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Everest has courted controversies, created heroes and villains. India, China and Nepal vie not only for the ownership of the peak, but also for the gallant men who scale it WHO TENZING? In May 2003, Nepal organised the golden jubilee celebrations of the Everest conquest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay . The legendary New Zealander , who carried out a lot of development work in Nepal's Solokhumbu region, was granted honorary Nepalese citizenship.
June 1, 2003
NEW YORK: A blonde, middle-aged woman surveys her hostile surroundings. The "extreme strangeness" of her location fosters "a sense of separation from the rest of the planet". Outside, the world is growing dark and cold.As she steels herself for the challenges ahead, her determination hardens. "I am not afraid of anything..I realise now that I have already lived a lifetime. " It could be Hillary Clinton writing as she contemplates the wreckage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
May 22, 2011
KOLKATA: The Tricolour fluttered once again on Mount Everest on Saturday when two mountaineers from Bengal conquered the peak. Dipankar Ghosh, 44, and Rajib Bhattacharya, 35, achieved the feat along with two sherpas, Furba Sherpa and Karma Sherpa, at around 11 am on Saturday. According to Soumya Mukherjee, the coordinator of the expedition, the team of four started their journey for Mt Everest from what is called the North Pole in Nepal on April 5. "On April 13, they returned to the base camp from Camp Number 3 as the weather was rough.
June 27, 2008 |
Study the life story of successful people and you'll find that they have tremendous enthusiasm or passion to live life. Edmund Hillary who was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay, had failed thrice earlier. Later at a party hosted in his honour in New Zealand, he looked at the portrait of Mount Everest and said: "Mount Everest has a problem. The problem is, it cannot grow more than about 29,000 feet, whereas i have the ability to grow in my ability to climb Everest".
January 27, 2008 |
Tenzing Norgay's son, Jamling, says his father always felt that he would have been happier had he had climbed the mountain with the Swiss (TOI Photo) Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history when they became the first men to climb the summit of Mt Everest as part of the British expedition of 1953. The success of the expedition made both men overnight heroes. But, according to Tenzing's son, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, who spoke with TOI recently, his father always felt that he would have been happier if he had climbed the mountain with the Swiss and not with the British.
January 20, 2008 |
Mountains, they say, are a great equalizer ? all those who come to conquer them must prove their worth. Nowhere is this more true than on the freezing, icy slopes of Mt Everest, the world's highest mountain peak, which continues to test the physical and mental endurance of climbers. Although more than five decades have passed since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stepped onto the jutting slab of hard rock and ice that makes up the summit of Everest, the magic of the mountain has not dimmed.
June 3, 2013 |
The Murshidabad Heritage Development Society (MHDS) named a rare mango sapling after Rituparno Ghosh's first film 'Hirer Angti' to honour the director who had agreed to inaugurate the Mango Haat on Sunday. The fest celebrated 40 exquisite flavours of rare Murshidabad mangoes from Mughal emperor Akbar's era. All the mango varieties are cultivars or hybrids. Danseuse Tanushree Shankar planted the sapling to immortalise the distinguished genius of the artiste. "I had thought mangoes were just a great fruit.
January 11, 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary (right) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay smile during their first interview after their legendary ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 at camp in Thyangboche, Nepal (Reuters File Photo) New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, became the first to conquer Mount Everest in 1953, has died. He was 88. Having conquered the Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary then spent the rest of his life educating people about the dangers of environmental degradation and even looked after the cause of Nepalese Sherpas.
January 11, 2008 |
NEW DELHI: Sir Edmund Hillary, who became a mountaineering legend by conquering for the first time the world's highest summit Mount Everest, devoted his life for the betterment of Nepal's Sherpas who live on the slopes of the Himalayas. A school mountain trip in 1935 made the fragile looking boy to decide that it was his calling in life to scale peaks even as he made his living as a beekeeper. He climbed mountains in New Zealand, then in the Alps, and finally in the Himalayas where he climbed 11 different peaks of over 20,000 feet.
June 2, 2008 |
When was Everest discovered as the world's highest mountain? In 1847, Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India, found a peak in the eastern end of the Himalayas which was higher than Kangchenjunga - considered the highest peak in the world at that time. Indian mathematician and surveyor Radhanath Sikdar was probably the first person to identify that Mount Everest (then known as peak XV) was the world's highest peak as he was the first person to calculate the height of the mountain in 1852.


Toronto come into this game on the back of a 3-2 OT win on home-ice against the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.
Zach Hyman scored two goals in regulation for the Maple Leafs, with Kasperi Kapanen scoring the winning goal 3:43 into overtime. Jack Campbell stopped 35 shots.
The Maple Leafs are averaging 3.54 Goals per Game (GPG), while they are allowing 3.25 (GA). Auston Matthews has 40 goals and 68 points for Toronto, while Mitch Marner has recorded 43 assists. They are 15-7-7 on home-ice this season.
Dallas had a second straight victory with a 4-1 win on home-ice against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.
Jamie Benn scored a hat-trick for the Stars, with their other goal coming from Denis Gurianov. Anton Khudobin made 24 saves for Dallas.
The Stars are averaging 2.66 GPG, while they are allowing 2.50 (GA). Jamie Benn has 18 goals for Dallas, while Tyler Seguin has 41 points and 30 assists. They are 15-10-3 on the road this season.
Toronto Maple Leafs vs Dallas Stars NHL Betting Lines & Prediction
Toronto are struggling for any great consistency this season, but with home-ice advantage and a far more prolific attack than Dallas, they are the tips in our predictions going into this game.


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Along with a restaurant, there's a coffee shop/cafe on site. Free breakfast is available daily. WiFi is free in public spaces. An outdoor pool, a terrace, and a BBQ are also featured at the business-friendly Phoenicia Hotel Nairobi. Free self parking is available. Smoking is allowed in designated areas at this 3.5-star Kiambu hotel.
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Phoenicia Hotel Nairobi offers 37 accommodations with a safe and complimentary bottles of water. LCD televisions come with premium satellite channels. Bathrooms include a shower and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided on a daily basis.
Guests are served a free buffet breakfast daily.
Phoenicia – This restaurant specialises in local and international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Golden Fork Coffee House – This coffee shop specialises in local and international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool.
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To arrange for check-in, guests must contact the property at least 24 hours prior to arrival using the information on the booking confirmation. Guests arriving after 10 PM must make advance arrangements by contacting the property using the information on the booking confirmation. Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in information. Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival.
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December 4, 2020
Associations Between Gaming Disorder and Depression or Anxiety Are Unclear, New Study Finds
Also: A Q&A with Michelle Colder Carras, the lead author of the study, about the role of public health research in gaming and online communities, as well as their potential for delivering public health information and services.
Michelle Colder Carras, a faculty associate in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, recently led a review of published systematic review studies that look at the associations between gaming disorder and depression or anxiety. The study, published in PLOS One, found that the link is not clear. Moreover, the authors found selective outcome reporting and a general lack of rigor in the systematic reviews they evaluated. Despite these problems with the evidence base, many organizations, such as the WHO and the American Psychiatric Association, are targeting gaming as a public health concern.
Some key study findings:
- There are plenty of studies, but the evidence about links between disordered gaming and depression/anxiety has not been systematically reviewed in a rigorous way.
- The study authors found selective outcome reporting in all reviews, indicating bias in the literature. That is, the reviews left out outcomes that found no association between gaming disorder and depression or anxiety.
- Every review about gaming disorder included studies measuring Internet addiction or some other form of technology use problem in general, meaning that, from the perspective of researchers and reviewers, there is likely still conceptual overlap between these various disorders.
- What’s really needed are well-conducted systematic reviews on gaming disorder that follow current standards for reviews and separate gaming from other behaviors—these would better inform policy and prevention measures.
Colder Carras answers some questions about her study and what she sees the role of public health research is in gaming and online communities, as well as their potential for delivering public health information and services. She also discusses some of her ongoing research she is conducting with Alain Labrique, PhD '07, MHS '99, MS, a professor of International Health at the Bloomberg School and Director of the Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative.
What is gaming disorder, and how big of a problem is it?
