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The F-15 2040C upgrade would double the missile load of the F-15C from eight to 16 missiles and extend its range. (Image: Boeing)
Boeing is proposing an “F-15 2040C” series of upgrades that would extend the life of the fourth-generation F-15C air superiority fighter to complement the fifth-generation F-22 Raptor. The 2040 version would double to 16 the number of air-to-air missiles the fighter carries, extend its range and improve its lethality and survivability with upgraded electronics.
An F-15 2040C would also extend the fighter’s production line in St. Louis, which with 84 F-15SAs destined for Saudi Arabia has firm orders through 2019. Boeing previously offered a stealthy “Silent Eagle” version for South Korea’s F-X III fighter competition, but that country last year settled on the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II for the requirement.
At the recent Air Force Association conference in National Harbor, Md., Boeing said it has conducted an internal study of upgrading the F-15C to serve as a cohort to Lockheed Martin’s F-22. The U.S. Air Force originally sought as many as 750 F-22s, but the U.S. government ultimately stopped production in 2011 at 187 operational fighters. Boeing now seeks to fill a perceived gap in air superiority capability with an upgraded F-15C.
“There’s a real challenge that the U.S. faces with air superiority because the next generation air dominance platform is not intended to be fielded until the mid-2030s, and it won’t be out there in numbers until roughly the 2040 time frame to start replacing the fleet,” said Mike Gibbons, Boeing vice president of F-15 programs. “That means the U.S. Air Force has the F-15s and the F-22s they have today to perform the air superiority mission.”
The F-15 2040C would be a menu offering of F-15 program of record and proposed upgrades. “We’re not providing it as a single proposal to the U.S. Air Force,” said Gibbons, who added that Boeing is providing the service with analysis and cost and time estimates of possible improvements. “We expect if they head down this path, they won’t be left to do it all in one [budget] cycle. It’s very likely this would be a set of upgrades to the jet,” he said.
The package would incorporate the programmed radar upgrade of F-15C/Ds with the Raytheon APG-63(v)3 active electronically scanned radar and a new electronic warfare suite called EPAWSS, for the Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System. A proposed long-range infrared search and track sensor pod would complement the AESA radar. Boeing supplies conformal fuel tanks on the multi-role F-15E Strike Eagle; the 2040C upgrade would add them on the F-15C. The proposed weapons load increase would be accomplished by adding a Boeing-developed “quad pack” carriage system on two weapons stations. A communications and networking pod with advanced datalinks, now being demonstrated under the Air Force’s Talon HATE program, would enable the older F-15 to interact with the Raptor and other platforms.
“These are critical capabilities that are not important to the F-15 alone; they’re really a nice complement to what the F-22 has,” Gibbons said. “The F-22 is an incredible platform by itself. When you bring in an F-15 that’s got more weapons, a long-range sensor that is in a different frequency band than what the F-22 carries, the extended range and the connectivity to the F-22 and other systems—that is a huge increase in capability.” Source ainonline.com
The Raytheon APG-63(V)3 is a more modern variant of the company’s APG-63(V)2, and applies the same kind of AESA technology that Raytheon uses in the company’s APG-79 designed for the Navy Boeing F/A-18 Hornet fighter-bomber. The APG-63(V)3 has been in service since 2006.
The Raytheon AN/APG-83 radar for the F-15E, meanwhile, combines the processor of the APG-79 radar with the antenna of the APG-63(V)3 AESA being on the F-15C/D. This radar upgrade is part of the F-15E Radar Modernization Program. (RMP). The new radar includes a wideband radome that enables the radar array to operate on more radar frequencies, and has improvements to environmental control and electronic warfare (EW) systems. Source militaryaerospace.com
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Boeing has chosen BAE Systems as the subcontractor to develop EPAWSS, which provides advanced EW capabilities and a “significant growth path” for the F-15, according to an Oct. 1 BAE Systems statement. The system will improve aircraft protection by adding advanced electronic countermeasures, radar warning and increased chaff and flare capability.
“By upgrading to an enhanced all-digital system, the Air Force, in conjunction with the platform prime, Boeing, will provide next-generation electronic warfare capability to F-15C and F-15E aircraft to help keep the platform capable and mission-ready against current and future threats, ” said Brian Walters, vice president and general manager of Electronic Combat Solutions at BAE Systems, according to the BAE statement. Source defensenews.com
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In 2015, Boeing released a video that confirmed at least one of the Palmdale test aircraft (12-1003 – note the serial on the ejection seat) has been employed to trial the new Digital Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (DJHMCS) on the F-15. Boeing Test and Evaluation chief F-15 test pilot Dan ‘Dragon’ Draeger and a ‘USAF Weapons Systems Officer’ were depicted wearing the new helmets for a ‘first evaluation flight’ at Palmdale recently. The new digital JHMCS uses LED technology for ‘greater reliability and visual acuity’, according to the news release. ‘You don’t have to use high voltage in order to drive the new Light Emitting Diode display which improves maintenance reliability significantly,’ says Greg Hardy, Boeing manager, TACAIR Advanced Display Systems. ‘Couple this technology with a sharper image and improved day and night capabilities using color projected video and symbology and a better balanced helmet, and you have an advanced targeting solution that is more reliable and less fatiguing for pilots to wear.’
The DJHMCS is part of the new JHMCS II product line and it is touted as ‘an economical but significant upgrade’ that features ‘all new’ aspects of JHMCS II, but is aimed as a retrofit for existing JHMCS-capable platforms and crucially it incorporates a new night capability.
