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Why is MSG bad for your health?
The labels are meant to ease consumers’ worries, because MSG, which is used as a flavor enhancer, has for decades been popularly linked to various health problems, such as headaches and allergic reactions.
It’s even been considered a factor in infantile obesity..
What MSG does to your body?
In many countries MSG goes by the name “China salt”. Beside its flavour enhancing effects, MSG has been associated with various forms of toxicity (Figure 1(Fig. 1)). MSG has been linked with obesity, metabolic disorders, Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, neurotoxic effects and detrimental effects on the reproductive organs.
What is MSG made from?
Today, instead of extracting and crystallizing MSG from seaweed broth, MSG is produced by the fermentation of starch, sugar beets, sugar cane or molasses. This fermentation process is similar to that used to make yogurt, vinegar and wine.
Why is MSG banned?
In the west, this manufactured additive has been blamed for a number of adverse reactions – headaches, sweating, flushing, numbness of the face and neck, palpitations, nausea, chest pain and sleeplessness – known collectively as “Chinese restaurant syndrome”. Restaurants that use MSG don’t brag about it.
Does Mcdonalds use MSG?
McDonald’s does not use MSG in products on its national menu currently and lists ingredients in its national menu on its website, according to the company. … “We’re passionate about our food and take great care to offer delicious, quality menu options to our customers that are produced and sourced in a responsible way.”
Where is MSG banned?
Pakistan. The Punjab Food Authority banned Ajinomoto, commonly known as Chinese salt, which contains MSG, from being used in food products in the Punjab Province of Pakistan in January 2018.
Is MSG cancer causing?
Does Monosodium Glutamate Cause Cancer? Monosodium glutamate (MSG) does cause controversy, but there is no conclusive evidence linking the consumption of MSG to a cause of cancer or to an increased risk of cancer. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers it safe to add MSG to food.
Is MSG worse than salt?
“MSG can be used to reduce sodium in these foods without a taste trade-off. MSG contains about 12 percent sodium, which is two-thirds less than that contained in table salt, and data shows a 25 to 40 percent reduction in sodium is possible in specific product categories when MSG is substituted for some salt.
Does KFC use MSG?
KFC adds the infamous flavor-booster monosodium glutamate, or MSG, to dozens of items, as detailed on the company website. It also uses foods naturally high in effectively similar free glutamates, like chicken. MSG enhances salt taste and salt-taste pleasure while also triggering the brothy umami taste.
Does MSG raise blood pressure?
Sodium is the substance that may cause your blood pressure to increase. Other forms of sodium are also present in food. MSG (monosodium glutamate) is another example of a sodium added to food (common in Chinese food).
What foods are high in MSG?
Here are 8 foods that commonly contain MSG.Fast food. One of the best-known sources of MSG is fast food, particularly Chinese food. … Chips and snack foods. Many manufacturers use MSG to boost the savory flavor of chips. … Seasoning blends. … Frozen meals. … Soups. … Processed meats. … Condiments. … Instant noodle products.
Does Maggi contain MSG?
“We do not add Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) to Maggi Noodles. We use raw materials that may contain naturally occurring Glutamate and which could be confused with commercially produced MSG. Glutamate is safe and is found in everyday and high protein foods including tomatoes, peas, paneer, onions, milk.”


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Wigan Athletic keen on Sheffield Wednesday winger Nathaniel Mendez-Laing
Wigan Athletic are keen on Sheffield Wednesday’s Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, according to a report by the Sheffield Star.
Wigan Athletic are interested in luring the winger away from Hillsborough this month.
Mendez-Laing, 29, is due to see his contract with the Owls expire this weekend.
Darren Moore’s side want to tie him down to a new contract but face competition from elsewhere for his signature now.
Sheffield Wednesday spell so far
The League One outfit swooped to sign him on a free transfer in November after he impressed them on trial.
He has made four appearances in all competitions and has chipped in with a single goal.
Career to date
Mendez-Laing rose up through the youth ranks at Wolves but left as a youngster for Peterborough United in 2012.
He went on to make 60 appearances for the Posh before loan spells at Portsmouth, Shrewsbury Town and Cambridge United.
The former England youth international then left London Road on a permanent basis and had a two-year spell at Rochdale before Cardiff City came calling.
Mendez-Laing was a hit during his time with the Bluebirds and helped them gain promotion to the Premier League under Neil Warnock during his time in Wales.
He then had a brief spell at Middlesbrough before his move to Sheffield Wednesday.
The Owls won’t want to lose him this winter, especially to a league rival in Wigan, so need to agree terms with him as soon as possible.
Mendez-Laing has started to impress for the Yorkshire club and will be crucial to their push for promotion.

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Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe. It tells the story of a young explorer who becomes marooned on a deserted island. His experiences of the island change his outlook on life. .
The story takes place in the 1700's on a deserted island somewhere off the coast of Brazil. The island is fairly large in size and has a small shore. The interior of the island has many trees, wild pigs and other small animals and a small cave in which Crusoe stores food. "I walked about the shore lifting up my hands. Look around, I see nothing but water, a forest, and the remains of my ship. At first, I was afraid of wild animals but after some exploration of the land, the only animals I had seen were wild pigs, squirrels, and some small birds." (Ch. VI) The only possessions that Crusoe retrieved from the remains of his ship were a small knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe, and a small book that would later become his journal. .
Robinson Crusoe was a young and stubborn explorer. He was extremely tall and strong. His stay on the island changed him from a mean, stubborn man to an open-minded person. "Standing at six feet, two inches and having my long, thick brown hair back in a ponytail, I felt as if I was eight feet tall. Without the permission of my parents, I was still sailing away from the misery. I held the cargo box is my strong arms, waiting to board my beautiful ship." (Ch. I) Crusoe became a skilled craftsman and was an extremely religious man due to his stay on the island. Being the only man on the entire island, he established a faith in God.
Overall, his stay on the island changed his life greatly. As the story begins, Robinson Crusoe defies his parents and sets out to sea. Crusoe encounters a series of violent storms at sea and ends up in Africa. He sets out on another voyage and is captured by the "Sallee", a group of pirates. Luckily, he manages to escape and board a Portuguese ship and sail to Brazil.

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Via MSF.org: Earthquake in Ecuador: “We want to restore people’s normal daily activities”. Excerpt:
Pedernales, in the province of Manabi, was one of the districts most badly damaged by the earthquake that struck Ecuador on 16 April. In less than 40 seconds, the area was almost completely destroyed. Houses, hotels, buildings, shops and canteens were demolished by the quake and many people died under the rubble.
The affected community lost everything: their homes, their businesses and many even lost their lives. That day, in just one building near the city’s coast, 70 people died while celebrating a wedding.
“We lost everything. We thought the end of the world had come that day,” said 65-year-old Manuel from the Tamarindo neighbourhood. “Some of the neighbours went to the countryside to escape the tremors while others took refuge in Pedernales stadium. Whoever runs away, survives.”
MSF in Pedernales
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has six psychosocial care points in Pedernales. Some are located in shelters; others, in one of the town’s neighbourhoods. Néstor Rubiano, coordinator of the MSF Colombia team in Ecuador, said that, in general, there are areas where more than 40 people are in shelters while in other areas help has yet to arrive. “We are carrying out psychosocial interventions to try to restore people’s normal daily activities as quickly as possible,” he said.
In Pedernales, around 80 per cent of the properties in the community were damaged by the earthquake. Although official aid and help from private institutions and civil society has been arriving over the last week, “as it often happens in these kinds of natural disasters that generate a large number of needs, the lack of coordination between the different people and organisations involved in this emergency is often still a problem,” he said.
“In terms of psychosocial care, we are trying to collaborate with local psychologists. But generally, psychologists find themselves having to deliver humanitarian aid, such as food and water, rather than carrying out their psychosocial activities. In the few cases where psychosocial care is being provided, it is not being carried out in an organised manner and is lacking in follow-up plans. This creates a vacuum, which is why MSF is providing psychosocial assistance,” said Rubiano. In addition, in some areas of Pedernales, MSF is donating water tanks and tents.

