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Gay, Thx for the post of Pam Anderson summer rec. I made the Indian Grilled Chicken, the Mango
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fruit salad and the cucumber salad. They were a huge hit. I used chicken legs vs. wings, and was only able to marinate for 4 hours. It was wonderful. I added some chopped cilantro as garnish. The Mango salad was great, perfect proportions. I did not add the mint, as we are not fans...But loved the ginger/honey subtle taste. (served it as a desert, with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream) Cucumber salad was very refreshing. Everyone enjoyed it. Thanks for the great recipes! I served store bought hummus with mini pita breads for the appetizer.
Grilled Chicken Wings with Tandoori Flavorings
1/4 cup vegetable or canola oil
3 Tbs. ground cumin
1 Tb. curry powder
2 tsps. garlic powder
2 tsps. salt
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/3 cup red wine vinegar
1 cup plain yogurt
4 pounds chicken wings (about 16 whole wings), tips removed and wings split at the joint
Heat oil in an 8-inch skillet over low heat. Mix cumin, curry, garlic, salt, ginger and cayenne in a medium bowl. Add spices to the oil and heat until they start to sizzle and darken slightly in color, 20 to 30 seconds. Return spices to bowl; whisk in vinegar, then yogurt. Add wings; toss to coat. Let stand 10 minutes, or transfer to a zipper-lock bag and marinate up to 24 hours.
If using a gas grill, turn all burners on high for 10 minutes. Clean grate with a wire brush, then use tongs to swipe grate with an oil-soaked rag. Place wings on rack; cover and cook until grill marks form on one side, about 5 minutes. Turn and cook until grill-marked on other side, about5 minutes longer. Turn burners to low and grill until chicken is cooked through, 5 to 10 minutes longer. Serve warm or at room temperature.
If using a charcoal grill, build coals on one half of the grill floor. When the coals are hot and ashy, grill wings as instructed above, then move to the cool side of the grill for an additional 5 minutes of cooking, if necessary.
Per serving (4 pieces total): 276 calories, 1g carbohydrates, 24g protein, 19g fat (5g saturated), 73mg cholesterol, 0g fiber, 660mg sodium
These wings are so addictive, you may want to make extra.
Mango Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Sauce
2 Tbs. minced fresh ginger root
1 tsp. finely grated zest and 2 Tbs. juice from a large lime
1/4 cup honey
2 medium mangos, peeled, seeded and cut into cubes
3 cups green grapes(about 1 1/4 pounds)
1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries (about 2 4.4-ounce containers)
1/4 cup chopped freshmint leaves
Whisk ginger, lime zest and juice, and honey in a small bowl; set aside. Mix fruits and mint in a large bowl. Add dressing; toss to coat. (Can be covered and refrigerated overnight.)
Per serving: 126 calories, 33g carbohydrates, 1g protein, 0g fat (0g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 2g fiber, 5mg sodium
Cooling salads are used to temper spicy Indian dishes. Remember that old saying, "cool as a cucumber"?
Cucumber Vegetable Salad with Cilantro & Red Onion
1 large seedless English cucumber, thinly sliced
1/2 tsp. salt
1 yellow bell pepper, cut into short, thin strips
3 medium carrots, peeled and sliced into thin rounds
2 cups (12 ounces) cherry tomatoes, halved and salted
1/2 medium red onion, cut into thin slivers
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
Ground black pepper, to taste
Toss cucumber slices with salt in a colander; let stand in the sink or over a bowl until juice has drained, 30 to 45 minutes. Pat cucumbers dry with paper towels and turn into a large bowl. Add remaining vegetables, cilantro and oil; toss to coat. Add vinegar and pepper; toss again. (Can be covered and refrigerated several hours.) Before serving, adjust seasonings (salt, pepper, vinegar).
Per serving: 103 calories, 9g carbohydrates, 1g protein, 7g fat (1g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 2g fiber, 99mg sodium
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In every workplace in every industry, conflict is inevitable. Whether there are only two people working together or 200, not everyone will see eye-to-eye on everything.
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When you remind yourself that you and the other party actually share the same objective, it can make the situation look less contentious. You’ll realize that you have to fight together to navigate any obstacles, meet a particular deadline, or achieve the desired result, which can make realigning your efforts easier to visualize.
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Maya Wiley is very clear about what motivated her to run for Mayor of New York City — her youngest daughter, Kai, now 17, who wants to be an artist.
“She did the math”, Wiley says, explaining that her daughter realized she’d have to support her artistic endeavors with a minimum wage job such as a cashier. “She said, ‘I could only afford $600 a month in rent.’ And she got all teary. And she said ‘mom, where can I live? Because I don’t think it’s here'”, in New York City.
Wiley, 57, realized after listening to Kai that even before the COVID-19 pandemic NYC was suffering from a crisis of affordability. “I feel like I’m running for my daughters, because I want them… this is their home. They don’t want to live anywhere else. This is where they were born and raised… they love so many things about New York that I think we all do. And the fact that they’re wondering if they can stay, it’s just wrong. But that’s true for so many of our kids.”
Finding concrete solutions to what is “wrong” in American life has actually been the theme of Wiley’s professional life, and in fact her upbringing. She grew up in Washington D.C, where her father, George, was a civil rights activist and her mom, Wretha, was a progressive. She earned a law degree and focused on civil rights, working for the NAACP and the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), before serving as the current NYC mayor Bill de Blasio‘s first counsel.
Thanks to all these years of service, Wiley brings a depth of experience as an advocate for racial justice and of actually running New York City government, to her mayoral campaign. And it’s for these reasons that Wiley believes she has the essential qualifications and real life experience and empathy to lead a diverse and vibrant New York into the next stage of its life. She knows that she faces the challenges of a historic crisis after the Covid-19 epidemic, which has devastated the economy and the lives of working people in the city, and their neighborhoods.
“The thing that is most important in a historic crisis is a compassionate, unifying leader that understands how government works, but is also a change-maker. These are ingredients that are going to not just recover New York City, but help us re-imagine it in a way that strengthens us”, Wiley tells Hollywoodlife.com in an exclusive interview. “It’s having a pulse on the actual experience of all our people. And our people [in New York] are very diverse and live very different lives in some instances. But have a lot of the same challenges.”
Speaking of challenges, Wiley has a large field of other NYC mayoral candidates — 12 Democrats and 2 Republicans — who she will compete against first in the Democratic primary election on June 23rd. While former presidential candidate Andrew Yang is leading the pack so far, Wiley is considered a top contender and 26% of NYC’s voters are still undecided, which is the biggest group, according to a Spectrum News NY1/lpsos poll.
Wiley is determined that her mission to lead the city is the right path for her at this particular moment in time. “Making society better, trying to make it more fair and more just, when you realize we have not changed things enough. And then you think about it — ‘what am I going to do about it?”, she says. She references her personal heroine, Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968, who actually represented a district of New York City.
“You can try to make progress by whimpering and complaining on the sidelines or you can make progress by implementing ideas”, she says, quoting Chisolm.
Truly, if there was ever a time that NYC needed “ideas”, it’s now as the city struggles to come back to life after COVID sent workers racing out of the city center and to work from home. New York City’s infamous office towers have been virtually empty for over a year and the exodus of workers has starved city restaurants and stores of all kinds. Empty storefronts line the business districts and residential neighborhoods.
And of course. on top of that, the normal hordes of tourists that flock to NYC and famously Times Square, have stayed away. Times Square has been almost deserted at times, with all Broadway theaters closed since the pandemic struck.
“This is a historic crisis, but New York always come back from crisis, including near bankruptcy in the 1970’s, including 9-11, including the Great Recession. New York comes back. The question is, how and for whom?”, Wiley points out. “And so really the task here is a tough job, but New Yorkers are amazing at unifying, to solve problems when called to it with a vision that says ‘we’ve got to invest in the things that solve the multiple pandemics (of Covid, of affordability, of structural racism and misogyny)'”.
So what are some of Wiley’s key ideas for how to fix NYC’s biggest and most pressing problems?
1) $5,000 grants for the neediest families that are struggling to make ends’ meet: “You stimulate the economy while you’re helping folks take care of their families.”
2) Create Community Care Centers: which will be drop off centers for childcare and elder care. “These create jobs in the care economy, and it gives people a safe place to take children and elderly parents, so people can go to job interviews or to see a doctor.”
3) $30 million in grants for small businesses to come back from Covid.
4) Cut the red tape and do a “fee and fine” holiday for a year or more, to help get small businesses back on their feet.
5) Keep NYC’s new “Opened Up Streets”: Wiley promises to keep allowing the city’s restaurants to take over the sidewalks and street parking spaces and to “spill out onto the streets”. Ask any New Yorker, and they will no doubt rave that the explosion of outdoor dining is the only positive to come out of the pandemic.
6) “We’re going to create an office of ‘Public Space Management’ to work with communities to keep and develop open spaces in the city”. So, New Yorkers, Wiley plans to keep and create more “open spaces” throughout the city’s neighborhoods.
7) Create 100,000 new jobs to create opportunities, stimulate the economy and also cut down on crime. “Unemployment and hunger have been a driver of violence,” Wiley explains.
During the past year as parts of the city have become less populated, some women have been open about their fears of walking on some of the NYC streets – something they never worried about before. Wiley understands that fear. “You know, we got to get people able to be back out again. And that is both supporting our small businesses, our night life, making sure that vaccinations are really penetrating the city, so people feel safe being out for that reason”, she says. But she also acknowledges that New York has suffered from more gun violence and that mental health is an issue that must be tackled more effectively. She wants to get people who are homeless or mentally ill off the streets and into “housing with support services on-site, because it works.”
If Wiley is elected she will oversee a massive New York City army of 330,000 civil servants and 55 agencies. She plans to bring multiple agencies together to problem-solve, and will appoint a “New Deal New York” czar who will break through red tape to get new projects which will re-invigorate the city through the pipeline. “We need senior management that directly reports to the mayor to unclog those pipes… I’m going to have a plumber”.
As for the avalanche of voter suppression laws that Republicans are introducing and passing in over 40 states, Wiley is clear that those efforts will impact New Yorkers even if these laws aren’t implemented here. “It impacts all of us, because what happens in D.C impacts all of us. And we in New York are not immune from a failed Washington,” says Wiley, who has been a frequent commentator on MSNBC as a legal analyst.
“New York City sends a lot of money to Washington in the form of taxes. We’ve got some of the most powerful members of Congress as representatives from New York City… including Chuck Schumer, who is Senate Majority Leader. This is a powerful, powerful moment for New Yorkers, but we only leverage it when the country is working and we have a truly representative government in Washington.” She urges anyone who objects to voter suppression laws to invest in Black not-for-profit organizations fighting suppression “because they are at ground zero of why voter suppression is happening.”
Now, how have her “fierce and fabulous” daughters reacted to her running for mayor? “If my children were younger, I probably wouldn’t have run, because I would have been concerned about the impact of an election on them,” she admits. “Because, it can be tough and mean. And particularly for women… I think we saw what Kamala Harris went through and how people attacked her personally in ugly ways.”
Wiley reveals that she had a very honest talk with her family (her partner of 20 years is investment fund manager Harlan Mandel) about what her mayoral race would mean for them. “In essence my daughters had veto power. They had the ability to say, ‘no, mom, please don’t do that.'” She vows that she will protect her daughters’ private lives – you’ll never see them in her ads for mayor. “I want them to be able to live their lives as much as they can on their own terms”.
It’s not surprising that with the kind of mother they have as a role model, Wiley’s daughters were “completely supportive”. “I’m just really humbled and proud of them.”
No matter what the outcome of New York City’s mayoral race, which is on November 2, there’s no doubt they in turn, will be very proud of her as she strives in the most meaningful way to make New York City great again for all New Yorkers.

