Khloe Kardashian marked Tristan Thompson’s 32nd birthday with a sweet message.
Kim Kardashian’s family photo in her recent post on social media was edited, according to some netizens.
Lamar Odom will revisit his failed marriage to Khloe Kardashian in a new documentary.
Khloe Kardashian has this to say about advice urging her to move on from Tristan Thompson.
Following Kanye West’s anti-Semitic remarks, Khloe and Kim Kardashian have both broken their silence.
Lamar Odom is letting his fans know that he’s upset after they criticized him for professing his true feelings for his ex-wife Khloe Kardashian, saying he misses her.
Kanye West is back at it again with his social media rants as he recently called out the Kardashian family after Khloe made a lengthy comment about his usage of his platform.
Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson’s reconciliation may never be seen by the fans.
It looks like Kim Kardashian gets her privilege check after dropping THIS F-bomb in her controversial business advice for women in “The Kardashians” newest trailer.
Khloe Kardashian reportedly wants Tristan Thompson to attend counseling so that he can change his ways.
Is Kourtney Kardashian separating herself from the whole Kardashian-Jenner family?
Khloe Kardashian allegedly barred Tristan Thompson from spending time with her baby.
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Through adopting Regenerative Agriculture our aim is to improve our soil whilst achieving good yields, healthy animals and leaving a sustainable legacy for generations to come.
Our journey to a regenerative system started around twenty years ago when I realised that the plough-based cultivation method widely used and coupled with a rotation of only two crops (wheat and oilseed rape) all planted in the autumn was unsustainable. It had become clear to me that yields had plateaued and soil structure along with soil health, had declined.
After much experimentation with different tillage regimes and more varied cropping the system we now have is far better for the soil and the wider environment.
We recognise that the soil is our most valuable asset so we do everything we can to protect and enhance it. We have achieved this by completely stopping all cultivation of the soil, allowing worms to work and breed unhindered, creating tunnels through the soil which allows oxygen into the ground creating better drainage. The worms and other organisms in the soil also help to raise organic matter by pulling crop residue into the ground. By not cultivating we also leave the roots of previous crops which, as they decay, leave more channels through the soil and provide food for the organisms which live there. This helps to produce a soil structure which allows rainwater to drain freely, rather than running off which causes soil erosion and nutrient leaching. It also provides a better load bearing capacity. The result of this is a drier surface which will carry tractors or livestock with less damage. Also, by not moving the soil carbon is not released into the atmosphere.
Another important part of our system is to keep a green cover on the land whenever possible. This may be a crop which we sell, such as wheat, or a cover crop which is planted after harvest to maintain soil health and structure before planting another harvested crop. The benefits of this are many; for example: more roots creating more organic matter. Continued feeding of soil organisms. Drying of wet soils by the growing crop. Improved soil structure allowing crops to be planted without prior cultivation. Carbon sequestration by the growing crop.
A major use of cover crops is to store the suns energy in plants through photosynthesis which is then made available to the following crop.
Our crop rotation is much more diverse now than it used to be. We plant spring as well as autumn crops. Crops include wheat, barley, oats, beans, linseed and rye. If a spring crop is to be planted, a cover crop of several species will be established after harvest to provide a living cover through the winter. In fact, if there is a gap of more than six weeks between harvest and drilling, we will try to get something growing in the summer as well.
We are a mixed farm with cattle and sheep as well as arable crops. We aim to integrate the livestock into the arable system wherever possible. This can be by growing grass within the arable rotation for grazing; growing winter fodder crops such as turnips or short-term cover crops after harvest which are grazed before the next crop is planted. An additional advantage of integrating the animals is their health. By moving stock onto land which has not been grazed for a long time, worm burdens are greatly reduced meaning less medicines are required. Their varied diet gives the meat we produce a superior flavour. Grazing arable land gives our permanent grass a chance to rest and rejuvenate creating more nutritious grass. Manure produced by the animals provides nutrition for the following crop.
Regenerative agriculture creates a system which not only works with nature, but it will in time, rejuvenate soils which have been abused for many years. This is a slow process but eventually, with everything working in harmony, large amounts of humus and better nutrient availability means that new topsoil is produced which is why we use the term Regenerative Agriculture.
As mentioned above we do not plough our ground. Obviously, we still need to get seeds into the soil so that they can germinate and grow. Technology is now available which allows us to plant directly into uncultivated ground and this is referred to as direct drilling. To achieve this, we use a very narrow opener going into the soil which can be a tine or disc. This creates a slot into which the seed is placed. The opener is followed by a press wheel closing the slot and consolidating the soil around the seed. This technique is part and parcel of our system. Although it is the main thing that people notice when they come onto our farm direct drilling is only a small part of our system. Without all the other management practises mentioned previously direct drilling will not work.
A major advantage of direct drilling is reduced fuel usage due to less passes across the field and less horsepower requirement as the machinery is working on top of the ground, very shallowly into well-structured soil. The ability to be able to seed through a mulch of residue from the preceding crop also has the advantage of reducing the number of weeds growing in the following crop which can reduce herbicide usage and preserve moisture during dry periods.

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Despite major strides made in recent years to reduce the risk of pedestrian accidents, Orlando and several other Florida metropolitan areas sit atop a list of the country’s “most dangerous places to walk” as compiled by the advocacy group, Smart Growth America.
According to the newly released “Dangerous by Design 2014” report put out by one of Smart Growth America’s initiatives, the National Complete Streets Coalition, the Orlando-Kissimmee region is No. 1 on its list of pedestrian danger areas, followed by the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Jacksonville and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach regions in Florida.
As the New York Times reports, this is not the first time that Orlando-Kissimmee has topped such a list, which ranks the 51 largest U.S. metropolitan areas according to their five-year “pedestrian danger index,” or PDI. The index is based on the rate of pedestrian deaths relative to the number of people who walk to work in a region.
In the new report, the PDI numbers were based on the period between 2008 and 2012. The PDIs for the Florida cities atop the list were:
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Memphis rounded out the top five with a PDI of 131.26. Boston, with a PDI of 18.65, sits at the bottom of the list, making it the “least dangerous place to walk” in the country. The national PDI, between 2003 and 2012, was 52.2.
The report points out that several Sun Belt communities are ranked high on its list.
“These places grew in the post-war period, mostly through rapid spread of low-density neighborhoods that rely on wider streets with higher speeds to connect homes, shops and schools – roads that tend to be more dangerous for people walking,” the report states.
According to the report, the numbers nationally are cause for alarm. The report states that 47,025 people died while walking in the U.S. between 2003 and 2012 – meaning hit by cars – while 676,000 were injured. Since 2010, the total number of pedestrian accident deaths has risen, going from 4,280 in 2010 to 4,432 in 2011 to 4,743 in 2012.
Report Notes Pedestrian Safety Efforts in Central Florida and Statewide
The Dangerous by Design 2014 report isn’t all bad news. The authors note that Florida – Central Florida in particular – has made serious efforts to increase pedestrian safety since 2011, when the same four Florida metro areas topped its list. These efforts include:
- The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) adding pedestrian and bicycle safety specialists to its district and central offices
- The FDOT issuing a Pedestrian and Bicycle Strategic Safety Plan in 2013, outlining ways to improve safety for walkers and cyclists in the state
- Twenty-six agencies within the state adopting “Complete Streets” policies since 2011
- The Best Foot Forward coalition in Central Florida setting a goal to reduce pedestrian injuries and deaths by 50 percent in five years through a combination of:
o Engineering – Crosswalks have been improved, including 37 near schools
o Enforcement – In a single year, officers wrote 3,200 failure-to-yield warning tickets to drivers
o Education – An estimated 91,000 households in Orlando and Orange County have been exposed to efforts to improve pedestrian safety through TV, flyers and outreach to local schools and homeowner associations.
