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The cold snap will surely have abated by Saturday to leave Cheltenham front and centre as their Trials Day card now includes the re-routed Clarence House Chase as a bonus race.
It's the last day of racing at Prestbury Park this side of The Festival in March and, as always, a key day in the National Hunt calendar and one very likely to offer some clues in regards to what might unfold back in the Cotswolds in the spring.
The start of the week looks uncertain with plenty of cards still under threat from the lingering frost.
Four Monday meetings are scheduled across Britain and the outlook for racing seems good.
Jumps fare should return at Ffos Las, while they are set to race on the synthetics at Kempton, Southwell and Wolverhampton (evening) – though forecast temperatures as low as -2C overnight are set to leave Kempton requiring an inspection of their surface.
Soft-to-heavy ground is the order of the day at Ffos Las, though the Welsh track seemingly have no worries about racing going ahead.
Their feature race is a Class 3 Handicap Hurdle over two-and-a-half-miles due off at 3.30 and the likes of Rocky Man for Dan Skelton and Harry Fry's Whitehotchillifili are amongst the contenders along with last-time-out Lingfield winner No Tackle for Sam Drinkwater.
Things lean more towards uncertainty for Tuesday. Market Rasen have already pulled stumps on their plans to race and the National Hunt meetings at Exeter and Leicester are pending inspections on Monday afternoon.
No such concerns for the evening all-weather meeting at Southwell, while Ireland's first action of the week is set for Down Royal.
The Belfast circuit stages the Franciscan Well Rated Novice Hurdle (1.15), where Gordon Elliott's Caldwell Diamond and An Mhi are both contenders alongside Ross O'Sullivan's last-time-out Wexford winner Champella and Fairyhouse handicap winner Kashi for Karl Thornton.
Midweek all-weather racing takes place at Newcastle in the afternoon before Kempton takes over in the evening.
Jumps fans, meanwhile, will be hopeful that the tracks at Catterick and Warwick – frozen at the time of writing on Sunday – will have thawed out, while Irish action comes from Fairyhouse.
Assuming Warwick gets the go-ahead, they have a Mares' Novices' Hurdle (2.05) that could feature some promising sorts.
It's been a good start to the training career of Harry Derham in recent weeks, with Paul Nicholls' former assistant already amongst the winners, and he counts beaten Ffos Las favourite Helenn Clermont among the possibles for this race.
Jumps action on Thursday will come from Wetherby, Wincanton and Gowran Park – weather permitting – while they go on the Tapeta at Southwell in the afternoon and Newcastle later in the day.
It is, of course, a major day for Gowran Park, the Kilkenny track that is local to champion trainer Willie Mullins, as they stage the Grade 2 John Mulhern Galmoy Hurdle (2.15) as part of the undercard to their big event of the year, the Goffs Thyestes Handicap Chase (3.25).
Earlier, the Galmoy Hurdle could feature Elliott's Teahupoo – conqueror of the mighty mare Honeysuckle in December's Hatton's Grace at Fairyhouse.
On Friday there are jumps meetings at Doncaster and Huntingdon in the UK, while all-weather racing will come from Lingfield Park in the afternoon before evening fare at Wolverhampton and Dundalk.
It's a more than decent start to the weekend, with Doncaster boasting a Listed Fillies' Juvenile Hurdle at 2.40, which could feature unbeaten Arclight for Nicky Henderson, while Huntingdon have the Lady Protectress Mares' Chase (3.00) as their feature race and will be hoping last year's winner Pink Legend joins the likes of Zambella and Tweed Skirt in the line-up.
Cheltenham Trials Day gets the star billing in Britain on Saturday with further jumps action coming from Uttoxeter and Doncaster alongside all-weather meetings at Lingfield and Kempton (evening).
Over in Ireland, it's Fairyhouse again on Saturday with the Grade 3 Solerina Mares' Novice Hurdle the centrepiece.
Cheltenham already had four graded races on their card, including the Cotswold Chase (1.50) over the Gold Cup course and distance, and the Cleeve Hurdle (2.25) for the stayers, alongside trials for the Triumph Hurdle and Ballymore Novices' Hurdle.
That card has now been boosted still further as the Grade 1 Clarence House Chase (3.35) takes a place a week later than planned following the freezing conditions that prevented Ascot racing on Saturday.
Naas has a strong card on Sunday, with both the Finlay Ford At Naas Novice Chase and the Limestone Lad Hurdle holding Grade 3 status at the Kildare track.
Meanwhile in the UK, action comes at Sedgefield and Fontwell to round off the week's racing.


