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Test Your I-9 Knowledge
Penalties for non-compliance, like knowingly and continuing to employ violations, range from $375 to $16,000 per violation with repeat offenders receiving penalties at the higher end. Penalties for substantive violations, which includes failing to produce a Form I-9, range from $110 to $1,100 per violation.
Take this short quiz to see how your Form I-9 knowledge stacks up.
Q. I only have 4 employees. Am I required to comply with IRCA?
A. All U.S. employers must have a Form I-9 on file for all current employees.
Q. Are there any exceptions to obtaining a Form I-9 from workers?
A. You are not required to complete Form I-9 for casual domestic service employees working in a private household when work is sporadic, irregular or intermittent; independent contractors; or employees working outside the United States.
Q. Must I complete the Form I-9 in a certain time frame?
A. Yes. You must complete the form no later than 3 business days after the employees begins work for pay.
Q. Am I required to keep copies of documentation employees submit to complete Form I-9?
A. Employers can choose whether to keep copies of documentation. If you choose to keep copies, you must do so for all employees, regardless of national origin or citizenship status. Employers who participate in E-Verify may have different requirements.
Q. May I accept a photocopy of a document presented by an employee?
A. No. Employees must present original documents. The only exception is that your employee may present a certified copy of a birth certificate.
Q. May I specify which documents I will accept for verification?
A. No. The employee may choose which document(s) he or she wants to present from the Lists of Acceptable Documents.
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The New Jersey Department of Corrections intends to change a policy that requires prisons to house inmates based on their gender identity, Acting Corrections Commissioner Victoria Kuhn said Tuesday.
That policy was enacted as part of a settlement agreement that resolved a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman who was incarcerated in several men’s prisons, but the agreement only requires the department to keep the policy in place for one year from the date of the settlement. agreement. The case was settled on June 28, 2021.
“Like any policy, we had already been reviewing the policy, and we’re working with our legal team along with some of our community stakeholders because we’re going to be proposing some changes to the policy,” Kuhn told the Assembly Budget Committee. on Tuesday.
The existing policy drew attention last month after NJ Advance Media reported that two women housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Center became pregnant after having consensual sex with a transgender inmate.
It’s unclear how the policy will be changed, though the prison officers’ union wants to make sure transgender inmates are taking steps to medically transition.
William Sullivan, president of New Jersey Police Benevolent Association Local 105, which represents correctional police, said the union would prefer that transgender inmates housed in women’s facilities take gender transition medication.
Sullivan added that the department had hired transgender correctional officers for recommendations on possible changes.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and Garden State Equality pushed for the current policy, saying transgender prisoners housed according to their gender assigned at birth can be subject to direct discrimination, harassment and violence on a daily basis.
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2013 Honda Civic Hybrid Start Up and Review 1.5 L 4-Cylinder Hybrid
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Start Up and Review of the 2013 Honda Civic Hybrid
Powertrains: 1.5 L 4-Cylinder Hybrid with CVT Automatic FWD
Features: Cloth Seats, A/C, Manual Driver Seats Adjustments, Bluetooth,
Backup Camera, USB Ports, AUX Input, Tilt and Telescopic Steering Wheel,
Power Windows, Mirrors, and Door Locks, i-MID Interface, Pandora Radio
Engine & Performance
BASE ENGINE SIZE 1.5 L
CAM TYPE Single overhead cam (SOHC)
CYLINDERS Inline 4
VALVE TIMING Variable
TORQUE 127 ft-lbs. @ 1000 rpm
horsepower 110 hp
@ 5500 rpm
TURNING CIRCLE 35.4 ft.
Weights and Capacities
EPA INTERIOR VOLUME 105.3 cu.ft.
CURB WEIGHT 2868 lbs.
CARGO CAPACITY, ALL SEATS IN PLACE 10.7 cu.ft.
MAXIMUM CARGO CAPACITY 10.7 cu.ft.
ENGINE TYPE Hybrid
FUEL TYPE Regular unleaded
FUEL TANK CAPACITY 13.2 gal.
RANGE IN MILES (CTY/HWY) 580.8/580.8 mi.
EPA MILEAGE EST. (CTY/HWY) 44/44 mpg
BASIC 3 yr./ 36000 mi.
DRIVETRAIN 5 yr./ 60000 mi.
HYBRID COMPONENT 8 yr./ 100000 mi.
Competitors: Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid, Ford Focus Electric
What Camerons Car Reviews have to say about the 2013 Civic: Its very rare
for an automaker to do a complete redesign the previous model year and make
heavily revised changes to the following year, So why Did Honda do so?
Despite really good sales Most Reviews on the 2012 Civic were very bad
including one of mine and the material quality and intrusive road noise
were most to blame. However that has changed for 2013, all the updates they
needed to make are here and including more. The nice stitching on the
dashboard is a very nice touch. The technology is also not behind the times
like it used to be with a backup Camera being standard on all Civics when
the 2012 Civic didn't even offer a backup Camera. All in all great car from
Honda, the wait for the updates are worth it.
2013 Honda Civic EX Drive Review and Road Test
People assume that car companies know their competition's ever move as if
there was some sort of mission impossible crew sent in every weekend to
monitor R&D progress. While there are no doubt some less-than-ethical
information exchanges in the industry, on the whole, a car manufacturer
like Honda finds out what the competition's latest widget looks like around
the same time as we do. Need proof? Look at the 2011, 2012, 2013 Honda
Civic. The 9th generation Civic was intended to debut as a 2011 model, but
the financial implosion caused Honda to go back to the drawing board and
the re-design to land as a 2012 model due to the need to re-design the
redesign. In the perpetual game of auto-leapfrog, Honda miscalculated the
direction Ford, Hyundai, Kia and even Nissan were headed. The result was
bashed by Consumer Reports and raked across the coals by most of the press.
Did buyers care? Apparently not since the 2012 Civic was purchased in
impressive quantities by real-people. Honda could have found solace in
their sales, but instead they did something unusual: they re-re-redesigned
the Civic for 2013. Say what?
The 2013 Civic isn't just a second-year options package shake-up, and it
isn't even a mid-cycle color and trim shuffle. The changes after only a
year on the market land somewhere between a refresh and the ever-so-popular
redesign-on-the-same-platform. How can I call it a redesign? Well, if Lexus
can call the "new" LS a new car... But I digress.
While I didn't hear as many complaints from my comrades in the auto-biz
about the Civic's curb appeal, Honda took the opportunity to graft the
chrome smile from the 2013 Accord onto the Civic, redesign the bumper
covers (front and rear), add some smoked tail lamps, new wheels and
finished it off with a trendy honeycomb grille. While I didn't have a
single issue with the way the old Civic looked, I have to admit this one
looks better, especially from the front or back where Honda spent some cash
to have the tail lamps cross onto the trunk lid giving the Civic's heinie a
more premium feel. From the side it would appear that noting has changed
with the same four-window silhouette, but the difference is in the glass:
it's thicker this year for improved sound isolation.
The problem with the 2012 Civic wasn't the exterior. And, in my mind, it
wasn't the interior design OR the interior plastics quality. Yep, you heard
me right with that. The old Civic's plastics weren't great, but they were
easy to clean, textured attractively and I just didn't expect anything
different from an $18,000 car. What I did have a problem with was a lack of
color-matched bits and ill-fitting panels. Our 2012 tester's four main dash
components sported four different variations of the same target color. For
2013 Honda cranked the thumbscrews on the parts suppliers and all the
colors in our Civic EX were the same.
In addition to the color change, Honda had an eye on touch points, swapping
out the hard doors and dash "faces" for squichy-injection molded units with
fake stitching. Keeping costs d0wn, the same gauge cluster and dash
structure remain from last year as well as the dash parts farther from your
reach, but they have all been re-cast to texture-match the new bits. Even
the radio's plastics have received a color and texture upgrade to look
classier. The change has brought the Civic from slightly below average to a
solid contender running neck-and-neck with the new Focus and Elantra.
Honda continues to integrate a fairly exaggerated lumbar support contour in
the front seat backs, something I prefer, but since it isn't adjustable you
should spend some time in the Civic to be sure you can live with the shape.
As with most cars that have families in mind, the Civic's rear seats are
close to the floor and the door openings are wide and tall making
ingress/egress easy with or without a child seat in tow. Honda has a
reputation for function over form, and that pays dividends in the rear with
a high roofline that allows a more upright seating position and adequate
head room, more than can be said of the Elantra. Fold those 60/40 rear
seats down and you'll notice an area Honda didn't touch: cargo. The Civic's
trunk pass-through is still somewhat small and oddly shaped preventing
larger items from riding along. The trunk's 12.5 cubic feet is in line with
the Focus and Corols, but it's a few Cubes behind the Elantra and Sentra.
When it comes to bag carrying, the Sentra has a further trick up its trunk:
a 24-inch roller bag can ride vertically in the Sentra's cargo hold
allowing you to carry a surprising seven carry-on sized rollerbags, try
that in your Panther replacement.
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2013 Honda Civic Touring Start up, Walkaround and Vehicle Tour (Canadian Model)
Welcome to JustinsCarReviews! Today's vehicle is the 2013 Honda Civic
Touring. This vehicle is provided by us today by: Crown Honda 2610
Mcphillips Street Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. I really like the new updates
that Honda did to the Civic. Seats are really plush and comfortable, I
would recommend this car to anyone. You can highly equip this vehicle with
every option for under $25,000. I'm not sure if the U.S models offer the
same wheels or packages.
2013 Nissan Sentra vs Honda Civic vs Toyota Corolla 0-60 MPH Mashup Review
( http://www.TFLcar.com ) The 2013 Nissan Sentra has been redesigned and is
all new. It now looks more like its bigger brother the Nissan Altima. Which
means that it shares the new family resemblance. It also share a growth
spurt as the new 2013 Nissan Sentra is one of the biggest cars in the
compact car class...especially when it come to leg room. But how does the
Sentra compare to the other Japanese cars that it directly competes with?
In this classic mashup review we compare the 2013 Sentra to the
best-selling Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla the TFLcar way....by seeing
which one is faster 0-60 MPH.
2013 Honda Civic - Radio, Audio, SMS Text message set up with Navigation Demo & Review
New 2013 Honda Civic radio, navigation-GPS walk thru and review. How to use
2013 Honda Civic EXL with Pandora Radio, IPhone, Siri, Bluetooth, Back up
camera, Radio, XM Text messages and set up and more. How to use and
customize the audio system for the new HOnda Civic.
HondaPro Jason is on of the top Salesman at Schaumburg Honda Automobiles in
Schaumburg IL. Part of the Bob Rohrman Group. I created this video with
the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
2013 Honda Civic review
Just a year after the Honda Civic was re-done, Honda is back at the table
with another refresh.
2013 Honda Accord review
2013 Honda Accord
Honda updates the new Accord with a new direct injection engine and CVT.
With a ton of standard features, Honda is fighting back
2013 Dodge Dart vs Civic vs Focus vs Cruze vs Elantra vs Corolla Mashup Review
( http://www.TFLcar.com ) The 2013 Dodge Dart is all new and available with
three different engine choices, five different models and hundreds of
different configurations. But how does it stack up in a very crowded market
segment that includes some of the most popular cars sold around the world?
We had the chance to compare the 2013 Dodge Dart (head to head) against the
best selling Honda Civic, the Ford Focus, the Chevy Cruze, the Hyundai
Elantra and the Toyota Corolla to see which of these cars offers the most
value, performance and features in this unique TFLcar mashup review.
New Honda Civic 2013 Review and Road Test | LeasePlan Go
The Honda Civic is one of the most competitive hatchbacks on the market in
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2013 Honda Civic Review, Walkaround, Exhaust, Test Drive
Click here to view the full editorial review:
Honda finally gives us the all new Civic they should have introduced last
year. Freshened styling, generous standard equipment, sporty driving
dynamics, and excellent fuel efficiency push the vehicle back to the top 3
in the compact segment. Although, still missing a few key upscale tech
features, the strong value is hard to ignore. If you are in the market for
a compact sedan with a reputation for reliability, put the Civic back to
the top of your list.
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Take Two: A redesigned 2013 Honda Civic debuts at the 2012 LA Auto Show
( http://www.TFLcar.com ) The all new 2013 Honda Civic is a redo and revamp
of a car that many journalist though was lacking in both style and
substance. So in fast move Honda redesigned and spruced up the car adding
both style and substance with a dash of the new Honda Accord. Both the
front and the rear of the car are all new as is the addition of such new
technology as Lane departure warning. Check out this exclusive TFLcar video
as the new Civic and Civic SI rolls our onto the stage at the 2012 LA Auto
2013 Honda Civic Hybrid - Test Drive - Hagerstown Honda
For further info, please visit our Hagerstown Honda website at
Angelo Marino of Hagerstown Honda in Hagerstown, Maryland gives us a great
test drive of the all new 2013 Honda Civic Hybrid in White Orchid Pearl.


