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The Oklahoma Sierra Club is planning a “Boot Pruitt” rally this week in Oklahoma City.
The group plans the rally Wednesday, June 27 next to the Cox Convention Center starting at 11:30 a.m.
An email notice said the rally would be held to focus on the “failings” of Pruitt as Administrator of the EPA.
“This rally will be across the street as NAFTA leaders from the United States, Mexico and Canada visit Oklahoma City as guests of Scott Pruitt,” stated the Email notice.
Environment ministers from NAFTA countries will be in Oklahoma City to attend the 25th Regular Session of the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

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A disabled mother was knocked unconscious trying to flee Afghanistan on Wednesday morning.
Her daughter, fashion photographer Fereba Hafizi from Coventry, said she has been “traumatised” by the news.
British and Afghan citizen Layloma Hafizi travelled to Afghanistan with her son, Asad, to attend a family funeral but had problems booking a return flight when the country was put on England’s red list because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
After being pushed over in a crowd of people on the way to catch a flight home Layloma, who has a number of health conditions, was carried by her nephew to a pickup point at a Kabul hotel where she was escorted inside in a wheelchair.
Since then Fereba has heard nothing about her mother.
Ms Hafizi, 29, told ITV News on Tuesday: "My mum who's disabled, she's sick, she's on her own, going through this. She doesn't deserve this."
The plan was for Asad to fly back to Britain with his mother, but due to a separate family concern Layloma will now have to travel home by herself.
“[My cousin] was assisting my mother… without his support and pushing people aside from her path it would not have been possible for her to even make it to the gate of the hotel,” Ms Hafizi said.
“He put her on his back and dragged himself through the last line of crowds.
“The consulate staff and the guards assisted them inside, but they immediately discharged my cousin as he did not have a foreign passport.
“I have lost all contact with her and I have absolutely no idea if she has recovered, or if the aircraft has departed or not.”
The distressed daughter has an added concern, she is unaware if her mother went to the airport with her vital medication.
Ms Hafizi said her mother “requires a wheelchair system when she travels, she’s diabetic, she’s got high cholesterol and arthritis”
Layloma has suffered two strokes in the past and is on a waiting list for surgery.
Ms Hafizi continued: “I’m not able to get into any form of contact with my mother about her wellbeing. I’m worried and anxious about what is happening to her.
“All these uncertainties are draining me and making me feel traumatised.
“With all these medical conditions, she’s actually not fit to be travelling on her own.”
The daughter said her cousin is about to be granted his visa, but the closure of the Kabul embassy has delayed the process.
“His father has passed away. He is currently the sole breadwinner of his family,” she added.
“He has been working for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. Unfortunately, with the current crises in Afghanistan, these individuals whom have been assisting and giving refuge to isolated women are on the Taliban’s target list.”
The U.S. has spent between $2 trillion and $3 trillion on the war in Afghanistan.
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In class one-A action from last nightBoth Twin Cedars and Melcher-Dallas boys season ended. Melcher-Dallas lost to Iowa Christian 73-to-44 while the Sabers fell to fellow Bluegrass Conference team Moulton-Udell 75-to-53.
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Fifty thousand euros won’t buy you a ready-made home in Ireland these days. A house, fitted and finished, in a county like Galway will start from triple that figure (and some change). But if you have a real interest in bringing a rundown house to its former glory or simply want to invest, you can pick up some bargain property in County Galway right now.
Annaghcallow, Ballinasloe - Paddy Keane MIPAV
Valued at €40,000, this two-bed, one-bath house needs only a moderate fixing. Electricity and water mains are still connected. It comes with a BER of F - which, considering the moderate need for repairs, is actually pretty good.
The bungalow is around 4km from Laurencetown, 10km from Ballinasloe and around 17km from Portumna. A two bedroom, one bathroom house that Frank Keane claims has ample room to extend. The site is situated down a lane off a regional road, the R355.
Ardagh, Glinsk - James Cleary & Sons
A three-bedroom farmhouse built in the traditional style for €50,000, this house is set on a 1.2 acre site populated with outbuildings including one large open-sided barn. The auctioneers point to its semi-derelict state and add it requires “extensive refurbishment”.
With a bit of love, the two-story farmhouse and its grounds could be a beautiful rural abode once more. The property is located around 14km drive from Castlerea and around 26km from Roscommon town. The farmhouse floor space is ample at 120 metres squared, it has one bathroom and a BER of G.
Lismakeigue, Kiltormer - O’Donnellan & Joyce
A traditional one-bedroom cottage set in a rural townland, this property is still hooked up to the mains electricity but lacks a septic tank. For €40,000 you get a half acre and a charming cottage that needs work, mostly on the inside. On that half acre, you’ll find dry-stone walls and a couple of sheds.
The house is accessed via a private laneway and is situated 7km from Kiltormer and 20km from Ballinasloe. With a floor space of 45 metres squared, the house is very cosy indeed.
Ahascragh - APP Kirrane
A two-story, semi-detached house valued at €45,000 in Ahascragh, this property lies at the north end of the village’s main street on the R358. The village is around 10 minutes’ drive from Ballinasloe at a distance of 12km. Ahascragh is one hour’s drive from Galway City and around 13 minutes’ drive from the nearest entry/exit to the M6 motorway.
The site comes with an acre of land that sprawls its way in between the other properties surrounding it. The house itself needs ‘complete renovation’ according to the auctioneer.
The house is in the style of the other houses in the pretty village and despite its need for refurbishment inside, the house’s streetside exterior has been maintained. Inside you’ll find 3 bedrooms and one bathroom.

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A clever set of pulleys and counterweights allows this war machine to lob massive rocks long distances at the foe. Though it takes the diminutive crew a great deal of time and effort to load, they all seem to feel that the end result is worth it, judging from the wild cheers which accompany each twanging shot.
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Does anyone know where I can buy a backpack just for a laptop? No extra space, just the laptop. #LazyWeb
If you are a web UI designer that codes and are available to do some freelance work, please ping me.
Small is Beautiful live stream with dhh starting in 5 minutes :)
I've been watching Transparent https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502262/ and now there is a Jesus Christ Superstar medley inside my head :)
‘Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else. But a new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.’ - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
Who would have guessed?!
This website shows you videos of driving around in multiple cities while listening to local radio stations :) pretty cool https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/
I really like that the Mastodon v3.3.0 modal background color changes to match the image https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/15217
It's a small change but it's pretty noticeable to me.
In case someone is checking for Mastodon index corruption following this tutorial https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/troubleshooting/index-corruption/
Depending on the version of amcheck you install you might need to use
'CREATE EXTENSION amcheck_next;'
'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS amcheck;'
Talking about fake news and spreading fake news. It's perfect.
Here is the original video for anyone that understands Portuguese
One of the most known political commentary person in Portugal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Sousa_Tavares said today in an interview that fake news is a big a threat to democracy and that as soon as 2021 there will be a new technology that will stop fake news. This technology is called... wait for it: blockchain.
When asked what blockchain was by the interviewer (that I suppose has never heard of blockchain) he said that the answer was in the name: to block a chain of fake news. #theirony #fakenews
PC Guy is the best! "I'm a machine, I am proud of it mmm mmm mmm that's my fan" 😂 this brought a smile to my face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEvXVJHTQAk
I really like the new Raspberry Pi 400 idea of a #raspberrypi in a keyboard https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/ the specs are decent but I just can't wrap my head around using an SD card as the main OS drive.
"Sometimes the thought is closer to the truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought." - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7939766/
Great work from @Argus about the moderation of social networks and a lot of details on Fediverse moderation https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966


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Interest Alice in the Country of Hearts Fan Disc Opening Posted
posted on 2011-11-16 19:31 EST by Jennifer Sherman
The QuinRose game company began streaming the opening movie for the Alice in the Country of the Toy Box (Omochabako no Kuni no Alice ~Wonderful Wonder World~) fan disc visual novel on its official website on Wednesday. Alice in the Country of the Toy Box is a female-oriented romance adventure game related to QuinRose's other Alice in the Country of Hearts titles. The series re-imagines Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland fantasy novel.
