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Some people stress about everything, and I was one of them. Whether it was a small test or an event or anything else, I had to experience a lot of stress oftentimes. I used to search for ways to reduce stress.
Practiced some of the best tips with consistency, which I thought would work for me, and now things are better.
I am sharing those tips with you people that either I tried or that worked for me.
Stress is not necessarily a bad thing. It can help you to meet deadlines or daily challenges, or it can motivate you to achieve your goals. Long term stress or too much stress is a bad thing and has a bad effect on your mental and physical health.
Here are some ways to reduce stress and make your life a little easier for you;
The brain is the most powerful organ in the human body. We stress due to negative thoughts. If you want to reduce your stress, start visualizing positive scenarios to keep yourself calm. This will transmit positive signals to your brain, and your stress will relieve.
Imagine yourself in a relaxing place, be it a beach or any other place which gives you a peaceful feeling. Think about the things that you are grateful for or that make you happy. You will soon observe the reduction in your stress.
2) Talk To Yourself
For me, this is the most effective stress management technique. I remember once I had a test, and I tried my best to perform well, but somehow, I could not.
Sometimes it is not your day. Everything went bad that day. I spent more than an hour, just sitting on the couch thinking about everything that happened.
After an hour, I stood up, closed the door, looked into the mirror, and started talking to myself. I discussed everything with me. In the end, I told myself,
“IT IS OKAY. IT WAS JUST A TEST. I STILL HAVE CHANCES TO DO BETTER. WHAT’S DONE IS DONE. RELAX. YOU TRIED AND DID WHAT YOU COULD. IT WAS NOT YOUR DAY. FORGET EVERYTHING AND FOCUS ON WHAT’S COMING NEXT”.
3) TAKE DEEP BREATHS
When we stress, we take the pressure. Deep breathing helps to release the pressure. When you feel stressed, isolate yourself, sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and slowly take deep breaths for 5 to 10 minutes. It is the simplest way to reduce stress.
4) TAKE HELP FROM RELAXATION TECHNIQUES
There are many tried and tested relaxation techniques, and you may take help from them. One very simple technique is to choose a word or phrase that has a positive meaning and focus on it when you feel tense.
For instance, words such as PEACE, LOVE, CALM, RELAX. If you feel your mind has wandered, concentrate on the chosen word. Repeat it if you feel stressed later too.
5) SLEEP WELL
Unfortunately, stress interrupts our sleep due to the thoughts that keep whirling around our heads, but your stress can be reduced if you sleep well. When you don’t get enough sleep, you wake up feeling more stressed, which makes it harder for you to sleep the next night. Sleeping will help your mind to calm down, and ultimately you will feel better.
6) LEARN “IT IS OKAY TO SAY NO”
You will be surprised to know that the most common cause of stress is taking up more work to do in less time. Do You know why it happens? People take additional responsibilities because many of us find it difficult to say NO.
Is it a good idea to take more work or responsibilities than you can manage just to please people or just to be liked by everyone and later on you stress about it?
Never compromise on your mental or physical health for the sake of anyone. Say NO when you are already committed or when you have engagements.
Working out regularly is good for your physical as well as mental health. It keeps you healthy, and it’s an effective way to relax your mind and body. Moreover, it diverts your mind from negative thoughts that make you feel unhappy and stressed.
8) LAUGHTER THERAPY
Laughter is the best natural remedy for stress management. A good laugh makes you feel relaxed. It provides support to your mind and relieves stress by relaxing your muscles.
You may hang out with your friends who make you laugh, or you can try watching a funny movie or any other thing that can distract you from all the negativity.
Life is not a bed of roses, today you are up, the other day you will be down. Don’t let your stress stop you from enjoying every bit of your life.
Try these stress management techniques to reduce your stress. Workout regularly, spend time with friends who care for you.
Talk about your problems, don’t keep things inside. Practice saying NO when it is needed.
You can also keep a stress diary to make a record of what stresses you out oftentimes.
I know things will be difficult in the beginning, but once you get good at it, you will get the desired results.