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Average thriller almost devoid of suspense and thrills. The cast do what they can but the script and direction is sloppy and lazy. This feels more like a TV movie than anything else.
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Courtyard’s annual Easter party at Sydney’s Ivy is set to really step this up this year with easily one of the biggest lineups in the history of the event.
Leading the charge is one of the hottest artists in Australia right now; Tash Sultana. Following a breakthrough 2016, Sultana has completely sold our her 2017 national tour so Courtyard will be one of the few places you can catch her live this year.
Joining her are Sydney trio Mansionair, as well as Perth electro outfit Crooked Colours, Moonbase (formerly Moonbase Commander), Kuren and more, on what is set to be an epic day of tunes and chills.
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We’ve written about Clarence Thomas before. His crimes, big and small, are far above what any country should condone in a government.
There is finally starting to be efforts to bring the criminal Supreme Court judge to atone for his crimes. This is from the CREDO:
U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter is demanding that the Judicial Conference, an administrative arm of the court, uphold the Ethics in Government Act by referring Thomas’ apparent misdeeds to the Attorney General for further investigation.
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India-administered Kashmir: On Friday, Indian media reported that the dead bodies of three policemen, who were kidnapped earlier from Shopian area, have been found. Asian News International (ANI) also released photos of the dead bodies.
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Victims of mass violence continue to await politically judicious decisions, writes Teesta Setalvad.india Updated: Apr 07, 2007 23:34 IST
Decades after police brutality was brought centre-stage in case after case of custodial deaths, and rulings for compensation were delivered by a proactive higher judiciary, victims of mass violence have to still await politically judicious decisions for reparation even when their lives, dignity and properties have been destroyed due to actions of commission and omission.
We have had judicial decrees recognising custodial deaths as a crime and amounts disbursed by our courts in recognition of the loss suffered when a life is taken away. Each time it has required protracted struggles through the courts by individuals, not established state compensation/reparation policy, for this compensation to be doled out. Similarly, though mass violence, communal or caste-driven, is possible due to the abdication of basic, Constitutional functions and duties by both the political class and the omnipresent and supposedly neutral public administration, including the police, victims have had to wait even longer for justice, be it through the courts or through policy decisions.
Victims of Delhi (3,000 Sikhs massacred in 1984), Bhagalpur (over 1,200 persons in 1989), Bombay (1992-1993) and Gujarat (over 2,500 Muslims massacred in 2002), have had to await politically judicious decisions for adequate amounts of compensation for loss of life.
Victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom had to await the July 5th 1996 judgment of Judge Anil Singh, delivered 12 years after the massacre in Delhi, during which appellant Bhajan Kaur argued for enhancement of the meager Rs 20,000 per victim doled out.
In this civil writ petition No 1429 of 1996, the short question to be decided was whether an ex-gratia payment of Rs 20,000 to a widow or family of a person killed during riots would be in consonance with Article 21 of the Constitution. The judge, in his judgment, elaborated upon the ‘duty and responsibility of the State to secure and safeguard life and liberty of an individual from mob violence’ and clearly held that the State cannot hide its own complicity on the impotent plea that since the violations are committed by private persons, it is not accountable.
The judgment elaborated on the writ and scope of the right to life: “Communal violence takes place due to the weakness, laxity and indifference of the administration in enforcing law and order. If the authorities act in time and act effectively and efficiently, riots can surely be prevented. Message must go to the mischief mongers that the administration means business and their nefarious designs would be thwarted with an iron hand…. (9) The sweep of Article 21 is wide and far reaching. Article 21 is not to be restricted to the violation of right to life and liberty committed by the State alone. That right is also to be protected and safeguarded by the State from being violated or interfered with by private individuals. ….(10) Article 21 is the Nation’s commitment to bring every individual or group of persons within its protective fold. This Nation belongs to members of all the communities… Equality before the law and equal protection of laws is ensured to them by Article 14 of the Constitution ...”
It were these fundamental findings in Judge Anil Singh’s judgment that helped the present UPA government, in 2005, to formulate its compensation package for the Sikh victims of the 1984 massacre. This package was enhanced in 2006. Surprisingly, previous governments that had successfully politicised the issue of the anti-Sikh massacre, stopped short of executing a policy that would benefit Sikh widows and victims. The recently announced Rs 105 crore package for the Gujarat carnage victims of 2002 hence follows the policy pattern set by the UPA government when it announced the earlier package for Sikhs.
While the policy is welcome and overdue, some issues remain. Gujarat 2002 victims have been consistently litigating in the Gujarat High Court in petition 3217/2003 for an accountability in the deliverance of the compensation package and enhancement of the package itself. This petition also questions the bona fides of the Gujarat government in returning Rs 19-odd crores to the Centre in March 2003 when over 70 per cent of victims had not received any compensation for destruction of homes, at all. The Gujarat HC even authorised survivor groups to collect district-wise data of damage to life and property. The data, running into over 8,000 pages has been presented before the Court and will now also be placed before the Central government for an enhancement in the recently announced compensation package.
The detailed survey conducted by representatives of the victim survivors group, Citizens for Justice and Peace, has been concluded after visits to over 10,000 homes in the 17 districts. There are two issues related to housing compensation. The state government declared policy limits the housing compensation to Rs 50,000 per home destroyed and detailed analysis of FIRs and panchnamas show that the losses suffered are far greater. Therefore, in policy terms, the amount needs to be enhanced. Secondly, the detailed survey to be published within a fortnight reveals that Gujarat’s claims of compensation are a cruel farce on the victims as in barely 25-30 per cent cases has the maximum of Rs 50,000 been paid at all.
Of the 1,146 homes surveyed in Anand district, 112 homes have received between Rs 2,000-5,000 (when damages suffered are on an average Rs 1,50,000 per home and even as per the meager scheme, Rs 50,000 could have been allocated). Shockingly, nearly 22 per cent homes have received no monies at all.
Hence, while welcoming the UPA government’s compensation package, victim survivor delegations will urge that the following issues are also taken into consideration: Compensation for Victims of Sexual Violence must be included in the compensation package. The Centre must expand this scheme to include compensation for at least 400 women and girls who were victims of brute sexual violence. Secondly, there has been no acknowledgement and reparation for over 10,000 persons in Gujarat who today live as abandoned internally displaced persons on their own land with no right to legal housing, without BPL and ration cards. They have in effect been denied basic citizenship rights.
The Centre must ensure that their new places of residence are 1) transferred in their names; 2) they receive state government papers including ration cards and BPL cards ; 3) that they are on the state’s electoral rolls.
(The writer is Secretary, Citizens for Justice and Peace)
First Published: Apr 07, 2007 23:29 IST

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Then the People’s counsel and the counsel for the Defence and such clerks and hangers-on as still lingered in the upper end of the room experienced a decided sensation.
The judge, who a moment before had towered above them all in melancholy but impressive dignity, shrunk with one gasp into feebleness and sank back stricken, if not unconscious, into his chair.
Was it a stroke, or just one of his attacks of which all had heard? Was he aware of his own condition and the disturbance it caused or was he, on the contrary, dead to his own misery and oblivious of the rush which was made from all sides to his assistance? Even Deborah could not tell, and was forced to sit quiet in her corner, waiting for the parting of the group which hid the judge from her sight.
It happened suddenly and showed her the same figure she had seen once before—a man with faculties suspended, but not impaired, facing them all with open gaze but absolutely dead for the moment to his own condition and to the world about.
But, horrible as this was, what she saw going on behind him was infinitely worse. A man had caught up the bit of paper Judge Ostrander had let fall from his hand and was opening his lips to read it to the curious people surrounding him.
She tried to stop him. She forced a cry to her lips which should have rung through the room, but which died away on the air unheard. The terror which had paralysed her limbs had choked her voice.
But her ears remained true. Low as he spoke, no trumpet-call could have made its meaning clearer to Deborah Scoville than did these words:
“We know why you favour criminals. Twelve years is a long time, but not long enough to make wise men forget.”
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Had she not caught the words themselves she would have recognised their import from the blighting effect they produced upon the persons grouped within hearing.
Schooled as most of them were to face with minds secure and tempers quite unruffled the countless surprises of a court room, they paled at the insinuation conveyed in these two sentences, and with scarcely the interchange of glance or word, drew aside in a silence which no man seemed inclined to break.
As for the people still huddled in the doorway, they rushed away helter-skelter into the street, there to proclaim the judge’s condition and its probable cause;—an event which to many quite eclipsed in interest the more ordinary one which had just released to freedom a man seemingly doomed.
Few persons were now left in the great room, and Deborah, embarrassed to find that she was the only woman present, was on the point of escaping from her corner when she perceived a movement take place in the rigid form from which she had not yet withdrawn her eyes, and, regarding Judge Ostrander more attentively, she caught the gleam of his suspicious eye as it glanced this way and that to see if his lapse of consciousness had been noticed by those about him.