The Alice in the Country of the Toy Box fan disc continues the story from the original Alice in the Country of the Hearts: Wonderful Wonder World game, the Alice in the Country of the Clover: Wonderful Wonder World sequel, and the Alice in the Country of the Joker: Wonderful Wonder World side story visual novels. Part of the romance adventure takes place in the Alice in the Country of Hearts fantasy world, and the rest of the game is set in the magic school from QuinRose's Mahou Tsukai to Goshujin: Wizard and the Master visual novel.
Alice in the Country of the Toy Box will ship in Japan for PlayStation Portable on December 22. The regular edition's retail price will be 5,700 yen (about US$74) while the limited edition will cost 8,500 yen (about US$110) at retail.
Manga creator Aoi Kurihara launched a new adaptation of Alice in the Country of Hearts on Ichijinsha's Zero-Sum Online site last week. Tokyopop published the first Alice in the Country of Hearts (Heart no Kuni no Alice - Wonderful Wonder World) manga adaptation in North America, and Yen Press has since picked up the license. Seven Seas Entertainment announced last month that it licensed the manga adaptations of another game in the franchise, Alice in the Country of Clover (Clover no Kuni no Alice). The Alice in the Country of Hearts: Wonderful Wonder World anime film opened in Japan in July.
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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.
In 1843 William Wordsworth dictated invaluable notes on his life's work to his friend Isabella Fenwick. In 1993 Jared Curtis published his invaluable edition of these notes (which are not included in The Prose Works of William Wordsworth). This revised and corrected edition of The Fenwick Notes was published 2008. To receive a free accompanying Ebook please send proof of purchase of the paperback to Humanities-Ebooks. Please note that while colour is used in the preview, as in the ebook, the print in the paperback is black and white.
Author: Arthur Jacobs
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date: 1995-10-23
This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this area, and offers explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts.
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
This anthology serves as an introduction to the poetry of World War I, and the inclusion of a number rarely anthologized poets, many from the ranks, as well as anonymous poems and songs, attmepts to bring a quality of freshness to the selection.
What is a slack-ma-girdle? Or a submarino? How did White Horse whisky get its name? Or Old Bawdy barley wine? How do you make a really dry martini? Or beer? Or champagne? The answers to these enquiries and thousands of others are revealed in this unique guide to every kind of alcohol, compiled by dedicated drinker and collector of little histories, Ned Halley, who is an award-winning writer on beer, a nationally syndicated wine columnist and author of numerous books on drink.In a straightforward A to Z format, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink identifies thousands of individual brewers, distillers and winemakers, as well as the names of their products. The dictionary aims to be of real, practical help in locating beers and ciders, wines and spirits of every hue to their maker and place of origin. Here, too, are descriptive terms used on labels, along with the less-formal words used by producers and purveyors to promote their products in the market place. Origins, from village breweries to entire wine-producing regions, are located by nation, province and district. In many cases, there is a mention of when a producer or product was established, perhaps a word about the founder or a brief explanation of a curious-sounding brand name. The book is laced with historical anecdotes, a thousand cocktail recipes, essys on topics from the Guinness dynasty to the principles of brewing, from the discovery of distilling to the history of exise duty - and illustrated with hundreds of drink labels from all around the world.
Like it or not, abbreviations and acronyms are now an essential ingredient of everyday life. Since the first edition of The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms was published in mid-1997, the compilers have been diligently collecting further examples from many walks of life


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This week Major League Soccer (MLS) unveiled MLS Unites, a league-wide platform launched in partnership with the MLS Player Association. The new initiative highlights all the efforts that the players, coaches, the clubs and the league are making to address the important messages and programs taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Bringing together our Major League Soccer community, all while staying apart, is the spirit of ‘MLS Unites,’” said MLS Commissioner Don Garber. “During this challenging moment in history, I know we can count on the MLS family to come together when we need each other most.”
MLS Unites consists of a series of programs that educates and informs fans of the importance of key health and safety messaging, provides fun and engaging content featuring MLS players to keep fans connected, and celebrates community heroes fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic.
MLS is consulting regularly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Canada (HC), infectious disease specialists and other public health entities to receive and share the most updated information on COVID-19. The league created an essential guide on how to prevent the spread, manage mental health and cope with stress during social distancing and support relief efforts. Additionally, the league is leveraging technology to bring the soccer community together through an enhanced fan engagement plan featuring dynamic programming and new content, like player chats and live-at home workouts. MLS is also using the hashtag #MLSUnites to feature select stories shared by clubs, players and fans about members of the community helping their fellow citizens during these unprecedented times.
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MLS Unites is an inspiring way to unite, inform and engage the Major League Soccer community during such difficult times. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all of our lives, and no one could have seen it coming. We are all adjusting to the shift in our daily lives at the hands of the outbreak. As social beings, having to physically distance ourselves from our support systems can take a toll on our mental and emotional health. MLS Unites helps keep spirits up with its entertaining content while reminding fans that we are all in this together. Something as small as seeing their favorite players in good spirits despite this difficult time can make a difference on fans’ approach to the day, which can in turn help them be a light for someone else who may need it.


Well, we made it. Despite the warming planet, the illegal manipulation of currency, the explosion of fake news sources, the hacking and data leaks, the exploding phones and washers, the endless televised debates, drone strikes, mass shootings, police shootings, riots, violent political rallies, racist rhetoric, p***y grabbing, intolerance, sad and sudden legendary entertainer deaths, unfriending, Twitter blocking, and anthem kneeling, we all somehow managed to get through 2016 alive.
Last year my end-of-year column was headlined “It Was A Very Good Year.” I had Sinatra on my mind and the holiday spirit had kicked in I guess.
This year I’m going with a Leonard Cohen reference. “Hallelujah” (at least its over.)
But it wasn’t all bad, especially in the technology sector, as the promise of futuristic smart homes, smart cars and smart, well, everything, continues to come to fruition. Besides the wow factor of most of these products there is a real revolution going on in the use of technology to improve peoples’ lives.
Some of our strongest retail chains, ones who were really struggling since, well, the Great Recession, began to turn the corner. Consumer confidence is up. Holiday spending is positively popping. And more importantly, manufacturers are populating CE and appliance stores with amazing products.
I now officially talk to my lights instead of hitting light switches and can pretty much stream any song I ever want to hear just by asking my speaker. It may not seem like much but it’s incredibly cool to me.
Senior editor Alan Wolf takes his usual thoughtful look back at the ups and downs of the retail season.
In addition, TWICE editors rubbed our brain cells together and tried to call out the people who most embodied the promise, and pain, of the tech sector this past year. From Cambrian computing to ukulele playing, it was a fun, fascinating, fruitful year for technology.
Our annual selection of TWICE Newsmakers Of The Year begins. As always, there are so many innovators and deserving geniuses in the industry that we obviously couldn’t be comprehensive or you’d be holding a phone book right now. But we cherry-picked a fine cross-section of the people, places and things that caught our eyes and caught our fancies.
By all means, if you feel we made a glaring error or omission please reach out and set us straight. All of our contact info is in the Connect box below this column. We love to hear from our readers, even when they’re yelling at us.
It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year…
And then comes CES.
The upcoming show promises to be as big, bold and bright as ever. Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing the new insane 4K (and beyond) TVs, the latest batch of hi-res audio technology, more voice controlled smart home products and, hopefully, some major announcement from broadcasters and studios regarding easy availability of 4K Ultra HD content. Drones, robots, virtual reality headsets, 3D video cameras are set to capture imaginations and dollars. As are the amazing brains who every year deliver keynotes that expand my mind. As always I feel lucky to have a front row seat for it all.


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Transposable elements can have a wide range of effects on the genome of their host. Many TEs are regarded as deleterious, leading some to classify them as genomic parasites (Capy and Le Rouzic, 2005). However, there is also evidence that transposable elements are functional and therefore advantageous in the genome (Gage et al, 2007). Others have suggested that TEs are largely neutral (Manrubia et al, 2014). With such conflicting evidence, it is important to correctly evaluate the evidence to determine what transposable elements do and what their place in God’s creation is.