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RTPCom is a fictitious wholesale access provider that covers most major metropolitan areas in the United States. It started by providing access services to its residential and business customers over dialup and ISDN. Today, most of its customers are provided broadband access over xDSL, Fiber, or WiFi. RTPCom provides IPv4 unicast connectivity for its customers, linking them to their Internet service providers of choice.
Considering the large number of residential customers, aggregation is important in RTPCom’s network design. Its backbone is structured in three levels of points of presence (POPs) (Figure 14-1).
Level 1 (L1) POPs form the backbone of the network. They service large metropolitan areas and they provide the interface to various ISPs. Originally the L1 POPs were not interconnected and RTPCom’s network was not contiguous. As its footprint and customer base grew, RTPCom could justify owning the OC-192 lines that currently connect its L1 POPs.
The L1 POPs connect to L2 (L2) POPs over OC-192 or OC-48 links depending on the size of the L2 POP. The later provide access services in areas of the metropolitan domain serviced by the L1 POP or in other smaller cities. L2 POPs aggregate L3 (L3) POPs over OC-48 or OC-3 links. Figure 14-2 presents RTPCom’s network in geographical context.
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The link and media types used to interconnect RTPCom’s POPs are summarized in Table 14-1.
L1-L1 and L1-L2 POPs
L1-L2 and L2-L3 POPs
L1-L3 and L2-L3 POPs
The design of each POP type is emphasizing the need for aggregation and redundancy. The differences revolve mainly around the levels of aggregation and the bandwidths of the links used.
The L1 POPs form RTPCom’s backbone with the following characteristics:
Highly secure over a dedicated private network
Uses high-bandwidth OC-48 and OC-192 backbone links
Is over-engineered, so that QoS is not used in the core for its IPv4 services
Full backbone redundancy using parallel links between the L1 POPs
Uses a single autonomous system
They also contain the L2TP Network Server (LNS) routers that terminate the PPP sessions initiated by the customers. The de-encapsulated traffic is then handed over to the ISP selected by those customers. Each LNS router supports the customers of a single ISP and it connects over dedicated VLANs to two edge routers that provide the uplink to that ISP. The L1 POP design and the backbone topology are shown in Figure 14-3. Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) resources that are used by the LNS for managing the PPP sessions are maintained by the corresponding ISP and are not shown in this figure.
All routers in the L1 POPs belong to OSPF area 0. The L1 POPs peer via iBGP with the L2 POPs. A dedicated IGP is used between the LNS and the edge routers to implement layer 3 redundancy and load balancing. The edge routers connect to the collocated ISP routers which are not shown in the picture.
Multiple L2 POPs are deployed within a metropolitan area to provide customer access. L2 POPs can also be used by themselves in smaller markets. They rely on OC-48 Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT) rings to aggregate the access layer across the covered area or L3 POPs. The same design would have applied to a Resilient Packet Ring (RPR, 802.17) infrastructure, too. Figure 14-4 presents the structure of an L2 POP.
L2 POPs peer via interior Border Gateway Protocol (iBGP) with the L1 POPs. They run OSPF with the ring in area 0 and each aggregated location, a local access layer or L3 POPs, connecting to the ring in an area of its own as shown in Figure 14-4.
The last building block in RTPCom’s network design presented here is the L3 POP. It services small markets or remote locations. It is basically made of the access layer and an aggregation layer that provides connectivity to L2 POPs (Figure 14-5).
L3 POPs connect to L2 POPs over OC-48 or OC-3 links. They run a single-area OSPF as an IGP.
The access layer represented in the POP design figures is similar for both L2 and L3 POP types. Its main characteristic is scalability needed to handle a large number of customers (Figure 14-6).
In terms of physical and link layers, RTPCom owns the entire last-mile infrastructure for all access types it offers: ADSL, FTTH, and WiFi.
RTPCom does not offer any services over cable. If it were to offer services, extending IPv6 access over such an infrastructure would complicate the deployment. As mentioned in Chapter 3, "Delivering IPv6 Unicast Services," the cable specification (DOCSIS) does not support IPv6, so tunneling is the only mechanism available for transporting the IPv6 traffic.
RTPCom is currently evaluating WiMAX as an access technology but no service is yet provided as this would require a license subscription.
For the IPv4 service, RTPCom aggregates the customer-initiated PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) sessions and bundles them through Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) tunnels to the edge of its network. LNS routers in L1 POPs terminate the PPPoE sessions, de-encapsulate the traffic, and forward it to ISPs. The operation of this service is also exemplified in Figure 14-6.
Through this wholesale model, RTPCom is not responsible for managing the global IPv4 addresses used by these customers, because they are managed by their ISP. RTPCom only provides transport for the encapsulated traffic and for that purpose it uses the private IPv4 address space.
The bulk of RTPCom’s business is providing residential customers with access to an ISP. It is also aggressively developing its small office/home office (SOHO) customer base. RTPCom would like to expand its service offering into the Triple Play (data, voice, video) arena. Although the wholesale model used for the IPv4 unicast-based services can easily support Voice over IP (VoIP), it does not support in a scalable manner content delivery (CD)-based on multicast. All RTPCom’s customers have a virtual point-to-point link to their gateway (LNS) across a large portion of the network (L3, L2, and nearest L1 POP). Because the LNS is the only device that can do traffic replication for all the end users, RTPCom’s network is flooded with multiple replicas of the same packets for each customer subscribed to a given content channel. This inefficient use of network resources limits significantly the scale of any multicast-based service.
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TAMPA — There is no way to measure the exact percentages of such things, but Keon Keeley says with a grin and a deep baritone, “I’m half Viking.”
The 240-pound Berkeley Prep senior looks down — from a muscled 6-feet, 6 inches — with a face chiseled from granite, and does, in fact, look the part.
Minnesota Viking? Yes. But also a Scandinavian Viking such as Leif Erikson, who is believed to have set foot on North America 500 years before Columbus.
An Erikson descendant? Who knows? The fact is, Keeley’s mother, Janicke’, is 100 percent Norwegian. She moved to America, where she gave birth to her only son, who plays football with tremendous speed, strength and ferocity.
The highlights don’t lie: In 13 games as a junior last season, Keeley collected 61 tackles (34 for loss), 16-1/2 sacks and 19 quarterback hurries.
In a nationally televised 49-24 victory over five-star quarterback Arch Manning and Isidore Newman High in Louisiana, Keeley shone brightest, with two sacks, an interception, three hurries and a pass breakup.
In last year’s Class 3A title game against Chaminade-Madonna, Keeley was a terror, applying constant pressure, collecting four tackles and forcing a fumble.
In the process, he raised himself to the nation’s No. 1-rated edge rusher and one of its top 10 players overall by several recruiting services.
Almost every major college football program has sought his services, from Alabama to Ohio State to Florida, all three of whom remain bright on his radar. Keeley was headed to Notre Dame until August, when he de-committed and re-opened the recruiting floodgates.
He will not tip his hand as to where he is leaning.
In the meantime, he says he is focused on his current team, including his defensive linemates — seniors Brice Stevenson and Xavier Perkins and juniors Titus Bullard and Nikhil Jefferson.
“Those are my brothers, my family,” Keeley said. “Do they look up to me? I don’t know about that. I would say we all look up to each other. Going back to our freshman year, we were all little kids and now to see what we’ve grown into and how far we’ve come as a group, it’s insane how much of a bond we’ve formed.”
No matter who might be considered the leader, the others on the line acknowledge that they sometimes find themselves stepping back after a Keeley splash play to marvel at what they they just saw.
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“He does some things that other people just can’t do,” Bullard said. “It’s as simple as that.”
Added Jefferson, “Sometimes he’ll make a play, and it gets the whole team so energized. It is definitely great knowing he’s there with us.”
As for the white-hot spotlight that has followed Keeley around this season, Keeley hasn’t let it get to him.
“(The attention) has its positives and its negatives, but overall I know I’m blessed to be in the position,” Keeley said. “I appreciate it, and I appreciate all my coaches and family and teammates. I know I am so fortunate to have a solid group of people surrounding me, helping me make a good decision.”
For now, the immediate focus for Keeley and Berkeley Prep (2-1) is Friday night’s game against Tampa Catholic (2-1), a team loaded with talent and looking for redemption after suffering a 38-0 loss to the Bucs last season.
“I’m not taking anything or anyone for granted,” Keeley said. “None of us are.”

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Grapplers Quest at UFC Results?
Anyone know where I can see the results of the GQ event held at the UFC 100 expo? Especially interested in the superfights.
Cooper beat Stevenson 4-2.
Sato won by submission (Triangle/Kimura, apparently)
Valverde beat Vinny Magalhaes by Advantages.
Jeff Glover beat Wilson Reis 4-2.
Couple of videos here:
"The UK's Lyoto Machida - Hit and Run, Baby"
That tops of an almost perfect weekend.
Fitch, Coleman, Hendo and sato winning
So pleased Sato, Cooper and Glover won.

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What was gross and disturbing in 1985 is after 30 years turned into… well… it’s still gross and disturbing, but with an added soupçon of depressing despair realizing our favorite deformed lil buddies are all grown up and still have the same maladies.
The Garbage Pail Kids were a phenomenon in the mid ’80s and captured the attention of kids everywhere at just the right time. The GPK cards were modeled after the super popular Cabbage Patch Dolls that pretty much every child of the ’80s had. The timing was perfect because, as we grew out of the cuteness of the Cabbage Patch Dolls, the Garbage Pail Kids swooped in and filled that vacuum with disgusting puns and gross-out humor. The trading cards were so popular that a feature length film was made in 1987 that, without exaggeration, was a absolute goddamned nightmare. I watched this as an adult and can assure you that the movie is one of the worst ever made and not in that “fun” way where we watch movies because they’re so bad. Despite the love I have for the cards to this day, the movie is just awful, horrifying, and, I assume, was only made after a movie executive’s fever dream had a fever dream of its own. [Editor’s Note: He’s not kidding; that movie should be used as a bio-weapon.] Here’s the trailer for reference, keep in mind that this was intended as a fun children’s movie.
I am sorry for that. It had to be done.
In a project by photographer Brandon Voges and art director Jake Houvenagle, they decided to re-imagine some of the Garbage Pail Kids in a “where are they now?” scenario, assuming they’ve aged with the rest of us. The results of which, as you can see in the gallery below, are flat-out disturbing. The iconic face of the card series, Adam Bomb, starts off the collection sitting in the exact same spot he was all those years ago. Having detonated in 1985, his life appears to be fairly boring after destroying everything around him. He was, however, able to find the same suit in an adult size, so I guess post-apocalyptic clothing stores still exist. The photo series continues with other fan favorites Clogged Duane, Armpit Britt, Bony Tony, Barfin’ Barbara, and Noah Body. Check out the making-of video of how each photo was created.
Now, all I have to do is see if there’s a way I can volunteer for the next photo set for the “Blake Flake” card.
What do you think of the updated Garbage Pail Kids? What was your favorite growing up? Are you as intrigued as I am about Noah Body’s rise to power? Let us know in the comments below.


