Hi! Thank you a ton for DietPi. It’s a wonderful piece of software! I’m having some troubles configuring it though.
I’m trying to use NanoPi R5S as a smart network switch using its 3 Ethernet ports. I was able to successfully do that on the previous OS installed on it – an OpenWRT derivative. The relevant part of /etc/config/network file looked like this:
config interface 'lan'
option ipv6 'off'
option device 'switch0'
option proto 'dhcp'
option type 'bridge'
option name 'switch0'
list ports 'eth0'
list ports 'eth1'
list ports 'eth2'
option ipv6 '0'
option mtu '1500'
option macaddr '86:5E:CE:F4:81:18'
So I want to link eth0, eth1 and eth2 all into a single bridge. I tried replicating this on DietPi:
This partially works. I’m able to make connections to and from the DietPi host, but the traffic switching part doesn’t seem to be working: From a laptop connected over a wire to the NanoPi, I’m able to ssh into DietPi, but I’m not able to reach either my network router, nor the public internet. Everything works if I bypass the wired connection by using WiFi of course.
My network topology looks like this: OpenWRT router <=Ethernet-cable=> NanoPi <=Ethernet-cable=> laptop
And in the screenshot, it shows .100 as gateway/router.
You are telling your laptop, that the gateway/ route to internet is your DietPi device, which is not the case, it’s just another client in the LAN, which is acting like a router.
I think you would need to set gateway/router also to .1 on the laptop. (Or let DHCP all handle this)
(You could establish another subnet via DHCP on your NanoPi, then it would be the gateway of the connected clients. But then you need routing rules to you other subnet, so why fiddle with all that? Let the existing DHCP server handle all that.)
No, the NanoPi is already a part of your existing LAN an also the connected devices will become part of it.
I tried that and generally had problems with picking right IP addresses for the ethX interfaces: I needed to specify either a static one or a DHCP and neither of those makes sense or is necessary for bridging AFAIU (the bridge interface it’s the only one that should have an IP address). The current configuration that I have looks right: the bridge interface is up, it’s the only one that has an IP address, all the ethX interfaces are also up yet they don’t have IP addresses. That’s how it should all looks, so I’m a bit reluctant to touch it
Good point! I changed it and a ping 192.168.1.1 from the laptop still doesn’t reach the router though, indicating that packet switching on the DietPi still isn’t functional.
Thank you, that’s good to hear because it makes the entire setup simpler!
This is expected since nothing is connected to them. It’s like a router, the router itself (bridge) has an IP. The ports do not have an IP, only the devices you connect to this ports.
If you want them as interfaces, you can’t use the bridge mode.
iface eth0 inet manual # Set to "manual" to prevent automatic configuration
iface eth1 inet manual # Set to "manual" to prevent automatic configuration
iface eth2 inet manual # Set to "manual" to prevent automatic configuration
And you can also try to use DHCP on the laptop and check on the router if it assigned an IP to it.


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- In this paper, we describe Kimura, an augmented office environment to support common multitasking practices. Previous systems, such as Rooms, limit users by constraining the interaction to the desktop monitor. In Kimura, we leverage interactive projected peripheral displays to support the perusal, manipulation and awareness of background activities. Furthermore, each activity is represented by a montage comprised of images from current and past interaction on the desktop. These montages help remind the user of past actions, and serve as a springboard for ambient context-aware reminders and notifications.


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Sixteen people have so far died from Covid-19 in Masindi since the first and second waves of the pandemic broke out in Uganda, reveals the District Health Officer (DHO).
Presenting the status of Covid-19 in the district during the District Covid-19 Taskforce meeting yesterday (Monday), Mr Patrick Baguma disclosed that of the 16 patients who succumbed to the viral disease, 13 were in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while three others were under home based care.
He added that the district currently has 2,626 cumulative suspected Covid-19 cases in both waves; 3,065 samples have so far been collected; 139 cumulative positive cases were under home based care with 136 being discharged from home based care while two health workers are currently in ICU.
Last week, Masindi district received 760 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the National Medical Stores compared to 4,630 received in the first phase. These, according to Mr Baguma, are too few a doses for the population that had the first jab.
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The DHO said people eligible to receive the second Covid-19 jab are those who had the first one. However, priority will be given to frontline health workers, Mr Baguma said.
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A research titled “Assessment of the current capacity of Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Uganda; a descriptive study by Patience Atumanya, Agnes Wabule, Lameck Ssemogerere Cornelius Sendagire, Arthur Kwizera, John Mukisa and Peter Agaba reveals that Uganda has 55 functional intensive care beds in the 12 operational ICUs.
Conducted in 2019 and the results released in January, the report indicated that 14 ICUs in Uganda, 12 are operational while two are non-functional due lack of human resource. Only a quarter of the 12 are in public hospitals.
An additional 20 did not have ventilatory capacity. Most of the ICUs are anaesthesiologist-led, run a closed model and have variable nurse-patient ratios.

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While the new Mi device from Xiaomi is not expected to be officially unveiled until February 24 at the MWC in Barcelona, several brand managers have published official images of the terminal on social networks. This is enough to create a bit of excitement before the first steps are taken.
Xiaomi employees definitely like talking about their new products. Chuan Wang, one of the brand's founders and current head of the company's Chinese division, has released several shots captured with the 48 megapixel Xiaomi Mi 9 sensor on the Chinese social network Weibo.
The man also made public official images of the terminal. This attitude was followed by Xiaomi's Senior Vice President, Wang Xiang, who in turn shared smartphone images on Twitter.
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The images leave no room for doubt and the design of the terminal appears in all its splendour. There is a Type-C USB port but no mini jack plug, since that has been absent since the Xiaomi Mi 6. The fingerprint reader is also conspicuous by its absence, which strongly suggests the presence of one under the screen.
The photos also confirm the triple camera at the back positioned vertically. In all likelihood, there would be a 48 megapixel main sensor (the same Sony IMX586 sensor seen on the Honor View20), a 12MP sensor and a 3D TOF sensor. The first images taken by the camera also look promising at first glance with a level of detail that looks pretty good.
Anyway, it will take another ten days before you know everything about the Xiaomi Mi 9. We will of course be there and we will share with you our first impressions from Barcelona.
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Though before I get ahead of myself, out of bad habit I must first dwell on that which is truly awful about music in Mali. And there is quite a lot.
To begin, the very medium of music is quite archaic. In America, we have all but converted the products of the musical recording industry to purely digital form; everybody relies so exclusively on their iTunes and iPod that we have even made the compact disc – the reification of digital music into a tangible thing – obsolete. In Mali, people are still listening to cassette tapes.
In some ways, cassette tapes are an appropriate technology because there is so much sand and dust flowing through the air during dry season and people listen to their music almost exclusively outdoors that a CD collection would inevitably get scratched into oblivion – cassettes are more durable in this climate. They are also a lot cheaper. And a lot of recording companies based out of Accra, Abidjan and Dakar understand their consumer base and continue to manufacture the recordings of local artists in cassette form. This feels so very retro to me, for I can’t even remember listening to a cassette, I haven’t even owned anything that would play a cassette for the past 10 years. The last time I ever bought a cassette was in 1997, the summer after my last year of elementary school when I plopped down my weekly allowance for a single of Puff Daddy’s tribute to the slain Notorious B.I.G., "I'll Be Missing You".
