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Dental Braces (Pediatric)
Dental braces are worn to correct crooked teeth or a misaligned bite, such as an underbite or an overbite. Many people get braces when they are in their preteen or teen years, but there are many adults who get braces as well.
What are some signs that a child needs braces?
If your child has difficulty chewing or biting, crowded or misplaced teeth, teeth that meet abnormally or not at all, or frequently has trouble with biting his or her cheeks or roof of the mouth, your dentist may recommend braces.
What can cause the need for braces?
Space problems or misalignment in the teeth and jaw are often genetic. In other cases, these problems may be caused by thumb-sucking, dental decay, poor nutrition, or an accident that impacts the mouth or jaw.
What are the long-term consequences of not getting braces?
If crowded or poorly aligned teeth are not straightened, over time there is an increased risk of tooth decay and tooth loss, gum disease, problems with speech and chewing, and jaw problems.
How old should a child be before getting braces?
Years ago, dentists used to wait until a child’s second set of molars came in, around age 12, before evaluating them for braces. Today, some children can be evaluated for braces as young as age 5 or 6. Orthodontic treatment usually begins between ages 8 and 12. Your dentist can recommend the best approach for your child.
How do braces work?
Braces slowly move teeth into better alignment by applying mild but constant pressure over a period of time. The underlying bone will also change shape as the teeth move.
What types of braces are there?
There are several different types of braces available:
Traditional braces are made from stainless steel. They have many components, including brackets, the small squares that are bonded directly to the front of each tooth; arch wires, which are attached to the brackets and guide the movement of the teeth; and elastics or rubber bands, which can be attached to hooks on the brackets and put pressure to move the teeth. A dentist periodically tightens the braces as the teeth move into place.
Steel braces are also available with many different colors of elastics. Colored braces can even be changed to different palettes when you get your braces tightened.
Ceramic braces have similar components to traditional braces, but because they are made from a clear, transparent ceramic material, they are less noticeable.
Damon braces use a slide mechanism instead of elastics to connect the archwires, allowing the teeth to move on their own rather than needing to be periodically tightened by the dentist.
Invisalign is an alternative to braces that uses no brackets or wires. Instead, a series of clear plastic aligner trays are custom-made to fit the individual, and changed every few weeks until treatment is complete.
Palate expanders are devices that apply pressure to the back of the upper molars to gradually force the teeth farther apart. When teeth are overcrowded, a palate expander can make room for other types of braces to correct the position of the teeth.
Retainers are custom-made pieces of plastic and metal that are worn in the mouth after braces come off. Sometimes, if there is only a small misalignment in the teeth, or just a single gap between teeth, a retainer may be worn instead of braces. How often, and for how long, the retainer is worn depends on the individual.
How do you keep your teeth clean with braces?
Good dental hygiene is very important when you have braces. Be sure to brush every tooth at the gumline, as well as above and below each bracket. Floss threaders—flexible nylon loops sold at any drugstore—can make it easier to floss when you have braces. Rinsing with a fluoride mouth rinse can help prevent cavities and gingivitis.
What if I need braces as an adult?
It’s never to late to correct your smile! Some people get braces as adults because they did not have the opportunity to have them as children, while others have had unexpected shifting in their teeth with age. If your bones and gums are healthy enough to undergo the forces needed to move your teeth, getting braces should be fine for you at any age. Adult braces come in all the same options that braces for children and teens do.


County declines EMS offer from Mid Georgia
Published 12:13 pm Saturday, June 21, 2014
In addition to providing EMS services to Seminole County starting July 1, Mid Georgia Ambulance extended an offer to Decatur County to provide EMS coverage at no cost to Decatur County taxpayers.
The offer would last 90 days or until Grady EMS, the ambulance service Decatur County signed a contract with in May, became operational.
Decatur County Chairman Frank Loeffler said he had declined the offer.
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“It wasn’t something that we needed,” Loeffler said. “Rather than create a lot of confusion, we thanked them for their offer and respectfully declined it.”
Loeffler said with Grady EMS’s HR department arriving next week to conduct interviews with Decatur County EMS employees, it would be awkward and cumbersome to have Mid Georgia trucks running in and out of the EMS Headquarters.
He also noted Decatur County’s ambulances were already in working condition.
“Have we had five of our trucks down, we would have jumped on it,” Loeffler said. “But it just felt like it was going to cause more problems.”
Mid Georgia Director of Public Relations Amy Abel-Kiker said the offer was an attempt to provide the best possible coverage to the entire South Georgia region.
“As the new EMS provider in Seminole County, we feel that it is simply the right thing to do for MGA to offer our readily available resources to aid the citizens of Decatur county, until their newly contracted provider becomes operational,” Abel-Kiker said.
MGA has secured funding through the Community Health Foundation to offer their services in Decatur County in the interim, according to Abel-Kiker.


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Find the best foreclosure homes listings for sale — bank-owned, government (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, etc.) and others — in and near the Scottsville, KY area at Foreclosure.com. Get information on foreclosure homes for rent, how to buy foreclosures in Scottsville, KY and much more. Save thousands at closing with home foreclosure listings in Scottsville, KY — up to 75% off market value!
Scottsville is a home rule-class city in Allen County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 4,226 during the 2010 U.S. Census.
The site along Bays Fork was settled in 1797 and developed into a stagecoach station. The town was laid off in 1816 and established the next year. It was named for Kentucky's 4th governor, Charles Scott. In the early 19th century, it was also known as Allen Court House and Scottville.
Scottsville was the birthplace of what would become the Dollar General nationwide chain of 15,000 stores, with J. L. Turner and his son Cal Turner, Sr., opening their first department store there in 1945. In 1955, the Turners began to open more stores, and, in 1968, founded Dollar General Corporation or DOLGEN Corp.
Scottsville is located at 36°45′5″N 86°11′34″W (36.751504, -86.192692). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15 km2), all of it land.
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◼ Young America's Foundation (YAF) spoke at Heritage's Bloggers Briefing today about their initiative on the Youth Misery Index. - Alexashrugged
The Youth Misery Index adds together youth unemployment, average graduating student debt (in thousands), and national debt per capita (in thousands).
Youth unemployment is at 17.4 percent—one of the highest levels since World War II. Average graduating student debt has reached a record-breaking $26,300. National debt per capita is $46,900—the highest ever. Add it up, and the Youth Misery Index comes out to 90.6 (17.4 + 26.3 + 46.9 = 90.6).
...In other youth misery news, George Scoville points out that the Obama Administration has reversed its position on unpaid internships at for-profit companies. Now Obama has unveiled a new "We Can't Wait" summer jobs program. The problem? Most of the positions will be "unpaid training opportunities." I guess internships are fine since Obama hasn't figured out how to create jobs. Obama's message to young people: We CAN wait for real jobs, we CAN'T wait for empty gestures designed to win back the youth vote in 2012.
◼ What I most admire about James O’Keefe… - Michelle Malkin As you all know, several newspapers over the years have endangered law-abidin...
◼ How the country can change in just four years! - The Blaze
GOP Weekly Address: Obama Has Added $6 Trillion in Debt in One Term …(That’s 1/3 of Total US Debt Folks)Republicans must inform the public on Obama’s very destructive economic record. If they won’t do it, it won’t get done. The liberal media ...
Whaddayaknow? Rutherford B. Hayes, the TV flash in the pan, the horse is here to stay — they’re all at the Wikiquote page on “Incorrect Predictions.” Fancy that! You can also find his selected examples at the web page “Some Really Really Bad Predictions About the Future” and a bazillion others.◼ Obama’s History Lesson - Mark Steyn/National Review Online A great nation needs successful self-made businessmen like George Peck, and ...
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Discover Pinterest’s 10 best ideas and inspiration for Parsley potatoes. Get inspired and try out new things.
Parsley Potatoes are a super easy side dish and this just might become your favorite way to serve potatoes. This simple recipe has just 5 ingredients that really show off the taste of the potatoes and you don’t even have to peel them. If you are a fan of potatoes, you are in for a treat with these Parsley Potatoes! I’m calling these “Company Potatoes” because this is the potatoes recipe you make when you want to impress your guests. #parsleypotatoes #companypotatoes #potatoesrecipe #sidedish
Boiled potatoes get an infusion of butter and parsley to make this super easy side dish. This is one of my all-time favorite sides for any meal!
Oven Roasted Parsley Potatoes I’ve been making Parsley Potatoes for years using canned potatoes. They pale in comparison to Oven Roasted Parsley Potatoes. Red Potatoes are tossed in a mixture of butter, diced onion and garlic, then roasted in a cast iron skillet or baking dish. The interior of the roasted red potato...
These rich, garlic butter parsley potatoes are just incredible! Baby potatoes flavored with garlic and specks of parsley make the most delicious side. Naturally vegetarian, but with a vegan option, too!
- • 1 1/2 lbs Baby potatoes, half
- • 3 cloves Garlic
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- • 1 tsp Kosher salt
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Ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) has been successfully used as a bearing material in total joint replacement components. However, these bearing materials can fail as a result of in vivo static and cyclic loads. Crack propagation behavior in this material has been considered using the Paris relationship which relates fatigue crack growth rate, da/dN (mm/cycle) versus the stress intensity factor range, ΔK (Kmax − Kmin, MPa√m). However, recent work suggests that the crack propagation velocity of conventional UHMWPE is driven by the peak stress intensity (Kmax), not ΔK. The hypothesis of this study is that the crack propagation velocity of highly crosslinked and remelted UHMWPE is also driven by the peak stress intensity, Kmax, during cyclic loading. To test this hypothesis, two highly crosslinked (65 kGy and 100 kGy) and remelted UHMWPE materials were examined. Frequency, waveform, and R-ratio were varied between test conditions to determine the governing factor for fatigue crack propagation. It was found that the crack propagation velocity in crosslinked UHMWPE is also driven by Kmax and not ΔK, and is dependent on loading waveform and frequency in a predictable quasistatic manner. This study supports that crack growth in crosslinked UHMWPE materials, even under cyclic loading conditions, can be described by a relationship between the velocity of crack growth, da/dt and the peak stress intensity, Kmax. The findings suggest that stable crack propagation can occur as a result of static loading only and this should be taken into consideration in design of UHMWPE total joint replacement components. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part B: Appl Biomater, 101B: 430–435, 2013.


