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New Boundaries Will Boost the Number of Businesses Eligible for State Tax Incentives, Create Revitalization Along Morrison Road
More businesses in Denver will now be eligible for special state tax incentives available in the City’s Enterprise Zone, thanks to a recommendation made by the Office of Economic Development (OED) to expand the boundaries to include Morrison Rd. from Knox Ct. to Sheridan Blvd., and Alameda Ave., from Knox Ct. to Federal Blvd.
The Denver Enterprise Zone is a designated area in Denver that affords qualifying businesses up to nine special state tax credit incentives and provides them with intrinsic advantages based on the zone’s strategic location for transportation, suppliers and potential clients. This increase of its boundaries, adopted by the Colorado Economic Development Commission (EDC), will benefit businesses operating in this district, which has been challenged with vacant buildings, higher levels of unemployment and social need.
“We have been collaborating with our partners to transform and highlight the unique identity of Morrison Road and create greater economic viability,” said City Councilman Paul D. López, whose District 3 includes the new boundaries. “The designation of this portion of my district as an Enterprise Zone is a very important step toward creating greater economic opportunity for our district’s families and small businesses.”
In the heart of Denver’s Latino community, Morrison Road is becoming Denver’s “Linear Mercado” serving the local area with authentic Mexican restaurants, bakeries and boutiques. It is Councilman López’s vision to capture this unique identity to reinforce current family-owned small businesses to revitalize the district with development that serves the needs of the surrounding community.
OED recognized a distinct business need at Morrison Road and selected it for two of its location-based business support office programs: a qualifying area for the Neighborhood Business Revitalization (NBR) loan program as well as one of five pilot districts for the new Denver’s Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative (DNMI).
“This achievement is significant on many different accounts, but it validates the importance of the Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative to communities,” said OED Executive Director André Pettigrew. “Bringing additional resources to the community is vital to the long-term strategy. It gives us a better opportunity to support the economic revitalization of the area.”
DNMI is a citywide program that fosters the growth of public-private partnerships to strengthen business districts and their surrounding neighborhoods.
The NBR program is a gap financing program that helps stimulate business development within targeted commercial districts throughout Denver.
For more information about the Enterprise Zone, contact the Denver Business Assistance Center at (720) 913-1715.
The Denver Office of Economic Development (OED) works to create a local environment that stimulates balanced economic growth through job creation, business assistance, housing options and neighborhood redevelopment.

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We'll compare the Apple Watch 6 vs. the Apple Watch SE to help you figure out the right Apple Watch for your needs.
The iPad Air 4 is here, and it looks like a more affordable iPad Pro. Here's everything you need to know.
Apple is moving away from Intel in upcoming Apple Silicon MacBook Pros, MacBooks and desktops, with its own chips. Here's what you need to know.
The Apple One bundle will combine subscriptions to Apple TV Plus, Apple Music, Apple Arcade and Apple News Plus .
Cheap MacBook sales are easy to find if you know where to look. Here are today's best MacBook sales.
Don't get your hopes up for the new iPhone 12. We've known for a while that the iPhone 12 is facing some delays.
Here's how to watch the Apple Event live stream and see the Apple Watch 6 and other big products unveiled
The iPhone 12 Pro to miss out on one of Galaxy Note 20's best features, which could make Apple wait until 2021 to catch up with Samsung.
Apple Watch and iPad updates are likely on Sept. 15, according to one Apple leaker, but the iPhone 12 isn't.
From the Apple Watch 3 and Apple Watch 4 to the new Series 5, here are the best Apple Watch Black Friday deals now.
A Reddit poster claims big product news is coming at next week's Apple event, highlighted by the first Apple Silicon MacBook Pro.
iPhone 11 deals are easy to score if you know where to look. Here are the best iPhone 11 deals right now.
Our comparison will help you decide if you should save on iPhone XR or splurge for the iPhone XS or XS Max.
These renders of the iPad Air 4 explain how Apple may raise the price by giving some of the iPad Pro's perks.
Wondering how Apple will sell us on the Apple Watch 6? Health and privacy features detailed in a new patent explain more.
Apple approved the notorious Shlayer malware for installation on macOS Catalina and Big Sur, security researchers say.
A flaw in Apple's Safari browser could let malicious websites trick you into sending strangers your browsing history and other personal data.
Apple called Fortnite’s Epic bluff, booting the game for violating App Store rules (and Google followed suit), all the while Epic Games responded with a lawsuit.
More than 1,200 iPhone apps may be infected with malicious adware, a security firm says, but Apple denies there's any problem.
This AirPods Pro deal price lets you snag them for just $219. It's the lowest price we've ever seen for these buds and one of the best headphone deals of the season.
A class-action lawsuit filed against Apple claims the company knew of a MacBook Pro flaw that caused blacklight display issues on certain models.
Crooks are poisoning open-source Mac software projects with malware that steals passwords and credit cards, installs ransomware and replaces Safari with a malicious browser.


SOCIAL distancing and regular hand washing is no longer just good advice, it is "absolutely crucial" to slowing the spread of COVID-19, public health expert Dr David Durrheim warns.
The Hunter New England Health (HNEH) physician said we all needed to do more to beat COVID-19.
"We have to flatten the curve, we cannot possibly afford to relax at the moment," he said.
"I have worked in public health for a long time, and I have been at the forefront of responses to diseases including Ebola, cholera, and the 2009 flu pandemic, and none of them have posed the threat of COVID-19.
"Because it is droplet-borne, it is more infectious than flu, and it is certainly much, much more serious.
"It has probably got a case fatality rate eight to 10 times that of seasonal flu, and the last time we faced a challenge like this globally in public health was probably the 1918-1919 pandemic."
I have worked in public health for a long time, and I have been at the forefront of responses to diseases including Ebola, cholera, and the 2009 flu pandemic, and none of them have posed the threat of COVID-19.Public health physician Dr David Durrheim
Dr Durrheim said the health sector was gearing up to surge. The community needed to step up too.
Yesterday, Thursday, March 26 HNEH released a breakdown of locations which had confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the region.
From the first 100 cases, there were 19 in the Newcastle local government area, five in Port Stephens, 24 in Lake Macquarie and six in Maitland.
There were 19 in the Lower Mid North Coast, 15 in the Hunter Valley and 12 in the New England regions.
"It is really crucial that all of us practice proper physical distancing, that we absolutely enhance our respiratory hygiene, and wash our hands very regularly," he said.
"We have to slow this virus's spread.
"We need to do more.
"COVID 19 is close to all of us. Now is the time for all of us to do everything we can."
Dr Durrheim said the available testing capacity for COVID-19 had "ramped up massively" in the past two weeks.
The John Hunter Hospital laboratory was now "online" and processing specimens.
The local lab meant tests were getting turned around much faster.
"As the supplies and lab capacity increases, we want to test as many people as possible, particularly going into winter."
Because COVID-19 was spread by droplets, gravity played a "wonderful role", dropping them within a metre.
"If we stay a metre-and-a-half from other people, and we wash our hands carefully, we can slow this virus down," he said.
"We can protect vulnerable people in the community, and save lives."
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CUPE livid with Children's Aid Society offer to end lockout, 'this agency is out of control'
Published Thursday, April 20, 2017 6:16PM EDT
The Children's Aid Society of Nipissing-Parry Sound has offered to end a four month lockout and let employees back to work, but the union representing workers with the CAS is not pleased with the move.
CUPE Local 2049 president Debbie Hill said she was shocked when CAS lifted the lockout. Hill said there's been no progress and no change in stance by the CAS.
“Resolving none of the issues that started this labour disruption to begin with, and on top of that, to actually dissolve the union,” said Hill.
“This is an attempt to get rid of the union,” added Fred Hahn, CUPE Ontario president.
“This is an employer that has locked out employees for four months, agreed to go to arbitration on outstanding issues than reneged on that agreement, and then said people can come back to work with conditions barely above the employment standards act. It's unheard of and outrageous they are doing this.”
A media release issued Thursday from the CAS disputes the union claim that there were 17 conditions attached to a return to work.
The executive director of the CAS said there is no plan to undermine the union.
“We couldn't come to an agreement,” said Gisele Hebert, Children's Aid Society of Nipissing and Parry Sound executive director.
“With our staff back to work, the binding arbitration stipulation by CUPE was conditional on the return to work, we weren't able to do that.”
Hebert said the big issue is sick leave; with CUPE wanting to come back to work with full entitlement of 85 days at 100% wage.
She said it's not something the CAS can manage.
“The only solution that we can see is for the Ministry of Children and Families to take over this agency, dissolve its board of directors and take control of these circumstances. This agency is out of control,” Hahn said.


