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The Scarlet Knights came to play basketball today. They destroyed the Cornhuskers at Jersey Mike’s Arena.
The Offense Is On Fire: After the first TV timeout, Rutgers woke up and flat out ran away with this game. The big number on the stat sheet will be Ron Harper Jr. (#RonFire) who scored 29 points and is averaging 26.3 points per game at the RAC (yes, yes JMA) in 3 Big Ten Games. He was an impressive 10-10 from the free throw line, and though he had 3 threes, he did not fall in love with the shot. His 15 points in the first half came from the line and cuts to the basket. Equally as impressive was Paul Mulcahy with his 10 points, career high 8 assists and 7 rebounds. Cliff Omoruyi also had ten points, though saddled with foul trouble. Geo Baker didn’t need to be the go to scorer today but tallied 5 points and six assists. Caleb McConnell continues his defensive assault on opponents, but also scored 7 points including a three. Rutgers went 10-18 from behind the arc, including 8-10 in the second half. They also only missed one free throw. Just wild.
The Bench, Wow: Rutgers did come out early on and scuffled as Nebraska tried to take to them. But coach Steve Pikiell went to the bench early. Jalen Miller and Aundre Hyatt came in and that really changed the flow. Hyatt scored where Rutgers starting five couldn’t and the Cornhuskers didn’t have an answer. Hyatt finished with 13 points. He was 2-2 from deep. Miller was his usual aggressive defensive self, but found a way to get some lay-ups. Really solid game from him. The only curious part of this game was Jaden Jones. While the heralded freshman has been struggling a bit lately, particularly on defense, he didn’t get much run in this game at all. He came in late and scored 5 points, including a three. It will be interesting to see if a game like this gets his attention. Even more fun was Aiden Terry getting in on the act, late. The walk-on, who was just put on full scholarship, was the first walk-on in the game. He pulled down a few rebound.
The Dean: Okay, this deserves it’s own thought. I was going to lump it in with the bench, but no. This will be remembered as the Dean Reiber game. Reiber came in when Omoruyi got in early foul trouble and he made his minutes count. He even hit two threes, which made the RAC (yes, yes, JMA) go insane. Reiber is starting to develop into a stretch five and a solid back-up like Coach Pikiell promised. Rutgers needed him today and he didn’t disappoint. What a fun moment.
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling; Rutgers has now won 3 straight Big Ten games, four games in a row and five of six overall. They sit at 9-5 and 3-1 in confernce. They are hot right now and it will be interesting to see how that travels. They take the show on the road for the next two games, with Penn State on the docket at 6:30 on Tuesday. Penn State is rebuilding under new head coach Micah Shrewsberry. They aren’t a slouch, though. They just beat Northwestern on the road, overcoming a ten point deficit and then gave Purdue all they could handle today. The Scarlet Knights need to keep riding this hot streak through January to have a chance at dancing. It continues this week.


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A young Kerala man took to social media to wish his mother a happy married life. The post acknowledges the struggles of the mother in an abusive marriage, the sacrifices she made to raise her child, and the courage she showed throughout.
In India, divorces are demonised, seen as a product of sheer ‘westernisation’ of the society, and a low divorce rate is seen as a ‘good thing’. In such a scenario, seeing the society cheer for this congratulatory post for the second marriage of a woman is truly a delight.
The post originally in Malayalam, translates to this in English-
A woman who set aside her life for me. She has suffered a lot in what was a disastrous marriage. After getting beaten, when blood dripped from her forehead, I have often asked her why she bore it. I remember her telling me that she was willing to suffer for my sake as she was living for me. That day, when I left the house with her, I had decided about this moment. My mother, who set aside her entire youth for me, has a lot of dreams and heights to conquer. I have nothing more to say. I realised that this is something that does not need to be kept hidden. Mother, happy married life.
Gokul adds that he thought ‘a lot about whether to write such a note’. He urges people ‘with eyes of suspicion, pity, and hate’ to not look here. Here we are celebrating the normalisation of ending toxic marriages, without attaching the notion of ‘log kya kahenge‘ to it.
Heartwarming good wishes from a kerala young of 24 to his mother on her 2nd marriage after long abusive married life with his own father https://t.co/bubnZXvJB5— ipshita majumder (@ipshitamajumde1) June 12, 2019
Within 20 hours, the post has garnered almost 30K likes, 3K shares and comments.
Here’s to the zillion sacrifices our mothers made for us, here’s to not romanticising them, and here’s to de-stigmatising divorces in the Indian society.

