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Panama City Marina closed indefinitely
PANAMA CITY - The Panama City Marina is closed indefinitely due to significant damage from Hurricane Michael.
Boats, wooden piers, the seawall in certain areas and marina store were damaged, said Jared Jones, the assistant city manager in Panama City. It’s currently too early to tell when the marina will reopen, said Jones.
“Right now insurance companies are working with vessel owners to pull boats out,” said Jones. “There’s an environmental concern with the fuel and oil in the water. We’re working with state and national agencies to get it cleaned up.”
Jones said the damage is hard to take in and the marina has “lost all functionality.” Work is also being done to remove debris. The marina is fenced off to prevent people from walking through.
“I’d encourage people not to go visit it until it’s safe,” said Jones. “Let that process take place before they set foot on it. I know people want to look and take a deep breath. It’s a nice part of our city to take a relaxing moment at but its just not safe.
However, Jones said the wreckage gives the city an opportunity to improve the marina.
“It’s a tragedy what happened, not just for the marina but for our community as a whole,” said Jones. “Our community as a whole will never look the same but the silver lining is that there will be a lot of grant money—federal and state—to mitigate these hazards in the future. Maybe looking though that lens gives us a lot of opportunity for the marina.”
A revenue loss is expected with the Panama City Marina, which operates on funds generated. Emergency reserve funds are expected to cover operations for a few months.
Another marina, though, was shown a bit more mercy by Hurricane Michael.
“The St. Andrews Marina fared a little bit better,” said Jones. “But there were vessels and docks damaged there.”
The St. Andrews Marina store is open after taking minor damage and has taken in a bit of salvaged inventory. Commercial vessels are also operating at the St. Andrews Marina.


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The Uganda Joint Christian Council has protested the passing of the Public Order Management Bill calling it an abrogation of the constitutional provision of freedom of speech and expression.
In press statement signed by the UJCC chairperson Rt. Rev. Stanley Ntagali, the religious leaders cited sections 8 and 10 of schedule 2 of the Bill, which provide for approval or non-approval by an authorised Police officer as unconstitutional.
“Our view is that these provisions tantamount to the abrogation of freedom of speech and expression and freedom to assemble, to demonstrate and to petition that are enshrined in Article 29-(1) of the Constitution and which, in our view, are the foundations of good governance, peace and stability,” the bishops argued.
They regretted that Parliament ignored their views, which they had submitted in December 2012.
“It is now public knowledge that our views on this matter were ignored,” they said.

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The government has formed a multi-agency team to crackdown on unscrupulous traders hoarding subsidized maize flour. Check Unga Prices. State Department for Crops Development and Agricultural Research Principal Secretary (PS) Dr. Francis Owino said the country had enough maize flour and stocks following the agreement signed with millers terming the shortage in parts of the country artificial.
Some retailers and wholesalers, he said were stock piling the flour in anticipation of higher prices dealing a blow to the government’s directive to enhance access to the product. Check Unga Prices
“This flour is meant for consumption not storage. We have enough stocks therefore just buy what is enough for you,” he said.
This, he said was illegal adding that surveillance teams have been dispatched across the country to bring to book those involved in the vice.
“We are going to engage all government machinery to ensure that all traders hoarding the subsidized maize flour are arrested and prosecuted,” he said.
Out of the Sh. 4 billion released by the government to facilitate the program, Sh. 256.7 million, he said has been paid to 122 millers to ensure that Kenyans access maize flour at Sh. 100.
The money, he said is expected to hit the accounts of the millers on Monday adding that an additional Sh. 500 million pending bill dating back to 2017 was also being processed.
Dr. Owino attributed the shortage of the commodity in supermarkets to credit arrangements which were unfriendly to the millers.
“Supermarkets don’t buy maize flour in cash. They are supplied to sell and pay after 45 days. Therefore, millers are finding it difficult to supply the subsidized maize flour to them,” he said.
The government, he said was engaging the umbrella body of the supermarkets to shorten the duration of payment so that Kenyan can access the product at the supermarkets.
Speaking in Kisumu on Sunday during an inspection tour of the boarded millers in the area, Dr. Owino said the challenges experienced during the launch of the program have been addressed urging members of the public to be on the lookout and report any trader selling the flour above Sh. 100.
The four weeks subsidy, he said has gone a long way to cushion Kenyans against the high prices of the commodity expressing optimism that the prices were set to stabilize.
“We have enough stocks in the counts and we are also expecting to harvest soon and this will help stabilize the prices,” he said.
The government, however, he said will review the program after the four weeks and make a decision on the way forward to ensure that Kenyans continue to have access to the essential commodity.
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Nosh is a food truck that needs to be in your downtown lunch rotation immediately. Well, as soon as Friday rolls around - because that’s the only day they stop in Westlake Park. Their food is a mix of different things, all of which are very good: think pub-style fish and chips with minted peas, buttermilk-fried confit rabbit, a fish sandwich with homemade tartar sauce and thyme-roasted tomatoes, and the true sleeper hit of this place - a caprese sandwich with prosciutto, basil aioli, and a balsamic glaze. Top your lunch off with a homemade raspberry mint Arnold Palmer for quite possibly the best meal you’ll ever eat from a Seattle food truck.
Nosh is permanently closed.
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Retro Restaurant And Lounge is an American spot Downtown that serves an excellent burger.
Cafe Hitchcock is an all-day coffee shop downtown serving sandwiches, salads, and grain bowls.
Don’t overlook Kastoori Grill just because it’s next to the Pike Place madness - it’s one of the best Indian spots downtown.
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Skillet Diner is a modern diner in Capitol Hill serving updated versions of classic dishes.
Mr. West Cafe Bar
Mr. West Cafe is an attractive espresso bar and all day cafe with substantial food downtown.
Opus Co. is a tiny neighborhood restaurant in Greenwood serving food that’s both highly creative and delicious.
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ELENA directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Part of the Nanovic Institute Film Series: Young and Broke in Europe
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
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Winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, Elena is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment—he’s a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she’s his dowdy former nurse who has clearly “married up.” Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly despises his wife’s freeloading son and family. But when a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten the dutiful housewife’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan…. Masterfully crafted by award-winning Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (Golden Globe nominee The Return) and featuring evocative, Hitchcockian music by Philip Glass, Elena is a subtly stylish exploration of crime, punishment and human nature.
Tickets for all films are $7 general admission, $6 faculty/staff, $5 senior citizens, and $4 all students. To purchase tickets, contact the box office at 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. A limited number of FREE tickets are available at the Nanovic Institute for Nanovic fellows and minors in the European studies program. Occasionally we have a few extra tickets to spare, so stop by and ask!

