants was found, but Willingham had an excuse for that, too. Willingham told investigators he poured cologne on the children’s floor “because the babies liked the smell,” he blamed a kerosene lamp for any accelerant in the hallway, and said spilled charcoal-lighter fluid happened while he was grilling, Fogg recalled.
Fogg agreed that there was a damaged bottle of charcoal lighter fluid on the other end of the porch away from the door, but the grill was in the side yard not on the porch when firefighters arrived. Fogg remembered four empty bottles of charcoal lighter were found just outside the front door.
Beyler acknowledges that one sample did have accelerant in it, but said it was unidentified, a claim Fogg disputes.
Local investigators didn’t leave the house until midnight, spending over 12 hours sifting through the debris by hand, taking videotape and more than 80 photographs of the scene, cutting up flooring for the lab, bagging and dating each sample and recording where it came from in the house, Fogg said. Samples were contaminated by melted plastic toys, fire-damaged carpet and floor tiles, but it wasn’t because of investigator’s incompetence, Fogg said.
Beyler theorized it was a flashover, and said investigators didn’t see the difference between the intense heat of a flashover and an accelerant-driven fire. Fogg laughed at the notion.
If it had been a flashover, it would have taken out the thin layer of sheetrock on the walls, he argued.
“That house was box construction,” Fogg said. “The only sheetrock that came down was what was hit with water. The paper backing wasn’t even scorched.”
As well, the fire damage was worse at the floor level than at the ceilings, which is the opposite of typical fire, Fogg said.
“(Beyler) thought we were total idiots,” Fogg said.
Beyond the fire
Sgt. Jimmie Hensley of the Corsicana Police Department was the lead investigator on the Willingham murder case back in 1992.
For Hensley, the most damning evidence came from Willingham, who told officers that 2-year-old Amber woke him up. Firefighters later found her in his bed, with burns on the soles of her feet. Yet, Willingham didn’t take the girl with him when he fled, nor did he receive burns walking down that same hallway, Hensley pointed out.
Willingham was taken to the hospital where doctors did a blood-gas analysis on him, a standard test for someone who’s been inside a burning house.
“He had no more (carbon monoxide) than somebody who had just smoked a cigarette,” Hensley said.
Hensley has since become a certified arson investigator. In hindsight, he insists they took the right steps with the evidence in the Willingham case.
“We did everything we were supposed to do,” he said.
Hensley also dismisses Beyler’s report, pointing out that Beyler didn’t talk to the investigators, and reading the testimony can’t replace first-person observations.
“You can find expert witnesses everywhere, and if you pay them enough they’ll testify to anything,” Hensley said. “They’re to be bought.”
Willingham was tried for murder, not arson, and the guilty verdict was based on the whole picture, not just part of it, he said.
“You can’t just look at a little part. Look at the whole picture, and that’s what the jury did,” Hensley said. “If a 2-year-old wakes you up and there’s smoke and fire everywhere, aren’t you going to at least get that one out? It couldn’t possibly have happened the way (Willingham) said.”
Willingham’s behavior afterwards did not help his case. Todd Morris was the first police officer on the scene and he found Willingham trying to push his car away from the house to save it from the fire, while his children were inside burning up, Hensley said.
Dr. Grady Shaw and his team spent an hour at the emergency room trying to resuscitate Amber while next door Willingham complained about his own suffering, Shaw said.
“I remember this case very clearly,” Shaw said. “She was in Trauma Room 1, and her father was placed in Trauma Room 2, and only a curtain separated those. He was whining and complaining and crying out for a nurse to help him because of the pain from his extremely minor burns while we were trying to resuscitate this child.”
Willingham’s first-degree burns on the backs of his hands and on the back of his neck were the kind that might come from accidentally touching an oven rack, or having a small ember pop up from a campfire, Shaw said.
“He was not hurting that bad from these minor burns,” Shaw said. “It was clearly audible what was going on next door, but to hear him doing all that complaining and asking for attention when everybody was trying to save the little girl’s life was grossly inappropriate.”
Friends of the family testified that Willingham had beaten his wife in an attempt to abort the pregnancy of the twins, and many people assumed the murder of the children was more of the same, said John Jackson, former district judge and the lead prosecutor of the Willingham case.
“We really just believed the children inhibited his lifestyle,” Jackson said.
Hensley came away deeply disturbed by the case, and he’s angry that anti-death penalty proponents ignore the children’s deaths in trying to make Willingham into a martyr.
“In my opinion, justice was served,” Hensley said. “And it’s a shame he couldn’t have died three times, one for each of the little girls.”
Alan Bristol, who helped prosecute the case for the district attorney’s office, said Willingham was “one of the most evil people I’ve ever come in contact with in my life.”
“The guy was a sociopath,” he said. Willingham refused a polygraph, tortured and killed animals as a child, abused his wife repeatedly, thought more about losing his car than his children, and clearly lied about what happened in the deadly fire, Bristol said.
“None of the stories he told us panned out,” Bristol said. “He tried to make himself out to be a big hero, that he tried to go in and save the children, but there was no smoke in his lungs and he had only minor injuries.”
Bristol said the science for investigating fires may have changed over the last two decades, but the accelerant was there, and that evidence remains valid.
“I don’t have any doubt he did it, or was guilty,” Bristol said. “I think he would have been convicted whether we had the arson evidence or not.”
Willingham appealed his case, but the verdict was upheld. In the end, he asked for clemency that never materialized.