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The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)
The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) is designed to collect data on the location, characteristics, and utilization of services at alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities1 (both public and private) throughout the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and other U.S. jurisdictions.2
N-SSATS is part of the Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), a cooperative program between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and State substance abuse agencies to collect data on substance abuse services. The core of DASIS is the Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), a continuously updated, comprehensive listing of all known substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States. N-SSATS is an annual survey of all facilities in I-SATS. Prior to 2000, N-SSATS was known as the Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS).
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Each year new facilities are added to the I-SATS by State agencies or when they are identified by examination of databases such as the one maintained by the American Hospital Association. Similarly, on an annual basis, some facilities are found to be ineligible for the survey. For example, in 2002, of the 18,204 facilities in I-SATS, 2,745 (15 percent) were found to be ineligible for the survey because they had closed or were not providing substance abuse treatment on March 29, 2002.
N-SSATS collects information on specific characteristics of the facility, the number of clients in treatment on a given day, and general information such as access to the Internet. In 2002, the survey contained 37 questions, as summarized in Table 1.
N-SSATS is a point-prevalence survey3 conducted annually with a reference date of the last weekday in March (e.g., March 31, 2004). In the past, the survey was conducted exclusively by mail with a follow-up of non-respondents by telephone. In 2000, a web-based version of the survey was made available through the Internet as an alternative way for facilities to respond.
Generally, the facility response rates have been about 95 percent. Although the item response rate generally exceeds 99 percent in N-SSATS, missing responses for some variables have to be imputed.4 For example, in 2002, 232 facilities were missing client count values for one or more types of service (i.e., hospital inpatient detoxification, hospital inpatient rehabilitation, residential detoxification, etc.). A facility was given an imputed value for the number of clients in a service type if it reported that it provided the service but the client count was missing or unknown.
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Data Considerations and Limitations
Certain procedural considerations and data limitations must be taken into account when interpreting data from N-SSATS.
N-SSATS is a voluntary survey. Facilities are not required by SAMHSA or the State substance abuse agencies to respond. Although no penalty is associated with non-response, facilities that do not respond are not included in the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator.
N-SSATS is designed to collect data from each physical location where treatment services are provided. Because State administrative systems differ, there are some variations in how facilities with more than one geographic location report to N-SSATS.
N-SSATS is a point-prevalence survey. It provides a "snapshot" of substance abuse treatment facilities and clients on a typical day. Thus, the number of clients in treatment reported for a single day does not represent an annual total nor does it necessarily represent the full capacity of a facility to deliver substance abuse treatment services.
Routine Reports and Data Availability
The annual N-SSATS report5 contains tables, graphs and charts, and a narrative discussing trends and topics of special interest.
The DASIS Report, published approximately twice a month, highlights findings from N-SSATS and other DASIS datasets.
All reports are posted on-line on the SAMHSA website (http://www.samhsa.gov). Printed copies are available through the National Clearinghouse for Drug and Alcohol Information (NCADI) and online through http://www.health.org.6
N-SSATS public use files for 1997-2002 are available through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) and the archive's on-line data analysis system (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA).7
1 Entities responding to N-SSATS are referred to as "facilities." A facility may be a program-level, clinic-level, or multi-site respondent.
2 The jurisdictions include the territories of American Samoa and Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States.
3A point-prevalence survey enumerates people, services, or characteristics that exist at a particular point in time.
4 Imputation is the process of assigning a plausible value to a missing data point.
5Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies (2003). National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2002. Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities, DASIS Series: S-19, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 03-3777, Rockville, MD: Author.
6Write or call NCADI at: NCADI P.O. Box 2345 Rockville, MD 20847-2345 (301) 468-2600, 1-800-729-6686, or (TDD) 1-800-487-4889
7The archive is supported by the Office of Applied Studies at SAMHSA and based at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) through a subcontract with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.
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Of course, these bionic beasts are really Sonic's transformed friends, but they're hedgehog headhunters until you jump on them. In the innovative two-player mode, Tails and Sonic work cooperatively or go head-to-head competitively in a unique split-screen format. The game play is Sonic all the way, simple to learn and easy to control for the most part. Help Sonic collect rings, stars, and orbs of power as you explore the narrow beaten path filled with challenging enemies. Just jump into the boss eight times to send him running.
Just when you thought Sega had done it to death with Sonic, they came up with another game that's gonna make you wanna lace up those high tops and go after Robotnik one more time. Don't forget to dodge the next flying arrow. Become the one and only Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega's latest character creation who's out to deliver some of the brightest, boldest most exciting action you'll ever see on the Genesis or any game system for that matter! Set up speakers or slap on headphones for the ultimate Sonic sound experience. Trying to follow him through this world is not a simple task. He's about 16 years old now, and his attitude is getting worse: he's a lead foot and he doesn't even have a driver's license! Race With the Sonic Team and Unlock New Characters Sonic the Hedgehog might be the main star of the show.
Do you have what it takes to make it through this game? If you thought that was the end of that story, though, you're way wrong. The popular game was created by. Race with them on the tracks, dodge obstacles, and defeat common enemies. The psychedelic backgrounds here are awesome! Still the Real Thing If you're an avid Sonic fan, these flaws won't prevent you from thoroughly enjoying this game. It's a mix of techno in the future and more laid back in the past. Newcomer Silver the Hedgehog seems far more promising this mysterious freak levitates through levels, telekinetically tossing giant boulders at foes.
We don't know exactly where or how Sonic is going to travel through time, but prehistoric and futuristic levels are a must. The recipe for a great hand-held game is pretty simple, but sometimes hard to pull off. If you want something longer and more like an actual Sonic Classic Games but creepy, give this one a try. More info about this game and download can be found. But don't expect anything astonishingly new, or you'll start feeling a little blue yourself.
The little blue hedgehog, capable of mind-blowing speeds and incredible moves, sent Genesis to the top of the video game market. The last level will be a battle against Dr. To spice up the action even further, Sonic's gotta do a little time travelin' to beat the game and see the real ending. This is the ultimate Sonic the Hedgehog site! First install uTorrent by downloading it from the link given on our site and do the same with Daemon tools. Though the game has been developed for android and symbian, but there are some very easy and simple steps to install the game on your pc. Another minor complaint came from a less-experienced player who previewed Sonic for me: the game's incredibly quick scrolling and layered backgrounds can be somewhat disorienting if you're not accustomed to 16-bit graphics.
Almost half of million copies of the Sonic 2 were sold in the first week after the release. Want to know how it looks? Download free Sonic games for pc and play for free. The vertically- and horizontally-scrolling side-view game play features that old familiar Sonic fun, as well as some ultra-cool new means of locomotion for his Hedge-hogness. All of these great roms are playable on an emulator that will load the rom just like your Sega Genesis used to! Eggman in the Japanese version. I would like to thank for hosting most of these games. Summary Don't get it, unless you really crave a Sonic game and can deal with glitches.
It's located in a Palm Tree with a Totem Pole to the right of it. We recommend the first link. The game will be split into almost 35 levels and will feature time travel. If someone manages to find a working clean download link for it, please. Don't hedge your bets on Sonic the Hedgehog! More Super Sonic action to follow. Wacky Workbench Zone Enter a gigantic garage filled with energy coils that will shock you to death! The rings act as a layer of protection against hazards. Sonic mainly runs at a very high speed and the faster he runs more he will be able to collect various items that comes along his way.
With new resolution technology, you can even play with a friend and have twice the fun going head to head in a to the evil Dr. There's nothing worse than losing a life because slowdown turned your perfectly timed jump into an untimely demise. The tunes have a slightly tinny quality at times, but there's a new and improved theme song for each of the Zones. In an original touch, the music shifts when Sonic travels through time. They'll make him trip and fall. Cons Way too glitchy, you will not enjoy the game throughly unless this game is fixed. What follows is a brilliantly bizarre 3D platforming adventure full of janky gameplay, hilariously ugly character models and some very funny in-jokes.
The gameplay was not very interesting either, and was considered easy by critics and press. In the world of games, there are many games that had been played since a decade. He's got to race across six humongous Zones each with three stages, all packed with thumb-blistering action and eye-popping graphics. Tails will usually leap forward and do the dirty work. Join Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow, and the rest of the gang as they overcome all kinds of obstacles in this free online Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom game.

