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Dave Showalter: Freedom to Roam
Friday, February 7, 2020Doors: 6:30pm
Colorado Chautauqua Community House
Tickets: $12.00 ($9.00 Concert Member)*
The New West has become increasingly complicated in the era of “Energy Dominance” and extreme pressure on public lands that belong to each of us – so, where do we fit into the conservation picture? In this presentation, Dave seeks to make a deeper connection between us and our Western lands while discussing how we can contribute as part of the conservation community.
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Conservation photographer and author Dave Showalter is focused on the American West, where we share a connection to open spaces, wildlife, and rivers that begin as snow falling on the Continental Divide. With a collaborative community approach to visual story-telling, Dave traverses the shortgrass prairie, sagebrush sea and the Colorado River watershed in a presentation that reveals reclusive wildlife, public and private lands conservation and challenges we face in conserving the New West.
Dave’s work takes us inside the lives of Greater Sage-grouse, an icon of the West, down the Colorado River that flows through 40 million of us, and roams prairie with grassland icons American Bison and native prairie species. Boulder is after all geographically situated on the shortgrass prairie of the Great Plains. *All ticket purchases subject to service fees.


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ITC to double presence of its e-store to 14 cities
ITC currently sells products across 46 categories through the e-store. This includes organic and multi-grain atta, ghee, frozen snacks and cooking pastes, luxury chocolates, ready-to-eat, hygiene products among others.
ITC Ltd, which has launched its e-store across seven cities with 700 plus products during the Covid-19 pandemic, is now planning to soon double its geographical presence, a senior company executive said.
Shuvadip Banerjee, vice president, marketing services, foods division at ITC said, "Consumer centric innovations like itcstore.in supplements ITC’s deep collaborations with its traditional and new-age supply chain partners, whilst reposing people’s trust in the ITC brand. We are delighted to expand the itcstore.in direct delivery service to more geographies.”
ITC currently sells products across 46 categories through the e-store. This includes organic and multi-grain atta, ghee, frozen snacks and cooking pastes, luxury chocolates, ready-to-eat, hygiene products among others. The platform has been carefully developed with in-built capabilities of managing ambient, cold, frozen and fresh products.
To drive traffic, the company also runs surprise offers at Rs 1 for the new products that ITC has launched in the e-store, while delivery is free for an order value of Rs 750 and above.
ITC's e-store has recently won leading fulfillment ratings in an independent survey done by Redseer amongst 10,000 consumers.
The court, in its interim order, said that prima facie, the defendant was permitting other third-party sellers to "latch on" to the best sellers in one particular segment of products and directed the defendant to disable the feature in relation to the plaintiff and restrained it allowing any third-party sellers from "latching on" to the mark and product listings of the plaintiff.

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the MOWA Members’ show! The biggest, best Members’ show in Wisconsin! Featuring 250 artists from all areas of the state, of varying ages and working in a myriad of media, this show has something for everyone and proves that MOWA is serious about engaging with its members.
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Disaster Recovery Plan
A-to-Zerto Glossary of Terms
What Is a Disaster Recovery Plan ?
A DR plan focuses on getting IT systems, applications and services back online as quickly as possible in the event of a disaster. Disasters can threaten the lives and health of people, can destroy infrastructure, and can disrupt business operations. Rapid and effective responses that follow a well-designed plan are key to mitigating the effects of a disaster.
From an IT perspective, disasters are the cause of unplanned downtime and data loss, both of which cost the organization due to loss of revenue, loss of productivity, loss of reputation, and loss of customer loyalty. Having an effective disaster recovery plan helps minimize downtime and data loss.
Disaster Recovery Planning
As part of business continuity planning, risk assessment (RA) and business impact analysis (BIA) help to identify the critical functions and business processes that must be prioritized.
Risk assessment will identify the organization’s most critical assets, threats and vulnerabilities that pose specific risks, and drive mitigation actions to reduce or remove the likelihood of these risks.
BIA will highlight the impact from the loss of any critical business process, and identify systems, applications, resources involved, existing dependencies as well as needs and/or alternate options to temporarily run the business process.
Figure 1: Business continuity planning to disaster recovery planning
As shown in figure 1, business continuity SLAs will be established as part of the BIA. They will include some business continuity metrics (MTD and MTDL) expressing the maximum tolerable downtime or data loss of these business processes. These in turn will help the DR team to extract key DR metrics such as RTO and RPO, and therefore set their own disaster recovery SLAs.
Based on the results from RA and BIA, the DR team will assess the best DR strategy to pursue, and the DR model —or DR implementation— best fitting the organization’s resources and needs.
The team will also assess if its current solutions are good enough to meet its SLAs. If not, the evaluation, implementation and integration of new solutions will be part of the planning process.
The DR team will also re-evaluate its procedures, workflows, communication plan and protocols. This often results into the creation of a DR runbook that details the exact procedures and processes to follow in case of a disaster or major IT disruption.
Another essential step is to engage with the incident response team —especially if separate from the DR team— to ensure proper monitoring of all IT critical assets and applications, optimize alert setup, and train staff for proper incident assessment and potential DR plan initiation.
All of the above will result in the establishment of a DR plan in line with the organization’s DR strategy, implementation, resources, IT infrastructure and solutions deployed.
Last, the DR planning should account for the establishment of regular reviews and testing of the plan, to measure if it can meet the required SLAs and ensure the team effectiveness in its response.
Business Continuity Plan (BCP) vs Disaster Recovery Plan
The business continuity plan is about steps and contingencies to maintain operationality for the organization while the disaster recovery plan focuses on restoring IT systems after a disruption.
The DRP is a subset of the BCP which includes other plans as shown below in figure 2. The BCP is managed by the business continuity management (BCM) team, which includes stakeholders from across the organization, and even outside of it. The DRP is managed by the DR team, which is very IT centric, even though it is connected to the BCM team.
Figure 2: Plans in Business Continuity
Key Considerations of a Disaster Recovery Plan
When creating an effective DR plan, you should consider several key points to help your organization be prepared when disaster strikes.
- Assigned roles and training. Ensure that the roles and responsibilities of everyone on your IT team are clearly laid out and that everyone is trained on their duties should a disaster strike. Ideally, you should have a backup assigned for each role, but at the very least, make sure you have a backup assigned for key decision makers.
- Communications. Have a clear plan for how steps of the DR plan can be communicated as they are being executed during a disaster and clear instructions of how to proceed if communications are disrupted due to the disaster.
- Remote access. Having a plan to initiate recovery from a remote location is ideal in case you can’t access your on-premises technology during a disaster.
- Updates. Make sure your plan is kept up to date as changes occur to your organization. These changes may include changes to personnel, changes to infrastructure, and changes to business priorities.
- Testing. DR testing is critical to both training and keeping your DR plan up to date. Testing makes employees familiar with the DR plan, the plan execution, and exposes any flaws or gaps in the DR plan. DR testing should be done frequently, at least twice a year, if possible, or at the very least, once a year.