If you can remember that far back, during the penultimate years of the 20th century CDs had so dominated music sales that cassette tapes were already on their way out; no new cars were being assembled with tape decks, no one but broke 5th-graders were willing to buy such inferior products that couldn’t jump tracks and had to be rewound after listening, anachronistically-titled “record stores” had accumulated so much of this unwanted inventory that they couldn’t sell it at any price.
So naturally, like all of the unsellable surplus American corn and wheat and clothing, all of those cassette tapes somehow made it to Mali. And it’s like someone dropped and shattered a magical Tamagotchi and so the entire country was cursed to be forever stuck in the year 1997. When the teenagers of Sanadougou decide to hold a dance party at the bane-of-my-life dongeyuro the World Vision NGO built across the street from my house, I could almost swear that I’ve unraveled the very fabric of the space-time continuum and found myself at my 6th-grade dance at the John Jay Middle School cafeteria at 4:00 in the afternoon in 1997. Current hits in Sanadougou include “Quit Playing Games With My Heart” by the Backstreet Boys, “You Make Me Wanna” from the new teen-heartthrob Usher, Mariah Carey’s “Honey”, R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” from the Space Jam soundtrack, and of course, the song for which you needed to find your own Jack or Rose to awkwardy slow-dance to: Celine Dion’s anthemic “My Heart Will Go On”.
I thought that maybe the locals understood this phenomenon when I waltzed in on a bunch of men sitting around and drinking tea to “A Candle in the Wind”.
“So, I guess you guys are still bummed about Princess Diana – what with everything she did for Africa and all… right?”
“Oh… I guess not…”
What makes it all the more horrendous is that Malians only listen to a certain genre of cassettes from the 1996-1997 era. If you remember, there were some pretty groundbreaking cassettes coming out around that time from Sublime, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Ben Folds Five – but no, no cassette mogul would ever imagine selling such a decidedly non-bootylicious album like OK Computer to the decidedly booty-philic Malian people. When Malians listen to music, they want to put on something they can bump and grind and catch a nice piece of bobaraba to – like Los Del Rio.
A couple of months ago the doctor next-door to me decided to splurge on a big, 7th-hand stereo complete with radio and tape deck, and no tape deck would be complete without a cassette to play upon it – so Dr. Dembele decided to buy his family a stereo and a cassette single of the Macarena. To my knowledge, Los Del Rio was a strictly ad hoc act, so the B-side was of course the Christmas remix of the Macarena. And the Dembele’s next door blared their sole cassette single on repeat for the next five days straight.
To understand just how bizarre this was from my perspective, the only conceivable reason why anyone would listen to such a horrendous track would be so that they could re-enact the equally-horrendous line-dance of the same name. But Dr. Dembele’s wife is a pampered, well, a doctor’s wife who never has to do a day of physical labor for the rest of her life – they have a servant girl who draws all the water and does all the cooking and cleaning. So Mrs. Dembele is a very rotund woman of about 500 pounds whom after 18 months of living next door I cannot recall a single instance that I have seen her standing up. And they have a 28-year-old daughter who also does not cook, does not clean – which in this country means she’s an unmarriageable old maid – and weighs in at a slightly lesser 380 pounds or so. And these two portly women just sit on their stools all day drinking milk and fanning themselves – and blasting the Macarena over and over and over and over and over again. Of course, they are never doing the Macarena - for that would require standing up. To my good fortune, however, the actually tape within a cassette degrades after 14 years, so by the morning of the fifth day it was revolving at about 6 times the normal speed like Alvin & the Chipmunks singing the Macarena – until eventually the darn thing finally snapped beyond repair, Hamd’allah.
Malians with any sort of money available tend to splurge on more modern technologies – I specifically do not refer to those Malians who can afford modern technologies, but those who have the mathematically necessary sum of money to their person. As I often rant, it is perfectly common for a Malian man who would never shell out 2,500 CFA to buy a mosquito net for his 16 malnourished, barefoot children to go to the city for a dry season to find money and blow 500,000 (more than twice the average annual income) on an iPhone. An iPhone is not used for making calls or looking up stock quotes – Malian men blow all of the money that they have to their name for these devices so they can watch bootylicious pornography and the crassest of hip hop music videos; Akon is a favorite because he is Senegalese and legally polygamous, while American rappers Jay-Z, Nelly, Lil Wayne and “Cinquant Cent” not far behind. It makes perfect sense that this hyper-macho culture where men are men and women are chattel property is still drawn to those songs with the very most misogynist rhymes; for example, men in my town are really into the DMX hit “What These Bitches Want”:
Aiyyo!! Dog, I meet bitches, discrete bitches
Street bitches, slash, Cocoa Puff sweet bitches
Make you wanna eat bitches, but not me
Y'all niggaz eat off the plate all you want but not D
I fuck with these hoes from a distance
The instant they start to catch feelings
I start to stealin they shit
then I'm out just like a thief in the night
I sink my teeth in to bite
You thinkin life, I'm thinkin more like - whassup tonight?
Come on ma, you know I got a wife
and even though that pussy tight I'm not gon' jeapordize my life
So what is it you want from a nigga?
I gave you, you gave me - BITCH, I blazed you, you blazed me
Nothin more, nothin less, but you at my door
willin to confess that it's the best you ever tested
Better than all the rest, I'm like - Aight girlfriend, hold up
I gave you, what you gave me Boo, a nut"
Of course, no one in this town knows enough English to make sense of these lyrics – I can only surmise that the sheer chauvinism and misogyny of tracks like are just so overwhelming that they can transcend all language barriers and make male listeners of all cultures feel that their penis is nine feet longer by Tralfamadorian telekinetic brain wave communication. How else can one make sense of the popularity of English lyrical recordings with little to no musical content whatsoever in decidedly non-Anglophone Africa?
This influx of American rappers is completely understandable in this rapidly globalizing hip hop culture, but it is kind of funny how much of a following more teeny-bopper acts like Lil Bow Wow and Usher have among grown adults. This phenomenon is not confined to strictly African-American teeny-boppers; many-a-time I have stifled laughter as I witnessed big, macho Crip wannabes at the bus station grooving to a Hannah Montana music video. Or this one time I was in a café in Ouagadougou and at the next table over was a guy dressed like an American “gangsta” - part South Central gang member, part Prohibition-era bootlegger with a fedora hat, saddle shoes and spats, rolling like a mean badass. This macho gangsta hustla hunched over his beer to hypnotized by his iPhone production of S Club 7. Of course, this only testifies to the isolation and gross lack of education in this culture, for only to the completely illiterate and ignorant can Disney Channel fare be considered such a fascinating spectacle of moving shapes and colors – but the sad truth of social injustice does not in any way detract from the humor of grown adult men being enthralled with bubblegum manufactured for the exclusive consumption of 10-year-old girls… from 1997.
What is so difficult for me to comprehend is that - belying the fact that younger crowds prefer sleazy American hip hop and cheesy Radio Disney pop - Mali does in fact have a long and proud musical tradition. When I say this, I do not mean that I cannot understand that Mali can produce good music; in fact, I mean quite the opposite - traditional Malian music is so good that I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would prefer Lil Bow Wow and Aaron Carter.