Many of these new features were planned as part of the stealthy F-15SE Silent Eagle, which failed to attract direct interest from new customers. Indeed, Silent Eagle enhancements may never be fully realized as Boeing was largely relying on customer support to bring these to reality and the loss in South Korea effectively put paid to the key stealthy improvements. The conformal weapons bays (CWBs) were, for example, part of the industrial offset with Korean industry. The CWBs had two doors and two weapon mounts, the upper, side-opening door carrying a rail launcher for an AIM-120 AMRAAM or an AIM-9-type missile, or a launcher for a single 500lb or 1,000lb bomb or two Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs). The lower door accommodated a trapeze-plus-ejector mount for an AIM-120, or for a single 500lb or 1,000lb bomb or two SDBs. The CWBs would also accommodate a small amount of fuel. Having funded an initial test period, including firing an AIM-120 from the CWB in July 2010, Boeing was ready to develop a number of the Silent Eagle options with customer support as prospective buyers came forward.
Although Seoul opted for the F-35, the Saudi deal paved the way for some of the less noticeable elements of the Silent Eagle to come to fruition, notably the advanced cockpit, DFBW, and DEWS. Various elements that have been taken up by Boeing’s export customers over the past decade are now on the table to be offered as upgrades for other existing F-15 customers — including the USAF. Indeed, Boeing is emphasizing the increased weapon carriage offered by the F-15SA as the DFBW opens up the new outer wing stations 1 and 9. However, the handling implications of these outer stations predude non-DFBW Eagles from utilizing them. Source combataircraft.net
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25th July, 2022
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has denied reports that he has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said such reports were never true and that he is still very much in APC.
Fani-Kayode stated that any announcement that did not emanate from him directly or on his verified social media pages concerning his political affiliation were fake.
He tweeted: “Reports that I have left @OfficialAPCNg are not true.
“Any announcement that does not emanate from me directly or on my verified social media pages concerning my political affiliation are fake.”
The former minister had in September 2021 dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC after he met President Muhammadu Buhari.
Fani-Kayode had pitched tent with the Governor of Kogi State, Yahahya Bello. He was always defending him and campaigning for his presidential aspiration until he lost the APC Presidential ticket to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
He had also recently defended the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC, saying there was nothing wrong with it.


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There was drizzling in the city since morning and there was heavy rain for 45 minutes after 3.30 pm. There was drizzling till 6 pm. There were reports of drizzling and light rain in the rural areas of the district also. Showers are expected to continue for few more days.
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PSMS Medan’s Head of Competition, Julius Raja (center) will try to appeal with sanctions
League 2 2021 has been pushed back to September 2021.
Meanwhile, Liga 1 2021 has been postponed until August 2021.
The delay in the implementation of the competition was due to the implementation of Emergency Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) in Java and Bali on 3-20 July 2021.
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Monie Love took to her social media to pay tribute to her fellow talent, saying Weiland is now “forever carved into the tree of a changing time in rock music that ushered in a more risk taking generation.”
Rock singer Scott Weiland, known for his success as frontman of groups like Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, died in his sleep Thursday [December 3] night. He was 48.
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After a sneak peek at The Dark Knight unmasked, a new trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is finally here.
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Immediately following an album signing event on Saturday, Public Enemy were scheduled to perform a gig in Sheffield, England alongside The Prodigy. The hip-hop outfit’s agenda was going as planned, until the taxi tasked with taking Chuck D and Flavor Flav to the concert drove off without them.
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Update: The 76ers got their first victory of the season last night! Kobe Bryant received a loud ovation, all game long, and was honored with Dr. J and his high school basketball coach before the game.
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A night before he takes on the 76ers one final time, Philadelphia native Kobe Bryant had cheesesteaks on his mind.
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Swizz Beatz recently announced that he will be hosting a three-day art and concert series at Art Basel Miami Beach beginning on Dec. 3.
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Tupac’s biopic is getting a new director. The production company Morgan Creek is behind the Tupac Shakur movie, and recently announced they’re hiring Benny Boom to take on the role as new director. He’ll be replacing John Singleton, who dropped out of the position back in April. Morgan Creek is currently rushing to get the rapper’s biopic done, given that the music rights to Tupac’s songs will revert back to Shakur’s mother at the end of the year if the film isn’t in production by then. Boom is known for several projects on the big screen, including Summit’s 2009 action comedy “Next Day Air” and “S.W.A.T.: Firefight.”
The Queens rapper took to Instagram with a meme featuring the controversial Republican candidate.
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John Oliver ripped into GOP fear-mongering over Syrian refugees — but saved most of his ire for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, slamming him for his over the top attacks on people trying to escape persecution.
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P. Diddy’s 46th birthday might’ve been November 4th, but he’s still celebrating big. The rapper decided to throw himself a massive party Saturday night at Burkle’s Beverly Hill estate in the Green Acres neighborhood. The event was sponsored by Ciroc Vodka, and featured a guest list with names like the Kardashians, Jay Z and Beyonce, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kevin Connely. Justin Bieber and Rihanna were reportedly also on the guest list, but were no-shows. Pharrell Williams, Joe Jonas, Tyga, Ludacris and Wiz Khalifa also joined the business mogul in the celebration.
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Pastor Jeezy has been on the move since the release of his latest album, Church in These Streets and his travels recently found him in a Philadelphia juvenile detention center giving misguided youth some much-needed wisdom from self experience.
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Fabolous took it way back to the ’90s for his 38th birthday party by celebrating with his pals.
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Nonunion contractors at Philadelphia International Airport are demonstrating for better pay and working conditions this morning.
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Rihanna’s very own branded marijuana line, “MaRihanna”, will be going on sale in 2016.
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Last Friday, marked the release of Redman’s 8th solo LP, Mudface, and in an interview he talked about the release of
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In an interview released Tuesday (Nov. 17), Phife recalled a conversation with the Tribe’s label Jive about issues regarding the clearing of the sample.
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In the wake of its release, arguably the best Hip-Hop biopic of all time has amassed more than $200 million worldwide and the box office’s biggest R-rated August opening of all time. Those numbers also make it the biggest music biopic ever created and subsequently made Gray the top-grossing Black director for a single film.
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The King: Eternal Monarch is a classic case where the combination of hottest stars, magnificent sets, production quality, intriguing premise and top writer doesn’t result in a satisfying ride. One of the most anticipated dramas of the year, it fails big time in terms of writing and execution. Of course, there are some good bits and pieces but that doesn’t outweigh the numerous shortcomings.
