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- The Minnesota Department of Human Rights published the findings of its civil rights probe into the Minneapolis Police Department.
- It found that Minneapolis and its police department engaged in an unlawful pattern or practice of racial discrimination.
- The state's probe was launched days after George Floyd's killing at the hands of city police.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights on Wednesday published the findings of its civil rights probe into the Minneapolis Police Department following a roughly two-year investigation that was launched days after George Floyd's killing at the hands of city police.
The state agency found that the city of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in an unlawful pattern or practice of racial discrimination over the last decade.
Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero said at a press briefing that "this pattern of race-based policing is caused primarily by an organizational culture" involving "flawed training," "deficient" accountability systems, and a lack of action on the part of city and police leadership.
The agency said it will work with the city of Minneapolis to develop a consent decree to require changes within the police department.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights reviewed a massive amount of data dating back to 2010 from police stops, searches, arrests, use of force, policies, procedures, trainings, interviews, and ride-alongs in its probe.
The investigation found that MPD officers use higher rates of more severe force against Black individuals than white individuals in similar circumstances.
Police data showed that 63% of all use of force incidents that MPD officers recorded were against Black individuals, though Black people make up about 19% of the Minneapolis population, according to the agency's 72-page report.
"Officers are not held accountable because of ineffective accountability and oversight systems, which contribute to a pattern of discriminatory policing," the report says.
The investigation also found that MPD officers are more likely to stop vehicles with people of color and Indigenous individuals because of their race and that they treat Black and white individuals differently during traffic stops because of race.
The report says MPD officers "use covert social media to target Black leaders, Black organizations, and elected officials without a public safety objective."
"Some MPD officers and supervisors use racist, misogynistic, and disrespectful language," the report says, which adds that "officers are trained to be aggressive towards community members, escalating situations and often using inappropriate levels of force."
"According to body worn camera footage, discipline records, statements from community members, and interviews with MPD officers, some MPD officers and supervisors use racial slurs," the report says. "They call Black individuals [the N-word] and 'monkeys' and call Black women 'Black bitches.'"
Minneapolis cops have reported that their colleagues called fellow Black MPD officers a racial slur and "cattle," according to the report.
The report goes on to say that the police data it reviewed "demonstrates significant racial disparities with respect to officers' use of force, traffic stops, searches, citations, and arrests."
"This pattern or practice of race-based policing is caused by MPD's ineffective oversight and accountability structures and ineffective trainings that reinforce a culture that is averse to accountability and not supportive for officers," the report states.
The city of Minneapolis and its police department did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Insider on Wednesday.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights began its investigation into the police department on June 1, 2020 — a week after Floyd was killed by former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020.
Chauvin, who is white, was convicted of murder in the death of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, in June of last year and sentenced to 22 1/2 years behind bars.
The jury in the case found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter after they heard evidence that he kneeled on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed on the ground and pleading for his life.
The three other former Minneapolis officers who were with Chauvin when he killed Floyd were convicted on federal charges of violating Floyd's civil rights. They face a state trial in June.
Floyd's death sparked nationwide and global protests against police brutality and for racial justice.
A separate US Department of Justice investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department and the city, which was launched last April, is ongoing.

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Open all the doors to your car and cover as much of the interior as possible with the plastic tarp. Replace the fuse in the ACM or flip the ACM-mounted breaker where required. 6. Ensure that the wheels are straight and aligned. The TSM says to disconnect the battery before touching the seat, so that's what I did. Disabling airbag from the passenger seat is as important as from the front seats. Airbag Resistor Guide for VW MKIV R32 Resistors needed to defeat Airbag Warning Light when removing airbags for motorsport. Correct me if i'm wrong, but as long as you disconnect the wiring harness from the seat (assuming you are talking about the airbags in the seat of course) then there would be no signal to cause the seat airbag to go off. Finally, Disable the Airbag My seats do not have the airbag so I cannot definitively say whether you will have an issue with those. Now, leave the battery unattached for a few minutes so that all the charges drain out to avert any mishappening. 5. 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White Smoke From Exhaust: Main Causes and How to Fix, Top 6 Causes of Steering Wheel Hard to Turn and Solutions, Iwamotocho 3-10-7-7F, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan 101-0032. ...Don't mean to slam Lego, who has suffered enough, but this is a case where following directions pays dividends. 2 - you fudge the wiring harness between the car and the new seats that have airbags 3 - you connect the battery and turn the car over without connecting the wiring harness, in which case the car will think the airbags in the seats are non-operable, and will throw the appropriate airbag light [Modified by moclov, 6:06 PM 4-21-2003] So, get ready with your toolbox to disable the airbag now, as we are going to give you the best solution to do so. So, How to disable airbag system by yourself is what you might be looking for here. Airbags are designed to save lives, but these well-intended devices can cause serious injury or death under certain conditions. I didn't catch the labor rate, but probably like $75.00/hour. Tie the bag shut and dispose of it. The reason for removing the airbag could be anything like it could be some medical issues, difficulty to place the baby carrier, or any other possibility. The first step involved in the process of how to disable airbag system in your car is to cut off the power.
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Miley Cyrus Opens Up About Her Marriage
Cyrus and Hemsworth shocked fans last year when they split less than a year after getting married.
She told Rogan that it was tough to go through a very public divorce.
"I can't accept the villainizing, and just all those stories.
CNN reports she likened being in love with addiction and said she had difficulty ending the marriage

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Best Tour advices for ‘Mirror of the Sky’ – Chaka Salt Lake:
Name: Chaka Salt Lake
Chinese name: 茶卡盐湖
Location: South of Wulanchaka Town, Haixi, Qinghai Province
Climate type: plateau continental climate
Lake area: 105 km2
Lake altitude: 3100 m
Best viewing time: June to August
Chaka Salt Lake, which travelers call China’s ‘Mirror of the Sky’, was named one of the “55 places to Visit in your lifetime” by National Tourism Geographic magazine.
How could you get to Chaka Salt Lake?
There are three ways to get to Chaka Salt Lake
Carpool and charter are generally a walking trip. For instance, a 2-day tour of ‘Qinghai Lake and Chaka Salt Lake’ and a cycle tour of ‘Qinghai and Gansu provinces’ will take you to Chaka Salt Lake, which are general ways to travel.
The special train between Xining and Chaka Salt Lake will be open in July and August, lasting about 4 hours and running back and forth every day.
From Xining to Chaka Salt Lake: The train leaves at 8:30 in the morning and arrives at Chaka Salt Lake at 12:30 at noon.
From Chaka Salt Lake to Xining: It starts from Chaka Salt Lake at 16:30pm that day and arrives in Xining at 20:30pm.
There are 6 flights from Xining Passenger Transportation Center to Chaka Town every day. The ticket price is about 66 Chinese yuan and the journey time is about 6 hours. But the bus only goes to Chaka town, which is about 8 kms away from Chaka Salt Lake.
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Low speed wind tunnel model of Vulcan aircraft, unsigned, United Kingdom, 1950-1960.
Low speed wind tunnel model of Vulcan aircraft. This mahogany model has the bomb bay open and was used to assess the aerodynamic characteristics and stability of the Vulcan in this configuration. Built and used at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, UK. Built by A V Roe of Manchester between 1955 and 1964, the Vulcan, then known as the Avro 698, first flew on 30 August 1952. The plane, which only saw service with the Royal Air Force, was an important part of Britain's nuclear deterrent from the 1950s onward. It was phased out during 1984.
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At first glance it looks like any other page in a family-friendly, local newspaper.
But lurking within the adverts lining the letters page of the Pembrokeshire Herald, is a decidedly top-shelf offer.
For as well as a quality range of cars and vans, Enterprise-Rent-A-Car appears to be promising free pick-ups AND “cock sucking”.
The advert, published in the 19 July issue, has since gone viral but bosses at the newspaper are urging the police to investigate, believing it was deliberately sabotaged – “A number of adverts… had additional copy inserted into them after they had been proofed and signed off” said the editor.
Sounds like a disaffected ex-employee’s parting shot to me… or on the other hand, perhaps it is genuine – hard times demand drastic marketing strategies.
Either way, I’m impressed they managed to avoid any reference to sheep.