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When I was a child I pictured this day as the most perfect of my life. It seemed so utterly fantastical to me that I, the insignificant adopted daughter of Duke Ellis, should be allowed to marry a prince. I almost imagined myself a character in a fairytale. That was before things really started to sink in around 12 years old. I had long since begun to learn the graces of my future status, how to flawlessly perform my role as a prince's bride, how to be royal, but at 12 I began to see that there were sacrifices involved. Suddenly it all became a little less fantastical, and a little bit more like the weighty duty that it was. Not that I ever minded, I was as excited, if not more so, at 16 as I had been at 6. Today that excitement has simmered down enough to reach the dregs of trepidation beneath, and the steely resolve holding it all together. I've prepared all my life for this, yet somewhere deep down I know that I'm not ready. I'm stepping into a world I've only pretended to understand, and just like becoming the daughter of the Ellis family, whether I want it or not this is the fate given to me. I must remain grateful. Even if, yet again, my life will never be the same.
Yesterday was a flurry of preparations like none I've ever seen, which is saying something given the number of balls I've attended over the years. There's a certain element of nostalgia in the process of packing for somewhere you'll never return from, even for someone as unsentimental as me, and it's been hard to shake the feeling of sadness over what I'm leaving behind. I haven't truly left home since I came to live with the Ellis family at three years old. Visits to friends’ estates, yes, but my brothers were always with me then. I always knew I’d be coming home again.
I step gingerly down from the carriage, pulling together every shred of confidence I possess and still faltering. It's irritating. If I've learned anything over the past seventeen years, I've learned to appear composed at all times. No one wants a whiner. Obvious fear causes others to become uncomfortable. It is my duty to make others feel at ease, to sweep them up in a sense of happy security. To win their confidence and devotion. It's worked well enough at home, at all the galas, the feasts, even other royal weddings. Being liked is something I’m good at. I should feel sure of myself, but it still unnerves me that the only royal I have yet to meet is the one I am about to wed. I thought I would have met him before now, I've met all of his family at some point or another, if only in greeting. Yet year after year, there was never any sign of him. Any attempt at meeting failed. At times I questioned whether he existed, or if I really was living a fantasy in my head.
Why does he hide?
I've already considered the possibility that he's hideous, it's crossed my mind many times over the years, though somehow I've never quite minded the idea. No, it's not that. I could even stand it if he were cruel. I think I could. What truly worries me is that despite acknowledging my status as his betrothed, other people don't talk about him. I'm positive it's because they don't know about him. They know his name, of course, but that's it. And it's not just I who hasn't met him. No one has. Yet no one seems to think this odd - they chalk it up to his poor health, his timid nature, the attempt on his life as a child, and a dozen other stories that never quite connect, and then they change the subject. Often to his elder brothers, who are both very much in the public eye. Maybe he is sickly and paranoid. Maybe he is terribly shy. I just can't help but feel that something is dreadfully wrong.
Today all of the nagging thoughts and fears I've ever squashed down into the furthest part of my mind seem to have sprung free and clogged up in my throat. I've prepared for so long, but what if I've prepared wrong? How can I know how to be the best wife to someone I've never heard the slightest whisper of gossip about? The castle doors swing wide and my thoughts are hushed by the sudden presence of the royal ambassador. His eyes sweep me and my entourage.
"Lady Eileen, we have been expecting you," he bows graciously, "This way, please."
Dressed in a gown the length of the courtyard and primped to the last eyelash, I'm beginning to feel much more confident. Yes, this is right. This is where I'm meant to be. If he's a sickly little coward, it’s better than a stubborn brute. By the time I'm standing before the throne room doors, I'm quite sure of myself again. It's all exactly how I pictured it. The flowers are beautiful, the music is beautiful, I'm beautiful, and-
The doors open, and I see all the people inside lining either side of the carpet right up to the dias. Directly ahead is the groom. My eyes lock on him as begin walking, and my first impression is that he is not hideous. Far from it.
Prince Quin is on the taller side of average height, and even from a distance I can see his rather wild hair is a deep shade of auburn, his build is lean, and his hands are fidgeting where they're clasped behind his back. Even from a distance I can see that he looks bored and uncomfortable. He's not even looking at me.
And neither is anyone else. They're all transfixed by him.
Undaunted, I hold my practiced smile until I reach him, a walk that feels like both a single step and an eternity at the same time. A shock of impossibly blond hair catches my eye for just a moment as I pass the attendants closest to him, and I find that at least one person is staring at me. Piercing, frigid blue eyes glare at me with deep hatred, but there's no time to process it, to wonder who he is or what he might dislike about me. I continue on and stand beside the Prince.
When our hands are placed together at the foot of the dias, he finally notices me. There's nothing particularly striking about his face, except that his gray irises are very pale. There's something soft about him, but not in a physical sense. His expression is impassive, and now that we're so close I can see he's not just bored and uncomfortable, he actually looks ill. Perhaps he's nervous. I give his hand a comforting squeeze and he simply blinks at me.
Perhaps I was too bold. Turning my face towards the priestess, I focus on the ceremony rather than the warm hand now barely gripping mine. I don’t know why but I'm almost relieved when he repeats his part of the vows, even if his voice is so quiet that no one past the first row could possibly have heard him. Well, the priestess heard, and that's really the important part.
The ceremony drags on, and even I am starting to feel bored and restless. By now we're engaged in a silent battle as he makes his hand as difficult to hold onto as possible. I won't let go, though. I won't lose. Onlookers coo their support as they presume it's all a flirtation, and I flash him a triumphant smile. It has no effect whatsoever, which is infuriating, but I rein it in as the priestess pauses significantly in her droning. She's finished with her speech and suddenly the boy with the frost blond hair is beside us, holding out the rings. He hasn't stopped glaring at me.
The banquet goes by in a blur, there are so many people congratulating me, giving me gifts, serving me food. The only thing I manage to keep track of is my cup, which people keep trying to fill with wine as they get drunker and drunker. Prince Quin drinks only a glass of water, which is filled exclusively by the pale haired boy - by now I'm certain he's Quin's personal servant. Unluckily for me. I was hoping we wouldn't have to see much of one another, considering the loathing looks he's been continually tossing my way.
Speaking of servants, I haven't yet seen anyone designated for me. Will I have a personal attendant? Hopefully I'm not expected to share the prince's, or maybe that's why he's angry, having his workload suddenly doubled. No, that can't possibly be it. Giving a married woman a male attendant is unheard of. Isn’t it?
The fifth troupe of performers is filing away from the center of the room when Quin suddenly rises from his seat. A hush falls over the room and even the King, seated beside him, looks up in surprise.
"Thank you all for attending my wedding," he says to the room in a calm voice that contrasts starkly with the raucous celebrating just a moment before, "My bride and I will now retire, but please remain and enjoy the banquet as long as you wish. Good night."
The banquet hall bursts into a round of cheers and applause, some less proper than others as the alcohol continues to flow, and the prince turns to take my hand. Well, that's a step in the right direction. I accept it, and together we sweep gracefully from the room, the knotted feeling in my stomach tightening as I wonder again about the mystery of Prince Quin’s seclusion. After all these years, the uncertainty is enough to make me sick. Now I’m finally face to face with him, finally married, finally so close...
And yet he’s never felt further away.

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(From the Illinois League of Women Voters summary.)
Significant strides in ensuring wide access to voting were made when SB 1863 passed both the House and Senate of the General Assembly. This bill now awaits the Governor’s signature in order to become law. Major provisions of the bill that apply to all election authorities include:
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All this talk about habits, but what actually is a habit?
In simple terms, we can define a habit as an automatic behavior...
Delving deeper, a habit has these main characteristics:-
- Bottom up - meaning that habits are automatic with no conscious thought or attention required
- Impulsive - does not require intention
- Directly cueued - triggered by some kind of external stimulus
- Effortless initiation - once cueued, they are pretty much automatic
Brushing your teeth or having a shower each morning probably satisfies all the above criteria, because they're habitual.
How Can We Tell if an Existing Behavior has become Habitual?
This has been the focus of many scientific studies about behavior and habit formation...
The best model they've come up with so far is something called the The Self Report Habit Index (SRHI). This is simply a series of 12 questions that you can answer yourself about a behavior that you currently do.
This particular method was used in the "famous" study about how long it takes to form a habit to figure out whether participant behaviors had become habitual or not.
The Self Report Habit Index (SRHI)
Below is the complete SRHI questionnaire that you can use to figure out if a behavior you have is habitual.
Answer the questions as honestly as possible 😉
Behavior X is something...
- I do frequently
- I do automatically
- I do without having to consciously remember
- that makes me feel weird if I do not do it
- I do without thinking
- that would require effort not to do it
- that belongs to my (daily, weekly, monthly) routine
- I start doing before I realize I'm doing it
- I would find hard not to do
- I have no need to think about doing
- that's typically me
- I have been doing for a long time
- For each question, answer from 1 to 7
- Answer 1 if you strongly disagree with the statement and answer 7 if you completely agree.
The higher your total score, the more habitual your behavior has become.
Why Is this Useful for Us?
For scientists that are trying to research, study and measure how habits are formed, then this method of obtaining results is one of the best models they have.
For us, well...I think our attention can be better served elsewhere.
Sure, you could use the questionnaire as an "interesting" experiment to see how effective your recent 4 weeks of habit formation experiment has been...
But don't read too much into the results.
Just keep on keeping on and your habit will form sooner or later.