Zerto and Your Disaster Recovery Planning
When you are faced with a disaster, a simple and clear plan can make or break your recovery. Zerto is a scalable solution that can provide your organization with a variety of tools to help make your DR plan not only simple and clear, but effective and robust. With Zerto, you can see the real-time status of your protected environment from any device. And you can test and validate, as often as you want, that your DR plan delivers and meet its SLAs, in a non-disruptive way for your production environment. Simply perform a full failover test in seconds and quickly get back to other business-critical tasks.


Statewide and regional business associations from across the Commonwealth have joined to create the Massachusetts Business Coalition on Transportation (MBCT). The group’s mission is to develop and promote a collaborative statewide business agenda for transportation to increase ridership on public transportation, decrease road congestion, and improve bridge and road conditions.
The formation of the MBCT is driven by worsening traffic congestion and increasing demand for more and better public transit, as well as the business community’s dissatisfaction with the current pace of improvements to our state’s transportation systems and services. While MBCT members represent a wide range of business advocacy groups and geographic areas, each with their own unique and complex transportation systems and agendas, all Coalition members believe that improving our statewide transportation infrastructure is an urgent policy priority, particularly as it relates to the support of business, commerce, economic competitiveness and growth.
In addition, the MBCT feels that the business community has a responsibility to partner with government on solutions, particularly when it comes to issues like public/private partnerships, workforce scheduling and applications of technology as well as sharing expertise on complex issues of financing, governance and management, contracting, and project delivery.
The MBCT will be chaired by James E. Rooney, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce (GBCC); Timothy P. Murray, president and CEO of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, Wendy Northcross, CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, and Richard Sullivan, president and CEO of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council (EDC). A complete list of all participating business groups can be found at the end of this release.
The Coalition’s mission is consistent with Massachusetts Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo’s call to the business community to join the conversation on statewide transportation policy proposals and builds off of Governor Charlie Baker’s Commission on the Future of Transportation. In addition, the Coalition’s conversations around new revenues for transportation initiatives will be coordinated with the efforts of Senate President Karen Spilka’s working group charged with examining the state’s revenue sources.
“Transportation, and particularly public transportation, is a critical component to Greater Boston’s, and indeed the state’s, talent and workforce strategy, housing crisis strategy, economic opportunity efforts, climate resiliency, and our commitment to improving the overall quality of life for the people who live and work in Massachusetts, said Rooney. “It’s time for a united voice from the business community that can be a powerful driver of progress. I’m proud to work with my colleagues from across the Commonwealth to deliver results to GBCC members and work towards achieving the world class transportation systems that our entire state needs to thrive.”
“A modern and efficient statewide transportation network presents the opportunity to address the Commonwealth’s critical housing and economic development needs,” said Murray. The MBCT’s goal is to provide pathways including possible funding mechanisms on how to create a state-of-the-art transportation system across Massachusetts.”
“Cape Cod’s two automobile bridges and surrounding roadways are at the top of the Chamber’s list for transportation investment. They are not only key to our economic health they are critical to our wellbeing,” said Northcross. “We did not hesitate to step up and work with our colleagues across the state to advance transportation solutions. We know that when the rest of the Commonwealth does well, Cape Cod thrives as well.”
“It is imperative that there be regional equity in all future investments that are made to our transportation system, said Sullivan. “There needs to be an appreciation for the regional differences and needs of our residents and our businesses. The definition of transportation infrastructure needs to expand beyond just roads and bridges to include broadband, internet and wifi investments so that the less populated regions of the state can take advantage of new technologies, uber-like solutions, and innovative solutions to transportation.”
So far, the MBCT has met twice to formulate a mission and shared principles and to discuss transportation policies that will become a formal agenda. Although the Coalition will work to formulate a common business community statewide transportation agenda, participation does not preclude members from advocating for region-specific programs and projects, and the MBCT expects to develop additional strategic collaborations during the process.
Massachusetts Business Coalition on Transportation (MBCT) Members
A Better City
American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts
Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Boston Municipal Research Bureau
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce*
Construction Industries of Massachusetts
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce*
Massachusetts Business Roundtable
Massachusetts Competitive Partnership
Massachusetts High Technology Council
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation
NAIOP Massachusetts – The Commercial Real Estate Development Association
New England Business Association
Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce
North Shore Chamber of Commerce
Retailers Association of Massachusetts
South Shore Chamber of Commerce
Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce
The New England Council
Trucking Association of Massachusetts
Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council*
Worcester Chamber of Commerce*
List as of April 10, 2019


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Welcome to the new space economy of low-cost nano-satellites
How much does it cost to build and run a global nano-satellite network? Not as much as you think, Meir Moalem, CEO of Sky and Space Global, tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
n ambitious company plans to have a 200-satellite wholesale data and voice network in service around the equator by the end of 2020. Sky and Space Global (SAS) is close to finalising the design of the tiny satellites, following last year’s successful launch of three prototypes, called 3 Diamonds.
GomSpace, a Swedish/Danish company, built the 3 Diamonds and will build SAS’s production satellites. "We’re at the critical design review stage," says Meir Moalem, CEO of SAS. They will be launched in batches of 20-25 a time every two to three months from the beginning of 2019.
If the launches are successful, the satellites, each around 700-750km above the surface, would act as an orbiting network of cell towers. They would mainly serve the equatorial belt, which means the band between 15° north of the equator and 15° south. That means Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia are well within the coverage belt, as is a good chunk of central America, though not Mexico. In Africa, Zimbabwe is too far south, but the service will reach Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Somalia, and as far south as Tanzania and northern Angola.
But SAS has a number of challenges ahead of it. It has a contract with Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit to launch its satellites, using a rocket carried on a Boeing 747-400 – but "Virgin Orbit still needs to do its maiden flight", admits Moalem. So Moalem and his team have put together a back-up plan. A 10 July announcement says SAS and China Great Wall Industry Corporation will "explore the provision of nano-satellite launch services". If the requirements are met, SAS and Great Wall "will start formal negotiations for a launch contract".
Moalem appears confident. "We’ve signed with the other launch provider as contingency but also for flexibility," he says. The community is growing, he adds, listing three potential rivals that are able to launch them: Firefly Aerospace, Rocket Lab and Vector Space Systems.
So what sort of services will SAS provide through its 200 satellites? Mostly machine-to-machine (M2M) and internet of things (IoT), says Moalem, where small amounts of data need to be transmitted, along with text and other messages.
Users will have a terminal, with an 8cm diameter satellite antenna on top, that will create a local WiFi hot-spot, connecting smartphones and other devices. Users will need a voice-over-IP app called Chatellite to make phone calls, he adds. "Bandwidth is almost zero. We’re extremely efficient, using a very advanced compression algorithm."
How much bandwidth? Give me a number, I ask over the phone to him in Tel Aviv. "I won’t," he says, before relenting: "In order to provide a good quality of call you need 4kbps. We can use 2.5kbps to do a good quality call. I’m not saying that’s what we’re doing."
