GREEN BAY — Having been born and raised in northeast Wisconsin, I remember warnings not to swim or eat fish from the Fox River and lower bay of Green Bay. After a long cleanup process, we’re almost ready to put the issue of PCBs in the past.
But as we begin enjoying our local waters again, new challenges await. Algal blooms plague our waterways, leading to fish kills. It’s an issue that overwhelms hundreds of bodies of water throughout the state, halting recreation, harming habitat for wildlife, and choking out fish and other aquatic organisms.
Tackling the phosphorus and nitrate contamination that cause the problem isn’t easy, unfortunately. Some of the contamination comes from facilities such as municipal wastewater treatment plants, paper mills and cheese factories that discharge treated wastewater through a pipe. These sources are stringently regulated under the federal Clean Water Act. Often, these facilities remove up to 95% or more of the pollutants from the discharge before releasing it to a water body, under a permit from the state Department of Natural Resources.
New phosphorus regulations meant to improve water quality will tighten these regulations even more. This could result in burdensome, multimillion-dollar facility upgrades for very minimal improvement.
To reduce the burden on municipal utility ratepayers and small businesses while securing noticeable water quality improvements, we must be more innovative.
Sources of water contamination that don’t discharge from a pipe need more attention. This pollution runs off large areas of land, such as family dairy farms, golf courses and community roads. When the federal Clean Water Act was designed in 1972, these “nonpoint” sources weren’t included because it was hard to measure their impact. And these sources remain largely unregulated today.
Nonpoint pollution that washes off the land carries phosphorus, nitrogen, heavy metals, oil and salt to our waterways. This contributes to dangerous algal blooms and harms the ecological health of lakes, rivers and streams. It has led to closed beaches, reduced navigable channels, declining water quality and diminished fisheries.
That’s why I’ve authored Senate Bill 91, titled “P3: Wisconsin’s Trading Marketplace to Establish More Pollution Prevention Partnerships” My co-authors are Rep. Joel Kitchens, R-Sturgeon Bay, and Sen. Jerry Petrowski, R-Marathon. This legislation creates the nation’s first statewide third-party water quality trading clearinghouse, and will help to once again set Wisconsin apart as a leader in solving nonpoint water pollution.
The innovative clearinghouse model created in this bill will facilitate water quality trades where a farmer or other nonpoint source can voluntarily enter into an agreement with and receive payments from a municipal treatment plant, factory or mill to implement more advanced land and water management practices to improve water quality.
This doesn’t let facilities that discharge pollution through pipes off the hook. But in exchange for paying for conservation practices on farms and other landscapes, these plants and factories will receive some flexibility in meeting the ever-tighter standards on discharges.
The result: a municipal utility might avoid costly facility upgrades to save ratepayers money while a farm reduces runoff while increasing yields and decreasing fertilization costs. Meanwhile, the rest of us enjoy the net improvement to water quality.
SB 91 has strong bipartisan support in the Legislature and from groups representing agricultural producers, businesses, local governments and our natural resources. SB 91 passed the state Senate and Assembly on unanimous votes and awaits action by the governor to become law.
SB 91 was recommended by the Speaker’s Task Force on Water Quality. As a task force member, I heard from farmers at all 13 hearings around the state who want to do more to protect waterways but face financial constraints. Farmers care for the land more than anyone. This legislation ensures that farmers can focus on water quality without impacting their bottom line.
As I await the governor’s signature and prepare to push for quick implementation, I’ll be looking for more solutions like “P3” to improve water quality without increasing the regulatory burden faced by Wisconsin businesses, farmers and residents.
Robert Cowles, R-Green Bay, is the state senator for Wisconsin’s 2nd Senate District, covering portions of Brown, Outagamie, Shawano and Waupaca counties: firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Easter is the perfect time to try something new like this nutty-flavoured ginger beer cake. Beat, bake and serve it warm with a dollop of melting cream, and it’ll blow hot cross buns out of the water.
21 incredible Easter baking ideas that aren't hot cross buns
We love a hot cross bun at Easter, but that doesn’t mean you can’t treat yourself to a few other bakes and cakes this long weekend. From a warming slice of ginger beer cake to cute bunny biscuits, we’ve got your Easter baking sorted. This gallery is brought to you by Bundaberg Brewed Drinks.
After something buttery, rich and creamy as the temp drops? The family will love you for whipping up this wallet-friendly baked cheesecake.
Use pantry staples to make this condensed milk tea cake that’s perfect for morning tea.

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Renee Paquette worked with WWE for eight years until she parted ways with the company back in the Summer of 2020. She left the company after FOX’s WWE Backstage show was cancelled. She is also working on a WWE project.
Since then, Paquette kept herself busy with numerous projects, both personal and professional. This includes her giving birth to her daughter and her going through various changes in life.
Makeup artist Lina Zunigao took to Instagram and posted a video of Renee Paquette. So it seems Paquette is in Orlando filming something today at the WWE Performance Center.
Paquette is busy with other things in her life right now. However, we will have to wait and see what WWE project she is actually working on.
Do you think she’s coming back to WWE? Sound off in the comments!

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The project consist on the modeling texturing and animating of the following fishes: Emperor Angelfish · Threadfin Butterflyfish · Green Sea Turtle · Twobar Seabream · Golden Trevally · Parrotfish · Orangespine Unicornfish The animation consists in: - the movement of swimming straight of the fishes (no up...
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I would like to have a vehicle vinyl wrapped with images like the attached file. We are looking for 3-4 different car designs in total but this project is just for the first. We would like to have this completed asap.
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A bill to change the state aid funding formula and two special project funding bills had hearings this morning as the fifth week of legislative session began.
House Bill 1202 was deferred to the 41st Legislative Day on an 8-4 vote by House State Affairs committee members. The bill called for the change of the index factor increase for education funding from three percent to four percent.
“It’s unfortunate a bill that would have benefitted K-12 education failed to gain support,” Executive Director Wade Pogany said. “However, there are other bills that would be just as valuable and the discussion that’s taking place on getting school districts back to stable funding levels is encouraging.”
House Education committee members voted to defer House Bill 1166, which would have rewarded school districts based on the percentage of graduates not taking remediation courses upon entering higher education, to the 41st Legislative Day.
Rep. Ray Ring (17) contended the bill’s reliance on “test and test results” was not the best way to reward districts for student achievement.
The bill would have used up to $1 million from the general fund for the rewards and called for the funds to be divided by the district among its teachers. The reward would have provided one-time dollars only.
A bill calling for one-time dollars be provided in the form of classroom innovation grants was unanimously passed by the committee. House Bill 1164 would supply grant funding to school districts for “them to utilize technology in creative and innovative ways to enhance learning and achievement of their students.”
Rep. David Lust (34), the bill’s lead sponsor, testified the funds would be supplied by surplus dollars and it is “not an ongoing appropriation.” There is no dollar amount appropriated for the program at this time.
ASBSD has not taken a position on the bill, but favors dollars be given to districts to use at their discretion.
“These special project bills are great ideas, but each school district across the state has different needs and we’d like to see any available dollars be used by districts to meet their needs,” Pogany said.
ASBSD will continue to monitor the bill’s progress, as it now advances to the House floor for debate. For updates, check the ASBSD blog and bill tracker.

