Emoni Bates, current basketball star at Eastern Michigan and former top recruit with Memphis, was arrested in Michigan Sunday night following a traffic stop and arraigned Monday morning on at least one gun charge.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Bates was stopped by the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office on Sunday evening at 10:43pm after he failed to stop at an intersection. The police said they located a gun in the car during the investigation and arrested Bates, who was held in jail until Monday morning when he was released on personal bond.
The Associated Press reported that Bates is being charged with carrying a concealed weapon and altering identification marks on a firearm, but only the concealed weapon charge has been confirmed by local law enforcement.
There might be more to this story, though. Steve Haney, Bates' lawyer, spoke to ESPN's Pete Thamel and claimed that Bates was not driving his own car when he was pulled over.
If Bates was driving someone else's car when he was pulled over, that's a pretty big development. He's next due in court on Oct. 6 for a probable cause hearing.
Bates' winding journey to Eastern Michigan
Bates, who is just 18, was once the No. 1 basketball recruit in the entire country. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and drawing comparisons to Kevin Durant and LeBron James in just the first few years of high school. Bates left high school after three years to attend Memphis (though not without committing and de-committing from Michigan first) and made his NCAA debut in 2021.
He was supposed to be a breakout talent at Memphis, but instead he struggled, looking like a shadow of the explosive player he'd been in high school. He ended up missing two months due to a back injury, and ended the season having played just 18 games and averaging 9.7 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks while shooting 38.6 percent from the field and 32.9 percent from deep.
Eastern Michigan has released a short statement about Bates' arrest.
"We are aware of a situation involving one of our student athletes. Eastern Michigan University takes all allegations very seriously. We are working to gather more details and will have further comment when more information is available."


Solve the problem of dwarf women in The Rings Of Power
SINGAPORE – In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) jokes that women of his race are so rarely seen by outsiders that they think “dwarves go out all simply holes in the ground”.
The joke became a prophecy because neither The Lord of the Rings (2001 to 2003) nor The Hobbit (2012 to 2014) films featured dwarf women in any significant way, while elf and human women had prominent roles. . This fault can be traced to the writings of JRR Tolkien, who mention them only briefly.
The Rings Of Power finally fills the void with the character of Princess Disa (played by English actress Sophia Nomvete), who is the wife of Durin, a dwarf prince played by Welsh actor Owain Arthur.
Like the human Halbrand, her character was invented for the Amazon show and does not appear in Tolkien’s works.
Nomvete, 32, says the inclusion of Disa is a “huge moment” for fans of Lord of the Rings stories because of her character’s range of possibilities – she’s kind, but also capable of being a “bada**”.
“There’s a warmth about her, a gentleness and a gentleness that works well compared to Durin. She’s strong, in a position of power and stands on par with her husband,” she adds.
She was speaking at an online press conference and sat with her teammates Leon Wadham, Trystan Gravelle and Benjamin Walker.
New Zealand actor Wadham, 22, plays Kemen, another character invented for the series, descended from a human line from the island kingdom of Numenor. Blessed by the spirits that forged the world, the Numenoreans are wealthier, stronger, and more technologically advanced than humans elsewhere.
Wadham says he was amazed at the support given to actors trying to understand the connection between Tolkien’s lore and how their characters should speak and move.
“There are so many people who care deeply about this project – there are dialect coaches, movement coaches and designers, and I was able to learn from them whenever I needed guidance” , he adds.