Traffic will be routed satellite to satellite before reaching its destination. "Our satellites will be a mesh of routers in the sky." SAS has already demonstrated voice calling with its 3 Diamonds prototypes, "and we have demonstrated connections to the PSTN" – the public-service telephone network, the regular phone system. That break-out to complete normal fixed and mobile calls means SAS must be installing some billing software, I say. Moalem confirms that SAS is working with a significant billing company. Which one? He won’t reveal the details. "Does its name start with an A and end with an S?" A roar of laughter comes down the phone at my sly reference to Amdocs, the Israel-based, US-listed telecoms software company.
SAS takes flight
It’s a good time to turn to what one might call SAS’s somewhat unconventional background. It’s an Australian-owned, UK-based, Israeli-staffed company. Moalem is former officer in the Israeli Air Force, who then worked in the country’s space programme to build sensing satellites. His colleagues as founders of SAS include the CTO, Meidad Pariente, who worked on Israel’s Amos satellite programme, and Yonatan Shrama, with a cybersecurity background.
The SAS project started, Moalem told me last year, when he met a group of Australian investors looking for opportunities in Israel. They introduced Moalem and his colleagues to Burleson Energy, then "a junior oil and gas exploration company". Between March and May 2016 Burleson had changed its business, changed its name to SAS, created and acquired a UK subsidiary of the same name and carried out an initial public offering (IPO) on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that raised A$4.5 million – then worth around US $3.5 million, now a bit less. The investors "said we could do an IPO on the ASX on day one", recalled Moalem last year. "I wasn’t an expert. I know a lot more now."
Now, says Moalem on the phone, the company has raised a total of A$35 million ($26 million) "and we need around A$100 million", not necessarily all from the capital markets. "Once we start delivering commercial services", there will be revenue from sales and presales as well as debt, "whatever is the right solution".
Seems small by historical standards, I say. After all, Iridium is spending $3 billion on replacing its 20-year-old fleet of 66 low-orbit active satellites. "That’s exactly the essence of a new space economy," he says, "a significant reduction in capex and opex".
GomSpace is just such a creature of this new age of nano-satellites. It is a Swedish-registered company whose operations are concentrated in Aalborg, a city in the northern tip of Denmark that is best known for a powerful alcoholic spirit called Aquavit. GomSpace’s shares are listed on Nasdaq’s European market, First North.
SAS plans to manage its new satellite fleet from somewhere in the London area. "We’re shopping around for a ground-station facility," he says. It will run three shifts to ensure round-the-clock coverage, employing 20-25 people. But London is outside the coverage area, I note. There will be a VPN, just as there is to control the 3 Diamonds prototypes from Alaska, he explains.
"The ground station will be in the UK, within 50 miles of London. The only thing on the equator will be a remote antenna. The entire operations of the company will be run from the UK." But the company will keep its listing in Australia, he adds. "The ASX has been very good to us." The London base means that SAS uses spectrum licensed from Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator. It also means that the company exhibited on the UK government-backed pavilion at the CommunicAsia event in Singapore in June.
SAS will be almost entirely a wholesale-only company. "We are approaching telecoms providers and mobile network operators," says Moalem. The only exceptions will be very large organisations that might be direct customers.
SAS announced in May that it had run successful tests with Globalsat using its 3 Diamonds satellites. These confirmed "the ability to deliver a commercial narrowband communication offering in Central and South America", said SAS at the time. The two companies are now negotiating an agreement to "enable the provision of M2M and IoT connectivity services to the region, providing a much-needed service to this underserviced region".
The announcement quoted Globalsat’s CEO, Alberto Palacios: "We believe that when the Sky and Space 200-satellite constellation is complete and operational it will be a game-changing technology that can transform narrowband satellite communications. Globalsat is ready to advance our relationship with SAS to agree on a commercial arrangement, which will see us deliver mobile connectivity and IoT services to Latin and Central America."
Moalem agrees there is no supply chain yet for the sort of cheap terminals SAS will need in a successful market. "Our goal is that in three or four years you will be able to buy terminals anywhere in the world. We will have to provide terminals for the first year or so, but our business is not based on selling terminals."
Where next? Let’s assume that the next two and a half years go according to Moalem’s plans and that by the end of 2020 Virgin Orbit or China Great Wall have launched more than 200 nano-satellites into orbit – they’ll be called Pearl, by the way.
Beyond 2020, "we’re keeping an open mind", he says. Will SAS look at expanding service outside that ±15° equatorial coverage belt? "It is something that we’re thinking about. With all modesty we should first succeed in the huge challenge we have."
Moalem is already talking to "potential customers beyond 15°", he says. The company has made no secret of the fact that it is holding discussions with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) and it demonstrated its technology at a CTU conference in Guyana in mid-July.
"At the end of the day we are a commercial business and if it makes commercial sense we will do it," says Moalem.

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A study published Feb. 6 online in the journal Kidney International, which included 100 patients who died of sudden cardiac death during their first year of hemodialysis and 300 patients who survived, is the first to examine this question.
Allon N. Friedman, M.D., associate professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and first author of the study, said the findings are impressive enough that he believes a placebo-controlled clinical study is warranted to confirm the results.
"We found that higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood of patients who were just starting hemodialysis were very strongly associated with a lower risk of sudden cardiac death over the first year of their treatment," Friedman said.
The five-year survival rate for patients on hemodialysis is 35 percent, with the risk of death highest in the first few months of starting treatment. The most common cause of death in these patients is sudden cardiac death, which accounts for about one out of every four deaths.
"The risk of sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients is highest during the first year of treatment. The annual rate of sudden cardiac death is about 6 to 7 percent, which may even exceed the rate in patients with heart failure," Friedman said. "This study is a first step toward identifying a possible treatment for sudden cardiac death in dialysis patients.
"Because omega-3 fatty acids can be obtained from certain foods, such as fish oil, our findings also have important implications for the type of diet we recommend to patients on dialysis," Friedman said.
Others involved in the research are Zhangsheng Yu, Rebeka Tabbey and Cheryl Denski from the Indiana University Department of Biostatistics; Hector Tamez, Julia Wenger and Ravi Thadhani from the Division of Nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Yong Li and Bruce A. Watkins with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Lipid Chemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of Connecticut.
Funding for this research was provided by the National Institutes of Health and the National Kidney Foundation.
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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection recently approved an air construction permit that will allow Florida Power and Light to undertake a major efficiency and power uprate project at a unit of its Manatee power plant.
The existing 2,750-MW plant has emissions units that include:
- Units 1 and 2 are fossil fuel-fired steam electrical generators (nominal 800 MW each). Unit 1 began commercial operation in 1976 and Unit 2 began commercial operation in 1977.
- Unit 3 is a “4 on 1” combined cycle system that consists of: four gas turbines (170 MW each), four 495 MMBtu/hr heat recovery steam generators, and a single steam turbine-electrical generator (470 MW). Unit 3 has a total current capacity of about 1,150 MW. These emissions units commenced commercial operation in May 2005.
