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The traditional Greek dish Gemista (means “to fill”), is a beloved dish which my mother and aunty would make at times. Normally, they would stuff vegetables with a rice, meat and herb mix. As the years gone by, I have dedicated my diet to a more vegetarian or vegan approach. So, I decided to try and take a simple Gemista recipe and bring my own vegan twist to it.
I have attached a video of me making this recipe for the first time. You will see that I indulged in presenting the recipe, with an improvised Greek accent. Make sure to tag me on Instagram @auralogica, if you have tried to make my recipe.
Enjoy and ‘ Καλή Όρεξη ‘
Video: Greek Vegan Dish - Gemista
Serves: 2 -3
- 3 cloves of Garlic
- 1 ½ of small White Onion
- 1 teaspoon of dry Mint
- 1 Veggie Bouillon cube (Mushroom if available)
- 1 Clove
- 1 Whole Spice
- ½ cup of Rice
- 1 ½ cup water (bre-boiled)
- 2 small Courgettes (Zucchini)
- Approx. 8-10 Mushrooms (Cremini or White Button)
- ¼ of a teaspoon Paprika
- 1 ½ of a teaspoon Curry
- 1 teaspoon of Salt
- 2 tablespoons of Olive Oil
- Handful of Spinach & Arugula (Optional)
- 4-5 Peppers (Red, Yellow, Green, Orange)
- 3-4 Potatoes
- 4 tablespoons of Olive Oil
- 1 teaspoon dry Oregano
- ½ teaspoon of Salt
- ¼ of Black Pepper
- Peel and cut in halves the onions and garlic. Place in a blender to cut them finely into small pieces. (You may choose to do this by hand)
- Place a large pan to at a Medium High Heat with a teaspoon of oil.
- When pan is hot, add the chopped onions, garlic and bouillon. Cover for 2 minutes.
- Add the mint, clove and whole spice. Mix it all together.
- Add rice. Mix for 1 minute.
- Add water and cover for 5-7minutes. We want to get the rice half cooked.
- After 5 minutes, let the cover off and let the water evaporate. Check every 2 minutes.
- When water is evaporated, turn off the heat and place rice on the side to cool.
(During the time the rice is cooking you may choose to prepare the potatoes or cut off the tops of the peppers and remove the seeds)
- Finely chop or blend the mushrooms and courgettes.
- In a bowl put the mushrooms, courgettes and rice. Mix.
- Add the paprika, curry, salt and oil. Mix and put to side.
- Peel and cut the potatoes into small wedges
- Add the olive oil, oregano, salt and pepper
- Mix and put to side
(PRE-HEAT OVEN TO 180 Degrees Celsius)
Take a pan and lather it with some oil, or to avoid sticking, place a metal or baking sheet to your pan.
STUFFING THE PEPPERS
- Cut off the tops of the peppers, clean off the seeds and membrane. Place tops to side.
- If you chose to use spinach and arugula, begin by stuffing the peppers with a few leaves of both, then continue adding the mix until it reaches the top of the pepper. Place top of pepper.
- Continue to stuff all peppers with the mix and then adding the tops of the peppers to close them.
- Place potatoes and stuffed peppers to pan.
- Cover and place to oven. Turn the heat up 200 Celsius. Keep covered for 45 minutes.
- After 45 minutes, uncover and let for another 10-15minutes in the oven with a reduced heat of 100 Celsius.
Remove, let cool and serve.
Thank Your pretty fairy of a cook for today's recipe
Georgia Aurelia (@auralogica)

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Girl detective Goldie Vance moves from graphic novels to middle-grade prose.
Crossed Palms Resort valet and permanent resident Goldie Vance is a hopeful apprentice detective waiting for a big break. When movie star Delphine “the Temptress of the Ocean” Lucerne comes to Goldie’s decidedly unglamorous Florida town to shoot a film, her arrival is soon followed by a theft—the 10-pound, diamond-laden swim cap made for Delphine’s character in the film. What makes this complicated for Goldie is that clues seem to be pointing toward her mother as the culprit. But that can’t be true. Now Goldie has two tasks, not just one: find the swim cap and clear her mother’s name. Rivera’s novel for teens Dealing in Dreams (2019) was filled with creative, believable, and consistent slang and jargon; here she shows herself to be skilled at combining noir language conventions with contemporary sensibilities in a way that doesn’t feel anachronistic but is just a gas! Like Nancy Drew, brown-skinned Goldie is a teen girl, but her adventure really is entertaining and accessible for all ages—without the wooden characters or racism of the Carolyn Keene classics and with a little insertion of comics courtesy of Power to remind us where she came from.
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Select Biosciences India Honors Prof Bhupinder Singh Bhoop with “Outstanding Scientist Award”
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The award was presented by Dr Sanjay Bajaj, Dr Brain Carlin, Dr Adnan Sabir, Dr Sushil Srivastava, Dr Ranjit Barshikar & Dr Anil Binnor.
Dr Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, Professor & Dean, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University has over 200 highly cited publications, tech-transfers of patented nanostructured drug delivery systems. Professor Bhoop has also trained thousands of scientists on novel scientific aspects.
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The other bourgeois right and liberty implicated in what one report says was murders targetting Black students or other students of color by race/nationality is the nurturing and fomenting of racist murder by fascist racist organizations protected by the U.S. First Amendment freedom of speech and assembly. What are the probabilities that these Denver students are plugged into racist fascist cyberspace ?
To paraphrase what I said in an article "For Outlawing Fascistic Racist Speech", (_Crossroads_ Dec/Jan 1993) those liberals ,left-liberals and civil libertarian absolutists who defend fascistic racist speech and organization fail to address or discuss the harm that acutally existing fascistic racist organizations do in non-fascist, capitalist countries, especially the U.S. They do not compare this harm, including to freedom of speech of individuals in groups targetted by the KKK/Nazi types, with their speculation about the indirect harm to non-fascists of outlawing fascistic racist speech and organization.. Assume for argument that the liberals and absolute civil libertarians are correct: outlawing fascist racist speech also results in a crackdown on the left, the advent of a new McCarthyism, a horrendous assault on the First Amendment (freedom of speech, assembly and "thought") of communists, socialists and left liberals. They do not compare this harm with the ongoing modern form of lynching which is racist and anti-gay murders, regularly perpetrated by the KKK, neo-Nazis, Aryan Nation and independent/libertarianist violent racists. This includes many cases of police murder and brutality because many police departments have secret KKK and Nazi members, like Mark Fuhrman from the O.J. Simpson saga. This includes the murder of Martin Luther King, which the KKK no doubt organized. The tolerance of genocidal fascist organization and culture chills all of the civil liberties and rights of the target groups of genocidal fascists, who serve as privatized members of the repressive apparatus of the capitalsit regime. The civil libertarian freedom of speech absolutists are not concerned about these civil liberties and rights. For them the freedom of speech is a higher civil liberty and right than freedom from organization of genocidal and homophobic murder and terror. Fortunately, there is the possibility of outlawing fascistic racism without a new McCarthyism. But if that were the price, are we certain we shouldn't pay ideological priority of the struggle against advocacy and oraganization fo racist and homophobic murder and terror.
Outlaw the KKK and Nazis !
>>> Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> 04/21/99 10:42AM >>>
At 03:17 AM 4/21/99 -0500, Jennifer wrote:
>I had to choke when president Clinton said in response to the tradegy that
>we simply must teach our children that conflict should be resolved with
>words not guns.
You are absolutely right. The criminologist Dane Archer (_Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective_, New Haven: Yale U Press, 1984) notes upsurges of violent crimes in the aftermath of wars and armed conflits among nations. That tendencey is especially pronounced in victorious nations. He explains that government use of violence legitimizes it, in eyes of citizens, as a means of conflict resolutions.
Our fearless leader has been using violence very casually, unleashing cruise missiles and bombers on pharmaceutical plants, trains, and refugee convoys each time his popularity is threatened. So it should not be very surprising that a few deranged kids followed his footsteps and went ona shooting spree to boost their own dwindling popularity. What else can you expect from the deadly combination of alienation caused by suburban living, and infatuation with violence and celebrity cult that permeates pop culture?
Talking about gun control in this context is changing the subject. Both liberals and NRA-types view guns as fetishes which can destroy or save our society while ignoring social conditions that encourage violence.
BTW, NRA is a living proof of a deadly attraction between guns and psychopaths. Ordinary criminals appear are paragons of purpose-rationality vis a vis NRA crazies. It is not criminals with guns that I fear, but the law abiding NRA psychopaths.