1. How To Login to a Security Camera System
Before you are able to login to your camera system over the web, you need to login at the DVR or NVR itself using a mouse. Connect the recorder to a monitor that supports at least 1080P resolution. We recommend using a HDMI input capable monitor. Turn on the recorder and login using two possible login methods.
- When logging in at the recorder, most of our surveillance video recorders allow quick access using a graphical pattern as a password.
- You can also login using the username and password stated on the sticker located on the top of the unit.
Please watch the video below to learn more from our video tutorial about the two different ways to login to your or security system.
In case you are unable to login due to a forgotten password, it is easy and secure to reset the password and gain entry into the unit. It is required that you be present at the recorder when following the video guide below on how to reset the login password. As shown in the video below, by answering some simple security questions you can quickly reset the login password.
2. Viewing Live Video and Audio on a Security System
All of our DVR Systems and HD NVR systems allow multiple viewing options. You can view multiple cameras in a grid-view or view one camera at a time in full screen mode. Full screen mode also allows the user to listen to audio from security cameras with built-in microphone. To hear audio from cameras, all of the following conditions must be met:
- Security camera has a built-in mic or you have an add-on security camera microphone connected to the DVR
- Audio sensing needs to be enabled on the system from the Encode menu
- A monitor with speakers is connected to the system using the HDMI video input
For a comprehensive guide of the different viewing options offered by our security camera systems, please watch the following video:
- Digital Zoom – digital magnification of the picture in live view or recorded video
- Optical Zoom – physical zoom using a camera lens to zoom-in when viewing live video
It is important to understand the difference between digital zoom and optical zoom, and the fact that optical zoom can only be used in live view mode. Below is a detailed video demonstration of each type of zoom function and how both can be utilized during live view to see objects far away. Using a 4MP security camera mounted 7ft above the object of interest, we show the power of optical zoom provided by a motorized zoom security camera to view objects in fine detail.
If your system has motorized zoom cameras or a outdoor PTZ camera that you purchased from CCTV Camera World, they can be easily controlled using our surveillance video recorders. Regardless of whether the motorized cameras are HDCVI or IP cameras, or whether your recorder is a DVR, XVR, or NVR, the cameras can be controlled using the friendly GUI interface of our systems as shown in the following video.
3. Setting Recording Resolution
A common misconception about our camera systems is that all cameras have to be the same resolution, which is not the case. Cameras of different resolutions can be used on the same recorder in any of our systems, granted the cameras are within the maximum resolution limit of the recorder. This is true for systems consisting of Tribrid DVR, XVR, or NVR recorders.
Encoding settings can be set individually for each camera channel. Depending on the maximum recording resolution supported by the recorder and the camera, our surveillance recorders allow up to 12MP recordings. All of our DVR and NVR recorders also have dual video encoding technology to provide two streams of video for each camera channel:
- Main Stream – high resolution video stream that can be a maximum value equal to the resolution of the camera’s sensor, or a lower value selected by the user if bandwidth is being conserved.
- Sub Stream – a lower resolution stream used when viewing multiple cameras in a grid on the computer or mobile device.
The Encoding menu has several settings that can be set. A good understanding of the following settings is important in getting the most out of our security camera system purchase from CCTV Camera World.
- Codec – is the video encoding compression method used. It can be H.265 or H.264 depending on the model of the camera and recorder. H.265 video encoding provides up to 50% bandwidth savings over H.264. To use H.265, both the camera and surveillance recorder have to support H.265.
- Resolution – is the size of the picture in pixels. When comparing video at the same angle of view (zoom length), higher resolution video provides facial detail farther away when using digital zoom for magnification. The resolution option available in this section depends on the camera resolution and whether it is compatible with the DVR or NVR. For example, a 12MP IP camera is not compatible with a 4K NVR that supports a maximum of 8MP. You would have to set the camera to 8MP or 4K resolution to use it with a 8MP 4K NVR. Likewise, a 4MP HDCVI camera is not compatible with a 1080P DVR unless the camera can be set to 1080P using a 4MP HDCVI DVR.
- Frame Rate – allows for adjusting how many frames per second (fps) are recorded from your camera. It also depends on the capabilities of the camera and DVR. 30fps is Real Time video without any frame skipping. To conserve hard drive space 1080P and higher resolution cameras are commonly recorded at 15fps. You would use 30fps only for quick motion applications like license plate capture cameras or for cameras overlooking a cash register. Here is a quick video demonstrating the differences between video filmed at FPS settings of 30 thru 3fps.
- Bitrate – is the amount of data per second that is saved for each security camera. Having a low bitrate would cause the video to be very pixelated as the video is compressed more. For example, attempting to save H.264 encoded 4MP resolution video of 20fps at 2mbps would cause the video to be pixelated and seem of poor quality. A bit rate that is too high would have diminishing returns as it wouldn’t improve video quality beyond a certain point.
We recommend first selecting the codec, resolution, and frame rate; our digital video recorders will recommend a bit rate based on the selected settings. As a guide, use the below bitrate settings for optimal video recording if hard drive space is of ample capacity in your system.
Codec Resolution Frame Rate Bitrate (kbps) H.264 960H or D1 30fps 1024 H.264 720P 30fps 2048 H.264 1080P 30fps 4096 H.264 3MP 20fps 4096 H.264 4MP 20fps 4096 H.264 8MP 15fps 8192 H.264 12MP 15fps 10240
The in-depth video tutorial below discusses encoding settings available in your system and how to configure them.
4. Customizing Video Settings
We manufacture our cameras to produce the best possible picture quality automatically. Sometimes peculiar lighting scenarios in a scene may require customization. Our DVRs and NVRs allow multiple picture quality settings to be modified from the recorder as explained in the detailed video tutorial below. It is important to note that there is a difference in capabilities to modify image settings when comparing coax based cameras versus IP cameras.
Coax based cameras produce video that is encoded by the DVR, thus allowing picture quality to be modified before the video is saved by the DVR. In contrast, IP cameras encode video that is streamed to the NVR for saving the video stream; the video is not encoded by the NVR. Therefore, any changes made in the picture settings on the NVR must be communicated back to the IP security camera. If an incompatible IP camera is used with an NVR, such changes will not be communicated to the IP camera, and changes will not apply before video is encoded by the camera.
Our systems allow a wide variety of picture settings to be toggled depending on the camera specifications. In addition to picture brightness and contrast, the user can toggle image quality features such as backlighting, glare compensation (WDR), and image flip.
5. Recording Method Configuration
All of our security systems offer a variety of video recording methods. Each security camera can be set to record independently and the user has the option to choose from the following recording methods:
- Stop – no video is recorded at all
- Manual – continuous recording that is 24/7
- Scheduled – the user can set different times of the day for each day of the week
- Motion Detection – when pixel changes in the video are detected, video will be recorded automatically. The user can set different sensitivity settings and specify certain areas of the picture as motion zones for each camera to reduce false positive motion events.
The digital video recorders in our systems even allow multiple recording methods for each camera. For example, cameras can be set to record all the time or during a portion of the day using the scheduled recording method, while also recording upon motion detection. This preserves video integrity in case a motion event is missed, and is very helpful when reviewing recorded security footage to allow the user to skip to points in the timeline when motion is detected. The video tutorial below is an in-depth guide on how to set the different recording methods for each camera in your surveillance system.
6. Playback Recorded Video on your Surveillance System
CCTV Camera World’s security camera systems have a user-intuitive graphical interface to playback recorded video. Using a mouse connected to your recorder, it is easy to review recorded security footage in the Search menu. It takes 3 simple clicks to playback recorded video:
- Select the month and day you would like to review footage from the calendar on the right hand side. The days highlighted in blue have recorded footage.
- Select the cameras you would like to playback recorded video from by clicking the select boxes.
- Select the point in the video timeline you would like to begin playback from.
The video above is a comprehensive tutorial on how to playback recorded video, in which we cover:
- How to select a day from which to playback video
- How to use the recorded video timeline for easy playback and fast-forward
- How to select multiple camera channels
- How to use Digital Zoom in recorded security footage to enhance detail
7. How to Download Video from a Security Camera System
When there is an incident, it’s important to have a camera system that allows easy download of security footage catching the perpetrator in the act. Our security camera systems are based on this simple principle to allow easy video download to a USB drive and playback on a Windows or Mac computer. To download video from any of our standalone recorders you will need a USB flash drive that is formatted with the NTFS or FAT file system. Our video guide on how to download footage from your security camera system walks you through the process.
- Connect a USB flash drive to the USB port on the back of your DVR or NVR
- Go to the Search menu
- Select day, and camera channel you would like to view footage from
- Select the starting point by clicking on the timeline, and click on the snippet tool
- Select the end point by clicking on the timeline, and click on the snippet tool to finish marking a clip
- Click the Save button to download the video to USB
8. How To View Downloaded Footage from a Security Camera System
Once security footage has been downloaded from your surveillance system, it can be reviewed on a Windows or Mac OS computer using our free playback software called Smart Player. You can download it here for Windows and Mac. Here is a list of features of Smart Player which makes our systems one of the best security camera systems in the industry for video archiving and review:
- Video Grid and Timeline reconstruction
- Playback one or multiple video files from one or multiple cameras in a grid
- Synchronous or asynchronous video playback from multiple cameras
- Digital Zoom and Pan
- Video timeline with markers for motion events and video analytics
- Up to 64X video playback speed
- Frame-by-frame review
- Snapshot capture of video of interest
- Video snippet of video of interest
- Video conversion to AVI for playback using popular media players


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Study finds anxiety and depression are prevalent among Somali health workers
Healthcare workers in Somalia suffer from high rates of anxiety, depression and stress due to their work with COVID-19 cases, according to a new study.
The study was presented at a health research conference in the Somali town of Garowe last week. Early results recorded a high prevalence of anxiety in the working population at 69.3%, 46.5% for depression and 15.2% for stress.
The study used the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS), widely used in scientific circles to measure the three emotional states. Researchers interviewed 186 healthcare workers at three hospitals in Mogadishu between May and August 2021.
Dr. Abdirazak Yusuf Ahmed, lead author of the study and director of De Martino Hospital, the leading COVID-19 medical facility in Mogadishu, said several factors played a role in the prevalence of such traumatic experiences among hospital staff. health.
“The first is that this disease is associated with deaths,” Ahmed said. “They (the workers) were afraid that they could take the virus home and pass it on to their loved ones.”
He also mentioned the low motivation of COVID-19 workers.
Doctors working in Somalia are not surprised that the multiplier effects of COVID-19 have contributed to poor worker health.
Since March 16, 2020, when the first case was detected, Somalia has recorded 1,340 COVID-19 deaths and 26,203 positive cases, representing a case fatality rate of 5.1%. But independent studies and news reports have argued that deaths from COVID-19 in Somalia have been grossly underreported. To date, Somalia has administered over 1.6 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with only 5.6% of the population fully vaccinated.
The discovery of personal health problems among frontline workers comes at a time when the country lacks health personnel to provide services.
Last week’s conference, which was attended by federal and regional health officials, local doctors and international health workers, including representatives of the World Health Organization, recognized the seriousness of the lack of health workers.
A statement released at the end of the conference said the country’s low workforce density stands at 5.4 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 people. The WHO recommends a ratio of 44.5 per 10,000.
The statement further said that according to the WHO health workforce guidelines, there is a shortage of 55,000 qualified health professionals in the country.
He said the gap affects all components of the health system, ranging from service delivery, health workforce, health information systems, access to essential medicines, financing and leadership, policies and governance.
This shortage is attributed to the migration of health workers from Somalia due to war and crisis, according to Dr. Mamunur Rahman Malik, WHO Representative in Somalia.
“This shortage means that the country does not have adequate health workers who are needed to operate and manage primary health centers or hospitals,” he said. “Thus, the services are suboptimal or of poor quality because the services are provided by unprofessional health workers.”
Good news for infant mortality
The conference predicted progress in reducing child mortality and maternal mortality in Somalia in the years to come.
With the investment and implementation of basic health services, the maternal mortality rate is expected to decline to 332 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030, a 50% reduction from the current level, according to the communicated.
Similarly, neonatal, infant and under-5 child mortality rates are projected to decline from 122, 77 and 38 per 1,000 live births in 2020 to 63, 42 and 20 deaths per 1,000 live births, respectively, by 2030.
Child mortality in Somalia is said to be the highest in the world, according to a report published by Amnesty International in August 2021, with around 15% of people having access to medical care in rural areas.
This report comes from the “Dossier d’Enquête” program of the Somali service of VOA.