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September 15 marks the celebration of Grito de Dolores one of the five Fiestas Patrias, or national holidays, in Mexican history. It's an important day, coming directly before Aniversario de la Independencia, the day Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico.
For DJ Smite, also known as Sir Smeezy by those in the downtown know, the day isn't just a day for historical reflection and pachangas. It's a day of challenge.
"Every Cinco de Mayo and September 15 I challenge myself to come up with as many new blends as possible," Smeezy says, talking about his cumbia-crunk blends, a mix of classic cumbia sounds and Southern "crunk" rap. "Granted, I still do that the whole year, but i have so many different genres i like to play and I know that there will be an audience during these times for the cumbia-crunk."
This year, Smite is set to drop his signature sound at two events in Phoenix. On Tuesday, September 13, he'll spin all Latin '45s at The Lost Leaf, and on Thursday, September 15, he'll be a guest DJ at The Blunt Club, where he'll be spinning cumbia-crunk sounds.
Smite doesn't just do cumbia-crunk, he's quick to point out. Smite recently spent time in Sweden, where he showed off his rare funk and soul skills. He's back in town now, and ready to focus on cumbia-crunk blends for the holidays.
"Since I've come back from Sweden, I have a renewed commitment to expanding and developing the sound that I've been cultivating for over a decade," Smite says. "You wont find anyone else on the planet that does all cumbia-crunk vinyl blends."
"First of all my DJ background comes from a hip hop aesthetic," Smite says. "I was there for DJ Radar's first show, I saw Z-Trip come up. I've been involved in the local hip-hop scene since the mid '90s. I've always been really interested in mixing as well as scratching. Back then, scratching was really coming into it's own as an artform."
Smite knew he wanted scratch, but even at an early age, he desired to buck trends and try something stranger, more regionally focused.
"I grew up in central Phoenix. My mom is first generation Mexican-American, and my abuelita lived next door to me. I moved in with her when my mom moved to north Phoenix for the last few months of high school. My nana had a stash of records, including '45s, [and she would] always have on KPHX 'La Super Equis Mexican' radio on 24/7. So, I've been around Mexican music and culture my whole life."
"At the same time, I was breaking back in '84 and imitating M.J. and then eventually getting into Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Eric B and Rakim, Big Daddy Kane...I love hip-hop. By my freshman year, '92, I was saving up for turntables and trying to figure out how to be a DJ, which is nothing like it is today. Nothing. So I pulled a Los Tigres del Norte '45 out of my abuelita's stash in '96. I already had moved my 1200's into her kitchen, set up 24/7, practicing as in lieu of doing homework. After listening to the Tigres '45 I wanted to see what I could do with it. So I grabbed Eric B and Rakim's "I Know You Got Soul" 12" and mixed the instrumental with it."
It was the moment for Smite.
"It was like magic."
Smite started digging for Latin records, which was no easy feat. "There were no "good" records," he says. He carefully started building his arsenal with the decent wax he found, mixing hip-hop sounds and Latin cumbias.
"At the time time there was no crunk," he says. "'Northern soul' was starting to be used a lot as a catch phrase. So I came up with 'Norteño soul' for what I was doing."
"It's funny, 'cuz back then i would tell other local DJs that i was into cumbia and they would look at me like I was a nerd, and now it's all the rage.
While simultaneously exploring other genres like jazz, reggae, funk, and soul, Smite kept mixing hip-hop and Latin sounds, settling into "cumbia crunk" around 2000. The fusion isn't easy, he says. Though the two genres often feature similar tempos, many of the '45s Smite has collected feature "organic" rhythms -- drums and bass played in a live setting, recorded long before click tracks and precise ProTools sessions.
"So, a blend is mixing two or more records the whole time...which is really hard to get out of and go to the next blend. Not to mention these old records the drums ain't quantized for shit."
Smite says that he often feels like he's more interested in his mixes than other DJs and clubgoers around town. "They're good but it's too damn hard. Hardly anybody really cares, you know? But I do. And I don't follow trends."


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Bring the blue of the sea with you when you wear this treasure. One of a kind, genuine turquoise ring encased in hand textured sterling silver.
This is a unique piece of rare turquoise. Only one is available.
The stone is approximately 22mm
Adjustable size from size 5 to 11.

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How Outsourcing Lead Generation Services Benefits B2B Companies
It’s no secret that generates quality leads is essential for business survival. After all, it is generated leads that turn into new clients and revenue streams. B2B (business-to-business) companies often use a variety of tactics, but according to a recent study conducted by Demand Metric Research Corporation, the majority felt that they did not see the kind of results that they want.
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The study, which surveyed 200 small and medium businesses, showed that the three most popular forms of lead generation are email marketing, event marketing, and content marketing, which is used by 78%, 73%, and 67% of businesses surveyed respectively. Get to know more about affordable lead generation services via reading online.
In fact, 70% of B2B companies planning to invest in content marketing as their primary lead generation strategy. These figures are surprising, given that 90% of businesses surveyed stated that they were not satisfied with the number of leads generated.
You may ask yourself "If this technique does not work what I can do to get better leads?” In order to increase the number of leads that are being made and in many cases, to improve their quality, B2B businesses are now looking to outsource this important aspect of their operation.
Doing so enables businesses to focus on other internal processes that help to seal the deal after the leads provided. When you consider the number of benefits that are available for your lead generation outsourcing services, the need to do so becomes clear. Here are some of the top benefits for your consideration.
Outsourcing Lead Generation Costs – When you use high-quality outsourcing services allow you to reduce your costs in several different ways. One of the important ways that reduce costs in your operations is to reduce how much you spend on client acquisition.
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FASHION: THE LGBTQ + PRIDE 2018 COLLECTION BY LEVI’S
June has finally rolled in and is marked as the beginning of Pride month. To kickstart the celebration, Levi’s has released a collection that focuses on an “I AM _____” theme, highlighting various identities with graphic tees to celebrate individuality and equality.
The collection is composed of staple pieces that will be great additions to one’s wardrobe when popping out for various Pride events this month — Sunday (June 4) being NYC’s annual Gay Pride March. Levi’s added their own twist to its classic Trucker Jacket by including customized rainbow embroidery, in addition to sleeveless tees in black and white with Levi’s Batwing in rainbow and 501 cut-off shorts with rainbow embroidery. Bandanas are also making a comeback as the summer’s must-have accessory, as well as caps, belts, underwear and much more in this inclusive collection. Check out pictures below…
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China’s South China Sea islands won’t stop lawful patrols, US Navy says
American forces will continue to operate in waterway ‘as long as international law allows’
American forces will continue to patrol the South China Sea wherever “international law allows us”, a senior US Navy officer said aboard a US aircraft carrier on Saturday.
Lieutenant Commander Tim Hawkins said the US Navy had carried out routine patrols at sea and on air in the strategic waters for 70 years to promote regional security and guarantee the unimpeded flow of trade crucial for Asian and US economies.
“International law allows us to operate here, allows us to fly here, allows us to train here, allows us to sail here, and that’s what we’re doing and we’re going to continue to do that,” Hawkins said when asked if China’s newly built islands could restrain the navy in the disputed waters.
Hawkins made the comments aboard the USS Carl Vinson docked in Manila Bay as part of a visit to the Philippines.
Some of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet officials also boarded the vessel for a brief tour while it was patrolling the South China Sea on Wednesday.
Duterte has sought to retreat from a Philippine foreign policy that he says was steeply oriented towards the United States, reviving once-frosty ties with China while also allowing considerable engagement with his country’s treaty ally.
China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei have long contested ownership of the South China Sea, which straddles one of the world’s busiest sea lanes and is believed to sit atop vast deposits of oil and gas.
Washington stakes no claims in the disputed region, but has declared that the peaceful resolution of the long-raging disputes, and the maintenance of freedom of navigation and overflight, are in its national interest.