The King: Eternal Monarch, the highly anticipated drama with top writer Kim Eun Sook at the helm and hot stars like Lee Min Ho, Kim Go Eun and Woo Do Hwan, has finally premiered and has aired 4 episodes, and is well in its third week. It’s airing on SBS as well as Netflix on Fridays and Saturdays. I have mixed feelings about it, with more issues than praise. Continue reading
Any drama that reminds me of 2014’s She’s So Lovable (or My Lovely Girl) should not give positive vibes to me. That was the case with upcoming drama The Liar and His Lover but as the show is providing more and more promotional material, I’m getting a pleasant feeling. That and the network — tvN, which always promises some form of freshness in its dramas. Continue reading
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Restaurant owner ordered to pay $1.6 million to lesbian chef for saying gays are going to hellBy Mason White 5:23 PM April 1, 2014
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The owner of a Manhattan restaurant was ordered to pay his chef more than $1 million after saying that gays are going to hell, according to court proceedings in New York.
According to a lawsuit filed by the chef, the owner of the Mexican restaurant warned his staff during weekly prayers that gay people are going to hell.
Mirella Salemi had sued Gloria’s Tribeca Inc. and owner Edward Globokar, for violations of the Human Rights Act.
The owner operates a chain of Mexican restaurants in New York named Mary Ann’s.
Salemi complained that Globokar held weekly prayer meetings for employees and everyone attended because they feared they would lose their jobs if they did not attend.
At these meetings, Globokar would repeatedly call homosexuality a sin, and say that gays are going to go to hell. Globokar also told the lesbian Salemi to dress more feminine, marry a man and have children.
Globokar argued that he was exercising his First Amendment rights, including freedom of religion, but the court rejected that notion.
The court awarded Salemi $400,000 in compensatory damages and $1.2 million in punitive damages.

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A little over a year ago, I came up with an idea for story to turn my apartment into an indoor garden. This ended up being a terrible idea, though in my defense it was late January, and I was hoping the addition of greenery could inject some vitality back into those bleak, dreary days, while also serving as a way to check out the burgeoning plant tech scene.
So after some initial planning, inspired by companies like Square Roots and AeroFarms, I decided that if I’m going to transform my 600 square-foot apartment into a mini urban jungle, those plants should at least have some utility other than being decorative. Why not grow something I could eat?
Over the next few months, I reached out to a number of companies that make indoor gardening gadgets including Click and Grow, AeroGarden, Veritable, and Replantable (which has since sadly gone out of business) to test a range of different products—from small tabletop devices to large cupboard-sized installments.
And as review devices started arriving to our office, I realized how I had made my first mistake—highlighting the hassle of my bad idea. As a city dweller, I don’t own a car or a truck or even a wheelbarrow, so trying to lug boxes throughout the city on public transportation turned into a comedy of errors. I was shuttling planters to my apartment one-by-one, until I got tired and impatient and paid $40 for Uber to take me from work to home, despite a normal subway fare costing just $2. That was strike #1.
After finally getting all the various gadgets home, setup was actually quite simple. For most of the smaller automated planters, all you have to do is attach the system’s growing lights, which are typically positioned at the end of an adjustable arm above the planting surface. Then you just fill the planter with water and that’s it. Some of the larger planters like Aerogrow’s Farm Plus require some extra at-home assembly, but thanks to the kit’s included instructions and Allen wrench, putting it together only took about an hour. If you can assemble Ikea furniture, indoor planters don’t pose much of a challenge.
Once everything was set up, there was a wealth of herbs and veggies to choose from, with the only main limitations being the size of the planters and the final size of my harvest. That makes a lot of common herbs like basil, thyme, rosemary, and even small peppers and cherry tomatoes a great choice for smaller tabletop planters, leaving things like lettuce and or other large leafy greens to the bigger systems. But if you’re thinking about growing some indoor pumpkins, think again.
The downside to much of this is that similar to K-Cups for coffee, almost every planter system sort of forces you to use their proprietary seed pods, which aren’t interchangeable and depending on the company, may only be available from a handful of retailers. This locks you into a company’s system, and when your current plants eventually die, the only way to start a new cycle is to purchase a new batch of seed pods from the company that made the planter to the exclusion of pretty much anyone else.
While it is possible to engineer your own pods for use in the planters, the time and energy it would require to do that generally means you probably would have been better off avoiding these indoor planter systems in the first place. And with packs of three pod kits generally going for $4 to $6 a piece or more (versus pennies for an equivalent amount of of seeds, dirt, and fertilizer), the long-term costs of tech-assisted indoor gardening can get quite expensive quickly. Strike #2.
Still, I forged ahead, getting five different systems up and running, and while it wasn’t exactly a surprise, pretty much everything I planted thrived, quickly transforming the seed pods from lifeless hunks of brown dirt into a bounty of herbs and veggies.
This was by far the most satisfying part of the process as basil, thyme, parsley, lettuce and even tomatoes flourished with practically no input or effort on my behalf. The only things that seemed to struggle was a lonely pod of chives and a bit of Thai basil, which grew significantly slower and less vibrant than anything else I planted. The planters basically took care of themselves, only occasionally requiring attention to replenish things like water or in some cases, included liquid fertilizer. It was all easily monitored using water bobbers or built-in displays. Each planter delivered on the set-it-and-forget promise that so many people dream about it.
But then the reality of the situation started setting in. Even though these planters are almost totally automated, the things I couldn’t control turned into headaches and then migraines. Some planters like the Veritable and the Click and Grow 3 are so streamlined, they don’t even come with on/off switches. That means the only way to turn the system off is to unplug them entirely. On top of that, for systems like those that don’t have a screen, there’s no way to easily adjust the planter’s light schedule, again, besides unplugging the planter and plugging it back in.