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DMX, the gravel-voiced MC who took over hip-hop in the late 1990s and early 2000s, died Friday at age 50. Our staff looks back at the songs, movie roles, and moments that made him such a special talent. To read our obituary and remembrance of his legacy, click here. For our Spotify playlist featuring the best of DMX, click here.
The Early Songs and Guest Verses
DMX’s earliest songs are stunning to listen to now. Not because they’re great—which they are—but because of how little they sound like the MC who would take over the world in the late ’90s.
In 1991, fresh out of prison, X would self-produce a demo that included songs like “Three Little Pigs” and “Unstoppable Force.” They feel fully formed—“Three Little Pigs” is especially fantastic, with a pounding beat and a cautionary tale about friends who betray each other over crime and money. But everything DMX would become known for—the barking, the aggression, the coarse voice—is absent. Rather, he sounds like someone who prayed at the altar of Rakim and LL Cool J. (To be fair, the same could be said of many rappers coming out of the late ’80s.)
The demo would land in The Source magazine’s legendary Unsigned Hype column a few months later, but it would take him seven more years to drop his solo debut. More songs would come and help him refine his style—1993’s “Born Loser” begins to build up his underdog story, while the next year’s “Make a Move” is the first time he truly sounds like the DMX of It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot. In 1995, he’d appear on Mic Geronimo’s “Time to Build” alongside Jay-Z and Ja Rule, both of whom were years away from blowing up themselves. (Tough break for Mic Geronimo, who was supposed to be the star of this song.)
By this point, X’s on-wax persona has mostly taken shape. Check out the lyrics:
I did too much dirt to turn back now
I’m the reason my lil’ sister smoking crack nowI’d feel guilty if I had a heart, but I don’t
Could live a carefree life if I stop killing, but I won’t
It’s in my blood to destroy mankind
With every murder, I lose a little more of my damn mind
The next time the world would hear DMX, he’d be signed to Def Jam and batting cleanup on classic posse cuts like “4, 3, 2, 1,” “Money, Power & Respect,” and “24 Hrs. to Live.” By that point, he truly was an unstoppable force. If you hadn’t been paying attention, you have thought he’d arrived fully formed, with a Ruff Ryders chain on his neck and a spiked bat in his hand. But the reality is much more gritty, as was typically the case with DMX. —Justin Sayles
The Damien Trilogy
“Ain’t a motherfucker you know can defeat me,” rapped DMX, as the Devil, to DMX, the mere mortal. Here was a one-man internal war to put every last piddling rap battle in history to shame. The three-round fight for DMX’s soul began nine tracks into his 1998 debut, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot: “Damien,” produced by Dame Grease and clearly inspired by the 1976 horror classic The Omen, is a lush horrorcore fable in which a spiritually lost X asks for a guardian angel and immediately encounters Damien, a mush-mouthed smooth-talker who promises X fame, fortune, and all it entails in exchange for … well, you’ll see. “Sounds good to me, fuck it, what I got to lose?” X reasons, and soon he’s reaping the benefits of killing at Damien’s command, only balking when he knows one of the victims. “Naw, that’s my man!” raps DMX the mere mortal; “I thought I was your man?” raps DMX as the Devil, his pitch-shifted voice already far more frightening than it was a few minutes earlier. And the clash of wills is on.
Part 2 hit immediately with late 1998’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood: “The Omen” subs in Swizz Beatz on production, brings in a groaning Marilyn Manson for the hook, slows the tempo to a doubly ominous grind, and ups the stakes: Let’s just say it begins with a shot X nearly dying in the hospital and ends with Damien blowing up a police station. Finally, on X’s fourth record, 2001’s The Great Depression, we get “Damien III”; the beat from P Killer Trackz is propulsive and seductive, Damien alternately aggrieved (“Didn’t get a shout-out on your last album / What, you hate me?”) and openly threatening (“Got a wife and kids?”) as DMX the mere mortal finally fully resists and vanquishes his enemy with a barked prayer: “LORD JESUS / PLEASE HELP ME / KEEP THE DEVIL / OUT OF MY LIFE.” All of which would be a little ridiculous if it didn’t sound so visceral, and unsettling, and sincere, and consequential. This trilogy of battles between DMX and his darkest natures was over, but not the war, never the war. —Rob Harvilla
“Sometimes,” i.e., It’s Mostly the Voice
What’s so startling about DMX? It’s not his stature. It’s not his demeanor. It’s not his songwriting. It’s not even the starkest headlines about him. It’s his voice. You’ll never unhear his wild barks and wounded groans. He rapped a lot of verses about robbing and killing people. But at his most fearsome, DMX lent his voice to prayers and confessions. He dared you to consider the profound disparity between the absolute power in his voice and the debilitating anxieties in his songwriting. He dominated the biggest beats of his generation. But his prayers and poetry preserve his voice a capella in this radical simplicity. There’s no hit-making to hide behind. Sometimes I wonder why I like to shout. There’s dread, but there’s power, and so there’s hope. It’s that simple. —Justin Charity
This Cypher From 1997 With Mos Def, Big Pun, Canibus, and More
For people who remember when cassette cases opened like cigarette packs, this is basically The Avengers. The full discussion this was pulled from offers some insight into the minds of rap icons at their creative apexes, but at least check out the cypher to see the reverence a table full of legends-in-the-making has for Big Pun, who tears through his “Dream Shatterer” verse and then goes on for what feels like a hundred more bars. (Side note: Remember John Forte?) —Sayles
DMX never buries the lede. Of all the Yonkers rapper’s talents and standout moments—the voice as coarse as tree bark, the pitbull barking ad-libs, the motivational prayers, and the earthquake-inducing anthems—one of his most overlooked qualities is his ability to craft tension-building intros. The best songs in DMX’s discography are the equivalent of a human lawn mower revving up its engine.
The first sound listeners hear on the 2003 hit “X Gon’ Give It to Ya” is DMX contorting his voice into guttural dog barks and growls. From there, he yells at the world, “Yeah, don’t get it twisted / This rap shit is mine, motherfucker / It’s not a fuckin’ game.” For most rappers, that line would be one hyperbolic line of many, but from DMX, it feels like a proclamation etched in stone.
On 1999’s “What’s My Name,” DMX ponders to no one in particular, “You think it’s a game? / You think it’s a fuckin’ game?” If you haven’t yet noticed, DMX was always preoccupied with who did and didn’t view a myriad of things as “a game.” But X even makes an impression when he introduces himself uncharacteristically, like on the first song on his 1998 debut, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot. Instead of barking, he whispers. Backed by apocalyptic Irv Gotti and Lil Rob production, DMX says:
Told y’all niggas
You just don’t listen
Why must you be hardheaded?
Tried to explain
But you didn’t hear me, though
Then immediately, he settles into the once-in-a-generation voice that would go on to dominate the world. Dark Man X had spent so long going unheard that he learned the art of making an unforgettable entrance. —Charles Holmes
Beef With K-Solo
Did you know DMX won spelling bees when he was younger? Did you know he also had beef with EPMD associate K-Solo over who first wrote a song that involved a lot of spelling? The full story of the feud can be found here, and it involves a friendly battle while both were incarcerated, but for now, let’s remember the early ’90s, when two guys could downright hate each other over a song called “Spellbound.” —Sayles
Prayer, Love, and “How’s It Goin’ Down”