“This permitting action revises and adds certain conditions in the underlying air construction permit No. 0810010- 006-AC (PSD-FL-328) for Unit 3,” said a Dec. 19, 2013, DEP approval document. “The revised condition is primarily related to the language update of Unit 3 permitted capacity. The new conditions added are the authorization to replace the GE 7FA.03 turbine components with the GE 7FA.04 components to improve the efficiency of Unit 3. Each turbine new components would allow greater power output from 170 to 184 MW and higher input rate from 1600 to 1659 MMBtu/hour. Total new generating capacity of Unit 3 would increase approximately from 1150 to 1206 MW as a result of this project.”
FP&L is a unit of NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE).


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Technology can be a tremendous mechanism to connect and deliver good to the world. However, it must be used appropriately. Alicia Connected is a pioneering children’s chapter book designed to help parents and kids manage the use of technology in a safe and secure manner. When Alicia receives a tablet for her birthday, she finally enters the world of technology and experiences the wonder and excitement it can bring. However, she must also learn to navigate the promises and pitfalls of being online, and develop appropriate digital etiquette. By showing both the positive and negative aspects of technology, the book teaches children to be great digital citizens by using technology to enhance their behavior, friendships and family, through tolerance, kindness and authenticity.
“Children are constantly surrounded by technology, and parents are often unaware of the consequences of being insecure online,” says author, Derek Fisher. An award-winning author and seasoned cybersecurity expert, Fisher has over a decade of experience in the security space, working as an architect, leader, university instructor, and evangelist. With Alicia Connected, Fisher embraced the power of entertainment to inspire a legacy of change. His overarching goal was to take the complex topic of cyber safety, and make it easy for everyone to understand. “My goal with the book is to help children and their parents learn how to navigate an increasingly connected world in a safe and secure manner.”
Through a meaningful and relatable story, the book shares valuable life lessons and teaches positive philosophies and behaviors. While Alicia’s journey into technology begins with apps and games, it also includes a myriad of other online activities including how to set up a username, how to navigate friend requests and how to manage screen time. Using Alicia as a role model, children will learn to build good habits while using technology and avoid some of the common pitfalls related to security and safety online. In addition, Fisher’s unique approach grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers. Ultimately, readers will learn about the ripples of change that can be made with technology at home, at school, in the community, and around the whole world.
Alicia Connected has received positive reviews from some of the most well-renowned literary organizations, authors, and reviewers around the world. Midwest Book Review writes, “Advanced elementary to early middle school grades will appreciate this story of a girl's first introduction to new technology and its different responsibilities.” In addition, Readers' Favorite writes, “Author Derek Fisher has created a perfect example of how parents and children can work together to keep safe online, without all the tantrums and commotion that usually come with kids and their social media.”
Alicia Connected is available for sale on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online bookstores. Readers interested in establishing a safe environment for their children are encouraged to purchase a copy today: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Gift-Alicia-Connected/dp/0578685582
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Super snacks for the Panthers’ big day
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, February 2, 2016
By Deirdre Parker Smith
Keep pounding! But don’t wear yourself out getting ready for the biggest sporting event of the year.
Look for a theme or just go with what you know your friends will enjoy. There’s not a whole lot of food that is Panthers blue, and if there were, you probably shouldn’t eat it.
And there’s a rule for Super Bowl Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. — no “hardcore” tailgating at the game: no barbecues, smokers or grills. No open flames, no tents or other shelters, no spilling outside the lines of your parking space, which will cost between $80 for a car and $250 for a bus. And you likely won’t be getting an invitation to the NFL Tailgate Party, which has an intimate crowd of 10,000.
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Levi’s Stadium has plenty of food vendors, including hot dogs, burgers, international foods, ice cream, barbecue, pizza, a tap room with 42 different draft beers, wine and a pub.
A hot dog there will set you back $7 during a regular-season game. Prices may go up on Super Bowl Sunday. Bag of M&Ms, $6;16-ounce beer, $10.25 or more — these prices were listed in 2014 and have not been updated.
With tickets scarce and wildly expensive, jacked-up air fares and outrageous hotel prices, why not stay home and watch it on the big screen TV you got on Black Friday?
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1 bottle Frank’s Red Hot sauce or Bufflo Wing sauce
4-5 stalks celery
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1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
8-10 all beef hot dogs, cut into 1-inch bites
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2 Tbsp. sun dried tomatoes, chopped
6 ounces softened goat cheese
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1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
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City Hangout – Bougainvillea Aesthetics, Barakhamba Road
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi]
It takes a bougainvillea to raise a city. That’s what one feels on witnessing the magical scene of a Connaught Place high-rise emanating from the flower pot of a pink bougainvillea.
This illusion is caused by the combined effect of the night, the lights of the street lamps, the long row of the pavement trees, the lit-up building itself and the black starless sky. The bougainvillea pot is placed on the road divider in central Delhi’s Barakhamba Road, and the building is the distinctive Statesman House.
The late night sight is incredibly surreal. The entire length of the road divider is in fact decked with pots containing the bougainvilleas. Many are pink, but some are white too.
Bougainvilleas are well-suited to a rough-and-tough metropolis like Delhi. These scentless flowers might look fragile, but are able to thrive in the most adverse conditions of heat, smog, and dust—a fact confirmed by PK Tripathi, a member of the esteemed Delhi-based Bougainvillea Society of India. They are usually seen on the city footpaths as shrubberies hanging about boundary walls, growing in a wild abundance, impervious to any semblance of order. So here it is unusual to see the flowers arranged so carefully, in a neat row of pots, by the New Delhi Municipal Council (introduced a month ago before the coronavirus triggered lockdown).
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Tonight, a bunch of commuters are standing about a bus stop. They are all in mask, all busy with their mobiles. Nobody is noticing the row of bougainvilleas. Now a young man crosses the road from the other side. On stepping into the divider, he pauses behind one of the plants and curiously gazes upon a thicket of these flowers. He seems absorbed. The spell is broken within moments as he leaves the divider and crosses over to the other side.
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These bougainvillea adds little subtle grace in comparison to the big and powerful buildings present there . And as always your magic with words always makes me fall in live with this city a little more .
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With 505 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours, the total number of cases is now 3,577, while the number of deaths has risen to 83; as of March 30, the count was 1,251 cases and 32 deaths.
Following reports and studies hinting at the possibility that the virus may be airborne, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has stated that there is no credible evidence in this regard. “If it were an airborne infection and not a droplet infection, every member of a family would be infected; the same would apply to other patients in a hospital. But so far, we have not seen any evidence of this. There have been a million cases worldwide and no such cases have been found. I think we have to trust this evidence, “said Dr. R R Gangakhedkar, chief epidemiology and infectious disease, ICMR.