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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Colin Allred, the Democrat nominee in Texas’ Senate race, is facing a six-figure advertisement campaign over his past remarks in which he labeled the southern border wall “racist.”
The Truth and Courage PAC, which is working to re-elect Republican Sen. Ted Cruz this November, is launching the endeavor over what the group says is Allred’s efforts to “undermine” border security.
“Colin Allred has consistently fought to undermine America’s border security, transform Texas into a sanctuary state, and make our communities less safe,” Truth and Courage spokesperson Jarrod Griffin told Fox News Digital. “He desperately wants America’s borders wide open, and he’s even willing to tear down the border wall to do it.”
TEXAS DEMOCRAT’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POSITIONS COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM IN BID TO OUST TED CRUZ
“No matter how hard he tries to hide his radical record, his promises to destroy America’s border security and the years he’s spent fighting for dangerous, open borders policies speak for themselves,” Griffin said.
Allred has said he wants to “surge resources” to help Border Patrol. However, he has consistently opposed efforts to ban sanctuary cities, supported a pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. and opposed multiple pieces of legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.
WATCH: BORDER PATROL UNION CHIEF EXPLODES ON BIDEN IN FIERY PRESS CONFERENCE, SAYS AGENTS’ P—-D’ AT POLICIES
In 2018, he called the border wall “racist,” sparking the current ad campaign.
“I’ll tell you what, if they build that racist wall, my generation is the one that will tear it down,” Allred said at the time. “We are not going to have a wall in this country.”
Allred responded to Truth and Courage PAC’s ad buy in a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“Our immigration system is broken, and to fix it we need real solutions that secure our border, surge resources to Border Patrol and our border communities, create a pathway to earned citizenship for Dreamers and reform our system to better meet the needs of our economy,” Allred said. “When given the opportunity to actually do something, Ted Cruz put politics over a bipartisan border security bill backed by the Border Patrol Union.”
Allred launched his campaign for the Senate last May and vastly outraised his Democrat primary opponents. He recently defeated a field of challengers to take on Cruz in the general election.
Allred’s general election matchup against Cruz will likely pose a more formidable challenge, considering that the border and illegal immigration are among the top issues that concern voters in the Lone Star state, which continues to bear the brunt of the migrant crisis that’s worsened under the Biden administration.
Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Read the full article here

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LAUREN Ralph Lauren Sleeveless Day DressLAUREN Ralph Lauren Sleeveless Day Dress
- Get ready for your day in the easy and adorable stylings of the LAUREN Ralph Lauren® Sleeveless Day Dress.
- SKU: #9616768
- This crepe shift dress boasts an all over floral pattern, a round neckline with sleeveless construction, and a ruffle trimmed tiered skirt that flows with every step.
- Keyhole at the back with hook and eye closure.
- 97% polyester, 3% elastane.
- Hand wash.

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May 19, 2018, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM @ Public Works Operations Center
Join us to safely dispose of your household hazardous waste items, such as a pesticides, herbicides, cleaning solvents, etc. Click the link to view a full list of acceptable, and unacceptable, items. Open to all Framingham residents. Proof of residency will be required.
May 19, 2018, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM @ Christa McAuliffe Charter School
Join us for a fun, family event. Join runners of all ages for a 5K road race. There will be free food and drinks, a basket raffle, and much more!
May 19, 2018, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM @ Framingham Public Library
Great deals on books, CDs, DVDs, and more. Most Books $1.00 or less; Children’s .50 or less; single DVD’s $3.00. This month, try a new author! Many of your favorite popular authors are Buy One hard cover book for $1.00, Get One Free in the BOGO bookcase in the book room. Gorgeous art books are just $2 in the lobby. The Bag Room WILL be open this month.
May 19, 2018, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Why do many of us know so little about WWI? Perhaps because America entered the war during its last year? Or is it because few understood shell shock and how to process the horrors of the trenches? While WWII is known for the “greatest generation,” WWI produced the “lost generation.” But WWI is not lost to Framingham.
As the centenary of Armistice approaches in November this exhibit features seven local men and women whose stories speak to the larger forces at play in the first war that engulfed the world. Innovations around flight and technology, the impact of the influenza pandemic, pacifism and suffrage are just some of the threads tying Framingham to WWI.
For more info: https://www.framinghamhistory.org/an-american-town-in-world-war-i
May 19, 2018, 7:00 PM - May 20, 2018, 12:00 AM @ Bowditch Field
Relay For Life is the signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Relay is staffed and coordinated by volunteers in thousands of communities and 27 countries. Volunteers give of their time and effort because they believe it's time to take action against cancer.

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Search books by title, genre, publication month, publication year, and rating or search by any combination of these options (i.e. all Mysteries published in January 2001 with 4.5 rating).
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RED HAWK'S WOMAN
Genre: Historical Romance
Kay has built a wonderfully satisfying series. She hooks readers with a paranormal element but also delivers a solid Native American romance that's everything fans of the genre want.
Legend tells of the lost clan, a tribe banished by the thunder god, sent to live in shadows. Once a generation a warrior comes forth to save the tribe; this time it's Red Hawk, who isn't the ideal candidate for his tribe's quest for freedom, but he's the only boy able to leave the shadows, travel to the real world and survive.
When he first came to the world of the living he met a lovely girl he's never forgotten. The daughter of a renowned archeologist, Effie Rutledge may hold the key to
Reviewed By: Kathe Robin
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Published: June 2007

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The SOVA Innovation Hub has been awarded $85,300 to begin securing design services for their SOVA Innovation Labs, set to be next door to the hub located at 715 Wilborn Ave.
The 1,300 square-foot building is expected to serve entrepreneurs, including start-ups and existing growing businesses.
The hub plans to provide an $85,300 cash match.
“It’s great the tobacco commission awarded us the grant so that we can secure the architectural and engineering firm to start on planning and design for the new building,” said Tad Deriso, CEO and executive director of Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation.
The Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission approved the grant award on May 27 when they met electronically. The SOVA Innovation…


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Stem cell therapy has become a reality in India. The All India In stitute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has successfully given stem cell treatment by 'injection method' to its cardiac patients.
The institute conducted the study under the leadership of P Venugopal, a renowned heart surgeon and AIIMS, director, from February 2003 to January 2005, where 35 cardiac patients were given stem cell therapy and were monitored at six, 12, and 18 month intervals. All the patients were brought in at a stage when their hearts were beyond bypass surgery and transplant was the only solution. During the course of the treatment, there were no mortalities and in fact after six months, 56 percent of the dead tissue area injected with stem cells showed improvement. After eighteen months, the improvement spread to about 64 percent of the necrotic tissue area. These stem cells, derived from the patient or donors, act as repair agents within the body, multiplying continuously to replenish other cells.
The procedure uses robotics to inject stem cells into the artery leading to the diseased organ, after blocking passage through the vein to prevent loss in transit, in patients. The regenerative cells are delivered to the affected area initiating the process of repair and regrowth of healthy cells. This reduces the disease burden in some while completely curing others.
Besides cardiac patients, the stem cell injection method can also be successfully used in patients with diabetes, neurological disorders, muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy. With further refinement, even immune disorders and cancer can be treated with this stem cell procedure. Commenting about this achievement, the Union health and family welfare minister, Anbumani Ramadoss said, "The feat had placed AIIMS right at the top of the world's medicine map."
This achievement has brought new laurels to AIIMS, as this is a global first in stem cell medicine. AIIMS has now been notified as India's nodal center for conducting and coordinating stem cell research. The medical team can file for a patent as this procedure is one of its kind even though stem cell technology has been applied successfully in the UK, Korea and China, particularly in regenerating diseased cells. In fact, this treatment procedure is so new that there are no clear regulatory guidelines for carrying out stem cell transplants on heart patients undergoing bypass surgery. This has led to fears that soon this may lead to a number of private health centers claiming stem cell treatment for a wide range of diseases.