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Senate bill doubles spending on veterans' health
WASHINGTON -- Spending on veterans' health care could double in three years under the Senate's solution to the long waits experienced by thousands seeking medical care at VA hospitals and clinics, according to congressional budget experts.
Analyzing a bill the Senate passed overwhelmingly last Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the measure would add $35 billion over the next three years to the $44 billion the government now spends annually on medical care for veterans.
Both the Senate bill and a House version also passed this past week would dramatically expand government-paid health care. They would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay private providers to treat qualifying veterans who can't get prompt appointments at the VA's nearly 1,000 hospitals and outpatient clinics or who live at least 40 miles from one of them.
Once the program was fully in place, the budget office said it expected that veterans "would ultimately seek additional care that would cost the federal government about $50 billion a year" -- double current spending.
The bills are Congress's response to a growing uproar over patients dying while awaiting VA treatment and mounting evidence that workers falsified or omitted appointment schedules to mask frequent, long delays. The resulting election-year firestorm forced VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign two weeks ago.
An audit released last week showed that more than 57,000 veterans have had to wait at least three months for initial appointments. An additional 64,000 veterans who asked for appointments over the past decade never got them.
The VA has confirmed that at least 35 veterans died while awaiting appointments at VA facilities in the Phoenix area, although officials say they can't say whether not getting VA treatment caused any of the deaths.
More than 8 million of the nation's 21 million veterans are now enrolled in VA health care.

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From The New York Times:
IOWA CITY — Try as he might, President Bush cannot escape the haunting memory of Hurricane Katrina.
Mr. Bush toured flood-stricken areas here on Thursday, the latest in a string of disaster-zone visits he has made in his role as comforter in chief.
As always, he gave solace and prayers and hopeful words; he called Iowans a “tough-minded people” who would “come back better.” As always, he met the governor and local mayors, pored over maps, dropped in on a shelter, promised federal aid. As always, he brought with him R. David Paulison, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a man so skilled at Hurricane Katrina comparisons that he no longer has to be asked.
An estimated 35,000 people have been displaced by the floods, and 24 have been killed, mostly in Iowa, said Mr. Paulison, who described the disaster as the biggest his agency has handled since Hurricane Katrina.
One politician Mr. Bush did not see while in Iowa was Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, who on Thursday conducted his own tour of the soggy devastation of southeastern Iowa.
“I know that I speak for all Americans,” Mr. McCain said. “We’ll do everything necessary to try and rebuild their lives.”
Always, the question of Hurricane Katrina hovers, with its enduring image of a seemingly detached Mr. Bush, peering out at the devastation from the window of Air Force One. “That was the biggest event of his presidency outside 9/11,” said John Feehery, a Republican strategist, “and he can no more escape Katrina than he can escape 9/11.”
But wait, kids. Captain Underpants says that he will do everything necessary to try and rebuild their lives? You mean like in New Orleans? From CBS News, April 24, 2008:
[McCain] also told reporters he was not sure if he would rebuild the lower 9th ward as president.
“That is why we need to go back is to have a conversation about what to do -rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is,” he said.


