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The Sid's Digs attraction during refurbishment
October 8, 1965
Avg. queue length:
Rating for humans:
Zero churros (according to Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear)
Saunter through Sid's digs, poke in his phone book, and read the sign bolted to his reflecting pool.
- Warning: in the middle of an emergency park evacuation, this attraction will be uncomfortable for animatronic reprobates.
Guest Policies and Warnings
- Contains imported characters.
- This attraction originally cost more than $435 billion to build.
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The Royal Air Force had contracted with NAA to design and build a new fighter with a 1,200 horsepower Allison V-1710 supercharged 12-cylinder engine. The first order from the British Purchasing Commission was for 320 airplanes, and a second order for another 300 soon followed.
The Mustang Mk.I (NAA Model NA-73) was a single-place, single-engine fighter primarily of metal construction with fabric control surfaces. It was 32 feet, 3 inches (9.830 meters) long with a wingspan of 37 feet, 5/16-inches (11.373 meters) and height of 12 feet, 2½ inches (3.721 meters). The airplane’s empty weight was 6,280 pounds (2,849 kilograms) and loaded weight was 8,400 pounds (3,810 kilograms).
The Mustang Mk.I was powered by a liquid-cooled, supercharged 1,710.597-cubic-inch-displacement (28.032 liter) Allison Engineering Company V-1710-F3R (V-1710-39) single overhead cam (SOHC) 60° V-12 engine with a compression ratio of 6.65:1. The -F3R had a Maximum Continuous Power rating of 880 horsepower at 2,600 r.p.m. at Sea level, and 1,000 horsepower at 11,000 feet (3,353 meters). It was rated at 1,150 horsepower at 3,000 r.p.m. for Take Off and Military Power. The Allison V-12 drove a 10 foot, 9 inch (3.277 meter) diameter, three-bladed Curtiss Electric constant-speed propeller through a 2.00:1 gear reduction. The V-1710-F3R was 7 feet, 4.38 inches (2.245 meters) long, 3 feet, 0.54 inches (0.928 meters) high, and 2 feet, 5.29 inches (0.734 meters) wide. It weighed 1,310 pounds (594 kilograms).
The Mustang Mk.I had a cruise speed of 311 miles per hour (500.5 kilometers per hour) at 75% power, and a maximum speed of 384 miles per hour (618 kilometers per hour) at 19,000 feet (5,791 meters). The airplane could reach 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) in 8.80 minutes. The service ceiling was 32,000 feet (9,754 meters) and its range was 640 miles (1,030 kilometers).
The Mk.I was equipped with four Browning AN-M2 .50-caliber machine guns, with one in each wing and two mounted in the nose under the engine. Four Browning .303 Mk.II machine guns were also installed, with two in each wing.
The Mk.I was 30 m.p.h. (48 kilometers per hour) faster than its contemporary, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, though both used the same engine. Below 15,000 feet (4,572 meters), the Mustang was also 30–35 m.p.h (48–56 kilometers per hour) faster than a Supermarine Spitfire, which had the more powerful Roll-Royce Merlin V-12.
Two Mustang Mk.Is, AG348 and AG354, were taken from the first RAF production order and sent to Wright Field for testing by the U.S. Army Air Force. These airplanes, assigned serial numbers 41-038 and 41-039, were designated XP-51. They would be developed into the legendary P-51 Mustang. In production from 1941 to 1945, a total of 16,766 Mustangs of all variants were built.
AG345 was retained by North American Aviation for long term testing. It was stricken off charge 3 December 1946.
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Awesome work by all of our 1DM Books to Eat participants! The creativity and originality was off the charts. Way to go!
We also celebrated our nonfiction reading growth by reading our books to the 2nd grade class 2DW. They also shared their nonfiction books that they wrote. We are nonfiction reading experts on subjects like sharks, plants, Africa, and many others. Ask your child what nonfiction topic they have been reading about. Next week we will celebrate the end our nonfiction unit by reading to 5th grade!
Please click below to view Week 8 & 9 on Storehouse. Also, upcoming dates page has been updated. Have a great week!
Sorry for the delay in posting weekly updates from class. I have been hard at work smoothing out the technical glitches. We should be good from here on out. Rather than posting the weekly goings on to this blog I use a visual storytelling app called Storehouse for weekly updates. Every week when I upload to Storehouse I will post the link here. If you choose you can check back here and click the link or you can download the Storehouse app for you iPhone or iPad where you can follow the class and get updates straight to the app. If you find it hard to find time to sit down at the computer and read the blog then the Storehouse app might work better for you. If you have any question about this then please feel free to email or call and I would be happy to help. I will also speak briefly about this at Open House this week. By clicking the link below you will find posts from the first few weeks. Have a great week!
The library is starting its end of year procedures so please take note of these dates:
Monday June 1st (Day 3) -Very last check out date for Students, Parents and Staff
Wednesday June 3rd-ALL LIBRARY MATERIALS DUE IN from students and parents
Monday June 8th-ALL LIBRARY MATERIALS DUE IN from staff
You can check your library account to see what is checked out to you:
- Go to http://destiny.saschina.org/
- Click on Pudong Elementary Catalog
- Login with your Faculty, Student or Parent ID number (above your barcode on your School ID)
- The User Name and Password are the same, and any letters needs to be in all Caps, example (STU#####)
- Once you have logged in, you should open the “My Info” tab. You can then view your current checkouts.
- If you have a lot of checkouts, you may have to click the show all button……….Then all you have to do is find the materials and turn them back in! (sounds so simple…)
- If you cannot log in, drop by the library and we can help
If you have lost library materials please come and talk with us about the situation, in most cases it will mean handing over 100 rmb per item, which you will get back in full, if the item turns up either in our inventory, or in your possession.
Parent Volunteers Desperately Needed
Parents, we REALLY need your help. We are doing a full inventory of almost 30,000 items in the ES Library in the next two weeks,
as well as teaching classes, checking out books, and checking in ALL the items checked out this year.
If you are on campus to:
see your child perform
enjoy a farewell party
organize a sporting event
attend a music event
pick up your child
drop off your child
or ANYTHING at all… and can spare a couple of hours in the library we would be eternally grateful…
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY… just come in and we’ll put you to work within minutes.
Thank you in anticipation