"The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit,” Willingham said in his final moments. “I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do.”
The article in the New Yorker quoted Willingham’s protest of innocence as his final words, but Loyd Cook of the Daily Sun was one of three media witnesses at the execution. Willingham’s actual final words were a venom-filled curse at his ex-wife as he attempted an obscene gesture, Cook reported.
“I hope you rot in hell, b—,” Willingham said before dying.
Stacy Kuykendall, who still lives in Navarro County, said she doesn’t talk about the case anymore. However, she did talk to Cook shortly before Willingham’s execution.
She refuted her ex-husband’s attempts to blame Amber, and came to her own conclusions that he killed their daughters. Kuykendall divorced Willingham while he was in prison, and married again. She did not have more children.
“Maybe some of the fear of him will leave me, but I’ll never get over what he did to my kids,” she said in 2004.
From his seat at the defense table, attorney David Martin’s job was to fight tooth and nail for Willingham. Once it was over, though, Martin became convinced his client was guilty. He dismisses the Beyler report as propaganda from anti-death penalty supporters.
“The Innocence Project is an absolute farce,” Martin said. “It’s a bunch of hype, in my opinion.”
The defense team couldn’t locate an arson expert back then willing to say the house fire was accidental.
“We never could find anybody that contradicted Vasquez,” Martin said.
As for motive, Martin agreed with investigators about Willingham’s character.
“He had no conscience,” Martin said. “Why do monsters kill? They like killing.”

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5/4 – 3:50 p.m. New York time
The Fisher Transform on the SPY 10-minute chart remains downtrending, although the daily chart is uptrending. Without unanimity, I won’t exit the SPXL shares position now, but shall wait until Monday to evaluate my next action. No trades today.
5/4 – 3:20 p.m. New York time
The Fisher Transform on SPY, which tracks the S&P 500, has moved to uptrending on the daily chart, and yet is downtrending on the 10-minute chart. I unanimity between the two levels before acting.
If the 10-day bar movs to uptrending, then I shall exit my shares position on SPXU, a leveraged inverse ETF tracking the S&P 500 and replace it with SPXL, a non-inverse leveraged S&P 500 fund. Otherwise I shall retain my SPXU position.
5/4 – 11:45 a.m. New York time
By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, May 4, 2018
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Have you ever wanted to or really needed to hear a conversation in another room or location? Well now you can and it is simple and easy. All you need is your cell phone or another cell phone that you don't need.
First you will need a cell phone and a cell phone headset that plugs in. (For short term listening you could use a Bluetooth headset)
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Now you have a couple different options on how you can spy using your cell phone. I recommend a plug in headset for your phone.
What you need to do is go into the settings on your cell phone and change the answer mode to Auto, so that when you ring your phone it automatically answers. Most phones will only work in Auto answer, if you have the headset plugged in.
The next step for long term surveillance is to disable the screen on your phone, you should be able to do this by going into your settings. Also disable the ringer and vibrate and put your phone on silent.
IF your going to do long term surveillance you will need a phone charger for the phone. With Auto answer turned on and the headset plugged in, you can hide the phone behind a couch or chair or somewhere that it won't be noticed plugged into a wall charger.
Now test your phone by calling it and having the tv on or someone talking in that location and see how well it picks up sounds. Experiment with location of phone.
The simple Bluetooth method for short term listening. Set your Bluetooth headset turned on anywhere in the location of your choosing. (preferably hidden) Make sure that your phone is paired with the Bluetooth headset. Go ahead and call your phone and see how far away you can go and still hear the other room through your Bluetooth headset. Usually you can be up to 3 rooms away. With the Bluetooth method you don't need to have your phone on auto answer.
You can always leave your phone in one location and the Bluetooth headset in another and have it on Auto answer. That way you could leave the area and still pick up the conversation.


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As developers anticipate the next big trends in California real estate, they may look next to the youth of Generation Z. This generation that follows the Millennials consists of people born in 1996 or later. While many members of Gen Z are too young to purchase commercial real estate, the oldest individuals are graduating from university, entering the workforce and developing their own property and investment portfolios. By paying attention to youth trends as well as timeless needs for real estate developments, investors and designers can create projects that will retain their appeal and utility for many years to come.
Trends in housing point at this direction. Multifamily apartment or condo buildings are opting for more technical integration, including connected buildings, “smart home” services and the most advanced wiring for speedy service. In addition, many young people are interested in earth-friendly construction, so sustainable materials and certifications of eco-friendly developments not only can add to their current appeal, but to the long-term viability of the projects. Young people are also interested in mixed-use developments that allow people to live a walkable, urban lifestyle even in a suburban location.
Of course, youth trends aren’t limited to housing preferences. Young people are continuing to drive the expanded growth in online commerce. As people increasingly turn to the internet for many of their shopping needs, there is a growing demand for additional warehouse spaces and fulfillment centers. Many individuals also expect their deliveries quickly, so more of these industrial properties will need to be constructed closer to urban centers.
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Stella McCartney designed this gorgeous chandelier.
It hangs inside the Great Hall of Belsay Castle on March 30, 2009 in Belsay, United Kingdom. It is the second time that the sculpture made from thousands of hanging crystals has been exhibited at the English Heritage castle. McCartney was inspired to create the horse after a visit to medieval Belsay and it’s quarry gardens. The shining exhibit will be open to the public from good friday.


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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama, who just completed one month in office, has seen a drop in job approval rating as he struggles to garner support for economic stimulus plan, a national poll said.
