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Chattanooga mayoral hopefuls David Crockett and Larry Grohn are slamming Mayor Andy Berke's $1 million pledge toward a new Erlanger Children's Hospital to honor of the Woodmore Elementary School bus crash victims.
Last week, the mayor said the city's capital budget would provide the money over a four-year period. The action will require City Council approval.
Berke has compromised council members with a "blatant political stunt," Crockett, a three-time former city councilman, said in an announcement Tuesday.
Grohn, who now represents City Council District 4, said Crockett's criticism was "spot on."
"Andy Berke is attempting to buy voters and take advantage of our community during this devastating tragedy in his re-election bid," Grohn said.
On Wednesday, Berke mayoral campaign manager Tyler Yount responded to the pair's stance in an email.
"Clearly, our opponents believe an investment in high-quality emergency care and long-term medical treatment for children and families in Chattanooga is not a priority," Yount said. "Mayor Berke disagrees with his opponents. For him, healthier kids lead to stronger families, and that's why the city chose to support a new Children's Hospital."
Crockett said Berke had "no apparent interest" in funding the Erlanger Children's Hospital until now, pointing a finger at the mayor's State of the City address and the fiscal 2017 capital budget.
"While we pray for the children and their families who were victims of this terrible tragedy, this political stunt dishonors their memory," Crockett said. "This may be a good cause, but it might not be in the city's mission. The hard part of a mayor's job is not turning down bad causes, but turning down good ones."
Crockett also criticized the pledge because it would have to be approved by a mayor and council members who have not even been elected. The Chattanooga mayor and council elections take place March 7; the council typically votes on the fiscal 2018 budget in June.
Grohn described the $1 million pledge as "an undemocratic move" intended "to bind the new incoming council" over four separate capital budgets.
Berke has said he decided to make the pledge after seeing the professionalism of the Erlanger staff during the Woodmore bus crash crisis. The Erlanger Children's Hospital emergency room treated more than two dozen students injured in the deadly accident.
"We had first responders, doctors, nurses, and administrators who poured their hearts and souls into caring for these children and their families," Berke said.
Hospital staff told him a lack of private rooms meant close quarters, while medical staff and families tended to critically hurt children in common rooms, he said. As each child's emergency unfolded, families could hear one another as they suffered and worried, their nightmares only separated by curtains.
Donald Mueller, vice president and CEO of the Children's Hospital at Erlanger, issued a statement praising Berke and the city council for recognizing the importance of building a new facility.
"This investment will allow us to better serve the families in our region for years to come," Mueller said. "A new Children's Hospital is a vital component to our community and our future."
Erlanger officials said the hospital has raised $25.5 million of the $40 million needed to launch the initial phase of a new children's facility planned for the south side of 3rd Street.
While Erlanger now does not receive money from Chattanooga, it has in the past. Up until 2011, the city contributed $1.5 million a year as part of a sales tax revenue-sharing agreement. Hamilton County provides $1.5 million annually to Erlanger.
Contact staff writer Paul Leach at 423-757-6481 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow him on Twitter @pleach_tfp.

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The title is on the line in France, while a relegation battle enters its final stage in Germany. Here is a wrap of the Westfield Matildas in action abroad.
After COVID-19 postponed this match earlier in the season, Olympique Lyon and PSG will battle it out to decide the French league title this weekend.
PSG, who currently sit in first with a point buffer over Lyon, can secure its first ever title if it wins on the weekend.
For Olympique Lyon, a win would all but secure them a 14th straight league title; Lyon has won every season since 2006.
It would be another trophy for Ellie Carpenter who has a Coupe de France Feminine trophy and a UEFA Women's Champions League medal already to her name from her time in France.
Emily Gielnik and Clare Polkinghorne's Vittsjö take on Eskilstuna in Damallsvenskan. Sitting in seventh and eighth respectively on the table, both sides will look to return to winning ways.
BK Häcken and Dylan Holmes travel to KIF Örebro DFF. Both sides are on two game winning streaks, with Häcken needing the three points to keep in touch with the undefeated Rosengård at the top of the table.
The Dutch league season comes to an end this weekend with Kyah Simon and Amy Harrison's PSV coming up against FC Twente.
Defeat last week to Ajax meant PSV could no longer secure the title with its next opponent, Twente, wrapping up the trophy. However, PSV still have plenty to play for with the KNVB Cup final following the conclusion of the season.
Rest of the World
In Spain, Aivi Luik's Sevilla play host to Real Betis. The team will look to bounce back from two straight defeats. Emma Checker's Selfoss dropped its first points of the season, playing out a 0-0 draw with Fylkir.
The final round in Germany sees Beattie Goad's SV Meppen fighting to stay in the Frauen- Bundesliga. Her side need a win against Freiburg and favourable results in other fixtures to avoid the drop to the second division.
In round two of the Norwegian Toppserien, Teagan Micah's IL Sandviken face Avaldsnes. Karly Roestbakken's LSK plays its first match of the season against Arna-Bjørnar.
While over in Denmark, Fortuna Hjørring and Indiah-Paige Riley play KoldingQ in the penultimate game of the Championship Round.
Although Chloe Logarzo is on the side lines injured, her Kansas City side lost 2-0 to Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The New York Observer recently sat down with Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in advance of his Wednesday announcement that he will be seeking the Republican nomination in the 2014 election against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
The story outlines many of the characteristics that allowed him to convincingly retain his seat as county executive in a race against New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson last November.
Astorino, a longtime media man, and lifetime Westchester resident, is able to connect with his constituents, and as one source told the Observer, has the ability to give Cuomo "a headache."
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- 3 Events To Remember Hosts 'Sassy Ladies Night' In Tarrytown
- 4 Snow Could Be Returning To Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington
- 5 Pocantico Hills' David Rockefeller Donates $4M For State Park Preserve

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A strong local buying market has helped Cape Breton harvesters salvage a 2020 lobster fishing season that was impacted in historic ways by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lobster prices are falling in New England as the industry deals with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and they could drop even more later this summer, industry officials said.
The demand for a COVID-19 liability declaration is the second border impediment to emerge in China in June
The White House ordered the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday to extend farm bailout aid to the U.S. lobster industry, which has suffered under strained trade relations with China and tit-for-tat tariffs that significantly reduced exports to one of its biggest foreign markets.
Lobster and abalone fishers in Tasmania are nervous that a new coronavirus outbreak in Beijing could crash their key market again.
Reach Food Service offers premium seafood including caviar and lobsters
Chen Dingping does not look happy as he inspects rows of tanks filled with Australian lobsters at one of China's biggest wholesale seafood markets.
A seafood restaurant in Massachusetts is sparing an incredibly rare orange lobster it received in a recent wholesale delivery, and reportedly plans to donate the crustacean to a local aquarium.
Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar in Eastham revealed the rare catch on social media on Sunday.
During Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar’s recent wholesale lobster deliveries, the Eastham restaurant found one lobster they won’t be selling.