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Biodiversity and conservation of subterranean fauna of Portuguese karst. Ph.D. thesis, University of Aveiro
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This research is a contribution to the study of subterranean biodiversity in karst areas of Portugal, towards its conservation. The relative inaccessibility of the subterranean environment is a challenge for the study of its fauna, often accessible only in caves but more widely distributed. The subterranean animals are among the most rare, threatened and worldwide underprotected, often by the simple fact of being unknown. Karst areas of Portugal occupy a considerable part of the territory and harbor more than 2000 caves. The complex biogeographical history of the Iberian Peninsula allowed the survival of several relict arthropod refugees in the subterranean environment. Subterranean invertebrates have been ignored, as for as the protection of karst systems are concerned in Portugal, largely because knowledge was scarce and disorganized. Reviewing all the bibliographic sources about subterranean fauna from Portugal and listing troglobiont and stygobiont species and locations, was essential to understand the state of knowledge of species richness and the biogeography and conservation status for the studied areas. In order to understand subterranean biodiversity patterns in karst areas from Portugal, one year of intense fieldwork was performed in more than 40 caves from 14 karst units. Several new species for science were discovered and 7 taxa comprising 2 new genera and 5 new species were described. Bearing in mind that spatial distribution of subterranean species is crucial to ecological research and conservation, the distribution of hypogean species, from Portuguese karst areas, was mapped using geographic information systems. Also, its subterranean richness was compared with other areas of the world and missing species were estimated on a regional scale. The subterranean biodiversity patterns were analyzed, and several factors were tested to explain richness patterns. Evapotranspiration and the consequent high productivity on the surface may be determinant in the species richness in the different karst units of
Biologia, Grutas, Invertebrados, Biodiversidade
Reboleira, Ana Sofia P.S., "Biodiversity and conservation of subterranean fauna of Portuguese karst. Ph.D. thesis, University of Aveiro" (2012). KIP Articles. 617.


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The continuing spread of Covid-19 will only fuel the rise of more variants, US Food and Drug Administration Acting Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock said Monday.
“With so much virus replication going on in many parts of the world, it's like a giant petri dish. And so they're going to be spitting up variants all the time because there's so much virus replication,” Woodcock told Dr. Marc Siegel on SiriusXM’s Doctor Radio Reports.
“We just have to be on our guard," she added.
Woodcock said variants may easily evade some current antibody treatments like Eli Lilly’s bamlanivimab, but vaccines so far appear to protect well against variants. Monoclonal antibodies are lab-engineered immune system proteins that work against specific targets. Vaccines elicit a broad immune response.
“We've already seen that with the variants in the United States, with bamlanivimab, and that it's no longer effective against a number of the variants circulating in the United States,” Woocock said.
“This was expected with the monoclonals because they're just monoclonal, of course. And so they have an exquisite specificity and they're vulnerable to this type of shift. The vaccine is more robust because you're having a human response, a polyclonal response."
Woodcock said increased viral surveillance is important in understanding what needs to be done to combat variants.

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Many real cars were adapted from automobile designs from the series.
For the first quarter of the 20th century, the most influential automobile designs came from the Europeans.
As an observer of automobile design, I would like to add a few comments.
It was plagued with management troubles, high costs and lackluster automobile designs.
With his father he opened a bureau of automobile design, in Stuttgart in 1931.
In time, they obtained two contracts for automobile design.
Electrical engineering full courses were added in 1892, automobile design has been taught from 1899 onwards.
We were discouraged from even thinking about automobile design.
"Lighting is going to be the next big thing in automobile design," he said.
Students with a flair for automobile design from undergraduate courses join this club.


text: What is it? A luxurious resort on a private islet near Bora Bora's main island, Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa is a quintessential island paradise. Set in a South Pacific haven of soaring green mountains, swaying coconut palms and a shimmering turquoise lagoon, the resort has 122 suite-sized bungalows and a hilltop spa with incredible views. Transfers from Bora Bora's airport are by boat and guests are welcomed with flower leis at the resort's floating lobby. What's the decor like? There's no mistaking this is a luxury resort. But local materials such as carved kahia and coconut wood, roof thatching, tapa cloths pounded from breadfruit trees and chandeliers made from Tahitian black pearl shells give it a relaxed South Pacific feel. What's so special about it? The over-water-bungalow concept began in Bora Bora. And visiting Bora Bora without staying in one would be like skipping the Eiffel Tower on a trip to Paris. The Hilton Bora Bora Nui stands out among the island's luxury over-water bungalow resorts for building the first, and possibly only, two-storey over-water bungalows in French Polynesia. Opened last September, the presidential villas are 315 square metres of Polynesian luxury with three bedrooms, private plunge pools and sleek bathtubs (right), with views through floor-to-ceiling glass panels onto the lagoon. Each villa has a massage room, a sauna, an outdoor jacuzzi and a gazebo. How about the other rooms? If a presidential villa blows the budget, choose from a hillside, beachfront or over-water villa. All have elegant Italian marble bathrooms and separate living and bedroom areas. Over-water villas have glass-top coffee tables with glass-floor viewing panels straight into the lagoon; you can sit and watch the tropical fish swim by. What else is there to do? Slip on a snorkel, mask and flippers. Colourful coral gardens with a kaleidoscope of fish are only a few kicks away from the resort's main beach or villa pontoons. Schools of butterfly fish and parrot fish flit past. The snorkelling is out of this world and perfectly safe for beginners. Or you can pack a picnic and head off to a secluded spot on the beach. What about the spa? Besides a menu of blissful Tahitian massage treatments ministered by skilled therapists, the hilltop spa (above) has one of the best views on Bora Bora. For a real treat, book an outdoor massage at the 'one million dollar view' gazebo on top of the hill. What about food? Iriatai Panoramic Restaurant offers fine dining while the more relaxed Tamure Grill, with its sand floor, has a lighter menu. Or take a short boat trip to the main island for a meal at Bloody Mary's, a seafood restaurant with a sand floor and rustic timber furniture. You never know whom you might bump into as Bloody Mary's is a popular haunt among the international jet set - everyone from Bill Gates to Paris Hilton has eaten here. What's the bottom line? Lagoon view suites start from 50,000 French Pacific francs (HK$4,380) per night, while a presidential over-water villa (top) will cost you 400,000 francs. Full board (breakfast, two-course lunch and three-course dinner) costs 12,000 francs. Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa is at Vaitape, Bora Bora, French Polynesia, tel: 6 89 60 3300; www1.hilton.com.