Poll conducted between February 18-19 with 1,046 people indicates that two out of three Americans approve the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president of the United States.
Obama's approval rating stands at 67 per cent in the new poll which is 9 percentage points down from the most recent CNN poll conducted in early February.
50 per cent of those polled said Obama has so far met their expectations, and another 16 per cent suggested that he has exceeded their expectations. Nearly one in four said that the president has fallen short of what they expected, The CNN/Opinion Research Corp survey said.
Six in 10 support USD 787 billion economic stimulus package that Obama signed into law on Tuesday.
"60 per cent of those questioned in the poll favored the economic stimulus plan, with 39 per cent opposing the package," survey said.
Among Democrats, Obama's approval also dropped by 4 per cent to 92 per cent.


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New Delhi:Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has been asked to file his reply in the “paid news” case by Feb 1, a senior poll panel official said Friday.
The Election Commission had issued a notice to Chavan on a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for advertising his propaganda as “news” during the Maharashtra assembly elections last year, said the poll panel official on the condition of anonymity.
The BJP, in its complaint filed along with 16 CDs and press clippings, had also accused Chavan of “grossly undervaluing his election expenditure”.
Airing concern over the trend of “paid news” at the time of voting, Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi Wednesday said the poll panel was in touch with media regulatory bodies such as the Press Council of India and Editors Guild of India to curb the malpractice.
“Paid news is very disturbing,” Quraishi said, delivering a lecture on “Sixty years of Election Commission” at the India International Centre here.
During the Maharashtra assembly elections, a section of media, both print and electronic, was accused of taking “coverage packages” from the candidates. In many cases, a candidate just had to pay for the coverage.
The “no money, no news” policy had affected smaller parties and Independent candidates with limited assets and resources.

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Seven drivers from six countries powered by Mercedes-Benz Engines. Racing version of the Mercedes-Benz engine M271 developed from new four-cylinder production. In the 2003 season, seven drivers from six countries will start the new Formula 3...
Seven drivers from six countries powered by Mercedes-Benz Engines.
Racing version of the Mercedes-Benz engine M271 developed from new four-cylinder production.
In the 2003 season, seven drivers from six countries will start the new Formula 3 Euro Series powered by the Mercedes-Benz en-gine M271 F3.
German Markus Winkelhock (22) and Austrian Christian Klien (20) will be entered by Team Mücke Motorsport. In 2002, Winkelhock scored the Mercedes-Benz engine's first victory when he won the Nürburgring race in August, less than four months after the engine's competition debut. Klien clinched the 2002 German Formula Renault Championship title.
Dutchman Charles Zwolsman (23) and Bel-gium's Jan Heylen (22) are team mates in Team Kolles Racing. Last season, Zwolsman started with a Pole Position and places three and four in the first two German Championship rounds, but missed the second half of the season due to illness. Heylen won the 2002 Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch (GBR), a very competitive event for young talents.
French team ASM enters Canadian Bruno Spengler (19) as well as French drivers Olivier Pla (21) and Alexandre Premat (20). Spengler won the North American Formula Renault Championship title and finished runner-up in the same category in Germany. He scored 16 victo-ries out of 28 races in 2002. Pla finished third overall in the French Formula 3 Championship and won the Korean Formula 3 Grand Prix. Premat won the 2002 French Formula Renault Championship title.
The Mercedes-Benz Formula 3 engine has been developed about a year ago from the 1.8-litre version of the new four-cylinder generation powering the C-Class since last June. The race engine's capacity was increased to almost two litres. According to the technical regulations, it has to do without compressor and direct petrol injection - both are part of the innovative tech-nology package of the new production engines. Like the production engine, the race engine stands out for its high torque with good per-formance characteristics and for its low weight. It will develop more than 200 hp.
The new Formula 3 Euro Series will be pro-moted by German motor sports governing body DMSB and the French federation FFSA. The championship consists of ten events with two races each. On seven occasions, the Euro Series will be part of DTM events. Highlight reports on all races will be shown on German TV channels ARD and ZDF.
Norbert Haug, Vice President Mercedes-Benz Motorsport: "The German and the French For-mula 3 Championships are among the most important series for young talents. To combine them in one championship makes it even more valuable for up-and-coming drivers. Many for-mer Formula 3 champions of both countries had successful careers in motor racing. For example, our DTM drivers Jean Alesi and Bernd Schnei-der have been the 1987 French and German Formula 3 Champions respectively. We are happy to continue our traditional support of young talents in the new Euro Series and to demonstrate the competitiveness of the new Mercedes-Benz four-cylinder production engine concept."


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Despite Belgium's employment rate increasing in 2021 and a record number of vacancies opening, the country still has a lower employment rate than the European Union average.
Just five EU states fare worse than Belgium for people aged between 20 and 64 that have a job. In Belgium, the rate is 70.6%; Greece sits at the bottom of the table with just 62.6%, according to European statistics office Eurostat.
The EU labour market was affected by Covid-19 restrictions and the financial impact of the pandemic in 2020, showing a 1 percentage point decrease in the employment rate compared with 2019 (72.7% in the latter year), but then recovered in 2021.
- Serious work accidents increase in 2021 despite rise in teleworking
- 'Highest level ever': Record 62.2% of Brussels residents have a job
Overall, the EU average has increased by 0.4 percentage points in comparison to before the Covid-19 pandemic to 73.1%, which corresponds with 189.7 million people being employed.
