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Like Learning How to Write
Remember when you first learned how to write? When you started, chances are you could barely make coherent looking letters. Your d’s might have looked like b’s, your u’s like v’s. With time, you started to be able to differentiate each letter, even making your uppercase letters distinct from your lowercase letters.
The more you practiced, the more it became second nature to write correct and fluid sentences. How did you get better at writing? You repeated, repeated and repeated how to do it over and over and over again.
While this is essential to learn any skill, this is especially true for shooting. You don’t start shooting for the first time and are all of a sudden able to hit three pointers. In fact, most younger players we see shooting deeper shots for the first time will airball or be way off. This is because they have not yet developed the strength and experience to be able to hit those shots yet.
Whether you’re just learning to shoot or have been for some time - if you want to be a great shooter, here’s why you need to add repetition shooting to your workout routine.
What is Repetition Shooting
Repetition is the act of repeating something. Repetition shooting isn't just the act of shooting, but the act of repeating your shot the same exact way. Any drill that requires you to shoot from the same spot doing the same motion multiple times in a row is a repetition shooting drill.
In the Swish Hoop Player App, we have Repetition shooting drills from 8 feet, 15 feet and three-point range. You can practice any move from anywhere on the court and consider yourself doing repetition shooting, so let’s talk about why it’s so important.
Builds Your Form
When you are repeating how to write each letter, you want to make sure these letters look the same every time. It’s the same thing with your shooting. You want to make sure that when you shoot, it is the same shot every time.
This consistency in shooting the ball the same way over time trains your body to do this subconsciously, so that you no longer have to think about it.
Do you still think about how you’re writing now? No, because you’ve written so much that it is now a habit. When your shooting correctly has become a subconscious habit, you’re opening up opportunities to expand your game by adding more range and new skills.
Foundation to Add Layers to Your Game
At some point, you start to be able to write in cursive, putting together long paragraphs and even essays. If you didn’t master how to write your letters, this would be awfully hard to do. Think of adding dribble moves and expanding your range the same way.
You need to master the mechanics of your jump shot so that adding more skills builds off of this one skill, not feel completely new. The habits you build in mastering your form from 8 feet translate to when you back up to 15 feet and then to the three-point line.
When you start shooting off the dribble and even adding a step back to your game, you still gather yourself into the same shooting position that you work on when doing the repetition shooting drill. If you don't work on mastering your form, it’s likely that when you do that step back, your form will be different from shot to shot and therefore be inconsistent.
No Secret to Becoming a Great Shooter
There’s really no secret as to how you can become a great shooter. You need to master your mechanics and practice. When you started by learning the letters, making sentences, writing paragraphs, and then essays, you were building more complex skills based off of the very first and most important skill you learned - writing letters.
It’s the same with shooting. How to shoot the ball properly is like learning the letters. Moving a little further back is like building sentences. Shooting off the dribble, hitting three pointers and doing dribble moves before your shots are like writing paragraphs and essays.
Practice Makes Progress
And you didn’t learn by practicing your handwriting one day a week. You practiced every day and repeated the same motion for each letter. Practice your shot every day and repeat the same form every single shot. Getting better at any skill is all about repetition, repetition, repetition.
I’ve been playing basketball for about 20 years and I still start every workout making 50-100 repetition shots from in close before moving on to other drills in my workout. It helps you to:
1. build confidence by seeing the ball go in the hoop
2. reinforce your form
By the time you get on with your workout, you are confident. That’s the power of repetition shooting.

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BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - A disoriented whale that surprised onlookers by surfacing in the middle of a bustling marina in Buenos Aires is slowly finding its way back towards the sea, officials said Tuesday.
The small minke whale turned up Monday amid the yachts docked in Puerto Madero, the Argentine capital's upscale waterfront neighborhood. It had apparently strayed off course, leaving the Atlantic Ocean and swimming up the River Plate estuary into a canal that serves the marina.
As hundreds of curious passersby gathered to watch the whale surface and spout water just off the docks, navy officials tried to lead the animal out of fresh water and back to the sea.
They lost sight of the whale early Tuesday morning, but then spotted it again near the entrance to the river, officials said.
"The whale is currently at the exit of the Buenos Aires port. We don't know its health status, but it's in the right area to swim into the access canal toward the river," police spokesman Walter Melo told AFP.
Officials have been working with marine biologists to help the eight- to nine-metre whale find its way to the sea.
But some experts warned the outlook was grim.
"From the moment it entered the River Plate it had problems because these are salt-water animals," said the head of the Whale Conservation Institute of Argentina, Diego Taboada.
"There's no way to save it. It will beach at some point and turn up dead."


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"Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!"
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
I didn't know what kind of tree with white blossoms I shared last week until I did an image search for magnolia hybrids, but I'm pretty sure this is a flowering pear tree!
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May 28, 2004
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Paul Farinacci cleared the bases with a double as part of a four-run first inning and then added an insurance run with a solo home run in the eighth to lead Ohio State to its second win of the day in a 6-4 victory over Purdue Friday in the Big Ten Tournament at Siebert Field. With the win, the Buckeyes await the loser of Friday night’s Minnesota vs. Michigan game for the right to advance to the first championship game Saturday night.
The Buckeyes scored four runs, all with two outs, in the top of the first inning to take a commanding lead. After a pair of groundouts, Steve Caravati (Jr., Dover, Ohio/Dover) started the rally with a single to right-center field. Cody Caughenbaugh (So., Newark, Ohio/Licking Valley) followed with a single down the left-field line. A third straight single by Brett Garrard (Sr., Brownsburg, Ind./Brownsburg) drove in Caravati and then a walk to Ronnie Bourquin (Fr., Canton, Ohio/Canton South) loaded the bases.
Farinacci, a junior from Westlake Village, Calif. (Agoura), responded in a huge manner doubling to the gap in right-center field to clear the bases and give the Buckeyes a four-run advantage.
Caughenbaugh’s second hit of the game yielded another Buckeye run, putting the Buckeyes up 5-0 as he knocked in Drew Anderson (Jr., Brownsburg, Ind./Brownsburg), who got the first of three hits by Ohio State in the inning. It was just the second multiple-hit game for Caughenbaugh, the Buckeye designated hitter. OSU starter Dan DeLucia (Fr., Columbus, Ohio/Bishop Watterson) settled down after giving up a hit to Mike Coles to lead off the first inning. He retired seven batters in a row before giving up a two-out triple to Coles in the third inning. DeLucia hit Mitch Hilligoss before Simon Klink put the Boilermakers on the scoreboard. John Hunter followed with a single through the left side to score Hilligoss from second and pull Purdue within three runs, 5-2.
A two-run home run by Ben Fritz in the bottom of the sixth inning pulled the Boilers within one run. Klink interrupted a string of six straight batters retired by DeLucia with a single to right to lead off the inning before Fritz went long off the scoreboard beyond the right-center field fence to make the score 5-4.
Brett Hatcher (Jr., Bellefontaine, Ohio/Bellefontaine) came in for DeLucia to start the seventh and got out of the inning relatively untouched. He gave up a one-out single to Coles, but the Buckeyes turned the double play to get out of the inning. DeLucia allowed the four runs on seven hits and struck out three batters without a walk to get to 3-3 on the season.
In the top of eighth, Farinacci sent a shot out of the park to straight-away centerfield over the glove of Coles, the Purdue centerfielder, who had climbed the wall trying to rope in Farinacci’s third home run of the year. Instead the Buckeyes got the insurance run to take a 6-4 lead.
Hatcher retired the Boilermakers in order in the bottom of the eighth and the first batter of the ninth before a single by Eric Osborn singled to right to bring the winning run to the plate. Hatcher got Andy Dahl to fly out to right before giving way to Trey Fausnaugh (Fr., Circleville, Ohio/Westfall). Fausnaugh, who was making his 30th appearances of the season, got Mitch Koester to fly out to left to end the game and earn his eighth save of the season, which tied him for fifth most in a season by an Ohio State pitcher.
Farinacci went 2-for-4 and drove in four RBI on the three-run double in the first and his third long ball of the season. Jacob Howell (Fr., Ashland, Ohio/Ashland) was a silent 3-for-5, while Caughenbaugh was 2-for-4 with one RBI. Coles led Purdue in going 3-for-4. Chris Toneguzzi fell to 5-4 with the loss for Purdue.
Since sweeping the Big Ten Tournament in three games in 2002, the Buckeyes are now 5-0 facing elimination in the tournament. Ohio State went 3-0 out of the loser’s bracket to win the tournament title in 2003 and is 2-0 so far in this season’s event, sending home Michigan State 8-3 earlier Saturday to go with the 6-4 win vs. Purdue.
Ohio State (34-24) next plays Saturday when it meets the loser of tonight’s winner’s bracket game between top-seeded Minnesota and third-seeded Michigan, which sent the Buckeyes to the loser’s bracket Thursday with a 10-4 victory. The winner of that game, scheduled for 4:35 p.m. (EDT) moves to the championship game, which immediately follows needing to beat the winner of tonight’s game twice if it hopes to win the Big Ten Tournament.