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"Then, there was this general. I don't remember how I landed up in his hands, but he used me to stage a coup and slit the throats of the whole royal family with my sharp blade. Pretty ironic that years later, he also died at my edge."
"Did I tell you about the time I killed a god?"
"We're here. Stay sharp."
The sword sniggered at this.
"But you have to hear about this one time at a battlefield..."
Sybil walked into the clearing with the sword jibbering in her head. She needed to clear her head of thoughts if she was to handle what was coming for her. But the sword's chatter was non-stop. She thought about her son. Her husband. The things the thirteen would do to them if they got through her and her focus slowly returned to the task at hand.
They would send someone to negotiate first. Always sound and fury, them. Never the ones to confront. But she was counting on it.
Of the thirteen lights, one light broke away as Sybil walked towards them. It slowly drifted on silent air currents and floated to where she was standing. She gripped the sword a little tighter and rotated her shoulder to be ready.
The light materialized in a humanoid form as it came near her. It was a man. Dressed in white flowing robes. An angelic look on his face. His hair glowed with a golden glow and his face defied any attempts to decipher his age.
He was smiling.
Sybil wanted to cut his head off.
"Sybil," the man thing spoke. "It's been a long time."
"Say your piece. I have no patience for pleasantries."
"Ah, well. Never the one for riff-raff. I'll come to the point then. Give us the boy and we'll lift the hold from your house and your life."
"Can't do that."
"Then we'll take the boy."
A sliver of anger flashed across the man's face. Quick as it appeared, it was gone and the shark-toothed smile was back.
"You will regret this, Sybil."
"Not in a million years."
"As you wish. It's your family's funeral."
"I have a proposition for you, too."
The man smiled and raised his eyebrow.
"Fuck off from here with your cronies and I will not kill you all."
The man laughed. "Oh, Sybil. We're coming to take the boy, whether you like it or not. It's just you here. Who's going to back you up?"
"All hell will."
The man said nothing. He kept smiling and floated back to his circle of thirteen.
"Nice talk," The Wraith spoke in her head.
'I was taking their measure. They're afraid. If they'd the ability to take Jorah, they'd have done so already."
"They will come anyway and we'll have to handle them. My plan will hold."
"I sure hope it does. We don't have anything else to bank upon anyway."
"It'll be enough for these thirteen. That much I am sure of."
Above them, the lights started their slow dance, strobing and flashing in colors that made Sybil's eyes hurt.
"Don't look!" the sword warned her.
Lights broke away from the circle and clumped together in small pools like bacteria gathering around an idea or a thought. Through shut eyes, Sybil felt the dance of lights on her eyelids. The storm was a distant sound somewhere, but for a moment she thought she her a horse.
With a loud boom of thunder, the light show stopped. Sybil opened her eyes and what stood in front of her defined the word terror to the T. A behemoth of a figure, easily standing to the height of eight feet, arms holding mean looking blades of different shapes and sizes. The striking feature of the figure was two additional arms sprouting from its waist. Two more sharp blades were held by the hands of its extra arms. Its skin was a dirty green color, almost black and a single red eye shone in the middle of its head. It stood there. Observing Sybil as she took the thing's measure, too.
"Can I throw you at this thing's eye?" She asked the sword.
"And lose the opportunity to enjoy my stellar company? Bah!"
"Any idea on how to go about it."
"Engage and I'll think of something."
"Four blades against one."
"I've fought worse odds before. Did I tell you that story?"
"Ah, fuck it." Sybil said as she took a running start at the figure.
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Destinee Quinn sang “Cowboy Take Me Away” on The Voice season 5 blind auditions night 2. She’s adorable! Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera turn around. Who did she pick as coach? Watch the video here.
Christina: It was destiny me and you. I’m fresh, I’m back, you want me. Adam: They showed zero emotion.
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Banking is an important industry, where financial transactions are performed to meet our needs in our everyday lives. Today, banks are frequently used to meet all kinds of financial transactions. In line with the increasing competition, the banks are aiming at acquiring new customers through customer satisfaction. At this point, studies on acquiring new customers by analyzing the customer data have gained importance recently. As a result, data analysis units have been established in the banks. In addition to the banks, these units have also been established for data analysis in customer focused industries such as insurance and telecommunication. In this study, models are established by using classification algorithms to estimate potential bank customers on the bank dataset obtained by telemarketing method in UCI Machine Learning Repository, and the results are compared. Using this comparison result, it is aimed to perform a more detailed and effective data analysis. Various models have been established with various classification algorithms for the estimation of customer acquisition. The classification algorithms used in this study include the C4.5 Decision Tree, Navie Bayes (NB) algorithm, K nearest neighbors algorithm (k-nn), Logistic Regression algorithm (LogReg), Random Forest algorithm (RanFor), and Adaptive Boosting algorithm (AdaBoostM1-Ada). While establishing the classification models, it is aimed to achieve consistency in the performance of the classification models by dividing the test and training data set by two different methods. K-fold Cross Validation and Holdout methods are used for this purpose. In the K-fold cross validation, training and test da-ta sets are separated with 5- and 10-fold cross validation. In the holdout method, the dataset was divided into training and test datasets with the 60-40%, 75-25% and 80-20% training and test separation ratios, respectively. These separations are evaluated for Accuracy (ACC), Precision (PPV), Sensitivity (TPR), and F-measure (F) performance. The performance results are similar in both separation results. According to the Accuracy and F-measure criteria, the classification model established by Random Forest algorithm highest results the other models, whereas the Naive Bayes algorithm gave highest results according to the precision criterion, and the AdaBoostM1 classification algorithm yielded better according to the sensitivity criterion.