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WUNC Youth Reporting Listening Party
WUNC’s Youth Reporting Institute hosts its annual public listening party on Thursday August 8 at 7 PM at Motorco in Durham. This is a free event and will feature the first public airing of 7 new stories produced by WUNC’s Youth Reporting Team.
Each Summer WUNC hires a team of high school age students and asks to produce a story that tells us something new about their community. This summer our Youth Reporters are exploring things like housing, the immigrant high school experience and we explore the local teen punk rock scene.
While much of the reporting has been serious work, our Youth Team has also been having some fun. Earlier this summer they took over WUNC Music’s Songs We Love Podcast.
Reserve your spot for the event by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28) formally asked the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to ask Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan about her views on abortion rights. The request came about because Slaughter, a Co-Chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, believes that the lack of a judicial record from Kagan leaves her stance on abortion largely unknown.
“It’s impossible to overstate how important it is for this country to protect a woman’s right to choose,” said Slaughter, one of the longest-serving female members of Congress and a long-time leader for women’s rights. “Many of our rights were eroded during the previous Administration and the vote earlier this year on health care reform exposed the efforts to play politics with the rights of women. For that reason, it’s especially important that the next Supreme Court justice take a strong position on protecting a women’s right to choose. It’s my hope that the Senate will respectfully ask Elena Kagan for her views on this critical topic.”
The full text of the letter follows:
May 18, 2010
The Honorable Patrick H. Leahy The Honorable Jeff Sessions
Chairman Ranking Member
United States Senate United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary Committee on the Judiciary
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515
Dear Chairman Leahy,
I want to express my sincere appreciation for your continued commitment to ensuring that the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court will hold the Constitution to the highest standard. It is with tremendous pride that I write to you regarding President Obama’s nomination of a woman, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Solicitor General Kagan is the second distinguished woman to be considered for the highest court within the past year. This historic achievement is a testament to the progress women have made in recent years. In order for the Supreme Court to be truly representative of the citizens of the United States, we must increase the number of women on the highest court.
As we do not have a judicial record to review for Solicitor General Kagan, it is imperative that the Senate Judiciary Committee fully question the nominee with respect to women’s rights. The emergence of a memorandum co-authored by Solicitor General Kagan during her time as a White House aide in the Clinton Administration regarding abortion is troubling. As Co Chair of the Pro Choice Caucus, I urge you and the Committee to keep the constitutional right to choose at the forefront of your minds as you question Solicitor General Kagan.
Following the contentious debate regarding federal funding for abortion leading up to the historic passage of health care reform, it is essential that the constitutionality of a woman’s right to choose remain clear, unwavering and longstanding. The recent passage of several state laws designed to undermine the strength of Roe v. Wade further signifies the intense nature of these issues. As these laws are being brought to the courts, it is critical that we have a full understanding of Solicitor General Kagan’s interpretation of the constitutional right to choose. The next Supreme Court Justice must be unwavering in their support of judicial precedent with respect to women’s rights.
In light of Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s nomination, I respectfully request that the Committee on the Judiciary work to ensure that the next Supreme Court Justice will uphold the constitutional right for women to choose what to do with their bodies. I appreciate your attention to this request.
Louise M. Slaughter
Member of Congress


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Highlights from our November 2010 Real-time Housing Report:
- The Altos 10-City Composite is now at $458,518, off 1.60% from last month.
- Home prices fell in 25 of the 26 markets covered in the report.
- Cities that felt decreases most sharply were San Diego (-3.28%), Salt Lake City (-3.27%), and Phoenix (-3.11%).
- Three of the 26 markets covered in this report showed increases in inventory, and nationally, inventory was down 4.64%.
Download a copy of this month’s report here. (Yep – it’s free. Registration required.)


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Compromise short-cuts in a romantic relationship can be complicated to deal with, but it surely is a necessary element of any relationship that will enable you to get what you want out of your relationship. To be able to understand this, we should look at as to why people cause them to. There are two main factors at perform here. The first is just how much you trust each other, plus the second is how much you are willing to damage your rules for loverwhirl the benefit of being in concert.
Financial short-cuts in a romance, especially in the case of a marital relationship, are actually probably the most common types of compromises that people help to make on a daily basis. As you are both each person who have come together because you are deeply in love with each other, so you have decided to continue to be together under one roof structure. So , everything is fine, and you are content. However , occasionally things easily aren’t good enough, and that is once compromise is.
For example , imagine that you and your spouse have been through an incredibly painful ordeal. Your spouse has cheated on you, as well as you have equally been physically abused. These are generally all elements that can place strain over a relationship, and it often requires a lot of attempt to cured these marks and proceed. However , in the case of any marriage, these types of compromises are generally required in order to keep the relationship in and growing.
While it might seem easier to manage to live with these kinds of constraints, it is vital to realise they are still present. Actually they are a lot more likely to happen if the associates in question haven’t established healthful communication and trust within the relationship. The moment one person needs to produce compromises within a relationship, these people tend to take the easy way out and choose to leave rather than face the background music head on.
The moment one spouse decides to stop some control in the romantic relationship, the additional is likely to go along with suit. To avoid this problem right from developing, connection and trust between the associates need to be as strong as it can be. This means that one person needs to produce a genuine effort to bargain, even though the other illustrates a willingness to continue the extra mile. In the event the person making the give up does not want to or is not able to, the case will only serve to exacerbate the strain between them and the partner. Finally, this will prevent real short-cuts from being created and will contain little profit for the partnership.
When an person wants to set up a compromise within a marriage, they frequently take the convenient way out. They are going to try to help to make compromises the fact that both of them will probably be comfortable with. Yet , this will never work and is also rarely effective. The best way to set up a healthy bargain in a marriage is to definitely put your self in your lover’s sneakers and do all you can to come to an accommodation. To perform so , compromise is hard, but it is usually worth it worth.

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JOURNAL OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND THROMBOSIS, vol.27, no.9, pp.909-918, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
Atherosclerosis is initiated by functional changes in the endothelium accompanied by accumulation, oxidation, and glycation of LDL-cholesterol in the inner layer of the arterial wall and continues with the expression of adhesion molecules and release of chemoattractants. PCSK9 is a proprotein convertase that increases circulating LDL levels by directing hepatic LDL receptors into lysosomes for degradation. The effects of PCSK9 on hepatic LDL receptors and contribution to atherosclerosis via the induction of hyperlipidemia are well defined. Monoclonal PCSK9 antibodies that block the effects of PCSK9 on LDL receptors demonstrated beneficial results in cardiovascular outcome trials. In recent years, extrahepatic functions of PCSK9, particularly its direct effects on atherosclerotic plaques have received increasing attention. Experimental trials have revealed that PCSK9 plays a significant role in every step of atherosclerotic plaque formation. It contributes to foam cell formation by increasing the uptake of LDL by macrophages via scavenger receptors and inhibiting cholesterol efflux from macrophages. It induces the expression of inflammatory cytokines, adhesion molecules, and chemoattractants, thereby increasing monocyte recruitment, inflammatory cell adhesion, and inflammation at the atherosclerotic vascular wall. Moreover, low shear stress is associated with increased PCSK9 expression. PCSK9 may induce endothelial cell apoptosis and autophagy and stimulate the differentiation of smooth muscle cells from the contractile phenotype to synthetic phenotype. Increasing evidence indicates that PCSK9 is a molecular target in the development of novel approaches toward the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. This review focuses on the molecular roles of PCSK9 in atherosclerotic plaque formation.

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that Wisconsin has become the latest state to join the “Records and Information from DMVs for E-Verify” (RIDE) program. In conjunction with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, RIDE links the E-Verify system with participating state driver’s licensing agencies. RIDE allows E-Verify to validate the authenticity… Read More
Congress has extended the EB-5, E-Verify, Conrad state 30 (physician J-1 waiver), and religious workers programs until December 11, 2015, as part of congressional passage of a continuing resolution to fund the government. Members of Congress hope to reauthorize and reform the EB-5 program in the interim, although the outcome is uncertain due to political… Read More
E-Verify is a free Internet-based system operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). It helps employers determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security numbers. It verifies employees’ data against millions of government records and provides results within seconds to confirm employment eligibility. The… Read More
E-Verify recently released three new enhancements: (1) a duplicate case alert pop-up feature; (2) further action notices for Web service users; and (3) a prompt to validate or update user e-mail addresses and phone numbers. E-Verify has also released guidelines for using the E-Verify trademark (PDF). For more information, see http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a fact sheet (PDF) on how to correct immigration records after resolving a Tentative Nonconfirmation (TNC) in E-Verify. USCIS noted that an employer may receive a TNC because immigration records are inaccurate. Correcting them can prevent future TNCs.