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– exhibits a site specific installation at Färgfabriken during fall 2020.
Gylleboverket works with sitespecific installations, social sculpture, video, sound, performances, myths and rituals. The group has a core consisting of the artists Etta Säfve and Jona Elfdahl. They often collaborate with other artists and crossdisciplinary with people from different fields. For the exhibition at Färgfabriken they invited artist Shelly Shar to be part of the collective.
More information is coming soon.
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Färgfabriken Sep 19th to Nov 29th 2020
The exhibition with Gylleboverket is part of the ongoing investigating project Symbiosis.
The Swedish Transport Administration

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The Albany Times Union is the latest newspaper to call on the Electoral College to deny Donald Trump the presidency when it meets next week. "We do not ask this lightly. We realize that millions of people, including many of our readers, voted for Mr. Trump," the editors writes, "And we realize that passions are high and such a move by the Electoral College would further inflame them." That's putting it mildly. While it may be an argument from cowardice in some eyes to warn that violence is certain to result from such an action, it's also a pragmatic argument worth listening to by anyone who claims to value life. People will get killing mad over what they would take, understandably, as the ultimate proof that the system was rigged against "outsiders" after all. The TU claims that the electors have a constitutional right to vote for whomever they please -- though some states have made laws binding them to the winner of those states' popular votes -- but rather than cite the Constitution itself the editors refer to one of Alexander Hamilton's Federalist papers, in which our hip-hop Framer explains that the Electoral College is meant to guarantee that "the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” Hamilton's wishful thinking is typical of Founders' opinions before their document actually took effect, but the TU, I suspect, is taking the Constitution literally but not seriously. History tells us that from the very beginning, presidential electors were chosen with a conscious expectation of whom they, in turn, would chose for the presidency. And while things may have been different from what we expect now in those states and at those times when electors were chosen by legislators rather than the electorate, when the masses have had the franchise they have, I'm pretty sure, always expressed their preference for president rather than elector, with the implicit expectation that the effectively anonymous elector would echo their choice instead of making one of his own. While the Constitution does not say that electors can't vote for whomever they want -- the only original stipulation was that electors had to use one of their two votes on a candidate from a state other than their own -- nothing in it says that they can, much less should do so. It would not make sense to recommend that once any state held direct elections in which voters named presidential candidates rather than electors. It makes less sense to recommend it now based on what inevitably must be a subjective appraisal, with which many millions disagree, and thousands might fight over, of Donald Trump's fitness for the White House, more than a month into the traditional transition period.
The TU makes an ad hominem appeal to faithless electors supposedly authorized by Hamilton. The editors claim to be guided neither by ideology nor a desire to see Hillary Clinton become President. And to be fair, they more or less rule out the Clinton option by suggesting compromise Republican draftees who are certain to reject the proposed honor like a poisoned chalice or a bloodstained crown. They condemn Trump for his narcissism, his assumed conflicts of interest as a global businessman, his nebulous-seeming relations with Russia -- should we recognize this as the liberal answer to birtherism? -- , as well as "the bombast, the insults, the lies, the bigotry, the attacks on the free press" and so on. But ad hominem arguments are plentiful enough to be practically worthless, and can come from any quarter. You're sure to find people in this country who'd find any President-elect since Carter (except, perhaps, for the first Bush) personally or superficially unworthy of electoral votes. Anyone who is elected President is going to be disliked by millions of Americans. Any President-elect is going to inspire fear in his opponents -- and that probably applies even to the first Bush with his CIA history. But to the extent that fear follows from one side losing an election, both sides have to live with that fear, the winner tolerating it without feeling insulted and the loser swallowing enough of it to abide by the rules of our republic. Donald Trump won the presidency by the rules that have prevailed for more than 200 years. The only other time people rejected an election result this vehemently, the result was civil war. Of course, no newspaper editor today wants a civil war, and if we get one the editors will blame the other side. Nevertheless, there's something cowardly about this call, not just the hysterical fear of Trump that inspires it but also the constrained legalism of it all. For if Donald Trump is so self-evidently unfit for office that we should risk a terrorist civil in order to keep him out of the White House, why even leave him alive to rally the enemy forces. Given the likely consequences of overturning the election this way, how much worse would it have been for the Times Union simply to call for Trump's death? Either way, after all, someone is sure to die, so why not make sure the one you're really worried about goes first.


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Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia on July 7, 1887. He studied at the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1907-10. He moved to Paris in 1910 and had his first encounters with Cubism and Fauvism while in contact with Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay. He participated in the Salon des Indépendants and the salon d'Automne in 1912; his first solo show was held in Berlin in 1914. While visiting Russia, World War I broke out, so he was unable to return to Paris. While in Russia, he founded the Vitebsk Popular Art School and executed stage designs for the State Jewish Chamber Theater in Moscow. During World War II, Chagall fled to the US, and the Museum of Modern Art awarded him a retrospective in 1946. He returned to France in 1948 and would reside there until his death in 1985. During the time he resided in France, Chagall travelled extensively and was the subject of many major exhibitions across Europe and the US.
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The Use of Coptic Texts in Septuagint Research. July 22, 2010
Invited Lectures ; Melvin K. H. Peters ; This paper reviews the place of the so-called Daughter Versions (Tochterubersetzungen) in the textual study of the Septuagint. Based on over thirty years of work on Coptic, I discuss reasons why conventional approaches to text criticism fail to take the witness of the versions seriously enough. I suggest a more productive approach to the versions and their use in Septuagint studies and further in text criticism of the Hebrew Bible.

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Gallery 98 is for collectors and researchers alike. We specialize in announcement cards, posters, publications and other art ephemera from the 1960s - 1990s. For all inquiries: firstname.lastname@example.org
Announcement card for an exhibition by Laurie Simmons at Metro Pictures Gallery, October 19 – November 16, 1991.
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talking to very republican teenagers is so surreal
Moto Hagio, from her interview with Matt Thorn
Hagio-sensei has expressed succinctly something I have felt for a long time—if you, as a female writer, create a male character who is cool and iconoclastic, then it is cool writing, and a cool character. But if that character is a female, you are self-aggrandizing, self-inserting, self-this, self-that, essentially, in that state of cardinal sin society finds most repellent in a female artist—a narcissist.
I think this sentiment is the reason many female writers make the iconoclastic, sarcastic, cool, etc, character male, even if they want it to be female—they might be accused of self-inserting and self-aggrandizing, or creating a Mary Sue—note, again, a feminine name in a society that defaults to masculine modifiers unless specified otherwise.
- Smuts were known as lemons
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Numantia presents the patriotic story of collective sacrifice in the face of General Scipio's siege. It shows the collapse of the pre-Roman city of Numancia, in Spain, during the time when Genera Scipio Aemilianus built a huge wall around the city. This prevented the entrance of food or the citizens' escape, leading to the defeat of the Iberians by hunger.
Cervantes adds a slight love angle to the main political-military subject to increase the audience's interest. The most incredible thing about this tragedy is that there are no main characters. All Numantians act as one absolute power. Each character embodies a different aspect of life and comes from a separate class of society, but during War, all differences are forgotten, and everyone joins the hand.
Numantia has a historical value apart from its artistic merit. It was declared by some critics to be the first work of actual tragic power that appeared in Europe since the extinction of the Greek and Roman drama.
Tõlkija:James Young Gibson
Raamat Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Numantia" — laadige alla epub või lugege tasuta. Kirjutage kommentaare ja ülevaateid, hääletage oma lemmiku poolt.