Gaming disorder as defined by WHO is an addictive behavior caused by video gaming that lasts for at least a year and leads to significant life impairment. In these cases the gaming behavior has serious negative consequences such as impairment in work or family functioning, but the person continues the harmful patterns of gaming despite these consequences. The prevalence of gaming disorder worldwide is difficult to measure because of a lack of agreement on measurement scales. The prevalence seems to be higher for adolescents than for adults, and greater for males than females. Global estimates range from less than 1% (representative samples in Europe) to 27.5% (gamers recruited from online gaming websites).
What’s the difference between playing a lot of video games and gaming disorder? How do you know if you should be worried for your kids or yourself?
Many people play video games a lot. They can be a way to take a break from the stress of everyday life, which has been vital during the pandemic when other activities aren’t accessible. They can be a great way to connect, too, whether you’re playing with someone you’re with or someone halfway across the world. But when play really interferes with life and the person doesn’t cut back on playing in response to negative consequences, that may indicate a problem. This may be caused by other problems, like depression, anxiety, or a pandemic. If you’re playing so much that you’re not spending time with your significant other, or if your play makes it hard to do your job, that’s a problem. If your child skips sleep or meals to play, that’s also a problem.
Your study showed that the evidence linking gaming disorder with mental health problems was flawed. Do we need to worry about gaming and mental health?
Our study showed that systematic reviews that talked about these links had sometimes serious flaws, but that doesn’t mean the links aren’t there. The evidence for gaming disorder is just not very systematically collected. There are still many, many different ways to measure it, and many different disciplines where these studies are done. In public health, it’s important to conduct and report studies about health problems in a standardized way—we know that’s how we have to work towards a body of evidence that helps us make decisions about population health. We’re not seeing that yet in this literature, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a problem.
There are specialized games made for health purposes, but can commercial games be good for you too?
Clinicians and researchers have realized for decades how useful games could be to help people learn about health conditions, and the FDA just issued its first approval of a video game as a medical device. With games for health, the problem is that they often aren’t fun enough to keep people playing. Clinicians are now realizing the potential therapeutic uses of commercial video games, which are created for entertainment, for things like physical rehabilitation. That’s why I like to study how commercial video games themselves, and the communities that spring up around them, might be useful if they're incorporated into health interventions. A person who is suffering from social isolation or social anxiety, for example, may benefit from playing games that involve interacting with other players.
Is game socializing as good as in-person socializing?
Socializing while playing a game is different and has unique advantages and disadvantages. What's obvious now from the pandemic is that people can and do use commercial video games to connect—to create and maintain social bonds. Through these bonds we give and receive the kind of social support that helps buffer against stress, including the stress of the pandemic. The anonymity of online settings can help people be more authentic by opening up more. But online settings have downsides related to this as well. Sometimes people behave in a negative way online, whether in games, social media, or through other communication platforms. Trolling, toxicity, and cyberbullying are problems that reflect ways people engage sometimes. These are unfortunate extensions of real-life behaviors that are made easier by online anonymity. Communities that make clear rules of behavior, then monitor and enforce them, are doing the right thing to protect their community members.
How do you study how games might be useful for health? What kind of data do you collect?
I’ve conducted a few different kinds of studies that examine relationships between gaming and health. A review we did in 2018 showed that there’s a small but growing body of evidence to support that gaming can have beneficial health effects. For example, people who played Tetris within a few hours of a traumatic event had fewer intrusive thoughts in the following weeks, and people with depression who played Bejeweled had clinically significant improvement in their depressive symptoms. I recently conducted a qualitative study where I spoke to military veterans who were in treatment for mental health problems about how they felt games helped their mental health. Our team found that veterans used games to connect with others, to distract them from overwhelming mental and behavioral health symptoms, such as suicidal thoughts and substance cravings, and even to bring meaning to their lives through reframing difficult experiences of providing job opportunities in professional gaming. Right now we're working with a nonprofit veteran and military gaming organization to learn about how their Discord server promotes connectedness and supports the mental health of its members. For this study, we're collecting chat data and combining that with a survey and interviews to get a more complete picture of the ways in which different aspects of online connection support mental health, especially during the pandemic.
How can people balance the potential problems of gaming with the benefits you've mentioned?
Gaming and the communities that spring up around gaming can provide a lot of potential benefits. This is the same for all health interventions, from medicines to health promotion campaigns. They can be really helpful, but in some cases and for some people, they can have negative effects. As with any other life area, there has to be balance. More public health research needs to be done on how commercial video games can help people. These are games that you would buy for fun, not games that are made for health purposes. We need this research to be especially rigorous, because we already know that some people might be vulnerable to problems caused by out-of-control play. It's important that this research directly examines links between games and actual health outcomes, and that it addresses the types of bias inherent in different designs to make sure that any claims about the health outcomes of playing commercial games clearly reflect the nuanced factors that contribute to any advantages and disadvantages.

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The Rivers Council grew out of the New Hampshire Rivers Campaign, a group of concerned citizens and conservation organizations that united in 1985 to create a voice for protection of New Hampshire rivers. The Campaign helped establish the state’s Rivers Management and Protection Program in 1989. The Campaign also helped shepherd river nominations into the new state protection program and helped establish river corridor protections under the state’s Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act. In 1992, the participants in the campaign recognized the need for a permanent, ongoing voice for river protection in the state, and formed the New Hampshire Rivers Council.
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Laying of carbon steel pipeline
Laying of 12 inch steel pipeline at Sumerpur, Rajasthan civil and mechanical works for preparation, laying and installation of carbon steel pipe in soft soil as well as rocky strata by open trench method.
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The haunting cry, "I CAN'T BREATHE" has echoed around the world and its impact grows daily. Eric Garner's dying words have become an eloquent expression of helplessness and frustration at black men dying at the hands of police who walk free.
This movement clearly now has legs. It has a past -- deep and ugly -- in American history. And it has a future. The presence of many white protesters and elite athletes in the mix makes it stronger. Rallies that continue all across the country in good weather and bad indicate it is not going away soon.
"I CAN'T BREATHE," was Eric Garner's dying indictment of a system that keeps racial minorities in a chokehold of poverty, hopelessness and systematic mistreatment. "Here we go again," many said when the Staten Island grand jury failed to indict, despite the autopsy finding that Eric Garner's death was a homicide. Circumstances may be different, but whether it's Ferguson, New York or Cleveland, the pattern is the same.
Grand juries decisions not to indict police in these deadly incidents brought this issue to the forefront, but those choices are part of a time-honored practice in the United States. Yes, the legal system is flawed but these recent incidents are rooted in our dark past.
The violence needed to keep African Americans in their place under slavery and then legally sanction racial oppression did not evaporate. It just put on a badge. Centuries of discrimination and prejudice brought us to this place. Many Americans still do not understand that, but some willfully ignore it.
We can hear the approval of extreme police violence in the voices of those who blame the victims, those black men and children dying over a few cigarettes, a tax law misdemeanor, playing in public with a toy gun.
For years there has been a known fact of harassment, as in highway stops for "driving while black!" I can promise you there is one in every black family who has fallen victim to these acts of unjustified suspiciousness and disproportionate stopping of motorists.
What's different today is that the larger picture of injustice and mistreatment is coming into focus. For years, the media and the public seemed to see isolated incidents. But the pattern cannot be denied any longer.
"Earlier today, the grand jury declined to return an indictment in this case," Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed after the New York decision." Now that the local investigation has concluded, I am here to announce that the Justice Department will proceed with a federal civil rights investigation into Mr. Garner's death."
President Obama gave an interview on BET and talked candidly about race in America, including the Brown and Garner cases. The President discussed a long range of race issues. Peaceful protests, he said, remind the public of progress yet to be made.
I believe it's all about race until we, as Americans, are willing to call it what it is our country will have a difficult time moving forward. Would we trust a doctor to treat an illness before giving a reasonable diagnosis? The real question is how do we erase attitudes in society that allow police to shoot first and ask questions later?
Peaceful marches should continue. Laws that make changes should be enacted. But we need a plan for justice. We need Obamacare for the criminal justice system. The plan should start with dialog, across racial lines. The fear and resentment that makes someone dial 911 because the person holding a rubber rifle or plastic gun is black is an illness. Police are infected, too, when they go immediately to deadly force. This sickness can be treated. But first it must be recognized, diagnosed.
Many will say they are tired of talking, for me I am disgusted with how the police are mistreating killing, shooting, beating, interrogating, belittling our black men. If communication is the first step to prevention I say let's do it. If we don't, history will repeat itself.