Last year, in 16 out of 27 EU Member States, the employment rate reached or exceeded the pre-pandemic level recorded in 2019, while in 11 countries, the 2021 employment rate was lower than in 2019, with the largest declines being recorded in Latvia (-2.0 pp), Estonia and Austria (both -1.2 pp), and Bulgaria (-1.1 pp).


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Golden Gala 2019: the preview event by event
The timetable and the stars of the 39th edition of the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, the fourth leg of the IAAF Diamond League, on Thursday 6th June (7.30-10 pm). It’s going to be another great night of athletics with over 130 olympic and world medallists (indoor or outdoor) and 13 Berlin 2018 European gold medallists.
Event-by event preview guide
Women’s javelin throw (17.05):
Golden Gala record and Italian all-comers record: 68.66m Barbora Spotakova CZE 2010
World record holder Barbora Spotakova returns to the Golden Gala, where she won three times and set the Golden Gala and the Italian all-comers record. She will be bidding to score her fourth win in Rome against the best specialists of this season. All of them will compete in Rome. The line-up features favourite and Asian record holder Lyu Huihui from China and her compatriot Liu Shiying, who both threw over the 65m barrier this year, Tatsyana Khaladovich and Christin Hussong, the winners of the past two editions of the European Championships, the new entry into the world top ten Nikola Ogrodnikova, the heir of Spotakova in Czech Republic. The line- up is completed by Latvia’s Lina Muze, Turkey’s Eda Tugusz, US Kara Winger, Slovenia’s Martina Ratej, and Italian throwers Sara Jemaj and Zahra Bani
Men’s shot put (18.30)
Golden Gala record: 21.67m Ulf Timmermann GDR 1986 and 21.67 Chritian Cantwell USA 2010
The biggest men’s shot put competition ever assembled in Italy with six putters boasting a career best over the 22 metres. The athlete with the best recent form is Poland’s Konrad Bukowieczki, who put 21.70m a few days ago. The young Polish putter was often beaten by his compatriot Michal Haratyk, who won the European title and will compete in Rome. The US team will be represented by world champion Joe Kovacs, Diamond Race winner Darrell Hill and Curtis Jensen. The line-up also features South American record holder Darlan Romani, Nigerian record holder Enekwechi, Jamaican record holder O’Dayne Richards, Canada’s Tim Nedow, world and European indoor bronze medallist Stanek from Czech Republic. Italian shot putter Leonardo Fabbri, who has never competed in such a high level, is set to put over his personal best marks of 20.69m indoor and 20.45m on 26th May.
Women’s long jump (18.35)
Golden Gala record: 7.23m Marion Jones USA 1998
The show is guaranteed by the jumps of Brittney Reese, the most successful athlete in history with one Olympic gold medal and four world titles, who will clash against the current best specialists in the world: world and European Indoor champion Ivana Spanovic, Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen, who collected a lot of gold medals in the triple jump and is the only jumper able to win the Diamond League titles in both the long and
triple jump, European outdoor gold medallist Malaika Mihambo, and other specialists, who reached the podium at major international championships, like Eloyse Lesueur from France, Nastassia Mironchyk Ivanova from Belarus, Maryna Bekh Romanchuk from the Ukraine, Lorraine Ugen and Shara Proctor from Great Britain. The line-up also features world seasonal leader Chantel Malone (British Virgin Islands), Russia’s Yelena Sokolova and Italian multiple champion Laura Strati, who set her PB of 6.72m and jumped her seasonal debut with 6.65m in Vicenza
Women’s pole vault (19.15)
Golden Gala record: 5.03m Yelena Isinbayeva RUS 2008
The record line-up could not miss the only two active athletes, who have been able to clear over 5.00 metres, US jumpers Jenn Suhr and Sandi Morris. It’s impossible to predict who will jump higher at the Olympic Stadium. The pre-event favourites are Olympic champion Katerini Stefanidi (who won the past two women’s pole vault competitions at the Rome Olympic Stadium), the other Greek vaulter Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou, US vaulter Katie Nageotte, Russia’s Anzhelika Sidorova, Great Britain’s Holly Bradshaw, Sweden’s Angelica Bengtsson, Switzerland’s Angelica Moser, the Latin American duo formed by Yarisley Silva and Robeilys Peinado, who won the world bronze medal for Venezuela. The Golden Gala record of 5.03m was also world record. The Golden Gala will be a showcase for local star and Italian champion Sonia Malavisi, who cleared a life best of 4.51m, and will compete at the Golden Gala for the four time in her career.
Men’s 400 metres hurdles (20.03)
Golden Gala record: 47.48 Abderrahman Samba QAT 2018
Raj Benjamin makes his debut at the Golden Gala. The US hurdler clocked 47.02 last year with the previous nationality of Antigua and Barbuda. He equalled the 47.02 personal best time and long-standing world record of Ed Moses. The meeting record of 47.48 set by Qatar’s Abderrahmane Samba is tough, but not impossible to beat. In the non-Diamond League race the US star will face his compatriots Kenny Selmon and David Kendziera, Japan’s Takatoshi Abe, and many top European hurdlers Thomas Barr, continental bronze medallist, Estonia’s Rasmus Magi, Poland’s Patryk Dobek and Italy’s José Reynaldo Bencosme (PB 49.22).