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Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco next week.
Biden will be in San Francisco on Wednesday for an afternoon fundraising reception at a private home, DNC spokeswoman Rebecca Chalif said.
Biden’s last visit to the Bay Area was in June 2013 when he attended an Democratic party fundraiser in San Francisco’s Seacliff neighborhood.
President Barack Obama was in the region earlier this month for Democratic fundraisers in the South Bay as well as to give a speech on energy efficiency at a Walmart in Mountain View.
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Arkansas voters this fall will be allowed to consider a constitutional amendment that would limit non-economic damages in lawsuits against healthcare providers and set a limit on contingency fees lawyers could receive in medical injury cases. It joins four other issues already on the ballot, and two others are still under a state review.
The group Health Care Access for Arkansas, while soliciting signatures this year, said the state was one of the 10 worst for the impact that “predatory attorneys” have on the health care system.
“Over the course of the next few months, trial attorneys (greedy) for higher fees will try to say and do anything to mislead voters on this amendment to protect their outrageous earnings,” said Chase Dugger, the group’s executive director.
Under the proposal, attorneys could be limited to receiving one-third of damages won in lawsuits against health care providers. It would also require legislators to limit non-economic damages, such as those for pain and suffering.
The group Committee to Protect AR Families said in a statement the proposal would take rights away from vulnerable people.
“While the corporate nursing home owners and their lobbyists succeeded in placing a constitutional amendment on this November’s ballot that would give corporate nursing homes a free pass to abuse and neglect the elderly, I am confident that Arkansas voters will see through this scam and vote it down,” said Martha Deaver, a committee member.
The proposal needed signatures from 84,859 registered voters – or 10 percent of the number of people who voted in the 2014 gubernatorial election. Secretary of State Mark Martin said his staff validated 92,997 signatures.
The damage limits proposal joins a voter-backed medical marijuana plan that has already made the Nov. 8 ballot. Another medical marijuana measure could go before voters, too, along with one allowing casinos in three counties – if enough signatures are validated for each.
Legislators last year sent three proposals to the ballot. One would increase the terms of most county offices to four years, relax restrictions on what crimes prevent people from holding office and remove unopposed candidates from ballots; another would let the governor retain power while out of state; and another would remove a cap on bonds the state can issue to attract employers.
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Rumors and sightings of the third-gen Moto G are obtaining many airtime lately. After last week’s video and specs leak, a replacement press image offers us a close look at the forthcoming device in a white color configuration. As you will notice, there are not too many visible changes from the present Moto G, however it will appear to have a a lot of polished, accomplished look concerning it.
Posted up by the folks at TechnoBuffalo, who sourced the pictures from an anonymous but doesn’t arrive with any information on the device’s technical specifications. Taking into consideration recent reports, though, we expect it the third-gen Moto G to pack a 4.97-inch Display with 720 x 1280 resolution.
Under the hood, we’ll in all probability get a Qualcomm’s snapdragon 410 SoC and 1 GB of RAM, which provide a serious reminder that despite its slick style, this can be still a mid-range smartphone. however whereas Motorola would not wish to distort the line between the Moto G and also the high-end Moto X, it would be nice if the company did not low cost out so much on the chipset, significantly given what percentage better-performing smartphones occupy the Moto G’s space within the market.
Other leaks and scattered information purpose to a 13-megapixel rear-facing shooter with a 5-megapixel giving for selfies, 8 GB of storage, 4G LTE and running on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box.


