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With the EURO 2020 games just a few hours away from kick-off, listeners are kindly notified that there will be a number of disruptions to our regular programming on Asempa 94.7 FM.
The programme disruptions will start from today, June 11, when Turkey takes on Italy in a 7 pm tournament-opening fixture, till the grand final is played on July 11, 2021, at the Wembley stadium in England.
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When Li Shuyi left the hospital, it was already nine o’clock. He hadn’t rested much all day and was pissed off by Jin Yan, so even when he noticed that there were people from the Bai family following him, he couldn’t be bothered to get angry.
Actually, when he scolded Jin Yan for being an ungrateful brat, he was being quite unreasonable. Jin Yan was anything but ungrateful; he was clearly too grateful, which was why he remained so utterly devoted to Bai Hao.
Li Shuyi still remembered the first time he saw Jin Yan. That kid was hiding behind the garden, holding a chicken leg and gnawing on it with a mouth full of grease. At that moment, when he saw Li Shuyi, he was so startled that he didn’t even run away; he just stuffed the whole chicken leg into his mouth, almost needing to be sent to the hospital for rescue.
Li Shuyi had heard before that Bai Jing’s nephew, who had lost both his parents, had picked up a little beggar. However, he hadn’t paid much attention to it. It was only until he met Jin Yan that he found the kid rather amusing.
Bai Hao was only 13 years old at the time, and due to his unusual background, he had been raised outside the Bai family. He was quite scheming and not a likable child, while Jin Yan was a simple-minded fool, bouncing around like an excited little donkey all day.
Li Shuyi was busy dealing with people at the time, it was either him killing someone or someone else killing him. As a result, it was rare to come across someone as foolish as Jin Yan in real life. So, from time to time, he would playfully tease Jin Yan, scaring him off every time he saw him and making Jin Yan run for his life.
Later, when Bai Hao went abroad for studies and Jin Yan couldn’t go with him, Li Shuyi took him in and raised him for several years. Now that Bai Hao has returned, this little rascal still keeps finding opportunities to run to Bai Hao’s side. Sometimes, Li Shuyi can’t help but want to say some harsh words to wake him up. But thinking about it, he can only swallow back those words one by one. When it comes to matters of the heart, he of all people had no right to lecture Jin Yan.
Li Shuyi had been too lost in his thoughts, only snapping back to reality when he reached the first security checkpoint at the residence. This place was a gated estate villa developed by the Bai family, with strict security and high levels of privacy. There were only 10 families in the area they were in, and each villa came with a garden roughly four or five times the size of the building area. In the highly coveted real estate market of Jinhai City, this place was truly invaluable. When Li Shuyi helped the Bai family acquire this land back in the day, it had taken a tremendous amount of effort, and who knows how many people harbored deep resentment against him behind their backs for it.
As Li Shuyi parked the car in the garage and had just stepped out, the housekeeper, Uncle Wu, came out to greet him. Uncle Wu personally took the luggage from Li Shuyi’s hands and smiled warmly at him, saying, “Mr. Li, you’re back.”
Uncle Wu was a person Bai Jing’s grandfather left for Bai Jing. He watched Bai Jing grow up and took care of him in many ways. While he was referred to as the housekeeper, in reality, he was actually a very important elder. It was already quite late at this time, and the old housekeeper was getting on in years and should have rested long ago. Li Shuyi nodded in response to his words, “You go and rest, no need to worry about me.”
Uncle Wu remained smiling and welcomed him into the house, saying, “I’ve prepared some food for you. Would you like to have some before resting?”
Li Shuyi’s recent sleep and appetite have been poor. He hadn’t eaten much all day and has no appetite even now. However, he didn’t want to disappoint the old man’s kind gesture, so he nodded.
As he took off his coat and sat down at the dining table, he heard a noise at the door. Uncle Wu brought over a bowl of stomach-warming soup and smiled, saying, “It should be the young master returning.”
Li Shuyi let out an “Mn” and lifted the bowl, lowering his eyes and taking a sip of the soup without getting up to greet the person. He waited until the footsteps approached and eventually stopped in front of him. Only then did he set down the bowl and raise his head.
It had to be acknowledged that Bai Jing possessed an incredibly handsome face. A high nose bridge, thin lips, and facial features that seemed meticulously sculpted from the eyebrows to the chin. Even the faint scent of alcohol he carried only made him appear more lazily alluring. His appearance lacked the sharpness and cruelty that Li Shuyi had, but the aura of superiority in his every gesture and movement made him all the more captivating and unapproachable.
Li Shuyi had known Bai Jing for nearly twenty years, from their youth until now. He had thought that he had long since had his emotions under control, yet at this moment, he still found himself momentarily lost in him.
Perhaps due to some discomfort from the alcohol, Bai Jing had been massaging his temples since he sat down. Li Shuyi regained his composure and after watching him drink some hangover soup, he asked, “Should we call a doctor over?”
Bai Jing waved his hand, raised his head, and unbuttoned his cufflinks, saying, “Elder Wei came, I drank a bit too much today.” Elder Wei had once held significant power at the very top, and although he had retired, he still wielded considerable influence in various circles. That’s why Bai Jing had put in extra effort to attend to him today.
This name quickly flashed through Li Shuyi’s mind, connecting it to recently received news. His tone turned somewhat cold as he asked, “He wants to get involved in the project in the eastern part of the city?” The old city area in the eastern part of Jinhai City was set to develop a project that, once completed, will become a semi-central area of Jinhai City, integrating tourism and residential elements. It was the largest and most iconic project in Jinhai City in recent years, and Li Shuyi had been in charge of it.
Bai Jing shook his head and smiled, saying, “I brought it up, but he said that Wei family won’t be getting involved in this matter.” Since Elder Wei’s retirement, the Wei family had kept a low profile, and some people wanted to partner with them, but it was clear that the Wei family was not interested in getting involved in such murky waters.
Li Shuyi felt relieved and changed the topic, discussing the recent overseas collaboration they had just finalized. Bai Jing listened attentively, occasionally raising some questions.
Uncle Wu arranged the dishes for the two of them at the dining table and couldn’t help but sigh softly. After not seeing each other for over half a month, there were no hugs, kisses, no tender words, not even the usual polite inquiries. What should have been a pleasant dinner for a long-awaited reunion had turned into a business meeting once again.