How many will die before we take action? How many will have to utter the words "I Can't Breathe!"?


Managing complexity in the smart grid through a new approach to demand response
Boait PJ., Ardestani BM., Mark Rylatt R., Richard Snape J.
Adoption of weather-dependent renewable generation of electricity has introduced additional complexity to the challenge of maintaining a dynamic equilibrium between generation and electricity demand. At the same time the need for electricity to power heating and transport in place of fossil fuels will lead to congestion in distribution networks. Part of the solution will be to manage domestic electricity demand using signals between the smart grid and smart home, but this must be done in a way that does not provoke further instability. We use an agent-based model of household electricity consumption and supply to show how the complexity of domestic demand can be shaped allowing it to make a contribution to system stability. A possible role for this method in balancing conflicting interests between electricity consumers, suppliers, and distribution network operators is discussed.


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Manchester United legend Wes Brown has heaped praise on Marcus Rashford after his remarkable rise at Old Trafford this season.
The 22-year-old has stepped up for United following the summer sale of Romelu Lukaku, which has allowed him to become the clear first choice up front for manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Brown knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a success at Man Utd after a trophy-laden career there himself, and he is in no doubt about expecting big things from Rashford.
Speaking to the Metro, the former Red Devils defender said that if Rashford carries on playing like this he can become remembered as an all-time great at the club.
“He’s playing some excellent football and just made his 200th appearance,” Brown said.
“He’s scored more goals at this stage of his career than some of the top players in history.
“Marcus is a Manchester United player. He will only want to help the club and improve as a player.
“He’s at that stage now where if he can continue like this, he does come into the greatest of all time bracket for United so I’m sure that’s what he’s thinking about.”
United fans will certainly hope Brown is proven right on this, with the Manchester giants having a great history when it comes to bringing through players from their academy.
MUFC have produced some quality footballers down the years, with homegrown players like Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs playing major roles in the team’s success under Sir Alex Ferguson.
Rashford could be another big success story after such a fast start to his career, with it being easy to forget just how young he is and how much he could still improve.

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I had the opportunity to capture Ben & Theresa’s maternity session at NAS Pensacola’s Mustin Officer’s CLub beach late this summer (you can check out their session here).
I also had the opportunity to capture their little one’s newborn session. Let me tell you, this little lady is stinking adorable! Although she wasn’t all into having her portraits taken, she did relax a bit as time went on. Mom & Dad were great and a huge help throughout the session!
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Thank you so much to Ben & Theresa for allowing me to capture these very precious moments of your daughter’s life! It was so wonderful working with you – I look forward to an opportunity to do so again in the future! :)

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Houston, TX extreme music collective Omotai will release its sophomore LP Fresh Hell on February 18 via The Treaty Oak Collective / The Path Less Traveled. Fresh Hell features seven frenetic explosions of sound, a deft blend of grindcore, sludge and progressive noise-rock and is the follow up to the band’s punishing 2012 full length Terrestrial Grief, which was hailed as “a hard-hitting throat-punch of assaultive noise” and an “interstellar masterpiece” by the Houston Press. In advance of the record’s release, Decibel premieres the new Omotai song “Throats of Snakes,” saying “If you don’t think Kylesa are shouty enough anymore, and need some more space rock effects, then this band is for you.”
Omotai is a rarity in the world of the heavy – a curious stylistic alloy, a band wielding the doom metal truncheon with a math rock deliberation. The apoplexy of each gnashing riff –conveyed live via a massive wall of amplification — is enough to bring the surrounding atmosphere to a target resonance, the audience appropriated as a biological component of the sonic transmission. Formed in 2009 by Sam Waters (guitar, vocals) and Anthony Vallejo (drums, vocals), Omotai soon recruited Melissa Lonchambon Ryan (bass guitar, vocals) and hit the studio immediately to record their debut EP Peace Through Fear, taking cues from 80’s thrash, 90’s noise rock, grindcore and sludge. The band’s debut full length, Terrestrial Grief, distilled Peace’s strongest points while upping both the math and whiplash quotients by several orders of magnitude and just last year, the group became a four-piece, adding guitarist/vocalist Jamie Ross. Omotai’s thundering, circling sound has drawn comparison to Neurosis, Mastodon and Kylesa and the band’s mesmerizing live performances have seen it share stages with Yob, Pallbearer, Eyehategod, Dark Castle, Inter Arma, Baroness and more.
Omotai’s Fresh Hell is available for pre-order. The LP’s first pressing is available in black, clear orange (with black haze) and white vinyl and includes an immediate high-quality download of the album.
Fresh Hell track listing:
- Get Your Dead Straight
- Back Office
- Giant Pygmy
- Throats of Snakes
- Laser Addict
- We Don’t Have to be Strangers
Omotai’s Fresh Hell album release show is set for Friday, February 21 at Fitzgerald’s in Houston (w/ Lions of Tsavo, Baring Teeth, Turbokrieg). Additional, just-announced live dates are as follows:
February 21 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s (“Fresh Hell” album release show)
March 13 Austin, TX The Legendary White Swan (unofficial SXSW gig)


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We can't count the number of times a tabloid has knocked up Jennifer Aniston over the years, although a quick estimate places it somewhere in the eleventy-billion range. And this week, the bun-in-the-oven burblings ramp up once again, courtesy of the routinely reliable Us Weekly.
"Jen's Big Secret," trumpets the cover. "Pregnant! After years of trying, she's finally ready to be a mom at 44."
According to the mag, the future Mrs. Justin Theroux is "thrilled beyond belief" by the news, but she has decided not to confirm her expectant state for a while for fear that something might go wrong.
"She is scared of having a miscarriage, given her age, so they are not saying anything until she is six months along," shares an inexplicably blabby source, adding, "They're extremely happy. This is the baby Jen always wanted."
Eagle-eyed celebrity belly watchers (hey, everyone needs a hobby) have been particularly focused on Aniston's midsection since early August, when a close-fitting purple gown she wore to the New York premiere of "We're the Millers" highlighted what appeared to be a slightly swollen midriff.
Of course, that could have also just been evidence of a hearty dinner, especially considering Jen's abdomen looked enviably flat during a Mexican getaway with Theroux, 42, on Aug. 20.
But the stork speculation kicked into high gear last weekend as she promoted "Life of Crime" at the Toronto International Film Festival in a corseted Vivienne Westwood gown, which featured an eye-catching drape across her middle (left).
Us says Aniston has been trying to hide her "growing bump" on the red carpet, and asserts her "stylist had to redo her whole press tour wardrobe."
As for her much-discussed wedding to Theroux, that's supposedly on the back burner because "the baby is taking priority."
The official word? Jen's rep firmly denies she has a bun baking in her over-scrutinized oven.
Still, the actress has long talked about having kids, even if the emphasis has changed over the years. Keep clicking to read what she said, then and now ...

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LONDON – The Bank of England's new governor voted with other policymakers earlier this month as they refrained from pumping more money into Britain's economy.
The minutes to the Bank's policy setting were eagerly anticipated as analysts try to work out what change Mark Carney brings to proceedings. His vote to keep policy unchanged contrasts with the recent stance of his predecessor, Mervyn King, who had been voting for another monetary stimulus.
As well as keeping the 375 billion pounds ($579 billion) stimulus unchanged, the nine rate-setters voted unanimously to keep the Bank's main interest rate at 0.5 percent.
Jobs figures, also released Wednesday, from the Office for National Statistics showed a drop in the British unemployment rate to 7.8 percent in the three months to May.


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How to stop a dog from nipping hands,how can i make my dog stop digging holes in the yard,dog training at home tips - Plans On 2016
Author: admin, 08.11.2015Some people will say mouthing is different than nipping and nipping is different than biting and while I understand and agree with most of what they are saying the problem is that puppy teeth are going on human skin or clothing! Figure out what type or reward or payoff your puppy is getting out of mouthing, nipping, or biting.
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In this episode of The Ken Show we explore five themes near and dear to the liberal heart — tolerance, nonviolence, power, privilege, and gender — celebrating the healthy aspects of each that we want to include in a more integral embrace, while weeding out the unhealthy regressive narratives that most of these have devolved into.