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Health law is the practice of law involving federal, state or local law and rules or regulations regarding the delivery of health care services. In addition to health care provider issues and regulations of providers, health law includes legal issues regarding relationships between and among providers and payors.
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For today's card I have used the 'Villians' stamp set and have made a Mini Slimline card.
I have stamped 'Harley Quinn' onto X-Press It Blending Card and coloured with Copic Markers.
The background is a simple die cut from black card stock.
The sentiment has been cut from the Mini Alphabet & Numbers Die and coloured with Copic Markers. The other die is from the 'Superstars' stamp set.
Stamp Set: Villians
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Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000, R20
Hair: E42, E43, E44, RV14, RV13, RV21, B04, B02, B01
Clothes: R39, 29, R27, R35, C9, C7, C6, C5, C1, C00
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I’m a Florida local, a movement enthusiast, and a full-time yoga instructor who’s lucky enough to teach all over the world. I’m also a handstand junkie with a whole lot of love for acrobatics. When I’m not guiding my students toward a more balanced state of being, I’m probably balancing them on my hands. Check my schedule above to find out where.
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Jerry “The King” Lawler comes out to the ramp, where there is a throne and the traditional King of the Ring robes set up for tonight’s winner. They roll a video package highlighting all four of the preliminary matches from Monday Night Raw. Lawler joins Michael Cole and John Layfield as tonight’s commentary team.
Sheamus does a backstage interview with Byron Saxton, proclaiming victory. He calls Neville an “English Elf” and says everyone in his new kingdom will have to kiss his arse.
Neville is interviewed by Renee Young, and talks about his rise from NXT as the NXT Champion, debut on Monday Night Raw and upset victory at Extreme Rules. He’s all about showing Sheamus and the world what a “little fella” can do.
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Sheamus makes fun of Neville’s height as the crowd sets in with “you look stupid” chants. Neville with kicks until he’s caught with a big sideslam. Sheamus beats on him for a few minutes before throwing him off the apron, crashing hard into the announce table. He just answers the referee count at nine. Sheamus continues his bullying, yelling things like “little fellas don’t belong in my ring”. He hits White Noise and looks to put the match away, but Dolph Ziggler comes out and rolls footage of him winning at Extreme Rules. Neville blindsides Sheamus with a kick to the side of the head, followed up with the Red Arrow for the win.
Ziggler, who is wearing a sleeveless jean jacket with mermaids on the back, rushes the ring and tells Sheamus he never got his Extreme Rules stipulation, and now he’s here to collect. Sheamus at first escapes from the attack, but ends up going back into the ring and the two fight until a heard of zebras break it up and hold them back. Sheamus has a MASSIVE cut over his eye, and is bleeding everywhere.
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How Doon was my Valley
The move to make the quaint old green town of Dehradun a smart city can ravage its sensitive ecology
Rakesh Agrawal Dehradun
Smart cities were a dream sold to the voting masses in 2014 by the BJP. Less than two years after it came to power, the central government has started working in earnest to make this ‘real estate’ promise a reality. It has selected 98 cities across the country with the intention of developing them into ‘smart cities’. Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, is among these ‘futuristic’ 98 cities. The Mussoorie-Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) has devised a three-pronged strategy for turning Dehradun into a smart city. For this purpose it has earmarked 350 acres on the city’s outskirts.
However, locals have started protesting, as soon as the Uttarakhand government announced its plans to develop a dream city on a British-era tea estate in November 2015. The first to protest were the workers of the tea estate area whose jobs have come under threat. The tea gardens of Dehradun are in a decaying condition. And yet, these tea factories employ many workers. In mid-November, the workers decided to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Uttarakhand High Court against the government. “The High Court is sensitive towards the state’s environment and it will not let the government uproot lakhs of trees to build a concrete township,” said advocate MC Pant, president of Chai Bagan Mazdoor Panchayat. Lending support to the tea workers is the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the trade union wing of the CPI. “The state government’s labour department has become useless and is not interested in protecting the interests of the tea workers. They never inspected the tea garden, neither did they talk to the labourers about the project,” alleged Ashok Sharma, general secretary, AITUC.
We are emotionally attached to Doon and it can be made smart by improving its existing infrastructure and augmenting services like proper parking space, cycle tracks, footpaths and enough garbage bins, separate for wet and dry waste
Workers in large numbers united under the banner of the Tea Estate Bachao Sangharsh Samiti (TEBSS), and took out a protest march demanding that the state government should quash the proposal to build the smart city on the tea estate. These tea estate workers, many of whom have come from the Goodrich Tea Company, Vikasnagar, in the state, decided to gherao the chief minister’s residence in the second week of December. “Land use of the tea estate cannot be legally altered, and if it is done, tea estate workers cannot be compensated in any manner. The CM (then Harish Rawat), and BJP leader Harbans Kapoor are hand-in-glove in this game,” said Surendra Singh Pankti, retired IAS officer and leader, TEBSS. Environmentalists, academicians, writers and scientists have also raised their voice against building such a smart city in the tea estate.
Pankti has been supported by leaders of many political parties, besides grassroots activists. Many gram pradhans, ex-gram pradhans, retired police officers and even BJP leaders have raised their voice against this project. Responding to the allegations levelled against him, Kapoor said, “I never advised the CM to convert the tea estate into a smart city. I only said that there is no harm if a small area of the tea estate is acquired for this purpose.”
In contrast, the need of the hour is to make the existing, under pressure, ‘Doon’ city ‘smart’ by providing it infrastructure like proper sewerage facilities, rather than making a new area ‘smart’ and destroying its ecology in the process. Citizens of Green Doon (CGD), a community organisation, listed the environmental pitfalls of turning the tea garden land into a concrete jungle. “This project will hamper the groundwater recharge capability of the region; it will, in turn, create water-logging,” said Dr Nitin Pandey, president, CGD.
Heritage and culture lovers were also miffed. “The heritage buildings and memorabilia of the British era will be gone forever,” said Reenu Paul, President, Rajpur Community Initiative. A Doon-based student activist group, Making a Difference by Being the Difference (MAD) questioned the establishing of such a ‘smart city’, referencing the 1989 Government of India notification which declared the Doon Valley an ‘Eco-Sensitive Zone’. “The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute of India’s (NEERI) report in 1996 especially refers to the remaining tea gardens of Dehradun as a must for the valley’s ecological stability and asks the government to protect it,” says Abhijay Negi, president, MAD. Indeed, NEERI had anticipated that unplanned urbanisation would lead to traffic congestion, deforestation, improper waste disposal-related problems, and so on – the very problems the city is facing today.
The CGD took the matter to the Uttarakhand High Court and sought a stay on the project. The court disposed of it, saying the petition was premature. Unfortunately, the government decided to ignore MAD’s letter requesting Rawat and the MDDA to rethink the whole project. The government went ahead and submitted its project proposal to the Centre on December 15, when the State Housing and Urban Development Society finalised a land deal with the Doon Tea Company, one of the three tea estates in the Doon Valley. It also entered into an agreement with Tongji University of China. While the government treated this MoU of the Chinese partnership as a feather in its cap, many questions were raised; the location of the smart city will border the sensitive Indian Military Academy (IMA), for instance, and raises security issues. Moreover, no details of this partnership between the Chinese institute and the Uttarakhand government have been revealed so far.
R Meenakshi Sundaram, Vice-Chairman, MDDA, justifies the project. “The Centre’s guidelines make it mandatory to have at least 250 acres of land for a smart city project. We initially chose 1,200 acres for it, but now the smart city project will be built in just 350 acres for which `500 crore will be given by the Centre at the rate of `100 crore per annum and we will generate the rest. It will make Dehradun a world-class knowledge hub.”
The truth is that the project has been scaled down from 1,200 to 350 acres (and now to 316), because of the protests. Besides environmental concerns, the basic question of financing such a mega urban development project remains unanswered. About `9,000 crore would be required to develop 350 acres of land, meaning the state government will have to approach HUDCO, ADB or the World Bank to finance the project. On January 28, Delhi released the first list of 20 smart cities for which funds will be available, and Dehradun failed to make it to this coveted list.
As the city faces the problem of crumbling infrastructure, garbage dumps and a concrete jungle replacing its once famous greenery and natural beauty, citizens have by and large voted against the ‘smart city’ coming up on a tea estate. Colonel BS Chhetri, a resident of Vasant Vihar, a residential area close to the tea estate, said, “We are emotionally attached to Doon and it can be made smart by improving its existing infrastructure and augmenting services like proper parking space, cycle tracks, footpaths and enough garbage bins, separate for wet and dry waste.”
Most residents in the city believe that the tea estates should be preserved to maintain the region’s rich Himalayan bio-diversity. “I shifted to Dehradun from Delhi as it has a salubrious climate and ample green space. But, over the years, it is becoming a concrete jungle. This smart city will herald its death,” said Jaya Kumar.