Amid criticism that India is not testing enough, the number of daily tests has almost doubled in the past two days, from 5,800 on April 2 to 10,034 on April 4. With 9,369 samples tested on Sunday, a total of 89,534 samples have been tested so far.
On Saturday, the ICMR issued a notice for the use of rapid antibody tests in certain regions. The results of these tests must be communicated immediately to the ICMR.
Across the country, 274 districts have reported cases of COVID-19 to date, of which 62 contribute to 80% of cases
According to what the government informally calls the “Bhilwara model”, the containment zones, or the zones reporting a large number of cases, in these 62 districts will be closed. The strategy has proven successful in Bhilwara (Rajasthan), which had become a hotspot last month.
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BA.2 now more than 90% of new COVID-19 cases in the Northeast, CDC estimates
The BA.2 sublineage of the Omicron variant is now responsible for more than 9 in 10 COVID-19 cases in the Northeast, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Tuesday, as the region is now responding to upticks in cases and hospitalizations.
Nationwide, prevalence of BA.2 — which has increasingly displaced the BA.1 Omicron subvariant that was behind the winter surge — is estimated at around 85.9% through the end of last week. That's up from 75.4% the week prior.
BA.2's ascent has already led to the Food and Drug Administration revoking authorization for sotrovimab, a monoclonal antibody treatment, over concerns it wouldn't be effective against infections caused by the subvariant. GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology say they are working on asking the FDA to greenlight resuming use of the treatment at a higher dose.
And coupled with a nationwide easing of mask requirements and other COVID-19 precautions, local officials are now weighing the possibility that pandemic measures may need to be reimposed.
Citing a recent rise in cases, Philadelphia said Monday that infections had crossed the benchmarks it had set to return to mask requirements indoors.
"We hope by having folks whenever they're in public, indoor spaces we can get ahead of the wave and keep it from reaching a peak like we saw in January," the city's top health official Dr. Cheryl Bettigole said, CBS News Philly reported.
Under the CDC's recently revised "COVID-19 Community Levels" guidance, the vast majority of counties are still in the green zone at "low" virus risk. But under the agency's previous framework, which relied only on COVID-19 case counts, most of the Northeast is at "high" or "substantial" transmission — the levels at which the agency had previously recommended masking indoors.
Philadelphia is at "low" COVID-19 levels but "substantial" transmission, in the CDC's data.
The agency's experts have also acknowledged that Americans' growing reliance on at-home testing is increasingly suppressing the true tally of cases. Wastewater monitoring from the CDC and companies like Biobot Analytics have tracked upticks in virus levels that appear to be outpacing the official counts.
New COVID-19 hospital admissions have accelerated across the Northeast, with the latest weekly averages climbing 8.8% in New England and 19.8% in the New York area, though they remain far below the rates seen over the winter surge.
"Home testing is really changing the case reporting. And we also see that many jurisdictions are choosing to go to less frequent reporting anyways. So it continues to be the case, or it is newly the case I suppose, that the primary metric is more along the lines of hospitalizations and deaths," Caitlin Rivers, associate director of the CDC's disease forecasting effort, said at an event hosted by the University of California San Francisco.
Tracking new variants
While officials have said for months that BA.2 does not seem to lead to more severe disease compared to its Omicron cousins, studies of the subvariant abroad have turned up at least a modest advantage at spreading faster compared to BA.1.
The Biden administration's health officials say they hope the fallout from the BA.2 wave will not result in the same death toll seen out of the winter.
"Now the cases are starting to come up. The critical issue is: are hospitalizations and deaths going to go up?," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president's chief medical adviser, said Monday at a lecture hosted by Uniformed Services University.
"We think that there's enough immunity in the community, from either being infected and hopefully vaccinated and then boosted, that we likely would see disassociation between infections and hospitalizations. We're hoping for that," added Fauci.
However, on watch for the next potential variant of concern, scientists and health officials have continued to identify and study dozens of new variants of the virus as it continues to mutate through new infections.
Some are so-called "recombinant" variants like XD and XE, which are hybrids of previously spotted variants. Health authorities in the U.K. said Friday that the rate of XE cases suggested it might be spreading 12.6% faster than BA.2, but cautioned the estimate was preliminary and has fluctuated widely as new data was added.
Others include additional Omicron subvariants like BA.4 and BA.5, which now appear to be displacing BA.2 in South Africa and has also been spotted in Europe. Experts speculate that these mutations might be able to escape the immune defenses from vaccinations or early infections better than the earlier Omicron subvariants, but data is still developing.
While there is no evidence these variants pose a greater risk of hospitalization or death, experts caution a new wave of infections and reinfections could still pose the risk of leaving more people with lingering "long COVID" symptoms.
To address that, Fauci said Monday officials were considering widening the availability of COVID-19 antiviral pills like Paxlovid.
"We are underutilizing Paxlovid. We have more Paxlovid now than we have people who can use Paxlovid," said Fauci.
Currently, Pfizer's pills are reserved only for Americans at the highest risk of severe COVID-19 disease. Around 175,000 courses of the drug have been made available for distribution to states and territories every week.
"Can't guarantee it, but you're going to be hearing soon that we're going to be much more flexible in giving Paxlovid to people who may not necessarily be in a high risk group in order to prevent them, possibly, from getting long COVID," Fauci said.
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Kick your varmint hunting up a notch with the 17 Hornet.
Now that we’ve taken a look at most of the popular .22 caliber varmint cartridges, it’s time to consider some of the smaller ones.
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The .177 caliber rifle has been around for a long time in the form of BB guns, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that folks became bored enough to start putting out .17 caliber cartridges. The 17 Hornet might actually be the first 17 to ever come down the pipe.
Folks like noted gunsmith and constant tinkerer P.O. Ackley started necking the 22 Hornet case up and down, and the 17 Hornet was one of the first Hornet wildcats. Despite its long history, the 17 Hornet has only recently become a factory cartridge embraced by gun manufacturers.
This mostly has to do with the fact that getting a rig like the 17 Hornet to really perform requires powders and bullets that have only recently come into being.
Today’s 17 Hornet has had most of the taper taken out of the case and its shoulder angle has been sharpened up to increase powder capacity.
The modern incarnation of the 17 Hornet can launch 20 gr bullets up to 3700 fps and 25 gr bullets up to 3200 fps, making it a real screamer even though it loses 100 fps for every grain of bullet weight you add due to the small caliber.
The bullets available for the Hornet these days are adorable miniaturized versions of the ballistic-tipped fodder we’re used to, and they offer outstanding performance on small critters without the reticule of your scope even twitching when the gun goes off.
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If you’re the kind of varmint hunter who likes to see the bullet impact, the 17 Hornet is the gun for you. Of course, the 17 also offers recoil which is almost imperceptible and sips on a pound of powder for years.
Twenty years ago the .17 caliber was little considered by shooters. An old acquaintance of mine used to joke that 17s didn’t shoot well because nobody made a 17 caliber cleaning rod, which kind of summed up the situation.
Without accessories like readily available reloading components or cleaning tools, the 17 was never going to be popular.
