NHL Buyout window opens on September 25th, will the Rangers use it?
The NHL buyout window is set for September 25th and will run through October 8th. That is the day before free agency starts. It is expected that several teams will use the buyout option thanks to a flat cap of $81.5 million. On top of that, many teams will also be using an internal cap of $70 million, making this a wild offseason to predict.
New York Rangers high dead cap space
When it comes to the New York Rangers, they have one player on the roster that needs to be sorted out. Henrik Lundqvist is 38 years-old and has one year left at $8.5 million. If the Rangers opt to buy him out, they will have to eat $5.5 million on the cap, but gain a crucial $3 million is space.
Currently, the Rangers will head into next season carrying $7.494 million in dead cap space thanks to Kevin Shattenkirk ($6M) and Dan Girardi ($1.1M) buyouts. They have also $300,000 in salary retention on Ryan Spooner. If they buyout Hank that will be over $12 million in dead cap. In the 2021-22 season it will drop to just $4 million.
Henrik Lundqvist believes he is being bought out
It was revealed in a recent Czech interview by Libor Hajek that Lundqvist told the team this could be his last game with the Rangers. “He said he didn’t know what would happen to him if the Rangers bought him out or went somewhere else,” Hajek said.
News of this article spread quickly, and yesterday I went back to look for more information and found the quote removed. I reached out to the reporter that conducted the interview as to why, and received no response.
Will the Rangers use a buyout?
Now the question is, will the Rangers use it? Here’s how I see it going down. On September 25th, it is highly unlikely the Rangers would buyout Lundqvist because it also game four of the Stanley Cup Finals.
The NHL really doesn’t like it when teams take focus away from big events like that. Of course, that’s not the only reason because I anticipate they will try hard to trade him. They will work closely with Henrik and his agent almost all the way up to the draft on October 6th.
I believe the Rangers will eat the maximum of 50% of his deal in hopes a contender is willing to pay Henrik the remaining $4.25M. The problem is this is a flooded goalie market with plenty of options.
It will then fall on Lundqvist to decide if he wants to be bought out and take his chances on the market. There he will likely be presented with a few one year at $1 or $2 million offers as a backup. Will he want that? That’s why Henrik could still opt to retire and forego the remaining salary. If he doesn’t, he will be bought out.
I’m sure the Rangers will immediately offer him a role with the organization as an ambassador, but he will no longer be the starter. One thing for sure, he will always be a Broadway Legend. His jersey will be raised to the rafters late next season if he retires and fans can be in the stands.


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CHAMPAIGN -- Nobody is feigning friendliness this week as Illinois prepares to face in-state and conference rival Northwestern.
"It’s always fun to go up against someone you don’t like and they don't like you," Illinois offensive coordinator Paul Petrino said.
Rather than being played at the end of the conference season, the teams will kick off Big Ten play against each other. The bad blood has been boiling since last season, despite Illinois' victory against the Wildcats atWrigley Field.
Players from Chicago were revved up last season when Northwestern deemed itself the city's Big Ten team. They also think Northwestern has a superiority complex.
"They (say they) don’t recruit our type of guys," Petrino said. "That’s pretty much calling our guys something. That would irritate me. That’s pretty much calling you, what? I don’t know. That’s calling you something. Read between the lines. We’ll be ready to play."
The line that Northwestern said it recruits a different type of player is mentioned frequently among Illinois players and coaches. Linebacker Martez Wilson, who is now in the NFL, brought up the reference after last season's game as a point that motivated the team.
While Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald has discussed his team's high APR and grade point average, an Internet search produced no record of him relating this to Illinois.
Illinois head coach Ron Zook noted the series has become more heated in recent years, citing the teams' successes as the reason.
"They want to beat us and we want to beat them," he said. "We haven't been a in a lot of recruiting battles. This has gotten heated up more. Both of us have gotten a little better."
Illinois is eager to attempt consecutive victories against the Wildcats at Saturday's homecoming.
"We come ready every year we play each other," linebacker Ian Thomas said. "It’s two Illinois teams playing each other. We want to be the best team in the state."

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You can never let a ________ off leash. Fill in the blank. You can never let a sighthound off leash. You can never let a terrier off leash. You can never let a scent hound off leash. And the list goes on.
Now think for a moment. Don't all those types of breeds have an original purpose that involves being off leash? In ever single case those breeds' purpose is two-fold. First: go out and independently locate/hunt/dispatch prey (varies by breed). Two: return to your human or at the very least remain in the general vicinity so they can be collected.
I've heard all the stories of lost hunting dogs. There's a reason GPS tracking collars are so ubiquitous in the modern age. I've gulped as my dogs disappeared over the horizon at Open Field Coursing and breathed that sigh of relief as they came trotting back to me. I'm not saying that there's not a risk to independent hunting breeds being off leash. I'm saying that sighthounds and scenthounds and terriers (independent hunting breeds) have a long history of returning to their handlers at the end of a hunt. And you know what, those dogs that didn't return didn't tend to reproduce.
Cut to the modern era where the common advice is: you can't have independent hunting breeds off leash. And is that truly fair to all these breeds who have, for so long, existed to have a measure of independence and freedom? The average backyard is not enough space for many of those breeds to stretch their legs. And while terriers might hunt vermin in the backyard, most hounds are not going to get much enrichment simply by being out in the yard by themselves. Add that many of these breeds are not necessarily well suited to dog daycare or dog parks and where does that leave us? Often lovely household companions that do not have an outlet for fulfilling their genetic imperative.
Independent hunting breeds aren't the only breeds that often miss out on the enrichment of fulfilling their genetic purpose. How often are herding breeds scolded (or rehomed) for herding children? Or much worse killed while trying to herd cars. How often do people complain of the mouthy retriever? The chomping shepherd breed? What about the guardian breed that never gets out of their own backyard - they never get to watch and inspect the world going by or they never have charges to protect.
Every breed (or purpose bred mix) has a purpose. There are many breeds whose sole purpose is in fact companionship - most toy breeds fit this category. There are many other breeds that fit well into a tradition nuclear family home because they have been bred to work closely with humans for hundreds of years. But just because there are breeds that don't fit the two aforementioned categories doesn't mean that those breeds can't fit into a non-working home. And just because you are in a pet home, a home that will not work the breed in their original role, does not mean that you can’t find ways to fulfil your dog’s genetic imperatives.
I have often seen well-meaning owners and even some dog trainers restrict their dog’s natural instincts. Terriers can’t dig and can’t play tug of war. Herding dogs don’t get to nip, they don’t get to tug because they might increase the nipping. Sighthounds can’t run loose in expansive areas. Scenthounds aren’t allowed to have their nose glued to the ground. Retrievers are bid to be less mouthy – to put fewer things in their mouth. Pointers are discouraged from pointing birds. Sled dogs shouldn’t pull or run long distances. Guardian breeds must spend every moment looking at their owner lest they act out.
But here’s the thing. When you suppress instincts, sooner or later that suppression and management eventually breaks down, and usually in explosive and sometime catastrophic ways – your sighthound slips outside and joyfully runs through the streets and gets hit by a car. Your retriever finally gets ahold of that sock, swallows it, and dies from obstruction.
An alternative, the best alternative to my mind, is to find non-destructive ways for your dogs to fulfill their instincts. Some of the ways you can do this are easy upkeep outlets. Use a flirt pole with your terriers and hounds. Let them exercise their prey-drive. Play fetch with your retrievers and pointers and spaniels and herders. Take decompression walks to allow your guardian breeds who want to see and take in the world to do so or let them hang out in the yard with your kids. Scatter food in the yard or the house for almost any breed to allow them to use their nose. These are all ways to fulfill your pet dog’s instincts.
There are other ways to fulfill those instincts in a more primal way that involve more effort on the owners’ parts. Flirt pole is a great first step but Fast CAT, Coursing Ability Tests, AOK9 and LGRA and NOTRA racing are great options for all breeds that have prey drive but that mean their owners find and attend the events. There are Hunting Tests and Trials for the sporting breeds. There are Coonhound and other Hunt Tests for many of the scenthound breeds (plus Scent Detection sports). There are Herding Trials or Obedience or Rally or Obedience for the herding dogs whose minds are moving a million miles a minute. There are various types of joring for sledding breeds. There’s Terrier Trials, Barn Hunt, and Earth Dog for your terriers.
There are so many options to help your dog fulfill their genetic imperative. All of these require an investiture of time, money, and equipment on the owners’ parts. That makes these options less accessible. However, I can truly and honestly tell you, there is very little that is more fulfilling for the dogs that participating in as close to their original purpose as possible (and yes, participating in their original purpose does tend to be the most fulfilling for dogs). And while I will always acknowledge the entry barriers to people starting in dog sports with their dogs, I will also always encourage people to participate (and happily help them get started) because I have seen so so many dogs’ lives change for the better.
Even if you don’t want to get your dog into dog sports, you have options. My sighthounds want to run. They want to stretch their legs and let off steam. I allow them to do so in safe areas, off leash. They go out, they run and play and romp, and after that, they come back. I start my puppies off with off leash walks while their following instincts are stick strong and the flight instincts haven't kicked in yet (Avidog's Adventure Walks is a great resource for doing this). As young puppies, I generally don't have them drag a leash, they aren't going far. I use my older dogs (or a friend's well trained dog) to model the correct behaviors for the puppy. As they get older they start dragging a line - longer when they first prove to be untrustworthy and in need of more recall practice, then shorter as they get more consistent again. Once a dog is old enough, I'll layer in e-collar as a backup. This system works best when you first have young puppies, but it has worked fantastically with Tabiri as well.
Remember, often when something is novel, dogs value it. If off leash time is always novel, your dogs will naturally value it and often get the zoomies or play keep away. If dogs are used to walking calmly off leash with their people (and pack) early on, there is less novelty to the situation and so they don't have that initial burst of frenzied running, they simply move off to sniff when released to do so. If you are at all unsure or your dog is inconsistent with their recall, please, I beg of you, work with a trainer because they can help you and your dog enjoy greater freedom safely.
That's not your only option though to allow your dogs that have a genetic need to run the ability to stretch your legs. If you have a small yard or even no yard at all you have some other choices. The typical and known alternative is daycare or dog parks. Both of those merit their own blog post, but suffice it to say, they aren't the right fit for every dog or every breed. A lovely alternative is Sniffspots, which is essentially a yard that you can rent for an hour at a time. Many of these Sniffspots are on secure, huge property that allows even sighthounds to really open up and run.
Why get these breeds if their instincts run counter to what many people want in a dog? I adore my Azawakh because they are alert, independent thinking, and very bonded to their people. These same traits also make them a good alert/guard dog. I also love that they are athletic and happy to run. It's something I actively enjoy about the breed, but it does mean I need to honor their needs. There are other examples where someone might not enjoy the instincts a dog has. A terrier keeps digging out of the yard. Or a herding breed nips children on the stairs. In these cases it might be that the people love the overall temperament of the breed (feisty, stand-up, and lively for most terriers and bonded, loyal, devoted, and biddable for the herding dogs) but those other instincts prove a challenge. For the terrier a digging pit (sandboxes can work great) with buried treasure can be a great outlet. For the herding breed large exercise balls can be super fun for them to learn to move instead of children (Treibball is the formal sport) or even taking your family dog out to a place that offers herding lessons. You wouldn't need to commit for all time, but it can be a fun outlet even if you never do performance or work your dog.
Why bother fulfilling these instincts? I once read a study (which I wish I had saved, because I have been unable to locate the study ever since) that focused on when a dog was measurably (chemically) the most relaxed and fulfilled. As I recall, the study found that dogs were most relaxed when they had performed a job associated with their original purpose. And while I lack the evidence of this study, this has very much been my experience. There is absolutely nothing for my dogs like being out in the sage brush chasing jackrabbits. Nothing for them compares to it. However, the stimulated sighthound sports like lure coursing and racing certainly come close. Seeing that happiness and joy on my dogs' faces is enough to keep them playing those games, even when I'm busy or tired.
A final note - mixes still have instincts. I was once working with a dog clearly had guardian breed in their background and a situation came up that was clearly a present danger and it was fascinating to watch those instincts kick into action. In general, often mixing breeds can dilute some instincts - you rarely will find a livestock guardian that is mixed with a herding breed to be an effective herd guardian or working herding dog. However, in some cases like many sport mixes, those instincts and drives compliment each other so you get the drive and speed of a Whippet with the biddability and sturdiness of a Border Collie for example.