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The ServeRAID 7t SATA Controller is a four-port SATA controller for entry level servers. It is a universal PCI card featuring a dedicated Intel I/O processor and a SATA controller chip.
Install the ServeRAID 7t SATA Controller in your entry IBM eServer xSeries servers for economical, RAID-protected, data-storage solutions.
- ServeRAID Manager - Provides same ease-of-use and setup features that enable common support requirements across the enterprise.
- Four SATA ports and associated cabling
- 64 MB SDRAM cache
- Universal PCI design
- Offers choice of RAID levels for maximum availability and performance RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10
- MD2 card design with Notch for installation in 3U server systems
- Uses Intel 80302 processor
- SMART enabled
- Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10
- Support for 1 logical drive per array
- Support for stripe unit sizes of 16 KB, 32 KB, or 64 KB
- Up to four physical drives supported per controller
One year, Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU)
One box containing:
- ServeRAID 7t controller with 3U bracket
- 2U card bracket
- Cables (1-SATA signal, 2-SATA panel mount and 2-SATA power splitters)
- ServeRAID support CD
- Installation publications, license agreement, and warranty
Announce Date: 16 Mar 2004
Planned Availability Date: 09 Apr 2004
Withdrawal Date: Not Applicable
Effective Withdrawal Date: Not Applicable
|Description ||Marketing part number ||Replacement part number ||FRU/CRU |
|IBM ServeRAID 7t SATA Controller card ||39R8805 repalces 71P8648 ||71P8650 ||CRU |
|Serial cable ||N/A ||88P5927 ||FRU |
|SATA Power splitter cable ||N/A ||13N2411 ||FRU |
|Panel mtg. cable ||N/A ||13N2413 ||FRU |
A supported xSeries server with an available expansion slot.


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Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman
Fred Wesley Jr. is an accomplished trombonist renowned for his contributions to funk and jazz music over the past several decades. Working for James Brown from 1968–75, he was instrumental in the production of such milestone recordings as
With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader of Brown’s band, Fred Wesley and the JB’s. Having been the band’s music director, arranger, trombone player, and frequent composer, Wesley is one of the original architects of funk music. He describes what it was like working for the Godfather of Soul, revealing the struggle and sometimes stringent discipline behind Brown’s tight, raucous tunes. After leaving Brown and the JB’s, Wesley arranged the horn sections for Parliament, Funkadelic, and Bootsy’s Rubber Band, and led Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns. Adding his signature horn arrangements to the P-Funk mix, Wesley made funk music even funkier.
Wesley’s distinctive sound reverberates through rap and hip-hop music today. In Hit Me, Fred, he recalls the many musicians whose influence he absorbed, beginning with his grandmother and father—both music teachers—and including mentors in his southern Alabama hometown and members of the Army band. In addition to the skills he developed working with James Brown, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and the many talented musicians in their milieu, Wesley describes the evolution of his trombone playing through stints with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, Hank Ballard, and Count Basie’s band. He also recounts his education in the music business, particularly through his work in Los Angeles recording sessions.
Wesley is a virtuoso storyteller, whether he's describing the electric rush of performances when the whole band is in the groove, the difficulties of trying to make a living as a rhythm and blues musician, or the frustrations often felt by sidemen. Hit Me, Fred is Wesley’s story of music-making in all its grit and glory.
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To create today’s card I used Flowering Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper, a free Sale-a-Bration gift when you place a $50 order (before shipping/tax). You’ll receive (12) 12″ x 12″ sheets of these rose gold and silver foil designs. This paper is only available until March 31, 2020 or while supplies last!
I also used the stamp set, Seriously the Best, and embossed the sentiment with Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder. I love the boldness of the sentiments in this set and when they’re embossed, a beautiful focal point is created.
The beauty of this Designer Series Paper is that you can easily add any Stampin’ Up! color to the white areas. I used Lovely Lipstick ink and applied it with a Sponge Dauber. It’s a good idea to take a tissue or a soft cloth and rub it over the surface of the paper after applying color to pick up any ink that’s sitting on top of the raised foil.
How to Heat Emboss
Rub an Embossing Buddy over the surface of your cardstock (this helps keep away stray particles of embossing powder). Stamp your sentiment or image using a Versamark pad. This is very sticky ink and your embossing powder will stick right to it. Sprinkle embossing powder over the stamped image. Shake off any excess. Before applying heat to your paper, heat the Heat Tool for about 10 seconds to minimize warping of your paper. Direct the heat over your image and watch the magic happen!
If you need any stamping supplies, I’d love to be your demonstrator! You can place an order by clicking any of the images below to go to my Stampin’ Up! online store. If you have questions about products you’re considering purchasing or ones you’ve already purchased, I’m just an email away (click the Email Me button on the sidebar of my blog).
- Lovely Lipstick cardstock: 11″ x 4-1/4″
- Granny Apple Green cardstock: 5-1/4″ x 4″
- Flowering Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper: 5″ x 3-3/4″
- Silver Foil Sheet: scrap for scalloped oval
- Whisper White cardstock: 5-1/4″ x 4″ for inside the card
- Whisper White cardstock: scrap for sentiment
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Bitcoin mining has become a huge sensation on the Internet in the last couple of years. And while it’s true that thousands of people around the world have become wealthy thanks to this currency, it’s not that simple to do it. Recent events suggest that Bitcoin mining may be entering a decline. If you’d like to learn if Bitcoin is dying and if it’s still worth doing, continue reading below!
How Bitcoin makes money
Bitcoin is not a company or an organization, so no specific owner or board of directors make money from the success of this currency. Bitcoin is simultaneously owned by no one and everyone, provided they have at least a single bitcoin. The people that mine this currency can be counted as employees, but they don’t have a boss and don’t receive a salary in the conventional sense of the word.
People that use Bitcoin make money by mining the coins or trading them with other users of this system. For the latter, bitcoins act as gold on a regular stock market. This is both the biggest advantage of this technology and its most significant drawback. Because while gold is a physical object that you can touch and hold in your hand, a bitcoin is a virtual currency. So every investment into this entity is a gamble at best.
Currently, it’s possible to mine about twenty-five tons of bitcoins every ten minutes. It’s also an established fact that this rate will fade away as time passes. Logically, with each passing day the process of mining this currency gets harder and harder.
In conclusion, there are two ways of how Bitcoin makes money:
- You can mine new bitcoins and sell them on the market.
- You can invest into already mined coins and then speculate with them online.
Why Bitcoin is falling?
As soon as Bitcoin reached its all-time high price at the beginning of September, things took a dark turn for its investors. Just in a little more than a week, it dropped more than a thousand dollars per coin and stopped at $3,500.
The reason Bitcoin is falling lies within the BTCChina’s decision to terminate all trading operations by the end of the month. As China is one of the biggest markets for bitcoin farming, such an announcement had a huge impact on the state of the currency. The Chinese government explained their determination to eliminate Bitcoin trading by their distrust towards cryptocurrencies in general.
Another factor that played a role in the price decrease of Bitcoin is the JPMorgan Chase’s statement that the whole system is a “fraud” that is destined to fail and will send thousands of people around the world into bankruptcy. His words have at least some truth behind them. Because while regular currencies haw the law to back them up, bitcoins pretty much exist in a bubble.
Will Bitcoin rise again?
The answer to the question asked above is “Probably yes”. Judging by the patterns of recent years, the scandal and price drop related to China’s new regulation will prove to be a temporary setback. Although the fact that China holds up about eighty percent of the global bitcoin mining force does raise some valid concerns. People started to sell their bitcoins in a panic that the price would decrease even further, not realizing that their hasty decision was one of the reasons why it was lowering in the first place.
However, after people calm down, everything will return to normal. Bitcoins will once again walk on the path of slow, consistent growth. They remain the most potent currency on Earth, and if you purchase any coins under the three thousand dollar mark, you’ll reap substantial profits in the near future. Recent projections suggest that Bitcoins will return to the price mark of five thousand dollars per coin and will continue to grow further. How soon will that happen? That’s a bit more difficult to predict.
Bitcoins are safe for at least a couple of years. The competitors are far behind, and even if the entire technology will far apart, it won’t happen overnight. But will it happen eventually? Let’s talk about that below.
Will Bitcoin crash?
Previously, we talked about the optimistic development path of the Bitcoin technology, but what’s on the other side on the fence? We can see that Bitcoins rapidly fell from their record numbers. And even though the situation is stable right now, the fact that the global price can drop by one-fifth from a law enforced by a single country shows how unreliable the cryptocurrency really is.
Skeptics think that this setback is the beginning of the end. They are convinced that Bitcoin will collapse on itself in the following years. Why? Because at its core, Bitcoin is nothing more than a speculative bubble. And all bubbles are doomed to burst sooner or later. So let’s talk about what can happen if Bitcoin will crash:
- Everyone that has invested in this currency will lose entire capitals;
- Services that rely on Bitcoin consulting and market monitoring will disappear;
- All the other cryptocurrencies will suffer as well, due to the lack of trust to this type of investment;
- Economies of smaller countries that partly rely on Bitcoin will lose substantial parts of their budgets;
- Blockchain company models that aren’t necessarily connected to Bitcoin directly may receive a painful blow;
The potential Bitcoin crash will also prove to be beneficial to some groups. Thus, talented IT specialists that are involved in this enterprise and blockchain businesses will offer their services to other companies.
Is Bitcoin mining worth it?
If you’re looking for a short answer to this question then here it is: Bitcoin mining is worth it only if you’re capable of spending a sufficient amount of money before you begin mining. However, numerous other factors influence the profits you may reap from this undertaking.
It’s no wonder that you can find dozens of mining calculators that help you crunch the numbers to find out your potential income. They deal with such figures like the electricity cost, the price you pay for the hardware, the hash rate, mining difficulty, etc. It’s crucial to understand that most of these values aren’t consistent and change over time.
For example, the Bitcoin difficulty increases over time, in turn lowering the hash rate, and thus the entire equation changes. Add to that the unpredictable number of how many miners in the world there’ll be even a year from now, and estimating your profits becomes a nearly impossible task.
According to experienced miners, nowadays you can get rich by mining Bitcoins only if you invest in really powerful equipment and know how to save money on energy bills. However, as a whole, Bitcoin mining at home is dead. The competition in 2017 is more fierce than ever before. If you want to jump on the Bitcoin train, you need to do so in collaboration with other miners. Otherwise, you probably won’t even be able to earn enough to pay you back the money you spent on equipment.
Now you know the reasons for why Bitcoin is falling, and why it isn’t a good idea to start mining at home. Feel free to share this information with your friends and colleagues that may be interested in taking up this “hobby” themselves.