Only a handful of Democrats were able to make opening statements Monday, leading into confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, whom President Donald Trump nominated to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) made the most of his precious few minutes.
In a statement made directly to Barrett, Leahy told the Supreme Court nominee — a law professor, federal Circuit Court judge, wife, and mother — that confirming her to the highest court in the land would be “harmful” to women.
“I’ve heard from them often and loudly since Justice Ginsburg’s passing,” Leahy began “They’re scared that your confirmation would rip the healthcare protections that millions of Americans have fought to maintain and which Congress has repeatedly rejected. They are scared that the clock will be turned back to a time when women had no right to control their own bodies and when it was acceptable to discriminate against women in the workplace.”
“They’re scared that a time we’re facing the perilous impacts of climate change, bedrock protections will be eviscerated,” he railed. “And they are scared that your confirmation will result in the rolling back of voting rights, workers’ rights, and the rights of the LGBTQ community to equal treatment.”
Leahy was one of the few Senators to take aim at Barrett’s potential positions on issues like abortion and gay marriage; most Democrats, fearing that Republicans might use public complaints about Barrett’s faith and family as political fodder, tried to steer the conversation towards the Affordable Care Act, which they’re convinced Barrett could help gut in her first weeks on the court.
Sen. Kamala Harris, the current vice presidential candidate railed at Senate Republicans rather than Barrett, taking them to task for allegedly skipping negotiations on a coronavirus relief package in order to hold confirmation hearings. Of course, Democrats have long since filibustered Senate Republicans coronavirus relief efforts, and negotiations are now taking place largely between the White House and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), not the Senate.
Others demanded that Barrett either reveal how she would vote on issues of healthcare — something judges typically do not do — or pledge to recuse herself from upcoming oral arguments on the constitutionality of certain aspects of the Affordable Care Act.
Although he seemed pleased with his criticism, Leahy quickly met with resistance online. Leaders of conservative women’s organizations were quick to point out that Leahy was accusing Barrett of turning back the clock on women’s rights while ignoring that she is a successful jurist and mother of seven.
“Sen. Leahy says he’s worried if Judge Barrett is confirmed, we’ll go back to a time where women can be discriminated against in the workplace,” Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser tweeted. “Is he unaware of who he is interviewing to fill the vacant seat? A highly-successful working mom of school-age children.”


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The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has announced the opening of criminal proceedings after an air strike on the city of Dnipro on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
"On March 11, 2022, at about 05:50 a.m., the Russian armed forces carried out rocket attacks on residential areas and civilian infrastructure in the Novokodaksky district of the city of Dnipro. As a result of three aircraft-guided missile strikes, an apartment building, the regional migration service and the building of the regional administration were damaged. One of the shells fell near the kindergarten. Also, due to a shell hitting a two-storey shoe factory, a fire broke out, which has not yet been eliminated. According to preliminary information, one person died," the PGO's Telegram channel reported.
At the same time, the Office of the Prosecutor General emphasized that there are no military facilities in the affected territory.
An investigative team and employees of the explosive service police are working at the scene of the incident, the circumstances of the incident are being established.
Prosecutors continue to take measures to document war crimes committed by representatives of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.


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Juniper nets US Air Force network upgrade
A BITI of good news
Juniper Networks has snagged a share of US$24m being spent to upgrade the US Air Force's networks.
The Base Information Transport Infrastructure (BITI) project covers both wired and wireless networks that connect the USAF's 175 bases and 800,000 users around the world.
Under prime contractors Affigent and ThunderCat Technology, Juniper Networks will be supplying kit for 44 of the bases. Deployment is due to be complete by September 2016, and the network upgrades fully operational in 2017.
BITI mandates a rolling five-year upgrade cycle for the USAF's networking infrastructure, and the program manager Adam Hurst told Defense Systems the latest round will also improve network security and bandwidth.
As well as providing kit for the network core, Juniper Networks' contract includes network management and training.
The company needs some good news after the December debacle in which unauthorized backdoor code was found in its NetScreen operating system.
Juniper is due to present its Q4 financials at the end of January. Its last quarter revenue was $1.248bn, and it's expecting around $1.290bn for Q4. ®


Moviemaker Brett Ratner felt compelled to help Los Angeles charity Chrysalis after learning his own father was a disgraced homeless man who felt too much shame to contact his son.
The director stumbled upon his dad, Ronald Ratner, in his late teens when his then-girlfriend, actress Rebecca Gayheart, recognised a homeless man from family photos.
The son of a multimillionaire, Ronald's family never approved of his romance with Brett's mother and they split shortly after the Rush Hour director was born.
He rarely saw his dad growing up, learning he had succumbed to drug abuse and other issues.
Recalling his meeting with his dad on the streets of Miami, Ratner tells The Hollywood Reporter, "I said, 'Where are you living?' He said, 'Oh, I don't have a place to live.' And I got him a hotel."
Once he made his own fortune in films, Brett became a fervent advocate of his local homeless charity in Los Angeles.
He adds, "What was poignant for me and what moved me so much was that these people, because they were ashamed, they never called their kids, they never contacted them, they never reached out. And I was one of those kids."
The filmmaker's father died in 2006, aged 62.


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With today’s E3 Nintendo Direct presentation, the release date for Shin Megami Tensei V has finally been decided. On November 12th, players will finally be able to catch the Devil’s collection again. Save the world? Do you destined for chaos? Would you like to create a bold new legal order? Many of the same systems and structures will reappear on Nintendo Switch this time, if other New Megami Tensei games are some indicator.
The New Megami Tensei series is actually a parent franchise of personas and has been popular for many years. The title of Shin Megami Tensei is about hardcore dungeon crawls, avoiding persona high school dynamics and building relationships. Fans of personas recognize a velvet room-like aspect with something like a shadow cathedral where players can collect, combine and assemble the perfect demon composition to take on challenging and often relentless battles. To do. The difficulty of the New Megami Tensei game is often the top end of the JRPG, which has led to a slightly infamous reputation. Buffing, debuffing, and clever use of the right demons will make things easier, but in most cases you won’t be able to mash the attack buttons and get through them.
Unlike personas who focus on socializing with friends, dating, and finding a way in drama lessons, the New Megami Tensei game is a high level that allows players to determine the outcome of a new world. Often relies on philosophical and moral conundrums. Yeah, it’s pretty deep, but on the surface, the game can be likened to a kind of demonic and occult Pokemon. If you like a lot of persona demons, you can find a lot of demons here in Shin Megami Tensei, from the adorable Jack Frost … well, to others in tanks. I wonder if Mara will appear in Shin Megami Tensei V.
It would be interesting to see if the persona enthusiasm was nurtured by popularity Persona 5 Royal And Persona V Striker Everything is carried over to the starting IP.I was a fan of Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse And I enjoy the total absurdity and strangeness radiated from the franchise. It’s quite different from most other games you might find today.
Shin Megami Tensei will be released on Nintendo Switch on November 12th.
Why don’t you try Shin Megami Tensei V? Do you want it to come to other platforms? Are you going to chat with the devil to recruit them? Let us know in the comments!

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By Selina Thor
The fact that California is experiencing a severe drought is all over the news. Californians are aware that they may need to cut down on car washes and shorten their showers, but the classic American meal that may not come to mind is the hamburger, a meal most Americans enjoy regardless of the weather, but is the weather affecting it? According to the state of California Governor’s Drought Task Force, “With California facing one of the most severe droughts on record, Governor Brown declared a drought state of emergency in January and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for water shortages.”
A factor in the production of beef is the diet of the cattle, consisting mainly of pasture grass, hay, and grain, all of which are impacted by the drought. Pasture grass is quickly depleting, hay is being used up faster than it can be grown and baled, and grain is becoming more expensive to produce. The drought has affected both the quality and quantity of hay. Currently you will find drier, less nutrient-dense hay containing more weeds than average. As quality has been decreasing the price has been increasing. Mrs. Laurie Lucchessi, one of the family owners of Novato Horse and Pet Supply LLC claims, “Over the last few months keeping our barn stocked has become more and more difficult.” Over the past year hay prices at the Novato feed store have gone from $17.99 up to the current price $23.49, an increase of 31%. Lucchessi has had numerous complaints about the significant price increase and customers are wondering if there will enough hay to last until next year. This is important to cattle ranchers because when you run out of lush green pastures, the cows still have to eat, so you replace pasture with hay.
Mr. Dennis Cooper, owner of Cooper's Public Market in Novato, a store that sells only local farm fresh products, believes that the drought has affected the price of large-scale meat production. Cooper has not yet seen any change in the price or quality of the locally grown and produced meat products that he sells. Cooper claims that the ranchers he deals with have seen similar situations before and know how to handle it, although if the drought continues he believes that he may see the prices rise.
According to the Cattlemen’s Beef Board & National Cattlemen’s Beef Association wholesale prices of beef have increased since last year. Rib, ribeye roll, and boneless heavy have gone from $6.55 in September of 2013 to $7.19 in September of this year, and increase of 9.7%. Chuck and Shoulder cuts have gone from $1.94 in September of last year to $2.74 in September of this year, a 41.2% increase.
While your local burger joint may not be raising prices yet, be on the lookout for the possibility in the not so distant future.