The Bambara, Minianka, Malinke, Dogon, Senaful, Songraï, etc. never developed their own tongues as written languages, so for the millennia before Arab and French expansion the histories of West African kings and nobles were recounted exclusively through the oral tradition of the griot. A griot is a musical storyteller who recounted history through song, and what differentiates a true griot from any mere singer is that to be a griot one must be descended from a caste of griots – kind of like how Woody Guthrie transmitted his canon of songs chronicling the struggles of the American people to his son Arlo Guthrie who then transmitted them to his own son Krishna Guthrie, ad infinitum… Accompanied with a djembé drum, a lute, xylophone or a goni – this primordial stringed instrument with 6 strings though no frets – the oral history of the griot is really the basis of Malian music. What began as mere oral historiography evolved donné donné into what would eventually be known as the Malian blues.
The Malian blues is exactly what it sounds like; it is composed of tales of the pain of daily life – illness, death, drought and famine, unrequited love, jilted lovers, etc. Like the Bambara language itself, the lyrics to Malian blues are usually painfully literal – imagine if Robert Johnson were a subsistence farmer living off of a drought-plauged patch of sandy soil. And a lot of it is quite decent. However, I am really frustrated by goni-derived Malian blues. There is a butigitigi in town who plays the goni and he always invites me bring my guitar and jam with him – but it is sometimes tiring always playing in the same one key because my accompaniment is limited to repetitive permutations of the same 6 notes. Malian blues started getting really good when gonis developed frets and became guitars as we now know them. And that is why music critics credit the Malian blues tradition as a direct progenitor of the African-American blues – and by extension, soul, funk, rock and roll and its infinite derivative genres.
If you want to hear some classic Malian blues, I would suggest downloading anything by the late Ali Farka Touré – who is considered the godfather of the guitar-driven line of this genre. Touré was a Songraï from the small village of Niafunké in Timbouctou province who started with the goni but eventually started playing a modern guitar mixing the traditional style of the griots with what a listener like you should recognize as the blues; as Martin Scorsese describes his sound in a recent documentary, when listening to Touré one can hear “the DNA of the blues”. Ali Farka Touré garnered the moniker as the “John Lee Hooker of Africa”, and was truly the first Malian musician to develop a sense of crossover appeal with Western audiences, even winning Grammy awards in the World Music category. In 1994 Touré collaborated with American roots guitarist Ry Cooder on a duet album Talking Timbuktu and with African-American blues singer Corey Harris in 2002’s Mississippi to Mali. Anyone interested in Malian blues must start with a survey of Ali Farka Touré’s solo and duet albums.
If you like what you hear in Ali Farka’s blues, the next logical step would be to check out the works of his son 29-year-old son Vieux Farka Touré. Vieux Farka Touré is no nepotistic hack like Lisa Marie Presley; I would compare him more to a Ziggy or Damian Marley who does a fairly decent job of continuing the sound of his legendary father – especially because some of his more upbeat tracks are distinguishably influenced by reggae. And Vieux is already making inroads with American audiences – he recently played a tour of U.S. college campuses, even made it onto the Bonnaroo 2009 lineup.
Other, more traditional griot-like Malian bluesmen include Afel Bocoum, Habib Koité and Toumani Diabeté. I am told that the latter played a duet set at the last Bonnaroo with the innovative classical banjoist Béla Fleck - if anyone can help me track down a bootleg of this set, I would greatly appreciate it.
Though he is sometimes lumped in the same category as the aforementioned artists, I would like to set Salif Keïta apart. First of all, his biography is all the more fascinating; Salif Keïta is the direct descendent of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keïta - thereby making him royalty. However, this young prince was born an albino - making him not only royalty but a social outcast in this superstitious culture that sees the pigmentally-challenged as sources of bad luck and macabre fetishry. So Salif Keïta - turned out by his royal family, violated the traditional Malian caste system and became a singer - a profession designated solely for the lower caste which exists but to record the Keïtas' history. After directly rebuking the existing social order, Salif Keïta's choice has been clearly vindicated by the people as he has taken the Malian blues, electrified it, added a backup band and produces a stage show that is unequivocally glam rock. If Ali Farka Touré is the "John Lee Hooker of Africa", then Keïta's unique sound and stage presence makes him more like the African David Bowie.
Perhaps the most universally-appealing crossover act from Mali would be the married couple Amadou et Mariam. They met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind where the bonded over a common interest in music - decades later, they are performing their fusion of Malian blues, soul, reggae and funk playing at Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza and becoming perhaps the most commercially successful act to ever hail from this country. Rolling Stone recently pegged Amadou et Mariam's Dimanche à Bamako at #90 of their top 100 albums of the past decade - albeit, not a Grammy like père Farka Touré, but for a blind man and a blind woman from Mali that is quite an achievement. Even if you haven't the slightest interest in traditional Malian blues, you will probably enjoy the spaghetti and butter of this country's musical fare.
As the role of the griot has been almost exclusively held by men, very few women have burst out onto this specific genre of Malian blues per se. Though a number of female singers such as Nahawa Doumbia and Oumou Sangaré have gained popularity playing more modern pop acts. I'm somewhat indifferent to their music, but I really admire Sangaré's social activism and outspokenness on women's rights - and a number of her songs directly protests topical oppression in the form of polygamy and genital mutilation.
I feel that I owe a shout-out to the Gaoan Songraï guitarist Baba Salah, because I was totally blown away by his psychedelic Slash-like shredding at le Festival de la Niger. However, I would hold out on buying any of his recordings. Salah has two, and this awed fanboy made the mistake of blowing two weeks of food money on them. Apparently Baba Salah is taking the analogy of Mali's very own Cheap Trick - an act that puts on an astounding stage show, but records albums so tame, watered-down and saccharine bland that they are absolutely unlistenable. Until he puts out a concert bootleg, I would wait to see him shred in the flesh.
And last but not least, I must extol the killer Tamashek group Tinariwen. If there is one group in this country that I would recommend spending your unemployment insurance check on at at the iTunes music store, it is this troup of self-described "poet guitarists and soul rebels from the southern Sahara Desert". The only reason I didn't put them on the top of the list of Malian musicians to hear is that, well, the members of Tinariwen would be loathe to hear anyone refer to them as "Malian". They are Tamashek rebels who think of their nomadic people as a state unto itself, the Bambara-dominated state in Bamako as alien a regime as the French colonialists, and yearn to estabish an "Islamic Republic of Azawad" out of the Sahara frontiers of Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Algeria and Libya. Their collective biography is just as captivating as their music. Ringleader Ibrahim Ag Alhabib originally hailed from a small village in the Tamashek northern frontier, but when the Malian Army clamped down on the Tuareg uprising in 1963, executing Alhabib's father and destroying almost the entirety of his family herd, young Alhabib began a multidecade exodus from refugee camps, nomad trains across the Sahara, training with formal militant insurrectionists and even the Libyan Army. But Ibrahim Ag Alhabib preferred to use a more peaceful weapon of revolution - making his own guitars from scraps and bicycle break wires and gradually accumulating a troupe of like-minded freedom fighters. Today, the group known as Tinariwen travels the Sahara heartland and the world singing of Tamashek nationalist consciousness, a life of exile and exodus, freedom, homesickness and all but calling for the militant secession of the historical Tamashek homeland. Get your hands on the albums Imidiwan, Aman Iman and Amassakoul as soon as possible.
