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Arabella Steinbacher – An enchanting violin virtuoso
German musician Arabella Steinbacher has become recognised as one of today’s leading violinists on the international concert scene. The 33-year old artist has made her passion her profession and has fascinated people from all over the world with her exceptional classical music creations.
On stage, Arabella Steinbacher keeps her beautiful eyes closed to focus on the music, to free herself from all thoughts and sights that could distract her. With her gentle smile and her magical music she is sure to enchant audiences from all over the world. When she enters the stage, she feels and lives the music and becomes one with the sounds of her Booth Stradivarius violin from 1716. To many she is one of the greatest violinists of our time.
As a daughter of professional musicians, her father a well-known German pianist at the Munich State Opera and her Japanese mother a talented singer, the Munich-based musician has been introduced to music practically from the cradle. At the young age of three, her parents put a little violin in her hands to keep her busy. “It was entirely normal to make music at my home. For us, music was always something like food and drink. It was simply always there and I never wanted to do anything else,” Arabella smiles. Learning to play by the Suzuki method, by listening and imitating, Arabella immediately fell in love with the violin and its extensive sound diversity. “You can get incredibly much out of one long tone and the timbre. The violin was and is simply the most natural way to make music for me.”
After Arabella became the youngest student of famous violinist Ana Chumachenko at the Munich Academy of Music at the age of nine, she has been unstoppable ever since. “Ana had a great combination of rigour and incredible warmth. She demanded much but was also like a mother. She urged me not to enter the concert business too early as it didn’t have much to do with the actual music. She made sure that I built up a wide repertoire and learnt many
pieces which still helps me today.” Playing her first big tours at 18, Arabella soon won many international prizes and awards, such as two ECHO Classic Awards or the highly esteemed Editors Choice Award from Gramophone Magazine.
At the right time at the right place
A momentous moment for Arabella’s international career breakthrough was more or less a coincidence. In 2004, she stepped in on short notice for a very famous ailing colleague in Paris. Performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Neville Marriner and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, she played her way into the hearts of many. “I already played international concerts at that time but this was special. Many people sat in the concert who were able to help me later and enabled new contacts.” Since then, she has been on stage with the likes of the London, Boston or Chicago symphony orchestras, has worked with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis or Charles Dutoit and has played in London’s Philharmonic or Dresden’s Staatskapelle. Her diverse repertoire includes more than 30 violin concertos of the Classical and Romantic period, as well as Stravinsky or Hartmann. Having played many concerts in her career, Arabella also remembers some funny moments: “There was this one situation in Vienna’s Musikverein when I played the Violin Concerto by Korngold. The piece is really passionate and full of energy and at one moment I took a very big swing so that the wooden music stand flew across the orchestra. The Musikverein was sold out and everyone laughed. If something like this happens, it’s of course something the audience keeps talking about for a long time,” she laughs.
“Music can give strength and overcome divisions”
Not only a remarkable musician, Arabella Steinbacher also impresses with a big heart and a lot of social commitment. When the Tsunami hit Japan in 2011, the half-Japanese musician showed her solidarity in her own way. “I visited people in the emergency shelters and played for them. It was a really touching experience because I directly felt how music can give strength. Of course I can’t give anything back materialistically but music is able to help heal psychological trauma and gives a lot of comfort.” Putting special emphasis on similar projects and concerts, the 33-year-old now works as an ambassador for CARE and was part of a project by the Iraqi-Kurdish Youth Orchestra where adolescents of both groups rehearsed and played music together. “These are the moments when you notice that music simply brings people together and overcomes divisions.”
After having recently completed an Asia tour, travelled to Russia, the United States and England and after an album release in May, her schedule doesn’t calm down. On the contrary: Arabella Steinbacher has a flight to Japan booked and will play at a long list of festivals, such as the Rheingau Festival in August, throughout Europe this summer. “My life is pretty much planned through until 2017,” she says. While boarding planes to distant countries almost every day, she has found her own ways to relax. “Keeping calm is especially hard on tour and when travelling. You have to find ways to come down and for me this is meditation, listening to jazz music and doing sport. It’s a good combination – the one for the mental wellbeing and the other for the physical balance.”
Despite being able to already look back on an impressive career, Arabella Steinbacher remains humble: “There are always new projects which I would like to make happen but I am incredibly happy and grateful how it is going right now and it is good to have dreams.” One thing that she has definitely planned for the future is that she wants to intensify her charity projects. “I simply want to make a difference in people’s lives with my music.”
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A gathering of interfaith religious leaders on Sunday urged Kansas City voters to support Question 3 on Tuesday’s ballot to increase the minimum wage.
The issue is headed for the courts if it passes because a new Missouri law will override local control on wages and forbid anything higher than the current $7.70 state minimum wage. Proponents of the law say a higher minimum wage in Kansas City and St. Louis will discourage business investment in the cities.
Advocates of higher pay were not deterred, hoping a resounding yes at the polls will give them political wind and some legal leverage.
“Justice and fairness and dignity should, can and eventually will rule in wages for the working poor in Kansas City,” Vernon Howard, president of the local Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told a gathering at his church, St. Mark Union Church.
The ballot question would raise Kansas City’s minimum hourly wage from the state level of $7.70 to $10 initially and eventually to $15 by 2022.
The state law prohibiting that goes into effect Aug. 28.
Howard said 45 percent of Kansas City workers are paid less than $15 an hour.
“We refuse to willingly practice and participate in an unjust economy where power and wealth are not shared more evenly,” Howard said. “As consumers we resist participation in markets that devalue labor’s unmatched and irreplaceable contributions to economic prosperity.”
He said higher wages would benefit everyone with higher productivity and more revenue for local government.
“Not to mention new shoes for poor babies,” Howard added. “Decent housing for poor families. Transportation and health care access for those without power.”
Wesley Reed, a member of St. Mark’s, drew a link between living wages and the larger community good.
“I’m speaking for everybody in Kansas City,” he said. “I’m not the only person who understands that the crime is high because the wages are low.”


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The cut welder kit doesn't include the gas tanks, you'll have to find a supplier for those. I use propane and oxygen. For thicker metal like 1" or more, I use acetylene and oxygen. Acetylene is $65 for a tank and propane I can refill locally and use a 20lb or 100lb tank and it's a lot cheaper. A "251" oxygen tank, which is a fairly good size is $35. They do have smaller tanks, but for the cost-volume ratio, the bigger tank works better for me. There is much more volume for the buck. The small tanks that you can pick up and carry will probably get you out of a mess and are handy if you need to go somewhere and do a quick job, but there isn't much oxygen in those little tanks and they're expensive
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VSSL will host (para)site: an exhibition of cultural sewage, a mixed-media installation of research materials, ephemera, analogue photography, and analogue and digital moving image works.
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“It is time that the Forest Service work with communities and stakeholders to restore forests, protect homes and communities and safeguard watersheds,” said Tom Wheeler, Executive Director at EPIC. “The Crawford timber sale could and should be changed to thin existing timber plantations while utilizing prescribed fire to restore these forests from past mismanagement.”
“We are relieved to know that two of the only remaining reproductive northern spotted owl pairs on the Klamath National Forest, will keep their habitat,” said Kimberly Baker, KFA’s Executive Director and EPIC’s Public Lands Advocate. “This species is so close to extinction, protecting reproducing pairs must be a priority. And, in this day and age, ancient and mature forests should remain standing. They are our first line of defense in guarding against global warming.”