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill football player has been found not guilty on charges of assaulting a woman and indecent exposure.
Safety Tommy Richardson was suspended when the allegations surfaced back in April.
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BOS weighing potential for more revenues against concerns over local access
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Local residents looking to bid on property in the county’s annual delinquent tax sales may have to do so as part of an online auction in the future.
Supervisors are considering joining many other counties in the state in going to an online auction to collect delinquent property taxes. David Myers, Vice-President of Business Development for Madison-based GovEase, pitched the idea to county officials during their regular monthly meeting Monday morning in Leakesville.
Myers told supervisors he was confident his company and its process for conducting the tax sale online would increase the county’s overbid revenue, which is the difference between what is owed in taxes and what a bidder pays for the right to earn the interest revenue when the taxes are settled, or potentially end up with ownership of the property in the cases where the taxes are not paid.
In his presentation, Myers said Greene County realized $29,132 in overbid revenue in 2018 for an overbid rate of nine percent. He projected the county could push that number to just under $39,000 (or 12 percent) in 2019 if supervisors elected to take the process online and use GovEase to do so. He said the county would also benefit from the efficiencies created by the process, doing away with a lot of employee labor costs to record the transactions and data after the sale date. He said with GovEase all those types of transactions are recorded with one click of the computer mouse.
The cost to the county would be 1.25 percent of the total sale, buy Meyers said the increase in overbid revenue would more than make up for that fee. He added that the contract for GovEase was for one sale at a time, allowing supervisors to opt out without penalty if they were not fully satisfied.
Myers did acknowledge that supervisors would likely experience some pushback from local residents due to the change. That is the part county officials were concerned about.
To alleviate some of that issue, Myers said his company would contact previous local bidders about the change and provide online and onsite training and registration for those interested. Any local bidders that joined the process would join the over 4,000 currently registered bidders already using GovEase to invest in tax sale properties.
Greene County Tax Assessor Mark Holder said roughly 30 bidders were on hand for last year’s sale, but that roughly 20 of them were involved for the purpose of bidding on specific pieces of property. He said that left relatively few investors to bid on the lion’s share of the properties up for bid.
“I can handle the sale doing it the way we’ve been doing it, but there is a trend that is coming that we need to take into consideration,” Holder said, adding that he feared the county could start to see fewer and fewer investors for the in-person auctions if supervisors didn’t take the process online.
Supervisors took the matter under advisement, saying they needed to gauge local reaction to the idea and consider things such as poor internet access in many parts of the county and a lack of familiarity with online navigation among older residents who have historically made up a good percentage of the local bidder pool in the county.
Supervisors also covered a good bit of issues related to county roads and bridges. Engineer Jason Lamb met with the board and covered a range of projects including the awarding of a $249,034.50 contract to Warren Paving for a paving project in Dist. 5 and a roughly $1.4-million project to Magco, Inc. for bridge replacements on Piave Plaza Road in Dist. 3.
In other business, supervisors:
– accepted a bid of $1,877 for a 2006 GMC pickup declared as surplus property by Dist. 4;
– rejected a bid offer of $3,777 for a 2009 Ford F150 declared as surplus by Dist. 4;
– approved $1,000 to the LJHS Jr. Beta Club for student involvement in this summer’s national convention;
– set July 4 and 5 as official Independence Day holidays for county offices and employees;
– discussed office space needs with Sheriff Stanley McLeod for the county’s truant officer (no decision made);
– approved the sheriff’s purchase of a new patrol pickup for a state bid price of roughly $30,000 using funds from criminal seizures; and
– approved a motion by Dist. 3 Supervisor Jerry Mills to borrow $100,000 via a tax anticipation loan for road district operations through the remainder of the fiscal year. The loan would be paid off in full in March 2020 after tax collections for 2020 begin to roll in to county coffers.
The next meeting of the board of supervisors is set for June 25th.


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It is an article of faith among voters in rich countries that immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers, who have to compete with the cheap immigrants for jobs. Emigration, by contrast, is tolerated as a relatively unimportant phenomenon.
But new research suggests that voters are exactly wrong: between 1990 and 2000 immigration to rich countries both increased the average wages of domestic workers and mostly reduced their level of inequality over the long term, boosting the wages of the less educated relative to those with more skills. Emigration, by contrast, cut average wages and increased inequality at home.
The argument that cheap immigrants cut wages for everybody else forgets that companies will invest more in industries and places where labor is plentiful, creating employment. California would likely have a smaller agricultural industry if it didn’t have so many inexpensive immigrant farm workers. Emigration, by contrast, deprives the sending country of some of its best workers, those more willing to take risks, reducing economic output and incomes in the long run.
But the counterintuitive results are also due to the type of migrants that moved during the 1990s: in most rich countries both immigrant and emigrant workers were more skilled, on average, than the workers that didn’t move. Losing skilled workers to emigration increased the wages of those that stayed behind, increasing inequality. By the same token, incoming skilled workers increased average incomes and reduced income inequality.
The researchers did find that immigration reduced wages of low-skilled workers in the United States, which received lots of low-skilled illegal immigrants during the 1990s. But the pay cut due to immigration amounted to only 0.4% of their wage. And the wages of the highly skilled increased correspondingly. In every other rich nation immigration increased average wages and boosted pay at the bottom relative to the top. In Australia, immigration increased pay at the bottom by 4.5%. Across Europe, emigration proved net bad and immigration net good.
So perhaps politicians in the world’s richest nations should resist jumping onto the anti-immigrant bandwagon. Their economies would do better if they spent their energies encouraging hi-skilled immigration and getting better at keeping their best workers at home.


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Aiken County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a suspect in a fatal weekend shooting.
According to a news release, Morris Laytrell Dorch, 25, of the 100 block of Edge Road, Aiken, is charged in the Saturday shooting death of Delance Terez Walton at the Lucky 7 convenience store in Aiken.
Police say they believe the incident stemmed from an argument between the two. A second person who was in the victim’s vehicle at the time of the shooting was not injured.
Dorch is charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in the investigation by the ATF Task Force and the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office at (800) 922-9709. Individuals also may call Crimestoppers of the Midlands at (888) 274-6372. Callers can remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000.


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NFL and Perform Group enter into strategic media relationship
The National Football League and Perform Group have reached an agreement for Perform to market the NFL’s television broadcast rights in various global territories and the premium digital subscription product NFL Game Pass outside the United States and Europe. The agreement will further drive global consumption of the United States’ most-watched sport amongst its avid fanbase, across all media platforms.
Under the multi-year agreement, and in select markets, Perform will strategically market live game television rights, including Sunday Afternoon games played at 1pm and 4pm (US EST time), Thursday Night Football, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football and the Playoffs including Super Bowl. The immediate focus around the television rights will be in Brazil, Pan-Asia and the Middle East ahead of the 2017 season.
Additionally, Perform will further accelerate Game Pass outside of the US and Europe. NFL Game Pass is a direct-to-consumer digital product offering all live NFL games, NFL RedZone, NFL Network and award-winning NFL programming. As the NFL continues to expand its fanbase globally, Perform will use their local expertise to drive Game Pass subscriptions among the NFL’s avid fanbase.
This strategic media relationship centred around Game Pass covers over 100 countries and territories, including larger markets such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, and Turkey.
Simon Denyer, Perform Group CEO said, “Perform is delighted to be broadening our relationship with the NFL. We are committed to a long-term collaboration that will benefit both the sport and its fans. We are excited to work together to grow the brand for audiences across the globe.”
Mark Waller, NFL EVP of International & Events said, “We are thrilled to be collaborating with the Perform Group in some of our priority global markets to drive distribution and consumption of our key media offerings across a range of platforms. This is a mutually exciting opportunity to better serve the NFL’s growing global fan base.”