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Taunton-area employers are struggling with the labor shortage — here's what they can do
TAUNTON — By now, you've heard of the labor shortage affecting small businesses everywhere — and the Taunton area is no exception.
Terrance Brewer sees it every day as a manager at the Wendy's in Raynham.
"It's been a struggle," Brewer said after pulling an 11-hour shift recently, his right arm in an improvised sling from aggravating a muscle moving boxes.
The 2011 Taunton High graduate reports sometimes having to keep the restaurant open single-handedly for hours at a time.
His restaurant is paying $14.25 an hour to start. The day the Gazette stopped by, he'd done two interviews, and has four applicants undergoing background checks.
Brewer, who played all five positions for the Tigers varsity basketball plus tight end, linebacker and defensive tackle on the football team, says nearby Wendy's work together to keep shifts covered.
Transportation can be a barrier for some applicants, he said. Say someone lives in downtown Taunton and doesn't have access to a car. A cab or ride share can run $15 each way, eating up two hours or more of pay. Brewer has a standing offer to pick up employees on one leg or the other, if it helps them make their shift.
And it's not just restaurants experiencing the shortage. Automatic Machine Products in Taunton, which manufactures valves and components for the refrigeration and HVAC industries, has had a similar problem.
John Holden, who is president of the Constitution Drive company, said it's been hiring for skilled machinist and general operator positions since February with very little success.
While the skilled machinist position pays anywhere from $18 to $30 an hour based on experience, the general operator position pays around $15 an hour and requires no experience.
But regardless of the pay, Holden said, again and again he has had an applicant show interest and then not show up for an interview or decline the job after interviewing.
Holden said he's tried everything from Indeed ads to using temp and recruiting agencies to offering a referral bonus, but has had no luck finding the right people for these jobs.
"We have tried just about everything we could think of," he said.
The lack of staff is also hurting his business, Holden said.
"We could probably double what we're selling per month if we had enough people. We've seen enough demand," he said. "Normally, when someone orders a part from us, ...our lead time to get a part out is four to six weeks. We've had to push our lead time to eight to 10 weeks just because we have so much work that's behind."
Holden said he's had more success in the last few weeks, and was finally able to bring some more people on, but that it is still a tough labor market.
'I have lost some customers'
Even the landscaping industry has been affected. Philip Yaitanes, owner of Yaitanes Landscaping in Stoughton, has been looking for landscapers, both experienced and not, for the last five months.
In that time, he said, despite putting ads on Indeed, Craigslist and Facebook, he's had only two applicants, and neither returned his phone calls.
Like for Holden, the lack of staff is hurting Yaitanes's business too.
"I turn away jobs daily. I have lost some customers. I am behind on everything," he said.
If you ask local business owners why they've struggled to find staff, they give two reasons. First, everyone seems to be hiring, so there's a lot of competition.
"Everywhere you go there's a help wanted sign at every business, not just restaurants," Armstrong said.
Holden said that being located in the Myles Standish Industrial Park, he's seen that about half the businesses hiring right now, including Amazon, which is big enough to offer big sign-on bonuses.
The second reason local business owners give is that the government is giving out too much money in employment benefits, which is disincentivizing people from returning to work.
"The government should be pushing people to get back to work. Instead they are adding to unemployment benefits," Yaitanes said. "With these bonuses, why should anyone take a hard job that starts just a bit above minimum wage when their take-home pay will be less than what the government is giving them?"
Balance of power shifts to employees
But according to Bridgewater State University Professor of Management Todd Harris, the labor shortage might not have that simple an explanation.
"I think there's an intuitive logic to it," he said. "But at least in terms of what I've seen from a data perspective, [government benefits are] not having an enormous impact."
First of all, Harris said, the amount of money the government is giving out might not be enough to make staying home worth losing all the benefits of working.
And secondly, he said, there are a lot of non-financial benefits that work provides, such as identity, structure, friendship, getting to show what you can do, fulfilling your potential and an opportunity to make an impact on the world.
"If the unemployment benefits toggle up and down, that's not going to have much of an impact on the other things that people hope for in their working lives," he said.
Harris said the impressions that business owners get about why they are having trouble hiring are based on what it's been like to hire the last few decades, which he said has been preferential for hirers.
What's changed, Harris said, is that the balance of power between employers and employees has shifted back towards employees for the first time in decades.
In the 1970s and 80s, he said, the power balance shifted greatly toward employers with the advent of technological advances and the decline of labor unions.
"If you are an investor or an executive, I think it's been a fairly positive trend line for you," he said. "If you're the individual employee, who most of his or her financial well-being is tied to their occupation, then that hasn't been quite as positive a picture for you."
Additionally, and perhaps because of this, Harris said, the relationship between employers and employees has become thinner and more transactional.
"That's great for the company in that it gives them flexibility, it helps them save costs," he said. "But the downside of that is something that organizations are seeing right now: not as much loyalty, not as much commitment."
What's happening now is a reevaluation of work and priorities by many workers across the industry spectrum, Harris said. While he said there's evidence that this change began before the pandemic, it was exacerbated by the fact that so many people were forced to stop working.
"Many people have been stepping back and reevaluating how important they want work to be in comparison to other elements of their lives, whether it's health or hobbies, or their spouse or children," he said.
Harris said people are reconsidering when, where and how much they want to work, especially if they have any type of financial cushion. This is where factors like unemployment benefits and increasing home values come in.
"I think that they feel a little bit more emboldened to be more demanding and more thoughtful around what they want in their job and what they want their careers to look like," he said.
Because of this, he said, there's been a reduction of workers in the workforce, especially for low-wage, high-turnover jobs such as retail and restaurant work.
This is exacerbated by slowing population growth and stymied immigration, he said, and fewer workers means that companies need to work harder to attract them.
Companies need to rethink how they recruit
What companies should do, Harris said, is come up with a good recruiting strategy, as well as a way to develop employees to increase retention.
He said employers have two types of benefits they can offer employees: financial and non-financial. Financial benefits include salary, bonuses, 401 Ks, types of insurance, etc. Non-financial benefits include flexible schedules, good managers, good coworkers, opportunity for advancement and meaningful work.
Harris said companies need to consider how they can make their job offer more attractive both with financial and non-financial benefits.
Companies are now getting a look at how employees truly rate their workplaces, he said.
"A lot of companies realize, 'Perhaps we could have been doing things differently in terms of investing in our people. Maybe we wouldn't be in this type of mess if we had been a little bit more progressive, a little bit more pro-employee all along,'" he said.
Even so, Harris said, this could be a good change for companies in the long run because they will end up with more workers in the right positions for them.
People will end up working for companies that compensate them fairly, where they care about their work and fit with the team instead of working for a company simply for a paycheck, he said.
"Essentially, in that situation, society is extracting the maximum value from that person, because then the person is content and engaged and happy and bringing their best self to work," he said.
$500 sign-on bonus doesn't help
Ole Ole Cantina in Abington has been trying to hire for pretty much every position a restaurant has, from waiters to dishwashers to bartenders and cooks, since April. So far, owner Joe Armstrong said, he's had very little luck.
"I've hired four cooks over the past six months, and none of them showed up to work the day they were supposed to start," he said.
Armstrong said he has tried offering a $500 sign-on bonus, and even that didn't help.
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Ben Simmons made his first appearance for the Philadelphia 76ers yesterday when he took to the court in a Summer League affair against the Boston Celtics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Unfortunately, the 19-year-old could not break the Sixers' losing habit as they fell to a 102-94 defeat, but, Simmons did put in a very impressive performance for the time he was on the court.
The Australian teenager registered 10 points on 2-for-9 shooting, eight rebounds and five assists with just one turnover against the young Celtics unit and would surely have driven towards a triple-double had cramp not got the better of him in the second half.
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"I'm good," Simmons said after the game. "Just cramps. ... It's been about four months since I played. That's the main reason. I haven't played in a while."
The Sixers' newest gala addition knows how important the physical side of the NBA is and is taking the cramp as a sign he needs to concentrate on his condition before he graces the big time in October.
"That's the worst I've ever cramped, so I'm definitely going to stay on that," he said.
The LSU product's five assists from power forward has got people talking once again. Before he was drafted, Simmons was labelled as a modern-day hybrid of the forward position. He operates like a guard, but at 6'10" in the frontcourt he is being donned a point forward.
His coach Brett Brown can clearly see his newest star's unique skillset, but that's not to suggest he thinks operating him at the one spot would be a prudent move.
"I think the point-guard position is the hardest position to play in the NBA as a first-year player, let alone as a person that's played a four man his whole life," Brown said. "He would be all over the place. It seems quite reckless to do it, almost unfair. I hope to continue to be ambitiously creative at tapping into what he really can do, and in my heart of hearts I think he can do it."
Giannis Antetokounmpo proved last season that a 6'11" forward can play the point guard position successfully, with several triple-doubles. Does that set a precedent for Simmons?
"Everyone gets all twisted on what their version of a point guard is," Brown said. "When I say point guard I mean point guard. You've got the ball. You could call him Isiah Thomas, the old Isiah Thomas of my generation. You could call him Chris Paul. I mean point guard point guard. There are times I think that he can be a point guard. Not Draymond Green. Not LeBron. Not Lamar Odom. That's a point forward. I walk both lines at different moments. To start him off, we'll play him as a point forward."

