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The Arizona Foster Care Tax Credit allows individuals and couples to make a contribution to a Qualifying Foster Care Charitable Organization, including the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation, and direct where your tax dollars are spent and support local children in foster care.
You’ve got questions…we’ve got answers. Read on!
Q: WHAT IS THE ARIZONA TAX CREDIT FOR QUALIFYING FOSTER CARE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS?
A: Arizona law allows you to claim a tax credit of up to $1,000 for taxpayers filing jointly and $500 for individuals for voluntary contributions you make during any taxable year to a Qualifying Foster Care Charitable Organization. To become a Qualifying Foster Care Charitable Organization you must provide assistance to low income residents of Arizona, or chronically ill or disabled children. In addition, you must serve at least 200 children in foster care in Arizona and spend at least 50% of your budget on ongoing services to children in foster care. AFFCF served more than 5,000 children in 2016. Approved charities’ names are listed on the Department of Revenue’s website (www.azdor.gov).
Q: HOW DOES IT WORK?
A: When you receive your W-2 and complete your tax return, one of three things will happen.
- You end up having no tax liability.
- You overpaid during the year and are receiving a refund.
- You owe additional state taxes because not enough withholdings occurred during the year throughout your paychecks.
If you fall into #2 or #3, you’ll pay Arizona state income taxes. Taking advantage of the foster care tax credit allows you either to increase the amount of refund you receive from the state or decrease what you owe to the state. It also allows you a say in what your tax payment actually does.
Q: IS THERE A LIMIT TO HOW MUCH I CAN GIVE?
A: Of course, the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation will accept donations in any amount. Thanks to a law signed in 2016, the most you can give that will qualify for the foster care tax credit is:
- $500 – Single Filer
- $1,0000 – Married Filers
Q: CAN I MAKE MONTHLY PAYMENTS AND STILL RECEIVE A TAX CREDIT?
A: Absolutely! Just contact us directly at 602.252.9445 to schedule payments that best suits your budget.
Q: WHO CAN CONTRIBUTE?
A: Anyone can change the life of a child in foster care. Anyone who pays Arizona state taxes, whether you itemize or not, single or married, can qualify for the foster care tax credit.
Q: WHAT’S THE DEADLINE TO CONTRIBUTE?
A: Beginning in 2016, you must give before the tax filing deadline for the tax credit to apply to the current tax year.
Q: WHO RECEIVES THE CONTRIBUTIONS?
A: Your foster care tax credit donation to AFFCF will provide a social, athletic or educational activity or item to a child in foster care in Arizona that would not be paid for in any other way. AFFCF funds awards for such items and activities as apartment set ups for youth aging out of foster care, summer camp, class photos, gymnastics, karate, music or swimming lessons, prom expenses, school field trips, sports registration, tutoring services and post-secondary scholarships.
Q: CAN I DONATE ONLINE?
A: Yes! Once payment is made online, you’ll receive an email confirmation that the transaction has been completed. We will also mail tax record receipt to you directly.
Q: HOW DOES AFFCF DISTRIBUTE THE DONATIONS COLLECTED?
A: The first step for a child or youth or caregiver in applying for an award is to complete our simple online application. We confirm with the state that the child is in foster care and then send the completed application to our board program committee for its review.
Once the application is approved, we cut the check to the vendor and mail it to the caregiver address listed on the application. Our process is efficient and accountable.
Q: DO YOU RECEIVE ANY FUNDING FROM THE STATE?
A: No! As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, every contribution is valuable and necessary for our continued success. Our success depends entirely on generous individual, foundation and corporation donors.
Q: IS A TAX CREDIT DIFFERENT FROM A TAX DEDUCTION?
A: Yes. Tax deductions are expenses, including charitable donations, that reduce your total taxable income and therefore the amount of tax you pay. A tax credit is different: A tax credit allows you to redirect 100 percent of the amount designated (up to $1,000 for taxpayers filing jointly and $500 for individual taxpayers), dollar-for-dollar, to the areas you choose.
Additionally, if you itemize your taxes on your U.S. federal tax return, you may be able to claim your donation as a federal tax deduction, thus lowering the amount of federal tax you’ll pay to the IRS.
We encourage you to check with your professional tax advisor for advice on your personal tax situation and to learn how charitable giving to AFFCF may specifically benefit you.
For more detailed information regarding the Tax Credit program, please call the Arizona Department of Revenue at 602.255.3381 or 800.352.4090 or visit www.azdor.gov.


Melody Weeks Forklifts February 22nd, 2018 - 11:45:01
Electric Forklifts In the late 1920s the first electric forklifts were introduced. The Introduction of different narrow aisle and low forklifts meant many businesses were utilizing forklifts in their indoor warehouses. Electric forklifts are typically found indoors because of the clean output of energy free of gasoline fumes. On average a full charged battery can provide power for five to six hours of constant use.The benefits of selecting electric forklift include: -Quiet while in use which means less noise during operation. -Can be smaller and more maneuverable because the large battery acts as a counter balance.
Have you considered the use of a forklift on a farm-perhaps your farm? There are a number of uses for a forklift on a farm and here are three of them: 1. Hay Barrels The most common use for a forklift on a farm is for lifting carrying and transporting hay both hay bales and hay barrels the latter of which can sometimes weigh up to 2000 pounds. For these large heavy hay barrels lifting is next to impossible without the use of a heavy-duty piece of machinery that can carry the brunt of the load. Forklifts work very well for this purpose allowing farmers to lift carry and transport hay bales and hay barrels from one location to another. Forklifts not only help farmers move hay bales and barrels easily but also quickly.
3. Towing Finally you can use a forklift on a farm to not only lift and move items but also tow (pull or drag) them. Towing would be used for objects or loads that are too big or too heavy to be lifted by the forklift safely. Forklifts can be used to tow trailers tractors other vehicles machinery large and/or very heavy pieces of equipment and very large loads. Keep in mind that proper procedures and safety precautions need to be followed in order to prevent damage to the forklift to prevent damage to the large items being towed and to prevent accident and injury. For example proper tow ropes must be used but they should never be attached to the mast to pull or drag loads. In addition appropriate attachments must be fitted and used in order for the forklift to be used for towing or pushing safely.
In the world of forklifts and pallet trucks there are two main types of trucks categorized by their power source. The Electric forklift carries an internal battery that can be recharged after daily use the diesel and propane forklifts are a combined category because each uses an internal combustion engine (ICE) fueled by gasoline diesel or liquid propane gas. Both categories of forklifts have benefits and costs that are considerations your business must take before making a decision on a forklift. This article will talk about the Pros and Cons of both categories to help you better understand each.