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For an organism to develop and maintain homeostasis, cell types with distinct functions must often be separated by physical boundaries. The formation and maintenance of such boundaries are commonly attributed to mechanisms restricted to the cells lining the boundary. Here we show that, besides these local subcellular mechanisms, the formation and maintenance of tissue boundaries involves long-lived, long-ranged mechanical events. Following contact between two epithelial monolayers expressing, respectively, EphB2 and its ligand ephrinB1, both monolayers exhibit oscillatory patterns of traction forces and intercellular stresses that tend to pull cell-matrix adhesions away from the boundary. With time, monolayers jam, accompanied by the emergence of deformation waves that propagate away from the boundary. This phenomenon is not specific to EphB2/ephrinB1 repulsion but is also present during the formation of boundaries with an inert interface and during fusion of homotypic epithelial layers. Our findings thus unveil a global physical mechanism that sustains tissue separation independently of the biochemical and mechanical features of the local tissue boundary.
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One in five homeless people with tuberculosis die within a year of their diagnosis, according to a study led by St. Michael's Hospital's Dr. Kamran Khan. And that number remains unchanged over the last decade despite recommendations calling for greater improvements in prevention and control of tuberculosis in homeless shelters.
A provincial coroner's inquest into the death of Joseph Teigesser, a homeless man who died of tuberculosis in Toronto in 2001, made 13 formal recommendations. These included provincial funding for a centralized clinic system to provide specialized care for those with tuberculosis in Ontario and a review and improvement of shelter ventilation systems. However, the work surrounding these two key recommendations has fallen short, the researchers say in the study.
"The treatment of tuberculosis is often complicated by inadequate housing, substance dependence, language barriers, mental health problems, not to mention the enormous stigma that comes with this disease," Khan says. "To effectively control tuberculosis, centres with specialized expertise and resources are needed to address these complex issues."
The 10-year study, published in the March issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, also found a growing proportion of tuberculosis cases in Toronto's homeless shelters are in immigrants, raising the risk that dangerous drug resistant strains of tuberculosis could enter the shelter system.
The study found nearly 40 per cent of all tuberculosis cases in the homeless were in immigrants. About 56 per cent of all infections in immigrants involved strains that were not known to be circulating in the city, and were likely acquired in other parts of the world where drug resistance is common.
Historically, tuberculosis in Toronto's homeless population was mostly a disease of Canadian-born men. While highly drug resistant tuberculosis is unusual among people born in Canada, it is an emerging threat in many developing areas of the world. If a drug resistant strain of tuberculosis were introduced into the shelter system, it could set off an outbreak that would have serious public health implications and be very difficult to control. Financial resources to manage such an outbreak would dwarf the costs of strengthening preventive measures today, the researchers warn.
"There's been a lot of good work on tuberculosis prevention and treatment in the homeless sector in Toronto over the last several years, and ventilation systems in shelters have improved, although dedicated funds are needed to make further improvements," said Dr. Elizabeth Rea, a study co-author and associate medical officer of health with Toronto Public Health. "But we also need more affordable housing and we need better access to primary and specialized care for vulnerable homeless individuals."
Tuberculosis is a serious, contagious disease caused by a bacterial infection. Once a person is exposed to tuberculosis, the infection can remain dormant for years to decades before becoming active. However, persons with weakened immune systems, including many homeless persons, are at much greater risk of developing the active form of tuberculosis. While most tuberculosis cases are treatable, highly drug resistant strains of tuberculosis can be life threatening and require years of treatment to cure.
"We need to do a much better job in preventing tuberculosis from spreading in this vulnerable population, and in providing timely, effective clinical care for those who are affected by this disease," says Dr. Michael Gardam, co-author and director of the tuberculosis clinic at the Toronto Western Hospital. "We have shown in previous research that treatment in dedicated tuberculosis clinics by experienced staff plays a major role in improving the likelihood of survival from tuberculosis."
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St. Michael's Hospital provides compassionate care to all who walk through its doors. The Hospital also provides outstanding medical education to future health care professionals in more than 23 academic disciplines. Critical care and trauma, heart disease, neurosurgery, diabetes, cancer care, and care of the homeless are among the Hospital's recognized areas of expertise. Through the Keenan Research Centre and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, research at St. Michael's Hospital is recognized and put into practice around the world. Founded in 1892, the Hospital is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto.
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Reusable carbon nanotubes could be the water filter of the future, says RIT study
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Pan-European study on “Smart Engineering”
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The Institute of Semiconductor Technology and the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, both members of the Laboratory for Emerging Nanometrology (LENA), at Technische Universität Braunschweig are partners in a new European research project entitled ChipScope, which aims to develop a completely new and extremely small optical microscope capable of observing the interior of living cells in real time. A consortium of 7 partners from 5 countries will tackle this issue with very ambitious objectives during a four-year research program.
To demonstrate the usefulness of this new scientific tool, at the end of the project the developed chip-sized microscope will be used to observe in real-time...
Astronomers from Bonn and Tautenburg in Thuringia (Germany) used the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg to observe several galaxy clusters. At the edges of these large accumulations of dark matter, stellar systems (galaxies), hot gas, and charged particles, they found magnetic fields that are exceptionally ordered over distances of many million light years. This makes them the most extended magnetic fields in the universe known so far.
The results will be published on March 22 in the journal „Astronomy & Astrophysics“.
Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe. With a typical extent of about 10 million light years, i.e. 100 times the...
Researchers at the Goethe University Frankfurt, together with partners from the University of Tübingen in Germany and Queen Mary University as well as Francis Crick Institute from London (UK) have developed a novel technology to decipher the secret ubiquitin code.
Ubiquitin is a small protein that can be linked to other cellular proteins, thereby controlling and modulating their functions. The attachment occurs in many...
In the eternal search for next generation high-efficiency solar cells and LEDs, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their partners are creating...
Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit, the nanosheets are less stable. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have, for the first time ever, produced a composite material combining silicon nanosheets and a polymer that is both UV-resistant and easy to process. This brings the scientists a significant step closer to industrial applications like flexible displays and photosensors.
Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit, the nanosheets are...
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Trump spoke for several minutes outlining some of the administration’s efforts to combat Covid-19 to date.
Skipping ahead, Trump didn’t take questions from reporters at the end. WH task force briefing still scheduled for 5:00 p.m.
Please check quotes against the transcript.
In the next 100 days, America will make or require three times more ventilators than we normally do in an entire year and far more than that, depending on what happens with the Defense Production Act and some of the companies where we’re using it.
Trump thanked General Motors, which really seems to be working very hard. Also praised Boeing, Ford, Honeywell & Hanes. Many others are repurposing factories to produce respirators and protective masks.
Trump asked company officials to speak about their efforts. Remarks concluded at 4:25 p.m.
Only notable back and forth by the president was on the issue of sterilizing and reusing masks, which is something the administration is looking at.