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We all want to have a good nights sleep, be in a good mood, to have as little general anxiety as possible, and to lead a happy and joyous life. That is no doubt more easily said than done. This article shares information about eating tryptophan foods to help you sleep
Tryptophan is an amino acid that is important for the production of serotonin in the body.
And what does serotonin do – it is a neurotransmitter (or chemical messenger) that controls and stabilises your mood and functions in your brain.
Neural pathways connect your enteric nervous system and your brain, and each affects the other — think of butterflies in your tummy when you are nervous, or having to continuously go to the loo when you’re anxious.
Flare-ups of IBS in your gut can be caused by stress or anxiety from your brain.
We cannot make tryptophan in our bodies, so must obtain it from our diet.
Serotonin is also crucial to the functions of our digestive systems.
Our gut produces about 95 percent of the serotonin in our bodies, and changes in our serotonin level affect our gut, as well as our brain.
The enteric nervous system is a semiautonomous nervous system located in our gut. It’s embedded in the lining of our gastrointestinal system, from our oesophagus to our anus, and hundreds of millions of nerve cells direct movement through it. It can perform some tasks on its own, independent of the brain, such as coordinating reflexes and secreting enzymes, one of which is serotonin.
Eating a healthy, balanced diet is an essential way to getting a good nights sleep, and supporting mental as well as physical health. Including sources of tryptophan in the diet can have positive benefits on energy levels, mood, and sleep
Tryptophan, which goes into making serotonin, is commonly found in foods that contain protein. Although meat is often a key source of protein for many people, there are also vegetarian and vegan sources.
The following foods are good sources of tryptophan that will boost serotonin:
- Sea Food
Shrimp, halibut, tuna, sardines, cod and salmon in particular
oily fish and is also a source of omega-3 fatty acids, which support strong bones, healthy skin, and eye function.
Salmon is also a source of vitamin D, which is essential for strong bones and teeth, and healthy muscles.
Eating two portions of oily fish per week should provide enough tryptophan for most people.
Chicken, goose and turkey contain tryptophan, turkey has a little more tryptophan that chicken.
Some ways of cooking and preparing eggs are more healthy than others. Frying an egg adds a lot of fat, which makes it a less healthy option.
Boiling or poaching an egg does not add any additional fat. Making an omelet and eating it with a salad can be a good option for a light meal.
Spinach, broccoli, turnip greens, asparagus, onions, and seaweed, are a source of tryptophan.
Spinach is also a good source of iron. Iron helps the body to make healthy red blood cells. A lack of iron in the diet can lead to anaemia, low energy, or difficulty breathing.
Flax, sesame, pumpkin, sunflower,are a good source of tryptophan and protein for vegetarians and vegans.
Some easy ways to eat more seeds include:
- sprinkling seeds onto a salad
- mixing nuts and seeds for a snack
- choosing seeded bread<
- adding seeds to cereal, porridge, or yogurt
- Soy products
Products containing soy, such as tofu, soya milk, or soy sauce, are a source of tryptophan. These can be a good option for vegetarians and vegans.
Cashews, peanuts, almonds, walnuts are a good source of protein, healthy fats, and fibre.
Snacking on a few nuts between meals can help us to feel fuller for longer.
- Cruciferous vegetables
Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, kale, kohlrabi, radishes, collard greens, turnips, watercress, wasabi, cabbage, horseradish and Brussels sprouts all contain tryptophan.
Kidney beans, lima beans, black beans split peas, chickpeas contain tryptophan.
- Dairy products
Milk, yogurt, and cheese contain tryptophan.
An option if you don’t get on with cow’s milk, is goat’s milk. It is more easily digested by some because its protein molecules are sized differently than cow’s milk.
It has as much calcium as whole cow’s milk and contains more tryptophan.
On the downside goat’s milk contains lactose, eliminating it as a choice for some.
Apples, bananas, peaches and avocado are good sources of tryptophan.
Wheat, rice, barley, corn, and oats contain tryptophan.
Lots of foods contain tryptophan, the trick is to find what foods suit your body. Wheat and dairy are contentious subjects at the moment, with people (myself included) reacting negatively to food containing wheat and cow’s milk.
The bottom line is, find what food is good for you, food that your body doesn’t react negatively to in any way. Choosing whole foods that are NOT refined in any way is a smart way to start.

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Crusin’ along, enjoying life, and lovin’ the luxtury of being on a cruise ship for one week. Oh, how I wish to be on a cruise along the Carribean this very second. In fourth grade, I went on this very exact cruise. It was AMAZING! I was so sad when it came time to leave, but so happy that I actually got to expierience it! Valor, is what the boat was called. We went to all different places! We went to the Caymen Islands, Belize, Mexico, and Hondorus. There is so much to tell about each one of them! Well the first place we went was the Caymen Islands. I absolutely loved it there! The area that the boat docked off at seemed very fun, and alive! There, we got to swim with sting rays and go snorkeling. It was one of the best experiences of my life. People think that sting rays are mean animals and just sting people on purpose, but the real fact of the matter is that, they will only sting you if you startle them, or in any way threaten them. And did you know that if you kiss a sting ray you’ll have good luck for seven years?! It’s bizzare, isn’t it?! Snorkeling was great too! We saw many beautiful fish, and a coral reef, but, there was also a baracuda in the water! Hondorus was the second place we went. I honestly have to say that it wasn’t one of the best times that I had, but it was still good to see what it was like. The next place we went was…Belize! It was my favorite place to go, out of that whole cruise! We got to hike through a jungle, and then go tubing in caves. The water that we were in was 60 feet! It was amazing, and the jungle was beautiful! Unfortanatly, it was raining in Mexico when we got there, so there wasn’t much to do but shop! Shopping was fun in Mexico because they had cute, little thrift stores where you could buy ALL KINDS OF THINGS! After going on that cruise, I really hope to go on another one! I also really recomend that you look into going on a cruise! You will NOT regret it!

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Great news for all the fans and the audience who are waiting for this series. As we are hoping that the Ares season 2 is coming very soon and it will be airing on your favourite platform that is Netflix. All the fans and the audience is going mad after hearing this excellent news.
They are unable to resist the urge. The series is based on thriller drama. It gained a lot of popularity after season 1 only, and now fans become crazy after this show. They loved the show and every aspect of the show. The presentation provided an astonishing thriller about the show. This is the main reason why fans loved this show.
So season 2 of this thriller is going to arrive soon. Moreover, all of the fans have all insights about the show already.
What is the Arrival Date of the show’s season 2?
Undoubtedly, the thriller will be going to hit the big screens very soon, and it got a touch of deferral. As we all are aware of the lethal and horrific virus, this virus makes all the work stops, and no action is going on because this virus is taking the lives of innocent humans. That is why the show pushed back and got postponed, all thanks to COVID-19.
Therefore the coming of the series has endured at precisely the same time. The first installment of the series was aired on January 17, 2020, and that too on Netflix. All the views appreciate the fantastic things in the show. It is a mystery dram. As of now, we don’t have any confirm dates of season second. The showrunners are not giving any details about the show. So we will update t as soon as we get it.
The cast members of the show
As per reports, we will be going to see all the previous season character in the new season. All the roles in the new season will be played by the old actors as we are hoping this only. There is no official notification regarding the casting team of the show.