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During the past few years airborne/spaceborne detection and quantification of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) emitted by terrestrial vegetation became possible at several narrow wavelengths. These improvements in Earth Observation technology offer huge possibilities to increase our knowledge on the basic functioning of the Earth’s vegetation, i.e. the photosynthetic process of plants resulting in atmospheric carbon uptake. However, still some efforts are required for establishing well-funded relationships between SIF and photosynthesis under different plant physiological states. Hence, in order to improve the quantification of photosynthesis through SIF, the main aim of this proposal (FLUOPHOT) is to further establish the link between the SIF characteristics and both the actual and potential photosynthesis of the plant. This will be achieved by coupling dedicated field/laboratory measurements and campaigns with modelling activities. As a result of the planned activities, significant progress is foreseen in the remote quantification of vegetation productivity. FLUOPHOT strives to unravel fundamental SIF-photosynthesis systems at the leaf and canopy scale. These findings are in direct support of ESA’s candidate Earth Explorer mission FLEX, and eventually will lead to unbiased global estimates of photosynthetic carbon uptake.
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It has been more than a year since my last relationship ended. My girlfriend and I went our separate ways. We mutually decided that we just weren’t a great match. Because the relationship ended on such great terms, we’re still friends to this day. In fact, we often give each other dating advice. She told me that last week she read about love and relationship psychic readings, and how people were finding great matches after speaking with a psychic advisor. I had never called or visited a psychic before, but I was very interested in the possibility of doing so. I asked her to tell me more.
She told me that the article she read found that many successful relationships were formed after people consulted a psychic. Sometimes people don’t have the confidence needed to move forward with a relationship, and speaking with a psychic can help you confirm what you think it right, or steer you in a different direction if you’re headed down the wrong path.


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The Fast Break | Best of Sept. 18
Catch up on all the action from Friday night.
Nightly Notable: Anthony Davis | Sep. 18
Anthony Davis had 37 points and 10 rebounds in game one of the Western Conference Finals.
GAME RECAP: Lakers 126, Nuggets 114
Anthony Davis scores 37 points and adds 10 rebounds versus Denver as Los Angeles takes Game 1 of the Western C ...
Breaking down the Lakers dominant Game 1 performance
Kenny, Shaq and Chuck break down the Lakers' dominant win over the Nuggets in Game 1.
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Lakers' point guard Rajon Rondo joins the set after helping to lead the Lakers to a Game 1 victory over the Nu ...
Top 5 Plays | Sep. 18
Check out the top plays from Friday.
Rajon Rondo sinks the shot from behind the backboard
Anthony Davis goes up to get it and finishes the oop in the third quarter
Dwight Howard denies Gary Harris at the rim in the second quarter
Must-See: Caruso lobs to LeBron for transition slam
LeBron James with an emphatic slam in the second quarter
Rondo with a nice bounce pass to KCP in the first quarter

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According to Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir, the sheriff’s office obtained new evidence in the case in October and they were able to obtain an arrest warrant for the suspect, Steven L. Hanks, 68, of Burden, Kansas, KSN reported.
“At 42 years and 10 months, we believe this is the oldest homicide arrest in the state of Kansas,” Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir said, noting there are now currenly no uncleared murder cases in the county.
On Jan. 24, 1980, the body of Mary Robin Walter, a nursing student and married mother of one daughter, was found in her trailer in Great Bend. She had been shot multiple times.
Sheriff Bellendir said investigators at the time developed Hanks as a person of interest in the Walter’s murder but the case went cold until it was reopened last spring.
“After taking a fresh look at the case, it became evident that some of the information had been initially overlooked, and some had been added at a later date,” Bellendir said, adding, “This was unknown to the original investigators.”
According to authorities, Hanks lived near Walters when she was killed.
Citing court documents, KSN reported Hanks has a criminal history that includes allegations he broke into a coworker’s home around a year after Walter’s slaying and was “kissing and fondling her.”
He again broke into the woman’s home four months later and was convicted of criminal trespass, battery, and attempted rape, among other charges.
Hanks was booked into the Barton County jail on a second-degree murder charge and was being held in lieu of $500,000 bond.
Bellendir said he was proud of the officers who worked on clearing the cold case, explaining that “these are long, complicated investigations and are tedious.”
Pamela Walter Cooper, the victim’s daughter, told KSN that while she forgives Hanks, others who might have benefited from news of an arrest in the case are no longer alive.
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2016 Blog Tours Book Reviews Cath Staincliffe Constable Little Brown
Blog Tour: The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe
Today is my stop on the Blog Tour of The Silence Between Breaths, Cath Staincliffe's latest book. Cath is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV’s hit series Blue Murder. Her books have been shortlisted for the CWA’s Best First Novel award and for the Dagger in the Library and she won the Short Story Dagger in 2012. In 2014 her novel Letters To My Daughter’s Killer was shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Book Club. Cath is also the author of the Scott and Bailey novels based on the popular ITV series.
Title: The Silence Between Breaths
Author: Cath Staincliffe
Published: September 22nd 2016 by Constable
Blurb: Eight people, one deadly secret.
Passengers boarding the 10:35 train from Manchester, Piccadilly to London, Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed.
Holly has just landed her dream job, which should make life a lot easier than it has been, and Jeff is heading for his first ever work interview after months of unemployment. They end up sitting next to each other. On board customer service assistant Naz dreams of better things as he collects rubbish from the passengers. And among the others travelling are Nick with his young family who are driving him crazy; pensioner Meg and her partner setting off on a walking holiday and facing an uncertain future; Caroline, run ragged by the competing demands of her stroppy teenage children and her demented mother; and Rhona, unhappy at work and desperate to get home to her small daughter. And in the middle of the carriage sits Saheel, carrying a deadly rucksack...
Review: This is the first book I have read by Cath Staincliffe and I am completely in awe with her tense and compelling writing. Once I started reading The Silence Between Breaths, I just couldn't put it down. She presented us with 8 characters and in a few pages, she managed to tell us their own stories. When we met them, they had nothing in common but that was about to change. I felt like I really got to know these characters, their dreams and their fears and I couldn't help but care for them, at least for most of them as some of the characters were impossible to like.
I actually hadn't read the blurb before reading the book so I had no idea what was going to happen (something that is hinted in the blurb). Once I realised what was actually happening, I kept reading with bated breath. I think it had been a while since a book had made me feel so tense. I could really feel what all the characters were feeling.
This is a really difficult story to read. I had to stop and breath more than once while reading it. But it's definitely a story worth reading. I found it really interesting to read about these characters and how being at the wrong place at the wrong moment changed their lives forever. This will be a book difficult to forget, especially when you think about how this could happen to anyone. I am curious now to discover more stories by Cath Staincliffe.
Rating: 5 stars
I would like to thank the publisher for sending me a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