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Immokalee-based Lipman Produce recently hosted its fourth annual Homerun Harvest, a free community event to benefit Immokalee children. The event raised enough money to purchase an estimated 1,200 backpacks filled with school supplies to be distributed to Immokalee students before the 2014-15 school year.
The event includes a charity softball tournament and children’s activities like face painting, a bounce house and games. The money came from event sponsorships, ticket sales, team registrations and food and drinks purchased at the event.
The majority of involvement came from produce companies also headquartered in rural areas. They include Everglades Farm Equipment, Bronco Packaging, Aljoma Lumber, Bruno Air Conditioning, Immokalee Produce Shippers and Produce Connection.
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Other than the song selections, what are important things to look for in a wedding musician?
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In recent reports, KRG The Don, a renowned rapper from Kenya, has declared his intention to impose a fee of Ksh 250,000 (approximately $2,400) for an Instagram follow back, stirring up a wave of controversy and criticism from both fans and detractors.
Some argue that KRG The Don is justified in charging for his time and attention, given his busy schedule as a prominent artist with a substantial following. They contend that managing a personal follow back for every fan may be impractical, and as a business owner, KRG The Don should be free to capitalize on his social media presence in any way he deems fit.
Conversely, opponents assert that the steep fee is unjust and beyond the financial reach of many of his followers, particularly the young, working-class demographic. They highlight that KRG The Don’s success is indebted to his fans, making the decision to charge them for a follow back appear ungrateful and avaricious.
In my perspective, KRG The Don’s choice to monetize a follow back is misguided and detrimental to his rapport with fans. While acknowledging his entitlement to monetize social media, it is crucial for him to weigh the consequences on his followers. The exorbitant fee effectively alienates a significant portion of his fan base from engaging with him on social platforms, potentially fostering feelings of exclusion and resentment. This, in turn, could inflict damage on his reputation and career trajectory.
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NEW YORK -- There were no guarantees that Greg Bird would be able to return in time to impact the Yankees' 2017 season. As weeks on the disabled list turned into months, an interminable series of doctors' waiting rooms, abbreviated Minor League assignments and finally a surgical procedure, one thought kept running through his mind: October.
On an unseasonably warm evening in the Bronx, Bird delivered the hit that extended the Yankees' campaign for at least one more day. His mammoth seventh-inning home run off the Indians' Andrew Miller held up as the difference in the Yanks' 1-0 victory in Game 3 of the American League Division Series presented by Doosan.
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"What a wild ride it's been," Bird said. "I knew we had a good team and we'd be here, and I was hoping that I could be part of it."
The Yankees had a good reason to keep the lights on. Before Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez were the most celebrated "Baby Bombers," Yanks scouts rated Bird as the organization's best pure hitter. He showed flashes of that at the end of the 2015 season, slugging 11 homers in 46 games while exhibiting a sweet left-handed stroke that was tailor-made for Yankee Stadium.
That swing was part of the reason that Yankees manager Joe Girardi did not entertain pinch-hitting for Bird in the seventh inning Sunday, despite the left-on-left matchup against the dominant Miller. Girardi noted that Miller's splits against lefties and righties are nearly identical, so he elected to roll the dice with Bird.
"I think he's built for this park, I really do," Girardi said. "Just the way he has played in the playoffs and the way he finished up the year, I felt really good. It's great to have him back healthy. It sure is."
With a 1-1 count, Miller reared back and fired a 95.2 mph fastball that caught a healthy portion of the strike zone. Bird barreled the ball, which rocketed off his bat at 106.7 mph and traveled a Statcast-calculated 396 feet into the second deck in right field, setting off an ecstatic celebration among many of the 48,614 customers in the building.
"I knew when it hit his bat, it was trouble," Miller said. "When it left my hand, I thought I had a good thought process on what I was trying to do. My game isn't trying to be too fine. I feel like the ball came out of my hand good. It had good velocity. It could've certainly been a better pitch, but I think what I was trying to do was just wrong in that situation and I paid dearly for it."
Yankees people regard Bird as a cool customer with a low resting heartbeat, but the first baseman screamed and pumped his fist as he began to round the bases, then thumped his chest when he'd returned to the dugout. Sanchez said it was the first time he'd ever seen Bird so emotional and animated.
"The excitement's for our team and the guys in the clubhouse," Bird said. "Just sharing that with them and getting fired up with them and helping this team win games, really, is huge. I was really excited. I'm not going to lie. But that excitement is for our team and for the guys in there that have been working their butts off all year."
Bird and Masahiro Tanaka had been unquestionably the Yanks' brightest performers leading into the season opener, with Bird crushing Grapefruit League pitching almost as regularly as Tanaka was dominating it. Both players saw their fortunes turn in the regular season; Bird fouled a ball off his right ankle in a March 30 exhibition against the Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., and went just 6-for-60 before finally landing on the disabled list at the beginning of May.
While Tanaka endured a year of peaks and valleys, Bird seemed to be stuck in place. He continued to complain of discomfort in the ankle until a cause was finally discovered, and on July 18, he had surgery to remove the os trigonum bone from his right ankle.
Six weeks later, Bird was back in the big league lineup, belting eight homers with 25 RBIs in his final 29 games of the regular season. To his teammates, none of those blasts measured up to Sunday's.
"I could barely hold my emotions in," Judge said. "He's had a couple at-bats off Miller in this series. I had a good feeling with him walking up there. He got something out over the plate and did some damage."
Bird thanked his family and close friends for helping him get through the dark times, saying they knew who they were. After making it to this glimmering light at the end of the tunnel, the long wait seemed to be worth it.
"It was just an incredible experience, an incredible game, and we're not done," Bird said. "So that's the best part of it, too, is we get to keep this thing going and keep playing baseball."


Federal Government has asked the Ghanaian government to protect Nigerians residing in Ghana, as a result of the xenophobic attacks against some Nigerian traders in Accra.
Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa who is the Chief Executive Officer, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, made the demand during a visit to the High Commissioner of Ghana to Nigeria, Rasheed Bawa, at the Ghanaian High Commission in Abuja, on Thursday.
Concerning the attacks on the businesses of Nigerians by some disgruntled Ghanaians in Accra, Mrs Abike reacted to their protects, which they alleged that Nigerians involved in the abduction of two Canadians and other criminal activities.
The Presidential aide accused the unknown Ghanaians of attacking and destroying shops belonging to Nigerians, stressing that the relations between Nigeria and Ghana should not be allowed to deteriorate.
She demanded assurances from the Ghanaian government on the safety of Nigerians living in the country, insisting that their investments should also be protected.
Dabiri-Erewa-Erewa said, “We have come to demand the protection of Nigerians in Ghana and to ensure that the xenophobic attacks against them don’t re-occur. The whole nation should not be maligned and attacked for the crimes of a few. We want assurances that the attacks on Nigerians and their businesses will not occur again.”
Bawa in his response, assured that everything necessary was being done to protect Nigerians in his country, adding that President Nana Akufo-Addo had ordered the deployment of policemen and soldiers to protect Nigerians.
He also explained that three Ghanaian youths had been arrested for alleged involvement in the attacks on Nigerians, adding that the relations between Nigeria and Ghana would not be allowed to suffer.
The envoy attributed the attacks to the security challenges facing the country which he said manifested in a series of abductions carried out by some Nigerians and their Ghanaian accomplices.
Bawa stated, “What happened three days ago was shocking. Some Ghanaians took laws into their hands and locked up the shops of some Nigerians, but nothing was vandalized and the President has directed an investigation. The President would not allow the relations between Ghana and Nigeria to be destroyed. He was in Abuja during the Sallah to celebrate with President Muhammadu Buhari.”


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The week leading up to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is becoming increasingly important to me. (NOTE: Moving to Alabama has it’s jarring effects on just how deep the issue of racism still runs in our nation. Monday will be “Robert E. Lee Day” in Alabama and Mississippi.)Continue reading “The complacency of the white church”
Today’s cultural environment has a call for “justice.” The danger is that in some segments, that call is also coupled with a “calling out” meant to shame a particular person and drive them from our visual existence. David Brooks has an excellent column HERE to dive into that segment.
Justice has to move past vengeance and anger. It has to move to deeper change.Continue reading “True justice is not into shaming “the other side””
I was able to pick up a copy of A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. while visiting the National Civil Rights Museum last year. It is a powerful compendium of Dr. King’s work in his words, not the interpretation of someone else.
He lays out his plan for nonviolent resistance and is clear this isn’t about cowardice. He moved this direction because he believed violence only created new social problems without correcting the old ones. His thoughts on nonviolent resistance had five basic principles:Continue reading “The meaning of nonviolent resistance”
The struggle for freedom on the part of oppressed people in general and of the American Negro in particular has developed slowly and is not going to end suddenly. Privileged groups rarely give up their privileges without strong resistance. But when oppressed people rise up against oppression there is no stopping point short of full freedom. Realism compels us to admit that the struggle will continue until freedom is a reality for all the oppressed peoples of the world. — Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
This is a message from City Hope Church in Alabama. Trey Taylor is the pastor delivering this message. It’s worth the listen.
One reason I believe the Lord led us to move from Minnesota to Alabama was to learn more, and somehow be involved with, reconciliation when it comes to racism. What I witnessed last night was something that wasn’t “new” or something I was on the “ground floor” as a movement. Continue reading “Racism and Reconciliation”