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‘We can’t do anything but good by these candidates’
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Nine-year-old Robert Avilla said he was excited about getting to attend the Democratic Presidential Forum. He just didn’t know why.
Avilla came from Lovelock with his grandmother, Linda, to participate in the forum at the Carson City Community Center on Wednesday afternoon.
“I brought him because this is a special moment,” she said. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event, and when he’s older he can tell people he was here.”
Avilla, a correctional officer in Lovelock, said her biggest concern is about providing health care to her parents.
“That’s my No. 1 issue. No. 2 would be Iraq. I don’t want them to pull out, but we need to do something,” she said.
Robert chose to wear his scout uniform as part of his service badge, but the uniform didn’t go unnoticed. While he was eating lunch, Robert got to meet Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., who was drawn to Robert’s Boy Scout uniform and wanted to meet him.
Robert later said he liked U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and wanted to ask her what it would feel like if she becomes president.
Waiting to get into the auditorium, Chad Trexler, 18, Susie Trexler, 18, and Rachel Miller, 17, all of Reno, said they wanted to come because this will be the first presidential election in which they can vote.
“I haven’t made up my mind yet, and I want to be informed,” Miller said. “For me, education is an important issue. We need a policy to fix No Child Left Behind because it has a lot of problems.”
Chad Trexler said he hoped the candidates would focus on more than just the conflicts overseas.
“Everyone is talking about the war in Iraq, but there are other issues,” Chad Trexler said. “My concern is global warming and what they are going to do to fix it.”
All three said one of the reasons they came was for the chance to see a potential leader of the free world.
“I think this is a great thing for Nevada. We are due to play an important role in an election,” Miller said.
After the forum, Robbi Phillips and Marcus Cast, both of Elko, said it helped them decide which candidates to investigate further.
“I’m leaning towards Bill Richardson, but this early I didn’t really have a plan about who I’m voting for,” Phillips said. “I definitely think that having Nevada be more of a player in choosing our president is a good thing.”
The forum also had an impact on Kathy Elliott of Carson City, who said that her first choice didn’t change, but her other preferences did.
“Hillary is still my number one, but the New Mexico governor has become my No. 2. I think he speaks very well and has some good ideas,” Elliott said. “It was nice to sit and hear solutions, not just complaints.”
Kathy Hawkins, of Yerington, said the biggest thing she took from the forum was the strong field of democratic candidates.
“We can’t do anything but good by these candidates. They are all good and honorable people who will represent the country well,” Hawkins said.
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Liar, liar, pants on fire!
The Noda administration has successfully pass the legislation to increase Japan's sales tax from current 5% to 8% (then to 10%) with the help of the opposition parties, and the ostensible reason was to "reform and improve the public safety net".
It was BS as it stood, because the money will be taken from the very people Prime Minister Noda says he wants to help. Now, according to Tokyo Shinbun, the administration has much better use of the money that they will have: public works.
Ah. Good old trusty public works that have never succeeded in lifting Japan from the two-decade-long economic stagnation (dubbed "Lost Decades") but have helped in keeping the biggest general contractors in business.
But if you read the article, it's totally illogical. It goes like this:
Let's raise sales tax, everybody pays this tax for everything they buy.
Lots of money will fill the government coffer. No need to issue government bond to pay for the social services any more!
So, the debt (government bond) not issued (because the sales tax covers the cost, supposedly) is the new money created! (No it is not, but you can't argue with politicians.)
Let's spend that "money" on public works!
Only in the last bastion of John Maynard Keynes.
My quick translation of the Tokyo Shinbun article (7/30/2012):
A curious discussion has been going on in the Upper House special committee on the simultaneous reform on social security and taxation. The main topic of the discussion is whether to use the extra breathing space from the sales tax hike in public works. All of the money from the tax increase is supposed to be used in providing social security. But if we listen to the discussion, it is almost like "simultaneous reform on taxation and public works".
In the committee meeting, the Councilors from Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komei Party keep repeating, "We should increase the budget for public works because the public works protect the life and living of the citizens." The basis of their argument is the revised regulation that the three parties agreed on in June, "Addendum 18 Item 2".
It says, "Considering the effect of the sales tax hike on the economy, the fund will be specifically allocated to the growth strategy and areas like disaster prevention and disaster mitigation."
If the sales tax is raised to 10% and additional 13.5 trillion yen is in the government coffer, that will decrease the amount of government debt to pay for the social security. So why not use this extra spending power [what's "extra" about this?] in public works for disaster prevention and such? That seems to be their thinking. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is sympathetic to the idea, saying "If the economy grows and tax revenue rises, disaster prevention and disaster mitigation will be the priority for added funds."
The government has been explaining that the purpose of sales tax hike is to achieve both the reform on social security and the fiscal reform simultaneously.
Money is fungible, but if the money from the tax hike is diverted to public works, the fiscal reform will be delayed, and additional tax hike may become necessary. What is the point of the sales tax hike then?
The point of raising sales tax is, because they can, and they want to look good in the eyes of IMF. And because the citizens have long been pushovers (and the foreign residents have no say).
If the economy grows? PM Noda expects the economy to grow by raising tax for the constituency that has no power - individual taxpayers. Japan's large exporters will benefit from the sales tax hike, and they will receive extra credits. I suppose Mr. Noda is not counting on the Japanese citizens and residents to spend money to expand the economy.

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Ohio food stamps for low income families will be reduced in January 2013(told after election)
The Toledo Blade reported on Monday that the state Department of Jobs and Family Services will begin reducing food stamps for Ohio residents beginning in 2013. Reduction estimates should total $50 per family which is about $520 million worth of yearly groceries from a total of 869,000 households. ….. This amount was determined by the federal department and Ohio can do nothing to change the outcome. … “This is a federal issue,” said Joel Potts, executive director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Directors’ Association. “It is what it is. They have a formula. … We just think it is going to be really hard on families and individuals. They will see significantly less money starting in January.”
The unfortunate outcome in Ohio families having their stamps cut is that they will have even less money to spend on food. There are already a number of families that rely on visiting food banks because their food stamps often run out by month’s end.
Parents with children who suffer from food allergies have to be critical of certain food items. This means that their grocery bills are often higher than the average family. Because the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services will lower food stamps in January it may be even more difficult for them to buy the right type of groceries.
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The Vermillion Tanagers boys’ soccer team scored six runs in each of two victories, beating Hot Springs 6-4 and Custer 6-1 on the road on Friday and Saturday.
Nathan Samudzi scored a hat trick in Friday’s win at Hot Springs. James May, Ethan James and Austin Druin added goals in the victory.
Samudzi and James each scored two goals in Saturday’s win at Custer. Sam Tigert and Tristan Meadows scored the other goals.
Vermillion, 2-1, hosts rematches with both teams this week, Hot Springs on Friday and Custer on Saturday. Both matches will be held at Cotton Park in Vermillion.