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Dr. Thomas Silva is a pediatrician in East Boston, Massachusetts. He is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Boston Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and has been in practice for 20 years. He is one of 79 doctors at Boston Medical Center and one of 149 at Massachusetts General Hospital who specialize in Pediatrics.
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Yale Study Unveils Breakthrough in Hospice Pain Management
In a groundbreaking study by Yale University, published in the American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, researchers have discovered that hospice patients who were administered plant-derived CBD-dominant capsules experienced significant pain relief and reduced their daily opioid intake. This finding is a significant advancement in the field of pain management for hospice patients.
The Study: Exploring the Efficacy of CBD-Dominant Capsules
The study involved a cohort of 66 hospice patients, all of whom were taking opioids for pain management. These patients were administered capsules containing either 40mg CBD/1.5mg THC or 80mg CBD/3mg THC. The focus was on assessing the efficacy of the adjunctive use of cannabis products in pain management.
Investigators reported a statistically significant reduction in pain intensity over time, aligning with previous research suggesting that cannabinoids can modulate pain pathways and enhance the analgesic effects of opioids. This result is a promising development in the use of medical cannabis for pain relief.
Implications for Opioid Use in Pain Management
One of the most notable findings of the study was the decrease in opioid dose used in combination with medical cannabis. While the decrease did not reach statistical significance, it indicates a potential stabilizing effect of combination therapy on opioid dose. This trend is particularly relevant in the context of the ongoing opioid crisis, offering a potential pathway to reduce opioid dependence.
The study’s authors concluded that the co-administration of medical cannabis with opioid therapy for pain management in hospice inpatients demonstrated statistically significant pain reduction over time with minimal adverse events. These findings contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting the use of medical cannabis as an adjunctive treatment for pain management.
Consistency with Previous Research
The findings of this study are consistent with those of other studies reporting that the co-administration of either smoked cannabis or cannabinoids augments the pain-relieving effects of opioids, even when both substances are administered at subtherapeutic doses. This consistency adds to the reliability and validity of the current study's results.
The Yale University study represents a significant step forward in the understanding and application of medical cannabis in pain management, especially for hospice patients. By demonstrating the effectiveness of CBD-dominant capsules in conjunction with opioids, this research opens new avenues for treating pain in a more effective and potentially safer manner. As the medical community continues to explore the benefits of cannabis, this study serves as a crucial piece of evidence in support of its therapeutic potential.


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Underlying UK car output remains depressed due to supply-side factors – despite gains versus a year ago – according to the latest figures released by the by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
The SMMT also said that ongoing staff and supply shortages (semiconductors) threaten the UK car production revival. Staff shortages at UK factories related to the pandemic are compounding the negative impact of shortages of critical electronic components for manufacturers.
UK car factories turned out 69,097 units in June. While this was a 22.1% rise compared with the Covid-depressed June 2020, it still represents the worst June total since 1953 as the global chip shortage, caused by the pandemic, and other factors continued to take a toll on production, the SMMT said.
The June performance rounded off a turbulent first six months for UK car production, with the pandemic, new trading rules with Europe and supply issues causing ongoing challenges. Some 498,923 units rolled off production lines in the first half, down 38.4% on the five-year, first-half average representing a loss of 311,160 cars worth more than £8.5billion.
Exports continued to sustain British car manufacturing with more than eight in ten (83.4%) models made here so far this year shipped overseas. More than half of these (51.7%) headed into the EU, with the US the UK’s next most important global market (taking 18.8% of exports) followed by China (7.8%), Japan (1.9%) and Australia (1.8%).
UK production of battery electric (BEV), plug in hybrid (PHEV) and hybrid electric (HEV) vehicles, meanwhile, remained steady year-to-date with around a quarter (22.6%) of all cars alternatively fuelled. However, the SMMT noted that with the looming end of sale date for new petrol and diesel cars less than nine years away, the industry is challenged to accelerate the transition from fossil fuel to zero emission vehicles. This will require significant investment into vehicle manufacturing, battery production and supply chain transformation for which a clear commitment to enhancing UK automotive competitiveness is essential.
Despite the easing of Covid restrictions, manufacturers are experiencing staff shortages due to self-isolation arising from notification of contacts outside the workplace. This is putting production at risk and is another drag on the sector’s recovery. Indeed, an independent study forecasts the negative impact on planned UK car production, primarily due to the worldwide shortage of critical semiconductors, could be as much as 100,000 units this year.
Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said: “While the UK automotive industry continues to suffer the effects of the global pandemic, with first half year production down significantly and a tough few months looming, the sector has the capability to recover. The latest investments into new models and battery production show a bright future is within reach, yet the industry still faces headwinds most notably from global semiconductor shortages and staff absenteeism as a result of staff being ‘pinged’.
“Businesses have ensured their facilities are Covid secure but urgent action is needed, such as bringing forward the 16 August target date for exempting fully vaccinated adults from self-isolation and introducing a “test to release” scheme to support those employees not yet fully vaccinated.
“Operating conditions are still challenging, however, highlighting the need for specific actions to help competitiveness, such as creating a Build Back Better Fund and the alleviation of high energy costs, to get the sector back on track and towards the volumes that make UK facilities viable.”
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On my flight back from Norway, I watched Doctor Strange for the third time. Every time I watch this film, something new sticks out for me.
Mordo: “I wanted the power to defeat my enemies and you gave me the power to defeat my demons.”
The Ancient One: “We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.”
(Doctor Strange. Dir. Scott Derrickson. Marvel Studios, 2016. Film.)
For those of you who don’t know my story, watch “Not So Namaste” on my site and you will get a glimpse into my upbringing. I have a lot of demons and I would be foolish to think they will simply go away, but I will be damned if I allow them to run my life. As I’ve started my journey with plant medicine, and combine that with my ongoing yoga practice, I feel like I have enough tools to battle them.
The biggest tool is awareness. Awareness gives me the ability to pause and reflect instead of going straight to reacting. It gives me the gift to live out of intent more and more, and not simply out of habit. I am able to notice when I’m anxious and in my head, and to choose my breath.
This gives me the power to choose, the power to trust my path instead of my fears, the power to choose me.
The longer we live, the more we realize life is not simply black and white. We collect a lot of baggage along the way but the power to choose yourself over your demons is always there.
Identify your demons. Get to know them. Give them a good kick in the ass and send them on their merry way.
Choose YOU instead. Over and over, rise up above your demons and choose you.
Believe you’re worth it.