“It is unfortunate that the Klamath National Forest refuses to work with the public to create projects that restore rather than harm forests and watersheds” said George Sexton, Conservation Director at KS Wild. “It shouldn’t take a federal lawsuit for the Forest Service to acknowledge that it is a bad idea to log old-growth trees in the backcountry when there is so much work that could be done to help fire-safe homes, ranches and communities.”
While the Forest Service has withdrawn its approval of the project, it is not immediately clear what will become of it. The agency may attempt to cure the deficiencies outlined in litigation and repackage the timber sale. However, the conservation community wants to see the Forest Service stick to non-controversial work that will help protect communities while respecting the old-growth watersheds of the Mid-Klamath basin.
Meriel Darzen and Oliver Stiefel of the Crag Law Center represented the conservation groups in their litigation.
For more information on this litigation and project, see our previous blog post here.


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Vermicelli payasam is a quick dessert which is frequently made in Tamilian households. The celebration of the month of Aadi continues!
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Roasted vermicelli - 1 small cup
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Crushed almonds - 8-10
Sugar - 5 tsp
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Heat ghee in a saucepan and add the crushed almonds. After 1-2 minutes, add the vermicelli and fry till light brown.
Now add 1 cup milk and cook the vermicelli till it becomes soft.
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Weekly Eesti Ekspress said Estonian companies play a role in a scheme used by Russian businessmen and officials: funds are transferred to Estonia and taken back to Russia in cash.
Hundreds of millions of euros make the trip each year. The then-interior minister, Ken-Marti Vaher, said in 2012 that 525 million euros moved in such a way in 2008, with that sum dropping to close to 200 the next year and 350 million in both 2010 and 2011. These sums were declared to the state, the weekly reported.
The head of the Police's Financial Intelligence Unit, Aivar Paul, said the method is not always illegal, as withdrawing euros is cheaper in Estonia than in Russia, with costs in Russia quoted at around 5 percent of the sum, 2-3 times higher than here.
The scheme usually involves a number of other countries besides Estonia, with funds being transferred from Russia to other EU states first, such as Cyprus or Latvia, where it is more expensive to turn into cash.
Many Estonian financial service providers are said to thrive on the scheme, with Eesti Ekspress estimating that AS Tavid, more known as a currency exchange service provider, charges 0.17 percent of the sum up front, while SEB and Swedbank charge 0.4 to 0.5 percent.

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FBI and NYPD team up to create federal cybercrime task force
The New York Police Department is teaming up with federal authorities to create a new anti-terrorism task force, but it isn’t Al-Qaeda they’re after. A new division announced on Thursday will instead aim to take down computer hackers.
Creation of the newly formed Cyber Task Force was confirmed this week in a statement released early Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose agents will now work with NYPD officers and members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, to monitor malicious online activity throughout the region.
Just as the FBI has teamed up with local authorities in the past to take on criminal activity, the new task force will strive to create the same cooperative relationship that has worked to disrupt alleged terrorist attacks in the Big Apple already.
“The task force model that has been successfully employed in response to bank robbery and terrorism cases is now being applied to the cyber realm,” FBI Assistant Director George Venizelos said in Thursday’s statement. “The FBI continues to develop positive working relationships with our fellow law enforcement officers in our joint efforts to tackle criminal activity, and we look forward to working with our partners at the NYPD and MTA to combat cyber crime.”
“Cyber crime knows no geographical boundaries and expands the exposure to victims literally throughout the world. This task force extends the reach of law enforcement to help identify, pursue, and prosecute those who commit cybercrime wherever they may be,” added NYPD Police Commissioner William J Bratton.
According to Bratton, the new alliance will allow for collaboration between not just the MTA, NYPD and FBI, but will “help combat [cyber] threat by using modern day technology” as well as assistance from unspecified “international agencies.” Last year, the FBI acknowledged that it had invited its Five Eyes partners to participate in its cyber task forces, and as of 12 months ago had already embedded Australian agents within the ranks of the bureau to do as much.
In Thursday’s statement, the FBI’s New York City office stated that the newest task force is one of 45 that has been established by the bureau across the country as part the Next Generation Cyber Initiative it launched in 2012 to shift law enforcement focus towards “intrusions into computers and networks — as opposed to crimes committed with a computer as a modality,” according to remarks made at the time by Richard A. McFeely, the executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch.
“Our adversaries in the cyber realm include spies from nation-states who seek our secrets and intellectual property; organized criminals who want to steal our identities and money; terrorists who aspire to attack our power grid, water supply, or other infrastructure; and hacktivist groups who are trying to make a political or social statement,” McFeely told the Senate Appropriations Committee last June.
At the time, McFeely said the FBI was escalating its response to cyber crime in the same way that national security was adjusted in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Now following numerous indictments and convictions against supposed hackers in the Empire State and across the country, New York will become one of the latest metropolitan cities to get its own task force.
Ahead of McFeely’s remarks last June, the FBI requested $86 million from Congress to fund its Next Generation Cyber Initiative to “help promote a whole of government approach to cybersecurity, as well as address critical gaps in the FBI’s current ability to investigate computer intrusions and identify, mitigate and disrupt cyber threat actors."
“The requested funding will support the Next Generation Cyber Initiative and will increase cyber investigation capabilities and victim identification by adding 50 special agents and 50 computer scientists; improve cyber collection and analysis; and extend centralized analytical capabilities to the field by deploying cyber workstations to serve as portals for communication intrusion-related data bureau-wide,” the bureau said in requesting those funds.

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George Ward, properly commonly known as Cherry Valentine to RuPaul’s Drag Race UK viewers, handed away on September 18. He was 28.
Ward’s dad and mother launched an announcement whereby they wrote, “It is with the most heartbreaking and deepest grief that we notify you that our George – Cherry Valentine — has unfortunately departed away.” “This will come as a terrific shock to almost all of people, and we acknowledge that there isn’t a straightforward methodology to make this announcement.
His family stated, “Our lives received’t ever be the equivalent and we’re nonetheless processing his passing. “We are acutely aware of how he’s adored and what variety of lives he has influenced. All we wish on this time is to your endurance and your prayers.
World of Wonder, which produces Drag Race, acknowledged in an announcement of its private, “We are heartbroken to be taught of the demise of George Ward, a.okay.a. Cherry Valentine. Cherry will on a regular basis be a cherished member of our Drag Race family on account of she is an artist, a nurse, and an activist. Cherry touched the lives of quite a few people alongside together with her love and a contagious giggle. We lengthen our trustworthy sympathies to her family and buddies.
Valentine participated in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’s second season and was booted out in episode two.
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Sound Heap is the most eclectic podcast network in the known world. From comedy to interviews to investigations, back to interviews, on to advice, listener call ins, pranks, interviews again, deep-dives and even interviews – they do the lot.
A brand new comedy podcast from Auddy
Sound Heap – Episode 6
REFLECTIONS ON THE THEME OF MORTALITY
John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., presents some tastes of the week’s best podcasts from the Sound Heap network’s library of 1,134 shows.