Immediately after DMX’s death was announced on Friday, I scoured the internet for videos of him praying. Though I’m not necessarily a churchgoer, I was always captivated whenever the rapper would break out his own scripture. I had to hear the passion, the pain, the reverence, and more than anything, his self-reflection. After a few minutes, I found one of his appearances on Oh! Drama, an early-2000s BET show. In the nearly two-minute clip, X thanks God for the love he’s given the rapper, even when the rapper didn’t deserve it.
“First, I thank you for the life of everyone that’s here with me, then I thank you for the love you give me,” he says. “Why? I don’t know. I don’t deserve it and it hurts inside. Many a nights I cried and called your name out loud, but didn’t call you when I was doing good, too proud.”
The same could be said for X’s relationship with anyone close to him. He wanted to love—craved it even—but didn’t know how to keep it. His quest for it can be traced to his teenage years, when his mentor Ready Ron laced his marijuana blunt with crack, starting the drug addiction he dealt with for the rest of his days; the person he had the most reverence for derailed his life forever. His complications with love also manifested itself in his relationships with women. He had 15 kids by nine different women, most while being married to his long-term partner, Tashera Simmons. The two childhood friends married in 1999, but throughout their relationship they were prone to serious verbal altercations as a result of his cheating and drug use. Even with the cheating, arguing, and him cutting her off financially to the point she lived in poverty despite his lucrative talent, he frequently told her she was the one for him.
“He was like, ‘I can’t meet one woman that’s not threatened by you,’” Tashera said in a 2012 interview. “And then I was like, ‘And why do you think that is?’ He was like, ‘Because they know, I know. They know where my heart is.’”
X was always searching for elusive validation, and he even put the love chase on “How’s It Goin’ Down.” The single from his debut album, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, details a fictional relationship between the rapper and “Tenika,” a young lady from 25th Street who wears a Size 7 shoe and has two kids. She’s also in an abusive relationship. X courts her, and they eventually consummate a sexual relationship, which her boyfriend finds out about. X purports himself as someone with good intentions who can offer a better life. But the scenario brings questions like “Why pursue love with a woman in a relationship?” or “What’s the end game here?” X’s pursuit of love doesn’t ever seem to have an end game. He just wants it unconditionally, even if he doesn’t know what to do with it. By the end of the track, Tenika picks the abuser, leaving X to settle for “best of friends” status. Even in the fictional world he created, X can’t get the love he yearns for, which makes his prayer on Oh Drama! all the more palpable. —Logan Murdock
This Unreleased Song From Swizz Beatz’s 2017 Battle With Just Blaze
Swizz, I know you released a stripped-down take on this with X and Rick Ross in 2019, but I am pleading with you, please drop the full, original, CDQ version ASAP. —Sayles
The Top Five Cameo
We understood DMX, as far as we could, as a tragic antihero. A nomad, an attack dog, a known unknown. But beneath the pain and mystique he was also uncannily charming—we’ve all watched him have a small nervous breakdown while attempting to use Google for the first time, and no one else living or dead could’ve taken a boring standard like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and made it that hot using nothing but gruff charisma and a flat surface to drum on. But what I’ve been thinking most about these last few days is DMX’s cameo in Chris Rock’s Top Five: The famous stand-up comedian has become a famous corporate shill and is disconnected from himself, his craft, and most of the people who are important in his life. He finds DMX at his lowest point, in the drunk tank, and X gets Chris Rock’s life back on track through song.
It’s hilarious and heartwarming and now a little sad to hear DMX sing “Smile”—you’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just SMILLLEEEE, MOTHERFUCKERRRR—the way it can be when you see someone helping and healing when they seem to be in need of that themselves. Even if it is just a movie. —Micah Peters
Hype Williams has a reasonable case as the most influential music video director ever. By the late ’90s he was at his artistic peak, as his clips for Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, and Biggie dominated MTV’s and BET’s rotations and introduced millions to his trademark style of larger-than-life images, futuristic fever dreams, and fish-eye lenses. And Artisan Entertainment wanted to capitalize on his popularity: In 1998, the company gave him a $3 million budget for his debut feature film, Belly. It’s considered a cult (and hood) classic today. But at the time, it was ravaged by critics. It would be Williams’s only full-length movie.
Belly is visually beautiful, and often surreal. (Nas and Wee-Bey watch Gummo?!) But it had a litany of problems, ranging from financial (Williams blew much of his budget on the film’s stunning opening sequence) to plotting (its settings jump from Queens to Omaha to Jamaica to Africa, all of which require equally large jumps in logic). Much of the acting is particularly concerning—you almost gotta feel for Nas. But there was one extremely bright spot in the cast: DMX, who plays Tommy “Buns” Bundy—a spiritual successor to Goodfellas’ Tommy DeVito and Juice’s Bishop, if either were capable of salvation.
By the time Belly was released in November 1998, DMX would be a star, as his first album It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot debuted at no. 1 the previous may and he prepped its hotly anticipated follow-up, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. But when the movie was cast, he was a virtual nobody—just another guy on Def Jam’s roster. (He may as well have been Jayo Felony in terms of stature.) It’s apparent the moment we see X on screen, however, as to why Williams took a chance on the upstart: He’s alternately charming and brooding, bringing the same good-vs.-evil pathos of his music to the role. (It also doesn’t hurt that he was willing to don a Rasta wig for the Jamaica scenes.)
DMX would land a handful of starring roles in movies like Exit Wounds and Romeo Must Die over the next few years, as he conquered the Billboard charts and pop culture at large. But he was at his cinematic best before that success, when a music video director who would never helm a film again found a way to channel his powder-keg energy into an unforgettable performance. —Sayles
For a 12-year-old white kid growing up in the suburbs of Western New York who loved the sing-along-ability of the hook of “Party Up” and the scene in Down to Earth when Chris Rock, in the body of an old white man, gets beat up for rapping “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem,” DMX was the most important MC alive in 2001. I got my mom to buy me … And Then There Was X the same way I got her to buy me all my rap albums—by hardly explaining who the artist was and assuring her that the parental advisory sticker was only there because of, like, one song.
Running through the album for the first time in bed, I replayed “Party Up” and “What’s My Name” a thousand times; I fell in love with X’s delivery and command, the barking confidence. But then, after 15 tracks, I heard “Prayer III” for the first time. “Let us pray,” X says, uttering a phrase that to that point I’d only heard uttered by old men in robes, or by my parents at the head of a table. “When it seems like the pressure gets to be too much / I take time out and pray, and ask that you be my crutch,” the rapper speaks. “Lord I am not perfect by a long shot, I confess to you daily / But I work harder everyday, and I hope that you hear me.”
I leapt out of my bed and ran to my mother’s room. “You have to listen to this,” I told her, waking her up at the same time I put the headphones on her ears. I’m not sure she remembers the moment to be so eye-opening, if she remembers it all, but DMX had just changed the way I saw hip-hop. He’d shown me his depths, his multifacetedness, his humanity, his struggle. He’d shown me his purpose: not merely to assert himself, but to offer his perspective and experiences, that they might reach another person—perhaps a 12-year-old white kid—and assure them that they’re not alone. —Andrew Gruttadaro