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Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Metropolitan Books; 1 edition (October 22, 2013)
Alisa Solomon gives us Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof. This is a book that fans of the stage and film musical will certainly enjoy. It goes hand in hand with the recently published biography of Sholem Aleichem.
The drama critic traces Fiddler back to its days as a 1905 Yiddish story through the days of its inception as a Broadway musical and a Hollywood blockbuster hit.
Fiddler is a cultural landmark. It's frequently performed in high schools and rented by many today.
The songs are familiar to many, whether it's the opening to "Tradition" or the chorus of "If I Were a Rich Man." People identify with Tevye's desire to maintain his faith and family in a changing world.
Solomon's book is the first such critical analysis of the iconic cultural status. She explores how and why Fiddler was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a culture touchstone--not only for Jews and Americans.
It's expansive, delightful, original as it reveals the surprising and enduring legacy.

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Rebranding Martha Stewart
This article was originally published in The Essential Principles of Graphic Design by Debbie Millman.
A brand value statement is a very helpful guide for shaping a new identity. The Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia statement was a little long for my taste, so I highlighted some of the words that were most helpful to us. We paid constant attention to whether or not our design was an actual embodiment and visualization of some of the words in the statement.
Here is the original:
The handmade, the homemade, the artful, the innovative, the practical, the contemporary, and the beautiful.
We are not just about lifestyle, but about essential tools for modern living. Not just about the how-to, but about the why-to. We aim to inspire the creativity that can transform homemaking into domestic arts, or a simple dinner into an occasion—filling our lives with a little more quality, a little more permanence, a little more lasting beauty. We are not just a company, but a laboratory for ideas and a community celebrating the art of the everyday.
And here is the revised version:
. . . the handmade, the homemade, the artful, the innovative, the practical, the contemporary, and the beautiful . . . a little more quality, a little more permanence, a little more lasting beauty.
There was much discussion and heated debate over whether the rebrand name should be “Martha Stewart” or “MarthaStewart.” The thinking was that the lack of a word space would help transform a person’s name into a corporation, but the argument against it lay in how it would be read in press releases and newspapers. One question was paramount: What was the overlying subject foremost in the minds of the consumer—the woman or the corporation?
Names maintain an aura; they can nurture tremendous power. We could never escape the high passion of a certain individual’s ideas concerning Martha Stewart. Those two seemingly benign words carry a lot of emotional weight. Adding anything to MARTHA and STEWART, such as a logo emblem or some kind of abstract flourish, would have diminished it. Due to Martha’s prominence in the world, and pre-eminence in her categories, we were forced to rely upon the power of her name to the exclusion of everything else—no trees, leaves, spoons, or big MS. We had to create a distinctive and proprietary way to present the words, meanwhile dodging the word space bullet, whose differing camps were quickly polarizing. I kept thinking of my favorite photograph of Martha. She is out by her barn wearing a barn jacket, and she is walking with a handmade wreath of orange, yellow and red maple leaves. The movement and color bring this image to life, and I can recall the pleasant surprise of seeing the wreath in motion, swinging actually, blurry and bright and joyful. It seemed natural to transform the Martha Stewart name into a wreath and, naturally, it was difficult to pull off.
I struggled with a condensed sans serif in Illustrator, searching for a contemporary feel, and I got the words to work beautifully in a circle. Twice. It looked great, but it said, “Martha Stewart Martha Stewart.” This reminded me of the 1970s sitcom Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, which was about a dimwitted young woman with red hair in two enormous braids—and this was not the proper frame of reference. After days of finger-gnawing frustration, trying to convince myself that this wreath thing was on the right track, I attempted a pencil drawing with wide letters, the “Martha” swinging around on the tip of a circle, and the “Stewart” swinging around on the bottom. The visual reference altered immediately from a wreath to a coin. This new idea hit upon the “quality, permanence and lasting beauty” part of the equation, subtly suggesting that this public company was valuable, dependable, and bankable. After all, nothing suggests “worth” like currency and coins. The Greeks were minting coins with arcs of type around the edges as early as fourth century BC. That’s what I call long-lasting!
Now that the idea consisted of carved or minted letters in a coin/wreath form, I began by hand-drawing the letters in order to get a better sense of the character and the radial stems. We began with the letterforms of Trajan, but this quickly evolved into a version of Optima due to our rigorous research. We wanted the letterforms to reproduce in miniscule applications, like buttons or tacks, which would maintain its handsomeness when shown either carved or embossed. Based on this font, we drew it repeatedly in order to grow away from a rigidity, adding an organic sense of “handmade, homemade and artful” to the letterforms themselves.
Time and again I’ve seen this logo criticized on design blogs due to its imperfections. My reaction is, “Yes, exactly! It is not meant to be perfect.” In order to discern whether or not the letters were exactly imperfect in a correct manner, I actually carved the type into a disk of plaster. I imagined plaques that could be used in-store as disks, incised with these 13 important letters.
After reading the brand statement for the millionth time, it occurred to me that our goal as craftsmen was for this logo to be seen as equally Arts & Crafts movement (20th century: the handmade and artful) and Wedgewood (mid-18th century: lasting beauty). The circular configuration offered the idea of community—a group of 13 come together, circle-shaped, conjoined, providing energy and movement as they coalesce into something bigger than they could ever be individually.