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It's often said that on a given weekend, there are more Mazda vehicles taking part in competitive driving events than any other brand in the world. And while we can't really go out there and count all of them, we do know that there will be more than 70 Mazda-powered race cars present at this weekend's IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
A total of four Mazda racing series will take to the famous road racing circuit in Lexington, Ohio, which is known for its challenging characteristics that include elevation changes in addition to low- and high-speed corners. The Mazda extravaganza will provide two days’ worth of racing action in one of the epicenters of American road racing with the Indy Lights, Pro Mazda, USF2000, and Mazda Global MX-5 Cup championships contesting two races each over Saturday and Sunday.
Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires
The championship battle between current leader Patricio O’Ward of Mexico and Colton Herta of the United States is heating up, as the young Mexican dominated in Toronto while Herta crashed and suffered a broken thumb. The Indy Lights race will be broadcast on NBC Sports Network on July 31 at 6:00 PM ET.
Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires
What had been a runaway championship run for Canadian Parker Thompson, who held a 46-point lead before the previous race in Toronto, has a different picture heading to Mid-Ohio. Thompson still leads but, after a challenging weekend in Toronto, his lead is now just eight points over Rinus Veekay of the Netherlands.
Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda
The USF2000 championship and a $325,000 Mazda Scholarship that will graduate the champion to Pro Mazda in 2019 could go Kyle Kirkwood’s way this weekend. Having amassed seven victories in nine races, Kirkwood arrives at Mid-Ohio with a 131-point lead and on the brink of clinching the championship.
Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich
After six of twelve races, American Nikko Reger has established himself as the championship leader and carries a 29-point lead into the weekend at Mid-Ohio. The Global MX-5 Cup races will be live-streamed on the Mazda USA YouTube channel on Saturday, July 28 at 11:35 AM EST and on Sunday, July 29 at 10:05 AM ET.
"I haven’t been to Mid-Ohio, but from what I can tell on iRacing I think the racing is going to be great. Mid-Ohio is super technical and variable," Reger told The Drive. "So although I'm a rookie to the track, I have been preparing all month, so I believe I'm ready to give my competitors a good run for their money!"

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September 28, 2004 – The Self-Titled Third Studio Album by Hilary Duff is Released Through Hollywood Records
“Can you hear it calling? Can you feel it in your soul? Can you trust this longing and take control?”
On September 28, 2004, the self-titled third studio album by Disney Channel star Hilary Duff was released by Hollywood Records. The album contained two promotional singles: “Fly” and “Someone’s Watching Over Me.” While critical reviews ranged from mixed to negative, the album debuted and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 192,000 copies in its first week. It would eventually go on to be certified platinum by the RIAA. The album fared better in Canada, peaking at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and going on to be certified triple platinum.


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Join the DCG for our free "Growing Tomatoes" workshop. We'll cover selecting tomato plants and how to plant, grow, support, and harvest tomatoes. Workshop will be held at the DCG, 4902 Underwood Ave., from 10-11 a.m. In case of rain, we'll meet at the AV Sorenson Center, 4808 Cass.
We'll also be selling our sturdy hand-made tomato cages. Made from rebar, our tomato cages will contain your tomatoes and train them to grow vertically, saving you space in the garden. Our sturdy cages withstand the strong NE winds. Cages are $15 each, or two for $25. For more information or to reserve a cage, e-mail us

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|Copies of the Northern Ireland Agreement were sent to every home in Ireland
|1998: Leaders welcome 'yes' vote for N Ireland
The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has welcomed the resounding "yes" vote in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland, calling it "a day for joy".
The referendum, held yesterday on both sides of the border, returned a resounding "yes" vote with 71% of voters from Northern Ireland and 94% of those in the Irish Republic showing their support for the Good Friday peace agreement.
"This is the result we have worked for and wanted," said Mr Blair. "It's another giant stride along the path to peace, hope and the future."
Three to one have supported the referendum. That is aresoundingvictory for all the people of Northern Ireland.
Mo Mowlam, Northern Ireland Secretary
The agreement signed last Easter seeks to resolve relationships within Northern Ireland - between Northern Ireland and the Republic and between both parts of Ireland and England, Scotland and Wales - and pave the way for devolution from Westminster with a new all-inclusive Assembly.
It was signed on 10 April - Good Friday - by all interested parties except Rev Dr Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and Bob McCartney's United Kingdom Unionist Party. They objected to the presence of the IRA's political wing Sinn Fein in the multi-party talks leading up to the agreement.
The Northern Ireland Secretary, Mo Mowlam, told reporters she was delighted with the two nations' endorsement of the agreement.
"An important step forward"
Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble said: "It is quite clear that a majority of unionists - not as big a majority of unionists as I would have liked - but a clear majority - have endorsed this agreement. We have taken an important step forward."
John Hume, leader of the nationalist SDLP, said that for the first time the people of both sides of the Irish border were speaking as one.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said he was prepared to sit down with David Trimble in a new Northern Ireland assembly "now".
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said the overwhelming result was the true "voice of the people".
The British Government will press ahead next month with elections for a Northern Ireland Assembly.


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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
Doug Bouquard, Chief Executive Officer of TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. (the
“Company”) and other members of senior management will present an overview of
the Company in investor one-on-one meetings in connection with the Citi 2023
Global Property CEO Conference. A copy of the presentation is attached as
Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein.
The furnishing of these materials is not intended to constitute a representation
that such furnishing is required by Regulation FD or other securities laws, or
that the presentation materials include material investor information that is
not otherwise publicly available. In addition, the Company does not assume any
obligation to update such information in the future.
The information contained in the investor presentation is being furnished and
shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to
the liabilities of that Section. The information in this Current Report on Form
8-K shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or
other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the
Exchange Act, unless it is specifically incorporated by reference therein.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits. Exhibit No. Description 99.1 TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. Presentation Slides 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).
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Union warning of pressures on paramedics
Ambulance staff in Wigan and across the North West are at 'breaking point', a union representing paramedics has warned.
As A&E departments across the region struggle with increased activity, ambulance workers are having to wait longer to handover patients into the care of hospital staff.
The delays are putting patients’ lives at risk, the GMB union has said.
Lisa Ryan, GMB regional organiser, said: “Ambulance staff have seen a significant rise in calls, especially those with serious and life threatening conditions in the past months. Those calls are now being stacked within control rooms due to no vehicles being available to send.
“Staff are now at breaking point; increasingly frustrated, hanging around hospital corridors knowing that patients in the community are waiting for their help.
“They should not be expected to look after patients in hospital corridors while people suffer in the street.”
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) data shows that on Monday of this week, more than 300 ambulances waited longer than an hour to handover patients, with two ambulances waiting as long as six hours, resulting in them being unavailable for life threatening calls.
Delays also often result in solo paramedics in rapid response cars being left on scenes with patients in life-threatening conditions for similar amounts of time, the union added.
Last month, residents were urged to avoid Wigan’s A&E department unless a visit was “absolutely vital” on numerous occasions due to unprecedented demand.
And this situation has been reflected across the region, with emergency departments facing similar challenges.
Last month GMB said 30 per cent of life threatening calls are not responded to within eight minutes.