Determining the correct tariff for textile and apparel can be a daunting task. Here's how the classification process for a T-shirt works.
Register for the ACE/AES Export Compliance Seminar - part of a series that "will provide comprehensive insight from the Census Bureau on current and future regulations, classification and data tools, as well as agency updates, and essential export information.” Find out more details here.
CBP has issued updated guidance outlining the responsibilities of importers and customs brokers when filing duty-free claims under subheading 9801.00.10 for U.S. and foreign goods returned, along with the documentary requirements for such claims.
As an importer or exporter, you need to understand the difference between HS Codes, HTSUS Codes, and Schedule B Codes. Here is what you need to know.
Effective August 15, 2021, the drawback program and Drawback Specialists have been transitioned from designated Ports of Entry (Chicago, Houston, New York/Newark, and San Francisco) to the Centers of Excellence and Expertise.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently announced that it will be adjusting certain customs user fees and corresponding limitations to account for inflation.
Find out more about a recent CBP ruling that says a commercial vehicle manufacturer can add a Tier 2 supplier’s costs of processing within USMCA territory to the USMCA costs of its Tier 1 supplier, even though the Tier 2 costs were not sufficient to result in an originating material.


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When it comes to anti-aging treatments, the hands aren’t often the first place patients think of. Despite the best facial rejuvenation results, however, your hands can still give away your age. That’s because the hands can still be subject to a loss of volume that results in wrinkles, loose skin, and ropiness. For youthful, rejuvenated hands, Dr. DiFrancesco can recommend your best options.
Over time, the hands become just as subject to aging as the face and neck. This is usually the result of a loss of volume and, in some cases, neglect when it comes to skincare. Hand rejuvenation seeks to rejuvenate the hands in a few different ways using non-surgical treatments to address different aspects like skin texture and tone, thinness, and prominent tendons and veins. This means our hand rejuvenation experts will create the ideal treatment package for you during a consultation.
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Not So Serious, a fashion label from India, was looking for a creative yet buzz-worthy online design solution for their Autumn Winter ’15 lookbook.
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Digital media has changed the way fashion is reported, consumed and shared.
So, instead of the regular online look-book, Just after she unveiled her collection at the Amazon India Fashion Week, we took the audience on an exciting virtual trip through her collection.
A look-book designed to wow not only those in attendance, but also all of their followers. A look-book designed to engage and create conversations around the brand. A look-book handy for all potential buyers.
We decided to maximise Instagram for designer Pallavi Mohan. Using a mix of 312 images and videos, we designed an Instagram-only lookbook for the brand. As the viewer scrolls down the page, the interactive tiles beautifully capture the essence of the collection.
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This lookbook gave bloggers and customers an engaging glimpse into the Not So Serious AW’15 collection. It generated a lot of buzz among the online fashion community as well as kicked off many sales orders and garment enquiries on Instagram. The profile on which the lookbook rests saw numerous mentions, comments and shares; with evident excitement and interest over the creative execution.
Ola – the app based cab booking service in India, this morning launched a film online announcing a new service called Ola Air. As personal city based chopper service that can be accessed through their app. The launched featured their CEO and some elaborate features on the Ola Air App. The app even allows you to use their newly launched Ola Cafe food delivery service in the air. As the day would be it all turned out to be an April Fool’s prank from Ola. The company even created a fake microsite to give life to the idea. www.olaair.com. The hastag #olaair is currently trending top ten on twitter in India. The announcement film was launched in the wee hours of the fool’s day.
Chief Executive Officer: Kartik Iyer
Chief Creative Officer: Praveen Das
Chief Operating Officer: Siddhartha Roy
Creative Controller: Vijay Joy
Art Director: Vipin K Vijayan
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To create a buzz around this years new attraction called House of Nightmares, Swedish theme park Gröna Lund made a terrifying april fools prank. During a movie premier in Stockholm we hid a starving zombie in the audience and then launched a romantic kiss cam…
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Advertising Agency: Pool, Stockholm, Sweden
Account manager: Johanna Törnblom, Eva Inde
Art Director: PJ Lindqvist
Copywriter: Björn Wigenius
Production company: Stopp
Director: Fredrik Broander
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The Wall Street Journal today launched “Make Time,” its new global brand campaign, which features ambitious, successful and intellectually curious readers who make time to read the Journal. Created with The&Partnership agency, the campaign is set to run through June 30, 2015 and kicks off with Tory Burch, Chief Executive Officer, designer and philanthropist; Bill McDermott, Chief Executive Officer of SAP, entrepreneur and author; and will.i.am, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Ms. Burch, Mr. McDermott, and will.i.am represent the wide-ranging successes and interests of subscribers who reap the benefits of reading the Journal despite increasing demands on their time. Additional Journal readers will be joining the “Make Time” campaign during its run, including Mike McCue, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flipboard and Zhang Xin, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SOHO China, the largest prime office real estate developer in China.
“This campaign highlights the value of making time to read the Journal, no matter how busy people are,” said Suzi Watford, Chief Marketing Officer, Dow Jones. “It also confirms that subscribing to the Journal puts you in a community with other ambitious people who prioritize being at the top of their game. Our subscribers are in very good company.”
“Make Time” is designed to illustrate the essential personal and professional value of a Journal subscription. The campaign will roll out on digital, print and social channels before launching via television and out of home advertising.
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The awards season is here. All the year long, now. Will you create something unique, or will you just buy the awards’ almanacs. Get that great idea of your’s executed. Be a doer. Doers do today what the rest of us leave for tomorrow. Doers aren’t unique. Anyone can be one. All you have to do, is do. Think of a nice idea, pick your Lumia 640 and shoot it. Manage your awards deadlines with the built in calendaring. The Outlook email is a true push email to ensure you never miss an awards day notification. Go to Goa to write your campaign. Use the excellent Skype to chat with your team mates. The Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL will help you be a doer, giving you the freedom and flexibility to choose when and where you want to get things done.
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Problem : In society’s sexual conversation, it often seems like men do most of the talking.
Insight : For some reason, there are silly stigmas associated with sex stuff from a young woman’s point of view.
Solution : Cards Against Humanity is a great way to break the ice. What if they released a new stand-alone pack to empower women, and subsequently all genders, with a game that breaks the ice on sex talk and lets females hold the cards of the sexual conversation.
Art Director : Rajath Ramamurtny
Copywriter : Edward Miller
School : Miami Ad School, Miami
Asavari Kumar is a visual artist, designer and filmmaker from New Delhi, India. Her work is primarily character driven with a unique, playful and pliable graphic style. She tells stories through animated films, paintings and interactive installations and strives to create immersive experiences that blur the line between the physical and virtual world.
Her work has been widely recognized across several platforms including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, The Pictoplasma Exhibition, STASH, Cartoonbrew, Styleframes.ny and Vimeo.
Asavari has worked as an art director, designer and animator with a variety of clients that include – Disney, Vh1 India, Channel [v] India, GQ magazine, Cambridge University press, Britannia, Fanta, Bigshot Toyworks, Shilo and Royale.
She is currently based in Los Angeles, CA and is working as a freelance designer and animator. She also posts weekly interviews accompanied by quirky gifs for her ongoing personal project and art blog here.
Why are you a visual artist ?
I have been granted the good fortune of being able to create and give life to things that exist as just thoughts and ideas in my mind – I cant imagine doing anything else with my life. Pursuing a life and career as an artist – atleast for me satiates my desire for curiosity, creation and learning and facilitates a lifestyle in which I get to meet amazing people and have incredible conversations
Did you attend school for fine art or design?
Yes, i have a BFA from the National institute of Design in Animation film design and a Masters in Experimental animation from the California Institute of the Arts.