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Mancala is a generic name for a family of 2-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. Versions of the game have been played for at least hundreds of years around the world.
This asset contains a fully playable game that can be played with another player on a hot sit mode or against three levels of AI: Easy, Normal or Hard.
The asset is client based and uses local machine to check the remaining time. The code is open if you want to add a server time check.
• Supports multiple days (even weeks or months)
• Extra time rewards feature for a single reward per seconds interval
• Mobile ready
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text: After the transaction is broadcast on chain, the payment channel is open and ready for transfers. When one wishes to update the balance with a new balance, both parties must consent to the new balance and generate a new spend from the transaction. In effect, they have created numerous "double spends" from an on blockchain transaction, but have elected not to broadcast the spend until either party wants to redeem their funds on chain. These multi signature transactions are real Bitcoin transactions. Either party may broadcast the most recent transaction, the current local consensus state, to the global blockchain at any time to redeem their current balance of funds. As either party may redeem funds from this channel at any time unilaterally, without requiring any cooperation from anyone else, the most recent transaction is effectively their current balance in the channel. They may continue updating the channel with updated states without interacting with the global blockchain until they wish to close out the channel. In other words, updating the local consensus state is actionable on the global consensus state.

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L.A. County wildfire buckling / Firefighters using pool water to tame suspicious blaze
@tFirefighters scooping water out of backyard swimming pools and racing to dig fire lines ahead of fast-moving flames were winning the battle over a wildfire that threatened dozens of luxury homes in northern Los Angeles County,
officials said today.
The fire near Castaic, believed deliberately set, was 80 percent contained this morning and Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Henry Rodriguez said firefighters should have it completely encircled by this evening.
Elsewhere, National Guardsmen joined other firefighters to battle a huge blaze near Yellowstone National Park while other wildfires raged in Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
In Southern California, witnesses said they saw a person quickly leaving the area where the flames originated just west of Interstate 5 about 1 p.m. yesterday.
"We have our suspicions," Rodriguez said, "but the fire is under investigation."
The fire, zigzagging its way through steep canyons filled with tinder-dry brush destroyed one home, a mobile home and an outbuilding and burned within only feet of several other expensive homes.
Two inmate firefighters suffered from heat exhaustion.
Heavy smoke slowed traffic on nearby I-5, snarling the evening commute. Later in the evening, a five-mile stretch of the busy freeway was closed for a time between Templin and Lake Hughes.
A second blaze about two miles from the main fire was contained.
At the start of the fire, Los Angeles County fire authorities quickly found themselves overmatched as the wind-driven blaze roared across 1,200 acres in five hours, and they appealed to the state Department of Forestry and the National Forest Service for help.
Although the fire spread to 1,800 acres, efforts to get fire lines around it during the night were largely successful.
No evacuation orders were issued, many residents were cleared out.
"It's so black over there it's scary," said resident Dorothy McCloskey. "I've never seen anything like that."
The fire grew quickly as wind gusts reaching 15 mph drove it across tinder- dry brush, Martinez said. The wind further hampered firefighters by blowing around embers that ignited new fires.
"Every time the firefighters would get a handle on one spot, another would start up," Martinez said.
Fire trucks were drawing water from swimming pools as seven helicopters scooped water from nearby Castaic Lake. Two air tankers also were dousing the fire with flame retardant.
Several other wildfires in California, most of them in the Sierra Nevada foothills, were in the mopping-up stage. A 250-acre brush and tree fire eight miles south of Ukiah in Mendocino County was 50 percent contained. Two air tanker pilots were killed when their planes collided while fighting that blaze.
The nation's top-priority wildfire, between Livingston, Mont. and Yellowstone National Park, had grown to 23,500 acres this morning. The National Guard provided nearly 200 soldiers and airmen to help the 700 firefighters already at the scene.
Another fire on the Montana-Wyoming border burned into the northern part of the national park and destroyed an unoccupied cabin.
To the north, more than 500 firefighters on the Moose fire 13 miles north of Whitefish were withdrawn for safety reasons late yesterday as the fire made a fast northerly run and jumped a creek.
That fire has burned about 4,200 acres in the Flathead National Forest.
In eastern Washington, the Virginia Lake Complex of fires had grown to 82, 773 acres and was 75 percent contained, while the Rex Creek Complex had charred 43,000 acres and was 65 percent contained.
A huge high pressure area continued to dominate the West and a continued heat wave with tinder-dry conditions kept the wildfire danger extreme in Northern California and elsewhere.

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Watch Yeah Yeah Yeah’s feral “Wolf” video starring Severance’s Britt Lower
Just in time for Halloween, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have dropped an appropriately feral video for their song "Wolf" from this year's Cool It Down. Directed by Allie Avital (Olivia Rodrigo's "Deja Vu"), the video stars Severance's Britt Lower who follows a bluejay into the woods behind her home and things turn dark from there.
"It was our great fortune to collaborate with the powerhouses Allie and Britt on this video for ‘Wolf,’" says Karen O. "Allie casts a spell with the gorgeous world she weaves - always with teeth that bite, and Britt embodies all the contradictions in the themes of ‘Wolf,’ so enamored with her performance that’s got as much heaven as it does hell. We were beside ourselves with excitement when Allie cast Brit as the lead in the video, YYYs are serious nerds for Severance, what luck when the stars align.”
Watch the video, which also features Will Brill from The OA, below.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs recently played Forest Hills Stadium.
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It was mentioned a few weeks back that Caster Racing has been sponsoring the next generation of potentially fast drivers. It seems we have found yet another one. Chase Armstrong of Illinois ended up being the points leader in a 6 series event at RJD Hobbies and Raceway (http://www.rjdhobbiesandraceway.com).
Over the winter, RJD held a series of 6 races and Chase was running his Caster Fusion to a points total of 568. Second place was close with 560 points, but Chase’s overall consistency and speed pulled him through for the overall win over 15 others in the newly contested fast class.
Caster Racing USA President Mike Mazza commented “We are really excited to see what Chase can do with the outdoor season this summer. He has really turned some heads and proved that our cars are fast, stable, and durable. All of which are necessary for the dedicated racer out there to be successful.”


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|The increasing burden of hepatitis C, particularly among people who inject drugs, requires comprehensive, well balanced and targeted policy and practice. The burden of hepatitis C remains underestimated by many policy makers, professionals and the public. There is, however, considerable evidence and expertise upon which guidance for effectively tackling hepatitis C in Europe can draw.
The key messages included in this report represent the most important aspects of interventions targeting injecting drug users. These have been identified through field work, the day to day experience of practitioners and a literature review. Starting with approaches to prevention, such as awareness and training, the messages go on to describe the most important elements of service delivery including monitoring, testing and improving access, all with an essential focus on the involvement of patients and service users. As all interventions work best embedded in a national action plan or strategy, this report closes with a brief examination of what makes these most effective.
Each individual message describes an action needed to improve the local or national response to hepatitis C, including the central guiding principles and key components of the approach. One or two examples, selected based on a set of common criteria, describe existing interventions for the particular topic. A reference section and suggestions for further reading complete the overview of each key message. Inevitably, many of the messages are related and depend upon the wider framework of interventions in place.
The selection of the messages included focused on information directly relevant to hepatitis C and (injecting) drug use. Most of these messages are also relevant for other communicable diseases, however, such as HIV and for public health in general. At the same time HIV- or public health-related recommendations and research findings are likely to provide useful insights which are or should also be applicable to hepatitis C.
Messages relevant to drug and health policy in general have not been included in this report. Specific attention is needed for vulnerable people including drug users because of the lack of accessible treatment and care, and the need to fight stigma, discrimination and marginalization. This need occurs everywhere, and forms a baseline from which all policies, strategies, services and interventions must advance if hepatitis C is to be effectively tackled in the world today.