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The long stretches of golden sandy beaches in Elie are certainly among the best in the East Neuk, on a sunny summers day you could compare it to beaches of foreign climes.
Unfortunately there are no longer donkey rides of the days gone by but with the sun shinning and lots of sand and water the children will find plenty to keep themselves amused for hours, giving you time to sit back and relax.
For the more adventurous further along the beach towards the harbour is Elie Watersports. Offering a wide range of activities form canoeing to windsurfing and inflatable rides to water-skiing there is something for all. The curved bay gives plenty of shelter to the novices with the open sea available for the more experienced windsurfers
and sailors. The equipment required for all activities can be hired if you don't have your own equipment and as a safety precaution a rescue boat is always on stand-by and a qualified first aider is always on hand.


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The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Complete Series (Hardcover)
The Field Guide; The Seeing Stone; Lucinda's Secret; The Ironwood Tree; The Wrath of Mulgrath
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 9781442487970, 672pp.
Publication Date: May 7, 2013
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Join twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory, as they discover the fantastical world of Spiderwick. This complete hardcover set of The Spiderwick Chronicles includes The Field Guide, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda’s Secret, The Ironwood Tree, and The Wrath of Mulgrath.
Each hardcover in this boxed set of the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles series, which has more than 12 million copies in print worldwide, features a larger trim size and an original jacketed cover with all-new art from Tony DiTerlizzi.
About the Author
Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), the Modern Faerie Tales series, the Curse Workers series, Doll Bones, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, The Darkest Part of the Forest, the Magisterium series (with Cassandra Clare), and the Folk of the Air series. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award, a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of both an Andre Norton Award and a Newbery Honor. She lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret door. Visit her at BlackHolly.com.
Tony DiTerlizzi is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator who has been creating books with Simon & Schuster for fifteen years. From his fanciful picture books like Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-this-World Moon Pie Adventure, Adventure of Meno (with his wife, Angela), and The Spider & The Fly (a Caldecott Honor book), to chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa, Tony always imbues his stories with a rich imagination. His middle grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Holly Black), has sold millions of copies, been adapted into a feature film, and has been translated in more than thirty countries. You can visit him at DiTerlizzi.com.

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Handle with Care Partners Meeting-The Ashtabula County Educational Service Center along with the Ashtabula County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board presented the trauma- informed, cross systems, collaborative program, “Handle with Care. ” The Partners meeting was held at the Ashtabula County Commissioners meeting room and started off with opening remarks by County Commissioner Kathryn Whittington. The meeting was attended by school personnel, local behavioral health agencies, health departments, social services agencies, and first responders such as; law enforcement officers, EMS, Ashtabula County EMA.
The informational meeting discussed how the program started, basic information on how the program works and the steps needed to be taken in order to launch the new program county wide. The program will help connect first responders with schools so that when a child experiences a traumatic event the first responders can give the schools a simple “handle with care” memo the next morning. This will allow the schools to be aware that a child may be struggling that school day and simple to complex interventions may be needed.
The program will continue to expand with more in-depth trainings in the near future with hopes that the program will be ready to begin at the start of the 2024-2025 school year.
“OhioHWC is directed by Hopewell Health Centers and supported by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Ohio HWC collaborates with communities across the state to implement HWC to fidelity. Please visit https://handlewithcareoh.org for more information.”
For questions about Ashtabula County
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Friday, December 26, 2014
For a miracle, take one shepherd’s sheepskin, throw
in a pinch of now, a grain of long ago,
and a handful of tomorrow. Add by eye
a little chunk of space, a piece of sky,
and it will happen. For miracles, gravitating
to earth, know just where people will be waiting,
and eagerly will find the right address
and tenant, even in a wilderness.
Or if you’re leaving home, switch on a new
four-pointed star, then, as you say adieu,
to light a vacant world with steady blaze
and follow you forever with its gaze.
~ Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
(-got this amazing poem from Elina for christmas. Fits to everything in my life right now.)
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Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars...
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Thank you to all who attended and a special thanks to Heather Meeker for allowing us to be a part of the book release! A beautiful night in San Francisco with great company, good conversations and plenty of networking!
"Open (Source) for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing" is sure to be the ultimate guide for anyone interested in understanding Open Source licensing - whether you're an engineer, lawyer, C-level executive - this book will prove invaluable. Heather's extensive experience in intellectual property and technology law are the foundation for the comprehensive explanations of the legal and technical principles of OSS licensing.
Physical copies of the book are available now on Amazon.com and e-book editions will be available soon!
More About the Author:
Heather Meeker is a partner in O'Melveny & Myers' Silicon Valley office and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group.
Her practice focuses on advising technology clients on intellectual property matters, including licensing and collaboration arrangements, software copyright and patent issues, technology procurement, open source licensing strategies, and intellectual property-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
She is the author of Technology Licensing: A Practitioner's Guide, ABA, 2010, a widely used handbook for lawyers in the technology licensing practice. Heather is widely recognized for her leadership in the field of intellectual property licensing law, with Chambers USA, the Legal 500, Best Lawyers in America, and SuperLawyers naming her among the industry's top lawyers in multiple consecutive years. The Daily Journal named Heather to its list of "Top 100 Women Lawyers in California" in 2013, and has named her twice to its list of "25 Top IP Portfolio Managers (Licensing) In California." Managing IP Magazine's World IP Handbook and Survey's named her to its "IP Stars - Top 250 Women in IP" list in 2013. And in 2012, Best Lawyers identified her as its "San Francisco Information Technology Law Lawyer of the Year." She also is a member of the Advisory Council for the American Law Institute's projects on Principle of the Law of Software Contracts (2010) and Restatement of Law, Copyright (ongoing).

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Geri Horner has become Ginger Spice again, ahead of the Spice Girls tour.
The singer and her bandmates Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Emma Bunton are hitting the road for their comeback tour on Friday.
Horner, 46, returned to her ginger colour as she got ready for their shows.
Sharing a clip on Instagram of herself being transformed, she said: “I haven’t had ginger hair for over 20 years I think it is. So I’m a bit scared!”
The star shared pictures of the finished result.
“Ginger is back! “ she wrote.
“Thanks to @lorealhair Preference shade 74 Mango. #Spiceworld2019 #girlpower #worthit#HouseofGinger.”
The Spiceworld Tour was announced last November with six dates, but it was later extended to 13 dates due to popular demand.

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President George W. Bush asked for and got $86 billion for the armed forces and for rebuilding Iraq. Included in this sum was $1.3 billion for veteran health benefits.
When the bill was reconciled between the House and the Senate, this $1.3 billion for veterans health care was removed, and no attempt has been made to restore it
In all fairness, your congressman should hear from you about the missing health care for veterans.
More and more of our troops are being injured and will need treatment from the Veterans Administration.
A call to Ernie Fletcher might help.

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THERE’S a buzz in the air. Amazon is about to start UK trials to make its home delivery drones safer.
As part of its Prime Air initiative, the technology giant has been developing drones that can deliver its parcels to private addresses over short distances. It wants to get parcels to a customer’s door within 30 minutes.
This week Amazon announced that it will work with the government and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to develop better safety regulations and improve drone technology. The coming tests will be the first of their kind in the UK.
The trials will look at systems that allow drones to be controlled out of their operator’s line of sight, something not currently permitted under CAA rules. The tests will also look at how drones can be flown safely over densely populated areas, and investigate sensors to help avoid obstacles.
Last week Amazon also announced a service called Flex, which allows anyone to earn money by delivering packages for the company.
This article appeared in print under the headline “Special delivery”


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A comfortable London hotel with free Wi-Fi and free parking with an easy access to all central attractions.
King Solomon Hotel is situated steps away from Golders Green and Brent Cross underground stations, providing guests with easy access to central London and all it's famous tourist attractions. The location of this hotel is ideal for business visitors and travellers alike. The upmarket area of Golders Green boasts many chic restaurants, bars and cafés, great shops, as well as lovely parks, such as the Golders Hill Park. Top attractions like Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park are within an easy Tube ride.
You can shop for the latest fashions at the Brent Cross Shopping Centre, a short drive from the hotel. With easy access to the M1, A1, and North Circular (A406), the King Solomon Hotel- Golders Green is a 40-minute bus ride from the popular Wembley Stadium.
Each room at the King Solomon Hotel- Golders Green feature comfortable bed, a TV and tea/coffee making facilities. The rooms offer an en-suite shower room. Hairdryers and ironing supplies are available at reception. Metal Shabbat keys are available at reception. Hotel has no lift.
Please note the minimum age for check-in is 18. Guests under the age of 18 can only check in with a parent or official guardian.
155-163 Golders Green Road
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Posted in: WWE Prime Time Edition of WWE Inbox, Daniel Bryan Replacing CM Punk at Upcoming Comic Con
By Marc Middleton
Sep 5, 2013 - 10:18:10 PM
- Here is the latest episode of WWE Inbox:
- As noted earlier, CM Punk has been pulled from his upcoming appearance at the Wizard World Comic Con in Nashville, Tennessee on Sunday, October 20th. Daniel Bryan is now being advertised to appear that day, and he will be signing autographs and taking pictures before participating in a Q&A.