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Dec 11, 2018
Husain Dalwai, Member of Parliament of India from Maharashtra state is going raise certain questions this winter session in parliament to the Government regarding the 18% GST levied on the ice cream manufacturers. He is of the view whether government is aware that small scale ice cream manufacturers with annual turnover of Rs. 30-40 lakhs have not been included in composite scheme for GST. Because of exclusion of these manufacturers from composite scheme, they are forced to pay taxes at 18 % GST as opposed to 1% VAT earlier. And if so, has Government made any petition to Ministry of Finance regarding this issue and what positive steps will be taken to provide relief to the manufacturers.
In lieu of the above concern, with high reverence to Ashish Nahar, Director-Fun India Dairy and Joint Secretary of Indian Ice Cream Manufacturing Association (IICMA) together with Firoz Haider Naqvi- Director, Frozen Desserts and Ice Cream Manufacturers Association of India (FDICMAI), have put all their efforts to standardize this discrepancy. They have been following very closely with all their will and contacts in government departments to drive the query home and find appropriate solution.
Naqvi has also been raising questions on different platforms of ice cream industry. He along with Kuldeep Jindal, Shanky Takeja, Iqbal Singh and Sushil Chhabra of Pun Ice Cream Association (PICA) met with GST council member, Manpreet Singh Badal, Minister of Finance, Punjab. In the meeting Naqvi raised the concerned topic of high GST and composition scheme worrying the ice cream industry since the onset of GST, on which Badal assured that both the points will be addressed in GST Council to lower GST and reconsider composition scheme.
This indicates that discussing these crucial points in the parliament is a significant achievement for IICMA and the efforts of the industry has been fruitful this far.
Finally, Ice cream industry has strong personalities representing them in the parliament to question the government as to why Ice cream industry is charges at 18% GST the same way tobacco and pan masala are charged. Tobacco and pan masala carry statutory warnings of being dangerous and harmful to human life. So why is ice cream treated at same level with hazardous and life threatening substances, while consumption of Ice cream does not imposed any danger to human life and still ice cream bears inequitable attitude of taxes. In fact, made from dairy item, consumption of Ice cream has qualitative ingredients like milk and nuts that undoubtedly benefit consumers.
With the constructive steps taken by IICMA & FDICMAI to extend all the help it can for ice cream industry and its members, it’s high time to watch what decision the government takes to support the industry.


Was looking at the map of Canada one day and trying to think of what we could do for Canada 150th, Green explained. Thought, wouldn that be amazing to connect the country together by going coast to coast to coast? 67 metre, red and white Polar Prince is a former Canadian Coast Guard research icebreaker, leased through a private Calgary company and captained by Stephan Guy. The ship is outfitted with inflatable boats, research labs, a top deck observation area, and is purpose built for passenger experiences in remote environments..
But sweet talking and a devil may care abandon, the basis of the sociopath’s mystique or “glow,” can be wielded by non sociopaths as well you don’t have to be a scoundrel to be charming, but it helps. Increasingly, psychologists recognize that positive aspects of psychopathy (magnetism, energy, courage) are distributed widely in the population. They are part of the human identity..
A star swimmer at Ohio State who had a brief stage career, Sabol served with the 4th Infantry Division as a rifleman during World War II. He was in the overcoat business with his father in law in Philadelphia when the self described “amateur moviemaker” formed Blair Productions, a film company named after his daughter. His only experience producing sports was recording the action at Steve’s high school football games..
“The Browns, it’s all about traditions,” Haden said. “A lot of the Browns fans they didn’t want us to change up. They wanted us to feel better in the uniforms and to fit better and all that, but about the look, they really didn’t want you to change it up at all.”.
Paul’s in Mobile and for Alabama. He’s now a quarterback with the Cincinnati Bengals. July 9 at Wenonah High School. New York biggest star was lost for the season after Odell Beckham broke an ankle last week. In fact, you won recognize many G men receivers as both Brandon Marshall and Sterling Shepard are also sidelined. Troubled when they had the currently wounded players in their lineup, the Giants will now have to face Denver rock ribbed defence without them.
Monday, the University of Utah hospital announced it will no longer allow nurses to interact with officers. The news comes after police body camera video surfaced of a nurse being put in handcuffs after she refused to draw blood from an unconscious patient. The video has struck a nerve with many, as the nurse is seen screaming “I done nothing wrong! I done nothing wrong!”.
The Ravens (8 6) and the Steelers (9 5) enter Sunday’s game with momentum and hopes of taking control in the AFC North. Baltimore is coming off a 27 26 victory against the Philadelphia Eagles. Pittsburgh has won five straight games, including a 24 20 divisional win last week at the Cincinnati Bengals..


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Phyllis (Kamiel) Lehman
February 7, 2013
Mathew Arnold: “The Study of Poetry”
In his introduction to the book The English Poets published in 1880, Matthew Arnold laid out his views regarding the importance of high quality poetry and how essential poetry is for sustaining the world (Arnold, paragraph 2). He astonishingly asserted that poetry is to be prized above all else and should carry more weight than religion, history and philosophy. While this premise is in and of itself highly specious, Arnold went on to say that the poetry must be of a “high order of excellence” (Arnold, paragraph 3) in order to accomplish this lofty goal. Excellent poetry must supplant religion and philosophy because it is of “a higher truth and a higher seriousness” (Arnold, paragraph 12). This begs the following questions: why is poetry so important; what exactly constitutes excellent poetry, and who exactly decides on the criteria by which it is judged to be of this caliber?
Arnold asserted that poetry is paramount while philosophy and religion are not only incomplete without it, but are actually false. Arnold claimed that the “evidences” of religion and philosophy are “false shows of knowledge” (Arthur, paragraph 2). Arnold proved his claim with Wordsworth who said that poetry is “the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge“(Arthur, paragraph 2). While there might be truth in what Wordsworth seemed to say, poetry can embody a higher purpose and a deeper knowledge of life, this really should only be an adjunct to a fuller understanding of life in more concrete and measurable ways. Others disciplines such as philosophy, religion and history undergo a lot more rigorous constructs and observable evidences than does the field of poetry. With that understanding, what would compel us to trust it over and above proven disciplines of case and logic? What “evidences” does poetry provide that would convince us to prize it over religion, philosophy and history? Poetry is considered an art and, though poets may take themselves and their craft very seriously, it is not reasoned logic.
The next difficulty with Arnold’s premise comes with regard to gravitas. Man made poetry is open to interpretation by virtue of its flowery language and vague references. Religions, by definition, come from a higher order of being and, therefore, their associated texts are deemed worthy of analysis and interpretation. Poetry does not purport to come from a divine source and the craftings of even master poets cannot imaginably embody all the interpretations and attributions of the myriad of individual critics. Holding it in higher esteem than philosophy and religion is a mockery to the human experience that has brought us to this point in time.
Poetry is a fluid genre completely dependent on the musings of its individual authors. While poets individually and as a whole do have a unique point of view, even one essential to a truly thorough understanding of the total patchwork of the world, to hold it as the dominant element central to all others is actually a corruption of the art itself. Poets prize their individuality and culling universal themes from this highly democratic art form dilutes each artist’s unique message. In some ways, given the nuances of life and experience, all beings can be poets. Published poetry is a lens through which to consider varying alternatives and points of view, but only one lens.
Arnold spoke of excellent poetry and placed it at the cornerstone of his argument. He called for us to “set our standard for poetry high” (Arnold, paragraph 3) when we judge which poetry is to be considered as foundational to all facts. However, the high standard and criteria to be used to determine this excellent poetry was not revealed nor were the deciders of which poetry is truly excellent. Paradoxically, he cited masters of the past as models for such poetry while at the same time shunning historic context as a barometer. He eschewed the “historic estimate” (Arnold, paragraph 5) in deference to the “real estimate” (Arnold, paragraph 8), but he neglected to define these terms. Where exactly does that leave us in trying to determine which poetry is to be studied and emulated? Did these omission imply that we are just to trust his estimate for excellence or would that leave us open to Arnold’s other term used to invalidate various types of poetry, the “personal estimate” (Arnold, paragraph 5)?
There is also a logistical problem with Arnold’s argument. Poetry’s physical manifestation is language trading in the actual word as its currency to determine its value. We all know that language evolves and at the time of the writing of this piece in 1880, the English language had evolved to the degree that Arnold’s predecessors 400 years earlier would not have even understood the language he was writing let alone its intent. To some degree, the same is true today with respect to Arnold’s introduction and its esteemed poetry. Many of the ideas, intent and underlying meanings of the language in the poems that Arnold was endorsing are lost on many a reader today. We can also apply this logic to the way Arnold looked at poetry. Arnold’s view was constrained by his own language and he could not possibly fully understand what came before him, especially if he discounted the historic estimate. Thus, he could have misjudged the value of these past works. By that same standard, it might possibly mean that Arnold and the poetry of his day can no longer be considered excellent to our generation.
All in all, Arnold’s argument regarding the supremacy of poetry and his treatise on what consists of actual and excellent poetry, without clear and measurable parameters for determining what that is, places him as the arbiter of good and bad, of poor and excellent poetry. Given that he is endorsing a particular volume of poetry, his proposal appears to be quite self-serving.