Issue #1: The Paradox of Tolerance
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Liberals like to think of themselves as the party of tolerance and inclusion, with a massive index of various intersectional identities that it likes to parade around as evidence of its radical inclusivity. And yet, most liberals seem to find themselves either stuck either in what Karl Popper called the “paradox of tolerance”, or else regressed toward an exclusionary and condescending “us vs. them” mentality that, while using the familiar slogans and soundbites of tolerance, have become every bit as ethnocentric and discriminatory as the most conservative groups they criticize. What is a more integral approach to tolerance, inclusion, and diversity? Watch to hear Ken’s thoughts.
Issue #2: The Spiral of Violence
Martin Luther King Jr. famously described the “descending spiral” of violence, a sentiment that is frequently shared by many on the political left. And yet, liberals often have a somewhat naive relationship with violence and nonviolence, either shying away from violence in all its forms, or less commonly, using violence to impose their views and values on others. What is the most appropriate use of violence and/or nonviolence in today’s world? Is there any place at all for violence when it comes to political dissent within our own nation? And is there such a thing as an “ascending spiral” of violence that can actually be aligned with Eros, or is violence always the shortest path to Thanatos?
Issue #3: The Power Lens
When we live in a world as dominated by plutocratic forces as ours is today, it is essential that we learn how to more skillfully relate to these power dynamics. And yet, because Green liberalism is typically so allergic to all forms of power, it is often the case that the “power lens” only lens they use to make sense of the world, through which very person or group of people is seen as either victim or oppressor. Regressive versions of liberalism, meanwhile, try to surreptitiously exert their own power over others by controlling speech and virtue signaling. Does the integral lens reveal anything particularly important about how to better navigate the genuinely oppressive systems and structures of power in the world?
Issue #4: Privilege vs. Predisposition
Like most liberal values, the notion of “privilege” originally came from a legitimately good and healthy place, and represents an important but fairly nuanced cultural injunction for all of us — to simply reflect on how much of our lives have benefitted from unseen advantages that come from being born into a particular race or gender or economic class, and to also reflect on how there are others people in our society have not benefitted from those same hidden privileges. However, like most liberal values, it is a notion that very quickly became abused and misused by regressive leftists and conservatives alike, both of whom use the term “privilege” as a bumper-sticker euphemism for “I hate white people”. Is there a way to enact the idea of privilege that remains useful at the integral stage?
Issue #5: Sex and Gender
One of the legitimate triumphs of the postmodern stage was the fact that it successfully differentiated the concept of “sex” from that of “gender”, offering a far more sophisticated and nuanced view of our sexuality than the “there are only two genders” attitude of previous altitudes. On the other hand, this conversation tends to very quickly slide from one form of quadrant absolutism (only biology is real) to another form of quadrant absolutism (only culture is real). And when that happens, gender itself gets deconstructed into oblivion. While it is perfectly fine to bring some more granularity to the various categories of sexual attraction, sexual identity, and sexual behavior, the minute we begin to deny or downplay any of the other fundamental dimensions of our sexuality, we only compound the confusion and create more division between us. What is a more integral approach here?
Toxic Masculinity and Toxic Femininity
The idea of “toxicity” is another concept that seems to be almost entirely misunderstood by culture at large, which needlessly fuels the culture wars. For many, terms like “toxic masculinity” are interpreted as an attack against all men, as if masculinity was itself inherently toxic. For others, it’s clear that only certain expressions of masculinity and femininity can be seen as truly toxic, and this is not an effort to write off an entire sex or gender or polarity. This conversation often devolves into dangerous platitudes like “believe all women” — which, in an attempt to combat toxic masculinity, only ends up enabling toxic femininity. Can an evolutionary or developmental approach help us make more sense of these sorts of typological dysfunctions?
About Ken Wilber
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And then there were four. It's been a thrilling NCAA Tournament thus far, but only UConn, Purdue, NC State and Alabama remain. On Sunday, NC State was able to punch its ticket to the Final Four, dominating Duke in the second half of their showdown.
A lot of people thought the Blue Devils would have no issues taking down the Wolfpack, but NC State was able to post a 76-64 victory. Could this team go on to play for the title?
Next up for NC State will be a showdown against Purdue this weekend. The Boilermakers will be the favorites, but the Wolfpack have proven they can knock down the 'better teams' on paper than them. We'll see if they have 1-2 more improbable wins in them.


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The town is abuzz with fear … the Antichrist is here. America is changing. It’s “Hail Mary”, also known as “The Big Bang”. Prophesy calls it World War III, in the Bible, Armageddon.
Don't confuse "The Big Bang" as a theory that created the Universe.
In this editorial, it is not a cosmos explosion — it is an internal implosion that destroys America.
As a writer whose many published editorials always thrust a foot forward into the future every time portentous events leave the door ajar, this overpowering mood — I told you so – is hard to resist and it is taking me over as I frantically punch the keys of the computer.
This editorial sequel I am now trying to reach you about as quickly as possible is quite ominous to townsfolk in backyard politics. When Barack Hussein Obama took over the presidency by storm [hook or by crook if you may considering that the fake birth certificate issue is still haunting the public like this wicked ghost in the bedroom that haunts in the depth of night when the lights are out], we are just a button away to nuclear war … to the “end of the world” as foretold.
World War III is associated with the coming of the Antichrist. But even believers of the arrival have a good reason to doubt because what has been foretold was unquestionably biblical or mystical although unfolding events reveal certain stark similarities that are undeniably real. Let’s review what I have written and published before. The coming of the Antichrist has been envisioned in many oracles which include the predictions of Nostradamus. This forfeits some sleepless night among those who think that in the oracles, in fact Obama could be the new antichrist arrival that spiritual pundits had eagerly awaited.
The main reason for this public trepidation is that we don’t know much about the president-elect then when the nation voted left – not yet anyway until now when his actions create events or happenings that bring us back to those terrifying prophesies.
There is no doubt that this is a sensitive issue to write about. We cannot be reckless in the way how this alarming phenomenon should be editorially portrayed for fear of being accused by Obamanoids that the expose is a delusional adventure, the writer lampooned or publicly derided by Obama supporters as a prejudiced non-colored slave master punching the reigning Moon of black Americans all over the country to knock it out of sight and once more leave them in the dark. Feeling isolated or discriminated against, they call this prejudice or bigotry.
Be that as it may, let me therefore start a poetic introductory as a soothing balm, simply by saying that the searing heat of summer has tapered off, and snow is coming. And so like the coming of the snow, just around the corner is the winter of our lives under President Obama who is so proud of his half African race for surviving a nation that had once practiced slavery … a nation that put a chain to the ankles of his ancestry.To divide this nation and conquer isa God-given opportunity for Obama to teach a racial lesson of black superiority, whichof course is doubly threatening [see the Doctrine of Yakub].
I describe this opening précis as follows: The disturbing coincidences between prophesies and real events are almost unbelievable. However, this column is first to admit that to make a conclusion by relying on prophesy alone does not make anyone of us a faultless or even a better visionary than a dissenting cynic who could be anyone of the angry Obamanoids. This is the caveat I serve to everyone even as I synthesize the comparison between prophesies and Obama, the new arrival as prefigured by many well-known soothsayers.
Furthermore, in this popular NWS populist site, there are specially targeted learned readers of editorialized revelations written in a somewhat higher plane judging from the frequent use of allegory and deeper euphemism to stress a critical point that the author wishes to convey … especially for those who love to warm themselves at home by the fireplace while snow starts to fall and settles on windowpanes; seated by the fireplace as we watch the flying sparks and the glowing ember of warmth and comfort of home sweet home, we could not help but ponder upon the radical changes Americans are still going to face in the days ahead, and wonder with utmost concerns what the future might be for America.
Similar imagery of the Antichrist from several writings outside of the bible-Nostradamus prophecy maybe sourced elsewhere; these no doubt also portend to be hypothetical or anecdotal yet it is very disturbing to reflect on each of them, especially during this time of uncertainties when a great majority of worried Americans cannot escape thinking what life in America is going to be under a radical liberal leadership that continues to muscle Americans to obeisance and submission, and how would Americans adjust their thinking and way of life in a new socialist environment where everyday resistance and civil disobedience are getting to be worrisome and becoming more dangerous.
One may even venture to say – and could hardly be wrong — that some or many Americans today anticipate a very dangerous civil unrest; in fact quite a number of them expect the coming of the second civil war; by now they could be probably shining their boots and cleaning their guns ready to do battle or fire their first shot. All of these happenings are monitored in our security screen, and we know that these are precipitated by the arrival of the Antichrist.