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A spatial model of the intermediate superior colliculus. It reproduces the collicular saccade-generating output profile from NMDA receptor-driven burst neurons, shaped by integrative inhibitory feedback from spreading buildup neuron activity. The model is consistent with the view that collicular activity directly shapes the temporal profile of saccadic eye movements. We use the Adaptive exponential integrate and fire neuron model, augmented with an NMDA-like membrane potential-dependent receptor. In addition, we use a synthetic spike integrator model as a stand-in for a spike-integrator circuit in the reticular formation. NOTE: We use a couple of custom neuron models, so the supplied model file includes an entire version of NEST. I also include a patch that applies to a clean version of the simulator (see the doc/README).
Model Type: Realistic Network; Connectionist Network
Region(s) or Organism(s): Superior colliculus
Cell Type(s): Abstract integrate-and-fire adaptive exponential (AdEx) neuron
Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Bursting; Spatio-temporal Activity Patterns; Action Selection/Decision Making
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Long noncoding RNA RP11-70C1.3 confers chemoresistance of breast cancer cells through miR-6736-3p/NRP-1 axis
Keywords:Breast cancer, RP11-70C1.3, chemoresistance, NRP-1, miR-6736-3p
Chemoresistance remains a major obstacle for improving the clinical outcome of patients with breast cancer. Recently, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been implicated in breast cancer chemoresistance. However, the function and underlying mechanism are still largely unknown. Using lncRNA microarray, we identified 122 upregulated and 475 downregulated lncRNAs that might be related to the breast cancer chemoresistance. Among them, RP11-70C1.3 was one of the most highly expressed lncRNAs. In breast cancer patients, high RP11-70C1.3 expression predicted poor prognosis. Knockdown of RP11-70C1.3 inhibited the multidrug resistance of breast cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Further investigations revealed that RP11-70C1.3 functioned as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) for miR-6736-3p to increase NRP-1 expression. Notably, the rescue experiments showed that both miR-6736-3p inhibitor and NRP-1 overexpression could partly reverse the suppressive influence of RP11-70C1.3 knockdown on breast cancer chemoresistance. In conclusion, our study indicated that lncRNA RP11-70C1.3 regulated NRP-1 expression by sponging miR-6736-3p to confer chemoresistance of breast cancer cells. RP11-70C1.3 might be a potential therapeutic target in enhancing the clinical efficacy of chemotherapy in breast cancer.

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Socorro ISD New Teachers and Future Educators Win UT System Chancellor’s Centurions Educator Torch Award
The University of Texas system honored 19 Socorro ISD educators with the Educators Torch Award as part of the UT System Chancellor’s Centurions in Service of Education program.
Acting Superintendent Marta Carmona, M.Ed., and the administration of Socorro ISD joined UTEP representatives and visitors from the UT System to surprise three of the Ernesto Serna School laureates in a ceremony special including students of educators.
âI am grateful to UTEP and our district for bringing to light one of the noblest professions there is,â Carmona said. âTeachers do a wonderful job planting a seed in our students, especially at this time when education faces so many challenges. “
The winners of the Ernesto Serna school were Kelsie Vasquez, Dominique Pandy and Holly Watkins. The 19 Socorro ISD Educators Torch Award winners received a $ 500 Office Depot gift card to help them with school supplies and classroom materials.
âI wasn’t expecting it, but it was great to see everyone sporting UTEP clothes and showing their support,â said Dominique Pandy, fourth grade teacher at Ernesto Serna School.
Pandy is a recent UTEP graduate who did her residency for the program at Ernesto Serna. Then, she did an internship before applying for her current position.
âI am truly grateful to everyone who helped me along this journey, such as my mentors and all the teachers who have always offered their support and guidance,â Pandy said. I’m just very lucky to work in this neighborhood, on this campus.
The Chancellor’s Centurions program was developed to create a network to educate and inspire the next generation of volunteer leaders in higher education and healthcare in Texas. Centurions are young professionals who understand the value and profound impact of public higher education in Texas.
âIf teachers are better equipped to teach then students are better equipped to learn and if students are better equipped to learn they do better and are more likely to go to college. It’s just one of those things that comes full circle, âsaid Aaron Vargas, president of the Chancellor’s Centurions program at UT-System.
Vargas attended the ceremony at Ernesto Serna to personally congratulate the teachers and thank them for their dedication to the profession.
Educators are recent graduates of the University of Texas at El Paso or current residents studying to become teachers. The Educators Torch Award program rewards early-career teachers (or current UTEP residents) for championing the profession and public higher education.
The UT System Chancellor’s Centurions program supports education and healthcare residents who engage with the Chancellor, UT leaders and other leaders interested in promoting higher education and supporting higher education. health care initiatives across the state.
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Sometimes you go into a restaurant and immediately you know you’d like to share it all with your friends. It doesn’t happen often, to be sure, but every once in a while you come across a casual dining experience that is so good you want to share it with everyone you are close to. It’s that good.
Well, what is it that struck you when you had this kind of epiphany? For many people, it can be boiled down to three things: food, craft beer or other drinks, and service and atmosphere. If you find all three of those in one place, then don’t try to find a time when you can fit everyone in around a few pushed-together tables. If they have a party hall, why not consider party catering from your favorite joint?
If your idea of a fun and share-worthy dining experience is a casual one, then it is likely that casual dining experience will include burgers. When it comes to good burgers, the freshness of the meat is extremely important to at least 75% of your burger-loving friends. And since you loved the place first, you already know how fresh and delicious those burgers will be.
What goes better with a nice, juicy burger than a craft beer? A craft beer pub and a perfect burger make the world go round. You’ve found your favorite craft beer. But will others find the same? Make sure that you will have a wide variety of craft beer to offer your friends when they see the party catering menu. Does it offer the same variety of options? If it does, you’ve got your spot, and once you’ve found your spot, you won’t want to go anywhere else.
But, it is the very rare individual who eats his burger plain. The toppings you love can almost be as important as the burger itself. In fact, 42% of burger lovers rate quality toppings as extremely important. Find the pub with the right burger and topping and you’ve got a winner.
Party catering means nothing, however, without the right service and atmosphere. If you’ve found your little hole in the wall with great burgers and craft beer, make sure that the party hall venue, if not in the restaurant itself, will give you and your friends the atmosphere you fell in love with in the first place.
Food is an enormously important part of our lives. When we eat a meal with our friends and family we feel close to them and we feel like we are giving them something very special when we share our favorite eateries with each other. So, the next time you find a casual dining spot that you want to share with your friends or family, make sure it has the best food, craft beer, and service staff you can find. They are out there and the are not as far away as you might think.