You’ll hear clips from:
•New Ways To Say Hello
•To Me It Happened: Bigfoot Keeps Seeing Me Do Embarrasing Things
•Two People Discuss Whether They Would Get On With Sting
•Conspiracy Heap: Reflections On The Theme Of Mortality
•Describing Pretzels To Peter, Who’s Never Seen a Pretzel
You can follow Sound Heap, Inc. on Twitter, for exclusive clips and news: @soundheapinc.
Written and presented by John-Luke Roberts, with Cariad Lloyd, Elis James, Gareth Gwynn, Isy Suttie, Jonny Donahoe, Josie Long, Joz Norris, Katherine Parkinson, Ken Cheng, Kieran Hodgson, Paddy Gervers, River Hall, Ruth Bratt, Saima Ferdows, Sooz Kempner, Thom Tuck and Tom Neenan.
The original music and stings are by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell for Torch & Compass.
Mixed by Rich Evans at Synbox Post.
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GANGTOK: Flash flood killed 22 people, triggered a series of landslides and washed away nearly 30km of highway in north Sikkim amid torrential rain Friday evening. Dozens of people on the North Sikkim Highway between Mangan and Chungthang inhabitants of these areas are reportedly missing.
DIG Vineet Vinayak said 15 members of the Border Road Organization (BRO), five Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) personnel and two civilians working in the Teesta-Urja hydel project were killed in the flash flood. The Pawan Chamling government has sounded alert along river banks in Lachen, Lachung, Dikchu, Singtam and Rangpo.
Two major bridges on the stretch were also destroyed, severing the sole link between Gangtok
and tourist hotspots of Lachen, Lachung and Yumthang.
The disaster comes a year after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Sikkim last September that killed 70 people and destroying the villages. Its epicentre was located at Chungthang.
Officials said it’s unlikely tourists would be trapped in those towns as permits are not issued for travel to these areas during the rainy season.
“Till now, 30 persons are reported missing, but the numbers could increase as we have not been able to access the area between Mangan and Chungthang yet,” said Vinayak.
BRO Sikkim chief engineer S S Porwal and his team are stranded in north Sikkim without food, equipment or electricity. “The entire stretch of highway between Singhik and Chungthang has been washed away. We have lost all heavy road-building machinery. Other teams have to look for alternative routes and build roads and bridges afresh,” Porwal said.
The Army has been called, but officials said incessant rainfall was slowing down relief and rescue operations. Four choppers could not take off in heavy rain.


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Bullying has been in practice for many years now. Although, bullying is a demeaning act, still, a significant percentage has engaged in it. According to Niamh O’ Brien, traditional bullying behaviors have extended into cyber-bullying. Behaviors such as trolling, engaging in hate speech, and revenge posting has been on a rise. Being bullied is a huge burden on the mental health and self-esteem of the victims, which the perpetrator thrives on.
It is hard to speak to your child when they are at the receiving end of bullying. Sometimes, we tend to invalidate their pain and trauma by dismissing bullying as a bit of ‘leg-pulling’ which is tempered by adulthood. However, bullying results in permanent scars- more emotional than physical. Therefore, it is important to deal with the subject sensitively.
Bullied children are often averse to share about their painful experiences. They tend to bottle things up to a dangerous extent which can affect them permanently. When a child opens up about it, it becomes tough for the parent to deal with the situation and to respond to it. However, Podium School is back at it with some useful tips on how to tackle the situation. Check out the following section to know more!
How To React to Your Bullied Child
Children usually do not prefer to talk about their difficulties in school, especially when it is about bullying. It is because they feel frightened and embarrassed about it.
They think that it has only happened to them and thus, hesitate. Buts, when they do, it is extremely important to listen to every word of theirs carefully to assess the exact situation and the level of the extremity of bullying faced by them.
Once you have listened to them, the next step is to comfort your child. It is highly possible that your child might end up crying while telling you about their situation, because of which, you have to sit close enough to your child to comfort them.
Assurance and Reassurance
Assurance is an important step while dealing with bullied children. Parents need to assure them that they are not alone in such a situation. You need to make sure that your child feels better after talking about the issue.
Reassurance is more important than assurance. It is not enough to give an assurance once and forget about it. A child might require continuous assurance from their parents and thus, it is necessary to keep assuring them. You need to ensure your kid that you love them and will be always there for them in difficult situations. This will in turn strengthen the bond between you and your child.
Boosting Their Confidence Post Bullying
It is possible that they might feel bad about themselves as a result of bullying. One of the common outcomes is kids feeling insecure about their bodies and looks. As a parent, you need to boost their confidence. Maintaining a healthy routine along with a healthy diet and lifestyle would help in boosting the child’s confidence levels.
Eating a healthy diet and exercising daily would increase self-esteem which would eventually increase their self-esteem. Thus, it is fundamental to adopt a healthy lifestyle for your child to keep their confidence high, right from the beginning. To know more about how to raise a self-confident child, click here.
Never Invalidate Your Child’s Pain
As a result, a huge trend of victim-shaming persists in families, educational spaces, and social spheres where the victim was at the wrong place and ‘weak’ enough to allow the bully to tamper with them.
Know this- that blaming someone who went through a traumatic experience is unfair and even criminal with regards to them. If such a pattern comes from the parents who yell at their child for being a weakling, then the fault lies with them and never the children.
A bullied child is not the runt of the litter who should be considered weak. Therefore, it is important not to invalidate your child’s pain with statements like- ‘You should have been stronger.’ or ‘Hit them back if they hit you.’ With such statements, not only does the child receive a blow to their already dipping self-esteem, but they withdraw further into themselves. Therefore, deal with them sensitively and with empathy.
Talking to School Authorities
Since, bullying is an illegal act but a common practice, almost every school has anti-bullying rules and a team to tackle the problems related to bullying. It is the duty of a parent to report the bullying act to the school’s anti-bullying panel. This is because, it is possible that if a child reports against a bully, he or she might face difficulties from bully too as revenge.
So, in order to avoid unnecessary problems further, it is better for a parent to report the incident. Parents should take this step as soon as they come across the fact that the extent of bullying has been severe.
Also, before complaining, it is necessary that the parent reports to the higher authorities secretly. This needs to be done with a view to avoid further complications in your child’s school life. On the contrary, if a complaint is made public, then the bully experiences embarrassment, and they might cause further harm to your child.
Talking to the Bully’s Parents
When as a parent, you can see that the bullying has reached its extreme level, you should take this step. You should try to contact the parents of the bully secretly. This is again to avoid the bully knowing about it. If he or she comes to know about it, they might harm your child.
It is important to speak to the bully’s parents on a call to convey the problem. Later, both sets of parents can meet in person to discuss the problem in detail. That way, it would be a more mature way to deal with bullying rather than being impulsive and indignant.
Also, it is a significant point to tell them to treat the child(bully) in a sensible manner. To teach them in an emotionally and mentally healthy environment is necessary. Research says that children learn better and faster about behavioral patterns when taught in an emotionally rich environment.
To put it simply, it is important for you to communicate with your child in an emotionally safe zone where they can open up to you without feeling ashamed of themselves.
Bullying often stems from an experience of being bullied and a burgeoning inferiority complex. Therefore, the problem cuts both ways as while being bullied leaves children with emotional scars, but the bully also leaves with a bad reputation, and sometimes, the guilt is too heavy for them to deal with.
Therefore, dealing with a prominent issue like this would call for maturity and sensitivity. In event of the outright rejection of bullying by the parents of the bully or the school authorities, it is advisable to call an anti-bullying helpline. Podium School encourages the parent and teacher community along with children to help make places safer for them to enjoy the full potential of school life.