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text: Hi everyone, I want to introduce you to Madeline. She thinks she is HOT! And I do believe she is. The Challenge at Created With Love Challenges this week is Ribbons and Lace. So Madeline has both on the card with her. I colored her with Prisma Color pencils and OMS. I added the lace with a new Stamp set that I bought from Gina K. Designs that looks like lace. I embossed it with white embossing powder and I really think it does look like lace. The ribbon I got last Christmas at Tuesday Morning while I was Christmas shopping (so did some for me too) I got like 4 packages for $2.99 and was so happy. I added the pearls to the bottom for some bling. Can't have enough bling if you ask me. I hope you will all come down to Created With Love Challenges here www.createdwithlovechallenges.blogspot.com and join in the fun. Lots of good prizes to be won as well as seeing what everyone else is posting. Hope to see you there.

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[Haskell-cafe] background question about IO monad
lrpalmer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 01:12:08 EST 2008
On Feb 5, 2008 9:44 PM, Uwe Hollerbach <uhollerbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> lisp> (UTCtime)
> "Wed Feb 6 03:57:45 UTC 2008"
> lisp> (UTCtime 1.203e9)
> "Thu Feb 14 14:40:00 UTC 2008"
> But after that, it sure seems to me as if I've taken data out of the
> IO monad... haven't I? Given that the second alternative never entered
> doIOAction and that after both are done I have a string of characters,
> prettily formatted to indicate a time, that's what it feels like to
> this unwashed C programmer.
Formatting a time is a completely pure operation. If you give the
time formatting function
the same timestamp, you always get the same string back. It is
getting the *current* time
which is in the IO monad, since it "returns" different results
depending on at what time it is
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Meanwhile, Over On The Philly Post: Misinformation Is Like Information…
If the (very) active argument surrounding servers’ tips, City Council bill No. 110341 and Victor’s Q&A about same with Marc Vetri isn’t enough to satisfy your legislative bloodlust, then man do we have some good news for you…
Once the bill passed the Council and made its way to Mayor Nutter’s desk, Victor decided to put in a call to Councilman Kenney (who’d sponsored the bill, which disallows restaurants from taking out of servers’ tips a percentage of the fees that credit card companies charge the restaurant), just to wrap up a couple of loose ends from an earlier interview and see whether the Councilman was now willing to talk about some of the restaurateurs he’d spoken to while putting the bill together. The response he got was…surprising.
Now that the bill has passed through Council…I decided to give Kenney a call to see if he was ready to name names and call out these evildoers [who, allegedly, were charging servers the entire credit card fee, not just a small percentage]. Sarah Sachdev, Kenney’s director of legislative affairs, said, “To tell you the truth, I think that the councilman got a little bit of misinformation there. We did try to ascertain this and learned that it wasn’t the case.”
You can check out the whole story over on the Philly Post, and see Victor’s Q&A about the bill with Marc Vetri right here.
Councilman Kenney’s WMD Moment [Philly Post]
Marc Vetri is Pissed: A Q&A [Foobooz]


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Having scanned the lake in the Tunguska area, they found a strong reflector at a depth of several meters below the deepest point of the lake, possibly a dense stone object of a meter size …
Already thousands of enthusiasts have combed all the surroundings of the epicenter of the Tunguska catastrophe, but have not found a piece of the cosmic body. As a result, many hypotheses were born, up to the exotic idea of science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev about an explosion in the air of an alien ship.
Scientists today believe the most plausible version of an explosion in the atmosphere at an altitude of 5-10 kilometers of a fragile comet of dust and ice. In principle, it could be a stone asteroid, but then you need to look for fragments of the alien. And they have not yet been found. And so the Italian scientists E. Bonatti, L. Gasperini and D. Longo decided to try their luck. Their interest was fueled by the little known articles of Russian scientists V. Koshelev and K. Florensky about the discovery of Lake Cheko eight kilometers from the supposed epicenter of the catastrophe. It could be a crater created by the impact of a fragment of an asteroid on the Earth.
The Italians, with the help of the most modern instruments, plowed the lake up and down, looked to the very depth, which, by the way, is more than 50 meters. First of all, they were struck by the fact that the lake was shaped like a funnel or an inverted cone. How can this be explained? After all, if the lake is thousands of years old, then the bottom should be flat, like almost all normal lakes in Siberia. The fact is that the bottom is leveled over the years by bottom sediments. And Cheko's funnel shape is reminiscent of the famous impact craters of this size.
But if the lake was formed in 1908, then it did not exist before. It was not on the military maps of 1883.
But perhaps the most sensational result was the result of echolocation. At a depth of several meters below the deepest point of the lake, a strong reflector was found, possibly a dense stone object of meter size. What if it's a fragment of the Tunguska body that has been looking for a hundred years? Italians are eager to continue research and uncover the mystery of the century.
"Science and life"