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Tomorrow I am going to San Francisco, California to see a friend visiting from England. As my river-y thoughts slide the city’s streets in my memory, this song ripples through my spirit. I adore San Francisco, partially because I was born 44 miles beyond its fingertips and grew up with it as a convenient day trip location dotted in street performers, cable cars, and the ocean. San Francisco is full of gold and glory. It will flourish and know its KING!!!!! Yay!
Also, this song is great inspiration for prophetic songs for OTHER cities. Maybe you should write one for yours. If you do, let me know because I collect prophetic songs for cities and nations. I love vision for cities and nations. <More, GOD!>
Here are some songs by my friend Steve: http://highway19.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/prophetic-songs/
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Good to know coaches rely on kenpom.com as much as bloggers
The stats from Ken Pomeroy’s site are reference here about 20, 30 times a day. What can I say? I’m a sucker for helpful analytical tools. Especially ones that are free.
But those tempo-free stats aren’t just for blogging nerds and hoopheads. Plenty of college coaches use them too.
Brad Stevens, Mike Krzyzewski, Sean Miller are Buzz Williams are among the coaches who praise Pomeroy in this N.Y. Times feature. That’s how influential his site has become – even though it’s not his full-time job. Pomeroy, 37, is employed for the National Weather Service. He does some side gigs (notably for Baylor and writing for Basketball Prospectus), but says he’s not sure if hoops will ever be what pays the bills.
“It’s something that I always ask myself, exactly where do I want this to go,” he told the paper. “There’s a lot of conflicting thoughts about that. I don’t really have any basketball background.”
Selfishly, I hope the Pomeroy keeps making tweaks to the site and maintains it for free, though I couldn’t blame him if he ever charged for the info. It’d be worth a fee. His ratings occasionally get criticized by more traditional writers -- his ratings had Washington, Kentucky and Wisconsin in the top 10 when the Top 25 usually ignored them -- but that’s not their main function. Focusing on a team’s strength or weakness is what I value most.
One clarification on the feature, though: Pomeroy didn’t invent tempo-free stats. (Which he states on his site, but the article isn’t as explicit.) He’s refined and added some stats to the work of Dean Smith – yes, that Dean Smith, the former North Carolina coach -- and Dean Oliver. But Pomeroy deserves ample credit for his site’s functionality, easy navigation and comprehensive data.
You also can follow me on Twitter @MikeMillerNBC.


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Research England: how we fund higher education providers (PDF)
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Research England provides funding to English higher education providers for research and knowledge exchange. This booklet explains our funding methods, covering:
- how we calculate the amount that each provider receives
- the components of a provider’s annual grant
- the different types of funding that we allocate.
Page last updated: 6 August 2021

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By Douglas McIntosh
KINGSTON, Jamaica, (JIS) – Prime minister, Andrew Holness, says the pace of Jamaica’s recovery from the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic will largely depend on how diligently persons practice infection prevention and control measures to contain domestic spread, “and how we take the vaccines when they are available.”
Speaking Friday, July 9, at the ground-breaking ceremony for IMCA Jamaica Limited’s corporate headquarters in Kingston, Holness noted that the pace of recovery from COVID-19 in many countries globally paralleled their vaccination rates.
“So countries where we are seeing high vaccination rates, we are seeing their economies recovering faster. That will have a spillover effect, as well…we will see the impact in our tourism numbers [as] people will want to travel, now that they are fully vaccinated,” he pointed out.
The prime minister cautioned, however, that Jamaica “cannot allow vaccine hesitancy to impact the pace of our recovery”, adding, “the same people who do not take the vaccine, who get ill [from COVID-19], and demand spaces in our hospitals and treatment from our doctors will say ‘why isn’t the government providing the resources to do so’, [when they are unable to readily access medical care, due to increased demand],” he said.
Prime minister Holness maintained that the requisite resources, such as revenue, that are needed for public healthcare delivery are derived from, among other sources, expenditures by tourists and investors, emphasizing that “there is a connection”, he continued. “So I’m urging every single Jamaican [to] take the vaccine when your time comes. The quicker we take them… and we have demonstrated that we can roll out vaccines very quickly… is the more appealing our economy will look when people have to make their travel decisions [and say]…‘Jamaica’s vaccination rate is high and comparable to where I’m coming from… so that is a safe place to be’.”
Holness said the government remained optimistic that Jamaica will receive additional supplies of vaccines, from which “[we expect] to be able to treat with the vulnerable groups in the society, fully by August,” he indicated. “Once we have cleared [those] groups, then we will start to progress down the line in terms of other age groups of persons who would be given access to the vaccines.”
IMCA Jamaica Limited, whose parent company is headquartered in the Dominican Republic, has partnered with Sygnus Group subsidiary – Sygnus Real Estate Finance – to construct its corporate office on land along the Spanish Town Road industrial corridor at a cost of approximately US$8 million.
The venture is expected to employ 200 workers during the construction phase and 82 permanent staff members upon completion. IMCA Jamaica is the sole local distributor of the globally renowned Caterpillar brand heavy-duty construction and mining equipment.

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The Premier League has announced it has decided to introduce “Vanishing Spray” for use in all matches in the 2014/15 Barclays Premier League season.
At the Premier League we are open to developments that enhance the competition and it was clear from watching the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil that Vanishing Spray benefited referees, players, and all of those who watched the matches. Having witnessed that, and following consultation with our clubs and the PGMOL, we have decided to introduce it in the Barclays Premier League and look forward to having it in place for the 2014/15 season.
More top news
Rain expected in the next 24 hours - no surprise there with it being a Bank Holiday - but there'll also be some brighter skies in places.
ITV releases teaser clips of the final series of the hit historical drama, set to be aired next month.
Scotland finally injected some momentum into their World Cup preparations as they beat Italy 48-7 triumph at Murrayfield.


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No. 7 Long Beach State Drops Match to No. 5 UC Irvine
LONG BEACH, Calif. - The No. 7 Long Beach State 49ers dropped their first home match of the season losing a hard-fought tight four- set MPSF conference match to No. 5 UC Irvine, 34-32, 32-30, 28-30, 30-27 Friday night at the Walter Pyramid in front of 919 fans.
Dean Bittner led the 49ers with 25 kills while hitting .327. Josh Riley matched a career-high with 14 kills while leading the team with a .522 hitting percentage. Mike Klipsch finished with 65 assists, while three 49ers finished with double-digit digs. Dustin Watten led The Beach with 15 digs, while Tommy Pestolesi had a career-best 14 and Kyle Friend added 10.
The Anteaters (6-2, 3-1 MPSF) jumped out to the early lead rallying from four points down twice and overcoming three Beach set points to take a 1-0 lead. LBSU hit just .133 in the set with Pestolesi leading the 49ers with eight kills and a .267 hitting percentage. UCI hit only .194 in jumping to the 1-0 lead.
UCI pushed the lead to 2-0 with another hard fought win in game two. The Anteaters jumped out to an early five-point lead, but The Beach rallied behind reserve Josh Riley who came off the bench for a couple of quick kills to tie the game 16-16.
Riley continued his key play with a block to put the 49ers on top 18-16 and then followed with another block teaming with Jim Baughman to push the lead to 19-16. Riley finished the game with four kills, a .500 hitting percentage, a dig and the two blocks.
UCI rallied scoring five of the next seven points to tie the game before going on to win the set.
The Beach (3-3, 2-1 MPSF) fought back winning the third game behind a .419 hitting percentage. Riley continued his stellar play with six kills and a .625 hitting percentage in the game, while Baughman hit .600 with three kills and Bittner had five kills and a .444 hitting percentage.
UC Irvine wrapped up the match winning the fourth set. The Anteaters jumped out to a 14-9 lead and then wouldn't let the 49ers get any closer than two points.
LBSU hit just .229 in the final set while UCI hit .303. Bittner led the 49ers charge hitting .692 with 10 kills but it wasn't enough. Riley added four kills and a .444 hitting percentage in the final game.
John Steller led UCI with 19 kills and a .361 hitting percentage.
Article courtesy of Long Beach State athletics.