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A postgraduate research opportunity at the University of Otago.
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- Dr Gwynaeth McIntyre
This project provides opportunities for students to examine how Roman history is constructed and presented.
Focusing on the Late Republic/Early Empire, possible topics include:
- The representation of the Roman imperial family
- The use of “praise and blame” in Roman prose authors
- Denigration of imperial predecessors
ContactDr Gwynaeth McIntyre
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Trappist-1 planets. Animation of the seven planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf star. The planets appear in the order of innermost to outermost planets. TRAPPIST-1 is about the size of the planet Jupiter. Its planets are tidally locked, with one side permanently facing the star. The two closest planets are the warmest, and the two outer planets are the coldest. Three planets, TRAPPIST-1e, f and g, orbit in the habitable zone, with varying amounts of liquid water present. This system has been studied using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) and the ground-based TRAPPIST (Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope). TRAPPIST-1 is 39 light years from Earth, in the constellation of Aquarius. The planets were discovered in 2015 and 2017.
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I got a new xbox console for a few weeks now. A 4gb slim with a 250gb harddrive. It is connected to the router via cable. With my old xbox ( 60gb pro) I had no issues at all. so, when I start up the console it connects to live with no problems. Then I
start playing Fallout or Forza and after about 5 to 10 minutes it disconnects from live. I can reconnect without a problem, but it keeps disconnecting after a few minutes again... All tests look good, and I don't have any internetdropouts or so with other
devices on the router ( win pc, mac, iphone, ipad etc..) So I guess the problem is on the console side.....and I don't want to change anything on the router. it was working fine with the old box, so it should with the new one. Any suggestions?
With your newer Xbox, it requires more bandwidth than your older consoles. Bandwidth is basically how much internet your router or modem puts out to each device which is connected to it. You might want to try and unplug it from it's original source and either
try the built-in WiFi on your Slim Console to connect with your router (if your router supports WiFi), or you can unplug it from the port of which your console is plugged into on your router and move the ethernet cable into another port on your router.
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Landscaping could be a pleasurable and unwinding interest. There are many advantages to landscaping, such as boosting your health and the planet. There are lots of sources on the market if you are searching for approaches to delight in gardening. Gardening information and hints can be obtained on the Internet, growing plants training books, newspapers, and off their gardeners.
Growing plants is the method of creating and developing crops in and all over the garden. In historic backyards, decorative crops were grown primarily with regard to their physical appearance, flowers, makes, as well as other foliage useful plants, like carrots, have been produced with regard to their nutrition and then for planting bed furniture. Right now, lots of home gardens focus on a certain objective. Some gardeners increase roses for beauty other individuals develop veggies for vitamins and minerals. Some people also choose to shrub annuals and perennials to enhance their landscapes all year long.
With regards to usefulness, garden can be carried out nearly anyplace, even during your front yard. Together with typical flower sleep horticulture, panorama style could be used to produce beautiful back gardens. Landscape gardening can be performed in the home, on the trailers, or in a small garden. Whilst a lot more required than most back gardens, may be rewarding because of the unique interest put in making a backyard setting up.
An additional advantage of landscaping is all of the vegetation, a garden enthusiast can increase gardening. Blooms and shrubs may be grown from modest flowers that require very little awareness of all of those other yard to grandiose trees that need substantial attention. A gardener can increase natural herbs, vegetables and fruit and even roses on their own outdoor patio or deck. Garden could be a great way to promote your knowledge of landscaping though enjoyable family and friends individuals. Landscaping permits a gardener to obtain around aspect and obtain consideration for working together with vegetation.
While there are lots of individuals who appreciate growing their unique food, most people have an interest in increasing enticing plants which are not normally found in their place. The practice of developing dish is named horticulture which in ancient days or weeks was done because of the Egyptians. There are various horticultural communities these days exactly where fruits and vegetables trees are developed in gardens that will include livestock for examplegoats and cattle, and birds. These back gardens permit the garden enthusiast to have accessibility to new surroundings and sunshine throughout the day and partial hue during the night. Most people who personal significant regions of property within the countryside use landscaping to restock their herds. These large farms are sometimes capable of producing far more than what a small family could grow over a smaller part of territory.
A huge most of backyards across the world are dedicated to manufacturing food items, although some gardens are equipped for beautiful purposes. artisans and Artisans depend upon landscaping to create their projects. Growing plants has additionally been recognized by help individuals in eliminating intellectual challenges like major depression. Research indicates that horticulture can lessen tension due to the possibility to get out of doors and obtain a breathing.
Natural herbs and veggies are the most common goods created by horticulture, but many fruits and in many cases shrubs are frequently produced. With regards to benefits, most items that are offered are expanded with the help of growing plants procedures. In addition, lots of goods such as vino, cheddar cheese along with other dairy food are manufactured with flowers that have been expanded under cultivation. It is actually possible to grow all of these goods with out ever before departing the home.
There are plenty of books open to coach people on how to commence and keep the garden, however lots of people are under the impression that gardening is often made by teenagers who would like to try studying how plants increase. Landscaping has become quite popular that 100s of Websites are present which might be committed to delivering info on gardening. There are plenty of content on the market that educate the basic principles of rising crops and the way care for them immediately after they are planted.
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Lucas and Kate | Niagara Children’s Photographer
A session with a 3 month old and a 2 1/2 year old can sometimes be a recipe for disaster. They can both be very difficult ages to photograph, not to mention next to impossible at getting good sibling shots. Kate and Lucas were soooo good during the session. I have so many amazing images from this shoot.
I literally squealed with delight when I pulled up this image for the first time on my screen. Is it not perfect?…..sigh.
Kate is such a stunning little girl.
After taking photos of Kate on the tire swing, mom had an idea. She wanted a photo of Lucas in the tire swing! We secured him nice and tight in between the tire…..he wasn’t going anywhere and mom was right next to him.
Then mom had another idea! She wanted to put Kate on the tire swing! Diane you know you were giving me a heart attack!
We then took some photos of Lucas in my vintage pram. Is it ok to call him beautiful?
Diane – it was so nice meeting you, your mom and your beautiful children. I can only imagine what we do at the next session!