These efforts have caused the number of drivers who yield to pedestrians in Central Florida to rise to 48 percent (significant when compared to a 12 percent baseline figure), the report states.
As our law firm noted in a recent article, Winter Park has launched an initiative that is aimed at preventing both pedestrian and bicycle accidents.
Hopefully, we will soon see the results of these efforts and find ourselves much lower on the next list of “most dangerous places to walk” in America.


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I wrote about mentoring very briefly when Football Manager 2019 was first released and explained how it worked. But it still seems people are confused by it or don’t quite understand how they should use it. The main thing to remember is any changes you see will be a lot slower than previous versions of the game under the tutoring module. Tutoring was overpowered and really overturned making it easy to beat the ‘system’ and get amazing results in such a short space of time. Mentoring is a lot different in this regard, it’s not about min and maxing and it’s more of a slow burner in general.
So How Does It Work?
While the old tutoring system was more focused on a fixed set of rules, the new mentoring options are more organic and realistic. This is reflected in-game with suggestions via hints and tips. The game gives you much better feedback as to what affects personality adjustments and displays it to the user in a clear manner.
Players need to be training together to mentor one another, as well as spending time together off the training pitch. This means the players need to be in the same squad. You can no longer have a first team player, mentor a U18 player unless they are in the first team. (As of 19-3-19 you can now mentor players in all squads. However they still have to be in the same squad. i.e you can’t have a first team player in a mentor unit for the reserve squad without him being in that actual squad)
When trying to influence the players the game looks at the following things;
- Age of the potential influenced player
- Career first team appearances of the potential influenced player
- Difference in the club hierarchy between the two players
- Social group standing between the two players (i.e how compatible they are)
There isn’t a specific age limit on mentoring. Age works in the same way as the other factors, they will impact how likely the player is to be influenced at that time.
If a player fills the criteria above, the more likely the influenced player is to have their personality skewed towards that of the mentoring player. If the player who is being mentored doesn’t fulfil any of the criteria at all, then there’s no chance of a personality adjustment occurring. If there is a chance of a personality adjustment occurring then this chance is further boosted if they’re in the same mentoring group and training unit.
Players can still be influenced by the team personality and by the personality of others in their social groups, just like on Football Manager 2018. You should take a look at the social groups and see which players are in the groups as you could find them being influenced positively or negatively by different personalities. It’s unlikely your captain is going to be dragged down by other players at the club, but it’s not impossible if the combination of scoring factors suggested the captain should be influenced by others.
Also new in Football Manager 2019 is the ‘Welcome to club’ function also now serves as a way of setting a piece of short-term one-on-one mentoring between a new signing and an established player.
Players can still pass Player Traits on as well, if the individual shares a similar position to those in the mentoring unit.
Mentoring is slower than the previous tutoring system. You should not expect to see an unprofessional player become professional overnight, or even over the course of a few short months.
If I signed Messi for Bournemouth, would he become a team leader or have a significant influence on training, for example?
There’s no guarantee but under the right circumstances then yes he could. You’d be signing a world-class player and a genuine superstar, even if he is ageing.
It’s also worth noting that if a big named player returns to a club he started at and was at for many years then it’s not impossible for him to likely have a bigger reputation than most at the club, meaning he could also have an immediate influence over training and dynamics.
If i have a young player with a resolute personality and he is in a mentoring group with older players that have a balanced or fairly professional personality can his personality become worse. For example could the player drop from resolute to balanced because of the players they are in a mentoring unit with?
Yes they can. It’s more likely the influential players drag down the other players personalities. But again it comes down to the conditions of the mentoring unit, the influence the players have and so on. Size of the mentoring unit can also a play a part. So if you have good personality on some players but they don’t have an influential impact in a mentoring unit, you might want to think twice before adding him to it with undesired personality types.
This also applies to determination too.
If I make a mistake assigning mentoring groups, can I quickly haul someone out or disband the group (in previous FMs you couldn’t break a tutoring relationship if you changed your mind).
Just click the red – next to the mentoring unit and it will disband the unit.
My players personality/determination has changed but the influential people in the mentoring units, all have much better personality/determination than the player who has been impacted. What would this be down to?
It could be down to the overall squad personality or it could be because of the social groups the players are in. All of those things will have a direct impact on personality attributes and its possible they can be altered by these methods. Mentoring isn’t the only way we can see personality changes.
Wait, so players can improve personality without mentoring? Just by having a more professional and/or ambitious squad for example?
That is correct yes. It can be altered either by the clubs dynamics or the welcome to the club feature.
Do I have control of Player Traits still and how they’re passed on via mentoring units?
You still can have control over Player Traits if that’s what you want. Just put players who share the same positions in the same mentoring group and then you have a better chance of them being passed on, if the player has influence over the group.
It’s also worth noting Player Traits depend on a player’s attributes and sometimes position. A player without suitable attributes will not be able to learn a certain Player Trait and some are only available in certain positions.
So it works the same way as learning a Player Trait via training? For example if I ask my defender to learn the ‘dictates tempo’ Player Trait my staff might tell me it’s a bad idea and won’t work. But I can still learn it and the chances are it might fail. Mentoring units work the same and that the chances are, the Player Trait wouldn’t be passed on because of having attributes not suited for the trait and/or because of positions they play in on the pitch?
That’s it yeah.
Does mentoring affect social groups and the team hierarchy?
Indeed it does. Mentoring can influence Dynamics and on occasion social groups can have a similar impact on a player as Mentoring, although to a less degree.
I’ve probably missed a few other common questions but those are the ones I see on the forums or on social media regular.
How I use Mentoring
Every player that I sign, I always have a look at which player gets to ‘welcome’ them to the club. This is an important stage for me because I want to know if the person welcoming to the club, is a good fit for mentoring them via the welcoming feature.
Rafael and Fernando were both welcomed to the club by my striker, who is one of the clubs team leaders. I get these kind of messages quite often, showing its been a success. This is why it’s important to know the player who welcomes them to the club and the player coming into the club, to determine if it’s a good match up or not.
Now on to creating actual mentoring units. There’s a lot of stuff I’ve seen flying around on social media and the forums were people think they must mentor everyone going. This isn’t true at all, in fact, I’d say I don’t mentor people that often really. At least not for the amount of players I have at the club, the actual number of people I put into mentoring units is limited as I’ll highlight below.
Another thing I see mentioned is people wanting to promote entire youth teams to the first team, just for the benefit of mentoring. Don’t do this, it’s a bit silly. Mentoring isn’t that powerful and it’s something that is considered long-term compared to tutoring. Before tutoring was this powerful tool that unrealistically allowed you to change personality in a few short months. Allowing you to turn unambitious players into model professionals in a very short amount of time. Forget this mindset and think of mentoring as part of everything overall and not the governing factor in everything.
Promoting everyone to the first team to be mentored is also very unrealistic and does have some implications. One of those implications is the training they get in the youth squads is actually more demanding from a workload perspective as the players can do more due to playing fewer games. This is reflected in the sessions and schedules. So technically the players would be doing less training by promoting them, as the game would think you planned on actually using them. This is why you should only promote those who you plan on using and giving game time to, or to take a closer look at specific players in general.
Another reason for not promoting everyone is actual match days. The youth team match days would likely be out of sync with the first team. Meaning they’d be losing training days because they’re on the first teams training schedule but still playing youth games (if you made them available that is) on a youth schedule. So any training that would take place on a youth game day wouldn’t happen for those playing in the youth game. Then on the senior teams match day, you don’t have training so the players wouldn’t be making up for it there either. So think wisely and weigh up the benefits of everything before being hasty and thinking promoting everyone would be a good idea and strategy. Because in truth, it wouldn’t and you’d be wasting possible training days.