And if its still in stock, the cassette single of the Christmas Macarena remix.

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Why do I overeat and gain weight when stressed? Emotional eating
Stress eating or emotional eating is a thing. The hormones chronic stress releases push people to crave high-calorie, sugary foods, aka "comfort foods," leading to weight gain. Also, the combination of stress and calorie-dense foods can cause two times more weight gain than in unstressed individuals, as found in a recent study.
But what's the brain mechanism behind stress-eating, and how can you fight it?
Why do people stress eat?
When momentarily stressed, your body releases adrenaline. This hormone prepares the body for fight or flight, putting hunger (even pain) on hold. But if stress persists, another hormone, cortisol, is released. Cortisol increases your food cravings.
Problem is, as long as stress persists (i.e., chronic stress), cortisol levels remain high, and you’ll continually crave food.
Unfortunately, stressed people are oddly inclined towards eating sugary snacks to find comfort. Hence the term "comfort foods."
Now, here's where things get interesting.
Chronic stress, comfort foods, and your brain
A research team has discovered that stress dampens the pleasure the brain derives from eating, causing you to continually eat more sugary foods to compensate.
The brain gets constantly rewarded by these highly palatable foods, never getting fully sated. More calories, more weight gain.
The researchers experimented with mice and discovered that these brain changes occurred in the lateral habenula.
The lateral habenula is involved in switching off the brain's response to food intake when satiety is reached.
During short-term stress and a high-calorie diet, the lateral habenula works just fine. But during chronic stress, this brain region goes inactive; it doesn't shut off the brain's pleasure derived from eating. You therefore overeat since the brain keeps getting pleasure from the palatable diet.
Chronic stress can cause two times more weight gain
"Stressed mice on a high-fat diet gained twice as much weight as mice on the same diet that were not stressed," the researchers noted.
The reason for this excessive weight gain was the molecule NPY. In response to stress, the brain produces NPY, which impairs the lateral habenula. When the researchers blocked NPY, the mice were less inclined to eat comfort foods, resulting in less weight gain.
How to stop stress-eating amid stressful times
The findings show that stress can compromise your body system, pushing you towards high-calorie foods that promote weight gain.
With this awareness, during stressful times is especially when you should prioritize healthy eating habits. Of course, it's easier to grab a quick sweet snack when you're busy and stressed. But in the long term, that can be bad for you.
This is where stress management comes in.
If you stress eat as a coping mechanism, below are stress management techniques to adopt:
Ways to overcome emotional eating
- Mindfulness meditation: Studies show that mindfulness meditation can help reduce stress and promote mindful eating, preventing you from emotional eating.
- Exercise: Exercise can help reduce stress by blunting the negative effects of stress.
- Get help: If you're battling with chronic stress, don't be afraid to seek support from your loved ones. If you need someone more professional or neutral to avoid being judged, come let's talk.
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Effective immediately, the authority granted to the President under Section 100.4(c) of the Bylaws and Standing Orders of The Regents regarding dismissal of academic Deans and Provosts is delegated to you. Pursuant to this Standing Order, action to dismiss academic Deans or Provosts shall be taken by you. I ask that I be informed of the circumstances of any dismissal action you take.
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CLEVELAND – Through 32 games this Ball State women’s basketball season, there has been a multitude of consistencies for the Cardinals.
All-MAC First Team junior Ally Becki was probably going to drop double digit points. Back-to-back Mid-American Conference (MAC) Defensive Player of the Year junior Nyla Hampton was probably going to record two or more steals.
And those occupying the end of Ball State’s bench were probably going to be cheering the Cardinals louder than most fans in the bleachers. Jumping up and down, shouting encouragement to their teammates more than anyone this season was perhaps the trio of sophomore Sydney Bolden and freshman twins Hailey and Olivia Smith.
Although none of the three averaged more than five minutes per game, head coach Brady Sallee said their enthusiasm from the bench does make an impact in the win column.
“We hit the lottery with character when it came to these kids,” Sallee said. “As frustrated as they may be not to get an opportunity to play, they understand what it's about, they understand the bigger picture and they know their time is coming.”
Bolden’s playing time actually decreased from 7.1 minutes per game in her freshman season to 3.6 minutes per game this season, but it seems that she has taken that in stride. She said she has no trouble contributing in a more unsung role, and most of that comes down to the chemistry between all 14 players.
“We all want to see each other thrive,” Bolden said. “Bringing that energy for friends and teammates means a lot to me, because I know they would do the same if they were in my position.”
Joining a highly successful program with a deep roster, the Smith twins knew what their roles would be coming into Ball State from Fishers High School where they each earned First Team All-Conference honors.
“I've always been a part of a winning team, but this is a different level,” Olivia said. “So there's some different meanings to it, but we go into practice every day and compete.”
Olivia felt the transition from high school to college basketball in terms of chemistry was made easier due to the common ground all 14 players on the squad have: a love of the game.
“At first, we came in scared a little bit, but once you're around the team every day, you have to talk and you have to build connections,” Hailey said.
And it was common ground that bonded the Smith twins with Bolden out of the gate as well, as the three knew their roles for Ball State would look similar during the 2023-24 campaign. Bolden described the role she takes on as ensuring her teammates’ nerves are calmed and their focus is on playing up to their capabilities.
Their energy seems to be infectious both on and off the court, made evident through a group dance performed a few hours before the Cardinals’ first-round MAC Tournament contest in the dining room of a Cleveland hotel with junior Alex Richard.
“We’re always together,” Olivia said.
In fact, Olivia said sometimes seemingly light-hearted activities like that can go a long way toward results on the court. She said Richard expressed some nerves in the hours prior to tipoff against Ohio March 14, and later told the three that the dance helped her feel more loose once it was time to play.
Richard tied her career high in points with 22 on 9/9 shooting in the 77-53 win against the Bobcats.
Perhaps the biggest way the Cardinals have been able to bond this season was during a near week-long trip to Tampa, Florida, for the Sun Coast Challenge in Dec. 2023. Hailey thought back to Ball State’s excursion to a nearby animal enclosure that housed alligators, which the Cardinals all held one-by-one.
“It was a lot of people stepping out of their comfort zones,” Hailey said. “You just got to see the reactions; some people were scared, some people were screaming.”
During her two seasons with Ball State, Bolden has traveled overnight to numerous locations, including Puerto Rico in her freshman year. Looking back on those experiences, Bolden underscored the importance of team-bonding for success on the court and relayed personal memories that will always stay with her.
“Not all teams get to click like this,” Bolden said. “All those activities, we don't take them for granted; we enjoy every minute of it. We know we're not gonna be able to go back in time and get these moments back.”
Always joining the trio on the end of the bench is someone who fits right in, despite not suiting up in a jersey and shorts. Assistant athletic trainer Brad Bunten said he never lets his mind stray from the possibility of an injury on the court, but after his pregame treatment of players who need it, he essentially becomes a fan on the end of Ball State’s bench during the 40 minutes of gametime.
He said at this point, his energy isn’t so much of a conscious effort as it is his competitive nature taking over.