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Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Cowen and Company
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (NASDAQ:AAWW)‘s stock had its “outperform” rating reissued by equities researchers at Cowen and Company in a note issued to investors on Thursday. They presently have a $70.00 target price on the transportation company’s stock, up from their previous target price of $60.00. Cowen and Company’s price objective would indicate a potential upside of 9.38% from the company’s previous close.
Other research analysts have also recently issued research reports about the stock. BidaskClub raised shares of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 12th. Stifel Nicolaus reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings in a report on Friday, June 2nd. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, August 1st. Finally, Imperial Capital upped their price target on shares of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings from $60.00 to $70.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 4th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $68.40.
Shares of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (NASDAQ:AAWW) traded down 2.51% during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $64.00. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 447,791 shares. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $56.35 and its 200-day moving average is $54.03. The firm has a market cap of $1.62 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.35 and a beta of 1.45. Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has a 52-week low of $34.22 and a 52-week high of $67.75.
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (NASDAQ:AAWW) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 2nd. The transportation company reported $1.09 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.85 by $0.24. The firm had revenue of $517.37 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $500.44 million. Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings had a net margin of 2.98% and a return on equity of 8.11%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 16.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.80 earnings per share. Equities analysts predict that Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings will post $4.76 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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In related news, CEO William J. Flynn sold 5,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, July 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $58.59, for a total value of $292,950.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 196,958 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $11,539,769.22. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. In the last three months, insiders sold 25,000 shares of company stock worth $1,404,200. 2.50% of the stock is owned by insiders.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Norges Bank purchased a new position in Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings during the fourth quarter worth approximately $1,268,000. Louisiana State Employees Retirement System boosted its position in Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings by 1.0% in the first quarter. Louisiana State Employees Retirement System now owns 10,200 shares of the transportation company’s stock worth $566,000 after buying an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. Sanders Morris Harris Inc. purchased a new position in Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings during the first quarter worth approximately $2,619,000. State of Alaska Department of Revenue boosted its position in Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings by 3.0% in the first quarter. State of Alaska Department of Revenue now owns 2,770 shares of the transportation company’s stock worth $153,000 after buying an additional 80 shares in the last quarter. Finally, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D boosted its position in Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings by 1.4% in the first quarter. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D now owns 750,000 shares of the transportation company’s stock worth $41,588,000 after buying an additional 10,000 shares in the last quarter. 96.32% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
About Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc is a holding company. The Company provides outsourced aircraft and aviation operating services throughout the world, serving Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America through contractual service arrangements, including those through which it provides aircraft to customers and value-added services, including crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI), as well as those through which it provides crew, maintenance and insurance, but not the aircraft (CMI); cargo and passenger charter services (Charter), and dry leasing aircraft and engines (Dry Leasing).
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Taarab singer Khadija Kopa, who is also the mother of Bongo songstress Zuchu, has spoken up following the now-viral rumor stemming from Diamond's brother who has continued to claim that Zuchu and her boss Diamond Platinumz are in love.
According to the mum, the 'Sukari' hitmaker has not disclosed that information to her and she insisted he(Diamond) is not her future son-in-law.
Khadija says the Wasafi boss has not yet paid dowry for her daughter to be treated as part of her family.
"If Diamond was my potential son-in-law, he would have already come and given his dowry, then I would have called him my son-in-law. Heis not my future son-in-law," she said.
This comes barely weeks after his step-father revealed that he is ready to get married.
In a recent clip, Diamond was captured showing off a new pair of shoes that he insisted were for his lover who remains mysterious to date.


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Roman Catholic cardinals have been urged to overcome divisions at a special mass ahead of the papal conclave, just hours after anti-mafia investigators carried out a string of raids in the diocese of the leading candidate.
In a homily before thousands of pilgrims and the most senior figures in the church, Angelo Sodano, the dean of the college of cardinals, made a last-ditch attempt to banish infighting, as he extolled the virtues of unity amid diversity.
But even as preparations for the mass were being made, Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan – and reportedly the hot favourite to be the next pope – suffered a blow.
Anti-mafia detectives swooped on homes, offices, clinics and hospitals in Lombardy, the region around Milan, and elsewhere. A statement said the dawn raids were part of an investigation into "corruption linked to tenders by, and supplies to, hospitals".
Healthcare in Lombardy is the principal responsibility of the regional administration, which for the past 18 years has been run by Roberto Formigoni, a childhood friend of Scola and the leading political representative of the Communion and Liberation fellowship. Until recently, Scola was seen as the conservative group's most distinguished ecclesiastical spokesman.
But he has progressively loosened his ties to Communion and Liberation, and in early 2012 publicly rebuked the movement after its leader was found to have written to Pope Benedict, implicitly criticising the cardinal's liberal predecessors in the Milan archdiocese.
The regional administration headed by Formigoni – a member of Silvio Berlusconi's party – collapsed last October amid a welter of accusations regarding alleged corruption and misconduct. The final blow came when one of his regional ministers was arrested, accused of buying votes from the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia.
Formigoni himself is a formal suspect in an investigation into corruption and conspiracy. He denies the accusations.
Among those arrested on Tuesday was Massimo Guarischi, who in 2009 was given a five-year jail sentence after being convicted of conspiracy and auction-rigging. Guarischi is said to have organised expensive holidays for Formigoni that are central to the investigation into the former governor's affairs.
Scola, who has headed the Milan archdiocese since 2011, is regarded as the champion of a largely non-Italian faction that is challenging the entrenched power of the Vatican cardinals. He was close to the last pope, whose household was run by women members of Communion and Liberation.