The Pigeon River Country State Forest, in the south eastern corner of the Indian River Area, is the home to Michigan’s only free-roaming elk herd. With about 500 head of elk, this heard provides prime elk viewing opportunities year round. The population is managed through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources which monitors the numbers and issues elk hunting licenses annually to a lottery selected few.
For more information and to see an elk viewing map, click here.
Families have enjoyed canoeing, kayaking and tubing the Pigeon River for years. Currents vary enough to please everyone: smooth and slow sections for a relaxing ride and swift meandering sections for a bit more challenge. Later in the season this river is lower and has more locations where portage is required.
For more information contact:
Arts and Adventure Paddlesports at Brass Wind Landing
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The NBA is the most political league in all of American pro sports.
But no one saw this coming.
And one NBA superstar just got banned for this unbelievable political protest.
The Brooklyn Nets entered the 2021-2022 season as the favorite to win the NBA title on the strength of the team’s big three.
Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving formed an All-Star trio that the Nets and their fans believed formed the nucleus of a championship team.
But now all of that is in doubt because of New York City’s COVID tyranny.
Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed an authoritarian vaccine passport system requiring anyone entering entertainment and leisure establishments like the Barclays Center – where the Nets play their games – to show proof of vaccination.
Kyrie Irving is one of five percent of NBA players who refused to get the COVID vaccine and thus is only eligible to play and practice with the Nets for their 41 road games.
That wasn’t good enough for the Nets, who are all-in on forcing their players to surrender to the forced vaccination regime pushed by Joe Biden, Mayor deBlasio, and other public health fascists.
Nets General Manager Sean Marks – who hails from the COVID-19 police state of New Zealand – announced the team banned Irving from all practices and games until Irving forfeited control over his own body and got the vaccine.
“Kyrie has made a personal choice, and we respect his individual right to choose. Currently, the choice restricts his ability to be a full-time member of the team, and we will not permit any member of our team to participate with part-time availability. It is imperative that we continue to build chemistry as a team and remain true to our long-established values of togetherness and sacrifice,” a statement from Marks read.
But sources close to Irving – and most likely Irving himself – told The Athletic that Irving refused to get the vaccine in protest of Americans losing their jobs over vaccine mandates.
Irving felt compelled to challenge a tyrannical biomedical surveillance state and believed that by taking a stand and refusing the vaccine, Irving could give voice to Americans who would otherwise not be heard in this debate.
“Multiple sources with direct knowledge of Irving’s decision have told The Athletic that Irving is not anti-vaccine and that his stance is that he is upset that people are losing their jobs due to vaccine mandates. It’s a stance that Irving has explained to close teammates. To him, this is about a grander fight than the one on the court and Irving is challenging a perceived control of society and people’s livelihood, according to sources with knowledge of Irving’s mindset. It is a decision that he believes he is capable to make given his current life dynamics. ‘Kyrie wants to be a voice for the voiceless,’ one source said,” The Athletic reported.
The corporate-controlled media showers praise on professional athletes who take political stands by supporting Black Lives Matter, protesting Donald Trump, or kneeling for the national anthem.
But when Irving took a stand on behalf of liberty and medical freedom, his team banned him and the corporate-controlled sports media smeared him as selfish.
Sports with Balls will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.

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I’m always amazed at what memories my mind retains. Recently, I heard the sound of machinery in my mind. I realized it was a memory of machines where I used to work. What was once an annoying noise that I cringed from I now felt a joy, remembering. I tested my memory by thinking of things from my old workplace. Do I remember the sounds of doors opening and closing? Yes I do I did. As I recite this, using voice to text, I hear a chuff noise in my mind. The sound of the very old front door of the factory closing. I’ve been curious about what I can remember from that place and there’s a comfort when I do remember things because it was one so familiar.
I’ve tested myself asking myself. What sounds I can remember and what comes to mind. I remember a joyful sound a peaceful sound of leaves in the wind as I crouched in a tree after climbing it as a teenager.
Do I remember the sounds of a creek near my childhood so long ago? I try to, but I wonder if I imagine things.
Do I remember the sounds of the sawmill I once spent a few months in when I was a very young man. Yes I do. Especially the massive blade that cut the logs. There was a machine that shook the refuse pieces of wood into a machine that chipped them. It was a little frightening, because I knew that if someone got into that trough with the wood pieces, they would not escape the chipper with the blades on a massive steel wheel that were at least 6 inches long.
I’ve asked myself what sounds do I remember if a dog I once owned. I do remember, and there was joy in the memory of his voice.
I remember bits and pieces of my parents voices. With people we remember them in a mix from different ages of ourselves and their selves. But hey memory, you got the idea.
I was joking today, with my oldest brother, about how cursed we all are to remember the advertisements that played on the TV for so many years from our youth on to present so much garbage noise flittering about in our memories. There are things that I cringe from other things I want to play over and over as the soundtrack to my life. Snippets of sound that were joyful times in my life or simply what we call the good old days.


In an effort to enhance the company’s foothold in the online gaming industry and provide its operators with advanced features, greater variability, and access to first-to-market features, Playtech has recently added five new Playtech powered casinos and released flash versions of some of its downloadable games. With the five new casino games, the number of available games on the Playtech platform now exceeds 80.
Included in the new games are three 5-reel 20-line multi-coin slot games, Casino Hold’em and a new version of blackjack. The slot games, A Night Out, Desert Treasure, and Dr. Lovemore, offer both cash prize bonus rounds and free spin bonuses. The release of the 20-line slot games is in response to the growing popularity of multi-line video slots games evident in both land-based and online casinos. Casino Hold’em is a simplified form of the ever-popular Texas Hold'Em poker game that has been tailored for casino players and the new blackjack game offers multi-hand support for up to five hands. This feature has since been added to all existing Playtech blackjack games. Playtech has also enhanced multi-player and private group modes so they can now support up to five players.
Playtech is committed to maintaining the company’s high standards and the new releases demonstrate this commitment. All of the releases include state-of-the-art graphic interfaces and superior quality sound effects. The design of Playtech’s latest release, which compliments the existing suite of games on the Playtech platform, is consistent with Playtech’s traditional approach to product development and focuses primarily on the needs and requests of Playtech casinos and their players.
The release of the new games follows the September release of Playtech's new generation platform codenamed "NG". The NG platform introduced several entirely original features such as multiple-window game play, integrated web-based content, auto-play in all slot machines with both simple and advanced modes, real-time progressive jackpot tickers that display in the casino lobby, increased operator control over game content, and advanced tools for players with greater gaming experience.
According to Playtech’s Marketing Director, Iris Toledano, "these new games diversify our platform, offering some of the most popular and cutting edge games within the industry. Feedback on the latest launch from both operators and players has been excellent, with immediate requests for more. In answer to these demands, we aim to release more new games in greater frequency in 2006".
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just took another one of my signature “dust baths” it’s like a regular bath only i roll around in a bunch of dust and sand and start screaming when it gets in my mouth and eyes. anyway don’t trust the government
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Venomous vs poisonous! The animals are: northern copperhead, cane toad, tiger keelback snake, hooded pitohui, northern short-tailed shrew.