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|Feb. 9 3:04 PM PT4:04 PM MT5:04 PM CT6:04 PM ET23:04 GMT7:04 4:04 PM MST6:04 PM EST3:04 UAE (+1)00:0418:04 ET5:04 PM CT21:04 - San Antonio is giving Ginobili a night off Monday.
Analysis: Coach Gregg Popovich put the Argentinian on the inactive list at Indiana. It's the second night of a back-to-back and Popovich sometimes give his veterans extra rest during the season. Ginobili is not listed on the injury report.
|Jan. 22 8:05 PM PT9:05 PM MT10:05 PM CT11:05 PM ET4:05 GMT12:05 9:05 PM MST11:05 PM EST8:05 UAE05:0523:05 ET10:05 PM CT2:05 - Ginobili was 1 for 6 with two points in Thursday's loss at Chicago.
Analysis: Ginobili is really struggling from the field lately, shooting 33.3 percent or worse in five of his last six games.
|Jan. 15 9:58 PM PT10:58 PM MT11:58 PM CT12:58 AM ET5:58 GMT13:58 10:58 PM MST12:58 AM EST9:58 UAE06:580:58 ET11:58 PM CT3:58 - Ginobili netted 27 points Wednesday to lead San Antonio past Charlotte.
Analysis: The 27-point performance stands as a season-best for the 13-year veteran. Ginobili is averaging 12.8 points this season.
|Dec. 31 8:03 PM PT9:03 PM MT10:03 PM CT11:03 PM ET4:03 GMT12:03 9:03 PM MST11:03 PM EST8:03 UAE05:0323:03 ET10:03 PM CT2:03 - Ginobili scored 26 points to lead San Antonio past New Orleans on Wednesday.
Analysis: The 37-year-old guard converted nine of 17 shots and grabbed seven rebounds in the overtime victory.
|Dec. 16 10:23 PM PT11:23 PM MT12:23 AM CT1:23 AM ET6:23 GMT14:23 11:23 PM MST1:23 AM EST10:23 UAE07:231:23 ET12:23 AM CT4:23 - Ginobili has a lower back contusion.
Analysis: Ginobili is considered day-to-day.
|Nov. 27 9:33 PM PT10:33 PM MT11:33 PM CT12:33 AM ET5:33 GMT13:33 10:33 PM MST12:33 AM EST9:33 UAE06:330:33 ET11:33 PM CT3:33 - Ginobili had a season-high 28 points in Wednesday's win over Indiana.
Analysis: It was an impressive showing for Ginobili, who had averaged 4.8 points over the previous four games. He doesn't have much fantasy value despite his big night.
|Nov. 16 9:19 PM PT10:19 PM MT11:19 PM CT12:19 AM ET5:19 GMT13:19 10:19 PM MST12:19 AM EST9:19 UAE06:190:19 ET11:19 PM CT3:19 - Ginobili had a season-high 21 points Saturday for the NBA champs.
Analysis: Ginobili is a reserve who cares more about helping the Spurs win NBA championships than he does about piling up solid fantasy numbers. You should bench him.
|Nov. 11 12:51 PM PT1:51 PM MT2:51 PM CT3:51 PM ET20:51 GMT4:51 1:51 PM MST3:51 PM EST0:51 UAE (+1)21:5115:51 ET2:51 PM CT18:51 - Tim Duncan and Ginobili are questionable to play for the San Antonio Spurs at the Golden State Warriors.
Analysis: The Spurs say both might sit out Tuesday night's game to rest. Duncan played 35 minutes and Ginobili 24 minutes in San Antonio's 89-85 win at the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night.
|Nov. 6 4:05 PM PT5:05 PM MT6:05 PM CT7:05 PM ET0:05 GMT8:05 5:05 PM MST7:05 PM EST4:05 UAE (+1)01:0519:05 ET6:05 PM CT22:05 - Tim Duncan and Ginobili are being held out by the San Antonio Spurs against the undefeated Houston Rockets.
Analysis: Spurs coach Gregg Popovich says both veterans will be rested Thursday night. The pair played 35 and 26 minutes, respectively, Wednesday night in a 94-92 win over Atlanta. Aron Baynes and Matt Bonner will start in their place.
|Sep. 26 2:18 PM PT3:18 PM MT4:18 PM CT5:18 PM ET21:18 GMT5:18 2:18 PM MST4:18 PM EST1:18 UAE (+1)23:1817:18 ET4:18 PM CT20:18 - Ginobili was cleared to play after being diagnosed with a slight stress fracture in his right fibula during the offseason.
Analysis: Ginobili's playing time will be limited initially as he works on his conditioning. Ginobili said he no longer suffers leg pain, though his feelings were hurt after San Antonio prevented him from playing for his native Argentina in the FIBA World Cup because of the injury.
|July 4 6:13 AM PT7:13 AM MT8:13 AM CT9:13 AM ET13:13 GMT21:13 6:13 AM MST8:13 AM EST17:13 UAE15:139:13 ET8:13 AM CT12:13 - The San Antonio Spurs say Manu Ginobili has a stress fracture of the lower fibula of his right leg.
Analysis: The injury could knock the key reserve for the NBA champion Spurs out of the upcoming World Cup of Basketball, where he was scheduled to play for Argentina. The tournament starts at the end of August in Spain. Ginobili wrote Tuesday on his Facebook page that his availability will depend on how he feels in about three weeks, but that he remains optimistic. It's unclear when Ginobili was injured.
Shortly after the NFLRA released its statement demanding an apology from ESPN, Jim Quirk, the NFLRA's Executive Director, joined Mut to talk about the statement
WEEI's Chris Price joins Mut to talk about his experience of being in yesterday's Patriots championship parade, and which New England free agents could return to play for the Pats next season.
Super Bowl champ Vince Wilfork joins the show to talk about his feelings about winning the Super Bowl and what his future holds.
Flannery joins Mut to break down the Isaiah Thomas trade to Boston and what it means for the Celtics this season and in the future. Paul also chats with Mut about the other deals that happened at the NBA's trading deadline
We talk to Chris Mannix from SI to break down the C's acquisition of Isaiah Thomas and the crazy trade deadline in the rest of the NBA.
Jessica Camerato of basketballinsiders.com joins the show to talk about Marcus Smart, the starting lineup, and trade deadline.
David Ortiz takes a few minutes to talk with Mut, Bradford, and Tomase about some of his new teammates, who Pablo Sandoval reminds him of, and the rules aimed at speeding up the game of baseball.
Mut, Bradford, and Tomase are talking Red Sox spring training. and talk with Red Sox DH David Ortiz about the rules aimed at speeding up the pace of the game
Catcher Blake Swihart, one of the Red Sox top-rated prospects, sits down with Lou to talk about Spring Training and his expectations for the upcoming season
DJ Bean joins Middays with MFB to talk everything going on with the struggling Bruins
Pierre McGuire of the NBC Sports Network joins the show to talk about the Bruins' continued struggles, and what the team needs to do to improve moving forward
Dale, Michael and Jerry Thornton talk with the great Jack Edwards of NESN fame to get his insight on the struggling Bruins as the chances to salvage this season continue to dwindle.
Mookie sat in with Dino, Gerry and Kirk to discuss the upcoming season and his preparation for playing in the outfield. Mookie also details one of his favorite hobbies, bowling.
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The guys kick off a free form Friday by looking at the competition in the outfield and a possible peace with Pete Abe.
On this weeks Aloha Friday, Tim apologizes to our producer Tom for not knowing who Leonard Nimoy was, Christian bashes Kanye West, and Joey makes amends for mistaking camel noises for llama noises
DJ Bean joins Middays with MFB to talk everything going on with the struggling Bruins
On this week's Fauria Five, Christian asks what the over/under on how many times Ortiz will be fined for stepping out of the batter's box this season, will the Bruins make the playoffs, will the Patriots use the franchise tag on Devin McCourty, where does Adrian Peterson play next year, and what color was the dress that went viral yesterday
We discuss the good week that was for the prosecution in the Aaron Hernancez murder trial with attorney and professor of law Michael McCann.
Dale and Michael discuss the plight of the Bruins as the trade deadline looms.
Dale and Michael go back and forth on the circumstances around Vandy coach Kevin Stallings verbally berating a player on national TV, and using harsh language like "I'll kill you"
Mikey, Mut, and Lenny are joined by the Rev girls, who are revealing the New Revolution uniform Tuesday at the House of Blues in Boston and talking about the Revs.
Mikey, Lenny, and Maggie talk Red Sox baseball with Red Sox Hall of Famer Bill Lee, who is in Florida and out of the snow that's perpetually burying the area.
Mikey gets a call from Kirk Minihane, who wants to clear the air with Mikey and get everything settled. It goes better than you think.
Boston University coach David Quinn joins WEEI’s Scott McLaughlin to discuss the Terriers’ Beanpot title and how he feels about his team as the postseason approaches. Quinn also discusses reports about NHL interest in goalie Matt O’Connor and briefly touches on a recent misstep by Jack Eichel.
After a wild trade deadline, Ben Kichen and Sam Packard breakdown the Celtics and the rest of the NBA. Then Sam yells at Ben about the use of analytics in basketball. Ben yells back.
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Junior Girl Scouts organize reading event
The six members of the junior Girl Scout troop Katie Skramstad leads will host a “Read to Succeed Day” at the Somerset Public Library Saturday, Jan. 18.
The fifth-grade girls are working on completing a Take Action project to complete their Agent of Change book. Each troop must complete three “journeys” each year to earn badges and get closer to the highest, most coveted award: the Bronze Award for junior Girl Scouts.
Skramstad said the girls are learning the concepts of the power of one, the power of team and the power of community. The project is meant to hone the girls’ leadership skills.
“They have to take the talents of one person and put it into a team, then put the team into the community,” Skramstad said.
A Take Action project is supposed to help the community in some way. The girls have to come up with a project, organize it, make contacts and execute their plan while the leaders oversee their efforts.
Skramstad’s troop, part of the St. Croix River Valley Girl Scouts, chose to promote reading for their community project. The troop includes members Autumn Wood, Abbey Skramstad, Kendra Westphal, Hannah Thoreson, Priscilla Rivard and Faith Christensen.
From 10 a.m to noon Jan. 18, the girls will lead kindergartners through second-graders through three different stations at the library. The aim is to improve their reading.
Each station will take about 20 minutes, Skramstad said. The children will rotate among stations.
At the first station, the junior Scouts will read stories to the kids. At the second station, two Scouts will help the children write a short story, working on sentence structures and illustrations. At the third station, kids can work on a wintry, fun craft of painting snowmen, Skramstad said.
The Scouts have also compiled their own word searches and other fun game activities to send home with the kids. All the activities pertain to reading and the winter theme, according to Skramstad.
“They are learning to look at the needs in the community they live in and the gifts and talents they have to offer, whether it’s drawing, organizing an event or writing,” Skramstad said. “They then can offer those talents to the team and the community.”
Skramstad said the project is also teaching the girls basic leadership skills and how to organize things, like how to start, and with who.
“They’ve had to learn budgeting with this project and what resources do they have within their families, the group and the community,” Skramstad said.
She used the girls asking library director Norma Scott if they could use the library for their project as an example of finding resources.
“It’s helping them look at themselves and their gifts and talents,” Skramstad said. “Then they look at each other, working as a team to see who’s best suited for each job. It’s teaching them how to go beyond themselves and their team and see what else they need.”
Skramstad said the girls are excited about their hard work. They also spoke with Somerset Elementary School’s and St. Anne’s principals to see if they could distribute fliers advertising their event to the classes.
“They were a little nervous, but we’re guiding them and keeping them on track,” Skramstad said.
The troop is looking for donations of new or gently used books to hand out to the children during “Read to Succeed Day.” To donate, call Skramstad at 651-303-3820 or drop books off at the Somerset Public Library. To register for the reading event, please call Skramstad. Two sessions will be held Jan. 18: one at 10 a.m. and one at 11 a.m.