What seems to be the anchor of these symmetrical beliefs, i.e., that the Antichrist has arrived to recreate America and bring it down to its demise is that the predictions and prophesies are congruent at a particular point of reference or point of reality.
Here are examples of these disturbing prophesies that match with reality: Prophesy: The Antichrist is of Middle East/African ancestry who talked his way to become a Secular Messiah of the most powerful nation on the planet and eventually became the world’s most feared leader. Reality: As we know, the United States is the mightiest nation on the planet that just recently elected a new president. The rest about this new president is now a media event.
Again, in the prophesy, the cunning Antichrist is described as having a fork tongue, a glib talker of his cause that holds his listeners of opposing political, cultural and religious persuasions, color and creed, crazily spellbound. He cracks the whip and demands obeisance from all who are subject to his charisma … a new leader that would lead the world under his command, to anywhere, or in anyway he pleases.
In the real world, Obama unleashed his powerful oratory to justify the bombing of Pakistan if the pro-terrorist leadership there would not obey his wish and command to isolate Osama bin Laden that would lead to his capture; to the world he is America’s first dictator that his own State Secretary Hilary Clinton, in her primary election campaign against Obama, considers more dangerous than former president Bush and Saddam Hussein combined.
A Canadian literary seer sees Obama as an obscure lying politician with a gifted tongue: “When all the rhetoric is boiled down to its substance, the man is advocating unlimited state-sanctioned murder [abortion] and compounds it by indulging in habitual falsehood …[An] African-American talk show host in Los Angeles … listed 39 significant details that Barack Obama claimed were facts about himself, but on further investigation were proved [proven] to be simply untrue.”
But here is how the dividing line between myth and reality disappears: The myth or mystical belief: Since the era of racial segregation that followed the Great American Civil War, it has always been a wistful thinking if not plain insanity for anyone to expect an African-American candidate, especially one with an agenda to “change” capitalism to socialism in this country, to get elected president of the United States. Reality: But several months before November 4, 2008, there was a Media bubble about Obama for the best of America to come, and on Election Day, America voted left.
This bubble burst. America is changing from what it used to be to what’s going to be … a nightmare to the majority of the American people earning $250,000 a year or more, orowning big, wealth-producing corporations, and too frightening to the rest of Americans who are not in welfare but who are scratching the ground to provide for welfare!
In these illustrations, the dividing line between Myth and Reality had disappeared. The oracle of doom is terrifyingly accurate … dreadfully true, to say the least!
Is this not in fact a demonstration of the insuperable power of the Antichrist over the captivated American electorates under his charismatic spell when America voted left? Although we generally do not believe in oracles, this explains our mental reservations, why maybe we should.
It cannot be denied that similar to the fork-tongued Antichrist, Obama’s image of self-contradictions is universally known beyond any reasonable doubt. This is not a made-up conclusion … it is not an idle talk either, or just a parochial illusion. There is no uncertainty or skepticism about it. I happen to be just one of hundreds maybe thousands of Media sentinels of freedom of expression in this country who have written and published a truckload of editorials on “oxymoron” attributed to Obama when he was candidate for president, and as president up to this point in time.
What could be tracked down surprisingly with ease is that this likeness of the Antichrist converges with the major attributes of the new arrival as foretold.
This Antichrist — biblical antagonist of Christ that arrived — is described as champion of mendacity, a messiah of falsehood, a master-blinder of truth. These manifest characteristics of the Antichrist who with an unchallenged power in his hand rules the world, breed animosity, which leads to conflicts and bloody confrontations and eventually, to a nuclear war – World War III or in the prophesy, Armageddon. It will be started by a civil war in the United States.
The false prophet and his disciples are now indoctrinating the youth of the land to become Obamanoid converts to do his battle. Have a good idea what this is all about by turning the knob at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_J3iXLdPVI&feature=related.
Here’s the problem: Obama was a bible candidate for president when he run to capture the White House. His fork tongue which has been described as as sharp as that of the prophesized Antichrist, captivated the fanciful dream of the youth of the land to stay irresponsibly young and carefree. As the free spirit of the time, they tend to be unemployed. To survive without work is not a problem if Obama becomes president. There was a promise to take good care of them as well as the nation’s economically disadvantaged. Obama run on a welfare platform. It’s payback time, and we see this agenda now unfolding before our eyes being carried out to the letter.
Rather than just hang around, why mustn’t the young do something for their country – maybe a community service or training in the military? With nothing to lose, the half-a-million youngsters with military training would eventually become Obama’s army to be dispersed throughout the United States in preparation for the civil unrest or civil war that many expect to come anytime from now.
As I write this down, Obama and his comrades in Congress are now gathering their army. Find this out here: http://www.progressive.org/wx081209b.html. This confirms the anxiety of millions of Americans that Obama is preparing for a bloody civil war. This is in response to millions of Americans opposed to his reign who are invoking their constitutional freedom to bear arms to defend themselves from dictators or tyrants; as in the sci-fi trilogy of man versus machine, Obama just wants to run them down not necessarily as human beings but as cloned humanoids with factory defects that has to be “aborted”, “erased” or eliminated.
Pentagon is at this writing asking Congress to authorize Obama to station “400,000 military personnel” across the land.
Obama wants a different kind of “emergency” situation where he can use the military under his command according to his own wishes.
As of now, the President of the United States “… can call up the Reserves only in an emergency involving ‘a use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction’ or ‘a terrorist attack or threatened terrorist attack in the United States that results, or could result, in significant loss of life or property.” See Title 10, Chapter 1209, Section 12304, of the U.S. Code.
This law “…explicitly prohibits the President from calling up the Reserves for any other “natural or manmade disaster, accident, or catastrophe.” [underscored]
Obama wants this changed. He wants that he alone as president, would determine what “emergency” or “major disaster” is occurring, so that he can use the military according to his own wishes.
And here’s why like a silent intruder, the “Big Bang” can be compared to a thief that comes in the middle of the night: The anticipated total destruction to come is premised on the theory that Obama and his political copies in Congress are politically correct politicians through and through; they would do anything to earn a standing ovation from the public that like them, also does not know any better.
On this premise, we are fully aware of the fact that politicians do not know how the economy works, thus they do not know how to solve the economic problems we have. The only solution they know is bailout here and bailout there, to save their cronies from falling into the deep abyss of bankruptcy.
When the kitty runs dry, there is no more grease money to hold the country together in this man-made orbit of perpetual financial transfusion, and we disintegrate.
The desperate act of the people will trigger a big paradigm shift on government policies in controlling oppositions and riots. With its marching boots, the besiege Government facing the likes of the Fall of Bastille, will now step down so hard on protests using such unimaginable brute force that has never been used before.
Blood of friends, foes and villains, would pour down from the physical and spiritual wounds of the dead and the dying …the bloody outpouringwould drench the streets like a torrential rain as America implodes.
When this great implosion called the “Big Bang” occurs in the United States, the sound of it will be so great the echo will reach the farthest corners of the globe.
The colloquial name for this internal collapse is bloody “Hail Mary”! #
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. Access NWS August 17, 2009.
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One-goal games have been a recurring theme for men’s lacrosse (5-7, 3-6 in the NESCAC) this past week, a theme that unfortunately has not been in the men’s favor. The men played Amherst last Saturday and Hamilton last Wednesday, leaving only Middlebury left on the schedule. Despite hard-fought battles, the Ephs found themselves one goal short on both occasions, losing 10-9 to the Jeffs and 8-7 to the Continentals.
Under clear skies and in slightly chilly conditions, the men hosted rival Amherst last Saturday. The Ephs fell to the Jeffs by one goal without going into overtime. As with any Amherst/Williams match-up, the decades old rivalry heated up both the intensity of the play and the cheering section. From the first few minutes of the first quarter, it was clear that the game would be an exciting one. Amherst tallied the first point with a goal by Devin Acton. However, it was answered with a goal by Jack Lauroesch ’16, assisted by Colton Growney ’13. With more goals by both teams, including a second by Lauroesch and another by Colin Foster ’14, the first quarter ended with Amherst ahead 4-3.