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While it might come as a shock to some of us, not everyone in this country is sharing in the benefits of the supposed success story that is Canadaâ€™s economy.
While federal politicians (especially the Harper Conservatives) wonâ€™t hesitate to praise to the skies the strength of the Canadian economy, the slow but steady recovery from global recession, and increased job creation, it seems a growing percentage of Canadians are being left behind or shut out of the benefits of this bright, glittery, oil-driven future.
According to a global study recently released by the Conference Board of Canada, the gap between the rich and the poor is being rent asunder faster in Canada than in dozens of other countries around the world. The report noted Canada is the fourth largest in income inequality among its peers.
While the U.S. still currently holds the unenviable title of having the largest rich-poor income gap, in Canada that gap has been growing at a much faster rate. Between the mid-1990s and the late 2000s, according to the organization, inequality widened in close to a dozen countries, narrowed in five, and retained the status quo in Norway and Japan.
All of which isnâ€™t very good news for Canadians, unless you reside on the upper levels of that spectrum, rather than on the bottom rungs. As a rule, a growing class of disgruntled, underpaid people slowly slipping from the ranks of lower middle class into those of the desperately poor isnâ€™t exactly healthy for a country or an economy. For one thing, it can start to breed all of the things that stable and orderly countries tend to fear: radicalism and political extremism, spiraling crime rates, escalating person-to-person and family violence, declining consumption and a lack of purchasing power, and perhaps most troubling, a growing malaise about the ability of traditional modes and methods of change to effect real improvement.
If you think this all sounds like a fairy-tale from some hopelessly bleeding-heart liberal, think again. It has all happened, to one extent or another, even within the memory of our grandparents. During the Depression of the 1930s in Canada, we saw many aspects of what mass poverty, unemployment and economic collapse created in this nation. We saw the rise of radical politics â€” the CCF (later NDP), first in Saskatchewan, then later across the nation. And here in Alberta, the bizarre political and economic philosophy of Social Credit came quickly to power under William Aberhart. And the Communist Party of Canada was never more popular, or enjoyed more general support from a wide variety of Canadians, than during those years. In Quebec under leader Adrien Arcand, and to a lesser extent in Ontario and other parts of the country, fascism even flourished for a brief period before WWII.
Throughout that decade, mass unemployment led to acts of frustrated violence across the nation, mostly provoked by the actions of a reactionary federal government under Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. In 1931 in the coalfields of southeastern Saskatchewan, a huge group of striking miners (admittedly organized by Communist agitators) were confronted on the streets of Estevan by an armed contingent of RCMP who were determined not to allow the strikers through the community. The situation deteriorated into a riot, and the RCMP contingent opened fire on the crowd, killing three and wounding many others. In 1935, Bennett ordered the massive On-to-Ottawa Trek of unemployed be stopped in its tracks in Regina â€” which also deteriorated into a riot, destroying businesses and property and killing and wounding several. Across the country, various factory strikes and lockouts, building occupations and other incidents led to violence.
Attempts to control this â€œreactionary elementâ€ included the infamous â€œpadlockâ€ law in Quebec, while here in Alberta, Aberhart attempted to stifle the independent media through a series of laws that were later disallowed by the federal government. Federally, Bennett wielded the RCMP almost as a personal tool against what he considered radical elements, imprisoning the leadership of the Communist Party on trumped-up charges. Across the country, a huge series of labour camps were created for the masses of unemployed, which were little better than forced labour camps.
And this is only scratching the surface, giving the broad strokes of a decade that here in Canada, for those who endorse freedom and democracy, would rather forget. It saw the rights and laws of the people, at that time enshrined under the British North America Act and a long tradition of British law, trampled on by successive governments in the name of peace and order and the curbing of â€œdistasteful elements.â€
Now flash back to the global economic recession here in 2011. Around the world, the warning signs are all there that we could be on the verge of slipping back into economic collapse. In Europe, various economies are being strained to the breaking point, desperately attempting to avert national disaster by defaulting on their national debts. Many economists have already warned that should this come to pass, it could have a cascade effect that could lead the world back into recession, or even Depression. The U.S. economy is still foundering, while Canadaâ€™s is still vulnerable to external influence, as are most global economies.
Add to all this the fact weâ€™re a different generation than our grandparents, who grew up or matured in a period where one mended their socks, might have wore their shirts threadbare, and always made sure they had something set aside against â€œhard times.â€ And they always took the promises of governments with a grain of salt when they preached of taking care of citizens in times of economic crisis.
We arenâ€™t this way. As a series of present generations, the Great Depression seems like some vague period in ancient history, where people hid in their barns from dust storms and jumped out of windows on Wall Street. We havenâ€™t learned the lessons of the past â€” weâ€™ve dismissed them, because economists, bankers, moneylenders and government told us we could. Today, we carry more massive household debt load than at any other period in our countryâ€™s history. What we donâ€™t have or canâ€™t afford, we put on credit. We donâ€™t save, and most of us apparently wonâ€™t have enough to retire on.
In my opinion, thatâ€™s a serious oversight, especially considering the unstable economic situation that exists globally. Not that Iâ€™m any better than the rest of us â€” Iâ€™ve done my fair share of buying on credit over the years, starting with my education. Still, when I look around, it might be time for fiscal prudence to start coming back into style.

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General Knowledge - General Awareness Quiz - Questions and Answers, GK 2017
Which Indian metro has become the world’s first completely green metro system?
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The World Turtle Day (WTD) is observed on which date?
Who has been given charge for the post of Joint Secretary in the 15th Finance Commission?
Soloman Yash Kumar
Mukhmeet Singh Bhatia
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Story of Your Life
La La Land
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India and which country has in 2017 signed MoU for cooperation in agriculture and phytosanitary issues?
Which movie has won the Best Animation award at the 88th Academy Awards – 2017?
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Red Turtle
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Frenchman C215 creates romantic stencilled portraits, often of his daughter Nina. His monochromatic stencils are great, which he paints on surfaces with character, like rusty doors or mail boxes.


Updated: September 8, 2020 9:11:36 am
Looks like the launch of the iPhone 12 is upon us as Apple is rumoured to disclose details on when its next keynote will take place. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman took to Twitter on Sunday claiming he’s expecting an official update from Apple on the upcoming event for the iPhone 12 series and Apple Watch Series 6. That means Apple may send out invites for the virtual event this week, where it’s expecting to announce new iPhone models. Gurman believes the iPhone 12 event announcement could be made on September 8, which is tomorrow.
Leakster Jon Prosser of YouTube channel Front Page Tech earlier tweeted that Apple has a press release scheduled for Tuesday, September 8 at 9:00 EST, although he notes that the time is not locked until the day itself. Prosser has previously said that the new iPad Air and Apple Watch Series 6 would launch via a press release in the week of September 7.
For the past few years, Apple has announced new iPhones and other high-profile devices in the second week of September. But the Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the launch schedule. Apple has already confirmed that the iPhone 12 release date won’t come in late September as usual, which means the company will likely hold the event in October instead.
According to numerous leaks and reports, Apple is expected to announce four new iPhone models including a 5.4-inch iPhone 12, a 6.1-inch iPhone 12 Max, a 6.1-inch iPhone 12 Pro, and a 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max. The iPhone 12 is likely to feature a completely new design, OLED displays, 5G connectivity, updated cameras, improved battery life, and more. The iPhone 12 range will reportedly start at $649.
I wouldn’t get too excited about rumors of new Apple products appearing this week. More likely I think: an announcement of the upcoming (of course virtual) September iPhone/Apple Watch event.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) September 6, 2020
During its fall event, Apple also typically announces new Apple Watch mode. This year, Apple Watch Series 6 is rumoured to feature sleep tracking, blood oxygen monitoring, better battery life, improved waterproofing, and kids mode. A cheaper Apple Watch model is also rumoured to launch alongside the Watch Series 6.
Apple press release is currently scheduled for Tuesday (September 8) at 9:00am EST — though, I should note that it’s not locked in until the press has been briefed, day of.
I’ll tweet early that morning to update you if it changes.
— Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) September 6, 2020
Apple will probably use the virtual event to talk about the iPad Air 4, which could feature an all-screen display and four speakers, similar to the iPad Pro. Other Apple products like AirTags, Over-ear Bluetooth headphones, updated Apple TV streaming box, and cheaper HomePod should be announced next month.
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Ceramics Facing the New in EMMA Museum
The exhibition highlights the significance of clay for humanity while exploring contemporary environmental concerns and disintegration of social structures.
Ceramics Facing the New presents twelve artists and two artist groups specialising in ceramic art, all of whom use materials and techniques in innovative ways and have an eye for topical themes.
The artists are Priska Falin & Helen Felcey, Veera Kulju, Nathalie Lautenbacher, Piia Lieste, Matias Karsikas, Tiia Matikainen, Meri Oivo, Matteo Pennacchio, Maria Punkkinen, Outi Savolainen, Caroline Slotte, Katie Spragg, Irma Weckman and Working with Soil working group with Özgü Gündeşlioğlu, Catharina Kajander, Riikka Latva-Somppi and Maarit Mäkelä.
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Ornamo Art and Design Finland and is based on an open portfolio call.


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Oct. 14, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT rifle team traveled to the U.S. Naval Academy over the weekend for a pair of matches with the Midshipmen, as well as the team from Penn State. On Saturday, the Engineers had scores of 2237 in smallbore and 2226 in air rifle, good for second among the three squads. On Sunday, in a head to head matchup with Navy, Tech was outshot by the host team 2288 to 2239 in smallbore and 2335 to 2225 in air rifle.
On Saturday, Junior Emily Houston and sophomore Joe Lane would match the top two marksmen from Navy in the smallbore category, shooting 576 and 573 respectively. However, the Engineers could not keep up with the host’s air rifle scores, as the top three point totals in that event belonged to Midshipmen. Nigel Kojimoto helped contribute to the second place finish, shooting 549 in smallbore category and 550 in air rifle. Jen Paek rounded out the scoring for Tech with scores of 539 in smallbore and 534 in air.
The Engineers returned to the range Sunday but were again outdueled by the Naval Academy in both guns. Houston had another accurate performance, with scores of 574 in smallbore and an impressive 588 in air rifle, just two points off the high score in the meet. The next three shooters for Tech finished within two points of each other in the smallbore category. Lane led the way with a 556, Kojimoto was one off that score with Paek just a point below that. Once again, the Midshipmen dominated the air rifle event, outshooting the Engineers by 110 points.
MIT will be back in action in two weeks when Navy comes to Cambridge for a meet, along with Wentworth, on Saturday, October 25.