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The Roane State Playmakers will hold auditions for “A Year with Frog and Toad” on Friday, Feb. 3, at 6 p.m. in the O’Brien theatre on the Roane County campus in Harriman.
Performers should be prepared to sing 16 bars of a lyrical, music-theatre-style song and to give a short monologue. An accompanist may be provided, but performers should plan to sing a cappella.
The production will require numerous performers and technical help. Anyone is welcome to audition, and no appointments are needed.
“A Year with Frog and Toad” is a musical that follows the woodland adventures of two amphibious friends — a worrywart toad and a perky frog — with their assorted colorful hopping, crawling and flying companions. This is a great show for kids.
Show times are March 22-24 at 7 p.m., March 25 at 2 p.m., March 29-31 at 7 p.m. and April 1 at 2 p.m.
For more information contact Michael Golebiewski at (865) 882-4711


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Last weekend I attended the yearly Forum conference of the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study. One breakout session was called, “What Happens to the Alchemist?’, facilitated by Sandra Christiensen, ARNP, Tanya Ruckstuhl, LICSW, and Gillian Vik LMHC. We participated in writing and art exercises exploring the response to collective trauma.
Tanya asked us to write a description of our perfect world. I had no idea my response would be so emotional. I had tears in my eyes as I wrote the following:
“In childhood the possibilities were limitless. Spirit reigned. Companions were filled with laughter and mischief.
I would have a world now that feels that way. A democracy that is real; social justice the primary value. Wealth used in service of this primary value, including imagination, art, nature, the new words carved on the base of the Statue of Liberty, She, Venus, our MS Liberty, welcoming not only our huddled masses yearning to be free, but our artists, our lovers of life.
Greed will be boring in my brave new world, banished to frogs who want more mantises in the night.
Humans will want light and community, with each other.
He would weep, I know this somehow, Carl Gustave Jung, holding a candle in the last year of his life. He saw a very dark vision for humanity—in a dream or a day vision.
Do I believe him? I have a granddaughter. She seeks joy. A future. Inside I flip back and forth, from despair to denial, “Oh even Trump can’t be so bad…”
Joy, where are you?”
The next part of our writing assignment was to take what we could from our Perfect World description and bring it into our lives now.
“Continue to make art, to love, to give. Call Pramilla (our representative in the US Congress) more often to tell her she’s doing a great job.
See, feel the beauty of the earth. See, feel, the gratitude for the wealth of my life: my family, friends, the amazing people in my psychotherapy practice, the Daphne blooming in the garden.”
Many of us in the workshop read our writing aloud, both The Perfect World, and the Alchemical distillation of it into the now. We left talking among ourselves, sharing what flowers we were planting in our gardens, what marches we were going to attend. There was a lightness, and, yes, a joy.
The ancient Alchemists practiced in secret, attempting with their art to transform lead into gold. We can take their example and strive each day to transform our worry, our grief as we witness so much trauma in the news, into the experience of the now. There we can find the gold of activism, and the resplendent wonder of nature in Spring.
Elizabeth, how lovely to see what you wrote during the workshop! Alchemy is hard work sometimes; it’s good to hear you working your way through this material. Thank you!


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Zuckerberg has lost 7 billion dollars as companies pull adds from Facebook. Catch the moment!
Asian equities ascend on China rebound
On Friday, Asian shares managed to gain, rebounding from nine-month minimums right after China softened foreign investment limits, although underlying sentiment was affected by concerns over trade frictions a week before initial American as well as Chinese duties were set to come into effect.
MSCI's index of Asia-Pacific equities jumped by nearly 1%, while Australian stocks didn’t change.
Additionally, Japan's Nikkei stock index declined by about 0.3%, South Korea's KOSPI headed south a bit.
Having dived to fresh two-year minimums on Thursday, Chinese equities bounced off on Friday. The given leap was driven by news that the Chinese government would soften foreign investment curbs on such sectors as cars, heavy industry, banking and agriculture.
On Thursday, China’s key financial institution told that it would do its best to maintain market liquidity rich enough.
The blue-chip CSI300 index managed to leap by approximately 1.5%, the Shanghai Composite index rallied by 1.1%. Nevertheless, this year the CSI300 and Shanghai Composite turned out to be the world's two top losing key indexes. Moreover, they’re set for their worst monthly outcome since January 2016.
The Hang Seng index tacked on by up to 1.2% in Hong Kong.
Notwithstanding Friday’s bump, market experts downplayed the influence of China's relaxing of investment limits on broader trade issues.
However, it might not be enough to relieve current tensions, with America calling for greater market access as well as fairer competition for foreign businesses.
Meanwhile, in the region, market participants were focused on worries as for global trade because the American ambassador to China told that the US government wasn’t assured that China is eager to make fast progress in resolving trade issues.
On Friday, the Chinese Yuan tumbled to 6.6441 against the evergreen buck, thus demonstrating its lowest value since November.
The market sentiment improved after the USA reported some decreasing in coronavirus hospitalizations. Gold dropped below $2 000 and the US dollar dipped down, while stocks surged. Let’s have a closer look.
The RBNZ will make the monetary policy statement on August 12 at 5:00 MT time!
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Roundup Nine DIY Jewelry, Accessories and Fashion Tutorials PART TWO. Roundup of this past week in case you missed anything. April 29th - May 5, 2012. *For past roundups go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/roundup
- DIY Gorgeous Maxi Skirt with Wide Waistband and Sash (mimi g.) here.
- DIY On Trend Cut Off Shorts with Rolled Up Cuffs (adventures in dressmaking) here.
- DIY Drinking Straw Geometric Jewelry (Creme de la Craft) here. via rainbowsandunicornscrafts
- DIY Dolce & Gabbana Multi Print Wedge Sandals (inspiration & realisation) here.
- DIY Knockoff Miu Miu Glitter Sunglasses (Stars for Streetlights) here.
- DIY Beginner Polymer Clay Coral Bracelet (Delighted Momma) here.
- DIY LEGO Bracelet (Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!) here. via rainbowsandunicornscrafts
- DIY Thread Wrapped Tribal Necklace (Boat People) here.
- DIY Macrame Bracelets with Charms (Honestly…WTF) here.

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This Japanese ramen is hot but at the same time you can feel the rich taste from the miso and tonkotsu broth.
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Liverpool have reportedly identified Red Bull Salzburg winger Takumi Minamino as a potential signing.
Either side of their Champions League meeting with the Austrian outfit earlier this week, Liverpool have been linked with both Erling Haaland and Dominik Szoboszlai.
However, according to Calciomercato, the European champions are also considering an approach for Minamino, who scored during the game at Anfield on Wednesday night.
The 24-year-old has netted six times in all competitions this season, taking his tally since moving to Salzburg in 2015 to 61 goals from 184 appearances in all competitions.
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Tigerrabbit is a collection of essays exploring the inner turmoil all too common of the immigrant experience, seen through author Hojung Lee's personal journey of acceptance as a Korean American. Lee stands unmasked before readers, each page painted with vulnerabilities both shocking and relatable. Within this book, readers will question:
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Although the War of 1812 is often called “America’s forgotten war,” it is also one of the most memorialized.
A panel of historians and one archaeologist convened at Miami University Hamilton on Tuesday night to discuss the varying perspectives on “the second war for independence.”
“The War of 1812 is difficult to put sense to because Americans understand the war in different ways than the Canadians, which is very different from the way the British understand it which is very different from the way the Native Americans understand it,” said Larry Nelson, editor of the journal Northwest Ohio History.
G. Michael Pratt, dean of the Miami University regional campuses who has done archaeological explorations of many War of 1812 battlefields, likened the War of 1812 to the current situation in the Middle East, particularly in regard to the conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians.
“You have culturally different people who over the course of 60 years of conflict have had killed members of each other’s family,” he said. “This makes it a very personal war and you have generation after generation of people engaging in really nasty combat.
“It was the last time in the Eastern United States and the Northwest Territories that you had resistance from the native people,” he said.
“Historians disagree on just about every aspect of the war,” Nelson said, “who won certain battles or even who won the war.”
Each side wanted something different, the panelists said. Americans claimed to have won the war because they accomplished what they set out to do. Canadians see the War of 1812 as a unifying event where they protected their homeland from “rapacious invaders from the south.”
The only clear loser, they maintained, were the Native Americans, who had their villages burned down “three times over,” according to George Michael Ironstack, assistant director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University. The war led to the forced removal of the Native American population in the region.
“By 1810, the population ratio of Euro-Americans to Native Americans was 7-to-1,” said David Curtis Skaggs, professor emeritus of Bowling Green State University. “The advantage was dramatically in favor of the Euro-Americans and this was a last-ditch stand for the Native Americans.”
Yet, in spite of the differing opinions and interpretations, the War of 1812 is memorialized in place names, including two state capitols, to an even greater extent than the American Revolution or World War II.
“There are more places named after Monroe than Washington,” Nelson said.
Andrew Cayton, distinguished professor of history at Miami University, was the moderator for the discussion.