The second quarter opened with back-and-forth goals between Amherst and Williams. Tri-captain Will Stewart ’13 scored to bring the Ephs back within one after the Jeffs scored one just seconds into the second period. The Jeffs responded with another tally, but the Ephs stormed back, sparked by a goal from Bryson Gilbert-Bono ’16. Steven Kiesel ’15 then tied the game at 6-6. After a goal by Gilbert-Bono with 2:42 remaining in the second quarter, the Ephs were ahead of the Jeffs for the first time that game. Yet a quick shot from Amherst right before the buzzer brought the teams to 7-7 going into halftime.
The second half began with a battle for possession; the teams traded the ball as well as sides of the field for the first eight minutes of the third quarter before Amherst scored two quick goals. Andy Grabowski ’15 netted one for the Ephs and the two teams went into the fourth quarter with a score of 9-8 in Amherst’s favor. The Jeffs kept this lead for the fourth quarter, and despite goals by both teams, the Ephs lost 10-9.
Although Amherst had 19 turnovers to Williams’ 13 turnovers, the men did not capitalize on the extra opportunities. The teams were relatively even in shots, with Amherst taking a total of 35 and Williams taking 33. However, the Jeffs obtained over half of both faceoffs and groundballs throughout the game.
The away game at Hamilton last Wednesday brought the men their closest contest, pitting two evenly matched teams against each other in a game that ended in an overtime period. The Ephs seized the ball quickly and set the tone for the first quarter, which ended with the Ephs ahead 3-1, after goals by tri-captain Evan Dedominicis ’13, Grabowski and Conor Roddy ’16. The second quarter brought much back-and-forth between the two teams, yet Williams entered the third quarter with a three-goal lead, 5-2. Kiesel and Growney scored the two goals in the second quarter for the men.
Kiesel scored again to open the third quarter, bringing the score to 6-2. However, Hamilton surged through the Williams defensive end in the third quarter, scoring three goals in succession and even slipping one in with three seconds left in the quarter, pulling within one at 6-5. Though Growney scored another goal in the fourth quarter, Hamilton scored two, so the teams went into overtime tied 7-7. With 14 seconds left, Hamilton forced a turnover that led to a clear. Hamilton’s Bryan Hopper scored the last goal that ensured his team a victory. An undeniably even game, the Ephs and the Continentals even paired up in stats. Williams had 30 groundballs, while Hamilton had 29, and Hamilton took 42 shots, while Williams only took 31.
“Losing two one-goal conference games during this critical time of the year can wear on any team,” Head Coach George McCormack said. “Fortunately, we have a very resilient group of guys who remain very optimistic and motivated to execute better in the future so we win the close games. We are excited about the opportunity to play Middlebury on Wednesday and compete for our seniors and for the Thomsen Trophy.”
The men will play against Middlebury today at 6 p.m. at Renzie Lamb Field. The Panthers come into the contest with an 11-2 overall record, 7-2 in the NESCAC. The home contest will be the last game of the regular season.


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Paxful reports 6.5 million cryptocurrency trades in Africa
The bitcoin trading platform said that the upswing in activity, despite the fluctuating global cryptocurrency market, was driven by services targeted at the underbanked in Africa.
Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, said today that 6.5 million cryptocurrency trades – an average of 17,000 trades per day – were conducted in Africa using its platform in 2018. It noted that the upswing in activity, despite the fluctuating global cryptocurrency market, was driven by services targeted at the underbanked in Africa.
“The aim of cryptocurrency revolution is to make the global economy more accessible,” said Ray Youssef, Co-founder and CEO of Paxful. “And Africa has emerged as a leader in this space with the highest number of new subscribers to the Paxful portal per month. Africans are using cryptocurrency to satisfy both personal finance needs and entrepreneurial ventures; transferring goods, services, and money domestically as well as globally.”
Since reaching a record high in 2017, bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has fallen dramatically. Bitcoin was trading at $3,632.2 on Thursday at about 1700 GMT, with its market capitalisation of $63.56 billion and volume of 5.265 billion.
Cryptocurrencies collectively lost over $480 billion of value last year, according to data from Coinmarketcap.
Paxful said it aims to change the perceptions that held back other consumers in Africa with the reassurance that its trade principles place security at the centre of all operations to cultivate confidence in bitcoin trading.
“There is an emerging generation of Africans buying crypto as investment vehicles into promising blockchain start-ups. A relatively small number of Africans trade digital currencies speculatively for profit,” the CEO of the bitcoin trading platform said.
Paxful’s CEO predicts that governments will pay closer attention to cryptocurrencies. He said, “We expect more activity in the policy development space in the next few years in line with digital currency acceptance.”
According to its statement, Paxful recorded about $69.3 million in the total number of transactions per month, culminating in an increase of 225 per cent new users in the last 12 months.
“The encouraging number of new users gained in 2018 in Africa alone proves the appetite for this technology,” Artur Schaback, Paxful Co-founder and COO said. “We’ve only just begun making inroads and are excited about the future.”
Paxful, according to the statement, aims to continue to lead the charge in demonstrating how bitcoin can be used for good in the society. It plans to grow its #BuiltWithBitcoin charitable programme to encourage the cryptocurrency sector to contribute funds for humanitarian projects with a focus on building schools and providing bursaries for disadvantaged children. Through the charitable campaign, the company built two schools in Rwanda in 2018.
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Yields below average on heavy land
YIELDS are below average for Roger Mann, who farms on heavy soil near Warwick. He started combining wheat on Wednesday (15 August).
“Second wheat Rialto did 2.5t/acre (6.2t/acre). But if you took out the bare patches it probably did 3t/acre (7.4t/ha). We have just started first wheat Consort and expect that to do 2.5t/acre (6.2t/ha)- it was badly flooded.”
Average yields on the farm are 8.6-9.9t/ha (3.5-4t/acre) for first wheat and 8-8.6t/ha (3.25-3.5t/acre) for second wheat. “I reckon all crops are between 0.5-1t/acre (1.2-2.5t/ha) down form average.” They started combining wheat at 20% and it has since dropped to 15%.
He is unsure of the quality of the wheat. “Well have to wait and see. But nothing has sprouted yet.”
Oilseed rape was also disappointing. It yielded 2.5t/ha (1t/acre), which is below the 3-3.7t/ha (1.25-1.5t/acre) average.
Spring barley should be ready in two weeks, having been drilled in April.
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After a driver collided with a child on a bicycle on S. Carlin Springs Road this week, neighbors and advocates are calling for street safety upgrades.
For its part, Arlington County says it has already been working on safety measures for the area, which has narrow sidewalks, little or no pedestrian buffer and a history of crashes. Upcoming steps include reducing speeds near the schools in the area: Kenmore Middle School and Carlin Springs Elementary.
“We are looking into the details from police regarding the crash and will identify next steps based on the report,” Dept. of Environmental Services spokeswoman Katie O’Brien said.
And Arlington County Board member Matt de Ferranti has recently gotten involved, too. He tells ARLnow he has walked the area with advocates and will be meeting with staff next week.
“First and foremost, I understand that the young man is okay and the safety of our kids and our residents is highest on my mind,” de Ferranti said. “Second, the accident raises important and urgent questions about safety in that whole corridor… We need to do better to address them.”
How the crash happened
Just before 7 p.m. on Monday, a driver traveling south on S. Carlin Springs Road proceeded through a green light and struck a juvenile riding a bicycle in the crosswalk, Arlington County Police Department spokeswoman Ashley Savage said.
The driver remained on scene. The child, who did not require a trip to the hospital for treatment, was tended to on scene by medics, Savage said. No citations were issued.
While ACPD does not provide identifying information, she did say the child involved was older than first reported on social media.
The boy was bleeding, but injuries appeared NLT. He was tended to by medics and police in the back of what appeared to be an @APSVirginia white van (logo on pass door – assuming Kenmore M.S. related) to in the 7-11 parking lot. pic.twitter.com/qtr4Yijzrn
— Matthew Young (@matthewyoung31) October 3, 2022
A history of unsafe sidewalks
Community advocate Janeth Valenzuela tells ARLnow that she passed by the crash around 6:45 p.m. and saw emergency responders. She says she’s been working on safety along S. Carlin Springs Road for many years now, and has suggested everything from building a bridge for kids crossing the road to erecting a fence to prevent kids from getting pushed into the street.
“I’ve been proposing a lot of things, but they don’t take it into consideration,” she said. “The solution is hard.”