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A responsible and expansive focus on proactive hygiene practices has helped define the approach supermarket powerhouse ALDI has taken for its drivers.
Now considered one of the big three supermarket retailers in the country, ALDI at present staffs more than 530 transport operators across Australia with drivers embarking from one of the company's eight distribution centres (DCs) to deliver essential groceries to Australians, daily.
Given its national presence, transport operations for ALDI are committed to developing safe and efficient routes to reduce total kilometres and drive times according to Tremaine Spillane, Logistics Director, ALDI Australia.
"We have recently extended measures to protect our employees," she said. "Freight workers delivering into our distribution centres go through additional checks including temperature checking, symptom screening, and face masks for all drivers across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. We have also introduced new measures to limit interaction between drivers from different states."
With COVID-19 caseloads flatlining in most states while Victoria continues to surge, the current environment across the country is still very fluid for logistics workers.
Spillane said ALDI was fortunate to have an agile supply chain in which it could work with its driver teams, asset base and valued business partners to make changes swiftly when needed.
"We have been able to have more flexibility in delivery times with the removal of curfews," she said. "This has assisted the operation to be more sensitive to national supply chain delays. We also introduced the use of safety pendants for drivers during the day and at night to ensure our teams felt safe in this new environment."
Spillane told Prime Mover that the extensions for lifting curfew restrictions allowed the ALDI transport teams to re-adjust delivery timings and continue to deliver groceries into its stores.
"We are grateful for the local communities and councils who extended curfews for freight," she said. "All of these new ways of working will be continually reviewed to establish whether they deliver ongoing safety and efficiency benefits for our supply chain."
The business, according to Spillane, has also kept up-to-date with government implications, such as cross border travel to ensure any restrictions caused minimal disruption to the day-to-day roles of its transport operators.
"We have kept our transport teams informed on the changing situation to best prepare transport operators for any changes they may encounter," she said. "The volume of our operations continues to fluctuate as developments occur, such as the recent lockdown in Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire region. We are grateful that in recent months movement has stabilised as the nation has adjusted to current circumstances."
ALDI prioritises safety and efficiency across its commercial vehicle fleet by maintaining one of the most modern fleets on the road. All new orders are compliant to the latest European emission standards (Euro 6) which are greater than Australian requirements.
The average age of the ALDI commercial vehicle fleet is four years, which measures well against the average age of the Australian fleet at 14.8 years.
Each truck, usually a Mercedes-Benz or Scania, is equipped with safety features and low particulate emission technology. Safety features include ABS, lane departure warning and adaptive cruise control.
ALDI also confirmed that a new fleet management system is expected to be rolled out across its commercial vehicles in the next few months.
Telematics is relied on for fridge and engine fault reporting, integrated safe driving plans, fatigue management, cold chain compliance, dash cameras and live traffic updates. Fleet managers and drivers also consult telemetry data when it comes to the integration of fridge motor low range mode for noise in sensitive environments, Easydocs to store paper documents electronically and driver tablets with vehicle checklist to report faults.
"Telematics is one of the many investments we have made in our transport teams to ensure the highest standard of safety and efficiency for our transport operators," said Spillane.
Following the onset of COVID-19 in March, ALDI recruited for roles across its network to ensure more Australians had access to everyday essentials.
"As we said at the time of peak purchasing, there was more than enough food to go around," said Spillane. "Australia’s primary producers and manufacturers are world class and they have been great partners in meeting the needs of Australians."
Since then the company has been proactive in implementing preventative measures to protect the health and safety of staff on its extensive supply chains
Each Aldi commercial vehicle operator now carries a hygiene pack in their prime mover.
What's more, personal protective equipment (PPE) was provided to its 13,500 employees across stores, warehouses and offices.
This included gloves, hand sanitiser and masks which are now mandatory and must be worn in its NSW and Victorian DCs which have signs in place at key points in the employee's journey to ensure best practice hygiene is front of mind.
All machinery is cleaned prior to and after use with cleaning stations in multiple locations. Break rooms undergo extra cleaning before and after use.
"Personnel have specific working groups that they break with to ensure social distancing and contact tracing can be maintained effectively," Spillane said.
According to Spillane, the key, throughout the pandemic, has been to share clear and concise messages to its employees which includes an internal ALDI staff application that has been utilised to push important messaging to its 13,500 employees in real time.
"We have also used our online learning platform to educate our employees on the importance of hygiene practices and also increased our signage at key operational points for employees in our warehouses, offices and throughout our stores," she said.
"In stores, our focus is on social distancing to protect the health and safety of both our employees and customers," said Spillane.
To protect employees, ALDI has installed clear screens and 1.5 metre social distancing floor markers at all checkouts, with hygiene stations now located at every store entrance.
As is now common practice at many retail supermarket stores, antibacterial wipes are provided to clean trolley surfaces and hand sanitiser for customers to use before they enter any of its stores.
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Built on Ford's global CD-segment platform, the refined new version of the Ford flagship will be available as a five-door and wagon -- uniquely developed for Europe -- as well as a four-door that will also be offered as segment-first petrol Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV). It will be the first car in its segment equipped with a 1.0-litre powertrain, the 2012 "International Engine of the Year" 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol engine, to deliver expected best-in-class fuel economy. The all-new four-door Mondeo HEV is Ford's first hybrid passenger car for Europe, and combines a specially-developed 2.0-litre petrol engine with a 35kW lithium-ion battery to provide high fuel economy and low CO2 emissions. For the first time on Mondeo, a diesel all-wheel drive variant will be offered, delivering superior traction, performance and handling. All new Mondeo also delivers the European debut of Ford's rear inflatable seatbelts. These are designed to reduce head, neck and chest injuries for rear-seat passengers. In the event of an accident the belt rapidly expands to disperse crash forces across a body area five times greater than that achieved by a conventional seatbelt.


Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said in an op-ed that the U.S. 'should pause to think about what our military means to the people it protects.' (Air Force)
The nation’s top military officer is urging troops to brace for a postwar era in which the relationship between the military and the civilian population it is sworn to protect will change in fundamental ways.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey offered a rare public reflection on the cultural link between the all-volunteer force and civilian society and sought to dispel stereotypes that have arisen since 2001.
“Together, we need to discuss who we are and what our wars mean to us,” Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, wrote in a July 3 op-ed in The Washington Post. His office subsequently provided essentially the same piece to Military Times.
“Now is the defining moment in our relationship with the 9/11 veterans,” Dempsey wrote, urging the country to gain a better understanding of who those returning warriors are as individuals. “All of us in uniform volunteered to serve, but that doesn’t make us all heroes. Many of us have seen the horrors of war, but that doesn’t make us all victims. Today’s warriors and their stories are more diverse than these simple characterizations suggest.”
Dempsey’s call for a national discussion comes at a challenging time for civil-military relations, according to several experts, career officers and others who spoke to Military Times.
In Washington, a fierce debate is in full swing about the future of defense spending that could veer into a bitter battle over pay and benefits for the people who serve in uniform. Across the country, veterans are returning in large numbers, some of them struggling to adjust or suffering from physical or psychological injuries. And as the war in Afghanistan winds down, the military may begin to lose its privileged place in American culture.
“The moral contract between the people and the military is changing. It changes after every war,” said James Burk, a civil-military affairs expert who teaches at Texas A&M University. “I think Dempsey is taking a stand against polarization and calling for a serious discussion about what the military community needs and how we achieve those objectives.”
Dempsey also touched briefly on proposed changes to pay and benefits in light of the current budget squeeze.
“We owe much to our veterans and their families, but we shouldn’t view all proposed defense cuts as an attack on them,” Dempsey wrote. “Modest reforms to pay and compensation will improve readiness and modernization.”
He also trod lightly on issues underlying the budget debate, cautioning service members not to assume they have a special or unique claim to national service.
“We are an all-volunteer force, but we are not all who volunteer,” Dempsey wrote. “Service has always been fundamental to being an American. Across our country, police officers, fire fighters, teachers, coaches, pastors, scout masters, business people and many others serve their communities every day. Military service makes us different, but the desire to contribute permeates every corner of the United States.”
Peter Feaver, a former Bush administration adviser during the Iraq War who is now a professor at Duke University, said Dempsey may be concerned about the long-term effects of the special status afforded to service members during the past decade-plus of war.
“He is a warning against the pride that the military may take after a decade of having privileged access to the nation’s resources and the pride of place, whether it’s in terms of our national ceremonies or sporting events or letting those in military uniforms board a plane first.” Feaver said.
That’s a valid concern, said Marine Maj. Peter Munson, the author of “War, Welfare & Democracy: Rethinking America’s Quest for the End of History.”
“The military has been lionized in these recent conflicts and I don’t think that is necessarily healthy,” Munson said in an interview after reading Dempsey’s op-ed.
“I think there is a certain subculture in the military that has grown to expect the perks and admiration and adulation. I think that a lot of folks are starting to feel that way without realizing it,” he said. “While I certainly think that what the military has done over the past decade is admirable, we don’t want to feel entitled to a certain treatment different from other citizens. Ours should be a culture of selfless service and selfless leadership.”
Munson applauded Dempsey’s call for a national discussion.
“I think now is the time to address these things before the memories of these recent battles fade from the limelight and before any bitterness sets in about budget cuts,” he said.
A 'bond of trust'
Dempsey has made safeguarding the health of civil-military relations a focus of his tenure as the Pentagon’s top officer. During last year’s presidential campaign, he publicly scolded some veterans groups for endorsing candidates, saying that the military community must “remain apolitical” or else “erode that bond of trust we have with the American people.”
Dempsey also has written extensively about the professionalization and unique responsibilities of the officer corps and warned about the prospect of the all-voluteer force growing apart from the civilian world.
He said civilians have an important role to play in bridging that gap, but he also said today’s troops have a special responsibility to preserve the military’s connection with civilians and avoid becoming isolated.
“Some fault lies with us. It can be tempting to stay on our bases and talk only to those we know,” Dempsey wrote. “But we didn’t stop being citizens when we put on the uniform. We came from small towns and big cities across our country, and we’ll go back one day. Civilians aren’t an abstraction; they’re our parents, grandparents, siblings and friends.”
That may be especially important as the more than 2 million veterans from the past decade return to civilian life.
“There is a lot that vets have to reach out and explain to the general public,” said Pete Hegseth, an Iraq and Afghanistan Army veteran who now heads the advocacy group Concerned Veterans for America. “For example, veterans and veterans’ organizations have been very effective in shining a spotlight on some of the signature issues in this conflict, like [traumatic brain injury] and [post-traumatic stress]. Which is very important. At the same time, you can go too far and create the perception that everyone who is coming home is damaged goods. That is not an easy balance to figure out.”
Helping to assimilate returning veterans will require massive support from civilians, said Briana Goff, the director of the Institute for the Health and Security of Military Families at Kansas State University.
“A lot of people have sort of expected the military to take care of its own and think ‘Oh, that’s a problem for the military,’ or ‘Oh, that’s a problem for the VA’. But now I think there is a recognition that if [veterans] are coming into the community, there [must] be people and programs and agencies that are willing to step up,” she said. “I think there are individuals who are wiling to step up and provide the services, but there is still a lot of work to do to make sure they have good information and know how to do that.”
“The power of Dempsey’s position and his bully pulpit could make a big difference,” Goff said. “I think he’s making some pretty bold statements. These are things that other people have thought but are not heard in public very much. The fact that it’s being said by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that is important.”


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So the big news right now, pushing even Ukraine out of the headlines, is the"leaked" memo from the Supreme Court indicating that the SCOTUS was getting ready to dump the Roe vs. Wade decision -- which would let various states allow or forbid abortion however they want to. Democrats in Congress tried to pass a federal law that would allow abortion everywhere in the US, but it was voted down in the Senate.
Seeing that, the legislatures of various Republican-dominated states thought this was their big chance, and passed assorted laws limiting abortion. This has raised a lot of outrage, since it's not just Democrats who want to keep abortion legal. The latest Pew studies show that more than 63% of Americans, in all states combined, want to keep abortion legal, safe, and cheap. Hopeful Republicans ignore these statistics at their peril.
For the last six months the assorted gaffes of Biden, revelations about Woke school curricula and teachers, the mess in Ukraine, and galloping inflation have soured a lot of voters on the Democrats. There's a large and growing groundswell that practically guarantees the Republicans big wins in the mid-term elections this November. The only policy that could derail this coming win is the more-conservative Republicans' position on abortion.
That position, that an embryo is a human being from the instant of conception, and must be treated as such, is not based on science or logic or even assorted monotheistic bibles but only on emotion.
The Koran and the Hadith claim that a soul doesn't enter a fetus until the 120th day; before that time Muslims consider abortion a sin, but only a minor one which can be expiated with enough prayer. The Jewish/Christian Old Testament gives a prescription ("bitter waters") for obtaining an abortion, which a priest is supposed to apply to any woman accused of adultery in order to "cleanse" her so she can go back to her husband. The Catholic church during the Middle Ages pronounced that a soul does not enter a fetus until at least the 20th week, before which the fetus isn't considered a person. Jewish Talmudic law holds that a fetus doesn't become a separate being from the mother until its head clears her body. Studies by scientists show that a fetus doesn't develop even a nearly complete human brain until the 26th week, and even then a fetus removed from the uterus -- even given the best state-of-the-art care -- has only a 50% chance of survival, and if it survives has a less than 50% of developing normal intelligence, so it's best to draw the line there. This isn't really necessary, since abortion can only be performed safely during the first trimester of pregnancy (he same period during which more than 50% of all fertilized ova are naturally miscarried). After that time, abortion becomes dangerous to the mother, and no doctor of any standing will do it except when the life and health of the mother are threatened or the fetus is so severely deformed that it can't survive birth by more than a few miserable pain-filled hours. Thus there is a natural limit to abortion which falls well before the 26th week.
Why then do otherwise rational people insist that even a single cell, if it's a fertilized ovum, is a "human life"? Their only claim -- "it's alive and has human DNA" -- looks morally and mentally lazy, not to mention superstitious. It's also been challenged by the development of In-Vitro Fertilization: the process of extracting ova from a woman's ovaries, fertilizing them (usually with the woman's husband's sperm) in a petri dish, then freezing the fertilized ova in storage cannisters, and implanting them in the women when conditions are best for the ova to attach. This system is used almost exclusively by fertility clinics, but it raises the question about what to do with the rest of the ova and whether they should be regarded as human beings or not. One Mississippi politician claimed that fertilized ova in a cannister are not human beings because they're not inside a woman. This implies that an embryo is a human being only because it's inside of, and battening off of, a woman's body. That looks blatantly misogynistic and biased.
Consider the other end of life; when a person is old, terminally sick or injured, undeniably dying, we do have rules about just when that person is effectively dead, and we can pull the plug. That definition is when a reading of the brain shows a "flatline" -- no brain activity. If that's true for the end of life, it's equally true for the beginning; no brain activity means it's not -- yet or still -- a human being. Since it's impossible to have brain-waves without a brain, we can soon expect to see the devout anti-abortion crowd trying to redefine "brain". This won't stand up very well against the discoveries of science, and won't make the hard-line anti-abortionists look good.
Worse is the attempt by various state legislatures to reward people who "rat out" their neighbors for obtaining, let alone performing, abortions. Such laws, history has shown, tend to destroy civil unity and inspire long-lasting feuds. Still worse is the attempt by those same states to punish any resident woman who goes to another state -- or country, one assumes -- to get an abortion there. This brings up the specter of the Dred Scott decision, and everything that led to.
And ultimately all these laws are doomed by advancing technology. Already, the majority of legal abortions are done by chemistry rather than mechanics; the "morning after pill" (actually two, used 24 hours apart) is good for up to four days after conception, and the pharmaceutical companies -- never prone to ignore a market demand -- are busy producing pills that will flush out an embryo a week after, or a month after, or even three months after conception. Pills are much more easily smuggled than even small operating rooms, and they'll make their way into every state, regardless of the local laws. Attempts to stop the flow will only make governments look stupid and incompetent.
Altogether, there is no way that pushing hard on anti-abortion laws will improve the public image of the Republicans. Such a course can only cost them voters and break the otherwise inevitable landslide in the November elections. They should back off from the whole question until after the election, and then argue their case in public on something other than biblical or scientific grounds -- but of course, that doesn't leave them much ground to argue from. Perhaps they should back away from the whole subject for the foreseeable future. Opposition to abortion is not worth ruining their chance for victory, and all hope of success for all their other policies.