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For instance, if we create a list of the most important things in your life right now, would you put your fitness right there in the top 3?
If not, I would say you are in deep trouble.
Without your fitness, (and when I say fitness that word involves diet, exercise and mental health), you are nothing.
You won’t be able to do anything from your list without your health; simple as that.
So what should you do to have your health as the number one thing in your life?
Simple. Just do it. Prioritise things and say no to superfluous and meaningless things.
I think that people that exercise first thing in the morning have higher chances of completing their workout routines.
Also waking up early and planning your day and diet is paramount.
Diet planning is easy, I like to do it on Sundays and Wednesdays. I prepare a lot of dishes and freeze most of them, so I can have food ready.
Diet planning also creates a strong boundary around what your diet is
When you put energy towards diet and exercise there is no way it can go wrong.
Then comes the next most important point in making your health top of the list and that is determination.
Determination is the art of being stubborn and persistent in any season, environment and social scene.
Create a target and stick to it no matter what.
So what is on top of your list?
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“This is an opportunity for Chicago as a whole to think about what our public streets mean to us,” Chicago Department of Transportation Commissioner Gia Biagi said.
Besides creating open streets that limit vehicle traffic and closing sections of some streets for weekend dining, the Transportation Department will add up to 30 miles of new bikeways this year, compared with 13 miles last year. The city also plans to paint fresh striping on 40 miles of bikeways, compared with the 10 miles that were restriped last year.
The city has created, with community input, 6 miles of “open streets,” which are limited to local traffic and make it easier to use them for walking and biking. The locations include a section of Leland Avenue in the Ravenswood neighborhood, Wabansia Avenue in West Town and Drexel Boulevard in Kenwood.
Biagi said the city is collecting community input to decide on other open streets, but emphasized that she is not “in a race” to keep up with what New York City or other cities are doing.
“People are saying ‘Chicago ... where are your 73 miles of shared streets?” Biagi said. “It was important for us to learn from other cities and also listen really well. ... Every neighborhood is different and there are different traffic challenges. We want to make sure we’re supporting business.”
Biagi said the pandemic created an opportunity to try things that the city was already thinking about in terms of expanded use of streets, beyond their use for cars.
“These are great opportunities to say, you know what, we can calm traffic and make a street a place to play, especially in areas that don’t have as much access to open space,” Biagi said.
Starting this past weekend with a section of Broadway in Lakeview East and part of Rush Street, the city is closing six streets on weekends for outdoor, socially distanced dining. More closures are planned for Taylor Street in Little Italy, 26th Street in Little Village, portions of Randolph Street in the West Loop and 75th Street in Chatham.
Biagi said the city is reviewing more than 100 applications for other street closures for dining. Local chambers of commerce, business associations or clusters of three restaurants on a block can apply.
Half the new bikeways planned for this year are on the South Side, including 4 miles along Loomis Avenue between 98th Street and Marquette Road and 2 miles along Michigan Avenue between 94th and 100th streets.
The city also plans next month to put protected lanes along Milwaukee Avenue between Western and California avenues, a stretch which already sees heavy bike traffic.
Asked if the massive scooter pilot planned for later this summer might compete with the existing Divvy bike program, Biagi said the scooters will offer another mobility option.
Jim Merrell, advocacy director for the Active Transportation Alliance, said that the Alliance is interested in seeing how the city will use the scooter program to complement Divvy and not undermine it.
Scooters, electric bikes
Biagi said the city does not plan a third scooter pilot, and wants to make sure it gets this one right. One new requirement is that scooters have to be locked to fixed devices at the end of rides, instead of being left in the middle of sidewalks.
Biagi also said the city is “pretty close” to figuring out how to price Divvy electric bikes, which will be introduced later this year. While the price is expected to be higher than ordinary Divvy bikes, Biagi said the city is looking at a program that will allow lower-income residents to try out the bikes at lower prices.
Using streets in different ways can help with combating generational poverty, Biagi said, since a vibrant, welcoming street can help businesses.
“What I hope is that people are using their streets in ways that they haven’t before, that they’re seeing the street as an extension of their front yard, their front stoop, and that we do a better job taking care of each other in the street,” Biagi said.
She said the pandemic has created a period where people have had to learn to take care of their neighbors, and maybe this could extend to how people use the streets, “where we drive a little slower, and we look out for each other.”


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It is an old recipe given to me from my Mother.rnI arranged the original recipe by cutting sugar to meet my family's taste.
Ingredients and spices that need to be prepared to make Fluffy chiffon cake:
- 4 large egg yolks
- 5 large egg whites
- 30 g sugar
- 60 g sugar
- 65 ml water
- 90 ml oil
- 125 g wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Steps to make Fluffy chiffon cake
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (175℃), mix wheat flour and baking powder.
- Whip up egg yolks and sugar (30g), add water, oil and whip.
- When they turn into light-colored, smooth texture, add wheat flour, baking powder and mix them completely.
- Stir egg whites softly, and add sugar (60g) and whip them until stiff.
- Whip them so they are stiff til they turn into stable foam.rnTip: Give them 3 minutes extra time whipping after you feel it's enough.
- Take 1/3 meringue and put it into step3 and mix well.
- Pour step6 into meringue and mix gently to keep the foam.
- Pour into a chiffon cake pan.
- Hit the pan's bottom against the counter lightly to collapse bubbles.
- Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
- Turn it upside down and cool it down completely.
- You can arrange it like this. It goes will with cream & fruit
- Note: Making a fluffy, stable meringue: that's the key to success!
How ? It’s easy? That’s how to make Fluffy chiffon cake which you can practice at home. Hopefully useful and good luck!

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When French Beauty School rebranded luxe-style, we took their image into the stratosphere.
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A rose by any other name
Sherelle and Alan French bought the Gold Coast Training Academy, so they decided to build on a French theme for the Academy. We worked closely with the Academy team to develop ideas around how to express that French flavour throughout their branding and materials.
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01 Set Genetic variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a London outbreak associated with isoniazid resistance
Background: The largest outbreak of isoniazid-resistant (INH-R) Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Western Europe is centred in North London, with over 400 cases diagnosed since 1995.
In the current study we evaluated the genetic variation in a subset of outbreak clinical samples with the hypothesis that these isolates have unique biological characteristics that serve to prolong the outbreak.
Methods: Fitness assays, mutation rate and whole genome sequencing were performed to test for selective advantage and compensatory mutations.
Conclusions: This detailed analysis of the genetic variation of these INH-R samples suggests that this outbreak consists of successful, closely-related, circulating strains with heterogeneous resistance profiles and little or no associated fitness cost or impact on their mutation rate. Specific deletions and SNPs may be a peculiar feature of these isolates, which can potentially explain their persistence for years.