Transposable elements have been deemed deleterious for a long time. It has been speculated that TE proliferation leads to the extinction of asexual lineages (Arkhipova and Meselson, 2004). While other authors have speculated that newly arisen asexuals could avoid excessive TE accumulation (Dolgin and Charlesworth, 2006), this requires conditions that seem unlikely. There is, however, evidence from Drosophila melanogaster that lineages with more TEs are less fit (Pasyukova et al, 2004). Furano et al (2001) suggested that certain LINE-1 elements in the human genome were deleterious as well.
While there is some evidence for TEs being deleterious, all of the aforementioned papers indicating TEs being deleterious are slightly older. While certainly not out of date, genetics is advancing at such a rapid pace that even papers published since the beginning of this century may be less useful. Recent discoveries have made the case for TEs being advantageous. While various functions had been assigned to TEs previously (for example Jordan et al, 2003), the last decade has been rife with newly discovered advantageous functions for TEs, as well as additional evidence for previously proposed functions.
Transposable elements are increasingly linked with stress response in both plants and animals. The common model plant Arabidopsis had DNA demethylase targeting transposable elements to cause them to produce RNA to regulate stress response (Wang et al, 2014). Transposable elements were also implicated in response to excessive iron in rice (Picault et al, 2015). The same is true of maize where up to nine TE families are specifically involved in mediating stress responses (Springer et al, 2015). In maize, rice and Arabidopsis TEs are implicated in the production of a type of RNA linked to stress resistance (Zhu et al, 2017). Clearly, in at least a few plants, some TEs are advantageous and important to the organism’s response to stress.
Though seemingly less studied in other organisms than in plants, transposable elements do appear to have an important role there as well. For example, a fungal parasite of rice, and other plants uses TEs to reorganize whole sections of its genome in response to certain environmental changes (Chadha and Sharma, 2014). A study in Drosophila melanogaster confirmed that at least one TE was active in stress response, and suggested several others could be as well (Gonzalez et al, 2014). A more recent, and well-documented study of Drosophila genomes revealed that eighty-four TE sites were likely under selection, and at least twenty-one TEs are involved in adaptation (Gonzalez et al, 2019). As with plants, at least some of the TEs found in non-plants seem to carry a stress response function, making them advantageous to their hosts.
There is also clear evidence that some transposable elements are involved in the regulation of development. Bourque et al (2010) found that TEs had added new genes to the regulatory system of genes in human embryonic stem cells. In fact, TE-derived sequences make up almost all of a particular receptor type in embryonic stem cells (Glinsky, 2015). TEs have also been shown to be involved specifically in early embryo development regulation in mammals (Macfarlan et al, 2013). Being that development is one of the most carefully regulated aspects of life, the activity of TEs and TE-derived sequences during this crucial time seems to strongly indicate that they are providing an advantageous function, at least in this circumstance.
TEs are also involved in other organism’s regulatory networks. It has also been discovered that TEs are responsible for large portions of primates’ regulatory genetic elements (Bourque et al, 2013). This idea has been supported by independent research from other authors (Prabhakar et al, 2016). Mice have a specific TE family that code for enhancing factors for a part of the mouse brain (Bejerano et al, 2015). Many maize regulatory elements are either TE sequences or derived from TE sequences (Zhang et al, 2018). It seems TEs function as regulatory sequences across many types of organisms in the present, whatever their original effect on the genome.
While regulatory function and stress mediation are the most commonly cited functions in transposable elements, other functions have been proposed as well. It has been suggested that TEs provide the genetic variation necessary for an invasive species to adapt to its new environment (Stapley et al, 2015). It has been further speculated that TEs that incorporate tandem repeats may be multifunctional, though the authors admitted studies to support this concept were lacking (Plohl et al, 2015). In plants, TEs are known to produce numerous different types of RNA, which then perform a variety of functions above the aforementioned stress response and regulation of other genes (Cho, 2018). All this seems to point to TEs having a largely advantageous role in their hosts.
Evidence for the neutrality of transposable elements in the genome is much harder to find than evidence of TEs being deleterious or being functional. This could mean that neutrality is less common, but it could also mean it is much less interesting to write about. It has been suggested that a form of TE is selectively neutral in Caenorhabditis elegans (Dolgin et al, 2008). Manrubia et al (2014) found that bacterial genomes were characterized by a neutral relationship between the genome and the TEs present within it. Due to the success of neutral theory, it has also been suggested that TE’s must be viewed as neutral unless demonstrated otherwise (Arkhipova, 2018). Reliance on neutral theory drives Dopazo et al’s (2013) modeling and testing of TE dispersal as well.
With so much contrary evidence, determining which result is most likely is difficult. Neutral likely can be discarded from the start. While Arkhipova (2018) is correct that TEs should be viewed as neutral until demonstrated otherwise, the assumption of innocence does not equal innocence. Applying the analogy to TEs, just because it is unknown if a TE is advantageous, deleterious, or neutral does not mean it is neutral. It simply means we lack knowledge of that particular TE at this time. Most of the evidence for TE’s being neutral seems to rely on modeling from neutral theory (Dopazo et al, 2013). While there is some evidence associated with the models, the idea of neutral TEs seems to lack a strong supporting body of evidence. If neutral theory were to be discarded, most evidence for TE neutrality would collapse.
Deleterious TEs have stronger support. TEs seem to be involved in lowering fitness in Drosophila (Pasyukova et al, 2004) and human aging (Wood and Helfand, 2013). There is evidence that TEs can have negative effects, and this evidence needs to be considered.
Functional transposable elements seem to be the most supported by the weight of recent evidence. TEs involvement in regulation and stress response, in particular, has a sizeable body of evidence to support it. Therefore, transposable elements seem most likely to be advantageous This does not negate the existence of neutral or deleterious transposable elements. Indeed, such results may well be expected when dealing with a mobile element. However, based on recent evidence, advantageous TEs seem most common.
From a creationist perspective, the above cited evidence make total sense. God designed TEs in the beginning to perform functional purposes. Since the fall, the genome has degraded to a point that some functional elements, including some TEs, no longer work correctly, or are even actively bad for the genome. This in no way refutes the original design; it merely points to the original design having been damaged in some way. TEs are wonderful evidence of God’s built in design for creation.
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Arkhipova I. Meselson M. 2004. Deleterious transposable elements and the extinction of asexuals. Bioessays. 27(1):76-85.
Bejerano G. Nothwell J.H. Chung T. Heavner W. 2015. A family of transposable elements co-opted into developmental enhancers in the mouse neocortex. Nat Commun. 6(6644).
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Last week, the Second channel ITV announced that this year’s gay pride parade held in Jerusalem in early summer and will play the role of the largest «Parade of pride» in the country, and the parade in tel Aviv will take place a day later.
However, as reported on the website of WDG, the idea to change the nature of «pride» in Jerusalem was really discussed, but were rejected.
«We want to clarify that, contrary to publications, the «Parade of pride and tolerance» will take place in August and traditionally will be held in the heart of the tragic date of death in 2009, Nira and Liz in the club «Bar-Noar» and in 2005, the Shira at the gay parade in Jerusalem» — quoted statement WDG Jerusalem organizer of gay pride parades «Byte patwah».
Note that the «pride Parade» in tel-Aviv will be held on June 9 and will be devoted to bisexuality.
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My Gerbing dual temp heat controller failed last winter. It has two knobs: one grey and one black. The grey knob failed; it just kept spinning. It also wouldn’t provide heat. Fortunately, I wasn’t using my Gerbing heated gloves since the hot grips were more than enough, so I was able to run the coat through the other side.
I intended to send them in for repair once the weather warmed up, but then I forgot about it. As I was testing my winter gear to make sure everything still worked and fit correctly, I found the problem again.
A quick call to Gerbing and I was able to get an RMA number. The controller was in the mail the next day via USPS. Three weeks later my new controller arrived. Instead of fixing mine, they just sent me a new one. Nice.
I like their quick service, and that I was able to talk to a friendly person without navigating through a horrible phone menu. The new controller is working great.