“I want to win just as bad as they do,” Bunten said. “I want to see them succeed.”
Bolden even said Bunten’s constant energy from a staff member’s standpoint encourages her to be more energetic as a player, which Bunten said is his goal whenever the Cardinals are feeling down at any point during a game.
“It's a great bond that not many people get with their athletic trainer,” Bolden said. “He celebrates with us when we're down and when we're up, and that's what we love about him.”
Citing positive relationships his wife, Morgan, and his 10-year-old son, Mason, have with the players and staff, Bunten also recognized the unique situation he’s in. Ball State is the third stop of his professional career since 2015, and while he threw no shade toward either of his past employers, he emphasized how the family atmosphere with the Cardinals is different than he has ever felt professionally.
“There's no one else that I'd rather be sitting on the end of the bench with than these 14 student athletes and this coaching staff,” Bunten said.
No. 2 seed Ball State plays No. 3 seed Kent State at approximately 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 15 in a MAC Tournament semifinal, which will be the Smith twins second-ever conference tournament game at the collegiate level.
Olivia said she was more excited than nervous heading into her first time in Cleveland, mostly down to the high expectations and confidence she has in Ball State to succeed. The twins and Bolden said their roles don’t change when the stakes are higher, in fact, they ensure to maintain consistent high energy throughout the entire season, no matter the opponent or situation.
“Energy is always important,” Bolden said. “Whether it's the MAC Tournament or regular season or even preseason, any energy is enough for the team to get us going.”


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Thursday 21 June, 2018 Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) and Turner announced today that the Turner-owned Adult Swim brand will be launching on Viafree this summer. The content, consisting of animated and live-action comedy series for young adults, will be available on Viafree from August 1.
The Adult Swim branded section will be available on Viafree in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland with hundreds of episodes already at launch, and new content added every month. The content will be subtitled into local languages.
‘The partnership with Turner and Adult Swim is a great match with Viafree and our growth strategy in AVOD for Nordic Entertainment Group. We aim to grow and expand our offering by building genre specific verticals with top quality content, and we are very excited to have a great partner in Turner and Adult Swim's strong selection of comedy series to achieve that goal’, said Alexander Bastin, SVP and Head of Viaplay & Viafree at Nordic Entertainment Group.
The comprehensive line up of programming will include the latest seasons of Adult Swim’s current line-up, from the multi-Emmy award-winning Robot Chicken, to the star-studded The Eric Andre Show and Mr Pickles, featuring the voice talent Brooke Shields. It will also include some of Adult Swim’s best loved shows from its rich archive, such as cult hit Samurai Jack and brand-new titles Hot Streets and Jellies. All shows will be available on Viafree from August 1st.
““We are thrilled to be partnering with NENT Group, to bring the Adult Swim brand to the Viafree platform as we continue to look to capitalize on the huge success of the brand in the U.S and build its presence in new markets. Adult Swim is a unique comedy brand with powerful millennial appeal offering content that is edgy, distinctive and visually powerful and we look forward to bringing our content to existing and new fans”, said Pierre Branco, Senior Vice President, Turner Northern Europe.
In the US, Adult Swim is basic cable’s #1 network with persons 18-34 and 18-49, and seen in 94 million U.S. homes alongside a growing digital footprint across multiple touchpoints.
About Nordic Entertainment Group
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is the Nordic region’s leading entertainment provider. We entertain millions of people every day with our streaming services, TV channels and radio stations, and our production companies create exciting content for media companies around the world. We make life more entertaining by enabling the best and broadest experiences – from live sports, movies and series to music and original shows. Headquartered in Stockholm, NENT Group is part of Modern Times Group MTG AB (publ), a leading international digital entertainment group listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (‘MTGA’ and ‘MTGB’). NENT Group is proposed to be listed separately on Nasdaq Stockholm during the second half of 2018.
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Turner International operates versions of core Turner brands, including CNN, TNT, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM Turner Classic Movies, as well as country- and region-specific networks and businesses in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. It manages the business of Pay- and Free-TV-channels, as well as Internet-based services, and oversees commercial partnerships with various third-party media ventures; it teams with Warner Bros. and HBO to leverage WarnerMedia’s global reach. Turner operates more than 180 channels showcasing 48 brands in 34 languages in over 200 countries. Turner International is a WarnerMedia company.
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A remote-insect detection system was designed, constructed, and operated in typical southern Texas environments near fields of corn and cotton. The system electronically detected Heliothis zea (Boddie) and Heliothis virescens (F.) and automatically radio-telemetered event information to a programmed data processor (computer). Remote infrared moth detector units were installed in the field and baited with species-specific pheromone lures. A tone-coded radio frequency pulse was transmitted from the detector units when moths that responded to respective lures were detected. Numbers of moths detected were automatically collated by the computer each night at hourly intervals. The infrared detectors, associated control circuits, and radio transmitters were reliable in adverse weather conditions. The system was at least 92% accurate in counting the moths detected and was 100% accurate in reporting the detection of single moths as a first event each night. Detector-transmitter units within a field consumed a nominal 6 mW from a 6-V lantern battery that lasted about 11 mo.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: April 1, 1989
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Journal of Economic Entomology is published bimonthly in February, April, June, August, October, and December. The journal publishes articles on the economic significance of insects and is divided into the following sections: apiculture & social insects; arthropods in relation to plant disease; forum; insecticide resistance and resistance management; ecotoxicology; biological and microbial control; ecology and behavior; sampling and biostatistics; household and structural insects; medical entomology; molecular entomology; veterinary entomology; forest entomology; horticultural entomology; field and forage crops, and small grains; stored-product; commodity treatment and quarantine entomology; and plant resistance. In addition to research papers, Journal of Economic Entomology publishes Letters to the Editor, interpretive articles in a Forum section, Short Communications, Rapid Communications, and Book Reviews.

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International "Customer Overview" and data drill down by State / Country.
Expand the existing "Customer Overview" page to include international orders. Create a more interactive map, allowing you to drill down on states / countries to get specific data.
Hey, @dotmodshipping! Thank you for taking the time to bring this up! We’ll keep this one in mind when planning future roadmaps. For now, we’d like to see your idea gain support from other users before making a decision here.
You may have noticed you’re able to run a report called “Country Comparison Report” on our Insights page under the “Reports” section. This will only give you the countries, however, can you tell us more about the goal you’re trying to achieve by drilling down into a map?
We would love a Canadian map with all the provinces visible like the US map that is there at the moment. We mostly only ship to Canada because we are a Canadian company.

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MidCoast Council will work with bus companies to potentially adjust public transport schedules so residents can access the new administration building at Taree South.
This follows the Hunter Central Coast Regional Planning Panel's decision to conditionally approve council's development application (DA) for a centralised administration office at the former Masters site.
While the council will need to provide a shuttle service to transport residents from the Taree CBD to the site on ordinary meeting days as a condition of the DA approval, a bus service to and from other areas such as Forster and Gloucester won't be considered.
"Ordinary council meetings have been held in Taree on a large number of occasions over the past three years," a MidCoast Council statement said.
Once the move is complete it would up to councillors, rather than administration, to decide if meetings will be held at other locations such as Forster and Gloucester.