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2016 Elite Development Program
Women's tryout dates are Jan. 11, 13 and 15
Men's tryout dates are Jan 18, 20, 22, 25, 27 and 29
Please attend as many of the tryout days as possible.
Women's tryouts Just North of Marine Ave. and The Strand in Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Men's tryouts Just North of Hermosa Beach Pier in Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
After these tryout sessions, coaches will select a maximum of 16 athletes per gender for a four-week training block with three practices per week.
To be eligible to participate in the EDP tryouts you must be a registered USAV member and sign up via the following links:
Men - usavbeach.webconnex.com/edptryoutmen
Women - usavbeach.webconnex.com/edptryoutwomen
To download a USAV membership form, click here. Please fill it out and return to Amber.Scott@usav.org along with your membership fee. USAV will waive the membership fee for those athletes with 500 or more FIVB technical ranking points.
Players who do not complete their membership form and register via the above registration links will not be allowed to participate in EDP tryouts. Athletes who make the EDP training block that do not register for practices via schedulicity.com will not be allowed to practice and may be removed from the program. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Questions: Contact Sean Scott

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018 | 7:45 p.m.
As has become the norm in the NHL, the Golden Knights stole the show once again at the annual NHL Awards show Wednesday night at the Hard Rock Hotel.
Teammates William Karlsson and Deryk Engelland strolled down the red carpet, opening their suit-jackets to unveil the flashy inner-lining covered with Golden Knights logos. The two received the loudest ovations from fans as they took the velvet rope-lined walk.
Then the show started and it seemed more like a Golden Knights team banquet than an NHL award show as Vegas claimed four of the 14 total awards handed out.
Gerard Gallant was awarded the Jack Adams Award for the best coach in the NHL after leading the expansion team to 109 points, division and conference titles and a trip to the Stanley Cup Final.
“It’s an organizational award,” Gallant said. “I think our team had an outstanding season and everyone did a good job, so I get to (win the award) because of it.”
Gallant is partially speaking of general manager George McPhee and the job he did in constructing the lineup almost exactly a year ago in the expansion draft. McPhee and his scouting staff found gems in Karlsson, Erik Haula and others, while still building for the future by acquiring a slew of high draft picks.
For his efforts, McPhee was named the league's general manager of the year.
“You don’t sign up to win awards like this — you sign up to win a Stanley Cup,” McPhee said. “It’s certainly great for the organization to have four people nominated for awards. Less than a year ago we were trying to pick a team. We’ll enjoy this night with our families and friends.”
McPhee took the stage to a large ovation followed by a “Go Knights Go” chant from the crowd.
“Thank you Bill Foley for giving all of us a second chance,” McPhee said, lifting the trophy in a cheers to the Golden Knights owner sitting a few rows back. “And thanks to our Golden Knights fans. Thank you for making Las Vegas a wonderful place to live, work, play hockey, and call home.”
As for the players, Karlsson walked away with the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for the player who exhibited the best sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability.
“I want to thank my family — my mom and dad for always driving me to practice,” Karlsson said. “I also want to thank my teammates, the other Golden Misfits, especially Jonathan Marchessault and Reilly Smith. And I want to thank the fans. You guys are the best in the league.”
Karlsson led the Golden Knights in goals (43) and points (78) and shattered his previous career highs in nearly every statistical category. Perhaps more impressive, though, was Karlsson’s play on the defensive end — leading Vegas with 78 takeaways while playing major penalty kill minutes and amassing only 12 total penalty minutes.
“It was a huge honor to be here with so many great players around the league. It’s pretty incredible,” Karlsson said. “I try to play hockey the right way and combine that with scoring goals, so it means a lot.”
The Golden Knights opted to not name a captain in their inaugural season, but Engelland served as the emotional leader from the first time they took the ice for a regular season game at T-Mobile Arena.
Engelland stepped into the spotlight and delivered a heartfelt speech about the Oct. 1 tragic mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that ended with “We are Vegas Strong.”
He and his wife, Melissa, then started a foundation to help survivors of the tragedy and was a major part of the Las Vegas community. For that, he was rewarded with the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award.
“This season was extremely special,” Engelland said. “The group of guys we have, there are a lot of guys that are great leaders and do a lot in the community that could probably be here instead of me. I’m just honored to be put in the category of Mark Messier for that award for everything he’s done for hockey.”
Other notable award winners from around the league were Edmonton’s Connor McDavid taking home his second-straight Ted Lindsay Award for most outstanding player, Los Angeles’ Anze Kopitar winning the Selke Trophy for top defensive forward, and New Jersey’s Taylor Hall winning the Hart Trophy for the league’s most valuable player.
Wednesday night’s festivities served as the final NHL event of the 2017-18 season, and for the Golden Knights it followed the trend of most of the year: A huge success.


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Meet Me in St. Louis is a quality musical that is delightful to watch. It stars Judy Garland and Margaret O’Brien. The action centers around the Smith family that is about to move to New York from their beloved St. Louis home. It is right before the World’s Fair is to take place, and none of the family are excited about the move.
Little Margaret O’Brien plays the youngest member of the family, a girl named Tootie. She is as adorable as ever. She has a scene that takes place on Halloween that is such a hoot to watch. She gets to play fear and humor both at the same time. Then she has the memorable scene when Garland sings “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” that is tender and sweet, but then leads to an emotional outburst that tears at our heart.
Garland plays the middle daughter who ends up involved in a romance with the boy next door, played by Tom Drake. She is very beautiful and spirited in this movie.
The father in this movie is played by Leon Ames. I always felt like Clifton Webb would have been a natural in the part. I think about him every time I see it. Maybe it is the influence of Cheaper by the Dozen, but this father persona just makes me drift toward Webb anytime I watch it. However, Ames does quite well in his own right.
Mary Astor plays the wife and mother with tremendous sophistication and restraint. She is calm and always in control. In a way, she is the perfect wife of the era with every hair always in its proper place.
Others in the cast include Marjorie Main, Lucille Bremer, June Lockhart, Huge Marlowe, and Chill Wills.
My favorite moment in Meet Me in St. Louis is probably the one where the father realizes home is in St. Louis and cancels the move. It is just a classic moment when he witnesses the upset of little Tootie and then wanders through the house that is in the process of being packed up. It is subtle and priceless.