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Daphne is one of the most iconic characters in Storybooth. She appears as a easter egg for viewers to find while watching an animated Story made by Storybooth. (However, Daphne is non-canon when appearing as a easter egg)
Daphne appears as a golden hair girl, with a blue shirt and sometimes dark blue or black pants.
- Daphne's first appearance was in Ainura K's story about cheating in School.
- She has a Official YouTube Channel


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A Connecticut woman claims she was mistaken for a transgender woman in a Walmart bathroom — and now, she's setting the record straight.
In an eight-minute video posted to Facebook last week, Aimee Toms says a woman walked up to her in the women's restroom at one of the retail stores and told her, “You are not supposed to be here! You need to leave!” according to the New York Daily News.
Toms said the incident "really got my gears turning" as to how "amazingly ridiculous" this is becoming as an issue," referring to the recent controversies over whether transgender people should be allowed to use whichever restroom they choose, as opposed to the one that matches their biological sex.
Toms, who has short hair, said she was wearing a baseball cap and a plain blue t-shirt when the incident allegedly occurred. She told the Daily News that she can understand why, at first glance, the woman might have mistook her as transgender.
"But I turned around and I looked at her," she continued. "And at the sake of sounding blunt, I am not a flat chested person. I mean, I have got something going on up here."
Toms went on to voice her opposition to so-called "bathroom laws," like the one recently passed in North Carolina. She referred to such laws as "state-sponsored discrimination."
"If a guy was going to commit a crime in a woman's bathroom, this law isn't going to invite them to do it. They're going to do it anyway," Toms argued.
Toms then compared the issue to how black people wanted to use the same restrooms as whites in the 1960s. "This is nothing different. History repeats itself," she said.
Though upset, Toms did not report the incident, according to the Daily News. Walmart did not immediately respond to TheBlaze when asked about where it stands on the transgender bathroom issue.
One of the retail chain's biggest competitors, Target, recently came out in support of letting transgenders use whichever restroom they prefer.
“We believe that everyone — every team member, every guest, and every community — deserves to be protected from discrimination, and treated equally,” Target said in a statement last month. “Consistent with this belief, Target supports the federal Equality Act, which provides protections to LGBT individuals, and opposes action that enables discrimination.”
(Content warning: Strong language)
(H/T: New York Daily News)
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Travelsonic (too lazy to login: With FS2020 coming out in 6 days, I can't help but wonder what this will mean for the Retro AI community - in terms of bringing retro AI to FS2020, legacy support for FS9/X, etc.
Aug 12, 2020 8:54:45 GMT -6
chasensfo: FS2020 TECHNICALLY can take AI from other platforms(P3Dv4\5), however, just like FS2002-P3Dv3 models needed lots of conversion to work in P3Dv4 and it took years to get this many working, same will go for FS2020 as they don't use .mdl files.
Aug 12, 2020 12:47:07 GMT -6
darrenvox: not too hyped, staying eith 2004
Aug 12, 2020 14:21:31 GMT -6
darrenvox: I think 2020 is awesome but too realistic
Aug 12, 2020 14:21:53 GMT -6


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Most people aspire to have bright, attractive teeth. Teeth whitening is one of the most in-demand cosmetic procedures done at a dentist’s office. Nowadays, there are more options for teeth whitening than it did decades ago. Advances in technology have made teeth whitening procedures even with a single session. Let’s explore the options available to have those pearly whites.
Teeth whitening in the dentist’s office
Teeth whitening is best done by a professional. The dentist is the right person to perform the procedure. Dental hygienists and dental therapists can also do the procedure with the dentist’s prescription.
Depending on the availability, the dentist may apply a gel or a solution –usually hydrogen peroxide– to the teeth. Then heat or light such as a laser is applied to activate the whitening solution.
Another option is that the dentist will fit you with a mouthguard, apply a bleaching agent and send you home after teaching you how to apply it yourself for a set number of sessions. You are then instructed to come back for a follow-up visit.
Some dental offices have equipment that can lighten your teeth in one visit in just a couple of hours.
There are a lot of available over-the-counter preparations that can let you whiten your teeth by yourself at home. These kits may come in the form of gel, solutions, or strips. Most of them, like professional products, are also peroxide-based.
Before you attempt to DIY at home, you should seek your dentist’s advice first as teeth whitening is not a one-size-fits-all. Some people are not good candidates for teeth whitening due to tooth decay, unhealthy gums, or sensitive teeth.
Read the instructions and chemical components to see if you might be allergic to any of them.
Products infused with whitening agents
There are kinds of toothpaste available that have peroxide or baking soda. While the result is not as dramatic as professional whitening, they do have the ability to whiten the teeth one shade lighter.
Who can avail of teeth lightening procedures and products?
Whitening is most effective for people with yellow teeth. This indicates that there is staining in the enamel or outermost part of the teeth.
People with darkly stained teeth might have tooth discoloration due to causes other than staining. Teeth whitening agents and bleaches will not work for them. A damaged nerve root can cause a tooth to turn dark brown, purple, or black.
Teeth whitening should only be performed on healthy teeth and gums. People with tooth decay and gingivitis should first seek treatment for their condition before bleaching their teeth. The dentist will also advise you against it, thus reinforcing the importance of a dental evaluation.
What are the things to watch out for during teeth whitening procedures?
Aside from the already-mentioned allergic reactions, chemical burns on the gums are also possible. This usually happens when the solution is kept in the mouth longer than it should.
There might also be a worsening of sensitivity for people with sensitive teeth.
If you are having your teeth done in a facility, it is prudent to verify the credentials of the person performing the procedure. Make sure they are authorized and licensed professionals like dentists, dental therapists, and dental hygienists.
What causes teeth stains?
There are various causes why our teeth turn shades darker than when we first had them as children. They are as follows:
- Coffee and dark-colored teas
- Soda and other carbonated beverages
- Wine – both red and white. It is the tannin in white that causes the discoloration.
- Fruits that have dark juices like berries
- Foods with deep-colored sauces. Examples are tomato sauce and curries.
- Too much fluoride. You read that right. While fluoride is good for building strong teeth, it can cause staining in excessive amounts.
It is standard procedure to avoid these items after teeth bleaching if you want to keep your teeth white longer.
How much does teeth whitening cost?
This depends on whether you are opting for a top-of-the-line professional procedure or doing it by yourself at home. Home dental whitening kits may come as affordable as $10 while a high-end facility may charge up to $1000 for the procedure.
The results will also vary on how deeply stained your teeth are. In the long run, it is always better to be safe than sorry. What may come cheap might cause you more problems and expenses later on if things don’t turn right.
Fun facts about teeth whitening
- The first whitening agent was a ground pumice stone with vinegar. This practice was being done by ancient Egyptians four centuries ago. Even in ancient civilizations, white teeth were regarded as a symbol of beauty and affluence.
- Urine was once used to whiten teeth. This was practiced by the ancient Romans. The ammonia that is present in urine acts as the bleaching agent because of its acidity. Sounds scientific enough but quite disgusting. Anything for beauty, eh?
- Barbers used to perform teeth whitening procedures. People used to get their sparking smiles from the same shop that cuts their hair. Teeth surfaces are made to roughen up with a metal file. Nitric acid was then applied after, which acts as the bleaching agent. It didn’t bode well for the customers in the end as this led to enamel stripping and tooth decay.
- Hydrogen peroxide was discovered as a teeth whitening agent during gum treatments. Dentists treating gum disease using hydrogen peroxide in the 19th century made this significant observation. This paved the way for the modern teeth whitening procedures that we know today.
Human beings have always valued beauty and will sometimes go to great lengths to polish their looks. Throughout history, mankind has associated good looks with wealth and power. The things that people do in the name of beauty can be beyond mind-blowing. You do not need to be a mega-millionaire though to achieve healthy-looking pearly whites. Tons of options are now available for all kinds of budgets. All you have to do is find one that fits your needs and pocket.