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The State of Washington adopted an emergency rule on April 8, 2020 that broadens eligibility for unemployment benefits. The emergency rule, which we originally posted on April 9, was the subject of a technical correction on April 10, 2020 to address a grammatical issue. The updated rule is posted below:
WAC 192-150-101 Job separations related to COVID-19. For individuals who became unemployed on or after March 23, 2020, the individual will be considered to have been laid off due to a lack of work when:
- (a) The individual was prohibited by a government official from working outside their home or place of residence as a result of COVID-19; and (b) The individual does not have the ability to telework with pay; or
- (a) The individual was not prohibited by a government official from working outside their home or place of residence as a result of COVID-19; and
(b) The individual is either:
(i) A person identified by the centers for disease control as someone at high-risk for severe illness from COVID-19;
(ii) In the same household as a person identified by the centers for disease control as someone at high-risk for severe illness from COVID-19;
(iii) Providing direct care to a person identified by the centers for disease control as someone at high-risk for severe illness from COVID-19; or
(iv) Working at a worksite outside of the individual's home or place of residence that does not follow rules or guidelines published by the United States Department of Labor, the Washington department of labor and industries, or the Washington department of health for protecting workers from COVID-19 exposure; and
(c) The individual does not have the ability to telework with pay.
These new eligibility requirements are broader than the federal unemployment criteria under the FFCRA, so individuals who fit under subpart (2) of the Emergency Rule may not be eligible for the extra federal unemployment benefits* but they would be eligible for the regular state unemployment benefits. Here is a link to ESD’s most recent guidance, but it may not be current (check back periodically for updates): https://esd.wa.gov/newsroom/rulemaking/covid-19. Please keep in mind that the rules and interpretation are subject to change at any time, and that the forms employers and employees receive from ESD when someone applies for unemployment may not be current.
*To be eligible for the additional federal unemployment benefits, someone at high risk would have to meet the following criteria:
(a) In General.–An employer shall provide to each employee employed by the employer paid sick time to the extent that the employee is unable to work (or telework) due to a need for leave because:
- The employee is subject to a Federal, State, or local quarantine or isolation order related to COVID-19.
- The employee has been advised by a health care provider to self-quarantine due to concerns related to COVID-19.
- The employee is experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 and seeking a medical diagnosis.
- The employee is caring for an individual who is subject to an order as described in subparagraph (1) or has been advised as described in paragraph (2).
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Life of the Party
Directed by Ben Falcone
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen, Gillian Jacobs
Rated PG-13 for sexual material, drug content and partying
1 hr. 45 min.
Melissa McCarthy has proven herself one of the most adept comic actresses since Lucille Ball stomped grapes. You can say that about precious few. She just about stole Bridesmaids out from under Kristen Wiig’s nose, and the highlight of This Is 40 was her scene in the principal’s office. Even the outtakes literally caused popcorn kernels to fly out of the mouths of anyone who dared to munch and watch. Her ad-libs were that funny.
Since appearing as the beloved Sookie in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s quirky Gilmore Girls, McCarthy has had her own TV series (Mike and Molly), fronted films like Spy and The Heat, and became Saturday Night Live’s hilarious embodiment of former presidential press secretary Sean Spicer. All were showcases for McCarthy’s undeniable ability, as is the aptly named Life of the Party.
Gifted with velvet-hammered wit and a talent for jolting and nimble physical comedy, McCarthy is capable of making you laugh with just about every tool in the box. For Life of the Party, she and husband Ben Falcone (who directed and has an amusing cameo) co-wrote a script that, truth be told, seems to hold back. The zingers sting oh-so-subtly and the physical aspects are dialed back to just a few. If the film had more of the raw and raucous, it might be an even more rewarding watch. But I gather that wasn’t the goal.
We have a movie here that is light-humored, for the most part, without being lightweight. A more feathery Back to School (see, Rodney Dangerfield! You did get respect.)
McCarthy is Deanna, an effervescent mom dropping off her daughter, Maddie (Molly Gordon), at college. On the way home, her husband (Matt Walsh) announces that he’s dumping her for a realtor (Modern Family’s Julie Bowen). “Making an upgrade,” as he calls it.
Crushed, Deanna is also rueful when she considers that she gave up her dreams of graduating from college herself, sacrificing her education for marriage and a brand-new daughter. She decides to rectify that by enrolling in the very same school that her daughter’s attending, much to Maddie’s initial consternation.
Life of the Party is not chock-full of situations you haven’t seen in previous “adults return to college” films. The funny stuff lands, but you must be alert — the one-liners are deft and quick and similar to a tick bite in that it may take a while to feel them. McCarthy, in her limb-flailing pratfalls, has a trapped-in-a-bouncy-house quality that makes you chortle out loud.
The cast is thick with Saturday Night Live cast members, past and present: Chris Parnell, Heidi Gardner and the deliciously audacious Maya Rudolph as Deanna’s brassy bestie, Christine. Community’s Gillian Jacobs plays an age-inappropriate member of Deanna’s college posse (“I woke from a coma after eight years, and went back to school.”). She, too, adds to an ensemble that’s heavy on comic chops.
There are surprises. Wait for them. There are also the requisite plot points of every film from this genre. You’ll see them coming down the street. That notwithstanding, Life of the Party is an easy film to enjoy. Could it have been funnier? Raunchier? A word-of-mouth weekend hit that would have sent Fandango into a frenzy? Considering the talent at play here, I’d say yes. Falcone and McCarthy have taken a gentler route with their comedy, however, and to see McCarthy’s skills at work, we’ll have to settle for their instincts on this one.

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"A global response to climate change will spur a business revolution bigger than the internet," said co-founder of Sun Microsystems Bill Joy.
"This is a much larger opportunity," he told Reuters, pointing to the scale of the problem and the profits to be made from simple steps like a more careful use of energy.
"It's profitable to be more efficient, it has a negative cost and a competitive disadvantage if you don't do it."
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Deadpool is one of the mega hits of 2016 without a doubt. The uniqueness of the protagonist superhero and how he makes fun of superheroes adds a very distinct taste to a movie. Breaking the fourth wall (which means the actor in the scene actually addressing the audience – e.g. spectators at the movie theatre) is a feature of Deadpool franchise, and there were a few nods to Marvel Comics Universe in these breaks. It turns out there was more MCU references in the movie; a deleted scene actually had such a dialogue. It was reported that this scene revealed Captain America: Civil War and Deadpool had a shared location.
The scene would show the main villain Ajax released from the Raft, one of the most important locations in the Marvel Comics Universe right before he got involved in the events depicted in the movie.
In Captain America:Civil War, the Raft was used to house Captain America’s team of heroes trying to escape Iron Man’s team supported by the government .
The other nods in Deadpool for MCU included the battle scene in the movie taking place on a carrier that looks very similar to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier and a character identified as “Bob” – which is a reference to “Hydra Bob” in Marvel Comics.


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- → Bioscrubber
- → Biotrickling filter
- → Water scrubber
- → Acid scrubber
- → Caustic scrubber
- → Oxidative scrubber
- → Reductive scrubber
- → Solvent scrubber
- → Liquid jet gas ejector scrubber
- → Gas jet liquid ejector scrubber
- → Venturi scrubber
- → Wet dust separator
- → Bubble reactor
- → Dry scrubber
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- → Stripper
Removal of high to very high concentrations of various volatile compounds in a rather small gas flow:
volatile nitrogen compounds (NH3, amines,…)
epoxides (ethylene oxide, propylene oxide,…
volatile sulphur compounds (H2S, mercaptans,...)
organic and inorganic acids (acetic acid, hydrogen chloride, …)
halogenated compounds (bromine, chloromethane,…)
Liquid circulation over a stricture in the ejector causes an underpressure (Bernoulli effect) that aspires the waste gas to the scrubber and mixes the waste gas intensively with the circulating scrubbing liquid.
Depending on the target pollutants, the scrubber can be operated in an acid, caustic, solvent, oxidative or reductive way and can handle gas concentrations up to 100%. Next to gases, also small amounts of fluids can be aspired towards the scrubber.
When the correct scrubbing liquid is used, very high (> 99%) removal efficiencies can be obtained. A check valve is provided at the suction side of the ejectors. As a result of this, the gases from the headspace of the ejector scrubber are recycled over the ejector when the gas input is lower than the design gas flow, yielding an even higher efficiency.