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DAX Index Remains Steady as German Inflation Stabilized
The German DAX stock index shows a slight movement today. The index increased by 0.04% and is trading at 12.988.50 level.
Inflation in Germany stabilized in September. The consumer price index (CPI) on an annualized basis increased by 1.8% in September, which coincided with the forecast of economists and was in line with the preliminary estimate. This was the highest level of inflation since April 2017, when it was 2%. The inflation rate increased by 0.1% on a monthly basis.
The ECB President Mario Draghi said he plans to maintain interest rates at a low level until the end of bond purchase program, which expires in December. It is expected, that the ECB will reduce the monthly purchases of bonds amounting to 60 billion euros at the October meeting on policy issues.

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I've been busy creating some new items for my shop and I'm really pleased with the results.
This time I decided to use 14K gold filled wire as a change to my usuel gold plated wire. 14K gold filled wire has far more gold than the few microns coating of gold in gold plated wire. It will not peel, flake or ware off and is safe for most people with sensitive skin.
14K gold filled jewelry is a long lasting, economical way to enjoy the luster of gold without the big price tag.
14K gold filled is 20 % gold, 14K gold is 65% gold and 24K gold is 100% gold.
I hope you like them too.


You probably live under a rock if you still have no idea that Apple today unveiled not 1, but 2 iPhones—the Apple iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. Now if you’re wondering what’s new with the iPhone, what has changed and what can you expect with the Cupertino Tech-giant’s new flagship devices, then we suggest that you read through this article.
When Steve Jobs released the first Generation iPhone back in 2007, the device boasted a 3.5 inch display—a size bigger than most phones back then. But throughout the years, as smartphone competition got tighter than ever, we now see flagship smartphones with screens as big as 5.7 inches found on the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Apple has been widely criticized for sticking with a now small-ish 4 inch screen with the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S last year, but now the company is taking a breakthrough from what seems to be its comfort zone as they announce a bigger set of iPhones.
Flaunting a 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches of screen estates respectively, a lot of people are surely rejoicing with bigger iPhones this year with the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. As much as both phones got bigger, they both even went thinner too, compared against its predecessor, the iPhone 5S. The iPhone 6 is just 6.9 mm thin, while the bigger iPhone 6 Plus comes in with a still thin 7.1 mm body—0.5 mm thinner than the iPhone 5S.
Upfront, both phones look exactly like the iPhone 5S. Aside from the size, you’ll see the difference between this year’s iPhones and previous year’s when to you take a look at the sides and the back parts of the phones. Apple decided to make the volume rocker keys on both the iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus flatter and thinner. They also strategically moved the Power button from the top of the phone to the right side. And just hours after the announcement, a lot of people are already saying that Apple took hints from Android devices, especially from the Samsung Galaxy S line on the power button placement. But I must say, it is rather an imperative for Apple to give users an easier way of reaching the button when operating the device with just one hand.
Apple now claims that the display on the iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus are now Retina HD, with the iPhone 6 sporting a screen resolution of 750 x 1334 pixels (~326 ppi) while the bigger iPhone 6 Plus comes with a 1080 x 1920 pixels (~401 ppi) Full HD screen.
Camera wise, a lot may be disappointed though that Apple chose to stick with an 8 megapixel camera—just like what is found on the now 4 year old iPhone 4S. On a personal note, unless you’re into shooting magazine ads or you’re really into professional photography with your iPhone, an 8 megapixel camera on a phone is pretty much adequate–at the end of the day, it’s about the clarity and quality of the photo, not the really huge image size. But in an Apple fashion, the camera module found on the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus got a few spec bumps—it comes with the same1.5µ pixels found on the iPhone 5S, but with a feature called Focus Pixels to make colors even more crisp and accurate, as well as to make auto focus even faster. Then there’s an improved 1080p video recording now at up to 60 fps, 240 fps Slo-Mo videos, HDR video, HDR capable FaceTime Cameras, Selfie Burst mode, Timer mode and Time Lapse. Apple is pushing it even further by adding an Optical Image Stabilization feature for the iPhone 6 Plus.
As for connectivity, both iPhones now comes with an improved Wifi Antennas of 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, as well as VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and WiFi Calling support. What this means is that you can make cellular calls even if you’re in an area with a bad reception, as long as you are connected to a WiFi network. But, both phones only utilizes LTE Cat 3, instead of the latest LTE Cat 6 found on LG’s G3.
The new iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus is powered by Apples own A8 Chip—a 64-bit desktop class architecture that is claimed to be over 25% faster than the A7 and 50% more efficient, giving both iPhones even longer battery lives. The A8 chip is complemented by the M8 coprocessor that let the phone not only measure the distance you’ve made with the phone, but also the elevation, thanks to it’s Barometer. There’s also a next generation gyroscope, so fitness apps and games can deliver a more accurate results.
There’s also the inclusion of NFC. This certainly isn’t new, but it is a first for any Apple device—a need for the implementation of Apple’s very own mobile payment system, the newly announced Apple Pay.
Of course, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus gets released with the upcoming iOS 8 and is set to hit the shelves September 19 in the US, and is coming to other countries within the year. So expect to see the new set of iPhones in the next weeks or months in the Philippines.
As for the pricing, refer to the image below. (And yes, Apple killed the 32 GB variant on this release for some reason, but giving everyone a huge 128 GB option)
Finally, refer to our detailed current iPhone models comparison below.
Judging by the spec sheet, both the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus will perform pretty much better in all aspects compared to the iPhone 5S, much so if you compare it with the iPhone 5C, with the bigger screen, a better screen resolution and an all new and faster chipset. The iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus could have been even more better if Apple pushed the envelope a little further by adding a little extra something, like what they did with the Touch ID on the iPhone 5S. But this is what Apple does best and we just all have to sit back and see how the newly announced iPhones fare with the current competition in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the LG G3.
Is the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus worth upgrading to? Let us know by hitting us on the comment section below.


Lauding the telecom regulator TRAI’s decision on discriminatory pricing, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said internet is one of the finest creations of the human mind and it should not become the monopoly of a few.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a much-awaited regulatory order on Monday had said that no service provider would be allowed to charge “discriminatory tariffs” for data services on the basis of content.
“We very much appreciate this decision of TRAI whereby differential tariff in case of data services has been rejected. The view of our government from the beginning has been very clear, which I have also articulated in the Parliament, that is, internet is one of the finest creations of human mind and it should not become the monopoly of few,” Prasad told reporters here.
“Differential pricing on data, whether it is Free Basics or any other mode, is plainly not acceptable,” the minister said adding that the internet “must be available without discrimination.”
The watchdog has also called for a fine of Rs 50,000 per day for each act of contravention, subject to a cap of Rs 50 lakh.
Prasad further said the government fully respected the freedom of expression and discourse on social media and interned adding that “Our government is committed towards digital inclusion.”
He said that the government was expanding Digital India into every “nook and corner of the country, and taking extraordinary steps to empower the people through technology, to create a knowledge economy, the very concept,” in order to bring about digital inclusion.
The sector regulator’s move was seen as a setback to offerings such as Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero.