OUG junction an accident-prone area
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A JUNCTION turning left into Taman OUG, Kuala Lumpur, along Jalan Besar leading to the Awan Besar interchange, is now an accident-prone area, especially during the morning peak hour.
The junction into Jalan Hujan 2 is a vital entry point to the neighbourhood, but due to the heavy traffic leading to the Awan Besar interchange, many accidents happened along the stretch.
Dangerous spot: Kok (left) with residents of OUG, Bukit OUG and Taman Yarl at the stretch leading to the Awan Besar Interchange.
According to Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, the particular spot is the black area because of the numerous accidents there.
“When the Awan Besar interchange opened some 14 months ago, I had anticipated that it would be an accident-proneg area,” Kok said.
“Vehicles heading to Shah Alam via the Awan Besar interchange usually travel very fast and do not give way to those turning left at the junction. Hence many accidents have occurred at the spot,” she said.
Kok said although the residents wanted the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to install a traffic light at the junction, it was not suitable at the place.
“Jalan Awan Besar already has two traffic lights, a third one is just not practical.
“At the moment I would suggest closing the junction as our priority should be safety,” she said.
Kok said she would be meeting with the DBKL Public Works Department to seek a solution to the problem.
The Awan Besar interchange is a vital link for those living in Old Klang Road, OUG, Taman Yarl, Bukit OUG to go Kesas Highway, the main access road to Bukit Jalil, the MRR2 highway, Subang, the KLCC and Klang.


The Chad Hasty Show airs 8:30-11am on 790AM KFYO.
The Texas Association of Business has also voiced support for Cornyn’s reform bill.
On the Wednesday edition of The Chad Hasty Show, U.S. Senator John Cornyn talked with Chad Hasty about the latest scandals coming out of Washington.
The IRS is under fire from some U.S. politicians and watchdog groups after news broke of agents targeting tea party groups and other conservative organizations when they applied for tax exempt status.
Cornyn’s amendment would allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines and within other states that also have concealed carry laws.
On the Monday edition of The Chad Hasty Show, GOP strategist and co-founder of MustReadTexas.com Matt Mackowiak talked with Chad Hasty about the latest going on nationally and statewide.
On the Friday edition of The Chad Hasty Show, Senator John Cornyn talked with Chad Hasty about some upcoming legislation Congress will be looking at.
Submit your questions now for U.S. Senator John Cornyn.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, and Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are standing their ground against Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
The Chad Hasty Show airs weekdays 8:30-11am on 790AM KFYO.


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Joss Stone has reportedly admitted that she smokes cannabis.
The singer, who is currently promoting her new album Colour Me Free!, made the revelation during an interview with Star magazine.
Speaking about the relationship between musicians and drugs, Stone said: "I don't want to take all those horrible drugs. Although some sound fun, so I might dabble now and then!
"I smoke cannabis, but I don't think it's really a drug. It's more of a herb. I don't regret saying that at all."
When asked how regularly she smokes marijuana, the star replied: "It depends if I'm working, and on what song. It's like having a drink."