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“Everyone’s spoken for years about how poor countries are going to suffer more-or are suffering more-and I couldn’t find one figure actually showing this,” Nicholas Herold at the Climate Change Research Centre at the Universty of NSW said.than richer ones since
One reason for this was that until recent decades, large regions, particularly in Africa, had only limited instrumental monitoring.
However, using World Bank wealth definitions and targeting the numbers of days and nights that fell in the top 10% of temperatures for any Date. Dr Herold and fellow researchers found extreme heat readings have increased much faster in low-income nations than richer ones since at least the 1980s.
The researchers found that poorer nations were often located in the tropics and therefore already “close to the upper threshold for human comfort and that the percentage of hot days each year in low-income countries rose from a base of 10% or 37 days during the 1961-90 base period to 22% or 80 days by 2010.
By contrast, rich nations had the percentage of hot days rise much more slowly, from 10% to 15%, or 37 to 55 days.
“It’s not good for low-income or high income countries as they are the ones which can least afford to adapt,” Dr Herold said.
Poorer nations typically have far smaller accumulated or annual per-capita greenhouse gas emissions than industrialised ones. With the uneven warming trends likely to continue, poor nations have a case for demanding rich world assistance to cope with climate change.
Poor countries have “contributed the least but in terms of temperature effect they will suffer the most.”


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So I bet I can guess what those of you who know me are thinking right now. Why the heck is this guy working on a new Digimon fic when he's already working on two other's? Truth is, I've hit massive writer's block on all of my fics sue to some...recent happenings in my life. I've had so much going on that I just can't think straight. I don't know where to go from here on out, but then I decided that I'd try some fresh work for awhile to help me get back into it.
And what better way to start off than with a spin-off from Tamer Arisa's Digimon Tamers series. If you haven't read that yet, I recommend you do. It's not so much as required, but it'll help explain a lot about her series to follow along with the spin-off.
Oh and, June 27th was my birthday, so I figured now would be the best time to start this off. Oh, and I've also left summaries of three other fresh fics that I'm hoping to inspire me again (Yes I know I'm a terrible person for doing that, but it's for a good reason). Check them out if your interested.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Digimon series of the Digimon Tamers series written by Tamer Arisa. That includes all of her characters, except for my OC's, which will be included as the fic progresses.
With that outta the way, I present to you: Digimon 7 Shadows!
In what looked liked an empty wasteland, a terrible battle had just ended. Lying on the ground, surrounded by nothing but fire for miles, were seven pairs of bodies, both human and Digimon. Most of them were either lying face up or face down, eyes closed and their muscles limped. The only two who were still conscious enough to fight, were a girl and her partner Digimon, the Demon Lord of Gluttony, Beelzemon, who was just barely supporting himself with a black katana.
The girl, Arisa Bunya, former leader of the Digimon Tamers, winner of the DRA tournament, current member of the Shadow Tamers, and the person responsible for giving the Demon Lords a second chance, was cradling one of her teammates, more specifically her leader, in her arms. Her long brown hair, which was normally in her signature twin-tail style, fell freely all over her face, but did nothing to cover her eyes, which were soaked with tears.
She heard footsteps approaching her and Beelzemon, and looked over at her partner. Although he was clearly in worse shape that Arisa, he would still continue to fight and protect her until his last breath, which might be coming sooner than he would have liked. Arisa looked over to where she heard the footsteps and upon seeing several people walking out of the fire and over her way, her eyes turned into a sharp glare.
"You! This is all your fault!" She shirked, pointing an accusing finger at the small group. "If you never got her involved, this never would have happened!"
The people amongst them remained silent as they all halted their movement. One of the members continued to stroll over, but spoke in a deep, but recognizable voice. "You silly girl, it was all the will of fate that any of these events have transpired." He spoke with no emotion, but sound as if he were taunting her.
"I don't understand! You were never the kind of person who would take away all of those lives, especially her's!"
The unknown figure merely chuckled, raising his right hand and revealing a sharp longsword hiding underneath his sleeve. "People change Arisa, and that is exactly why this world needs to disappear, with you along with it."
Beelzemon desperately used all of his willpower to try and stand, readying to charge at the enemy. "I won't let you harm one hair on Arisa, or I'm gonna-"
Before the former Demon Lord could finish his threat, he was blasted on his right by a dark beam of unholy energy. He screamed in agony from the force of the powerful attack, and in no time he too had fallen. The grip on his katana loosened enough for it to fall out of his grasp, but faded away into nothing as soon as it left.
"Beelzemon!" Arisa cried out for her partner. Now she was all alone, with no way of protecting herself from her assailant. For the first time in a long while, the brave Shadow Tamer showed an emotion that was very rare to find on her: Fear. She was truly afraid of what this man, who was once her friend, had become and what he had done.
The man was now two feet in front of her, and silently raised his sword, prepared to bring the brunette's life to an end.
Arisa closed her eyes tightly and held her leader's body tightly. 'Please…someone help us. Beelzemon, Akinari, grandmother!' The sword gleamed in the midst of the fire, giving an unspoken signal for the assailant to strike. He made a move to bring it down. With her last final breath, Arisa shouted: "SOMEONE HELP US!"
"STOP IT!" A young man shouted in his room. He sat up in his bed like a bullet, sweat dripping down his face. the young man, Shawn Blaze, and member of the Tamers, had a fearful look in his eyes. He noticed that his hand was outstretched to whatever he was trying to reach, and pulled it back.
"Wha-what was that?" Shawn asked himself. He looked over to his alarm clock and saw it was 3:12 A.M. He sighed at how early he had woken up at. His gaze shifted over to the other side of his room, where his partner Coronamon was sleeping peacefully in a hammock, unperturbed by his partner's sudden awakening. The little lion like Digimon had a night cap on his head, which somehow did not burn off of him, and was happily mumbling something to himself about his Coronamon Surprise dish. The brown haired Tamer just shook his head and smiled lightly at his sleeping form, momentarily forgetting about the dream.
Hearing a noise outside of his room, Shawn got up and removed the curtains that gave him his privacy at night. He saw that it was raining outside, and that the loud noise must have came from some thunder.
Seeing this put Shawn in a relatively clam mood, but it was not meant to last as he thought out loud what was on his mind. "That dream I had, it felt so real, yet it didn't. Why did I have a dream involving the Shadow Tamers? It's not like I'm best friends with them and constantly stay in touch. The only people I really know in the group are Arisa, Akari, and Zia." He rubbed the back of his head in thought and looked up at the sky in thought. And just what on earth happened there? Were the Shadow Tamers...no that can't be! Their partners were still there, so they couldn't have died! But then..." His thought trailed off as Shawn looked up at the dark sky. "I'm sure it was probably nothing to worry about. Might have ben the result o something I ate. I did try Coronamon's "Hot Digitity Dig" dish, and I'm still feeling queasy."
Shawn's memory from yesterday when Coronamon made him try a new recipe he was trying out and laughed at the pained reaction he had. His laughter died down though, and he stared out at the rain for a few minutes, lost in thought. "This rain sure is coming down hard. Now that I think about it, it was raining on that day too." He said forlornly. Instinctively he grabbed his left arm and flashed backed to several years ago, where his life had drastically changed.
He remembered an ambulance, a bunch of peopled crowed around it, and a young Shawn staring at the scene in shock, tears rapidly falling down his eyes. The next scene he remembered involved him grasping a person in a stretcher's hand, before being taken inside the ambulance and leaving him with a gold necklace.
Back in the present, Shawn shock his had to rid himself of those thoughts. "That was the only memory from back then that I still remember, so why can't I remember what happened before or after it?" He questioned himself, looking down at the necklace he wore to ebd and then down to his sleeve. "Whatever, that's all in the past now, and i can't dwell on it forever." He let go of his arm and returned back to his bed. "But I still wonder what that dream was all about. Could it have something to do with Arisa's group?" He yawned as he drifted back into slumberland.
Shawn: Shawn here, and next time, the Tamer's have a new mission to track down a thief who has been stealing Digivice parts and blueprints. But when I realize that the thief is an old face from the past, I just had to go at it alone and stop her. Just what is her motive for doing all of this? The answer will shock you next time.
I just want to apologize to Tamer Arisa if I made her character looked too vulnerable, but I'll more that make up for that in her next appearance.
The first few chapters will be told from Shawn's perspective, then we'll move on towards the new main character.
Don't have much else to say, except that with any luck I'll have frequent updates for this fic...so knowing my luck, that may not be very possible, but I'll try.