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New Prime Minister Of Finland Begins Her Term
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The new prime minister of Finland began her term today. At age 34, she is now the youngest sitting prime minister in the world, and that got commentator and Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! panelist Maeve Higgins thinking.
MAEVE HIGGINS, BYLINE: No, I do not own a 3-year-old, so I haven't yet seen "Frozen 2," but I've been following a different story from another icy country far away, where a different young woman steps into her power to try and save the world from an eternal winter. That's today in Finland. Sanna Marin was sworn in as prime minister, making her the world's youngest. She is just 7 years old. Oh, sorry, no. She's 34. But still, isn't it extraordinary? And as far as I know, she doesn't even have cryokinetic powers, and she doesn't have an inexplicably cheerful snowman who's going to help her rule the land. I'd say she probably does have trolls, though.
But from my point of view, living in America, where we have never had a woman in the highest office and our current president is the oldest one we've ever elected, well, it seems impossible that we would ever get this chance. And Miss Marin's position in her society, it really does seem magical. She's now at the helm of Finland's coalition government, which is made up of five parties, four of which are led by women. And three of those women are under the age of 35.
Now, Miss Marin herself says that age is not important, and she's right. You know, I always say that, too. I'm 38 years old, and I'm constantly telling my 22-year-old boyfriend, age is not important. Now, don't look at my passport. Sanna Marin is not keen to talk about her age and her gender. She'd prefer to be identified by her actions - you know, just by her work. She's a Social Democrat. She's a left-leaning liberal, a former transport minister who wants to protect social welfare and to prevent further global climate chaos. Wow. That's what I think. I just think, my girl crush.
I also think, hang on. We do have young women raising their voices right here in America and stepping into their power, too. And people are listening. And these women, they're not princesses. They're not cartoons. They're very human. I'm talking about women like 30-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the Bronx and 45-year-old London Breed. She's San Francisco's first black woman mayor. And 12-year-old Mari Copeny is still actually a child, but she's been fighting for clean water in Flint for almost four years now.
So I watch them work, and I know that the power of young women is more than a fairy tale. It's already reality, and it's about time. What's happening in Finland is not magic. To make it real here, all you have to do is believe in it.
SHAPIRO: That's commentator Maeve Higgins. You can hear her as a panelist on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Ancient Chinese people may have used diamonds to polish their stone axes to mirrorlike finishes, according to a new analysis. Other than pushing back by several thousand years the date for the first known use of diamonds, the findings also suggest that Neolithic Chinese societies were more technologically advanced than previous studies had shown.
Some sections of the ax surfaces are almost as smooth as some silicon wafers used to make computer chips, says Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University. "Somehow, Stone Age people . . . were able to make something smooth enough that you could pattern a circuit on it," he says. In an attempt to discover how the polishing was done, Lu obtained four ceremonial burial axes from the tombs of two Neolithic

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My favorite albums and songs of the 70s. 70s blues, country, funk, glam rock, hard rock, heavy metal, pop, progressive rock, rock, soul, surf rock, and other genres of 70s music.
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Kiss - Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
This collection has many 70s and 80s songs by rock band Kiss. Some of my favorites are "Rock and Roll All Night", "(You Make Me) Rock Hard", "I Was Made for Loving You", "Beth", "Shout It Out Loud", and "Detroit Rock City".