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Plaza Garibaldi is so close to Disneyland that we got to watch the Magic Kingdom's Saturday-night fireworks show from the parking lot before we went inside. And Plaza Garibaldi's owner, Santa Ana tacopreneur Mike Magin-Helguero, likes to mention his place in the same breath as such other extremely thematic OC dinner barns as Medieval Times and Wild Bill's Wild West Extravaganza. He brags that various members of his house band, Mariachi Garibaldi, have performed with Vicki Carr on the Jerry Lewis Telethon, gone on tour with Linda Ronstadt and hawked hamburgers in a Carl's Jr. commercial.
"We're making a name for Plaza Garibaldi in lots of different places," Magin-Helguero noted proudly. "I like to think of Plaza Garibaldi as the newest tourist attraction in Anaheim."
Yeah, well, I don't like to think of it that way. I've just found Plaza Garibaldi, perched all happy and painted on the edge of a huge, faded parking lot in the midst of the massive construction-zone mess they've made of Anaheim. And so what if I've since learned that Plaza Garibaldi has been sitting there for five whole years? To me, it still seems new and exciting and unique.
Plaza Garibaldi is named after the famous square in Mexico City, where bands of mariachi musicians play mostly for free in and around the legendary nightclub Mi Tenampa in a sort of endless audition for local party throwers. Magin-Helguero, who got his start in the restaurant business 10 years ago with the still-thriving Taqueria Americana in Santa Ana, says the chefs in the local Plaza Garibaldi prepare the food Mexico City-style. But it would be just as accurate to describe the cuisine as Anaheim-style, and it wouldn't make it any less authentic; Mexico City is a metropolis, filled with immigrants and transplants and tourists, just like OC's biggest city.
In fact, the warm-Anaheim-night fireworks turned out to be the perfect pyrotechnic appetizer for Plaza Garibaldi's interior, which swirled with the colors and sounds of a Latin carousel. Piatas and streamers and blinking lights and bigger-and-brighter-than-life portraits of famed Mexican musicians swayed from the ceiling and surrounded the walls. A stage that protruded among rows of white-clothed tables boiled with the bobbing heads of patrons—undulating young lovers, overweight husbands and wives, a wrinkled old woman and her sweetly obliging young grandson—as they danced off a just-eaten feast while awaiting the professional entertainment to come.
My girlfriend Lisa and I were led to a semicircular booth just to the left of the stage, where we opened our menus while lush depictions of mariachi legends Pedro Infante, Jose Alfredo Jimenez and Javier Solis—lost in song or romance or supreme self-confidence—stared over our shoulders. It seemed a shame not to be able to ask for their recommendations.
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We opted to share the super botana de mariscos, a refreshing medley of raw and smoked seafood tossed with a chopped mixture of crisp lettuce, cool cucumbers, tangy onions and juicy tomatoes. It was presented on a large oval plate, surrounding a cup of diabla sauce. We followed each forkful with a long gulp of water.
Show time was announced twice, first in English and then Spanish, but this was the last concession to bilingualism—and the last time translation was needed. Mariachi Garibaldi, a collection of nine musicians attired in dashing black-and-white suits punctuated with red sashes and silver buckles, coaxed audio dreamscapes out of their violins, guitars and trumpets. They played for dancers who swept dramatically across the stage. They played for one another, as they took turns belting out ballads that ranged from the overwrought to the playful. They played true to the mariachi tradition, and they played in ways that pushed that tradition into fresh areas—with a Bolivian pan flute, with a Spanish bandoneon. There was an Argentinean rope-twirling act, a comedic crazy waiter and tango dancers. They played for locals and tourists. And they played for us.
Yeah, this is the era of theme restaurants, but something special separates Plaza Garibaldi from eateries that reference Amazon rain forests or auto racing or Alcatraz. Don't go there expecting the blood-lust battles of big-haired jousting headbangers who purport to come from King Arthur's Court. Forget about the yippee-yi-yo histrionics of shitheels straight from Jed Clampett's barnyard. Plaza Garibaldi's theme is authenticity—real food, real music, real culture and a really good time—and I'll be damned if I'm going to concede it's a gimmick.
Plaza Garibaldi, located at 1490 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, is open daily, 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Call for performance times. (714) 758-9014. Full bar. Nonshow meals begin at $5.95; dinner shows begin at $16.95; kids 10 and under, $6.95. All major credit cards accepted.

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These three habitats are built for the SigFigs of various LEGO friends of mine. The first two are fellow London AFOLs – Crankybricks and Ben Dodds, while the third is trans-Atlantic Instagram friend Heather’s Bricks.
Today’s video shows you three more of my custom Sigfig Habitats, this time it’s the turn of darethsdojo, RDFLego and Maico Arts.
My latest Habitats video tells the story of my amazing visit to the LEGO House in September 2019, to install some of my Micropolis MOCs in the Masterpiece Gallery. I met some wonderful people during my week in Denmark, including Jesper Vilstrup, Thomas Kirk Christiansen, Jan Beyer, Stuary Harris, Birte Knudsen and Mike Ganderton from LEGO. I was also interviewed by Joshua and John Hanlon of Beyond The Brick, a very popular LEGO YouTube channel, about my models in the House.
This video shows how I re-MOC’d the Chinese New Year Dinner celebration set, 80101 to form the basis of the ground floor of my new Ninjago District MOC. On the ground floor is the Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant. The next level up houses the Flying Carpet Art Café with an outside terrace at the front and viewing balconies at the rear. The next two levels contain the Clubhouse for the Blockville Sigfigs’ LEGO User Group, or BlockSLUG for short. They have display rooms for a city and train layout, and their build room is on top. The whole thing is finished off with a rooftop aquarium and open air relaxing space which leads to steps to another module. Watch the video to see the whole tour.

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We’ve had a lot of zucchinis from this season so I’ve had lots of chances to figure out how we like them best. After trying many recipes and tweaking this one, I’ve finally arrived at a favorite, just when I have only one left in my refrigerator. We’ll be buying zucchinis this winter to keep these muffins coming! These are both delicious AND easy to make!
Zucchini Raisin Muffins
2 large eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sprouted spelt flour (or whole wheat flour)
1/4 cup toasted wheat germ
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded zucchini, with water squeezed out
1/2 cup raisins
Preheat oven to 350˚F, and butter a 12 cup muffin pan.
In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, butter, honey and vanilla.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, wheat germ, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Stir in the wet mixture until just combined. Fold in zucchini and raisins.
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1970 Boston Whaler 16 Sakonnet
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- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Single / Gas/Petrol
- Located In:
- Pickwick Lake, TN, MS
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- Current Price:
- US$ 9,999
REDUCED $3500 TO $9,999!!
CHECK OUT THIS CLASSIC 1970 BOSTON WHALER 16 SAKONNET - SHE'S IN GREAT SHAPE!!
On January 7, 1961, the first "16-foot" hull was produced by Boston Whaler with a 16-foot 7-inch length-overall and a 6-foot 2-inch beam. The hull weighed approximately 500 pounds and was similar in its lines to the original 13-foot hull. Forward, there were two distinct and sharp sponsons or runners, set nearly the full width of the hull, and a moderately vee-ed center. At the stern, the runners diminished to a gently rounded shape and flowed into a slightly rounded center section which provided a broad, flat area for planing.
These larger hulls used larger outboard motors, ones too big to be steered by the attached tiller-throttle handle. In the process of developing and testing the prototype hulls, a removable console was built which was placed in the middle of the boat's cockpit and permitted remote control of the engine steering and throttle while standing. Although tradition held that a boat should be steered from a seated helm position on the starboard side, the designers found their test boats' "center console" was a terrific way to operate a small boat. The mid-line location permitted excellent access to all areas of the boat for fishing or maneuvering. The great stability of the hull permitted its occupants to stand while underway, and the standing position enabled rough water to be tolerated better than while sitting. Thus, while working on an innovative hull design, Boston Whaler also pioneered the center console small boat!!
When the hull development was finished, the test center console was refined as well and moved into production. Three early models, the Nauset, Eastport, and Sakonnet featured elaborate Philippine mahogany center consoles with wood-framed windshields. These boats were the first manifestation of the center console fishing boat so common today. The Nauset had a fixed pilot seat. The Eastport added a rear seat. The Sakonnet offered a forward raised platform, and the interior was constructed with beautiful varnished mahogany components.
We can list your boat! We can sell your boat!
Please contact Sam Evans at 662.279.0303
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
LOA: 16 ft 7 in
Beam: 6 ft 2 in
Minimum Draft: 0 ft 9 in
Total Power: 75 HP
Engine Brand: Evinrude
Year Built: 1980
Engine Model: E75 TRL CSA
Engine Type: Outboard 2S
Engine/Fuel Type: Gas/Petrol
Engine Power: 75 HP
Fuel Tanks: (12 Gallons)
- 1970 Boston Whaler 16 Sakonnet
Production Years: 1963 - 1975 (1976 = "17" Sakonnet)
- 1980 Evinrude 75HP 2-Stroke Outboard
- 12-Gallon Fuel Tank
- Single Battery
- Steel Trailer (needs work)
- White Hull / Blue Interior
- Philippine Mahogany Center Console
- Framed Wood Windshield
- Raised Wood Platform Forward
- Custom Bimini Top
- Bottom Paint
Dimensions & Additional Information
- Length - 16'7"
- Beam - 6'2"
- Draft - 9" (with engine tilted clear of water)
- Weight - 500# (bare hull - no engine)
- Maximum HP - 100
- Minimum HP - 35
- Transom Height - 20"
- Capacity - 7
- Swamped Capacity - 2000#
- Color - White Hull / Blue Interior
- 1970 Serial Numbers - 3A1301 thru 3A4100 (this boat 3A2478)
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
Other Boats from Captain's Choice of Pickwick
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Greene didn't allow a hit in six innings against the Cubs during his last start this past Friday. Greene is one of the top strikeout pitchers in baseball with 80 K's in 56 innings. Greene will have closer Alexis Diaz available after Diaz was held out of Wednesday night's game.
Sale has given up just eight earned runs in his last five starts spanning 32 1/3 innings. He's allowed only three runs during his last three home starts spanning 20 1/3 innings.