For more tips on parenting, check out the Podium Blog and stay tuned for the next update from us, right here!


ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. (WNCN) — Roanoke Rapids police said they arrested a man after finding him with fentanyl during a traffic stop Wednesday.
At about 10:35 a.m., an officer said he was in the area of West 8th St. and Vance St. when he noticed a vehicle with an insurance violation and initiated a traffic stop.
When he spoke to the driver, the officer said he learned that the driver, 56-year-old William Mitchell, of Roanoke Rapids, had a suspended driver’s license.
The officer searched the vehicle and found .3 grams of white powder suspected to be fentanyl, according to the police department.
Mitchell was charged with possession of schedule II and driving while license revoked.
He was placed under a $500 bond has a court date scheduled for Jan 6.


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As a household name, Specialized is to be trusted in this world without a doubt. That’s because, in addition to their inventory of pedal-powered machinery, they’ve gone ahead and introduced us to their S-Works Turbo. Here, in conjunction with their custom Trail-tuned motor for off-road use, the Levo FSR frame is constructed entirely of FACT 11m carbon fiber allowing for both a lightweight and stiff ride through the local wilderness. Additional features include instant engagement, heat management, and a silent output for good measure. Not bad Specialized. Not bad at all.
Here is your experience amplifier: Spectral:ON gives you more trails per hour. The RockShox Yari RC suspension fork offers the steering precision and rigidity you need for e-biking with its 35 mm thick stanchions, the RockShox Deluxe R shock absorbs at the rear of any obstacle. For the wheels you can rely on the DT Swiss H1900 Spline wheels with reinforced hubs, freewheel bodies, spokes and rims, specially developed for the E-MTB. Schwalbe tires combine top traction with low rolling resistance. Magura's MT Trail Sport brakes with 203mm front and rear rotors will stop you when you need to. With Spectral:ON 6.0, your greatest adventures are yet to come.
Electric bikes are here in a big way. Liberated from some of the normal constraints of standard bike design like weight and gearing, e-bike design has exploded; if you can imagine it, someone has built it. From cargo bikes to city bikes, messenger bikes to mountain bikes, road bikes, and even beach cruisers, there is something for everyone. The beauty of e-bikes is they make the joy of cycling accessible to so many people in so many ways.
While in many areas of the country you are allowed to drive mountain electric bikes in urban settings, some local jurisdictions may limit their use as some models reach 28mph exceeding the on road accepted limit of 20mph. So before you purchase one of these bikes, make sure to check the local laws in your given area. These bikes are good for many different age groups including teens and adults.
In a friction drive motor, a small, solid wheel rotates against the side of the tire in order to drive it. The first motorcycles used the same concept, with a motor mounted above the front wheel. The problem is that the drive rubs at the side of the tire. It's inefficient, and it quickly wears the sidewall away. Tires need to be replaced every couple hundred miles. For this reason, you'll seldom see electric bikes with this type of drive anymore.
Another really cool feature on this bike is the Haibike eConnect system. I’m not sure why, but they only seem to be offering it on the 10.0. It has been available in Europe for awhile, so I imagine we’ll see an upgrade for the other Haibikes sometime this year. eConnect offers riders a way to prevent theft on their bikes, track rides, and alert an emergency contact if it detects a crash.
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Electric bikes are a green alternative to driving a vehicle. Studies carried out in several towns and cities show that the average car speed in rush hour traffic can dip as low as 18 to 20 mph. Electric bike speed can be as high as 15 mph. With an electric bike, you can reduce pollution, improve fitness, and still arrive at the same time as your car-bound colleagues.
E-bikes remain a subject of controversy in mountain biking circles. You may not be able to take one on your favorite singletrack right now, as most non-motorized trails prohibit them. However, things have been tilting in a more permissive direction. Most recently, IMBA, the sport’s largest public advocacy group, shifted its stance to support allowing access for some pedal-assist e-bikes (those that top out at 20 mph) on some trails. With every major manufacturer making e-mountain bikes, more access is likely only a matter of time. “In a few years, people will realize that electric mountain bikes have no more trail impact than a regular mountain bike,” Benjamin says.
Folding Electric Bikes- These are mostly used when people need to combine different modes of transport. For example, if you need first to take the train or bus, a folding e-bike can be useful to carry along. Also, very short trips are more convenient with these electric bikes, since you don’t need to bother tying them up. Typically, these are very light, even with the motor and battery. At Christmastime, consider this model for urban friends and family who use mass transit to get around.
When you are one of the top car manufacturers in the world witnessing an ever-changing landscape of reluctant buyers, what should you do? Ideally, you take scope of what works and phase out what doesn’t. GM’s bold Bolt plan was to offer the electric vehicle (EV) as a personal means of transportation and a shared mobility platform through its Maven program. We haven’t heard much from that initiative and it seems GM is ready to get in bed with the top two ride-hailing companies, Uber and Lyft. Is GM a bit lost in its strategy? Or is it figuring out what works and sharpening its vision?
Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Competition 2015 1st and 2nd Place Winners Both Used an Electric Bike Technologies Hub Motor! The Mater Dei Supermileage 3 Team of Mater Dei High School, in Evansville, Ind., took the top spot in the Battery-Electric Prototype category. The team built a vehicle using an electric bike motor from Electric Bike Technologies USA and won the electric plug in class at the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas. They...
It seems everyone prefers both Juiced and RadCity E-Bikes. I am having a tough time choosing between two. I currently have a mountain bike and want something new just to kick back and cruise around on. I will not be daily commuting, but will be riding weeknights and weekends, so comfort is key. It looks like both will have deals for Black Friday or Cyber Monday. $999 for the Juiced OceanCurrent and $1299 for the RadCity.
The extra grip a 50lb e-bike normally helps to prevent overshooting corners when on the brakes, and bring pure DH-bike-like fun factor on the steepest trails. This electric Orange, however, rides more like a ‘standard’ enduro bike with a motor, which could be good or bad, depending on your expectations and riding style. It’s built tough and delivers stacks of fun in less time than any regular bike can. Adding a motor hasn’t upset Orange’s superb geometry.
Without a doubt, Commencal has a valued reputation in the bike world. And with their newest electric mountain bike slated for release in September of 2018, this 2019 model is surely one we had to highlight while we could. Simply put, it’s one of the best options out there for the price point thanks in part to its E8000 system, lightweight body, and ergonomic feel. Additionally, a reinforced frame ensures uncompromising stiffness and accuracy while atop the saddle, Shimano XT brakes stop the large 29-inch wheels without issue, and a 12-speed SRAM Eagle transmission offers up the perfect gear in just about any off-road situation.
But if you’re coming back from injury, looking to ride more miles in a shorter period of time, or just ride further without getting exhausted, then the Turbo Levo is just amazing. This bike is the great equalizer. Some may see that as a negative, lowering the sport’s barrier to entry, but we think more people on bikes can only be a good thing. It will make returning to mountain biking after the birth of a child, an injury, or a stressful period at work much easier. Life happens, the electric assist bikes like this Turbo Levo will help more people ride more often.