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LONDONDERRY, NH (CBS) – A 14-year-old boy was hit and killed by a car on I-93 in Londonderry, New Hampshire on Wednesday.
State Police say the teen exited a vehicle that was stopped in the breakdown lane and was hit by a vehicle traveling northbound.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released.
The highway was shut down on the northbound side after the crash that happened just after 4:30pm Wednesday.
There were no other injuries.
The accident remains under investigation.


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UPDATED 12:40 PM PT – Thursday, July 28, 2022
A new exhibit opens in Washington D.C. to honor Americans that served in the Korean War. A ceremony was held Wednesday to reveal the Wall of Remembrance near the Lincoln Memorial, a granite wall inscribed with the names of those who lost their lives in the war.
The wall features the names of more than 43,000 service members who lost their lives defending the nation and the people of South Korea. The names include over 36,000 American service members plus over 7,000 members of the Korean augmentation to the United States Army who fought alongside US troops.
Good morning from the Korean War Veterans Memorial. Today, a Wall of Remembrance, decades in the making, will be dedicated. 43,000 Americans and members of the Korean Augmentation gave their lives in that 3-year war. The memorial first opened in 1995. pic.twitter.com/ygpWp1mnmB
— Ted Fioraliso (@tedfioraliso) July 27, 2022
“This wall reminds us of the depths of their sacrifice, and instilled in us a call of duty to carry on their fight,” said South Korean Ambassador Lee Soo-Hyuck. “The service members we are here today to honor stood their ground in battlefields so that future generations could live in a vibrant democracy.”
Today I had the privilege of attending the dedication of the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance. I was honored to be a part of this special day that reminds us that freedom is not free. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ImOnNMCrP9
— Rep. Michelle Steel (@RepSteel) July 27, 2022
The Korean War Veterans Memorial was first dedicated back in 1995 and was officially completed Wednesday on National Korean War Armistice Day. On Tuesday, family members of Korean War Veterans got the first chance to see their relatives names engraved in stone.
“They always call the Korean War the forgotten war and I think this helps to dispel some of that,” Doug Emhoff voiced. “Now with the names here people can come and visit and see their loved ones or even if they were not the family members but people that they knew. So, I think it’s a strong message.
The sloped wall was built to surround The Pool of Remembrance and reaffirms the memorial’s message “freedom is not free.”


2013 Ford F-Series Super Duty Raises The Bar With Best-In-Class Towing and Payload Benchmarks
Ford continues to strengthen the F-Series lineup for 2013, raising the bar for Super Duty® towing, hauling and braking to again set the standard among heavy duty trucks. Ford engineers have raised conventional towing capacity to a class-leading 18,500 lbs., besting the nearest competitor by 500 lbs. Increased towing brawn goes hand-in-hand with improved payload capability to a class-leading 7,260 lbs., an increase of more than 100 lbs. Super Duty brake system improvements enable higher payload figures.


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Why do folks get so worked up over the minimum wage? The best evidence shows that the net effects of increasing minimum wages are trivial (the figure on the right plots strength of results on the vertical axis and effect size on the horizontal axis). As Madeline Zavodny put it, the issue appears to be a “maximal conflict over minimal effects.”
Moreover, it is clear that state adoptions of minimums higher than the national standard are not due to differences in economic conditions: wage growth, the cost of living, income inequality, a high proportion of minimum-wage earners in the workforce, etc. That these things should matter seems intuitively plausible. For example, a recent article in Governing magazine categorically states that state minimum-wage increases are driven primarily by growth in the relative cost of living, especially where gentrification and amenity-based tourism amplify inequalities of income and wealth. But, when such claims are subjected to rigorous empirical testing no relationships are found. Minimum wage increases are apparently not driven by absolute or relative economic hardship or, absent interaction with political variables, economic conditions generally.
What, then, explains interstate variations in minimum wages? The best research on this issue done to date fingers politics. My colleagues, Kawika Pierson, and Tim Johnson, and I have replicated much of this research. Our analysis confirms most earlier findings: that minimums higher than the national standard predict subsequent state minimum-wage hikes, that timing matters, and that states, which enact minimum-wage hikes, are almost invariably under Democratic Party control (although not all states that are controlled by Democrats have higher minimums and neither the size of Democratic majorities nor shifts from Republican to Democratic control appear to be correlated with increases in state minimum wages.)
We have extended this line of investigation in three directions. First, we show that a disproportionate number of minimum-wage hikes are enacted during the even-numbered years between presidential elections (so-called mid-term election years). This variable turns out to be significantly more powerful than the number of years since the last boost (federal and/or state), the main timing-related mechanism considered in earlier studies. Second, simple partisan control matters more than ideology. Earlier studies looked at partisan control or ideology, but not both. And, third, after accounting for the election cycle and partisan control, state minimums are found to vary inversely with their cost to in-state consumers, either because states adopting them have few minimum wage workers or because of tax exporting (i.e., shifting the burden of the minimum wage to out-of-state consumers). Most economists believe that if a jurisdiction can export taxes, it will. But our attention to this factor was, in fact, triggered by the SeaTac initiative, which raised the minimum wage “for the airport’s hospitality and transportation workers.”
We used mixture models with state minimums as our response variable and year fixed-effects and the interaction between Democratic control of the state legislature and low-wage or export employment as a percent of total employment as our predictor variables. Our interaction terms are consistently positive and significant. The interaction terms also dominate any effect that Democratic control (either as a percent or a dummy) or legislative ideology shows on its own. Interestingly, specifications featuring the interaction between Democratic control of the state legislature and export employment consistently outperform those featuring the interaction between Democratic control and low-wage employment. The interaction models involving ideology also work quite well, but are dominated by the interaction of a naive Democratic control dummy (1 when Democrats control the legislature) and the jobs measures. Stated statistically, there are good reasons to think that legislative ideology scores are measuring demand for minimum wages ‘with error’ in this setting, and concluding, therefore, that the real issue is party brand.
As improper as this is, we marvel at the fact that we can explain 40-50+ percent of the variance in state minimum wages net of fixed effects. This seems like a lot of explanatory power given that we are considering only partisan control, the jobs mix, and the election cycle. At the same time, we do not see how these results can be reconciled with the notion that minimum-wage battles are really about the policy’s material consequences. The variables included in our models are simply too feckless for that interpretation to be taken seriously.
Instead, they suggest that the primary function of proposed minimum-wage hikes is rallying the party faithful to fight mid-term elections and that when Democrats actually control legislatures they must often put up or shut up, whether they really want to or not. In other words, the minimum wage, like banning assault-weapons or abstinence-only sex education, is basically a political football, an otherwise largely inconsequential object, given symbolic importance by interparty rivalry.
Of course, minimum wage hikes are also symbolically important as expressions of public concern for low-wage workers. Nevertheless, this legitimate justification is difficult to reconcile with the fact the issue tends to reappear on the legislative agenda every fourth year even in states where the minimum wage is high and indexed for inflation.