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Dieffenbachia amoena Wilsons Delight
Elongated-oval leaves with yellow to cream midrib; sheathing petioles; sap is poison; lower leaves tend to drop off.
Plant Form or Habit: spreading
Plant Use: medium foliage pot plant
Flower Color: White to green but not important
Height: 2-3 feet
Width: 1-2 feet
Foliage Texture: coarse
Heat Tolerance: medium
Water Requirements: low
Additional Comments: Allow plant to dry between waterings to prevent rot; may airlayer to reduce height; used extensively because of its ability to adapt to the environment.

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Built on a pristine, verdant peninsula referred to as Paradise Island, Club Bentota is located on the South West coast of Sri Lanka and is flanked by the Indian Ocean and the Bentota ...
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Built on a pristine, verdant peninsula referred to as Paradise Island, Club Bentota is located on the South West coast of Sri Lanka and is flanked by the Indian Ocean and the Bentota River. Here guests can embark on a unique journey to discover the many wonders of Sri Lanka's waters, have fun under the sun with jet skiing, wind surfing, beach volleyball, croquet, river boat cruises and much more.
Nice hotel in a great position, ocean one side and river the other. Food only just ok and the hotel in need of a make over, but still had a great time. Was only third to quarter full when we were there and would not have liked it had it been full as when there was an influx of people at the...
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IPL 7 CSK vs SRH, Highlights: Dwayne Smith inspires Chennai Super Kings to dominant 5-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad
Led by a brilliant 66-run knock from Dwayne Smith, Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by five wickets in Sharjah for their fourth win in the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League. Catch highlights here.
23:49 (IST): So, the Chennai Super Kings have notched up another impressive victory in the tournament, their fourth so far in IPL 7 out of five. Dwayne Smith was once again very impressive while opening along with Brendon McCullum and right from the start in their chase of 146, Chennai looked in control. Captain MS Dhoni said that it was a good toss to lose today as they could have been in a similar situation to that of Sunrisers Hyderabad, had they batted first. He credited the opening batsmen and bowlers for a good performance once again. Dwayne Smith was given the Man of the Match award and he said the plan between him and Brendon McCullum while opening the batting was to stay calm and catch up later. That's it from us then!
23:32 (IST): Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by five wickets at Sharjah.
23:24 (IST): OUT! Jadeja b Ishant Sharma 6. CSK 138/5 (18.3 overs). 'Sir' Jadeja seems to not care about things! It's not my job from here, he seems to say.
23:20 (IST): Chennai Super Kings cruising to a win. Need 10 runs off 12 balls to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad.
23:10 (IST): OUT! Bhuvneshwar gets rid of Du Plessis too but Chennai Super Kings look set for a comfortable victory.
23:07 (IST): OUT! Dwayne Smith c David Warner b Bhuvneshwar 66. CSK 126/3 (15.3 ovs) chasing 146 vs SRH. Timeout!
23:00 (IST): Dwayne Smith has raced to 63 off 42 deliveries and just got the fifth six of his innings off Karn Sharma! The orange cap is not far, Mr. Smith! CSK 122/2 (14.4 overs).
22:58 (IST): OUT! Suresh Raina c Venugopal Rao b Ishant Sharma 14. CSK 114/2 (14 overs).
22:49 (IST): CSK 94/1 (12 overs) chasing 146 vs SRH. Smith gets 50! CSK girls are happy!
22:43 (IST): OUT! Brendon McCullum b Karn Sharma 40. CSK 85/1 (10.5 overs) chasing 146 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad. Karn Sharma is having a brilliant day despite his team not doing that well!
22:37 (IST): Ashwin says CSK team meetings go for less than a minute these days. Seems right! CSK 74/0 (9.4 overs).
22:28 (IST): Dwayne Smith just pushes it gently upwards for a six off Ishant! CSK 59/0 (7.2 overs) vs SRH.
22:18 (IST): Smith & Brendon McCullum have given CSK a blazing start in their chase of 146. CSK 41/0 (5.2 overs).
22:08 (IST): SIX! CSK 19/0 (2.5 ovs) chasing 146 vs SRH. This girl wants Dhoni to marry her.
21:59 (IST): Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been impressive so far in IPL 7. Can he get a wicket? CSK 7/0 (1.2 overs).
21:40 (IST): Sunrisers Hyderabad post 145/5 (20 overs) against Chennai Super Kings at Sharjah.
21:32 (IST): The most expensive uncapped Indian player in IPL 7, Karn Sharma gets 6! Oh, wait he gets another one! Another gigantic six from the young man! Can he get another one, now? Gone up in the air and DROPPED! SRH 133/5 (19 overs). Here is a snap of Sakshi Dhoni looking on nervously.
21:24 (IST): OUT! Aaron Finch b Mohit Sharma 44. SRH 109/5 (17.2 overs). Misses out on his 50! Darren Sammy looking good on the other end.
21:13 (IST): OUT! Venugopal Rao c Dwayne Smith b Mohit Sharma 13. SRH 98/4 (15 overs) vs CSK. Strategic timeout! Meanwhile, Aaron Finch is nearing a half-century.
21:10 (IST): Sunrisers Hyderabad have slowed down quite a lot after Lokesh Rahul's dismissal. SRH 94/3 (14.2 overs).
20:54 (IST): OUT! Lokesh Rahul c Ishwar Pandey b Dwayne Smith 25. SRH 67/3 (10.3 overs). Commentator's curse!
20:50 (IST): Lokesh Rahul (22*) is giving some great support to Aaron Finch (26*). Inspiring! SRH 62/2 (9 overs). Ashwin gets ready to bowl his second over.
20:40 (IST): Lokesh Rahul gets the first six of the match off Ravindra Jadeja! Huge one! SRH 45/2 (6.4 overs).
20:33 (IST): Short and wide from Mohit Sharma! And Lokesh Rahul leaps onto it for four! SRH 31/2 (4.4 overs).
20:23 (IST): OUT! David Warner lbw b Ben Hilfenhaus 0. SRH 15/2 (2.4 overs). Lokesh Rahul, the team top-scorer in Sunrisers Hyderabad's loss against Kings XI Punjab, comes out to bat. Aaron Finch is with him on the other end.
20:22 (IST): OUT! Shikhar Dhawan c Mithun Manhas b Ben Hilfenhaus 7. SRH 15/1 (2.2 overs). Dhawan's bad form continues!
20:16 (IST): Ben Hilfenhaus gives away 8 runs in his first over. Sunrisers Hyderabad 8/0 (1 over) vs CSK. Shikhar Dhawan seems to be in good touch. Leapt on to width offered from Hilfenhaus on the fourth delivery and got a four!
Aaron Finch, Shikhar Dhawan (c), David Warner, Lokesh Rahul, Darren Sammy, Venugopal Rao, Karn Sharma, Dale Steyn, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma
Chennai Super Kings
Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, MS Dhoni (c), Mithun Manhas, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ben Hilfenhaus, Ishwar Pandey, Mohit Sharma
19:39 (IST): Sunrisers Hyderabad win toss and elect to bat first against Chennai Super Kings at Sharjah. MS Dhoni says he wanted to bat first too but expects the pitch to not change much during the course of the match. While Chennai Super Kings remain unchanged, Sunrisers Hyderabad bring in Ishant Sharma for Naman Ojha.
Chennai take on Hyderabad
Having opened their account in the ongoing Indian Premier League, Sunrisers Hyderabad will bank on their new-found confidence when they face the acid test of taking on a formidable Chennai Super Kings in Sharjah on Sunday.
Sunrisers Hyderabad started their IPL-7 campaign on a disappointing note, losing to Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab in their first two games, but managed to bounce back against Delhi Daredevils by notching up a narrow four-run win in Dubai on Saturday.
Hyderabad rode on the knocks of Aaron Finch (88) and David Warner (58), both of whom stitched a 128-run stand for the unconquered second wicket, and then restricted Delhi to 180 for four to record their first win of the season.
Finch and Warner will be expected to repeat their exploits against a team, that has been one of the most consistent sides in the cash-rich event.
Skipper and opener Shikhar Dhawan is yet to click in the tournament and he would certainly be keen to demonstrate his batting prowess.The middle-order, with the likes of Lokesh Rahul and Y Venugopal Rao, has failed so far and the youngsters must be itching to make a mark. (Read more)
Hilfenhaus excited to play under Dhoni
Chennai Super Kings' Australian recruit Ben Hilfenhaus is enjoying playing under Mahendra Singh Dhoni and says the India captain hasn't changed since the time he has joined the yellow brigade.
"He has not changed at least since the time I have been around. He is good to play under and there are exciting times ahead," Hilfenhaus said.
The Aussie took the important wickets of Mike Hussey and Rohit Sharma in CSK's seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League on Friday.
It was a dominant performance by CSK who made it three wins in a row after a blip in the first match of the tournament.
"Yes definitely, it was a great performance from the boys tonight. It is nice to be on a roll in T20 cricket and it is good to be on that roll at the moment. Hopefully we can just continue that for the rest of the tournament," Hilfenhaus was quoted as saying by 'IPLT20.com'. (Read more)
Dhoni praises Mohit
Chennai Super Kings on Friday produced a clinical performance to register their third consecutive win in IPL 7 and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni attributed the success to the "superb" death bowling of his pace battery.
Young Mohit Sharma (4/14) shone with the ball before Brendon McCullum smashed a belligerent unbeaten 71 to guide Chennai to a comfortable seven-wicket win over defending champions Mumbai Indians.
Mohit produced a fine death bowling display to help Chennai restrict the title holders to a modest 141 for seven.
"The death bowling was superb. In the middle overs they (Mumbai) had a partnership going which meant we were under a bit of pressure. It meant the bowlers had to step up," Dhoni said at the post-match presentation ceremony. (Read more)
First win was crucial: Shikhar Dhawan
Sunrisers Hyderabad earned their first points in Indian Premier League 2014 with a thrilling four-run win against Delhi Daredevils in Dubai on Friday. Chasing 184 for a win, Delhi needed 20 runs in the last over, but came close but Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled a tight last over.
Hyderabad rode a 56-run opening wicket start after winning the toss. Skipper Shikhar Dhawan scored 33 off 22 balls and he was the only Sunrisers wicket to fall as fellow-opener Aaron Finch and David Warner remained unbeaten on 88 and 58, respectively, to post a formidable total.
"Finally we are off the mark. It's a great feeling to win and we needed it to boost our confidence. We knew we had the people and we just needed to click," Dhawan said, adding: "We started off with a great partnership and Aaron and Warner too got us through." (Read more)