When it comes to creating my mentoring units, I like to keep it really simple. There’s no big secret here or formula to try to figure out. Just do what feels right and logical for you. This might differ from what I do and that’s fair enough. All that matters is you are doing what suits you for the way you think about the game. And obviously understand what mentoring does, which is explained above.
I tend to keep to this system;
- Each unit consists of a maximum of 4 players.
- Each group has at least 1 player who has significant influence in the unit.
- Each group share similar positions to each other.
This allows me to control mentoring units more efficiently, as players in these groups are all similar and there is always someone they can learn off. Here is an example of a standard mentoring unit;
In this unit we can see that we have two significant influencers in the group and two players who have a light influence. What this should mean is, the two people with light influence shouldn’t impact the personality type of the significant ones. They also shouldn’t pass player traits onto them either. So in theory, unless something really drastic happens the only players who will be impacted in this unit are Didi and Renato.
Creating units requires careful planning though because if undesired personality types have a significant influence over a unit, then there’s every chance they’ll drag players down to their level rather than making them better.
This one actually isn’t a unit I use, it’s one that I’ve just created to show you as an example. In this group there is no one with any real influence over the group. What this would mean is that most of the unit are all equal with the exception of the first player. I wouldn’t have high hopes for a unit like this because of the lack of a real influence. It would mean there would be barely any benefit to mentoring because no one is strong enough to take control of the unit.
Or it could mean one of the average players might be able to influence all the other ones.That can be a dangerous thing if the players have undesired player traits or personality types. Those would be the likely two scenarios from creating a mentoring group similar to this.
Check the personality type of the players who have the most influence inside a unit. If it doesn’t look like there is not much benefit to creating a unit based on personality then don’t do it. Don’t mentor people just because you think you have to. Also take note of any player traits a player has because there’s a high chance these could also be passed on. Again if you add players to this unit who perhaps these player traits would be a bad thing, don’t do it.
If anyone has any further questions, I’d be happy to answer them.

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The brightest star on one Texas Christmas tree won't be at the top.
State curators announced Monday that a commemorative 2013 Texas Capitol ornament has sold for $5,176 at auction. The undisclosed winner from Austin gets a one-of-a-kind, 24-karat gold-finished replica of the longtime best-seller in the Capitol gift shop.
The ornament features the Texas Star in the middle and was auctioned in celebration of what the State Perseveration Board says is 1 million sold since the first Capitol ornament in 1996.
Agency director John Sneed says the gift shop currently sells an average of 56,000 ornaments a year.
The money goes toward preservation efforts and education programs in the Capitol. Sneed says the agency was thrilled to see the winning bid sail past the $5,000 mark.


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Dexmedetomidine stimulates alpha-2C receptors in the striatum, which decreases serotonin levels. Additionally, alpha-2 receptors located on serotonergic terminal axons may inhibit serotonin release. Lastly, alpha-2A receptor agonism in the prefrontal cortex and locus ceruleus causes sedation and reduced sympathetic tone.
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Lillard now owns the Blazers' record for most first-half points in a playoff game.
Damian Lillard was on fire in the Portland Trail Blazers' 118-115 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 on Tuesday.
He put an end to OKC's season with a cold-blooded, 37-foot game-winner as time expired, giving him a playoff franchise-record 50 points on the night.
“It was a great feeling,” Lillard said postgame. “When it left my hands, it felt good.”
Lillard also holds the Blazers' franchise record for most points in a half of a playoff game, as he had 34 at intermission. He tied the team's record for three-pointers made in a half and became the Blazers' leader in three-pointers made in the playoffs.
He fell just short of tying Eric Floyd's all-time first-half record of 39 points set in 1987. Michael Jordan holds the postseason record for points in a single game with 63, set in 1986.
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The Rare Flame (film)
The Rare Flame is a 2022 Chinese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Chen Kaige. The film stars are Wang Yibo, and Zhenwei Wang. If follows [Chinese-American] student, Daiyu Zhao (Chen Han) who believes that her high school professor, Robert Lee (Wang Yibo) is her twinflame and embarks on a spirtual journey after he travels to a different country. Desperate and longing for his love and attention, Daiyu will literally do anything to have him by her side, even if it means changing herself physically, emotionally, and moraly. The film was announced in December of 2021. The actors signed on in the fall of 2021.
The Rare Flame is set to be released theatrically in February of 2022 on Valentine's Day, February 14, in the United States, Canada, China, Korea, and Mexico.
After developing a minor crush on her freshman mathematics teacher, Robert Lee, Daiyu a sixteen year old high school student,falls into a deep love cycle and goes through the heartbreak, anticipation, and pain of believing that she will one day reunite with him. Ready for this love, Daiyu embarks on a love journey across the world to find the key to fighting the shadow figures and lurking enemies ready to do whatever it takes to keep them apart.

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Bahrain set to issue $100 mln Islamic leasing bonds
Bahrain plans to issue Islamic leasing bonds worth
$100 million next week as the island state struggles to win Islamic
states' backing to host an Islamic money market, the Bahrain Monetary
Agency (BMA) said on Sunday.
BMA, the central bank, said in a statement the
bonds, called the Islamic Leasing Sukuk (ILS), would be the first
issued by any central bank in the area.
"This is a step to further develop the status
of Bahrain as an international Islamic financial centre, and also for
the purpose of offering new investment opportunities to absorb the
excess liquidity of Islamic financial institutions," it said.
BMA said the five-year bonds would be offered on
September 3 with an annual rental return of 5.25 per cent to be paid
every six months — in March and September. The minimum subscription
All commercial banks and financial houses operating
in Bahrain, the Gulf's financial and banking hub, are eligible to
subscribe to the Sukuk. Institutional and individual investors can
also participate through banks, the statement said.
"The Sukuk are guaranteed directly and
unconditionally by the government of the state of Bahrain. They can be
traded, at the prevailing market prices, over-the-counter through any
local commercial bank in Bahrain...," the statement said.
"The main objective of this issue is to
address the requirements and needs of Islamic financial institutions
for medium and long-term investment opportunities, currently limited
to those institutions," it added.
Bahrain has been issuing Islamic government bills
worth $25 million on a monthly basis since June to meet the needs of
Islamic banks and financial houses for short-term liquidity, and boost
efforts by Islamic states to create an Islamic financial market.
Iraq vows to block bid to change oil price
Iraq said Monday it would block any attempt to
change the way the United Nations sets the official price of its oil
after Britain delayed a bid to limit Iraq's ability to exploit market
"Iraq is committed to prevent any change in
what has been agreed concerning the fixing of the price of crude every
30 days," the official Al-Jumhuriya daily said.
Diplomats in New York said Friday that London had
agreed to postpone to next month a change in the way the UN sets the
price of Iraqi oil, allowing sales to resume until August 31. Iraq had
been without an official price since Tuesday.
A British diplomat said London would agree to an
official price for September only if the price-setting interval were
cut from 30 days to 15 days.
"Ten to fifteen days is not practical for
contracts with Iraq's clients ... since that will have repercussions
on the trading partners of Iraq," the newspaper said.
Iraq today sells about 2 million barrels a day
under UN supervision, a volume large enough to cause severe disruption
if supplies were halted in a tight market.
Independent oil overseers recommend an official
price to the Security Council's sanctions committee every 30 days
after consultations with Baghdad's state oil marketing organisation (SOMO).
Council resolutions say the official price must
reflect "a fair market value" of Iraqi crude, but the market
fluctuates daily, if not more often.
"That allows unscrupulous traders to make
excessive profits and gives them a margin to make illegal surcharge
payments to the Iraqis," the British diplomat said.
At the start of July, Britain was forced to
postpone an ambitious plan to reform the sanctions regime because of
opposition from Russia.