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A new Len’s Island update 0.5.055 is available to download on PC. According to the official Len’s Island game patch notes, the latest update adds a new save file backup system, XP for catching fish, and much more.
Previously, a major update was released which added a new Pagoda building style, a new lantern, a long list of bug fixes, and gameplay changes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Len’s Island patch 0.5.055 will fix a few of these issues.
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Len’s Island Update Notes – January 25, 2023
- Added new save file backup system, there are now temporary backup files that get stored alongside save files to help restore corrupt saves.
- Rewrote part of the saving/loading system to make it more robust and able to rebuild files if computer crashes
- Added Xp for catching fish
- Added fog effect at the edge of the world so it’s more obvious where the map boundary is
- Fixed issues with Sugar High, Catch of the Day, and Collector achievements not working
- Fixed removing wood storage piles sometimes not refunding stored items
- Fixed Oil and Lightstone Dust stack sizes being capped at 25 when outputting in a refinery
- Changed size of beds so you can walk around them in small 1×1 sized rooms
- Fixed mesh & fading issues with alchemy table and void chest
- Fixed footstep sound bug on boats
- Fixed play button staying in main menu after backing out of character creation
- Fixed bug that didn’t close blackjack games when talking to the pirate
- Levelled bumpy terrain under building plot 2
- Fixed pickup items falling through some cave entrances
- Fixed issues not being able to edit some pagoda stairs
- Fixed issues building floors & roofs above garden beds
- Fixed many spelling and grammar errors across item descriptions
- Fixed several areas in the dark forest dungeons with bad collision and places to get stuck
- Fixed several areas in the desert tombs with bad collision and places to get stuck

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December 6, 2013 |
LONDON: The volume of share sales by European companies so far this year is up 75 per cent on the same period in 2012, Thomson Reuters data showed on Friday, the strongest year-to-date since 2009. The total raised by European companies from equity capital markets (ECM) deals, which includes initial public offerings, new shares sold by listed companies or blocs of existing shares sold by their owners as well as bonds which are convertible into stock, was $211.9 billion as of Dec. 5. ...
November 17, 2005 |
The world we live in seems to be drowning in an 'ocean of information'. The School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California in Berkeley cites in its ongoing study that the amount of information the world produces is about five exabytes (one exabyte is one billion gigabytes) each year. The ability to churn out information at such a prodigious rate needs to be matched by the ability to archive it for future use. Organisations have a mass of content, much of it...
January 3, 2013 |
Indian stock markets have gone up substantially. However, this is not the indication of general business sentiments as transaction activities are still slow and scattered. Private Equities and overseas companies are looking at valuation while the overall sentiment is to wait till the results of general election of 2014, says Vishwang Desai, Managing partner of M&A and Transaction specialized law firm Desai & Diwanji to Maulik Vyas. How are...
August 26, 2010 |
NEW YORK: Japanese automaker Toyota announced Thursday the recall of 1.13 million of its popular Corolla vehicles in North America due to an engine fault. Toyota, the world's largest car manufacturer, said the recall was issued for Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles built between 2005 and 2008 "to address some engine control modules (ECM) that may have been improperly manufactured. " It said in a statement that there was a possibility...
March 16, 2004 |
SEOUL: GM Daewoo Auto and Technology Co said on Tuesday it is recalling 163,977 minivans because of engine faults. The recall will affect Rezzo minivans manufactured between December 27, 1999 and March 1, 2004, none of which were sold abroad, the company said. "GM Daewoo Auto and Technology has decided to recall LPG (liquified petroleum gas)-powered Rezzo minivans as there is a possibility that engine oil might be consumed a bit too much because of abnormal fuel burning," it said.


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The 2022 Billboard Women in Music Awards take over the YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 2, and if you’re not one of the lucky fans who snagged tickets to see the event in person, you can always join in the fun of home.
The event will be streamed live for free on Twitter here, offering fans around the world a front-row seat to red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes highlights, show moments and exclusive acceptance speeches and honoree performances.
2022 Billboard Women in Music Awards Winners Include Woman of the Year Olivia Rodrigue; Icon Award Recipient Bonnie Raitt; Powerhouse Award Recipient Doja Cat; Rising Star Award Recipient Gabby Barrette; Impact Award Recipient HIS; Executive of the Year Award Recipient Golnar Khosrowshahi; Recipient of the Rule Breaker Award Karl G.; Trailblazer Award Recipient Phoebe Bridger; Game Changer Award Recipient Saweetie; and winner of the Chart Breaker award Summer walker.
Tribute to female influence in the music industry and beyond will be hosted by 2009 Woman of the year Ciara.
WIM’s collaboration with Twitter extends the ongoing partnership between Billboard and Twitter, which over the past two years has included Twitter exclusively hosting the Billboard The live broadcast of the Grammys, as well as the 2021 launch of the first real-time Billboard Hot Trending Songs powered by the Twitter chart.
For more information on women in music, visit billboardwomeninmusic.comand follow on Instagram and Twitter @billboard with the hashtag #BBWomenInMusic.
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Opioid + analgesic.
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A new probabilistic approach to estimating marine gastropod densities from baited traps
Effects of temporal fluctuation in population processes of intertidal Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766) aggregations on its ecosystem engineering(2017) ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE. 188. p.88-98
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Executive Series - Wilson Asset Management Chairman & Portfolio Manager, Geoff Wilson
CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski speaks with Wilson Asset Management Chairman & Portfolio Manager, Geoff Wilson about its WAM Leaders fund IPO (WLE) To view more Executive Series interviews, visit: (VIEW LINK)
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In the mood for a takeaway? Why not put the menus back in the drawer, dig out a bag of frozen chicken dippers and make this delectable yet simple homemade chicken spice bag at home instead?
This recipe is so easy you’ll find yourself whipping it up again and again.
12 Birds Eye Chicken Dippers
For the chips and veggies
4 medium potatoes, washed and cut into wedges
1 onion, sliced
1 red pepper, cut into strips
1 green pepper, cut into strips
For the spice mix
1 tbsp sea salt
1 tsp Chinese five spice
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp chilli powder
1 tsp pepper
Optional: red and green fresh chilli, finely sliced
Cook the Birds Eye Chicken Dippers according to package directions.
To make spice mix, add Chinese five spice, chilli, garlic, pepper and salt together and stir.
Heat the oven to 180°C. Coat the potato wedges with olive oil and season with 1/2 of the spice mix. Transfer onto a lined baking sheet and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.
In a large wok, heat some oil, then add the peppers, onion and remaining spice mix. Sauté for 5 to 10 minutes.
Combine the cooked Chicken Dippers, wedges and veggies and sprinkle with more seasoning. Serve immediately and enjoy!