On devices without a screen, plugging a planter in essentially tells the device to start a new day-regardless of what the actual time of day is—which can be a real hassle if you plug the device in after noon, and are then forced to deal with glowing white lights that stay on all night. At that point, you’re not that far removed from being an actual farmer who needs to wake up at sunrise just to frigging reset your techy planter’s internal clock.
At first, this was merely a minor annoyance, but as my experiment transitioned from summer into fall and then back into winter, having all the planters lights on for 16 to 18 hours a day really messed with my circadian rhythm, especially when you consider some of the planters like the Veritable put out extra blue light. There were also the water pumps on the larger AeroGrow Farm Plus, which sounded like the Bellagio water fountain show was happening inside my apartment every few hours—seriously, you could hear the water circulation down the hall outside my apartment.
It almost felt like I was living that one Seinfeld episode about Kenny Roger’s Roasters where the light from the sign nearly drives Jerry insane. The only difference is that instead of an inescapable red hue, I was plagued by an ever-present cool white glow, which by the end, felt like a frosty demon was haunting my dreams.
By the end, even though the planters had produced a bounty of herbs that we turned into multiple batches of pesto, fresh chimmichuri, and more than a handful of delicious sweet and crispy salads, my fiancee (now wife) said they had to go. And that was strike #3. Over the course of about four months or so, my idea to cure my winter blues with some happy little greens had turned into a big bright bad idea.
Trying to set up even a small indoor farm made me feel like I was turning into the horticultural version of a cat person. Everyday, I talked to my plants, I even gave them names. My lettuce Big L held down the fort, while Benny the basil plant led my gang of plants, as it was consistently one of the verdant and fastest-growing specimens. And even with the all the tech helping out with watering and lighting, looking after the plants still consumed my thoughts. I may have even had a few dreams (nightmares?) about the plants taking taunting me and then eating me Little Shop of Horrors style.
However, at the same time, I learned a lot about what makes a good techy planter and the right way to use one. Simply trying to cram as many plants and lights into a tiny space—especially one that you live in—is an exercise in frustration and should not be attempted, no matter how delighted the schadenfreude seems to make your editor.
First, if you simply want one planter for easy-to-grow herbs like basil, get something with a screen like the AeroGarden so you can have more control over planter’s light cycles and the ability to easily turn off the light for a few hours in case you want to have people over without blinding them. Also, while they generally more expensive, if you can find a fully enclosed planter similar to Replantable which came with a tinted glass door that blocked most of its light, those are much, much easier to live with.
Second, if you’re serious about growing plants indoors, you’ll really want to have a dedicated room or space for gardening where the planters won’t disturb typical human activities like working or sleeping. As invigorating as it is to be able to smell fresh herbs anytime simply by stuffing your face in them, the planters themselves still tend to give off a certain farm funk. And at the end of a planting season, you need to give everything a thorough cleaning, which can be hard if you’re trying to make sure you don’t blow up your security deposit. Also, for people who really want to use min-max their home gardens and use more efficient red or fuchsia lighting to feed your plants, you’ll really want to keep your home and indoor garden separated, lest you too succumb to the call of Mr. Marbles.
Third, while the ability to support up to three different seed pods in even the smallest planters might seem like a lot when combined with multiple devices, it’s not. It takes several weeks or even a month to get a usable amount of food from almost any plant, which means unless you have a free shipping container worth’s of planters, you’ve never going to harvest enough greens to live off of. So despite my best intentions about trying to create a personal urban farm, a typical apartment just isn’t big enough to live and grow in, that is if you want any sort of a normal life. And don’t even think about vacations of more than five days or so, these planters aren’t going to water themselves.
Finally, even without accounting for increased power usage, filling up an apartment with techy planters and their associated seed pods is a relatively pricey investment. Sure, the least expensive system from Aerogarden start at around $50, but anything with even modest capacity goes for more like $100 to $300, with larger systems topping out at $750 or $1,000. And then it’s at around $4 per seed pod or more from there.
If you’re just looking to add some greenery to your abode, just throw some dirt and some indoor tolerant seeds in a clay pot, and water it from time to time. It’s just as rewarding and not that much more difficult than letting an automated planter do it for you. And if you do opt for a more sophisticated DIY solution, you won’t be stuck in limbo if any of these planter companies goes belly up.
But in the end, I have no one but myself to blame. I think my heart was in the right place, but as with a lot of things, becoming overly reliant on tech forced my to stray too close to the light.

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7 edition of Chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla found in the catalog.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.
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|LC Classifications||TX795 .F86 1995|
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Tennis Legends Pack Smith Center
Venus Williams and Martina Hingis Delight Sold Out Crowd
July 17, 2014
When not serving as the home arena for George Washington's basketball, gymnastics, swimming, volleyball and water polo teams, the venerable Charles E. Smith Center has hosted a litany of luminaries, celebrities and politicians since it opened nearly 40 years ago.
From U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, to world-renowned comics Bill Cosby, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Jerry Seinfeld, to Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and the U.S. Men's National Basketball Team, and musicians Bob Dylan and Ray Charles, numerous legends and titans of their professions have graced the building.
On Wednesday night July 16 in Foggy Bottom it was the tennis world's turn when superstars Venus Williams and Martina Hingis - with a combined 12 singles and 25 doubles Grand Slam titles between them - competed for the Washington Kastles in their new home at the Smith Center.
In front of a Kastles' franchise record crowd of 3,275, the old rivals and current teammates played as doubles partners for the first time ever and led the Kastles to a 23-18 victory over the Texas Wild in WTT action.
In search of their fourth straight and fifth overall World TeamTennis Championship, the Kastles return to Smith Center in a match that will again feature Hingis on Monday, July 21st, and play their final regular season home match the following night when Sloane Stephens joins the squad.
With stilt-walkers, Kastles cheerleaders and fan giveaways, there's something for everyone at the Charles E. Smith Center.
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ATLANTA -- Atlanta right-hander Jason Marquis, out since April 14 with a sore pitching shoulder, started Saturday night against the San Diego Padres.