The modern market has fixed this problem, though. Today you can get all the bullets and gear you want for odd calibers, and the 17 is making a bit of a comeback.
Ruger, Savage, Chiappa and CZ all chamber the 17 Hornet these days in rifles that shoot so well they can be used for hunting flies if the gophers prove too easy to hit.
With a 17 Hornet you’ll always suffer a bit more in terms of wind drift than you will with a .22 caliber gun, but the added fun and scorching velocity of the 17 Hornet tend to make up for it.
This tiny hornet will only sting varmints, never your wallet or your shoulder.
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This strange craft, L’Egaré II, arrived in Falmouth on 21 August 1956, having crossed the Atlantic from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Falmouth, Cornwall in 88 days, carrying three men and two kittens, who became the first men in history to achieve this particular feat of endurance.
The voyage of L’Egaré II began with a mad idea; Henri Beaudout, then in his late 20s, believed that it was possible to cross the Atlantic Ocean from West to East by the most primitive raft propelled only by the winds and currents. The crew of the log raft were Frenchmen, Henri Beaudout, Gaston Vanackere and Marc Modena, together with their kittens Puce and Guiton. The raft, L’Egaré II, left Halifax, Nova Scotia on 24 May 1956. This was not the first time that Henri Beaudout had attempted this crossing. His first raft L’Egaré I was wrecked off Newfoundland during August 1955. L’Egaré translates as ‘the lost one’.
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The Falmouth Harbour Master’s Journal No. 35 records that on 21 August 1956 the raft was towed from Custom House Quay in Falmouth to the Western Ministry of Transport Buoy and moored by Falmouth Harbour Master with two quarantined cats on board. The raft had been towed into Falmouth by the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats. A further entry in the Harbour Master’s Journal on 30 August 1956 states that the two cats were removed from the raft under Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries licences and taken to quarantine kennels at Folkestone.
The voyage was dubbed ‘the Atlantic Kon-Tiki’ and was headline news at the time. The crew became celebrities and attended various functions in their honour. The kittens were eventually adopted by the Duke of Bedford, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; he agreed to take them in after he had invited Beaudout and his crew to meet him.
The story did not end there. In 1956 the Quebec Government asked Henri Beaudout to ship L’Egaré II back to Quebec, so that it could be displayed in a museum. But, when it arrived no plans had been made and the raft eventually rotted away in a field. However, in 2012, the Captain of L’Egaré II, Henri Beaudout, now in his 80s, together with a group of enthusiastic supporters started a campaign to raise funds to have a full-scale replica of the raft built and placed in a Canadian museum, to finally give the raft and the expedition the recognition they deserve.
This photograph forms part of the Weller photographic collection, part of a comprehensive record of shipping and craft mostly taken in and around Falmouth Harbour and Falmouth Docks over a 36 year period from 1933 to 1969 by David John Weller and his son David. David Weller did not record the name of this raft, but as the National Maritime Museum Cornwall houses the Port of Falmouth Harbour Master’s Journals in the Bartlett Library, it was possible to discover the name and therefore more information about this raft. In addition a copy of ‘The Lost One’ written by Henri Beaudout recording this extraordinary adventure is held in the Bartlett Library.
This photograph is not currently on display in the Museum, but appointments to view the Weller and other collections can be made via the Curator.

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16 children killed in collisions on NYC streets this year, a record of Vision Zero era: report
Traffic crashes on New York’s streets claimed the lives of 16 children in the first nine months of 2022, a record of the Vision Zero era, according to a new report from advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.
Carnage on the city’s streets has already killed five more children under 18 than died in all of 2021. The total so far this year is also 23% higher than had been seen in any full year after the city adopted Vision Zero as a governing principle in 2014, according to the report.
Of those 16 children, 13 of them were killed by large vehicles, including bulky SUVs and pickup trucks, vans, buses, and trucks.
“No other year under Vision Zero has been as deadly for our children as 2022,” said Dana Lerner, whose son Cooper Stock was killed by a cab driver on the Upper West Side in 2014, in a statement. “My 9-year-old son Cooper Stock deserved to grow up. The 16 children killed this year deserved to grow up.”
The deceased include 5-year-old Jonathan Martinez, who was killed in East Elmhurst in September in a hit-and-run, by an unlicensed driver operating an unregistered, uninsured, souped-up Dodge pickup truck. The driver was arrested a few weeks later.
A startling 30 people were left critically injured in hit-and-runs just in the third quarter of 2022, Transportation Alternatives found, more than any three-month period since at least 2018. That brings the totally injured by fleeing drivers to 63 this year .
Another 5-year-old boy, Yaakov Farhi, died three months after being run over near his Midwood home, by the driver of a BMW with Florida plates pulling into a driveway.
The streets have been particularly deadly in the Bronx this year, with one-in-four traffic deaths this year occurring in the northernmost borough. The 47 victims include 16-year-old Alissa Kolenovic, who was killed by a delivery truck while crossing the street in Morris Park.
In total, 187 people were killed in traffic collisions in the first nine months of 2022, according to Vision Zero data from the Department of Transportation. That includes 77 pedestrians, 13 cyclists, and 81 motorists.
In a statement, DOT spokesperson Vin Barone noted the administration has invested $900 billion in implementing the city’s master plan for its streets, and posited that pedestrian fatalities are in fact trending downward, nearly 15% below what they were at last year.
“The Adams Administration has invested a historic $900 million in the DOT to repurpose our street space in support of safe, sustainable, and efficient transportation options,” Barone said. “We’ve exceeded our commitment this year to deliver safety improvements at 1,000 intersections and focused on equitably distributing these projects citywide to ensure every community is benefiting from this life-saving work.”
Last year, Transportation Alternatives called on the city to commit to repurposing 25% of traffic and parking roadways to space for pedestrians, cyclists, and straphangers. The plan was endorsed by then-mayoral candidate Eric Adams. The nonprofit says that redesigning car-centric infrastructure, to calm traffic and reduce the number of cars on the road, would save lives.
This week, the Adams administration announced that it has exceeded its goal to implement safety improvements at Big Apple intersections in 2022, through street redesigns, daylighting, pedestrian-centered traffic signals, and other calming measures. But advocates also noted this week that the city is well behind on its statutory requirement to build 20 miles of bus lanes this year.
“Vision Zero works when our leaders scale proven solutions that prevent traffic violence. Mayor Adams’ completion of more than 1,200 intersection safety upgrades is proof that this administration can deliver on its goals,” said Transportation Alternatives executive director Danny Harris in a statement. “Now, we need the Adams administration to demonstrate the same commitment to meet and exceed other requirements, like the NYC Streets Plan, in order to make NYC 25×25 a reality and ensure that no one needs to fear death or injury when crossing the street in New York.”
This story has been updated with comment from DOT.


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Catalina only made her deal with the demon because she had nowhere else to go. The world has kicked her every chance it got, so she’s all too happy to leave the realm she knows behind. What’s the worst that could happen?