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Comic books have always had the bad rap of being just some idle thing for children. In reality, many of them are anything but. Guys like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Robert Kirkman, and Frank Miller made sure the comic books they worked on were strictly for adult audiences. Even the friendliest of superhero books have more than a few dark and shocking moments.
Be it a surprise death, the way a moment is handled, learning about someone's past, an unmasking, or a sudden revelation that will make the book, and the audience, never quite the same again, comic books offer just as many shocks and twists as any other work of fiction.What comic book moments do you think are the most shocking? Vote up the most shocking moments from the history of comic books below.


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Internal Medicine at Rush is unique in that we are a small primary care practice located at a large, world-class medical center. Due to this, we are able to provide personalized care and a more intimate environment while benefitting from being in the heart of Rush's campus. We believe in prevention and practice routine health maintenance at every visit in order to detect and treat health conditions before they become problematic. Additionally, we help coordinate the care our patients receive from specialists.
For urgent matters, there is always a doctor on call, and you can send a message through MyChart to your physician. Together with the Walk-In Clinic, located in the Professional Building Suite 155 (elevator 3) on Rush's campus, these services ensure that our patients have continuous access to high-quality medical care.
We look at ourselves as partners in your overall well-being, and are excited to work with you towards whatever health goals you may wish to achieve.
Internal Medicine at Rush hours
Dr. Pai-Verma (Suite 510):
- Monday: 7:20 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Tuesday: 7:40 a.m. to 11:40 a.m.
- Wednesday: 8:40 a.m. to 3:20 p.m.
- Thursday: OFF
- Friday: 7:20 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.
Dr. Bryan (Suite 106B):
- Monday: 8:20 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Tuesday: 8:20 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Thursday: 8:20 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Parking at Internal Medicine at Rush
An enclosed parking garage, on the southeast corner of Paulina and Harrison streets, has a covered walkway that connects to the Orthopedic Building, where our practice is located. To view the garage on Google Maps, go to Rush Patient and Visitor Parking. We offer reduced rates to our patients by validating your parking ticket before you leave. Additionally, valet parking is available outside the lobby of the Orthopedic Building. We do not validate valet parking.
Getting to Internal Medicine at Rush via public transportation
The Rush University Medical Center campus is conveniently located just west of downtown Chicago and is easily accessible from I-290 off of Ashland Avenue or the Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue line (Illinois Medical District stop) or Pink line (Polk stop).


ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The Rochester Police Department is investigating a shooting that sent two men to the hospital on Sunday night.
RPD said it was called to the area of Hudson Avenue and Berlin Street shortly after 9 p.m. for the report of a person shot. Upon arrival, police found a 21-year old man shot in the upper body. He was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital where he remains in critical condition in an Intensive Care Unit.
A second victim, an 18-year-old man of Rochester, was located on Avenue D with wounds to his upper and lower body. He was also taken to Strong Memorial Hospital and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
No suspects are in custody.
Check back with News 8 WROC as we update this developing story.


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But New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark took the occasion to urge Tehran to cooperate more fully with the UN nuclear agency to prove its nuclear program is peaceful. And that suggestion brought Iran's nuclear policy to the forefront of what otherwise was a routine diplomatic visit.
Kharrazi responded to Clark by defending what he called Iran's right to have nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. And he said that Tehran would protect its interests by retaliating against any country that launched a military strike against its nuclear facilities.
The Iranian foreign minister's statements were the latest escalation in a war of words with Israel that in recent days has seen Iran assert it has missiles capable of hitting the Jewish state. The head of the Political Bureau of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said earlier this month that "the entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear faculties and atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran's advanced missiles."
Analysts say that currently there are no indications Israel is preparing a strike against Iran. But repeated statements of Israeli concern over Iran's nuclear program have fueled speculation that Israel might try to preemptively destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, just as it hit Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981.
Israel's chief of staff, General Moshe Ya'alon, said this week that Iran's nuclear development must be halted before it proceeds much further. He told the Israeli daily "Yediot Ahronot" that "Iran is striving for nuclear capability and I suggest that in this matter [Israel] not rely on others."
RFE/RL regional analyst William Samii said Kharrazi's statements today appear to be a general warning to Israel, not a response to specific threats. "I think that the Iranian statements about their readiness to defend the country, or act aggressively if attacked, are more preemptive than anything else," he said. "They are not based on any specific statements coming from Washington or from Israel."
He added: "The perception [in the U.S. foreign-policy community] is that there is a possibility that the Bush administration may not be reelected, and in that case the Israelis could just go ahead and act and not worry about any political repercussions. The other possibility is that, if the Bush administration is reelected, than it would in fact give a green light to the Israeli action against the Iranian nuclear facility. But I have to emphasize that these are rumors that are circulating in Washington, and I am sure the Iranians have heard these rumors and are perhaps reacting to them."
Tensions around Iran's nuclear program have grown over the past several months as the UN has failed to get Tehran to rapidly prove it has only a peaceful nuclear program.
The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has been investigating Iran's program, rebuked Tehran for unsatisfactory cooperation in June. The nuclear watchdog's governing board adopted a resolution saying, "Iran's cooperation has not been as full, timely, and proactive as it should have been," but set no deadline for compliance.
Tehran protested the resolution and said last month it would resume the manufacture, assembly, and testing of centrifuges to enrich uranium -- a nuclear fuel that can be used either for peaceful energy generation or for bomb making. The decision to resume work on centrifuges reversed an earlier promise to Britain, France, and Germany to suspend uranium-enrichment-related activities to demonstrate cooperation with the IAEA.
Kharrazi charged Washington today with trying to orchestrate an international campaign against Iran's nuclear program out of its own animosity to the Islamic Republic. "The question of the United States' position is a separate story," he said. "Animosity has prevailed between Iran and the United States for many years now, and therefore they have been looking for excuses and opportunities to put pressure on Iran."
The United States has long accused Iran of trying to acquire the capability to build nuclear weapons under the guise of a nuclear-power program. The centerpiece of the power program is the commercial reactor Tehran is building near its southern Persian Gulf port of Bushehr with Russian assistance. The reactor is now due to become operational in October 2006.
A top U.S. arms-control official intensified pressure on Iran last week by saying that Tehran could develop nuclear weapons within three years if left unchecked. U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in Washington that "Iran has told the EU three [Britain, France, and Germany] that it could possess nuclear weapons within three years."
But Bolton said that Washington wants to continue trying to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions by working through the IAEA. He said yesterday that the U.S. government wants a diplomatic solution to the crisis and not regime change in Iran.
The Vienna-based IAEA is due to hold its next review of Iran's cooperation at a meeting in September. The United States is likely to try to press the 35-nation body to refer Tehran to the UN Security Council for discussion of possible sanctions if Iran's level of cooperation is again judged unsatisfactory.