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|black currants, germplasm, multivariate statistics, characterization
Black currants (Ribes sp.) are one of the most important berry crops in Europe.
Intensive breeding work resulted in cultivars with high technological qualities, valuable biochemical content and relatively good resistance to diseases and pests.
At the same time, improvement of the cultivar ecological plasticity and adaptation capacity for growing in different agro-climatic conditions is still necessary due to the climate changes, as well as to obtain disease and pest-resistant cultivars.
Significant issue in the development of high quality cultivars is selection of parents.
Diverse genetic resources can be a good source for this purpose; therefore their comprehensive assessment is of great importance.
The collection of the Institute of Horticulture (LatHort) includes a wide range of black currant germplasm.
Historically, ex-USSR material was extensively represented, while diverse material from all over the world has been included later in the collection, which currently can well represent black currant germplasm in general.
Multivariate statistical analysis was used to determine phenotypical variability and diversity among 123 black currant genotypes of different geographic and genetic origin, based on 34 traits, including plant phenology and morphology, yield parameters and quality, resistance to main diseases and pests.
Applied statistical approaches (cluster and principal component analysis) showed grouping of genotypes according to phenotypical characterization.
Despite the country or even the region of origin, black currant genotypes showed high phenotypic similarity, internal relatedness that can be explained by use of closely related genetic material in many breeding programs and the same goals of breeding.
These results point to an alarming trend in the further development of black currants, which in the future may lead to the diverse germplasm availability problems facing new challenges raised by climate change and the emergence of new or expansion of existing pathogens.
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Bennett: Right and left-wing extremists trying to burn down our house
Education Minister calls upon the “moderate forces” in Israeli society to “lead and make their voices heard” - both from the right and the left.
By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZIUpdated: JANUARY 15, 2016 04:29
Desperate right and leftwing extremists are trying to “burn down our house,” Education Minister Naftali Bennett said on Thursday in a speech to university students.Bennett delivered a guest lecture to undergraduate students in a course called “Israeli Identity”, taught by Attorney Eldad Yaniv, director of the Institute for Social Responsibility at the Peres Academic Center in Rehovot.Israel is divided between “an optimistic Zionist majority that believes in the State of Israel and a desperate and extremist minority,” Bennett said.“Why do you think they carried out the attack in Duma?” he asked the students, referring to the murder of a Palestinian family by Jewish right-wing extremists who burned down their house in a West Bank village in July.“The aim was not murder; that was just the means. We are talking about people who have given up on persuading the people of Israel of their positions and they want to bring our house down upon us. They’re trying to burn down our house,” Bennett said.Bennett said the extreme left-wing was engaging in this “same dynamic.”“Consider the person who served as director-general of the Foreign Ministry [Dr. Alon Liel] who briefs leftist groups such as ‘Breaking the Silence’ and B’Tselem and encourages them to create disturbances among Arabs so that there will be pictures to convince the world to boycott us,” Bennett said.He urged “moderate forces” from across the political spectrum in Israeli society to “lead and make their voices heard.”“Exactly in these situations we need to identify what unites rather than take groups of people and confront them against each other,” he said.“Most importantly we must not besmirch an entire population because of minorities on both sides: Not to discredit all the Arabs of Israel and not to discredit all the Right and not to discredit all the Tel Avivians,” he said.The education minister said “Israel’s destiny is the destiny of the Jewish state.”“I want Israel to be a country which is proud of being Jewish, a state that is in contact with world Jewry. There are millions of Jews around the world that we are not in touch with and we are losing them.” Bennett said.A student asked Bennett about his decision last month to ban Breaking the Silence group from schools.Bennett accused the group comprised largely of former IDF soldiers “tours around the world and slanders the State of Israel and the IDF.”He also accused it of seeking “international boycotts against Israel,” an allegation the group denies.
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Since they include bunches of protein and fiber, nuts are a filling nibble. Given the improvement in kind 2 diabetes and weight in rich nations, it isn’t abrupt that nuts have such a whole lot of fitness blessings. Nuts are brimming with vital vitamins and minerals that help difficult insusceptible designs, strong pores and pores and skin, and muscular tissues. These are sincerely five of nuts’ eminent health favors.
Chocolate moreover includes hazelnuts:
Among numerous issues, hazelnuts are an extremely good wellspring of fiber. This have to lower the hurtful cholesterol. Hazelnuts, moreover known as filberts, are generally created in Turkey, Italy, and Spain. They include a ramification of fat, protein, and dietary supplements. B6, potassium, zinc, selenium, and phosphorus likewise are more than desirable sufficient in them. Fildena 100 mg and Fildena red pill for erectile dysfunction treatment
Notwithstanding having a excessive-fats content material fabric, nuts consolidate each mono-and polyunsaturated unsaturated fats that are appealing to the coronary heart. As in keeping with an examination inside the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, ingesting hazelnuts brings down the hazard of coronary infection and cardiovascular sickness. The influences of a 2nd gander, which changed into reviewed within the diary Nutrients, affirmed that consuming hazelnuts converted into associated with sturdy levels of each fatty substance and HDL ldl cholesterol.
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Minerals and dietary fiber are terrific in hazelnuts. Crude hazelnuts have 2.7g of nutritional fiber close to the ton. Dietary fiber has numerous favors, of which may be progressed absorption and faded terrible LDL cholesterol. Manganese, that’s important for bone development and digestion, is also found in hazelnuts. They assist in controlling blood with sugaring stages. Hazelnuts include pantothenic acids, which can be vital for the comfortable association of the casing, that you’ll now no longer recognise approximately.
Hazelnuts’ omega-three unsaturated fat have been related with a faded peril of cardiovascular contamination. Cancer prevention stores found in hazelnuts defend the body from oxidative mischief. Studies have checked an association amongst oxidative tension and an ascent in lots of malignant growths chance. One of those mobileular reinforcements, manganese superoxide dismutase, can likewise assist with saving you a few malignant growths.
Consuming pecans can help with forestalling bosom and prostate illness:
Analysts have observed that pecans help shield in opposition to prostate, colorectal, and bosom malignant growths. In mice given an food regimen immoderate in pecans, specialists determined an association amongst pecan utilization and drastically much less illness boom. In human beings, nearly equal effects were furthermore located. Furthermore, studies have confirmed that pecan usage can restrain the unfurl of every metastatic and right now gift malignancies. Numerous researchers discern pecans can also furthermore deliver maximum tumors fitness. Buy Filitra 20 mg to treat instant ED
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To pick out if pecans can correctly prevent the unfurl of bosom and prostate sickness, separate mice styles have been tried. It’s plausible that the nuts’ functionality to repress insulin-like blast thing 1 gives them their enemy of maximum cancers houses. As in keeping with the affects of every preliminary, a mouse who took care of pecans had a whole lot a whole lot less boom than mice who took care of the CO/CO slims down. Albeit the presence of extra combinations in pecans is obscure, it’s miles feasible that they added to the ones discoveries.
Scientists moreover located that pecans might also moreover assist save you malignant growth, as in step with a breakdown that turn out to be disbursed withinside the magazine Cancer Investigation. As consistent with this inspection, pecans are a wonderful deliver of phytochemicals and omega-three unsaturated fats. These materials encourage mobileular improvement and damage avoidance. In any case, it hasn’t been verified that any actual substance can prevent maximum malignant growths. Nuts need to be placed away cautiously and ate up in some methods. Keep in contemplation that the lipids in the ones nuts can fast turn foul assuming they’re exposed to sunlight hours. Prior to eating the nuts, experts advocate toasting them.
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A nutritious tidbit want is pistachios. Vitamin B6 is more than exact sufficient within the ones little almonds. A tree that started in Central Asia and the Middle East is the inventory of pistachios. Numerous humans eat its seeds as food. Our body dreams sustenance B6 as a fundamental complement. Here is a concise rundown of food plan B6.
Contrasted with particular nuts, pistachios consist of more essential amino acids. This nutrient is important for shielding a robust resistant contraption and stopping the improvement of a few ailments. Since they’ve a first-class protein and fiber content material cloth over precise nuts, pistachios are a pinnacle-notch non-obligatory for every body hoping to shed kilos. There are deplorably now only some examinations which have inspected how pistachios assist with weight decrease.
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The Hidden attribute on the weapon only comes into play when used from hidden place. as stated “When the weapon is hidden, any search of the owning character requires an Observation test, with a
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🌱 Introduction: What’s Aether?
Aether is an app that gives you fresh, new content about the things you’re interested in.
You can create a community for your friends, or for strangers that are interested in similar things. All communities are public, and everyone can write to any community. (There’ll be communities restricted to certain people, but we’re still working on that for now.)
If you’re familiar with Reddit, Slashdot, or Usenet, it’s pretty similar. Aether does two main things differently though. The first is that it’s ephemeral. The content disappears after a while. The other is, the communities are democratic, they elect their own leadership.
Why does ephemerality matter? Simply, it’s easier to post things on Aether. It’ll be gone eventually. It’s less pressure. You’re not using your real name anyway, it’s not going to be following you around for the rest of your life.
Why do I care about communities being democratic? You have a motorcycle. You love it. There’s a
b/motorcycles community on Aether. You post a picture of your bike, but it gets deleted immediately. Why? The mods of the place are bored of seeing too many bike pictures and they want to make the community a more “serious” place.
Nobody’s wrong in this case, the mods are right because they probably see way too many regular bike pictures. But you’re right too, people want to post their bikes and be happy about it as well. Who wins?
As it stands elsewhere, the mods. The fact that they are mods gives them ultimate authority over regular users. Isn’t that a little weird? Where does that authority come from? Just from the fact that they were there first?
What Aether does is, you can actually disable the mods that you don’t approve just for yourself, and those disables count as an impeach vote. If majority of the community agrees, the mod loses mod rights for a while for everyone. That makes it so that Aether communities are places where the content is what the current users of the communities want, not those who were there first by chance.