Former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday accused the erstwhile Siddaramaiah government of ‘leaking’ the caste census report during its tenure instead of accepting it.
It had done so to score political points, the JD(S) leader said. If the Congress leader had respect for different castes, the caste census report would have been accepted during his tenure itself, Mr. Kumaraswamy said while speaking to reporters in Mysuru.
Mr. Siddaramaiah had accused Mr. Kumaraswamy of blocking the submission of the caste census report during the tenure of the coalition government. Mr. Siddaramaiah has claimed that the caste census, which he had ordered,was not ready by the time his tenure at the helm concluded. Though it was ready when Mr. Kumaraswamy succeeded him as Chief Minister, the JD(S) leader warned the then Backward Classes Minister against accepting the report, Mr. Siddaramaiah had alleged.
Mr. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday also claimed that Mr. Siddaramaiah presently had no issue other than the caste census, which he keeps raising repeatedly.
To questions on former Minister and Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency’s JD(S) MLA G.T. Deve Gowda’s decision to join the Congress, the JD (S) leader said Mr. Gowda had moved away from the party two years ago.
When it was brought to his attention that Mr. Gowda had blamed him and former Minister S.R. Mahesh, he sought to know why Mr. Gowda was upset in 2008 when he quit the JD(S) and joined the BJP. “With whom was he upset in 2008? Why did he return to the party fold later?”, Mr. Kumaraswamy said before describing Mr. Gowda’s situation as a case of “sour grapes”.
However, Mr. Kumaraswamy sought to make it clear that the party had not asked anybody to quit nor has any injustice been done to anybody.
Asked if he would prevent Mr. Gowda from quitting the party, the JD(S) leader said it was not in his hands. “Whoever believes in the organisational work of the party will be welcomed wholeheartedly. The doors of our party are more open than other parties. People who want to come are welcome, and people who want to leave can go”, he remarked.
However, Mr. Kumaraswamy said he was grateful to Mr. Gowda for acknowledging that it was he (Mr. Kumaraswamy) who took him to former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda that led him to eventually find a place in the State’s cooperative sector.
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Esailama G. Artry-Diouf, PhD
Program Officer, Arts and Culture
Why do you do what you do?
A society is nothing without its arts and culture. My life’s work is always because of and pays homage to those revolutionary Bay Area artists who stood on the front lines of civil and human rights movements and dared to reimagine equity, access, engagement, and hope in this native land we call home.
What drew you to the foundation?
Former Place Pathway Director Landon Williams and his vision for equity drew me to San Francisco Foundation, yet it was the village of the foundation staff who sincerely want to see and shape a thriving Bay Area that inspired me to stay.
How would you describe your role?
In collaboration with a network of staff at the foundation, I oversee arts and culture partnerships and projects that align with the overall mission and equity agenda of the foundation.
Are you involved in any volunteer activities?
Currently, teaching cooking and dance classes to youth in my spare time.

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Kučan's Speech Addressed to the Participants at the London Conference
Ljubljana, 26 August - KUČAN/CONFERENCE/LONDON
"We understand the initiative for the London Conference as an expression of the very serious concern of the government of the UK, the UN, and the international public about the culmination of the war and the ultimate horror it brings to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Furthermore, there is a realistic danger that the war could spread outside the borders of the ex-Yugoslavia," wrote the Slovenian president, Milan Kučan, in his speech prepared for the London Conference. However, Mr Kučan did not go to London, as was decided yesterday at the session of the Parliamentary Commission for International Affairs on the basis of the documents that arrived from Britain's capital. Slovenia's representative in London will be the foreign minister, Dr. Dimitrij Rupel.
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On March 26, Huawei will be announcing the Huawei P40 series of flagship phones. The recently announced Huawei P40 Lite and P40 Lite E also belong to the same family. The Huawei P40 series is expected to rival with the Galaxy S20 lineup of smartphones from Samsung. It is speculated that the Galaxy S20 Ultra which comes with 100x zoom supporting quad cameras will be rivaled by the Huawei P40 Pro smartphone. A popular tipster has shared some important details on the cameras of the Huawei P40 Pro.
A leaked render that had appeared few weeks ago had revealed that the Huawei P40 Pro will be equipped with as many as five cameras on its rear. At that time, the phone was dubbed as Huawei P40 Pro PE (Premium Edition). However, in the new leak, the handset is being called Huawei P40 Pro.
The major difference between the Huawei P40 and P40 Pro will be that the latter will include an advanced camera setup. The new leak reveals that the Huawei P40 Pro PE’s penta-lens camera system will comprise of the 1/1.28” Sony IMX700 52-megapixel Hexadeca Bayer RYYB lens, a 1/1.5” Sony IMX650 40-megapixel utlarwide Cine RGGB lens, a telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom, a dual prism periscope zoom lens with 10x optical zoom and a ToF (Time of Flight) sensor.