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As the means for delivering and consuming music continue to grow more sophisticated (and more digital), so do the choices for promoting that music and the artists who create it. Such is the case with electronic press kits (EPKs) and video news releases (VNRs), tools that share the same basic goals of their non-digital predecessors: getting airplay, inspiring reviews and other media coverage, facilitating bookings and winning the attention of music consumers.
The overriding goal is to “create awareness for people to review the single and take a closer look at the artist,” said Carson James, Senior VP, Promotion, Broken Bow Records/Stoney Creek Records.
“2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY” IN 70MM
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the 1968 science fiction epic “2001: A Space Odyssey” as the fifth film in its series “The Last 70mm Film Festival” on Monday, August 6, at 7 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Art Direction (Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer), Directing (Stanley Kubrick), and Writing – Story and screenplay written directly for the screen (Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke), and won an Oscar® for Special Visual Effects (Kubrick).
The 70mm short “To Be Alive!”, which won the Academy Award® for Documentary Short Subject in 1965, will be screened prior to the film. Shot over an 18-month period in Italy, Nigeria and the United States, the film traces the journey from childhood to adulthood in different cultures. Read the rest of this entry
We are so excited to share that our new album A Thousand Miles Left Behind is now available everywhere! Go download it on iTunes, order it in our online store, or pick it up at your local music store. We can’t wait for you to hear these new songs!
Yesterday we had a blast playing on Good Morning America then heading to Nashville to play at the Billboard Pepsi Summer Beats Concert. Last night’s video is up on demand HERE. Don’t forget, we’ll be performing on Fox & Friends All-American Summer Concert Series this Friday, August 3rd at 7:30am EST on the FOX News channel. Check your local listings.
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ACADEMY TO SCREEN “THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY” IN NYC
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Monday Nights with Oscar® screening series will present “Thank God It’s Friday” (1978) on Monday, August 6, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. Hosted by drag icon Hedda Lettuce, the evening features a rarely seen clip of legendary disco diva Donna Summer performing at the 51st Annual Academy Awards®.
Produced at the height of the disco craze, “Thank God It’s Friday” follows a motley assortment of staff and patrons of a fictitious nightclub, revealing their escapades in a series of intertwining stories. The film’s all-star ensemble cast creates a vibrant, comedic portrait of an era filled with extravagant fashion, recreational drugs and a groovy beat.
“Thank God It’s Friday,” which marked the only feature film appearance by Summer, won an Academy Award® for Original Song for “Last Dance” by Paul Jabara. Read the rest of this entry
Northman’s Party Vamps, Renee’ Brown and Sabrina Sales, creates and hosts a True Blood premiere party each year and we were in attendance June 9, 2012. As part of our coverage, we attempted to video one of the entertaining and fun games… Read the rest of this entry
Check it out! My first music video on MTV.com! The video features a studio performance of my a capella jam, Mama’s Lessons. Click here to watch it now. The video was directed by Manny Skillz and is available for download from my webstore.
On June 27th, I was part of the first-ever “From Mic to Mix” event at Los Angeles’ Conway Recording Studios. The band and I were featured in a live acoustic recording session, engineered by 2-time GRAMMY winner Nathaniel Kunkel. Special thanks to the event’s sponsors, HARMEN Professional and the Producers & Engineers Wing of The Recording Academy, for allowing me to take part in the amazing event. Read more about it, here, and I’ll let you know when the session is available online.
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The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has updated regulations for how companies and individuals may market movies and achievements eligible for the 85th Academy Awards® to Academy members. The changes pertain to screenings that feature live filmmaker participation, the formats on which members may receive screeners, and limitations on how mail, email and websites may be used in campaigning.
“These rules help us maintain a level playing field for all of the nominees and protect the integrity of the Awards process,” said Academy President Tom Sherak.
Christian Bale was in Aurora today visiting victims of Friday’s movie theater shooting. Here, Bale sits with shooting victim Carey Rottman.
Christian Bale, star of the Batman films, met at the Medical Center of Aurora on Tuesday afternoon with seven patients injured in the mass shooting that occurred during a midnight showing of his new film.


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Statins: How the drug prevents heart attacks and strokes
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The reason why you have to take the little tablets is due to the dangerous nature of high cholesterol levels. Having too much of the fatty substance in your blood can lead to health problems, ranging from heart disease to stroke. That’s where statins come to the rescue. The medication is able to reduce the production of the “bad” cholesterol in your liver.
Statins represent one of the most commonly taken medications in the UK, with around seven to eight million Britons on the tablets, according to the British Heart Foundation.
Apart from being able to slash high cholesterol levels, statins can be also given to patients with heart disease, the NHS explains.
There are many different types of statins but they generally come in the form of tablets taken once a day.
Although the majority of people tolerate statins well without any problems, the tablets can cause some potential side effects, the health service explains.
One of the possible side effects of the medicine is higher blood sugar levels, according to the Mayo Clinic.
They explained: “It’s possible your blood sugar (blood glucose) level may increase when you take a statin, which may lead to developing type 2 diabetes.
“The risk is small but important enough that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning on statin labels regarding blood glucose levels and diabetes.”
This rise usually happens when your blood sugar levels are already higher than what’s normal and when you belong to the prediabetes or diabetes range.
As the medication is able to prevent heart attacks in people with diabetes, the “relevance of the mild increase in sugar values with statins observed in some people is unclear”, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Plus, the effect may be “more pronounced” in people who take larger statins doses, according to Diabetes.co.uk.
There is also research that examined this link, including a study published in The Journal of Investigative Medicine.
This research found statins to be connected with a rise in fasting blood glucose in patients with and without diabetes.
This connection was independent of age and use of aspirin or medications that reduce blood pressure.
Another study, published in the The Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics, found a new onset of diabetes to be increased by use of statins.
They reported: “In this regard, some statins appear to be more strongly related (e.g., simvastatin, rosuvastatin and atorvastatin) than others (e.g., pravastatin).
“Although causality of this association has not been proved, there are evidences from experimental studies that make this association plausible.”
However, the study shared that benefits appear to outweigh the risks, especially in moderate to high cardiovascular risk populations.
The Mayo Clinic also added that the benefits of taking statins outweigh the “small risk” of higher blood sugar levels.
They advise you to “talk to your doctor” if you are concerned about this side effect.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) stresses not to “stop” taking statins because of an increase in blood sugar levels as you should always talk to your doctor before ceasing use.
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A Wilkinsburg man was shot and killed late Tuesday when he took a break from a dominoes game to urinate over the railing of a porch, Allegheny County police said.
The 35-year-old man, identified by the Allegheny County medical examiner's office as Roosevelt Robinson, was playing dominos with friends about 11 p.m. on a covered second-floor portico in the 1100 block of Franklin Avenue.
The man took a break to relieve himself and the group heard a voice from below call out "Yo! Yo!" before several shots sounded and the man collapsed, police said.
He was shot once, police said. The county medical examiner's office said he was transported to UPMC Mercy, where he was pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m.
Detectives believe the gunman was located between 1107 and 1111 Franklin Ave. Neighbors said a path between the houses is often used to cut through to the street.
County police asked anyone with information to call 412-473-1300.
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It’s done – I finished my first sprint Triathlon. The good thing: I am hyped I did and I finished.
A big hugs and thank you to the whole La Carrera Triteam club, who pushed and cheered me up! You rock!
The bad thing: Apart from issues in the race, I saw my race photos. Those are … good photos, but show the full truth of me! Showing how much I am weighing still – omg! Would love to hide somewhere right now!
On the bright side: seeing my “weight issues” so clear and still finishing 86 of 102 is… PARTY TIME!
I might write a full race report. For now… I drop weight like mad. I never want to see me again on photos with a belly! Game over belly 1!
For the start a pre-race-photo, which has been approved by my ego:
I came far still I need to lose A LOT MORE weight! I am feeling bad on how much still. But I will! Damn kills me seeing my photos! Arggghhh.
Now: some who know me might want to cheer me up: “You have come far!” and so on… the whole point is: Not far enough yet. This race was the start, not the end.

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Rob Milton never ceases to amaze. The New Jersey based singer is starting his (and our) new year off with a bang with the release of his new album "Electric Feel" and advance warning, a neck brace is required. Hooking up again with producer Roman Norfleet of Black Fantastic fame, the duo craft soul tunes of the most electrifying order. Pulsating, cosmic and funky headnodders that knock hard. Lyrics full of nostalgia, love and hope for the future. Take the journey and cop below.