Remains of Central Texas soldier who died in WWII identified, returned home
WEST, Texas (KWTX) - It was a homecoming almost 80 years in the making.
Lt. Louis Girard was killed fighting in World War II in 1943.
The 21-year-old from West lost his life while co-piloting a B-24 bomber over Romania.
He was buried in an unknown soldiers American cemetery in Italy, but his remains were finally identified two months ago.
They arrived to Dallas Friday afternoon.
A procession from the airport returned Girard home to West Friday night where his remaining family members, including a sister, were waiting at Aderhold Funeral Home.
Citizens lined the streets to welcome Girard home.
His funeral is scheduled for Saturday.
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Ordinary Toby faience toby jug produced by Desvres circa 1920 in a blue and white colorway. The Ordinary Toby is the original toby jug featuring a seated common man of the time wearing 18th century clothing and a tricorn hat. He is holding a jug of his favorite ale in his left hand resting it on his knee and drinking from a cup in his right hand. He is marked with intertwined initials.
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The Flying Garbanzosby Barney Saltzberg
Now in paperback, here's a birthday book with a twist, involving a circus family, a flying cake, and a guessing game that keeps readers wondering what baby Beanie will do!
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Findings Offer Insights into Role of Breastfeeding in Preventing Infant Death, HIV Infection in Resource Poor Countries
In many poor countries, mothers with HIV face a stark choice: to nurse their infants, and risk passing on HIV through their breast milk — or to formula feed, and deprive their infants of much of the natural immunity needed to protect against fatal diseases of early infancy. Now, two studies supported by the National Institutes of Health offer insights into preventing early death and HIV infection among breastfeeding infants of mothers with HIV in these countries.
The studies were published online in the New England Journal of Medicine and will appear in the publication’s print edition on July 10.
One study was supported in large part by NIH, with additional funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Agency for International Development. That study found no benefit for infants born to mothers with HIV from abrupt cessation of breastfeeding after the first four months of life. In addition, this study found no difference in HIV infection rates or in death rates by age 2 among infants abruptly weaned off all breast milk at four months versus those who breast fed until later in infancy. In fact, for one group of infants, those infected with HIV, abrupt cessation of breastfeeding resulted in an increased death rate.
The other study, co-sponsored by the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that it was possible to greatly reduce the risk of HIV infection in breast-feeding infants by treating them with an extended anti-HIV regimen. The treatment consisted of the anti HIV drug nevirapine, alone or in combination with the drug zidovudine, during the first 14 weeks of life.
"In poor countries where sanitation is a problem, exclusive breastfeeding appears to confer the greatest benefits to infant health and survival, even in mothers with HIV" said Duane Alexander, M.D., director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the NIH institute that provided much of the support for the two studies. "Extended treatment with nevirapine greatly reduces the chances that infants will be infected with HIV through breast milk. The National Institutes of Health is now sponsoring additional studies to determine the most effective treatments to prevent the spread of HIV through breast milk."
In the developed world, mothers with HIV forego breastfeeding and formula feed their infants, said Lynne Mofenson, M.D., Chief of NICHD’s Pediatric, Adolescent and Maternal AIDS Branch, and the project officer for the two studies. But in many poor countries, there are barriers to formula feeding. Sanitation is lacking, and clean water to mix formula is often not available. Many families have difficulty affording infant formula. They also have difficulty providing enough wood or charcoal for cooking fires to boil water needed for formula.
Formula fed infants also miss out on protective antibodies — passed on through breast milk — needed to ward off the deadly infant diseases prevalent in many parts of the world. Formula feeding, also, may carry a social stigma for mothers. The practice is often seen as a tacit acknowledgement that a woman has HIV.
"Formula feeding is a hardship in many poor countries," Dr. Mofenson said. "So the finding that it doesn’t confer any apparent benefits in resource poor settings — and may even be harmful — has important implications."
The first of the two studies was conducted by Louise Kuhn, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, and colleagues from the Boston University School of Public Health, University of Zambia, and other institutions.
The study was conducted in Lusaka, Zambia. The researchers enrolled 958 women with HIV and their infants. The women consented to be randomly assigned to one of two groups. In the first, or intervention, group, 481 women were counseled to exclusively breastfeed their infants for four months, not offering any formula or other liquids. The women were advised to stop all breastfeeding when their infants were four months old. The women were also provided with formula and instructed in how to safely prepare it. In the second, or control, group, the women were advised to continue breastfeeding for as long as they chose to. Infants were tested for HIV at birth, and then periodically throughout the study, until they were 24 months of age.
In the intervention group, 69 percent of infants had stopped breastfeeding by 5 months of age. Children in the control group stopped breastfeeding at a range of ages, between 5 and 24 months of age. Only 7 percent of children in the control group had stopped breastfeeding by 5 months of age and 66 percent were still breastfeeding at 12 months of age.
The researchers found no significant differences in survival between the two groups. In the intervention group, 76.1 percent had survived to 24 months of age, versus 75.4 percent in the control group. Among infants who were still breastfeeding and uninfected at 4 months, there was also no significant difference in HIV-free survival by 24 months (83.9 percent in the intervention group, versus 80.7 percent in the control group.)
Breastfeeding appeared to improve survival among infants who were infected with HIV. Children in the intervention group who were infected with HIV at or before 4 months of age and still alive at 4 months of age had higher death rates by 24 months than did their counterparts in the control group (73.6 percent versus 54.8 percent). Causes of death were predominantly diarrheal and respiratory diseases, but also included malaria, malnutrition, measles, and injury.
The researchers were surprised to find that the proportion of new HIV infections between 4 and 24 months were not significantly different between the two groups despite differences in the time breastfeeding was stopped: 6.2 percent in the intervention group and 8.8 percent in controls. The researchers theorized that the chances of transmitting the virus may increase as a result of the weaning process. The breast swelling and infection (mastitis) that occurs when breastfeeding is sharply reduced may increase the likelihood that the virus will be transmitted in the few feedings that remain.
The second study, conducted in Blantyre, Malawi, was led by Taha E. Taha, of The Johns Hopkins University and Newton Kumwenda, of the University of Malawi College of Medicine. Among the study’s other authors were Dr. Michael Thigpen, of the CDC, and Dr. Mofenson. In a study of 3,016 infants who did not have HIV at birth, the researchers compared two extended regimens of nevirapine (NVP) to the country’s standard treatment: a single dose of NVP given to the mother during labor and to the infant at birth, with daily doses of zidovudine (ZDV) given to the infant during the first week of life.
The infants were assigned at random to one of three groups. The control group received the standard treatment. The next group (the extended NVP group) received the standard treatment plus NVP from day 8 through the 14th week of life. The final group (the extended NVP+ZDV group) received the standard treatment plus NVP and ZDV from day 8 through 14 weeks.
When they were 9 months old, 10.6 percent of infants in the standard treatment group had acquired HIV. By comparison, 5.2 percent in the extended NVP group were infected and 6.4 percent in the extended NVP+ZDV group were infected, corresponding to a 51 percent and 40 percent decrease in HIV infection, respectively. The difference in HIV infection between the two extended treatment groups was not statistically significant.
Infants in the NVP+ZDV group were more likely than infants in the other groups to experience neutropenia, a deficiency of a certain type of an infection-fighting cell. People with neutropenia may be more susceptible to infection.
The study authors concluded that providing anti-HIV drugs to breastfeeding infants is a practical and effective way to reduce HIV infection. They noted that additional studies are needed to determine whether it was safe to provide anti-HIV drugs to infants for the duration of breastfeeding.
Dr. Mofenson said that one NIH-supported study, now in progress, was investigating whether anti HIV drugs could be safely given to breastfeeding infants for the first six months of life. Another NIH effort, now in the planning phase, will compare the effectiveness of infant nevirapine given to breastfeeding infants for the entire duration of breastfeeding, to the effectiveness of providing combination anti-HIV therapy to breastfeeding mothers.
The NICHD sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation. For more information, visit the Institute’s Web site at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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Drizzle Vibez finally releases his long awaited song which he titled Odoh after so much anticipation.
This is proir to the release of his records; Beamer, Go Low & Soul which is still currently buzzing on Audiomack.
The new release which he titled ”Odoh” is a mid-tempo sound, embedded with high-flavoured melody that you’ll definitely put on repeat.
Production credits goes to talented music producer, Yung Drixxy; who consigned a well structured beat for this song.
This is just a tip of an iceberg of what to expect from Drizzle’s hit reservoir.