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Will he give me this chance to know him? Will he accept the idea of letting me inside his life and let me know him?
I don’t know yet if this will happen or not, don’t know if he even accepted my hand and my friendship, don’t know if he knows that I talk about him or not.
Did he like my words about him or not? Did he know?
Who is he? Will my story about him will be completed or will be incomplete like my trip? Will he let me write about him?
When I looked at him I found a story to tell, a story to make everyone read, maybe he’s still young, but somehow I feel he has the story that I need, that kind of story that will make everyone fall in love with, yeah some will be from my imagination, but his reality is what I need to build the story, he’s the hero that I need.
Every day we met people everywhere, some we talk to, some we don’t, some be friends, some be just strangers, but did we think before that everyone in our life has a role in our life? Did we know that everyone we see is someone maybe we will be best friends with or maybe will deal with in the future?
Maybe I saw him before, or maybe he did, but we never look to each other or knew.
Maybe we had mutual friends and we didn’t know.
Sometimes I think why I met people in different ways not all in one time? Why I like that and not this? Why do I want to be friend with that and not the others? How do I feel that this one is the best friend I been searched for? Is he feels the same? Could no one know now? No one of us can be able to decide now?
I still want to know him more, much more…


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DLA Piper has advised Crompton Greaves on the €150 million purchase of the Spanish company ZIV Aplicaciones y Tecnología S.L., a specialist in electrical systems.
The sellers were the private equity company N+1, owner of 74.5% of the company, and its management team, holder of the remaining 25.5%. The Basque company ZIV is a manufacturer and service provider in the smart grid, smart metre and grid communication systems.
Crompton Greaves, part of the Avantha Group, is a company listed in India. Crompton Greaves is a leading electrical equipment maker and service provider in India and worldwide, with annual turnover of US $ 2.3 billion.
The transaction was conducted by a team of lawyers from the Corporate practice of DLA Piper's Madrid office, led by partners Juan Picón and José Antonio Sánchez-Dafos, and assisted by, among others, senior associate Santiago Lardies. Jorge Vasallo and Julian De Unamuno, from Arcano, were the buyer's financial advisors.
Juan Picón said: "despite the economic situation, we see that price expectations are keeping the M&A sector active and that, in addition to private equity companies, industrial buyers are finding opportunities. Our global presence enables us to be in a strong position to advise on transactions such as this, which involve multiple countries. I believe this is a trend we will continue to see more in the future.


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|Type||Ballistic missile submarine|
|Number built||17 (by 1989)|
|Speed||26 knots (surfaced)
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The Clandestine-class Submarine is a nuclear-capabilities submarine developed and produced by the United Soviette Republics during the Sea Race in the early Cold War after Harbitros had tested and unveiled the Discovery-class Submarine.


Returns a new array that is a copy of the receiving array with a given object added to the end.
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A new array that is a copy of the receiving array with
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Evaluates a given predicate against each object in the receiving array and returns a new array containing the objects for which the predicate returns true.
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There isn't much to put into the setup other than a drive and some DDR3L. I used some Kingston HyperX Impact 8GB (two 4GB) rated at 1600MHz and a Kingston 120GB mSATA SSD.
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AIDA64 AES and HASH
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The Intel NUC and this GIGABYTE BRIX both use Intel's 5th generation Core I series processors. The BRIX uses the i7 5500u, and the NUC uses the i5 5250u; they are almost identical except that the BRIX's 5500u has much higher stock and turbo frequencies than the NUC's 5250u, and it also has 4MB of L3 cache as opposed to 3MB on the NUC. Both have the same TDP, but it does seem the 5500U is the clear winner in the CPU and even some GPU benchmarks.
There is also another difference: the NUC's 5250u has three graphics cores (Intel's HD6000), and the 5500u has only two graphics cores (Intel's HD5500). What is interesting is that the 5500u does better in the gaming benchmarks because of its greater cache and higher CPU speed, even though its specs define it as having lower performance graphics.
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[South Carolina] Rep. Jeff Duncan (R) will not seek reelection
[WSPA News 7]
Photo credit: Jeff Duncan
Duncan is a 7-term Congressman, first elected in 2010. He lost the primary that year, but won the runoff vs. future "moderate" state legislator Richard Cash. Cash is already being rumored as a candidate for the now-open congressional seat. Cash's lifetime conservative rating in the SC Senate is in the low-70s, which is squish territory. Duncan has a lifetime conservative rating of 97%.
Duncan's district is ultra-safe. No Democrat has won it since 1992 and no Democrat is going to win it in the foreseeable future; they didn't even field a candidate in 2022. Trump defeated Biden in 2020 by nearly 40 points here.
Duncan is calling it a career, according to the liberal media and even RINOs like John Gizzi, because of a "sex scandal". Duncan's vindictive soon-to-be ex-wife is apparently determined to drag her husband through the mud on her way to a lucrative divorce settlement, making public accusations that Duncan had a sexual relationship with a lobbyist ("honey trap"?) working for the National Rifle Association.
When a California Democrat hooks up with a honeypot like "Fang Fang", or threatens his wife [Steven Horsford, D-NV] or even beats her [Sherrod Brown, D-OH] -- as just a few examples -- these things somehow tend to be resume enhancers; not only do the Rat politicians fail to slink away quietly, but they brazenly run for -- and win -- re-election. What is pretty quiet is the reporting of such adverse information in the liberal media; these events are reported briefly, once, if at all. Unless there's so much truth to the allegations that the media feels the need to constantly defend the Democrat. Then there's plenty of reporting, but always slanted in the usual direction.
On the other hand, when it comes to Republicans even the slightest indiscretion is always framed like this: "Duncan's reputation for conservative family values was diminished last year when his wife filed for divorce." Even a tepid revelation like that is normally enough to evict a Republican from public office, as is the case with Duncan. He knows that the liberal media will give his spiteful mate a megaphone on a daily basis for as long as necessary. Therefore Duncan has made the prudent decision to "step aside and allow others to bring fresh ideas and abilities into the fight for Liberty, just as I have".
At least he omitted the usual drivel about wanting to "spend more time with my family". It looks like the only part of him that his wife wants around is his bank account.
Media double standard
[South Carolina] House Republican Nancy Mace Says 'We Will Lose Next Year' If MAGA Members Bully Moderates
Photo credit: The Hill
Liberal GOP crybully is welcomed onto a low-rated ultra-liberal TV network in order to bash conservatives. Any "news" story pertaining to a Republican politician which contains "During an appearance on CNN..." tells you all you need to know about that politician's credibility.
Patriotic American voters who would like to see the GOP in Congress stand for something (did you know that Republicans actually control the House of Representatives?), lament the defeatist attitude and cowardly legislative inaction by squishes such as Kevin McCarthy -- and Nancy Mace. Conservative voters believe, rightly, that after 2024 the GOP is likely to lose control of the House for those reasons.
That is very likely to happen as things stand now. Demoralized conservative voters notwithstanding, another reason for the impending loss is that Democrats are preparing to pick up several seats from the effects of belated redistricting which (in all cases except North Carolina, if redistricting there ever happens) will favor Democrats across the board.
Interestingly, one belated redistricting target of Democrat racists is.... the South Carolina district which Nancy Mace represents. Democrats decided that South Carolina's delegation In Washington ain't gots enough "people of color" (Tim Scott doesn't count since he's a Republican) and specifically they have targeted Mace's CD-1, which is Charleston and vicinity, for "reparations".
The Democrat/NAACP lawsuit is now at the Supreme Court level after some liberal federal judges took the racists' side, and it has already been proven that the GOP absolutely can NOT count on that so-called "Republican" Supreme Court to do the right thing in these cases.
Won't it be funny when a stooge like Nancy Mace gets ousted by racist liberals to whom she is closer ideologically than she is to conservatives? It's not like the GOP can afford to lose this House district -- or any district -- due to the effects of Democrat racism and a compliant Court, though something about irony being delicious regarding this turn of events comes to mind.
If Mace's district is redrawn and overrun by the Charleston ghetto, do not be surprised if she jumps on her broomstick and flies to a different district (perhaps CD-7) and tries to oust the GOP incumbent there. She'll have 100% support from the GOPe, just like she did in 2022 when they helped her to fight against a solid conservative in the primary. The establishment may claim publicly that it will be neutral in a matchup of incumbents, but you can count on there not being much neutrality going on behind the scenes.
CD-7 is represented by freshman Republican Russell Fry who prevailed against Trump-hating liberal incumbent Tom Rice in the 2022 primary. Oh how the GOPe must despise Fry, and would love to save Mace and dump him simultaneously. It's worth noting that Mace already has at least 4 times the amount of cash for the 2024 election as Fry does. If they battle each other, one of those two will get a lot more $$$$ from the GOPe. It won't be Fry.
Judges order South Carolina to redraw congressional map
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And so it begins.
We warned you months ago regarding redistricting that "The battle (just like counting votes in a close election) often never ends until the Democrat wins, and several lawsuits are still pending which, if successful, would result in Democrat gains."
Now, a trio of ultra-liberal Democrat judges have mystically divined the "intent" of Republicans who drew the new district lines in South Carolina and, what a surprise, they have arbitrarily decided that those Republicans were "racist"! To these black-robed tyrants, this alleged racism means that the Republican-created district map is invalid and therefore must be redrawn in order to give the Democrats the best possible chance of flipping at least one South Carolina congressional district in 2024 and beyond.
Democrat racists will hardly be content to mandate a new Democrat gerrymander in just this state alone, and so you better get ready for similar actions in numerous other states -- pretty much any other state in which Republicans controlled the redistricting process. OTOH, you need not be concerned about Republican lawsuits (if any even exist) attempting to overturn hyper-partisan Democrat gerrymanders in places such as Illinois, California, Oregon, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Mexico, etc.
Any GOP lawsuits which might someday arise in places like those will be quickly dismissed for "lack of standing" -- with perhaps one exception. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed a few months ago to eventually hear arguments that Democrat judges had illegally seized the redistricting process in North Carolina from the rightful control of the GOP legislature (which is exactly what those judges did). This has Democrats slightly concerned that their similar illegal power plays might be jeopardized elsewhere, but there is no evidence of this yet and the Democrats' partisan gerrymander in North Carolina still exists for now.