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Community pharmacists’ management of self-limiting infections: a simulation study in Akwa Ibom State, South-South Nigeria|
Akpan, Richard Mary; Udoh, Emmanuel Imo; Akpan, Samuel Emediong & Ozuluoha, Chioma Cynthia
Background: Inappropriate use of antibiotics, especially for treatment of self-limiting infections remains one of the major
drivers of antibiotic resistance (ABR). Community pharmacists can contribute to reducing ABR by ensuring antibiotics are
dispensed only when necessary.
Objective: To assess community pharmacists’ management of self-limiting infections.
Methods: A purposive sample of 75 pharmacies participated in the study. Each pharmacy was visited by an investigator
and a trained simulated patient who mimicked symptoms of common cold and acute diarrhoea, respectively. Interactions
between the simulated patient and pharmacist were recorded by the investigator in a data collection form after each visit.
Descriptive statistical analysis was carried out. Ethics approval was obtained from the state Ministry of Health Research
Results: For common cold, 68% (51/75) of pharmacists recommended an antibiotic. Azithromycin, amoxicillin/clavulanic
acid, and sulphamethoxazole/trimethoprim (43%, 24%, 20%, respectively) were the most frequently dispensed agents. For
acute diarrhoea, 72% (54/75) of pharmacists dispensed one antibiotic, while 15% dispensed more than one antibiotic. The
most frequently dispensed agent was metronidazole (82%), which was dispensed in addition to amoxicillin or tetracycline
among pharmacists who dispensed more than one agent. In both infection scenarios, advice on dispensed antibiotics was
ofered in 73% and 87% of the interactions, respectively.
Conclusion: This study shows high rate of inappropriate antibiotics dispensing among community pharmacists. There is
need for improved awareness of antibiotic resistance through continuing education and training of community pharmacists.
Furthermore, the inclusion of antibiotic resistance and stewardship in undergraduate pharmacy curriculum is needed.
Antibiotics; pharmacists; common cold; acute diarrhoea; community pharmacy; patient simulation.

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The continued effort to revitalize the village’s business center moves forward. The latest chapter opens with a report on a merchant survey conducted between August 2017 and February 2018 by the nonprofit Scarsdale Forum.
The Forum’s Downtown Revitalization Committee distributed surveys to 120 businesses operating in Scarsdale’s commercial district, and received 78 responses.
The survey covered all sorts of areas, asking about the challenges businesses face, what types of changes to the village center could be useful, where customers and employees park, busiest times of the week and top towns or villages from which the businesses draw customers.
According to the survey results, the merchants’ main concern was parking, with 64 percent of respondents characterizing parking as a “major challenge.”
The problems cited included “lack of parking for the merchants and their employees, as well as for consumers” and “overly aggressive parking enforcement that made the shopping experience in Scarsdale unpleasant, the lack of parking enforcement for those who long overstayed the limit and merchants who parked at meters needed for consumers.”
The most common recommendation from the merchants was to increase the number of parking spaces. “There appears to be competition between village merchants and their employees on the one hand, and shoppers on the other, for limited metered parking spaces in the village center,” the report stated.
“[Merchants] say the lack of parking is a terror for the business,” said Susan Douglass, chairman of the committee. “If there were more spaces for themselves and their employees, they’d have enough spaces for their customers.”
Parking has been a widely discussed topic in the village. From updating street meters to easing up on enforcement, village officials and businesses have all talked about what can be done to make things easier. Village officials hope the recently approved contract with Pango parking system will help solve some local parking issues. (See related article above.)
Other challenges for merchants are the cost of rent, competition from online shopping and a lack of retail diversity. According to the report, 85 percent of survey respondents said greater diversity in retail offerings would be “very useful” or “useful” to their business.
With the emergence of the Scarsdale Business Alliance, Douglass said the committee would love to collaborate with the group to further understand what other needs the merchants may have.
The survey of Scarsdale merchants was based on a Business Owner Survey designed by the University of Wisconsin and recommended by Main Street America, a not-for-profit organization that helps municipalities revitalize their downtown.
The customized surveys were distributed in person. Sometimes, it would take a few days for the merchants to complete the survey, but if business was slow, they were able to complete it that same day.
“Revitalizing the Scarsdale Village Center is an opportunity to define and celebrate its distinct personality,” the committee said in its report. “The challenge … is to define the combination of uses that best reflects the community’s preferences, captures market opportunities, builds on local assets and strengthens the community’s identity.”
The survey included room for merchants to leave comments at the end of each question, as well as a final, open-ended question asking for general feedback.
Based on the survey results, the committee suggested several areas for follow-up.
One was to form a subcommittee of the Downtown Revitalization Committee to review comprehensive solutions to the parking issues downtown. Another was to improve the number and variety of restaurants and retail establishments by combining and comparing the results of the merchant survey with the consumer survey that was conducted last year.
The committee also saw a need for improving communication about projects, garnering feedback from customers and updating downtown infrastructure and landscaping in Chase Park and Boniface Circle.
While the survey revealed the lack of adequate and desirable parking as the overwhelming obstacle to doing business in the downtown, the committee concluded most of the merchants who responded perceived the village center as a desirable location for their business, and see their business as accelerating rather than declining.
Getting feedback from the merchants allowed yet another perspective on the revitalization journey.
“I think the merchants wanted to be heard,” Douglass said. “They have views on how to revitalize downtown Scarsdale. They want to participate in the future of the Scarsdale downtown business community.”
The full report can be found on the Scarsdale Forum’s website, scarsdaleforum.com.


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Monday, October 10, 2011
Oh my! I was so excited when this mom came in and wanted to do an owl party... I have the MOST FAB Owl vase at home that I have been dying to use at the COOP -- and here was my opportunity! Mom actually bought the gifts and the plates on her own for this one (how cute are the goody bags? She got them on etsy. Adorable!). She just asked me to help with the decor elements and flowers. I think it ended up looking SPECTACULAR! The Owl vase was so perfect! I loved how the hydrangeas made him look like he had an afro! So Darling! I also did lots of smaller arrangements -- billy balls, and lots of pink and green flowers to match her party goods. The table cloths outside and on the back table-- how freaking fantastic are those things!! I hand dip dyed those ombre pink masterpieces for a party at my house -- and thought they would be great for this party. They were! Julie also did a spectacular (as usual) Owl treat table with wood pedestals and little nests of macaroons... so gorgeous and delicious! I just LOVED this party. Love love loved -- makes me wish a had a little girl! But I guess that's why I have the COOP -- so I can pink overload on other peoples parties!!!

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ABOUT RACHEL WHEELER
Working with words has always been something I’ve loved. I currently work as an editor while pursuing my passion for writing children’s picture books.
In 2014, I self-published a children’s picture book through Blurb Books Australia called The Gargoyles. I also endeavour to frequently write and share a short story or poem on my blog, nightstoriesinink.com.
I adore picture books for the imaginative words and beautiful illustrations. I endeavour to publish stories and poetry that are as memorable and inspirational as the ones I cherished during my childhood.
My writing often involves magic and adventure, and can be a little bit spooky. I hope my stories will allow children to get lost in a world of imagination, to build their confidence about who they are and how to navigate their world and to spark a life-long enjoyment of reading.