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War-loving senior GOP Representative Liz Cheney’s support for Trump’s impeachment met with cheers & eye rolls
The number-three House Republican, Liz Cheney, said she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump over the Capitol riot, becoming the latest GOP member to back the move while stoking both joy and outrage from observers online.
Cheney (Wyoming), the third-ranking Republican in Congress, issued a statement on Tuesday declaring her support for the Democrat-led impeachment drive, citing Trump’s response to the “violent mob” that stormed the US Capitol last week, while arguing that “there has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States.”
“None of this would have happened without the president. The president could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not,” she said, adding that Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing.”
I will vote to impeach the president.
.@Liz_Cheney is a yes on impeachment pic.twitter.com/jXpzeX6yL4— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) January 12, 2021
The announcement prompted a heated dispute among netizens, with some, including many typically critical of Cheney, hailing the decision as “brave” and a way to “unite the country” following the violent disturbance in Washington, DC last Wednesday.
“Good for Liz Cheney. She is putting the country over her party,” one user wrote, while another reluctantly celebrated the hawkish lawmaker: “Liz Cheney as the person doing the right thing? That’s dark. That’s real freakin’ dark.”
I’m applauding Liz Cheney too. We disagree on issues. But she’s standing up for democracy and the Constitution. And it’s brave; her district is Wyoming. https://t.co/wIR0jrxg9m— Robert Shrum (@BobShrum) January 12, 2021
Liz Cheney says she will vote to impeach Trump.She's one of the most conservative members of the House.Glad she's doing the right thing.Her dad can still eat a bag of dicks, but today, she gets a pass.— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) January 12, 2021
Cheney. McConnell. And essentially every Democrat and Independent. Seems like it's uniting the whole country except the insurrectionists and those Republicans who hitched wagons to Trump.— Brian Alspach (@ThusSprachSpach) January 12, 2021
Critics from all over the political spectrum also met the news with jeers, with right-wing commentator Michelle Malkin castigating Cheney as “despicable” and “the enemy within,” while progressive journalist Jeremy Scahill quipped: “Let me know when Liz Cheney supports prosecuting her dad. Until then, she can quit with that opportunistic press release” – referring to her father, former vice president Dick Cheney, who helped launch the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Let me know when Liz Cheney supports prosecuting her dad. Until then, she can quit with that opportunistic press release.— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) January 12, 2021
in a statement liz cheney condemned the president for leading an invasion of the us capitol, insisting that's only acceptable when we do it to other governments— jordan (@JordanUhl) January 12, 2021
Other detractors saw the move as opportunistic, suggesting Cheney might have a future presidential bid in mind, or is concerned that high-dollar donors are “jumping ship” in the fallout of the Capitol Hill riot, which left at least five dead in its wake.
She’s running.— ((MRW))🇺🇸 (@marcyrw) January 12, 2021
This is about money. She tolerated trump and his insanity. Now the donors are jumping ship. So is she.— KABercaw (@BercawKa) January 12, 2021
Please note: the money spigots start to shut off and suddenly Mitch, Liz and others are speaking up.— Jay Floyd (@agrinningidiot) January 12, 2021
Cheney became the second House Republican to join the renewed impeachment effort, after New York Congressman John Katko voiced support earlier on Tuesday, insisting he “cannot sit by without taking action” and “will vote to impeach this president.” Soon after Cheney’s statement, Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger also jumped on board, reasoning that Trump “encouraged an angry mob to storm the United States Capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes.” Michigan legislator Fred Upton became another GOP member to turn his back on Trump as of Tuesday night.Also on rt.com Liz Cheney the latest target of Trump loyalists… which is enough to label her ‘voice of reason’ on the left
The GOP defections have prompted predictions that others in the party would soon follow suit, with some commenters outright encouraging them to do so, while others suggested Cheney’s stance could provide “cover” for fellow Republicans.
I think with the Liz Cheney announcement, we will see a cascade of republicans signing on to impeach. #beans— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) January 12, 2021
For those Republicans who fear their own constituents: Liz Cheney lives in Wyoming. If she can do this, you weenies can do this too.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 12, 2021
Some in the conservative commentariat pushed back, with Human Events editor-in-chief Will Chamberlain arguing that Cheney – who has repeatedly attacked Trump on a variety of issues – could not provide political camouflage for impeachment-supporting Republicans.
Republicans cannot be this dumbLIZ CHENEY DOES NOT GIVE YOU POLITICAL COVER https://t.co/sqAOpnH2ys— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) January 12, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, however, may better serve that purpose, with the New York Times reporting on Tuesday that the GOP leader has told associates he believes the president committed “impeachable offenses” and that he is “pleased” with the drive to force him out of office. Though he has not backed the move publicly, McConnell’s wife, former transportation secretary Elaine Chao, resigned over the Capitol riot last week, calling the event “traumatic.”
Democratic lawmakers moved swiftly to threaten impeachment following the unrest in DC, vowing to move ahead on the effort if Vice President Mike Pence fails to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. With the VP refusing to do so, Democrats say they will force a vote on Wednesday on one article of impeachment, accusing the president of “inciting” the riot on Capitol Hill.Also on rt.com Trump says impeachment moves against him are causing anger, but insists 'I want no violence'
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The Colorado Rockies have made a few organizational changes ahead of the MLB Winter Meetings, which start Sunday in San Diego. In one of those changes, Scott Little, who managed the Rockies’ High-A affiliate, the Spokane Indians, the past two seasons, was fired, as reported by Baseball America.
When the umpire calls “Play ball” Thursday for Game 5 of the World Series in Philadelphia, David Yearout may not trot out to take a position on the field, but the Phillies and the Houston Astros wouldn’t have a field to play on without him.
Colin Simpson went 3 for 5 with two doubles and an RBI and the visiting Spokane Indians beat the Tri-City Dust Devils 8-3 in the second game of a six-game High-A Northwest League series at Gesa Stadium in Pasco on Wednesday.
The Spokane Indians are still trying to chase down Vancouver in the Northwest League standings, but part of the dichotomy of minor league baseball is that players have individual goals to meet as well.