Kuwait gives $350 mln to Syria for development
Kuwait's development fund has donated 350 million
dollars to Syria to help boost the country's sluggish economy,
including money to battle against unemployment and funds for a major
water project, the Syrian press reported Wednesday.
Badr Al-Humaidi, cited by the ruling Al-Baath
party's Al-Baath newspaper, said Kuwait "had decided to offer
Syria 350 million dollars to contribute to the financing of planned
four-year projects by the Syrian government." Kuwait will pay for
a feasibility study on a pipeline project pumping water from the
Syrian coast to Damascus and a program to fight unemployment, Humaidi
Other projects will involve the electricity and
transportation sectors, but will also remain under study, he said.
The Syrian government adopted in October a program
to battle unemployment at a cost of one billion dollars, with the goal
of creating some 440,000 jobs.
Kuwait's development fund has loaned more than one
billion dollars to Syria, most of it since the 1991 Gulf war.
Egyptian military warns of 'new factors' in region
Egypt's Defence Minister General Hussein Tantawi
declared Wednesday after two days of military maneuvers the need for a
strong military in light of the region's volatile landscape, the
official MENA news agency reported.
"New factors in the region means it is
imperative for armed forces to be vigilant, prudent, and maintain its
combat capabilities and competence," Tantawi said, without
actually mentioning the neighbouring Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He called Egypt's military capabilities "the
real guarantee" for "protecting the peace," at the end
of two days of military maneuvers in the Ismailia region of
The exercises included warplane drills, notably
with F-16s and Alfa jets.
Arafat and Peres hold phone talks
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres held two telephone conversations
overnight, Israeli public radio reported Wednesday.
During the first call Arafat made a firm commitment
to stop the gunfire from the Palestinian autonomous town of Beit Jala
on the West Bank towards the nearby Jewish settlement of Gilo in east
Jerusalem, the report said.
During their second talk, the Palestinian leader
called for Israeli troops to leave Beit Jala, and made no mention of
putting an end to the shooting, it added.
Israeli tanks rolled into Beit Jala late Monday,
fulfilling a threat by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to go in if
the gun firing on Gilo continued.
The discussions between Peres and Arafat had
received the green light from Sharon and defence minister Binyamin Ben
Elizer as well as US officials, the radio reported.
Kuwait to build 60-million-dollar tourism project
Syria and Kuwait signed an agreement for the
construction of a 60-million-dollar tourism complex Lake Assad in
northern Syria, the press reported Sunday.
The deal was signed Saturday by Syrian Tourism
Minister Qassem Maqdad and an official from the private Kuwaiti
investment company al-Futuh, owned by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad,
son of Kuwait's foreign minister.
The project spreads over 300 hectares (740 acres)
on the north bank of Lake Assad, near the city of Raqa, and its
construction is expected to take up to five years.
It includes two tourist villages, villas, chalets,
restaurants, swimming pools and sports clubs.
President, PM hold meeting
President Emile Lahoud and Prime Minister Rafiq
Hariri expressed confidence Tuesday over Lebanon's economic situation
in their first meeting since the political crisis over a recent army
Hariri said the two-hour meeting provided "a
new phase of political work in the country," according to a
statement from Lahoud's office.
Jordan under pressure
Jordan has come under pressure not to hand back six
Iraqi commercial airliners grounded in Amman since the 1991 Gulf war,
Trade Minister Wassef Azar was quoted as saying Tuesday.
"Jordan is under pressure not to return the
six planes to Iraq," Al Rifadain weekly quoted the minister as
saying. However he did not identify the source of the pressure.
Iraq vows to shoot down more US warplanes
Iraq, boasting improved anti-aircraft defences,
vowed Tuesday to down more US and British warplanes, a day after
Washington admitted losing a spy drone for the first time since the
1991 Gulf war.
"Iraq is determined to inflict more losses on
the American and British aggressors and to improve its (military)
capacities despite the unfair embargo," warned Deputy Prime
Minister Tareq Aziz.
"The fact that an American reconnaissance
plane was shot down over Basra by our anti-aircraft defences is proof
of the improvement of Iraq's military capacities," he added.
Syria, Armenia sign defence cooperation deal
Syria and Armenia signed a military cooperation
agreement on Monday, a Syrian Defence Ministry official said.
The agreement was signed by Syrian Defence Minister
General Mustafa Tlas and visiting Armenian Defence Minister Serzh
Sarksyan. The official gave no details about the deal.
"Talks during the meeting that was attended by
General Ali Aslan, chief of staff of the Syrian armed forces, dealt
with bilateral relations between the armies of both friendly countries
and ways of promoting them," the official said.
The leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (PFLP), Abu Ali Mustafa, was killed in an Israeli rocket
attack on his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah Monday,
Palestinian security officials said.
Two projectiles hit the building, they said, adding
that it was unclear whether they were fired by helicopter gunships or
from ground troops. Three other people were slightly injured.
Trade with French companies
Iraq has not closed the door on trade with French
companies, despite the rift between the formerly close French and
Iraqi leadership, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said Wednesday.
"We have not permanently closed the door on
the French, but is illogical to give them priority which is not in
line with their position" toward the lifting of UN economic
sanctions on Iraq, Sabri told the newspaper Al-Iqtissadi.
"We do not wield the humanitarian (UN
oil-for-food) programme against anyone, but it is our right to
reproach our French friends so that they rethink their position,"
IDB says it lent $24 bln
The Islamic Development Bank announced Wednesday it
had granted loans worth 24 billion dollars since it became operational
in 1976. The loans had gone into 833 development projects as the
number of member countries rose from 22 to 53 members today.
The bank, part of the Organisation of the Islamic
Conference (OIC) based in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, offers
cheap loans to aid Islamic nations.
Qatar Airways, one of the world's fastest growing
airlines, is to showcase its new A319 corporate jetliner, the first to
receive a premium configuration, at the Dubai 2001 international
aerospace exhibition to be held this November.
The Airbus Industrie A319 in the Qatari flag
carrier's livery will take to the skies over Dubai 2001, at the Dubai
Airport Expo, to perform an aerial display on November 4th, the show's
opening day. The aircraft will then go on static display for the
show's remaining four days.
Iraq agrees to expand trade protocol with Jordan
The Iraqi government has agreed to expand its trade
protocol with Jordan to include new Jordanian products characterized
with high added value, Jordan's Industry and Trade Ministry Secretary
General Samer Al-Taweel said Monday.
The new products include construction industries,
textiles, foodstuff, electrical equipment, medical appliances and
phosphate fertilizers, said Taweel, who has just come back from
Baghdad after taking part in the meeting of the ministerial committee
charged with following up the implementation of decisions taken by the
Joint Jordanian-Iraqi Higher Committee.
Trade campaign in Morocco
Britain is due to launch a huge campaign in Morocco
aimed at boosting trade between the two countries, official sources in
Rabat said Monday.
Key areas to be targeted during the campaign, the
first of its type, include "new information technologies,
financial services and the exploration and distribution of oil,"
the sources said.
The three-year campaign has a budget of 1.8 million
dollars (1.97 million euros) and will open in October with a fisheries
trade fair held in the southern city of Agadir.
Britain's ambassador to Rabat, Anthony Layden, said
he was "pleased to see Morocco be part of 14 countries picked by
the British government" for a trade campaign, in an interview
with the local daily L'Economiste.
Oman's tourism potential
Oman, the second largest country in the Arabian
peninsula, has much to offer visitors but the sultanate has done
little to exploit its potential as a prime tourist destination.
The country's ancient courtyards and palaces,
restored by the government at enormous expense, remain empty most of
the year and only a handful of visitors venture onto its shores.
If they did, they could wander through marketplaces
forgotten by time where veiled women weave carpets and old, bearded
men hammer out silver ornaments.