Women’s 400 metres hurdles (20.13)
Golden Gala record: 52.82 Lashinda Demus USA 2010
The stand-out names in the Rome race are three US hurdles specialists, who won medals at major international events in the past few years. Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad (world seasonal leader with 53.61), reigning world champion Kori Carter and Beijing 2015 silver medallist Shamier Little. The line-up also features two-time Rome winner Janieve Russell from Jamaica, reigning European champion Lea Sprunger, Ukraine’s Anna Ryzhikova, European silver medallist in Berlin, Zuzana Hejnova, two-time world champion and reigning world bronze Zuzana Hejnova from Czech Republic and Canada’s Sage Watson. Ayomide Folorunso, who clocked 55.56 in her seasonal debut in Imola last Sunday, returns to Rome, where she finished fourth with the Italian Under 23 record of 55.16 in the past edition. It’s going to be a great show.
Men’s High Jump (20.15)
Golden Gala record: 2.41 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT 2014
Gianmarco Tamberi comes to Rome as reigning European Indoor champion in Glasgow and promises to entertain the Rome crowd. The line- up features phenomenal athletes, including two Ukrainian 2.40m specialists Bohdan Bondarenko (who cleared 2.42m and won the world title in Moscow 2013) and Andiy Protsenko, world bronze medallist Majd Eddin Ghazal, reigning European outdoor champion Mateusz Przbylko from Germany, Maksim Nedasekau from Belarus, Ilya Ivanyuk from Rusland, US Bryan McBride, Naoto Tobe (Indoor PB 2.35m this year) and Takashi Eto from Japan, Canada’s Django Lovett, and Australia’s Brandon Starc, reigning IAAF Diamond League high jump champion. Bohdan Bondarenko won the last high jump competition at the Rome Olympic Stadium in 2016 with 2.33m. Tamberi finished third with 2.30m thrilling the Rome crowd.
Men’s 800 metres (20.23)
Golden Gala record: 1:42.79 Wilson Kipketer DEN 1999
It’s going to be a race against the clock with the goal to improve the world seasonal best of 1:44.29. The stand-out name is world seasonal leader Nijel Amos, who won his first race of the season in Doha and the olympic silver medal in London, last year’s Rome winner Wycliffe Kinyamal from Kenya, 2016 Diamond Trophy winner Ferguson Rotich, Olympic bronze medallist Clayton Murphy from the USA, his compatriots Donavan Brazier and Harun Abda, reigning world indoor champion Adam Kszczot, who won at the Rome Olympic Stadium two years ago, and the other Polish top runner Marcin Lewandowski, reigning European Indoor champion in the 1500m. The line-up is completed by Asian champion Abubakher Abdalla, Canada’s Brandon McBride, Sweden’s Andreas Kramer, European silver medallist.
Men’s triple jump (20.30)
Golden Gala record: 17.96m Pedro Pablo Pichardo CUB 2015
Portuguese triple jumper of Cuban origin Pedro Pablo Pichardo returns to Rome, where he thrilled the crowd with the meeting record of 17.96m in 2015. Pichardo will take on former compatriots Jordan Diaz (world under 18 record holder), Andy Diaz, Christian Napoles, Nazim Babayev (reigning European Indoor champion) and Alexis Copello (currently the best triple jumper in his country) from Azerbaijan, African record holder Hugues Fabrice Zhango from Burkina Faso, world seasonal leader Omar Craddock from the USA (17.68m), his compatriots Donald Scott and Chris Benard, China’s Zhu Yaming and Portuguese veteran Nelson Evora, winner of medals at all latitudes including the Olympic gold medal in Beijing 2008 and the world bronze medal in London 2017.
Women’s 100 metres (20.35)
Golden Gala record: 10.75 Marion Jones 1998 and Kerron Stewart JAM
Fans in the Rome Olympic Stadium can erupt in joy with a world class women’s 100 metres race, which features European champion and British record holder Dina Asher Smith (10.85), who clocked 22.18 in the 200m in Stockolm, Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson, the fourth fastest sprinter in history with 10.70, and Ivory Coast’s Marie Josée Ta Lou, who won the double silver medal in the 100m and 200m in London 2017 and winner in the 200m in Rome last year. The other stars are Olympic 4x100 gold medallist English Gardner, three other US sprinters Aleia Hobbs, Jenna Prandini and Shania Collins, Brazil’s Vitoria Rosa and Equador’s Angela Tenorio.
Men’s 5000 metres (20.45)
Golden Gala record: 12:46.53 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 2004
The stand-out names are world under 20 record holder Selemon Barega, who clocked the fourth fastest time in history with 12.43.02, world 10000m silver medallist Joshua Cheptegei from Uganda, and Olympic 10000m silver medallist Paul Tanui. The line-up also features European champion Filip Ingebrigtsen (gold medallist in the 1500 in 2016 and reigning champion in cross country) and European 10000m bronze medallist Yeman Crippa, and other African top runners, like Ethiopians Abadi Hadas and Hagos Gebrihwet. It’s one of the races with the most glorious tradition in the history of the Golden Gala with two world records. The winner of the Golden Gala dipped under the 13 minutes barrier 16 times. The world seasonal best time of 13:04.16 is under threat.
Women’s 400 metres (21.05)
Golden Gala record: 49.17 Marita Koch GDR 1986
Barhein’s gazelle Salwa Eid Naser returns to the Olympic Stadium as reigning winner of last year’s edition and is bidding to win for the second consecutive time. The world silver medallist and Asian record holder will face US specialists Jessica Beard, Courtney Okolo and Kendall Ellis, Jamaican sprinters Shericka Jackson and Stephanie Ann McPherson, and European top-level specialists Justyna Swyety Ersetic from Poland, reigning European champion, Dutchwoman Lisanne De Witte, European bronze medallist in Berlin, and Italy’s Raphaela Lukudo, European Indoor 4x400 bronze medallist in Glasgow and third at the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama. For the crowd it’s going to be a very intense 50-second race.