It feels good to hear the beautiful Thirakkaadha Kaattukkulle get a second chance with a much wider audience as Unborn Children (a reference to the phrase from its opening line). Sans any mutilation in the form of dubbing that too; just Vairamuthu, Unnikrishnan and Chitra in all their glory. We Could Be Kings follows a Bombay Dreams-like fusion of Indian and Western styles, and in a thoroughly engaging manner. The qawwali-esque base and fab layering of KT Tunstall and A R Rahman’s vocals – winning combination! The highlight of the (mostly) instrumental Taa Taa Tai is without doubt the frenzied sitar playing (by Asad Khan I would imagine). While the sitar leads from the front with the occasional smatterings of rap-style bols and humming from the chorus, there is a curious mix of techno elements with an array of percussions in the background. Keep The Hustle is for the electronica fans, with its slickly done techno arrangement and rapping by Wale and Raghav Mathur. Bobbleheads has a charming tune and an equally killer strings-led arrangement, the only dampener is Gayatri Kaundinya’s labored singing. Most of the song is instrumental thankfully – the almost 1 minute segment that forms the second half builds up in absolutely stunning fashion! Among the three Punjabi-based tracks, Million Dollar Dream is relatively better off, mainly for Sukhwinder Singh and Izzy Azalea’s rendition. Makhna too has Sukhwinder doing a spirited job, but that doesn’t prove enough. And Nimma Nimma is a spruced up version of the Olympics song that retains Jaspreet Jasz’s original vocals, but still fails to impress.
Never Give Up starts on a serene longing-based note before shifting gears midway and closing in a profusion of tinkly synth sounds and percussion and strings. Rahman extends the upbeat second half into a second BGM piece Calling Scouts Again. Lucknow is short and simple, and sweet – ARR’s sargam (yaman/kalyani?) almost sounding like a backdrop to the more prominent combination of harmonium, guitar and tabla. The composer makes soulful use of desh raag (I think) in Farewell, almost sounding at points like another adaptation of Vande Maataram. Lovely humming by the vocalist too. Desi Thoughts is Guitar Prasanna’s show as he has you hooked to this one with his trademark Carnatic renditions, while ARR keeps the support instruments at a minimal level. Welcome to India (interestingly the second track with this title from ARR, first was in Rang De Basanti’s BGM) is another track that employs strings spectacularly (loved that harp-like sound used throughout the song). First Tryout is the only track that really gets marred by its functional nature; the shifts don’t seem to make much sense when just listened to. Just over five minutes in length, The Final Pitch is the soundtrack’s longest, and is structured in keeping with the title, gradually progressing from a gentle piece to an orchestral, climactic finish headlined by the violins and chorus.
So barring the Punjabi prosaicness, another remarkable Hollywood score from A R Rahman. Million Dollar Arm.
Music Aloud Rating: 8.5/10
Top Recos: Unborn Children (well of course!), We Could Be Kings, Desi Thoughts, The Final Pitch
(Some of the artist credits picked up from Milliblog. Will update the rest of the credits once I get hold of them)


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Cyclists today lauded a pledge by Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Councilman Patrick Dowd to make the city more friendly to bicyclists and walkers, and they urged officials to get moving on adding more bike lanes, improving links to public transportation and encouraging motorists to respect their two-wheeled fellow travelers.
"It's such a great day for cycling in Pittsburgh," said Scott Bricker, executive director of Bike Pittsburgh, as cyclists packed Enrico's Tazza D'Oro, a Highland Park coffee shop, to hear Mr. Ravenstahl and Mr. Dowd outline their plans for improved urban cycling and walking.
The first agenda item -- hiring a coordinator to handle cycling and pedestrian efforts -- was completed a week ago with the hiring of Stephen Patchen, 32 and of the South Side Flats, to the $45,000 position.
"We are the first city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to ever have a full-time bicycle/pedestrian coordinator," said Mr. Ravenstahl.
Next up are zoning benefits and tax breaks for businesses that accommodate cyclists, better signage on bike routes, more bike racks, better tracking of car-on-bike and car-on-pedestrian accidents, increased enforcement of traffic laws near bike lanes, and events to showcase the city's bike friendliness. Some of that will require money that hasn't yet been identified.
"We don't actually have anything that we're delivering at this particular moment," said Mr. Dowd, who has been pushing a bike-friendly agenda in council. "This is a long-term project, and something that's going to continue."
There will be incremental improvements in the cycling infrastructure this summer, officials said. For instance, Public Works Director Guy Costa said he's working with East Liberty Development Inc. to put bike lanes on East Liberty Boulevard.


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I have received many comments regarding today's news that the Liberals are on track to accumulate $90 billion in debt due to Mr. Trudeau's spending promises.
Yep, you read that right... $90 billion dollars.
As you may recall, the Liberals claimed that they would run, at most, a "modest" deficit of $10 billion annually. However, the Liberals now admit it is "very likely" that the deficit for his upcoming budget will exceed $10 billion.
I know many of you are nervous about the very real possibility that they will have to hike your taxes to pay for their political promises.
We Manitobans already feel burned by the NDP's broken promises, which have cost every family hundreds of dollars. The worst thing for hardworking families at this time is for the federal Liberals to do the same.
Do you think it's okay for the Liberals to break their spending promises and hike up the deficit?

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Air Malta reported an working revenue of €1.2 million final yr – the primary time the provider has been within the black for nearly twenty years.
The determine compares to a lack of €10.Eight million in 2017.
When non-recurring objects are taken under consideration (together with the fee of the early retirement schemes and the achieve on the disposal of touchdown rights), the airline registered a revenue of €15.7 million.
Throughout 2018 Air Malta’s working income elevated by €5.three million to €197.5 million, primarily pushed by a rise of 11 per cent within the variety of passengers.
The airline welcomed 1.7 million visitors final yr.
Air Malta operated 14,126 flights final yr, once more up 8.5 per cent.
Air Malta chief monetary officer, Omar Bonello, attributed the constructive efficiency to higher plane utilisation, the implementation of a brand new gross sales technique and investments in IT expertise.
Malta minister for tourism, Konrad Mizzi, famous the truth that the airline had registered a big revenue after 18 years -demonstrating a narrative of perseverance, willpower and dedication.
He famous the constructive achievements at Air Malta, such because the addition of 21 new routes, the rise in passenger numbers and income, and the rise within the variety of planes within the fleet.

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text: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD is a chronic liver condition characterized by hepatic steatosis and associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In many patients fat accumulation leads to steatohepatitis (NASH) with chronic necrosis, inflammation, and fibrosis, and eventually to the development of cirrhosis. Obese and T2DM patients are at the greatest risk for NASH and progressive disease. New diagnostic techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (MRS), have enhanced our way to non-invasively quantify liver fat and suggest that the epidemic of NAFLD is much larger than previously believed. However, the diagnosis of NAFLD for clinicians remains difficult due to a number of factors: limited awareness, non-specific symptoms, few laboratory findings, and the need for a liver biopsy to confirm the diagnosis. Traditional treatment approaches have centered on weight loss, but data are limited on its long-term efficacy, and the overall compliance is poor. Recently, pioglitazone has been shown to be safe and effective in patients with NASH and may radically change our approach to the disease. Still, many aspects remain poorly understood. Taken together, wider use of new diagnostic methods and treatment approaches appears to signal the dawn of a new era in the management of NAFLD.

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I worked on Diana's teeth about 14 years ago when she first got nominated for a Grammy award....she a total sweetie...just the nicest person. I asked if I came to New York and phoned her would she show me around. She said yes because she missed the peeps from home. I never did make it to New York that fall....what a drag.
Coffin ~ Black Veil Brides
Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
a most excellent song
As is most of their others. :) Thanks
45 by The Gaslight Anthem. Someone I know recommended them so I decided to give their music a go. :)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Swamp Music
I heard this song the first time I drove to California waaaaaay back.......
Set The Night To Music - Roberta Flack
I just heard this the other day for the first time and I'm hooked!