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OK, I'll admit it, I have been playing Nintendogs for a while now, longer then I would like to admit. But there is just something so darn addictive about playing this game. For starters, Nintendogs has got to be one of the most original games I have ever played, and to be honest with you, it could not be played on any other system.
Using all of the tricks that the Nintendo DS features, players are given a selection of puppies and must choose which breed they would like to play with. Starting off, there are many different breeds and three puppies in each breed. Each puppy has a personality that will make things easy or more of a challenge.
Using the stylus, you must bond with your four footed friend and pet it repeatedly in order to gain trust. This is a constant as you rub the touch pad and find all those places on a puppy that need to be scratched or rubbed. When you make your little dog happy little stars will appear as if to indicate total happiness. Following up with the microphone on the DS, you must name your dog and repeat it many times in order for the dog to learn its name. The same will be done as you work with your puppy on tricks and commands. Once you and your puppy friend have achieved master/dog Nirvana, you can go out and explore the world, playing in the park and going various places.
This is the prettiest game the DS has put out so far. The different dog fur has a smooth appearance and you would swear you can actually see how soft their little fur is. The puppies look great and therefore the game looks great too. The little noises the puppies make are very endearing and I'm sure the programmers must have followed real dogs all over the place in order to achieve the level of realism this game has.
What's even cooler is if you are playing Nintendogs and are on the go and you get within range of someone else playing Nintendogs, your DS will yip and bark at you as if to mimic what a dog would do when it sees another dog. There you can have your pup play with that person's pup and new items including other breeds of dogs can be unlocked.
As addictive a game you will ever play Nintendogs is easily one of the most addictive and wholly original games ever made. If you own a DS then this my friend, is the title to have.
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Heat stress tolerance examined
GroundCover™ Issue: 107 | Author: Paul Telfer
Heat stress is a significant abiotic stress and inhibitor of crop production in Australia. The wheat plant is most sensitive to heat stress during flowering and grain filling, and ‘heat-stress events’ often coincide with drought stress and frost events. This makes it difficult to quantify the effects of heat stress, specifically, on grain yield under field conditions.
At Australian Grain Technologies (AGT) we were able to demonstrate the negative impact of the stress on farm profitability. That in turn allowed us to calculate the potential gains if heat stress tolerance could be improved.
To do that, grain yield data was collected from National Variety Trials (NVTs) across southern Australia and analysed with reference to climatic data from the nearest Australian Bureau of Meteorology weather station for each experiment.
The analysis looked at the effects of various climatic variables on grain yield in more than 600 field experiments during 2005–10 growing seasons. Data on climatic variables was provided by Dr Scott Chapman and Dr Bangyou Zheng of CSIRO Plant Industry.
The most adverse effects on yield were found to result from stress during flowering as opposed to grain fill. Day temperatures over 35ºC decreased yields by an average of 837 kilograms per hectare, whereas the impact of similar levels of heat stress during grain filling was a loss of 179kg/ha. The average grain yield across all trials was 2530kg/ha.
The effects from all the analysed climatic variables are listed in Table 1. To recoup some of these production losses, AGT is managing two research projects investigating ways to boost heat-stress tolerance in wheat.
The first is a controlled-environment investigation funded by the South Australian Grain Industry Trust and the second is a GRDC-funded field validation project.
The GRDC-funded project aims to evaluate varietal responses to heat-stress tolerance under field conditions and assess the value of genetics previously identified by various studies as important in influencing heat-stress tolerance.
This work is being carried out at the GRDC-funded managed environment facilities (MEFs) at Merredin (Western Australia), and Narrabri and Yanco (New South Wales). These facilities allow experiments to be conducted in field conditions but enable greater flexibility to induce or alleviate stresses such as drought through the use of irrigation and rainout shelters. They also enable intensive field measurements that can provide detailed plant trait analysis and evaluation.
Importantly, using the MEFs allows for sowing times that delay plant development in order to increase exposure to heat-stress conditions later in the season. Irrigation is used to offset any drought effects, which may mask the true heat-tolerance levels of the evaluated germplasm.
To date, the project appears to be using this strategy successfully. The number of heat-stress events during the flowering to grain-fill growth stages at each location in 2012 is shown in Table 2.
The aim is to develop a field assay to accurately test the heat-stress tolerance of wheat varieties. This will enable us to develop a better understanding of the levels of heat stress tolerance within current Australian germplasm, understand the physiological traits involved with plant responses to heat stress, and to begin to explore the genetics of the heat-stress tolerance.
Ultimately, this work may contribute to the development of genetic markers that breeders can use to select for superior heat-stress tolerance within a breeding program.
In the short term, the data collected has highlighted that current best practice in terms of sowing time and appropriately matching it to crop maturity are the best ways to minimise the effects of heat stress on crop production.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
This is my other brother Daryl...
What I meant to say was that I had another 'nother pattern up.
Welcome the MeMe Hat. This hat was inspired by my best friend since we were little kinders. Rather than filling her wishful request for me to make this hat for her, I offered to teach her how to knit one. I imagined simply teaching her how to make a simple stockinette cap, but she was insistant on having a copy of a hat that I had made her twin sister. I am not one to discourage, so we leapt in and she quickly mastered ribbing, seed stitch, cabling, and decreases all in her first project.
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Weekly word count: 12000
It was a very productive week. Here's the checklist:
Inquisition: Finished! <happy dance>
First story for anthology: Finished <more happy dancing>
Second story for anthology: 2/3 done <still more happy dancing... cause that's still good>
I even got some extremely good news that the editor has a spot for mid-September, which means I still have a chance to make a February release! I've also got a mid-September slot with the cover artist, so look for a cover reveal in early October, which should pair nicely with the release for Rose on the Grave.
I'm feeling quite pleased with myself, and I'm giving myself permission to have a quieter week next week for writing. Instead of writing every afternoon (which is what I have been doing for the last two months), I'm going to take my boys out to do some of the fun summer stuff I've been wanting to do with them. They both have the week off from camps and the week after that will be back to school blitzing.
I took another look at my 90 day goals, which have 10 days left. I will not have my Scrivener notes complete, but I will have Rose on the Grave and Inquisition on track. I think doing the short stories to submit to the anthology instead was the right choice. I'm not sure I'll try to do another 90 day goal set, at least not right away.
With luck, I can get the two short stories fully polished and ready for submission at the end of next week. I've got about 1500 words left to go for the second one, which should be doable. I'm actually quite pleased with both of them. They both tie into the lalassu universe. One is an independent story and the other features Vapor. If the anthology isn't interested, I'll definitely be publishing them independently as a bonus.