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A talk with Kenny Imafidon: A focus on ClearView Research’s independent polling on the attitudes and feelings of Black Britons in the UK.
Kenny Imafidon and the diverse team behind ClearView research have provided the nation with a ‘first-of-its-kind’ report focused exclusively on a UK Black community poll.
With a desire to better understand the opinions, attitudes and experiences of Black Britons as they navigate through British society, particularly since the onset of the Covid-19 lockdown, Kenny and the CVR team have produced an independent poll based on a sample of 515 complete and individual responses of black people aged 16 and over from across the UK.
A key contributing factor to successfully gaining such a focused sample for this poll is the ability of CVR to reach out to the black community. With access to thousands of people of colour and those from ethnic minorities who have taken part in previous CVR research, and with the aid of local partner organisations, the poll was able to achieve a sample size of black people that many other research companies would struggle to produce.
Asking Kenny what gives CVR the edge over other market research companies in the field, the answer simply came down to CVR’s own diversity, their focus on diversity, and their ability to fill a large gap in the polling market. CVR also pay attention to the differences amongst black people, this research body is able to provide a “culturally-informed insight” to better understand these communities, according to Kenny.
Ultimately, CVR aim to boost the voices, representation and empowerment of the British black community in the UK, doing so mainly by engaging the black community much more in research processes.
Issues that surround defunding the police, colonial statues and addressing discrimination were key focus areas for this independent piece of research.
Poll responses revealed that over 85 per cent of Black people believe the government are doing a poor job at addressing discrimination in the UK, with over 70 per cent of respondents from all age groups (of which there were eight), believing the government is doing a very poor job at addressing discrimination in the UK.
Throughout the poll, gendered differences were consistently found in response to the questions asked. Black women, for example, are more likely to believe the government are doing a very poor job at addressing discrimination in the UK.
In regards to defunding the police, the majority of Black people are in favour of defunding the police, and again, women disproportionately agreed with the idea of the police being defunded (women were 33.7% more likely to somewhat favour defunding the police compared to men).
While it is near impossible to precisely pinpoint why such gendered disparities in feelings towards protection and the handling of discrimination by the government in the UK exists between black men and women, answers can be obtained using different insights.
Shining some light on the matter, Kenny described how on the most basic level, women are seen as a marginalised group, and thus conflict already exists. Adding race to the mix serves to amplify existing gendered problems as being black “comes with its own trauma and its own unfair treatment and disadvantage”. What Kenny, the CVR research team and readers of the report have been able to witness in the poll responses is the expression of double-disadvantage by the majority of the female sample.
Focusing on colonial statues and the issue of their occupation in public places, a whopping 75 per cent of respondents were in favour of removing colonial statues, such as those of historic slave owners. With poll responses displaying some cross-sectioning, both women and younger age groups were more strongly in favour of removing colonial statues from public spaces.
Wanting to get a better grasp of why younger age groups felt more strongly about the removing of colonial statues than older members of the black community, Kenny described how being younger keeps you “closer” to the issues that most greatly impact black communities, for example, the disproportionate number of young black people (particularly men) who are stopped and searched by the police.
Asking Kenny what he hoped to achieve from the questions asked and responses received in this polling, he described how many of the questions within the report are common and are discussed widely in the media, but no one has truly been able to ask black people directly what they think about the problems that impact their community so greatly. Focusing just on the black community in this robust way enables a greater scope for change to happen.
Further proving just how special this independent polling is and how CVR have stuck true to their social mission statement, participants were provided the opportunity to donate the amount they would have earned for taking part in the research to the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation – this is the first time that polling has been used to support a charitable cause.
A total sum of £1585 was raised for the Foundation, with CVR matching the donation by 100%, a total donation of £3170 was raised and donated.


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THE passenger ferry Galleons Passage is expected to pass through the Panama Canal tomorrow after some modification to the vessel is made.
Page 20 of a 30-page manual which all boats are furnished with if their destination is via the canal, states that a vessel’s specifications must be submitted 96 hours in advance to authorities.
Newsday learned yesterday that it was only yesterday these specifications were submitted on behalf of the Galleons Passage which is making its way to Cuba and then Trinidad from China. The National Infrastructural Development Company (NIDCO) in a release yesterday, said when the boat arrived close to the port in Balboa, Panama on Wednesday last week, it was boarded by a Panama Canal captain who identified the need for modification to be made to the pilot boarding station.
The Galleons Passage, a new boat bought by the TT government from China to service the seabridge between Trinidad and Tobago, has been making its journey from Guangdong to Hawaii, then to Mexico before arriving in Panama. Newsday sent questions to NIDCO about the nature of the work to be done, duration and cost. The boat has to be lifted, like all others, with the help of lock gates, to higher level and later dropped down to the sea level at the other end. That explains why the modifications must take place. Once the work is completed and the vessel passes inspection, NIDCO said, the boat’s captain and crew would be advised of its scheduled time to pass through the canal.
“It is therefore estimated that the vessel will pass through the canal on or around Wednesday. Accordingly, the expected time of arrival in Santiago de Cuba is Saturday May 26 all good weather permitting.”