The winning habit that Liverpool have developed in recent months gave Brendan Rodgers faith that the kind of comeback which saw his side secure dramatic FA Cup progress on Wednesday night was possible.
Stunning late strikes from Raheem Sterling and Philippe Coutinho sent the Reds into the fifth round of the competition at Bolton Wanderers' expense in five breathtaking minutes at the Macron Stadium.
Eidur Gudjohnsen's penalty ahead of the hour mark had given the Championship outfit an advantage to defend on home soil, though their cause was damaged by a dismissal for midfielder Neil Danns shortly after.
The Reds piled on pressure for the remainder and, just as all seemed lost, Sterling poked in to equalise and Coutinho dispatched an outrageous, looping blast from long range into the top corner and prompted celebrations for the visitors.
Rodgers said after the final whistle: "I think it was justice, in all fairness. Even at 1-0, I expected us to win. The confidence of the team at the moment is very high.
"We had some chances in the first half and didn't quite take them. Then we went a goal down to what was never a penalty. But our composure and quality after that moment was very good.
"We scored two but could have had many more. But give credit to Bolton as well over the two games. Neil [Lennon] has done a brilliant job with his squad - they are very resilient and very hard to beat. They took us right to the very end, but it was a great win for us.
"We have a great habit at the minute, which is winning games. You can't question their character; they have shown in my time here that they have a really strong mentality.
"They might not have been playing or performing well, but certainly we needed to arrest the momentum that was going the other way after the Crystal Palace game.
"After that, we did that with seven points out of nine. But it was then putting something in place that was going to get us back operating how we have done. That momentum has now come the other way over the last seven to eight weeks.
"The team is back at the level technically and in the intensity of the game. It's pleasing because you can see the confidence and even at 1-0 down, we still looked like we were going to create and score goals.
"The players were magnificent tonight and you've got to give them a huge amount of credit. In a tough game away from home, 1-0 down, to come back and show that character and the quality of the goals was outstanding."
Awaiting Liverpool in the fifth round is a journey to face Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, the scene of a disappointing 3-1 reversal for Rodgers' charges in the Barclays Premier League last November.
The Reds have been travelling along a steady upward trajectory since that low point and the manager embraced the opportunity to return there in search of redemption.
"It's a great thing," said the Northern Irishman. "We didn't play anywhere near the level, but that was the lowest moment of the season in terms of the performance level.
"We'll go back there very soon in a totally different frame of mind and at a different level of performance. Alan [Pardew] has lifted the club and the team since he's gone in there, but we'll go there with big confidence and look to keep performing at the level we're at."
Daniel Sturridge clocked up another 20-minute substitute appearance this evening in his comeback to fitness, which began with a goal against West Ham United last weekend.
At his post-match press conference, Rodgers was asked for the latest assessment on the No.15's condition and that of a handful of other players who featured in the replay with Bolton.
The boss said of Sturridge: "It's just managing that game time. He's a top talent. Obviously when he's fully fit, he plays - it's as simple as that.
"He's not at that stage yet, but he's a great player for us at the moment to come off the bench, and he is getting there every day.
"Lazar [Markovic] was just his back - it was a bit sore, but we'll assess that in the morning. Raheem is fine. I think he got a couple of heavy tackles against him tonight but he is very robust and strong. He'll be fine."


Audi R8 GT Week Teaser (3 of 4) – "Greenhouse"
Think of it as a greenhouse, where excitement grows. Limited edition of 90 cars destined for the US With a 560hp V10 engine and a top speed of 198.4 mph, the Audi R8 GT is the fastest and most powerful car in the current model line. Only 333 examples of this limited-edition supercar will be sold worldwide. The R8 GT gives a whole new meaning to the term “high-performance sports car.” Follow the link to learn more about the R8 GT audi.us


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The Connecticut Housing Market is Experiencing Increased Activity, But the Number of Available Properties Remains Reluctantly Low
Connecticut Housing Market Heats Up, But Supply Is Stubbornly Low
Introduction: Connecticut’s Housing Market Surge
The Connecticut housing market has been experiencing a significant upswing, with overall sales and demand rising at an impressive rate. This increase in demand is primarily driven by buyers looking to escape crowded urban environments in favor of more spacious suburban living due to the COVID-19 pandemic and more people adopting remote work arrangements. The newfound interest in Connecticut comes as no surprise, thanks to its attractive amenities, beautiful landscapes, and close proximity to major cities like New York and Boston.
However, this surge in demand for housing in Connecticut has not been accompanied by a sufficient increase in supply. As a result, home prices have been going through the roof, and properties are selling much faster than they did before. This heated market is leading to intense competition among buyers, often resulting in bidding wars and rash decisions made under pressure.
In today’s blog post, we will be examining the factors that have contributed to the soaring housing market in Connecticut, discussing the impact of low housing supply on both buyers and sellers, and offering insights on where the market may be heading in the coming months.
1. Factors Driving the Connecticut Housing Market Surge
Several factors have come together during unprecedented times, creating the perfect storm for increased demand in Connecticut’s housing market. Let’s take a look at some of these factors:
One such factor is the widespread shift towards remote work. Many companies have adopted long-term remote work structures or even become entirely virtual, allowing employees to prioritize their living arrangements over their proximity to the workplace. This shift has increased the number of people seeking to move from previously sought-after urban areas to more suburban locations, boosting Connecticut’s appeal.
Widespread adoption of remote work
Seeking more outdoor space and privacy after prolonged lockdowns
The desire to live in less densely populated areas amid health concerns
Exodus from urban centers like New York City and Boston
Low-interest rates, making it appealing for buyers to secure a mortgage
Increased school opportunities via remote learning and homeschooling
2. Connecticut’s Stubbornly Low Housing Supply
Despite the increasing demand, Connecticut’s housing supply has not kept up, which contributes to the fierce competition among prospective homebuyers. The low inventory is most likely due to the following reasons:
A couple who was previously living in a small apartment in New York City decided to look for a house in Fairfield County after both losing their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic. With savings to cover their costs and remote work opportunities becoming available, they saw this as a chance to finally own a spacious home in a quiet suburban neighborhood.
Sellers hesitant to put their homes on the market due to uncertainty caused by the pandemic
A slower construction industry, with labor shortages and slow permit approvals further compounding the problem
Existing homeowners refinancing their mortgages instead of selling due to low-interest rates
Fewer foreclosures and short sales as a result of government efforts to mitigate economic hardship
Older adults staying in their homes longer before downgrading or entering retirement communities
Investors holding onto properties, seeking potential gains as the market continues to heat up

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Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE:HLX) Q2 2019 Earnings Conference Call - Final Transcript
Jul 25, 2019 • 10:00 am ET
Greetings, and welcome to the Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] And as a reminder, this conference is being recorded Thursday, July 25, 2019.
I'd now like to turn it over to Mr. Erik Staffeldt, Executive Vice President and CFO. Please go ahead, sir.
Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us today on our conference call for Q2 2019's earnings release. Participating on this call for Helix today is Owen Kratz, our CEO; Scotty Sparks, our COO, Ken Neikirk, our General Counsel and myself. Hopefully, you've had an opportunity to review our press release and the related slide presentation released last night. If you do not have a copy of these materials, both can be accessed through our Investors page on our website at www.HelixESG.com. The press release can be accessed under the Press Releases tab, and the slide presentation can be accessed by clicking on today's webcast icon. Before we begin our prepared remarks, Ken Neikirk will make a statement regarding forward-looking information. Ken?
During this conference call, we anticipate making certain projections and forward-looking statements based on our current expectations. All statements in this conference call or any associated presentation, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Our actual future results may differ materially from our projections and forward-looking statements due to a number and variety of factors, including those set forth in slide 2, our most recently annual report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC. Also during this call, certain non-GAAP financial disclosures [Technical Issues]. In accordance with SEC rules, the final slide of our presentation, provides reconciliations of certain non-GAAP measures to comparable GAAP financial measures. These reconciliations, along with this presentation, the earnings press release, our annual report, and a replay of this broadcast are available under the Investors section of our website at www.HelixESG.com. Owen?
Good morning, everyone. Thanks, Ken. We're going to start on Slide 5, which is the high-level summary of Q2 results. The second quarter results reflect increased activity in the North Sea, marking the end of the winter weather, benefiting both our well intervention and our robotics segments. Revenue increased $35 million and our net income increased $16 million from the first quarter. Our results for the first quarter, reported at revenues of $201 million and net income of $17 million. We generated $53 million of EBITDA.
Moving to slide 6. For the quarter, we recorded a net income of $17 million, compared to net income of $1 million in Q1. We generated EBITDA of $50 million in Q2 compared to $30 million in Q1. Our operating cash flow was $67 million, and our free cash flow was $53 million. Our results for the quarter were negatively impacted by 20 days of unplanned downtime on our BP contract related to our 15K IRS system and a one-time, $1.1 million charge related to employee stock compensation.