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Sometimes it seems just too obvious why education funding has dropped in Oklahoma more than any other state in the nation since 2008.
In a Saturday editorial brief under its Scissor Tales column, The Oklahoman weighs in with a bit of snarky criticism about last week’s education rally at the state Capitol that drew around 25,000 people. So this is what passes for reasoned logic around this place:
More than a soupcon of self-righteousness was in evidence at Monday’s state Capitol rally for school spending increases. Participants felt justified in taking a day off (and in many cases forcing their students to take a day off) to provide a teachable moment for legislators, to use a trite expression. Kids don’t have the right to skip school to provide a teachable moment as they define it. Teachers apparently do. With so much crowing about how many people the rally drew, we wonder what the crowd count would have been had the rally been staged during spring break. The Legislature was in session most of that week. How about a Saturday rally that wouldn’t affect the teachable moments that take place in classrooms on most Mondays? Nah. That would depress the participation rate. Like the rest of us, teachers need their weekends free.
Let’s get this straight. The Oklahoman is pretty much arguing that the fact some “self-righteous” and “crowing” teachers took a day off to ask for more education funding is the important issue here, not the fact that school funding has dropped by more than 22 percent since the economic downturn in 2008. Note, as well, according to the newspaper, that those pesky teachers “need their weekends free,” even though I bet many of them were grading or preparing for classes Saturday and Sunday.
In a previous editorial, The Oklahoman opposed a legislative plan that would divert money from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to boost school funding, but it offered no solutions to the problem of inadequate funding.
The newspaper, for years, has taken the position that since education funding receives the majority of the state budget it follows that somehow the state is doing the best it can. The newspaper has also argued that school administrators are never satisfied about the education money they receive from the state even though the premise has never and will never be tested.
Add to this the newspaper’s invalid argument that money has no bearing on student performance and its incessant argument that schools should be given more testing and assessment mandates even as their funding decreases. Throw in some basic snarky criticism of teachers.
These illogical arguments are at the core of the current assault on public education here and elsewhere in the country.
The editorial response and news coverage by The Oklahoman of the education rally at the state Capitol Monday is an example of the attitudes and false claims that have made sure the state funds public schools at one of the lowest rates in the nation.
On the other hand, it didn’t help the public education cause here in the state that leading educators at the rally didn’t push for specific legislation or funding initiatives. The lingering residue from education-related State Question 744, which was crushingly defeated in 2010, probably didn’t help either.
In an historic event, an estimated crowd of 25,000 to 30,000 people, many of them teachers, administrators, students and parents, rallied at the Capitol Monday under the banner of asking for more money. They have an excellent case. Education funding has dropped by more than 22 percent since the economic downturn in 2008, and the state is almost always ranked among the lowest five states in the nation in per pupil funding if not dead last.
All this has translated into larger class sizes and low teacher salaries. This, in turn, has led to teacher shortages. Meanwhile, excessive testing and too much bureaucratic and political intrusion into the learning process, along with the inadequate funding, have combined to become a real assault on our public schools. There is a growing awareness of this assault throughout the nation. It still remains a question whether this awareness is happening in Oklahoma beyond those in the education field.
The Oklahoman, an ultra-conservative newspaper owned by Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz, responded on its editorial page with typical anti-education sloganeering as the rally neared. I will cite an editorial it published on the day of the rally. In that editorial, the newspaper argued the rally was a “disservice” to students. Many districts used a snow day to allow teachers and students to attend, and this was wrong, according to the newspaper.
But the most telling argument in the editorial deals with education funding. Here’s the argument verbatim:
Not one member of the Legislature is unaware of how public schools feel about education funding. Lawmakers understand that school budgets have been cut in recent years. But they also know the check written to common ed is always larger than any other government entity. And they’re aware that no superintendent believes his or her district gets enough financial help from the state — ever.
Let’s parse this a bit because there are standard conservative talking points or false claims here when it comes to education funding. First, yes, common education gets the most amount of funding from state government but that has no correlation to whether schools have sufficient money to operate. There are more than 670,000 public students in the state. It’s only logical that education would receive the most money. Second, it’s just a false and unprovable claim that school superintendents will never believe they get enough money from the state. Oklahoma has provided inadequate funding education for decades. The premise has not even been close to tested nor will it ever be. This is simply hyperbole.
Schools get the most money from the state. No school superintendent will ever be satisfied with the amount. Therefore, educators should shut up and stay home. This is what passes for intellectual argumentation in this state.
Meanwhile, in its main story about the rally in NewsOK.com, the web site of The Oklahoman, the reporters use comments by Brandon Dutcher, the senior vice president for the ultra-conservative think tank, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA). Dutcher is allowed to make two suspect claims: (1) Education funding is at an all-time high. (2) There’s no evidence that ties funding to school performance.
Dutcher claims to use figures from state, federal and local sources to make his funding claim, but the evidence is not provided in the story. Some school funding is obviously dedicated to specific uses and doesn’t mean it’s going directly into the classroom. As far as the school performance issue goes, the cause and effect evidence on a larger scale is quite clear. For example, Oklahoma has one of the lowest per pupil spending rates in the nation along with low college graduation rates. Is there a correlation? That’s worth a look at the very least. The point is that Dutcher is allowed to make his claims unchallenged in a story that should be focused more on claims from teachers and administrators. When’s the last time OCPA sponsored a rally that attracted 30,000 people to the state Capitol? This is simply biased reporting.
In the end, though, supporters for more school funding here perhaps should have rallied around a more specific initiative. It’s worth noting that House Bill 1017, the educational reform bill passed in 1990, had specific components. This is probably difficult to do now because of the 2010 defeat of State Question 744, which would have required the state to eventually fund education on a per pupil basis at a regional average. The question was crushed in an 828,529 to 189,164 vote. Two of its leading opponents were former Gov. Brad Henry, a Democrat who appeared in television ads urging people to vote against it, and Oklahoma Policy Institute director David Blatt, who spoke at Monday’s rally. His opposition was often cited by The Oklahoman as a reason to vote against the proposal.
As I noted earlier, The Oklahoman argues, “Not one member of the Legislature is unaware of how public schools feel about education funding.” That’s actually true. But they also know that voters here and supposedly those people who claim to be sympathetic to education concerns won’t even consider “average” school funding and at a “regional” level at that. Can we at least go from “abysmal” to “mediocre” funding then? Perhaps, SQ 744 was ill-advised or timed wrong, and there’s no sense in living in the past, but its overwhelming defeat told us much about voters and education politics here. What real progress can be made in this suffocating environment when it comes to education funding remains to be seen.
The Common Core spectacle at the state Capitol is once again showing the wide schism in the Republican Party in Oklahoma.
On one side are the Republicans who oppose the uniformed K-12 educational standards that were initially adopted by 45 states. They are led at this point, it seems to me, by Gov. Mary Fallin who issued a recent statement in support of ditching Common Core standards for English, language arts and mathematics and developing new state standards.
After the Senate Education Committee voted to approve a bill that does just that, Fallin said:
As we work to increase classroom rigor and raise the academic bar in our schools, I have been clear that Oklahoma must take the lead in developing and implementing our own standards and assessments. To protect the principle of local control, and to resist federal overreach from Washington and the Obama administration, I signed last year an executive order outlining Oklahoma's independence in implementing higher standards and student assessments.
Note the anti-President Barack Obama and federal government rhetoric. In Oklahoma these days, that’s a clear political winner no matter what the issue or how much it’s stretched, especially in this case. Obama supports Common Core, but the federal government didn’t develop the standards. It was education leaders and the National Governors Association that did it.
On the other side of the issue on the Republican side are the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and the state’s largest newspaper, The Oklahoman, an ultra-conservative publication. A recent editorial in The Oklahoman argued “ . . . opponents rarely criticize the actual standards. Most opposition is based on innuendo, conjecture, misinformation and disinformation.”
What gets lost in all the bickering over federal control are teachers and students.
Teachers here have prepared for months to implement the standards. If Oklahoma ends Common Core, all their work has gone for nothing. They will have to start over with new state standards. That will be demoralizing.
Students are left behind by sudden changes in curriculum and mixed messaging by authority figures over basic intellectual knowledge. They become political footballs tossed around by two GOP groups as the intraparty fighting continues over how best to criticize Obama rather than educate students.
Meanwhile, the GOP has allowed state funding to schools since 2008 to drop on a percentage basis more than any other state in the nation.
Indiana has become the first state to stop implementing Common Core after signing on to the new standards, and other states, especially conservative states, will probably follow their example. With Fallin’s support, Oklahoma could easily follow Indiana’s example.
The idea that states shouldn’t share standards because of a presumed overarching federal control ignores globalization and the impact of the Information Age on the world’s knowledge base. We live in an extremely connected world these days. Isolation is really no longer an option. Oklahoma should always look elsewhere for standards that clearly work.
The idea that Oklahoma schools, in particular, should be “protected from federal interference,” as Fallin has argued when it comes to Common Core, doesn’t mean much when it comes to basic intellectual development of students. Does any Republican, including Fallin, really believe that the federal government is against students becoming proficient in math and English, that it will somehow interfere with that process?
But then it’s an election year, and this type of reductionist sloganeering works here.