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Session Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Presentation Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Location: Hall D1
Purpose: Panel-Reactive Antibody (PRA) is a screening test for a range of known human leukocyte antigens which signifies the proportion of the population that the patient being tested will react via pre-existing antibodies. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of pretransplant PRA level on ocular surface stem cell survival and visual outcomes.
Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of 389 eyes that underwent ocular surface stem cell transplant (OSST) by a single surgeon (EJH) between May 2000 and January 2016. All patients with pre-transplant PRA level testing were included. Patient were divided into three subgroups based on peak PRA: PRA 0%, PRA ≤ 50%, and PRA > 50%. Preoperative and last follow-up visual acuity (VA), improvement in VA, and ocular surface stability were outcome measures. Ocular surface was classified as “stable” for no recurrence of limbal stem cell defiency; “partially failed” ocular surface was defined as an eye with areas of abnormal conjunctival epithelium on the cornea and regions of normal looking cornea; ocular surface “failure” was defined as total compromise of the ocular surface. Outcomes were analyzed with ANOVA, Chi-Sqaure, Relative Risk, and Regression.
Results: A total of 51 eyes from 41 patients (56% male, mean age 40.4 years) underwent OSST with mean follow-up of 3.2 years after OSST. PRA subgroups included PRA 0% (n=28), PRA ≤ 50% (n=8), and PRA > 50% (n=15). In the 0% PRA category, 67% were stable, 22% were partial failure, and only 11% were failed; for 1-50% PRA, 56% were stable, 44% were partial failure, and 0% failed; for 51-100% PRA, 62.5% were stable, 25% were partial failure, and only 12.5% were failures. There were no significant differences between subgroups when comparing visual acuity or ocular surface stability outcomes.
Conclusion: There was no significant difference in visual acuity or ocular surface stability outcomes between high or moderate PRA eyes and those with zero PRA. Absolute failure rates for ocular surface were low even for eyes with high PRA with our current systemic immunosuppression protocol. Systemic immunosuppression adjusted for increased PRA level may help counteract any subgroup differences.
CITATION INFORMATION: Govil A, Cheung A, Sarnicola E, Genereux B, Holland E. Impact of Pretransplant Panel-Reactive Antibody Level on Ocular Surface Stem Cell Survival and Visual Outcome. Am J Transplant. 2017;17 (suppl 3).
To cite this abstract in AMA style:Govil A, Cheung A, Sarnicola E, Genereux B, Holland E. Impact of Pretransplant Panel-Reactive Antibody Level on Ocular Surface Stem Cell Survival and Visual Outcome. [abstract]. Am J Transplant. 2017; 17 (suppl 3). https://atcmeetingabstracts.com/abstract/impact-of-pretransplant-panel-reactive-antibody-level-on-ocular-surface-stem-cell-survival-and-visual-outcome/. Accessed September 23, 2021.
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Delhi minister and AAP leader Kailash Gahlot was today questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged money laundering case linked to the Delhi liquor policy. Mr Gahlot is currently the minister for home, transport, and law in the Delhi government.
Mr Gahlot was questioned by the ED for over five hours. Sources said the probe agency asked him about the process following while drafting the policy.
“I was questioned for nearly 5.5 hours. I will come in for questioning again if the ED summons me,” the AAP leader said after leaving the probe agency’s office.
The summons came just days after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested in the case.
The case pertains to alleged corruption and money laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped.
The ED claims the policy provided an impossibly high profit margin of nearly 185 per cent for retailers and 12 per cent for wholesalers. Of the latter, six per cent – over Rs 600 crore – was recovered as bribes and the money was allegedly used to fund the Goa and Punjab poll campaigns, the agency claims.
This group is alleged to have given Rs 100-crore kickbacks to the AAP and its leaders.
The ED has also alleged in its chargesheet that Mr Gahlot handled a single SIM number but his IMEI (international mobile equipment identity) was changed thrice.
Three top Aam Aadmi Party leaders including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have been arrested in the Delhi liquor policy case. The other two are AAP MP Sanjay Singh and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
K Kavitha, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, is also in jail.

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Friends with Benefits (2011)
Sometimes chemistry can make up for a lot, and the dynamic, natural, and playfully flirty chemistry between stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis makes up for a lot of their movies shortcomings (if you know what I mean). Friends with Benefits is another tale about a guy and a girl, both friends, who embark on a challenge to have casual sex and not form emotional/romantic attachments. No matter how many romantic comedy clichés it points out for ridicule, it doesn’t excuse the fact that the movie becomes one big, mushy, clichéd rom-com itself, albeit with saltier language (if you know what I mean). The randy humor will occasionally feel like it’s trying too hard, afraid to let an obvious joke lie dormant for too long. That’s where the sheer star power and amiable chemistry of the leads comes in handy. Kunis and Timberlake are both rather easy on the eyes, but they have a sharp sense of comic timing and a natural interplay. Hooray, a movie about friends where they feel like actual friends. Under the direction of Will Gluck (Easy A), the film has a jaunty pace except for an extended layover in Los Angeles that seems to sap the comic mojo and chart the film’s obvious rom-com reconciliatory ending. Friends with Benefits is sexy, funny, and an easy way to waste a couple hours (if you know what I mean).
Nate’s Grade: B-


For over twenty years, Lisa Sonneborn's documentary film and video work has been used to promote social action in the disability community. Lisa produces the Visionary Voices Project for The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. The Voices project works to preserve the history of Pennsylvania's Intellectual Disability Rights Movement through oral history interviews with the Movement's leaders, the preservation of archive materials to the Movement and, most recently, through public performance. To date, the project has collected over sixty interviews, preserved four personal papers collections, and produced three short documentaries on Pennsylvania's disability history. Currently, Lisa is the Director of Media Arts and Culture (MAC) at The Institute on Disabilities, Temple University.
Nicki Pombier Berger is an oral historian, writer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist.
She brings an oral historical approach to collaborative work across disciplines, with an interest in how the process and products of these collaborations reflect, and enact desires for change.
As Artist Resident with The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, Berger utilizes an arts and oral history-based approach to document first-person experiences of institutionalization. Her work with Temple began in 2014 on A Fierce Kind of Love, a multifaceted arts-based project on the intellectual disability rights movement in Pennsylvania, for which Nicki co-curated content for a multimedia exhibit online and in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol and Philadelphia’s City Hall. Berger is also the Founding Editor of Underwater New York, an arts project of creative work and programming inspired by the waterways of New York City.