In his last start, Marquis gave up seven runs and 11 hits in six innings against Florida. He threw 129 pitches that night, a game after the Braves used seven pitchers in a 14-inning loss to the Marlins.
Rookie reliever Tim Spooneybarger was sent down to the minors Friday night to make room for Marquis.
Marquis, a second-year player who joined Atlanta's rotation this year, was 1-2 with a 6.75 ERA in three starts before being placed on the 15-day disabled list. An MRI exam showed no serious damage, but the team wanted to give him extra time to recover.
In a rehab start last Saturday for Triple-A Richmond, Marquis pitched five innings and allowed two runs on five hits. He took the loss.
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Frame of Mind, KERA’s television series devoted to independent film from Texas, turns 25 this year. It’s a big anniversary, so of course, there's going to be a party. Come celebrate with KERA and the Video Association of Dallas on Wednesday Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at Texas Theatre.
Frame of Mind Producer Bart Weiss joins founding producers Marlis Schmidt and Suzanne Dooley to look back on 25 years of Texas independent filmmaking, including music videos, shorts and excerpts from documentaries. The show captures the diversity of how images can be made and how the Texas experience can be interpreted. This retrospective highlights the show’s commitment to work on the periphery of the mainstream. It also honors visionary Texas artists whose work might otherwise be lost or forgotten.


Poland’s representative, Krystian Ochman, was invited today in a radio show of the Polish station Radio ZET. he performed, along other songs, his song “River” with which he will represent his country in Eurovision 2022 after winning the national final: Tu bije serce Europy.
Listen to the acoustic version of “River” by Ochman:
Poland will compete in the Second semi-final on May 12 and number 14 of the running order.
Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Polish participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy!


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Two years ago, I was among many people who predicted that we would have built up to 20 food waste anaerobicdigestion (AD) plants in the UK by now, and that the huge potential for bio-energy would be unlocked. While planning for such facilities and securing power purchase agreements have not proven to be market barriers, perhaps, surprisingly, securing waste has.
The vision and potential for a national network of facilities to process food waste and generate electricity is a real one. But if we are to do this successfully, we need to finance such facilities with a replicable non-recourse (project finance) model.
If we rely on asset-secured recourse debt finance for funding, the market will develop at a much slower rate and be linked to the balance sheet strength and ability to borrow of some large players. Yes, there are a few banks thatwill consider project finance deals of less than £15m, and the typical debt requirement of an AD facility is £4m-£8m. But those banks are lending and most have been relatively unaffected by the credit crunch.
One such bank, Triodos, has seen numerous food waste in-vessel composting and AD plant proposals in the past 18 months. While there are many strong propositions with good management, proven technology and suppliers, as well as strong power purchase agreements, the key element required for a project finance arrangement are the waste supply contracts. These are essential, underpinning the future revenues of the project and so providing security for the investment.
To provide debt finance on the scale required, these contracts typically must be for 10 years and include some deliver or pay penalties. However, there are very few local authorities that have had the foresight to offer such contracts. As a result, despite many potential projects in the UK and numerous offers of grant support, very few developments are progressing.
In fact, I suspect that a large proportion of developments that have secured grant finance have been unable tosecure debt finance. It would be easy to blame the credit crunch for this, but the reality is that the banks that would typically lend to projects of this nature and scale continue to lend. The market failure that is holding back the potential for food waste infrastructure in the UK is the lack of bankable contracts.
So when public spending cuts are being considered, perhaps we should review the public sector support to this sector. Fewer grants and more bankable contracts could be a better balance. Longer term deliver or pay contracts should be seen as a long-term investment, and they can actually be used to build value for the public sector. For example, contracts can be awarded on a build and operate basis, with ownership transferring to the public sector at the end of the term.
We have a huge opportunity to create a network of facilities that generate sustainable energy from our food waste, but this could happen much faster. Perhaps the advent of the coalition Government will provide the opportunity to review why and what interventions would help this opportunity to become a reality?
Dr Bevis Watts is head of business banking at Triodos Bank and a member of the Chartered Institution of Waste Management


Jerrod Niemann, the Oak Ridge Boys, Kenny Loggins and the Beach Boys bring classic entertainment to this years 164th Annual Walworth County Fair. The WalCo Fair is still the largest county fair in the state of Wisconsin.
Walworth County Fair kicks off Wednesday, August 28 and runs through Monday, September 2, 2013 in Elkhorn.
There is always a plethora of culinary choices, games, amusements and rides on the midway at the Walworth County Fair. 4H fans can enjoy juried animal and livestock shows all six days.


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Lawyers for the city of Portland along with police chiefs and sheriffs from across the state urged lawmakers Thursday to loosen up a bill passed last year that limits use of pepper spray and other less-lethal munitions to declared riots only.
Police worry the law prevents officers from using the weapons to stop belligerent or violent people in other settings such as raucous sporting events, a packed bar or house party, according to their testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
The city of Portland, League of Oregon Cities, Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police and Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association support what they call a “fix” to last session’s House Bill 2928.
“We respectfully request that we let our police officers know with as much clarity as possible what force they can use in a crowded setting in order to protect themselves and the public,” testified Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner, representing the chiefs of police and sheriffs’ associations.
Yet the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, other civil rights lawyers and some community activists who participated in mass social justice protests in Portland in 2020 argued that the proposed changes would roll back protections that the Legislature recognized were important to the public.
House Bill 4131 would still bar the indiscriminate use of hand-held chemical spray and less-lethal projectiles to control crowds. But it would allow their use against specific individuals in a crowd engaging in conduct that otherwise would justify the police use of physical force under state law.
The new bill makes a distinction between the use of hand-held pepper spray and tear gas use and regulates them differently.
Tear gas would be allowed only after authorities declare a riot and only when its use is “necessary to terminate or prevent furtherance of the riot.”
The bill would allow police to use “an electronically amplified noise’' only to make announcements or help clear the way for emergency vehicles.
It also defines crowd control as “law enforcement techniques used to address a breach of the peace or any assembly of persons where there is a threat of collective violence, destruction of property or other unlawful acts.’’