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|MVSXLME32||1/2" INS x 3/8" MPT Elbow (Dish.)||1||1||1||1||1||1||1|
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Well...I am buying a new HF transceiver...FT-2000 or IC-7600?
Over the years I have had several transceivers and receivers. Some I have liked and some I didn't like. For the past several years, I haven't been able to be involved with my hobby because working and going to school full time has been a constant in my life (the past five years). In 1996, I didn't have an Elmer and the Internet was still barely useable, so when I bought my first FM mobile transceiver (Yaesu FT-2200) I was nervous about whether I was buying the right transceiver and would anyone even want to talk to me. I didn't know anyone or belong to any clubs. I learned morse code on my own and impressed myself when I actually passed the 5 wpm code test with a perfect score. I wanted to become a ham ( I use the term ham cautiously because I got verbally beaten by village idiots on qrz.com for even suggesting that being a ham was an acceptable term in the hobby.....whatever) since I was 12, but i had no money and had no elmers in my neighborhood. I am a self taught amateur radio operator or "ham", whatever you want to call me. Now that I have finished my second bachelor's degree, I can actually find some time to enjoy amateur radio and get on the air..HF, 2 meters, etc. As I mentioned before, I have accumulated a variety of odds and ends of "ham" gear. I was going to make a list, but we all have the same kind of experiences. After, lots of learning about what I like in a receiver and a transmitter, am I finally getting down to the equipment I like to use.
I didn't use to be a Yaseu guy for base stations, but my recent inspection of the FT-2000 has made me think otherwise. Yes, I have read all about the RFI problems....blah..blah..blah... Bottom line...ground your equipment. I used an Icom 746 Pro for almost ten years until I just sold it on ebay today. So, I was sort of indoctrinated into the Icom culture of transceivers, button menus and so on. I sat down with the 746 pro and realized I hated how the buttons feel when I press them. It never really felt like I had pressed them all the way in the way they responded to a simple finger press. I also began to realize how obnoxious it was to really use the 746 Pro. Why did I buy it...you are probably all asking the same question I asked myself two weeks ago. Well...Like I said, I didn't have an Elmer and I was still learning a lot about HF when I bought the 746 Pro. With age comes wisdom. By the time the Icom 756 Pro III was being discontinued, I was wanting a new transceiver. However, my experiences with the Icom R-70 receiver taught me what a really good Triple Conversion design can achieve. All this time, DSP is getting better with each implementation.
So, I read the reviews of all the equipment I missed out on while I was in school and learned that the FT-847 had a low noise DDS receiver. I was lucky enough to find one in really nice condition, low hours of use on ebay and I decided to take the plunge. I bought the transceiver. When I got it, I wasn't really expecting a whole lot. However, I learned that this particular transceiver had indeed a lower noise floor than other transceivers. I compared it to my Icom R-75 and was even more surprised to find the FT-847 had the Icom R-75 beat hands down. I like the DSP in it too.
I have decided I want to buy another HF transceiver base station and I am looking at the Icom IC-7600 or the Yaesu FT-2000. I know the Icom is more expensive than the FT-2000 and I know the history of the FT-2000. I am well acquainted with each radio, but just can't decide. I have read all the reviews and studied all the opinions about these radios, but I want to hear about people's operational experiences and the functionality of the two transceivers. I am not a contester, but I do set my shack up a lot like a contester's ham shack (oh...there's that offensive word again), because I like to spend more time listening into the depths of the noise than fiddling with the controls.
I would rather have a used IC-756 PROIII
My friend got a 7600 at same time as I got my 756 PROIII
They pretty much do the same, the 756 have a mechanical meter, with a REAL needle, and out of pocket is about half of a 7600....
It is perfectly legal to be stupid....
abusing the privilege.....
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I am an amateur radio operator, in what still is, at least somewhat, a quasi-technical hobby.
I am NOT a DHS employee, and I don't work for FEMA.
I am a freaking bus driver, yapping on the radio, playing with antennas and having FUN.
However, in a given situation, I will surrender my knowledge, my equipment and experience, that is what real hams do....
Stick with the FT-847 and donate the money you would have spent to a good cause. Like your local amateur radio club Field Day, or anything else you might deem worthy.
Don't buy anything until you are sure of what you want. Spend more time with them both. Compare what the cost is after any accessories you might want are added in to the FT-2000. If you are on the fence, write down what you really like in features that they each have and compare.
I just got a 7600 so my 746Pro will find a new home soon. I like the 746Pro and never had a problem with it but it is time to say goodbye to it.
Maybe the 7600 isn't the absolute best choice for the money in terms of specifications, but it IS what I wanted.
I can easily choose for myself, but I sure can't for you!
Chances are pretty good that you will like either of them pretty well.
A friend is having the Inrad roofing filter put in his Pro3...but then I can select from 3 roofing filters.
Button and knobs I just get used to and then don't give them much of a thought.
The digital meter on the 7600 is very nice and can be configured a few different ways.
I don't miss analog meters in rigs.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to receive."
-Otto Watt Sept. 5 1925
You're the one that has to make that decision and hopefully one you can live with.
The only thing we as a group will tell you are our own personnal feelings about what's good and what's bad. Usually the bad stuff will be exposed in greater depth and quickly. Amateurs are unkind to rigs that flop (can I really call you anything I want? Just kidding).
Now for my suggestion. There are a number of newer units coming down the line and some of them will be here by the end of the year. The TS-990 is supposed to be here by the end of this year (maybe) and Yaesu has one coming that just might interest you and that's the FTdx-3000. It is reported to have the exact same receiver in it the number one rated FTdx-5000 has in it. The FTdx-3000 will be minus the second receiver the FTdx-5000 has in it but the FTdx-3000 will be lower in cost and produce 100W output instead of 200W the FTdx-5000 offers.
This would be a great unit if it all is true and it would be worth the wait. BTW there are times when new units come along but good ones show up seldom so don't think you can wait for the next batch of outstanding units because it could be a long wait. There is information on when the FTdx-3000 is to make it to market but I don't have it. An internet search will tell you that.
Now if you're think "This guy is a Yaesu fan" you'd be wrong. I just bought a TS-590S and I'm very happy with it. I also bought a ASL-600 that so far is working very well.
There are other units coming down the line from Flex in the new 6000 series. They have some very impressive numbers and although I don't know what they will cost I would bet that would be impressive as well (if you have to ask you can't afford it).
I used the FT 847 for almost 15 years with Collins filters ( bought new) and went last year to a FT 2000-D, the FT 847 is spare transceiver now.
As you did i read up about the transceivers could compare the FT 2000 with a Icom 756 Pro 3 with roofing filter and some other transceivers and loved the ergonomic control layout.
The receiver is quite good, and with the latest software the receiver does just fine compared to the others.
200 watts is fine for most Qso's i tend to hardly ise the HEathkit SB-1000 anymore.
It's your choice, the FT 5000 is a littlee better receiver but costs a lot more, and it is your money to spend.
With good transceivers has to come good antenna's in which i tend to spend more time and interest as a transceiver.
Good luck chosing your next radio.
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They're not the same. Not in the least. Did you compare receiver performance? The 7600 is better.
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FT-2000 or IC-7600?
Well, that's easy...neither..get a K3...
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Senate Republicans finally unveiled their plan for scrapping the Obama health care law. The 142-page draft of the proposed law was posted Thursday morning.