Due to the rather high required liquid to gas circulation flow, this scrubber technique is mainly suited to treat relatively small gas flows (4 - 40 m3/h), as e.g. for the emptying of gas cylinders or for making flexibles/gas pipes free of gas. This type of scrubber is e.g. typically used at cylinder filling stations for specialty gases.
If required, the scrubber can be equipped for emptying gas cylinders up to 200 bar till nearly vacuum (90 mbar). Depending on the number of ejectors on the scrubber, up to 10 cylinders can be handled simultaneously and can be emptied till nearly vacuum, independently from the other connected cylinders.


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VADODARA: The opposition Congress party in the Vadodara Municipal Corporation
(VMC) has opposed the move by the administration to set up a corporate body to operate and manage the outdoor sports complex
at Manjalpur built by the VMC. The proposal was cleared by the standing committee of the civic body recently.
Former opposition leader and Congress councillor Chirag Zaveri said that the sports complex had been inaugurated in February, but no arrangements were made about its maintenance and operations so far. He said that suddenly there seemed a sense of urgency over the issue and the elected wing of the civic body was being kept in the dark regarding the proposal to set up the company.
In a letter to the VMC commissioner, Zaveri said that it seemed that the mayor, standing committee chairman and the commissioner were taking decisions by deliberating on key issues only amongst themselves.
Zaveri pointed out that several aspects like who would be on the board of the company and what would happen to its profits or losses had not been disclosed. HE said that earlier when a joint venture company was to be set up for the city gas distribution system, a presentation was made to the general board regarding the company. He demanded that the same should be done again.
The former opposition leader added that the proposal also did not clarify what would be done for the operation and maintenance of the indoor sports complex that was nearing completion.


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Car manufacturers are on mission to provide a crossover for every occasion. The last theme seems to be to compromise the perfectly functional and beautiful vehicles to create four-door “coupe” versions of existing SUVs. We have BMW and the X6 to blame for it. I seem Porsche is the latest automaker to jump on the train, as these espionage plans show a high-riding Panamera with flared bows and plastic coating covering the bottom. A pre-production prototype supposed to be the next 2018 Porsche Cayenne Turbo Coupe was spied again, this time during cold weather testing in Europe.
The formula for making a coupe from a crossover is simple: keep everything from the B-column exactly as it is. Beyond Pillar B, the roof should flow down rather than staying flat, giving the vehicle a coupe or a sedan-shaped profile. It must always run high, giving the driver a ground clearance and a high seating position. While this vehicle just seems to be a Panamera raised, the final version of the production should retain a very similar overall profile but with a more complete lower bodywork and Cayenne trim.
Some have speculated that this can be a Porsche Mission E test mule and that the rolling height and plastic are supposed to cover the battery, but we disagree. Compared to the latest Porsche plug-in, the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, the car in the spy photos lacks place for a take. The flared wings also more in line with an SUV than an electric sedan or coupe. It is believed that the engine and transmission options will be largely similar to those offered in the next generation 2018 Porsche Cayenne Turbo that has also been spied on tests over the past few months, including a six-cylinder turbocharged and eight-cylinder petrol and Diesel engines.
If it’s really the next Cayenne coupe, look for more photos in the coming months. We have recently seen spy shots of the new 2018 Porsche Cayenne Turbo, so it would not be a surprise to see the pair debut. The wagon is expected to make its debut some time this year, it is likely that the coupe version will not be revealed until 2018, with the first deliveries arriving later this year or even early-2019.
When it hit the showrooms, probably over the course of two years, the Cayenne coupe will take on the likes of the BMW X6, Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe and next Range Rover Sport Coupe.


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0.95 Carat 14K Solid Yellow Gold Necklace Amethyst Peridot
This 14k solid gold necklace with amethyst and peridot is a piece that is so fun to wear because of how uniquely beautiful it truly is. An 18 inch rope chain, made in yellow, white, or rose gold, holds a matching gold pendant. The branch style design of this necklace is truly different and whimsical, with beautiful leaves created from genuine peridot and amethyst gemstones. Three pear cut peridot and two round cut amethyst gems are spread throughout this piece, adding blazing drops of color that perfectly coordinate with each other to create a piece that adds extra style to whatever you are wearing.

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In 2015 Oxfam Scotland called for the creation of an Inequality Commission, building on Scotland’s politicians from across all parties stating their support to tackle economic inequality. The Scottish government has committed to establishing a Poverty and Inequality Commission in 2017–18, but its design will be critical.
This report, produced in collaboration with the Fraser of Allander Institute, explores the scale of inequality in Scotland and the drivers behind it. The report examines some, but not all, of the intersecting and overlapping dimensions of economic inequality and poverty – as well as potential policy responses and the powers of the Scottish Parliament.
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(CN) - Republicans won control of the Senate Tuesday, picking up seven seats, and gained 13 seats in the House, guaranteeing President Obama a rocky final two years in office.
Republicans picked up contested Senate seats in North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, West Virginia, Arkansas, Montana and South Dakota. Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell won a sixth term easily and will become Senate Majority Leader.
Democrats won virtually none of the races that were expected to be close.
Republicans will have a 52-47 lead in the Senate - Virginia is too close to call - and a 242 to 174 lead in the House - its largest majority since the Truman administration.
Republicans trounced Democrats in what were thought to be closely contested governor's races in Wisconsin, where Scott Walker won in a walk; in Florida, where Rick Scott won re-election; and in Colorado and Iowa, which were expected to be close, but were not.
Colorado Republican Cory Gardner ousted incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, a potent voice for environmentalists. And in Georgia, a Libertarian candidate could not stop Republican David Perdue from knocking off Michelle Nunn, the daughter of Georgia's former conservative Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn.
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts stood off a challenge from independent Greg Orman.
In Louisiana, incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu was forced into a Dec. 6 runoff against Congressman Bill Cassidy.
Republicans ousted Democratic governors in three states - Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois - while Democrats booted a Republican governor in only one state, Pennsylvania.
In a closely watched congressional race in Staten Island, Republican Michael Grimm held onto his seat despite a 20-count indictment that accuses him of underreporting wages and employing illegal workers at a Manhattan restaurant he formerly owned.
Grimm called the indictment politically motivated. Jury selection for his trial is to begin on Feb. 2, 2015.
Grimm made headlines again in January when he was shown on camera threatening to throw a reporter off of a balcony.
Also in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo kept his office, easily defeating his Republican opponent.
Overall, it was a resounding shellacking for Democrats.
Republicans' failure to get 60 seats in the Senate - a result no one expected - leaves them vulnerable to Democratic filibusters, which will put Democrats into the position the Republicans have taken for the past six years - delaying and fighting off legislation, rather than getting anything done.
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Married Victoria...has one daughter: Lyla...Played four seasons at Mississippi St. and was teammates with Adam Frazier, Hunter Renfroe and Brandon Woodruff...Went 19-13 with a 3.69 ERA in 68 games (48 GS) with MSU...was a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll recipient (2011-13)...studied mechanical engineering, helping fuel his passion for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) in schools...Graduated in 2009 from Russell High School in Alexander City, Ala., where he posted a 1.19 ERA with a .390 batting average...Was drafted by Miami in the 36th round in 2012 (did not sign).