“We believe these technical adjustments help clarify how the law is to be implemented consistent with the Legislature’s intent,” said Robert Taylor, Portland city attorney.
Skinner said the law passed last session would bar officers from using hand-held pepper spray to break up a fight in a non-crowd-control situation and open up officers to a criminal charge of official misconduct criminal if they did.
“We believe it is critically important for officers to have clarity about their authority when they are faced with destructive, violent or potentially violent behavior by individuals who are participating in an event that is otherwise peaceful,’’ Skinner said.
Sandy Chung, executive director of the American Civil Liberties of Oregon, opposed the bill and urged stronger limitations on use of tear gas or other munitions.
“It’s very concerning that in less than a year, they’re requesting changes during the short session when there’s little time to give this the full consideration that it requires,” Chung said.
Attorney Jesse Merrithew, who has sued the city of Portland and Portland police on behalf of protesters injured in demonstrations, said what Portland is seeking is a “return to the status quo” regarding the use of tear gas.
“I urge this body not to allow it,” he said.
Teressa Raiford, founder of Don’t Shoot Portland, asked lawmakers not to support “a watering down” of protections for people who want to exercise their right to free speech.
Andre Miller, who serves as Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty’s community justice coordinator but said he was testifying on his own behalf, recounted how he was shot in the face with a tear gas canister on July 22, 2020, during the protests in Portland. He said he supports a total ban on tear gas as a crowd control tactic.
The bill remains before the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Happy Valley, who chairs the committee, said the panel will work to “try to reach a resolution we all feel good about.”
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Critics claim the city is not adequately enforcing a new home-sharing ordinance.
Rent-controlled properties remain on home-sharing platforms like Airbnb in violation of a new ordinance.
As the number of H-2A guest workers mushrooms, California labor contractors and growers are packing farmworkers into motels and houses in working class neighborhoods.
A proposed law could reboot California’s public investment system to provide a stable source of local funding for affordable housing.
Long a community with little clout, the state’s renters won a victory with national implications.


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A dip in the summer in the Riviera, a walk by the pool of a Mediterranean villa, a garden party of the past.
The Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 show is characterized by well-defined lines inspired by the 18th century, a time dear to Karl Lagerfeld, feathers, and lots of "broderie". The colors are soft pastels, but the true color of the summer is white.
The styles are varied, the inspiration travels from up to 700 to the 80s, typical necks of other eras meet the satin bomber jackets and maxi sleeves.
The bride is Vittoria Ceretti, Italian supermodel, and wears a swimsuit covered with crystals and a kilometer veil, to underline the summer mood.
Big absent Karl Lagerfeld seems too tired to close the show.

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Three Concordians travelled
to Munich in mid-October to participate in Medientage, an annual event
in the Bavarian capital.
Its a showcase for media education, representating all the German
media, from print to electronic to multi-media to cinema, through kiosques
and panel discussions.
Christopher Jackson, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, gave a presentation
on Hexagram, a consortium of academic and industry-related research in
new media, of which he was until recently interim president. Dennis Murphy,
Executive Director, University Communications, and Associate Professor,
Department of Communication Studies, gave a presentation on media and
questions of ethics.
Amely Jurgenliemk, Administrator, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, gave
a talk on the cinema program at Concordia and options for professionals.
All three took part in a panel discussion on the state of media education
in Quebec, and arranged for exchanges of interns and faculty in media
studies with Bavaria. Medientage 2003 will feature a Quebec day on media
training with universities, private training academies and professional
representations from documentary and animation producers.
The other three Quebec presenters at Medientage were Michel Desjardins,
of Groupe Image Buzz, a special effects company, and Quebec Animafix,
a consortium of 17 independent animation production groups; Louise Spickler,
of the Institut National de lImage et du Son (INIS), a private academy;
and Jean-Pierre Desaulnier, Département de communications, UQAM.
Assistance for this trip was provided by the Ministry of International
Relations, Quebec Office in Munich, and by Marie Labelle, Montreal officer
for international projects with the Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications.
For more on Medientage, see http://www.medientage-muenchen.de/.


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AFP - Before the National Security Agency began complaining about being shut out of encrypted devices, it helped develop software for secure communications that could be adapted by the private sector.
That technology is hitting the public this month in the form of a smartphone application called Scrambl3 from a California startup which claims its “dark Internet tunnel” thwarts snooping on voice calls and messages.
Scrambl3 was launched yesterday as a stand-alone app for Android devices by the startup, USMobile, which describes it as a way to create “trusted connections on untrusted networks.”
The system creates the smartphone equivalent of a virtual private network to make messages invisible on the Internet, according to USMobile president and co-founder Jon Hanour.
“We want to provide the most private and most secure mobile program on the market,” Hanour told AFP.
“We think we have the best combination of anything that’s available today.”
Hanour says Scrambl3 adds an extra layer of encryption compared with other secure messaging apps, using a technology stemming from the NSA “Fishbowl” project -- technical specifications of which were released in 2012 by the agency.
“The only other network using this is one at the Department of Defense for classified communications,” he said.
“If you are not protecting encrypted traffic within a highly encrypted VPN, then you are not secure in today’s environment.”
While the system was developed in collaboration with the NSA, it has no “backdoor” access for the intelligence agency, according to USMobile. “We believe the NSA cannot break our encryption,” Hanour said.
USMobile will not store voice mails or messages on its servers and will not use the public telephone network, allowing users to bypass surveillance and making data inaccessible to law enforcement or other investigations.
Because of its strong encryption, the software requires a special US export license and cannot be sold to countries such as North Korea, Syria or Iran on a list of sponsors of terrorist activity.
Interestingly, the NSA and FBI in recent months have complained that encryption used by Apple and Google, which will not retain access keys, would make it more difficult to track down criminals and terrorists.
But Hanour said society has a greater interest in protecting sensitive data such as trade secrets, from snooping.


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LD and special education.