The Brose motor puts out 250 watts nominally, and can peak up to a max of 460 watts. That’s around half what the 2016 Specialized Turbo S road bike we tested last year develops, but that bike’s much-larger motor sits in the rear hub, which would massively compromise performance on a full-suspension mountain bike like this one. Spend up to the Expert or S-Works spec Turbo Levo and you get a motor that can peak up to 530 watts.
Glenn has over 15 years of experience building bicycle wheels and has worked for and with the local cycling community in the Philadelphia area for the past 20 years. Glenn is in charge of all wheel building activities at E-BikeKit and oversees quality control on wheels built in the Newportville, PA location. Since joining E-BikeKit in early 2010 Glenn has had a huge impact on the success of the company...
Come for the price, stay for the awesome. The August Live! LS is one of the lower-cost e-bikes you’ll find. What it lacks is gadgets it makes up for in flare and retains just what you need. You won't find a digital display or integrated lights, Instead you get trendy, chopper-style handlebars, a sweet paint job, and a 250 watt motor that is more than capable of tackling steep hills without a second thought. That said, this bike just begs to be ridden on casual cruises down the boardwalk or bike path.
The box looked rough. Lots of little digs and dents. When I opened the box, the contents were very well packed. Mine did show that it took a good hit to the headset stem as the spacers where shoved and the clear tape was all bunched up and the one spacer was almost at the edge. After taking the tape off, cleaning all the tape residue off everything went together super easy. I used the included multi tool to do most of the assembly. I just needed a wrench for the peddles.
It’s always good news to hear a gasoline carmaker is continuing its electric mobility adventure, and what better way to do this than to stray from low-hanging fruits such as SUVs and pickup trucks. GM is no stranger to bold moves and we hope it will continue with the same determination to bring us more Volts, Bolts, and why not electric folding Jolts? (No, Jolts is not my personal entry for the $10,000 prize.)
“I’d like a Bosch bike!” This is what bicycle dealers hear several times a day from new customers – and it’s the biggest mistake you can make when buying an ebike. Sure, the motor is important. However, you don’t buy a car just because of its engine. If you want to be happy with your eMTB in the long term, you have to consider a bike as an overall concept. This group test will help you to find out which bike is best for which type of rider, terrain, and riding style. The motors of the big names in the industry all work extremely well, but differ in their purpose and functionality.
Bosch’s flagship mountain bike system uses a mini drive ring with internal gearing to send its power to the drivetrain. There’s some resistance in the system over 25km/h, but when you first press down on the pedals there’s an impressive surge of power, and it offers good support over a wide cadence range. Its size has an impact on the width of the cranks (the Q-factor) as well as the chainstay length of the frame, and it’s not the lightest system on the market at 4kg for the motor. On the other hand, Bosch is the most established player on the market, and its system has proven itself over many years.
Assembly was pretty simple and straightforward, there are some videos online explaining it. Definitely important to know how to switch it on, though -- pressing the "M" button for two seconds with the key in the "on" position. Despite being a heavy bike, it's very quick and nimble. I ride about 15 miles per day and was able to get two trips out of it before charging, riding fast. My only complaints are the squeaky brakes, and the front fender. Said fender is a bit too close to the tire on the front wheel and doesn't mount very securely, so it kept making very loud noises as it would catch the tire whenever I went over a bump or had to brake hard. I just took it off for the time being.
I know that this topic is new and still contentious, but the community needs to be talking about it because it isn’t going away. The weather up here in Seattle is rainy and cold (no surprise there), so I haven’t ridden my new eBike except around the block to make sure it worked. I can’t wait to hit the trails (legally or illegally). Expect a follow up comparing the eMTB to my other mountain bikes both in how it performs and the feeling I get from riding it. I never thought I would be riding an eMTB, so trust me, I won’t hold back.
World Championships, Olympic Gold, more Cape Epic wins than we can count—if a bike were the sum of its accolades, the Epic would sit atop the throne. And to make sure of it, our new Epic features a completely re-designed frame, geometry, and a totally new Brain rear shock that's engineered to read the terrain for the most efficient ride possible, making it the fastest XC bike on the planet.
While the first functional battery was developed in the year 1800 by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, a practical battery would not be seen for several decades yet. By the end of the 19th century, practical and portable batteries were more widely available, this finally freeing the electric motor to be used in a wide new array of applications. It might come as a surprise, but the electric motor, battery, and a bicycle were first paired as far back as the 1890s. It would be approximately 100 years later that electric bicycle development finally entered the mainstream, but the technology and concept behind the electric bike were all in place generations ago.
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Built by a company that’s made cycling equipment for more than four decades, the Vado feels more like a traditional bicycle than almost any other ebike. Its frame and components have been tuned to provide a familiar experience, making it easy for new and long-time cyclists to jump on and start pedaling. Specialized’s heritage shines through nicely, helping separate itself from the competition in an increasingly crowded ebike market.
A couple of days ago I went out with my 16yo son on our regular bikes. I soon realized that I can, at 52, no longer keep up with him and pushed myself way beyond what I should have. When we got home I seriously thought I was going to have a heart attack and had to lie down. I was very upset as it dawned on me that as my son got faster and faster I would get slower and slower and that meant I would hold him back on our rides. I decided to investigate and went online to see what was available to help me. I had never heard of Pedego but on a search a Pedego store came up that was a few miles from my home in Fort Worth, TX. I called and spoke to owner Vicky. I asked what time the store stayed open till and she said 5pm. I said j worked until 5pm and she immediately volunteered to stay open later for me to go down to the store. I arrived at 5.30pm and by 5.45pm after a test ride I had purchased my brand new Ridge Rider!! WOW! What a spectacular machine! I drove home perhaps a tad faster than I should have and my son and I went out for a ride. We did the same ride from a couple of days earlier and although I broke a sweat I got back home and felt great! Thanks to the amazing torque of the APS and buttery smooth gear changes I managed all the hills and slopes with ease and saved the flats for actual pedaling under my own steam. Thanks Pedego, you might just have saved my life!!
In the 1890s, electric bicycles were documented within various U.S. patents. For example, on 31 December 1895, Ogden Bolton Jr. was granted U.S. Patent 552,271 for a battery-powered bicycle with "6-pole brush-and-commutator direct current (DC) hub motor mounted in the rear wheel". There were no gears and the motor could draw up to 100 amperes (A) from a 10-volt battery.

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ASA conference revisits the boycott of Israeli institutions
Nancy Koppelman, an American Studies professor at The Evergreen State College in Washington, is well aware of how passionate things can get on college campuses over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The late pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, had been a student at Evergreen.
Last week, at the American Studies Association’s (ASA) annual meeting in Los Angeles, Koppelman addressed another aspect of this heightened tension that more directly involved her peers. She chaired “The Party’s Over: A Panel and Open Discussion on the Aftermath of the ASA’s Boycott Resolution,” examining the ASA’s 2013 controversial vote to forbid academic partnerships with Israeli universities.
The criticism lobbed against the organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history in the aftermath of the vote came from both scholars and organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League. (The ASA is the second U.S. academic organization, after the Association for Asian American Studies, to endorse such a boycott, according to insidehighered.com.)
“The symbolic boycott harnessed the ASA to a highly partisan goal, and then its advocates tried to drive it where they wanted it to go,” Koppelman, who voted against the boycott, said during the Nov. 6 panel. “But symbols are not like streetcars — you can’t control them by turning the wheel or slamming on the brakes; once unleashed, symbols have lives of their own.”