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Tashkent, Oct 4 (UNI) Fourth seed Sabine Lisicki continued with her splendid run, as she toppled top seed Shuai Peng of China and set up a title clash with third seeded Sorana Cirstea (Romania) at the 10th edition of the Tashkent Open Tennis here today.
In the semifinals, Sabine Lisicki displayed steel of nerves to upset the fancied top seed Peng Shuai 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 in a 2hr 15min thriller.
In contrast, third seeded and world ranked 46th player Sorana Cirstea did not have to work too hard as the fifth seeded Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia retired due to stomach cramps with the score reading 6-3 in favor of Cirstea.
Both players will clash in their first ever WTA tour event final tomorrow.
The semifinalists received 6,765 dolars each and 50 WTA points.
The winner will get 22,925 dollars and 115 points and the runners-up 12,450 dollars and 80 WTA points Ioana Raluca Olaru of Romania and Olga Savchuk of Ukraine won their first ever doubles career title on the WTA tour.
The winning pair of Olaru and Savchuk scraped past the pair of Nina Bratchikova of Russia and Kathrin Woerle of Germany 5-7, 7-5, 10-7 in a close encounter.
The winners received the winner's purse of 6,760 dollars and 115 points, while the runners-up had to be content with 3,670 dollars and 80 points.
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AbbVie's experimental combination hepatitis C treatment showed high cure rates of 97% to 98% after eight weeks of treatment, the company said in a presentation as the International Liver Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.
The regimen combined two experimental compounds, ABT-493 and ABT-530, and is designed to treat the virus across all six genotypes. AbbVie's currently approved drug Viekira Pak only treats genotype 1.
AbbVie is trying to chip away at Gilead's impressive dominance of the heptatis C market, but only has about 5% of the market, according to Reuters.
The study, known as Surveyor, reflects AbbVie's efforts to broaden its portfolio of HCV drugs to encompass more HCV-infected patients. In addition to boasting high efficacy rates and a broader target population, the experimental treatment is once-daily - matching the convenience offered by Gilead's Harvoni.
AbbVie's Viekira Pak is administered over four pills daily, making adherence more challenging.
"These results move us closer to our ultimate goal of providing a treatment option for as many hepatitis C patients as possible. We will continue to examine our investigational, pan-genotypic regimen through our dedicated clinical trial program, including an eight-week duration across all genotypes," said Rob Scott, vice president of development and chief medical officer at AbbVie.
AbbVie's oral, fixed dose combination of 300mg ABT-493 (an NS3/4A protease inhibitor) and 120mg ABT-530 (an NS5A inhibitor) is the cornerstone of this effort. ABT-493 was discovered as part of an ongoing collaboration between AbbVie and Enanta.
After eight weeks of treatment with ABT-493 and ABT-530, 97% to 98% patients with genotypes 1-3 experienced sustained virologic response measured at 12 weeks (SVR12) post treatment. Additionally, 100% of patients with genotype 4-6 hit SVR12.
In December 2014, the FDA approved AbbVie's Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir tablets co-packaged with dasabuvir tablets) to treat HCV genotype 1-infected patients with or without cirrhosis.
AbbVie has seen some success in negotiating with payers, winning an exclusive listing from Express Scripts, a large pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S., beating out Gilead.
Gilead, however, is not sitting on its hands as the market leader. It recently announced a combination treatment of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir and an experimental compound called GS-9857 was 99% effective in treating genotypes 12,3,4, and 6 among patients who had failed a direct acting antiviral program.
Note: This article has been corrected. The regimen is once daily, but the pill count is still being assessed through ongoing Phase 3 trials.


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This wonderful Tunes Cassette accompanies the terrific Seinn an Piano by Geraldine Cotter. You will hear demonstrations and examples of twenty-three of the songs repert from the book. Geraldine Cotter’s method is an enjoyable and easy-to-follow approach to playing traditional Irish music on the Piano.
Suitable for lower intermediate pianists.
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First, what does it say about the staff research on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' that something as big as Drew Brees' birthmark, clearly visible on his right cheek didn't make it into the notes?
Nobody ran a little tape on the guy? There were no football cards or an 8x10 glossy? It makes you think that somebody simply handed Oprah a set of cards and said, "Here you go. His team won the Super Bowl. He throws the ball. Go get him, O."
Marge: Kids can be so cruel.
Bart: We can? Thanks, mom! (runs into Lisa's room and attacks her)
This episode does a great job of satirizing Freemasons, a fraternal order whose secretive membership makes it ripe for conspiracy theories and assorted rumors about its role in shaping historical events. The truth, most likely, is probably not nearly that exciting.
In this episode Homer joins a masonic-like society called the Stonecutters after stalking Lenny and Carl to find out why they're getting so many perks, such as vibrating chairs at work and great parking spaces. Since his father was a Stonecutter, Homer is automatically allowed to join, but he does have to go through a hazing ritual, which includes being paddled on the ass repeatedly and being blindfolded and pushed off a platform that's allegedly five stories off the ground, but is really just a few inches from the floor. Ironically, Homer actually falls through the floor, and the next five floors, as well.
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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) allows you to easily monitor all your equipment and processes from one convenient location.
By: Allan Evora
SCADA, or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, is a platform that gives operators, owners, and other stakeholders an inside look at what’s happening inside a plant, facility, or process.
An integral piece in the Industrial Internet of Things, SCADA takes the data captured from your facility’s intelligent electronic devices and displays it inside an advanced visualization monitoring and control system. This user interface shows operators what each process is doing and allows them to react to alarms, change settings, and run reports.
A SCADA system actually helps increase facility safety. Other than the initial integration, engineers and operators no longer need to enter hazardous areas in order to collect equipment data. Instead, all data is able to be monitored on a computer in a secure location within the facility. Depending on how a SCADA system is configured, it might also be accessed remotely via mobile devices.
Essentially, the data inside a SCADA system provides the critical information necessary to run a facility more reliably, safely, and efficiently.
What can you do with SCADA?
SCADA often includes a historian to track a facility’s process data over time. With that trended data, operators can identify problems with devices and processes, or identify possible adjustments to run things a bit more efficiently.
Here are a few more examples of what you can do with a SCADA system:
- Investigate a potentially crippling generator battery charger alarm after being tipped off by a mobile notification alert.
- Create a data report that demonstrates your plant’s efficiency progression and KPIs over the past year.
- Monitor energy production in real-time, and watch as the process automatically adjusts based on customer curtailment requirements.
3 key aspects of SCADA
Three things in particular make SCADA an invaluable asset to any facility.
The point of SCADA alarms are to alert operators when a fault or abnormal condition occurs (or is likely to occur). SCADA operators can set alarms to go off when parameters go above or below certain setpoints. This allows them to avoid watching their SCADA screen 7x24x365, instead relying on alarms to alert them of unfavorable conditions.
Running a facility is not an exact science. There is no magical efficiency equation or recipe for success. Each environment is dynamic with many pieces coming into play. A SCADA system measures the particular performance of each system part. The KPIs and trending you configure within your system are what show the high-level overview of those individual data pieces.
Through real-time and historical trends, operators can see the high-level impact of decisions and changes they’ve made, such as running specific pieces of equipment or changing setpoints. Trending and measuring KPIs helps quantify if your asset is on track to meet performance goals.
SCADA reporting helps owners and operators conduct accurate performance analysis. Reporting capabilities vary, but most have the ability to compare dates with similar conditions to see how facilities differ and change over time.
Operators most often use standard templatized reports that provide hourly snapshots and summary reports. Typically, these are automatically generated and sent to facility managers and other stakeholders. However, the ability to create custom reports should not be overlooked. Custom reports can be tailored to delve into specific details which helps operators investigate issues they find through trending or alarming.
So, where does Affinity Energy fit in?
We use some of the industry’s best software, like Wonderware, VTScada, and Cimplicity to provide a turnkey SCADA service that includes designing, programming, testing, installing and commissioning and even training end users.
We mostly work in mission-critical industries such as hospitals, manufacturing, and utilities.
With SCADA, Affinity Energy can help you operate your facility a little more efficiently.
Contact us today for a no-obligation consultation.
Allan D. Evora is a leading expert in control systems integration and president of Affinity Energy with over 20 years of industry experience working in every capacity of the power automation project life cycle. With a background at Boeing Company and General Electric, Allan made the decision to establish Affinity Energy in 2002. Allan is an alumnus of Syracuse University with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, graduate of the NC State Energy Management program, and qualified as a Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP).
Throughout his career, Allan has demonstrated his passion for providing solutions. In 1990, he developed FIRST (Fast InfraRed Signature Technique), a preliminary design software tool used to rapidly assess rotary craft infrared signatures. In 2008, Allan was the driving force behind the development of Affinity Energy's Utilitrend; a commercially available, cloud-based utility resource trending, tracking, and reporting software.
Allan has been instrumental on large scale integration projects for utilities, universities, airports, financial institutions, medical campus utility plants, and manufacturing corporations, and has worked with SCADA systems since the early ‘90s. A passion for data acquisition, specialty networks, and custom software drives him to incorporate openness, simplicity, and integrity into every design in which he is involved.