They talked late into the night, and when Li Shuyi went to take a shower, he was incredibly tired. He didn’t even notice when the bathroom door opened. It wasn’t until Bai Jing came up from behind, encircling his waist and pulling him into his arms, that he finally realized.
Li Shuyi was covered in moisture from the shower, but Bai Jing didn’t seem to mind. He tightened his arms around him and furrowed his brows as he asked, “Why have you lost so much weight?”
Li Shuyi’s expression remained as cold as ever as he replied, “It’ll be fine after I nurture myself for a few days.” He was very close to Bai Jing, and he could feel a reaction from the person behind him as they spoke. Li Shuyi hesitated for a moment, then pulled away from Bai Jing’s grasp and turned around, about to kneel down.
Bai Jing sensed his intentions and grabbed his wrist, pulling him back up. Li Shuyi was puzzled, so he raised his head to meet Bai Jing’s eyes.
Bai Jing released Li Shuyi’s hand and wiped away the water droplets rolling down his face. His gaze briefly passed over the scars on Li Shuyi’s body from gunshot wounds. He let out a sigh and said, “No need, not today.” Without waiting for Li Shuyi to say anything further, he turned and walked away.
Li Shuyi watched as he walked away, and after a momentary daze, he turned to his indifferent expression.
When he came out of the shower, Bai Jing had already fallen asleep. Li Shuyi turned off the bedside lamp, and lay down, facing Bai Jing’s direction but with a significant gap between them. That’s how their relationship was – distant, and never confiding in each other. It was like a tight string that could snap at any moment. Bai Jing might not care at all, considering that if it weren’t for his deliberate interference, he would have already been engaged three years ago.
With these thoughts in mind, Li Shuyi chuckled at himself. His former psychologist had once said that his feelings for Bai Jing were somewhat pathological, but no matter how deep they dug or how much they tried to induce him, no one could get more out of his mouth. His defenses were too strong, and no matter how skilled a psychologist was, they couldn’t break through. However, Li Shuyi wasn’t overly concerned about it. He knew where the problem lay and was well aware that no one could save him. So, even though he knew that Bai Jing didn’t love him, he still went to great lengths to stay by his side.
Just like a dying withered tree, tightly grasping the last living nourishment.
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Cutting Black is a campaign book to help launch players and gamesmasters into Shadowrun, Sixth World. With breaking news and world-shaking events, it provides material to carry players through months of games. If they can survive that long.
- Introduces new plot lines that build on stories previously set up in Shadowrun but take them in new and exciting directions
- Establishes future plot lines that will be picked up in upcoming books, such as the adventure Blackout
- Provides a great entry point for new players wanting to try out the newest version of Shadowrun.

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"You've just got to keep on moving on," quarterback Kyle Orton said about the latest injury news. "There's nothing you can do or say about it. We've been dealing with this stuff all year. And whoever's in the huddle, we expect them to perform."
This is just the most recent injury for Moreno. The starting tailback pulled his right hamstring the opening day of training camp and didn't return until Aug. 31, saving his on-field debut until the regular season. He has gained just 111 yards on 39 carries for a 2.8-yard average this season.
Denver's running game has been off to a dismal start overall. The team's 77 yards per game ranks 27th and the Broncos are averaging just 2.4 yards on 63 rushing plays.
Indianapolis (1-1) should see more of a three-headed approach to the run game by Denver, with Buckhalter and newcomers Laurence Maroney and Andre Brown likely to share the workload.
Buckhalter, himself no stranger to injury, still may not be ready to pound it into the line 20 times. He hurt his neck and back in the first team drill of training camp and was sidelined for three weeks. Buckhalter played in the preseason finale and has 17 carries for 34 yards with a TD during the regular season.
"Without going through a preseason and getting banged around and stuff for that month, my preseason's kind of been the last two games we played," Buckhalter said. "So just getting the chance to get the rust off, I'm kind of feeling like myself right now, especially late in the week."
"For the most part the system is pretty easy," Maroney said. "I'm not saying too easy, but I know a lot of it and I feel confident I can go in there and do my thing and not have too many mistakes."
But when Ryan Grant was lost for the season by the Green Bay Packers, they were going to sign Brown. Denver reacted by adding Brown to the active roster Tuesday.
"I feel comfortable enough to where I feel all right out there on certain plays," said Brown, who appears to have overcome a turf toe injury that limited him in August with New York. "It's still a learning process, learning by reps and stuff like that. As it goes, I'm going to go, and when they throw me in there, I've just got to be ready."
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This past Saturday was an evening of celebration. Not only did Windsor gather at the Chrysler Theatre to listen to the music of pop legends U2, it also gathered there to celebrate the youth and young adults of Roots 2 Wings. The annual We Will Rock Blue concert for Roots 2 Wings featured Canadian U2 tribute band Desire, who not only sounded like the iconic band, but it also mimicked a U2 concert in almost every way.
The last time I actually saw U2 was on the 360° Tour in 2009 at BC Place in Vancouver. That was a packed show of about 40,000 and from my seat, the band looked like inch worms on a giant stage. Even though it still remains one of my fonder memories, the show suffered greatly from being so large. Not only was the band visually too small, but the sound was horrid as it bounced off the roof and into the upper seats.
This is where Desire shined through. Not only could we see the band members up close, but the sound carried perfectly in our stunning Chrysler Theatre. The band performed those legacy songs with the skill and accuracy of the original U2, with as much passion as they must have had when they originally performed each song on various tours for the first time.
Opening with a very soft and subtle mix of Milk and October featuring a single blue light, shed on guitarist David “The Edge” Dellavalle, the stage was set for a dramatic beginning to an evening filled with love and passion. Bassist Justin “Adam Clayton” Faragher and drummer Gord “Larry Mullen Jr.” Sobota drove the rhythms at all the right moments and vocalist Tim “Bono” Shaughnessy sounded and moved like the real deal. Tim also felt his own “desire” to help the Roots 2 Wings because his daughter struggles with Asperger’s Disease, a syndrome the organization would assist with had she lived here in Windsor – luckily, she has her own program to help her transition to employment.
Once the band kicked into New Year’s Day, they started to dive deeper into delivering the U2 experience. Dressed to look like the accompanying U2 member, Desire delivered on every promise. They played all the hits you’d expect, like Sweetest Thing, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, With or Without You, Sunday Bloody Sunday, One and Where The Streets Have No Name, spread over a vast two-set show. Emcee duo Kara Ro from AM 800 and Joe McParland from Biz X provided a lively introduction bringing out the organizers and clients from Roots 2 Wings just before the show started.