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ANNA 2016 Meeting Includes New Faces and Perspectives
More than 400 people attended the 2016 ANNA Conference September 18-23 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. OCI Nitrogen did a superb job of hosting this year’s event, which was held at the NH Eindhoven Conference Centre Koningshof. In all, 38 countries were represented by the producer and exhibitor company representatives attending this truly international processing industries conference.
“For OCI Nitrogen, the ANNA Conference contributes to a safer fertilizer industry,” reports Nick Vogels, OCI’s Technology Manager Fertilizers and Chair of the 2016 ANNA Organizing Committee. “All participants share their experiences, technologies and solutions, and the conference gives you a perfect opportunity to network with other producers and exhibitors. As this year’s host, we were able to make all this possible. When participants give positive feedback, it feels good and makes us proud, and it is worthwhile to host the ANNA Conference!”
Hans Reuvers of BASF coordinated an information-packed technical program that included 20 ammonium nitrate and 20 nitric acid presentations, delivered by an international group of experts. Meeting participants voted “AN-14 Firefighting in a CAN plant” by Rob Smeets and Klaas vander Velde of the Fire brigade Chemelot-site company Sitech as the top presentation in the Ammonium Nitrate session. The group voted “NA-15 Replacing bottom 4 trays of a Weatherly absorber column” by Dan Schuler of PCS Nitrogen, as its top Nitric Acid session presentation.
This year’s meeting included another successful exhibit hall, where more than 60 suppliers presented potential solutions for challenges that producer engineers face in their operations. When participants weren’t attending technical sessions or in the hall interacting with vendors, OCI Nitrogen arranged field trips outside the conference to its plant facilities at its Chemelot site and other interesting venues.
“Many people ask me how I can tell if the conference is a success,” says Conference Chair David Hind of Orica. “Some look at the numbers, for me, I look at the dynamics and the number of people engaged in conversations and learning from each other. This year’s conference was a success on all accounts.”
Many new companies participated in ANNA 2016, and that added some fresh perspectives to this year’s discussions. “Although half the people were new to the conference, by the end of the week, everyone was engaged for the betterment of the industry demonstrating the successful networking and learning atmosphere generated by the close relationship of producers and exhibitors,” concludes Hind. He adds that early feedback about this year’s conference has been mostly positive.
Hind predicts that the momentum generated in Eindhoven will continue when the conference moves to North America next fall. The 2017 ANNA Conference will be held October 1 to 6th, 2017 at Hyatt Regency Lost Pine Resort and Spa, located 20 minutes from Austin, Texas.


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The legislation ends quota and replaces it with a target price of $495 per ton, a marketing loan of $355 per ton, plus storage, handling and other costs, and a $36 per ton fixed payment.
The new law has separate and equal payment limits for peanuts: $40,000 for fixed payments; $65,000 counter-cyclical payments; $75,000 for LDP; and $360,000 total. Marketing certificates will be authorized and the three-entity rule will be continued.
The title also includes quality/inspection language and country of origin labeling for peanuts. It allows yield substitution for lower crop production years. Under the new law, producer cooperatives can serve as loan service agents if approved by the Secretary of Agriculture.
“It’s a good peanut bill and a good bill for those who derive their livelihoods from agriculture,” says Armond Morris, chairman of the Georgia Peanut Commission (GPC). Morris calls the bill “fair” for producers and quota holders. “The bill protects the future of our industry and the investments of the past.”
Reaction in a different region of the Peanut Belt, however, has been different.
“Disappointed.” That’s how Bob Sutter, CEO of the North Carolina Peanut Growers Association, describes the general feeling in the V-C region over the new peanut bill. “We had hoped for a higher target price of $520 per ton.”
On the positive side, the quota buyout payment, at 55 cents per pound over five years, came out better than expected, Sutter says. The “buyout” would give quota owners 11 cents per pound or ($1,100 per ton) for five years. They will have the option of getting the 55 cents in one-lump sum or 11 cents per pound per year for five years.
Sutter believes many growers in the V-C area will find it “very difficult” to produce peanuts at the $355 loan rate and the $495 target price.
He describes the mood as a state of confusion.
“We didn’t know until the first day of May what the program would look like,” Sutter laments. “Now that we know, farmers still don’t know what to do.”
Sutter says a reduction of peanut acres is likely in this first year of the new peanut program. Just how much is uncertain.
“After this first year, people will make the decision of whether it’s in their best interest to continue producing peanuts,” Sutter says. “Peanut farmers in North Carolina are just that — peanut farmers.”
Russell Schools, executive secretary of the Virginia Peanut Growers Association, agrees. “It will take a year or two before it settles out to see whether or not things are going to work out” for individual farmers.
In the coming weeks, peanut organizations will be holding meetings designed to explain the ins and outs of the new program.
“We’ll have to see where the yield level is for farmers to be able to make ends meet at the $355 loan rate,” Sutter feels.
“We are going to have to see what shellers are willing to pay to get the crop planted,” Sutter says. “We grow the best Virginia-type peanuts here in the V-C area. It now becomes a question of whether shellers are willing to pay for the peanuts to be grown here. The shellers have not indicated how much they are willing to pay.
“You can’t expect farmers to plant and not be able to make a profit,” Sutter says.
The new program is “going to be shocking to many people who have not been following it closely,” Sutter says.
The USDA will publish regulations for the new program.
The GPC has a summary of the bill’s main points on its website at http://www.gapeanut.com

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While there would be no possibility of jail time under the bill, these offenses would still be classified as misdemeanors.
Assembly Bill 341 allows adults 21 and older to purchase and consume adult-use cannabis products on-site at any licensed “cannabis consumption lounge.”
The measure makes numerous changes to the state’s medical program — several of which may hamper patients’ access to medical cannabis products.
Assembly Bill 341 would regulate two different types of establishments, both defined as “cannabis consumption lounges.”
Medical cannabis expansion legislation is on its way to the governor’s desk, and other updates from the 2021 legislative session.
The new law will take effect once regulations are established, in which regulators have until March 1, 2022.
House Bill 652 reduces the penalty for the possession of up to 14 grams of marijuana to a $100 fine only.
Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup!