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Sunday, July 2, 2000
Books Make Good Vacation Listening
Are you planning a driving vacation this summer? Auto trips were an ordeal for me when I was a child. Even a two-hour outing was a protracted agony of boredom relieved only by games of twenty questions, license plate identification, and reading the Burma Shave signs. If only we had had tape players and books on cassette I could have avoided numerous bouts of car-sickness induced by trying to read in the backseat. Today's suggestions are some that I have enjoyed in the past six months. All are available through your public library and will be good listening on your summer vacation. There is a wide selection of audio books for children as well. Some are abridged and suitable for short trips or commutes to work, others are for the long haul.
The Marching Season by Daniel Silva (Recorded Books, 1999).
A teriffic international thriller about the Protestant resistance in Belfast. Readers of Silva's earlier work The Mark of the Assassin will recognize Jean Paul Delaroche, a cold-blooded killer trained from childhood by the KGB who almost ended the life of CIA agent Michael Osbourne. Delaroche is probably the most memorable and weirdly likeable bad guy I have ever encountered. He rationalizes his career by saying he is not a murderer, merely a hired assassin. A shadowy group of international arms dealers wants to destabilize the peace talks in Northern Ireland so they hire Delaroche to kill the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain who happens to be Osbourne's father in law. Lots of tense action here, and Frank Muller's deadpan narrative style is perfect for the thriller genre. 11 hours 30 minutes.
Child of Happy Valley: A Memoir by Juanita Carberry (Recorded Books, 2000).
The White Highlands of Kenya in the 1930's is the setting of this coming of age memoir of the daughter of a British nobleman who renounced his title and moved to Africa. When Juanita was three her mother was killed in a plane crash, but she did not learn of this tragedy until she was six years old. Her cold and abusive father re-married a promiscuous woman who was by turns cruel and chummy with young Juanita. Fortunately the child had the strength of character to survive. Her appreciation for Africa and the Kenyans, and the support she received from friends and ultimately her uncle's family sustains her and helps her grow up. Narrated in a lilting British accent by Briony Sykes. 8 hr. 30 min.
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi (Simon & Schuster, 2000).
From the author of the Oprah pick Stones from the River comes a multi-generational saga of a German immigrant who builds an apartment house on the shores of a lake in New Hampshire. Hegi, who reads this abridgement is a wonderful storyteller, and she relates the immigrant experience with an appealing German accent. However, when a 432 page novel is reduced to a four and a half hour reading I'm afraid too much is left out. I got a good idea of the story line but felt I was missing large chunks of narrative that were essential to a full appreciation of this book. I hope an unabridged version will be out soon. 4 hrs. 30 minutes.
Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen (Recorded Books, 2000).
Hansen, author of Atticus, and Mariette In Ecstasy, has written a novel based on the shadowy relationship of Adolph Hitler and his half-niece Geli Raubal. This masterful reading by Paul Hechr begins with the christening of baby Geli which is attended by her 19 year old, ne'er-do-well Uncle Adolph who was scorned by his brother-in-law for his artistic pretensions and defended and helped by his half-sister who is Geli's mother. After a slow start the tension slowly builds and the listener is drawn into the fascinating and incredible rise of a man filled with hate and paranoia but who was able to mesmerize the masses. A riveting fictionalized history of a family drama with an evil twist. Ten hours and 30 minutes.
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (BDD Audio, 1996).
When I can't find anything I like in the adult audiobook collection I turn to the children's section. I found this little gem, a fictional diary of a knight's daughter in Medieval England. Catherine, a lively 14-year-old, chafes at her mother's attempts to turn her into a lady. She wants to be outdoors with animals and having adventures, not cooped up in a dark house learning needlework and spinning. The narrator, Kate Maberley gives a charming performance that I didn't want to end. 3 hours.
Sandy Schultheis is a librarian with the Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library. The opinions expressed in this column are personal and do not reflect policies or official recommendations of EVPL.

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Usha has a strong interest in painting. She is known for her famous song "Mungla" and songs for the Marathi moviePinjara.
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In the caption “My baby girl…” shared yesterday June 5, 2015.
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‘City on the Make’
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9:00 am - 11:00 am
Chicago mayoral candidate and Cook County Commissioner Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, political consultant Don Rose, educational policy professor Pauline Lipman and Safer Foundation president Victor Dickson will participate in a panel discussion on inequality in Chicago.
The panel will follow a talk by Andrew Diamond, professor of history and civilization at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, on his new book, City on the Make: Race and Inequality in Chicago. The panel discussion will be moderated by Teresa Córdova, director of UIC’s Great Cities Institute.
This event is part of the Great Cities Institute’s “Poverty to Prosperity” lecture series. It is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.

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Remeron is thought to work by adjusting the balance of the brain's natural chemical messengers, especially norepinephrine and serotonin. It belongs to the class of drugs known as tetracyclics and is chemically unrelated to other antidepressants such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors and MAO inhibitors.
The usual starting dose for Remeron is 15 milligrams once daily, usually
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The usual starting dose is 15 mg taken daily before going to sleep. Depending upon your response, your dosage may be increased to as much as 45 mg a day.
The safety and effectiveness of Remeron have not been established in children.
Approximately half of the patients who take Remeron develop
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Some persons experience weight gain, sometimes requiring discontinuation of
treatment. Remeron may increase blood levels of cholesterol and
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Now entering its third year, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Schenectady County has hosted the Schenectady Youth Marathon (SYM). To date, over one-hundred youth have completed the SYM with the support of numerous volunteers. Youth completing the SYM report increased fitness levels, as well as decreased time spent on the Internet, playing video games, and watching television. In addition to the fitness component, youth receive nutrition information based on the USDA “My Pyramid” program, and report a greater understanding of nutritional issues.
The idea is simple; between June 1st and August 31st, youth agree to run or walk a minimum of one mile on twenty-six different occasions and must maintain a running log which records date, time and distance. All participants must have an adult partner to provided supervision and verify that all run/walks were completed. Youth can measure distance in any number of ways; either with a pedometer (which was included in a race packet provided to all participants), running/walking on one of the many mapped courses in Schenectady County, using a local school track, or by using the “Golden Rule” – twenty minutes equals a mile. In addition to the pedometer, al participants an official Schenectady Youth Marathon t-shirt, a wealth of fitness and nutrition tips, and a journal. Once twenty-six runs or walks are logged, youth can redeem their log for a gift card to a local sporting goods store and for a certificate recognizing their achievement. However, once completed, youth are still encouraged to participate, as the youth in each age group (5-6, 7-8, 9-10) with the most logged miles on September 1st will receive a grand prize, a twenty-five dollar gift certificate to a local sports store


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Josh Leuke — one of the pitchers acquired by the Mariners in the Cliff Lee deal — faced rape and sodomy charges in California last summer. He later pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of false imprisonment with
violence. Lueke was sentenced to 40 days in prison but was released immediately thereafter for time served.
That’s bad. Also bad: not everyone on the Mariners seemed to realize this at the time of the trade. The Seattle Times’ Geoff Baker:
Mariners president Chuck Armstrong said he was “not aware” beforehand
that a Class AA pitcher obtained in the Cliff Lee deal pleaded no
contest last year to a charge of false imprisonment with violence
against a woman.
