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JUST SAY YAS; EXCLUSIVE: Celeb fans tip Scots DJ Yasmin as the next big chart star.
SHE IS the first big breakthrough star of 2011 and counts Pharrell Williams, Taio Cruz, Will.I.Am and Eve as friends.
But gorgeous DJ-turned-singer Yasmin reckons she owes it all to learning her trade in Scots clubs for next to no cash rather than living it up on London's glitzy party circuit.
The stunning 22-year-old, from Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, made her name playing hip hop and R&B in Glasgow clubs such as Kushion and The Tunnel.
Now she is being launched as a pop star with spectacular debut single On My Own, a thrillingly effective tune combining the best of 90s pop and dance with her sensational voice.
Yasmin told Email: "I started DJ-ing in Glasgow when I was 17.
"There is not much opportunity up in Scotland but I would never be the person I am if I had not started there.
"Because of being there I was not fazed by the flashy London business - champagne, footballers and models.
"I just wasn't interested and just wanted to DJ. I honed my passion for music up there, it wasn't glam and there was hardly any money - I'd play six hours for pounds 50. You did it because you loved it but here a lot of people get into it because they want that lifestyle."
When she moved south, Yasmin quickly established herself and won celebrity fans such as Pharrell.
She has now played private parties and tour support shows for Pharrell, Taio, Will and Eve, among many others.
But she's set to notch up a huge hit in her own right when On My Own is released on January 31.
And she admits it was encouragement from the NERD and Neptunes man that gave her the confidence to launch a solo career.
She said: "I always wrote songs but there wasn't much of a scene for the music I was into - the hip hop and urban stuff. "Then I moved to London and ended up making a little bit of a name for myself and meeting people like Pharrell.
"I mentioned to a few of these guys that I write music, played some to them and they told me I had something.
"Of course seeing these people spurred me on.
"Being in London makes everything so much closer. I could see in front of me where I wanted to be. It really gives you drive and ambition as you can see the goal."
Yasmin has already starred on one big hit - she sang the chorus of Devlin's Runaway.
She said: "I know the producers Devlin was working with so dropped in to say hi and he was there. They played me a few verses he had recorded and I had an idea so I jumped in the booth and luckily they all liked it."
While Yasmin comes from an urban background, her own music can't be slotted neatly into that genre - or any other.
The first single sounds like 90s dance stars Way Out West, Hybrid and Massive Attack... and she's delighted with those comparisons.
She said: "I'm influenced by the 90s, from Massive Attack to Madonna to All Saints.
"It was a really cool time, with a lot of mood and vibe in the music. Recently a lot of music is very samey. It's nice to be able to go back to a mood and a groove."
Fan club: Pharrell, Will.i.am and Eve Decks appeal: Yasmin made her name as a teenage DJ

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Bryan Bowen is a principal architect at Caddis, a 14 year old Boulder architecture firm. Caddis serves clients in the design of innovative communities, ski resorts, cohousing, single family homes, net-zero homes and communities, affordable housing, and mixed-use/commercial projects, while preserving our humanscale, more whimsical work. Bryan sits on the City of Boulder’s Planning Board and the City’s Design Advisory Board, and spent a year as the ex-officio representative of Planning Board to the Landmarks Board. He has also taught green building at Naropa University and has founded a combined for/non-profit building sustainable communities in South Africa. Bryan lives in Wild Sage Cohousing, in the Holiday Neighborhood.


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PALEOCOMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN CRETACEOUS METHANE SEEPS: COMPARING NORTH AMERICAN EPEIRIC SEA COMMUNITIES TO THOSE BORDERING THE GLOBAL OCEAN
Methane seeps in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (WIS) occurred in relatively shallow and low circulation oceanographic conditions not typical for modern or other fossil methane seeps. This project compares methane seep paleocommunities within the WIS to contemporaneous methane seeps at continental shelf depths in the eastern Pacific based on the ecological roles represented in fossil assemblages. WIS seeps occur at estimated paleobathymetric depths of less than 200 meters and are most abundant in the upper Cretaceous, whereas eastern Pacific seeps are found at estimated depths of 200 to 500 meters and are most abundant in the lower and middle Cretaceous. Faunal composition is classified using a 3D ecospace matrix to identify modes of life present in seep paleocommunities and test for significant differences between regions. Preliminary results using a MANOVA test show a statistically significant difference in ecospace composition between WIS and eastern Pacific seeps. In addition, there is an observable difference in the most abundant modes of life found at WIS seeps and eastern Pacific seeps. The most abundant modes of life in WIS seeps are shallow infaunal suspension feeding or chemosymbiotic, represented by bivalves such as Nymphalucina, and free-swimming ammonites which are either suspension feeding or predatory. The most abundant modes of life for eastern Pacific seeps are epifaunal grazers and suspension feeders, represented by gastropods such as Hokkaidoconcha. Further analysis will use the fossil food web model Cascading Extinctions on Graphs (CEG) to integrate seep faunas within the wider ecosystem of their biogeographic region and compare vulnerability to secondary extinction. The results of this study will indicate whether WIS seep paleocommunities are distinct from broadly contemporaneous oceanic seeps in the adjacent region of the global ocean.