Italian athletes competing: Raphaela Lukudo (Esercito)
Women’s 1500 metres (21.15):
Golden Gala record: 3:56.22 Sifan Hassan NED 2017
It’s going to be a titanic clash between world record holder Genzebe Dibaba and European champion Laura Muir from Scotland, who are the top two finishers at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Muir beat Dibaba only once but she has remained unbeaten in the 1500m since the European Championships in Berlin. It’s a fabulous line-up with former world champion and olympic bronze medallist Jenny Simpson (first in Rome in 2015), Ethiopian runners Dawit Seyaum, Alemaz Samuel, Habitam Alemu, Axumawit Embaye and Gudaf Tsegay, this year’s Shanghai winner Rababe Arafi from Morocco and Kenya’s Winny Chebet.
Men’s 200 metres (21.25)
Golden Gala record: 19.86 Walter Dix USA 1986
Twenty seconds, or even less of bated breath, then the eyes of the crowd will be on the display. The time could be outstanding, with a sensational cast of athletes. After clocking a wind-assisted 9.97 (+2.4 m/s) in Rieti, Italian 100m record holder Filippo Tortu is chasing a time that can smash his 20.34 PB set in the Rome Olympic Stadium, against 200m world number one sprinter Noah Lyles, who dipped under 19.70 four times in 2018, current world best 400 metres sprinter Michael Norman, who has always been beaten by Lyles in their three head-to-head matches, European champion Ramil Guliyev from Turkey, world bronze medallist Jereem Richards, Colombia’s Bernardo Baloyes, world 4x100 champion Nethaneel Mitchell Blake from Great Britain, Ecuador’s Alex Quinonez and Switzerland’s Alex Wilson. Will the Golden Gala record of 19.86 resist ? Will the Italian all-comers record of 19.82 set by the “Son of the Wind” withstand all assaults ? Will other records be improved by the fabulous 200m race on Thursday 6th June ? The 2019 world lead set by Nigeria’s Oduduru (19.76) and the Italian under 23 record of 20.30 held by Pietro Mennea, the athlete, to whom the meeting is named after.
Men’s 110 metres hurdles (21.35)
Golden Gala record: 13.01 Allen Johnson USA 1999
Russia’s Sergey Shubenkov will clash against Cuban native Orlando Ortega from Spain in a men’s 110 race, which is expected to be hot. Both hurdlers are almost even. Ortega leads over Shubenkov 15-14. Shubenkov is looking to draw level in his head-to-head clashes against Ortega and is bidding to win in Rome for the third time in his career after his previous triumphs in 2013 and 2015. Ortega won the Rome meeting in 2016. In 2017 they were beaten by world record holder Merritt. It’s going to be a super clash featuring Auriel Manga from France, world and European bronze medallist, world indoor champion Andy Pozzi, European Indoor champion Milan Trajkovic from Cyprus, Jonathan Cabral from Canada, Gabriel Constantino from Brazil and Italian champion Lorenzo Perini
3000 metres steeplechase (21.45)
Golden Gala record: 7:54.31 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 2012
It’s going to be a race dominated by African runners, but it’s not an exclusive African affair. Kenyan runner Benjamin Kigen, revelation in the 2018 season and second placer in Rome last year, returns to the Italian capital. Ethiopia’s Chala Beyo, third last year in Rome, will be also in the race. The high-quality line-up also features other kenyan top runners Barnabas Kipyego, Abraham Kibiwot and Nicholas Bett, Uganda’s Albert Chemutai, reigning European silver medallist Fernando Carro and Ibrahim Ezzaydouni from Spain. Italy will be represented by European bronze medallist Yohanes Chiappinelli and 2015 European Under 23 bronze medallist Osama Zoghlami.


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The Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Blue Train Challenge reached a dramatic conclusion in Cannes on Friday 22nd of September as the Cadillac that had been leading right from the start of the five-day rally ‘fried a wheel bearing’ and had to retire on the final regularity. This gave the win to Richard and Tom Jeffcoate in the 1938 Riley 16/4 Special.
Inspired by the legendary run by the Bentley of Wolf Barnato from Cannes to London in March 1930, the Blue Train Challenge set off from the elegant resort of Deauville with James Gately and Tony Brooks driving into the lead in their 1937 Cadillac Convertible.
As the rally journeyed some 1690kms through Fountevraud, Vichy, Lyon, and L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, with crews and cars competing in a series of regularity sections, special tests, and time controls, Gately and Brooks kept the rest of the field at arms length until that final regularity just before the finish line.
This paved the way for father and son team of Richard and Tom Jeffcoate in the Riley to take the trophy. Richard was stunned, delighted but at the same time, generous in victory when he said: “I could simply not believe Jim’s bad luck this afternoon.” This is Richard’s first ERA win and only the third navigational outing for his son Tom who is ‘good with numbers’.
Second and third place were taken by a duo of Aston Martins. Nigel Dowding and Mary Antcliff claiming silver in their 1934 MkII and Christian and Matthew Brash securing third in their 1938 15/98 Sports.