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Ezona zindlu eziqeshisayo zeholide ezithandwayo eKhor Fakkan Beach
Iindwendwe ziyavuma: ezi ndawo zokuhlala ziconywa kakhulu ngendawo ezikuyo, ucoceko nokunye.
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This Cheerful place will hold your breath. Enjoy the charming and quite surrounding while be close to all the attractions that lovely Khor Fakkan has to offer. Steps to the Beach, Old Market, Hiking, Horse Barns. Restaurants, Cafes and Groceries are walking distance.
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Enjoy the natural beauty surrounding this historic getaway. Recently renovated, this traditional Omani farm house is surrounded by nature with hiking routes in the backyard. Perfect for a personal retreat! A short drive away are some famous landmarks, including Nahwah's Wadi Shees, Fujairah Fort and city, and Khor Fakkan's Al Rabi hiking route. With Khor Fakkan to the left and Fujairah city to the right, there are a host of fun adventures and culinary experiences waiting to be explored.
- Indawo ekukho umntu oncedisayo kuyo yonke
- Al Aqah
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The initiative encourages teens and their parents to talk about the dangers of underage drinking, illegal drug use and impaired driving.
The program includes having a plan for a safe way home during prom and graduation season.
Should a teen be in danger of driving impaired or riding with someone who may be impaired, they can call their parents. Their parents can then pick them up and AAA will tow the family car home free of charge, AAA member or not.
All the parent has to do is call 1-800-AAA-HELP and recognize that their teen made the right choice to reach out for help.
Florida high schools can order their free kit at AAA.com/Promise.
AAA said teen drivers ages 15 to 19 years old have the highest rate of vehicle crashes among all age groups in the United States.

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The house that’s for sale was originally owned by Walter Kennicott, a nephew of Robert and grandson of Mary and John Kennicott. John was a doctor and horticulturist who moved his family from New Orleans to settle on the estate in 1836. Walter Kennicott’s family owned the log cabin until the mid-1960s.
Now a three-bedroom house on Kennicott Lane, it came on the market July 31 with an asking price of $339,900 and represented by Michael Rein, a Baird & Warner agent. Rein declined to comment.
The seller, according to Cook County property records, is Benjamin Norris. His parents, Patricia and James, bought the house from the Kennicotts in the 1960s, according to Lorin Ottlinger, director of the Grove, the 154-acre historic site and natural park on former Kennicott land.
“We’re trying to buy it,” Ottlinger said of the Norris house. “If our schedule works with the sellers’ schedule, we can do it.”
The Grove, a national landmark, is a Glenview Park District property, but money to make the acquisition would have to come from the Grove Heritage Association, a group that helps support the Grove financially. Ottlinger said the Grove has not yet officially approached the sellers, because she doesn’t have funding approved.
If it's not sold to the Grove, the house would likely be torn down. That’s suggested by the fact that Rein’s listing includes no interior photos and describes the house as a “possible tear down.”
Two other, later-built houses on the short street sold in recent years, for $420,000 and $528,000. On nearby parcels that also abut the Grove, new-construction homes have sold from the mid-$600,000 range up to $950,000 in the past five years.
The Norris house site, about four-tenths of an acre, would surely appeal to someone who wanted to build a larger new house almost entirely surrounded by nature.
Ottlinger said that if her group manages to buy it, the outside would be restored entirely to its log cabin look, removing red brick additions. The inside, she said, would be redone as program space. She does not know the condition of the interior, she said.
Reuniting the house with the Kennicott property would be especially sweet, Ottlinger said, because the seller’s mother, Patricia Norris, was part of the group of neighbors who helped save the remnants of the Kennicott estate from development half a century ago.
Known as the “Frog & Fern Ladies,” the neighbors saved about 13 acres, Ottlinger said, and in the 50 years since the Grove has grown to 154 acres by acquiring neighboring parcels.
There are historical barns and houses on the site. They include the Kennicott house, a Gothic Revival structure built in 1856 by John and Mary Kennicott, and the Redfield Estate, built in 1929. In the early 1930s, the Redfield Estate was the home of Kennicott descendant Louise Redfield Peattie and her husband, noted naturalist and writer Donald Culross Peattie.
This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Lorin Ottlinger's name.


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Lexus Has Bad January Sales; BMW, Mercedes Thrive
Toyota’ luxury brand, Lexus, has had a dominating 11-years on top of the luxury car sales board, but for numerous reasons, the company could be hurled downward by the invading Germans.
While this isn’t set in stone, if Lexus’s January sales are any indication, their reign on the top of the throne might be over. The automaker reported a decline of 17 percent in the sales department last month with just 12,860 deliveries.
At this point, one might point out that there are still 11-months to go in the sales year before the final numbers are in, but considering Toyota’s recent troubles, it’s hard to imagine Lexus getting back on its feet in time to take down the German threat.
Leading the charge into Japan was BMW, who posted a 21 percent gain of 15,905 units sold. This might be due to the new 5-Series and the ever-dominate 3-Series. It could also be down to the X1, which has been selling like hot cakes, which has resulted in over capacity production facilities and a delay in the American launch.
Mercedes-Benz grew 11 percent in the United States, as it sold 16,396 units. Of course, the new E-Class and C-Class are part of the reason, as they have become an everyday sight on America’s road network. Not that this is a bad thing; the E-Class is much better to stare at in traffic than the Chevrolet Cobalt.
“Lexus had a very strong push through the end of 2010,” Bob Carter, Toyota’s group vice president for U.S. sales, said. “Some business for January got pulled into December.”
So, it seems Toyota’s troubles have finally caught up to the big Japanese giant. Of course, the quote above would indicate otherwise, but the American public knows better.
There are still 11-months to go and it seems the race is just heating up.
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Merits Review is undertaken by a review tribunal.
A tribunal exercising jurisdiction by way of merits review has the capacity, and indeed, the right to ‘step into the shoes’ of the original decision maker.
By “decision maker” we are typically referring to a range of people who are delegated to make decisions. Such people may typically include bureaucrats and/or public servants at statutory authorities or government departments like Department of Home Affairs, Australian Taxation Office, DHHS, Centrelink, ASIC, and so on.
Upon receiving a merits review application, a tribunal is called upon to remake an administrative decision in accordance with the merits of the individual case.
This process is essentially different from that of courts undertaking what is called judicial review. As a rule, A court exercising judicial power can make findings about the legality or otherwise of a government decision, concluding that a particular decision is unlawful, being a decision that has not been made according to law.
Whilst the Courts can make findings about the legality or otherwise of a decision, they cannot step into the shoes of the original decision maker and remake the decision. When a court makes a finding declaring a decision to be unlawful it would, as a rule, remit the decision back to an administrative decision maker with a direction to remake the decision according to law.
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Acting president Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday warned those who have been engaging in hate speeches to desist, as the federal government won’t take such act lightly noting war begins with words, Punch reports.
Osinbajo gave the warning at a meeting with leaders of the South-East at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Some of those present at the meeting were the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and some state governors from the South-East.
The governors included Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu); David Umahi (Ebonyi); Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia); Willy Obiano (Anambra) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo).
Others at the meeting were the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; former Senate President, Ken Namani; Senator Eyinaya Abaribe; and Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife among others.
He said; “It is clear that wars sometimes start, not with bullets, but with words. Hateful, incendiary speech, open floodgates of blood. The tongue, like the pen, is often mightier than the sword – because it is what pushes the sword into action.
“When we throw words like stones in a marketplace we do not know who or what it will hit.
“Knowing this, under no condition whatsoever should we tolerate or excuse or justify hate speech or hateful conduct of any kind, especially where such is illegal.
“Let me, of course, acknowledge that as part of living together in this space called Nigeria, misunderstandings and frustrations are inevitable and because resources are limited there will always be a striving to get what is perceived as the best seat at the table.
“All of that is normal and to be expected, especially in a democracy, like ours. A healthy democracy ought to be a theatre of energetic striving by all parties and stakeholders. But things should never descend to a level where mutual suspicions override the desire to live together in peace and harmony.”
Osinbajo also said he had told the elders from the North on Tuesday that hate or divisive speech, or divisive behaviour, where it was illegal, would be met with the full force of the law.
He said the government would take such behaviour seriously and would not tolerate any attempts to cause violence or to disrupt the peace of Nigeria.