LANCASTER — During a special meeting Wednesday night, Select Board Chairman Stanley Starr Jr. delivered an impassioned speech regarding the town’s dire financial status and pointed to the controversy surrounding a proposed development on a nearly 500-acre parcel off Route 70 as the primary cause.
“Our town is facing right now a deficit of roughly half a million going into the new (fiscal) year,” Starr said during the meeting, which was announced to the public using the town’s codeRED messaging system.
The initial operating budget was $300,000 in the negative at the start of fiscal 2020, he said.
The Select Board called the special meeting after the town’s planning board rejected a special permit that would have allowed Capital Commerce Group to build a large, multiuse development on the lot, which city officials hoped would bring in new sources of revenue.
Instead, according to town manager Orlando Pacheco, the planning board approved a subdivision, which moves and limits any building plans toward the front of the parcel. A used car facility that was originally planned to be built at the back of the lot is now expected to be built at the front, and is the only construction currently expected to happen. This decision came as many residents expressed concern about how the development could negatively impact the environment.
The change severely limits the amount of tax revenue the town had hoped to bring in from the larger development that was previously proposed, Pacheco said.
Warning of a potential Proposition 2 1/2 override, Starr made clear at the meeting he believes the town is in desperate need of more commercial and industrial tax revenue, noting 85% of income the town receives is from residential taxes. Less than 9%, he said, comes from commercial industry, with the balance coming from the town’s personal property tax.
“We have to broaden the tax base,” Starr said. “It’s critical. We don’t have any other options that I know of other than laying off staff or public service.”
As it is, he said, the town only has two full-time people running the fire station.
Going over a list of current or upcoming town expenses, Starr repeated the same refrain: “We don’t have the money for that.”
Items on his list included the potential rehabilitation or rebuilding of Nashoba Regional High School, updating century-old water lines and road repair.
“I don’t even want to think about the negative impact if we fail to pass a 2 1/2 override,” Starr said, noting that the finance committee is currently looking over its options. “So, just giving you a heads up — you’ve heard it before, you have the last two years. It’s coming, unfortunately.”
During a comment period at the end of the meeting, Planning Board Member Russell Williston characterized the Select Board’s emergency meeting as inappropriate, contending it undercuts the authority of the Planning Board if other city officials call its decision making into question in meetings like the one that took place Wednesday night.
“You should remember what you’re seeing here tonight because this isn’t right,” Williston said.
Starr responded to Williston by saying residents could take their concerns to the ballot box if they didn’t like the way he was running meetings.
“We’re here for the interest of the town of Lancaster, nothing else,” Starr said, adding: “If it takes bringing up subjects and comments then that’s what I’m going to do, as your chief executive officer. If you don’t like it, vote me out.”
Before the meeting ended, several Lancaster residents doubled down on their concern for the environment should additional building plans go forward on the lot. Some also questioned whether Lancaster would immediately collapse financially if the town didn’t widen its tax base in the immediate future.
Pacheco said that while the town would have to start making smaller cuts that wouldn’t have a huge initial impact, those cuts would eventually add up.
“We’re not falling off the cliff today, but we have to start making some changes today so we don’t ever get to that point,” he said.
The next select board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday.