On Friday, June 3, the world lost “the People’s Champion,” Muhammad Ali. Ali was hospitalized on June 2 for a respiratory illness and passed away the next day.
The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer first made a name for himself with his skills in the ring during the early 1960s and later for his outspoken views. Ali retired from boxing in 1981, but remained an icon of the sport for the rest of his days. Outside the ring, he fought for civil rights, resisted the Vietnam War draft, served as a diplomat, and advocated for awareness and research about Parkinson’s disease (with which he was diagnosed in 1984).
Throughout his boxing career, Ali had many key matches in New York City, and the Village Voice was there to witness them. From the “Fight of the Century” to the “Super Fight II” against rival Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden to his bout against Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium in 1976, the Voice chronicled Ali’s ascent to greatness as our Male Sports Figure of the Century. (And also that one time he pranked a bunch of fifth graders in Greenwich Village for Candid Camera.)
We dug into the archives for some of the Voice‘s coverage of Ali’s career fights in New York, as well as his impact on the world.
In 2000, the Voice looked back on the century in sports and gave Ali top honors:
When Sports Meets Politics
By R.C. Baker
In an echo of past imperial glory, a supremely confident young warrior named Cassius Marcellus Clay won fame in the brutal arenas of Rome, just as the American Century was beginning to show the cracks and strains of empire. The Olympic year of 1960 would soon be outstripped by “The Sixties,” and no one embodied them more than the newly christened Muhammad Ali: Whether converting to what the ruling class viewed as a bewildering and dangerous religion, partying with Hunter Thompson or Norman Mailer, boosting Howard Cosell’s career, reading poetry in the Village, or, most ominously, refusing to fight the Viet Cong, Ali took hold of America’s hydra-headed monster of race, religion, and class and beat it like a gong.
The frustrated youngster, who threw his gold medal into the Ohio River when he found that even an Olympian was judged solely on melanin content, grew into the man who faced down the entire military-industrial complex as thoroughly as he had that equally fearsome bully Sonny Liston, achieving lasting victory over both. He lost skills and money in the three-plus years he was barred from boxing, but his principled stand won him respect all over the world.
Sport can be suffused with tribal hatreds that leave behind trampled soccer fans or burning, overturned cars, and politics often sully games that only the supremely naive feel should be simple contests of strength, speed, agility, and graceful sportsmanship. Yet Ali, using only that most basic tool, the human hand, whether clenched in a fist or held outstretched in a gesture of trust, reconciliation, and peace, showed that it can also be luminous and poignant.
It was, in fact, Ali’s trembling, stricken hand that lofted the Olympic torch in ’96, and until the bomb went off, we all forgot for a while that politics hang over sports like so many swastika banners festooning 1936 Berlin. But politics ultimately look small and unimportant next to the triumphant, beatific howls of Picabo Street and Michael Johnson, or the desolate rictus of a fallen Mary Decker, or, especially, the Führer’s constipated anger as thousands of good Germans eschewed xenophobia and cheered Jesse Owens’s four gold medals.
The following transcripts are from the February 7, 1974, edition of the Voice, following Ali’s Super Fight II victory on January 28. From his perspective as a former boxer, Jimmy O’Farrell weighed in on Ali’s win.
Ali: Doing what he had to
By Jimmy O’Farrell
Muhammad Ali knew what he had to do to beat Smoking Joe Frazier and he did it. But exactly. A 6-5-1 scorecard doesn’t leave much room.
Everything you’ve got in skills is there early, maybe not later. If you’ve been the greatest and still have shades of greatness, show it quick. Then, when the skills dull let guile fill in. Pull the whole shooting match out right away, and let them talk about you like they did before. They’ll remember what you showed them early and it’ll stick.
Think in terms of Ali’s mind.
I can still do what I did before, but only in flashes. And this guy won’t let up. I got to improvise. And have all the guts in the world. I got a machine coming at me and there’s nobody there to turn off the switch. Only me, except if I don’t do it early there’s not even me.
And that’s what Ali did. He walked out and doubled and tripled his jab, hooked off the jab and showed the screaming worshipers the Ali of the past. For round one and round two. Ali set Smoking Joe up for a one-two in the second round, nailed him perfect, and then the goddam referee almost fouled up the performance.
Poor Tony Perez tells them both to go back to their corners with 20 seconds left in the second round. But Frazier’s legs have buckled and maybe he’s on the way out. What the hell! Tell you the truth if I find out I still had 20 seconds left in the second round and I got my man going and the referee makes us stop for a while I guarantee the first guy I hit at the beginning of the third is Perez. Let them find a new ref!
From here on in it’s flash and guile. Ali picks his spots. Let the six and seven punch combinations go, then hold, walk Frazier around, show some of the footwork, nail him coming in, and hold some more. This gets him by buy he’s got to do it fight. He’s got to do it exact. Because of that goddamn machine. If he don’t fight him perfect he won’t walk out a winner.
But Ali did fight him perfect. When Smoking Joe was applying too much pressure Ali fought him off. This allowed rest. Last 30 seconds of the round Ali let the combinations go. Steal some rounds. Perfect execution. A little cheating, but they took three years away from him. Anyway fighters have been doing this for years.
Christ we’re talking about two of the all-time greats. They’re maybe 70 per cent of what they were. But that 70 per cent can buy and sell what the public has been looking at for years. You don’t knock it.
Ali wrote the script, because he knew the script by rote. He’s not only a fighter, he’s an architect. When they had out awards Muhammad has to get one for writer, as well as performer and director.
(Jimmy O’Farrell is a former amateur champion, fight promoter, and boxing manager.)
Joe Flaherty, who wrote about Ali multiple times for the Voice, took contention with the final call on the Frazier–Ali fight in his 1974 cover story:
Frazier 7 to 5: Muhammad Ali Seagull
By Joe Flaherty
Unless one was blessed with a doctrinaire mind, the whole affair was destined to be steeped in sadness. If you love boxing, an Ali-Frazier fight is similar to a great novel you want never to end. Neither man deserves the damnation of a final chapter.
They have heightened the game by the grace of their colliding styles. Both are artists — Ali fights like a metaphor on a bender while Frazier bows to Thoreau: life should be simplified. Yet a decision had to be rendered, and that soured the stomach.
But this is a singular perversity, a wrongheaded sadness that has nothing to do with the general scheme of things. There is no defense for such dumbness unless one allies with old dogs. But you are what you are and super-charged events have always defeated me.
Clocking the history of my prescience in cosmic affairs bows to the pratfall. Early, the kid said Baltimore would take the Jets, that Minnesota would devour the Kansas City Chiefs. I have touted all the wrong novels of major writers, and as a child the promise of a Zorro serial at a Saturday afternoon matinee moved me to vomiting. Never mind my opinion of Ethiopia as a military might!
But enough of this mock humility, the reader has been hit with enough sucker punches. The elaborate confession was only a device to soften up the sympathetic. On Monday night Joe Frazier won that damn fight seven rounds to five.
Now, to “make everything clear,” I picked Ali to win, as I had in the first fight. Why he failed to achieve the goal says a lot about the ’60s and a ton about New York. Ali’s genius bears strange gifts. (Why else would we deem it genius?)
His campaign started early: those who scored for Frazier in the first fight were not only full of shit but decorated in sheet as well. Now that’s a helluva cross for any liberal to bear. Ali hit us where we live — self-hate. Frazier’s win the first time around was, in the ’60s’ term, a “white man’s decision.” A bit like saying that George McGovern was misunderstood.
What was never considered was that Ali brought to boxing the same nebulous qualities Nixon brought to football. That is, he took it out of the realm of sportsmanship and brought it into sociology. Thus, if you believed in Frazier, there was a residue of honky in your soul, and a Sunday afternoon of football meant you were in the closet for B-52s.
But we have become a people who wink at tyranny. The American mind has closed. Thinking is the kinkiest of occupations, it’s easier to settle for stances. No small reason that David Susskind and William Buckley are regarded as saints.
But let’s talk about the setup. Ali set up the “nigger” game. In the course of his career he has made every black fighter he faced whiter than he is. If one examines the “black odyssey” in America, wasn’t Frazier hinting at that despair? In contrast Ali was pampered. A confessed “mommy’s boy” who was schooled in boxing by a white cop, Ali’s problem, like all geniuses, is that he had the early adoration of women. Frazier worked a meaner street. Denied a father early, Frazier was granted the dubious legacy of becoming a man too soon. Frazier has the touching sense of being left.
But on to the ’60s and New York. It was a decade full of despair, but one in which we never seemed to chastise ourselves. It was 10 years devoid of sin, unless sin was an aberration to which we were entitled. In short, it was a party of spirit, there was no self-denial. Tough work was demeaned. Hemingway became a fraud, a mean memo for rupturing the English sentence; and Mailer was reviewed for macho: not for soul but for his imagined social attitudes. Thus, perhaps that night I committed the sin of all those I didn’t respect. Just maybe I put on intellectual blinkers.
But that is a hand I won’t sit in on. Frazier, according to this eye, did what every fighter is supposed to do: he gave an honest night’s work.
But in public opinion, Frazier was done in early. Larry Merchant in the New York Post made a case for Ali in the first fight second only to Max Lerner on the Vietnam war. Merchant is a man of talent who carries the weight he justly deserves, but he argued with the zeal of Louis Nizer when he has a guilty client. Merchant’s contention was that in the first fight Frazier was hit more often. On re-seeing the fight he had counted the punches. Not unlike Lyndon Johnson pulling out his popularity polls for you.
True, Ali did hit Frazier often — as his lumpy face testified. But Frazier’s face testified. But Frazier’s face, like Marciano’s, is a basic part of his ring gear. It’s his union book where dues are paid in order to let him do his work. What he did right (as he had in the first fight) was to control the evening. Ali passed a great deal of time with his trunks on the ropes. He also held Frazier — not the tactic of a dominating fighter.
For days afterward, I was left in that most dismal of states — looking for allies. In an attempt to cheer me up, my main chum Tommy Sugar informed me on a subsequent morning that two Italian boxing writers from New Jersey also scored the fight for Frazier; but this didn’t alleviate the pain of my shattered ego, since I suspected they were Tony Imperiale’s uncles. All that was missing were the cards of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, and a posthumous nod from Father Coughlin. Such thoughts led me to believe Frazier’s training quarters was possibly called “Mein Kampf.”
So there could be various reasons for this column. A lack of identification could be one. Another excuse could be that too many cathedrals have crumbled, or perhaps it’s just plain dumb. But I’ll stick with the raw decision. The real “nigger” was had.
Take a closer look at the February 7, 1974, edition of the Voice.