The panel at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel was attended by 30 people and also featured Michael Aaron Rockland, a professor of American Studies at Rutgers University; Mohammed Wattad, a legal scholar and assistant professor at the Zefat Academic College School of Law in Israel; and Lisa Armony, director of the Rose Project and community outreach at the Jewish Federation and Family Services in Orange County.
Rockland, who helped Koppelman organize the panel, described himself as a lifelong member of the ASA. Wattad joined the organization less than one year ago, so he could present at last week’s conference. So did Armony.
Only one-fourth of the ASA’s 5,000 members — many of whom are university professors — took part in the December 2013 vote to ratify the boycott. Two-thirds of the 1,250 votes cast supported the boycott, insidehighered.com reported.
Over the course of the conference, which took place Nov. 6-9, several panels spotlighted the boycott issue. They included “Scholars Under Attack,” “Students Under Attack,” “I Want My ASA” and “Black Radicalism, Insurgency in Israel/Palestine and the Idea of Solidarity.”
The panels were created to “help bring into sharper relief the vibrant intersection of fun and fury in relation to local and global contexts,” the conference program materials explain. “Of particular interest in the program will be the wide-ranging responses to the ASA membership’s vote to endorse the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.”
Conference presenters who were critical of the boycott were few and far between, Koppelman said.
Matthew Jacobson, former president of the ASA and a professor of African-American Studies, history and American Studies at Yale, explained to the Journal that American aid to Israel makes what happens in the Jewish state an American Studies issue. He voted last year in support of the boycott.
“I thought it was a meaningful, symbolic way to raise protest against Israeli policy and also against U.S. policies that enable it,” he said. “I wish this year had been easier both for me and the organization, but I feel it is the right thing to do.”
More than 2,250 individuals registered for the conference, according to ASA Executive Director John Stephens. The conference was titled “The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in the Post-American Century.”
Stephens also acknowledged that tensions over the event were high. “My job is to hold this thing together, to make sure voices get heard and that we have a community,” he said, heading to the open bar at the close of late-afternoon sessions. “I’m a healer.”
The majority of the panels had nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — exploring gender studies and depictions of slavery in popular culture, for example — but there were plenty of conference attendees who had strong opinions on the matter.
Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming director of American Studies, seemed to have a hard time holding his tongue during the Q-and-A portion of “The Party’s Over.”
“Oh boy, I got something to say,” Sandeen said while leaning against a conference room wall. “I don’t deny there are people out there who want to make a statement about the situation in the Middle East, but I don’t think an academic organization is the place to do it. I think something like a political action committee, which [the ASA] has kind of turned into, is the place to do it.”
University of Michigan professor June Howard, whose area of expertise is 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture, disagreed.
“It feels as if the pushback is as coercive as anything you are [speaking out against],” she told the panelists.
Howard pointed to the mistreatment and marginalization of Arab-Americans in her area of southeast Michigan — a region heavily populated by Arab-Americans — as one example of how the conflict, despite being overseas, has an impact inside the U.S.
Koppelman, for her part, also offered ideas for how critics of the boycott may proceed, including forming a caucus within the ASA that would focus on nurturing relationships with Israeli and Palestinian academics. Or, she said, she and her supporters could form an entirely new organization.
“But, I’m kind of busy next week,” she said, “[and] that’s a very large order, and I am sure there are other possibilities and you may have some ideas. So we are here to get that conversation started.”


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Researchers in Sweden have identified differences in the make-up of gut bacteria in babies who did and didn’t develop type 1 diabetes in later life. The findings raise questions about the potential of using gut bacteria to identify children who have a higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes, and of altering it to help prevent the condition.
Type 1 diabetes develops when the immune system misfires and destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. But we don’t fully understand what causes the immune system to attack.
Type 1 diabetes and our environment
We know that the risk of type 1 diabetes starts with our genes and our environment then plays a role, in combination with these genes. The trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live inside our gut, known as the gut microbiome, is one of the possible environmental triggers that scientists have been investigating.
Our environment, including diet early on in childhood, use of antibiotics and breastfeeding, influences how the gut microbiome develops and how diverse it is.
Some research has suggested that the gut microbiome could play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes, with previous studies showing that the microbiome in children with type 1 diabetes is different compared to children who don’t have diabetes.
To find out more, researchers used stool samples to measure the types and levels of gut bacteria in 284 1-year old babies. They followed the children over the next 20 years, during which 16 babies went on to develop type 1 diabetes. They compared their gut bacteria with a group of 32 babies who had not developed type 1 diabetes during the study period.
They discovered that babies who went on to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes had a different mix and levels of certain gut bacteria compared to those who didn't develop type 1. For example, the researchers found higher numbers of bacteria linked with inflammation and the immune ‘attack’ response.
They also found fewer types of bacteria that help the immune system to work as it should and help our bodies to break down sugars, compared to the group without diabetes.
Co-lead researcher Dr Malin Belteky, from Crown Princess Victoria’s Children’s Hospital, Sweden, said:
The guts of type 1 diabetes prevention
These findings prompt questions about whether sampling gut bacteria might be a new way to spot those at increased risk of the type 1 diabetes, and if treatments to change the make-up of the gut microbiome might help to prevent the condition. But we need to keep in mind that this was a small study, and it doesn’t give us firm answers.
While the findings point to variations in the gut microbiome between those who did and didn’t develop type 1 diabetes, the study does not show that these differences cause type 1 diabetes. The individual importance of gut bacteria in the development of type 1 diabetes, or in combination with other factors in our environment, is still unclear.
As this study only took place in Sweden, we also don’t know if the findings apply to other parts of the world, where differences in environments can mean gut microbiomes vary widely across different populations.
The researchers also only followed people until they were 20 years old. We know a type 1 diabetes diagnosis is just as common in adults as in children, and it’s possible that some of those included in the comparison ‘without diabetes’ group could go on to develop type 1 diabetes further down the line, and this could alter the findings.
We now need larger, longer-term studies to replicate the results in more diverse populations to understand if gut bacteria could be used to predict risk of type 1 diabetes.
Take part in type 1 diabetes risk research
While research into the gut microbiome continues, we already know that screening for early warning signals made by the immune system – called autoantibodies – is an effective way to identify children at high risk of developing type 1 diabetes.
Our ELSA study, co-funded with JDRF, is recruiting children aged 3-13 years to take part and get tested for autoantibodies with a simple finger-prick blood test. Find out more and sign up on the ELSA website.

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2nd-7th c Pre-Columbian: Mesoamerican Teotihuacan (Classic) Architecture
Teotihuacan. Valley of Mexico. Mexico.
Within the Ciudadela, on the eastern side of the inner plaza, is the so-called Temple of the Feathered-Serpent (Quetzalcoatl), a six-tiered step-pyramid with typical talud-tablero facades, constructed in the Early Classic period and partly covered by a later pyramid which abutted its western side. Its austere relief figures of Feathered Serpents alternate with Fire (war) Serpents, expressing the opposition between greens and life on the one hand, and hot, fiery desert on the other.
Caption: TEOTIHUACáN | Temple of Quetzalcoatl. | 100-700 | Pre-Columbian: Mesoamerican | Teotihuacan Classic
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Find news releases related to efficiency and clean energy, utility regulation, and energy assistance and weatherization programs. News releases date five years back. After five years, releases will automatically drop off of this page.