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BELARUS: Fines on religious activity continue as pastors complain to president of restrictions
The official in the western town of Baranovichi who arranged for two local Baptists to be fined about one month's average wages each for using their home for religious worship defends his action. "They violated the Religion Law," ideology official Sergei Puzikov insisted to Forum 18 News Service. Told that the two point to Belarus' Constitution, which guarantees religious freedom, he responded: "In any country there is not only the Constitution, but individual laws." Puzikov was also involved in a fine handed down to another Baranovichi church in July. Police in nearby Malorita tried to have Baptists punished for singing hymns on the street, but the judge threw out the case. Fifty Protestant pastors – many of whom have been punished for religious activity - wrote to President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 20 August complaining of long-standing restrictions. The office of Belarus' senior religious affairs official refused to discuss their complaints with Forum 18.Authorities in the western Brest Region have continued their harassment of religious communities, local believers have told Forum 18 News Service. Two Protestant congregations in the town of Baranovichi [Baranavichy] were given large fines in July, while in early August police in the town of Malorita tried to have six Baptists punished under the Administrative Violations Code for singing hymns and giving out Christian literature on the street without state permission. However, in that case the judge threw out the accusation, insisting that singing hymns does not fall under the auspices of the Law on Demonstrations.
On 20 August, fifty Protestant pastors from across Belarus signed a letter to President Aleksandr Lukashenko defending the embattled New Life Full Gospel Church in the capital Minsk and complaining about long-standing restrictions on religious activity.
However, Forum 18 has been unable to discuss these complaints or the harassment in Brest Region with Leonid Gulyako, the government's Plenipotentiary for Religious and Ethnic Affairs. His assistant, who had told Forum 18 on 24 August that he was in an urgent meeting, told Forum 18 on 25 August that she would not put the call through and would not discuss the concerns raised by the pastors or the harassment in Brest Region with Forum 18. She then put the phone down.
Members of a variety of religious communities have been fined this year for religious activity the authorities regard as illegal. The highest fine so far was of 2,100,000 Belarusian Roubles (4,750 Norwegian Kroner, 533 Euros or 745 US Dollars), three months' average wages, handed down on Council of Churches Baptist Nikolai Poleshchuk in the town of Osipovichi in the eastern Mogilev [Mahilyow] Region in May (see F18News 11 June 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1310).
Council of Churches Baptists refuse on principle to register their congregations with the state, insisting that registration should not be needed for religious worship. However, Belarus' highly restrictive Religion Law – in defiance of the country's international human rights commitments – makes registration compulsory before religious activity is legal. The law also restricts legal religious worship to state-approved premises and bans regular religious worship – whether by registered or unregistered congregations - in private homes.
The latest moves to punish peaceful religious activity come as the authorities prepare once again to try to confiscate from the New Life Full Gospel Church its place of worship in Minsk (see F18News 24 August 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1339).
In their letter defending the New Life congregation, of which Forum 18 has seen the text, the fifty Protestant pastors also complained to President Lukashenko of tight restrictions on religious activity. "We don't understand why officials at various levels obstruct our activity, which we carry out on the basis of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and current law," they wrote. They also expressed concern that many laws themselves unfairly restrict religious activity.
In particular, the pastors complain that "for various reasons", Protestant congregations are refused permission to build places of worship and are then denied permission to rent premises for worship. They say this has been going on for many years. The pastors complain of "humiliating surveillance" by the KGB secret police, and repeated punishments under the Administrative Violations Code. They claim that judges interpret the Code arbitrarily and often act under direct orders from the KGB and other state agencies.
Among the signatories to the letter are many pastors who have been punished or whose churches have been punished in recent years. Pastor Leonid Voronenko leads one of the two Protestant churches in Baranovichi fined in July and his church has faced harassment before. Pastor Boris Chernoglaz leads a Minsk Full Gospel congregation which has faced obstruction finding premises for worship.
Pastor Andrei Sidor has been fined for leading worship in his own home near Minsk. Pastor Dmitry Podlobko was given an official warning for holding services in a building he owns in Gomel [Homyel]. Pastor Antoni Bokun's church in Minsk has been raided by police and he has been fined and imprisoned for three days for leading worship. Minsk-based Pastor Ernst Sabilo – who spent 13 years in Soviet labour camps for his faith – has had his congregation liquidated in court.
Baranovichi Baptists fined
On 7 July, Judge Vasily Petriv of Baranovichi Town and District Court handed down massive fines on two members of a local Council of Churches Baptist congregation because it meets for worship in a private home, local Baptists and court officials told Forum 18. Stepan Paripa and Nikolai Pestak were found guilty of violating Article 21.16 Part 1 of the Administrative Violations Code, which punishes "using living premises not for their purpose" with a fine on individuals of between ten and thirty base units. Each was fined twenty base units, 700,000 Belarusian Roubles (1,483 Norwegian Kroner, 173 Euros or 248 US Dollars).
Local Baptists say that Paripa and Pestak did not appeal against the fines, but they refused to pay them. "We believe they are not guilty of anything and so they have not paid," one church member told Forum 18 on 24 August from Baranovichi. The church member added that so far officials have taken no further action against Paripa and Pestak or the church. "All is quiet at the moment."
Court officials told Forum 18 on 24 August that Judge Petriv was away on leave, but insisted the fines had been handed down on the basis of documentary evidence. They said the two had forty days to pay the fines voluntarily. Failure to do so would lead to attempts by court executors to recover the money. Court officials confirmed that the fine on each amounted to about a month's average wages locally.
Church members say officials are trying to pressure the congregation to apply for registration, which they fear will bring with it state interference in the internal life of the congregation and restrictions on its activity. They point to Article 31 of Belarus' Constitution, which guarantees religious freedom to all without mentioning registration. "Registering a church and gaining legal status is the right of believers, not an obligation," church members maintain.
The latest trouble for the congregation began on 19 June, when local Ideology Department official Sergei Puzikov ordered an administrative case to be launched against the two. Paripa and Pestak were both fined on the same charge in December 2007 (see F18News 17 December 2007 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1063).
Puzikov defends the decision to fine Paripa and Pestak. "They violated the Religion Law," he insisted to Forum 18 on 24 August. Told that the Baptists point to Article 31 of the Constitution, which makes no reference to state registration before religious activity can be undertaken, Puzikov responded: "In any country there is not only the Constitution, but individual laws." He refused to answer any further questions and put the phone down.
Another Baranovichi church loses appeal against fine
The fines on the two Baptists came one week before another Protestant church in the town was fined by the same court. The New Generation Full Gospel Church led by Pastor Voronenko was fined 350,000 Belarusian Roubles on 14 July for holding a Sunday morning prayer service on 21 June which the same Puzikov of the town's Executive Committee claimed was activity "not according to the statute" of the church (see F18News 16 July 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1327).
The church appealed against the fine to Brest Regional Court. However, in a 20 August decision seen by Forum 18, Judge Anatoly Pastukhov rejected the appeal. The judge upheld the decision that the prayer service represented "activity outside the statute" but failed to explain why holding a Sunday morning prayer service was not in accordance with the church's statute.
Protestants told Forum 18 that the church has not paid the fine so far because the appeal has been underway and now intends to lodge a supervisory appeal against the decision. The church also complains that it was never given the written text of the 14 July court decision.
Baptists escape fine
Meanwhile, Council of Churches Baptists told Forum 18 that elsewhere in Brest Region, police attempts to have church members fined for singing hymns and offering Christian literature on the streets have been thrown out. They say that on 1 August, six church members were detained in the town of Malorita and taken to the police station. There police drew up an official record, declaring that the six had "sung Christian songs and distributed Christian literature without having the permission for this from the organs of state power".
The Baptists noted that a large group of fellow church members attended the court hearing of the six on 7 August. Judge Pyotr Borichevsky told the six that the court would not hear the case as singing Christian songs does not fall under the purview of the 2003 Law on Demonstrations. He sent the official records back to the police and ended the case against the six.
The Baptists told Forum 18 that this is not the first time police in Malorita have moved against their members who have been singing and offering literature on the street. (END)
For a personal commentary by Antoni Bokun, Pastor of a Pentecostal Church in Minsk, on Belarusian citizens' struggle to reclaim their history as a land of religious freedom, see F18News 22 May 2008 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1131.
For more background information see Forum 18's Belarus religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1311.
Full reports on freedom of thought, conscience and belief in Belarus can be found at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?query=&religion=all&country=16.
A survey of the religious freedom decline in the eastern part of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) area is at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=806.
A printer-friendly map of Belarus is available at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=europe&Rootmap=belaru.