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I realized I was gay when I was 13 but didn't tell anyone until I was around 20 and in college. The teen years were very difficult. It was the 1980s and being gay was pretty much the last thing you wanted be. Making matters worse is that I was geeky kid who was into computers, video games and cameras, which made me feel like even more of an outsider. Getting to college and finally accepting who I was was complete liberation. It wasn't an easy point to get to, however. The coming out process is a step-by-step process that first requires you to acknowledge and accept who you are to yourself. Once you can do that, you can move on to family and friends, and beyond. I could not accept I was gay for a very long time. Suicide was not an option for me (although I had considered it). I was very depressed and having to maintain a positive front to people and still manage the demands of college began to take its toll. I needed help but I had no one to turn to. I managed to muster the strength to talk to a campus counselor (a free service to students). I really didn't know how to bring up the subject to him that I was attracted physically to other guys. When I finally did, I was shocked he was so understanding of it. He told me to acknowledge it and go with the feeling and explore it to see where it takes you. Afterward I felt great for the first time. From there, there was really no turning back.
The issue with being gay is that at some point you have to try to integrate it successfully into your entire life. It's one thing to come out to yourself and then your family and be done with it, but how do you integrate it into your work or career. For many years after college, I kept my sexuality a complete secret when it came to work. In a couple jobs I knew there were a few rumors and whispers about me but I never was treated negatively. That all changed when I took this one job, which was a big step forward for me in my career. It was important I do well at this job and I didn't want anything to get in the way. After a few months there, I find out through an internal source that several staff members are trading work emails with each other and mangers discussing my sexuality in a negative way. I was furious this correspondence was going on. I wasn't "out" there and yet these rumors were circulating. I felt very uncomfortable working at the job. Any hope I had of possibly coming out to someone there was destroyed. I felt worse when a business trip was scheduled and I find out that management has given me my own hotel room. Nothing wrong with that, except normally on these trips, guys room with each other to save the company money. I was the only guy who had his own room. Clearly, none of the other guys wanted to room with me. I asked why I was given my own room. I was told because I deserved a kind of "freebee" for all my hard work...
Because the job meant a lot to my career, I basically lived with it. I didn't really know how to confront the issue. No one harassed me directly to my face. It was all cold-shoulder, avoidance, shunning behavior toward me. Despite all my hard work, it was clear I wasn't wanted at the company. I eventually resigned. I reached a breaking point and couldn't handle the stress any longer.
Today I'm at a new job and completely out to everyone there. I've never felt this at ease in a job setting. I learned from my last experience that you have to have a plan for addressing your sexuality when you start any new job. In an interview, it may be necessary to ask your interviewer if the environment is tolerant of diversity. The law may say an employer cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation, but that doesn't mean the worker will find the social climate pleasant and open. Another point I want to mention is that it's important as gay and lesbians that we continue to have role models throughout our life. It's certainly important to have that guidance as teens and young adults when we are most vulnerable, but what happens after we come out of the closet? How do we handle work and relationships and issues of growing older? These are issues everyone, gay or straight, deals with, but for gays and lesbians, its especially critical. If we're going to have a renewed crisis management plan for helping vulnerable gay teens and young adults, we better have one that encompasses the broad spectrum of challenges they will face throughout their lives.

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India has seen a considerable increase in exports of solar modules following the Biden administration’s ban on such modules suspected of being produced using forced labor in China.
According to a report in the Times of India, solar module exports during the third quarter of the year totaled $157 million, up from just $21 million a year earlier and $26 million during the second quarter of 2022.
Meanwhile, domestic growth in solar power adoption is also rising. In the first nine months of the year, Indian solar developers installed a record 10 GW of solar generating capacity.
This represented a 35-percent annual increase, with utility-scale installations accounting for 9 GW, which was a 45-percent annual increase. The solar capacity additions also represented 76 percent of all new power generation capacity additions in the first nine months of 2022.
In the United States, meanwhile, new solar installations are expected to have declined by 23 percent this year because of the ban on Chinese modules. The figure came from the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie, which also said they expected utility-scale installation additions this year to shrink by 40 percent as a result of the ban.
Residential solar additions will rise by a sizeable 37 percent but they are a small part of the U.S. solar power market, where utility-scale projects dominate the landscape.
According to Reuters, there are more than 1,000 cargoes of solar power equipment sitting at U.S. ports after the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act was passed in June. This has led exporters to suspend shipments to the U.S. for fear they, too, could end up detained under the new legislation.
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Mercado on Fifth, the Quad-Cities' newest farmers market, is slated to kick off this weekend.
The open-air, multicultural market, featuring 30-plus food and crafts vendors, kicks off at 5 p.m. Friday on the corner of 5th Avenue and 12th Street in Moline's Floreciente neighborhood. It will be open every Friday through Oct. 28.
"There's been a lot of collaboration to make this happen," organizer Bob Ontiveros said. "And this first event is only the starting point."
On Tuesday, the Moline City Council voted to close a portion of 5th Avenue so vendors could operate in the street, according to Ontiveros, who is the founder of Group O, a multi-faceted global business headquartered in Milan.
Ontiveros grew up in Floreciente and his parents emigrated from Mexico in 1918. The idea for the market goes back to 2007, before the recession, he said.
"Before, it was an immigrant community that was very quiet and now, there's a lot of activity," he said. "I'm excited to finish what I wanted to do almost 10 years ago."
On Friday, hear live music from The Crooked Cactus at 7 p.m. and stay for an outdoor showing of "Selena" at dusk outside the Boys and Girls Club Teen Center, 1118 5th Ave., Moline.