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A recovery in the tether-yuan pairing suggests the Chinese market is slowly recovering from the country’s crypto trading ban in September.
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening this morning:
Market moves: Bitcoin remains around $57,000 a day before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday while tether’s discount to the Chinese yuan mostly recovers from the extended shock of China’s September crypto trading ban.
Technician’s take: Initial signs of downside exhaustion could stabilize the intermediate-term uptrend from July. Volatility expected to rise.
Bitcoin (BTC): $57,002 -1.1%
Ether (ETH): $4,250 -2.3%
Bitcoin spent most of Wednesday trading below $57,000 with low trading volume, as the U.S. enters the Thanksgiving holiday. Ether dropped below $4,300, a more than 2% decline.
Meanwhile, a recovery in the price for the USDT/CNY (tether/Chinese yuan) pair indicated the market in China is slowly recovering from the country’s September severe ban on crypto trading, according to the Hong Kong-based crypto financial service provider Babel Finance.
Babel Finance wrote in its weekly newsletter dated Nov. 22 that tether’s quoted prices in the yuan on the over-the-counter (OTC) market have recovered in the past week.
Under normal market conditions, the price of tether expressed in yuan should match that of the U.S. dollar’s exchange rate with the Asian currency, but tether has traded at a significant discount since China’s ban.
A recovery from this discount indicates that China’s crypto market has returned to normal from the ban, which could be good news for the markets due to China’s historical significance in crypto.
Bitcoin daily price chart (Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)
Bitcoin (BTC) is holding support above its 100-day moving average, which is currently at $53,700. The cryptocurrency was trading around $57,000 at press time and could see further upside toward the $60,000 resistance level over the short term.
The relative strength index (RSI) on the daily chart is almost oversold, similar to what occurred in late-July and September, which preceded near-50% price rallies. Still, buyers will need to break above the $60,000-$65,000 resistance zone in order to yield upside price targets.
Price momentum is slowing on the daily chart, although initial signs of downside exhaustion could stabilize the intermediate-term uptrend from July. Volatility will likely return into the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, which could lead to sharp price movements over the weekend.
1 p.m. HKT/SGT (5 a.m. UTC): Japan leading economic index (Sept.)
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Lido DAO price is following the rest of the market due to the regulatory events that transpired in the last few days. However, the DeFi token is generally unlikely to pursue the path set by any other cryptocurrencies, including the likes of Bitcoin. This might play in favor of LDO.
LINK holders opt to sell as Chainlink price falls by 9% in a week, new investors on the rise
Chainlink price, after following the broader market cues, is nearing a key support level that was last visited by the coin in January this year. This has discouraged LINK holders to the point where selling has become a preferred option. However, newer investors are countering this selling by accumulating, preventing a severe decline.
Optimism price could rally 50% as network upgrade inspires new wave of OP adoption
Optimism (OP) price appears to have found support after a new buyer congestion zone came into effect to prevent the free fall. Accordingly, the Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) token is trading horizontally, giving bulls time to accumulate OP at affordable rates.
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has issued an internal address to company staff, asking them to focus on work and developing products people can use. The internal memo comes after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed chat records between Binance employees in an attempt to support its case against the largest crypto exchange by trading volume.
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By Shawn Hendricks
NASHVILLE (BP) — Mike Huckabee says he won’t be seeking the title of “America’s pastor” if he decides to run for president in 2016. Instead, he would seek to be a servant leader who is both “salt and light” in today’s culture.
Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who ran for president in 2008, said he won’t make any political announcements until after the midterm elections. A busy speaker and the host of “Huckabee,” the Fox News channel talk show, he said his concern for the nation’s direction could be the deciding factor.
“I just feel like our country is in an extraordinary world of hurt right now,” the former pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, Ark., told Baptist Press during a phone interview Jan. 15.
“It seems like we have … taken the ropes from the boat and just drifted out into the middle of the ocean without any real course to where we’re going.”
Huckabee is no stranger to taking issue with the state of the country and the Obama administration’s policies. And he isn’t shy about jumping into the latest pop culture controversy when the mainstream media appears to beat up on conservative values. After Phil Robertson’s biblical — but less-than-graceful — comments about traditional marriage stirred up a media storm in December, Huckabee posted “I stand with Phil” on his Facebook page in behalf of the “Duck Dynasty” patriarch. Huckabee also publically defended Chick-fil-A in 2012 after Dan Cathy, the company’s president, took a stand for traditional marriage. Huckabee quickly declared a “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” that drew thousands to the company’s restaurants across the country.
The values the United States was founded upon are worth fighting for, Huckabee said, and Christians must let their voices be heard through elections. While some conservative Christians may believe the country has forever lost its moral compass, Huckabee remains optimistic.
“We have to remind ourselves who we are as Americans, that we are a resilient country,” he said. “We were not designed — which I believe it was providential in nature that we came into being — that we would just have a limited shelf life and disappear from the pages of history.”
The American people must be willing to stand up for religious liberty, Huckabee said.
“The government’s job is not to say you can’t have a nativity scene, you can’t sing a Christmas carol, you can’t wear colors of red and green at Christmastime,” he said. “It’s the exact opposite. The government is prohibited from getting involved at all, making any decisions. It’s the role of citizens to express themselves if their expression infringed upon someone else.”
For instance, people should have the freedom to support the biblical definition of marriage without being ostracized in the court of public opinion, Huckabee said.
“This notion that we’ve got to shut people down, whether it’s Duck Dynasty or Chick-fil-A, and they can’t say that because it might offend somebody, well, life is about being offended,” he said. “If we say we don’t want to hear those voices, then I’m not sure what we’ve done other than turn the First Amendment on its head.”
The military is another battleground for religious freedom, Huckabee said.
“We’re having chaplains told, ‘Put your Bibles out of sight, don’t give one away, don’t pray in Jesus’ name,'” he said. “That’s unconscionable.”
Huckabee encouraged evangelical Christians to continue fighting for their values through the ballot box. Some studies show only about half of professing Christians are registered to vote. Of that number, only about half of them cast ballots on Election Day.
“I always remind Christians Jesus said we’re the salt of the earth and the light of the world,” Huckabee said. “He never said the putrefaction process of culture was the fault of the secularists; it’s the fault of the salt that ceases to be salt.
“If there is darkness and confusion and people stumbling around,” he added, “it’s not the fault of the people who are the spirits of darkness. It’s the fault of the people who keep their lights off.”
Huckabee, who decided not to run for president in 2012, acknowledged that a presidential campaign would be grueling. If he runs, he said he would work to take a servant leader approach to the campaign trail and to the position if elected.
“We’re not a government that is built on the idea that people are elected to be elevated,” he said. “They’re elected to serve and that to me is a very serious thing. … It would mean that you understand that your job is not to get what you want but it’s to serve the best interest of the public at large — and it’s to do it in total concert with the Constitution.”
Ultimately, both sides of Congress will need to work together in order for true progress to happen. Huckabee acknowledged it’s a challenge he knew all too well while serving as a Republican governor of Arkansas.
Throughout his political career, conservative Christians have often praised Huckabee for his stances on social issues ñ- such as abortion and traditional marriage. He also has taken his fair share of criticism for some of his economic decisions as governor, with some accusing him of supporting a tax-and-spend approach to politics. Some of that criticism has come from his party.
During the Jan. 11-12 weekend on his talk show, Huckabee focused on Republicans getting along and putting their differences aside for the good of the party.
Huckabee asked Andy Roth, executive vice president for Club for Growth — one of the groups critical of some of his policies — if the organization could ever endorse a candidate who didn’t meet at least 90 percent of the organization’s requirements.
“The Club for Growth is not an organization that backs all Republicans in all elections just because we want a Republican majority,” Roth said. “We want a conservative majority. If we believe that the candidate running in the general election will fight for conservative values, yes, we’ll support them over the Democrat. If we don’t believe that they will, then we won’t.”
While the two were unable to see a solution for how both sides can come together, both agreed to meet again to “relitigate” the issues.
“I’ll never make everyone happy,” Huckabee said later. “No one will.
“I just know from having governed … that’s not realistic,” he said. “I mean even … when I had a piece of legislation that everybody liked, you always had legislators who want to bring their own spin to the kitchen and stir it up a little bit. That’s part of the process.”
Shawn Hendricks is managing editor of Baptist Press. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


Listen to the gorgeous “Sarina’s Dream,” one of the songs on the CD Get Up and Fly, which was produced and engineered by Bruce Dalzell for Passion Works Studio in Athens, Ohio.
The lyrics, composed by Sarina Winner with Jennifer Lovsey, were set to music by the amazing Laura Nadeau, who recorded the song with John “Catfish” Juliano, Dave Baer, and Tony Houston.
Get Up and Fly was followed by My Little Pancake Button. Both of the CDs were labors of love involving artists and poets with developmental disabilities, students at Hocking College under the direction of professor Deni Naffziger, and songwriters and musicians from Athens. The results of their collaboration will shake you up and make you happy.


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Senator John Enoh, the Minister of Sports Development in Nigeria, has commended Afriking Homes for assuming responsibility for rehabilitating a training pitch at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja.
The move was part of the Ministry of Sports’ Adopt-A-Pitch initiative.
In a ceremony held on the 30th of November, 2023, Afriking Homes proudly handed over the rejuvenated pitch, marking a pivotal moment for Nigerian athletes.
Expressing his delight at this commendable effort, Senator Enoh highlighted the importance of private sector involvement in sports development.
He encouraged corporate entities to join hands with the Ministry of Sports, emphasizing that the government has safeguarded all interests through the National Sports Industry Policy, which perceives sports as a viable business avenue.
”I encourage corporate bodies and the private sector to participate in sports development through collaborations with the Ministry of Sports.
”As a government, we have all interests protected with the National Sports Industry Policy, which sees sports as business,” he stated.
The rejuvenated pitch’s inauguration also coincided with a remarkable feat achieved by the Nigerian female national football team, the Super Falcons.
The minister hailed the female players, noting that they exhibited exceptional prowess by securing a resounding victory, triumphing over Cape Verde with a stellar 5-0 win.