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A man died Friday while he was being detained by police at a homeless shelter in Concord, authorities said.
The man’s name and the cause of death were not immediately provided by the Concord Police Department. But the agency’s Facebook page said the incident occurred around 4 p.m. after officers responded to 911 calls about a disturbance at the Concord Homeless Shelter at 2047 Arnold Industrial Way.
Shelter staff told authorities that a man was “acting erratically, yelling and being violent,” police reported.
Officers detained the man but said he continued to act erratically and show signs of “medical distress,” according to police. Emergency personnel were called to the scene when the man became unresponsive. They later declared the man dead, according to police.
The man was not identified pending notification of next of kin, and the Contra Costa Health Services agency, which runs the shelter, would not say whether the man was a resident of the facility, citing privacy laws.
The Concord Homeless Shelter is an emergency shelter program for adults and provides services to “help get them out of homelessness,” said Victoria Balladeres, a spokeswoman for Contra Costa Health Services.
“We are working with the behavioral health division to coordinate on-site crisis support counseling for both the folks who live there and for the staff,” Balladeres said after the incident.
The incident is being investigated by the Concord Police Department, the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office and the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.
The Concord Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment.
Sarah Ravani is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org Twitter: @SarRavani


In a devastating turn of events, at least 11 hikers have been confirmed dead following the eruption of Mount Marapi in western Indonesia. According to the local rescue the eruption, which occurred on the island of Sumatra, claimed the lives of these individuals while leaving several others missing.
Mount Marapi, standing at 2,891 meters (9,484 feet), unleashed its fury on Sunday, sending a towering column of ash soaring 3,000 meters into the sky. Abdul Malik, the head of Padang Search and Rescue Agency, revealed that 26 people were yet to be evacuated, with rescue teams successfully locating 14 of them. Tragically, 11 were found lifeless, marking a grim aftermath of the volcanic eruption.


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The doctors had decided to help her breathe they would insert a tube down into her lung and look around. While they were down there they took a tissue sample, to test for various irregularities. These samples were sent to labs where they would be analyzed as soon as possible. The tests were uncomfortable and a bit painful for my sister, but the fear of not knowing why she couldn’t breathe was harder on her. They decided to go into her lung through her chest cavity and try to extract the fluid that they could see in the layers, or covering that surrounded her lungs. Most internal organs are surrounded by those sacs or coverings which are called mesothelium. They pulled out more than a quart of excess fluid through this very painful extraction and used what the doctor called a talcum powder to help reseal the lung lining, in the hope that they would not refill. The great thing that happened from this procedure was that my sister could breathe normally again. The horrible thing about all the tests that they did that day and in the days following was that we found out that sis, had an advanced form of what is called mesothelioma. She was told she was terminal and that usually after being diagnosed at this stage, most people die within three or four months.
I immediately called my sister in tears. You see we live far apart from each other. I live in Southern California and sis lives in Florida. We haven’t seen each other for more than 22 years. Finances and living life have kept us apart. I love her and she loves me and we spoke on the phone and wrote back and forth, but I needed to hear her voice. She was calm and collected and I cried and asked her how she was feeling and what she was thinking and if she was afraid. She spent most of the time on the phone reassuring me. She told me that she was ready to face whatever lay ahead for her. She was at peace with life and had decided not to pursue any more treatment. They told her that there is no cure for mesothelioma though they can try chemotherapy or surgery to possibly extend the time she might have left. After careful consideration and weighing the long term effects of the treatments available, my courageous big sister decided that she would, “let go and let God”. Most of her life my sister has been an Atheist, and during the last ten years of so, she has found peace in her faith in God.
Most research has found that mesothelioma develops after being exposed to asbestos. Asbestos is a common group of minerals that occur naturally as masses of strong flexible fibers that can be separated into threads and woven. The woven threads are then used in various products and occupations around the world. Asbestos has been used commercially since the 1800s and use became more prevalent during World War Two. In the 1940s millions of workers throughout the U.S. were exposed to asbestos fibers in shipyards, mines and steel mills. Asbestos has also routinely been used in brake linings, roofing shingles, flooring products, textiles, heating and insulation. Mesothelioma develops over a period of years after exposure to asbestos. This developmental time period can be as much as 30 to 50 years. You can find out more about mesothelioma a this Web-site www.cancer.gov/cancertopics .
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Little Eagle (Lakota: Waŋblí Čik’ala) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Corson County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 319 at the 2010 census.
Little Eagle is located at 45°41′5″N 100°48′5″W / 45.68472°N 100.80139°W / 45.68472; -100.80139 (45.684816, -100.801496).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km), of which 1.4 square miles (3.6 km) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km) (2.10%) is water.
Little Eagle has been assigned the ZIP code 57639.
As of the census of 2000, there were 370 people, 71 households, and 60 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 262.9 people per square mile (101.3/km²). There were 74 housing units at an average density of 52.6/sq mi (20.3/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 0.54% White, 99.19% Native American, and 0.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.70% of the population.
There were 71 households out of which 53.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 28.2% were married couples living together, 40.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.1% were non-families. 9.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 5.21 and the average family size was 5.43.
In the CDP, the population was spread out with 48.4% under the age of 18, 13.8% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 10.8% from 45 to 64, and 3.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 19 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.9 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $12,500, and the median income for a family was $11,528. Males had a median income of $20,625 versus $12,321 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $3,632. About 75.4% of families and 73.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 76.8% of those under age 18 and 50.0% of those age 65 or over.
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Biomarker predicts treatment response and explains differences seen among ethnic groups, according to paper in Nature.
Duke University Medical Center researchers say that a single-letter change, a C instead of a T, in a tiny segment of DNA near the IL28B gene affects response to hepatitis C treatments. Their work also sheds light on why there are differing rates of response among racial and ethnic groups.
The findings were published August 16 in Nature online in a paper titled “Genetic variation in IL28B predicts hepatitis C treatment-induced viral clearance.” The study was funded by the Schering-Plough Research Institute. Schering-Plough has multiple drug candidates in development for the treatment of HCV.
The investigators studied 1,671 individuals who participated in the IDEAL study, a multicenter trial that compared the effect of using ribavirin and peginterferon among patients with the most common form of the disease in the U.S. and Europe.
They found that the patients who had the single-letter change in their DNA were significantly more likely to respond to treatment than those who did not have it. “Eighty percent of those with the favorable response genotype eradicated the virus, while only about 30 percent with the less favorable response genotype did so,” says David Goldstein, Ph.D., senior author and director of the Center for Human Genome Variation in Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.
The so-called good genotype proved beneficial to patients in all population subgroups, Dr. Goldstein adds. “But because it appears significantly more often among Caucasian populations than it does among African populations, we feel it explains much of the difference in response rates we see between African Americans and those of European ancestry.”
Researchers found that African Americans with the favorable (CC) genotype had a significantly higher rate of response to treatment (53.3%) than individuals of European ancestry who had the less favorable (TT) genotype (33.3%).
The researchers also ran tests to see if the presence of the biomarker was related in any way to viral load and found a significant association in all groups. “Interestingly, we found that the C allele, although associated with better treatment response, was associated with a higher viral load at baseline, something we have traditionally viewed as a negative prognostic marker when it comes to treatment response,” explains John McHutchison, M.D., study co-author, associate director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and a member of the division of gastroenterology in the School of Medicine.
Dr. McHutchison thus suggests that patients who have the beneficial genetic marker might be especially adept at spontaneously clearing the virus through some as yet unknown mechanism.

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