Or they could recline on stunning beaches in lush
tropical landscapes or retrace ancient trade routes where camels once
carried the riches of the East westwards.
Emirates cuts telephone charges
The state-owned telecoms company in the United Arab
Emirates, Etisalat, will slash from September 1 international direct
dialling rates to more than 225 countries as part of its silver
jubilee celebrations, newspapers reported Sunday.
Etisalat's president, Ali Salem al-Owais, said
calls to Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be cut by
between 33 and 48 per cent to as low as 1.91 dirhams (52 cents) a
minute, Gulf News said.


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- 6 October 2022
- Posted by: Cryptovalues
- Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News, World News
The will of Britain’s political leadership has always been directed toward making the country a “hospitable place” for the industry.
With the new government comes a kind of officialdom, so much so that it moved promptly to make its position known thanks to a speech recently delivered in the House of Commons (HoC) by Richard Fuller, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, who said that the UK now has a choice between “being a bystander while this technology transforms many aspects of life, or becoming the best place in the world to start and scale crypto technologies. The government has chosen the second path.”
In July, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak had announced a push to make the U.K. a “crypto hub” in the context of healthy realism and building the infrastructure to prepare to oversee cryptocurrency issuers and traders in a way that adequately protects investors.
Since then, however, the United Kingdom has seen major and even momentous changes with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the appointment of Liz Truss as premier, with the government reshuffle that followed.
But the will to move forward in the crypto industry has not changed; indeed, it seems that with these statements the government has dispelled any doubts.
As Fuller explained in his speech to the House, “the UK government is seeking a competitive advantage for the UK.” Part of this quest seems likely to involve greater adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
But he went further by manifesting an almost complete openness to digital technology:
“We want to become the country of choice for those who want to create, innovate and build in the cryptocurrency space,” Fuller said.
“We are already the leading European fintech hub, second only to the United States globally. By making this country a hospitable place for cryptocurrency technologies, we can attract investment, generate new jobs, benefit from tax revenues, create a wave of new cutting-edge products and services, and bridge the current position of British financial services into a new era.”
Both premier candidates had emphasized how much they cared about advancing the digital projects they started in recent times by declaring themselves strong supporters of cryptocurrencies.
In Northern Europe, the digital industry will continue to expand thanks to the forward-looking mentality of those who govern the countries.

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Even for arguably the most familiar prospect at Alabama Saturday night with LSU in town, the atmosphere was apparently something to see.
“It was extremely hype,” Ben Davis said. “Kind of reminded me of the Ole Miss game a few weeks ago that ‘Bama had lost. Defense played lights out all night. Coming off the bye week they were ready for the challenge.”
The Gordo (Ala.) standout linebacker, a top 15 overall recruit in the Scout100, says he was ready to put on a helmet and shoulder pads for the second-straight night after leading the undefeated Green Wave to an opening round playoff win.
“I wanted to strap up last night,” he said. “You know watching warm-ups and the atmosphere and stuff, seeing the game. You know when a baller be around stuff like that, he’s ready to ball.”
Davis was particularly impressed, like most were and will be, with the Crimson Tide’s front seven and its effort to slow and keep Heisman trophy contender Leonard Fournette under 50 yards in the UA win.
“It was interesting because you see all the highlights on TV from Fournette breaking away at any time,” he said. “But last night it seemed like he just couldn’t get that open crease or find that exact hole that’s been there all year. He couldn’t find it against ‘Bama.”
After the game, among the players, coaches and dozens of elite recruits, it was the enthusiasm shown from the eldest group of men that caught the five-star’s eye.
“Everybody was turnt (up), coaches were turnt, too!” he said with a laugh. “I talked to coach (Bo) Davis after, he was really excited. It makes a big impact, I think.
“Seeing the coaches react to the players after a big win.”
Davis, whose Gordo squad travels to Opp (Ala.) High on Friday night, has an official visit scheduled to LSU next weekend. He continues to focus on a later decision, possibly on national signing day 2016.


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CURCURBITACEAE, The Gourd family
For the first time I am finally growing these cute little curcurbits that my friend Hannah introduced to me in Minneapolis years ago. They are also called Mexican sour gherkins and indeed are a very miniature cucumber relative. The stripes make them look just like a tiny watermelon.
I grew 4 seedlings in the greenhouse and planted them out in May to take over a trellis when the sugar pod peas finished. I have been pruning away the peas slowly and the mouse melons, while they started off very slowly and were endangered by slugs, are now (in August) covering the trellis, reaching for anything else they can grab on to, and producing a pint of fruit a week. The fruits are best when they are just an inch long or even less.
The fruits are slightly tart and crunchy and we have just been eating them raw as a snack and on salads, but it would be fun to pickle some.
They don’t cross pollinate with other curcurbits (being a whole different genus than other garden cucumbers and squash) so they come true from saved seed. To save seed, let a few fruits grow till they are wide and start to yellow. Pick them before the frost and scoop out the seeds. Rinse the pulp off the seeds and dry them on a paper towel.
We did try pickling these and they wrinkled up – rather ugly. Maybe there is a pickling technique to keep them crisp?
I’ve observed that mouse melons, despite the teensy flowers, are pollinated by honeybees.

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Flavin, 54, filed for divorce from the Rambo actor, 76, in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Thursday, August 19, in accordance with court docket data. Closer was first to report the pair’s breakup, hours after Stallone raised eyebrows with a brand new tattoo overlaying the long-lasting portrait of Flavin’s face on his bicep.
The estranged couple celebrated a milestone anniversary earlier this yr. “Happy 25th anniversary to my amazing wife,” the Creed star captioned a candy Instagram tribute to the Serious Skin Care cofounder in May. “There is not enough words to describe what this incredibly selfless dedicated , patient, woman has meant to our lives and I only wish they could be another 25! Thank you sweetheart!”
Stallone was beforehand married to Sasha Czack from December 1974 to February 1985. The exes welcomed sons Sage and Seargeoh in 1976 and 1979, respectively, earlier than calling it quits. Their eldest youngster died of heart disease in 2012 on the age of 36.
The Golden Globe winner went on to tie the knot with Flavin in May 1997, lower than one yr after the pair welcomed daughter Sophia in August 1996. Sistine and Scarlet arrived in June 1998 and May 2002, respectively. The trio made headlines in 2017 once they had been named Golden Globe Ambassadors for the 74th annual awards present.
“We really do know how amazing this chance is and we took it, and I’m so happy I’m doing it with them,” Sistine instructed Us forward of the January 2017 ceremony in California. “We really are this close! I know it sounds like we’re just pretending, but we really are extremely close.”
The siblings recalled the moment they found out about their thrilling alternative, revealing the announcement was a household affair. “We were all sitting in the family room and my dad called us in as if we were going to get some tragic news,” Sistine mentioned. “I was like, ‘Oh, God, someone died!’ We were ready to take it, like, holding each other’s hand, like, ‘Oh, God, who died, something sad is happening.’ But he said, ‘I got the call, you’re going to be Miss Golden Globes’ and we freaked out! My mom blasted the music, dogs were barking and we were dancing!”
Scarlet chimed in, including, “It was a party in the Stallone house, for sure.”
Over the years, the Oscar nominee has gushed about watching his youngsters succeed and has typically shared his household delight by way of social media. “I am a very very lucky man to have such wonderful, loving children who brought me nothing but joy,” he captioned a bunch photograph alongside his daughters in July 2021. “Now I wish they would stop growing so tall! Lol.”