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CLEVELAND-- After the Browns defeated Atlanta 28-16 on Sunday, Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield said he woke up Sunday morning "feeling dangerous."
It showed on the field, as he and rookie running back Nick Chubb, along with the defense came up big all day on the field.
Mayfield threw for 216 yards and three touchdowns, earning a 151.2 QB rating. Chubb rushed for 176 yards, including a 92-yard touchdown run, cementing himself in the record books with the longest run in Browns history.
The defense held Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, the No. 4-ranked quarterback in the league, to two touchdowns and 16 points. The Browns also came up big with a goal line stand with 11:29 left in the game.
The win improved the Browns to 3-6-1, the most wins they've had in a season since they went 7-9 in 2014.
In the above video, cleveland.com Browns reporters Mary Kay Cabot and Dan Labbe break down Sunday's victory.


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Hattiesburg Clinic presentsArtie ReadsA Celebration of Roald DahlFree
LESSON PLANS HERE
The Oak Grove Library will host the Trinity Episcopal Church Reader’s Theatre Group as they present Roald Dahl’s “The Enormous Crocodile.
June 1 - June 17, 2017
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This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.


It is almost hard to imagine manufacturers pursuing an electric vehicle strategy with the world awash in oil. Fuel prices hovering around two dollars per gallon has consumers thinking about and buying the largest vehicles their budgets can handle, effectively setting back years of growth and investment in vehicle electrification.
But car manufacturers don’t simply look at the here and now. Automakers look at markets 10 to 20 years out, even further, anticipating what global conditions will affect manufacturing, while managing consumer expectations.
Few experts, including Volvo Cars, think that the current reduction in fuel prices will last. And even if they manage to stay below historically high numbers, government policies the world over are requiring fleets to reduce emissions and to improve fuel economy.
Vehicle Electrification Strategy
Volvo Car is a premium car manufacturer, a Swedish company with Chinese owners. Previously owned by the Ford Motor Company, Volvo is using its new relationship with Zheijiang Geely Motors to overhaul its product line. New models are in place, others are on the way, and still others are in the planning stages. The company’s latest strategy, announced in October 2015, has it building a new range of electrified smaller cars as well as plans to release its first fully electric car by 2019.
Once Volvo’s electric cars are introduced, the company expects that 1 in 10 of its new vehicles will be some sort of electrified model (i.e., plug-in hybrid (PHEV) or pure electric (BEV) models). That strategy is for its medium term outlook; the company hasn’t clarified when that might happen.
The Volvo strategy will be a multi-prong effort, beginning with plug-in hybrid (PHEV) variants of its larger cars: the 90 series and the 60 series. Both models are based on the company’s scalable product architecture and that means they’ll share a common platform, components, and technologies.
Twin Engine Models
We’re already seeing the first fruits of Volvo’s initiative demonstrated in the XC90 SUV. A T8 Twin Engine All-Wheel Drive PHEV model rolled out first, followed by hybrid versions of its S90 sedan and other models. In the case of the 7-seater XC90, Volvo has combined gasoline engine and electric motor technologies to produce an EV that makes 400 horsepower and goes from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 5.9 seconds. It does this with a turbocharged and supercharged 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine, all-wheel drive and an 8-speed automatic transmission.
Up next is a new line of 40 series cars, among the smallest vehicles Volvo builds. Like the scalable product architecture, the 40 series will be based on a newly created compact modular architecture platform.
Both platforms were designed from the start to handle electrification. Thus, with two all-new platforms in the mix, Volvo has an edge over even much larger manufacturers to bring PHEV and BEV models to the market.
“We have learned a lot about how people use cars with electrification thanks to our current product offer,” said Dr Peter Mertens, Senior Vice President for Research and Development. “Our research has shown that people are driving our Twin Engine cars in electric mode around 50 per cent of the time, meaning our plug-in hybrids already offer a real alternative to conventional powertrain systems.”
Automotive Safety Meets Electrification Technology
Volvo Cars, long a pioneer in car safety best practices is no novice to vehicle electrification, claiming nearly 40 years of experience in the field. Unlike other manufacturers that jumped in when technology was weak and prices were high, Volvo has chosen to wait until more favorable market conditions emerge. Those conditions are here now and the automaker is intent on doing its part to make vehicle electrification a sensible choice across multiple product lines.
See Also — Two More Years of Strong Auto Sales?
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - A new computer virus being spread to some spots around the Internet Monday uses the Sept. 11 air terror tragedies to lure victims to open infected computer files.
An e-mail going around the Internet with the name "Peace Between America and Islam" contains a virus called win.32.vote.a@mm. A message seemingly from a friend or business contact invites North American computer users to vote on whether U.S. citizens should live in peace with Islam.
If computer users open the attachment, a program attempts to delete any anti-virus software, provide hackers remote access to infected computers, render applications useless, then erase files stored in the infected computer's hard drive, according to executives from anti-virus software makers.
"People are clicking on this attachment, thinking they'll have a chance to have their voices heard," said Simon Perry, vice president of security solutions at software maker Computer Associates CA, +11.99%
"As far as the technology goes, this virus is pretty standard," Perry said. "But what's surprising is that ... it exploits people's fears surrounding the World Trade Center and Pentagon events. People think they're going to vote for or against a war."
Similar to past computer attacks, the virus can e-mail itself from infected computers to contacts listed in Microsoft Outlook e-mail programs.
Affected computers will display a message that reads, "America ... few days will show you what we can do. It's our turn >>> ZaCkEr is so sorry for you," said Jack Danahy, vice president of server security for Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies.
Danahy said neither WatchGuard nor other security-software companies have been able to determine where the virus originated.
The computer virus has infected about 100 Internet sites, according to Danahy.
The virus was first detected early Monday morning, Computer Associates' Perry said. So far, he says the virus is "not incredibly widespread."
The infected computer file has affected computer users in North America only, so far. Perry says he's keeping an eye out to see if it spreads to customers in Europe and Asia.
Computer Associates, Symantec and other companies already have released a fix for the virus.