Patent application title: Intelligent Current Analysis for Resonant Converters
Marco Antonio Davila (Tucson, AZ, US)
Marco Antonio Davila (Tucson, AZ, US)
IPC8 Class: AG01R2726FI
Class name: Electricity: measuring and testing fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components of individual circuit component or element
Publication date: 2013-11-21
Patent application number: 20130307559
A new method of extracting information from a current waveform for the
purpose of controlling a resonant converter is presented. The information
could also be used for the purpose predicting the inductance and load of
a circuit to indicate alignment in a inductive charging system.
1. A method of analyzing a convener waveform, comprising sampling 3 times
in half a period or sampling at 3 different positions in a sequence on
different periods for the purpose of extracting waveform information that
produces the fundamental component and triangular component (higher
2. The method of claim 1 comprising extracting phase information from the fundamental component.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the extracted information is used to predict load and inductance information about the circuit.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the extracting information is used to provide an indication of alignment of the magnetic circuit in a wireless inductive charging system.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracted information is used to predict load and inductance information about the circuit.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the extracting information is used to provide an indication of alignment of the magnetic circuit in a wireless inductive charging system
RELATED APPLICATION/CLAIM OF PRIORITY
 This application is related to and claims priority from U.S. Provisional application Ser. No. 61/642,816, entitled Intelligent Current Analysis for Resonant Converters filed May 4, 2012, which provisional application is incorporated herein by reference.
 Resonant converters have grown in popularity in recent years, including the use of the popular LLC converter. Resonant converters have operating conditions that can produce zero voltage switching in the switches in the primary but in other conditions might produce incorrect current wave shapes that could stress and potentially damage the switches. In other conditions the operating frequency might be safe for the switches but it could have a reverse loop gain compared to the normal zones. This occurs when going past resonance in either direction.
 Recently, inductive chargers (wireless converters) use resonant structures to process power due to the large leakage inductance. This leakage inductance changes with distance and alignment which produces a need to change the safe operating zone of the converter. Analysis of the current waveform has become more important for these types of converters.
 What is presented in this application is an innovative analysis method applied to the current waveform that will extract the needed information to keep the converter in the correct switching conditions.
 The principles of the present invention are described further below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
PRIOR ART AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
 Traditionally the safe operating zone of a resonant converter is calculated and limits are placed on the operating frequency of the converter. Since the leakage inductance was a known and designed quantity this method has proven to be reliable. Load changes can change the safe operating zones and typically over limiting the frequency can prevent the converter from crossing over to unsafe operating zones. This comes with a penalty of restricting the convener to a narrower operating range which can impact efficiency.
 In wireless converters this problem is further increased by having the leakage inductance as a variable parameter. The leakage inductance of a wireless power system is dependent on alignment and gap distance. This variation of inductance can be a major problem in finding the safe operating zone.
 It is the purpose of this invention to introduce a new method to analyze the primary current waveform to determine whether the converter is nearing an unsafe zone and in addition determine the reactive and resistive current. By analyzing the current, according to the present invention, the correct frequency range can be determined dynamically.
 The Attached Drawings, FIGS. 1-5 are described below in the context of this invention
FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
Three Point Measurement
 The typical resonant converter is comprised of a half bridge configuration with tuned capacitors in the primary to resonate with a parasitic or designed leakage inductance in the primary (FIG. 1). The secondary may also have tuned capacitors. A square wave voltage is applied to the structure by switching the switches at operating frequency with an ideal 50% duty cycle.
 This voltage square wave produces through the inductance/capacitor network a current waveform that to the first approximation is a sinusoidal signal superimposed with a triangular signal (see FIGS. 2A and 2B for shape). The triangular signal is equal to the signal that would have been produced if the capacitors in the network were ideal and large, so its amplitude is dependent only on the inductance of the circuit. Another way to analyze this is that if the converter inductances and capacitances are resonating at the switching frequency then at higher order harmonics, the capacitors' impedances are much smaller than the impedance of the inductance of the circuit. These higher order harmonic currents are more heavily dependent on the inductance of the circuit. Therefore, the square wave that is injected can be thought of two separate waveforms. One is the sine wave component that is affected by the inductance and capacitance of the circuit and another that is all higher order harmonics that define the original square wave that is affected by only the inductance of the circuit.
 At resonance the sine wave component starts at zero and ends at 180 degrees. But typically the converter does not run at resonance. It will run either above or below resonance depending on the designed operating zone(s). in these cases the sine wave component will have a phase shift relative to the original square wave. This phase shift can be represented by an angle or can alternatively be represented by a sine wave component plus a cosine component both in phase with the square wave. Both components are very useful to use. The sine wave portion is proportional to power delivered to the secondary. The cosine component is the reactive component which is an indicator for the amount below or above resonance.
 Since the triangular component is highly dependent on the inductance of the circuit it is useful to be able to analyze if the inductance of the system is within the operating parameters. In this way, a wireless charger can determine that the secondary is too far away to even start to produce power.
 Since it advantageous to have all three components to analyze the current wave shape (sine, cosine, and triangular components), a method is needed that will extract these components. By Fourier analysis, the triangular component is composed at least of the fundamental and the 3rd harmonic component. Since the sine and cosine also contain the fundamental we must have a method to eliminate the 3rd harmonic from those readings. Once we know how much 3rd harmonic component there is we can subtract out the triangular portion from the original reading. Using Nyquist theory, in order to identify the 3rd harmonic component we must make 6 samples during one period. This is accomplished by taking 3 samples during one half the period of the conduction of one of the switches. The assumption is that the other half is identical just opposite polarity. The optimum times to take the samples was discovered in the first embodiment to be at 1/6, 2/6, 3/6 of the period.
 The samples could be taken in a single period or if the ADC is not fast enough one sample can be taken one at a time just the position of the next sample can be rotated. For example, lets say that period is 1 unit long, then sample 1 is taken at 1/6, sample 2 at 11/3, and sample 3 taken at 21/2. (see FIGS. 2a and 2b). If the ADC is even slower then more periods can be placed between samples. As long as the frequency is not changing between samples the data should not be affected.
 Once the 3 samples are taken the components were extracted by using the following ratios:
 Itriangle=3*Sample1-3*Sample2+3*Sample3, where Itriangle is peak of the triangular current.
 Icos=3*Sample1-3*Sample2+2*Sample3, where Icos is amplitude of the cosine component.
 Isin=Sample1/sqrt(3)+Sample2/sqrt(3), where Isin is the amplitude of the sine component.
 These ratios can be changed depending on the sample positions or delays.
 FIG. 3 is a current waveform of a LLC converter with extracted samples and values at the indicated times. FIG. 4 shows the calculated values for the components. And FIG. 5 shows the reconstructed current waveform using these components in comparison to the original waveform.
Patent applications by Marco Antonio Davila, Tucson, AZ US
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With this new volume, ivp's black dictionary series completes its coverage of the old testament canonical books a true compendium of recent scholarship, the volume includes 115 articles covering all aspects of isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, the twelve minor prophets and daniel. Old testament & prophet bible timeline three main old testament 750-725 israelite prophets amos, hosea, isaiah 722/721. The last 17 books of the old testament are called the “prophets” their names are isaiah, jeremiah, lamentations, ezekiel, daniel, hosea, joel, amos, obadiah. Discusses prophecy and prophets in the old and new testaments.
Hebrew prophets in old testament were holy men of god who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the holy spirit. Click here for a complete list of old testament prophets names of old testament prophets famous old testament prophets. The table below shows where in time the prophets fit within the northern kingdom of israel and the southern kingdom of judah. Q can you help understand the roles of the old and new testament prophets i have searched your site over and over, yet i am still not completely grasping the concepts.


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