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Minnesota State Representative Paul Thissen
Fix disparities, practice "radical localism", repair legislative process
(Thissen withdrew from the gubernatorial race on Feb. 7, 2018)
A Civic Caucus Gubernatorial Candidate Interview
January 5, 2018
John Adams, Steve Anderson, Janis Clay (executive director), Paul Gilje, Randy Johnson, Ted Kolderie, Paul Ostrow (chair), Dana Schroeder (associate director), Clarence Shallbetter.
DFL Gubernatorial candidate and State Rep. Paul Thissen says if he were elected governor, he'd most like to move Minnesota from being the second most unequal state in disparities—especially racial disparities—to having policies in place where equity is a reality. He believes we need a new set of agreements about what it means to have economic security in Minnesota: affordable health care; available and affordable child care, especially in Greater Minnesota; affordable housing; access to higher education; and retirement security.
Thissen says we need "radical localism" at the state level. State government should set goals and standards, provide support and accountability and then let local communities figure out how to achieve those goals. Currently, the state often tries to dictate what local communities should do down to minute details. He says we should free up local communities and governments to do a lot more.
Thissen says transparency is the biggest thing we need to fix at the Legislature to take some of the poison out of our politics. Too much happens at the last minute and behind closed doors. He says we need to get back to an empowered committee process, where legislators can dive into issues and the committee process is respected. He says conference committee meetings should be public and end-of-session negotiations between the governor and the Legislature should either be held publicly or made available to the public.
Thissen has a bill that would require the Legislature to abide by Minnesota's Data Practices and Open Meeting laws. The bill also attempts to better define the single-subject rule, a state Constitutional requirement that all legislative bills be restricted to one subject. He says the governor could decide not to sign a bill if the Legislature has not followed transparent policies.
Rep. Paul Thissen (DFL-Minneapolis) represents District 61B in the Minnesota House and is a candidate for governor of Minnesota. He was first elected to the House in 2002 and has been re-elected ever since. He has said he will be retiring from the House in January 2019, at the end of his current term.
Thissen served as Speaker of the House from 2013 to 2015 and as House Minority Leader from 2011 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2017. He served as chair of the Health and Human Services Committee from 2007 to 2010. He currently serves on the following House committees: Education Finance; Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy and Finance; and Legacy Funding Finance.
While Thissen was Speaker, the Legislature passed the first significant investment in early childhood education in Minnesota history; all-day, every-day kindergarten for every five-year-old in the state; a two-year tuition freeze for public college and university students; and the Women's Economic Security Act. The Legislature also raised the minimum wage, legalized same-sex marriage, created the broadband investment program and enacted a first-in-the-nation solar energy standard.
Thissen is a graduate of Academy of the Holy Angels High School in Richfield, Minn., and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1989 and a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1992. He served as editor of the University of Chicago Law Review .
After law school, Thissen clerked for the Honorable James B. Loken of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and then worked for the Minnesota State Public Defenders Office. He also worked as a partner at two major Minnesota law firms.
In 2006, Thissen was named one of "Forty Under 40" top business professionals in the Twin Cities by Twin Cities Business Journal. In 2008 and 2013, he was recognized as one of "100 Influential Minnesotans in Health Care" by Physician Magazine and named one of the Twin Cities' "Best Brains" in Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine.
Continuing its focus on Minnesota's competitiveness, since September 2015, the Civic Caucus has been undertaking a review of the quality of Minnesota's public-policy process for anticipating, defining and resolving major community problems. On November 27, 2016, the Caucus issued a report based on that review, Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: Strengthening Minnesota's Public-Policy Process.
As part of that look at Minnesota's public-policy process, the Civic Caucus began a series of interviews in October 2017 with major, announced candidates for the office of governor of Minnesota.The interviews are centered on what can be done to keep Minnesota and its people competitive in a number of realms. This interview with State Representative Paul Thissen is the sixth in that series.
Gubernatorial candidate and State Rep. Paul Thissen said there are three major things Minnesota needs to tackle:
1. We need a new set of agreements about what it means to have economic security for families and individuals in Minnesota. Thissen said that's especially important because the economy is changing rapidly. He listed several important issues related to economic security:
- Access to reliable, affordable health care;
- Availability and cost of child care, especially in Greater Minnesota;
- Availability of affordable housing;
- Access to higher education; and
- Retirement security.
2. We need to close the disparities in Minnesota, particularly the racial disparities. Thissen said we must meet that challenge head on and do it in an intentional way or we won't make the progress we need to make. He said the thing he'd most like to do over the next eight years is to move Minnesota from being the second most unequal state to having policies in place where equity is a reality. "That would be a tremendous legacy for us if we actually lift everybody up," he said.
3. On the political side, people still feel very disconnected, like they don't have a voice. Thissen said people feel very disconnected and like they don't have any control over their destiny both politically and economically. "Figuring out how to reengage them is an important job of the governor," he said.
Some of that, he said, is rethinking state government to make it more localized. "State government should take the role of setting an agenda, expectations and providing resources," he said. "It should let local communities have much more control of the details of how they get there, instead of the state dictating the details down to the very minute level. How do we empower people again to feel like they have control of their own political and economic destiny?"
Early childhood and K-12 education.
We must invest more resources in early childhood education to make it more affordable and to give childcare centers more resources. In response to an interviewer's question about the challenge of people getting their children to quality childcare, Thissen suggested that perhaps child-care centers could provide transportation.
He said we should rethink transportation as part of what we offer people for their economic security. We could offer access to transportation subsidies, in the same way we offer subsidies for health care and childcare, he said. It would be part of a holistic approach.
In 2003, the Legislature was facing a deficit and it cut child-care subsidies and aid to local governments to balance the budget, he said. "We've never recovered from that."
How do we get the best and brightest back into the education field? An interviewer asked that question and said people with college degrees who are in the education field have the lowest salaries relative to other people with college degrees. Thissen responded that lower salaries are a problem in many areas of public employment, such as IT. "A piece of raising those salaries is preserving the benefits, like pensions, that have offset the lower salaries," Thissen said.
How do we get more teachers of color in our classrooms? Thissen asked that question and said teachers of color come in and then leave the field of teaching much more rapidly than white teachers do. Part of it is money, he said. But also, they don't feel they have a say in what they do and are able to exercise their professional judgment. Some research, he said, shows that many teachers of color come to teaching even more mission-driven and when they don't see the ability to have a voice in what that profession looks like, they leave. "We're too top down about how teachers have to operate," he said.
There is an economic standpoint, Thissen said, but if we can free up the teachers to have more say in the curriculum, we'd attract more of the best and brightest to teaching.
The biggest challenge to transit is that there is no dedicated funding scheme for it. Thissen pointed out that according to the Minnesota Constitution, gas tax revenues can only go to roads and bridges. An interviewer noted that fare-box revenues only fund 30 percent of the operating cost of transit. The interviewer said downtown Minneapolis is changing from an employment center to a place to live and there is a disconnect between how the region is developing and how we're thinking about financing transit. "The Metropolitan Council is not speaking to the region's realities," the interviewer said.
Thissen responded that the networks we develop are hub and spoke, but how can we finance transit so that it's not hub and spoke? "How do we get people from North Minneapolis to Shakopee for Amazon jobs?" he asked. Perhaps the employers should pay a share of transit costs.
The same interviewer said the cost of Metro Mobility, transit for elderly and disabled people, is exploding. Thissen agreed that it is a big pull in the budget. He asked whether transportation in some senses should be treated more as a social service rather than as part of the transportation budget. "There's a huge missing need," he said.
State Planning Agency.
We have to have something in place like the State Planning Agency, which was formed in 1965 and abolished in 2003. Thissen said he voted against getting rid of the State Planning Agency in 2003, but it was eliminated. He said the Planning Agency doesn't necessarily have to be the same as it was and could tap into the work of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a number of foundations doing this kind of work. But having at least a core of people in a planning agency looking across the other state agencies would make a big difference, he said.