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MILFORD - Community members in Milford gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of the Jonathan Law High School student who was killed at school by a classmate two years ago.
The second annual "Peace, Love and Music from Maren Festival" was held to benefit a scholarship in Maren Sanchez's honor. Sanchez was fatally stabbed by a classmate at the school in 2014.
Last year, more than 3,000 people attended and more than $55,000 in scholarships went to students at both of Milford's high schools, News 12 is told.
Saturday's event started with a 5K race and features live music all day. There were also inflatables for kids, plus crafts booths, a kickball tournament and food trucks.
As News 12 reported, Christopher Plaskon recently took a plea deal to get 25 years in prison for killing Sanchez. He could get parole after 13 years. Prosecutors said Plaskon stabbed her after she rejected his prom invitation.
Sanchez's family last month announced plans to sue the school and Plaskon's family for allegedly failing to intervene and protect Sanchez after she complained about his behavior to the school's guidance department.


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Over the past two decades or so, ever since the tragic events that took place on September 11th, 2001, the post-apocalyptic genre has exploded in popularity. While the reason for the apocalypse may change with each tale, whether it’s zombies, climate change, or nuclear weapons that lead the world to its fate, these stories smartly always tend to focus on the human experience in this new, harsher world and how we’d treat each other once the walls of civilization have crumbled. The Warren Hope: Vol. 1 (written and illustrated by Scott “Fuzzy” Joseph) continues this trend, but also offers an uncommon twist on the premise.
The Warren Hope: Vol. 1 sees small groups of survivors struggling in the aftermath of the rapture. As one would expect during the Christian apocalypse, demons and monsters are a common threat in this new world. Clara, a former nanny turned survivalist, finds herself on a harrowing journey that will lead her to a settlement run by a mysterious and powerful cabal known simply as The Veil.
The Warren Hope feels like a cross between Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and The Walking Dead. While it can come off a bit derivative at times, there are enough new concepts explored that fans of other post-apocalyptic fiction may still be interested. Joseph gives his book a diverse and interesting cast of characters, many of which have understandable and relatable motivations. The Veil, a masked tribunal which decides the fates of others, is a creepy idea, as is Joseph’s concept of demonic infiltration in the human ranks. While the content of The Warren Hope and its violence are depicted somewhat graphically, Joseph’s choice to censor the harsh language used by various characters left me feeling a little confused as to why the choice was not made to commit fully to the cussing, despite the bloody actions depicted. Still, it’s a minor nuisance that won’t detract too much for readers.
When it comes to the artwork of The Warren Hope, Joseph is clearly an individual with artistic talent, but the stark and minimalist style also has moments where it feels like a storyboard as opposed to a comic book’s sequential art. The lettering in the book is also rough, seeming a little like an afterthought, but, that said, there are some very creepy and moody visuals in Joseph’s book. For those who enjoy the indie, do-it-yourself feel of the comics and zines one typically finds in Artist Alley, The Warren Hope may be right up their alley.
FINAL VERDICT: The Warren Hope: Vol. 1 is an original take on a popular genre and sure to connect with specific readers. As intended by Joseph, there’s an undercurrent of hope to the story, and while the book could be improved in certain aspects, it’s also strong enough to communicate and connect with a number of indie comic readers out there. The Warren Hope: Vol. 1 is currently available for purchase on ComiXology.
That’s all for now, my fellow comic book sniffers.
‘Till the end of the world,
Bryant the Comic Book Slayer
Creative Team: Scott “Fuzzy” Joseph (writer/illustrator)
Publisher: Scott “Fuzzy” Joseph
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2020 wasn’t the best year for us humans, but its time has come for cats. Eventually, the kind that I have called “Rodney Dangerfield of Pets” (because they don’t get respect) changes course a lot.
And millennials are leading this charge. Adoption and foster care numbers have risen. Old myths about cats are being shattered. You are in what a marketer might call “rebranding”.
It’s a dog world
In 2008 I was invited to dinner by Dan Kramer, then product manager at Pfizer Animal Health (now Zoetis), and publicist Lea-Ann Germinder. Dan noted that the American Veterinary Medical Association’s new source book and other data he discovered indicated that cats were under-medicated, saw veterinarians far less than dogs, and cat owners were less willing to spend as much money as dog owners to spend on care. Cats were more likely to be given to animal shelters and, if lost, less likely to be found than dogs. The percentage of cats microchipped was tiny. In fact, when a cat got out some people didn’t bother looking. After all, the prevailing idea among too many was, “It’s just a cat.” We were pretty much a canine company.
In truth, cats have enjoyed the title of man’s best friend for several decades, just looking at the numbers for the most populous pet. Little did Dan realize that then (and still do) there were more pet cats than dogs in the United States. Although cats were the most popular, they had an image problem. Cats have often been disregarded, misunderstood, and generally didn’t seem to have the same intense bond that we have with dogs.
Dan asked me what I would do about the problem. I said, “We need everyone who comes on the same page to improve the status of cats. These include academics, feline vets, general practitioners, national animal welfare organizations, animal shelter professionals, cat health study nonprofit funders (Winn Feline Foundation, Morris Animal Foundation), and veterinary behaviorists (because cat behavior has been so misunderstood) as the American Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Feline Practitioners and American Animal Hospital Association. Neither of these groups alone can accomplish what we can do together. “
Make a change
About a week later Dan called me and said, “I’ll put my money where your mouth is.” And so he did it. A who’s who of the cat world attended a summit in California – and as a result of that meeting, the nonprofit CATalyst Council (catalystcouncil.org) was born.
Indeed, this group has been a catalyst for change. Meanwhile, the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) introduced cat-friendly veterinary practices. So many vets were taught mainly about dogs in veterinary school; Cats were marginalized. AAFP said “Not anymore.” The Cat Friendly Practice program helped train veterinary teams to focus on cat grooming. Cat veterinarians were no longer a novelty. Today there are over 1,200 cat-friendly practices; 98% of the practices are satisfied with the program, 90% state that the cat grooming has improved. And 78% have received positive feedback from cat parents. (Survey results 2019 cat-friendly practice at catvets.com)
In 2016, Fear Free was launched (angstfreepets.com), an initiative to combat the emotional health of pets in homes and veterinary clinics. While many species will benefit from this transformation program, it can be argued that cats have gained the most from the program in minimizing the true trauma of cats visiting a veterinarian. Individual vets and technicians can be certified as fear-free, as can entire practices. In this case, 91% of these practices believe their image is more positive and 98% have found a benefit for patient care.
Millennials who care
Both Cat Friendly Practices and Fear Free focus on emotional wellbeing, and it turns out that Millennials do too. Millennials (the generation born between 1981 and 1996) care more than any other generation about the emotional health of cats.
According to a study by the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI; habri.org) from 2016:
- 77% of millennials find their vet cheaper when discussing the health benefits of human-animal bonding.
- 74% of Millennials are more likely to visit their vet when discussing the health benefits of human-animal bonding.
- 25% of Millennials speak to their vets about the health benefits of owning pets.
It’s true, millennials love their cats. Do you want evidence? They love their cats even more than their electronic devices. And they use these very same devices to post pictures and videos of cats. As a result, cats are ruling the World Wide Web.
On Instagram, some very cool cats have up to millions of followers. The Instagram cats, sometimes referred to as “influencers,” can appear in person and some even sell prey. Most of these cool cats can thank millennial pet parents for starting their online careers and millennial fans for all of the episodes that ensure their star status.
Nothing says millennials and cats like cat cafes. There are nearly 120 cat cafes, according to Meowaround.com, with most major cities having more than one. In 2008 there was zero in the United States.
Most cats in US cafes are adoptable. Speaking of which, even before adoptions skyrocketed as a result of the pandemic, adoptions to cats were increasing and the corresponding number of cats in shelters was decreasing. About 3.2 million shelter animals are adopted each year, according to the ASPCA, and it’s an even split – 1.6 million dogs and 1.6 million cats.
Better care for cats
Millennial interest in cats extends beyond imaginative cat yoga and cat movie events presented in cat cafes. They are serious about myth diversion and lead the indictment against deciphering it. Many agree that after New York’s nationwide ban in 2019, other states would have followed suit if the pandemic hadn’t been deflected by legislation.
To better understand cat behavior, books like Decoding Your Cat, written by members of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, sell well, not only because millennials seek the truth of cats, but also because the authors are trusted sources are.
Letting cats be cats is a craze millennials have first embraced. As a result, the number of cat food puzzles and games available to buy in pet stores and online is exponentially higher than it was a few years ago.
With more cats indoors than ever (around 75%), enriching the environment is now the focus. The TV personality Jackson Galaxy even gave it a name – a catification. Even domestic cats are increasingly having their own secure outdoor environments known as catios.
When I was training a cat to play the piano, people joked, “Why would you?” Now, cat parents routinely train cats to walk on leashes and harnesses, or take cats for walks in strollers. Today, cat parents want to socialize and even train kittens. YouTube is full of videos of cats playing musical instruments and doing silly pet tricks. Unless, of course, it’s not as stupid or dumber as dogs doing tricks. Gone are the days when cats were viewed as boring, aloof, and lazy Garfield types.
Despite all of this, cats refuse to put all of their cards on the table – as some feline secrets and mystics remain.