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Shearing Weekend returns to Lake Metroparks Farmpark May 14 and 15 as sheep will be shorn of their winter coats to obtain wool and prevent them from overheating during the hot summer months.
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, visitors can meet the stars of the show, fiber-producing animals that grow their fleece, including sheep and goats, and learn about the care of the animals, according to a news release. They also can help harvest the fleece and fiber of the animals as they try their hand at shearing the sheep.
“Shearing Weekend takes a look at how sheep have an integral part in agriculture and how farms are operated,” Events Manager Andy McGovern said in the release. “It’s all about learning about how certain sheeps’ wool gets to ultimately become your sweater. People learn about the whole process as they see the animal be sheared (how its wool is removed), and then see wool spinning and weaving demonstrations.”
Shearing will be presented in the arena, and demonstration times are:
• Sheep shearing (electric): 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
• Rainbow sheep shearing: 11:30 a.m.
• Sheep shearing (blade): 3 p.m.
Spinning and weaving hands-on activities, also in the arena, will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m.
Border collies have helped herd sheep for many years, and visitors can watch how the Farmpark’s two dogs work with precision with the shepherd during a sheepherding demonstration presented at 11 a.m. and 1 and 4 p.m., weather permitting. Meanwhile, the Western Reserve Spinners Weavers Guild will demonstrate their craft from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Visitors Center.
Farmpark admission, $6 to $8, applies. Farmpark members, children under 2 and active military and their family receive fee admission.
Lake Metroparks Farmpark is located at 8800 Euclid Chardon Road in Kirtland. Park information can be found online.


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NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has now logged 34 successful flights, with one of the most recent remaining airborne for 18 seconds and reaching a maximum altitude of 16ft. The brief flight was the 1.8kg helicopter’s first with its latest software update, which is expected to enhance Ingenuity’s capabilities, including hazard avoidance during landing and the use of digital elevation maps to assist with navigation. Further flights to test these upgraded capabilities are planned.
Ingenuity was launched with the Perseverance rover in July 2020, its mission as a technology demonstrator being to test the viability of powered, controlled flight on Mars. The helicopter’s mission was officially extended last March to include supporting the rover as it explores the Jezero Crater.
According to NASA, as Ingenuity was originally designed to fly over flat terrain, the software update is necessary as it will be flying in rockier areas with fewer safe landing sites. Since its first flight on April 19, 2021, Ingenuity has logged almost 59 minutes of flight time and travelled a total distance of 4.6 miles. Its longest flight to date lasted 169.5 seconds and the highest reached 40ft above the surface.
As previously reported by Pilot, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team won the 2021 Collier trophy for accomplishing ‘the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet, thereby opening the skies of Mars and other worlds for future scientific discovery and exploration.’