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Media Ignore Illegal Immigration
Mr. Speaker, a new report by the Wilson Center has found that illegal immigration across the southern border is on pace to break the previous record set in 2014. The record should not come as a surprise. The administration’s policies encourage illegal immigration.
The number of apprehensions at the southern border in August reached its highest point for that month in the last five years. This record-setting pace of illegal immigration was largely ignored by the media. Neither the Big Three networks nor the national daily newspapers covered the report.
The administration’s failure to enforce immigration laws has caused the new record surge. Americans are understandably concerned about illegal immigration. It’s unfortunate that the media does not consider it newsworthy.


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Casa Candelaria, Located at the outsides of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, was conceived under concepts that detonate the strength in its presence and belonging to the place where it uproots, for which it was decided to return to the program of the Mexican haciendas and solve the new house around courtyards which themselves contain an activity that represents the tension and the relationship between the functions of the volumes that surround it.
The Public Library is part of a public-private initiative taken to rebuild the city of Constitución after the 8.8 degrees earthquake and tsunami that devastated the town during the year 2010. It is a small settlement situated in the very core of one of the biggest clusters of wood production in Chile. This situation gives identity to the town and also creates the best conditions to find not only high quality wood materials but also extremely well gifted carpenters to carefully craft a wooden building.
This is an office and residence of an architect, located by a marsh, in Rajagiriya Sri Lanka. Although located along urban fringe near a series of high-rise buildings, and close to the main road, the building is designed like a fortification. It is sealed from the Colombo heat (with specially designed double screens to limit western and southern exposure), traffic and noises of the road but once within reveals unexpected views of the adjoining marsh and is totally permeable to the natural setting. The building plays with volumes to create many areas for living, work and leisure, and also with materials and tectonic devices to create a cooler microclimate within the building, encouraging daylight, and views to the marsh, harvesting and regulating rain water, and creating gardens for biodiversity. The design also takes into account its location by the water, creating garden spaces that act as detention area during monsoons, thus preventing the living/ workspaces from flooding.
Jagtens Hus is situated on Mols peninsula in the eastern part of Jutland, Denmark, and is the new domicile for the Danish Hunter Association. In the two main longhouses you find the association’s administration, laboratory, education facilities, cantina and a build-in “hunting lodge”, all of which is closely linked to the surrounding nature. The black buildings are kept neutral and rough, to make room for the woods, the meadow and Kalø Inlet all of which embraces the domicile.
Urban Vietnam today is rapidly expanding using symmetrical and uniform architecture (townhouses) providing boring and dry architectural morphology. Interiors often are closed in, cramped and absorb heat.
According to many studies, the coworking phenomenon is intrinsicly associated to the urban lifestyle. The density and diversity of people and oportunities that a big metropolis produces, encourages the apparition of places where its fundamental purpouse is sharing creativity. This is why it seemed natural for us that our spaces payed tribute and were inspired by great cities.
utopic_US is a young and creative company, we could even say it is a little bit carefree… and the idea was to mix inspirations and memories of two cities, with the real soul of the firm. At the same time Izaskun Chinchilla Architects looks to strengthen the link between design and user by means of interactuation and surprise.
The Community Center in Aphae-do, Shinan-gun, Jeollanam-do is located on a special site, and has a special programme. First of all, it was my first building project to be built on an island. Second, the main programme of the building was the public bath and restaurant for the elders in the village. The elders, who make up most of the population in the fishing village, do not have a decent bathing facility in their home.
The owners are all Buddhists looking forward to having a place of peace, tranquility and completely free from the hustle city.This is not simply a house, it is a monastery…