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Super sales last month are expected to make up for sales losses due to Superstorm Sandy.
Analysts handicapping auto sales say that when sales are done being reported today, they will show that the industry remains on track for another strong recovery year.
A lot of buyers who postponed buying a new car due to the storm that devastated parts of coastal New York and New Jersey returned to showrooms last month to buy. More could be coming this month.
The industry was on track to sell 14.9 to 15.1 million for the year if results from last month held up over the full year, a pace that's up about 10.9% over last year, global securities firm Jefferies & Co. predicts.
Jefferies says 100,000 of them are from sales deferred due to the storm and that because things slowed a bit earlier this year, 2012 will finish with about 14.4 million vehicles sold, a healthy increase over last year.
Kelley Blue Book forecasts a 14.7-million seasonally adjusted sales rate for November, slightly outpacing the previous month when the storm hit.
"Kelley Blue Book anticipates buyers that were forced to delay a purchase due to the onset of the storm will continue to return to market during the next several weeks," said Alec Gutierrez, senior market analyst of automotive insights for Kelley Blue Book.


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Welcome to our LiBLOGrary!
This project is a collaborative idea between sisters. We wanted to create a fun forum for sharing the stories we read in books, magazines, newspapers, on street signs, and the like. It is intended to be a place for anyone to share their experiences with the written word. Please feel welcome to follow the site's reviews, and explore the content and suggestions as it unfolds and evolves. If you are interested in writing with us, shoot us an email at LiBLOGrary [at] gmail [dot] com. Tell us a little about yourself, and we will add you as an author to the site so you can post your own reviews.
Below is the list of survey questions to help you as you review the amazing stories you want to share. These are meant to be a jump start for your discussion, to help you think about the literature you read in new ways. Though we suggest following the format provided, if some questions don't apply feel free to leave them out. We reserve the right to edit or remove defamatory or inappropriate postings (though we hope it won't be an issue!). Thanks for being a part of this fun project and sharing 'your side of the story'!
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Leaked product sheet outs the dimensions of the Nokia Lumia 63017
The Nokia Lumia 630, codenamed the Moneypenny after the James Bond character, would be the first Windows Phone handset to offer Dual SIM support. Considering that this feature is usually found in emerging markets, that is mostly likely where Nokia will first launch the device. The Windows Phone 8.1 update is adding Dual SIM support to the platform.
The resolution of previously leaked screenshots from evleaks hinted at a 720p screen on the Lumia 630, which will have dimensions of 129.55mm x 66.7mm based on today's leak.
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Notre Dame hosted Josh Adams during the Irish Invasion, getting the three-star running back from Warrington, Pa., on campus for the first time. The impression was so strong that the Central Bucks High School running back wrapped up his recruitment barely a week later.
The 6-foot-3, 210-pound athlete committed to Notre Dame on Monday, choosing the Irish over finalists Penn State, Pittsburgh and Stanford.
Adams suffered a torn ACL during his junior season that Central Bucks head coach Dan Rackovan said has returned to full strength. Adams is expected to return to action this fall for his senior season. He did not work out at the Irish Invasion.
"His potential, both size and athletically are off the charts," Rackovan told Irish Illustrated earlier in the process. "He's a very explosive kid, a finisher. And above all else, he's a great kid. He's a really good student, a leader in the school, all the things you'd want to be a part of your football team."
Rackovan provided the Irish with a connection to Adams through the high school head coach's background, which went back to being a graduate assistant at Penn alongside Notre Dame offensive line coach Harry Hiestand. Hiestand recruits Pennsylvania for Notre Dame and visited the school.
"I know that he is a very sincere person, he's a no B.S. type of guy and will tell you exactly how he feels," Rackovan said. "I think he relates well to student-athletes and there's no question where he's coming from, ever. I think that's really important."
The Adams commitment kicks off a potentially busy week for Notre Dame on the recruiting front with three-star cornerback Ashton White, four-star linebacker Justin Hilliard, four-star defensive end Jashon Cornell and four-star wide receiver Miles Boykin all potentially on the verge of making commitments. The Irish are the presumed leaders for White and Boykin.
In Adams, the Irish get their first running back in the current recruiting class and 15th verbal commitment overall. After not signing a running back last cycle, the Adams pledge figures to be part of a two-man haul at the position this cycle. Notre Dame continues a handful of national backs, among them Soso Jamabo, Dexter Williams and Ty'Son Williams.
Look for more on Adams' commitment later today on Irish Illustrated.


The former TOWIE lad has spilled the beans on the Mean Girls star, who is rumoured to be relocating to Blighty.
Tom said: "Hopefully she's moving here and we can spend more time together.
"She's told me she's got some good things in the pipeline."
Although Lydia Rose-Bright's ex sounds terribly smitten with the flame-haired vixen, he insists their relationship is firmly in the friend zone.
Adding: "She is a lovely, fun girl. I have a girlfriend. Lindsay is literally a really good, close friend."
When his relationship with James Argent's former flame fizzled out, Tom left the Brentwood-based scripted reality show.
When asked if he suffered pangs of regret as he watched Lyds welcomed back at the start of series 12 on Sunday, Tom told Star: "We didn't see eye to eye. She likes that kind of lifestyle and I don't.
"I don't want to be associated with TOWIE. When you want to do things like fashion, people don't always take you seriously.
"A lot of people sell their brand through TOWIE and I'm not like that."
Meow. He may have left our screens but his reality star claws are still well and truly sharpened.