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International Author Series: E.C. Sheedy, Canada
During the last couple of months, I read several books written by authors who live outside the U.S. I know from our contests that there are many international readers but I didn't quite grasp the breadth of the international author. But authorial success and continued contracts rely primarily upon sucess within the U.S. The NYTimes, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Oprah, Starbucks, Daily Show and all of those other book power brokers, are U.S. entities.
It got me to thinking about the challenges that international authors have in reaching the US audience and writing for the US audience. I cajoled a number of international authors to share their thoughts with us about what it is like to write for US audiences and market to US audiences in the face of geographic and cultural barriers.
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Continuing with the Interational Author Series, we present Canadian author, E.C. Sheedy. E.C. Sheedy writes romantic suspense novels in the vein of Sandra Brown and Karen Robards. Her latest romantic suspense release, available in trade paperback now, Without A Word, explores the concept of parenthood and what some parents will do for their children, or won’t do, as the case may be. Sheedy resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, but you would never know it by reading her books which are almost always set in the United States.
Do you have modify the language in the books to exclude colloquialisms from your native tongue?
Yes, but only somewhat, because really I've grown up with American TV, American friends, and American spellings. Canadians are squeezed by their British heritage and close border ties with the US, so there are those odd spellings to watch for: labor instead of labour, center instead of centre, and of course our weird cheque instead of your check. I once had an editor delete the word “bloody” from one of my books (as in “that bloody jerk.”) because she said, ”It's too British and Americans wouldn't get it.” That was news to me.
Where do you prefer the books you read to be set?
I'm a sucker for historicals, so old England jumps to mind immediately. As to contemporary settings . . . Gee, I'm not sure I've ever thought about it that much, nor have I ever not bought a book because of its setting. If the idea of the book intrigues me and the characters are appealing, the writer can put them in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (There's a Canadian setting for you!) and I'd be a happy reader.
I live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, really only a short drive and ferry ride from Washington state, so I often set my books there. We share the same weather–"wet!–"close proximity if I need to check out something specific, and I love our shared edge on the more northern Pacific Ocean. It's moody, changeable, and generally cast in wonderful shades of green and blue-gray (in Canadian that's grey, by the way J) As settings go, it's damn near perfect for the kind of books I write, romantic suspense.
How does living outside the U.S. affect your ability to research your books?
Not that much really. I've traveled extensively in the United States–"often desperate to borrow some of your southern sunshine during our cooler, wetter winter months. And if I come up with an odd enough question, like what is the correct spelling for y'all (Ya'll?), I ask my writer sisters on the lists. And there's always the Internet–"could not live without it!
Because of the expense of travel, you can’t do many book signings or in person appearances at American bookstores or meet in person with American readers. The cost of mailings is also more expensive. Do you find these to be disadvantages? If so, what can you do to ameliorate that disadvantage?
I've struggled with the need to self promote my work since I started writing. Frankly, I'm lousy at it. Signings scare the sap out of me, and unless it's a group thing, I seldom go. My kneecaps start sweating when I think about sitting at a table with a pile of books, a pumpkin smile carved on my face, and a group of readers whispering to each other, “Who the hell is she?” I'm weak, can't you see? But you're right, mailings are expensive, so I pretty much limit those to sending ARCs to reviewers, and books or cover flats to whatever reader/bookseller oriented conferences I come across. I do some workshops on occasion–"not sure whether those qualify as promotion–"and I'm really looking forward to going to Omaha in October to take part in the Kiss Of Death retreat. I'll be on a panel and giving a talk on writing romantic suspense–"and I'll get to visit Nebraska, a state I've never been to.
As a writer who lives outside the US, do you attempt to make the characters to suit a more US based audience?
or Are there cultural differences that need to be addressed in a book?
Generally my characters are American. And they are American because that's expected–"as a general rule–"by American readers. This is not a problem for me, and when writing fictional heroes and heroines, there really aren't any huge cultural hurdles to jump. I never think, “Oh, God, an American wouldn't do this” or “a Canadian would do it this way.” Falling in love south of our five thousand mile border, or north of it, is pretty much the same the way I see it. It makes crazy-happy fools of us all.
What promotional efforts have you found to be most successful in reaching the US audience, other than writing an appealing book?
I've put most of my effort into writing as good a book as I can. My editor at Kensington, the wonderful Kate Duffy, has said to me more than once, “It's all about the book.” I cling to that, although I'm in awe of authors, American or Canadian, who expand their careers and readership with kick-ass promotion. I'm also grateful to the internet because it at least gives me a presence that I otherwise wouldn't have. My webpage has always been a rather quiet one, but I'm in the process of updating it. It probably still won't roar its head off, but I do intend to give it more of my time than I have. Truly though? I really do want my books to speak for me.
If there is one thing that you could change about the publishing industry, what would it be?
One thing! Whoa, aren't you the optimist? Well, I guess if you nailed my feet to the floor and shot me with truth serum, I'd say I wish they would publish fewer books–"which would allow time for more editorial input–"and promote individual authors more. (Me being one of them, of course. J)
What is your biggest challenge as a writer living outside of the US?
What have you done to overcome it?
You are such a big bouncing country! It's hard to keep up with you and write books that *might* appeal to such a large, diverse audience–"one of the reasons I've become so tuned in to reader blogs. Even though I have no idea whether the participants are American or Canadian, the opinions are fascinating to me. And it's great to discover first-hand that there are readers as committed to the romance genre as the writers are.
Still, I'm constantly challenged by what's hot, what's not, when it comes to current reading tastes. I try to overcome it by sticking to the basics. Canadians and Americans don't just share a continent, we share the same freedoms and common values–"so that's a powerful help. I also believe that good love stories are universal in appeal. The real challenge lies in writing one that will reach out and touch a reader's heart, whether he/she lives in New York, NY or Bella Coola, BC and make that heart pound–"in the best possible way. And although a writer aims to please many, many readers–"if they want to keep writing–"I like to think of a book as kind of a one-on-one experience between me and *a* reader. That thought helps me stay sane.