21, 2012 - For the first time ever, the Minnesota Department of Commerce has developed a home-sized energy efficiency exhibit for Minnesota State Fairgoers. Whether sorting through home lighting options, searching for the most efficient kitchen and laundry appliances, or assessing your home’s overall performance and needed upgrades, the Energy Solutions Home exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair (August 23-Sept. 3) will demonstrate the many ways homeowners can improve the efficiency, comfort, safety, and environmental impact of their home.
07, 2012 - The Minnesota Department of Commerce returns to Farmfest this year, with more information relevant to rural Minnesota economies than ever before. The Commerce Department booth is located in the Agriculture Building, where Commerce staff will be on hand to answer questions about a variety of topics affecting the lives of farm families and businesses.
03, 2012 - A new effort is underway in Minnesota to put solar power on the fast track in communities statewide. A partnership known as the Minnesota Solar Challenge is focused on streamlining solar electric permitting processes and improving solar zoning regulations across Minnesota.
03, 2012 - It hasn’t been this hot in 100 years. With a record heat wave bearing down on Minnesota ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, the Minnesota Department of Commerce is offering some simple tips to save money, conserve energy, and stay cool.
28, 2012 - Minnesota’s Conservation Improvement Program (CIP) is working. According to a report issued today by the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Minnesota’s electric and gas utilities achieved substantial energy savings through CIP programs in 2009 and 2010. Those measures will save Minnesotans an estimated $2.6 billion over the average 15-year life of the measures and prevent a projected 25 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions in Minnesota.
26, 2012 - Several weeks of severe weather across Minnesota has caused golf ball sized hail in Detroit Lakes, downed trees and power lines in Apple Valley and Hastings, and severe flooding in Duluth, Moose Lake, and Cannon Falls. As Minnesotans begin to assess damage to their homes and businesses, waterlogged basements, and broken windshields, the Minnesota Department of Commerce is on hand to help consumers understand their rights, resolve insurance claims, and provide energy and weatherization assistance to low-income Minnesotans.
07, 2012 - As summer heats up, the Minnesota Department of Commerce offered some simple energy-saving tips today to help Minnesotans keep cool, conserve energy, and reduce their utility bills in the months ahead.
24, 2012 - The Minnesota Department of Commerce and Alliant Energy are teaming up to warn consumers about a recent scam targeting utility customers throughout the Midwest. Alliant Energy customers in Wisconsin and Iowa have received calls from individuals impersonating Alliant representatives. The callers then claim a customer’s account is delinquent and demand immediate, full payment to avoid immediate disconnection.
02, 2012 - As Minnesota works to grow its rural economies and move toward a more energy efficient future, a key partnership between the Minnesota Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the Minnesota Project has significantly increased the number of fully trained, qualified energy auditors serving farms and rural businesses statewide.
20, 2012 - In recognition of Earth Day, the Minnesota Department of Commerce encourages all Minnesotans to think about their energy use and its impact on our environment. Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman reminds consumers that energy conservation is good for your wallet, and essential to the health of our environment.


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Early registration is now open for the Alton, Illinois Miles for Meso 5K Race & 2K Fun Run/Walk. The race will begin at Simmons Hanly Conroy Building at One Court Street on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 8:30 a.m. It will be hosted by the Firm and is coordinated by the Metro TriClub.
Miles for Meso races have been held in Illinois, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Florida. Funds raised over the past four years have exceeded a total of $300,000 and have been donated to the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. The race is a fun, active, educational event for people of all ages and athletic abilities.
The Alton race is considered to be the flagship event for Miles for Meso. The past Alton races alone have raised $100,000 for mesothelioma research. In 2011, organizers expanded the Alton race to elite runners from around the world. They also increased the total prize money awarded to these elite runners. Doing this attracted Olympic-caliber runners who travel to Alton to compete.
“It is our goal to continue to use the Alton race as springboard for other races around the country,” said Mike Wever, Alton Race Director and president of the Metro Tri Club, on the Miles for Meso website.
The Miles for Meso race not only raises essential funds for mesothelioma research, but also promotes awareness of the deadly cancer. Mesothelioma is one of the lowest-funded cancers by the National Cancer Institute, yet more than 3,000 Americans are diagnosed with it every year. Raising funds and awareness for mesothelioma through events like Miles for Meso aid in the efforts to find a cure for this terminal disease.
Get Involved in Miles for Meso 2013
You don’t have to be an elite runner to participate in the Miles for Meso event. This event is for people of all ages. Early registration costs $25 through August 31. After that date, registration costs are $30. If you register on the day of the race, it will cost $35.
Everyone who registers for the 2013 Miles for Meso race will receive a long-sleeved T-shirt commemorating this year’s five year anniversary of the start of Miles for Meso.
Learn more about Miles for Meso including how to register, race times and more other information now.
To learn more about the 2012 Miles for Meso race, watch the video below.


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Magoito, near Sintra on a grey afternoon with a strange light.
PS: My first upload here in years. Let's see if this means a return to this place whose ambiance and friends I miss much.
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Didi (60590) 2014-07-31 9:39
Très heureux de revoir tes photos sur Trekearth
Tu commences par un joli point de vue dominant sur la côte aux falaises rocheuse
J'apprécie la qualité de l'image
cornejo (46782) 2014-07-31 9:41
Oi Jose, bem-vindo de volta para você, eu gosto esta boa imagem deste penhasco interessante em um dia bastante cinza, bom enquadramento e pov, de boa qualidade. Muito bom e interessante trabalho bem feito, parabéns. Obrigado por compartilhar este trabalho interessante.
Bom dia e fim de semana feliz.
Calorosas saudações do sul da Espanha.
rbassin (24313) 2014-07-31 9:47
Bien que sombre, cette photo est très bien faite, dans un bon format vertical.
Les éléments se succèdent agréablement: Rocher, mer et ciel.
dta (82386) 2014-07-31 9:47
Ola Jose ,
Welcome back to TE !
This is a beautiful and wild costline that I've visited in winter . You're right , the grey afternoon provides a special light .
macjake (72555) 2014-07-31 10:06
nice to meet you, I don't think i've been to your gallery before - so its always fun to see what you have taken over the years :)
and a fine gallery it is.
I wanted to critique one of your previous posts but since you have this new one, and you havn't been back in years lets celebrate with your newest post.
who says you need a bright clear skyline, even these overcast skies are wonderful - and sometimes even better!
the mood has been set and you captured that well.
I like the rugged and rustic feel of the subjects,
the exposure is perfectly set in that darker range, no need to illuminate this one.
Hope to see you around
Graal (103038) 2014-07-31 10:34
welcome after the break!
Very nice place and photo. Good vertical composition. Amazing wild coast and nature. Photo I like a lot.
Have a nice evening.
adores (46363) 2014-07-31 15:49
Bom ver que decidiste aparecer:)! Ainda por cá andam alguns resistentes:)!
Mesmo com nuvens, conseguiste uma boa foto. Gosto do pov e da atmosfera, com o lugar deserto, o que nem sempre é fácil no mês de junho. A luz também está boa.
emka (106772) 2014-07-31 23:27
Hello Jose, I hope it is the beginning of your new life on this site. You were missed too:). beautiful view of the cliffs near Sintra. Magical atmosphere.