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If you compare the increase in value of investment property in Blackwood, 5051 to the rest of Australia, it performed somewhat poorly. The median increase in value, or capital gain property investors experienced for this SA suburb was 9.54%.
The five-year average increase in median property values for Blackwood,5051 has given property investors a potential capital gain of 32.00% across each of those five years.
Blackwood, 5051 is offering SA ‘s 119th most discounted properties when looking at the average discount being offered by vendors. This puts it in the middle of discounts offered by this SA.
Blackwood, 5051’s gross rental yield is 3.94%
Giving property investors a a solid capital gain of 38.24% for the last year, Blackwood, 5051 is the 26th highest performer in Australia in this respect.
If we look at median property appreciation over just the last three months, Blackwood has given property investors a paper return of -7.30%. This puts Suburb as 139 on a list of fastest fasting appreciating suburbs in SA
Situated 10.40km from the CBD, Blackwood is one of Mitcham (C) localities in the postcode 5051.
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Median unit price: $310,000
Three-year growth: 7.4%
Rental yield: 4.9%
A lush green spot tucked into the foothills of Adelaide, the suburb of Blackwood provides a country lifestyle without being too far from the city.
Units carry a low price tag here at a median value of just $310,000. At the same time it has steadily been on the growth trend since 2014 while offering reasonable yields of 4.9%
Nature abounds in this area, with the Wittunga Botanic Garden showcasing both Australian and South African flora. At Sturt Gorge Recreation Park, those on a walking or cycling trail may even chance upon animal icons like kangaroos and koalas exploring the park. Waterfalls, creeks and other bodies of water are abundant as well.
The Blackwood railway station is the centre of public transport in the area, with both buses and trains passing through.

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Members of the Soldotna High School Swing Choir, above, recently returned from a national show choir competition in Branson, Mo. School choirs from 26 states including more than 1,000 students participated in Fame's American Show Cup competition, and SoHi's Swinging Stars received a standing ovation for their 22-minute show.
They received a superior rating for their performance, as well as several comments from directors and show representatives highlighting the choir members' positive attitudes and spirit. One of the choir tenors, Daniel Ghormley, also received special recognition for Outstanding Stage Presence, an award given only to three male performers.
The choir and accompanying band members, directed by Trudy Petersen, included Lydia Ames, Terrence Carlson, Sam Caswell, Jonny Coreson, Zach Cowan, Jacquelyn Cowan, Kacia Dimick, Jared Forbes, Daniel Ghormley, Adam Green, Eve Green, Erin Hartman, Heidi Keller, Tim Lybrand, Dustin Miller, Amirah Marey, Matt Myers, Ryan Myers, Josh Northcutt, Karina Petersen, Erin Powers, Aleks Psaffe, Alecia Smith, Erika Smith and Rebekah Tempel. The choir will next perform its competitive program as part of SoHi's spring concert, "The Music and the Memories," at 7 p.m. May 6.
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Teenagers with parents open to talking about their drug and alcohol experiences are less likely to use drugs themselves, an American study has found.
The survey found 63% of the teens aged 15-18 believed they would be more responsible with drugs and alcohol after hearing their parent’s stories. Over half of the teens said they would be less likely to use drugs.
Two thirds of the teens surveyed reported that their parents had told them about past drug and alcohol experiences, and of those teens 95% welcomed the information. Over two-thirds of teens whose parents were not open on the topic reported that they wanted them to be.
The study of 603 teens also found that over 90% of teens consider their parents to be role models when it comes to drugs and alcohol.


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Nicholas: All people love themselves, right, Mommy?
Me: Hmm.... well... that's a very good question. All people were created perfectly by God- made just exactly as He wanted them to be. So when a baby is born, I think it instinctively loves itself in the interest of survival as soon as it learns what love is. The problem seems to come as a person gets older. You see, bad things happen. Life is so hard. Sometimes people begin to believe that the bad things happen because he or she is a bad person. So more bad things happen, and the person believes even more that he or she is bad, that he or she deserves bad things, and then that person demands and commands less of life believing they are not good enough for a special magical life, and it becomes worse. It's very sad.
Nicholas: I love myself.
Me: I love you, too. I love myself, too. Would you like to know what one of the hardest lessons is for people like you and me?
Nicholas: People who love themselves?
Nicholas: Yes. What's the lesson?
Me: The lesson is this. You and I realize that we are good people. We like ourselves and we know that we are awesome, but we also know that we fail and that there are things we are not good at, things we must try harder at. For some reason, you and I just already understand that. And you will meet people in your life who you really like. You will see the good and amazing things about them that God has put inside him or her. But that person won't see that they are good and won't love and nurture themselves the way they should. And you will think that you can fix them. But do you want to know the truth about people who don't love themselves?
Me: You can't fix them.
Nicholas: I can't?
Me: Never. There are only two people who can fix someone who doesn't love himself. They are 1) That person. That person must realize that they are beautiful and worthy and special and learn to treat themselves well and acknowledge the good things about them even if it's painful. Do you know who the other person is who can fix them?
Nicholas: God. God can fix anyone.
Me: ****BIG SMILE**** My love, we all come into this life because there are lessons that our souls need to learn here on this Earthly Plain. It seems to me that you know so many already. Far beyond your age. I don't know what your soul's purpose is for this life, but I can tell you this- it's BIG.
Nicholas: I'm pretty cool.
Me: ****BIG SMILE**** let's say our prayers. I love you, kid.


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The Republican-controlled Ohio state House voted on January 10 to override Governor Mike DeWine’s veto on legislation barring male athletes from participating in women’s sports and banning transgender medical treatment for minors, the Associated Press reported.
The Ohio Republican Governor vetoed the legislation in late December, arguing that he thought the issues raised in the bill should be addressed through administrative rules that he said would stand a better chance of surviving a judicial challenge.
The House voted along party lines to override DeWine’s veto in a 65 to 28 vote. The Republican-controlled state Senate will take up their override vote on January 24.
Republican state Rep. Gary Click, the sponsor of the bill, said he hoped the override and possible future legislation would encourage doctors and others who had been afraid to testify against transgender treatment for minors to come forward and speak out against the practice.
In remarks on the floor after the override vote, Democrat state Rep. Dr. Beth Liston, a pediatrician, accused the Republicans of arrogance and argued that the lawmakers were not doctors or mental health professionals.
Around 20 US states have enacted laws or regulations restricting transgender medical procedures for minors. Many have faced legal challenges with courts issuing mixed rulings. A similar law in Arkansas was struck down by a federal judge who said the ban violated the Constitution.
Similarly, about 20 states have approved a ban on males participating in women’s sports, in K-12 and college.
After vetoing the bill, DeWine issued an executive order on January 5 proposing regulations aimed at addressing some of the elements of the legislation. DeWine’s order would have banned minors from undergoing transgender surgeries but allowed non-surgical treatments like the use of hormone replacement and puberty blockers.
DeWine’s executive order did not address the question of so-called “transgender” athletes participating in women’s sports.


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President of Pan Trinbago Keith Diaz says the organisation may need to create a bigger space for the Greens section for the 2015 Panorama semifinals event.He said that after announcing that this year saw the largest turnout ever for the country's biggest steelband competition.Diaz said the final decision would be made after discussions with the executive of Pan Trinbago. The discussions were expected to begin yesterday.
He was speaking to the media after a cheque handing-over ceremony yesterday at the Ministry of Arts, Nicholas Towers, Independence Square, Port-of-Spain.At the ceremony Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Lincoln Douglas formally handed over cheques of either $10,000 or $20,000 to seven of over 178 unsponsored small and medium steelbands.The cheque amounts depended on the size of the steelband.This is the third year the ministry has given financial assistance to unsponsored steelbands.
Douglas said every year the corporate sponsorship for steelbands decrease.Diaz, who also said their was a lack of willingness from corporations to sponsor steelbands, said Pan Trinbago supported steelbands through money raised from the Greens."We were told by the ministry that we needed to try to find ways to generate funds."This year had the largest crowd for Panorama semis and we will continue to try to make it happen," he added.Diaz said the Greens was one of the more innovative ideas in T&T Carnival.
"Simple people thought about it. We created a new thing and a new space to get young people to come to the pan," he added.Diaz said part of the profits made from the Greens were given to the 82 steelbands who participated in the semifinals of the competition.He said people may not see the benefits now but Pan Trinbago's vision was to develop the steelpan and pan players.Asked if the controversial Pan Splash pool would be back for next year's semifinals, Diaz said it would have to be discussed.