Hold It Right There: His 27 holds tied Oakland's Zach Jackson for the American League lead and tied Aaron Bummer (2019) for the third-highest total in White Sox history...became the third Sox pitcher to lead the AL in that category, joining Nate Jones (2016) and Barry Jones (1990)...A Tale of Two Halves: Went 3-1 with a 2.22 ERA (10 ER/40.2 IP) over 39 appearances in the first half and 0-3 with a 4.81 ERA (13 ER/24.1 IP) in 26 outings after the break...At the Plate: Opponents batted .257/.330/.364 (65-253), up from .180/.284/.253 (35-194) in 2021...right-handers hit .254/.329/.331 (33-130), compared to .117/.222/.126 (12-103) in 2021...first batters hit .295/.338/.393 (18-61), up from .109/.226/.109 (5-46) last season...Home and Road: Recorded a 2.70 ERA (10 ER/33.1 IP) with a .650 opponents OPS at home and a 3.69 ERA (13 ER/31.2 IP) with a .737 OPS on the road...Get Your Rest: Registered a 5.25 ERA (7 ER/12.0 IP) in 13 games pitching on zero days rest, 2.66 (7 ER/23.2 IP) in 23 games working on one day of rest and 1.54 (2 ER/11.2 IP) in 12 games on two days rest...Ups and Downs: His ERA by month: 1.59 (2 ER/11.1 IP) in April, 3.97 (5 ER/11.1 IP) in May, 0.90 (1 ER/10.0 IP) in June, 4.50 (6 ER/12.0 IP) in July, 1.86 (2 ER/9.2 IP) in August and 5.91 (7 ER/10.2 IP) in September/October...Save It: Converted six of 12 save opportunities, posting an 8.03 ERA (11 ER/12.1 IP) with a 2.19 WHIP in those outings....Opened the season on a five-game scoreless streak from 4/8-15, allowing two hits with six strikeouts and four holds over 5.2 IP...Made his White Sox debut on Opening Day (4/8) at Detroit...recorded a hold after working 1.2 scoreless IP...recorded a hold in three straight appearances from 4/12-15...Suffered his first loss and blown save on 4/22 at Minnesota after allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits in 1.1 IP...Earned his first save with the White Sox on 4/27 vs. Kansas City, throwing 2.0 perfect IP with four strikeouts...Recorded his first win with the Sox on 5/22-1 at Yankee Stadium, allowing a game-tying homer to Aaron Judge in the eighth before the Sox rallied to win, 3-1. l Was on the Restricted List for the three-game series at Toronto from 5/31-6/2...posted holds in back-to-back wins at Tampa Bay on 6/4 and 6/5 (struck out side in eighth inning)...Recorded saves in consecutive games on 7/1-2 at San Francisco...earned his third win on 7/10 vs. Detroit...Suffered a loss and blown save on 7/27 at Colorado, allowing two runs without recording an out in the ninth...Made five straight scoreless appearances from 7/31-8/12, posting a hold in each outing...earned his sixth save on 8/14 vs. Detroit despite giving up a run in the ninth...Suffered the loss on 8/28 vs. Arizona when he gave up the winning run in the ninth...Posted his 23rd hold on 9/5 at Seattle with a scoreless eighth inning to lower his ERA to 2.54 … gave up eight runs (seven earned) on 11 hits over 5.2 IP in his next six outings...Ended the season on a three-game scoreless streak (2.2 IP), recording holds in each outing.
American League Relief Leaders: ERA (3rd, 1.77), opponents OPS (3rd, .536), opponents average (5th, .180), groundball percentage (12th, 55.6) and WHIP (12th, 0.98). ...Combined to go 5-1 with a 1.77 ERA (11 ER/56.0 IP), 61 strikeouts, a .180 (35-194) opponents average, 0.98 WHIP, 10 saves and 11 holds over 53 appearances with Seattle and Houston, his first full season as a major-league reliever. ...Rough on Righties: Limited right-handed batters to a .117/.222/.126 (12-103) slash line with one extra-base hit allowed (no home runs). ...Select Company: Was one of 13 pitchers in basebal...to record 10-plus saves and holds. ...Began the season with the Mariners, going 4-0 with a 0.82 ERA (3 ER/33.0 IP), 10 saves, 61 strikeouts, a 0.70 WHIP and .136 (110) opponents average. ...Fast Out of the Gate: Opened the season with a 16.2 IP scoreless streak, going 1-0 with five saves in five chances, four holds, six hits allowed and 17 strikeouts. ...First Impression: Threw 2.0 scoreless IP in his season debut on 4/3 vs. San Francisco, striking out five of seven batters faced to earn a hold … recorded his first career save on 4/13-1 at Baltimore, throwing a 1-2-3 ninth inning. ...Was placed on the injured list on 5/23 due to COVID-19 protocols … was sent to Class AAA Tacoma on a rehab assignment on 6/8 … was recalled from Tacoma and reinstated from the injured list on 6/11. ...The Streak Ends: Allowed his first run of the season on 6/12 at Cleveland, a solo home run to César Hernández. ...Another Streak: Gave up single runs on 6/13 at the Indians and 6/19 vs. Tampa Bay before going 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA (17.2 IP), five saves, three holds and 22 strikeouts over his next 17 appearances from 6/22-8/11. ...Well Deserved Break: Went 2-0 with a 0.95 ERA (3 ER/28.1 IP), eight saves and a .130 (12-92) opponents average in the first half … his 0.95 ERA ranked third in the majors among pitchers with at least 25.0 IP. ...Change of Scene: Was traded to the Astros on 7/27 with RHP Rafael Montero in exchange for RHP Joe Smith and INF Abraham Toro … made 23 appearances with Houston during the regular season, posting a 3.13 ERA (8 ER/23.0 IP) with seven holds … was 0-3 in save opportunities. ...Second Impression: Made his Astros debut on 7/30 at San Francisco, retiring al...four batters with three strikeouts for his fifth hold… his first five appearances with Houston were scoreless (5.1 IP). ...Rude Welcome Home: Gave up four runs on a game-winning grand slam in the eighth inning to Toro in his return to Seattle on 8/31, increasing his ERA from 1.00 to 1.79 … made six straight scoreless appearances (5.2 IP) following the slam. ...A Rare Lapse of Control: Issued 12 of his 20 walks on the season over a 13-game stretch from 8/28-end of the season.
Postseason Debut: Pitched in nine games during the postseason, recording a 1.64 ERA (2 ER/11.0 IP) with two holds and 11 strikeouts as the Astros advanced to the World Series... Big Stage: Threw 2.0 scoreless IP in both the deciding Game 6 of the ALCS vs. Boston and Game 5 of the World Series at Atlanta.
Went 1-3 with five holds and a 5.79 ERA (12 ER, 18.2 IP) in 11 games (2 starts) with Seattle… limited opponents to a .221 (15x68) average, while walking 8 and striking out 15...Missed 27 games due to injuries…on 10-Day Injured List on Aug. 4 (retroactive to Aug. 3)-Sept. 1 with a neck spasm…appeared in two Intrasquad games at the alternate site in Tacoma while on the IL...Recorded the loss in his Mariners debut on July 27 at HOU, allowing seven runs (6 ER) on six hits, while walking three and striking out seven over 4.0 innings…also allowed two home runs, his only home runs of the season...Prior to the 2020 season, his last Major League pitch was thrown on May 11, 2018, as a member of the Oakland Athletics in Yankee Stadium...went 807 days (2 years, 2 months and 16 days) between Major League appearances...in Mariners history, 807 days would rank as the 4th-longest span between pitching appearances for Seattle...Made two starts on July 27 at HOU (L-4.0,6,7,6,3,7,2HR) and Aug. 2 vs. OAK (L- 4.2,3,2,2,2,3), going 0-2 with an 8.31 ERA (8 ER, 8.2 IP)…after returning from IL, went 1-1 with a 3.60 ERA (4 ER, 10.0 IP) in nine relief appearances...Made two appearances in Summer Camp at T-Mobile Park, going 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA (1 ER, 7.0 IP) with a team-best tying 13 strikeouts (also: Justus Sheffield)...Threw 4.0 scoreless innings over two outings at Spring Training in February/March.
Spent the majority of 2019 on the Cubs' Injured List as he recovered from a Tommy John surgery, performed in July of 2018...Returned to a professional mound for the first time on August 22 for the AZL Cubs 1 (3.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 6 SO)... made one other appearance with Triple-A Iowa on September 1 (3.0 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 SO).
Kendall was Oakland's Opening Day starter for the second-straight season, but was 1-5 with a 7.60 ERA (29 ER/34.1 IP) in seven starts for the A's and 2-1 with a 4.50 ERA (12 ER/24.0 IP) in four starts with Triple-A Nashville before his season was cut short due to injury in late May ... Landed on Nashville's D.L., May 27, with a right forearm strain ... underwent Tommy John surgery, July 30, performed by Dr. Keith Meister ... was recalled by Oakland,. Sept. 1, and placed on the 60-day D.L ... Opened the season going 0-5 with an 8.89 ERA in six starts before he was optioned to Nashville, April 26 ... recalled, May 11, and had his five-game skid snapped with his final big league outing at the Yankees (6.0 IP, 1 ER) ... optioned back to Nashville, May 15 ... Made his second consecutive Opening Day start, March 29 vs. the Angels ... had a no-decision in the A's 6-5, 11-inning win.