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Amgen Inc. and Genentech Inc., the biotechnology industry's toptwo companies, reported increased earnings for the third quarterwith Genentech's net income more than doubling from a year ago.Amgen Inc., of Thousand Oaks, Calif., reported an 11 percentearnings jump over the third quarter of 1993, from $103 million, or72 cents a share, to $114 million, or 82 cents a share, in the thirdquarter ending Sept. 30.South San Francisco-based Genentech's net income reached $33.6million, or 28 cents a share, for the third quarter, compared with$15.5 million, or 13 cents per share in the same quarter of 1993.Meg Malloy, an analyst with Needham & Co. Inc. in New York,said Genentech's performance was slightly better than expected.She estimated 26 cents a share."Sales and expenses were lighter than expected," Malloy said.Revenues from Activase for heart attacks were down comparedwith sales in the first two quarters of this year. Pulmozyme sales forcystic fibrosis also were lower than expected, she added. "Overallthe result was fine," she observed.Genentech reported sales of $193.8 million for the third quartercompared with $165.4 million in the third quarter of 1993, a 17percent increase.Robert Faulkner, an analyst with S.G. Warburg & Co. Inc., saidGenentech's earnings were slightly higher than anticipated becausethe company "kept the lid" on expenses, such as research anddevelopment and overhead."They were disciplined in their expenditures and they're good atthat," he said.However, the sales performance of Pulmozyme has caused Faulknerto cut his 1995 earnings estimate from $1.50 to $1.35 per share forGenentech."We thought sales would be higher for this new product in a fairlypoorly treated disease," he said. "It did well in its first year, but lessthan expected."Faulkner added that there are concerns about how Genentech willbe affected by recent negative publicity surrounding its growthhormone marketing practices.A top Genentech executive was indicted for alleged violations ofMedicare anti-kickback laws involving Protropin. And the companywas criticized for funding a height and weight screening program inpublic schools as a way to promote growth hormone sales.Genentech has suspended its financial support of the program.Faulkner said the bad publicity could result in loss of growthhormone sales to the company's competitor, Eli Lilly & Co., ofIndianapolis.As for the "Roche factor," Malloy said she would not predictwhether Switzerland-based Roche Holding Ltd. will exercise itsbuyout option or not by June 30, 1995. Roche owns 65 percent ofGenentech and has the option of purchasing the remainder of thecompany for $60 a share. If Roche doesn't exercise the option,Malloy said, "I think Genentech's shares could exceed $60."The company's stock (NYSE:GNE) closed Thursday at $51.37,down 62 cents.Amgen's reported revenues for the third quarter were $426 million,an increase of 20 percent over sales of $355 million for the sameperiod in 1993.Faulkner said the company's earnings for the quarter were 6 centshigher than he estimated. He cited stronger than expected sales ofEpogen and Neupogen as two reasons for the better than expectedearnings performance. A third factor was low costs for goods.He estimated earnings for the fourth quarter at 89 cents. Amgen'sgrowth potential, he added, now depends on whether its existingsales can support the company as it moves toward marketingproducts that are in advanced stages of development.Amgen's stock (NASDAQ:AMGN) closed Thursday at $58.75, up75 cents. n
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The Tomorrow-Tamer by Margaret Laurence, 1963
by Margaret Laurence, 1963
"The Tomorrow-Tamer," the title story for Margaret Laurence's West African collection of 1963, was written in Vancouver, British Columbia, published in Prism International in the fall of 1961, and awarded the President's Medal of Excellence from the University of Western Ontario for the year's best Canadian short story. The germ for the story came from Laurence's encounter with an African bridge worker on the Volta River in Gold Coast (now Ghana), who a few days after she had met him died in a fall from the top of the bridge. She thought about the accident for many years and rewrote the story 10 times. It became for her a symbol for the clash between two different cultures, the misunderstanding and human cost occasioned by the clash, and the insights gained and adjustments made.
The Tomorrow-Tamer stories, as well as Laurence's novel This Side Jordan, are set in a time of transition from colonial rule to independent nationhood, a time when racial, religious, cultural, political, economic, technological, and other tensions between the colonizers and the colonized were highlighted. As an outsider from both the African and the European communities, Laurence could see the vested interests, the strengths, and the limitations of both sides, and she had her perspectives clarified and contextualized by her reading in 1960 of Octave Mannoni's Prospero and Caliban: A Study of the Psychology of Colonization.
"The Tomorrow-Tamer" deals with the effects on a traditional African village of the building of a bridge. There previously had been only a ferry crossing a half mile downriver. Laurence's cultural and artistic sensitivity in communicating details gives the story its power.
Central to the story is Owura, the god, or spirit, of the river and its sacred grove, from whom the village Owurasu and its people take not just their name but also their overall identity and on whom they "model their behaviour." Theirs is an animistic world, one in which river and forest are spiritually alive and in which the building of a bridge is seen as the coming of a "new being" that disturbs the old divinities. This is a world in which "everywhere spirit acted on spirit, not axe upon wood … nor man upon steel." The question is how the new being, the bridge, is to be fitted into the hierarchy of the traditional gods and the worldview of the villagers. Their answer at the story's end is that, through the sacrifice of Kofi, whom they regard as the priest of the bridge, the structure acknowledges the river god's primacy. The irony is that their conclusion, like the very different one of the English construction superintendent, is based on their limited understanding of Kofi and his motivation. Further, by contrasting the remaking of Kofi's life into a legend with the view his mother and young wife have of him, Laurence subtly undermines any simple answers.
As the foregoing suggests, Kofi is the main character through whom the process of cultural adjustment is portrayed. Initially "no one in particular," the teenager gains the status of a village man over the course of the year or so of the story. He is the first villager to work on the bridge, he marries, and he is recognized by the villagers as the spokesman for his generation. At the same time, however, his perspectives on the village and the bridge change. He develops new loyalties to the bridge and to the bridge workers. In both instances, although he has moved away from certain values and perspectives, even further than his family realizes, his evolving assumptions are still bound to his culture. Dismayed to learn that the bridge workers, with whom he identifies, are itinerant and thus lack the rootedness in community that is so intrinsic to his culture, Kofi at one point resolves to tend the bridge after the others leave, to be its priest. But he later learns that the bridge does not need a priest, and he asks in vain of his friend, ironically named Emmanuel, "What will I do now?" Kofi's answer comes in the story's penultimate scene. On the top beam of the completed bridge, he glimpses "other villages" and "the new road" connecting them that will soon reach through the forest to his own village. In a flash of insight he realizes that it is a road that "would string both village and bridge as a single bead on its giant thread." Exultant at this vision of connectedness and at the accompanying realization that bridge workers could be separate but linked together with their "brothers" in other villages and on other bridges, he understands that his vision of community is too narrow, that other people can have different but meaningful beliefs and perspectives.
In this sense the bridge serves as a symbolic means of crossing a cultural gap, of relating to another perspective, and the new road represents both a coherent outside world and the oncoming future. Rather than simply symbolizing cultural division, the river becomes something that can be crossed. Similarly, Kofi is the cultural bridge worker who, though he dies because he does not yet fully understand the way to survive in the intercultural world, brings different cultures together. His death, which results from his looking directly at the sun, something no regular bridge worker would do, serves as a means for the villagers to reconcile the old and new worlds. In this regard Kofi truly serves as the tamer of tomorrow for his people, the one who converts the future from something threatening into something less dangerous, more understandable.
The rest of the story can also be seen in symbolic terms. In the second paragraph the young Kofi runs "past"—with the word repeated six times—the sacred grove, the shrine, the graves, the old huts, the old men, and even the good huts. The suggestion is that Africa cannot stand still, that the traditional past must be left behind and replaced by a changing future. The paragraphs describing the "Hail Mary Chop-Bar & General Merchant" shop and the delivery truck "God Helps Those" convey the intermingling of old and new religions. When the bulldozers destroy the sacred grove, they reenact the destruction of African tradition and religion as engineered by western European nations, an onslaught with technological and economic as well as religious, racial, cultural, and political dimensions. The disruption of village families by culturally different blacks from coast, city, and desert portrays the difficul-ties of impending independence in a tribally divided nation. In such ways Laurence's story is both sensitive and prescient.
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For the second time 12 chefs from prestigious hotels and restaurants were creating gourmet mediterranean tapas “baja style” with local ingredients.
Either meat or seafood, together with organic fruits and vegetables from the region.
One&Only Palmilla was represented by sushi chef Yoshiaki Akaike and by Rodrigo Bueno from agua restaurant, who won the contest.
Being one of the judges, I was blown away by the flavors, cooking techniques and beautiful presentations of all the dishes, we got to try. Click here for the video!
Shortly after that event I was inspired to come up with my own little baja tapa creation.
A shrimp & bay scallop empanada with mango chutney and mexican vanilla.