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Motorola X Could Arrive On July 8: Pricing Revealed
The fabled Motorola X is back in the news, and this time there's a bit more to it as far as important details are concerned.
Per reports, the upcoming and highly rumored Motorola X smartphone is said to arrive on July 8 after the device gets announced by mid-day at the upcoming Google I/O.
The release date, as expected, could easily change as the date nears since this is set to be one of the highly talked-about smartphones of the year, especially because the X is expected to arrive running on the next generation Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.
Apart from the device's release date, the X is also expected to be available for $299 on Verizon with new contracts. However, those who want to avoid the contract will be glad to know that Google will sell the device contract-free from the Google Play Store at a similar off-contract price as that of the Nexus line.
Although, as of now, only the Verizon version of the device has been revealed and pricing details for other carriers are not available, but, per an Android Authority report, "it would make sense to see them charge their subscribers similar fees as Verizon."
Interestingly, the "Big Red" is also set to have a special fee for anyone looking to unlock the bootloader of the Motorola X with that being $15 per month, although Google Play buyers will get it unlocked from the very beginning.
This is a brand new report for the X after it was previously stated that the device will be a 5-inch, edge-to-edge, no-bezel, device, although not a Nexus device. It was also stated that the X will be the first phone from Motorola which will be a cross-carrier-branded device, and so the name 'X.'
The X is also said to come running stock Android and with some bloatware, although the bloatware can apparently be removed once the device has been unlocked.
"I don't even know where to begin with this. An X Phone on all carriers, running stock that will be sold directly through Google Play at an insanely low price, and with an unlockable bootloader? Doesn't it sound way too good? That's a dream scenario right there, but then again, with the new Google leadership, maybe Motorola is going big," Droid Life wrote.
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K. Ahn, S. Sohn, C. Kee; Unfolded Protein Response Induced by the Accumulation of Mutant Myocilins in Trabecular Meshwork Cells . Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2003;44(13):1157.
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Purpose: : Unfolded protein response (UPR) is an intracellular signaling pathway that leads the upregulation of genes encoding endoplasmic reticulum(ER)-resident chaperones and other protein folding catalysts. The response results in the increased folding capacity of ER, hence often inducing the accumulation of misfolded proteins. The present study was undertaken to determine if the response could also be induced in cultured human trabecular meshwork (TM) cells by the expression of mutant myocilin. Methods: Adenoviral vectors were used to express the desired proteins in TM cells. All proteins were expressed as tagged with GFP in their C-terminus to facilitate detection. TM cells were transduced with adenoviral vectors expressing myocilin with the following mutations; G364V, Q368X, K423E, Y437H, and I477S. After 24 to 72 hours, the induction of two typical end products of UPR, GRP78 and Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), were analyzed by western blotting. Because UPR is elicited by the overexpression of wild-type proteins or viral infection, parallel experiments were performed with adenoviral vectors expressing wild-type myocilin and stromelysin. Results: : All mutant myocilins were detected exclusively in cell lysates as 83 kDa bands but not in culture media. In cells expressing mutant myocilins, GFP signals of the myocilins increased up to 72 hours in a time-dependent manner, accompanied by the prominent increase in the steady-state levels of GRP78 and PDI. Whereas, in cells expressing wild-type myocilin or stromelysin, the induction of both GRP78 and PDI was not significant, reflecting the fact that UPR induced by mutant myocilins was not merely due to the overexpression of the proteins or the side effect of adenovirus carrying gene for the protein. Conclusions: Mutant myocilins expressed in TM cells accumulated in ER where they provoked UPR. However, little or no myocilin secreted from cells expressing mutant myocilins, suggesting that the relevant folding of the myocilins was rarely achieved even under large amounts of protein chaperones. This fate of mutant myocilins might burden cellular machinery and lead to fundamental threat to living cells.
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Depending on your location keluaran sgp, you might be one of the millions of Americans who bet on their favorite teams. In most of the states, you have to be physically present at an approved gambling establishment to legally wager. In some states, you can bet online. In others, you can only wager at licensed casinos.
A number of states have legalized sports betting, including Nevada and Oregon. The craze has only just begun, though. Wyoming launched its first online-only sportsbook in September of 2021. Although you won’t find many land-based casinos in the Cowboy State, there are several licensed providers to choose from.
While the state of Virginia has yet to launch a brick-and-mortar sportsbook, it does offer online betting. The state is also home to the largest casino operator in the nation, Bally’s Corporation. The company offers an array of slots, table games, and other gaming options. The state’s gaming industry is estimated to have a total tax bill of over $1 billion.
Despite its gambling hegemony, Virginia has been plagued by a number of scandals. For instance, a bettor by the name of Calvin Ridley was reported to have bet more than $4000 on an NFL game, which was reportedly the largest single wager of its kind. In response to this scandal, the state passed a sports betting bill in June of 2019.
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Toenails thats how Kyle Hughes thinks about whats left of the Minnesota-based developers Michael Elzufon and David Lundberg.
After several years of wrangling with Elzufon and Lundberg over the Petroleum Building, Hughes wants to say goodbye to them in the worst way.
He and partner Emmanuel Kolluri have had offices in the building at 221 S. Broadway for more than decade and recently bought eight floors there. Elzufon and Lundberg still own a small piece of the office building and 20 percent of the parking garage, but their stake is headed for tax sale.
Its been a long goodbye, filled with unpaid bills, unpaid taxes, wrangling with banks and demands from the city. At this point, Elzufon and Lundberg are still barely hanging on but will soon be gone.
The toenails that are left will be clipped, Hughes said, with a smile.
The developers, known around Wichita as the Minnesota Guys, came to town in 2004 with big smiles and big promises. They left a pile of wreckage in their wake.
Chronically underfunded and spectacularly overambitious in the number of troubled office buildings they bought a dozen buildings totaling more than 1 million square feet, or 25 percent of downtown space they never made the investments or found all the tenants needed to sustain their momentum. And when the banks stopped extending credit and the economy slowed, most of their investors went into foreclosure and their vendors, creditors and taxes went unpaid.
Today, investors big and small have taken over those buildings and are making investments. Most are small local investors such as Hughes and Kolluri, or Adul Arif at Sutton Place, although there are still a few big investors, such as Security National Life Insurance Co. of Salt Lake City at 125 N. Market, formerly Wichita Executive Centre.
What they have in common is that they are now competing against one another for a relatively stable number of tenants.
Tom Johnson, Martens Commercial, said the vacancy rate for downtown Class B older, but still decent offices is between 25 and 30 percent.
Filling up a downtown Class B building is doable, he said, but the building has to be nicer and better maintained than its competitors, and have convenient parking.
Downtowns best space, dubbed Class A, has a vacancy rate of 7 to 9 percent, he said. The property at 125 N. Market could see some benefit from the higher demand for nicer space after the investments made by Security National, he said.
But what everyone hopes is that Wichitas moribund economy will come to life again, providing a lift for everyone in the form of more demand for office space of all kinds.
Bryce Baker, vice president for real estate at Security National, said he remains optimistic that his companys investments will pay off.
We see ourselves as well positioned in the market, he said. As you see a rebound, well be there to take advantage of it.
Tenants in common
Huges and Kolluri had been tenants in the Petroleum Building Hughes is a residential appraiser, and Kolluri is overseeing an office as chief technical officer for Nomise Systems, a medical software company since the 1990s.
They watched and wondered when Elzufon and Lundberg bought the building in 2005, split the floors into separate properties and sold them off, mostly to small-time California real estate investors in 2005 and 2006. It turns out the practice, called Tenants in common, was a disaster for most of the players.
The investors, living in a far more expensive state at the height of the property bubble, were looking to reach the good life through real estate investing. Together, they paid between five and 10 times what the Minnesota Guys paid for the building. Then things went bad financially for the investors, for the Minnesota Guys and, eventually, for the tenants.
We were worried that wed come in one day and thered be no electricity, Hughes said.
Eventually all of the Petroleum Building floors went into foreclosure.
Today, things are moving in the right direction, Kolluri and Hughes said. The building was 48 percent occupied last summer and is now 98 percent leased, after some low-price lease offers.
God knows were not make any money, Hughes said with a laugh.
Still, theyre looking ahead to making some sizable investments once they get the building fully under their control.
The one big worry, they said, is the impact on the pool of potential tenants of having the nearby Finney State Office Building come on the market.
The Finney building, which is owned by the city of Wichita, has housed several state agencies and 700 employees for 20 years. But the state refused to renew the lease when it came up.
Some state employees have already left for new locations, and the state says it plans to move the 550 employees of the Department of Children and Families next year.
If that space suddenly comes on the office market, life for all downtown landlords will become much more difficult.
The elephant in the room is the Finney office building, Hughes said.