Went 6-4 with a 4.19 ERA in 19 starts in a season shortened due to two stints on the disabled list with a strained right shoulder…the ERA was a career high as was his opponents batting average (.280), on-base percentage (.338), slugging percentage (.442) and OPS (.780)…allowed 12 home runs and his average of 1.03 home runs per nine innings was a career low…his 19 starts are his fewest in his three seasons with Oakland…his opponents batting average broke down to .238 (44-for-185) against left-handed hitters compared to .315 (70-for-222) against right-handers… entered the season with a .273 career average against lefties, .272 against righties…opponents batted .266 with runners in scoring position but just .186 with RISP and two outs…eight of the 12 home runs he allowed came with runners on base…went 5-0 with a 2.94 ERA in 11 starts at home compared to 1-4 with a 6.39 ERA in eight starts on the road…joins Kenny Rogers (11-0 in 1998) and Todd Burns (5-0 in 1988) as the only starting pitchers in Oakland history to go undefeated at home with five or more decisions…in three seasons with the A's, he is 12-10 with a 3.46 ERA (83 er in 216.0 ip) in 35 starts in Oakland compared to 10-14 with a 4.85 ERA (103 er in 191.0 ip) in 36 starts on the road…made 15 of his 19 starts at night…went 0-3 in seven starts with two runs of support or fewer, 6-1 in 12 starts with three runs of support or more…is now 1-20 in 32 career starts with run support of two or fewer, 21-4 in 39 starts with support of three or more…the bullpen blew the save in five of his 19 starts…over the last two years, the pen has blown 10 saves in his 50 starts…had a .240 opponents batting average with two strikes, which was second highest in the American League among pitchers with 100 or more innings pitched…the opponents number three hitter batted .479 with a .528 on-base percentage and .833 slugging percentage… went 5-2 with a 3.39 ERA in 14 starts against AL West competition compared to 1-2 with a 7.52 ERA in five starts against everyone else…was 3-0 with a 3.47 ERA in eight starts on four days rest, 3-4 with a 4.82 ERA in 11 starts on five days rest or more…is now 11-7 with a 3.83 ERA (85 er in 200.0 ip) in 34 career starts on four days rest compared to 11-17 with a 4.39 ERA (101 er in 207.0 ip) in 37 starts on five days rest or more…had a 7.11 ERA in the first inning, a 3.54 ERA from the second inning on…had four double plays, which tied for second among AL pitchers…tied for ninth in the AL in triples allowed (4).
OAKLAND: Was the A's Opening Day starter on April 3 against Los Angeles (AL) and picked up the win in a 4-2 decision…became the A's 11th different Opening Day starting pitcher in the last 12 years (Zito, Haren, Blanton, Braden, Sheets, Cahill, McCarthy, Anderson, Gray twice, Hill)…was just the second of those pitchers to pick up the win (Gray, 2015)…won his second consecutive start in the A's 6-1 win at Texas April 8…no hit the Rangers over the first six innings and Napoli broke up the no-hitter with a two out homer in the bottom of the seventh…did not strike out a batter in 5.0 innings on April 14 against Houston, his first career start without a strikeout…did it again on Aug. 3 at San Francisco and Sept. 16 at Philadelphia…was 2-0 with a 2.00 ERA and .203 opponents batting average in three starts when he was placed on the 10-day disabled April 17 retroactive April 15 with a strained right shoulder…did not have a rehab assignment and was reinstated April 27…had the second unassisted double play by a pitcher in Oakland history April 27 at Los Angeles (AL)…the other was by Blue Moon Odom, also against the Angels, in the second game of a July 11, 1971 doubleheader…went 2-1 with a 2.25 ERA in four starts in April…the ERA was the second lowest single month ERA of his career (1.93 in June, 2015)…issued a career-high tying four walks May 3 at Minnesota and allowed six runs on five hits in 3.1 innings in a 7-4 loss…left his start on May 14 at Texas with a 4-3 lead but Madson blew the save…it was the first of five times the bullpen blew a save in one of his starts (Aug. 8 vs. Seattle, Aug. 30 at Los Angeles-AL, Sept. 5 vs. Los Angeles-AL, Sept. 27 vs. Seattle)…was 0-2 with a 4.97 ERA and .289 opponents average in five starts after his April 27 reinstatement from the DL before returning to the DL a second time with a right shoulder strain on May 29 (retroactive to May 26)…was sent to Triple-A Nashville on a rehab assignment July 19 and went 0-1 with a 7.20 ERA and .383 opponents batting average in three starts…allowed four runs in 2.1 innings at Iowa July 19 and seven runs in 3.0 innings at New Orleans July 24 before allowing one run in 4.2 innings against Salt Lake July 29…was reinstated from the DL Aug. 3 and went 4-2 with a 4.47 ERA and .297 opponents batting average over his final 11 starts…struck out a career-high tying eight batters in a 9-3 victory over Baltimore Aug. 13…that began a season-ending stretch where he went 4-1 with a 3.35 ERA over his final nine starts…the bullpen had three blown saves in his four no decisions over that span and he tossed 2.0 scoreless innings in the other start (Sept. 16 at Philadelphia) before he was removed following a rain delay.
Compiled a 10-11 record and a 4.11 ERA in a team-leading 31 starts in his second season with the A's…went 1-6 with a 5.36 ERA over his first nine starts, 9-2 with a 3.33 ERA over his next 16 starts from May 30 to Aug. 24, and 0-3 with a 4.71 ERA over his final six starts…in addition to starts, he also led the A's in wins, losses (tied), innings pitched (186.0), hits (196), runs (87), earned runs (85), home runs (22) and walks (47)…all those marks are career highs as are his 108 strikeouts…averaged 5.23 strikeouts per nine innings, which was the third lowest mark in the American League…walked just 47 (2.27 per nine innings), which were the fewest in Athletics history by an A's team-leader, besting the previous low of 59 by Sonny Gray in 2015…tied for second in the AL in shutouts (1), tied for fifth in complete games (2), tied for sixth in opponents reaching on an error (8), ranked seventh in fewest pitches per game (91.4) and was ninth in hits (196)…averaged 4.16 runs of support per start, which was 10th lowest in the AL…received two runs of support or fewer in 12 of his 31 starts and was 0-8 in those games…went 10-3 in 19 starts with support of three or more…is now 1-17 in 25 career starts with two runs of support or fewer, 15-3 in 27 starts with three runs of support or more…left with a lead five times in 2016 only to have the bullpen blow the save…had a .271 opponents batting average, which broke down to .270 (90-for-333) against right-handed hitters compared to .272 (106-for-390) with 35 of his 47 walks against left-handers…his career splits are .272 (157-for-577) with a .743 OPS against right-handers, .273 (169-for-620) with 59 of his 85 walks and a .740 OPS against left-handers…yielded a .302 average with runners on base but 14 of the 22 home runs he allowed were solo shots…24 of his 37 career home runs have come with the bases empty…tied for third among AL pitchers in total chances (42), tied for seventh in assists (27) and ranked eighth in putouts (15)…did not commit an error and his 42 total chances were the most in the AL and tied for second most in the majors among pitchers with no errors…now has a 49-game errorless streak dating back to his last miscue on April 20, 2015 at Los Angeles (AL)…compiled a 1.74 ERA in the first inning, which tied Arrieta (CHC) for second lowest in the majors (Tanaka, NYY 1.16) among pitchers with 30 or more innings…using the same minimum, it was 10th lowest in Oakland history…logged a 4.59 ERA from the second inning on…went 5-6 with a 3.39 ERA in 14 starts at home compared to 5-5 with a 4.80 ERA in 17 starts on the road…had the ninth lowest home ERA in the AL…surrendered seven home runs in 90.1 innings at home, 15 in 95.2 innings on the road…was 3-5 with a 4.82 ERA in 15 starts against AL West competition compared to 7-6 with a 3.46 ERA in 16 starts against everyone else…his ground ball to fly ball ratio of 2.40 was fourth highest in the AL…the A's were 14-17 (.452) in his starting assignments…walked one batter or fewer in 18 of his 31 starts.