We observed that children in the highest quartile of urinary cadmium had significantly higher odds of both LD and special education when compared with those in the lowest quartile. A few prior studies have linked cadmium exposure with LD, and these studies relied on hair and blood samples to assess cadmium exposure. Two case–control studies demonstrated higher hair cadmium concentrations in children with LD (Capel et al. 1981
; Pihl and Parkes 1977
). A third study also found higher hair cadmium concentrations in children with LD, but the difference was statistically significant only for males (Ely et al. 1981
). In that study, the authors considered the sexes separately but did not present the type of statistical evaluation for interaction that we report here. Interestingly, in our study the sex–cadmium interaction was not significant, but the effect estimate for urinary cadmium was larger among males. A fourth study reported no association between LD and blood cadmium in the 1999–2000 NHANES data (Lee et al. 2007
). Cadmium accumulates in the kidney, and urinary cadmium concentration is considered to be a marker of cumulative exposure/body burden, whereas blood cadmium is thought to be a better indicator of recent exposure (Lauwerys et al. 1994
). The different exposure metric used in the Lee et al. (2007)
study may help explain the discrepancy in our findings.
In addition to higher odds of LD, we found that children in the highest quartile of urinary cadmium also had higher odds of special education placement. Special education is a “catch-all” outcome that likely involves a variety of neurocognitive and behavioral dysfunctions, including LDs such as reading difficulties, dyslexia, ADHD, and language/communication disorders, as well as behavior problems, psychiatric conditions, and perhaps some physical dysfunctions. The broad heterogeneous nature of both special education and LD as outcome measures prevents inferences about specific learning or cognitive domains. We are not aware of prior epidemiologic studies directly relating cadmium exposure and special education. However, any of the previously mentioned animal or human studies that link cadmium exposure to adverse neurobehavioral/neurocognitive or general health outcomes may be relevant here, because these outcomes could lead to special education placement.
There are data supporting the biological plausibility of cadmium exposure as a risk factor for LD and special education placement. For example, cadmium can inhibit the calcium flux required for neurotransmitter release (Hirning et al. 1988
; Nation et al. 1989
) and might thereby disrupt the neural communication required for synaptic network formation during development. Cadmium has also been shown to influence the proliferation and differentiation of neuroblasts in culture (Gulisano et al. 2009
), and there is evidence that cadmium could indirectly affect the developing brain by disrupting thyroid hormone function (Iijima et al. 2007
Our findings for ADHD did not reach statistical significance, but the direction of the association suggests a possible decreased risk of ADHD diagnosis in children with urinary cadmium levels above the 25th percentile. There is only limited information from prior epidemiologic studies on cadmium exposure and ADHD/executive function. Lee et al. (2007)
reported a nonsignificant trend of increasing odds of ADHD with increasing blood cadmium levels that was not present after adjustment for persistent organic pollutants based on an analysis of 1999–2000 NHANES data. As mentioned above, the different exposure metrics may partly explain the difference in our findings, because blood cadmium is a marker of recent exposure, whereas urine cadmium is a marker of chronic exposure (Lauwerys et al. 1994
). Cao et al. (2009)
reported a nonsignificant trend of increasing problem behavior scores at 7 years of age with increasing blood cadmium levels measured at 2 years of age, but there were no obvious trends with increasing blood cadmium in the attention/executive subdomains, the hyperactivity subdomain, or the ADHD index. The prospective approach is a strength of their study, but their unique population consisted solely of lead-poisoned children (blood lead levels of 20–44 μg/dL at enrollment), and the results may not be generalizable to non-lead-poisoned children.
Previous animal-based studies have demonstrated a variety of seemingly inconsistent effects of cadmium exposure on neurophysiology and activity levels. These findings include, for example, reduced exploratory activity and decreased time spent moving, but they also include hyperactivity, and evidence of changes in central nervous system dopamine and serotonin metabolism (Ali et al. 1986
; Desi et al. 1998
; Nation et al. 1989
). These two neurotransmitter systems have been implicated in the etiology of ADHD (Faraone et al. 2005
). The varied direction of effects on activity level seen in the animal literature might be related to differences in the timing of cadmium exposure during neurodevelopment, the presence of other uncontrolled variables, and/or the specific phenotype measured in each study. We lack detailed information on exposure timing, which makes it difficult to interpret the direction of the ORs for ADHD in the context of the animal literature (Andersen and Navalta 2004
). If elevated cadmium exposure decreased activity levels, this may have made ADHD diagnosis less likely. It is also possible that cadmium may cause other neurocognitive dysfunctions that serve as competing risks to ADHD diagnosis (perhaps children with other diagnostic labels were less likely to receive an ADHD label), and the potential influence of chance should not be overlooked. Because these are cross-sectional data, the temporal relationship between exposure and outcome is not discernable, and it is possible that urinary cadmium concentration tended to decrease after ADHD diagnosis (e.g., children with ADHD may be more likely to have behaviors that decrease cadmium exposure, absorption, or excretion). In the lead-stratified analysis, we found evidence that the OR for ADHD is < 1 only among those with blood lead levels above the median. The interaction was not significant, but there is toxicologic evidence that cadmium exposure may attenuate lead-mediated increases in activity (Nation et al. 1990
). Further research is needed to clarify these issues.
Implications for cadmium risk assessments.
Previous cadmium risk assessments have considered renal effects to be the most sensitive end point of cadmium toxicity, and they identified urinary cadmium threshold levels that should protect against renal damage [EFSA 2009; World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (WHO/FAO) 2011]. Recent risk assessments by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA 2009) and the WHO (WHO/FAO 2011
) yielded urinary cadmium reference levels of 1 and 5.24 μg cadmium/g creatinine, respectively. When we excluded from the analyses the four study participants with urinary cadmium levels above the EFSA reference level, the associations between urinary cadmium and LD/special education were still evident (comparing the highest and lowest urinary cadmium quartiles: LD, OR = 3.25; 95% CI: 1.45, 7.28; special education, OR = 3.03; 95% CI: 1.14, 8.08). Thus, our work demonstrates associations with LD/special education at urinary cadmium levels below both the WHO and EFSA reference levels.