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Gilbarco and VeriFone Partnership Expands Network Reach To More Than 95 Million On-the-Go Consumers
GREENSBORO, NC — Last January, Gilbarco Veeder-Root acquired Outcast Media creating one of the largest digital place-based (DPB) advertising networks at the pump. Gilbarco has announced today that they are partnering with VeriFone Systems, a global leader in secure electronic payment solutions, to further expand its gas station forecourt business. According to Gilbarco, the partnership will create the largest at-pump interactive digital place-based media network in the world reaching more than 95 million on-the-go consumers each month with over 30,000 place-based digital advertising screens.
Outcast Media, Gilbarco’s forecourt media business, and Applause TV, Gilbarco’s gas station TV network, will be merged with VeriFone’s digital media and VeriFone Digital Network (VNET) businesses. The VeriFone Digital Network now spans more than 140 media markets across the U.S. and the U.K., including all of the top 50 U.S. media markets, providing one-to-one, interactive media engagement across more than 50,000 screens in taxis, gas pumps, and convenience stores around the world with the merger of Outcast Media.
VeriFone Media announced last January the launch of a digital taxi top advertising platform in New York City. The network currently includes 100 taxis equipt with high-definition, full-motion video displays. The taxi top network is also capable of running geo-targeted and dayparted advertising campaigns and provides near-real-time updates for sporting events and includes social media integration.
Merger and acquisition activity within the DPB advertising space has accelerated this year. Last June, Rockbridge Growth Equity acquired Gas Station TV, a direct competitor to Outcast Media. And then in April came news that Captivate Network would acquire the Office Media Network, creating one of North America’s largest in-office professional media networks. Then in May, National CineMedia announced that it will acquired Screenvision, creating the largest cinema advertising network in the US.
Gilbarco Veeder-Root and VeriFone’s partnership will see the two companies collaborate on future fuel dispenser payment platforms to be developed and supplied by VeriFone. The payment solutions will be designed to meet convenience and fuel retailers’ functionality and regulatory needs as well as offer at-pump media advertising and entertainment.
Gilbarco will provide the software and integration solutions, as well as sales and service provider for forecourt payment systems developed under the partnership. The companies will work together to transition the payment electronics in Gilbarco’s global dispenser product lines to VeriFone technology. However, both companies will continue to develop and market their point-of-sale systems for the petroleum and convenience market independently.
“VeriFone’s partnership with Gilbarco, the world’s leading dispenser technology provider, is perfectly aligned with our terminal solutions and commerce enablement strategies and will allow us to offer the best payment and forecourt media solutions on the market to our clients around the globe,” said Paul Galant, CEO of VeriFone. “Our collective expertise and access to consumer insights provide significant business value to our clients, helping them increase sales at the pump and in-store.”
“Gilbarco’s leadership in the convenience and petroleum vertical and VeriFone’s expertise in secure payments and media engagement make this an ideal relationship,” said Martin Gafinowitz, President of Gilbarco Veeder-Root. “Gilbarco has the largest installed base of outdoor payment systems in our industry, and combining our deep knowledge of systems and software integration with VeriFone’s broad payment expertise will greatly benefit our customers.”
Free Trend Report: Why Location Is the New Currency of Marketing
Traditional methods of advertising have become less effective as consumers spend less time in places where marketers have traditionally had an advantage in reaching them. Consumer attention has fragmented across multiple channels as media options and device platforms increasingly diversify. Finding effective ways to deliver branded messages in today’s complex media environment is one of the biggest challenges facing advertisers.
Active consumers spend money, and while they are going about their daily routine, they are also actively looking for information. According to Google, more than 50% of all mobile searches have local intent, and 17% of search happens while consumers are on the go.
There has never been a better time for marketers to reach on-the-go consumers. This special report provides detailed information on Digital Place Based (DPB) media and Location-based Mobile (LbM) marketing. Digital Place Based media, also known as Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) advertising utilizes strategically placed, networked digital signage displays to reach on-the-go consumers while they are outside their home with highly targeted messages. Digital Place Based networks typically broadcast targeted content along with advertising in venues that have high dwell time. Location-based mobile and digital place-based media are part of a larger multi-screen campaign planning ecosystem that includes desktop and television.
Why Location Is the New Currency of Marketing is aimed at CMOs, media buyers and strategists and provides insight into why marketers are increasingly shifting their advertising dollars to these rapidly emerging media platforms.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges in connection with an insider-trading scheme in which a former officer of First National Bank of Chicago allegedly obtained confidential information about bank clients. Without admitting or denying the charges, William Bronec Jr. of Riverside and Kelly A. Reiter of Chicago agreed to a settlement that calls for Bronec to return $9,737 in allegedly illegal profits and pay a civil penalty of $5,000. Reiter will return $500 and pay a civil fine of $1,000. The two allegedly helped Danny Omar Cherif, a former assistant vice president at the bank, with insider trades he allegedly made after leaving the bank. The trades allegedly earned $230,000. Cherif, formerly of Aurora, was sentenced to 2 years in prison in March after Bronec and Reiter testified against him.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Gonzaga University senior men's basketball guard Richie Frahm underwent successful surgery Thursday to repair the fifth metatarsal of his left foot.
Frahm fractured the foot last weekend after landing on another player's foot while participating in the Portsmouth Invitational in Virginia, a showcase event attended by several NBA scouts.
"Everything went well," Gonzaga head athletic trainer Steve Delong said of the surgery performed by Dr. Russell VanderWilde. "A screw was inserted to repair the fracture. It was a clean break which should make for an easier healing process. We're hopeful Richie will be able to begin playing basketball as early as Aug. 1."
Frahm was expected to be released from the hospital Friday.
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Know It All! – Garage Door Springs – Extension Springs
Additionally to the types of springs covered in the previous two Know It All! posts, Torquemaster and torsion springs, some doors may be counterbalanced using garage door extension springs.
While most garage door extension springs will be oil-tempered, some are made of galvanized steel. Extension springs counterbalance the garage door via a cable pulley system. One end of the spring is affixed to a bracket on the horizontal track, while the other end is connected to the door by a pulley. One end of the cable will be attached to the bottom of the door, while the other end will be connected to the horizontal track using an S-shaped hook.
As its name implies, the spring is stretched (”extended”), upon opening the garage door, counterbalancing its weight.
Variations in Extension Springs
Extension springs have a number of important parameters you should familiarize yourself with. As with other types of springs, the length, inside diameter, and wire thickness are crucial. The initial tension is the amount of force needed to separate the coils on an extension spring. Lastly, the type of ends on your extension springs will dictate how they will be connected to your garage door.
There are three types of ends for extension springs, listed in order of durability.
Safety cables are an extremely important part of the garage door extension spring system. As they are under a great deal of pressure, these springs can severely maim or even kill a bystander when they break. They can cause extensive damage to property stored in the garage as well. A safety cable runs through the length of the extension spring, preventing the pieces from becoming dangerous projectiles upon breaking.
Replacing Extension Springs
When one of the extension springs break, it is advised to replace both as they have the same cycle rating and have typically endured the same amount of wear. Checking the pulleys for wear is also essential, as well as examining the cables for signs of fraying or other damage.
Extension springs tend to have a lower cycle rating than other types, unless you have installed specially manufactured longer life extension springs. The typical rating is 7000-10000 cycles for a standard extension spring, compared to 10000-15000 for torsion springs.
To replace extension springs, your door’s height and weight must be accurately measured. Extension springs are color coded as well, aiding in finding the right spring for your garage door.
We do not recommend installing extension springs, due to the safety hazard they can potentially represent in your home, as well as their diminished life cycle in comparison to torsion springs. If you currently have a broken or otherwise damaged extension spring system, we recommend you opt for conversion to a safer, sturdier torsion spring system.
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Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Tuesday an informant has confirmed the existence of a “secret society” inside the FBI working against President Donald Trump.
“The secret society — we have an informant that’s talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off-site,” Johnson said on Fox News’s Special Report. “There’s so much smoke here, there’s so much suspicions.”
Reps. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) and Trey Gowdy (R-SC), House oversight and government reform committee chairman, first revealed there were texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page mentioning the “secret society” on Monday.
“We learned today about information that after — in the immediate aftermath of [Trump’s] election, that there may have been a secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI, to include Page and Strzok, that would be working against them,” Ratcliffe said on Fox News’s The Story.
“I’m not saying that actually happened, but when folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to explain the context with which they used those terms,” he added.
Gowdy said the “secret society” discussion began the day after the election.
“There’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these two supposedly objective facts-centric FBI agents, that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘secret society,’” he said.
“I’m going to want to know what secret society are you talking about, because you are supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won [by] the electoral college,” he added. “I’m going to want to know.”
Strzok and Page were engaged in an extramarital affair and had exchanged tens of thousands of text messages that talked about how much they loathed President Trump and how they supported Hillary Clinton. They also discussed an “insurance policy” in the case of Trump’s election.
At the time they exchanged these messages, they were working on the Clinton email investigation, the FBI’s Russia investigation, and the subsequent special counsel team. The Justice Department’s inspector general, who is conducting an investigation into whether the FBI handled the Clinton and the Russia probes with political bias, first discovered the texts.
The Justice Department released a batch of those text messages to Congress on Friday, which included the text about the “secret society.” Johnson said the committee would dig to find out more about the “secret society.”
“This is not a distraction,” he said, pushing back against Democrat criticism. “Again, this is bias, potentially corruption at the highest levels at the FBI.”
Johnson also joined the growing chorus of Republicans calling for an additional special counsel to look into DOJ and FBI corruption, separate from the special counsel headed by Robert Mueller.
“Robert Mueller used to run the FBI,” he said. “He is in no position to do an investigation over this kind of misconduct.”
“So I think at this point in time we probably should be looking at a special counsel to undertake this investigation, but Congress is going to have to continue to dig,” he said.