The Riviera Cup, open to sports car manufactured between 1st January 1948 and 31st December 1962, was won by Xavier and Lucas De Sarrau, from Switzerland, in the gleaming white 1957 Porsche Carrera 1500GS.
Discretionary prizes awarded included the Tin Top Trophy which went to Colin and Veronica Weekly in the 1939 Dodge Business Coupe; The Concours d’Elegance award went to Bjorn and Anne Schage in the 1938 Alvis Speed 25, and the Spirit of the Rally prize went to Max and Andrea Sowerby in the 1939 Talbot Lago T120. The awards were presented by the Lady Mayor of Cannes, Claire Anne Reix. Presidente du Palais Des festival et Des congress de Cannes et Conseillère Municipale.
Joint Clerks of the Course Anthony Preston and Keith Baud said: “We are delighted with the way that event had been supported and it was a real pleasure to showcase the beautiful parts of France that we didn't know existed.”


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The findings, based on interviews with 1,000 people in the region, show a massive 65% of respondents would be more likely to use a local West Midlands airport if it had better long-haul connections.
The survey also confirmed that West Midlanders are romantics at heart, with 49% of respondents saying they prefer going on holiday with just their partner, compared to only 9% who would rather travel solo. Qatar Airways’ new ‘Going Places Together’ campaign, launched in December 2015, highlights the magic of jetting off with that special someone, with an award-winning service guaranteed to make every journey memorable.
While the classic beach break is still popular – with 30% of respondents naming it as their favourite type of holiday – the top choice for travellers in the West Midlands is a cultural trip (35%). Travellers looking to combine the two need look no further than one of Qatar Airways’ newest destinations, Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. A beautifully tranquil new holiday-spot which is sure to delight both thrill seekers and those who simply want to relax and indulge in five-star luxury, flights to Ras al-Khaimah from Birmingham via Doha start at just £330 return.
Elsewhere, the Qatar Airways figures also show that West Midlanders love to travel far and wide, with one in ten in the region likely to plan a trip Down Under within the next two years. This year Qatar Airways will help bring the West Midlands and Australia closer than ever with new services to Sydney on March 1, and Adelaide on May 2, complementing the airline’s well-established routes to Perth and Melbourne.
The results prove that travellers in the West Midlands are keen to fly from a local airport if it offers a choice of long-haul destinations to rival those available elsewhere. With eight flights a week, including two flights on Saturdays, Qatar Airways passengers travelling from Birmingham will have access to the world’s most exciting destinations, all within one convenient and seamless transfer at the airline’s state-of-the-art hub, Hamad International Airport.
Qatar Airways Country Manager, UK & Ireland, Richard Oliver said: “The results from our survey clearly illustrate a demand for long-haul travel from the West Midlands that Qatar Airways is delighted to meet. To be launching our new service from Birmingham with eight flights a week shows confidence in the city and the wider West Midlands as a place to visit and do business.”
Birmingham Airport Aviation Development Director, William Pearson said: “In 2015, we experienced over 20% growth in long-haul passengers alone, so this survey supports the trend that we are seeing at Birmingham Airport. Qatar Airways will give Midlanders world class customer service offering daily connectivity across the globe through its state-of-the-art hub in Doha and we look forward to welcoming this in March.”
The route will be operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in a two-cabin configuration, comprising of 22 seats in Business Class and 232 Economy Class seats. All seats include individual television screens, with Economy Class customers benefitting from a screen 10.6-inches wide, offering the latest inflight entertainment comprised of up to 2,000 options while experiencing the airline’s award-winning service. Every seat is an aisle seat in Business Class where passengers can catch up on sleep in a fully-flat bed or make productive use of their time utilising the large work surface area. Passengers can also stay connected while travelling with the option of Wi-Fi which is available throughout the aircraft.
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We had breakfast here twice during our recent Zion vacation. It's great to see a local place like the Mean Bean that we first visited in 2004 still going strong. The coffee is awesome. We had the granola bowl with yogurt and fresh fruit, which was great. The deck upstairs is a nice change if it is crowded downstairs.
You get the sense that you've found a great place when you see lots of locals there, not just tourists. Ryan seems to always be behind the counter and friendly to everyone, whether you are local or just passing through.
Hope to see this fine Springdale establishment open many more years for many more breakfasts on future Zion trips!
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Disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have been hot topics in recent years. But how well are these technologies understood and adopted by organisations?
Richard Busby, Principal Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services, discussed how the adoption of these technologies can be more easily achieved by organisations at CxO Disrupt, New Zealand.
Drawing on Amazon’s technologies such as Echo, Alexa and Polly, Busby highlighted how technology should be a key part of your business strategy.
The Two Types of Disruption
Before exploring the power of AI, Busby explained that there were two definitions, or ‘types’, of disruption.
“The first is a product to commodity substitution… That’s a type of disruptive innovation that you should see coming,” Busby explained.
To illuminate the theory he used the common PC as a reference point. While the purchase and assembly of computers were complex 30 years ago, they have now become a utility and are readily available.
“The second type of disruption is this product to product substitution, and that’s where someone comes into the market with something that’s completely left field that you’ve never seen before and you couldn’t predict. These are the types of disruption that can upend entire industries and turn incumbent providers on their heads.”
This second definition is what creates the renowned ‘disruptors’ that organisations typically fear and try to prepare for.
Busby also drew on Clayton Christensen’s theory that although one organisation may create a mature, feature-complete technology, the price and complexity consequently rises too. This provides other organisations with an opportunity to create a more cost-effective alternative.