Most of the audience there at the Chrysler Theatre would never get as close to the real U2 as they were with Desire on Saturday – the theatre small enough for an intimate show, yet large enough for a great visual presentation loaded with plenty of dry ice and a flashy light spectacle. The band members themselves even took the time to sing and play right there in the audience.
No matter how good Desire was, the main reason for the show was to help raise greatly needed funds for Roots 2 Wings and their programs. The organization provides youth and young adults living with a disability the opportunities to grow and develop skills to enhance their independence, social skills, and quality of life.
Even the real Bono would have called it a Beautiful Day.
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New He-Man Sideshow Collectibles Statue Announcement!
“By The Power of Grayskull!”
He‐Man Statue By Sideshow Collectibles
Sideshow Collectibles is proud to present the He‐Man with an intricately sculpted costume and armor details.
- Donning a removable fabric handcrafted cape and iconic Power Sword
- Displayed on a Grayskull themed base
- Exclusive includes switch-out Power Axe and Sheathed Power Sword
Release Date: Thursday, September 24, 2015- 12:00pm PT
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Evaluation and Results
Public library summer reading programs help children and teens retain and improve their reading skills over the summer. They help adults model reading activity for youth. And they provide a haven and a community for readers. CLA's evaluation resources help libraries demonstrate the value, impact, and popularity of their summer reading programs.
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CLA encourages and helps all libraries present outcomes-based summer reading programs. Outcomes-based programs generate data showing the value and impact of public library summer reading programs. We provide two statewide outcomes, programming ideas, training resources, survey and focus group questions, and staff support for all libraries that present outcomes-based summer reading. Find out more about outcomes-based summer reading on our outcomes pages.
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Each year, CLA asks libraries to count and report how many kids read five or more books during the summer to help us demonstrate how libraries help prevent summer learning loss. More information is available on the Five Book Summer Challenge page.
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Over 685,000 children, teens, and adults signed up for summer reading in California's public libraries in 2013. The summer 2013 report provides an overview and breakdown of California's 2013 summer reading statistics.


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The theme for this week is “Fear”. Let’s start on Monday night when Tasmanian senator Otto Abetz appeared in the lounge rooms of the nation on the ABC’s Q&A show. Otto invariably looks and sounds as if he’s eaten a live animal and there he was crunching on a mouthful of bones as he addressed the terrifying issues of the day: Muslims, terrorism, Safe Schools, Peter Dutton and Liberal Party leadership spillages.By Richard Ackland.
The theme for this week is “Fear”. Let’s start on Monday night when Tasmanian senator Otto Abetz appeared in the lounge rooms of the nation on the ABC’s Q&A show.
Otto invariably looks and sounds as if he’s eaten a live animal and there he was crunching on a mouthful of bones as he addressed the terrifying issues of the day: Muslims, terrorism, Safe Schools, Peter Dutton and Liberal Party leadership spillages. It was too much for your correspondent, leaving no option but to turn off the telly and settle down with the biography of Billy McMahon, Tiberius with a Telephone.
Scary ministers and security creeps
The Minister for Carbon, Angus Taylor, is going hammer and tongs to put the fear of God into us with messages about Labor’s “Carbon Tax”. He must be talking about Labor’s version of the NEG, which is borrowed from Trumble’s ill-fated notional energy guarantee – the “carbon tax” that momentarily, at least, was Nasty Party policy.
If you’re not gripped with fear about that, Freedom Boy Wilson, as chair of the house of representatives standing committee on economics, foreshadowed a meeting on Friday at the Oaks Room of the Dee Why RSL to explore how to frighten “senior Australians” about Labor’s policy of removing refundable franking credits. Then, of course, your house price is going to collapse because dreadful Bill Shorten is tinkering with negative gearing. Never mind that prices will drop even further under SloMo’s go-slow on immigration.
Then there’s the blistering urgency for parliament to pass the counter-encryption bill, so that Benito Dutton can get his sticky fingers all over every secret communication imaginable, just in case a lone-wolf terrorist sends himself an encrypted message.
McKell in a handbasket
Back to Patrick Mullins’ spellbinding Tiberius with a Telephone, which sets the scene in the wake of the 1949 election that swept Pig Iron Bob Menzies to power. The opening of parliament was a fabulous affair with ministers in morning dress and a speech from the senate throne by the governor-general, Boilermaker Bill McKell, replete with all the fear-mongering of the day.
There was a big emphasis on national security with the government legislating to “protect the community against the activities of subversive organisations and individuals”, notably the Communist Party. At that stage there wasn’t enough room under the beds of the nation for Muslims.
The new government would impede official intrusion into industry and invest in infrastructure. There were also measures to alter the governance of Commonwealth Bank. It was ever thus.
Otto has enough on his hands trying to get his Tasmanian Liberals to heel. Premier Willy Hodgman wanted to relegate new MP and former Hobart mayor Sue Hickey to the backbench, a move that didn’t please her so she supported a Labor–Greens move for her elevation to the speakership of the house of assembly.
With the house evenly divided the speaker’s casting vote is everything, and from this perch she has been sniping away at Otto’s vice-like clench on the Tasmanian branch of the Nasty Party. To send the local Gauleiter into a brutal bout of bone-crunching, Hickey was the deciding vote for the passage of legislation to allow transgender people to change their gender identity on birth certificates.
As if this were not diabolical enough, Hickey has now called for the government to make abortions in the Apple Isle free, on a means-tested basis.
Otto was visibly upset and told a commercial wireless program: “I am waiting for Ms Hickey to say something positive about the Liberal Party.”
In further complications, Sarah Courtney has departed from the portfolios of primary industries, water and racing after it emerged she was playing hide-the-sausage with her departmental head, Dr John Whittington.
If you think the wheels are coming off SloMo’s Canberra bus, it’s even worse for Otto’s clapped-out panzer division in Van Diemen’s Land.
Do the Strand
News from the Old Dart, where Bookshelves Brandis has been hosting rollicking celebrations to mark the centenary of Australia House on the Strand.