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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Community Workshop and Survey!
Anaconda-Deer Lodge County is currently nearing completion of the Historic Preservation Plan that outlines specific strategies for enhancing the County’s current historic preservation program. With this Plan, the community desires to build on past preservation successes and to identify priority areas for preservation and reinvestment in order to shape and contribute to the County’s visual character, and overall economic development.
Do not forget to check out the Draft Historic Preservation Plan. CLICK HERE to view the Draft Historic Preservation Plan! CLICK HERE to download the Community Workshop recording. Thank you for your time and feedback!
The Anaconda Local Development Corporation has initiated a planning process to prepare a Historic Preservation Plan for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County. The central objectives of this plan are to assess the community’s historic preservation program and policies, establish historic contexts, make recommendations for identifying historic resources and potential designations, assess preservation’s role in the broader planning process, and conduct a thorough community engagement program. In addition, The Lakota Group will prepare a set of design guidelines to assist local stakeholders, property owners and the Historic Resources Board in making informed decisions regarding historic preservation activities.
Communities like Anaconda-Deer Lodge County understand that historic preservation contributes to community vitality and building the creative industries, local identity and pride of place. With this Historic Preservation Plan, the community desires to build on past successes while recognizing that additional efforts are necessary to identify priority areas for preservation that shape and enhance the community’s character and quality of life. The Anaconda Local Development Corporation has engaged The Lakota Group, a preservation planning firm based in Chicago, Illinois to help create the plan.
Phase 1: State of the County (November 2020 – April 2021) CLICK HERE to view the final SOTC Report!
Phase 2: Historic Preservation Plan (May 2021 – August 2021) CLICK HERE to view the Draft Historic Preservation Plan!
The project timeline below provides an overview of the two phases with related project milestones.
A well-researched and prepared historic preservation plan involves the input and participation of the citizens and stakeholders of Anaconda-Deer Lodge County. Along these lines, direct involvement by community members is welcome and strongly encouraged. Thanks to everyone who attended the Community Workshop on Wednesday, July 21, virtually or at The Revolver! Also, many thanks to those who participated in the Community Survey!
There are several ways you can stay informed and share your feedback throughout the planning process.
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• Check for project updates
• Learn about and discuss the County’s historic preservation program
• Share your ideas on preservation plan issues and strategies
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In the meantime, please share any thoughts or ideas for the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Historic Preservation Plan to the project team via the contact section below. Your contact information will be saved in the project email list and updates will be sent your way for engagement opportunities and planning process milestones.
All plan documents will be posted for review and download in the section below.
We bring creative solutions that inspire action and result in beautiful, people-driven places. Our firm has 25 years of experience in urban design, planning, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Our mission is to create plans that build connections between people, their environments, and their history. This is perfectly reflected in our name. Lakota, the Native American word for Allies.


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Two transformative opportunities for the Boston Public Schools hung in the balance as students began the new school year. First, students desperately needed a longer school day and a system that kept good teachers in the classroom. Unfortunately, this opportunity came and went, as the Boston Public Schools’ leadership and the Boston Teachers Union agreed to a status quo teachers contract. City and union leaders touted the hollow accomplishment as groundbreaking school reform, but parents and teachers were left with a sense of resignation knowing that, when it comes to the Boston Public Schools, help rarely comes from those in power.
With just over 56,000 students, 74 percent of whom live in poverty, our schools face a daunting achievement gap while hemorrhaging middle-class families from their ranks. It would strike many as common sense that combining a longer school day with a steadfast commitment to high-quality teaching would go a long way toward closing the achievement gap and winning back those who opt out through Metco, charter schools, private and parochial schools, and of course, for-sale signs.

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“Thanks to one of our tipsters, we just got news that AT&T will be announcing iPhone compatibility to corporate and business accounts on January, 21st,” reports The Boy Genius Report.
“The best part? If you have a corporate discounts, they are still valid! There’s said to be special iPhone data plans of $25 or higher that the business customer must subscribe to,” TBGR reports.
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New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted a successful flight test of ABHYAS – High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) from Interim Test Range, Chandipur in Odisha. The flight test was tracked by various RADARS and Electro Optic Systems and proved its performance in a fully autonomous waypoint navigation mode, reported PIB.
The configuration of ABHYAS is designed on an in-line small gas turbine engine. It uses the indigenously developed MEMS-based navigation system for its navigation and guidance.
The performance of the system was as per simulations carried out and demonstrated the capability of ABHYAS to meet the mission requirement for a cost-effective HEAT.


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Reginald Dixon was the most famous organist of an era that offered considerable competition. He began playing at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom in 1929, on the newly-installed Wurlitzer organ. That was replaced five years later by a more powerful instrument, and this compilation begins shortly after that event. It features a wide range of music, from light classics to jazz, in the form of six single titles and eighteen medleys, and should delight devotees of the king of instruments. Sound quality is excellent, as is Guy Rowland's informative liner note.

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• Ooni urges caution
• Kaduna lifts curfew in councils
There was palpable apprehension in Urhouka Community, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State following the alleged murder of a middle-age man by suspected Fulani herdsmen on his farm land in the early hours of yesterday.
The grouse of the Fulani herdsmen was that the insecticide the deceased sprayed on his crops allegedly caused the death of some of their cows which grazed on the farm.
This made the herdsmen to descend angrily on the man who allegedly engaged on verbal exchange.But the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Andrew Aniamaka who confirmed the incident, said investigations were ongoing with a view to arresting the killers.
He however, stated that preliminary investigation revealed that farmers in the area have abandoned their farm lands for fear of attacks, and have called on the state government to come to their aid.
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Charles Aniagwu said the state government has strengthened security agencies as alternative measures to ensure that the lives of residents were protected, adding that the measures would end the herdsmen’s killings in the state.
Also, residents of Ovre-Eku Community in Delta State allegedly displaced by hired thugs of Presco Oil Company Plc have called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to intervene as they not destroyed their property but also carted them away.
But Presco Relations Manager, Tony Uwajeh dispelled the allegations as untrue saying that Presco was a responsible company that would not stoop so low to harm the indigenes of its host communities.
Meanwhile, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan yesterday advised Nigerians to treat the menace of herdsmen with caution and urged everyone to continue to live in peace and harmony. He told journalists in Port Harcourt that the issue must be handled carefully because herdsmen play a pivotal role in the country’s economy.
His words: “You can see that meat is a necessity for us. Everybody eats meat because of its protein and fibre content. This is a very sensitive thing and as a result of this, we should apply a lot of caution.”
Meanwhile, barely two weeks after the launch of military operation Harbin Kunama II meant to curb the crisis precipitated by Fulani herdsmen killings in Southern Kaduna communities, the curfew imposed by the state government in two local council areas has been lifted.
The Kaduna State Security Council (KSSC) yesterday announced the lifting of the curfew in Jema’a and Kaura local government areas, following its weekly meeting. The curfew in Zangon Kataf local government area was earlier removed.
A statement by the Media aide to the Governor, Samuel Aruwan said the council security meeting received and reviewed reports from the security agencies which pointed to improvements in the security situation.
Also in Calabar, the Coalition of Eastern NGOs (CENGOs) and Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC) in collaboration with Amplify Change have decried the alarming rate of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the country, saying thousands of children and women were affected yearly.
They therefore, called on the Federal Government to end the violence as they frowned on the poor state of budgetary allocations and funding in the states of the old Eastern region to tackle issues of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and GBV of young persons and women.

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How Parents Can Help Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teens
With the increasing rate of anxiety in recent years, more medicine cabinets than ever hold benzodiazepines, which are prescribed for anxiety and insomnia under brand names such as Xanax and Valium. The growing availability of these pharmaceuticals is also accompanied by misunderstandings—and sometimes tragic consequences. While the opioid crisis is the most widely discussed example of prescription drug abuse, educators and health professionals in my network are also concerned about the frequency of teens becoming addicted to “benzos.”
Benzodiazepines are tranquilizers that calm the nerves by suppressing brain chemicals that trigger a fear response. Although they must be prescribed by doctors, benzos are prevalent enough to become a cultural reference point in song lyrics, movie dialogue and comedic routines. Over time, people’s bodies may become habituated to these medications, thus requiring people to take more to achieve the desired effect. High doses or extended use can lead to addiction, and mixing benzos with alcohol or other drugs can lead to death. Nonetheless, the rate of prescriptions is growing.
A study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that the number of adults filling a prescription for benzos jumped 67 percent between 1996 and 2013. Parents can help teens avoid addiction by keeping close track of their prescriptions and explicitly teaching children that doctors write prescriptions based on the unique medical history of each individual. Taking someone else’s prescription has potentially higher consequences for young people because they may be receiving adult doses. Plus, the U.S. Surgeon General reports that trying illicit drugs before the age of thirteen increases an individual’s likelihood of developing a substance disorder.
Even when teens have prescriptions of their own, parents can teach (and model) that pharmacology is just one part of an overall plan for a healthy lifestyle. In general, the less people rely on drugs—prescribed or otherwise—to regulate their emotional state, the better. Healthy patterns for sleep, exercise, and socializing are all critical strategies for handling stress in our lives. Increasingly, doctors are seeing positive effects from writing prescriptions for patients to engage with nature.
The Surgeon General writes that “having a feeling that one has control over one’s successes and failures…having a sense of a positive future ahead, and emotional resilience are other examples of protective factors” that reduce the likelihood of addiction issues. This is why at The Bertram Group, we believe so strongly in the power of education. Whether students are on a traditional academic path or are struggling in some way, we are always available to help young people find the school settings that will help them build successful lives of meaning and purpose.
Jeremy McGeorge specializes in serving families whose children need nontraditional services as part of their educational plan. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org