“I was not aware of that before we acquired him,” Armstrong said.
“And it is going to be addressed.”
Team CEO Howard Lincoln didn’t know either. General Manager Jack Zduriencik said he did know about it, but on Friday mistakenly said that Leuke had been “cleared,” which is not true, meaning that Jack Z either didn’t really know everything or else he was trying to gloss it over. Either way, he said he asked the Rangers if they thought Lueke was anything to be concerned about moving forward and was satisfied with their answer.
Still, how you don’t bring higher ups into the loop on this kind of thing beforehand is a mystery to me. It’s just as much a mystery to me why — regardless of Zduriencik’s responsibility to keep his bosses informed — they didn’t know it independently. Google Lueke and the case turns up pretty prominently (there are even pics of him in prison scrubs out there for crying out loud). Look at his stats from last year and you see that he pitched only four games. Even if you didn’t know about the criminal charges, don’t you look at that and ask if the guy had Tommy John surgery or something?
Geoff Baker is going to town on this. And rightfully so, in my mind. As he notes today, the Mariners have been out front in the community supporting groups and initiatives aimed at putting a stop to violence against women. This has led to a zero-tolerance policy on the part of the team which has in turn led to players being sent out of town on a rail before. Now the team trades for a guy who pleaded guilty to a charge which involved violence against a woman.
Reasonable people can disagree how much Lueke should be punished within his profession for his criminal transgressions. Reasonable people can’t disagree, however, that the Mariners either didn’t do their homework or simply didn’t care about Lueke’s background when they made the deal. My guess is that Zduriencik is in some hot water with his
bosses over all of this, and as I sit here right now, I think it’s pretty justified.
With the White Sox losing Jeff Samardzija to free agency, Erik Johnson will likely get a shot to contribute out of the rotation to open up the 2016 season, GM Rick Hahn said in a conference call on Wednesday, per a report from MLB.com’s Scott Merkin.
“As we sit here today, I think it will be an opportunity for Erik Johnson to convert on sort of the return to form he showed back in 2015 when he was International League pitcher of the year for [Triple-A] Charlotte,” Hahn said. “Obviously, he got some starts in September and continued to show the progress in Chicago he had shown in the Minor Leagues over the course of the last season.
“So if Opening Day were today, then I think Johnson is penciled in to that spot in the rotation right now. In all probability, once we get closer to spring, there will be some competition for him to earn that spot. But if we were strictly looking at today, then I would think Johnson has the inside track on filling Samardzija’s innings.”
Johnson was called up from Triple-A Charlotte in September and made six starts, allowing 14 runs (13 earned) on 32 hits and 17 walks with 30 strikeouts in 35 innings. That followed up an impressive five months in the minors where he compiled a 2.37 ERA and a 136/41 K/BB ratio across 132 2/3 innings.
Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and MLB.com each included Johnson on their top-100 prospect lists, ranking him 63rd, 67th, and 70th, respectively. The right-hander was selected by the White Sox in the second round of the 2011 draft.
It was reported on Friday afternoon that Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was involved in a brawl at a Miami nightclub. Details were scant at the time, but he reportedly left with a bruise on his face.
Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times reports that Major League Baseball plans to investigate Puig under the league’s new domestic violence policy for his role in the brawl. Citing a report from TMZ, Hernandez notes that Puig shoved his sister, “brutally sucker-punched” the manager of the bar, and instigated the brawl.
The Dodgers and Puig’s agent have thus far refused to comment on the situation.
Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes was the first player to be investigated under the league’s new domestic violence policy earlier this month, as he allegedly assaulted his wife. Reyes has pleaded not guilty after he was charged with domestic abuse in Hawaii.
As our own Craig Calcaterra pointed out, commissioner Rob Manfred does not need to wait for Puig to plead guilty or to be found guilty to levy a punishment.
Patrick Newman is reporting that the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball and outfielder Dayan Viciedo are close to an agreement on a contract. Newman notes that the Dragons are close to signing pitcher Jordan Norberto as well.
Viciedo, 26, has struggled since making his major league debut in 2010 with the White Sox, batting an aggregate .254/.298/.424 with 66 home runs and 211 RBI in 1,798 plate appearances. He spent the 2015 season with Triple-A Charlotte (White Sox) and Nashville (Athletics), hitting a composite .287/.348/.450. While Viciedo can hit the occasional home run, he hasn’t shown the ability to do much else at the big league level. Given his age, he could prove himself in Japan and parlay that into a renewed shot in the majors in the future.
The White Sox signed Viciedo out of Cuba in December 2008, agreeing to a four-year, $10 million deal. The club re-signed him to one-year deals in 2013 and ’14 for $2.8 million each and $4.4 million ahead of the 2015 season.
Update (8:45 PM EST): Per Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi, Happ will get $10 million in 2016 and $13 million each in 2017 and ’18.
MLB.com’s Gregor Chisholm reports that the Blue Jays have signed lefty J.A. Happ to a three-year deal worth $36 million.
Happ, 33, had a rebirth as a member of the Pirates last season after starting the season with 20 subpar starts with the Mariners. He made 11 starts for the Buccos, boasting a 1.85 ERA with a 69/13 K/BB ratio over 63 1/3 innings.
Travis Sawchik of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported this past August that Happ’s newfound success had to do with a delivery tweak suggested by Pirates pitching coach Ray Searage. The Blue Jays are certainly hoping that adjustment is the full explanation for his success.
The Jays’ signing of Happ most likely signifies they won’t be pursuing free agent lefty David Price.
This will be Happ’s second stint with the Blue Jays. The Astros dealt him to Toronto in a July 2012 trade. He posted a 4.39 ERA with a 256/113 K/BB ratio in 291 innings with the Jays, then went to the Mariners in a trade this past December that brought outfielder Michael Saunders to the Jays.

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North American electronic music producer and DJ Porter Robinson announced on his Twitter that he is collaborating with Japanese animation studio A-1 Pictures (AnoHana, Sword Art Online) for an anime project titled Shelter the Animation earlier in the week. Porter Robinson began streaming the short film on Tuesday.
Synopsis of the series:
Shelter tells the story of Rin, a 17-year-old girl who lives her life inside of a futuristic simulation completely by herself in infinite, beautiful loneliness. Each day, Rin awakens in virtual reality and uses a tablet which controls the simulation to create a new, different, beautiful world for herself. Until one day, everything changes, and Rin comes to learn the true origins behind her life inside a simulation.
The cast includes:
- Sachika Misawa (Kuroyukihime in Accel World) as Rin
The first staff members include:
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The firefighters of Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District battled ... Firstly, being part of the effort fighting the largest fire in California’s history and that it was in our backyard, threatening our community, our homes and businesses ...
Salt marshes will vanish in less than a century if seas keep rising and California keeps building, study finds
Southern California today has already lost three-quarters of its ... "Think about Seal Beach, think about Carpinteria," MacDonald said. "You have expensive housing, you have commercial developments, you have our major coastal highways, the railroad ...
Community meeting urged residents to prepare for next big storm
CARPINTERIA, Calif. - Community meetings are being held around ... Residents can check out interactive maps to find out what area they reside in. The California Highway Patrol said some people who live in areas outside of danger zones may need to leave ...