The Prince of Wales did the honours with a heartfelt speech amid the hand-cut Bohemian crystal chandeliers: “Australia House was opened by my great-grandfather, King George V, in what were the grimmest of times ... When my great-grandfather arrived at Australia House, to be met by Australian prime minister Billy Hughes, he was greeted by rousing and affectionate cheers of ‘cooee’ from Australian diggers in their slouch hats gathered outside.”
Bookshelves, proud monarchist that he is, was flushed with pride.
Another Australia House cocktail regular, “Sir” Lynton Crosby, is also back in the news. The latest issue of Private Eye reports that Sir Lynton’s firm CTF Partners is doling out loot to those opposed to Theresa May’s Brexit deal.
CTF gave £753 for Chequers protester David Davis to fly to Munich to give a speech to a right-wing “think” tank, the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Another £26,000 was doled out to Tory MP Ben Bradley, who is defending his seat on a slim margin – not helped by his old blog posts advocating vasectomies for the unemployed. He voted Remain but since then flipped to hard-Brexit/anti-Chequers.
The firm was also working with professional poodle-faker Boris Johnson and now another Brexit outfit named ERG. At least the prime minister’s supporters are comforted by Sir Lynton’s recent track record: his disastrous 2017 campaign that landed Mrs May’s Tories in a minority government and Zac Goldsmith’s catastrophic 2016 tilt at the London mayoralty.
Among the departees from the once mighty House of Fairfax is group general counsel and company secretary Gail Hambly.
She’s been in the saddle there for 25 years and was the motivating presence behind many of the great court cases the company fought to defend its journalism.
She will stay on as a leading hand at Australia’s Right to Know, a conglomerate of media interests pressing the case for defamation laws that actually allow serious investigations to be published without spending millions of dollars on punishing courtroom stoushes.
There are many who agree that Ms Hambly, with her depth of corporate, media, legal and artistic (Belvoir) experience, would make a first-rate managing director of the ABC, should she feel inclined to put her head into a lion’s mouth.
At least Fairfax had a former journalist in the form of Greg Plywood at the helm. The board of Nine, the entertainment company that now controls the Fairfax mastheads, contains no one with any newspaper experience.
The chairman is Liberal Party faithful and former treasurer Peter Costello. He, of course, has experience in the defamation field as a plaintiff in the case against Random House and Bob Ellis over a spicy passage in the book Goodbye Jerusalem.
Relief all round that former New South Wales Opposition leader Luke Foley has given up the idea that he might sue the ABC and/or Ashleigh Raper over allegations of inappropriate touching at a booze-fuelled 2016 Christmas party.
It’s all lies, the politician said. That was after Ms Raper, in a statement released by the ABC, described the sudden and unwanted arrival of Mr Foley’s fingers, late at night, inside her underwear.
According to the journalist’s statement, Foley, in a later phone conversation with her, promised to resign. Then, after “legal advice”, he withdrew his promise. Raper said Foley had expressed remorse and explained: “I’m not a groper, I’m just a drunk idiot.”
I’ll resign ... I won’t resign ... I’m a drunk idiot ... I didn’t do it. This doesn’t sound like the best recipe for a successful defamation action.
The announcement on Wednesday that there would be no litigation was dressed up as the need to “draw a line under the sand” before the NSW election in March.
The Pussy-grabbing Toadstool was in a fact-based mood when he sat down with The Washington Post on Tuesday for an interview.
On the big climate report that warned about the intensifying economic damage, Trump knew what he knew: “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean ... As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it.”
He then moved onto the Federal Reserve, to which he attributed the volatility of the sharemarket and problems at General Motors: “I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed ... They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
The week would not be complete without those tiny presidential fingers jabbing out a volley of tweets about the Mueller inquiry. Sure enough, as soon as it emerged that the special counsel had indicated that Paul Manafort had broken his undertakings and lied to the Russia investigation there they were: “Phony Witch Hunt” that’s doing “TREMENDOUS damage to our Criminal Justice System”.
Mueller was “only looking at one side and not the other”. The investigation is “ruining lives for them refusing to lie ... Heroes will come of this,” Trump wrote hopefully.
One of his heroes could be acting attorney general, the bullet-headed Matthew Whitaker, who now has charge of Mueller’s investigation at the Justice Department. Handily, he believes in absolute presidential power without any hindrance from pesky institutions such as the Supreme Court.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Giants seemingly are getting a break this week.
Instead of spending a week worrying about Robert Griffin III running left, pitching right, throwing screens and slants and making life miserable, all the Giants have to deal with Sunday is Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints.
At least that's the way Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul sees it in what might end up as bulletin board material in New Orleans.
Pierre-Paul's logic was simple: Brees is a magnificent pocket passer with a highly-talented offense. He can be hit, though, while RG3 is just too elusive.
"I hate playing it," defensive end Pierre-Paul said of facing Griffin and Redskins' option attack. "So now going up to like a traditional offense, we know what we're going to probably get, and it's much easier.
"Having an option quarterback, coming from college, and the kid's fast, man. I'm getting old, you know? It should be much easier this weekend."
Easier was a poor choice of words for the Giants (7-5) when it comes to Brees. He has thrown eight touchdown pass and no interceptions in leading the Saints to a pair of lopsided wins over New York in 2009 and last season in games at the Superdome. The quarterback has never lost to New York.
Pierre-Paul's comments Wednesday drew an immediate clarification from coach Tom Coughlin and teammates Thursday.
Coughlin maintained that Pierre-Paul did not mean to say that playing the Saints (5-7) and Brees was either easy or easier than facing Griffin. He felt his player was saying that preparing for Washington's option attack forces defenses do more than for a standard offense.
"It's not in any way that Drew Brees isn't an excellent player, because he wouldn't do that," Coughlin said.


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10 Early Signs of Dementia -Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Recently our team at Repton Medical, all became Dementia friends. We attended an information session which gave us a deeper understanding of how people living with dementia feel and cope with day to day life. We learnt to see the person and not the disease. There is surplus information available based around dementia such as on the Alzheimer's Society website. We decided to put together a list from a number of sources of how to spot the early signs of dementia.