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Wedding photographer and mum-of-two Sally Thurrell has words of warning for all bloggers: “I actually think social media is overtaking blogging - Instagram in particular.”
Sally started blogging when she launched her photographic business in 2013.
She began her blog as a way of keeping her portfolio in one place.
“Blogging for my photography has always helped me show my most current work and portfolio, and couples visit it before they book and when their own photos are ready they can see them on the blog and share the link with family and friends,” she says.
Sally, who completed a degree in Fine Art with New Media and a master's in Journalism, believes that social media is taking over the blogging industry, particularly Instagram.
“I think we are such ‘swipers’ and we often don’t even make it to the end of lengthier captions! Instagram is so visual and fast-paced, and I think the habit of ‘skimming’ rather than giving something your full attention is how we are all consuming content more and more.”
Sally, 29, also thinks that microblogging may be the future, “I recently heard social media captions referred to as ‘microblogging’ and I couldn’t help but agree - I think people often only want bite-sized bits of information at a time.”
Originally starting a career in journalism in 2012, Sally worked on her local newspaper, but didn’t feel she was a very good fit. Just over a year later, she left her job to pursue photography full-time, directing all of her attention to that instead.
“I knew that a 9-5 job wasn’t right for me and I wanted to do something more creative,” she says.
Sally describes herself as a very creative person and has always been into crafting. She believes her love for photography is an extension of that.
“I think my creativity has developed over the years and has become much more photography specific to fit with what I do, but I think creativity will always organically change over time as you’re influenced and inspired by different things,” she says.
However, she had not always planned on becoming a photographer.
“I bought a camera with the last of my student loan when I found out I was pregnant in my second year of uni - my logic was ‘well, if I’m going to have a baby, I’ll need a camera to take photos of it,’” Sally jokes.
She began taking bookings for photography towards the end of her degree at university and decided to specialise in weddings while planning her own.
She says: “I was so excited by the whole industry and the fact that couples were putting their own stamp on their wedding days - it felt like a turning point where couples were realising they could have very relaxed weddings and it didn’t need to be formal.”
Sally loves how different every wedding is.
“They are long and tiring days, but they are exciting, joyous and full of wonderful moments - it’s what I enjoy photographing.
“I like creating photographs that are beautiful and creative, but also rooted in reality and honesty”, she adds.
Running a blog, a photography business, a home with two children and a husband can be very tiring work.
The mum of Vivienne, nine, and one-year-old Sylvie, explains how she has to stay organised to keep on top of things in order to maintain a work/home balance.
“Sometimes a bit of self-care is what will actually help me launch back into work the next day,” she adds.
Sally explains how she is a huge fan of podcasts, listening to them on her commutes to work and in her spare time.
She has recently been a guest on the Work Like a Mother podcast with Amy Elizabeth. Sally says that it is the kind of podcast she listens to: “It’s all about motherhood and working from home and managing time, I was really excited to be a part of it.”
Sally has recently gone on a mother-daughter adventure with her daughter, Vivienne, where she documented the trip on Instagram.
'It's honest, but positive'
Excited to post more travel-related content, Sally also worries that there are too many people with the same dream.
Sally’s husband, David, 30, likes that Sally shares parts of their family life online as it turns into something for them to look back on in years to come.
He says: “She doesn’t share everything, and I think it’s appropriate - I don’t disagree with what she chooses to post.”
David, who runs his own business, also says how honest Sally’s social media is.
“She doesn’t exaggerate and pretend everything is amazing all of the time, it’s honest, but positive,” he adds.
“I like the blog as a timeline. I love looking back through it all,” he says.
If you want to follow Sally on Instagram, find out more about her photography, and family adventures, follow @sallytphotography. Or visit www.sallytphoto.com/blog.


One of the things I have been pondering this Christmas is how can singers sing some of our beautiful Christmas hymns about Christ, but yet not believe in Christ. Sort of has me befuddled... Also, what exactly are non-Christians celebrating when they celebrate Christmas?? Do they really just see it as a time to give and get gifts?? That just seems so shallow and pointless to me....Christ gives meaning to so much in my life and especially during this time of the year. I can't imagine Christmas without Christ.
This has come about by us watching an interview of James Taylor. In it he states that he was raised in a home that did not attend any church. We have a Christmas music CD of his that we listen to when we are in Drew's car. Some of the songs he sings are so heartfelt! But yet in the interview he talks of being "spiritual", but that's not the same as being a Christian with a saving belief in Jesus.
He's not the only one. One just has to listen to the radio (or Pandora or iTunes or Spotify) to hear just about any famous (and many not-so famous) people recording Christmas songs. And like James Taylor most seem very heartfelt. But then you look at their lives or read more of them and you just wonder....how do you sing of the Birth of a Savior and not believe in the words you are singing???