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The MiG-31, based on the earlier MiG-25, was developed during the early 1980s and is widely considered the best long-range interceptor in the world.
The MiG-31 has a two-man crew and is primarily designed to engage and destroy cruise missiles.
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Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of everything—regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead—and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King’s epic debut novel combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.
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You may have heard the theory that if you are sad, exercise will make you happy. But if exercise is supposed to make you happy, why isn’t everyone in the gym every day to get their daily dose of happy? In fact, most people dread going to the gym, choosing instead to lay on the couch and veg out. So what’s the deal, does exercise really make you happier? The short answer: Yes.
6 Reasons Why Exercise Makes You Happy
1. Exercise releases a chemical called endorphins.
Ever heard of runners high? The scientific explanation for that is endorphins being released in the body and triggering positive feelings similar to the effect of morphine. These endorphins also interact with your brain to reduce your perception of pain, which might explain why many runners can run marathons.
2. Improved immune system
Exercise is not only good for the brain, it’s also great for the body. Exercise can help flush out bacteria from the lungs and increase the lymphatic system. It also increases the number of antibodies and white blood cells running through the body, which detect and attack the causes of illness. We don’t know about the rest of you, but we feel better when we aren’t stuck in bed feeling sick all day.
3. Exercise reduces stress
Exercise is a known stress blocker, which is great for both body and mind. Too much stress can cause the body great harm, including medical conditions such as heart disease, nausea, indigestion, migraines, bladder infections, anxiety, colds and sinus infections, hyperventilation and much more. Exercise reduces the stress hormones that can be so harmful in excess, and it only takes five minutes of exercise to start feeling reduced levels of stress. Types of exercise that reduce stress include walking, yoga, swimming, and stretching.
4. Exercise increases your mental resilience
When times get tough, as they inevitably do, having a tougher mental resilience can help you keep it together when it counts. When you exercise in a way that physically pushes you, you will get tougher mentally too. This mental toughness will translate across all aspects of life. The more you prove to yourself that you can accomplish your exercise goals, the more you show to the world that you can handle anything it throws at you.
5. Exercise Increases energy during the day and improves sleep at night
When you get enough regular sleep, your brain/body can do some pretty amazing things. Sleep improves memory, concentration, strengthens the immune system and improves mood. To get enough sleep for all this good stuff, you should be sleeping at least 6-8 hours a night. If you have trouble falling or staying asleep exercise can help you obtain this goal. Exercise can not only help you sleep better at night, but it can also give you the energy you need to tackle the day. Many will claim that their most productive time of day is right after they’ve exercised. If you are new to working out, the first week might make you feel more tired but stick with it and you will start feeling better and more energized.
6. Exercise reduces depression and anxiety
Exercise is a well-known and yet highly underused form of treatment for depression. Research has shown time and time again that exercise is an effective form of treatment for mild to moderate depression. Other research suggests that physically active people also tend to be less depressed than inactive people. So, it’s not only important in treating depression, but also preventing it.
Types of Exercise that Reduces Depression
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- Low-impact aerobics
So there you have it. Exercise is not only good for our bodies, but it is also good for our brains and emotions. Although starting the habit may be difficult at first, it will pay off in the long run. The feeling of dread will be replaced by joy as exercise starts becoming a habit. Why? People who exercise are not only happier and healthier but also more confident in their ability to take on the challenges of their world. To learn more about what the research shows when it comes to depression and anxiety, follow Watch Media Mental Health.
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The Arkados Group and SparkFund have entered an agreement to provide Internet of Things (IoT) functionality to commercial and industrial customers on an “as-a-service” basis.
The technical goal is to distribute IoT sensors and related equipment throughout facilities. The equipment will be deployed in Arkados’ Energy Measurement and Verification (EM&V) platform. EM&V collects data that is used to improve energy efficiency by improving performance of lighting, HVAC and other systems.
There are two keys to the announcement. The first is the technical capabilities claimed by Arkados:
The Arktic™ EM&V is designed to enable the implementation of multiple types of sensors, such as temperature, humidity, light, energy and water consumption, motion and occupancy, indoor air quality and noise, that can gather information throughout a building or complex. The application can provide for initial benchmarking to determine the unique building signature and be used for continuous monitoring to yield insights that may not otherwise be evident.
The second is the importance of the “as-a-service” model. It has some similarities to energy performance services contracts (EPSCs) in that the strategy is to deploy technology without requiring a large capital expenditure on the part of the end user.
SparkFund – which recently raised $7 million in funding – is a pioneer of the “as-a-services” approach in the energy sector. The concept itself evolved in the telecommunications and information technology fields. The most obvious advantage is the reduction or elimination of capex. In addition, the companies providing the services usually offer more expertise than the client. Thus, instead of an organization purchasing an IoT platform and figuring out how to use it – which costs time and money – it can outsource those headaches and generally end up with more efficiency and productivity. This is especially important in systems that connect to the Internet, since a dedicated organization is far more likely to keep security current.
Lighting is one of the earliest energy-related “as-a-service” offerings. Regency Lighting offers a list of pros and cons. The pros follow the general path charted out in IT and telecom. The cons are important: They include the fact that a contract with a set-term must be honored; less savings than if a traditional wholly-owned approach is used and a monthly payment model that results in higher overall costs than if the entire payment is made up front.


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Cruise ships are a menace to this community.
The ships have been increasingly docking in Santa Barbara since 2010. There have been six ships in already this season and eight more are coming to dock off of Leadbetter Beach before the season is over in November.
Each year the ships bring in an estimated $2.4 million to the local economy. With the city’s economy being almost entirely funded by tourism, the people of Santa Barbara are relatively accustomed to tourist traffic. However, the costs of increased tourism from cruise ships is causing problems for locals and is having devastating effects on the environment.
Each ship can hold a massive amount of people and some of the bigger ships can even comfortably accommodate up to 4,963 passengers.
After docking in front of City College, travelers are then swarmed by the welcome wagon of tour busses, cabs, wine tours and various other attractions.
The construction taking place on Cabrillo Street is already enough of an inconvenience for students and faculty that commute to City College. The increased traffic resulting from these large crowds of visitors during the fall cruise season is incredibly frustrating because it barricades the entire street when people are trying to get to work or school.
What is even more concerning than the inconvenience of additional traffic is that these ships are causing incredible long-term harm to the local environment.
One of the 14 national marine sanctuaries just so happens to be only six nautical miles off of our very own shores. The Channel Islands National Park was granted special protection status more than 30 years ago and is home to many native plants and animals, so protecting this sanctuary is crucial.
According to the Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, a cruise ship in port will produce the air pollution equal to 12,000 cars from burning fuel and garbage. During incineration of the garbage and fuel, toxic fumes are released into the air. The pollution can directly affect the air quality of surrounding areas, and especially including City College because of how close the ships dock to campus.
The water isn’t safe from the environmental mayhem either.
Everyday cruise ships dump 285,000 gallons of waste into the ocean. 5,000 gallons of bilge water, the oily water that collects at the bottom of the ship, 30,000 gallons of sewage and 250,000 gallons of greywater, the water from sinks, showers and laundry, are all dumped into the ocean.
The ships that dock off the coast are causing irrevocable harm by polluting the water in a protected marine sanctuary, simply to increase tourism in a town that isn’t exactly hunting for visitors.
Santa Barbara County’s tourism industry makes $1.4 billion annually and would continue to flourish even without these ocean liners, which provide only a small fraction of the annual tourism revenue.
If this wasn’t enough cause for concern, every one of the cruise ship liners docking off of the coast have failing environmental reports according to Friends of the Earth (FOE) that grade the ships based on sewage treatment, water quality, air pollution reduction and transparency.
The Princess cruise lines which has 10 ships docking in Santa Barbara this season received a C overall, the Celebrity cruises which has one ship docking and the Royal Caribbean Int’l cruise line which has three ships docking both received a D.
These low scores indicate that the ships are failing to meet the requirements necessary to prevent serious harm to the environment. To make matters worse, all of the cruise lines coming to Santa Barbara this season have worse reports this year than in 2014.
This shows that the cruise liners don’t care about the protection of a marine sanctuary and based on the data, will continue to pollute it if the town continues to permit them docking off of Leadbetter Beach.
The Santa Barbara coast has taken enough of an environmental beating with the Refugio oil spill and doesn’t need any more toxic waste being dumped anywhere near it. The town and local tourist traps that are benefiting from the destruction of a protected marine sanctuary wouldn’t suffer for money without the cruise ships. The tourist industry in Santa Barbara is booming and it could do just fine without inconveniencing the locals and destroying the environment for profit.


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The Carol Burnett Show: Classic Carol
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- Release Date: 10/4/2016
During the late '60s, CBS was "The Carol Burnett Show" network, a joking reference based on the program's widespread popularity and huge ratings. Yet the first five seasons have never resurfaced - no re-runs, streaming video, DVDs or other formats - until now! Time Life introduces "The Lost Episodes", which bring back unforgettable moments from the show's groundbreaking first five years. Finally, fans can tune in to rediscover what made the program tick and stick around as one of the best hours on TV. Now we've got more of these lost programs for you to enjoy. Sit back and laugh along with Carol and her crew on the 1 DVD version of "Classic Carol." Three hilarious episodes, as they originally aired on television, and showcases some of the most acclaimed and beloved moments from The Carol Burnett Show, including: Classic sketches "The Old Folks," "Carol and Sis," "V.I.P.," "Alice Portnoy" and As the Stomach Turns; Matchless physical comedy from Tim Conway coping with a leaky waterbed and cracking up Harvey Korman as the "Oldest Man" masterminding a jewelry heist; Insomnia Theatre's movie parody presentation Arrivederci, Summertime; Guest stars Diahann Carroll, Tim Conway, Nanette Fabray, Frank Gorshin, Lana Turner, and Nancy Wilson.