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Microfluidic chip-based hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) is a useful separation system for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) in compositional profiling of heparan sulfate (HS) oligosaccharides; however, ions observed using HILIC LC-MS are low in charge. Tandem MS of HS oligosaccharide ions with low charge results in undesirable losses of SO3 from precursor ions during collision induced dissociation. One solution is to add metal cations to stabilize sulfate groups. Another is to add a non-volatile, polar compound such as sulfolane, a molecule known to supercharge proteins, to produce a similar effect for oligosaccharides. We demonstrate use of a novel pulsed make-up flow (MUF) HPLC-chip. The chip enables controlled application of additives during specified chromatographic time windows and thus minimizes the extent to which non-volatile additives build up in the ion source. The pulsed MUF system was applied to LC-MS/MS of HS oligosaccharides. Metal cations and sulfolane were tested as additives. The most promising results were obtained for sulfolane, for which supercharging of the oligosaccharide ions increased their signal strengths relative to controls. Tandem MS of these supercharged precursor ions showed decreased abundances of product ions from sulfate losses yet more abundant product ions from backbone cleavages.
Heparan sulfates (HS) are linear, acidic polysaccharides belonging to the glycosaminoglycan (GAG) family. Each mature HS chain is biosynthesized as a polysaccharide of repeating disaccharide units (4GlcAβ1-4GlcNAcα1-) that undergoes a series of subsequent modification reactions.1 Because these reactions are not template driven, mature HS chains are extremely polydisperse, with varying sulfation patterns, acetylation compositions, epimerization sites and chain lengths.2 This heterogeneity and the essential roles HS plays in physiology drive the need for effective methods for correlation of HS structure and function.3 Detailed structural information on HS is needed to for basic biomedical research, development of therapeutics, and biomarker discovery efforts. Such efforts include chemical or chemoenzymatic synthesis of HS oligosaccharides4–7, generation of structural libraries,8 metabolic engineering of HS biosynthesis9 and biomarker discovery.10 For each of these applications, it is necessary to correlate structure with biological function in the context of the heterogeneity that characterizes the HS compound class. As a result, it is desirable to develop methods to produce as much structural information as possible in a high throughput manner. Such analytical data will inform purification efforts appropriate with the goals of the project in question.
In previous work, we used HILIC LC-MS to profile compositions of HS oligosaccharides and other GAGs as part of comparative glycomics experiments.11–17 Recently, chip-based HILIC LC-MS with a post-column make-up flow (MUF) has shown great utility for the profiling of HS oligosaccharides.11, 12 The integration of a make-up flow on the HPLC-chip improved the spray stability generated from HILIC mobile phase over the course of a gradient elution for the separation of HS oligosaccharides. In addition, using organic solvent as the make-up solution enables use of a single spray voltage that is lower than that required to achieve stable spray for a mobile phase of high aqueous content during the entire HILIC gradient. This results in the enhanced capability of the HILIC LC-MS system to analyze longer HS oligosaccharides that elute at high aqueous gradient where electrospray would otherwise be unstable. This increased stability enables glycomics experiments requiring extended periods of stable instrument performance.
While the LC-MS compositional profiling information of HS oligosaccharides is useful, there is a clear need to extend this capability to the tandem MS dimension. Electron detachment dissociation (EDD) shows great potential for determination of fine structure of purified HS and other GAG oligosaccharides using static infusion.18–20 The technique requires several minutes of spectral acquisition and is most appropriate for detailed analysis of purified oligosaccharides, rather than high throughput structural analysis. Negative ion electron transfer dissociation (NETD) has been demonstrated to produce similar product ion patterns on GAG oligosaccharides as EDD with similar extended spectral acquisition times.21 Another option for tandem MS is to permethylate the oligosaccharides,22, 23 followed by chemical desulfation and acetylation of the formerly sulfated sites.24 The advantage of this approach, as demonstrated for chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides, is that the derivatized products are stable and compatible with reversed phase LC/MS. The derivatization steps result in formation of some degree of side products, and it may be that this approach is also most appropriate for purified oligosaccharides.
HILIC chromatography has the advantage that it is directly compatible with tandem MS of native GAG oligosaccharides. HILIC LC-MS/MS is sensitive relative to EDD/NETD methods and does not require derivatization and workup. It is possible to use this approach to acquire tandem mass spectra in high throughput. Unfortunately, tandem MS of HS oligosaccharide precursor ions produces a mixture of product ions resulting from competing backbone dissociation versus those from losses of SO3, and this is particularly true when using collision induced dissociation.25–29 This competition favors backbone cleavages as negative ion charge state increases (in absolute value) and as metal cation adducts are included in the precursor ions. The use of cations to facilitate tandem MS of saccharides has been appreciated since the early 1990s.30–34 Their application to LC-MS/MS experiments is limited by their potential to coat the source optics, cause loss of robust instrument performance and to increase mass spectral complexity.
Sulfolane and other reagents with low solution phase basicities and volatilities have been shown to increase the charge state of protein and protein complexes when added to the electrospray solution and have been utilized to facilitate top-down MS analysis in the positive ionization mode.35, 36 On-line LC/MS requires continuous infusion of spray solution, and there is concern that such non-volatile and highly viscous molecules will coat the MS ion source and optics and negatively impact the instrument response over time. Effective use of either type of additive would be facilitated by the ability to target the post-column addition precisely during the LC-MS runs.
The present work describes use of a chip-based system for automated pulsing of additives to the LC effluent to maximize backbone fragmentation of HS oligosaccharides in tandem MS. This system features software-controlled pulsing of additives at specified times during the LC elution. Using this system, the efficacies of a series of metal cations for pairing with HS oligosaccharides and improving the quality of the on-line tandem mass spectra were evaluated. The utility of sulfolane to supercharge negative ions during LC-MS analyses was also shown using the pulsed MUF chip. The pulsed MUF chip represents a means of introducing additives to LC effluents in a manner that improves the value of HS tandem mass spectra and minimizes quantity of non-volatile additives that enter the ion source.
Porcine intestinal mucosa HS was purchased from Celsus Laboratories, Inc. (Cincinnati, OH). Heparin lyase I and II from Flavbacterium heparinum were purchased from IBEX (Montreal, QC). Arixtra (GlcNS(6S)-GlcA-GlcNS(3S,6S)-IdoA(2S)-GlcNS(6S), C31H43N3Na10O49S8) was purchased from Organon Sanofi-Synthelabo LLC (West Orange, NJ). Arixtra was prepared by dialysis using a 100 Da molecular weight cutoff membrane filter before LC-MS analysis. Sulfolane, metal salts and other reagents were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich.