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text: In any football team in the play Strikers io game, the main players are attackers. After all, they attack the enemy's gates, attack their defenders and score goals. Today we will go to the game world of Strikersio toys and we will play there for such a player. Both teams will appear on the screen before you. You'il play in the left half of the field. At the referee's whistle, you will have to own the ball and give your passes close to the players line. When you're ready to shoot the ball to the goal and try to score a goal. The winner in the match is the person who will manage the account.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the primary fully at-home speedy COVID-19 test.
The test, made by Lucira Health in California, requires a prescription and supplies outcomes inside 30 minutes, in line with a statement from the FDA.
Although the FDA has approved lots of of COVID-19 checks (together with at-home checks), these earlier checks both wanted to be administered by a well being care supplier or despatched to a lab for evaluation.
The new test “is the first that can be fully self-administered and provide results at home,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, stated within the assertion. “This new testing option is an important diagnostic advancement to address the pandemic and reduce the public burden of disease transmission.”
Related: 20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in historical past
To use the test, folks first swab themselves inside each nostrils. To get an excellent swab, folks ought to tilt their head again and insert the swab tip fully contained in the nostril, till they meet resistance, in line with directions from Lucira. The firm says the test mustn’t damage, however might typically really feel uncomfortable or tickly. After swabbing, customers place the swab in a vial and swirl it round. The vial is then positioned in a battery-powered gadget with a light-up show. After a half hour, the show lights present if the individual has examined constructive or adverse.
People ought to report their outcomes to their well being care suppliers, who’re then required to report all test outcomes to public well being authorities, the assertion stated.
The test is allowed for residence use in folks ages 14 and older who’re suspected to have COVID-19, the FDA stated. In youngsters youthful than 14, a well being care supplier should administer the test.
According to Lucira, a research of the test’s accuracy discovered that it accurately recognized 94% of individuals with the virus, and accurately dominated out an infection in 98% of wholesome folks.
The test detects genetic materials from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, via a technique generally known as loop mediated amplification response, or LAMP. This technique is just like PCR, the gold-standard for COVID-19 testing; nevertheless, LAMP is mostly thought of much less correct than PCR, in line with The New York Times.
Lucira anticipates that every test will value about $50, in line with a statement from the company. The test ought to be obtainable within the close to future to sufferers in Northern California served by Sutter Health, and to sufferers of the Cleveland Clinic Florida in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, the assertion stated. The firm expects the test to be obtainable nationally by early spring 2021.
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Statistics from November 5-7, 2021
New cases: 138
By age group:
Children 0-12: 18
Children 13-19: 17
Adults 20-29: 17
Adults 30-39: 23
Adults 40-49: 17
Adults 50-59: 14
Adults 60-69: 10
Adults 70-79: 14
Adults 80-89: 5
Adults 90+: 2
• Active cases: 355
• Hospitalized: 61
• People in ICU: 11
• Deaths reported: 7
WEEKLY UPDATE (11/1 –11/7):
- 7-Day Case Numbers (by receive date): 457
- 7-Day CDC Transmission Case Rate (by receive date): 253.8 per 100,000 (>100 is high)
- 7-Day Test Positivity (by lab collect date): 4.8%
- 7-Day Avg Hospitalized: 65.42
- Deaths Reported in Last 7 Days: 29
For more information, visit the Data and Statistics page at ShastaReady.org.
We are sorry to report 7 deaths today. They were a woman in her 50s, a woman and 2 men in their 60s, a woman in her 70s, and 2 women in their 80s.
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, epidemiologists and the medical director of a pediatric intensive care unit recently answered questions regarding the vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds. You can check out the video here.
It's flu season, which means we could experience flu and COVID-19 outbreaks at the same time. Fortunately, vaccine is available for both. It is safe to get both your flu and COVID-19 vaccinations at the same time. For more information on where to get your flu shot, visit ShastaFluShots.com. For COVID-19 vaccine information, visit ShastaReady.org.
The CDC reports that people should be vaccinated even if they have already had COVID-19. Research has not yet shown how long people are protected from getting COVID-19 again after they have recovered from the virus. Evidence shows that people get better protection from being fully vaccinated than from having had COVID-19 previously. One study of COVID-19 infections showed that unvaccinated people who already had COVID-19 were more than five times as likely to get re-infected than fully vaccinated people.
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Stirling’s Wallace Monument entry prices are being cut by half over the winter months.
Normally entrance to the monument would cost £9.99 for adults and £6.25 for children.
The‘Wake up with Wallace’ offer runs from today (Wed) until February 28. The Monument opens each day at 10am.
Visitors can explore the Monument where Wallace’s life and legacy is told in three galleries and climb 246 steps to the top where they can stand in the Crown and take in the breathtaking 360-degree view of central Scotland and the Highlands to the north.

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Fog vapour BURNS children at Hollywood Teen Choice Awards pre-party as smoke machine malfunctions on stage
- Nearly two dozen 8-20 year-olds were hurt when thick fog engulfed the Avalon Hollywood nightclub last night
- Attendees feared the smoke could be a copy-cat attack after Friday's chilling theatre shooting in Colorado
- The event, held to celebrate tonight's award ceremony, was canceled after descending into chaos
Nearly two dozen young music fans suffered burns and breathing problems at a pre-party for the Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood last night when a special-effect fog system malfunctioned on stage.
Strong 'theatrical fog vapour' was pumped into the air harming 22 people aged between eight and 20 who were among 400 gathered at the Avalon Hollywood for the event. Six of the guests were hospitalised.
Footage of the incident shows fog spreading through the venue so thick that party-goers could not see directly in front of them.
Smoke: Theatrical fog vapour, pictured, was pumped into the Avalon Hollywood when a smoke machine malfunctioned, harming 22 people
'Along with respiratory irritation, a few patrons who contacted dripping liquid from apparent heavy use of smoke effect have superficial burn,' Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey told NBC.
Hazmat teams arrived on the scene just after 6pm and fire fighters filled the streets.
Officials said the special-effect fog system malfunctioned releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into the venue. The injuries were due to the cold temperature at which the liquid normally operates.
Crews: Hazmat teams arrived on the scene just after 6pm and fire fighters, pictured, filled the streets surrounding the venue
Most victims felt better after fresh air and examination.
Witnesses said the incident resulted in panic, with children screaming as smoke filled the event, held to celebrate the awards ceremony due to air at 8pm tonight on FOX.
Parents comforted their children on the street outside the venue, many of whom were crying.
One mother, whose asthmatic daughter was taken to hospital in an ambulance, told NBC she feared the worst, particularly after Friday's horrific theatre shooting in Colorado.
Panic: Parents comforted their children on the street outside the hotel, many of whom were crying
'Given what happened two days ago in Colorado you think 'oh my God' what if this is that,' she said. 'It's a mess.'
The Teen Choice Awards party was called off after the incident.
Boy band Midnight Red, who were performing at the event, wrote about the chaos on Twitter.
'Club smoke canisters malfunction. Small panic. Show cancelled by Fire team, not MNR for safety which best for all,' the band tweeted.
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The Marylebone Hotel in London's Marylebone offers the very best of 21st century technology seamlessly blended with design flair and luxurious comfort. To ensure the comfort of its guests for years to come, the hotel recently invested in a large-scale upgrade of their plant room equipment, appointing Gratte Brothers to deliver the project.
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The 2-phase project was completed within a tight 6-week programme and involved overcoming various engineering challenges, including the removal of old cast iron sectional boilers, 3000 litre galvanised calorifiers and a 24” galvanised flue header.
Key to the success of this project was our team’s flexibility and commitment to the client’s requirements. Constant availability of hot water is key to their guest experience, so we carefully phased the work to ensure the required occupancy levels could be maintained without interruption.
A Dual-Phased Approach
Phase 1 focused on the 5th floor plant room upgrade, installing new Lochinvar gas fired water heaters, buffer vessels, hot and low temperature water pipework and a new gas installation in just one week.
The phase 2 basement plant room was completed one week ahead of schedule, successfully removing old equipment and installing 4 Hamworthy condensing boilers, packaged plate heat exchangers and a stainless steel flue header and liner.
The investment in equipment combined with the integration of a new control and BMS panel will significantly enhance energy efficiency and improve comfort and reliability.