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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who previous called Linux “a cancer,” thinks the open-source Windows alternative has improved a lot lately and is now “in the rearview mirror,” becoming a stronger rival for Redmond’s operating system.
Speaking during an event organized by Fortune magazine, Ballmer explained that the threat from Linux is increasing and pointed out that he’s very pleased with Microsoft’s increased focus on the platform.
Recently, the software giant announced that it would release a Linux version of its SQL Server, and Ballmer says that he emailed the current CEO Satya Nadella to congratulate him for this decision.
Looking back at the early days when Windows competed against Linux, Steve Ballmer says he thinks Microsoft coped with that challenge very well and “it’s been incredibly important to the company’s revenue stream” to keep Windows the dominant operating system on the desktop.
“The company made a ton of money by fighting that battle very well,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters .
Ballmer’s original “cancer” comments
Back in 2001 when he was still Microsoft’s CEO and the company was working on maintaining Windows’ dominant position in the OS market (Windows XP was launched during the same year), Ballmer compared Linux with cancer as part of a statement that will remain in history books forever.
“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source,” he said.
Clearly, Microsoft has since changed its feelings towards Linux and the company’s founder Bill Gates himself applauded the new direction of the software giant in recent comments made on Reddit.
Microsoft announced earlier this week that its SQL Server relational database management system (RDBMS) would be launched on Linux kernel-based operating systems starting with 2017, in a move which demonstrates that the company now sees Linux as enough of a threat to try to capitalize on its growth.
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Sandra looks after major German clients from Frankfurt to Munich and closer to home in Austria, and brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience.
We spoke to her about her role, her experience in the construction industry and plans for growth as Portakabin continues to introduce its new Alta product into the German market.
"I joined the Portakabin team in Germany back in 2018 as the Key Account Manager for the South. I have a strong sales and commercial background, having always worked in this industry and a real passion for people, taking care of my customers and supporting my colleagues in other regional branches of Portakabin."
The market in Germany
"In Germany, our base market is primarily construction, with around 90% of our customers falling into this category. Portakabin has historically worked on a lot of projects for large construction companies, and I put that down to our ability to deliver and our personal care to our clients and our passion for working with people and building strong relationships.
Currently, the German market is going through a lot of changes – people are talking about the era of the turning point! There is a huge surge and a lot of talk around ensuring buildings are energy efficient and for customers to be conscious of their energy usage. At Portakabin, we have big plans to support our clients with our buildings, our building services offerings to help customers achieve their sustainable goals."
Delivering for our customers
"Earlier this year, Portakabin Germany was thrilled to welcome a new type of building to its fleet – Alta. Portakabin Alta buildings have been specifically designed to ensure the highest level of structural strength in all regulatory aspects.
We welcomed our first Alta order back in February, for a customer in the IT sector who was looking for a unique office space solution that was flexible and able to integrate with their existing building. The Alta product provided just that, and the customer was so happy with the outcome."
"Back in 2022, Portakabin Germany successfully won a contract to supply the US military hospital in Weillerbach with a modular solution for what turned out to be, a very complex and unique requirement. This was a huge contract for my team and I to work on, especially in terms of technical specification. At first, the client wasn’t entirely sure what they would need, but by speaking to my team and I, we were able to provide expertise, advice and support and guide the customer to making a decision that would best suit their needs and those of the hospital.
We were able to build the modules in a unique way, based on the customers’ requests and timelines. That, I believe, is one of the key reasons why our customers come back to us time and time again. The knowledge and expertise that the team at Portakabin can provide, along with delivering a unique modular solution, us unrivalled."
"Whilst we have a strong background in the construction industry, Portakabin Germany is looking to expand into new areas of business, especially within the education sector. I think that the Alta product would be a perfect solution for schools and kindergartens, due to its flexible capabilities and environmental friendliness. It’s an area that we’re going to focus on for 2023/24."
Life outside of Portakabin
"I’m such a people person and really love to interact with others within the business and industry, so I’m currently on the Portakabin Future Leaders Programme to help expand my knowledge and grow my team.
In my spare time (when I manage to get some!) I love to go skiing with my family. I live in Munich, so I’m lucky to have the Alps relatively close to my doorstep and the opportunity to ski on a weekend during the winter and go hiking in the mountains during the summer – the perfect combination!"
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Thousands of books at reading festival
In 1999, the local chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. created the Children’s Reading Festival (CRF) whose purpose was to encourage parents to foster a love of reading in their children at a young age. 20 years later, the festival has become the largest literary event on the island.
This year’s event is scheduled for November 2, 2019 in Victoria Park from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Ms. Nina Jacobs, President of the Bermuda Alumnae Chapter said, “In celebration of the Children’s Reading Festival’s 20th anniversary, the Bermuda Alumnae Chapter has committed to giving away 2,000 books at this year’s event. We encourage parents, grandparents, and caregivers of young children to bring them to the park and enjoy an atmosphere custom designed to highlight the joys of literacy.”
In addition to free books there will be resources available to provide parents with techniques to engage young children in reading and to help build their literacy skills. The Bermuda Youth Library will be participating, as will a speech and language pathologist. Bright Isle will be displaying a selection of tools to create a culture of learning in the home.
As is traditional, there will also be fun for the children which includes storytelling, face painting, fun castles, free popcorn and more.
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Ayurveda translates to study of life and is one of oldest medicine systems in the world. It works by treating the body as a whole system and gets to the problem. It believes that good health is a result of the balance between the 3 body elements Vata, pitta and kapha. The imbalance between these three cause disease and treatment should be aimed at restoring this balance.
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I am only 42 kgs after my c-section delivery but still My belly got little big. Doctor suggested to lie on stomach and did it. Still I got little tummy fat in stomach. How could I reduce that?
What are the doses of unienzyme tablet? How often we can take it? Only taking one tablet in a day will work? Is it only for digestion ot can be used in loose motions, dysentery and diarrhea? Please explain.
Is it possible for our body to get too much vitamin C through a normal diet? If we have a lot of vitamin C rich foods?
Hello Dr. I had an abortion DNC in december 2015 now m suffering from some belly fat on my tummy n thigh area. Pls suggest what should I do to shape my body perfectly again. Thanks and regards.
My height is 5 ft and 3 inch, but in past 2 months because of no proper workout my body has gained 7 kgs and I want to shed the increased weight quickly? Can you please provide me weight loss tips and also please tell what should be the ideal weight according to my height.
Can I take apple cider vinegar and lemon with warm water in empty stomach for weight loss program? Is it harmful anyhow?
For us This month is the month of fasting (ramzan) and we people have to fast. Before fasting my weight was 61 and after 5 days of fasting I checked ma weight and it was 61 kg . 6-7 days passed and I checked ma weight again and itz 65 .I don't even used to eat much but why my weight is increasing so much. How can I control my weight. M really disappointed by this. Please give some suggestions.
My hand is very thin as compared to my body and legs. I want to strong my hand and also how do I make my hand muscular? Please give me some tips to make my hand wider and muscular. Please give many tips as much as possible, I will try my best to do my hand muscular. Please sir help me.
Once you have got the happy news of a little one coming soon in your life, you should start taking some special care so that you can enjoy the journey of pregnancy and get a healthy baby (learn about Dietary Dos and Don'ts for Pregnancy)
These are some pointers you have to follow during pregnancy:
Maintain good hygiene during pregnancy. Take bath regularly. Warm shower or sponge bath is considered better than tub bath.
Brush your teeth regularly and have a regular dental check up. Caries tooth can be extracted after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Avoid wearing tight clothes and shoes with high heels. Wear loose and light clothes.
Take lots of fluid, fresh fruits & vegetables.
Take a diet which is light, nutritious, easily digestible & rich in protein, less fat, minerals and vitamins.
Stop smoking and drinking alcohol. It can cause miscarriage, defect in the development and growth of the baby.
Avoid jerky travelling, especially in 1st 12 wks and last 6wks of pregnancy. Prolonged sitting in a car or plane should be avoided. Air travel is not advisable to women who have high blood pressure, less hemoglobin (anemia) and low lying placenta.
Avoid taking any unprescribed drugs, exposure to X-Ray & chemicals especially in the 1st 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Take adequate rest in the lateral position and relax 1-2 hrs in the afternoon & 8 hrs at night.
Start taking folic acid at least 3 months before planning pregnancy & continue it till the 1st 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Start taking iron & calcium after 12 wks of pregnancy and continue it throughout pregnancy and 6 months post delivery.
Exercise regularly during pregnancy. Walking is the best exercise, but long periods of walking should be avoided. Also avoid heavy weight lifting and prolonged standing. Diving, water sking, gymnastic, netball, hockey, horse riding, cycling, rock-climbing, & scuba diving exercises should be avoided during pregnancy.
If you have any of these symptoms - vaginal bleeding, persistent abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, watery discharge from vagina, less or no fetal movement, severe headache, swelling on hands, face & feet, fever, dizziness, blurring of vision, double vision, spots before eyes, painful urination and diarrhea, immediately consult your gynecologist.