Digestion of porcine intestinal mucosa HS (350 μg) was performed in a 1 mL solution consisting of 500 μL digestion buffer (100 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris-HCl, 1 mM Ca(OAc)2, pH 7.4) at 37 °C. Aliquots of 20 mIU heparin lyase I and 50 mIU heparin lyase II were added and incubated overnight and the UV absorbance at 232 nm was recorded for benchmarking complete digestion. Partial digestion was then performed in the same solution system and the digestion progress was monitored until the UV absorbance at 232 nm reached 30% of completion. The digestion was then stopped by heating at 100 °C for 10 min. The digestion products were dried by centrifugal evaporation and reconstituted in water and purified/profiled using a Superdex™ Peptide PC 3.2/30 column (GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ). The column was equilibrated and operated using 50 mM ammonium acetate in 10% acetonitrile. The fraction corresponding to degree of polymerization (dp)4 and dp6 HS oligosaccharides were collected for MS analysis.
Chip-based LC-MS was conducted using an Agilent (Santa Clara, CA) chip cube system37 coupled with a 6520 quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer (Q-TOF) operating in negative mode. Amide-80 stationary phase (5 μm particle size, 80 Å pore size, Tosoh Bioscience, Montgomeryville, PA) was packed into the analytical column (75 μm × 43 mm) and the enrichment column (160 nL) of an HPLC-chip by Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA). Compared to the previously described MUF chip12, the pulsed MUF chip has an additional additive flow path and a modified flow design for the control of pulsing status (Figures 1 and S-1). The additive flow path has a 100 nL additive loop, which can be superimposed on the MUF flow for pulsing additives. A syringe pump was used to fill the additive loop. The HPLC-chip source interfaced by an HPLC-chip cube was coupled to an Agilent 1200 series HPLC system with three pumps as previously described.12
The HILIC mobile phases were as follows: solvent A was 10% acetonitrile, 50 mM formic acid (pH adjusted to 4.4 by ammonium hydroxide); solvent B was 95% acetonitrile and 5% solvent A. HS oligosaccharides from SEC fractions were loaded onto the trapping column with an initial solvent composition of 85% B at 4 μL/min for 9.5 min. The trapping column was then placed in-line with the analytical column and a gradient from 85% B to 0% B was run over a period of 39 min with a flow rate of 200 nL/min. The trapping column and analytical columns were then washed with 0% B for 10 min. The gradient was returned to the initial condition after 10 min and was maintained for a 7 min equilibration period. The MUF composition was 95% acetonitrile pumped at 200 nL/min over the course of the entire run.
The inlet of the pulsed flow utilized the direct infusion port and the waste was brought out using a previously unused port on the stator.37 Pulsed runs were conducted using either metal cations (500 μM in 50% acetonitrile) or sulfolane (105 mM in acetonitrile). The additive loop was pre-primed with additive solution using a syringe pump at a flow rate of 120 μl/min and the flow was maintained during the pulsing period to enable re-filling of the loop for multiple pulses in the LC-MS run. For the established pump flow rate and additive loop volume, the delay time between the outer rotor valve action and pulse effect was determined to be 35 s. Valve action time points for pulsing were specified in the Agilent MassHunter Workstation Data Acquisition software according to the retention time of target HS oligosaccharide compositions and the delay time. Additives were programmed to be pulsed during the central peak period of a specific composition of HS oligosaccharide. In practice, the duration a pulse event on the chip system was in the range of 48–54 sec plus 6–10 sec of tailing (using trace ion). The analytes (HS oligosaccharides) average 60 sec peak width on the chip-HILIC chromatograph and are well matched to the observed puled MUF time range.
Instrument tuning was optimized manually to minimize losses of SO3 in the MS mode using HS-IS (ΔHexA2S-GlcNS6S), a trisulfated disaccharide standard. Tandem mass spectra were acquired using the “Targeted MS/MS” mode in the Agilent MassHunter Workstation Data Acquisition software. For sulfolane pulsed runs, major HS oligosaccharides with the same composition but different charge states were selected as targeted precursor ions. In cation pulsed runs, cation adducts and unadducted ions were selected as targets. The m/z, charge state and retention time values of targeted precursor ions were specified in the targeted list table for automated online tandem MS acquisition. The retention times at which additives were pulsed in was determined from a preceding LC-MS run. For each precursor ion, collision energy was set as a ramp from 0 to 30 V with an increment of 5 V throughout the retention time period. The isolation width was set to medium (~4 u) or narrow (~1.3 u) depending on the isotopic cluster width.
HS oligosaccharide composition is presented as [ΔHexA,HexA,GlcN,Ac,SO3] (ΔHexA: 4,5-unsaturated hexuronic acid; HexA: hexuronic acid; GlcN: glucosamine; Ac: acetate; SO3: sulfate), denoting the number of the corresponding residues. Product ions from tandem MS are labeled using the conventional carbohydrate fragmentation nomenclature with revision for HS oligosaccharides. Specifically, HS oligosaccharides without modification of sulfation (S) and/or acetylation (Ac) are considered as the backbone for fragmentation nomenclature and the modification is followed in parenthesis, such as 0,2A4 (1Ac, 3S) and Y2 (2S).
In order to make best use of the beneficial effects of additives while minimizing potential problems associated with their low volatilities, a modified MUF HPLC-chip was devised. The newly designed pulsed MUF HPLC-chip comprised two extra chip layers compared to the standard MUF chip12: one layer with an additive loop and the other distribution chip layer to coordinate flow paths and ports (Figure S-1). The flow paths of this chip enabled pulsing of additives stored in the additive loop via the MUF. The outer rotor was employed to control the status of pulsing and loading.37 At the loading position, exogenous additives were introduced into and temporarily stored in the additive loop. By programmed switching of the valve of the outer rotor, the additive loop was superimposed on the MUF flow and additive was then delivered to the MUF flow. The pulsed MUF flow was then merged with the LC flow at the HPLC-chip tip. (Figure 1)
Divalent alkaline earth metal cations, several divalent transition metal cations and monovalent alkaline metal cations were tested for their propensity to form adducts with highly sulfated degree of polymerization (dp) 4 and dp6 HS oligosaccharides. The cation solution was pulsed according to the time that the most highly sulfated dp4 and dp6 eluted. Table 1 shows the cation adduct formation efficiency of highly sulfated dp4 and dp6 species of different charge states. For a given oligosaccharide composition, cation adducts with lower charge states were more abundant than those with higher charge states. In addition, the abundances of cation adducted ions increased in proportion to the number of sulfate groups in the HS oligosaccharides. Adducted ions containing more than one metal cation were generally not observed. The overall signal intensities did not change significantly in cation pulsed relative to control data. As shown in Figures S-2 and S-3, the mass spectra showed the presence of both adducted and unadducted ions. This phenomenon divided the ion signal for a given oligosaccharide composition and was thus a disadvantage.