The rookie right-hander went 6-9 with a 4.05 ERA in 21 starts over two stints with the A's before his season ended in late August due to an oblique injury…was on the A's Opening Day roster and went 1-2 with an 8.27 ERA in four starts before he was optioned to Nashville April 26…was brought back May 23 and went 5-2 with a 1.78 ERA over his first nine starts following his return…then went 0-5 with a 5.82 ERA over his final eight starts beginning July 10…was placed on the 15-day disabled list Aug. 24 with a strained left oblique…tied for fourth among American League rookies in games started (21), ranked fifth in innings pitched (115.2), ninth in strikeouts (77) and tied for ninth in wins…had one of seven complete games by an AL rookie…allowed a .276 opponents batting average, including .275 (61-for-222) against lefties and .278 (65-for-234) against righties…surrendered 11 of his 15 home runs to righties but issued 24 of his 38 walks to lefties…had a .369 slugging percentage against lefties, .474 against righties…opponents hit .271 with the bases empty, .285 with runners on…10 of the 15 home runs he allowed were solo shots…yielded a .356 average against the opponents three, four and five hitters compared to .233 against all other hitters…had a .235 opponents average the first time through the lineup, .289 the second time and .317 after that…was 4-4 with a 3.22 ERA in 11 starts at night, 2-5 with a 5.08 ERA in 10 starts during the day…was 1-9 in 13 starts with two runs of support or fewer, 5-0 in eight starts with three runs of support or more…walked two batters or fewer in 16 of his 21 starts.
Was named a Baseball America Minor League Baseball First Team All-Star after combining for a 14-6 record and a 1.83 ERA in 27 starts with Single-A Lansing, Single-A Dunedin, Double-A New Hampshire and Triple-A Buffalo…then made his Major League debut with Toronto in September in just his second professional season…was recalled from Triple-A Buffalo Sept. 2 and had no decisions and a 3.86 ERA in five relief appearances…allowed a .222 batting average and did not walk a batter in 4.2 innings…yielded a .200 (2-for-10) average against right-handed hitters, .250 (2-for-8) against lefthanders… stranded his only inherited runner but first batters faced were 2-for-5 (.400)…made his debut Sept. 5 at Boston and allowed a single to the only batter he faced, Yoenis Céspedes…he later scored…struck out Nelson Cruz to end the seventh inning in his second outing Sept. 16 at Baltimore for his first strikeout…did not allow a run over his final two appearances (3.0 ip)…his 14 minor league wins tied for third most in the all of the minor leagues and his 1.83 ERA ranked fourth among full season minor leaguers…ranked seventh in the minors in innings pitched (167.1)…led the Blue Jays farm system in ERA and wins and ranked fourth in strikeouts (115)…surrendered just two home runs, an average of 0.11 per nine innings…allowed a .232 opponents batting average, including .196 (66-for-335) against right-handed hitters compared to .272 (76-for-279) against left-handers…compiled a 1.41 ERA over the first five innings of a game, a 4.91 ERA in the sixth inning and a 0.79 ERA from the seventh inning on…did not allow an earned run in the second inning (27.0 ip)…his teams were 17-10 (.630) in his starting assignments…allowed four runs or fewer in all 27 of his starts, including two runs or fewer 23 times…walked two batters or fewer 25 times and tossed at least six innings in 21 of his starts…was named the A's sixth best prospect by Baseball America following the trade.
MINORS: Began the season at Single-A Lansing where he went 2-0 with a 0.34 ERA in four starts…allowed a .126 batting average and opponents were hitless in 14 at bats with runners in scoring position…walked a season-high three batters in his first start April 6 at Lake County…then struck out a seasonhigh seven in each of his next three starts…including April 18 at Beloit when he tossed a season-high 8.1 shutout innings and allowed just one hit and one walk…was named Midwest League Pitcher of the Week for the week of April 14 to 20…was promoted to Single-A Dunedin of the Florida State League April 30 and logged an 8-4 record and a 2.23 ERA in 16 starts…the wins tied for second most in the FSL during his stint there, which ran through July 27, while his ERA ranked seventh…went 4-0 with a 2.27 ERA in five starts at home…allowed a season-high four runs in a season-low 4.0 innings in his first start April 30 at Tampa…picked up the win in five consecutive starts from May 12 to June 3…compiled a 3.14 ERA during the winning streak…surrendered his first home run of the season May 22 against Ft. Myers and matched his season high by allowing four runs…would not allow his second and final home run until Aug. 7 against Durham…had a 13-start, 87.0-inning, 347-batter homerless streak in between…matched his season high by allowing four runs in a June 8 loss at Lakeland…that ran his overall minor league record to 7-2 with a 2.44 ERA in 12 starts…went 7-4 with a 1.39 ERA over his final 15 starts…matched his season high with three walks June 16 at Brevard County…did not allow a run in consecutive starts July 1 at Clearwater and July 6 vs. Tampa…tossed 6.0 shutout innings in each start and had a 20.0-inning scoreless streak from June 26 to July 11…allowed a season-high nine hits July 17 against Jupiter but yielded just one run in 7.0 innings for the win…was promoted to Double-A New Hampshire July 28 and made just one start for the Fisher Cats that day at Binghamton…picked up the win in a 5-1 decision (6.0 ip, 8 h, 1 r, 1 er, 2 bb, 4 so)…went 3-1 with a 0.93 ERA in six starts overall in July…moved up to Triple-A Buffalo Aug. 1 and went 3-2 with a 1.88 ERA in six starts…ranked third in the International League in ERA in August…tossed 7.0 shutout innings in consecutive starts Aug. 12 against Norfolk and Aug. 17 at Lehigh Valley as part of a 17.0-inning scoreless streak from Aug. 12 to 23…allowed a season-high tying nine hits Aug. 23 against Pawtucket but surrendered just two runs in 7.0 innings for the win…matched his season high with seven strikeouts in his final minor league start Aug. 28 at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Was assigned to Single-A Lansing of the Midwest League after signing with Toronto in July…went 1-3 with a 4.31 ERA in 10 starts with the Lugnuts…allowed a .266 opponents batting average, including .253 against right-handed hitters compared to .280 against left-handers…opponents hit .354 with runners on compared to .202 with the bases empty…yielded a .368 average with runners in scoring position and two outs…had a 2.88 ERA over the first four innings of a game compared to 13.50 in the fifth inning…surrendered nine of his 23 runs in the fifth inning…did not pitch after the fifth inning… went 1-2 with a 2.92 ERA in six starts at home, 0-1 with a 6.60 ERA in four starts on the road…Lansing went 3-7 in his starting assignments…tossed a season-high 5.0 innings five times and allowed one earned run in four of those starts…made his professional debut July 14 against Burlington…tossed 2.0 scoreless innings and did not allow a hit while walking one…did not record his first strikeout until his third start July 26 against Dayton…struck out a season-high five batters Aug. 6 at Fort Worth and allowed just two runs in five innings but was charged with his first professional loss…lost each of his first three decisions before recording his first win in his penultimate start of the season Aug. 28 at Lake County…allowed a run on six hits in 5.0 innings in an 11-2 win.

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ONALASKA, Wis. (WKBT) - An Onalaska man was arrested on charges of child battery on June 6, according to authorities.
Onalaska Police were investigating allegations of child battery on Kevin R. Humphrey when they found his car near his home in Onalaska.
Authorities searched Humphrey and found prescription pharmaceuticals, $1500.00 in cash. Police then searched Humphrey's car and found $12,990.00 in cash, a pound and a half of marijuana and other pharmaceuticals - Viagra, Adderall, Oxycodone and Vyvanse, according to the release.
A search warrant for Humphrey's home was obtained by police and additional drugs and paraphernalia were found. Police also obtained a warrant for a storage unit and found an excess of 8 pounds of marijuana, paraphernalia and $160,000 in cash, the release said.
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