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Previously Unheard Oasis Demos To Be Featured On Re-Issue Of (What's The Story) Morning Glory Posted by Joseph Lee on 07.02.2014
The "Chasing the Sun" edition...
NME reports that rare and previously unheard Oasis demos will appear on the "Chasing the Sun" re-issue of their second album (What's The Story) Morning Glory?. The album was originally released in October 1995 and sold over 22 million copies worldwide. The first re-issued album in the Chasing the Sun package was Definitely Maybe earlier this year.
The new version was remastered from the original tapes by Ian Cooper at London's Metropolis Studios, supervised by album producer Owen Morris. The two searched for the demos and live material for the release, along with never-seen-before photos and memorabilia that will be part of the new artwork.
The album will be released as a standard CD and digital download, a special edition three-disc CD and digital download, a 12" vinyl LP (with digital download bundle of all bonus CD content), and a deluxe box set (including the LP, special edition CD, 7" of an exclusive demo, replication of an original 12" promo & merchandise).
The new material includes demos of 'She's Electric' and 'Rockin' Chair' (recorded at Mark Coyle's studio in Manchester), demos of 'Some Might Say', 'Hey Now', and 'Bonehead's Bank Holiday' (recorded by Coyle at the band's soundcheck at Club Quattro in Tokyo, September 1994). It will also feature live recordings from shows in Knebworth, Maine Road Stadium, Earls Court, and Bath Pavilion, as well as the B-sides to singles like 'Talk Tonight', 'Acquiesce', and 'Underneath The Sky', most of which appeared on The Masterplan. Here's a track list:
'Roll With It'
'Don't Look Back In Anger'
'Some Might Say'
'Cast No Shadow'
'It's Better People'
'Underneath The Sky '
'Cum On Feel The Noize'
'Round Are Way'
'The Swamp Song'
'Bonehead's Bank Holiday'
'Champagne Supernova (Brendan Lynch Mix)'
'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away'
'Acquiesce (Live At Earls Court)'
'Some Might Say (Demo)'
'Some Might Say (Live at Roskilde)'
'She's Electric (Demo)'
'Talk Tonight (Live At Bath Pavilion)'
'Rockin' Chair (Demo)'
'Hello (Live At Roskilde)'
'Roll With It (Live At Roskilde)'
'Morning Glory (Live At Roskilde)'
'Hey Now (Demo)'
'Bonehead's Bank Holiday (Demo)'
'Round Are Way (MTV Unplugged)'
'Cast No Shadow (Live At Maine Road)'
'The Masterplan (Live At Knebworth Park)'

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Miley Cyrus’ little sister, Noah, is following in her famous family’s footsteps! The 16-year-old has officially released the visual for her first-ever single “Make Me (Cry)”.
The video presents Noah and featured artist Labrinth acting out parallel narratives to the song’s duet structure. The youngest in a long line of musical Cyruses, Noah has appeared numerous times on big sis Miley’s “Hannah Montana” and in the franchise’s two movies.
She spoke to Dazed & Confused about her collaboration with Labrinth, someone Noah is very close with: “Lab is like a big brother to me, so having him on set for my first video was amazing.”
And she said of the music video’s director, Sophie Muller: “Getting to work with someone as talented as Sophie was such an honour. I had the best time making this video!”

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Superpowers warn that 'overwhelming scientific consensus' on climate change demands more ambitious response
The US and China have announced plans to accelerate joint efforts to tackle climate change, warning that the "inadequacy of the global response requires a more focused and urgent initiative". The two...
Event venue in Helsinki will play host to the first public electric vehicle charging point that can transmit power into cars and back into the grid
New £15m funding programme to support projects that promise to tackle harmful emissions from the haulage industry
The Science-Based Targets initiative and its sister campaigns point the way to a new form of sustainable multinational
Mars moves leading brands over to sustainable-certified rice supplies, as it aims to ensure all its rice is delivered through the Sustainable Rice Platform by 2020


Bruce Bowen calls out Kawhi Leonard
A former San Antonio Spurs player is a bit miffed with Kawhi Leonard.
Bruce Bowen was a guest on SiriusXM NBA Radio and went off on Leonard, his injury and more, saying he is full of excuses.
"I think there's nothing but excuses going on. You're the franchise and you want to say that the Spurs didn't have your best interest at heart? Are you kidding me?"
All eyes will be on Leonard as the summer rolls on.
Will he be traded? Will he be L.A. bound? Can the Spurs mend fences with Kawhi all remains to be see.


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Samsung launched the Galaxy Buds2 wireless earphones in August in four colors – Black, White, Olive Green, and Lavender, all four of them with a case that was white from the outside. Several new paint jobs arrived since the initial launch, but none of them were all-black.
This is finally changing, starting today. The maker officially introduced the Samsung Galaxy Buds2 in Onyx Black, with the first market for the new paint job being South Korea and Germany.
The new Buds2 are already up for sale on Samsung’s website, as well as some online and offline retailers in the Asian country. The price is KRW149,000, which is equal to $117/€111. The variant is also listed in the European country for €99 (discounted from €149) but the company is currently taking registrations for users who want to be informed when the launch actually begins, for which there is no date whatsoever.
Samsung brought the Galaxy Buds2 as an update over the Buds+ and we’ve established they are great for casual music listeners and taking work calls. The company also revealed the Onyx Black variant will ship with 360 Audio – a software feature that locates where the sound is coming from and adapts when the head is rotated.
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The planetary setting favors you today to make any choice you want and be crowned with success. It is enough to give up the passive and fatalistic attitude, to remove from your thoughts what you do not like in your life and to think positively, envisioning your future. Leave worries and anxieties aside about things you objectively cannot control and limit your thinking and action to what you can influence. Positive thinking plays an important role in shaping reality…
You’ve had some setbacks lately, but you shouldn’t let that get you down. Your business needs a lot of attention today. Make sure to complete your obligations in the time frames you have and keep a friendly level with your partners, whatever comes your way…
The day will give you great energy but also a dose of wisdom to face the challenges that will come your way. Problems of an emotional nature can be resolved in the best possible way. Take care of your health today, because there are also griffins. As a precaution, take any vitamins, lest you prevent the worst. From today until the end of the month, be prudent about your health and physical condition…
If you have a long-term relationship that you feel is not living up to your expectations, today will push you to make decisions. But think with a clear mind before taking any step that will not be reversible. In your professional environment you may be pushed to take risks that you would not like or that you were afraid of. Have confidence in yourself and your abilities.
Your relationship is on the right track, but something seems to be troubling you today or making you feel unsatisfied. You should look for the answers within yourself, because you may not be fully committed to this relationship. Or you may be creating issues in your mind where none exist.
Contacts and trips with people from abroad will give you unique experiences, while your business agreements will be beneficial! Many pending issues will clear up and help you resolve family and emotional issues from the past. However, be careful with your finances from a management point of view.
A pessimism has overwhelmed you, that you will never manage to find the ideal person to share your life with. Although there are no perfect people, go about your life with enthusiasm and a positive attitude, and no one ever knows… Maybe an extremely interesting and promising acquaintance awaits you.
You realize that you have been missing out on quite a few things lately and this can get you down. But look to the future with optimism and place your aspirations on a realistic basis. The day promises gifts for you that you should not ignore. It’s not necessarily financial benefits, but it can be great advice from a loved one or having someone support you in your business plans.
You must decide that you are the one who charts the course of your life and not allow those around you to derail you. You should react strongly to those who throw down the gauntlet to you, to defend your professional interests, but also set clear limits to those who are inclined to question you.
Lots of talk today about family problems. Keep a soft tone and don’t get upset. For lovers the atmosphere is quite idyllic. However, do not force your views in a combative manner. A new friend can be very useful to you. But be careful with driving and alcoholic beverages.
Today is a creative day! A decision of yours can significantly change your life and give it a significant boost. Trust your gut and you won’t miss out. Break up with friends and social circles that have nothing to give you, only to take from you. Calm down and properly assess the situation in your emotions, avoiding tensions and scenes of jealousy.
Pain and pleasure are said to go hand in hand. Today, through the pain you will cause someone, you will derive satisfaction. But is it fair or right? A chance meeting with a person from your past, personal or professional, will make you happy and completely change the course of the day.
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*(Via CS Monitor) – A massive sinkhole in Louisiana tugged a fresh meal of swamp trees into its depths on Wednesday night, according to local media.
In a video from the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness, the Bayou Corne’s tall trees slip into a sinkhole hidden beneath metallic-sheened swamp water, like pieces of spaghetti giving in to a pot’s boiling water. Afterward, the tree gone and the water jiggling to still, the video almost begs for a voiceover – something like: “You saw nothing. Nothing happened here.”
The sinkhole first bubbled and trembled last June, and then about two months later caved open to take in about 24 acres of land. Ever since, the giant swamp thing has occasionally sighed and heaved, expanding to pull down more above ground brush and trees and dirt. The latest video, though, in which 25 trees bid their adieu to sunlight, is the first footage of its machinations.
Get more of this story at CS Monitor.
Watch the sinkhole swallow the trees:


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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ touches 2-mth high as commodity prices rise
* C$ ends stronger, at C$0.9543 to the US$, or $1.0479
* Reached a high of C$0.9520, strongest since May 11
* Gains after European bank "stress test" results
* Rising oil, commodity prices support
By Trish Nixon
TORONTO, July 15 (Reuters) - Canada's dollar hit a two-month high against the U.S. currency on Friday, as commodity prices rose and results of European bank stress tests eased some worries about the region's financial system.
Only eight of the 90 European banks surveyed by the European Banking Authority failed the stress tests, well below market expectations that as many as 15 lenders would need more capital to withstand a prolonged recession. [nL6E7IF19G]
"The European stress test results somewhat allayed fears about Europe's credit crisis," said Sal Guatieri, senior economist with BMO Capital Markets.
"Investors appear to be running with it and they're buying so-called riskier assets." Continued...


Mexichem’s Fluor business in Japan provides fluorocarbons to various markets, branded as KLEA® refrigerants. We distribute KLEA® products and services to the Asian-Pacific region, widely through agents and third party distributors.
Currently, our plant located in the city of Pingzhen blends HFC-410A and 4040A (Hydrofluorocarbons), which are repacked and shipped for heating, ventilating and air conditioning manufactures in the region. We supply almost all of the volume used for automobile air conditioners in Taiwan and we export it to the region’s auto equipment manufacturers.
With its Fluor business, Mexichem in Taiwan will make a good use of our integrated fluorine production chain in our effort to become the leading fluorine-based chemical company in the region.


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Herceptin approved for NHS use
Last updated at 11:11 09 August 2006
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is recommending that the drug should be prescribed for women with early stage HER2-positive cancer.
The move - which will come into effect next month - follows the granting of a UK licence for the drug by European authorities.
It has been welcomed by UK charities and campaigners who have fought tirelessly to get
the life-saving drug, which costs around £20,000 a year.
Cancer expert Professor Karol Sikora said: "It is gratifying to see NICE respond so quickly.
But over the next five years many other high-cost cancer drugs will come on the market and it is important we have robust and rapid decision-making processes in place to deal with these."
Around 8,000 of the 41,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year should now be able to benefit from Herceptin, which was already licensed for use in advanced cancer.
The only early-stage breast cancer sufferers not eligible for the treatment will be those who have heart problems.
Barbara Clark, who last year won a High Court battle to get the drug, said it was "fantastic news".
She added: "The most dreadful thing in the world is being told there is a drug but you cannot have it - especially when you have got children."
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On April 2nd and 3rd 2015, a Pedestrian and Bicycle Roadway Safety Assessment (RSA) was performed by engineering firm VHB in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team comprised of safety, traffic, and highway engineers, local enforcement, and local community organizations. The objective of the RSA was to identify issues and potential near and longer term solutions focusing on pedestrian and bicycle safety. Below are the recommendations VHB put forward based on the assessment.
Immediately (within the next 6 months)
- Pedestrian – Provide signing and striping enhancements, coupled with an educational campaign and additional enforcement, to encourage use of crosswalks and push buttons. Review the pedestrian signal wiring and equipment so they are working properly.
- Bicycles – Improve area signage and pavement striping related to bicycle use and partner with community groups to develop a plan to raise safety awareness for bicyclists.
- Autos – Implement signal retiming and restriping to improve capacity and progression throughout the corridor.
- Transit – Restripe to provide bus pull-offs/lanes.
In the Near Term (between 6 months and 2 years)
- Pedestrians – Provide minor infrastructure improvements and pedestrian crossing technologies to better define pedestrian crossings for both pedestrians and vehicles.
- Bicycles – Provide on-street bicycle facilities within Olneyville Square including connections to the Broadway bike lanes, East Coast Greenway, and Woonasquatucket River Greenway.
- Autos – Provide minor infrastructure improvements to improve capacity and progression throughout the corridor.
- Transit – Implement modifications to transit facilities to match up with pedestrian activity.
In the Long Term (beyond 2 years)
- Pedestrians – Provide transportation options for vehicles to travel through and around the square, offering an opportunity to incorporate “complete streets” to benefit the diversity of users including bicycles, pedestrians, motorists, and transit riders.
- Bicycles – Provide off-road bicycle facilities within Olneyville Square including connections to the Broadway bike lanes, East Coast Greenway, and Woonasquatucket River Greenway.
- Autos – Provide transportation options for vehicles to travel through and around the square through enhanced circulation within the corridor for local traffic as well as offering additional freeway connections for transient vehicle to by-pass the square.
- Transit – Consider providing separated right-of ways or technologies to allow transit to by-pass congestion in the square.


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Connecticut Sun vs. Atlanta Dream WNBA Pick, Odds, Prediction - 7/8/14
Atlanta Dream (12-5) vs. Connecticut Sun (9-10)
WNBA Basketball: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 7:00 pm (McCamish Pavilion)
The Line: Atlanta Dream -8.5 See the Latest Odds
The Connecticut Sun and Atlanta Dream will play Tuesday night on ESPN2. Connecticut won the first meeting back in June, 85-76.
The Sun have really cooled off by losing four of their last five games and falling below a .500 record in the East. However, the Sun are still one of the top defensive teams in the league and have one of the best overall players in Chiney Ogwumike. The Sun average 76.3 points on 41.5 percent shooting and allow 77 points on 44.1 percent shooting. The Sun are a balanced team that has the potential to take that next step, they just have to be more consistent at both ends of the floor, especially on the offensive side.
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The Dream are the only winning team in the Eastern Conference and has won nine of their last 11 games. A team that does everything at a high level, the Dream are loaded at both ends of the floor. With Angel McCoughtry leading the way with nearly 20 points per game, the Dream have four scorers who average double digits. Overall, the Dream average 81.4 points on 44.1 percent shooting and allow 76.4 points on 42.4 percent shooting. The Dream are the best rebounding team in the league at 37.8 boards per game.
The Sun are 6-1 ATS in their last 7 vs. Eastern Conference and 8-3 ATS in their last 11 games overall. The Dream are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 home games and 8-3 ATS in their last 11 games overall. The Sun are 6-1 ATS in the last 7 meetings.
The Sun are capable of playing with anybody when they're actually up to playing, and they've already beaten the Dream earlier this season. I like the Sun to keep this game closer than expected and to cover the number like they've done for much of the season.


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This cute R2D2 Star Wars inspired crochet fingerless gloves pattern reminds me of when I was young! My mother would knit and crochet the most awesome mittens and gloves for myself and my cousins, which included Ghost Busters, and The Teeange Mutant Niinja Turtles for example, they were pretty cool! These R2D2 gloves bring a bit of nostalgia to those of us who were into the original Star Wars, but these gloves also are "in" today, due to the resurgence of the new movies.
Designed By: Brooke Rabideau
Skill Level: Easy
- Size H hook
- I love this yarn in grey, blue, red, and black
- Crochet needle for sewing in ends


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