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When I was a kid in Pittsburgh and Connecticut, waking up to find snow on the ground was always exciting, because it meant the possibility of a snow day – a day off from school due to dangerous road conditions. I’d crouch over the radio, holding my breath for the longed-for announcement that my school district was closed, so I’d be free to play all day in the wonderful snow.
It snows very rarely here in Milan, never enough to close the schools. But in January we almost had an analogous phenomenon: smog days.
Northern Italy normally gets enough rain in the winter to wash away the poisons belched into the air by oil-burning heating systems and far too many cars. But not this year: we went nearly sixty days with no rain at all. As we enjoyed the sunshine, the poisonous gases and particulates accumulated to dangerous levels. After the air quality had been officially “terrible” for nine days in a row, environmental laws forced many communities to close their streets to traffic. In Milan, we had several Sundays of no cars at all, which was very pleasant; the streets were delightfully quiet. However, this was not likely to have much effect on the smog, because many Milanese go out of town on the weekends anyway and do their driving elsewhere.
The next solution tried was four days of “alternate license plates” – on even-numbered dates, only cars with even-numbered license plates could be on the road, and vice-versa for odd dates. This meant that many more people were forced to take public transport, so, to lighten the load on the buses, trams, and subways, the regional government also decreed that all middle- and high-school students would start school at 10:00 rather than 8:00. (The kids, of course, were heartbroken.) There was even the threat of a no-cars Friday, which would have meant closing all city and state government offices and schools, but then it rained just enough for a last-minute reprieve.
We’ve since had enough wind and rain to clear the air thoroughly, but the lesson gets clearer as the air gets murkier: Italy has a serious, long-term pollution problem that we can’t depend on the weather to solve. Real, long-term solutions in sight? Few. For now, as for so many years, hopes of truly effective change appear to be lost in a sea of political wrangles, while more and more cars continue to squeeze into Italy’s smog-choked cities.


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Leaked Report: Bad Loans at NLB at EUR 2.09BN
Ljubljana, 5 September - Bad loans at Slovenia's largest bank, NLB, stand at about EUR 2.09bn, while soured loans at NKBM, Slovenia's second-largest, amount to EUR 612m, according to a central bank report leaked to commercial broadcasters POP TV and Kanal A.
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Today, Thursday, July 13th, Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, will be meeting privately with women who say they were assaulted, accused students and their families, and higher education officials. DeVos will be deciding whether or not to change policies that were put in place under former President Obama.
The meeting is being organized by Candice Jackson, the head of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. She pointed out some flaws with today's rules. According to her, hundreds of cases are still pending because rules require investigators to keep looking until they find a violation. As of Monday, the office had 496 open sexual assault cases with an average investigation length of 703 days.
Jackson has been criticized by women's advocacy groups for stating investigations are not fairly balanced between the accusing victim and the accused student. She went on to say that "90% of the accusations fall into the category of 'we were both drunk.'" Women's advocacy groups are also outraged that DeVos is including some men's rights groups in the private meeting.
DeVos will also need to decide whether or not to continue Obama's 'Dear Colleague letter,' which warns colleges and universities that the federal government is going to be aggressive against sexual misconduct, and that if they do not comply, the school could lose millions of dollars in funding.