S. Carlin Springs Road is an important walking route for Kenmore students, but she and other residents say the pedestrian amenities are poor. Sidewalks are narrow and not well maintained and often do not have any landscaping separating pedestrians from traffic.
And people have been telling the county the same thing for nearly a decade, according to a 2014 report by the APS Multimodal Transportation and Student Safety Committee and Advisory Committee on Transportation Choices meeting minutes from 2017.
During one ACTC meeting in 2017, a father said moms with strollers pass kids playfully shoving each other on the sidewalk as cars whiz right next to them. In the winter, if the sidewalks aren’t plowed, kids walk in the road, he added.
What’s being done
A number of short-term changes were made in 2020 and 2021 in response to findings from a safety study of S. Carlin Springs Road that kicked off in 2018.
The study yielded a list of short-, medium- and long-term actions to take, from curb extensions to high-visibility crosswalks.
“While many short term, quick-build projects have been implemented, the County continues to pursue larger scale improvement projects — for example a signal upgrade and intersection improvement project at 3rd Street S. & S. Carlin Springs Rd,” O’Brien wrote.
But de Ferranti said the crash should motivate the county to act “with more urgency.”
“The timing of the study is still a ways away from being done,” he said. “That’s not soon enough to take some steps to address as many of the safety problems as possible.”
Meanwhile, the next round of School Slow Zones — an initiative where the county reduces speed limits around school buildings — will include Kenmore, Carlin Springs and Campbell Elementary, O’Brien said.
The school zone speed limit, which is applicable at arrival and dismissal, will be reduced from 25 mph to 20 mph. Neighborhood streets near school access points will become permanent 20 mph zones.
Last year the county temporarily closed the northbound right travel lane of S. Carlin Springs Road from 8th Place S. to 5th Road S., using bollards, wheel stops, barriers and traffic barrels, to create a safer walking path for students.
But it halted that Vision Zero Pilot Project after APS, police and community members observed “erratic driving around the barriers.”
According to a May report that evaluates the first year of the transportation safety initiative Vision Zero, county staff will continue assessing options for “enhancing sidewalks and access along the corridor, including connectivity options when the County redevelops the Virginia Hospital Center site.”
This school year Campbell, which is located along S. Carlin Springs Road south of Kenmore, stopped parent pick-up after school in an effort to reduce traffic, asking families to have their kids walk home or take the bus instead.
Frustrated advocacy efforts
De Ferranti’s walk with advocates, including Valenzuela and Elder Julio Basurto, happened a few days before the crash.
And that walk was treacherous, says Basurto, who recently founded Juntos en Justicia (Together in Justice) with Valenzuela to better advocate for Arlington’s low income households and immigrant communities.
“Janeth and I walked there that day we almost got hit four times,” said Basurto.
Valenzuela and Basurto have done the same walk with members of the Transportation Commission and County Board member Takis Karantonis. But there hasn’t been much of a response, Valenzuela said.
“We’ve been saying we need to change this and improve the walking signs for our kids,” she added. “The county needs to do something different.”
De Ferranti suggests cleaning up the sidewalks and adding landscaping. He says he’ll be talking with staff about adding a signalized left turn at 7th Road S. near Campbell Elementary School, and adding a flashing sign showing drivers their speeds.
But larger-scale projects like widening the sidewalks across the street from Kenmore would require easements from every home.
“Just because it’s complicated doesn’t mean we should take steps to address individual problem spots along the corridor,” he said.
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Want to lose that belly fat fast? In your dreams! Seriously, though: a good night's sleep is one of the best ways to get rid of that extra fat around your waist for good. Among the 60,000 women participating in the Nurses' Health Study, those who snoozed for fewer than five hours a night were at the greatest risk of becoming obese and gaining 30 or more pounds over the course of the 16-year study period when compared to those who slept for seven or more hours.
Your 28 days are up; you look great and want to keep it that way. Juge has an easy plan to maintain your body, yet enjoy greater flexibility with your diet. No.1, he says, is to eat a good, clean breakfast. If you're at home, it's much easier to do—just scramble a few egg whites and have a whole-grain item (whole-wheat bread or a bagel, for instance), and/or some fruit. Eat dinner at home, again a healthy, clean meal consisting of a lean protein source, green vegetable, and whole grains. Then, bring a protein shake or bar with you to work for a midday meal. "You've now got three clean meals taken care of," says Juge. So if you're eating at a restaurant at lunch and you want to have something different, you can have it. Just keep the rest of your meals pretty strict, without added sugars and fats.
So I am diabetic, I started this diet last Thursday after running it by my Dr. on Wednesday. He gave the thumbs up. I had received my latest A1C and LDL test results that day. Since stopping my Metformin and Atorvastatin in December of 2017, my A1C went from 5.4 to 7.6 and my LDL from 59 to 189 and my weight was up from 250 to 271 so, clearly it's beyond the time I have to do something. Well it's back on the meds and started this diet. I have been monitoring my sugar levels several times a day because of all of the sugar in the fruit and I can tell you, I was worried the first day. I would check my sugar 1 hour after meals and it would be 159, 161, 179 but, then I noticed if I just waited to check it an extra hour later my levels dropped significantly to 139, 107, 118 etc. Today is the start of Day 4 and I just checked my sugar and it's at 94 so, it's doing what it is supposed to do. :) I did cook 2 hardboiled eggs on Day 3 for lunch just because I was feeling like I needed some protein. You know that feeling you get when your body is trying to fight off a cold? That's what it felt like which is probably just normal for a diet detox. My take is it's doing it's job (as long as I do mine). Day 1 was O.K. not easy but, manageable, Day two was pretty easy actually, Day 3 was pretty easy as well except for the "run-down" feeling. I have been looking forward to today for it's HUMP DAY!! I get milk and bananas!! My tips so far are: Make the Soup on Day 1 because you can eat the soup everyday. The recipe makes a lot so I portioned it out and froze it. When I wanted a bowl I just popped it in the microwave. Each time I would add a little different spice...one may be adding some Cumin for a Taco Soup flavor, another may be adding some turmeric and curry or some Italian Herbs. That way I didn't get bored with eating the same thing every time. On veggie days I would make them into a stir fry with just 1 TBS of olive oil. I'm not sure if you can use Soy Sauce so, I didn't. I don't like just plain baked potatoes so, I did sprinkle on some powdered butter.....like you add to pop-corn. It wasn't the same but, it gave that false sense of creaminess without the added fat. I don't know if I have lost any weight or not. I have not exercised at all. I'm assuming I would have to be losing something though because I'm definitely eating less of the bad carbs and fat and calories. My plan is to do the 7 days with 3 off days after where I just eat regular healthy meals that are high in protein and low in carbs and fat and then back on the 7 day plan. I'm hoping for a 20lb loss a month goal but, I'm not good at keeping long term goals so, that's why I chose the 7 day goal. I can stick with almost anything for 7 days. :)
The vegetable soup is the staple food o the GM diet chart for weight loss that can be consumed on all days of the diet except for day 1. There are a few other recipes such as baked fish and chicken that are included in the non-vegetarian version if the GM diet. Here, we have presented all the important recipes of the seven days diet chart in one place for your convenience.
So I’m thinking about doing this diet. My daily diet for several years has consisted of eating every 3 hours, no more than 200 calories per meal, and about 100 calories for snacks. I eat very little as it is and hesitant to this diet being a success. Please help with some positive feedback. If I lose 15 to 20 pounds, I will have reached my wit loss goal.
How often do you eat in the bathroom? Disgusting, right? Most people wouldn't even think of it because they've linked the bathroom with other activities. Yet most of us have no problem eating in other rooms—and that's not good. Eating somewhere other than the kitchen or dining room isn't recommended, because noshing linked with a specific cue (like a room) can trigger eating even when you're not hungry. That's how bad habits are developed.
In fact, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that every 10-gram daily increase in soluble fiber was associated with a 3.7 percent decrease in dangerous visceral fat over five years. Those who were active got even leaner, shaving off twice that much fat in the same amount of time. To start ditching that extra belly fat today, add the best high-fiber foods to your menu!

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What Are the Hours of Service Rules for Truck Drivers in North Carolina?
If you or a loved one drives a truck — or you’ve been injured in a truck accident — you may be wondering, “What are the hours of service regulations for truck drivers in North Carolina?”
In this article, we’ll explain what “hours of service” laws are and how they affect truck drivers. We’ll also discuss how these hours of service rules can impact a personal injury claim or lawsuit if you’ve been injured in a truck accident.