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Hedge fund Fortress Investment Group is planning to buy Fremont Investment & Loan's subprime operations, according to sources close to the deal. The acquisition, which is awaiting due diligence and a final agreement, would be the second such deal for Fortress. The firm acquired subprime lender Centex Home Equity in July of last year.
Fortress did not return a request for comment by press time. The recent purchase helps to solidify an emerging role among hedge funds as supporters of the subprime lending market.

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With everything going on this week, I didn't dare to contribute for more than one basket. Bummer too, as it was a really nice basket. I also got a 40 lb box of oranges, but didn't snap a photo of that.
- Two heads of Living Butter Lettuce
- One bunch of asparagus
- Two big green bell peppers
- Three roma tomatoes
- Six enormous carrots
- Two bulbs of garlic
- Eight kiwi
- Seven bananas
- Six Fuji apples
- Four pears
I have no idea what to say about this basket though. The fruit will all just be eaten. Lettuce, carrots, garlic, tomatoes, green peppers -- those are all just such staples, I don't have to think about them at all.
Asparagus is the only thing I have to plan for at all. We'll eat that tomorrow night, though I don't know precisely what I'll do with it.
Rosat the asparagus. Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with salt (preferably kosher so that the pieces are bigger). Roast at 400-something until they are as tender as you'd like. To make them extra-special, melt a few tablespoons of butter in a small skillet, add 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar and 2 tbsp soy sauce. Drizzle over cooked asparagus.
PS -- Your kids will probably find it fun to know that proper asparagus eating etiquette is picking it up with your fingers.
Oh, goodness. That sounds WAY yummier than anything else I've ever done with asparagus. And I love asparagus...
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A big traffic delay could be in store for Kansas City-area lake lovers starting next Tuesday.
That’s when the Missouri highway department plans to close the Route 2 Bridge over the Grand River east of Freeman, Mo. The bridge won’t reopen until late August so the bridge deck can be repaired.
The closure stands to affect drivers from south Kansas City or from Johnson County, Kan., who are trying to get to the lake for a vacation.
The route is good way for drivers to get to Stockton, Truman, Pomme DeTerre, Montrose, Table Rock, Bull Shoals and Taneycomo lakes.
A detour for the project can be found on the highway department’s Web site at www.modot.org/kansascity/QuickStartList.htm. Click on the Cass County detours.


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Tom Hanks Net Worth is $350 Million
Tom Hanks Net Worth: Tom Hanks is a film producer, screenwriter, television producer, television director, actor, voice actor, film director, motivational speaker. Tom Hanks was born 9-Jul-56 in Concord, CA. According to Forbes, Tom Hanks Net Worth is $350 Million. Legendary actor who won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Philadelphia in 1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994. He has starred in many other classics, including Cast Away, The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan, and Apollo 13. He voiced the lead character Woody in the Pixar animated film series Toy Story. He interned at the Great Lakes Theater Festival, where he learned about theater production, lighting, and stage management. He and acclaimed director Steven Spielberg have worked together on several films including Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal.


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This handmade beehive, with three bees, is made from traditional needle felting techniques, combined with hand stitched facial features to give him that awesome little personality, hang anywhere in your hive. Handmade by a group in Nepal that employ 75+ women artisans. They use sustainably harvested, locally-sourced sheep fleece.
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Waretown is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Ocean Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 1,582. Waretown is home to Albert Music Hall and 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, George E. Smith.
Waretown is located at 39°47′25″N 74°11′18″W / 39.790140°N 74.188356°W / 39.790140; -74.188356 (39.790140, -74.188356).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.4 km2 (0.9 mi2), all land.


This isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of Adam Gase’s first eight weeks as head coach of the New York Jets. Ownership doesn’t think that the team showed up two weeks ago.
They were the ones who were ghosts, the cynic might say.
Prior to the Jets 29-15 loss at the Jacksonville Jaguars this past Sunday, Jets owner Chris Johnson stopped and talked to fans. A number of Jets fans, both those in Florida as well as a sizable contingent from the tristate area, made the trip to Jacksonville to support the green and white.
They were treated to yet another lackluster performance. This is becoming the rule and not the exception during Gase’s first year as head coach of the Jets.
And following the Jets poor showing the week before, a 33-0 home loss to the rival New England Patriots, Johnson’s simple pregame comments to the fans showed that he too wants to see the team do more than rollover.
“Hopefully the team will actually show up this week,” Johnson said in the video.
They didn’t and this team, as well as second-year quarterback Sam Darnold, are in clear regression.
The Jets are now 1-6 on the year. The fact that Johnson doesn’t see the Jets as having “shown up” in the loss to the Patriots the week before is not a good look for Gase.
Injuries have decimated this team and truthfully, the roster isn’t very good. The Jets are mired in a rebuild, something that is obvious after Monday’s trade of former first round pick Leonard Williams, who was shipped across town to the New York Giants for multiple picks in next year’s NFL Draft.
But a lack of effort or not showing up is troublesome for the Jets. This team did show up two weeks ago in Darnold’s return from mono to beat the Dallas Cowboys.
Perhaps Johnson is just frustrated at the constant rebuilding of this team. Or perhaps he simply wants to see more development and some heart from Gase’s team. To think that this team beat the Cowboys three weeks ago and then laid successive duds must render the Jets owner exasperated.