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Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan is under fire after owing illegal foreign assets including Rs450 million worth of property in US state of New Jersey and allegedly she had not declared her American property till 2017.
Aleema Khan on Friday (Jan 25) disclosed details of the financial sources for the purchase of properties abroad. According to her lawyer Salam Akram Raja, Aleema Khan and her husband sold their local inheritance to buy property abroad adding that earned money was transferred out of Pakistan through banks. According to the lawyer, Aleema Khan was a 50 per cent owner of a textile company which exports its products. Akram added that foreign earnings of this company were kept abroad and used for purchasing the assets.
The sources of her income and assets have no connection with “charities with which she or any of her siblings is associated”, the statement said. “Suggestion to the contrary was only baseless speculation” and that she reserved all her legal rights. “Likewise, earnings of the company in which our client [Khanum] holds 50 per cent interest that was engaged in the business of export facilitation of textile products from Pakistan,” the statement said. “Part of the foreign earnings of this company was allowed by the applicable law to be retained overseas,” it added.
In December, the Supreme Court ordered Aleema Khan to deposit Rs29.5 million in taxes and fines after taking a suo motu notice of her undeclared property in UAE.
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Annotated typescripts in personalised Maudie Edwards folios, for "A Lady Alone Goes to Hollywood","A Lady Alone Goes to Hollywood: Song Numbers", "A Lady Alone Meets the Press", "A Lady Alone Goes Into Production".
Typed scripts and lyrics for the A Lady Alone series bound in personalised folios [Radio]
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Gaming PSP emulator games can be the best thing to do when relaxing. Sometimes, you may find yourself stuck in downloading and installing different ROMs on your device.
PSP status has to be verified before you download or install PSP ROMs. To ensure that the PSP is operating smoothly, the PSP should be running the latest firmware. Additionally, you will need to install custom firmware. Furthermore, in order to use the PSP as a computer emulator You must connect it to your PC. This article will explain how to download and install PSP Roms for gaming.
Downloading additional custom firmware can damage your PSP hardware. Downloading custom firmware for your PSP is at your own risk.
How do you prepare your PSP ROMs
Download and install the firmware customized for your PSP
The first step is to download the custom firmware that comes with the PSP 6.60 firmware to prepare your PSP. These steps will assist you achieve this goal:
- Click here to download proupdate.zip firmware. You can also search for the most recent PSP firmware on the internet. It’s easy and free.
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Before downloading any ROM, make sure to examine the condition of your storage space and the available memory. Some games may require a large amount of memory whereas others may only require a little. After you’ve analyzed all of these aspects, you can decide which game fits your requirements best. Click the Download Source File button once you have selected the game. You are able to select different sources or mirrors based on what you prefer. Once you have clicked download, wait until ROM files are downloaded.
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Once you’ve got the ROM source files as well as the latest custom firmware installed on your PSP, it’s time to install the ROMs in the PSP. You will need to connect your PSP again via USB. Within the PSP memory, create a new folder and name it “PSP ISO.” On your PC, you can extract the ISO file into a new folder, then transfer the unzipped folder to the PSP within the folder called “PSP ISO.” Once the transfer is complete, disconnect your PSP from the PC and open the “PSP ISO” folder in your PSP. The folder will include the “.exe” executable file. Run it, and wait for the installation process to finish.
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Musical theatre classes are a great class if musical's and performing are your thing! These classes are aimed at primary school aged children (5-11 years old) and are a great way to make new friends whilst dancing away! Classes are run in a fun and disciplined way which works on the IDTA (International Dance Teachers Association) syllabus. As well as solo and group dances, there is also the opportunity to take part in yearly shows, regular dance exams, fetes and fairs.
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In anticipation of possible receipt of substantial EU co-finance via Cohesion Fund, on 13 April 2016 ČD invited three tenders for framework contracts for passenger stock. The size and nature of the potential orders will depend on what services ČD is awarded under contracts and the amount of subsidisation these will be entitled to. One tender involves up to 50 carriages (open saloons) for use on international expresses, designed for top service speeds of at least 230 km/h. Up to 30 DMUs are envisaged for long distance domestic services, one version with 120 seats, the other with 180 seats. Up to 20 EMUs are planned for long distance domestic services, one version with 200 seats, the other with 320 seats. These illustrations come from ČD's design manual for interiors of trains used on middle-distance and local services, so that are representative of what the new stock could look like. The red upholstery is used in first class, the blue in second.

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Zombie PCs also often become spammers themselves, sending out dozens of infected emails to friends, or even people you don’t know – and building the botnets even further, as their criminal masters fade into the background.‘A huge amount of malware is still spread through email attachments,’ says Orla Cox. ‘Although there’s an increase in high-tech methods such as ‘drive-by downloads’, where infected advertising banners and websites are used to spread malicious software, the ‘traditional’ way of spreading infection via spam is still hugely popular.’‘The social engineering is becoming cleverer,’ says Cox. ‘You’ll receive a fake package order, fake invoices – but when you click on the attachment, your computer becomes infected.’Up-to-date protection software and an updated operating system such as Windows will help to defend against such infections before they occur – a much easier way to stay safe than the often-lengthy process of repairing the damage after it occurs.It’s also worth noting that law enforcement won’t treat you as a criminal if you are a victim of this sort of attack. But the best defence of all is, of course, not being a victim in the first place.
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Vol. 19 •Issue 13 • Page 32A
A Complete Home Reference for Sleep
Getting A Good Night’s Sleep: A Cleveland Clinic Guide by Nancy Foldvary, DO, is one of a series of new books written by physicians from the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. Through true cases of victims to a wide range of problems such as simple insomnia and dangerous sleepwalking, it provides a straightforward and clear examination of this serious disorder and serves as a complete home reference.
The mission of the Cleveland Clinic Press (CCP) is to increase health literacy and dispel myths and misinformation about medicine, health care and treatment.
As Americans, we often write off restless nights as a way of life, not realizing that sleep ranks in importance with diet and exercise as vital to our health. Many Americans—70 million to be exact—are sleep-deficient. Most people often regard sleep as not critical but extracurricular and optional. This attitude is dangerous and detrimental to our health.
In her book, Foldvary concisely discusses sleep disorders and their effective remedies. This book gives the sleepless what they need: real, substantive information from a source that is trusted by people all over the world. The book shows:
The author is the director of the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders program and the Sleep Lab at the Cleveland Clinic. Since 1995 she has been involved with research and writing on sleep issues.
To order this paperback book, contact Cleveland Clinic Press, 9500 Euclid Ave., NA32, Cleveland, OH 44195. Cost is $14.95. ISBN: 1-59624-014-8.
About the reviewer: Beth Shepard is a communications specialist and principal of Beth Shepard Communications, LLC.
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New Delhi: The Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh on Friday made it clear to Pakistan that it cannot keep the tap of exporting terrorism to India open and hope for confidence-building measures (CBMs) with it. (Agencies)
"They are bleeding us and you want us to shake hands with you at the military level. I think that is not done. We got to be fair and there has to be level-playing field," Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh said and accused the neighbour of having "double standards" when it says that terrorists were not under its control and conceals them as non-state actors.
"The term CBM has got to be preceded by addressing trust deficit. You cannot talk of these things for endless years the way the things are going on. You cannot afford to keep open this tap of exporting terrorism to India. You have to check that and only then we can move forward," he said.
The Army Chief was answering queries at the India Today conclave about the Army being opposed to the CBMs between India and Pakistan. Gen Singh said "things can improve" if Pakistan tells India that it can come and take stock of terror infrastructure there.
"You cannot have double standards. You say they are not in our control but yet we have non-state actors. They are bleeding us and you want us to shake hands with you at the military level. I think that is not done. We got to be fair and there has to be level-playing field.”
The Army Chief said any decision on the CBMs has to be preceded by both the armies addressing trust deficit. "This is something we have to do because we cannot be talking of something else and doing something else," he said. He cited the example of Pakistan Army's double speak during Kargil war where first it disowned its troops present in Indian territory only to later say that its officers had ventured into Indian territory during that time.
"Let us be sensitive to each other's aspirations, let us go ahead with civility," he said referring to the issue of beheading of an Indian soldier by Pakistani troops. The Army Chief also made it clear that Indian troops had not crossed over to the Pakistan side of the LoC on January 6.
"We have not crossed over anywhere as alleged by Pakistan Army on January 6 to carry out any operation across the LoC. And it (the allegation) was done to justify and legitimize what was done on 8th. The issue is that these can be handled at local level.... Beheading has to be condemned. That is not done," he said.
To a query that governments of India and Pakistan are close to agreement on Siachin but the Army was opposing it, he said, "Please understand it is our area and it is strategically important. Why are we talking about giving our own area to somebody. It defies logic."
On giving more role to women in the Army, he said 200 more avenues have been opened in the force for them as per a study ordered by him. The Army Chief said the women were "strong and robust" and 200 new slots would be given to them.Gen Singh said in the last 65 years, the Army has lost 22,443 men and officers in different wars fought by the country and they have to be given their due by the nation.
To queries on China, the Chief said the Army was prepared and "will not let any asymmetry" affect it. He said the proposed Mountain Strike Corps was in final stages of being cleared by the government and it will be a capability which the force wants as part of its modernisation.
New Delhi: The Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh on Friday made it clear to Pakistan that it cannot keep the tap of exporting terrorism to India open and hope for confidence-building measures (CBMs) with it.