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Are you looking for the best shoulder impingement treatment in Hyderabad then consult the best doctor :
Shoulder is made up of many joints, tendons and muscles which make a great range of motion possible in the arm. Rotator cuff is one of the most common sources of shoulder pain. This pain may be a result of:
- Tendinitis – when rotator cuff tendons are damaged
- Bursitis – When the lubricating sac located between rotator cuff and bone on top of the shoulder becomes inflamed, it causes severe pain
Impingement – When one raises the hand to shoulder level, the bone on top of the shoulder can rub against tendons or bursa and cause pain.
Rotator cuff pain may occur in young sports persons, especially ones who are into swimming, baseball and tennis are vulnerable. shoulder impingement may also occur in middle-aged people, sometimes with no apparent reason.
- Minor pain during activity and also when at rest
- Pain radiating from the front of the shoulder to the side of the arm
- Sudden pain when one tries to lift objects
- Sports persons, especially ones in overhead sports may have pain when throwing a tennis ball
Now that you got to know the symptoms of shoulder impingement then consult the best surgeon in Hyderabad.
As the problem progresses, the symptoms increase:
- Pain during the night
- Restricted range of motion and loss of strength
- Difficulty doing daily activities such as buttoning
Medical History and Physical Examination
The doctor will examine the shoulder to check if the area is tender and measure the range of motion. The doctor will also check the strength of the arm
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Treatment is planned based on your age, activity level and health otherwise.
There are surgical and non surgical procedures for shoulder impingement treatment which are as follows:
Nonsurgical Treatment Methods:
- The doctor generally suggests rest and activity modification
- Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Medicines
- Steroid Injections
Surgery may be recommended when nonsurgical methods do not relieve the patient’s pain. The main purpose of surgery is to remove the inflamed portion of bursa. The surgical procedure is known as acromioplasty and may be performed through arthroscopic or key hole procedure or an open surgical technique
To ensure early healing the arm may be placed in a sling for a certain period of time after shoulder impingement surgery. Complete pain relief generally takes from 2 to 4 four months, sometimes upto a year.


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|Day's Range||86.15 - 87.46|
|52 Week Range||54.76 - 92.45|
|Beta (3Y Monthly)||1.42|
|PE Ratio (TTM)||22.53|
|Earnings Date||Oct 25, 2018|
|Forward Dividend & Yield||1.24 (1.43%)|
|1y Target Est||86.30|
Top third quarter performance detractors include Facebook, Core Labs, Schlumberger, Kraft Heinz, and Charles Schwab. Top third quarter performance contributors include Apple, Qualcomm, Berkshire Hathaway, Tractor Supply, and Edwards Lifesciences. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 1 Warning Sign with FB.
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All IBD 50 stocks got hit Wednesday, with some leaders testing their 200-day lines. But top stock Tractor Supply is looking better than most.
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Oct. 10, 2018 -- Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO), the largest retail chain of rural lifestyle products in the United States, intends to release its.
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Tractor Supply (TSCO) is well poised in an evolving retail space, backed by its store growth initiatives, ONETractor plan, omni-channel efforts and attractive rewards program.
Rounding out its ninth year, Tractor Supply Company, in partnership with National 4-H Council, is gearing up for its Fall Paper Clover event, a semi-annual fundraising campaign that provides millions of dollars in scholarships for 4-H youth. From Oct. 3 to Oct. 14, Tractor Supply customers can participate in the Paper Clover fundraiser by purchasing a paper clover—the signature emblem of 4-H—for a donation during checkout at stores nationwide or by making a purchase online at TractorSupply.com. Since its start in 2010, the partnership between Tractor Supply and 4-H has generated more than $14 million in essential funding.
Zacks.com featured highlights include: Matson, Columbia Sportswear, Broadridge, Evercore and Tractor Supply
Tractor Supply Company announced today a new partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation that will directly benefit the Foundation’s hurricane reforestation efforts. For every Husqvarna chainsaw purchase made in Tractor Supply stores nationwide or on its website, five trees will be planted within a forest of need in areas that were severely affected by last year’s hurricanes, including Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico. Tractor Supply has committed to donating up to 50,000 trees.
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CEO of Tractor Supply Co (NASDAQ:TSCO) Gregory A Sandfort sold 140,709 shares of TSCO on 09/04/2018 at an average price of $90.28 a share.
“For eight decades, Tractor Supply Company has been committed to serving our unique niche of rural lifestyle customers, and we are honored to be able to commemorate this special milestone at the Nasdaq MarketSite,” said Greg Sandfort, chief executive officer of Tractor Supply Company. “Since our humble beginnings in 1938, Tractor Supply has seen tremendous growth and success thanks to our hard-working and knowledgeable team members who provide legendary customer service every day to those living the Out Here lifestyle. Tractor Supply Company was founded in 1938 by Charles E. Schmidt as a mail-order business for tractor replacement parts.
Tractor Supply's (TSCO) initiatives including the expansion of store base and incorporation of technological advancements to induce traffic, are key growth drivers.
Tractor Supply found a place in the Nasdaq 100 in December 2013 but the former big stock gainer was kicked off the list in late 2017.
Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, is funding grants with the National FFA Foundation by selling shirts celebrating the 91st National FFA Convention & Expo. Beginning Monday, Aug. 27, customers can purchase a limited edition FFA convention-themed shirt for $12.99 (plus tax) at Tractor Supply stores nationwide. Net proceeds from the shirt sale benefit the National FFA platforms Living to Serve and Alumni Legacy Grants.
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In this daily bar chart of TSCO, below, we can see that prices are in an uptrend and above the rising 50-day moving average line. The daily On-Balance-Volume (OBV) line has a positive slope and the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) has just turned up to a fresh outright go long signal. In this weekly bar chart of TSCO, below, we can see an interesting and large reversal pattern.
We're in the longest bull market in history, Jim Cramer reminded his Mad Money viewers Tuesday. The bulls have been dominating Wall Street for 3,453 days to be exact. How did this happen? Cramer said it's because the bull has been the underdog the whole time.