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FMA Festival 2016
On September 24th and 25th Col and some of the Escrima members attended the Filipino Martial Arts Festival in Peterborough, run by the British Council of Kali Escrima Arnis Instructors. This yearly event sees representatives of many different styles teaching the attendees so that everyone can gain an understanding of the various styles with the Filipino Martial Arts and get a chance to share knowledge and swap ideas.
This year Col represented Grandmaster Steve by teaching two Escrima Concepts workshops, assisted by our very own, Neil and Rob. We managed to film some of the stuff we taught so that you can check out our highlights if you weren’t able to attend:
We all had a great time introducing our system to the other attendees and then learning from so many other senior Instructors, Masters and Grandmasters! There are also some live videos that were made on the weekend which can be seen on the British Council of Kali Escrima Arnis Instructors Facebook site.
Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/34028052561/
Finally we have a playlist of videos showing Rob, Neil and Joe learning some karambit techniques with Lightning Combatives. Even though it’s not one of the weapons we specifically work on in Escrima Concepts, you can see where there are similarities with the weapons we do use to aid in transitioning.

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Afghanistan has been ravaged politically and militarily for over twenty-two years and the bleak fortunes of the country took another turn on 9/11 when two jetliners flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Soon began the war against terror but has that war been won? US bomber aircraft carriers have stopped circling the skies above Afghanistan and forensic experts are still carrying out DNA tests on the countless samples that were picked up from the caves in Tora Bora to answer the crucial question of whether Osama bin Laden is dead or alive. President George W. Bush had promised to smoke him out and deliver justice but over a year into the battle it is clear that irrespective of Osamas fate, a lot still needs to be done vis--vis the war against terror. Afghanistan and 9/11 journeys through the ruins of the twin towers and through the battle-torn country to take a close look at what the 11 September attacks have in store for Afghanistan. Is the Taliban a spent force? Has the Al Qaeda been contained? Is Afghanistan finally back on the road to peace? Afghanistan and 9/11 tries to answers these critical questions and raises other important ones.
Anand Giridharadas is a writer based in Washington, DC who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major US dailies. Ajai Shukla, who entered Afghanistan soon after the 9/11 attack, covers defence and security issues for New Delhi Television, a news channel. Rahimullah Yusufzai has been covering Afghanistan since the early Eighties and was the first journalist to report the emergence of the Taliban and to interview Mullah Mohammad Omar. John Jennings covered the collapse of the Taliban regime for The Washington Times and used to work as a public-relations assistant to President Burhanuddin Rabbanis representatives in Washington. Dr Syed Rifaat Hussain was a former minister for information at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC and is the chairman, Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. J.N. Dixit was the eminent former foreign secretary of India. He is a widely consulted foreign affairs specialist and is the author of many seminal books. Julie Sirrs, formerly on intelligence officer in the US, specialises in Afghanistan and Pakistan.


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Announced a few weeks ago, OnePlus has finally given us our first look at the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Edition! This special edition of the OnePlus 8T sports a unique look that’s inspired by the upcoming open-world RPG by CD Projekt RED.
Check out the official images of the Cyberpunk 2077 Edition OnePlus 8T here:
The phone features a two-tone black back that’s complemented by yellow accents. The phone’s camera module is also much larger in this special edition as it comes with a unique “2077” graphic. From the previews of this limited edition 8T, the phone will also have a special Cyberpunk 2077 theme for its UI.
Aside from the phone itself, the Cyberpunk 2077 Edition of the 8T also comes with lots of goodies. These include a special Cyberpunk 2077 box, case, stickers, and more.
The OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Edition will release in Mainland China on November 11, and it will be priced at RMB 3999 (around USD 598 or PHP 28,950). The phone will come in a 12GB+256GB configuration. Currently though, there’s no word yet on if the phone will get an international release.
In related news, Cyberpunk 2077 has once again been delayed, this time the game was delayed by 21 days. Cyberpunk 2077’s new released date is December 10, 2020.