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It was a warm and windy night. I left my window open and the breeze blew back my thin curtains. Did I stir because of the noises they made moving along the sideboards? Possibly. The weights located in the hem of the curtains might have bounced against the wall with a thud.
Who am I kidding? Blame it on my curtains and the wind, but really it was the dream. Or, should I say, the nightmare. The same one I have had every night for weeks. I merely woke myself up before it got worse. I knew what was coming, yelling out, “Go away! Go away now!”
I glanced over at the clock, 12:07, and sighed. Am I doomed to be up all night and draggy at school tomorrow? Normally, I am out like a rock on Sunday nights having run myself silly all weekend, but things were starting to change. Why not this, too?
Settling back into bed, I heard my name being called out ever so gently, Conor.
Was it mom? She had started her third set of treatments. Did she need my help? Conor.
There it was again, but it sounded like it came from the window. Was it those darn curtains? Conor!
That was not mom nor the curtains. In two whole steps, I was away from the bed and looking out the window. No one below and no one in the surrounding field, I looked up at the church on the hill.
Silhouetted by flickering moonbeams, the scene looked unreal. The cemetery with its tumbled headstones were like misshaped teeth in an old woman’s mouth. The lone yew tree swayed with the wind as it whipped around the trunk picking up the lower branches like a twirling skirt.
Then I saw it. Staring into the yew, filled with poisonous berries, I saw a face staring back at me. The tree gathered its limbs and in a burst threw them out into the shapes of arms. The trunk, stretching towards the moon, made a cracking noise as it split at the base and the roots began to upend earth. It was moving and towards me!
I am 13-years-old. Too old to believe in monsters, but that is all this yew could be.
“A Monster Calls” by Patrick Ness is the perfect read-aloud for children ages eight and older. Do you have the grandchildren for the weekend? It will take three to five readings to finish. Picture a windy night with the moon ducking in and out of the clouds and you reading to everyone by the flickering campfire. Ah, the joys of summer.


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Blood lead levels among the population of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince are on average five times higher than in the United States, say researchers, highlighting the urgent need to address the problem in developing countries more broadly.
In high-income countries, lead exposure is associated with cardiovascular disease and higher blood pressure, but the link has not been adequately evaluated in low- and middle-income countries, say the authors of a study published in the journal Hypertension.
In a cohort study involving 2,504 adults, US and Haitian researchers found that four out of ten people had levels of the metal in their blood considered very high, while seven out of ten had detectable levels.
“While we suspected lead levels might be high in Port-au-Prince, it was surprising how extensive it was.”
Lily Yan, researcher, Weill Cornell Medicine
They say the results serve as a red flag for other developing countries whose populations may be exposed to lead contamination and, therefore, more prone to cardiovascular diseases.
Lily Yan, a researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine, in New York, and a co-author of the paper, told SciDev.Net: “Although we suspected that lead levels could be high in Port-au-Prince, we were surprised by how extensive it was.”
The authors suggest that population levels of lead should be measured routinely in low-income countries as part of efforts to tackle cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, according to the WHO.
“There is little data on population measurements of blood lead levels and this measurement is not included in routine studies. That’s because lead testing is expensive and requires special equipment,” added Yan.
According to UNICEF, lead is a highly poisonous element that is responsible for nearly 1.5 per cent of annual global deaths – almost as many as from HIV and AIDS, and more than from malaria. Lead poisoning affects nearly a third of the world’s children, the UN children’s agency estimates.
The scientists behind the Haiti study say they now want to continue their research by analysing possible sources of lead exposure in the island nation. These are suspected to include gasoline, pans and cookware enamelled with lead-containing compounds, and car batteries that have been improperly disposed of.
Richard Fuller, CEO of Pure Earth, a non-profit organisation focused on fighting disease-causing pollution, believes the Haiti study results are in line with blood lead levels seen in most countries around the world.
Fuller explains that sources of lead exposure can vary from country to country. In developed countries the main source used to be leaded gasoline, but it has been phased out in recent decades, he says.
“In low- and middle-income countries, one of the main sources of lead exposure is car batteries recycling, which is the most common use of lead today. Lead is also added to spices to make them more colourful,” Fuller told SciDev.Net.
“This problem is much more serious than people realise and deserves international attention,” he added.
Jack Caravanos, an environmental health expert at New York University, told SciDev.Net that heart disease from lead exposure was “a problem that can be solved”.
“Hypertension is a very complicated disease” and with many causes, added Caravanos. “And if we start eliminating them, either through diet or [eliminating] toxins, we are sure to have an improvement in heart health, which is the biggest challenge.”

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Javonte Smart announced over the weekend that he will be withdrawing from the NBA draft and returning to LSU for his sophomore season.
Smart is a 6-foot-4 point guard and a former four-star recruit that averaged 11.1 points, 3.3 boards and 2.4 assists as a freshman. He was one of six Tigers — along with Naz Reid, Tremont Waters, Skylar Mays, Marlon Taylor and Emmitt Williams — to declare for the draft. None of the other five have announced a decision yet.
In a vacuum, this is obviously a good thing for an LSU program that has quite a bit up in the air right now.
But there is more to this story than a solid freshman returning to school for his sophomore season, because Smart found himself smack in the middle of the controversy involving the FBI’s investigation into corruption in college basketball. In March, Yahoo Sports reported that LSU head coach Will Wade was caught on a wire tap discussing with Christian Dawkins, an ex-runner for a former NBA agent that has been convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison as a result of this scandal, a “strong-ass” offer that he made to one of Smart’s handlers.
“I was thinking last night on this Smart thing,” Wade reportedly said in the conversation on wiretap with Dawkins. “I’ll be honest with you, I’m [expletive] tired of dealing with the thing. Like I’m just [expletive] sick of dealing with the [expletive]. Like, this should not be that [expletive] complicated.”
“Dude,” Wade continued to Dawkins, referring to the third party involved in the recruitment. “I went to him with a [expletive] strong-ass offer about a month ago. [Expletive] strong.
“The problem was, I know why he didn’t take it now, it was [expletive] tilted toward the family a little bit. It was tilted toward taking care of the mom, taking care of the kid. Like it was tilted towards that. Now I know for a fact he didn’t explain everything to the mom. I know now, he didn’t get enough of the piece of the pie in the deal.”
Smart was suspended for the final game of the regular season, but he was reinstated prior to the start of the SEC tournament. Will Wade was suspended at the same time, but he was not reinstated until last month.
This might end up being problematic, for Wade, for Smart and, potentially, for LSU. Smart returning to school means that the NCAA can now exert influence over him. They will be investigating everything that has popped up as a result of the FBI’s investigation into college basketball corruption, from what was discussed at trial to the things that were reported separately in the media. I have very little doubt that LSU is going to be one of the programs that gets investigated, and since he is back in college, the NCAA will once again be able to hold power over him.
They can call him in to be interviewed. If he does not tell the truth in that interview, he can be suspended. If he does tell the truth, just how much of a headache is that going to be for the coaching staff and the program as a whole?
I don’t have the answer to that question, and based on LSU’s decision to reinstate Smart in March, they must either believe that the player did not know anything about that “strong-ass offer” or that the story is inaccurate in some way.
Either way, Smart’s decision to come back to school is going to complicate things, even if it makes the team better.


So, I want to run a game for my Skype Group set in Palladium's Phase World/Three Galaxies setting, but I don't want to use the Palladium system; I want to use Stars Without Number.
I've been thinking about how to do Mega-Damage in a D&D like system, and I have come to the following conclusion: Screw it.
This is how it works: Tech Levels.
Weapon and armor of the same Tech Level work normally against each other.
Weapons vs. armor of a higher TL- For every TL higher the armor is, the weapon inflicts half damage if it hits. A TL 2 weapon is going to do 1/4 damage vs. TL 4 armor.
Weapons vs. armor of a lower TL- For every TL below the weapon, the armor is treated as being one category lighter, or 2 AC worse if you're going by the book. So, TL 4 armor that grants AC 4 grants only AC 6 vs. TL 5 weapons. The worst an armor can provide is AC 9, the equivalent of unarmored, meaning that the weapon essentially blows straight through the armor.
Will it work? No idea, but I'm going to try it.


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Unicorn Popcorn is a fun party popcorn that comes together in just minutes. Unicorn food is such a trendy thing right now and it is so easy to get in on the craze and be the hero of the party! Perfect for a little girls birthday party too!
White Chocolate Latte Recipe ~ Delicious, Easy, Homemade White Chocolate Latte Recipe that Will Have You Sipping Lattes Whenever You Want!
You're going to want to have this Coffee Cake In A Mug recipe tucked into your back pocket for the next time you get a sugar craving. It can be mixed up and cooked in just 2 minutes! We make it all the time.
Every mum deserves chocolates, and these hand rolled coffee truffles are delicious served with after dinner coffee or as a special treat at anytime. They also make a perfect gift.
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