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Another moment has passed them by.
Despite rumors to the contrary, The Late Late Show has officially confirmed One Direction will not be reuniting for James Corden's final episode as host. In fact, the show even described the reports as a "false alarm."
"Nobody loves the boys more than us, but this story just isn't true," they wrote on Twitter April 13 in response to a Daily Mail article. "What is true is we've got an absolutely brilliant two-hour finale planned to celebrate eight years of The Late Late Show at 10 p.m. on April 27."
While they won't be coming together to bid James farewell, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik have a whole lot of history on the show. 1D participated in segments like carpool karaoke, tattoo roulette and dodgeball, as well as multiple interviews and performances prior to their 2016 breakup.
However, the boys have been back as solo artists and even guest hosts (in Harry's case) in the time since.
James' final shows come one year after he revealed his decision to leave the late-night staple after eight years.
"I never want this show to overstay its welcome in any way," he shared in an April 2022 monologue. "I always want to love making it. And I really think in a year from now, that will be a good time to move on and see what else might be out there."
The comedian further explained his departure during his episode of The Drew Barrymore Show in January.
"Nothing about leaving the show was to do with not enjoying it," James explained on Jan. 2. "But the truth is, it became a very easy decision because I always knew it was an adventure and I never, ever considered it to be the final destination."
And although One Direction won't be there to say goodbye, Tom Cruise has been confirmed as a final guest.
The Late Late Show will sign off after 28 years on April 27 with a primetime special on CBS, followed by its series finale in its regular 12:37 a.m. ET timeslot.

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Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019).
Interests: affective and physiological computing; computational vision; intelligent systems; Bayesian modelling; machine learning
Interests: computer vision and image analysis; intelligent systems; deep learning; machine learning; biomedical signal processing; wearable devices
in everyday life we are surrounded by various sensors, wearable and not, that explicitly or implicitly record information on our behavior either visible and hidden (e.g. physiological activity).
Such sensors are of different nature: accelerometer, gyroscope, camera, electrodermal activity sensor, heart rate monitor, breath rate monitor and others.
Most important, the multimodal nature of data is apt to sense and understand the many facets of human daily-life behavior from physical, voluntary activities to social signaling and lifestyle choices influenced by affect, personal traits, age and social context.
The intelligent sensing community is able to exploit the data acquired with these sensors in order to develop machine-learning-based techniques, which can help in improving predictive models of human behavior.
The purpose of this special issue is to gather the latest research in the field of human behavior monitoring, both at the sensing and the understanding levels, by using multimodal data sources.
Applications of interest can relate to domotics, healthcare, transport, education, safety aid, entertainment, sports and others.
Given the need for data in this field of research, scientific works that present data collections are also welcome.
Therefore, contributions to this Special Issue may include, but are not limited to:
- Novel sensing techniques for the non-invasive measurement of physiological signals
- Internet-of-Things based architecture for multimodal monitoring of human behaviour
- Learning and inference from multimodal sensory data
- Real-time multimodal activity recognition
- Semantic interpretation of multimodal sensory data
- Multimodal sensors fusion techniques
- Multimodal databases and benchmarks for behavior monitoring and understanding.
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- Activity monitoring
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According to a report by the Syrian Human Rights Network, over 13,000 mosques have been destroyed since 2013 during the civil war. 4.7 million of the 13 million refugees displaced were forced to celebrate Eid in the camps, and many more had no proper place of worship.
Since there are no mosques in many regions, Syrian refugees - especially those living far from city center - are praying in mosques made from tents. It is very challenging for them to perform their daily and Friday prayers in these tents, with no proper facilities for ablution. Pre-school and school-age children are also trying to get their Quran education in these tents.
Our aim is to:
• To create a decent environment for regular and Friday prayers
• To provide an educational environment for their children who take Qur'an lessons
• To carry out other social activities
Masjid Al-Fattah is a much-needed mosque for the Syrian refugees and will be built within the vicinity of the houses for Syrian Refugees so that the residents and refugees will have a place of worship close to them. The two-storey mosque will be able to cater to as many as 800 congregants. It will also be used as an education center for the children to learn the Quran.
This will be the 2nd mosque built by GER for the Syrian refugee community. The first one – Masjid Ar Rayyan was completed 1 year ago. Watch the video above to see the impact.
Costing $100,000, Masjid Al Fattah will provide great benefits for generations to come. All we need are 1,000 people to donate $100 and insyaAllah the masjid can be completed by December this year.
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The reward that comes with building a mosque is endless - imagine the rewards you will receive from every single prayer made in the mosque that you helped build!
“Whoever builds a mosque for the sake of Allah, then Allah will build for him a house like it in Paradise.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
Our Syrian brothers and sisters are in urgent need of a mosque. So don’t let this opportunity to build our own palace in Jannah go to waste.
Donate today to Al-Fattah Mosque campaign to build a mosque and help our Syrian brothers and sisters pray in comfort and security.
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Naira Marley Signs New Artiste “Emo Grae” To His Record Label (Photos).
Naira Marley made the announcement via his official Instagram page today July 9, 2020.
Sharing a photo of himself and his new artiste together, he asked his fans, the Marlians to help him welcome the new talent to his record label.
In his words, “Marlians Help me welcome my broski @emo_grae to #MarlianMusic. #Signed. He is dropping a fire jam 12midnight. He is your fav[ourite] artist and you don’t even know that yet..save his name in [yo]ur note 📝”
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SHEROES OUR TIME IS NOW is the second coloring book of the Sheroes Series by The Brave Wimp. This coloring book includes 19 illustrations by The Brave Wimp of sheroes including Kamala Harris, Simone Biles, and Serena Williams. This series of books were born out of the desire to see representation and diversity in all aspects of life. Growing up I knew I could be anything I dreamed of but never saw myself represented in the women on television or in politics. As an adult these women inspire me everyday and it’s my hope they inspire girls and other women to dream bigger than we ever thought possible.
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When Memphis KWAM radio host Marybeth Conley asked Felicia Stoler what nutrient Americans should increase in their diet to improve their health, the registered dietitian nutritionist didn’t even have to think about it. “Fiber is the most important,” she said. “The typical American diet is deficient in fiber.” Less than five percent of Americans are meeting the daily fiber requirement. Supplementing with Sunfiber can boost your daily intake and help you improve your overall wellbeing.
When it comes to health, many people have their priorities wrong. “We’re so busy worrying about the color of our food, instead of worrying about the actual content,” said Stoler. “We hear words like ‘whole grain’, but that’s not enough.” Stoler suggests reading food labels to check actual fiber content. “And, people are so anti-carb,” she added. “These are cultural foods that people have been eating for thousands of years. They are staples in the diet.” Stoler said there is no reason to avoid carbs, but we should select better-for-us options, including whole-grain pastas, and breads and cereals with added fiber. And while there is fiber in fruits and vegetables, Stoler said we often can’t get enough from them. The recommended daily intake of fiber is 25 to 30 grams.
Fiber supports your colorectal health. “Your GI tract is your first line of defense for your immune system,” said Stoler. “You want to, as I say to the little kids, keep the poop moving through the chute, for overall health and wellness.” A fiber supplement can help you boost your daily fiber intake. “One that I happen to really like is Sunfiber,” said Stoler. Gluten-free Sunfiber is a soluble galactomannan dietary fiber. “It is used in medical and nutritional products, in a hospital setting,” explained Stoler. “It dissolves completely and has absolutely no flavor.”
Sunfiber also helps manage blood glucose levels. “It helps to slow down the emptying rate of food from your stomach,” Stoler said. She compared the process to eating a whole apple versus drinking juice. Apple juice is quickly absorbed, allowing its sugars to enter your bloodstream quickly. A whole apple, however, with its fibrous pulp and skin, is released more slowly into your bloodstream.