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Modeling environmental data plays a crucial role in explaining environmental phenomena. In some cases, well-known distributions, e.g., Weibull, inverse Weibull, and Gumbel distributions, cannot model environmental events adequately. Therefore, many authors tried to find new statistical distributions to represent environmental phenomena more accurately. In this paper, an alpha-monotone generalized log-Moyal (alpha-GlogM) distribution is introduced and some statistical properties such as cumulative distribution function, hazard rate function (hrf), scale-mixture representation, and moments are derived. The hrf of the alpha-GlogM distribution can form a variety of shapes including the bathtub shape. The alpha-GlogM distribution converges to generalized half-normal (GHN) and inverse GHN distributions. It reduces to slash GHN and alpha-monotone inverse GHN distributions for certain parameter settings. Environmental data sets are used to show implementations of the alpha-GlogM distribution and also to compare its modeling performance with its rivals. The comparisons are carried out using well-known information criteria and goodness-of-fit statistics. The comparison results show that the alpha-GlogM distribution is preferable over its rivals in terms of the modeling capability.


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Every citizen of TT should have a physical and digital legal identity, said Nirad Tewarie, CEO of Amcham TT as he made the case for digital transformation of the government.
At a pre-budget panel discussion hosted by the TT Manufacturer’s Association (TTMA) at the Trinidad Hilton on September 10, Tewarie said the business sector has been “holding the line and surviving in an economy that has been comatose.”
He said there is a need to return to fiscal discipline and an economic agenda that is more developmental to TT’s long term needs.
He said the need to have a unique national identification number, open data and e-payments implemented in the government sector should be priorities in the coming fiscal year.
“This must be done in the context of TT needing a clear vision and a plan if the country is to see growth and attract investment.
“Central to this new vision and plan is the necessity to improve the ease of doing business to facilitate positive growth and investment.”
Tewarie said according to the Parliament’s website there were 171 pieces of legislation passed in TT over the past ten years, but only 43 per cent of these laws have had an impact on business.
He said that’s an average of only 17 a year, and given the number and necessity of reforms required to improve the ease of doing business, “that’s woefully inadequate.”
“There needs to be a shift in the conversation about not just what the government can and should do to activate the economy but how government can make lives easier. While there is a persistent demand for government to spend more, we are not seeing the growth.
“According to the IMF, when debt-to-GDP ratios cross 60 per cent, as we have in TT, the fiscal multiplier effect – or the amount of additional spending that each government dollar generates – is negative. If you are running deficits, you are financing inefficiency,” Tewarie said.
TT’s debt, he said, can be better managed if there is a switch from cash-based accounting to implement accrual accounting so that a clearer picture of the national debt will be revealed, which will force transparency, foster good governance and facilitate a thorough understanding of the country’s fiscal position.
With respect to the influx of Venezuelan migrants to TT, Tewarie called for a comprehensive national migration policy that will allow for the skills and abilities of all migrants to be registered. (In June, 16,523 were registered giving them an opportunity to work for one year. Last week, government disclosed 5,148 applicants had been verified by Venezuelan and TT authorities and Interpol, and some 3,091 migrant registration cards had been processed.)
Also in this fiscal year, Tewarie said Amcham would like to see the government honour its commitment to have the procurement legislation fully implemented.
“The establishment and operationalisation of the TT Revenue Authority is also high on the organisation’s agenda as Amcham... sees this as a way to collect taxes from people and businesses who are currently avoiding taxes,” Tewarie said.
Glenn Mahabirsingh, president of the TT Contractors Association (TTCA), said on the association’s wish list for the 2019/2020 budget is also the full implementation of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act. Mahabirsingh said it would allow businesses to operate in an environment that is transparent and predictable.
The association will also like to see the registration and licensing of contractors because it will facilitate raising the bar, ensuring proper construction standards are upheld.
"This will also ensure contractors are managed in such a way that they deliver. Once a business is registered there would be safety systems, management structure and technical expertise.
“Contractors will be in compliance with all the statutory requirements, which include VAT, NIS and insurances. There are a lot of those things to be fulfilled.
Mahabirsingh said contractors should also be encouraged to seek markets outside TT – in the Caribbean – as a strategy for earning foreign exchange for the country. "This is definitely one initiative we can support,” he said.
Six business support associations came together to voice their expectations from the October 7 national budget in the pre-budget discussion.
The business community had many common areas of concern, primary among them being addressing the VAT payments to SME (small to medium enterprise) sector, foreign exchange earning shortages and improving the ease of doing business.