What Are “Hours of Service” Laws?
Hours of service laws are not specific to just National.
The hours of service laws are issued by the Federal Motor Safety Administration (FMCSA) which is a division of the United States Department of Transportation. These laws govern anyone operating a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) throughout the United States. The rules and regulations apply to all truck drivers, bus drivers and school bus drivers who operate CMVs.
Hours of service rules limit the number of daily and weekly hours spent behind the wheel and regulate the amount of time drivers must rest between shifts.
These hours of service regulations are a set of rules which commercial vehicle operators must follow. The goal of the FMSA hours of service regulations is to keep fatigued truckers off the public roads and highways and increase highway safety. This is done by limiting the amount of driving hours per day, and the number of driving and working hours per week. An exhausted trucker can be a danger to others and when heavy trucks or 18-wheelers crash, the outcome can be catastrophic to other motorists.
IMPORTANT: If you’ve been injured in a truck accident, you may be entitled to compensation if the accident was caused by someone else’s negligence — including negligence pertaining to hours of service rules.
Remember, the hours of service rules apply to all truck drivers and may play an important role in proving fault in a truck accident. Our attorneys can help sift through the evidence and determine whether or not hours of service laws were violated.
Every truck driver must keep a record of their working hours in a logbook. The logbook must include the total number of hours spent driving and resting and the time at which the change of duty occurred. Drivers are expected to make copies of each page. One page may be kept with the driver and the other copy is sent to the driver’s employer.
Instead of using a logbook, the motor carrier may keep a record of the driver’s hours using an electronic logging device (ELD). This ELD automatically records the amount of time spent driving and location so the driver does not have to do it manually. In this case, the driver is only responsible for reporting on and off duty time.
What are the hours of service regulations in North Carolina?
- 14 hour driving window: This is known as the daily driving limit and is not based on a 24-hour period. The 14-hour rule allows drivers 14 consecutive hours in which to drive up to 11 hours after being off duty for 10 or more consecutive hours. This can be confusing, but essentially means that after having 10 hours off, a driver has 14 hours to log a total of 11 hours of driving.
- 11-hour driving limit: Within a 14-hour window, you are only allowed to operate your truck for 11 hours. After driving for 11 hours you must take a 10-hour break.
- Thirty-minute rest break: Drivers cannot drive more than 8 straight hours without a 30-minute break.
- 60/70- hour duty limit: Since there is a 14-hour driving window limit per day then the 60/70-hour duty limit can be considered a weekly driving limit. A trucker may not be on duty for more than 60 hours during 7 consecutive days, or more than 70 hours in any 8 consecutive days.
- 34-hour restart: To restart you 60 or 70-hour weekly limit, you must take 34 (plus) consecutive hours of time off.
- Exceptions: There are some exceptions to these hours of service rules. For a complete list of exceptions please visit the FMCSA website and look at the specific industry-related regulations.
- Sleeper-Berth Provisions: You can record some or all of the 10-hour mandatory off-duty time inside your sleeper berth. If you spend at least 8 consecutive hours in your sleeper birth, you can extend your 14-hour window.
New Hours of Service Rules Truck Drivers
As of 2020, new service rules for truckers have been implemented. The United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration listened to America’s truckers and have published new hours of service rules to keep truckers safe on the roads and highways. These new hours of service rules include:
- The Agency will increase safety and flexibility for the 30-minute break rule by requiring a break after 8 hours of consecutive driving and allowing the break to be satisfied by a driver using on-duty, not driving status, rather than off-duty status.
- The Agency will modify the sleeper-berth exception to allow drivers to split their required 10 hours off duty into two periods: an 8/2 split, or a 7/3 split—with neither period counting against the driver’s 14‑hour driving window.
- The Agency will modify the adverse driving conditions exception by extending by two hours the maximum window during which driving is permitted.
- The Agency will change the short-haul exception available to certain commercial drivers by lengthening the drivers’ maximum on‑duty period from 12 to 14 hours and extending the distance limit within which the driver may operate from 100 air miles to 150 air miles.
The FMCSA reported these rule changes will not increase driving time and will prevent CMV operators from driving more than eight consecutive hours without a break of at least 30 minutes. Consequently, these new rules are estimated to provide over $270 million in annual cost savings for the United states economy.
Have You Been Injured in a Truck Accident?
If you’ve been injured in a truck accident, the hours of service rules may apply and help prove liability in your case.
For a FREE consultation with an experienced NC truck accident lawyer, please call 1-800-525-7111.
There is never any obligation and you won’t pay any attorney fees unless we win your case and you receive financial compensation.
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Trucking regulations and rules are extensive and hard to understand. If you’ve been involved in an accident with a large commercial truck, please call Riddle & Brantley at 1-800-525-7111 or fill out the short form below for a FREE, no-obligation consultation.
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The Doña Ana County Commission is scheduled Tuesday to consider a plan supporting plans to build a $1 billion scientific ghost town near Las Cruces.
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The project’s plans called for an uninhabited replica of an average, mid-size American city to help researchers test everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets. The facility would be known as the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation.
Last year, the firm had selected Hobbs for the project, but then walked away citing problems with a land deal
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Due to road construction, Old Goforth Road Southbound between Stone Crest Blvd. and Calomel Trail will be closed on Saturday, February 16, 2019. The closure will last from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Detour signs will be up. The road improvement project is part of the bond package passed in 2014.


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A year ago I decided to learn how to crochet...I wanted to do it just for fun, for the sake of learning something new.
I made a few scarves but I decided that I wanted to make something I could use a little more often, and since I have a fairly committed addiction to coffee
(having worked for Starbucks for more than two years probably has something to do with that;) I thought that I could make a cup sleeve a lot like the cardboard ones that we give out with beverages at Starbucks! I made the first one and I loved it ! I couldn't help making more! I LOVE the design process, I find it so relaxing. Which shades of yarn go best with which buttons? which yarn colors do I want to crochet together in stripes? Seriously it's my favorite part!
Here's a few of the very first sleeves I ever created. Boy I had no idea where this was all going!
I continued learning new techniques and combining new colors, and wouldn't you know it someone saw me using my sleeve one day and wanted to buy one!
Naturally I was thrilled that someone actually wanted to give me money for something that I had created!
Here comes the obsession.
The fact that people wanted to buy my sleeves only made me want to make more!
Before I knew it I was staying up late every night crocheting my fingers off and making plans for a craft show I put together with my lovely friend Nikki (a.k.a. Squid Dumpling) called the Indie Craft Show!
Before the Indie Craft Show I had over 140 cup sleeves but by the time we closed the doors that night I only had about 90!
Success! Who knew?
And the cherry on top is that I just opened an Etsy shop Lovely Lemonade this month after much trepidation. But I'm so glad that I did because I made not only my first, but also my second Etsy sale on Saturday! Can I get a high five?!
I feel like my designs have really come a long way....and I'm still having so much fun!
(one of my more recent cup sleeve designs, and also one of my favorites!)
Also, it seems that Spring is about to be in swing here in my neck of the woods!
I'm a Florida girl and our Winter (you know those 3 or 4 weeks when it drops down to a frigid ;) 30 degrees! ) seems to be winding down slowly.
I don't mind, part of me is really ready for Spring! In my opinion it's perfect beach time here because it's not too swealtering out yet.
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HVBA member Jim Wright, aka “Cowboy Jim,” spins the vintage grandfathers and mothers of mountain music, old time and their legacy throughout the decades and into today’s diverse bluegrass music scene on Station WGXC every other Monday night from 7-9:30PM.
Pick up a few historical points in between records. Join Jim at the “Mechanic’s Corner” where he talks about the instruments and how the music is made. Enjoy special guests from the region and beyond as they drop by the studio to pick a few for you and find out what’s happening in bluegrass throughout the Hudson Valley. From Bill Monroe’s gospel to new acoustic explorations, call in’s and requests are welcome.
Jim Wright is a visual artist and bluegrass musician from Northern Virginia, who now makes his home in New York’s bluegrass capital, Ancramdale. Jim has been a bluegrass enthusiast and picker for nearly 20 years where he has gained appreciation for bluegrass music from its founding and roots to the contemporary galaxy of grass related acoustic music. Jim currently leads the Old Croken Stillers and is in the Bash Bish Bluegrass Band.