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Electron capture dissociation (ECD) offers many advantages over the more traditional fragmentation techniques for the analysis of peptides and proteins, although the question remains: How suitable is ECD for incorporation within proteomic strategies for the identification of proteins? Here, we compare LC-ECD-MS/MS and LC-CID-MS/MS as techniques for the identification of proteins.Experiments were performed on a hybrid linear ion trap–Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer. Replicate analyses of a six-protein (bovine serum albumin, apo-transferrin,lysozyme, cytochrome c, alcohol dehydrogenase, and β-galactosidase) tryptic digest were performed and the results analyzed on the basis of overall protein sequence coverage and sequence tag lengths within individual peptides. The results show that although protein coverage was lower for LC-ECDMS/MS than for LC-CID-MS/MS, LC-ECD-MS/MS resulted in longer peptide sequence tags,providing greater confidence in protein assignment.
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Today’s Scripture: Isaiah 42:8-9
What we say cannot stand alone, but we must back it up with what we do. I love these verses in Isaiah because God is saying, “Look, I talk the talk, but I also walk the walk. All you need for proof of my faithfulness in the future is to look at my faithfulness in the past.”
What do people see when they look at the former actions by our denominations, congregations, or those representing Christianity? Do they see us simply talking a good game, or are we walking the walk?
—F. Douglas Powe Jr., in The Upper Room Disciplines 2023: A Book of Daily Devotions (Upper Room Books, 2022)
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Composer Hoagy Carmichael wrote a tune that is the bane of all piano teachers: “Heart and Soul,” a gateway to the keyboard, with a melody that can be played with one finger. Amateurs will have a much harder time plucking out the melody to Carmichael’s “Star Dust,” perhaps the least hummable tune on this list. But that’s part of its charm. The melody doesn’t conform to the typical structure for pop songs of the time. It rarely repeats a note, and it lands in places your head wouldn’t normally go, but your heart gravitates toward it without hesitation.
Carmichael studied to be a lawyer at Indiana University, where he met jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. The melody for “Star Dust” emerged from an improv session with Beiderbecke. For a few years after its first recording, in 1927, the piece was a jaunty and danceable instrumental song. But a 1931 version, slowed to a dreamy ballad with words by Mitchell Parish, is the one that went on to be one of the most recorded pop tunes in history, with more than a thousand versions that cross genres and styles.
In its most famous recording — a rendition by the great Louis Armstrong — we get both the instrumental treat, with Satchmo’s signature trumpet on the intro, and the stargazing reverie of the vocals. As he sings, Armstrong dispenses with much of the melody, improvising in his distinctive style and finally repeating “Oh memory, oh memory” before belting out another trumpet solo, finding his own inspiration “in the stardust of a song.”
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Vaccine advisers for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are recommending that most Americans get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot.
Thursday’s recommendation came after a review of new safety data about rare but potentially life-threatening blood clots linked to J&J’s shot.
The CDC presented data showing 54 people developed thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome in the U.S. shortly after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Nine people died: seven women and two men, said Dr. Isaac See of the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine task task force.
Of the 200 million fully vaccinated Americans, only a small fraction — about 16 million — got the J&J vaccine.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines don’t have the same risk and provide better protection overall against COVID-19, health officials said at the meeting.
The panel's official recommendation amounts to 21 words: "mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are preferred over the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 for all [greater than or equal to] 18 years of age." Experts say it carries immense weight that could affect global demand for J & J's shot.
CDC still must decide whether to accept the unusual recommendation.
"The impact of the US making a statement like this will be felt in many parts of the world," said UC San Francisco infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong.
Statements of preference by the CDC's advisers are rare, said UC Hastings professor of law Dorit Reiss, an expert on vaccine law. In 2017, the CDC panel announced it preferred a shingles vaccine made by GSK over another made by Merck.
"The result was that Merck’s vaccine was no longer in demand and they stopped making it. So this kind of recommendation can actually end up killing a vaccine," Reiss said.
The U.S. paused the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine earlier this year due to concerns over blood clots. However, the pause was lifted after health officials determined the "potential benefits outweigh its known and potential risks."
The Food and Drug Administration and CDC said they would continue to investigate the risk of blood clots linked to the vaccine.
On average, the CDC said these blood clots occurred nine days after vaccination. Individuals who needed hospitalization were admitted an average of five days later. Doctors say people who received the J & J vaccine months ago are not at risk.
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To mitigate the security threats and eavesdropping risks, Silent Circle, a Switzerland-based company, provides enterprise privacy through a revolutionary mobile platform of devices, software and services.
“We built the first enterprise privacy platform to enable private voice and video calls, text messaging, and file transfer between mobile devices,” Bill Conner, President and CEO, Silent Circle explains. “In a post Sony world, traditional security solutions have failed global enterprises and have been underserved when it comes to privacy. We’re here to fix that. Our enterprise privacy platform is built on next generation security with appropriate policy choices. This new approach and capability is the driving force of everything we do.”
The company’s Blackphone offering protects communication and data everywhere–not just inside company walls. “Blackphone combines an enhanced Android operating system with a suite of apps designed to keep your enterprise and personal information secure,” adds Conner.
Furthermore, Blackphone’s Smarter Wi-Fi Manager turns off the user’s Wi- Fi when they are out of range from trusted networks, keeping their past network history private and protecting phones from accidentally connecting to suspicious networks. And if you are using public Wi-Fi networks, Blackphone will allow you to easily access a VPN for private, secure browsing.
In addition, Silent Phone and Silent Text, which offer encrypted peer-to-peer VoIP and text services, provide users access to encrypted communication and file transfer from anywhere.
The company’s web based Silent Manager is designed to give designated administrators a simple and an easy way to oversee their organizations’ use of the Silent Circle platform. It provides at-a-glance overviews of current users, groups, and plans, and a newsfeed showing relevant Silent Circle information, such as news about updates to Silent Circle apps. “With the web management capability, administrators can add or remove users individually or in multiples, making Silent Circle accounts easy to deploy as needed,” says Conner. Silent Manager also allows for the creation of subscription codes, which can be used to distribute services outside of email or traditional business environments.
Silent Circle has matured into the world's most trusted solution for mobile and enterprise privacy, serving individuals, businesses, and governments in over 130 countries with a truly revolutionary platform of software, services, and devices.
Blackphone combines an enhanced Android operating system with a suite of apps designed to keep your enterprise and personal information secure
“In a post Sony world traditional security solutions have failed global enterprises,” Conner explained. “What’s more, these breaches have evolved and have much broader impact. They now put every customer, employee and partner at risk. They are eroding the trust people have in enterprises. That’s why we’ve developed a platform which allows any business to design a solution that works best for them.”


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As a branding professional who took time off to raise children in Westport, Nathalie Laitmon knows what it’s like to need a community of like-minded women.
There are many people out there like her: independent, multi-faceted and very talented.
But the only online communities she found were like Huffington Post Motherhood (“sassy and snarky”) or Pinterest (“earth moms who want to churn their own butter”).
Laitmon — who was in the midst of writing a novel about suburban cults — realized that many women feel isolated or out of place in suburbia. She wanted to give their voices a platform.
“Suburban Misfit Mom” debuted last October. Laitmon calls it “an interactive community and content provider for the multi-dimensional, self-reflective mother who respects every part of her identity.”
Her eclectic team of writers includes “tastemakers, humorists, progressive thinkers, writers, artists, journalists and experts in their fields of interest.”
They come from across the country — including Westport and surrounding towns. They’re fresh and edgy. They write about “Superwoman Syndrome,” running marathons, sex, divorce, David Bowie, whether they married the right guy, snow days, friendships, their bodies, wine, Disney, post-partum anxiety, and their sons’ penises. Nothing is off limits.
Some of the stories take decidedly different approaches than on most “mommy blogs.” One woman wrote about being photographed naked. One titled her post “Bullying Isn’t Always a Bad Thing.” Another called hers “”F* You, Perfect Part-Time Nanny.”
In a few short months, Suburban Misfit Mom has turned into the community Laitmon envisioned. Readers have found women in similar situations, with the same issues and concerns. They’ve found writers they can relate to.
And Laitmon’s writers — over 100 — have found their own voices. They’re expressing themselves to an audience they otherwise — stuck, feeling isolated, in suburbia — might never have known.
Laitmon — who calls herself the site’s “curator” — helps those writers find their voices. She encourages them to be opinionated, but not judgmental.
The “10-year gap” that Laitmon talks about — a decade when high-powered women are home raising children — can be deadening. Yet it can also be a time to find one’s purpose and passion. That is where she and her site come in.
Laitmon calls Suburban Misfit Mom her “field of dreams.” She built it, and women are coming.
Along the way, she’s grown too. Laitmon has broadened her own perspective. She’s made friends across the country. And she has found her own voice too.
“I have a deep, intense appreciation for the life I’ve been given,” she says. “I feel a real sense of responsibility to help women deal with their challenges.”
Ten-year gap? Sounds like 10 years of fulfillment to me.
To see Laitmon’s site — or learn how to write for it — click on www.SuburbanMisfitMom.com.


LOS ANGELES — In a league so dominated by speed and athleticism, intricate formations, and trickery, the Stanford Cardinal offense, on the surface, may look a tad boring. They run the ball between the tackles. They utilize the playaction game. And yes, they love their tight ends.
It’s a grind-it-out type of offense that predicates itself on the classic, fundamental way of football — establish the run, and pass when necessary. That style of play changed a bit in Palo Alto recently when Stanford coach David Shaw opted for redshirt freshman quarterback Kevin Hogan over the experienced Josh Nunes, as Hogan’s mobility adds another dimension. But Stanford’s offense is still much closer than most Pac-12 offenses to the classic NFL style that UCLA coach Jim Mora grew up coaching against.
Asked about his comfort planning against an offense like that this week, Mora said that while he and most of his coaches were more comfortable, his players likely wouldn’t be.
“Comfortable in the sense that the vast majority of our experience is playing offenses that are structured this way,” Mora said, “but not necessarily comfortable because of the power they bring it with, not comfortable in that our defensive players, who are the guys out there between the lines, have not seen it a whole lot. Structurally, I think we have a pretty good idea at least on paper to defend a team like this. But it’s about your players being able to understand it and execute it.”
How well the Stanford offense moves up and down the field will rely a great deal on Hogan, who has had the reins of the Cardinal offense for just three games now. In those three performances though, the young signal caller completed an impressive 74 percent of his passes while engineering wins over No. 15 Oregon State and then-No. 2 Oregon. He’s no Andrew Luck just yet, but Mora said on Monday that how the coaches utilize him in the system allows him to play within himself.
“He’s a smart kid,” Mora said of Hogan. “He makes good decisions, and they do a really good job from their scheme of putting him in position to make the throws that he makes well. They run the ball so well. They’ve got really good tight ends, and so for a younger quarterback that doesn’t have a great deal of experience, it helps him. That’s a credit to their coaches, their players, and to him. You hear that term ‘play within yourself,’ and I think that he does that. But what you’re seeing out of him is every rep he takes, he’s getting even better.”
With success this season has come a higher profile for UCLA coach Jim Mora, and on Wednesday, it meant some more backtracking and explaining for the first-year head man who has been in the news for a few select outbursts this season.
On Wednesday, Mora felt the need to explain what was quoted on the Dan Patrick radio show – a comment that especially bothered some USC fans.
“What I said without editing is ‘I don’t give a rat’s ass about USC; we’re thinking about Stanford,’” Mora said. “So that was not a dig at USC, that was an indication of our focus on Stanford, so if it’s taken any other way, it’s taken wrong.”
Mora also appeared with ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd on his show this week, telling Cowherd that his first year at UCLA may be the most rewarding of his coaching career.
The long-time NFL assistant and head coach, now in his first year in college football, expanded on that comment on practice on Wednesday.
“It’s just awesome to be around these kids,” Mora said. “Their passion for the game and their enthusiasm and the way they’ve accepted everything we’ve asked them to do and done it with their whole heart, it’s just fun. … They need you a little bit more than pro guys too, and I guess that’s rewarding.”