SV Updates: Bin Pickup Date Change
The last trash pick-up for Waste Management will be Friday, March 26th. The Waste Management bins will be picked up on Monday, April 5th and Tuesday, April 6th. Please have your EMPTY Waste Management bins at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on April 5th and leave them out until they are picked up by Waste Management. You may store the empty bins by your house or in your garage between the last trash pick-up and the bin retrieval date. Thank you for your cooperation. We are excited for the switch in sanitation providers.
SV Updates: New Waste Provider – 3/3/21
Late last year, Waste Management of Kansas, Inc. notified Shannon Valley Homes Association that our trash collection contract would be terminated and not renew in January 2021. Accordingly, the board of Shannon Valley reached out to several trash haulers throughout the metro area to obtain quotes for services. As a result of the search, the board of Shannon Valley was able to contract with Constable Sanitation to start trash collection service on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.
Waste Management’s last trash pick-up will be on Friday, March 26, 2021. The Waste Management bins won’t be picked up until Monday, April 5th and Tuesday, April 6th. Please have your EMPTY Waste Management bins at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on April 5th and leave them out until they are picked up by Waste Management. It may take several days for Waste Management to complete collection of its bins.
Constable Sanitation will be delivering new trash and recycle bins from March 24th-26th. With the new bins over a wekk prior to Waste Management being able to retrieve its bins, we understand there may be a need to store bins on the side of the home temporarily. Additionally, with 10 days between the final Waste Management pickup and first Constable Sanitation collection, residents may have larger pickups on Tuesday, April 6th. Under the new agreement with Constable Sanitation, it will collect up to 15, 30-gallon size trash bags each week (whether they fit in the bins or not), so hopefully this should be sufficient room for your trash.
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Please note: Pickup date is changing from Friday to Tuesday. Also, residents will receive a 95 gallon trash bin and 65 gallon recycle bin. (We currently have 65 gallon sizes of both bins.) If you would like a smaller trash bin that is the 65 gallon size, please request it immediately at Constable’s link below. For a complete list of pickup dates, holiday schedules, pickup allowances, and to request a different bin size from Constable Sanitation, please visit
Shannon Valley Homeowners are all proud of our tree-shaded streets, our parks and tennis court, and access to all of the amenities that Overland Park has to offer! We welcome you to our community!
The Shannon Valley Homeowners Assoc. Board will once again be calling on neighbors to help with the fun-filled activities that are planned throughout the year. Our plans include our annual Easter Egg Hunt in the SV Park in March, the SV Art Fair in May, The Neighborhood Garage Sale in June, the 4th of July Parade in the Park in July, the Oktoberfest with Indian Creek in October, and our Annual Meeting which is held in November.
You can go to the Volunteer section of our website to let the Board know which events you’d like to help with. And mark your calendars to attend and get to know your neighbors in a fun and relaxed atmosphere!
Our SV Homeowners Association can also use volunteers to become Block Captains, organize Block Parties, and serve on our Long Term Planning Committee to help plan future projects to maintain and enhance our neighborhood.
Please register your email address and update your directory information to help us with distributing newsletters, providing notices about neighborhood events, and offering information about important matters to homeowners. If you don’t utilize email, please let the Board know and we can make sure that you receive neighborhood information through the mail.
Home Association Solutions (HAS) is our management company. Our representative there is RJ Allen – he can be contacted by email here.
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BY LUCY LETHBRIDGE
CATHOLIC TEACHERS have welcomed the publication of new guidelines on sex education that will stress the moral and family values that "lie at the heart of education".
Education Secretary John Patten, a Catholic, this week launched a draft circular on sex education in schools which stressed that "no school should be a value-free zone".
Mark Philpot, teacher at St Richard Gwyn school in North Wales and Secretary of the Catholic Teachers Association, said: "We are wholly in favour of the idea that sex and health education should be placed in the context of family life and relationships".
Among the issues that the circular sets out for consultation is that the governing bodies of all maintained schools should make a written statement of their policy on sex education available to parents.
Sr Moira Cashmore FCJ, principal of St Augustine's Primary School, Middlesbrough, told the Catholic Herald that the governors of St Augustine's were examining ways to approach the subject
of sex education and stressed "we always seek permission of the parents first".
As part of the drive to ensure that sex is taught in the context of relationships, teaching about HIV and AIDS has been removed from the science section of the National Curriculum.
Fr Harry Stratton, Chairman of a Catholic Education Service working party on sex education, said that he and his colleagues were "anxious that sex education should not be a separate subject".
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Gone are the days of rolling down dirt roads town to town with a box of 45’s, cassette tapes, or CD’s to hand out to DJ’s, music directors and program directors. Most radio stations today are small parts of large corporations and very few decisions surrounding what gets played are made at the local station level. Enter CASHBOX Radio…”Radio The Way It Used To Be”. We realize that without enormous marketing and promotion budgets, thousands of great songs and artists go virtually unheard. CASHBOX Radio has been carefully organized and staffed with a team of industry veejays, djs, musicians and marketing professionals that have built a radio platform that will feature both mainstream and independent artists. We are also going to play those great songs from the past, your favourite artists and some surprises so tune in. Radio the way it used to be – and always will be with Cashbox Radio!
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Earlier this year, we included a rather life changing story about a former Liberian child soldier and the positive impact that working with The Africa Trust has had on her and her children’s lives. This month we’re very pleased to meet Nelson Sabeta, who has worked his way up to become a chief trainer of personnel building Elephant Pumps in various locales throughout Africa:
“LETTER OF APPRECIATION TO THE AFRICA TRUST AS AN EMPLOYEE
First and foremost I would like thank the Almighty God for my life through hardships and happiness he was and he is always there for me. I come from a poor family in a village called Ben in Headlands, Makoni District in Zimbabwe. My parents were poor peasant farmers and I struggled to go to school, as it was hard to find the fees. My mother worked hard selling vegetables for me to go to school even though she was deaf and dumb. I met Ian Thorpe the C.E.O. of the Africa Trust and he inspired me into doing something different to help people’s lives through water and sanitation.
From that time my life changed as I was chosen to be part of the team of people implementing projects for The Africa Trust. I worked hard as a pump builder and project officer helping the poor by giving them clean water and proper sanitation in Zimbabwe. I also had a privilege to attend a business training short course sponsored by the Africa Trust and I am now able to train others who wish to start their own small businesses. In 2013 as a program officer I was sent to Mozambique to install Elephant Pumps and toilets and the program really went well as we worked together with Dorcas Aid Mozambique. After this I was given a bigger challenge to go to Liberia to implement the water and sanitation program. I am happy to say the program was well received by the Liberians as there is real need for clean water because people were fetching water from open streams full of sewage and others were travelling up to ten kilometres in search of clean water.
Presently I am in Tanzania where I was sent again to start an Elephant Pump program as the chief trainer to the selected personnel so that afterwards they will be able to run this program alone. We are successfully proceeding as the communities have greatly welcomed this program. Personally I am speechless because I don’t know what I would have done without the assistance I got from The Africa Trust as an employee. Right now I am a father of one boy and two girls. I am able to send my kids to school and have enough food for my wife and children. The other thing that makes me happy is I now have selected two orphans who I am helping with school fees through working for The Africa Trust. Also I am the most happy that my family and me, we all believe in God through his son Jesus Christ.
I would like to say thank you to all the Africa Trust funders especially everyone working for AquAid, for your endless love and support for the needy poor people here in Africa, may the Almighty God bless you and always keep you safe.


Nas has released his new album, King’s Disease, which was produced by Hit-Boy.
The New York rapper reunites with several frequent collaborators on the record, alongside a couple of new faces. They range from R&B legends Charlie Wilson to hip hop musicians such as Big Sean, A$AP Ferg and Anderson .Paak. Other guest artists on the LP include Fivio Foreign, Don Toliver, Lil Durk and Foxy Brown.
Earlier this month, Nas posted a trailer for the album on Instagram where he revealed that Hit-Boy and him had been working together on King’s Disease for some time. “I’ve been trying to do this with this man for years,” he said in the clip. “I finally got that timing right, that alignment.”
Hit-Boy had first teased the joint effort during an interview with REVOLT back in May. “Just being able to be in the studio with him was an honor, for sure,” he said. “But, making real, top-notch quality music, that made it that much more sweet. We wasn’t in there like, ‘Oh, you Hit-Boy, I’m Nas: we gonna make just anything.’ Nah, like this shit really shines, it’s spiritual.”
Nas had previewed the album’s release with the song “Ultra Black,” which included a reference to the rapper Doja Cat—who later responded to the lyric in a dismissive TikTok.
King’s Disease follows Nas’ 2018 album, Nasir, which was executive produced by Kanye West. Hit-Boy also dropped off a solo project earlier this year, The Chauncey Hollis Project, which featured his own production and vocals.
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Report: Kevin Love’s ‘people’ told Timberwolves that if he isn’t traded, he’ll leave in free agency
Kevin Love will essentially be in the final year of his contract with the Timberwolves next season, because he has a player option for the year after that which he’s widely expected to decline in order to become an unrestricted free agent.
That’s if he makes it through next season in Minnesota.
There have been persistent rumblings that Love will pursue a larger market situation that may offer a better chance of winning when the time comes, but the word out of the Timberwolves is that they’re going to do everything they can to convince their franchise player to re-up with a max contract to stay in town.
The latest report has Love’s “people” reminding the Timberwolves that Love may in fact bolt after next season is finished.
There aren’t many reasons keeping Love in Minnesota, especially if the team fails to retool its roster and make the playoffs next year. As for the coaching search, it’s still far too early in the process to believe that Love’s potential future status would actually be deterring candidates from being interested, and it’s unclear if the search to replace Adelman has even begun in earnest.
This particular report may or may not have any weight to it, but it is restating what we’ve known for quite some time.
Love may very well pursue other options after next season. If in fact he decides that leaving Minnesota is in his best interest well ahead of the trade deadline, then Minnesota would be wise to try to deal him. But superstar free agents aren’t exactly lining up to play there, which leads you to believe that the Timberwolves will work extremely hard until the last possible moment to try to convince Love to stay.