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LONDON, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Most ethnic minority voters have never heard of Enoch Powell, according to a poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft 45 years after the "rivers of blood" speech.
However, while 51% of minority voters interviewed said they had not heard of Powell, nearly two thirds (64%) of black Caribbean respondents said they knew who he was and what he said.
Powell delivered the notorious speech in Birmingham on 20 April 1968.
Lord Ashcroft polled 1,035 adults from ethnic minorities between 15 March and 22 April. A separate nationally representative survey was conducted between 12 and 14 April. The research also found:
- Nine in ten of both the ethnic minority and general population say Britain has become a multicultural country. While 91% of minority voters say they are in favour of multiculturalism, only 70% of the general population agree. UKIP voters are the only group among whom a majority say they are not in favour of multiculturalism.
- 80% of black voters, but only 64% of those from an Asian background (and only 51% of Sikhs) think that "on the whole, immigration has been a good thing for the country". This compares to 54% of the population as a whole.
- Most minority voters (61%) think that "the different ethnic groups that make up this country get on well", compared to only 43% of the population as a whole (and only 30% of UKIP voters).
- Only 38% of black Caribbean voters think the Conservatives support multiculturalism (though 44% think this of David Cameron). However, nearly two thirds of Hindus think the Tories support multiculturalism (and three quarters think it true of Cameron). UKIP voters (73%) were much more likely than voters as a whole (54%) to think the Conservative Party supported multiculturalism.
- Keith Vaz is the best known politician from an ethnic or religious minority (though only 10% named him spontaneously, and more than half could not name any). Sayeeda Warsi was second, followed by Diane Abbott, and Ed Miliband. George Galloway was fifth.
- Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims are more likely than the population as a whole to think that "if you work hard, it is possible to be very successful in Britain no matter what your background".
In his commentary on the results, to be published on Conservative Home on Friday 19 April, Lord Ashcroft says:
"Only 16% of ethnic minority voters supported us at the last election. As I argued in Degrees of Separation [his research among ethnic minority voters published in 2012] we must do better than this - both because we should be a party for the whole country, and because we will find it increasingly difficult to win a majority without them. There is no doubt that in 2010 this situation cost us seats".
Notes to Editors
1. 1,035 adults from ethnic minorities were interviewed by telephone between 22 March and 15 April 2013. The sample included 169 participants of Black Caribbean background, 154 Black African, 501 Muslim, 150 Hindu, and 100 Sikh.
A separate survey of 1,002 adults was conducted by telephone between 12 and 14 April 2013; results have been weighted to be politically representative of all adults in Great Britain. Full poll tables will be available at LordAshcroftPolls.com on Friday 19 April.
2. Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, author and philanthropist. He is founder and Chairman of the Board of Crimestoppers, a member of the Board of the Imperial War Museum and a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum Foundation, Chairman of the Trustees of Ashcroft Technology Academy, Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University and Treasurer of the International Democrat Union. From 2005 to 2010 he was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.
3. His political books and research papers include Smell The Coffee (2005), Minority Verdict (2010), Project Blueprint (2011 & 2012), The Leadership Factor (2011), Degrees of Separation (2012), The Armed Forces & Society (2012), Blue Collar Tories (2012), Project Red Alert (2012), They're Thinking What We're Thinking: Understanding The UKIP Temptation (2012), and What Are The Liberal Democrats For? (2013).
4. Full details of Lord Ashcroft's polling and commentary can be found at LordAshcroftPolls.com, where you can also sign up for news alerts. Follow him on Twitter: @LordAshcroft


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Now a Michelin starred-pub; this is for the real foodies out there. You 100% need to book ahead to get in here, but it is well-worth it! Tommy Banks, the fantastic chef, featured on Great British Menu and is a local celebrity now! The Black Swan, Oldstead,
Feted as the best restaurant in the world, the Black Swan is just a short drive away in Oldstead.
Voted as no1 Restaurant in the world, Tommy was the youngest ever chef to win a Michelin Star. Michelin-starred Restaurant with Rooms on the edge of the North York Moors with a 2 acre kitchen garden providing fresh produce daily. Run by The Banks Family who have farmed at Oldstead for generations.


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Stocks were mixed Friday following the worst month for tech stocks since the peak of the pandemic, amid positive news about a late-stage COVID-19 treatment.
Here are some of the top gainers Friday:
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Merck (MRK) - Get Free Report shares surged after the pharmaceutical company said its developing COVID-19 antiviral drug reduced the risk of hospitalization and death in high-risk patients by as much as 50%. The company plans to seek emergency use approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Atea Pharmaceuticals (AVIR) - Get Free Report, which is also working on an oral antiviral medicine targeting Covid-19, jumped 22%.
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Southwest Airlines (LUV) - Get Free Report took off after JPMorgan analysts upgraded the carrier to overweight from neutral and boosted their price target to $70 from $64, saying the current rally for U.S. airlines "has room to run." Analyst Jamie Baker cited encouraging travel spending data, the recent planned relaxation of U.S. borders, and equity values that remain significantly below their vernal highs as reasons for optimism.
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Pinterest (PINS) - Get Free Report climbed after RBC Capital analyst Brad Erickson initiated coverage of the image-sharing social media company with a sector perform rating and $58 price target. He said the company offers a "solid foothold" at the beginning of a users' inspiration / topical discovery journey and represents a "prudent play" of steadily ramping monetization through an ad platform and subsequently commerce.
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1 1/2 pounds white confectioners’ coating*
1 (14-ounce) can EAGLE BRAND® Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
1/8 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In large saucepan, over low heat, melt coating with EAGLE BRAND® and salt. Remove from heat; stir in remaining ingredients.
Spread evenly into wax paper-lined 8- or 9-inch square pan. Chill 2 hours or until firm. Turn fudge onto cutting board; peel off paper and cut into squares. Store leftovers tightly covered at room temperature.
*White confectioners’ coating can be purchased in candy specialty stores.
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup chopped pecans
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
½ cup butter (1 stick)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. coconut extract
3 ¼ cup powdered sugar
1 cup coconut (optional)
½ cup chopped pecans (optional)
Heat oven to 350 degrees. To make cake batter, in a large bowl, beat together eggs with sugar and vanilla. Add flour, pineapple with juice, baking soda and walnuts and mix well to combine.
Pour cake batter into a 9×13 inch baking pan sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 35 to 40 minutes.
To making frosting, cream together cream cheese and butter. Add vanilla, coconut extract, and powdered sugar and use an electric mixer to beat until frosting is smooth.
Frost cake once it has cooled after baking. Add the coconut and pecans on top (optional).
3/4 pound fusilli pasta
3/4 pound bow tie pasta
1/4 cup good olive oil
1 1/2 cups pesto (packaged or see recipe below)
1 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, defrosted and squeezed dry
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 1/4 cups good mayonnaise
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan
1 1/2 cups frozen peas, defrosted
1/3 cup pignoli (pine nuts)
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup pignoli (pine nuts)
3 tablespoons chopped garlic (9 cloves)
5 cups fresh basil leaves, packed
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 cups good olive oil
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan
Cook the fusilli and bow ties separately in a large pot of boiling salted water for 10 to 12 minutes until each pasta is al dente. Drain and toss into a bowl with the olive oil. Cool to room temperature.
In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade, puree the pesto, spinach, and lemon juice. Add the mayonnaise and puree. Add the pesto mixture to the cooled pasta and then add the Parmesan, peas, pignoli, salt, and pepper. Mix well, season to taste, and serve at room temperature.
Place the walnuts, pignoli, and garlic in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Process for 15 seconds. Add the basil leaves, salt, and pepper. With the processor running, slowly pour the olive oil into the bowl through the feed tube and process until the pesto is thoroughly pureed. Add the Parmesan and puree for a minute. Use right away or store the pesto in the refrigerator or freezer with a thin film of olive oil on top.
Notes: Air is the enemy of pesto. For freezing, pack it in containers with a film of oil or plastic wrap directly on top with the air pressed out.
To clean basil, remove the leaves, swirl them in a bowl of water, and then spin them very dry in a salad spinner. Store them in a closed plastic bag with a slightly damp paper towel. As long as the leaves are dry they will stay green for several days.
1-1/2 c. sugar
1 c. sour cream
1/2 c. butter, softened
1-3/4 (3 or 4) ripe bananas, mashed
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. chopped walnuts (optional)
Brown Butter Frosting:
1/2 c. butter
4 c. powdered sugar
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3 tbsp. milk
Heat oven to 375F. Grease and flour 15×10-inch jelly roll pan. For the bars, in a large bowl, beat together sugar, sour cream, butter, and eggs until creamy. Blend in bananas and vanilla extract. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and blend for 1 minute. Stir in walnuts.
Spread batter evenly into pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Meanwhile, for frosting, heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until boiling. Let the butter turn a delicate brown and remove from heat immediately.
4. Add powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Whisk together until smooth (it should be thicker than a glaze but thinner than frosting). Using a spatula, spread the brown butter frosting over the warm bars (the frosting will be easier to spread while the bars are still warm).


Messi Bouli: We still have time to bounce back
Kerala Blasters FC face a tough away challenge against Chennaiyin FC in the Hero Indian Super League (Hero ISL) 2019-20 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Friday. Kerala have drawn their last three matches and are looking for their second win of the season. Meanwhile, Chennaiyin have found their goal scoring boots having scored five goals in their last three encounters.
Speaking to indiansuperleague.com in an exclusive interview, Blasters striker Messi Bouli spoke about their misfortune with injuries, among other things.
Here’s what he had to say:
Read the Match Preview here.