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Do you like my new title for posts about pizza? JAZZ HANDS!
Recently I discovered a website called Slice (America’s Favorite Pizza Weblog!), and was particularly intrigued by a listing of the many many regional varieties of pizza in America. There are sooo many types of pizza that I haven’t tried! And even though I kinda know what I like (New York & Neapolitan), my new mission (among many) is to learn more about pizza.
Mission impossible? Or mission VERY possible?
So when the Slice Truck came to our offices yesterday offering special grandma style slices, I was very impressed with myself for even KNOWING that I was dealing with a regional style. And I ordered a piece of the granny (ew?), because… well, really because I needed something to blog about. But also to LEARN. (And to EAT.)
I really liked the use of Roma tomatoes vs. sauce (I also love sauce). They were sweet and meaty, and I wish there were more of them (I think that’s why I love sauce… it douses the slice). (I guess ideally I’d enjoy sauce filled with big chunks of tomato?)
As for the bread– this was foccacia-esque, and I’m really more of a thin crust gal (partly because thin crust doesn’t cause me to think, Oh God I’m eating a huuuge piece of bready bread). But like I said, I’m in this for the experience.
I’m going to try St. Louis style when I visit my sister, even though it apparently has crackers for crust and is covered in some sort of pseudo-cheese called Provel. Already I cringe. But hey– it’ll be an experience!
I wanted to make more jokes about grandmas, but… I got nothing. My grandmas are dead! Leave me alone. (My grandma liked Pizza Hut. That was her style.)

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A Special Edition of Music and Talk, with guest Oli Rockberger. Spotlighting the multi talented, singer songwriter,and his latest CD "Old Habits" which will be making it's US release at The Rockwood Music Hall on March 13th.


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Get yourself to the NAO party.
She’s been selling out shows in her home country and she was featured in the illustrious BBC Sound of 2016 Poll. Plus artists who choose to collaborate with Disclosure also tend to end up doing pretty alright for themselves – see: ‘Superego’ off Caracal.
If you haven’t yet either, get your ears around ‘Fool To Love’. Self-described as “wonky funk”, she creates music in a similar vein to fellow Brits AlunaGeorge. The template no-bullshit attitude layered over funky hip-hop beats. The difference with ‘Fool To Love’ is its late 90s/early 00s R&B smoothness. More TLC, less FKA twigs. NAO also knows how to make use of a well-timed dramatic break mid-song, and that is what makes ‘Fool To Love’ for me. Cool kicks on the dancefloor ready.
Hometown: London, UK.
Upcoming album: To be released later in the year.
Sounds like: Elizabeth Rose, Sinead Harnett, Kelela.
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Report: Madonna Fans Accuse CC Of Boycotting Madge's New Tunes
July 25, 2006 at 1:13 PM (PT)
Nearly 5,000 MADONNA fans in the U.S. have signed a petition that accuses CLEAR CHANNEL of refusing to play songs from the MATERIAL MOM's "Confessions On A Dancefloor" -- her latest album -- stateside because the singer has been an outspoken opponent of the war and has disparaged PRESIDENT BUSH during her live shows, reports MSNBC. The petition, which is being sent to CC CEO MARK MAYS, notes that MADONNA holding the top two positions in the United World Chart while at the same time getting very little U.S. airplay is "evidence ... too obvious for words" that there's a boycott on MADONNA's new songs in the STATES.
While CLEAR CHANNEL has yet to officially respond to the allegations, the MSNBC report adds that, when MADONNA fans call in to request songs, they are usually told she is "too old or not popular enough."
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Carl Barus became the director of the Indianapolis Maennerchor in 1882, and the musical society used the publication of its 1882-1883 program to announce his appointment. Barus had been the conductor of musical societies in Cincinnati for several years and had served as the director of a music festival hosted in Indianapolis in 1858 by the Indiana Saengerbund. Barus served in his position with the Maennerchor until 1896.
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Altenahr and the winegrowing have a long common history. The small wine town became a stronghold of wine tourism with its varied possibilities for accommodation in the 60s and 70s, particularly in autumn and during the time of the wine festivals when the guests came by special trains from the Ruhr area and other parts of Germany.
The winegrowing district of the Ahr stretches from Altenahr to Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler over a total of 559 ha. Red wine varieties are cultivated on about 85 % of the area and white wine varieties on 15%.
In Altenahr you can find the vineyards of Altenahrer Eck and Übigberg.
In 1933 the first wine festival took place in Altenahr. Then it still had the name "Winzerinnen-Volksfest" (“wine-growers folk festival”). The guests were greeted at this time by the initiator of the wine festival, Mayor Wilhelm Eiden, who as castellan led the programme together with the young lady of the castle and serf hunters.
A wine grower procession filled guests from near and far with enthusiasm.
Nowadays the wine festival in Altenahr takes place in the last weekend of September and on four weekends in October – without a wine grower procession. Since the year 2011, the individual weekends have different mottos: “music, dancing and wine”, “onion tart and Sauser" (Sauser is fermented apple or grape juice particularly found in southern Germany), "Rocks, lights and wine", "Walking fun and wine pleasure" and "Royal conclusion".
Until the 50s it was still not standard to elect "town wine queens" and under this then an area wine queen. The “association of wine growers and farmers” asked daughters of wine growers, whether they would represent their wine growing area at the election of the German wine queen. Liselene Zimmermann was the first wine queen in Altenahr and accompanied the wine growers procession in the year 1949. In the year 1950 Maria Rosenbaum became wine queen and travelled as the first “area wine queen” from Altenahr to the election of the German wine queen at Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. Only since the year 1970 has there been a wine queen every year who represents the wine town with her princess during up to 60 appearances throughout the year.

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text: The Verolands, also called Veron, is a boggy land on the coast of the warm sea and location of Triar, the capital of the Basilean Empire. Rivers and bogs cover most of the Verolands, and their geography silty deltas and peninsula's with rocky foothills at their spines. It was a difficult land, but the fertility of the soil and strategic location along the trade routes of the warm sea allowed for them to thrive. The Verolands were one of the first places conquered by the old Empire, and their position in comparison to the rest of the world was improved because of it. When the Old Empire fell, the Veronii fell into a heap of feuding city states.