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At the end of the trip, both groups seemed to benefit. But the men asked to live in 1959, rather than recall it, showed greater improvement on posture, strength, and flexibility tests. They also scored better on vision, hearing, and intelligence. Langer appeared to have temporarily reversed the aging process, simply by asking her subjects to believe they were younger.
This experiment—which will soon have a second life as a feature film starring Jennifer Aniston in the role of Dr. Langer—has inspired many studies on the psychological elements of aging. But it also suggests that we have more power than we realize over our own health. Such ideas have become popular among the growing ranks of Americans practicing yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness-based activities. And these practices are gaining credence in mainstream scientific circles now, too. NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases provides a mind-body physical therapy program for those with disabilities. Physicians at the NYU Langone Medical Center recently introduced yoga, acupuncture, and hypnosis to aid in infertility treatment. And the center’s MindBody Education and Patient Care Program offers everything from pre-surgery meditation exercises to holistic nursing services to a 24-hour relaxation channel airing on the hospital’s in-house television. The trend might be best evidenced by the National Institutes of Health, which has spent more than $1 billion on research into alternative and complementary treatments in the past decade.
Few doctors deny that a holistic approach to healing must be taken seriously. But the interactions between mind and body are notoriously hard to untangle. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the results produced by fake pills and other interventions, known collectively as the placebo effect. Preliminary research from doctors and biologists investigating the many quirks of placebo are opening new ways to understand and treat the mind and body together. And as the research mounts, more are becoming convinced of the possibility that a new frontier exists in medicine: mind-powered healing.
You might recall that as a child, a kiss could relieve the pain of a skinned knee. But what about relieving tendonitis in the knee? Science is now beginning to offer proof that the mind—both conscious and unconscious—can have a powerful effect on a range of conditions including anxiety, asthma, chronic pain, depression, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, and sleep disorders.
The path to understanding these effects appears to lie with placebos, which behave like an ordinary drug in some respects. Designer placebos with impressive colors, packages, and price tags have been shown to be more effective than their generic counterparts. And this method is not limited to the traditional sugar pill. Saltwater injections can often relieve pain almost as well as morphine. Fake ultrasounds can alleviate toothache. Fake operations, in which the leg is opened but nothing is repaired, can decrease knee pain. In some cases, placebos could coax the body into releasing its own healing chemicals. Recent studies show that patients with Parkinson’s disease can respond to a placebo version of the drug L-dopa by producing dopamine in the brain, which alleviates pain caused by the condition. In other cases, the work of placebos might be significantly more complex, relying on a delicate blend of expectation and belief. For a time, scientists assumed that some people are simply more gullible than others. But now there is growing evidence that we can all respond to placebo.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, doctors often used placebos to placate patients who didn’t respond to other treatments, or who were thought to have imagined their illnesses. Seen by many as a useful fib, they became unfashionable among the medical establishment around the turn of the 20th century, when influential doctors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., deemed them unscientific and dishonest. But in the 1950s, the placebo swept into a new role in medical history, at the dawn of the double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trial. Epidemiologist Austin Bradford Hill established this standard in a tuberculosis study: When measuring the effectiveness of a new drug, as a way to ensure that the improvement wasn’t due to purely psychological effects, researchers treated some patients with sugar pills. To pass muster, a new treatment had to be not just better than nothing at all, but better than placebo. In an implicit acknowledgment of doctors’ belief in the curing potential of suggestion, a deceptive and old-fashioned cure of last resort had become the standard of effectiveness in clinical trials.
Five decades later, the placebo has been elevated by some to a miracle cure. A January 2000 cover of The New York Times Magazine read: “Placebos work! So why not use them as medicine?” Shortly thereafter a self-help book arrived, Lolette Kuby’s Faith and the Placebo Effect: An Argument for Self-Healing, which promised placebo-induced solutions for a variety of diseases. The treatment had been pulled into what medical historian Anne Harrington calls “a resolutely individualistic miracle narrative.” And physicians believe in them, too: According to one survey of 1,200 American internists and rheumatologists published in the British Medical Journal, in 2008, about half of them regularly prescribed placebos.
Nevertheless, many have raised questions about the reality of the placebo cure. After all, with the passing of time, NYU reproductive surgeon Frederick Licciardi says, symptoms can diminish on their own even when patients are “not given a placebo.” To measure their true effectiveness, one would need to select a group of patients to receive no treatment at all, a practice that is rare due to ethical and practical constraints. So the medical profession is faced with a strange conundrum: The standard used to measure the effectiveness of new medicines itself remains dimly understood.
This could soon change. For the first time in centuries of use, researchers have begun to investigate the inner workings of placebo. Some are delving into the brain’s chemistry to discover exactly which chemical pathways underlie placebo responses. Others are trying to get a more nuanced sense of the clinical conditions under which the effect flourishes. In recent years, biologists have proposed other explanations for the placebo response, from the reduction of inflammation to the effects of natural opioids such as endorphins.
In many of these discussions, however, the patient is generally viewed as a passive recipient of suggestion. Ellen Langer would like to shift that thinking. “Wouldn’t it be more advantageous to recognize that when placebos work we are the ones controlling our health, to learn how to exercise it directly, and to see ourselves as efficacious when we do?” says Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard University who studied chemistry as an undergraduate at NYU.
Langer’s proposal to let patients heal themselves using the power of expectation seems to fit the rich American tradition of positive thinking, from the early proponents of “mind-cure” like Christian Scientist Mary Baker Eddy to contemporary books like The Secret, which promise health and prosperity to those who merely ask the universe for what they want. But there can be power in what skeptics dismiss as mere wishful thinking. “If people are depressed and upset, and they’re given hope in the form of a pill, it can be a powerful healing mechanism,” says reproductive surgeon Licciardi. “They start to see alternatives.”
Even better is the idea that if we set our minds to it, we can exert control over our own healing—and Langer’s work supports this theory. In addition to the monastery experiment, which suggests that imagining oneself to be younger can turn back the biological clock, she conducted another study in which subjects who wore pilot uniforms scored better on their eye exams after performing flight simulations than those who were told the simulator was broken. And in her recent book, Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility, she outlines another project that achieved placebo-like results with no pills at all: In 2007, Langer followed a group of 84 hotel maids to track how their attitudes about exercise and work shaped their health. She told half that their normal housekeeping duties met the Centers for Disease Control’s recommendations for an active lifestyle. After a month, the group who believed that their work counted as exercise not only saw themselves as healthier but lost about two pounds each and had improvements in body-mass index and blood pressure—without any changes to the level of physical activity they reported. Langer doesn’t offer a definitive explanation for this result, but it appears to bolster the case that the power of suggestion, even without a sugar pill, can have a measurable effect on health.
Langer sees this effect as an example of the larger phenomenon of “verbal priming,” whereby simple acts of description and naming have consequences. These effects can be helpful or harmful, she maintains, depending on the language that doctors use to convey diagnoses. There is a significant difference, she claims, between telling a patient that his cancer is “in remission”—a term that implies the possibility of future illness—and telling him that it’s “cured.” Granted, an oncologist might object that this is misleading—while a patient can be cancer-free, there is no cure for cancer—but word choice can make a critical difference in health outcomes, Langer asks: “Did cancer kill my mother? Or did the language that we use to describe cancer lead her to give up?”
Some medical experts have taken issue with the idea that belief can heal, and with the implications of such belief. “If cancer spreads, despite every attempt to think positively, is the patient at fault?” physician and author Marcia Angell wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine, adding that patients in thrall to alternative cures “may come to see medical care as largely irrelevant.” Langer insists that she is not anti-medicine, but that she is against “giving ourselves over fully, unthinkingly, mindlessly, as if [doctors] know more than they can know.” She believes that the greatest risks come when a patient obediently accepts a grim diagnosis. “There’s a tremendous amount of uncertainty, and whatever certainty we have is a function of our mind-sets,” she explains. “When people are given absolutes, and when the information is all negative, it becomes very real.”
While doctors continue to debate their role in mind-body treatments, the field’s growing popularity has become impossible to ignore. In the decades since Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, began to medicalize Buddhist mindfulness practices, meditation has emerged into the mainstream of American medicine. While early research generally showed it to be a force for stress reduction, new studies say it can also affect a range of conditions. A recent study partially funded by the Department of Defense revealed that meditation practice boosts short-term memory among Marines and allows them to stay calm and alert in the chaos of combat. Another study found that meditation produced an increase in gray matter density in the hippocampus—associated with memory and learning—while reducing gray matter in the amygdala, a region of the brain connected to anxiety and stress. Yael Shy, founder and director of the Spirituality Project at NYU, established a weekly program of nondenominational sitting meditation on the Washington Square campus for just this reason. “The harsher the city and the more overscheduled the people, the more we need meditation practices in our lives to keep us sane and happy,” she says.
Meditation is not the only form of introspection that can heal. Psychotherapy has been shown to be an effective treatment for depression and anxiety, and mental treatments may heal other physical ailments. John Sarno—a professor of rehabilitation medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and author of the best-selling 1991 book Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection—says that a short period of emotional reckoning could provide a permanent solution to back pain usually attributed to spinal misalignments and muscular knots. This is because, he believes, back pain is often the mind’s way of diverting a person’s attention from deeper emotional damage. Among patients he treats, Sarno’s diagnosis is consistent and could be summed up as: “The problem is in your head.”
“Clearly, the brain considers unconscious feelings to be infinitely more dangerous or painful than pain,” Sarno writes in his recent book, The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders, “or why would it practice so sedulously to deceive?”
Sufferers of back pain might interpret this analysis as bad news, because the emotional problems at the core of Sarno’s diagnosis could take years of therapy to work through. But in his experience, the patient doesn’t need to rid himself of emotional pain. To heal the back, all he has to do is grasp and accept the emotional origins of the pain. “It’s almost too good to be true,” writes Sarno, who argues that patients need “not a leap of faith, but a leap of understanding.” To this end, Sarno asks his patients to write essays on the emotional disturbances that might be to blame for their aches, from childhood abuse to garden-variety perfectionism. He has thousands of ardent followers, including radio personality Howard Stern, who was so grateful for a cure to his chronic back pain that he dedicated his first book, Private Parts, to the doctor.
Sarno’s approach certainly offers something that conventional pain pills can’t: the promise of no side effects. And the same argument might be made for placebos. But that conclusion is not always so simple. According to Ben Goldacre, a British doctor and columnist who dismantles practices such as homeopathy in his recent book Bad Science, alternative therapists don’t just give treatments that rely on the placebo effect. They also give “placebo diagnoses,” which he describes as “ungrounded, unevidenced, often fantastical assertions about the nature of the patient’s disease.” This points to a broader ethical dilemma in the practice of medicine. It’s generally agreed that doctors have a responsibility to heal patients with the most effective treatment available. It’s also agreed that they should tell their patients the truth. The mandates of honesty and effectiveness might not always point in the same direction, however. Stacks of placebo studies show that deception can lead to recovery. But it would be hard to come up with a code of ethics that permitted outright deception. And if nothing else seems to work, might it be seen as unethical to withhold a placebo treatment?
This dilemma raises a crucial question: Can you have a placebo without a lie? Ted Kaptchuk, a professor at the Harvard Medical School who has been trained in traditional Chinese medicine, has shown that it’s possible to give patients the benefits of placebo without the deception. For a recent study, he divided 80 patients with irritable bowel syndrome into two groups; one received no treatment at all, while the other was given placebos twice a day. After three weeks, nearly 60 percent of patients taking the sugar pills reported that their symptoms had been “adequately relieved,” compared to about 40 percent for those given no treatment. He determined that the placebo has the potential to become a real treatment for IBS. These findings suggest that “the very performance of the medical ritual can significantly reduce symptoms,” Kaptchuk says.
NYU’s Licciardi sees mind-based paths to healing as a necessary new component of the doctor-patient experience, and NYU’s emerging programs represent just the first steps of what should become a more integrated approach to treatment. “If it’s done by the right person in the right way, I don’t see any negatives,” he says. “Our patients are going to outside sources for these services all the time, without the knowledge of their physicians.” By bringing services like acupuncture and hypnosis in-house, physicians are acknowledging, “We’re all in this together; we want to treat your whole body and mind,” Licciardi adds.
When a more comprehensive command of neurochemistry joins a scientific understanding of how we use our innate emotional tools, we might be able to make good on the notion that we learn to heal ourselves. “It’s not the placebo that’s curing us,” Langer emphasizes. “We’re curing ourselves whenever the placebo is at work. We [just] have to find a way to harness this control.”


Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation is preparing to launch a public service campaign with the hope of changing one key statistic: the city’s embarrassingly low recyling rate of less than 10 percent.
The percentage of Chicago’s total waste that is recycled through the city’s blue cart program: 9.71 percent.
By comparison, cities like San Francisco and Seattle have recycling rates near 60 percent.
As the city looks to boost recycling efforts, Chicago Tonight toured a recycling facility in Forest View where many of the city’s recyclables are delivered, sorted and shipped off to companies that purchase aluminum, plastics and other recycled materials.
Here are a few more numbers related to Chicago recycling at the Forest View facility.
June 27: What happens to Chicago’s recycling after it’s hauled away from neighborhood alleys and sidewalks? We tour a massive processing facility and watch sorting in action.
June 26: About 5,000 tons of trash from the Chicago area is dumped every day at a landfill in Livingston County, but hardly any of it goes to waste. How yesterday’s trash becomes tomorrow’s energy.
June 26: From lost jewelry to criminal evidence, a Pontiac landfill that receives trash from Chicago has plenty of bizarre waste stories.
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Take a chain saw file and open up the rear notch and replace the front blade with a F/O model. I did that on an 1100 with the same sight set up. Night and day difference.
Also, Midway has the Competition Master Remington 8 shot extension tube for sale. It fits the nut and barrel band already on your gun. I did that for the 870 I use for 3 gun.


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Lucy Hale Reportedly Splits From Joel Crouseby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
“Lucy and Joel are done,” the source told the site, adding “it was hard with the distance. She’s working a lot on ‘Pretty Little Liars’ and on music… It got to be too much.”
A second source tells the site that Hale has “no time for love right now.”
It wouldn’t be surprising if Hale is a bit busy these days. In addition to co-starring on ABC Family’s hit, ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ she is also out promoting her new album, ‘Road Between.’ The 25-year-old entertainer is scheduled to perform her new single, ‘Lie a Little Better,’ on ‘Good Morning America’ Monday morning.
Meanwhile, Crouse is out touring as well, with scheduled performances in Kettering, Ohio and Interlochen, Michigan coming up.
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World War II veteran Warren Jarvis, of Kimberly, Wisc., was among the legions of young men who served in the conflict. A captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he flew a B-29 bomber on 35 missions over Japan.
OshKosh Honor Flight 2012
Jarvis is among more than 60 veterans of the “Greatest Generation” taking a special Honor Flight to our nation’s capital this week. These American heroes, all Wisconsin residents, are headed to Washington, D.C., on July 27 to see the National World War II Memorial for the first time and visit other important monuments.
The trip is being arranged in conjunction with the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh air show, held July 23-29. American is a sponsor of the air show, which also recognized two legendary World War II military units, the Tuskegee Airmen and Doolittle Raiders, with a “Tribute to the Greatest Generation in the Air.” Members of these renowned groups were at the event to talk about their memories of World War II and to be honored for their service.
Tuskogee Airmen attends ceremony
As you may know – and if you’ve see the recent movie “Red Tails,” – the Tuskegee Airmen, formed in 1941, were the first all-African-American pursuit squadron in the U.S. Army Air Force. The daring Doolittle Raid, of April 1942, led by Lt. Col. James Doolittle, was the first air raid by the U.S. to strike Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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The Cat Clinic and Hospital in Pittsburgh, established in 1979, is conducting a search for a full-time veterinarian with interest and expertise in feline medicine and surgery. We are a client-oriented, patient oriented practice with in-house lab, digital x-ray, EKG, cold laser therapy, and the ability to provide a new associate with equipment and training in an area of interest. Staffed with skilled and licensed veterinary technicians, excellent management, and mature, friendly staff. Candidate should have a minimum of three years experience working as a licensed veterinarian in a small animal practice.
Our mission is to provide veterinary medical and surgical care for felines in the Pittsburgh area and gain the trust of their guardians through our actions. We accomplish this by caring for our patients as if they were our own and caring for their guardians by listening to their concerns and answering their questions. This assurance that we love cats is obvious to felines and guardians alike, as we provide them with the compassion and dignity they deserve, thus forming this bond of trust.
We are seeking a Pennsylvan licensed veterinarian with expertise and experience in feline medicine and surgery to join our team.
Salary range for this position is competitive and negotiable based on experience and value-added skills that are brought to the practice. We offer the following benefits:
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Vacation Leave
- Holiday Pay
Dr. Robert Bebko is the veterinarian in charge, and has over 40 years experience in feline only practices. Calm environment, no barking dogs, and the atmosphere to enjoy your profession caring for felines only. A practice that puts your knowledge of what a cat NEEDS first. Practice veterinary medicine as you envisioned it when you entered the field. Potential for future percentage of practice or full ownership.
Check us out on our website at htpps://www. catclinic.net
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Thanks for the replies. All good constructive stuff.
I did post a reply but it's disappeared into the internet, so sorry if this is a double up.
The main point to keep in mind is, this is a prototype. We haven't focused on making it pretty yet. The main point up to now has been to prove the concept.
Yes, the baseplate is thick. This is due to the prototype materials not being as strong as production materials, and therefore we've had to compensate. In and end production model with production materials the baseplate would be a normal thckness.
We have done a fair bit of stress testing so far, and even with prototype materials the binding has held up well. We'll be doing full scale stress testing with production materials and more riders come this southern winter.
Also, we're not aiming to be the next megacorp, just focusing on a niche market. There are people who liked step-ins, even with the problems, and some people just don't like Flows etc.
Thanks for all the comments and please keep them coming.
I use K2 CTX and love them. My only doubt is on the trigger that low, moving it up on the highback would keep it away from the snow/ice. Another interesting feature I saw on rental bindings is the possibility to change angle on the fly releasing a lever that unlocks the base plate rotation.
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Nicolas Pooran performed Bhangra in the playoff celebration (Photo: Videograb)
New Delhi: Lucknow Super Giants celebrated reaching the playoffs of IPL 2023. The color of the party was such that the players forgot the fatigue of the field in the dressing room. Whether desi or foreign, everyone was dancing to Punjabi songs. Was getting tired But amidst all this, Nicholas Pooran’s Salman Khan avatar caught the attention and his dance in that getup.
Here Nicholas Pooran dancing in Salman Khan’s getup means dancing shirtless. While the rest of the players were seen performing Bhangra in their clothes, Nicholas went shirtless inside the dressing room like Bollywood’s Dabangg.
Learn here: How Nicholas Pooran became the support of LSG in trouble?
LSG shared the inside picture
These pictures from inside the dressing room of LSG have been shared by the franchise itself. This video is after the team has cut the playoff tickets, which shows that the party is on.
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— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) May 20, 2023
The players danced on the song of Daler Mehndi
It is clear from the video that Daler Mehndi’s voice was echoing inside the dressing room. His most popular song Bolo Tara Ra Ra boosted the enthusiasm of the players of Lucknow. Every player was engrossed in his own style of Bhangra. The only difference was that while others were wearing shirts and T-shirts, Nicholas Pooran was shirtless.
LSG in playoffs by winning by 1 run
As far as the match is concerned, Lucknow Super Giants have booked the playoff ticket by registering just one run win against KKR. Lucknow had batted first in the match and scored 176 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing 177 runs in reply, the Kolkata team could score only 175 runs and lost the match by 1 run.
Lucknow won the match, Rinku Singh won the heart
Lucknow won this match and Rinku Singh, who scored an unbeaten 67 off 33 balls, could not win the team. But, still his batting was special because he fought alone and did not let the Lucknow team breathe till the last ball.
Also read: Full story of Lucknow Super Giants reaching the playoffs
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