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There is no new episode of The Bachelorette on Tuesday next week.
The show has been on Tuesdays this season because of the delayed premiere date. Thanks to COVID-19, Dancing With The Stars is now on Mondays, taking over the Bachelorette’s usual spot.
However, fans are loyal and they are turning in to see how Clare Crawley’s season of The Bachelorette is playing out.
While the show has aired consistently on Tuesdays so far, that schedule will be interrupted next week.
The Bachelorette will return next Thursday, November 5
Next week, the 2020 Presidential Election will take place Tuesday night. Therefore, ABC will not be airing a new episode.
But that doesn’t mean that fans won’t get a new episode next week. ABC is moving to Thursday, November 5, 2020. The show will air at 8/7c on the same channel as fans are used to tuning into.
The week after that, The Bachelorette will return to Tuesday night. In other words, Episode 5 will air Tuesday, November 10 at 8/7c.
There will only be five days between Episode 4 and Episode 5 on ABC, meaning Bachelorette fans won’t go a week without an episode.
We don’t know how many episodes are left this season, as the show will start over with Tayshia Adams as the lead. Clare’s season will be around four episodes long, but Tayshia’s season could be a full 10 episodes.
The Bachelorette will look a little different this season
It’s not just the timeline for The Bachelorette that’s different this year. COVID-19 has changed everything for reality television, so The Bachelorette was filmed on a closed location in La Quinta, California.
Plus, it’s the first time that The Bachelorette will end after just four episodes. Chris Harrison will call out Clare for the way she’s handling The Bachelorette, sharing that she can’t keep filming the show as she continues to focus on Dale.
Spoilers hint that she will pick Dale. In the preview for the next episode, Clare seemingly calls Dale her fiance, which appears to confirm rumors that they are engaged. We don’t know how this season will end, but there are so many unanswered questions about whether they talked prior to the show or if Dale and Clare are planning a future together.
We know very little about Tayshia Adams. We know that she will film The Bachelorette on the set, but we don’t know anything about how her season plays out.
Reality Steve had hinted that Tayshia won’t find love on The Bachelorette and that Dale and Clare’s love story is the only one that fans will get this season.
The Bachelorette airs Thursday, November 5 at 8/7c on ABC.


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Hoeven Announces Hospital Preparedness Funds to North Dakota
WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has awarded $1,161,170 to the North Dakota Department of Health. This Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) funding was made available through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and will be used to assist hospitals and health care providers in their efforts to improve patient outcomes during public health emergencies and disasters such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
“This HPP funding from the CARES Act is vital for ensuring our health care providers are properly prepared to safely respond when disaster or emergencies strike,” said Hoeven.
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ST. ALBANS CITY — The most heated topic of conversation at Monday night’s St. Albans City Council meeting was a proposal to regulate the collection of trash in the city.
Introducing the ordinance, St. Albans City Manager Dominic Cloud compared trash collection in the city to the wild west. “We’ve got close to a dozen haulers,” he said. “Every day is trash day.”
The proposed ordinance would have limited collection to two days per week – one for commercial collection and one for residential. It also would have limited the amount of time homeowners could put trash cans out to 48 hours between 9 a.m. the day before collection and 9 a.m. the day after.
Trash collection would have been limited to between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
The proposal met with immediate opposition from Ward 2 Councilor Jim Pelkey, who said, “I do not like the fact that we are contracting individually with our trash haulers and then being told what day they can come and what hours.”
The offered ordinance also required that both trash and recyclables be stored in wheeled totes with lids.
How to regulate trash collection is a topic the city has been exploring for a few years, with much of the focus being on how to stop totes from being left out on the street for long periods of time and items from blowing out of them.
If containers of recyclables lack lids “you put them out on a windy day, all your recyclables will be gone,” noted Ward 6 Councilor Chad Spooner.
“I’ve had complaints about totes being left out year-round,” said Councilor Tim Hawkins, Ward 1, who has long advocated for a trash ordinance. He, too, mentioned every day looking like trash day, as well as overstuffed bins and trash blowing around.
The proposed ordinance, said Spooner, “is a watered down version of what we were talking about.”
“I can drive down my street and every day there’s totes out,” he added.
Councilor Marie Bessette, Ward 3, said that two local trash haulers are based in Burlington. “Why should they have to switch around all these customers to accommodate us?” she asked.
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Tucker Carlson on Wednesday shared an image of California’s Democratic governor, which he said summed up “our national moment in a single picture.”
The footage: The Fox News host made the remarks Wednesday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” while showing a photograph of Gov. Gavin Newsom flouting his own coronavirus restrictions at a private Nov. 6 dinner in Yountville, California,.
Carlson accused Newsom of hypocritically ignoring his own state guidelines regarding social distancing, wearing face masks, and limiting the number of households present at social functions, declaring, “A steam room in central Wuhan could not be more contagious than this dinner.”
- Thanksgiving canceled: “So if you’re wondering why, if you live in California, you can’t have Thanksgiving this year or visit your mother as she dies alone in the hospital, it is because of them and people like them. And yet there they were, eating $300 truffle pasta and living like this pandemic thing never even happened,” he said, referring to the menu at the exclusive French Laundry restaurant where the dinner was held.
- Bare facts: “The picture of them doing it, known henceforth to history as ‘The French Laundry Photograph,’ is the year 2020 condensed to its essence. Here you have plutocrats dining with lobbyists, ignoring the very orders they’re so self-righteously imposing on others, gorging themselves in seclusion as the people they’re supposed to be helping wither and die. And then when they’re caught, they lie about it.”
- It’s got it all: “How perfect is that? It’s all there. Every element: hypocrisy, greed, selfishness, stupidity. This is our national moment in a single picture,” the Fox News host added.
Just days after attending the event at French Laundry, Newsom addressed California residents during a Nov. 9 press conference, urging them to continue adhering to the state’s coronavirus prevention measures, which include refraining from gathering in public places outside the home.
The apology: The media’s coverage of the dinner, which was hosted by prominent lobbyist Jason Kinney, prompted backlash against Newsom as California attempts to combat a spike in coronavirus cases with some of the nation’s strictest public health guidelines.
- A spokesman for Newsom told the San Francisco Chronicle the dinner was held outdoors, an assertion echoed by Newsom in a statement apologizing for not having “modeled better behavior.”
- But photographs obtained Tuesday by Los Angeles-area Fox affiliate Fox 11 appear to show the group enclosed by glass doors.
- The pictures also show top officials from the California Medical Association alongside Newsom and Kinney at the fine dining establishment, described by one New York Times’ restaurant critic as “a spaceship for the 1 percent, now orbiting a burning planet.”
State of exception: Newsom is not the first prominent California Democrat bedeviled by coronavirus restrictions.


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Tottenham Table £17m Bid For Prolific Hitman
With the summer transfer window now open, there is plenty of gossip doing the rounds in the newspapers so we’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest transfer rumours. Today, Tottenham have tabled an offer for Roberto Soldado.
Tottenham Hotspur have continued to show ambition in the summer transfer market after tabling a £17m bid for Valencia hitman Roberto Soldado, according to the Daily Star.
Spurs are on the verge of sealing a £17m deal to sign Brazilian midfielder Paulinho from Corinthians after the player confirmed he’s heading to north London this summer, and now it seems chairman Daniel Levy is ready to open his chequebook once again to make a big-money signing in the form of Soldado.
The Star claim the 28-year-old Spanish international is under contract with Valencia until 2017 and has a release clause of £26m but Tottenham are looking to take advantage of the La Liga clubs financial problems and are keen to snap him up on the cheap, with Levy hoping a £17m will be enough to do the trick.
Soldado has had a prolific goal-scoring record wherever he’s played and his 30 goals for Valencia last season took him to 194 goals in 397 games so far in his career. His impressive form has also seen him break into the Spanish national team, where he’s netted 6 times in 11 caps.
The report suggests Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas wants to sign two strikers this summer and is hoping to add Soldado as well as international team mate David Villa, who could make a £10m move from Barcelona this summer.
If the north Londoners could secure the services of the Spanish duo, they would have some serious fire-power at their disposal next season, that’s for sure.
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