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UNEX has modernized the large mining equipment KU 800 in the Sokolov Region
After a complete overhaul and modernization, the engineering-metallurgical company UNEX passed the large-scale equipment KU 800/12 back into operation; this equipment is running in the Jiri Brown Coal Quarry in Vintirov, in the Sokolov Region. Using this large-scale machine, the mining company Sokolovská uhelná excavates here around 6,5 million tonnes of coal every year. The repair took 235 thousands of hours of labour within 14 months.
A Sporting Autumn at UNEX
One Friday of each September is now traditionally set aside for the UNEX CUP, a company five-a-side football tournament. The eighth annual tournament took place on 15 September this year, this time hosted by Sportovní klub Paseka. Organisational support, once again in keeping with tradition, was shared between UNEX a.s. and members of company trade unions.
UNEX Manufactures Undercarriages for the Launch Base of the Ariane 6 Rocket
UNEX emerged successful from a multi-stage tender process for the manufacture of 16 sets of undercarriages and coupling components which will form part of the mobile building of a new Ariane 6 rocket launch platform at the Guiana Space Centre. In total, the company is to supply approximately 810 tonnes of steel structures.


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The SHANNON MUIR’S INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS weekly column is a place at Shannon Muir’s author website open to interviews and guest posts from other authors. One thing Shannon firmly believes in for readers not only to learn about new books available, but about those who craft the tales behind them. As its name implies, SHANNON MUIR’S INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS weekly column features writers from all genres of fiction who want their potential audience to get to know them, and their works, better – and occasionally may offer features from Shannon herself that support readers to discover words.
DISCOVER WORDS… REFLECTIONS is a new monthly blog series, the first week of every month, that focuses on readers and the discovery of words. All blog posts written by Shannon Muir. This month shares her thoughts about Read an E-Book Week.
Read an E-Book Week is March 4-10, 2018. From what I’ve been able to learn, it seems to have begun as a way to help find newer, possibly undiscovered writers, who likely self-published as e-books since they found it hard to break into traditional publishing houses; also, it started in a time when e-books were less common. Since more items are out in e-book, it may seem it is less relevant in that regard.
However, in a time when people may be less likely to read but highly likely to carry around mobile devices, I think focus on this as a theme is important to perhaps encourage people how easy it is to obtain things to read and perhaps either re-ignite or help people discover a passion for the written word as much as the words turned to visual images on the screen.
Until next month!


Structuring of Logistics Management Organizational-Technological System
Safwan Al Salaimeh
Introduction. The task of the synthesis of the rational structure of logistics management, organizational and technical systems, belongs to the class of poorly formalized. The solution of such task is dependent on specific statement structuring, subject area, and applied formalized, heuristic or intellectual procedures.
Materials and Methods. The task of structuring is to develop a mathematical model, methods selection and rational analysis algorithms and synthesis of the structure of the logistics and organizational technological system based on the principles of decomposition and aggregation, identification, optimization and coordination of the rational decision to achieve the overall effect of systems, the excess amount of effects, receipts from each component to the logistics systems separately.
Results. This paper presents the structuring of logistics management organizational-technological system. The tasks of constructing an integrated structure of the organizations functional technological management system belongs to class of nonlinear stochastic programming.
Conclusions. The solution allow to achieve the overall effect of systems, the excess amount of effects, receipts from each component to the logistics systems separately.
Keywords: organizational structure, organizational-technological system, logistics, logistics management, non-linear stochastic programming
For citation: Al Salaimeh S., Miqdadi A. Structuring of Logistics Management Organizational-Technological System. Vestnik Mordovskogo universiteta = Mordovia University Bulletin. 2018; 28(2):175–180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/0236-2910.028.201802.175-180
All authors have read and approved the final version of the paper.
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The finest blues you've never heard.
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By David James Young. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Across over ten years of going to shows, I've met countless fascinating people that are joined together by the fact I love their music. This is a medium in which I look to find out the bigger picture, the extended story and the journey that brought them to where they are. No genre or topic is off limits. I'm David James Young - and all my friends are in bar bands.

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Tom Odell will be headlining The British Country Music Festival this September.
Tom Odell Biography
As an Indie-Folk artist Tom Odell is not the obvious choice to headline a Country and Americana music festival; however, the following list makes our artistic argument for presenting a fantastic songwriter.
- Firstly, he is a British singer-songwriter, an amazing talent.
- Personal experience drives his lyrics and his storytelling references life in the UK and resonates with listeners, echoing three chords and the truth.
- His songs are often romantic or melancholic ballads; classic country traits.
- Tom chooses piano rather than the other typical stringed instruments such as acoustic guitar, banjo or violin.
- So many contemporary country music lovers also love Tom Odell.
Exclusively for our festival
Tom will bring something different to Blackpool. Although in the middle of a world tour, Tom will perform a stripped-back show with just himself on piano and an acoustic guitarist. His performance will be a very special performance in the candlelit Empress Ballroom.
Lilly Allen signed Tom to the record label In the Name Of, part of Columbia Records, after seeing him perform a series of shows in London. Following the release of his debut, Songs From Another Love, he won the BRITs Critics’ Choice Award.
Long Way Down, his debut solo album, was issued in June 2013. In late 2014, Odell released a cover of The Beatles’ ‘Real Love’, used for the 2014 John Lewis Christmas advert.
On Friday 11th March, 2022 Tom Odell sang his hit Another Love to Ukrainian refugees passing through Bucharest’s railway station.
The song, which is about fighting for someone you love, was used extensively on TikTok, including one of the defiant, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Another Love has become an anthem of the country’s resilience.
Tom went on to perform an emotional rendition of Another Love at the Concert For Ukraine to help raise money for citizens of the war-torn country.
Tom Odell Spotify Playlist
Ukraine forever♬ Another Love - Tom Odell
Tom Odell Links
Laura Evans, the Welsh , Nashville loving songstress coming to Blackpool this September for The British Country Music Festival
From Northern Ireland, The Rising is a songwriting and production Duo consisting of Chantelle McAteer and Chris Logan.
2022 will see The Goudies making home and reconnecting with their roots in the South Wales music sceneThe Goudies Biography THE GOUDIES (GOW-dees) are husband and wife folk-country duo — Sam & Beth Goudie. Their close harmonies and honest sound have drawn...
The Far North
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The Oregon case had been in Supreme Court limbo for months, sometimes signalling behind-the-scenes negotiation over what to do. (Breyer was part of the four-person minority.) Again, this fairly surprising decision handed down by a completely shocking combination of judges was further confirmation of the fact that the Court doesn't want any part of being the mapmaker of choice around the country, but also is aware that the Republican majorities in various state legislatures so overreached in gaming the system that Somebody Has To Do Something to fix it.
Monday's order vacates the state appellate court's decision upholding the penalty against the bakers and directs the court to reconsider its decision in light of the Colorado case's holding, which was issued after the OR court decided its case.
"Unless this Court enforces the First Amendment", the petition said, "similar cases will continue to arise, as creative entrepreneurs are compelled, under the guise of public accommodations statutes, to participate in same-sex marriage rituals that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs, or - as the Kleins did - to sacrifice their livelihood".
The court determined that the bakery's custom cakes were not "entitled to the same level of constitutional protection as pure speech or traditional forms of artistic expression". That case, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. V Colorado Civil Rights Commission, hinged on shop owner Jack Phillips' First Amendment rights to refuse service.
Mohammed Morsi, former Egyptian leader, collapses and dies in court
Morsi was oustered by the military after serving one-year of a four-year mandate following protests. Former Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi has died in court, state television reported on Monday.
United Kingdom ambassador sought meeting with Iran’s Foreign Ministry amid oil tanker row
The attacks seem to have pushed up tanker freight rates as shipowners are becoming more concerned about the safety in the region. Earlier, a U.S. official said Iranian small boats were preventing tug boats from towing away one of the damaged tankers.
Fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95
She died Monday, according to a statement by CNN , citing her son Anderson Cooper , who hosts a news program at the cable channel. She temporarily moved in with her son, Anderson Cooper , telling the New York Post she was "not broke".
The Oregonian reported that the Kleins had sought to take their case to the Supreme Court a year ago after exhausting their appeals in Oregon. "Our ban on uranium mining has protected our citizens, communities, local economies, and waterways for more than 30 years, and the Supreme Court has now confirmed that we are well within our rights as a state to decide that a risky, potentially unsafe activity like uranium mining is not for us".
Instead, the justices told an OR court to take a second look at their case based on last year's high court ruling in favor of a Christian cake maker from Colorado.
The Klein petition was filed by the Texas-based law firm First Liberty in October and been pending before the Supreme Court for almost a year. He said same-sex couples were free to buy his cakes with pre-made designs. Another dispute involving a florist from Washington state who would not create flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding is headed to the Supreme Court. "Unfortunately, the Court's decision to not decide the merits of this case leaves a number of unanswered questions just two years before the next redistricting cycle". They met with Aaron Klein, who asked for the date of the ceremony and the names of the bride and groom. A federal district court rejected the residents' argument, but the Supreme Court sent the case back for the lower court to take another look at 11 of the 12 districts.
For the number of cases remaining, the court appeared to be clearing out the underbrush Monday. In response, one of the owners quoted the portion of Leviticus that proscribes homosexuality and calling the couple an "abomination".
McGowan, however, was confident OR would reaffirm its decision and said she's "not aware" of anything in the case that would stop the state from reaching the same conclusion it reached.