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New York Department of State Announces Grant Awards to Assist
Two New York State Towns with Dissolution of Villages
The New York Department of State today announced $88,520 in Citizen Re-Organization Empowerment Grant (CREG) awards to facilitate dissolution of two Villages after the majority of voters in each Village decided to move forward with proposed dissolution measures. The Village of Bridgewater, located in Oneida County in the Mohawk Valley, dissolved on December 31, 2014; and the Village of Lyons, located in Wayne County in the Finger Lakes region, is scheduled to dissolve on December 31, 2015.
The CREG program, a component of the Local Government Efficiency Program managed by the New York State Department of State’s Division of Local Government Services, provides local governments with technical support and funding to plan and implement municipal reorganizations.
“We will continue to assist local governments cut costs to lessen the burden on taxpayers as we work together to find smart and efficient ways to make our communities a more affordable place to live and work,” said New York Secretary of State Cesar A. Perales. “The electorate in each of these Villages took the bold step to approve dissolution in order to transition toward new and modern government structures that will efficiently meet the needs of a 21st Century economy.”
The Town of Lyons will receive $50,000 to assist with the implementation of the dissolution of the Village of Lyons. Specifically, the funding will support a comprehensive analysis of Town Hall building conditions and accommodations to facilitate efficient, affordable renovations. In addition, the Town will establish new water, sewer and lighting districts.
The Town of Bridgewater will receive $38,520 to assist with the implementation of the dissolution of the Village of Bridgewater. This funding will be used to assist with transferring all Village property ownership rights to the Town, forming a Town Water District, and consolidating Village and Town records.
“As we move forward with the dissolution of the Village of Lyons and as we start streamlining this community, the grant that we are receiving will be of tremendous help to our citizens in easing the cost and pain of this process,” said Supervisor Brain Manktelow, Town of Lyons. “We are very thankful for the State’s help and are looking forward to the continuance of the partnership in moving forward for the betterment of Lyons’ residents and all New Yorkers.”
“The consolidation of The Village of Bridgewater and The Town of Bridgewater was a positive move for the future of Bridgewater,” said Supervisor Dale DeKing, Town of Bridgewater. “This Consolidation Grant is a godsend for the Town of Bridgewater. The expenses for the dissolution of the Village of Bridgewater and subsequent consolidation of services into the Town of Bridgewater were quite extensive. The grant will be used to help defray those costs and relieve the taxpayers of a tax increase. We appreciate the opportunity provided by the State of New York to complete our mission with little or no monetary impact on the citizens of the community.”
Communities considering consolidation should contact the New York State Department of State, Division of Local Government Services at 518-473-3355 or visit the website at http://www.dos.ny.gov/lg/ to determine eligibility for CREG funding. Deadlines for applications are 4:00PM on the first Wednesday of each month. Local governments can now submit CREG applications and receive award notification online via the new Gateway Grant Opportunity Portal at www.grantsgateway.ny.gov.


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Gloucester in Essex County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)
Cape Ann Granite
Cape Ann lies on an outcropping composed of 450 million-year-old granite polished by glaciers. This particularly dense stone was prized for building monuments, forts, and piers. Blocks of Cape Ann granite were used to build Gloucester's Dale Avenue post office. In the 1800s, it was shipped as far as Cuba and Europe. The quarry business soon rivaled fishing and its work was considered just as dangerous.
The glaciers also deposited miles of terminal moraine boulders. Clamber over boulders on a hike through Ravenswood, Dogtown, or the 12-ton cut slabs of the Dog Bar breakwater.
Erected by Gloucester Harborwalk. (Marker Number 8.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Industry & Commerce.
Location. 42° 36.69′ N, 70° 39.818′ W. Marker is in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in Essex County. Marker can be reached from Rogers Street (Massachusetts Route 127) east of Porter Street when traveling south. Marker is located at the southwest corner of the public parking lot at this address.Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 63 Rogers Street, Gloucester MA 01930, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Admiralty Anchor (a few steps from this marker); Captain Howard Blackburn (within shouting distance of this marker); Captain Alfred (Centennial) Johnson (within shouting distance of this marker); Porter Anchor (within shouting distance of this marker); Salting Fish (within shouting distance of this marker); Rocky Neck (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Charles Heberle (about 600 feet away); Samuel Sawyer (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gloucester.
More about this marker. Marker is a composite plaque mounted on a 4-foot tall granite pedestal.
Related markers. Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker. Gloucester Harborwalk
Also see . . .
1. The Cape Ann Quarries.
"The value of the product of the granite quarries of Massachusetts was nearly a million and a half dollars in 1875. There are only three agricultural products which are so valuable to our State. By-the-way, they put ice down in our State census as an agricultural product: that was worth rather over half a million in the same year. The granite, of course, is far ahead of anything else there in the value of its product." (Submitted on March 25, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
2. Granite Quarrying.
The harvesting of granite from quarries dug deep in the earth was big business here on (Submitted on March 25, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
3. Timeline of Cape Ann Granite.
This link presents a detailed timeline of the Cape Ann Granite industry. (Submitted on March 25, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
4. Gloucester Harborwalk 8: Cape Ann Granite.
This link presents vintage quarrying film clips and other information (Submitted on March 26, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
Credits. This page was last revised on March 26, 2018. It was originally submitted on March 25, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 324 times since then and 72 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 25, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.


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Welcome to Jamrock Cruise makes splash
Davina Henry, Gleaner Writer
It was almost too perfect. With the Caribbean Sea and beautiful Jamaican night sky providing a picturesque backdrop, the bass-filled beats of hardcore dancehall and soulful melodies of reggae combined perfectly.
No, it was not a movie. It was the third day of the first Welcome To Jamrock Cruise, organised by Damian 'Junior Gong' Marley. The cruise, which kicked off in Miami, had already featured performances from Julian 'Juju' Marley, Tarrus Riley and Shaggy.
On Wednesday night, for the leg off the Jamaican coast, Etana, dubbed 'The Strong One', opened the show with a spectacular performance. Delivering popular songs such as Warrior Love, Blessings and Free, Etana delivered a commanding performance to the very receptive audience.
Upcoming artiste Jo Mersa Marley joined her for their duet, Thy Will Be Done.
Singer Jah Cure delivered what was arguably one of his better performances. It was the first time that many of the fans were seeing the singer in person, and their appreciation did not go unnoticed.
As Jah Cure took the audience members on a musical voyage, they sang along lustily to hits such as Divide and Rule, Sunny Day and Sticky. His love songs tugged at the hearts of receptive female fans, who screamed and sang along to Love Is, Longing For, Call On Me, his version of John Legend's All Of Me, and You'll Never Find.
After commending the Marley brothers for organising a reggae cruise, Jah Cure briefly spoke about his incarceration. "You have some big artistes that are currently in prison. Artistes like Buju Banton and Vybz Kartel. I know from experience that prison nuh easy," he stated.
At the first few lines of True Reflections, the crowd erupted. Jah Cure ended his set on a musical high with Unconditional Love. But that was not enough, as eager fans called for his return and Jah Cure willingly obliged.
Almost an Hour-long set
Although he has been busy touring Europe for the past two years, fans of Busy Signal clearly could not get enough of the 'hothead' deejay. For almost an hour, Busy delivered from his impressive catalogue of songs, entertaining the audience from beginning to end.
Opening with his more hardcore dancehall tunes such as Step Out, Bad Man Place, The Days, and We Not Going Down, the energetic deejay had audience members jumping and singing along.
He also took time out to pay tribute to the late John Holt, who passed away last weekend. Returning to his fiery, towering dancehall form, Busy Signal's voice was strong as he dropped additional lyrics into familiar material.
"In 2012, it was so different for me. I'm so happy that the past is on the pass. Me nuh haffi elaborate, you all know what happened. But the Most High help up Busy Signal. Big up to the judicial system. Give thanks to all who played a role," he told the audience before belting out, "Jah Rastafari" and launching into his song Mi Deh Yah.
By this time, the females were ready to party. Songs such as Pon The Edge, Tip Pon Yuh Toe, Picante, and Bedroom Bully saw the women showcasing their wining abilities. When Busy Signal slowed down the pace, his set did not lose momentum. He delivered popular songs including Night Shift, One More Night and Miss You.
Proving that he is a consummate performer and a force to be reckoned with, Busy Signal earned the biggest response of the night for Bumaye. With hands, rags and towels waving in the night sky, patrons rocked the ship at the first few words of "pull up".
Busy' voice soared above the screams as he delivered one of his best performances to date.
The night would have been amazing had it ended there, but there was still one act left to come, and he exceeded all expectations. The militant, cross, angry, miserable Bounty Killer showcased just why he has remained as one of the top dancehall deejays over two decades.
Bounty Killer dug deep into his catalogue and had fans in a frenzy for some of his older tunes, including Down In The Ghetto, Cellular Phone and Living Dangerously.
His battle cry of "People dead!" saw many fingers being pointed like guns as fans screamed their appreciation. After a technical glitch, which saw Bounty Killer informing the engineer that "I are the one", it was back to more hit music.
Reeling off Book Book Book, Sufferer, Mystery, and Another Level, Bounty Killer began to broaden the subject matter into his trademark street-savvy social commentary.
"All who didn't know me before, try and know me now. This is the Warlord, not the war lady. Unuh ready fi get rowdy? We deh pon a cruise, so dis nuh name Jamaica Tourist Board, right now it name Jamaica Music Board," he told the enthusiastic crowd. This led to an arsenal of more hits, including Can't Believe Me Eye, Anytime and Benz and Bimmer.
"I am the Grung Gad, so I don't do too well in water. But, any man whe nuh have a gal pon the boat, you need fi chuck off and float," he said to much laughter.
It was time for the ladies to "get wild for the General", as he serenaded them with songs such as It's OK, Say You Leaving, Get Gal Everyday, and It's A Party.
Bounty Killer was joined onstage by Junior Gong and Baby Cham, to end the night on an energetic note.