WArm regrads MAlgo
ourania (51079) 2014-08-01 1:57
this is your first photo that I view on TE and it's very lovely, interesting and atmospheric. I like very much the way the dark coast extends into the vertical frame, its colours and textures have been rendered superbly and the contrast with the soft and bright hues of sky and sea is stunning. You handled the illumination and definition on both areas very effectively, the breaking wave is attractive too. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a lovely month,
jhm (160023) 2014-08-01 3:01
I see that your first upload of this years.
I have also read your intro, I place but every week one picture for no addiction to get.
A lot members think that I this do for much points, no only for no competitions to make for everyday one picture to place, I have 40.000 picture in my archive, but I am retired and want are quiet.
Along this beach would I very great pleasure make a strolls, between the sea and the big rock when we get low tide.
Your picture cares for depth and perspective.
Very well composition.
Nice done, TFS.
Have a nice weekend,
danos (103144) 2014-08-01 6:49
i was surprising to see you in you in the site after your long absence ,as our sort meeting in Athens some year ago.I'll glad to see you here even more,up loading your beautiful photos like this one.
I like the view of the rocky shore line with the eathy colours to contrast perfect with the colour tints of the sky.
Greeting from Athens,Danos
berek (50508) 2014-08-01 21:42
İmpressive nature . İ feel energy from your beuatiful nature picture. Well framed and lovely pastel colors .
saxo042 (37966) 2014-08-02 9:47
Welcome back! A very attractive picture with these strong rocks along the grey sea. A beautiful contrast between the dark rocks and the subdued colours of the sea.


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(Capo 2. Bund)
In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia,
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down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine.
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There's blood on the coal and the miners lie,
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in the roads that never saw sun nor sky roads that never saw sun nor sky.
In the town of Springhill, you
don't sleep easy
often the earth will tremble and roll.
When the earth is restless, miners die,
bone and blood is the price of coal.
In the town of Springhill, Nova
late in the year of fifty eight.
Day still comes and the sun still shines,
but it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland Mine.
Down at the coalface, miners working,
rattle of belt and the cutter's blade.
Rumble of rock and the walls close round,
the living and the dead men two miles down.
Twelve men lay two miles from
the pit shaft,
twelve men lay in the dark and sang.
Long hot days in the miners tomb,
it was three feet high and a hundred long.
Three days passed and lamps gave
and Caleb Rushton he up and said:
"There's no more water nor light nor bread,
so we'll live on songs and hope instead."
Listen for the shouts of the bare
listen through the rubble for a rescue team.
Six hundred feet of coal and slag,
hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.
Eight days passed and some were
leaving the dead to lie alone.
Through all their lives they dug a grave,
two miles of earth for a marking stone.


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A federal judge in Argentina's Chaco province on May 19 ruled that the national state bears responsibility for the 1924 massacre of some 500 indigenous laborers in the region, and ordered that reparation measures be instated. On July 19, 1924, national police and vigilantes linked to the area's landowners fired on a large group of indigenous protesters, who were marching over harsh conditions on the cotton plantations where they had been reduced to forced labor. A case seeking justice in the Napalpí Massacre was brought by Argentina's Secretariat of Human Rights and the local Chaqueño Aboriginal Institute. The verdict was read in the indigenous languages Qom and Moqoit as well as Spanish. (Secretaría de Derechos Humanos, BBC Mundo)
Belarus has served as a staging ground for one leg of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Kyiv officials warn that Belarusian forces may join Putin's war effort. But resistance to the Russian aggression is emerging in Belarus—apparently including acts of sabotage. Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) announces that the rail links into Ukraine from Belarus have been effectively cut, preventing the transport of Russian reinforcements and equipment. Belarusian news site Zerkalo reports that "in the Mogilev, Gomel and Minsk regions three cases of destruction of signaling equipment, blocking of railways were recorded." Belarusian security forces acknowledge the sabotage was motivated by opposition to the war in Ukraine. Named as behind the sabotage are the banned groups Busly Lyatsyats, a pro-democracy social-media network ordered suppressed by the regime last year, and BYpol, a union of dissident Belarusian security officers. A representative of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya saluted the work of these "partisans," adding: "Ukraine will win! Belarus will also be liberated!" (EuroMaidan Press)
Peru's authorities declared an environmental emergency on Jan. 20 after announcing that 21 beaches around the Lima area were contaminated by an oil spill at a refinery run by Spanish multinational Repsol, calling it the "worst ecological disaster" in the city's history. The Environmental Evaluation & Control Organism (OEFA) estimated some 6,000 barrels of crude had spilled—dramatically above the mere seven gallons that Repsol had initially reported to authorities when the disaster occurred five days earlier. Some 1,740,000 square meters of coastline and 1,1187,000 square meters of sea have been covered in sludge that has blackened beaches and killed marine life. Peru is demanding compensation from Repsol, accusing the company of trying to cover up the scale of the disaster and not having a contingency plan in place.
Kazakhstan's President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev on Jan. 5 called participants in the protests that have swept the Central Asian nation this week "terrorists," accusing them of attempting to undermine his government at the behest of foreign powers. He also issued a call for Russia and the other members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to come to his country's defense.
Anger over a regional garbage crisis in Tunisia exploded into street clashes Nov. 9 after a man died following exposure to tear-gas during protests against the reopening of a landfill site. Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died in the town of Aguereb in the coastal region of Sfax, punctuating weeks of demonstrations over a growing waste and public health crisis. The powerful UGTT trade union confederation announced a general strike for the day after his passing in Aguereb, condemning the "savage intervention by security forces."
Sudan's interim prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and several senior government officials were arrested as the military seized full power in a coup d'etat and imposed a state of emergency Oct. 25. The two principal pro-democracy formations, the Forces for Freedom & Change and Sudanese Professionals Association, have called for a popular mobilization to overturn the coup, and thousands have answered the call, filling the streets of Khartoum, Omdurman and other cities. Troops fired on protesters outside the army headquarters in Khartoum, killing at least three and injuring more than 80. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have also been mobilized to the streets. The military head of the now officially dissolved joint civilian-military Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is apparently behind the coup and in control. The putsch follows days of rival demonstrations in Khartoum, with pro-democracy protesters demanding a full civilian government and pro-army counter-demonstrators demanding that the military take complete control. (Radio Dabanga, Middle East Online, NYT, AP, AP)
The Uyghur Tribunal, an "independent people's court" convened by exile and human rights groups, concluded last week after months of hearings in London. Following a request from the World Uyghur Congress, the Tribunal was organized last year by Sir Geoffrey Nice, the lead prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The Uyghur Tribunal heard testimony from some 500 witnesses, including survivors of the detention camps in Xinjiang, on torture, sexual abuse, coerced labor, and forced sterilization.
The first "patriots only" vote under Hong Kong's new political system was held Sept. 19, to choose members for a 1,500-member Election Committee—although only some 360 of the seats were actually contested. Voting was restricted to some 5,000 individuals representing different professions and industries, chosen under a principle of "patriots administering Hong Kong." Members were vetted by the newly formed Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, appointed from Beijing. The Election Committee is tasked with electing 40 members of the enlarged 90-seat Legislative Council in December as well as choosing the city's new chief executive next March. The new and more controlled electoral system was adopted by an overwhelming majority vote at the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress in Beijing this March. (HKFP, China Daily, China.org.cn, Xinhua, Kyodo, RFA)