She doesn’t anticipate being auctioned away to a kraken.
Thane is cold and distant…but he’s not unkind. Isolated as they are, Catalina finds herself seeking his company again and again. And when she finally agrees to uphold her portion of the bargain?
That’s when things get really interesting.
But she only gave the demon seven years, and when the time is up, she’ll have no choice but to leave behind the kraken who’s stolen her heart and return to the world that doesn’t want her.
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Five people enter into a deal with a demon. He'll give them what they want in return for seven years' service. And they have to pay up front.

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- On March 10, 2021
Milford & District Resource Centre are organising a day of action on Saturday, March 13th to tidy up our streets, roads and hedgerows across the wider Milford district. The Big Spring Clean is an initiative aimed at getting people of all ages, across every area, involved in keeping our towns, villages and townlands clean and tidy.
“We’ve all noticed a significant rise in roadside litter over the past year, which is down to a number of factors associated with lockdown” said Declan Meehan, manager of MDRC. “Rather than organising a traditional community clean up we have had to be mindful of COVID restrictions and so we are asking people to go out with people from their own households and to stay within their 5km limit.”
The Big Spring Clean can take place anywhere – where is up to you as anyone can get involved. So far the initiative is being backed by the tidy towns of committees in Milford, Rathmullan and Kerrykeel, as well as community groups in Ray, Ramelton and Ballyare.
“It’s a great way for the community to come together by staying apart, while having a visible impact on our home areas, and the areas we love to visit” Meehan concluded.
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Listen: A Celtic fiddler captures a sweet jam with musical friends
This is an exclusive song premiere, part of WBUR's effort to highlight New England musicians.
Fond memories of a jam session in a Groton kitchen led to a new single from Boston fiddler Maura Shawn Scanlin. The session saw the faculty of Katie McNally’s annual Boston States fiddle camp — including Scanlin — play into the wee hours of the morning.
“It was a raging, super fun session, and there were three tunes that were part of that session, and I thought it’d be nice to have a recorded version of them,” said Scanlin.
The result is “The Seagull/Jerry's Pipe Jig/Bill Collins'” — a set of tunes that will also appear on Scanlin’s eponymous solo debut album, which will be out on May 5. Scanlin is a boundary-defying virtuoso whose busy schedule includes performances with the Celtic duo Rakish, famed Irish-American musician Seamus Egan, and the classical-folk Rasa String Quartet. For her first record released under her own name, Scanlin said she simply wanted to share with listeners what happens when she “gets to play music with my friends. The traditional music community is an inspiring community to be a part of.”
Scanlin is joined on the single by bagpiper Elias Alexander, accordionist Neil Pearlman, and guitarists Eamon Sefton and Conor Hearn (the other member of Rakish). The band’s instrumentation creates a layered sound not often heard in Celtic music.
“I love that sound because I think it creates a more rich bed of texture and harmony upon which the harmony can sit,” said Scanlin, whose debut was funded in part through a Club Passim Iguana Music Fund grant.
“It emulates that feeling of being in the center of musicians in a jam session, and just being surrounded on all sides by music. It’s an amazing feeling and I wanted to capture what it feels like to be side by side with another fiddle or sandwiched between two guitars.”
The track opens with “The Seagull,” which Scanlin described as having “maximum energy, which is what I wanted for the beginning of the record. It’s an amazing pipe tune, and it’s not that often that you hear the accordion, pipes and fiddle, all playing the melody together right at the start.”
“Jerry’s Pipe Jig” was one of many tunes written by Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland, who Scanlin had as her instructor as a young child attending a fiddle camp in Nova Scotia. “His tunes are simple and satisfying to play and catchy in a good way. They focus more on groove and rhythm than showy and fancy harmonics and melodies. They’re the essence of the traditional sound,” said Scanlin.
After Scotland and Cape Breton, the set’s musical journey ends in Ireland with “Bill Collins’.” The jig was named for an Irish musician who immigrated to America. His son Dan became a producer and label owner who was responsible for many important Irish music recordings.
“All of those traditions have really influenced my fiddle playing, and they’re just fun to play together,” said Scanlin.
Maura Shawn Scanlin's "The Seagull/Jerry's Pipe Jig/Bill Collins'" is out April 19, and her full-length album, "Maura Shawn Scanlin," is out May 5.
Note: The audio for WBUR's music premieres comes down after the track is released. You could still listen to the track via the streaming service embed above.
This article was originally published on April 18, 2023.


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Denver, CO (PRWEB) January 27, 2005
ItÂs been nearly three years since the French ice dancing team of Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat won the Olympic gold medal in Salt Lake City. But now, for the first time since those Olympics, they are finally ready to skate in front of American audiences in the 2005 John Hancock Champions on Ice tour.
Anissina and Peizerat, one of the worldÂs most successful and beautiful ice dancing teams, have toured in France and Japan but have never had the chance to skate in shows in the United States before. They will perform in all 23 cities that the tour stops in beginning in Hartford, Conn., March 26, and ending in Anaheim, Calif., May 1.
Joining Anissina and Peizerat in the tour are nine-time U.S. champion Michelle Kwan, two-time national champion Johnny Weir and two-time ice dancing champions Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.
With the Olympics just one year away, the John Hancock Champions on Ice tour will showcase some of the worldÂs best skating talent. Among others in the star-studded cast are World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist Irina Slutskaya; 2004 world silver medalist Sasha Cohen, Olympic bronze medalist Timothy Goebel and Russian world champion Evgeni Plushenko.
Kimmie Meissner, the 15-year-old sensation who became the first American since Tonya Harding in 1991 to land a triple axel, will make appearances in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and East Rutherford, N.Y.
The John Hancock Champions on Ice tour also features other entertaining acts including the comedy of Dan Hollander, acrobatic duo of Vladimir Besedin and Oleksiy Polishchuk and the amazing hula hoops on ice with Irina Grigorian.
In true Champions on Ice tradition, all of the skaters will perform to original music and choreography of their choice. Selections help match famous names and faces with personality and style.
Tickets are now available for John Hancock Champions on Ice at local Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com, arena box offices and at championsonice.com. Order your tickets now and catch a glimpse of skatingÂs newest stars.
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Hypocrisy Exposed as Gays Admit That One Marriage Affects OthersPosted: September 13, 2014
Those familiar with the debate over same-sex marriage, know that a common cry from gay advocates is that gay marriage should be allowed because it has no impact on anyone else.
This lie was exposed for what it is in September when homosexuals expressed outrage, “horrified” at two straight men marrying each other in New Zealand. The wedding was before family and friends of the spouses; two best mates, who married as part of a competition on radio.
So much for that old line that a gay marriage is nobody else’s business.


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America’s Stasi: NYDN Applauds Jihad Slaughter in San Bernardino
In a new low even for the New York Daily News, which recently branded NRA chief Wayne LaPierre a terrorist, columnist Linda Stasi has penned a vile column justifying the San Bernardino jihad murders, saying that one of the victims was “the male equivalent of Pamela Geller.”