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Lisa Mitchell, a black transgender woman who has been in the Dane County Jail since May, was released Friday after community mobilization on her behalf.
On Wednesday, the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, Freedom Inc. and Operation Welcome Home delivered a petition with more than 500 signatures to the office of attorney Cynthia Stoppel at the state Department of Administration offices and to Mitchell’s parole officer, urging her release.
Mitchell, whose legal name is Roy Mitchell, was found guilty in November of theft, resisting or obstructing an officer and prostitution, all misdemeanors. She was sentenced to nine months in jail.
On Friday, she was released after being given a time-served sentence, according to the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition.
“I’m just ready to go home,” Mitchell said Friday, ahead of her release.
Mitchell has been in and out of jail and prison for years, mostly for theft. After a stint in the Dane County Jail in 2006, Mitchell filed a lawsuit against officials there claiming discrimination and harassment by jail officials and fellow inmates.
The parties reached a settlement in the case and it was closed Oct. 5, according to court records. Mitchell said she can’t talk about details of the settlement as part of the agreement.
In preparation for her release, Mitchell said she’s been working with women’s center Project RESPECT, which is helping her get an apartment and set her up with a social worker.
“Once I get out, I have some stability with that,” she said.
The Young, Gifted and Black Coalition lauded her release Friday as “a huge victory.”


A classic archetype of youth subculture, the Valley Girl–a gum-popping, mall-shopping teenl from the LA suburbs–both embodies its moment in time (the materialism and anti-intellectualism of 1980s America) and reverberates in our own. (The markers of her “Valleyspeak”–vocal fry and the liberal use of “like”–have left an indelible mark on American speech.) Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl, both fizzy and well-observed, is similarly a vivid interpretation of its era and a refreshingly lasting representation of the joys and pangs of adolescence.
A romcom laced with drama, Valley Girl is a droll riff on Romeo and Juliet. The star-crossed lovers are Julie, the titular Valley Girl, and Randy, a rough-around-the-edges, New Wave-ish rebel from Hollywood Hills. Randy crashes a Valley party, sparks fly, and the two begin a whirlwind romance. Their love is eventually threatened by the teen equivalent of a bloodthirsty medieval clan: Julie’s clique of popular friends, who want her to ditch Randy and get back together with her ex Tommy, a preppy lunk with a wardrobe full of striped polos and a sense of entitlement to match. In the final third of the film, Randy strives to win Julie over with an escalating series of loopy romantic gestures, and all ends well in a satisfying drama-at-the-prom sequence.
It all rests on Deborah Foreman’s performance as Julie. Her ditzy surfaces never really conceal a dazzling luminosity and a surprising sobriety. If she doesn’t quite have the fervor of a theatrical tragic heroine, she’s got something more interesting: a profound and genuine curiosity. She starts off already wondering what lies beyond her candy-colored world: between her genial smiles you see her eyes constantly on the move, as if the something good that’s coming for her is hovering just out of sight. Her blazing loveliness is matched by a pensive, inquisitive quality. When she’s falling for Randy, it’s not just about moony-eyed attraction; she has a genuine desire to understand him and his world. As she gradually succumbs to peer pressure, she shades in all the nuances of growing discomfort and distress that comes from trying to make big decisions when you’re not really sure who you are yet.
As Randy, a heartbreakingly young Nicolas Cage seems not fully in control of his intensity, but Coolidge knows what to do with that mercurial charisma. As he reels between brooding, dopey and sheepish, he matches the film’s shifting tones and encompasses the volatility of adolescent moods. After he’s jilted, Randy is the more ardent and sympathetic lover, but Valley Girl never entirely sugarcoats the realities of teen relationships, and there are powerful moments when we’re reminded that boys can be scary when they’re angry.
The chemistry that ignites between Foreman and Cage is something more than what springs from the anodyne meet-cutes typical of rom-coms. It’s here where the Shakespearean source is most evident and most successful; what happens is not puppy love, but passion, with all its unruly force and its power to completely upend your sense of self, and even of reality. There is making out here that is hotter than many sanitized sex scenes in movies made for adults.
This is not to say that the film takes itself too seriously. Julie and Randy’s budding romance is shown mostly in a bubbly montage, a pop fantasia set to Modern English’s “I Melt With You.” The film parodies without diluting pleasure, and there’s a distinct allure to the candy-colored world of the Valley, with its gleaming surfaces and its exuberant fashion. (A particularly brilliant touch is the ruffled blouse Julie wears to the party where she meets Randy, which suggests the Renaissance while still being twee in an 80s way.) The final prom scene is a feat of production design–a girl’s dream in a symphony of pink and lilacs. While it’s not terribly believable that a bunch of preps would have Josie Cotton performing her cult classic New Wave song “Johnny Are You Queer?” at their high school dance, it’s an undeniable bop and a kind of brilliant ironizing of the hyper-heteronormative world of not just the Valley, but the ‘80s teen comedy itself.
Valley Girl still has legs because it knows what it’s supposed to be, yet always manages to be something more. It hits all the teen flick beats: there’s a big party scene with lots of romantic drama, but it shows the kind of casual coercion with which boys often lead girls into hookups. There’s got to be a sleepover scene with scantily-clad girls, but while in their leopard-print panties, they make casual endorsements of bulimia that will be darkly familiar to veterans of real-life sleepovers. In capturing both the fluffy fun and roiling turmoil of adolescence, Valley Girl provides a sugar rush of ‘80s nostalgia while giving us something more to sink our teeth into.
“Valley Girl” is currently streaming on Showtime and Kanopy.


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Study: Twitter Could Help Predict Asthma-Related ED Patient Volume
April 17, 2015 in News
For the study, researchers processed air quality data from sensors near a large Dallas hospital. They collected several million tweets and used text-mining to find tweets from the ZIP codes that are home to the hospital’s patient population. The tweets contained terms such as:
- Inhaler; and
The researchers also analyzed Google searches related to asthma in the area.
The researchers found that they could estimate the hospital’s daily volume of asthma-related ED visits with 75% accuracy.
The data suggested that asthma-related ED visits increased when:
- Air quality worsened; and
- The number of asthma-related tweets increased.
The researchers found no meaningful relationship between the asthma-related Google searches and ED visits (Budryk, FierceHealthcare, 4/16).
The authors noted that they are working to expand their research to see if their preliminary findings hold when used with larger datasets, different seasons and multiple hospitals (Ram et al., IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 4/14).


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The distinctive red and grey gondolas of Whistler's Peak2Peak offer awe-inspiring views of the surrounding mountains and landscape.
Whistler's Peak 2 Peak Gondola is one of the resorts newest attractions. Completed in 2008 (after a year and a half of construction), this unusual gondola holds three World Records: Longest unsupported span (3.024km / 1.88mi), Highest Vertical Point (436m/1,427ft) and Longest Continuous Lift System (4,999m/16,401ft.).
The first of its kind in North America, the Peak 2 Peak offers visitors to the resort an unprecedented ability to move quickly from mountain to mountain the twenty-eight gondola's fitting 28 people inside for the unsupported journey across the valley that divides Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain with stunning unparallelled panoramic views.
The Gondola from departure to destination takes around eleven minutes to make the journey. Riding over two support structures, the gondola then makes its downward decent through the valley with views of the valley, surrounding mountains and Fitzsimmon's Creek below. Two of the twenty eight gondolas have glass floors adding an extra element of excitement to the journey.
Open for most of the year, the Peak 2 Peak offers visitors access to both mountains for skiing, snowboarding, hiking and biking experiences in the winter, summer and early fall.
Use the interactive map below to locate and explore the areas around Peak2Peak WhistlerThe Peak 2 Peak Gondola stretches from the top of Whistler Mountain to the Top of Blackcomb Mountain and is only accessible from these points.
Click the brown GEMS on the map to navigate to the other activities within this region

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