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It was recently announced that the MPs had voted to extend the Coronavirus Act until end of September 2021. Despite the extension of this emergency coronavirus power, there are no plans to pause the current strategy for coming out of lockdown.
While we are waiting on updates on the prospects of international travel, here are what we are expecting this summer's travel to be like:
This 4-step plan has been in effect for a while now as we slowly make our way out of lockdown. At the moment, we are only allowed to mix with up to 6 people or two household outdoors, but by 12th April, outdoor hospitality will open and people will be able to have UK staycations. May 17th should be when international travel will resume, but there may be provisos, depending on COVID transmission rates in the UK and abroad. By the 21st June, we should be completely out of lockdown and international travel, including flights and cruises, should resume as normal.
There has been a debate about whether the UK will adopt the traffic light system for travel this summer. This system will highlight which countries are safer to go to and which have higher COVID transmission rates. People travelling to ‘red' countries (countries that are high risk) will likely have to go through stricter quarantining and social distancing, and if the infection rate is particularly high, the UK may close travel corridors to ‘red' countries. Travellers may also have to quarantine if they head to an ‘amber' country. However, those travelling to ‘green' countries (countries with lower rates of COVID transmission) may only be asked to take a COVID test.
The UK government will probably err on the side of caution at first, and label most countries as ‘amber' or ‘red' within this traffic light system, but where these countries appear on the system can change if things improve.
Next week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson should provide us with updates on the resumption of international travel. On 12th April, the Global Travel Taskforce is also planning to provide recommendations on how international travel should resume. Hopefully these updates will clarify what is happening with travel this spring and summer.
UK residents who have had both vaccinations have already been given COVID-19 vaccination cards with details of which vaccine they had (Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna or Oxford/AstraZeneca), the batch number, and the date they received their vaccine. Depending on which countries people travel to, they may be required to provide proof of vaccination upon arrival, so those people need to bring their vaccination cards with them on holiday.
The UK government will report in June after a review on whether we will need vaccine passports, also referred to as ‘COVID status certification', to travel abroad. It was also suggested that the personal information contained in the vaccine passports may be stored securely on individuals' phones. This could mean that the government will introduce a phone app. But until the June report, it is unclear whether the UK will follow other countries, like Iceland or Denmark, which have begun to issue digital vaccination certificates.
Travellers are likely to face a series of COVID tests—before they travel and when they come home. There is a good chance that travellers will need to be tested at least 72 hours before travelling abroad. Different countries will have their own laws in regards to travellers entering their country, so they may ask you to have a test when you arrive and before you leave.
While it's possible that airports or seaports will employ rigorous LFD testing (which detects antibodies and gives results within 30 minutes), it may become more convenient for travel companies to ask travellers to test themselves at home prior to travelling.
It is uncertain whether all travellers will need to quarantine when they return home from holiday, but it is likely that travellers returning from higher-risk countries will have to stay in quarantine hotels upon their return. Those who do have to quarantine, whether it be in a quarantine hotel or at home, will have to stay there for ten days, which is how long it takes for COVID-19 symptoms to appear.
Those who have not been vaccinated or have only received one dose of the vaccine may prefer to have a staycation this spring or summer. The appeal of staycations is that they will be available earlier than international holidays and they will offer Brits the opportunity to travel within the UK. Staycations may interest those who are uncomfortable with the idea of traveling abroad, but still want a relaxing holiday. With the way things are going, staycations could be as popular this year as they were last year.
Nothing is for certain, but next week's announcement by PM Boris Johnson should clear a few things up. Regardless of where you will be travelling this summer, you should consider taking out travel insurance.


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- Is 70 fan speed good?
- Is fan overboost bad?
- How long can a GPU run at 100?
- Why is my GPU fan so loud?
- Can you replace GPU fans?
- How do I know if my GPU is failing?
- How long do GPU fans last?
- Should I set my GPU fan to 100?
- Is it safe to increase GPU fan speed?
- Is 100 fan speed safe?
- Is 1000 rpm good for case fan?
- Should I run my PC fans at full speed?
- How hot should my GPU get?
- What is a good fan speed for GPU?
- Is 100% GPU usage bad?
- Should GPU fans always be running?
- What temp does GPU fan turn on?
- Is it normal for GPU fans to not spin?
Is 70 fan speed good?
The biggest downside of running at 70% fan speed 24/7 would be (imho) the noise factor.
Most fans have an expected life of something like 40,000+ hours, so that should not be a concern (plus you can replace it if need be).
The biggest downside of running at 70% fan speed 24/7 would be (imho) the noise factor..
Is fan overboost bad?
Fan Overboost means increase fan speed in order to cool the components of laptop like cpu nd gpu it’s actually good for your laptop if you r doing any heavy task like rendering, gaming but you should use this function when your laptop is plugged in for charging because it needs more power if you doing this when laptop …
How long can a GPU run at 100?
Talking about the GPU, it will be worn stronger, than on usual office work for 8-16 hours a day, so when using on 100% 24/7/365 it is unlikely it will be able to work for 5-10 years and more.
Why is my GPU fan so loud?
The fan can also get louder if the ball bearings are giving out. That usually causes not just an increase in loudness, but a rather distinct sound that goes beyond just the fan being loud. Also, you can lower the speed of the fan by using software such as Nvidia Inspector. Many manufacturers also supply tools for this.
Can you replace GPU fans?
Many video cards have a heat sink fan attached to them, to pull heat away from the video card processor, much like a processor heat sink. … In the event of a fan failure, it may be possible to replace the fan. Note. If you do remove or replace the fan yourself, you void the video card’s warranty.
How do I know if my GPU is failing?
Signs that your video card is failingScreen Glitches usually happen when the video card is busy with an application, such as when we watch a movie or play a game. … Stuttering is typically noticeable when playing a game. … Artifacts are similar to screen glitches. … Fan speed is a common sign of video card issues.
How long do GPU fans last?
The fans are rated at around 2 years full speed operation 24/7, also depending on the amount of dust and debris. Fans can be replaced for most GPUs. Their capacitors are rated for about 5 to 7 years non stop operation, but might last 10 to 15 years on a shelf or with occasional use.
Should I set my GPU fan to 100?
Running the fans at full speed is perfectly safe (and preferable with a temp report of 92 C, even). As Korth mentioned, doing so may short the fans’ lifespan, but fans very seldom are outlived by any other components.
Is it safe to increase GPU fan speed?
As long as the noise doesn’t bother you, yes it is fine. You can always set your fan curve to run at 10 points more than the temperature. … For example when the chip is running at 62C the fan will run at 72%.
Is 100 fan speed safe?
It’s 100% safe. The fans will last longer running at 100% since they are designed and tested that way.
Is 1000 rpm good for case fan?
A higher RPM is traditionally noisier. However, it’s also better for a cool build. A 1000 RPM fan is a bit low, as most standard case fans are anywhere from 1400-1600RPM, and you’d use a 1000RPM fan really for a non-intensive work or leisure computer.
Should I run my PC fans at full speed?
Running the fans at full speed is better for your other components, since it will keep them cooler. It may shorten the life of the fans though, especially if they are sleeve bearing fans.
How hot should my GPU get?
Graphics card temperatures typically range from 30°C to 40°C at idle and from 60°C to 85°C under load. Most high end video cards typically have a maximum temperature between 95°C-105°C, at which point the system will shut off to prevent damage.
What is a good fan speed for GPU?
Running fan at 100 % will increase the noise level. You may use 100% fan speed if you use decent headphone while gaming, otherwise the buzzing of the fan may annoy you. By the way the temperature is not a problem for your GPU. Any temperature under 85°C is acceptable but under 80°C is recommended.
Is 100% GPU usage bad?
You want to use 100% of your GPU while gaming. If you aren’t at 100% at some point while playing the game then you are either playing a much older game, using too low of graphics settings, or your CPU isn’t strong enough (you’re totally fine). It is completely normal for the GPU usage to bounce around during a game.
Should GPU fans always be running?
Newer graphics card’s fans do not spin until they reach a certain temperature. Unless you change the fan curve they will not turn on until said point. You can set a more aggressive speed and have them on all the time. Note though, that GPU fans are REALLY loud and if they are on all the time you will probably here it.
What temp does GPU fan turn on?
Start worry when they reach 90c range. And it is quite the norm to see gpu to include “0db” tech right now. Usually gpu with this tech will only start turn on the fan when temperature reach certain degree. Usually in the range of 55c-65c.
Is it normal for GPU fans to not spin?
Most Common Reason Why Your GPU Fans Aren’t Spinning Believe it or not, some graphics cards won’t spin until they hit a specific temperature. They come with a passive cooling mode that is designed to help them cut down on system noise. … You can also install MSI Afterburner and raise the speed of the fan(s) manually.