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"Noting the music industry’s complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, “Well, why not? It ain’t worth nothing anyway.” Link
An agreement, or just humoring me…
Bob Dylan is complaining about the results of mastering the CDs, not about any missing quality in the music itself.
A big part of this is the Loudness War which has no winners, but many losers - including all audiophiles. The albums mistreated in this way are the casualties of war.
Bob Dylan is just one of the losers in this war and he has suffered some casualties.
Got you to look though…
Noted Mastering Engineer Doug Sax â€” in an AES talk entitled â€œWhatever Happened to Dynamic Range and Why?â€ â€” put the problem succinctly: â€œThe biggest virtue of the LP record â€” and why dynamic range is gone â€” is that it could not be played in the car.â€
Doug Sax is, one of the premier Mastering Engineers on the planet…
Here’s a link that explains it from a Mastering Engineer’s perspective…
Compression In Mastering
Hey, I got 5 of the CDs from that Honor Roll!
[B]Body and Soul [/B] - Joe Jackson
[B]Dark Side of the Moon[/B] - Pink Floyd
[B]Amused to Death[/B] - Roger Waters
[B]Sergeant Pepper[/B] - Beatles
[B]Brand New Day[/B] - Sting
An agreement! Very little good stuff anymore.
I disagree. There’s plenty of good stuff out there, you just have to know where to look. Admittedly a lot of the current crop of corporate music out there is repetitive, formulatic garbage where every bubble-headed bleach-blonde bimbette sounds exactly alike, but if you look real carefully outside of big corporate music, you can find a whole slew of artists worthy of listening. For example, there’s an online-only “radio station” called Whole Wheat Radio (http://www.wholewheatradio.org) out of Alaska that features independent artists. I’ve “discovered” several artists I would have never found about if I had relied on what big corporate radio (like Clear Channel - a.k.a. “the Borg”) offers. Plus there are still some radio stations in the U.S. and overseas that play a lot of music by non-corporate artists or lesser-known artists that might and should have a wider audience.
Anyway, that’s my two cents worth on the matter.
What I cant understand is WHY the industry cant agree on some volume standard for every CD made in civilized world. That way the audiophiles will be happy and regular folk wont have the problems with their car changers. Besides if some releases are crap it dont matter how loud u play it, it will only make crap bigger.
Well Bob Dylan is an old fart. Just kidding I realy like his stuff. I read some of it, and that was pretty interesting although I don’t agree with that cd list. Where in the world is Dire Straits self titled album? That’s right up there on sound quality even on a shitty system. Gov’t Mule just came out with a new album ( High and Mighty). Best thing i’ve heard in years.
I have these…but rip’t from original untouched vinyl…mastered by me… …they sound amazing…
i think what dylan is implying is that music in general isn’t worth anything. it’s really just words on a page, or words being sung.
his music is no different from paris hilton’s in that it has no intrinsic value. it’s value lies in people’s interpretations or reactions to it…monetary value SHOULD have nothing to do with an artists motivation to make music, but it often does.
I’ve always thought that my Talking Heads cds were some of the best sounding ones I have. Steely Dan too.
One thing I’ve noticed is that as compressed music gets more popular, more and more people think mp3s sound good… maybe through fairly cheap headphones, but on a decent high res system, I doubt it.
Well, I think some of his music is worthless.
Mmmm I don’t like Bob much, his voice can get extremely annoying. But yeah he’s actually right, but I suppose he meant modern [I]mainstream[/I] music. Generally those things suck all
I disagree! Music of his time was called trash by elders.
I don’t consider myself an elder; I like almost all kinds of music. However, I do think that a lot of new music is crap. It is a bunch of whiney teens, most of whom are not at all talented, singing music that is not written well. (Don’t get me wrong there is some good stuff still being made, just a lot of the mainstream stuff I hear sounds like crap to me. I think that todays mainstream music is worse than in the past.) Dylan didn’t have a good voice (at least not technically); however, his voice did have a certain charm (like Springsteen or Waits). And nobody can deny his writing abilities or the fact that a lot of times he had fine musicians.
Ps. I know some of Dylanâ€™s 80’s work was a bit lame or even BAD (Saved was I think one of his worst albums).
One final note, I think Dylan was talking about the sound quality of the music, not the musical quality.
I have to say ‘modern’ music is far less creative it seems, especially American offerings. The only music still on the cutting edge (granted, from my limited exposure/spectrum) is generally Latin (Spanish) pop/rock with singers like Shakira, Juanes, groups like ManÃ¡. ManÃ¡ is especially a master at reinventing songs and many times using them for social commentary. Sadly, they seriously bombed on their newest release (Amar es combatir). Otherwise, one of the few American artists I see that is still cutting edge is Joe Satriani with his rock guitar instrumentals. Other than that, rock died after about 1990, and the grunge/distorted stuff is too off the wall, too loud and just too ‘ugh’ in general. Country is largely cookie-cutter stuff, with different singers and voices, but the same themes, music. The Mavericks and Shania Twain started some innovative infusions, but Shania has gone more commercial and things in general are too commercial and not enough individual. Modern pop is a joke and the radio is basically worthless to listen to.
My tastes may skew this some, but I have to agree that at least on the creation front, there’s far less imagination and original thinking, with just a general sense of complacency building in, rather than a real desire to ‘buck the status quo’ in at least American music.
I read about this awhile ago. He is an idiot. Sure a lot of music today kind of sucks, but not everything. Their is still good stuff out there.
If you read the original story linked in the first post, you will se that Bob Dylan is not saying that the music itself sucks, but that the way the CDs are mastered makes them sound awful.
There’s a huge difference!


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*The passing of iconic civil rights advocate and former NAACP chairman, Julian Bond, has struck a chord on so many levels, with so many people across the political, humanitarian and civil rights landscape.
The champion of equal rights for all of society’s oppressed died on Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. and while condolences have been pouring in, we are now learning even more intimate details surrounding his death.
Bond, 75, leaves behind his wife of 24 years, Pamela Horowitz, who, says his sudden passing is from complications related to vascular disease. In a voice filled with emotion, Horowitz recalls a poignant incident that happened just as she was leaving the intensive care unit. She says a nurse who was the first to stop her and offer condolences told her.
“…‘I want you to know it was a privilege to take care of him,’ ” Horowitz recalls. “She said, ‘As a gay American, I thought he was a hero.’ And for her to say that, for her to be the last person who was with him, I thought it was a nice way to end.’”
Bond also co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has been front and center in the fight for civil rights and social justice since the 60’s.
His friends and family say he recently advocated for gay couples who wished to marry, and would chat and snap pictures with anyone on the street. He also is said to have talked regularly with President Barack Obama.
“Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life – from his leadership of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to his founding role with the Southern Poverty Law Center, to his pioneering service in the Georgia legislature and his steady hand at the helm of the NAACP,” President Obama said in a statement Sunday. “Michelle and I have benefited from his example, his counsel, and his friendship – and we offer our prayers and sympathies to his wife, Pamela, and his children.”
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Women who smoke during pregnancy more likely to have children who experience depression
New research indicates that smoking whilst pregnant may make the child more likely to suffer from depression later in life.
According to newscientists.com, researchers from Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, discovered that children with mothers who smoked whilst they were in the womb had an altered brain growth. This change in growth means those children may be more likely to develop depression and anxiety at some point in their lives.
They studied 200 children between the ages of six to eight years old, half of their mothers had smoked and half had not. Those with mothers who smoked had smaller brains and the superior frontal cortex had developed more poorly compared to children with non-smoking mothers, reports irishtimes.com.
The research also found that there was no obvious link between the number of cigarettes smoked and the child's brain development. However, if the mothers quit their habit as soon as they discovered they were pregnant, the children were much less likely to be affected by the smoking early on.
Hanan El Marroun, who led the research, said that more research is needed but it's important that children aren't exposed to tobacco.
"Overall, our findings suggest long-term effects of pre-natal tobacco exposure on brain development and emotional problems in young children," she said. "Our findings provide further support for the need of clinical and public health strategies aimed at the prevention of pre-natal tobacco exposure of children."


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