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BY SAM ALFAN.
The High Court has declared investigations conducted at the residence of Murang’a governor Mwangi wa Iria by officers from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) in 2016 unlawful.
Justice Kanyi Kimondo declared that all the investigations conducted in the case by the EACC prior to January 18, 2016 and, the ensuing report submitted to the Director of Public Prosecution recommending the prosecution of Wa Iria were unlawful.
According to the Judge, the Commission then was not fully constituted because there was no chairman and commissioners.
And for the unlawful search, Justice Kimondo awarded wa Iria Sh3 million for damages.
The search was conducted by investigator, Mulki Abdi Umar after obtaining an order from a Makadara court.
“A declaration is hereby issued that the search carried out on January 21, 2016 by the EACC pursuant to the search warrant above at the petitioner’s residence in Gatanga, Murang’a County was unlawful and contravened the petitioner’s rights enshrined in Articles 28 and 31 of the Constitution”, the Judge ruled.
Judge Kimondo also declared the criminal charges brought against the Governor , his aides, security detail or anyother person for obstructing the execution of the above search warrant as unlawful.
The Judge prohibited EACC and DPP from commencing or proceeding with criminal charges against the the Governor his aides, security detail or any other person who was implicated in obstructing the sleuths from accessing the homes.
The Governor moved to court to stop any criminal charges against him or any of his aides
It was his argument that in the absence of Commissioners, EACC was not properly constituted and as such could not lawfully undertake the functions of investigations and recommendations for prosecution his prosecution.


GEORGE TOWN: Some 20 houses located on a slope in Hong Seng Estate in Mount Erskine were flooded due to blocked underground drainage.
“Not again!” was the reaction of factory worker S. Kalaiselvi, 42, who found herself neck-deep in water at her house at 2am yesterday after a three-hour downpour.
She waded through the water to higher ground with her parents, who are in their 60s.
“I have been living here for 26 years and only now am I seeing such floods,” said Kalaiselvi, who also had to move out when her house was hit by the massive floods on Nov 4 and 5 last year.
Her father Subramanian Perumal, 68, said he was still waiting for the relevant authorities to resolve the problem.
At the site, firemen had to install a water pump to draw out the rainwater, which flooded most of the units to waist level at one point.
It was the third time that the area was flooded since October last year.
Last Oct 30, blocked underground drainage caused floodings affecting six houses during an evening downpour, followed by massive floods during the Nov 4 and 5 storm.
On Sept 29 last year, seven houses in the estate were also affected by soil erosion.
Consultant engineer Datuk Lim Kok Khong had said the soil erosion was due to water seeping under the ground.
Kebun Bunga assemblyman Cheah Kah Peng, who has been barred from helping out with the registration of flood victims for the one-off RM700 aid given by the Penang government, was also there but offered no concrete solution to the floods in the area.
Pulau Tikus assemblyman Yap Soo Huey said nine houses had to be demolished to make way for repair works.
She said they had offered owners of the nine affected houses a low medium-cost unit each as compensation, but the residents insisted on staying put.
Earlier, Penang Flood Mitigation Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the latest floods were caused by the continuous downpour that began on Thursday evening.
“The rain also coincided with a 2.34mm high tide at 2.30am yesterday,” he said.
Chow said the short-term measures to deal with the floods were to dig and deepen the rivers, and carry out upgrading and cleaning works at riverbanks to ensure that there were no blockages.
In Bukit Mertajam, a low wall sealing off the entrance to a lorry driver’s house prevented it from being submerged in floodwaters all over again.
While the water on the road outside was up to knee level, Heng Kai Chin’s home remained relatively dry, thanks to the metre-high barrier of cement and bricks.
But Heng, 43, still skipped work yesterday to keep an eye on the flooding.
A state flood report said water had entered at least 100 homes in Bukit Mertajam.
More rain in Sabah and S’wak
Fish and veggie prices go up due to scarce supply
Two primary schools in Sabah remain closed
Flood-hit students eager to return to school


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Cincinnati Returned Volunteers Programs and Projects
Bi-monthly Social Events and Potlucks
CARV generally meets on the second Sunday of January, March, September and November at 2 pm and on the second Saturday of May at 4 pm for a social event and potluck. All members, family and friends are invited. We often have a speaker who has recently returned from serving in the Peace Corps, and we also hear from groups that are involved in community service locally and internatioanally.
Each July, CARV joins with Southwest Ohio Returned Volunteers (SORVO), our friends from the Dayton area, for a picnic for members of both chapters and friends.
Barry Adamson has hosted CARV for many years at his family farm for a bonfire and cookout.
CARV loves to eat and we regularly enjoy meals at local ethnic restaurants, including Korean, South Indian, Ethiopian, Senegalese, etc., etc.
CARV is currently supporting Catholic Charities of Southwestern Ohio in Refugee Resettlement. We have provided transportation to recent arrivals, taught English classes and tutored, worked in the warehouse and moved families into their new apartments, worked with refugees doing community service at a demonstration farm. We have been asked to mentor a Syrian family of 6 (soon to be 7), helping them to integrate into the community.
CARV is an active supporter of Sherbro Foundation, established by member Arlene Golembiewski after a trip back to Sierra Leone. Sherbro's activities include girls education, community computing, tree planting and successful Ebola control.
In the past, CARV has worked with other local groups such as People Working Cooperatively and Matthew 25 ministries to give back to the community. For many years we hosted New Americans in December for a tour of holiday sights, followed by a lunch and activities.
Peace Corps Partnerships
CARV enjoys supporting volunteers in the field through Peace Corps Partnerships.

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Days of squinting at X-ray results are about to be over. As the New Yorker explains: In some trials, “deep learning” systems have already outperformed human experts. Medical imaging solutions allow companies to bring accurate and accessible disease screenings to doctors to proactively treat cancer and other diseases at their most manageable stages and improve patient outcomes.
As a result of our assessment of vendors providing Artificial Intelligence driven solutions in this space IBM Watson, Butterfly Network Inc., Arterys, Gauss Surgical and Zebra Medical Vision are the top vendors. Based on their momentum and size Sigtuple, Freenome, Enlitic are the rising vendors. Please see our methodology for details on how we select vendors to this list and how we pick top vendors and rising vendors.
IBM Watson is one of the pioneers in healthcare applications powered by Artificial Intelligence. As a Fortune 100 company, IBM has significant capability to deliver successful solutions in a number of AI use cases.
Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, chairman of Butterfly Network Inc. is one of the recipients of National Medal of Technology and Innovation which from White House.
Arterys built the first tech product to visualize & quantify blood flow in the body using any MRI. Arterys also recieved the first FDA approval for clinical cloud-based deep learning in healthcare. Furthermore, Arterys, a pioneer in four-dimensional (4D) cloud-based imaging, has been awarded “Best New Radiology Vendor” and “Best New Software” in the 2016 Minnies Awards.
Gauss Surgical Inc. received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark for its Triton System for iPad, the world’s first and only mobile platform for real-time monitoring of surgical blood loss.
Zebra Medical Vision was one of Fortune’s “50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution” in 2015. Moreover, Zebra Medical Vision was selected one of “The Most Innovative Companies of 2017” by AI/Machine Learning Sector.
Freenome raised 70.6M within only two years of their launch.
MIT Technology Review choose Enlitic one of the 50 Smartest Companies in 2016.