This is “good enough for a segment of the market so they start using that because it’s cheaper, innovative and it’s faster. So the disruptive technology is… where a new challenger in the market can offer something that’s very basic at the start and then expands upon them to get more and more market share.”
As a result, the organisation providing the simpler, cheaper option eventually becomes the dominant market player.
Here, Busby highlights the importance of using a mapping technique, such as Wardley Maps, to look at these components separately and understand how they will develop over time; this is how organisations can become disruptors themselves.
Reduce the Barrier to Entry
Busby explained that like all disruptive technologies, AI used to require a certain skill-set in order to understand it, but it is now emerging as a technology that a multitude of companies want to adopt.
“Artificial intelligence and machine learning is moving from being something that’s genesis or custom-built, into something that’s becoming more of a commodity.”
This can be useful to organisations as they provide new engagement models for their customers. By understanding how customers are interacting with a business, they can begin to predict their customer’s needs.
“Once you’ve gathered a bunch of data on what customers do, how they’re acting, then you can apply machine learning, analytics and big data techniques to a mass of data and start working out trends and patterns.”
Therefore, AI and machine learning, such as technologies like Amazon Echo and Polly, reduce the barriers to entry.
Amazon Echo is a smart speaker that listens to voice commands, processes them and responds accordingly, while Amazon Polly uses deep learning technology to turn text into speech. Polly currently boasts 47 voices in 24 countries, and this is only set to improve as the technology becomes more widely used.
Utilising these technologies can bolster an organisations digital strategy. One example was how Capital One bank in the United States have adopted Amazon Echo to advance their customer interactions.
Although Busby highlighted the potential security issues of using Echo for banking purposes, Capital One ensured this was maintained by combining it with their mobile app to verify your identity.
“If you ask it any sensitive questions, such as bank balances or transactions, it’ll actually send a pin code to the app on your phone and you can then read out the pin code into Alexa,” Busby said.
Seize the Opportunities
Most customer interactions are now through digital means, whether this is mobile, web or apps. This provides organisations with a plethora of data they could use to better understand their customer, but many are failing to recognise this.
Referring to the low cost of storing customer data, 3 cents per gigabyte, Busby argues “you may as well store all of this data with your systems because the potential use of it down the track is high and the cost of storing it is very low.”
A key pain-point related to storing this data is how to analyse it, and Amazon Athena reduces the complexity of understanding this data. This allows anyone in the IT industry to more easily run a server-less query, and therefore provides easily-digestible information on their customers.
With Amazon Athena offering a pay-as-you-use service, organisations have easier access to the tools needed to advance in the digital age.
Busby explains this is only possible if you have the correct mind-set.
“Ultimately, what this all comes down to is experimentation and being able to make it easy for people to experiment inside your organisation.”
Overall, every organisation fears an organisation such as Amazon disrupting their industry. Busby’s insights revealed that adopting technology and utilising the tools and data available will ultimately prevent this from happening by keeping you at the forefront of the technical world.
Finally, organisations should not be restricted by fear. According to Busby, failure is not something to be feared; this is how Amazon have progressed so quickly.
“We try to fail all the time because if we only ever stay in our safe zone… we’ll never get better at offering customers increased value and better services.”


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TCM Classic Film Festival: “When Harry Met Sally” to open fest – stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan and director Rob Reiner to attend
Yes, it has been 30 years since the seminal romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally hit theaters.
It starred Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, was directed by Rob Reiner and written by the late, great Nora Efron. It also featured Carrie Fisher in one her most memorable screen roles.
Crystal, Ryan and Reiner will reunite on April 11 for a gala screening of the film which will kick off the four-day TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.
“There are romantic comedies – and then there’s When Harry Met Sally…” said Ben Mankiewicz, TCM primetime anchor and official host of the TCM Classic Film Festival. “The chemistry between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan makes them part of a legacy that includes the greats of classic movies: Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn; Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell; and Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. And Rob Reiner — utilizing Nora Ephron’s word-perfect screenplay – follows in the rarefied air of the filmmaking giants who made those earlier pictures.”
Go to filmfestivaltcm.com for more information.


BON AIR, Va. (WRIC) — A local seafood shop owner has a ‘mess’ on his hands as well as repair costs after someone tried to break in by throwing a rock through his window.
People cruising through the Bon Air neighborhood will notice a popular seafood store boarded up, however, it is open.
Joe Skinner is the owner of Bon Air Seafood and he boarded up his store window and door because someone threw a six-pound rock through the glass.
“It was just a mess on that door and the main window completely shattered, a large hole where the person threw a very large brick,” Skinner said.
The store owner said a neighbor saw the would-be burglar throw the brick at the glass.
“He said he saw the person crouched down with the brick trying to get basically the bottom of the door out and tried to kick it,” Skinner said. “That’s when he called 911.”
Why would someone rob a seafood market? Skinner police told him the suspect could have been hooked on heroin.
Skinner said the suspect did break in and steal cash from a neighboring consignment store.
The businessman said repairing the glass will cost him up to two thousand dollars to repair, but he admits it could be much worse.Skinner knows his situation could be much worse, he has photos of when someone accidentally drove through the store in the 1970’s,”A gentleman thought he was pressing the brake and he pressed the gas, so I can’t imagine that!” exclaimed Skinner.
Skinner has photos of when someone accidentally drove through the store in the 1970’s.
“A gentleman thought he was pressing the brake and he pressed the gas, so I can’t imagine that!” Skinner exclaimed.