He would focus the Planning Agency's work on workforce development and closing the racial opportunity gaps. He said the governor should have the power to direct which issues the Planning Agency works on.
The obstacles to reinstating the State Planning Agency are fiscal and ideological. "Is this the best use of resources?" Thissen asked. "We'll have to make that case."
Gaps and Disparities.
Places that are growing steadily, like the Twin Cities, are magnets for people to come from other places to improve their lives. An interviewer made that statement, following up on Thissen's earlier statement that what he would most like to do as governor is close the racial disparities and gaps in Minnesota. The interviewer pointed out that many of the people who are arriving are at the lower end of the social-economic ladder. Places that are stagnant have fewer gaps than places that are growing, the interviewer said. That magnifies the gaps in places like the Twin Cities. The interviewer then asked what policy options can tackle the fact that there are so many people who are poor, by getting at the root problems in a realistic way,
The most hopeful things are the Northside Achievement Zone in North Minneapolis, the Promise Neighborhood in St. Paul, and similar programs in Northfield, Austin, Red Wing and St. Cloud. Thissen said he likes the hub idea these programs use. "They're not necessarily spending more money, but they're harnessing resources in a different way," he said. "It's also the idea that every child in that neighborhood is going to college and you figure out how to get them there. You set expectations early. You make it a family-driven process. It's driven by the community and it's flexible, depending on where it is."
There's a gap between what's offered on the supply side by higher education institutions and what's needed on the demand side. An interviewer made that observation and said many students coming from K-12 schools are not ready for higher education. He asked whether higher education institutions should change what they're doing in order to meet people who show up on our campuses unable to do regular college work. Or, the interviewer asked, should we go back and ask what we're getting for spending $21,000 per student, per year in the Minneapolis Public Schools?
One of the huge drivers of college debt is people having to pay for remedial education at the college level that they should have gotten for free when they were in public K-12 schools. Thissen made that remark and asked whether we should charge back some of those costs to the K-12 schools, so the students are not picking up the whole cost. Students having to pay for their own remedial education is one of the most unfair parts of the education system, he said.
Thissen said there are some successful programs, like the federal TRiO programs , which are federal outreach and student services programs designed to identify and provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. TRiO includes eight programs targeted to serve and assist low-income individuals, first-generation college students and individuals with disabilities to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to post-baccalaureate programs.
TRiO helps students in their first year of college by focusing on academic achievement and the challenges of transitioning to college, Thissen said. Students who've participated in TRiO during their first year in college go on to provide mentoring to succeeding first-year students.
The cost of higher education will come down as technology changes. Thissen gave that response to an interviewer's question about why higher education is so expensive. Thissen said new technology should allow one professor to teach more students. He cautioned, however, that in making higher education affordable for people, we have to be careful to retain a strong research university, as successful places like San Francisco, Boston and North Carolina have. "That takes a different kind of investment that I think we ignore in Minnesota," he said.
Characteristics and Role of the Governor.
What are the characteristics that people should look for as they select a candidate for governor? An interviewer asked that question and Thissen responded with several recommendations:
1. Get beyond particular issues and look at the candidate's underlying understanding of what's going on in our economy and our politics. We need a shared understanding of what the larger picture is.
2. Look at the candidate's record of going into the arena and not just fighting about things, but actually delivering by getting things done. Thissen said that's what sets him apart in this race.
3. Look for a history of the candidates standing up for their values and doing what they have to do. But they should also know when to walk away with enough, instead of fighting for the very last little bit of what they can gain in a political fight.
Thissen said getting Minnesota from the second most unequal state to no disparities is the one big thing he'd like to do as governor. We need to look at our shared idea of what's going on in Minnesota, Thissen said, and what is really driving our economy and politics. There is a growing concentration of economic and political power in the country and the state and that drives racial, gender, geographic and economic divides. "It doesn't allow people to see each other and stratifies society," he said. "We don't see the same reality. The governor must describe the larger reality of what's going on."
We'd be better off if the federal government would cut a lot of strings in programs like health care and would fund block grants to the states at the level we need. Thissen gave that response to an interviewer's question about whether Democrats should continue to pursue the new nationalism that President Teddy Roosevelt supported. Under that concept, policies run up to the federal executive branch and come back down in the form of regulations and grants, the interviewer said.
Thissen said when the Republicans tried to move health care to block grants, they would have cut a lot of strings, but they also would have made a large cutback in the funding. He stressed that funding has to be adequate for states if health care were to move to a block grant program.
Thissen also mentioned that in the administration's move to get rid of net neutrality regulations, states are preempted from taking any action on their own. He said he and Rep. Ron Latz (DFL-St. Louis Park) will try to bring some action on net neutrality to the state level during the upcoming legislative session.
We need radical localism at the state level. Often, Thissen said, the state tries to dictate what local communities should do, down to minute details. "It creates political controversy that we don't need and it creates bad public-policy outcomes," he said. "What works in Minneapolis doesn't necessarily work in Elbow Lake."
"If we could rethink our state government so that it's about setting standards, providing support, and providing accountability and let local communities figure out how to achieve those goals, we'd be a lot better off," Thissen continued. He said the state's broadband program was designed that way. And he has a proposal to create regions in the state that would decide what's best to do in early childhood in their own region, with the state providing the resources to do those things.
Thissen said there should be national enforcement of things like human rights. But for more mechanical policies, we could free up local communities and governments to do a lot more. When asked what the local community would be in the Twin Cities, Thissen said it would probably be the regional community.
How can we get things done in today's poisonous political climate? An interviewer asked that question and Thissen responded with two recommendations:
1. We need to empower outside groups to do more policy work, including citizen boards.
2. The biggest thing we need is transparency. Thissen said so much happens at the Legislature at the last minute and behind closed doors. He said we need to get back to an empowered committee process, where legislators can dive into issues and where the committee process is respected. Conference committee meetings should be public. End-of-session negotiations between the governor and the Legislature should either be held publicly or made available to the public. "What you say in public is going to be much more reasonable than what you say behind closed doors," Thissen said.
"If we could get back to a strong committee process and back to a transparent process, we could take some of the poison out of our politics," he said. "The other thing we need to do is to get big money out of our politics."
Thissen has a bill in the Legislature now that would require that the Legislature abide by Minnesota's Data Practices and Open Meeting laws. Currently, Thissen said, the Legislature can ignore those laws, which apply to other levels of government. He said the bill also includes a provision to try to better define the single-subject rule, a state Constitutional requirement that all legislative bills be restricted to one subject.
( The Civic Caucus is one of the amici on the section of Rebecca Otto v. Wright County that deals with the single-subject rule. The case is now before the State Supreme Court.)
The governor can decide not to sign a bill if the Legislature has not followed transparent policies. Thissen said that might be one way to force the Legislature and the governor to step up and do what's right. He noted that earlier in his legislative career, he voted on a lot more bills each session than are coming up for votes currently, because there was better adherence to the single-subject rule.
Who should take the leadership in improving the legislative process? An interviewer asked that question and Thissen said it has to be the rank-and-file legislators, the governor, and citizens who care about the issue. He said more and more people do care about it. "I think there is hope," he said. "It will have to be forced on the legislative leadership, because the current system is where their power comes from."
Ultimately, a single-payer health care payment system makes a lot more sense than what we have today. Thissen said one of the big challenges in health care is that we've broken into pools that are too small. While a single-payer system makes more sense, whether we can achieve that on the state level or whether it has to be national is open to question, he said. "But who pays for it is really only the beginning of the question," he said.
The health care delivery system is really what we have to get after. "How do we provide a delivery system that's not just individual actors acting in a marketplace to serve people?" Thissen asked. "We need to figure out incentives so they can cooperate, so the social services, mental health, as well as the direct care services, are all working together. There is a lot of great work going on at the community level. Communities are figuring it out. But we need to continue to push hard on that piece."