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The Toolbox: Issue 8Comments (0)
This article is from Issue 8 of Woodcraft Magazine.
Kreg K3 Pocket Hole System
It was back in 1989 that I remember watching Norm Abram use pocket screws to construct a face frame for a bookshelf he was building on “New Yankee Workshop.” He pulled a clever little implement out of his tool pouch and announced that it had been sent to him by a “friend of the show.” It was nothing more than a small block of aluminum with a hole drilled through it at the precise shallow angle necessary to guide a standard drill bit to carve out a channel in the piece of wood the jig was clamped to, while not allowing the drill to poke through the opposing face of the wood. A piece of tape wrapped around the bit indicated the depth to stop drilling.
For all I know, the viewer who gifted Norm with that gadget may very well have been Iowa tool and die maker Craig Sommerfeld, who had been tinkering with just such a device since 1986 and brought his first commercially available pocket hole jig, the Kreg M1, to market in 1990. A two-hole model, the M2, followed later that year, as did the sand-cast model K2.
Fast forward to today and the solid aluminum block has given way to the molded glass-filled nylon body with hardened-steel drill guides of the Kreg model K3, the essential component of the company’s K3 Master System. This little unit is about the size of a pack of cigarettes and houses three guides, two of which (B and C) are just 9/16" apart while guide A is spaced 7/8" from guide B. The manufacturer recommends using two pocket holes when joining material that is up to 33/4" wide, and this arrangement permits both holes to be drilled without having to reposition the jig. The combination of two of the three available guides you use is determined by the width of your workpiece. For even wider boards, the manufacturer suggests spacing individual holes 6" apart.
Not only has the basic jig seen significant improvement over the years, so have the accessories. In the early days you might have had to secure the jig to the workpiece with whatever clamp was handy, but now Kreg supplies a tool created specifically for that function. It is a sort of hybrid of locking pliers with a large C-clamp on either side, and a disk mounted on a swivel, perpendicular to each jaw. This item can serve the dual purpose of holding the jig securely to the work while drilling, then keeping the two pieces of wood exactly flush with one another when screwing them together.
It is also no longer necessary to wrap tape around the bit to avoid drilling too deeply. Most Kreg kits now come with a 3/8" drill bit equipped with an adjustable depth collar. Furthermore, it is a stepped drill bit with a smaller diameter portion at the tip for generating the pilot hole for the screw, which will eventually be driven through that newly drilled pocket.
Even the screws have been specially designed. They are self-tapping and feature a built-in washer for extra holding power. The screws are available in three thread types: fine, coarse, and a combination of the two called “Hi-Lo” for medium-density hardwoods like poplar. There is also a smaller no-washer pan head screw for extremely hard woods. All of these screws are square-drive type, and the appropriate driver bits in 3" and 6" lengths are included with the kit.
A lot of combo kits come with various tools to perform multiple functions. The Kreg K3 Master Kit does just the opposite in that it performs just one function, but is loaded with bells and whistles to make that one job go as smoothly as possible. After all, you could make perfect pocket holes with just the basic jig alone, but this kit comes with a bench-mountable front side clamp, a rugged base intended to be permanently installed in the workshop. Using it in combination with the basic jig and a separate bench-mounted material support allows you to clamp both workpieces securely and accurately to your bench and conduct your drilling operations vertically rather than horizontally. There’s even a handy dust-collection shroud that can be snapped onto this accessory to port wood chips directly to your shop vacuum or dust collection system. The kit also contains a smaller portable base that can fit easily in a tool belt and be quickly screwed to a jobsite workbench to facilitate vertical operation out in the field.
The entire K3 Master System comes packaged in a rugged, plastic carrying case and includes a small assortment of screws. It retails for around $150.
The K3 is also available in a standard pack without the bench-top base and dust collection hookup, and sells for around $80. For more information visit kregtool.com.
— When not in his shop, Lee Gordon is a copywriter and announcer who has voiced thousands of radio and television commercials. He lives in West Hartford, Conn.
Wixey WR500 Digital
The Wixey WR500 electronic digital readout is an extremely easy way to add digital measurement to a bench-top planer. The Wixey readout can be easily attached to Delta Models TP300, TP400LS, 22-560 and the 22-580 two-speed surface planers, the DeWalt Models DW733, DW734 and the DW735 two-speed surface planer, the Ridgid Model TP1300LS, the Craftsman Model 21713 or the Ryobi Model AP1300. It can also be attached to just about any 12"-13" bench-top planer with just some very minor modifications. The measurements can be given in inches or millimeters with an accuracy of .001 inch or .01 mm.
The directions supplied with the Wixey digital readout unit are straightforward and have excellent diagrams.
The unit is affixed to the planer with double-sided tape after it is properly leveled and locked in according to the instructions that apply to your particular planer. Once in place, set your planer’s preset depth stop at one of the lowest positions (1/4" or 1/2") and lower the cutterhead until it hits the stop. If your planer doesn’t have a preset stop, lower it as far as it will go, which should be 1/8" on most planers. Slide the readout down the steel scale and using the top edge of the plastic readout case as a pointer, align the readout with the proper reference position printed on the steel scale.
After calibrating the unit, which takes only a minute or two, you can surface your wood to extremely precise dimensions. For example, if you’re in the process of planing wood and after repeated passes a point is reached where you want to remove a precise amount of material on the final pass, follow this procedure: After the next-to-last pass, don’t touch the head or height-adjustment crank yet. Press the ABS/INC button until “INC” appears above the reading and the reading changes to 0.000. Then unlock the headlock and crank down the cutterhead until the display shows the amount of material you want to remove on the last pass. Lock the cutterhead lock and run the last pass. Pressing the ABS/INC button again takes the readout out of the INC mode and places it back in the ABS mode. The reading on the display will be the exact thickness of the board you’ve just planed and your planer’s calibration is maintained.
By the way, even though this unit was designed to be used on bench-top planers, I also tried it on two different drum sanders. The unit fit very easily on the Performax Model 16-32 Plus and the results were just as good as on either planer test. The unit also fit on the Delta Model 31-250, but had to be placed on the outfeed side of the sander. The measurement results were just as reliable as those on the test with the Performax.
All in all, the Wixey WR500 electronic readout enables a precise measurement capability that has been lacking on woodworking machines. We now have the ability to machine wood to the same precision tolerances that have previously been the domain of milling machines and surface grinders.
The unit retails for around $59.95.
— Jim Doyle lives in Norfolk, Va.
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If you’re running Windows 10 on your PC, you might want to download and install the free security patch that was released on Tuesday. The National Security Agency discovered a way for hackers to get into the more than 900 million computers using Microsoft’s operating system, alerting the company so a fix could be made. According to the feds, “the consequences of not patching the vulnerability are severe and widespread.” Anne Neuberger, the head of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate, made a point to note that they have not taken advantage of the bug, says Wired.
Windows 10 security bug leaves your PC vulnerable to attack: here's how to patch it https://t.co/HHk3kP6SqW
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There is no love lost between Blac Chyna and the Kardashians. With a storied history that began with a relationship between Chyna and Rob Kardashian, the model still has smoke for the reality star and entrepreneur sisterhood.
Posting a video of the Kardashians online, Chyna would hint at the fact that they are all “Baby Mamas.”
“If they were black, they’ll say it’s Ghetto BUT ALL OF THEM ARE BABY MAMAs,” Chyna wrote with the image.
Chyna and the Kardashians are set to go to trial in November with the accusations that the family used their fame to cancel opportunities, including a show on E! titled Rob & Chyna.

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