If these associations are replicated in other populations, then neurodevelopmental toxicity may be a sensitive end point to consider in future cadmium risk assessments. The EFSA and WHO risk assessments used toxicokinetic models to link creatinine-standardized urinary cadmium levels to dietary cadmium intake in order to estimate dietary intake standards (Amzal et al. 2009
; EFSA 2009; WHO/FAO 2011
). These toxicokinetic models were validated in adults (Amzal et al. 2009
), but they are probably not appropriate to use among children, because exposure routes may differ (Weidenhamer et al. 2011
) and because urinary creatinine concentration varies markedly with small increases in age among children (Barr et al. 2005
). Recent work by Weidenhamer et al. (2011)
suggests that mouthing or accidentally swallowing objects such as inexpensive jewelry may also contribute significantly to cadmium exposure in childhood. The extent to which these sources contributed to cadmium exposure in our population is unknown, but future risk assessments should not ignore the potential impact of non-food-based exposures or that current toxicokinetic models are not child specific.
Strengths and limitations.
Exposure. The use of urinary cadmium as an exposure metric is a strength of this study. Urinary cadmium integrates exposure over many years (Lauwerys et al. 1994
); thus, if brain development is sensitive to cadmium exposure in any of the time periods represented by this exposure metric, then this effect could be detected in our analysis. However, it is not possible to determine etiologically relevant time windows of exposure or to confirm the temporal sequence of exposure and outcomes based on the available data. A shorter time-course exposure metric such as blood cadmium (Lauwerys et al. 1994
), in the context of a longitudinal prospective study that measures exposure and outcome at several time points, may be able to determine if the associations are driven by exposure that occurs in specific developmental windows.
Outcomes. We believe the diversity of outcomes evaluated is a strength of this study, because the combination of these three outcomes constitutes a screen for common neurodevelopmental dysfunctions. One limitation of these outcome measures is that they were derived from parent or proxy-respondent reports rather than neuropsychological evaluations. The use of ADHD treatments as an outcome would have likely identified only a subset of ADHD cases, resulting in low case numbers and analyses of limited power (Froehlich et al. 2007
). Neuropsychiatric screening measures, such as the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Scale for Children that includes assessment of criteria for ADHD based on the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(CDC-NCHS 2006; Froehlich et al. 2009
), would have been more objective, but these outcomes were not present in the publicly available NHANES data. Although outcomes were classified based on proxy-respondent reports, it is unlikely that outcome misclassification would be differential with respect to exposure unless the accuracy of reporting was related to unmeasured factors associated with cadmium exposure. Typically, nondifferential misclassification would be expected to bias associations toward the null (Rothman et al. 2008
Confounding. The extensive covariate data available in NHANES, combined with the large sample size and high number of cases, allowed us to both evaluate and account for many potentially confounding variables. We sought to evaluate the association of cadmium exposure with the outcomes after accounting for other known correlates of the outcomes. We evaluated three sets of models: a
) models adjusted only for creatinine, b
) core models adjusted for primary potential confounders, and c
) full models also adjusted for additional predictors of a priori
interest. The conclusions from all three of these approaches were consistent. We further note that adjusting for iron deficiency using low hemoglobin had little effect on the results and does not alter the conclusions of this study (data not shown). As in any observational epidemiology study, we cannot rule out the possibility that confounding may have meaningfully affected our results. Potential sources of confounding in these analyses might include a lack of detailed information on the home environment (Bradley 1993
) and parental psychopathology (Bellinger 2001
Study design. The cross-sectional design of NHANES is a limitation of this study, because the temporal relationships between variables are not discernable. It is possible that higher cadmium exposure puts children at greater risk of LD/special education, but it is also possible that children with LD/special education have behaviors or prefer foods that increase their cadmium exposure. However, we are unaware of evidence supporting this reverse causation explanation.
The NHANES study design does offer strengths related to power and generalizability. To our knowledge, this is the largest study to evaluate associations between urinary cadmium and childhood learning/behavioral phenotypes. Because NHANES was designed to represent the noninstitutionalized U.S. population (CDC-NCHS 2010b), our findings should be generalizable to U.S. children 6–15 years of age.

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Today, in the City of Detroit, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow unveiled her "American Competiveness Plan," which includes a set of action steps designed to ensure U.S. businesses and workers can become more globally competitive and create more jobs in America. Senator Stabenow's plan consists of several bills, which now have bipartisan support, designed to stand up for American businesses by cracking down on other countries' trade violations that give their companies an anti-competitive advantage.
Senator Stabenow unveiled her plan from the new headquarters of the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority. She was joined by business leaders and workers who agreed that stronger action to stop other countries' unfair trade practices was critical to bolster U.S. job creation.
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"China's illegal currency manipulation directly translates to lost American jobs and suffering for families, especially in Michigan," said Senator Stabenow. "I've been fighting to stop China's illegal action on currency for years, and with bipartisan momentum growing, now is the time for Congress to finally get this done. Standing up to China to stop this practice would create American jobs and reduce the deficit at the same time."
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BY JORDAN OWEN Staff Reporter August 26, 2013 1:34AM
Updated: August 26, 2013 2:08AM
A 28-year-old man was shot Sunday night along a Chicago Public Schools’ “Safe Passage” route on the West Side.
The shooting happened about 11:35 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Tripp Avenue in the North Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.
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The human brain weighs roughly three and a half pounds, looks like a convoluted mass and contains approximately eighty eight billion neurons. Yet when you reach out to pick up something with your left hand what’s really happening is that instructions are being issued by the right side of your frontal lobe. This learning pathway introduces you to the basics of the anatomy of the brain. Once again this learning pathway has a lot of terminology, but as you progress through the next two micro courses what you learn in this pathway will provide a solid foundation for your understanding of intelligence, memory, and every other topic.
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