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This research proposes a bona fide network perspective for examining interorganizational collaboration. This perspective emphasizes that (a) network boundaries are fuzzy and membership is dynamic, (b) interorganizational networks are embedded in a complex environment that enables some configurations and constrains others, (c) interorganizational networks are multiplex and different types of relationships are mutually influential, (d) these networks are dynamically restructured over time, and (e) outcomes of networks occur at the individual and whole network levels. An interorganizational collaboration network among gender-based violence NGOs in Zambia is used as an illustrative case. Using a mixed-method design, this research finds substantial differences between donor-driven and grassroots coalitions; in addition, NGOs report a number of obstacles to collaboration and outcomes at individual and network levels.
- North/South divide
- bona fide network perspective
- nongovernmental organizations
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Strategy and Management

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There’s a Bruce Springsteen story (and I’m pretty sure this one is actually true): It’s 1979 and the Boss introduces himself to punk pioneers the Ramones. Stunned at Springsteen’s profession of fandom, they nervously ask him to pen them a song.
Bruce gets to work and soon after plays his manager Jon Landau what he’s come up with. Hearing the tune, Landau lays down the law – no more giving away hit songs to other artists. The Pointer Sisters, Manfred Mann and Patti Smith had been the beneficiaries in the recent past. Springsteen kept the song, and a year later, ‘Hungry Heart’ became his biggest single to date.
I’m reminded of the story when Cadillac Three frontman Jaren Johnston tells me about the calls he’s been getting from their “label guy” – industry mogul and sometime American Idol co-star Scott Borchetta. A key figure in Taylor Swift’s rise, Borchetta now commands a roster of labels that now includes stars from Tim McGraw to Florida Georgia Line.
“He’ll hear something on the radio that we wrote,” says Jaren. “He’ll call me up and go ‘Jaren? It’s Scott. Um… I just heard this song on the radio and… why didn’t I hear it before?'”
The song on the radio might have been recordings by Kenny Chesney, Jake Owen, Sara Evans or Dierks Bentley. Or even our own Keith Urban, whose hit duet with Eric Church, ‘Raise ‘Em Up’, was co-written by Jaren.
“That’s something we’ve become more cautious of, I think,” Jaren explains of his habit of letting his most commercial songs end up on other people’s records. “Earlier in the band, we were just giving away whatever, because there was one topic that we sing about - and that was whiskey and fighting and stuff like that.
Raise Em Up is a good example, the Keith Urban and Eric Church song. Two years ago when I wrote that, I gave it to Keith immediately because I didn’t think that it was something I would sing. I didn’t feel comfortable with it, and I didn’t think we were that band yet. Now looking back, I wish we’d kept that, because it would’ve been a hit on this new record. We are that band now, we could do that.”
It’s emblematic of the evolution of the trio to a less narrow focus, both musically and lyrically. Jaren, drummer Neil Mason and multi-instrumentalist Kelby Ray (“I play everything else”) were childhood friends who grew up on Nirvana, Tom Petty and ZZ Top, as well as a steady diet of Nashville country - they are one of the few Music City artists who actually grew up there). Their catalogue has been dominated by screaming guitars and rowdy tales of southern living.
“Now we definitely run songs, when any of us write them, through our filter to be like 'Are we sure we don’t want to cut this?’ and we’ve ended up getting some great songs out of that.
White Lightning is a song I played for Neil, probably three years ago now. I thought it was really too soft for us. At the time our stuff was all riffs and 'Yeah!’ and trying to be that band and keep our 'cool’. So I played White Lightning for Neil and was going 'Is this too far this way, or too far that way?’ and he was like 'Dude, I love that. Don’t give that one away’.
The Band Perry had put it on hold and they were going to do it, but they wanted me to write a chorus for it. I told them I didn’t want to rewrite it. So we ended up doing it as a band. When we did that, we opened a door within ourselves to be like hey, we don’t need to pigeonhole ourselves into this heavy, riffy thing. Let’s just be the best band and cut the best songs we come up with.
I think that was a time when we really realised we could be that band.”
The band credits ‘White Lightning’ as the key to shifting them in a more diverse direction for their new album, and getting them over their hangups about maintaining the purity of their sound.
“We want to be that band, we want to have hits. So it’s definitely something we’re thinking about more than we used to.”
The three-piece seem to be handling well the balance of clear-eyed consideration of commercial realities with the free-wheeling whiskey-fuelled camaraderie that makes them so appealing.
Kelby throws a dig in at Jaren’s status as the only beardless member of the band.
“Well I met this girl on the side of the road this morning. His name was Jaren…”
For most of the international stars at this year’s CMC Rocks QLD festival, getting to perform to new fans on the opposite side of the world was the biggest milestone they achieved down under. But for Kelby, the most memorable part of the trip is likely to be getting engaged the morning before their main stage set.
“I kind of had a plan to do it while I was down here, and kind of just stumbled into it this morning. Figured Australia was the place to do it, so Queensland, yeah! It’s going to be a fun rest of the trip.”
I suggest that they’ll have to come back next year, for an Aussie wedding.
“Sounds great, let’s do it.”
Now that he’ll be keeping all the hits for the band, I ask Jaren about his songwriting techniques – maybe I could pick up some pointers and take his place as the writer who gives his #1s away.
“Naming states and bringing Tom Petty or Billy Gibbons into [the lyrics] is my trick. There you go kids, you want to know how to do it, do that.”
Sounds simple enough. Look out for my hit song ‘Petty-sylvania’ on Dierks Bentley’s new record later this year.


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Lorraine Warren: But we prefer to be known simply as Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Clapping Spirit: Want to play a game of hide and clap?
I had a free movie coming from Regal Cinemas, and after hearing many saying "The Conjuring" was a great, spooky film, I decided to use the ticket for it. I was not disappointed.
Based off a real story and set in 1971, Carolyn and Roger Parren move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house. Not long after, strange things began to happen starting small and quickly escalating to pure nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts a noted paranormal married experts, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Parren family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved, including the Warrens themselves.
Kinda close to home for me, actor Patrick Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He played Ed Warren. Like The Haunted Collector he kept objects connected with hauntings, or more likely demon haunted places/exorcisms. Unlike the collector he does not call it a museum, but a place to be kept locked and kept an eye on so those that were affected by the objects would not be harmed again.
Unlike many movies based on true demonic haunted stories, this was one I could believed happen. It had atmosphere and all the appropriate trapping of a horror flick, and yet, was like you actually were there. The investigators used the right equipment for the day and time.
Need a good scary film you haven't been getting these days? Something with a good story and actors doing their parts right? "The Conjuring" is that summer gem among all the blockbusters. And the audiences are seeing it, passing up the blockbusters. I know that when this comes out on Blu Ray/DVD, it is already an automatic buy for me. I only hope it will be close to Halloween, as this will be worth viewing on Halloween night.
I give "The Conjuring" five scary ghosts!