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Cabinet Secretary withinside the Ministry of Trade and Industrialization, Moses Kuria, has spoke back to complaint from competition baby-kisser Martha Karua who had in advance chastised the authorities over maize importation.
Mr Kuria, for the duration of an interview in Inooro TV, stated there could be no imports of maize including that he knew earlier than hand of scandals that include such discussions.
But in using domestic his factor the CS made refence to the variety of votes Ms Kuria, who become Azimio La Umoja presidential run mate, introduced from her outdoor duirng the August General Election.
“I would really like to tell Martha Karua that she can't be a prisoner of the past. We need to transport ahead and I will make sure that the charge of maize flour has long past low- decrease than the votes she introduced for Raila Odinga in Gichugu Constituency ward,” Mr Kuria stated.
During the August polls, President William Ruto bagged all of the parliamentary seats in Karua’s outdoor with Azimio La Umoja struggling a convincing defeat on the palms of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA).Ms Karua had in advance opined that the maize importation task become a ‘get wealthy short medium’ type to gain only some people and now no longer clear up the meals crisis.
“Maize, maize, maize. Source of day by day meal for a majority of Kenyans. To wheeler sellers a get wealthy short medium, imported frequently needlessly on the cost of the neighborhood farmer. In the grand coalition authorities as agriculture minister William Ruto become related to maize scandal. We at the moment are set for season of the maize scandal… ships docking with consignment of maize earlier than regulations of importation are recognized and while neighborhood farmers are harvesting,” she tweeted.
Mr Kuria had introduced that the gazette note could be out remaining week including that investors could be allowed to import genetically changed maize and traditional grain.
But in an exciting flip of events, the consignment arrived withinside the united states of america even earlier than the legitimate gazette note were launched to legally permit imports.However, on Monday, the High Court briefly suspended the authorities’s choice to permit importation and distribution of GMOs, pending dedication of a 2d lawsuit filed in opposition to the lifting of the ban on GMOs.
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The Placer County Sheriff’s Office just confirmed that the body found inside a submerged vehicle is Kiely Rodni. Authorities say the investigation is currently ongoing. They are currently talking with the victim’s family, per TMZ.
On Sunday night, diving group Adventures with Purpose announced they had found the body of Kiely Rodni and sent the information to authorities.
In the harrowing video footage, a helicopter overhead captures a Honda CR-V being dragged from Prosser Creek Reservoir on Sunday night. Apparently, the site is very close to the campsite party Kiely Rodni had been attending on August 6th. The footage of the SUV retrieval can be seen below.
Today, officials confirmed the body found inside the vehicle was Kiely Rodni.
Rescue workers were filmed pulling the vehicle partly onto the shore near Truckee before covering it in a blue sheet. Then, they hauled it away on the back of a truck.
Rodni was last seen shortly after midnight on August 6 leaving a high school graduation party at Prosser Family Campground. She told her mother she was returning home to Truckee.
However, she never made it back. A huge search party was launched, which originally involved seven police helicopters and dozens of officers. However, nothing turned up.
Diving group Adventures with Purpose searched an area that police had already deemed as clear.
Diving Group Found Kiely Rodni in Area Police Had Cleared Weeks Earlier
The YouTube group called “Adventures with Purpose” claimed to have located Rodni this past Sunday, writing on their Facebook page: “WE JUST FOUND KIELY RODNI.” The crew, which boasts millions of subscribers and followers across social media platforms, say they found her body inside an upside-down vehicle in a body of water. The body of water in the video is Prosser Creek Lake Reservoir.
The group said the vehicle remains submerged under fourteen feet of water. They said that law enforcement, and the family of the victim, have been notified.
Kiley first went missing weeks ago at the beginning of the month. Search efforts in the area had previously turned up nothing. AWP volunteered their services recently, and the group quickly delivered.
Before Rodni had been found, Dog the Bounty Hunter was “reluctant” about being involved in the case despite being offered tips from people. The reality TV star claims to be receiving dozens of emails from folks who want him to get involved because of his previous successes.
However, Dog the Bounty Hunter says he was holding back on hopping in the search for now. He claims his absence on this case stems from the negative publicity he received during the Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie case.
Unfortunately, Rodni was found, and now authorities continue their investigation.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Dodgers found themselves in a quick 4-0 hole Tuesday night. Then, they hit and walked their way back.
Yasiel Puig drove in four runs with two singles and rookie Cody Bellinger added three more RBIs with a bases-clearing triple as Los Angeles rallied to defeat the San Francisco Giants 13-5.
Justin Turner and Franklin Gutierrez each added two RBIs, helping the Dodgers score six runs in the second inning, four in the fourth and three more in the sixth.
The Dodgers managed 11 hits, including a homer by Gutierrez, but the Giants helped Los Angeles with nine walks.
“We were taking the walks we needed to, with a little bit of slug in there,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Matt Moore (1-4) took the loss, lasting just 3 1/3 innings. He was charged with nine runs and six hits with five walks.
“That came back to haunt him and the whole staff,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “It was just a long night. When your starter struggles and your bullpen, it usually does make for a long night.”
Despite throwing 82 pitches the first three innings, Alex Wood (2-0) made it through the fifth to earn the victory. He allowed five runs, four earned, and seven hits. He walked one and struck out eight.
“I thought Alex was a lot better than his linescore,” Roberts said.
Bellinger was originally slated to return to the minors Friday when several Dodgers are expected to be activated off the disabled list. But with two hits Tuesday, the rookie has gone 9 for 19 with seven runs, two homers and five RBIs during the team’s last five games at home.
“There was nothing set in stone,” Roberts said. “Obviously, things can change. Anyone who’s followed our club over the last year and a half can see that things change daily or hourly.”
The Dodgers have won five of their last six.
Giants: Right-hander Johnny Cueto revealed after Monday’s game that he has been battling a blister issue since the end of spring training. He is not expected to miss a start. “You have to be a little concerned,” Bochy said. “The thing’s been lingering around.”
Dodgers: Adrian Gonzalez, who turns 35 on Monday, has been batting elbow and back soreness and did not start Tuesday. He did pinch hit to single in a run. Gonzalez has never been on the disabled list. He has yet to hit a home run. Roberts said he would start Wednesday.
The Dodgers activated Gutierrez (hamstring) and started him Tuesday. They sent Scott Van Slyke down to play daily and work out some mechanical issues with his swing. ... The Giants recalled left-handed reliever Josh Osich and sent right-handed reliever Chris Stratton to Triple-A Sacramento.
Moore (6.75 ERA) has been wildly erratic this season. He held the Dodgers to one run and two hits in seven innings in his last start. “It does get under my skin after a while,” Moore said, “especially this season with six starts it seems like a Jekyll and Hyde case.”
Giants: Right-hander Jeff Samardzija will attempt to earn his first victory of the season in the series finale against the Dodgers on Wednesday. Samardzija is 0-4 but coming off his best outing of the season. He gave up two earned runs and four hits and a walk, with five strikeouts in seven innings against the Padres.
Dodgers: Julio Urias is scheduled to make his second start of the season against the Giants. Urias held the Giants to one run on four hits and four walks, striking four, in his season debut Thursday.