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Federal Grain Ltd. was established in 1929 when nine private grain marketing companies amalgamated in order to better compete with the provincial Wheat Pools. On consolidation the company owned 340 country elevators and three terminals at Fort William. It also gained a controlling interest in Alberta Pacific Grain Company. In 1967 Federal Grain, Alberta Pacific and the Searle Grain Company amalgamated. In 1972 Federal Grain's 1092 elevators were taken over by the three prairie Wheat Pools.
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Gift of Federal Grain Ltd., 1972.
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The fonds consists of historical articles and promotional booklet about Searle Grain Company; biographical sketches of Alberta Pacific and Federal Grain Ltd. employees; constitution, promotional pamphlets and histories of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange; and extensive photographs of the company's elevators and operations in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Thunder Bay (Fort William).
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3 Day Egg Diet Plan
Follow This Egg Diet Plan And Lose 3 Kgs In 3 Days Krobknea Egg Diet Plan Cucumber Diet Egg And Grapefruit Diet
You are supposed to eat at least 6 eggs a day and 1 Tbsp of fat for each egg consumed.
3 day egg diet plan. Always check the recipe and make an adjustment to use the whole egg if needed. In fact the number of calories is so low the Boiled Egg diet is only possible because you consume a lot of protein and a decent amount of healthy fats. Grapefruit diet and egg diet.
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THE BATTLE FOR BROXHEAD COMMON.
The story of Maureen Comber’s second 40-year fight for riders’ rights.
Maureen’s first battle was to persuade Hampshire County Council to do their statutory duty and repair just 250 yards of byway. The byway has at last just been repaired and opened to horse riders on 15th May 2011. The fight continues however to get a permanent TRO to prevent the damage which 4WD's cause on this fragile old lane and which has prevented the enjoyment by other non-motorised users during the last 40 years.
Maureen’s second battle is to regain public rights of access to the whole of Broxhead Common, Hampshire.
Broxhead Common is owned by the Ministry of Defence on the west side of the B3004 while the east side is privately owned.
The Commons Registration Act 1965 required all commons, village greens and open spaces to be registered
The Ministry of Defence had bought the common west of the B3004 in the early 1900's but in 1965 after some initial dissent they had no choice but to agree that the common was public open space. This was because soon after they purchased it the Commoners at that time were very concerned at the interference with their grazing rights by the exercise of Cavalry and heavy guns and artillery on the common and appealed for help to the Headley Parish Council. Various incidents are recorded of fence cutting and encroachments, which culminated in a confrontation between the Military Authorities and the Commoners on Saturday afternoon 16th November 1907. The upshot was that the MOD apologised to the commoners and admitted that they had made a mistake and this was not freehold property.
However the landowner on the east side objected to the registration of his land. The previous owner a Mr Sefton Myers had fenced it in without authorisation, 80 acres of the most scarce and valuable wildlife habitat of commonland. This was vigorously fought by the Broxhead Commoners Association under the leadership of John Ellis who was the local Miller and Chairman of Headley Parish Council
Twice the matter was referred to Public Inquiries with the Commons Commissioners
Twice the row reached the High Courts.
Eventually it reached the Court of Appeal in 1978 where the matter was frustrated by a Consent Order in which the landowner and Hampshire County Council came to an agreement.
The agreement was that the Hampshire County Council would support any application to the Secretary of State to keep the fences around the illegally fenced 80 acres if he would rent them the other 101 acres for an SSSI and incidental use by the public for 'air and exercise'. Also 5 acres of the common would be turned into a playing fields for the village of Lindford at a peppercorn rent.
But the question of riders’ rights and the fact that the fences obstructed many of the paths which they used to ride, was left hanging in the air. It was also complicated by the 2nd Review of the Definitive Map 1965 which would leave the common with no legal access for horse riders from the north side of the common and only one footpath from that side. That was FP 54 Parish of Headley.
The story of Maureen's 20 year struggle to get that footpath upgraded to bridleway began in the early 1970's and was the beginning of a long voyage of learning, research and discovery with regard to the law and practice of rights of way.
As for the common and the illegally fenced 80 acres, that is a battle which Maureen Comber is still struggling to resolve – 48-years, nearly half a century after the battle began and will be the subject of another story at a later date, but it is safe to say that the story begins with her membership of the local bridleways group called at the time The Headley and District Bridleways Protection Group.
It reveals in detail the time-wasting, buck-passing nonsense that passes for local government in this country.
It shows the toe-curling, mind-numbing lengths Councillors and Council officials will go to avoid taking decisions and getting the job done
It proves the almost inexaustable stamina, determination and absolute dedication needed by members of the public who take on local authorities.
It also shows what is likely to happen to David Cameron's
Big Society when it hits the rocks of local government reality.


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The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced Saturday that it had confirmed the third case related to the meningitis outbreak, reports the Associated Press. The patient developed meningitis after receiving a steroid injection in September.
The agency is not releasing any specific information about the patient.
Two other Maryland cases had been previously confirmed, and one patient has died.
Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak has spread to more than 60 people across nine states. The outbreak has been linked to a steroid produced by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts.
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Reviewed by Richard H. Schwartz, PhD
Through wonderful pictures and thoughtful essays by leading historians, scientists and economic and policy experts, this book superbly shows the environmental crisis that the U.S. West faces because of livestock production, an industry that uses more land and water than any other.
A statement on the cover flap summarizes the problem well: "Over decades, the placement of exotic, water-hogging, ill-adapted livestock on Western lands has changed
diverse native plant communities into monocultures of weeds; turned perennially flowing creeks into dry streambeds; relegated large predators such as wolves and grizzly bears to only the most remote wilderness areas; and forced many wildlife species to the edge of extinction."
The book is awesome. Instead of the common book size of 5-by-8 inches, it is an eye-catching 12-by-13.5 inches. Many of its spectacular pictures completely cover two facing pages. Particularly effective are three consecutive such pictures, showing (1) "How It Was" (a beautiful natural area with a variety of covered plants), (2) "How It Is" (many cows and their manure on land completely devoid of plants), and (3) "How It Can Be" (another natural area with grass and some native animals).
There are more than 90 consecutive pages of pictures under the heading "How to Look and See," with text referring to numbered places on the pictures that illustrate harmful effects of animal grazing.
The wide variety of photographs vividly shows the contrast between land used to raise cattle and the relatively few places that have been protected from its damaging effects. To dramatize the scope of the problem, each odd-numbered page without a picture has "300 million acres at stake" written at the bottom. This area, equal to that of three Californias, or the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States from Maine to Florida, plus Missouri, is the amount of public land grazed by livestock in the U.S. West, at great cost to society. What makes the situation even worse are the many subsidies, courtesy of taxpayers, that public lands ranching operations receive, including low-interest loans, predator "control," fencing, government-funded range "developments" and emergency bailouts--hence the book's title: "Welfare Ranching."
The book does more than just paint a negative portrait of current conditions on public lands. It also presents an alternate vision that can renew and restore these lands, if enough citizens demand that governments shift land management priorities toward benefiting people and the environment and away from facilitating private gain.
Richard H. Schwartz is author of Judaism and Vegetarianism and Judaism and Global Survival. He has more than100 articles related to vegetarianism at http://jewishveg.com/schwartz.


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Take the no complaints challenge! No grumbling, no negative self-talk, no whining. If it needs to be fixed don't add complaining to the problem! Save your angry energy for Being a part of the solution for fixing it!
Great read for parents and teachers to help children learn the value of being respectful by listening and waiting for their turn to speak. The book also teaches children a witty technique to hold on to their thoughts for sharing at an appropriate time. Have fun reading!