Just as the jihad attack on our free speech event in Garland, Texas last May exposed the RINOs and posers on the right such as Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly, and Laura Ingraham who, cowed by Islamic violence, blamed us for the attempted mass murder, so now the San Bernardino jihad attack is exposing the leftist who cheerlead for jihad murder – as long the victims are “right-wingers.”
After the Daily News mocked G-d and the prayers that many of the GOP candidates expressed for the victims and their families, you would think they would be more careful and even contrite. No such luck. And even the supposedly conservative site Hot Air went over to the dark side, posting Stasi’s piece without comment.
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Linda Stasi has an appropriate last name: the Stasi was the notoriously brutal East German secret police. Back in the 1960s, Stasi agents staged anti-Semitic attacks inside West Germany in an attempt to discredit the West German government.
The Stasi blamed the Jews. This Stasi is blaming the Messianic Jew who was murdered by the San Bernardino jihadis. “The victim,” Stasi wrote, “is also inaccurately being eulogized as a kind and loving religious man. Make no mistake, as disgusting and deservedly dead as the hate-filled fanatical Muslim killers were, Thalasinos was also a hate-filled bigot. Death can’t change that. But in the U.S., we don’t die for speaking our minds. Or we’re not supposed to anyway.”
Ah, there it is: “We have freedom of speech but…” In Stasi’s mind, she and her ilk should have the freedom of speech to spew the most disgusting hatred toward those whom they hate, but their victims should not have the same right.
“That wife radicalized him and fueled his hatred. The FBI is investigating her ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS. Go to the Middle East, meet your new wife, meet some terror leaders, begin your wedded bliss back in the USA.” The wife radicalized him? Says who? What proof is there? The husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, was an open supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS). Both Farook and his wife were vile human beings. They found each other and became united in murder and bloodlust. Islam cubed.
But for Stasi, their victim, Nicholas Thalasinos, was just as bad, because he was a conservative. Robert Spencer writes:
Her equivalence founders, of course, on the simple and titanic fact that Farook was a mass murderer, while Thalasinos was never going to kill anyone. But in her madness to justify the San Bernardino jihad murders, Stasi doesn’t bother to mention that….Why does Stasi believe that Pamela Geller is a hate-filled bigot, the equivalent of Syed Rizwan Farook? Because she has put her life on the line calling attention to and opposing the Islamic hatred and bloodlust that leads to the San Bernardino jihad murders and other jihad mass murders. If Pamela Geller’s warnings had been heeded, Nicholas Thalasinos and the other San Bernardino victims might be alive today. But they were not heeded, because of the relentless demonization that has been carried out for years against her, and continues to be, by people like Linda Stasi and her accomplices in the mainstream media.
A police officer on the scene in San Bernardino said: “It was unspeakable the carnage that we were seeing.” Stasi says they had it coming. They did not submit to the blasphemy laws under the Sharia. When jihadis drove 1000 miles to open fire on our free speech event in Garland, Stasi’s headline was: “Stasi: With Pamela Geller’s Prophet Muhammad cartoon stunt in Texas, hate rears its ugly face again.” She wrote: “Looks like Pamela Geller will get her wish: More dead Americans at the hands of radical Muslims. Hell, the hatemonger finally even got ISIS to pay attention to her.” Looks like Stasi got her wish in San Bernardino.
Americans, take heed. Know that if you are slaughtered in the cause of Allah, whether it be at a Christmas party, schoolroom, mall, or concert hall, cannibals like Stasi will work furiously to unearth some justification, any excuse to exonerate the jihad doctrine and declare that you had it coming.
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Ryan i have not looked into doing this but i have seen 6 lug d60 fronts, and the chrome locking hub fits through you 6 lug wheel, but it is the d60 hub body that tapers larger near the mounting surface so that the 8 lug wheel would be "hub centric"(hub centric is the way they index OE wheels on the hubs). You have to lathe out that taper and then re-drill for 6 lug. that is where i don't know what to do, i think some people swap rotors and such.
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Take the hubs down to a maching shop or axle shop. They will chuck the hub up in a lathe and remove enough material from the outside so your wheel will fit through. Then they will weld up your 8 lug holes in the hub and redrill them for 6 lug. I don't know if they weld and redrill the rotor as well or if they use a different rotor.
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My 9 yr. Old son has had tubes in ear for 15 months. We recently went on vacation . W hen we got off the airplane my sons ear started to bug him and we noticed severe white drainage from his ear. We took him to see family doc next day. He said ear infection and prescribed amoxicillan. Now 3 weeks later and on 2nd round of antibiotics his ear is still draining, but it looks like yellow thick mucus and stinks so bad I can hardly stand it. What is going on?
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Valtteri Bottas: 2019 has been my best year ever in F1
Valtteri Bottas might not be ruthless enough to capitalise on Lewis Hamilton's one vulnerability. That is the verdict of former Williams driver Damon Hill, who has raised fears the Finn is just too nice to knock Hamilton off his throne.
Bottas will head into the delayed 2020 campaign off the back of going fastest at pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya in February.
The 30-year-old quickly got to grips with the new Mercedes W11 in Spain and will be desperate to show off his quality wherever the coronavirus-hit season begins.
Bottas has been open about his desire to end Hamilton's reign as the king of F1 and snatch away his team-mate's crown.
Hill believes Hamilton's one vulnerability centres on him being made to feel uncomfortable, just as Nico Rosberg managed to do to the Brit in 2016.
Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton are set to battle for F1 glory in 2020
However, the 1996 F1 champion cannot see Bottas replicating Rosberg's craftiness to his advantage as he targets glory at the pinnacle of motorsport.
"I don't think it's in Valtteri's nature," said Hill, in the March 2020 edition of the official Formula 1 magazine. "I don't think he has a bad bone in his body.
"If he comes out saying 'no more Mr Nice Guy', I still don't see it. He is a nice guy.
"He is quick, dependable, he has integrity and I don't think he would want to win by befuddling his opponent."
Bottas and Hamilton were meant to start the 2020 season at the Australian Grand Prix, where they secured a one-two for Mercedes last year.
However, March's meet in Melbourne was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has gone on to claim more than 38,000 lives worldwide.
The Chinese and Monaco Grands Prix have also been axed, while the races in Bahrain, Vietnam, Holland, Spain and Azerbaijan have been postponed.
F1 chief executive Chase Carey revealed last week that he is optimistic about the chances of staging between 15 and 18 Grands Prix this year.
The Canadian Grand Prix is now set to be the starting point for the campaign but the trip to Montreal in June may be called off if the coronavirus pandemic is not brought under control.
Amid the chaos caused by the spread of Covid-19, Bottas has stayed focused on his aim of winning the F1 title.
"Goal for the season is to be world champion. Nothing else," Bottas said.
"In the field, I don't admire any other driver. If I would, I should stay home, because I'm there to compete against them and to beat them."


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