It's a fabulous idea to deliver health and other social services to children and families through the community school. Thissen said it's a matter of redirecting resources and working with the private sector. Minnesota's health care systems have a sense of commitment to the community that's sometimes lacking in other places, he said. There are lots of partnerships we could build.
He said we need a change in mental health services and mental health screening for children. If a school district diagnoses a problem, the district is on the hook to pay for special education services for that child, he said. Last year there was a bill to try to get Medicaid to pay for some of those services. "That's helped a bit," Thissen said. "But it's a really serious public-policy obstacle we have to figure out."
Thissen is worried that Minnesota is going to back down on its commitment to public health, which has been a huge benefit. He said the Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) , run through the Minnesota Department of Health, has had a big impact on reducing smoking and obesity and providing a lot of community-based public-health initiatives. "We need to expand that, instead of contract that, because it has had an effect on driving down the cost growth," he said.
We have a huge opportunity in Minnesota for research and development on solving some big chronic diseases, like diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. "We have the constellation of resources right here in Minnesota to do some incredible work on that," Thissen said. "It would save us money. It would expand our economy in a big way. I think we should have a governor who makes kind of a moon mission out of solving diabetes or solving Alzheimer's—picking one and harnessing the resources for the state to do that. Most importantly, it would improve people's quality of life."
The governor's role in solving the opioid crisis is to convene all the experts to move in the same direction. That includes the enforcement piece, the alternative treatments piece, the education piece and the regulation piece, Thissen said. There's an enforcement piece not only against the people who provide the drugs, but also against the drug companies.
There's a much heavier lift in terms of workforce development than we recognize. Thissen said he met recently with members of CTUL ( Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha ), an organization led by low-wage workers and dedicated to building the power and leadership of low-wage workers. He was able to talk to individual members about their challenges with finding affordable childcare and getting to work.
The next day, Thissen met with a group of business leaders to hear what their challenges were. Their major challenge, he said, is the workforce and the fact that we're not taking our workforce development ideas to scale in any meaningful way.
We must make workforce development central to what we do. Thissen said there are obstacles that exist in many people's lives that we must help them overcome. And we must bring in more immigrants.
Hennepin County's Hennepin Pathways program takes people who've been receiving services from the county and thinks of them as the future workforce. Thissen praised the program, which is aimed at adults and also works with other employers. He explained that the county has looked at its standards for hiring and how it could use its resources to help these people get ahead. "It's really changed the county's focus," Thissen said.
Thissen disagrees with the University of Minnesota's decision to charge much more for out-of-state tuition than for in-state tuition. That's moving the wrong way, Thissen said. He noted that the University of Alabama provides free tuition to any student, whether in state or out of state, who has a grade point average of3.5 or higher.
We can't see artificial intelligence (AI) as a threat to the workforce. We must look at the jobs that come up behind it, Thissen said. For every robot, there are three jobs created: someone to make it, someone to run it and someone to repair it. We have to train people to do that. He said AI has the potential to lead to gains in employment. "If we could create research hubs on robotics and AI, Minnesota could be on the cutting edge," he said. "And we could use it to make our government work much better."
We must have a discussion on a thinking-forward basis about how to deal with sex offenders. Thissen said we need to look at how we sentence sex offenders to begin with and how we do assessments of them as they go through the system. And we need to create incentives for the treatment to work.
Some people can't be incorporated safely into our communities, he said. That runs counter to things we'd like to believe, like mercy and rehabilitation. "The challenge is to figure out who's who," he said. "I don't think our system does a good enough job of that in terms of what's going to keep our communities safe vs. taking a retribution approach."

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Minireview: vitamin D receptor: new assignments for an already busy receptor.
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With its discovery in 1920, the molecule vitamin D achieved prominence as a nutritionally essential vitamin important for calcium homeostasis, particularly in the intestine and bone. Then in 1932, the elucidation of vitamin D's chemical structure revealed that this vitamin was in fact a steroid. But it was not until the late 1960s that it was appreciated that the steroid vitamin D was a precursor of a new steroid hormone, 1alpha,25(OH)2-vitamin D3 [1alpha,25(OH)2D3], that is produced by the kidney acting as an endocrine gland. The discovery in 1969 of the nuclear vitamin D receptor (VDR) for 1alpha,25(OH)2D3 initiated a two-decade-long proliferation of reports that collectively described the broad sphere of influence of the vitamin D endocrine system that is defined by the presence of the VDR in over 30 tissue/organs of man. The new genomic frontiers defined by the cellular presence of the VDR include the immune system's B and T lymphocytes, hair follicle, muscle, adipose tissue, bone marrow, and cancer cells. Unexpectedly in the mid 1980s, a new world of 1alpha,25(OH)2D3-mediated rapid responses (RR) was discovered. These were responses that occurred too rapidly (minutes to an hour) to be explained as the simple consequence of the nuclear VDR regulating gene transcription. Some RR examples include the rapid intestinal absorption of calcium (transcaltachia), secretion of insulin by pancreatic beta-cells, opening of voltage-gated Ca2+ and Cl- channels in osteoblasts, and the rapid migration of endothelial cells. The question then arose as to whether there was a second receptor, apart from the nuclear VDR, which responded to the presence of 1alpha,25(OH)2D3 to generate RR? After some false starts, it now appears that the classic VDR, long known to reside in the cell nucleus, in some cells is also associated with caveolae present in the plasma membrane. Furthermore, the chemical properties of the conformationally flexible 1alpha,25(OH)2D3 allow it to generate different shaped ligands for the VDR that are selective either for genomic or for RR. This minireview summarizes a proposed conformational ensemble model of the VDR that provides insight into how different ligand shapes of 1alpha,25(OH)2D3 acting through the VDR in different cellular locations can selectively mediate both genomic and RR.
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It’s been a rough year for longtime Fayetteville restaurants.
The latest local place to announce plans to close is iconic Fayetteville drive-in Mr. Burger, which will close for good on
Sunday, Feb 28.
Update: We’re now told that the restaurant will close on Friday, Feb. 26.
Shannon Gay, a representative with restaurant operator West Holdings, confirmed the news via phone on Wednesday.
Jose’s, Common Grounds, and Marlo’s Taco Shack are other longtime local restaurants that have also closed or announced a closure this year.
The drive-in style restaurant was the last remaining Mr. Burger of several locations that once operated in town over the years. They specialized in, as the name suggests, hamburgers, as well as a handful of other sandwiches, french fries, milkshakes, etc.
The restaurant, located at 1139 N. Lindell Ave. just off Garland Avenue in Fayetteville, operated out of a building originally built as a Sandy’s Drive-In sometime in the late 1960s to early 1970s.
It had been Mr. Burger, though, for as long as we can remember.
Rest in peace, little burger joint. You will be missed.


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After doing French and British style, I’ve had many requests to do an illustrated how-to on Italian style. I have to admit, I’ve only been in Italy once, and only for one day, so I apologize in advance to all the Italians who might think I’ve got it completely wrong. Anyway, this is my interpretation of the Italian (life)style. What would you like to see next on illustrated how-tos? Feel free to let me know and have a good week!
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Literature Review: Policy that encourages population to relocate regional areas
This review considers literature pertaining to policies that encourage population to relocate to regional areas, rather than the capital big cities. While the focus is mainly on the Australian policy context, consideration is given to international case studies and policy examples. For the purposes of this review, the literature has been divided into two categories: studies that focus on regional migration policies designed to disperse international migrants beyond capital cities, and those that examine general policies and initiatives encouraging movement to the regions (internal migration). Overall, we distinguish four types of relevant policy: marketing strategies, visa-linked incentives, and place- or people-based investments.