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Russian market indices ended the trading session on Friday with a downward trend.
The Russian stock indices accelerated the decline on Friday.
Russian stocks opened lower on Friday as the MOEX Index dropped by 2.4% to 3,852.99 points, while the RTS Index lost 3.45% to 1,608.28 points.
The dollar to ruble exchange rate grew by 20.85 kopecks to 74.8875 rubles at the Moscow Currency Exchange opening Friday.
The Russian stock market saw generally low trading activity on Thursday.
The MOEX index increased by 0.35% to 3,964.25 points, the RTS index – by 0.65% to 1,671.42 points on Thursday.
Singapore’s DBS Group (OTC:DBSDY) said its online banking services had been fully restored after suffering disruptions for about two days in its biggest outage since 2010, prompting the central bank to consider taking supervisory action.
The dollar fell by 17kopecks to 74.82 rubles in early trading on the Moscow Exchange on Thursday.
Floods that wiped out bridges, roads and rail lines in British Columbia will hurt Canada’s economic growth and fuel inflation in the fourth quarter, but the Bank of Canada’s rate-hike timing is likely to remain unchanged.
Russian market indexes ended the trading session on Wednesday in the red on the back of material worsening in the international mood.


How (actually) will the CYGNSS satellites interpret ocean roughness by comparing direct and reflected signals from GPS satellites? I'm interested in an explanation of how the received signals will be compared to extract a number for ocean roughness.
I stumbled upon a pretty good explanation by accident. The Taiwan National Science and Technology Council's main web page is currently featuring an image of the Triton (Formosat 7R) satellite and links to this Taiwan Space Agency (TASA, formerly NSPO)'s page which shows the following graphics (click for larger):
The 2nd image shows a rough illustration of intensity vs time for a given signal from a GPS satellite; first there's a sharp peak labeled "direct signal" which would be line-of-sight from a GPS satellite to any GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) satellite, be it CYGNSS or Triton or others.
This is followed by a delayed peak centered at the "specular point" when a signal reflected off of a smooth, "shiny" ocean would arrive.
The diagram shows two effects related to sea surface roughness due to wind
- a reduction in the prompt reflected intensity from the specular point
- presence of a variable amount of delayed reflected intensity from any other areas on the ocean surface, which via Fermat's principle or principle of least time will always be delayed relative to the specular signal.
A helpful analogy is the reflection of sunlight off of a body of water seen from some height; either one you are standing next to, or from space. Smooth seas will show a small, self-contained reflection of the Sun, choppy seas will show reflected light from a much larger patch.
While our eyes use a lens and retina to convert Fermat's least time to a spatial image corresponding to angle, the non-imaging satellite uses a more direct measurement of time to differentiate the concentrated reflection near the specular point from diffuse, off-specular reflection from choppy areas further away.
Of course they will use more complicated signal processing to do that. I found this nice document GNSS-R 遙測技術的工程應用 (found here (google: "GNSS-R Engineering Application of Telemetry Technology")
Putting the relevant section into google translate and doing a little cleanup:
GNSS-R Application of sea surface wind farm and roughness.
The route of the GPS reflection signal is longer than that of direct-firing signals, and it will generate delays. In addition, the impact of the roughness of the reflection point and the scattering of the reflection signal scattering. Under the action of wind, the sea surface causes the waves to change the roughness of the sea surface. The larger the wind speed, the greater the roughness of the sea surface, and the greater the degree of changes in the impact of the reflected signal; the slower the wind, the smoother the waveform2, as shown in Figure 6.
Zavorotny, Voronovich, and Sensing17 theoretically modeled describes the global positioning system (GPS) signal and the relationship between the power and the sea wind field. Then El Fouhaily, Thompson,
Linstrom, and Sensing18 further improve the model. Clarizia, Ruf,
Jales, Gommenginger, and sensing17 proposed minimum
Variance (MV) Wind Speed Estimator, using 5 different observations
Point to establish GNSS-R Delay-DopPler Maps (DDMS), and push further to estimate the sea wind farm. Foti et al. 20. The secondary shift remote test display has good consistency with the measured data (Figure 7).
2Katzberg, S.J. and Garrison Jr, J.L. (1996). Utilizing GPS to determine ionospheric delay over the ocean.
17Zavorotny, V.U., Voronovich, A.G., and Sensing, R. (2000). Scattering of GPS signals from the ocean with wind remote sensing application. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 38(2), 951-964. IEEE, Researchgate and University of Michigan
18Elfouhaily, T., Thompson, D.R., Linstrom, L., and Sensing, R. (2002). Delay-Doppler analysis of bistatically reflected signals from the ocean surface: theory and application. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 40(3), 560-573. IEEE
19Clarizia, M.P., Ruf, C.S., Jales, P., Gommenginger, C., and Sensing, R. (2014). Spaceborne GNSS-R minimum variance wind speed estimator. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52(11), 6829-6843.
20Foti, G., Gommenginger, C., Jales, P., Unwin, M., Shaw, A., Robertson, C., and Rosello, J. (2015). Spaceborne GNSS reflectometry for ocean winds: First results from the UK TechDemoSat‐1 mission. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(13), 5435-5441.
From here is an illustration of how the time delay and doppler shift provide some information about the location of a reflected component relative to the specular point.
As far as I can tell, the technique involves three parts
- develop a complete theoretical framework to predict intensity as a function of incoming/outgoing directions for each of a large number of different wave shapes associated with wind speed (and unfortunately history, waves build up and die down over time, only the smallest ones are short-term proxies)
- measure as much as you can that's related, using existing satellites and demonstrators
- compare the results to "ground truth" or "water truth" measurements of wind speeds
- say to yourself "oh, it's not so good of a fit"
- come up with some kind of multivariate model with several parameters that helps to improve the poor correlation between measured wind speeds and algorithms operating on recorded GNSS-R data.
- say it works well, mission success!
Fig. 2. Configuration of glistening, annulus, and Doppler zones.


You can bring unlimited stuff into the Big Empty at the start, as long as you can lug it to the satellite location. So what are you bringing with? At level 40, I carry with me the following (Hardcore on, of course): Pulse Gun and a buttload of surplus SEC. you can have a selection of small energy pistols and free repair for them, so you can save repair for this baby. Normal SEC got transform into max charge then bringing along. The max charge are for the OWB pistols, and the surplus is for pulse gun. Survivalist Rifle and a buttload of 12.7mm rounds. 2000 at least if not more. At very hard level40, the respawn rate of Sink is not enough to replenish ammo for the horrendous combat with the monstrous enemies. And 12.7mm is rare. Riot Shotgun and a buttload of slugshot. Normal ammo wont cut it, so slugs are the way. Make your buckshotmagnum on the other side if you feel like it. Weapon Repair Kit: The Sink can repair at cutthroat price, so you have to repair yourself. Though you can gather material to make kits, it's very much advisable to bring it from the start. Ammo materials: At component state they are nearly weightless. So bring a lot and make some more on field benches. The Sink sell primer but no where near enough powders. If you want to carry sniping guns into MT, also bring your own store of ammo for it. At level40+, The Sink wont sell enough ammo for the rate you burn through it.