Cobalt cation adducts, which have the highest overall cation formation efficiency and simplest isotopic distribution observed, were targeted for tandem MS. Although metal cationization with one cobalt ion equivalent stabilized one sulfate group, product ions resulting from SO3 loss were much more abundant than those from backbone dissociation (Figure S-4). The conclusion from these studies was that the low charge state of the precursor ions observed using HILIC LC-MS resulted in abundant losses of SO3 even in the presence of cation adducts. As a result, effort was made to assess the effect of charge state manipulation on tandem MS of HS oligosaccharides.
In initial experiments, infusion of a sulfolane containing solution into the ion source using nano-electrospray resulted in a 90% decrease in signal intensity over an 8 hour period. The pulsed makeup flow chip enabled addition of sulfolane in acetonitrile solution during the time region in which dp4 and dp6 HS oligosaccharides elute. Figure 2 shows that average charge states, represented as absolute values (the charge state in the text refers to the absolute value in the negative mode), increased in the sulfolane pulsed LC-MS data when compared to those observed for control data for a series of HS dp4 and dp6. For these data, [1,1,2,1,2] and [1,1,2,1,3] were subjected to pulsed addition of sulfolane, demonstrating that the ESI conditions produced the same intensities as in the control. The extent to which charge states increased correlated with increasing number of sulfate groups and length of the oligosaccharide backbone (Figure S-5). In addition, ion intensities increased by 3~9-fold in the pulsed sulfolane data, as shown in Figure 3. When the fold-changes in ion abundances were normalized to those in control data, it was clear that the increase in abundance was negatively correlated to the number of sulfate groups for a given oligosaccharide length (Figure S-6). The abundance increases were also higher for dp6 than for dp4. Examples of extracted mass spectra from a designated time period of control and pulsed sulfolane addition data are compared on the same intensity scales in Figures S-7 and S-8, demonstrating the improved sensitivity. The extent of ammonium adduction as a percent of all ions produced was diminished in the presence of sulfolane, relative to the control mass spectra.
Figure 4 shows the tandem MS spectra of [1,1,2,1,3] with different charge states from sulfolane pulsing. With respect of the acquisition of tandem mass spectra, the collision energy ramp used in the present work relies on the fast data acquisition rate of the TOF instrument and the relatively broad peaks of the HILIC chromatogram. This acquisition method not only eliminated the need for optimizing collision energies but also maximized the structural information resulting from a single LC-MS/MS run. When doubly charged, the trisulfated tetrasaccharides underwent abundant losses of one SO3 group and ions produced from backbone dissociation were relatively low in abundance (22% of the sum of total intensities). By contrast, triply charged [1,1,2,1,3] showed very low abundance product ions from SO3 loss from precursor ion (Figure 4B). The abundances of product ions from glycosidic and cross-ring dissociation were high, with 64% of the total (Figure 4C). Online tandem MS of [1,1,2,1,4] (Figure 5) showed improvement with increasing precursor ion charge state similar to that of [1,1,2,1,3]. The [1,1,2,1,4]2− precursor ion produced two abundant ions from loss of SO3 groups and generated very few other product ions. As charge state increased, the abundances of ions produced from SO3 losses decreased. When the precursor ion charge equaled the number of sulfate groups in the [1,1,2,1,4]4− precursor ion, ions produced from SO3 losses were very low in abundance. At the same time, the percent abundance of product ions from backbone cleavages increased with the charge state, with [1,1,2,1,4]2− at 20% and [1,1,2,1,4]3− at 68% (Figure 5D). Tandem MS of the more highly sulfated heparin-like dp4, [1,1,2,0,5], showed the same trend of improvement (Figure 6). The figure compares the tandem MS profiles of the 2-, 3- and 4- precursor ions. Although for the 4- precursor there was still one abundant ion resulting from SO3 loss from the precursor ion, the percentage of backbone cleavages had increased to 55% compared with 20% from doubly charged precursor ion. A 5- precursor ion was observed but at an intensity below the threshold for effective tandem MS. The tandem mass spectra were acquired using collision energy steps across the elution of the chromatographic peak and the resulting mass spectra are presented as an average of all tandem mass spectra collected. This method of spectral acquisition maximizes the types of product ions observed and avoids over-fragmentation of oligosaccharides.
Despite increased abundances of product ions from backbone cleavages as the precursor ion charge state increases, it is likely that some of the backbone cleavages were produced from secondary collision from SO3 loss species, especially when the sulfate groups of the precursor ions were not highly charged. In cases where the precursor ions contain sufficient charge to deprotonate all sulfate groups, product ions resulting from dissociation to sulfate groups may still occur for some ion populations. This was apparent from the observation of HSO4− at m/z 97 in most tandem mass spectra. Nonetheless, the ability to increase oligosaccharide charge states through pulsed addition of sulfolane significantly improved the abundances of product ions from backbone dissociation relative to those observed for lower charge state precursor ions.
We demonstrate that the HPLC-chip with pulsed post-column MUF enables facile manipulation of the LC effluent prior to the electrospray ionization (ESI) emitter. This is especially desirable for the scenario in which additives such as high concentration metal salts or non-volatile organic chemicals (sulfolane). Such additives have low volatilities and may build up on the ion source optics after continuous use. By transient pulsing only at the designated retention time, the extent to which non-volatile additives build up in the source is minimized. It is expected that pulsed MUF chip workflows will be applicable to LC-MS/MS analysis methods where ESI charge state manipulations are desirable.