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AbstractManchala in Andhra Pradesh and Kila Ulur in Tamil Nadu are representative of changes in the coastal southeastern districts. In spite of different patterns of cropping and irrigation, the process of growth offers similarities with the villages visited in UP i.e. the breakthrough of HYVs, diversification of agriculture, growth of non-agricultural jobs either locally or outside the area. Manchala In November 1978, when we return to Manchala, farmers are harvesting 2,750 to 4,125 kg/ha of paddy, ...

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Laura Ashley to open “fresh” flagship & target millennial market
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// Laura Ashley to open “very different” flagship at Westfield London// Andrew Khoo said Laura Ashley will look at further collaborations which would appeal to a younger market// The retailer reported a full-year pre-tax loss of £14.3m, down from a profit of £100,000 for the 52 weeks to June 30Laura Ashley has announced plans to open a “very different” flagship store at Westfield London while also targeting a younger market.The fashion and homeware retailer told Retail Week it will open a flagship featuring a “fresh look” this November in the Westfield London shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush.READ MORE:Laura Ashley suffers full-year loss of £14m as homeware “underperforms”“We’re very excited about this store because we’re taking a very fresh look at how we can do things. It will be a different Laura Ashley,” Laura Ashley chairman Andrew Khoo said.“It will still be Laura Ashley that we all know and love, but it will be very different in the way we style and merchandise and the types of products that will come in.”Following its recent collaboration with US retailer Urban Outfitters, Khoo said Laura Ashley will look at further collaborations which would appeal to a younger market.“On the fashion side, we may curate a specific range that’s exclusive to this store, potentially a capsule collection that would be a bit younger.”Khoo also told Drapers: “Laura Ashley will extend its fashion offering to a younger demographic “by way of collaboration, capsule collections or launching a new sub-brand.”In its most recent trading update, Laura Ashley reported a full-year pre-tax loss of £14.3 million, down from a profit of £100,000 for the 52 weeks to June 30.Total like-for-like retail sales were down 3.5 per cent, though fashion like-for-like sales increased 9.2 per cent during the period.Meanwhile, Laura Ashley has plans for further growth by opening its first Australian store in Melbourne’s Chadstone shopping centre next year, as part of a new licensing agreement for the Chinese market.Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletterThe post Laura Ashley to open “fresh” flagship & target millennial market appeared first on Retail Gazette.
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How do we honor God? When you really think about it, God could get along just fine without us. He can create anything He wants, but chooses to have a relationship with us. Why? The answer is easy…He loves us. He created everything in order to provide for us. We live on this planet that is the perfect distance from the sun in order that plants grow, animals thrive, water is plentiful. It’s neither too hot, nor is it too cold, gravity is just right, and so much more that is evidence of design. This is known as the Anthropic Principle. Secular scientists will have us believe that it all happened by accident, but Christians know that Jesus is the Creator and He holds everything together.
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17).
The word “consist” means “held together.” Every living thing on this earth benefits from God’s creation, but not everyone acknowledges Him. Still, Jesus continues to hold things together and give everyone a chance to place their faith in Him. We owe Him everything, but again I ask, how do we honor Him? We honor Him by not taking His love for granted…we don’t have vain faith.
When Adam chose to sin, separation between God and humans was created. Not because God wanted it that way, but because that’s what sin does. God warned Adam what would happen if he chose to disobey, but Adam chose sin. Today we still have a choice. We can either accept God and follow Him, or we can reject Him and follow Satan. God loves everyone, but not everyone loves God. Jesus Christ, God incarnate, entered His creation as one of us…He was born of a virgin so His blood wasn’t tainted by sin, lived life on earth as an example for us to follow, then allowed Himself to be crucified in order to provide for our redemption. He will not force anyone to accept His free gift of salvation, but that gift is offered to everyone. He doesn’t want anyone to reject His gift of eternal life.
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
Today His gift of salvation is offered to everyone, but like any gift, it’s up to each individual to accept it. My faith might influence my children, but if they don’t accept the gift for themselves, they will be lost forever. Infant baptism does not bring salvation to that child because the child cannot understand sin and repent. You must acknowledge that you are a sinner and understand that sin separates you from God. Then you repent and ask Jesus to forgive your sin. Until you take your last breath on earth, you can choose to accept Christ’s shed blood for salvation, but don’t wait. You never know when that last breath will be drawn.
When we claim to be a Christian, we declare that we have accepted His sacrifice. That’s when that person’s life should begin to show a change. Choices should reflect God and honor Him. How do we honor God?
Jesus said “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).
Too many people say they’ve accepted Him but don’t honor Him. They like the salvation part, but they don’t like the living for Him part.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Romans 12:1).
We can’t do anything to earn our salvation, but we need to understand that the price Jesus paid to purchase salvation for us cost Him everything. He left Heaven to enter into this fallen world of sin, hatred, and chaos. He chose to live among sinners, but never sinned. The crucifixion was the most horrific torture imaginable, but He chose to go through it because there was no other way to forgive the sin that separates us from God. He loves His creation. He made the choice to sacrifice all for us, so doesn’t it seem selfish for a person to say “I accept Christ for salvation” then continue to choose to live as a sinner? We will always sin, but if we love Him, the sin in our life will be repulsive to us and we will desire to honor Him by living for Him. If we love Him, we need to keep His commandments, which are simple.
When asked which is the great commandment, Jesus quoted from Deuteronomy. “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:37-39).
If you love God with your entire being, you’ll choose not to sin. If you love other people like you love yourself, you’ll be understanding of them and show love and forgiveness rather than anger and hate. When you honor Him, your actions will reflect His love rather than show the ways of the world.
It’s been said that grace is getting what you don’t deserve, while mercy is not getting what you do deserve. Because of God’s mercy, Christians aren’t condemned to eternal death, which is what sinners deserve. We are sinners and deserving of punishment, but because Christians have repented of sin and accepted His sacrifice, we have received His grace. Our faith in Him brings salvation, but if you meant the words you said when you accepted His sacrifice, then you need to show His love in your life. Don’t let His sacrifice for you be in vain.
Many of us know those famous Ten Commandments. One of them says “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain” (Deuteronomy 5:11).
Children are taught that this means that when you stub your toe you don’t use the Lord’s name as a cuss word. The Hebrew word “shav’” is translated “vain” and means “emptiness, vanity, falsehood.” So, what that actually means is that when you say you follow the Lord, your life should reflect Him. When Paul wrote to the very worldly congregation in Corinth, he made a point that Christ died for them (and us), and that fact should have made a difference in how they live.
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain” (2 Corinthians 5:22-6:1).
The Greek word “kenos” is translated “vain” and has the same meaning as the Hebrew word “shav.” Profession of faith in Jesus Christ shouldn’t be empty, vain, or devoid of truth. It’s our faith that saves us, not works, but if our faith doesn’t result in a changed life, then it’s just empty words…vain faith.
It’s important for a Christian, especially a new Christian, to remove the yoke of the ways of the world. Too often a person will profess faith, then step right back into the world. Strong Christians grounded in Scripture need to mentor weaker brothers and sisters. Scripture is always our guide, and the truth found there never changes. It’s sad when a person professes faith, but then is thrown right back to the wolves of the world because no older Christian takes the time to mentor them. Many new Christians aren’t taught Scriptural truth or they get involved with a group that teaches false doctrine,
“But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matthew 15:9).
This time the Greek word “maten” is translated “vain,” and it means “fruitless and to no purpose.” False doctrine leads away from God’s truth. If the teaching is worldly, then the new Christian won’t be taught that they need to change their ways…leave the worldly teachings and cling to God’s truth. That means having a change of mind as well as a change of heart.
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” (2 Corinthians 6:14-16).
If a Christian, whether new to the faith or a longtime believer, chooses to be yoked to worldly people and worldly ways, their faith is vain. Marriage is usually what is thought of when we think of being unequally yoked. It’s true that if a Christian chooses life with a non-Christian there is no common ground for raising children or living life, and the non-believing spouse is a terrible influence on the children. If marriage happened prior to one spouse accepting Christ, that’s not a reason for divorce but problems can arise. Marriage isn’t the only yoke to be considered. Business partnerships and friendships also yoke a Christian to another person. When Christ dwells in you, you need to come away from the world.
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:17-18).
Christians are in the world and cannot avoid all contact with non-believers. Our contact should be as a witness for the Lord, but we must not be a part of the world. Our faith needs to be solid and true…not in vain.
Don’t live with vain faith. Let the love of Christ shine through you as a light to the fallen world around you. Come away from worldly ways and live for Christ who gives you eternal life.
God bless you all,
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