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Denmark earmarks millions for developing world’s environmental protection
The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit´s host nation, Denmark, threw the first concrete financial aid figures on the negotiating table on Wednesday that could help countries such as Costa Rica protect their environment.
Pending a firm global deal and promises of fair aid numbers from other developed nations, the Danish government announced it will commit €160 million (roughly $235 million) between 2010 and 2012 to help developing countries, such as Costa Rica, improve their capacities to fight climate change, according to a news release on the Danish Foreign Affairs Ministry´s Web site.
The amount represents a fraction of estimated $10 billion that developing countries will need between 2010 and 2012, according to European Union representatives, in order to jumpstart emissions mitigation projects.
Costa Rican negotiators headed to Copenhagen this week hoping to secure financial aid for the country and its developing Central American neighbors.
Delegates estimate that Costa Rica will need approximately $7 billion, a big chunk of which will have to come in the form of foreign financial aid, to execute projects that will significantly reduce national greenhouse gas emissions.
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PANEL Discussion: Making the Leap from Young Adult to Adult Fiction: Four best-selling writers discuss the effects of switching genres, what it takes to maintain a publishing career today and offer advice to budding authors. "
"Christi Daugherty: As a newspaper reporter, Christi Daugherty began covering murders at the age of 22. She worked as a journalist for years in cities including Savannah, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. Her work eventually took her to England, where she wrote the international bestselling Night School series of thrillers for young adults under the name CJ Daugherty. Her new detective novel, The Echo Killing, is her first adult novel. Her work has been translated into 25 languages. "
"Jo Nadin: A former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the prime minister, since leaving politics Jo has written more than 70 books, as well as speeches for politicians, and articles for newspapers and magazines like Red and The Amorist. Jo also lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and holds a doctorate in young adult literature. The winner of the Fantastic Book Award and the Surrey Book Award, and shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Booktrust Best Book award and Queen of Teen among others, Jo has been twice nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, for Everybody Hurts, and for Joe All Alone, which is currently being adapted for television. She works with Sir Chris Hoy on the Flying Fergus series, and ghost-writes Angry Birds under another name. Jo lives in Bath with her family. "
"CJ Skuse: CJ was born and bred in Weston-super-Mare and has always lived locally. She worked in publishing for nine years and is the author of the Young Adult novels Pretty Bad Things, Rockoholic, Dead Romantic, Monster and The Deviants, C.J.s first adult title Sweetpea was released in 2017 with HQ/HarperCollins. The sequel is released this August. CJs books have been longlisted for the Redbridge and Branford Boase book awards, shortlisted for the Booktrust Best Book prize with Amazon Kindle, the Lancashire Book of the Year and Coventry Inspiration Book Awards. Pretty Bad Things won the Dumfries and Burgh Book Award and The Deviants recently claimed the prestigious Prix des Etudiants de LUniversite Jean-Monnet in France. She has first class degrees in Creative Writing and Writing for Young People. Aside from writing, C.J. works as a Senior Lecturer on the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. "
"Rachel Ward: Rachels first Young Adult novel Numbers was published in January 2009 to wide acclaim and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Childrens Book prize, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and won regional prizes in the UK and Germany including the Angus Book Award, Oxfordshire Book Award and the Salisbury Schools Book Award. This was followed up with the sequels The Chaos and Infinity, and two further YA thrillers, The Drowning and Waterborn. Numbers has been translated into more than 20 languages. Her first novel for adults, The Cost of Living, was published last year. In between writing novels, Rachel likes to paint landscapes and portraits, and take photographs in and around Bath, where she lives with her family.
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Joanna Nadin is a former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister, and since leaving politics she has written more than seventy books for children and Young Adults. She is the author of the bestselling Rachel Riley diaries, the award-winning Penny Dreadful series, the Flying Fergus series (with Sir Chris Hoy), and the Carnegie Prize-nominated Joe All Alone, which is currently being filmed for the BBC. She is a winner of the Fantastic Book award, has been named Blue Peter 'Book of the Month' and Radio 4 Open Book 'Book of the Year', has thrice been shortlisted for the Queen of Teen award, while Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. In 2011, Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny prize. The Queen of Bloody Everything is her first novel for adults.


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With an accuracy of 0.5% at power factors as low as 0.01 at 100 V and 1 A, the WT3000E Transformer Version is suited to the precision testing of transformer losses, allowing transformer manufacturers to avoid potential fines imposed by power authorities.
“When every kilowatt lost beyond specified limits can cost thousands of dollars in fines, it is vital to have confidence in the measurement of power losses, particularly under no-load conditions and at power factors as low as 0.01”, says Terry Marrinan, Vice-President, T&M Business Unit, Yokogawa T&M Europe and Asia Pacific: “To address this challenge, the WT3000E Transformer Version is calibrated at power factors of 1, 0.5, 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001 to enable engineers in transformer testing to accurately capture and measure any drift outside the limits described in the IEC60076-8 Standard.” As a result, the WT3000E Transformer Version further exceeds the requirements for accuracy in the standard at a power factor of 0.01 and is now also specified down to a power factor of 0.001.
The WT3000E Transformer Version maintains high levels of accuracy over a wide range of power factors. The ±0.01% total power accuracy figure applies at a power factor of 1 and a frequency of 44-66 Hz. The corresponding value for power factors in the range 0.02 to 0.01 is 0.5%, and for power factors in the range 0.01 to 0.001 it is 7%.
Every instrument is supplied with a calibration certificate from Yokogawa’s ISO 17025 accredited calibration laboratory in the Netherlands. As ISO 17025 certified non-governmental organisation that offers calibration up to 100 kHz, Yokogawa is equipped to guarantee the specifications of its power meters and improve them with calibration.
Like other models in the Yokogawa WT3000E Series, the WT3000E Transformer Version features an intuitive 8.4-inch high-resolution TFT display which can be used to compare up to four waveforms in split-screen mode with clear safety & overload indicators.
The WT3000E Transformer Version features measurement ranges that are optimised to match the potential and current parameter values used in the transformer industry. It also enables users to measure harmonics and distortions while simultaneously measuring power. It can analyse and display a waveform’s individual frequency components, as well as checking signal components other than the integer multiples of the fundamental wave.
User-defined triggers can be set to capture readings that satisfy or fall outside user-defined conditions. Users can also define and use up to 20 custom computations.
Delta computation, provided as a standard function, allows calculation of individual phase voltages from line voltages measured in a 3-phase/3-wire system. Another standard feature is cycle-by-cycle trend analysis, which allows users to list voltage, current, active power and other parameters for each cycle. Direction sensitive energy measurements are also enabled, with the facility for the integration of instantaneous values for positive and negative readings.
The instrument is supplied with free application software which is used to read numeric, waveform, and harmonic data through a communications interface such as GP-IB, USB or Ethernet.


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Portlaoise took a step closer to the Division 1A final following a three point win over Ballyroan-Abbey tonight.
The Town now sit four points clear of Graiguecullen in second position in the table and also have a game in hand.
They meet the Barrowsiders in their next match where a win will see them qualify for a rematch of the county final from last October with O’Dempsey’s.
Ballyroan-Abbey are themselves in something of a relegation battle but they are three points clear of the dropzone with games against Arles-Kilcruise, O’Dempsey’s and St Joseph’s remaining.
Portlaoise won this game 2-14 to 2-11 with teenager Damon Larkin and forward Aaron Rafter striking for the goals.
Veteran Padraig McMahon was on target twice for Ballyroan-Abbey but it wasn’t enough as they fell to an eight defeat.
There is a huge game in the Division tomorrow night with the two bottom sides set to meet as Arles-Kilcruise host The Heath.

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