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More and more caregivers are using the Internet to find health information, social support, drug and medicine reviews, and online doctor reviews and provider ratings, according to a study published in 2013 by the Pew Research Center.
Caregivers – or adults who are caring for an adult or child with significant health issues, and are thus highly engaged in the pursuit of health information – are also using the Internet as a medical tool, according to the report, “Family Caregivers are Wired for Health.” The difference is: they’re doing so at higher levels of activity than do non-caregivers.
According to the study, 39 percent of all US adults are caregivers, and that they are much more wired and engaged in seeking health information online. In fact…
- 24 percent of caregivers consult online reviews of drugs and medical treatments, compared to only 13 percent of other Internet users (non-caregivers)
- 22 percent check out online doctor review sites for doctor and provider ratings, compared to only 14 percent of non-caregivers
- 72 percent have gathered health information online, and 52 percent have, in the past year, participated in some form of online social activity that’s related to health
- 6 percent of caregivers post online reviews of doctors, and 4 percent post reviews of hospitals
(Check out: “Online Doctor Reviews Reveal What Matters Most to Patients”)
These numbers are results from a survey of over 3,000 adults in the US. “More Americans are finding themselves on the front lines of health care as caregivers to a loved one, and often with little warning,” said Susannah Fox, lead author of the report and associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “Caregivers vividly illustrate a primary truth about the social impact of the internet: it enables people to quickly gather information on a complex topic in order to make better decisions.”
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A CELEBRATION OF LOVE AND UNITY
Live Good and Union Station Homeless Services unite to present a sundown charity fundraising event celebrating diversity and unity at the Palm Courts Arts Complex, Aircraft Hangar 244 located in The Great Park, Irvine on January 22, 2022
The Live Good fundraising event in partnership with USHS is dedicated to raising funds to serve and empower the homeless population in Los Angeles County. The event will encourage the involvement of local families, University of California, Irvine students, local restaurants & wineries, and Live Good team members for organization and resources. All proceeds will go to the nonprofit organization Union Station Homeless Services.
Our mission is guided by the belief that everyone deserves a life of dignity and a place to call home.— Union Station Homeless Services
For the past six years, Live Good team members have volunteered in serving Thanksgiving Dinner to the homeless in LA and Pasadena through USHS. This year, Live Good wanted to bring this pressing issue to the attention of the talented Irvine community and build bridges across southern California to find strategic solutions.
For more information about how the proceeds for “A Celebration of Love and Unity” will be used, please visit unionstationhs.org.
Tickets for “A Celebration of Love and Unity” are $65.00 for general admission and go on sale starting November 15, 2021. Purchase a ticket below or visit the event page here to learn more.
Union Station Homeless Services is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is committed to providing permanent solutions to end homelessness and rebuild lives. Headquartered in Pasadena, CA, Union Station has been in existence for almost 50 years. Union Station is the San Gabriel Valley’s largest social service agency assisting homeless and very low-income adults and families. Recently expanding into El Sereno and Eagle Rock, we are the lead county agency for Service Planning Area 3 (SPA 3), coordinating homeless services in 36 communities, with a combined population of over 1.5 million across the San Gabriel Valley. Our mission is guided by the belief that everyone deserves a life of dignity and a place to call home. For more information, visit unionstationhs.org.


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high in that temple of true glory, where the whispers of malevolence, and the clamours of faction, shall never be heard: where envy, the unfailing shadow of merit, shall never be permitted to enter; and where--when that melancholy hour is come, which no might nor greatness in mortality can delay—that hour in which you, my lord, shall be lost to your friends, to your country, to your king, your monument shall proclaim the glorious truth, that “ You were a
principal instrument in putting an end to a “ war, uncommonly wide and extensive; and “ of restoring peace to an exhausted and depopulated world.”
I am, my lord, with the most respectful acknowledgments for this indulgence,
TVest Ham, Jan. 1, 1763.
These Reflections were first written with a design to be published in a small volume proper to be given away by well-disposed persons at funerals, or on any other solemn occasion. But the editors of the CHRISTIAN'S MAGAZINE, supposing they might be of some service to that useful and well-esteemed work, requested the author first to print them there, and afterward to pursue his original design. Accordingly, they were printed in separate chapters, and he hath reason to be satisfied with the reception they met with. His best prayers accompany them in their present form, that they may be found useful to mankind.
REFLECTIONS ON DEATH.
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A few evenings ago I was called to perform the last sad office to the sacred remains of a departed friend and neighbour.


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Pension Plan Puppets
January 10 2012 08:54AM
This week the NHL will announce the rest of the players that will be participating in the All-Star Game in Ottawa. They will be joining half of the Ottawa Senators and Dion Phaneuf. The team and its fanbase pulled out a Herculean effort to overcome the sheer overwhelming numbers of Leafs fans. Getting four of their players (of variety levels of deservedness) into the game has likely guaranteed that the game will be a sellout and a success. Who is to thank for this? Is it the team that did all that they could do to promote the vote? Was it the pom-pom waving media like Bruce Garrioch and Tim Baines? Or was it the radio station that figured out how to vote without having to provide an e-mail address?
Trick question: It was Project Mayhem.
January 09 2012 12:47PM
(Via Pawel Dwulit at the Canadian Press)
Toronto goaltending is a weird thing. It's pretty well been established that Toronto haven't had a reliable #1 starter since Ed Belfour and attempts to fix this via trades for Andrew Raycroft and Vesa Toskala horribly backfired.
This season, Toronto are the 22nd best team in the NHL in overall save percentage but are actually the 13th best team with even strength goaltending according to Behind The Net. Unfortunately, the team's overall goals against total (3.10) reflects more the overall team save percentage than that at even strength, due to a well-publicized brutal penalty kill.
January 09 2012 10:34AM
Nation Radio's first show of 2012 is top notch. We leave the WJHC behind and get back to the business of talking NHL players and prospects. We get some in-depth Leafs updates courtesy JP NIkota and James Mirtle as well as some Flames talk (eyeroll) with Kent Wilson.
Pension Plan Puppets
January 08 2012 12:12PM
The Toronto Maple Leafs have been one of the teams that has come to the forefront of embracing Twitter as a team. Along with a handful of players the team's coach and general manager have taken the leap. While Burke would never be able to match up to the original (a rare successful parody account) he has been pretty good. It was worth it just for him to smack down Steve Simmons.
For those that are not on Twitter, after the jump, Brian Burke answers some fans questions.
January 07 2012 10:17AM
It wasn't so long ago that I thought the NHL had seen the last of Jonas Gustavsson. That is, I figured the Leafs would hang on to him for the rest of the season, but I never forsaw a time when he would take games like last night's away from James Reimer. I even considered the possibility that Ben Scrivens might wind up making The Monster a third wheel, much like he was towards the end of last season.
I also don't mind saying that I disagreed with Ron Wilson's decision to start Gustavsson against The Winnipeg Jets, because, although Gus didn't play a poor game against Tampa Bay, in allowing three goals, he wasn't exactly spectacular, either. In my mind, winning once isn't enough to take my number one goaltender out for an important game against another team in the playoff hunt.
Of course, with his shutout against the Jets, The Monster is making me eat a few of my words (and I'm more than happy to do so if it means the Leafs are picking up points), but I'm still not convinced he's a long term solution as a backup goaltender. I mean, is he even really a short term solution?
Follow me over the jump for more.