With new and updated development and housing policies in place or coming soon in North Saanich, some of the proposals waiting in the wings are stepping out into the spotlight.
Two significant development proposals in the community have requested permits this week to begin the rezoning process, planning and site preparation in advance of actual construction. The first is a 95-unit small lot residential development called Reay Creek Meadows along Canora and Rideau roads. The second is a three-apartment building complex with 54 units on McDonald Park Road. Both have been on the books at the District for some time, awaiting the completion of certain policies that would pave the way to proceed.
Those include the District’s new amenities contribution policy, which sets out fees per unit to be paid by developers to help offset their impact on existing services or infrastructure. Other changes in North Saanich since 2012 include the creation of multi-family and small lot development permit area definitions and more. Those are outlined in a draft staff report released this week on development application procedures. The report is scheduled to be debated at council’s committee of the whole session on Nov. 25.
It outlines the actions taken by staff on order from council to streamline the application process.
“The impact of this will be far-reaching,” said Councillor Craig Mearns.
He said he wants District committees and community groups to have some input on the report, including on the amount of money North Saanich charges for various development-related fees. Those range from $300 to apply for a temporary commercial or industrial land use permit, to $8,000 to apply for a major development permit for commercial, industrial, institutional or 10-plus residential units.
Dean Strongitharm of Strongitharm Consulting Ltd. outlined the Reay Creek Meadows proposal for council on Nov. 18. The area is 5.5 hectares (13.59 acres) and is located along Canora Road and bordered by Rideau Road to the south, the Pat Bay Highway to the west and the Town of Sidney to the north. Of the proposed 95 units, Strongitharm said up to 19 lots would qualify for carriage house construction, meeting the District’s stated policy on wanting more attainable housing for area families and workers.
The District’s new amenity fee policy would charge the project an estimated $9,605 per lot and the council later voted to add a notice to each lot stating there is an existing airport and flyway nearby.
Council has been split on development issues since the 2011 municipal election and debate on this project Monday night was no different.
“This is a significant development proposal for North Saanich,” said Councillor Elsie McMurphy, who with Mayor Alice Finall and Coun. Celia Stock form a minority on council opposed to what they call rapid growth.
McMurphy called for more public input on the plan as well as more debate on council’s current path on development policy work.
Finall added she considers the Reay Creek Meadows project a dramatic up-zoining that would change the character of the neighbourhood — something she insists is contrary to statements in the District’s Official Community Plan. She repeated a call as well for an affordable housing strategy to be created in North Saanich prior to proceeding with this, or any other housing development.
Coun. Ted Daly said the community and council has been aware of the Reay Creek Meadows plan since March and a committee of the whole discussion.
“The package back then was extensive,” he said, “and the recommendation at the time was to refer the proposal to the (advisory planning commission) and (environmental advisory commission) and that staff were to come back with their recommendations.”
Council did, however, add a requirement that the proponent of the project hold a community meeting to outline their plans.
Chief Administrative Officer Rob Buchan said there will be more time for the public and council to learn about the project before it actually begins, as staff have to continue negotiations with the developer over amenity fees and continue to formalize the draft bylaw changes.
Further, Buchan noted the draft bylaws have to go to the Capital Regional District and others for review. What’s more, he continued, the District has to finalize revisions to its Regional Growth Strategy and Regional Context Statement before this project — or any other — can proceed. This must happen before a required public hearing on the proposal at a future council meeting.
Council, in a variety of vote counts, approved all nine recommendations in the staff report.


Since its initial release in 1961, the Epiphone Casino has been the instrument of choice for guitar greats, including Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Keith Richards, Paul Weller and Dwight Yoakam.
This past week was a strong one for rock albums on the Billboard Top 10 chart. Leading the way were alt-rock veterans Incubus, who moved over 80,000 copies of their new album, If Not Now, When? to land at the No. 2 spot on the charts.


I have been a Reverse Loan Consultant for almost 17 years and until the last five or so of them, most articles that discussed reverse loans and media pieces were not only incorrect but very negative and certainly created the wrong impression and more than likely, turned off a number of seniors who could have benefited from using it to provide additional income.
However, we in the reverse loan industry have seen quite an “about face” in the last few years and more and more positive and encouraging articles and media news are promoting the benefits of the FHA HECM reverse loans to the public.
After taking a “beating” for too many years, each day seems to have another article or something on the news that not only is more often correct than it was in the past, but is seriously letting people know that a reverse loan is a good option to use in lieu of drawing down on a retirement fund.
In particular, the Boston College Center for Retirement Research has published a number of studies over the last few years, pointing out the reasons why seniors should not rule out using a reverse mortgage as part of their retirement plan.
And just recently they published a new report addressing the reasons why some seniors are resistant to the idea of using their equity in their home to sustain their lifestyle and to pay for any unplanned medical expenses and that their reasons are not “rational”.
I’m going to share a summary of their findings in the next few posts.


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SERBIAN tennis star Novak Djokovic has created a culinary storm by buying up his country's entire annual supply of donkey cheese.
Djokovic, who is set to open a chain of restaurants in his homeland, has cornered the donkey cheese market by buying up every ounce of the super-expensive delicacy.
Donkey cheese, which reportedly costs about $1000 per kilogram, is produced at only one farm in Serbia and is one of the world's most expensive foods.
Desperate to ensure his new chain doesn't run out, the world No.1 snapped up the lot, including any future product.
London's Daily Telegraph reports the cheese, known as pule, is made only from donkeys and it takes 25 litres of fresh donkey milk to make a single kilogram.
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A rental commercial kitchen that serves as a home base for local food businesses and as a venue used by community members/groups to host educational workshops, food events and pop up restaurants.
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