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Sit back, unfasten your mind belts and prepare for the journey. Its progression is leisurely stable and gradually deep, with panoramic soundscapes and drifting melodies. We invite you to take chill steps towards the light in the Altered Vision!
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Cover art: Elena Ukolova
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The prolific Fengmi brand has just introduced a new projector with Android as the operating system and a really striking and original design, the Fengmi Xming Q2.
This small projector measures just 126 × 208.2 × 155.8 mm making it easy to carry and use anywhere. Its specifications on paper are not bad at all thanks to its native Full HD resolution and its 500 ANSI lumens of brightness, which in theory have to guarantee us good image quality.
The operating system that we find is Android 9 with the layer developed by Fengmi FengOS and its internal processor is a Mediatek MT9269, developed specifically for video playback and that includes interesting improvements in this aspect. Another smaller projector, a range that seems to be growing strongly in China lately, where its sales have multiplied this year.
Specifications of the Fengmi Xming Q2
The small Fengmi Xming Q2 includes an LCD projector with an FHD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, brightness of 500 ANSI Lumens and contrast of 2000:1. Focus control and trapezoidal correction are automatic, and we can achieve a screen with a maximum recommended dimension of 120 inches.
The SoC of this Fengmi is a Mediatek MT9269 Quad Core with ARM Cortex-A53 processors and an ARM Mali-G31 MP2 GPU. We also have 1 GB DDR4 RAM and eMMc internal storage is 16 GB. For wireless connectivity it includes Wifi aC, Bluetooth 5.0 while for audio we have a pair of 3W WANOS speakers inside that we can use independently via Bluetooth.
The connection interfaces of the Fengmi Xming Q2 are a USB 2.0 port, a 3.5 mm audio jack and an HDMI 2.0 connector where we can connect consoles or any other device.
- If you have technical questions about this device, you can consult our Projector Technical Guide.
Price and availability
- The Fengmi Xming Q2 projector can be purchased at Banggood.com online store from $386 with free shipping.
Soon we will surely also have it for sale on AliExpress at a cheaper price.


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Federal government has reported at least 190 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on reserves across Canada
The Canadian Press · Posted: May 17, 2020 10:11 AM CT | Last Updated: May 18
A health researcher studying COVID-19 as part of a national immunity task force hopes the pandemic elevates concern for persistent health issues, such as inadequate housing, for Indigenous people in Canada.
"This pandemic has opened the eyes for a lot of people across Canada," said Dr. Carrie Bourassa, scientific director of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health, part of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
"I would like to think that what these ... studies will do is change a lot of policies for Canadians and for Indigenous people," she said. "I hope that this will also raise the bar and help people to understand that equity has not been reached for Indigenous peoples in Canada."
Bourassa was recently tapped to come up with a plan to engage First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in studies about how the virus has spread and who is immune.
The Anishinaabe-Métis professor at the University of Saskatchewan said an Indigenous advisory circle will soon be announced for the two-year project.
It's critical Indigenous people are included in such studies, she said, because they could be more susceptible to the virus, given factors such as overcrowded housing and poor access to healthy food and clean water.
"Those are now huge mitigating risk factors," she said.
The full article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...


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Spending on cancer drugs could rise at least 10 percent a year through 2013, fueled by use of effective—and expensive—new therapies used over longer periods, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Oncology medicines are on track to become the third-largest contributor to increases in drug spending by 2015, up from seventh last year, according to the report from large pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc.
Medco expects spending on cancer medicines to rise by 10 percent to 12 percent this year, and by 13 percent to 15 percent in 2012.
"New cancer drugs reaching the market are expected to double during the next several years," said Medco Chief Medical Officer Glen Stettin.
More than 900 drugs are in development for oncology, by far the single-largest category, the report said. Virtually every large drugmaker is seeking to make inroads in the cancer market.
Patients are using the medicines on a more chronic basis as certain cancers become more manageable, helping to drive up spending, Medco said.
The advances in treatment are having an effect: The number of U.S. cancer survivors is expected to increase by more than 30 percent over the decade, from 13.8 million in 2010 to 18 million by 2020, Medco said.
Last year, cancer drug spending rose about 8 percent, in part because of more frequent prescribing of newer treatments, such as Celgene Corp blood cancer drug Revlimid and Novartis AG leukemia treatment Gleevec, according to the report.
Medco also pointed to a scientific journal study that found more than 90 percent of recently approved cancer drugs cost more than $20,000 for a 12-week course of therapy.
Compared with other categories, Medco said, oncology is unlikely to see big savings from an expected influx of lower-cost copies of older biotechnology drugs, known as biosimilars.
Many biotech drugs—which tend to be injected or infused—are cancer treatments. But newer cancer drugs, many of them designed for certain genetic targets, have resulted in significant improvements in care, so biosimilar versions of the older drugs may not gain traction in the market, Medco Chief Executive David Snow said.
"Everyone is going to be moving to these more advanced, more precise drugs ... there's not actually a big demand to create the old ones," Snow told reporters on Wednesday. "So I don't think you'll see a lot of relief in the oncologic space because of the enormous improvement in the ways we can treat cancer at a genetic level."
The report, which tracks overall drug utilization and spending, comes as the medical and scientific focus on new oncology treatments increases over the next few weeks.
The annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting begins June 3 in Chicago, bringing thousands of doctors and researchers together to discuss the latest important studies in the field. Later on Wednesday, data from hundreds of clinical drug trials will be released ahead of the meeting.
Medco, which administers drug benefits for clients such as health plans and employers, says it serves about one in five Americans, making its data a good gauge of pharmaceutical trends in the country.
Overall last year, the report said, drug spending rose 3.7 percent. Use of drugs increased 2.1 percent, the biggest gain since 2005.
Diabetes treatments, including insulin and drugs to control blood glucose levels, ranked as the biggest contributor to pharmaceutical spending growth for the fourth consecutive year.
Respiratory ranked second as a driver of spending, while rheumatology drugs were third.


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Wisconsin National Guard sends troops to Florida in support of Irma relief efforts
OCONOMOWOC — The Wisconsin National Guard will be sending troops to Florida on Monday, September 11th in an effort to support relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
Officials indicated in a news release that a group of Battery C, 1st Battalion, 120th Field Artillery Soldiers are set to meet at the Oconomowoc National Guard Armory on Monday afternoon.
More than 2,500 Wisconsin National Guard troops were called to state active duty — and will remain in Florida for as long as they are needed.
Monitor FOX6 News and FOX6Now.com for updates on this developing story.


Make the most of your outdoor experience with an all-in-one pocket-sized lantern, flashlight and emergency light! SOS beacon lasts up to 7 hours. It’s lightweight and solar-powered, so no additional batteries are required—just the power of the sun! Durable and waterproof, designed to withstand tough environments—will not tarnish. Overcurrent and short-circuit protected. Multi-function modes include: high, low, one-second flashing, SOS and steady red. Contains 4 ultra-bright LEDs and 25 lumens. Quick, 2-second shut-off. Base strap included. Full charge enables 7-hour function on low setting; solar panel recharges in 8 hours of direct sunlight. Battery charge indicator. 4" H x 4" D. 1" collapsed. 2½ oz. Clear and red. Plastic. Imported.


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Xige Estate winery exports hit record high
Based in Ningxia in China, Xige Estate has recently exported a batch of £124,000 worth of wines to the UK. The figure has broken the record for the highest export value of a single batch of wine in Ningxia during 2022.
As reported by Yinchuan Customs, a single batch of Xige Estate wines to the tune of £124,000 has passed customs check and is on its way to the UK.
“Although affected by the pandemic and rising logistics costs this year, Xige Estate’s overseas orders are increasing, especially in the second half of the year compared with the previous period,” said Christelle Chene, international affairs director & worldwide brand ambassador for the winery.
She added: “The export value of wine produced is expected to increase by more than 550% compared to 2021.”
The area unde vine in the wine-producing area at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia has reached 550,000 mu, accounting for one-third of the total planting area in China.
At the moment, there are 211 wineries in Ningxia, including 101 existing wineries and 110 wineries that are under construction. Amongst the established wineries, “first-growth” wineries account for more than half of these.
Thousands of Ningxia wines from more than 60 wineries are starting to shine in international competitions, achieving top awards. The wines produced from the area are now exported to over 40 countries, that include France, Germany, the US, the UK and Canada. In 2021, despite the Covid pandemic, Ningxia’s wine export volume grew against the trend, with a year-on-year increase of 256%.
Founded by Zhang Yanzhi in 2017, Xige owns Ningxia’s largest plots of old vineyards with 1000 hectares in total. Chief winemaker Liao Zusong was previously part of the team at Shanxi’s Grace Vineyard and also worked at Bass Philip and Mollydooker in Australia. As one of the major players in the region, the winery claims to have the capacity to produce 10 million bottles annually.