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Steam and Rye is a unique dining, bar, live music and dancing experience with a classic Americana theme. Inspired by 1940s United States where the grand living of the Great Gatsby met the glamour of the Golden Age of Hollywood, where the old ways of the Wild West and travelling shows met the stirrings of the new, young sound of rock'n'roll, and where every corner of this land of opportunity, from rising city to endless prairie, was opened up by the all-conquering majesty of the mighty railroads.
This late night bar and restaurant is a Nick House venture, partnering with British actress and model Kelly Brook. Steam and Rye opened it's doors in November 2013.
Steam and Rye is an American dream on British soil. The venue is a spectacular 550 capacity space harking back to a bygone era, encapsulating America's Gilded Age, a time of glamour, decadence and idealism in the old bank of New York building in Bank, the heart of the City of London.
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The Gold Town Nickelodeon will host a live video Skype interview with director Ken Burns at the theater beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, in between the 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. screenings of “The Central Park Five,” Burns’ latest release.
Burns, widely considered to be one of the most influential documentary makers of all time, is best known for the documentaries “Jazz,” “Baseball” and “The Civil War,” which was the highest-rated series in the history of American Public Television.
The Skype session with Burns at the Gold Town will be moderated by Pat Race and Aaron Suring, of Lucid Reverie and the Juneau Underground Motion Picture Society, and will include as many questions from the audience as time allows. The interview was set up by Gold Town manager Collette Costa during a conversation with the film’s distributor, Race said.
“She put the bug in their ear — ‘Hey it’d be great if we could talk to some filmakers,’ and they said, ‘Yeah, the director would be interested in talking to you.’ And it kind of clicked that, ‘Oh my gosh, that means I get to talk to Ken Burns!’
Unfortunately Costa had previous travel plans that conflicted with the interview time, so she asked Race and Suring, both filmmakers themselves, to step in. They happily agreed.
“We’re excited to talk to him,” Race said. “It should be a lot of fun.”
Burns’ new film, ”The Central Park Five,” traces the real-life story of five black and Latino teens, ages 14 to 16, who were falsely convicted of raping a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. The screenplay is based on a book by Burns’ daughter, Sarah, who became interested in the story when she worked for a law firm involved with the case. To read a LA Times review of the film, see this week’s Arts section.
Race said those with questions for Burns are encouraged to email them to him in advance, but added that he plans to keep the tone of the discussion fairly casual. He can be reached at email@example.com.
“I’d love to have them in advance and I’m more likely to call on people if I know that they have something well thought-out that they want to ask, but we’ll just see how the flow of conversation goes.”
The discussion is free and open to the public, and is expected to last about an hour.
For more information, visit www.goldtownnick.com


An area of low pressure coming off the coast of Africa is forecast to develop into a cyclone in the next 48 hours.
The low-pressure system has formed over the far eastern Tropical Atlantic in association with a tropical wave that recently moved off the west coast of Africa.
It is too early to tell where the system is headed but the National Hurricane Center says environmental conditions are conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to form within the next couple of days while the system moves west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph over the eastern tropical Atlantic.
It has a 70 per cent chance of forming in the next 48 hours and a 90 percent within the next five days.
There are also two other tropical storms – Kate and Ida – in the Atlantic. Ida is currently affecting portions of the United States while Kate is moving towards the north away from any populated islands.
Usually, the Atlantic Hurricane season peaks from late August through September .


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Nestled on the beach, this Itapua hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Itapua Beach, Piata Beach and Flamengo Beach. Agricultural Exhibition Park of Salvador and Estrada do Coco Shopping Mall are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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Mar Brasil Hotel is located at R. Flamengo, 44, Farol De Itapuã in Itapua, 11.1 miles from the centre of Salvador. Vinicius de Moraes Square is the closest landmark to Mar Brasil Hotel.
Check-in time is 14:00 and check-out time is 12:00 at Mar Brasil Hotel.
Yes, Mar Brasil Hotel offers free Wi-Fi.
Yes, Mar Brasil Hotel offers free parking.
No, Mar Brasil Hotel does not offer free airport shuttle service.
Mar Brasil Hotel is 3.3 miles from Salvador Luis E. Magalhaes. Mar Brasil Hotel is 49.1 miles from Valença.
Yes, Mar Brasil Hotel is a pet-friendly hotel.
Yes, Mar Brasil Hotel has a pool on-site.


Virgin Islands Lottery Executive Director Raymond Williams said the lottery’s traditional game has dropped significantly in sales due to the worldwide pandemic.
On Monday, Williams told members of the Senate Finance Committee that prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the lottery hosted biweekly “regular drawings” and two “extraordinary drawings.” After the outbreak of the pandemic, and the need for social distancing, ticket sales have slowed so much that the commission decided to reduce the number of drawings for the remainder of FY 2020. Now there will be one drawing per month in addition to an “extraordinary drawing” hosted in September.
“What we generally made in revenues in the biweekly draws, approximately 45 percent to 47 percent in sales, immediately dropped to approximately 33 percent for the April drawing as a result of lower ticket sales due to COVID-19,” Williams said. “We requested the commission to initiate monthly draws to give us and the community more opportunities to increase sales.”
The adjustment to monthly drawings has resulted in an increase of sales for the June 25 drawing, which Williams said yielded 60 percent of ticket sales, “a record during my tenure.”
But Williams said it is not just the Virgin Islands Lottery experiencing losses. A national trend has shown reduced sales of Powerball and Mega Million sales.
In addition to the pandemic related sale shortages, “The loss of sales from our traditional game, approximately 40 or more percent per drawing, is the gap we are trying to close,” Williams said. The commission plans on achieving this gap closure through a series of technological updates.
The first of these updates came in March where a new random number generating origin draw system was put in place, and “provides us the ability and opportunity to create new lottery games that will allow us to increase and diversify our revenue streams,” Williams said.
The commission is also looking to launch a new point-of-sale system that is scheduled to launch by the beginning of FY 2021, which will improve efficiency and auditing features.
To date, Williams said, there has been no COVID-19 related funding granted to the Lottery that would help alleviate losses, and the personal protective equipment, sanitizer and other health-related supplies for the 47 employees have come out of the Lottery’s budget.
The Virgin Islands Lottery, which has been established for 83 years, has an operating income for FY 2021 of a little over $5.5 million, which is comparable to the current fiscal year. The lottery receives no funds from the General Fund of the Virgin Islands, generating its own revenue.
But senators were less concerned with the legal operations the Lottery was carrying out and more concerned with what could be done by the commission to crack down on illegal gaming in the territory that, despite the pandemic, Sen. Kurt Vialet said was thriving.
“As legislators, we are literally tired of seeing the underground economy flourish in the Virgin Islands. Money is leaving our shores … it’s just openly being done. Years ago, you [Williams] came and I complained about a grocery store where they were laying illegal games going to the Dominican Republic. $148 million was transmitted from the Virgin Islands to other shores … in wire transfers and a lot of that is illegal activity taking place,” Vialet said.
Though Williams wasn’t able to respond during the hearing, in a private interview he told the Source that the commission has been taking “affirmative action against dealers” of illegal lottery tickets.
All committee members – Sens. Donna Frett-Gregory, Vialet, Marvin Blyden, Oakland Benta, Allison DeGazon, Dwayne DeGraff and Janelle Sarauw – were present for the Finance hearing.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Policy disputes about how electricity ought to be generated and the role of fossil fuels such as gas and oil on the economy are generating one kind of product to be sure — reports from economists and pollsters.
No fewer than two economic reports and one poll were released Thursday.
And at least one of them, a national poll released by the Young Conservatives for Clean Energy Reform and the Christian Coalition, was aimed at national policy makers and Congress, who normally receive a steady stream of reports from organizations such as the American Petroleum institute.
But what the poll found will be of interest to Ohio lawmakers as well: Political conservatives are embracing new technologies such as solar and wind, as well as energy efficiency technologies.
“For young conservatives, clean and efficient energy isn’t something fringe or futuristic. It’s a regular and growing part of their lives, and they want their elected leaders to support renewable energy in common-sense ways that grow the economy, promote energy independence and defend American families from pollution,” said Michele Combs, founder and chair of Young Conservatives for Clean Energy Reform, following a rally in Washington, D.C., co-hosted not only by the Christian Coalition but also by the American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association and Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions.
On the other side of the traditional political divide, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a national study with an Ohio-specific section on Thursday arguing that without oil and gas development since 2009, the U.S. and Ohio economy would have been far worse off.
“The ‘Keep it in the Ground’ movement completely ignores the vast benefits to Ohio and our nation’s economy that the energy renaissance has brought to us,” said Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, in a prepared statement.
In the same release Zack Frymier, director of energy and environmental policy at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, says, “Thankfully Ohio has been able to enjoy the benefits and positive economic impact that has come with oil and gas development related to the shale plays in our state. As the report points out, however, the continued, upward trajectory of this energy revolution is not a foregone conclusion. We urge policymakers at all levels not to enact policies that would jeopardize this continued growth.”
The Chamber assertions do not mention that the shale revolution in Ohio, which is primarily a natural gas play, has choked on its own success. Both oil and gas prices have plummeted because the new technologies have produced more resources than the economy currently needs.
In a report aimed squarely at Ohio’s lawmakers and policy makers, the Advanced Energy Economy Institute, a national organization, released a four-part economic model predicting future Ohio power prices.
The point of the study is to prove that by adopting laws and regulations to usher in renewable energy companies and by mandating utilities help their customers use less power, Ohio’s future electric rates would be much lower than if the state does nothing.
The new technology would also help Ohio comply with the still pending U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, the report argues. The CPP would require states to lower carbon dioxide emissions of the power plants within their borders.