Metal cation adducts can be easily obtained using direct infusion ESI and have shown great potential for improving the tandem MS of HS oligosaccharides. By using post-column transient pulsing, metal cation adducts were observed during LC-MS. Despite this, the abundances of adducted ions decreased as the observed charge states increased. Thus, the extent of observed dissociation to SO3 groups was comparatively lower using metal cations than that for pulsed sulfolane. Multiple cation adduction was not observed, limiting the extent of sulfate stabilization. The metal salt concentrations used here were relatively high for the LC-MS system; however, the efficiency of adduct formation was still not adequate to eliminate SO3 losses and the salt solution used also resulted in a degree of clogging of the spray tip, presumably due to salt precipitation. In addition, cation adduction complicated the mass spectra and made clean isolation of precursor ions from low m/z region very difficult. In summary, although we were able to obtain cation adducted ions in LC-MS by post-column pulsing, the usefulness of these adducts during negative HILIC LC-MS/MS remains to be defined in the future.
Supercharging has been shown previously for the ionization of proteins and protein complexes using compounds including nitrobenzyl alcohol, nitrobenzonitrile and sulfolane in the positive mode.38 We have shown that for the ionization of carbohydrates in the negative mode, supercharging is also achieved by the addition of sulfolane. In addition to supercharging, ammonium adduction is minimized and overall signal strengths are increased in the presence of sulfolane. The extent to which sulfolane shifts the charge state distribution towards higher absolute values depends on the number sulfate groups on the HS oligosaccharides. While the charge state increase is greatest for the most highly sulfated oligosaccharides, deprotonation of all sulfate groups was not observed, mainly due to the charge-charge repulsion effect. Despite this, in contrast to metal cation adduction, the effects of enhanced ionization by pulsing sulfolane appear promising for the online LC-MS/MS of HS oligosaccharides. The ability to supercharge precursor ions minimizes the extent of SO3 losses and maximizes the abundances of ions from backbone dissociation. Some degree of SO3 losses during tandem MS seems unavoidable, as the same phenomena have also been observed in electron-based dissociation of lowly sulfated HS saccharides.39, 40
This work was supported by NIH grants R01HL098950 and P41RR10888.

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BEIJING — Kaori Sakamoto came from behind to take home the bronze medal in women’s figure skating at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday with a total of 233.13 points after taking third place in free skate portion of the competition.
This is the first figure skating medal for a Japanese woman since Mao Asada’s silver at the 2010 Vancouver Games. It is also the second podium finish for Sakamoto at the Beijing Games after the 21-year-old earned a bronze in the team event.
Sakamoto was third in the short program with a personal-best score of 79.84 points on Tuesday. She earned 153.29 points in the free skate.
Sakamoto, hailing from Kobe, was sixth in her first Olympic appearance at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
Meanwhile, Russian Olympic Committee’s Kamila Valieva, who tested positive for a banned substance in December, placed fourth.
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The police has dispatched its force against seven gangs in the nation, including the Tiandaoming gang (天道盟), the Bamboo Union (竹聯幫), the Four Seas gang (四海幫), three of the largest gangs in Taiwan. A few main figures in these gangs were summoned to police stations for questioning.
One of the them is a man, surnamed Gu, who is a member of the Four Seas gang's central standing committee. Gu reportedly ordered gang members to force local businesses active in a new construction project along the Taiwan High Speed Rail line in Taoyuan.
By means of threats, violence or intimidation, Gu's subordinates tried to take over construction near the railway station. They also charged local businesses with "protection fees" and engaged in violent debt-collection practices.
Yilan County Government's police also uncovered another crime group, headed by a man, surnamed Ruan, whose subordinates also resorted to violent means to win over government construction projects.

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Anandpur Sahib (Punjab) [India], Nov 25 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who today offered his prayers at Gurdwara Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib here, hailed Guru Gobind Singh for fighting cruelty with bravery.
New Delhi [India], Nov. 25 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Punjab today to attend a function marking the 350th birth anniversary of tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh ji at Sri Anandpur Sahib in Rupanagar district.
New Delhi, Aug. 15 (ANI): On the occasion of 70th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday remembered the bravery and sacrifice of Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh on his 350th birth anniversary.

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Some trainers refuse to use women as riders despite a new study finding female jockeys are as good as men, says jockey Gemma Tutty.
When the quality of horse was factored in, there was little disparity between the performances of male and female riders, a 14-year study by the University of Liverpool found.
Only 11.3% of professional jockey licences are currently held by women.
"There are trainers who, point blank, do not use female jockeys," said Tutty.
"Before we've even had a ride, we're at a disadvantage because there are less trainers willing to use us," added Tutty, who has almost 50 winners from more than 600 career rides.
"I hope this helps to persuade more owners and trainers to give female jockeys a chance in the saddle."
Only 5.2% of the available 1.25 million individual rides during the study - which was carried out through the university's Thoroughbred Horseracing Industries MBA - were taken by female jockeys.
But women account for more than half of all stable staff, up from 42% in 2010.
"I hope this study encourages more women to further their careers as race riders," said Vanessa Cashmore, author of the study.
In March 2017, female jockeys in France were provided with a 2kg weight allowance in certain races.
Since then, the number of starters ridden by female jockeys in flat racing in France has doubled, with a 165% increase in the number of wins by women.
The British Horseracing Authority says it will take steps to address the differences between male and female riding opportunities.
Nick Rust, chief executive of the BHA, said: "We are proud that British racing is one of the few sports where men and women can compete on equal terms.
"However, if female jockeys are not being given the same opportunities as men, then this cannot be considered as equality."
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Gender diversity is especially poignant in horse racing.
It's clear there is huge interest in the sport among young women. The entry point into a career in horse racing is to work in a racing yard as a groom - 51% of the stable staff jobs across Britain are taken by women.
When I was filming a piece at Fergal O'Brien's yard in the Cotswolds in December, I talked to one of the young women, Lily, who was up before 6am to muck out the stables. She was clear about why she was working so hard; her goal was 'to be a professional jockey'.
Many will share that ambition - so why do so few actually get rides?
This new report gives statistical and analytical weight to the notion that women ride as well as men.
The BHA tells me they take it very seriously and the governing body acknowledges there is a big issue.
As much as racing provides a rare opportunity for men and women to compete against each other, the answer, in part, may be to separate jockeys.
Last year saw the introduction of the 'Silk series', a championship for women jockeys. Spread over nine races on different courses, it offered significant prize money and - crucially - opportunity.
The overall winner Megan Nicholls acknowledged that the series had given her the chance to ride for, and impress, new trainers.
Ultimately women jockeys can only show what they can do if they get horses to ride. Not just in quantity but also quality.


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