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Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) and Honeywell Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly develop an advanced GPS Anti-Jam navigation system. As part of the MOU, IAI and Honeywell will engineer, manufacture and market a combined GPS Anti-Jam combined solution.
The new technology will combine IAI’s existing ADA GPS Anti-Jamming system together with Honeywell’s embedded GPS Inertial Navigation System. The ADA system will be integrated as a subsystem, or as an embedded module into Honeywell’s navigation systems. The joint solution is applicable to military navigation applications (SAASM / P(Y) Code) and has the provisioning to support future directives of the GPS directorate (M-Code).
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Modern navigation, communications, and intelligence collection and electronic warfare systems integrated in modern platforms, rely on the uninterrupted availability of satellite-based navigation and timing for their operation. Despite this dependency, still many platforms do not use Anti-Jamming systems to protect those essential assets. Remaining exposed, even low-power jammers can disrupt or even deny the operation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems, thus degrading the platform’s capability to fulfill its mission.
“In partnering with IAI, we can offer a GPS anti-jam and inertial navigation solution that provides for increased aircrew safety as well as greater mission effectiveness in GPS denied environments,” said Carl Esposito, President, Electronic Systems at Honeywell Aerospace.
IAI EVP and General Manager of Systems, Missiles & Space Group Boaz Levi said, “This collaboration brings together the technological excellence and response to costumers’ needs of two leading companies. Facing today’s threats to GPS, the ability to combine advanced Anti-Jamming capabilities as part of the Embedded GPS INS (EGI) systems is a must. The joint product can be deployed as a turn-key solution or as an upgrade to IAI and Honeywell’s existing customer base.”


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San Francisco-based Digital Realty announced this week the agreement to purchase Brazil’s Ascenty, one of Latin America’s leading data center providers, for an estimated $1.8 billion.Digital Realty will complete the transaction through Brazilian subsidiary Stellar Participações Ltda., and in partnership with Brookfield Infrastructure, an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management. Brookfield has committed to funding half of the initial equity investment, valued at approximately $613 million, in exchange for 49% of the total equity interests in a joint venture entity ultimately expected to own Ascenty.In addition to the $1.8 billion purchase price, Digital Realty will provide approximately $425 million in additional capital for the completion of current data center developments and to build out additional capacity to service short-term client requirements.Ascenty provides data center and connectivity services to the world’s premier hyperscale cloud providers, and boasts eight leading-edge data centers strategically placed in key Brazilian urban centers, including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Campinas, and Fortalezas.Ascenty also offers a full range of data center solutions via a proprietary 4,500-kilometer fiber-optic network that connects Brazil’s main population hubs and also imparts direct access to Brazilian telco and subsea cable networks.The purchase provides Digital Realty with a strategic foothold in a growing Latin America market fueled by expanding population growth and rapid digitization. Brazil is the world’s eighth largest economy by GDP and the fifth largest country by population and area, and is well-positioned to become the center of technology expansion in Latin America."We are pleased to expand our global footprint into Latin America and to partner with the Ascenty management team and Brookfield. We expect this acquisition will further accelerate our growth while enhancing our ability to support our customers' digital transformation across the globe," said Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer Bill Stein.In another move this week, the company launched a public offering of 8.5 million shares of common stock. At the current stock price, this offer could raise over $1 billion in additional capital for Digital Realty.The company also announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase 424 acres of undeveloped land in Loudoun County, Virginia for $236.5 million. The site is located next to Washington Dulles International Airport and lies less than four miles from Digital Realty's existing data center campuses in Ashburn, Virginia.This week’s multiple announcements come on the heels of Digital Realty’s Salesforce news, in which the company announced the availability of direct, private access to Salesforce in 15 metro centers worldwide via the Digital Realty Service Exchange. This follows similar initiatives by the company to expand the availability of cloud services from Oracle and IBM.The Ascenty purchase is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018. Digital Realty stock is currently trading at $112, down 5.5% from its close prior to the September 24th announcement.
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911 dispatchers are key to helping save people who overdose
Among first responders, dispatchers often go unrecognized, but the people taking 911 calls play a critical role in saving lives.
When Granite Staters are in the worst moments of their lives, dispatchers are on the other end of the line.
Twelve to 15 times a day, 911 telecommunicators give CPR instructions over the phone, and four to five of those calls each day are for suspected overdoses.
“They have seen an uptick over the past few years in the number of CPR-related calls for service. Many of those have been attributed to the opioid crisis,” said Mark Doyle, director for the state Division of Emergency Services and Communications.
At the division’s headquarters in Concord, 1,200 to 1,500 calls come in every single day, and there's another call center in Laconia to ensure that no matter what, every call is answered.
Fifty-eight operators work 10-hour shifts, answering 490,000 calls each year.
“Sometimes we're definitely nervous on the inside, but you'll never know by listening to our voice,” dispatcher Sherrie Raposo said.
The most critical piece of information a caller needs to provide is location, but that’s trickier than it sounds.
Every detail matters, including cross streets, what floor they are on, landmarks and what door first responders should enter.
Since 2015, Granite Staters who may not be able to make a phone call during an emergency have been able to text to 911.
Officials have said the addition of that service has saved lives.
The drug crisis is felt in dispatch centers every single day.
“Most of our CPR calls involving heroin don't start out as CPR. They start out as an overdose with difficulty breathing,” said David Rivers, chief of the Bureau of Emergency Communications.
From the moment a person “goes down,” every minute CPR is delayed decreases survivability by 10 percent, according to the experts, so the dispatch team is trained to coach callers through hands-on CPR.
Raposo simulated a call in which she instructed someone how to perform CPR.
“Place the heel of your hand on the breastbone right between the nipples. Put your other hand on top of that hand,” she said. “Pump the chest hard and fast at least two times per second and at least two inches deep. Let the chest come up all the way between pumps. We're going to do this until help arrives.”
In 15 seconds, Raposo had the simulated caller giving lifesaving compressions.
“Keep it at that pace ma'am -- one and two and three and four,” she said.
Rescue breathing is added to the mix if the call is for an overdose, and this team gives instructions on how to administer Narcan.
Dispatchers said the most frustrating part of the job is never knowing how the crisis ends.
“We have no outcome. They'll hang up the phone once they've completed what they need, and the first responders have walked in and that's the end of the story,” Rivers said.


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Lucaya is located on the eastern end of the town of Freeport on Grand Bahama Island. Primarily a destination area, and home to a larger Westin resort complex, Luyaca is also home to many fine yacht harbors, including the harbor at Bell Channel above. Ashore are many fine restaurants, shops and provisioning opportunities.
Lucayas main boating area/harbor is reached via Bell Channel Inlet, which is visible in the image above. The Bell Channel inlet is well marked and has depths of 7 to 8 feet inside a well-jettied entrance. Inside at the harbour are two marinas - Lucaya Marina and Lucayan Marina, which both can handle any boat that can make it through the Bell Channel Inlet. Either marina also has customs and immigrations offices as well as gas and diesel fuel.
To set up for the approach, first navigate to waypoint 26 29.862N 78 37.761W. Once you have arrived in the area of the waypoint, set and follow a course of 341 degrees true for about one mile until you have the stone jetties in sight. Once you are lined up with the entrance, you can head in over nine- to 13-foot depths to the harbor. Inside, Port Luyaca Marina is located to port, and Luyaca Marina is to starboard-visible in the image above.
See our Local Notices to Mariners blog for updates on the latest conditions and advisories for this area.

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