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My trainer told me I haven’t been eating enough calories, so he made a special diet for me and this diet includes some foods that have never made it on my grocery shopping list :))) one of them is Spinach!
It turned out to be quite delicious in salads!
Spinach is a superfood. It is rich in antioxidants, iron and fiber, and good for heart. Oh and one more cool fact about spinach- it helps the body to absorb protein!
Now I add spinach to at least one of my salads a day 🙂


Friday 25th February 7:00pm Sky Sports 4
Repeated: 11:00pm Sky Sports 3
Sat. 6:00am Sky Sports 2
Fly fishing is the focus this week and Keith’s guest will be Charles Jardine, one of the sport’s truly colourful characters. As well as being amongst the finest anglers of his generation he’s a well respected fly-tyer and coach so you’re sure to learn a thing or two.
You can see Charles in action as he ventures out for some winter sport at Lechlade Trout Fishery in the Cotswolds. With the fish in prime condition at this time of year he enjoyed a terrific session that exceeded even his own expectations.
As time is running out for coarse anglers to fish the rivers, Keith takes to the bank of his beloved Thames. Confident in his approach of fishing bread to target the winter roach at one of his favourite locations, Old Father Thames provided a few surprises.
Keith will also have his regular look at the prospects in store for all anglers this weekend in Fishery Focus. He’ll have advice on what methods and baits are working best at some typical UK venues, and the weather conditions you can expect.
Next week on Tight Lines Keith will be joined by match angler Steve Ringer. One of the most popular men in the sport, the former Fish’O’Mania champion will have plenty of tips to help all anglers improve their results on commercial waters.
Please keep the questions, and your photos for the ‘Young Angler of the Month’ competition, coming in via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org.
And a reminder that if you do miss the broadcasts on Sky Sports, the whole programme will be available as a podcast after the show on Friday evening via our website – www.skysports.com/tightlines.


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por Thomas Dworetzky
, Contributing Reporter | August 18, 2016
Canadians in Calgary face surging wait times for MR scans – but are all those exams really needed?
Average waits at hospitals in Alberta are up 20 percent from a year ago. The average is now 18 weeks to get an appointment at a public facility. In June, 2015, it was 14.9 weeks.
To top it off, there has been a 13.5 percent bump-up for non-urgent scans just since the beginning of 2016.
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“Specifically, there has been a steep increase in the number of follow-up MR scans, resulting in longer waits for elective/non-urgent patients,” Alberta Health Services (AHS) spokesperson Colin Zak emailed to the Calgary Herald
This comes at a time when actual non-urgent procedures have held steady, Calgary-zone diagnostic imaging chief Dr. Richard Walker told the paper, stating that “we’re working with physicians to ensure the right procedures are being done for the right reasons.”
The AHS has 30 MR scanners.
One of the reasons for the bump in usage could well ring a familiar note with U.S. health care providers. “Too often, family physicians or primary care doctors are prescribing MRs as a first course of action,” especially when patients insist from frustration or out of pain, Jennifer Zwicker, health policy director for the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy advised.
Fully a third of MRs that may be unneeded stem from complaints about lower back pain.
In fact, a 2015 study of MR usage by Alberta and Ontario researchers found that over half of MRs on patients with low back pain were “inappropriate or of questionable value,” orthopedic surgeon Dr. Nick Mohtadi, a clinical professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Acute Knee Injury Clinic, noted in the Globe and Mail at the time
That came to about 13,000 unnecessary lower back MRs a year in Alberta alone. Mohtadi's own examination at the Acute Knee Injury Clinic in Calgary found that only a third of those with knee injuries who received MRs really needed them.
“Two-thirds of the knee-injured patients who had an MR could have been accurately diagnosed using other more readily available and significantly less expensive techniques and tools. Provincially, this translates to about 4,000 knee MRs annually,” he wrote in the paper.
Putting a bottom line on this misallocation of resources, he concluded, “In these two areas alone, there may be 17,000 unnecessary MRs every year in Alberta, representing a cost exceeding C$15 million.”


Yesterday (4th October 2017) Google has introduced several of its own products, to be available by 19th October 2017 in the market including Google Pixel 2, Google Pixel 2 XL, Google Pixel Buds & all new Google Pixel 2-In-1 Chromebook.
When talking about changes in terms of hardware in Google new Pixel 2 & Google pixel 2 XL, there is nothing much to talk about except the gorgeous display quality and sleek bezels in Google Pixel 2 (AMOLED screen (16:9) with 5.0 Inches 1920X1080 Display) & Pixel 2 XL (pOLED screen (18:9) with 6.0 Inches QHD+ 2880 x 1440 Display) & New Metal Body. Google Pixel 2 XL is totally different in terms of Design and Display quality from Google Pixel 2. Both of these devices are definitely a worthy upgrade over its predecessor Model introduced by Google Last Year.
Google Pixel 2 XL is made Mostly of aluminum chassis with curved glass panel towards the top and bottom of the device. the fingerprint sensor is little larger than the previous year XL Model. The glass panel on the back of the device is smaller that covers the Fingerprint sensor. Both of these devices are definitely a worthy upgrade over its predecessor Model introduced by Google Last Year.
However, in terms of Software advancements, Google has done pretty good job in this field With Google Pixel 2 & Google Pixel 2 XL. Google has introduced an all-new Squeeze your phone where a user can access the google assistant directly by squeezing their phone without pressing any button.
With Google Pixel 2 & XL, You can Take a selfie, send texts, turn Bluetooth on or off, Navigate to your home & more with new google voice assistant. The camera on both of the devices has been upgraded with more. the Pixel XL 2 supports a single rear camera. According to the DxoMark’s ranking, the pixel 2 scores a whopping 98 score making it the best camera on any smartphone ever tested by DxO whereas last year’s Pixel scored 67 by DxO. It features all the good features of camera Previous Year Pixel Model. Pixel 2 & XL runs the Google latest Android Operating system Android 8.0 Oreo.