- Dell Workstation Virtualization Center of Excellence helps software providers and customers confidently move high-end workloads into a virtualized workstation environment
- New Dell Wyse Datacenter for Virtual Workstations purpose-designed reference architectures simplify and speed deployment of high-performance, reliable and secure desktop virtualization running certified workstation applications
- Engineers and designers now have secure and central access to their data and graphics-rich applications from any location on almost all devices, providing increased user productivity, flexibility and collaboration
ROUND ROCK, Texas — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 6, 2014 — Dell today announced two new initiatives to support the growing use of graphics and data-intensive desktop virtualization workloads in enterprises globally its first Workstation Virtualization Center of Excellence and Dell Wyse Datacenter for Virtual Workstations solution. This is the first time a major technology company has worked closely with the ISV community, on behalf of the customer, to bring validated solutions to market in the form of reference architectures that can be readily deployed and easily scaled to meet varied customer needs within virtual environments.
We are seeing a change in the way users of data and graphics intensive applications are able to securely access their data outside of the office. The idea of the fixed location-based workstation has changed as users need to be mobile and collaborate efficiently with others both within and outside of their organization, said Andy Rhodes, executive director, Dell Precision. Furthermore the notion of a 1:1 relationship between a user and a piece of hardware is going away, as an increasing number of IT managers see desktop virtualization as a viable means of providing users with a secure, manageable and resource efficient way to access their desktops and applications.
Workstation Virtualization Center of Excellence
Dells first Workstation Virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) will provide a physical location and remote access capabilities for customers, channel partners and independent software vendors (ISVs) to evaluate the benefits of running their engineering, oil and gas, media and entertainment and other 2D and 3D applications on an end-to-end virtual workstation solution.
The CoE, located in the Dell Solutions Center in Round Rock, Texas, enables customers and partners to receive expert advice from Dell professionals on how to leverage virtualized workstations and architect a solution to best suit their business demands with no fiscal outlay. ISVs are able to compatibility test and certify existing applications for virtual workstation environments, and evolve their offerings to better leverage the benefits of the new technology in this area, such as NVIDIA GRID, GPUs, which are designed for use in cloud deployments. Dell Solutions Centers established methodology will enable these capabilities and resources to be replicated into other Dell Solutions Centers worldwide.
Dells Center of Excellence for virtual desktops will be an invaluable resource for both Siemens PLM Software and our customers, said Paul Brown, senior marketing director, Siemens PLM Software. Weve completed certifications of our NX software on a variety of virtual configurations helping to provide our customers with deployment options to future proof their architecture. Our customers can duplicate and test their planned configuration to confirm the hardware and software environment meets their requirements. This will be an extremely valuable resource that aids the transition to virtual desktop environments for graphically rich applications like NX.
Dell Wyse Datacenter for Virtual Workstations
Building on its industry leading workstations and proven desktop virtualization solutions, Dell is also introducing the Dell Wyse Datacenter for Virtual Workstations end-to-end reference architectures that help customers simplify and speed the deployment of high-performance, reliable and secure desktop virtualization running graphic and data-intensive workloads. This solution helps organizations gain workforce and IT efficiencies through secure sharing of applications and common data, rapid deployment and efficient scaling and centralized management of infrastructure.
Delivering on the Dell Precision promise of best-in-class certified performance and reliability, Dell Wyse Datacenter for Virtual Workstations offers tested and certified configurations for workstation-class applications for Siemens PLM Software today and Autodesk, PTC® Inc. and Dassault Systèmes in the coming months. Configurations optimize CPU power, memory and other considerations required for workloads. Dell also offers enhanced service and support options specifically for the workstation market, enabling a faster and simpler deployment, maintenance and support process.
The Dell Wyse Datacenter for Virtual Workstations can be deployed using
Precision R7610 rack workstations or
PowerEdge R720 rack servers with NVIDIA GRID K1 or K2 graphic cards
Horizon View and
XenDesktop platforms. Powered by the
latest Intel® Xeon® processors E5 v2 family featuring up to 12 cores,
integrated I/O with PCIe 3.0 and AVX 2 for better data throughput and
performance, resources can be allocated per user depending on their
compute requirements giving them a highly configurable user experience.
In addition, enterprise-class SSDs can be used to further decrease
response times and increase user productivity. Users can connect via a
diverse set of endpoints including desktops, laptops and tablets, Dell
Precision tower and mobile workstations and Dell Wyse thin and zero


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ONEUS is officially coming back in May.
RBW revealed, “ONEUS will be coming back with their fifth mini-album BINARY CODE on May 11th. The new mini-album will add momentum to ONEUS’s growth as they return with a more relatable and friendly group. We ask for a lot of support and anticipation.”
Thus, ONEUS will be making their return four months after their first studio album, DEVIL, which was released back in January. They uploaded the logo video for their new album on the 22nd through their official SNS channels with the announcement.
— ONEUS (@official_ONEUS) April 22, 2021
With the graphics of the binary code in the clip, their previous energetic performance, and cutting-edge choreography, fans are wondering how ONEUS will impress us through BINARY CODE
ONEUS’s new album BINARY CODE will be officially come out on May 11th.


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GDC Properties Plans Townhouses for LIC Industrial Sites
Hawthorne, N.Y.-based GDC Properties is planning a townhouse development for its recent acquisition of two contiguous industrial sites at 11-24 45th Road and 45-35 11th Street in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, Commercial Observer has learned.
“We’re happy to have found a site in New York City where it is very competitive,” William Ingraham, the company’s president, said. “It is a unique site with long frontage on a renovated park.”
Santander Bank provided a $22 million loan to GDC to facilitate its acquisition of the two adjacent properties, as Mortgage Observer first reported last week.
The retail and residential developer purchased a one-story warehouse at 11-24 45th Road from a seller listed as Eunhasu Corporation for $37 million and a factory at 45-35 11th Street for $7 million from a seller listed as Kyu Heung Park, city records show. The acquisitions and financing closed on Sept. 30.
Mr. Ingraham said he expects the townhouse development to be completed in 18 months. He noted that it is too early to discuss specific design plans.
“We like that it’s in a low-density area, which distinguishes it from other parts of Long Island City, and the transportation into Midtown is terrific,” he said.

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text: President Paul Kagame was on Tuesday hosted by Uğur Şahin, the Chief Executive of the German Biotechnology firm, BioNTech, at the headquarters in Mainz, Germany. Kagame said he also had an opportunity to tour the facility, alongside Şahin and his wife Ozlem Tureci, the firm’s founding couple. “I had the great opportunity to visit with Uğur Şahin at BioNTech Group facility in Mainz, Germany.” “Impressive innovations in biotech HighLevelStuff. A very good person and couple he and Dr. Özlem Türeci are!” Kagame added in a tweet. According to Presidency, Kagame held a meeting with Şahin, where the two discussed the upcoming groundbreaking for the BioNTainer modular system in Rwanda. “…that will manufacture Covid-19 vaccines as well as malaria and TB vaccines currently under development,” Presidency said in a tweet. Last month, BioNTech introduced its approach to setting up scalable vaccine production by developing and delivering mRNA manufacturing facilities based on a container solution. The first container is expected to arrive in Africa in the second half of 2022 with BioNTech expected to ship to Rwanda, Senegal, and potentially South Africa in close coordination with the respective country and the African Union. The development, world leaders said at the launch, is an attempt to help address vaccine inequities that continue to plague the continent. BioNTech’s BioNTainers have a total footprint of 800 square meters consisting of two modules. Each module contains six standard-sized containers, which measure 2.6 m x 2.4 m x 12 m. Each BioNTainer is a cleanroom equipped with state-of-the-art manufacturing solutions. The modular factories have an initial capacity of up to approximately 50 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine each year. “BioNTech’s innovative modular production system opens up a new horizon for global vaccine equity. Rwanda looks forward to initiating mRNA vaccine manufacturing in the near future, in collaboration with BioNTech and our partners in Africa, Europe, and beyond,” President Kagame said at the launch on February, 16.

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Make it a Mother's Day she won't soon forget with this embossed floral card with gold foil highlights from the Marjolein Bastin collection. Share your thankfulness for raising you with a generous love that keeps the family happy and strong.
- Mother's Day card features raised design, glitter ribbon and foil.
- Includes envelope and Gold Crown seal. Envelope color may vary.
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Opolo’s estate vineyards were established from 1994-1996, with sites on both the west and east side of Paso Robles. The home vineyard on the west side, located at 7110 Vineyard Drive, boasts 80 acres of Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot. The topographically diverse, coastal landscape provides for an intense and unique flavor profile. The heat and dryness of the east side vineyard make it an ideal microclimate for growing Bordeaux varietals. Home to 12 different varietals, the vineyard helps allows Opolo to create many unique wines as well as award-winning blends.
The most important part of making high-quality wine is starting with high-quality grapes. Opolo’s vineyard team carefully monitors each lot of grapes throughout the season in order to produce the highest quality fruit possible. From taking leaf, petiole, and soil samples, to monitoring water uptake in the vines, all aspects of viticulture is carefully notated and examined with the intent of producing only high-quality fruit for their winery. The entire Opolo production team works together every year to provide the best quality product possible.


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Every September, those in the US take the time to remember what happened in New York 18 years ago, when terrorists destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center and plunged the US Into a war against international terrorism.
The day brings the chance to remember not only those that died in the attacks, but also those that died trying to rescue people from the rubble of the towers. In New York, the families of those that lost their lives on 9/11 gather to commemorate those that they lost, as citizens across the country take the day to remember who was lost. The initial attack on September 11 left almost 3,000 dead and thousands more wounded. In the years since, even more have died as a result of illness due to their proximity to ground zero. A fund was established by Congress to provide health coverage for those still suffering, and that fund was recently extended nearly indefinitely after some push-back from Republicans.
President Donald Trump spoke in front of the Pentagon, where one of the planes crashed on September 11, about threatening any terrorist that attacks the US with the full power of the US military and how “They will never have seen anything like what will happen to them. No enemy on Earth can match the overwhelming strength, skill and might of the American armed forces.”
At the end of August, a trial date was set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged ‘architect’ of the 9/11 attacks. Mohammad, along with four other men who have been held in Guantánamo Bay since their capture in 2003. If found guilty, in their trial set for January 11 2021, the men would face the death penalty, with a preliminary hearing set to take place in a few months.

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