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Kohli prepares with ‘High Altitude Mask’
India’s next match against Pakistan
Both the teams will clash at Dubai International Stadium
New Delhi. A new style of Virat Kohli, who came to the field after the break, is being seen. In his first match of the Asia Cup 2022, where he played a belligerent innings of 35 runs in delicate conditions against Pakistan. At the same time, he scored an unbeaten 59 against Hong Kong, showing his old style. During this, one four and three excellent sixes came from his bat.
The next match of the Indian team is now once again with Pakistan. The clash between the two teams is scheduled to take place on September 4 at the Dubai International Stadium in Dubai. Both the teams have started working hard for the upcoming matches. Kohli is also working hard for the clash with Pakistan. However, the former Indian captain has been seen preparing for the upcoming encounter in a special way.
@imVkohli Wearing A Mask During the Practice Session Before The Sunday’s Match
— virat_kohli_18_club (@KohliSensation) September 2, 2022
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A video of a practice session of Kohli has surfaced before the Indo-Pak clash. In this video, he is seen running with ‘High Altitude Mask’. This mask helps in expanding and improving lung capacity. Not only this, it also increases stamina.
Let us tell you that this type of mask is generally used by mountaineers. Virat wore this mask when he was circling the field. However, after completing the race, he removed this mask. Meanwhile, in the field, Kohli was seen guiding the team’s physical trainer Soham Desai.
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Both Sides of the Giving Hand
A Caregiver’s Spiritual Journey
Looking back on a life, any life, one realizes the only thing we really want in the end is to be relevant. We want to be certain we have made some sort of difference. We want to feel secure in knowing our legacy will not simply vanish with our body as we pass from the planet. This universal longing is at the core of being human.
My choice of career in healthcare, specifically physical therapy, was grounded in this desire to be relevant. Of course I did not realize this at the time I made it. I was completely unable to see the real motives through my own altruistic mask. Moving constantly as a competitive gymnast, a straight-A student, and a chronic perfectionist, I was taught this was the proper way to strive through life. I had my goals, my plans, and my steps marked out and documented in a three-ring college-rule binder, and I never missed an expectation. School was over, a job on a spinal cord and brain injury unit secured, and I was in complete control. My life was perfect. I had become a legitimate caregiver, but it has taken decades to unravel the true magic that lies within and beyond my side of the giving hand.
I spent years perfecting my skills and achieving my goals, but did I grow? Really?
Can one grow if they do not first receive? Can a flower grow without first receiving water from the sky, light from the sun, and food from the soil? Of course not, but I still felt I was in control of my destiny. Can a human body move, work, or provide care without first taking air into its lungs? Of course not, but I stood convinced I was the giver and not the taker for this is where I found my relevance.
I moved appropriately to the world’s standard in other parts of my life as well. I married a loving and successful man, and we set out to make ourselves a family. Is this where I first began to palpate it? Is this the first time I was yanked to my knees? Was this the first realization that control over my life was only an illusion? My heart was ripped open and vulnerable. I found myself groping on the other side of the giving hand with the news of miscarriage number three.
At what moment does a heath care provider, a mother, any human being, understand the choice they have to make? This revelation comes at different times and is cloaked in different circumstances, but the choice is eventually and inevitably made clear to everyone. We are all forced, sooner or later, to stop denying and turn to face our ultimate fears – loss, disability, and death.
Our children came. They are a complete blessing and a pure gift for I had no control over their timing, their health, or their path. This was a pivotal point in my life. I had to humbly acknowledge that I was the receiver. I began to see the finite game of life through the lens of an eternal perspective for the very first time. I began to see you differently. I began to open up to the enormous gifts you possess. Through your brokenness of mind and body you acquired a strength I am just beginning to understand. Please forgive me for denying you the joy of receiving from you more fully. I now understand I truncated a mysterious circle. Through my desire for relevance and the constant movement of the giver, I neglected to receive from you. As a result, I devalued you and missed the culmination of this divine truth. It is in giving that we receive, and it is in receiving a gift that we complete the circle of joy.
I cannot pin point the time or the place. I cannot identify a specific patient or an epiphany. This has been an evolution of heart and soul. It was an enfolding that was not my doing, for it was the doing that needed to be set aside. I needed to cease in the striving for relevance, and as I did I realized relevance itself is a meaningless desire because it is lost within the judgment of the past. The only reality is the gift of the present moment. I could anguish in the guilt and the opportunities lost, or I could move forward and be a different type of provider, teacher, mother, mentor, and friend. One who has a never-ending capacity because now she is open, still, and ready to receive as well as to give.
All of the individuals I have had the opportunity to treat have knit the fabric of who I am. All I can say to you today is, “Thank you.” Though I must admit the ALS population reigns as the supreme teacher. Why? I have to believe the answer to this question lies in the current reality of the inevitable helplessness one feels as a caregiver to these patients. You have forced me out from behind my wall of relevance because I am unable to change the course you face. I can help maintain range of motion, but your muscles still waste away. I can help maximize chest wall mobility, but your respiratory function still declines. I can provide technology so you can move through life, but I am helpless to provide life to your movement. Ultimately, the profound choice to leave this broken house behind and release your soul or continue fighting is yours alone to make. You are the picture of grace in unbelievable circumstance. I am humbled by your strength, and in your presence I feel overwhelmed and vulnerable. My mind is bound tight with the thoughts of my own human frailty. Through you I have realized we are all disabled.
As humans, fear is the only real constant. In some there is the fear of losing power, position, and control. In others there is the fear of not enough resource, opportunity, and security. In others still there is the fear of complete injustice and oppression. We combat these fears by closing ourselves off, hiding our weaknesses, and building up walls of false confidences and disguises of control. In a world where we seem incapable of accepting our own weakness, how can we accept the weakness of others? Not until we become aware of our own brokenness and fear can we embrace the universality of the vulnerable heart. It is from here we will begin to receive and accept every human being as a valuable link in the chain of humanity. It is here we embrace unity.
So in the end I find my own relevance by empowering yours. I began to think it is much less about disability rights and much more about human relevance. We must stop separating the individual with a physical or intellectual limitation into some arbitrary disability category. We must become honest about our universal weakness and surrender to our inherent limitation as human beings so we can evolve in our strength as a unified humanity.
God made it very simple in His two great spiritual laws of love. You must first abide in me with everything you’ve got. Lose the ego and leave your pride outside the door, all your advanced degrees and continuing education hours mean nothing to me. I am the source of your being. I am the movement behind your breath. I am the gift you must receive if you are to have even one more moment of life. Once we realize this unity with the creator of the universe, we can be confident in our weakness. We can accept ourselves where we are without being content to stay there. Movement is life, but first we must be still, open, and humble enough to receive life.
These beliefs were solidified during a short-term medical mission trip to Hengyang China under the guidance of International China Concern. ICC is a Christian development organization who partner with the Chinese welfare system providing love, hope, and opportunity to hundreds of disabled and abandon children. The individual interactions with the children and young adults at the orphanage were powerful because of the grinding need, but in working with ALS patients I was no longer a stranger to feeling helpless against overwhelming reality. What I experienced in China was a deeper understanding of the needs of humanity as a whole.
The experience provided me a broader perspective of the concept of victim. I left China wondering, “Who is it that one prays for?” Is it the abandoned child, or the parent with no resources and no hope? Is it the person in the park with a hard heart who looks in disgust upon a child with disabilities? Is it the corrupt government officials at local levels, or is it the party leaders wrapped and warped by a godless ideology? If one embraces an eternal perspective, all are victims who are separated from the truth, from the source of creation, from love. When a society places value only on the physical and intellectual capacity of its members to give back to the whole, this society starves its heart and its soul.
We are all critical links in the chain of humanity. The truth is you are strong where I am weak. You are able where I am disabled.
Together we are complete.
We find unity in the to and fro give and take of our capacities and gifts as well as our vulnerabilities and weaknesses. As humans we must surrender to each other at the level of the heart, or we remain unable to complete the circle of joy that defines our being human. We remain a disabled humanity. We can only access this heart when we lose ourselves to the point of sharing our deepest fears. We must strip naked the ego and cast away the illusion of our independence and control over our lives. Following my trip to China, I finally possessed an understanding of these strange words of scripture, “Hold on to your life and lose it, lose your life and gain it.” There has never been a time when I felt more alive than when I had completely lost myself and was fully in your presence receiving your gifts.
This is a testimony.
This is a confession.
This is a personal revelation.
This is a caregiver blessed in the light of truth, “For it is in giving that we receive, and it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.”
By: Michele Zink Harris
I wish to thank the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities and all the staff involved in the Pen2Paper writing contest for honoring my journey and my attempt to put this sacred walk into words. My God Bless your every effort.