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Perhaps the most important step in drawing a pet portrait is to choose the best photograph to use as a reference. We had six photos to choose from of Lola (who died a year ago). Most of them were too distant and too small to show enough detail. We narrowed the choices down to these two:
DeeDee liked the first one, because Lola was “smiling,” but she realized that the eyes were not that clear. I said that the smiling pose was doable, but asked DeeDee to take another look at the second one. “It's a much better photo,” I advised her, “which is important with pale dogs, because it's so hard to see contours on blonde fur. I love the way her face and feet form a triangle—a nice composition! It's also a real heart-wrencher with those big, dark, adoring eyes.” DeeDee agreed with me. “Let's go with the second one!” she responded. “That was a classic Lola pose. I sure do miss her. She would have been 10 on Monday.”
The next step is to sketch the dog in pencil. Here I have to make a confession. I use a light board to trace the general outlines of the animal and to place the eyes, nose, ears, legs, etc. correctly. So my portraits aren’t drawn strictly “free hand” as a little boy in the Brooksville Library once politely pointed out to me. But hey! The art critiques speculate that Vermeer used a camera obscura to help set up his masterpieces, so I’m in good company. I use the light board mainly to save time, as it takes anywhere from 6 to 26 hours to ink in my drawings after I’ve sketched them in pencil. Here’s what I came up with on the light board. (I realize now that I should have slapped this onto my scanner rather than photographing it. Sorry it's so pale.)
I spend twice as much time sketching “free hand” on the drawing board, filling in the details, the riffs and rills of fur cavorting over Lola’s tawny hide . I’m impatient with this step in the process, eager to get to the pen-and-ink work, but I find that the more thoroughly I sketch the dog in pencil, the better the finished portrait turns out.
Finally, I start to ink in the drawing. I always start with the eyes—the windows to the soul. I figure that if I don’t get the eyes right, I might as well trash that effort and start over.
Next, the nose.
Then the whole head--ears, muzzle, cheeks, jowls.
I’m always happy when I’m drawing. I relate to this passage from Ian McEwan’s novel Saturday, because it describes so aptly how I feel when I’m drawing. McEwan is describing a surgeon in the operating theater:
“For the past two hours he’s been in a dream of absorption that has dissolved all sense of time, and all awareness of the other parts of his life. Even his awareness of his own existence has vanished. He’s been delivered into a pure present, free of the weight of the past or of any anxieties about the future. In retrospect, though never at the time, it feels like profound happiness. . . . This state of mind brings a contentment he never finds with any passive form of entertainment. Books, cinema, even music can’t bring him to this . . . This benevolent dissociation seems to require difficultly, prolonged demands on concentration and skills, pressure, problems to be solved, even danger. He feels calm, and spacious, fully qualified to exist. It’s a feeling of clarified emptiness, of deep muted joy.”
Tom, my husband, is more practical. He worries that the house could burn down around me while I’m drawing; I’m that oblivious to my surroundings. I only know that I love the deep concentration that I fall into when I’m drawing a bead of light that rims a dark iris, a nose that glistens with moisture, fur that lightens and darkens as it waves and swirls and corkscrews, ears that flop or prick or curl. I know that I’m perfectly contented when I am pondering how best to translate a steadfast gaze, a creased brow, a tilted head into an expression of love or longing or loyalty.
Lola's body is pretty well done. Now for the background:
I like the way a dark background sets off a pale dog.
It may look like the drawing is done at this stage, but now I do what I call "tweaking." I look at the drawing from near and far, from top to bottom, from side to side, and add a line here, a squiggle there, a dimple, a shadow, a suggestion, until I’m sure it’s just right. Truth be told, I’m never actually “sure.” I have great difficultly knowing when to stop. Eventually I do. Here is the finished drawing:
From start to finish, I estimate that this portrait took about eight hours to complete.


Monday 20th June 2011
Red Candy Feature – My Daily’s ‘Boutique of the Week’!
Red Candy was recently featured as ‘Boutique of the Week’ by AOL’s My Daily
website. My Daily conducted an in-depth interview with Red Candy’s founder, Andrew Menzies about all things Red.
Read the full article here


text: [JURIST] Iraq Interior Minister Bayan Jabr [CBS News profile] has again denied [JURIST report] that he controls death squads targeting Iraq's Sunni minority and ordered the torture of detainees in a secret prison [JURIST report]. In a New York Times interview reported Tuesday, he dismissed the story of the secret prison, saying, "It's nonsense. Only a few detainees were punched and hit, and it wasn't a secret bunker." Jabr called the "prison" a complex known to American intelligence officially designated to hold the "worst of the worst" detainees held for involvement in the insurgency. Jabr promised to punish anyone involved in the torture, which he said occurred in the face of his orders not to mistreat prisoners and despite regular visits by American troops. US troops raided the site on November 13, finding about 170 detainees in need of water, food and medical attention. AFP has more.


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George Milling Stanley speaks on central-bank gold demand, prices and the 2014 outlook...
CENTRAL BANK gold demand may slip in 2014 from recent years, says expert analyst George Milling Stanley, but the "turnaround" from the previous 20 years of selling remains remarkable.
With four decades' experience of the bullion market, plus genuine "insider" contacts across the central banking world, George Milling-Stanley was head of government affairs at the World Gold Council, the mining-owned market development organization, for 15 years. Also a key member of the team which developed the idea of gold-backed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) a decade ago, and now head of GMS on Gold LLC, he speaks here to BullionVault's New York Markets Live...
Looking at price, "I think gold is building a base around $1200 per ounce," says George Milling Stanley.
"And let's be fair to gold – that's five times the price it was just a decade ago."
Other key points discussed in this 27-minute audio include:
- Why do central banks, and especially Western governments, hold so much "legacy" gold today?
- How might 2013's thirty per cent price drop affect Chinese, Russian and other emerging-market central bank demand?
- Why did the Swiss National Bank's unrealized loss on its gold holdings make the headlines?
- How do new routes to selling gold work to make buying it more attractive to investors?
All told, "I think we're in for a very healthy market overall, definitely with higher prices," says George Milling Stanley, also sharing his expert view of the jewelry and gold investment markets worldwide.


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Mumbai: As rains continued to lash Mumbai, over 90 metric tonnes of garbage was washed ashore by the high tides over the weekend. Alarm bells started ringing when local residents complained of health hazards and foul odour, following which Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) rushed over 40 workers to clear-up Marine drive and areas adjacent to Mahim and other beaches in the city. The garbage was cleared on a war-footing within four hours.
Since Friday, the iconic Marine Drive, other beaches and adjoining areas in Mumbai have been affected by tonnes of garbage. According to a report on NDTV, much of the trash that was washed off ashore, comprised of plastic. In addition to that, it is believed that the garbage dumped by ships was also washed off ashore.
Though a common geographical phenomenon, often explained by experts as 'the self-cleaning mechanism of nature', the stink and the unhygienic environment created by the garbage troubled the residents, with many complaining of health problems. After repetitive complaints by the locals, the civic body began clean-up of the areas on a priority basis.
The report said that the washing away of garbage is a common monsoon phenomenon in Mumbai. During the high tide, the waves generally spill gathered trash on to the shore- an official was cited as saying in the report.
The development comes on the backdrop of a recent decision by the Maharashtra state government which enforced a ban on manufacturing, import, export, sale, purchase, distribution as well as storage of plastic material.


Thinking CAP: CAP's manufacturer relationships manager Martin Ward scours the globe for the week's insider fleet intelligence
Over to Düsseldorf to drive not one, but two new Audis – and two very different vehicles.
The first was the new A6, which has received a few minor cosmetic changes, and you have to have really good eyes to spot them. This is unusual for Audi as it generally makes substantial changes mid-lifecycle.
The interior has also received a few minor tweaks which don’t really add up to much.
But it is the changes to some of the engines which will make a difference, especially to company car drivers.
The new engine I drove was the 2.0 TDIe, an ultra-efficient common rail diesel that has a CO2 emission figure of just 139g/km, and is capable of achieving up to 53mpg.
The 0-62mph figure of 10.3 seconds is not earth-shattering, and it doesn’t feel particularly quick when accelerating, but it is adequate, and it comes into its own at motorway speed cruising.
On a quiet derestricted autobahn it got up to 110mph and held it for many miles, where it was quiet and refined.
The second new Audi is the Q7 6.0-litre V12 TDI – the most powerful diesel SUV produced.
This monster produces 500bhp, takes seven people and a load of luggage, yet still manages to accelerate from 0-62mph in a staggering 5.5 seconds.
This engine has race heritage as it was developed from the three-times winner of the Le Mans 24-hour race – the R10 TDI.
Audi claims it will manage around 25mpg on the combined cycle and produces 298g/km.
It has ceramic brakes as standard, and with all that weight and power it needs them.
The price is a whopping £96,295, but with very limited supply, they will no doubt sell.
Took a Ford Mondeo Econetic Estate to Lommel on the Belgian/Dutch border, and the home of Ford’s European test facility, for a few presentations and a good look at the all-new Ka.
This new baby Ford has been conceived in conjunction with Fiat and will be built in Poland.
The Ka shares the same platform and a few other under-the-skin components with the Panda, and the brilliant 500
However, the bodywork and glass are completely different, as is the interior.
Ford has worked on suspension, brakes, handling and ride to give it the ‘Ford DNA’.
When the original Ka was launched in 1996 it only had eight direct competitors, but now there are 22.
Ford has had a bit of luck recently, with the introduction of the new Kuga, Fiesta and now the Ka – all cars that are in demand and within budgets, and relatively cheap to run.
It seems Ford can’t do anything wrong at the moment.
The new Ka is a great car that is bound to sell without any problems – it looks cute and will be priced sensibly, with a sub-120g/km petrol engine as standard.
The Mondeo I went in was fitted with the 139g/km of CO2 1.8 TDCi diesel engine that produces 125bhp.
It is so quiet and on the 1,015 mile return journey across four countries, mainly on motorways, it achieved 50.2mpg, which is a great result.
The Econetic is based on the Zetec, but does not lose any of the high level of standard equipment, except the alloy wheels.