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At Cprime we adhere to an innovative approach and believe that applications for doctors and medical students should be primarily useful and trustworthy. For this reason, we have selected the 10 best solutions in the field and elaborated on what to keep in mind when designing and building a truly great medical app.
In medicine, innovations are always perceived with caution, because we are dealing with people’s lives and health. Therefore, doctors are often skeptical about everything that does not fit into the usual pattern of diagnostics and treatment, and solutions such as medical apps for doctors cannot always be trusted as well.
And in many cases, this opinion has a rightful background. The Institute of Medical Information (IMS) analyzed more than 40,000 applications available for download on iTunes, it turned out that more than half of them are just a toy.
But the other half is made with attention to doctors’ needs and is designed as a helpful tool in their work. Let’s discover what are the features that would make your medical app successful and see which apps have nailed it already.
TYPES OF HEALTHCARE APPS
The options are endless! We’ll name a few:
- Corporate applications for managing clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies
- Applications containing medical information: reference books of drugs, clinical reference books with a detailed description of the main symptoms, protocols, articles, monographs
- Applications for special categories of patients (pregnant women, diabetics, the elderly), to control nutrition, exercise, weight, blood pressure, sugar level
- Nursing apps to help taking care of patients
- Fitness applications
WHAT ARE THE POPULAR FEATURES OF A MEDICAL APP?
- The ability to appoint a doctor in the right specialization and get the selected service at the specific time
- Scheduling for doctors
- Online consultation (in video and chat format)
- Paying for medical services through the application
- Personal profile for patients, where the history of examinations, diseases, tests, and health monitoring is stored
- Databases – reference books, information about diseases, drugs, articles, etc.
- Push messages about changes, news, promotions, events, new offers, etc.
WHAT ARE THE COMMON PITFALLS IN DOCTOR APP DEVELOPMENT?
- For clinics, hospitals, and doctors appointment apps
For this type of application, it is necessary to develop a personal account for each doctor so that he or she can manage appointments, as well as implement the schedule, calendar, and database of patients and their case histories, plus provide an opportunity to reach out to a doctor online.
- For educational apps for medical students
For this type of application, the most important task is to create a relevant information database that can be easily updated and accessed.
- For practicing doctors apps
If there is a need to create an application with doctors on demand, it is necessary to introduce an intuitive interface for communicating with the doctor, as well as supplement it with the medication calculation function so that the doctor can prescribe the correct dosage of drugs online.
- For health and fitness apps
For health and fitness applications, it is imperative to develop integration with wearable devices in order to track the user’s actual vitals and make recommendations based on them.
- For pharmacological apps
For pharmacies, it is important to create an intuitive interface for the user, so that the search and order of the necessary medicine are carried out in no more than three clicks, plus a payment security system.
10 MUST-HAVE APPS FOR EVERYONE IN THE MEDICAL FIELD
This is one of the most informative resources for both doctors and junior specialists. Medscape is something like a universal medical reference book that includes original articles on various topics, news from the world of medicine, annotations to drugs, tests for their compatibility, and more. The application is completely free, but the user needs to register an account (which is also free). Thanks to a convenient and simple interface, an excellent search option, and a database covering a huge number of monographs, clinical images, video tutorials for research and manipulation, more than seven thousand drug reviews and instructions, Medscape has been recognized by many practitioners around the world.
This is a useful medical app for doctors and nurses. It contains an archive of images that can be useful for disease diagnostics. This is especially true in the case of rare ailments. The app also allows the exchange of a variety of information between medical professionals for educational and training purposes.
This is another serious contender in the health apps market. No wonder thousands of doctors around the world have installed this application and are pleased with it. UpToDate is replete with medical knowledge that helps answer most questions. Downloading UpToDate is free, but in order to access the information stored in it, you or your organization need to have a subscription to the database.
This is a reference guide for the study of medical terms. With it, you can find the interpretation of any unknown words and expressions from the field of medicine. The application has offline support, quick search, and an unlimited number of bookmarks. Medical Terminologies contains extensive volumes of information. The only minus is a slightly outdated design, but the functionality is just great. For medical students, this medical dictionary app is a must-have.
This is a great comprehensive ultrasound medical application. This mobile application will provide all the important information necessary for conducting clinical ultrasound studies. Brief, step-by-step instructions of the application will help you get a complete picture of integration into your clinical practice.
This is a diagnostic app. With this application (proven with research results, reviewed in dozens of specialized publications), the practitioner has the opportunity to double-check the diagnosis. The Isabel database contains more than six thousand reports on diseases and symptoms, also provides an opportunity to detail the results by age, patient gender, etc. To use the application, you need online access. Isabel is free, but you need to purchase a paid subscription to use all the features.
This is considered the best anatomy app. Unlike analogs, the service provides the user with three-dimensional images of individual parts of the human body. It also has convenient tools for cutting, copying, and creating records. The user can also share his or her own observations with others through a special cloud platform.
This service involves a whole community of qualified doctors and patients. Each user-patient has the opportunity to get a paid or free online doctor consultation. Communication takes place in audio and video online chat, or through text messages. There is an opportunity to read popular questions and answers, find qualified assistance with writing research papers or dissertation services like TrustMyPaper or SupremeDissertations.
Airway Ex Virtual Surgery Simulator
This is a virtual reality application that helps you practice fiber optics skills. This application has been developed for anesthesiologists, otolaryngologist, and emergency doctors for endoscopic training. You will be able to perform virtual operations directly on your iPhone or iPad, which will maximize training and improve surgical results.
This is a great educational application based on simulation. It gives you an idea of the patient who turned to you for help, and you play the role of an online doctor who should fully control the situation: study the patient’s history, carry out an examination, and diagnose and prescribe therapy to treat the main problem of the patient.
Contact our team at firstname.lastname@example.org for more information.


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Fun with port forwarding
I’ve been having great fun with tunneling connections through SSH lately and today it dawned on me that I could close another hole in my firewall by connecting to my Jabber server via a tunnel. In the past, when I’ve been working remotely, I’ve made changes to my firewall by connecting to my public-facing machine; from there to my desktop machine through a DMZ-pinhole and once a presence has been established within the “green zone” browsing to the routers web-interface with
I decided to try something a bit different today. I started by forwarded an arbitrary local port with PuTTY on my windows desktop at work:
Next up was to connect from my Slackware box over to my Kubuntu desktop and use it as a SOCKS proxy, using the previously forwarded port:
steve@substance:~$ ssh -D 8100 email@example.com
Viola, my desktop was now acting as a proxy and was accessible through a local port. I added the details of my newly created proxy into the SwitchProxy extension for Firefox thusly:
I enabled the proxy and tested it out by browsing to whatismyip.com with both browsers available to me:
Happy days. From there it was perfectly effortless to access the web-interface of my router and close the client-to-server Jabber port and to skip over to my download box and queue up a DVD to entertain me this evening.
The more I use Linux and the wealth of software bundled with the majority of distributions the more I see what is left out of windows by default. Instead of thinking “which application do I need to perform this task?” it is becoming more a question of “which protocol?“ I love it!

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The Lone Ranger Vol. 8: The Long Road Home
The legend of the Lone Ranger and Tonto lives on, in two-fisted tales from the Old West! Thrill to the famous masked man's adventures as he avenges the cold-blooded murder of Abilene marshal Tom "Bear River" Smith, rescues a stranded wagon and its precious cargo from a deadly Colorado blizzard, saves an elderly rainmaker from a lynch mob during a season of drought, pursues a high-strung outlaw after a botched bank heist, foils the train robbery by a war-obsessed Chiricahua renegade, and averts the starvation of an Arapaho tribe after pleasure-seekers hunt their only food source - the American buffalo - to near extinction. Also, Tonto takes center stage in a origin story that proves that a rider is only as good as his horse, as his escape from Fort Garland leads to a fateful first encounter with his trusty stead, Scout.
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With the RC33 update of Android slowly rolling out to G1 users across the country it's only fitting that Google has announced that the Android 1.1 SDK is now available to developers. Applications written with previous SDK versions will work fine in 1.1 but if you want to take advantage of the new API's in 1.1, this is the SDK for you.
According to Dan Morrill of Android Developers Blog, the update is "quite minor, but useful". Along with the new APIs, the 1.1 SDK has a new emulator image to let you test your applications. If you're interested in this kind of thing, the release notes are here.


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Germany, Bavaria (N), Dinkelsbühl
- +49 9851 7817
- All year.
Alan Rogers Review
Run by the German Camping Club (DCC), this is a modern site, very close to one of Germany’s best known medieval towns, from which visits can be made to other places on the Romantic Road. There are 460 pitches (half of which are for touring and most with a gentle slope) on broad grassy terraces overlooking a small lake, with a separate area for tents by the water. All are numbered and of about 80 sq.m. with 10A electricity. A special area is kept for overnight stays. The lake can be used for bathing or your own non-powered boat.
Two large, modern toilet blocks are of good quality and should meet all demands, with some washbasins in cabins. Accessible facilities, Washing machines and dryers. Cooking facilities. Shop. Restaurant (Easter, then May-end Sept). General/TV room. Playgrounds on sand and grass. Minigolf. Organised daytime activities in season. Bicycle hire.
Site is in the northeast of town signed towards Dürrwangen from the Dinkelsbühl-Feuchtwangen road no. 25.Link to campsite location map on google
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Petriolo, a small village located in the Marche hinterland, within an area of considerable landscape and naturalistic interest, has chosen the international competition route, to secure a project in line with the new educational trends and respectful of the historical characteristics of the town.
The school area is located along a ridge, in an elevated position with respect to the more recent residential buildings and in visual continuity with the ancient village. The school complex stands as an external part of the village, overlooking the valley below.
The project strengthens the perception of this geographical feature of the area, placing a simple and compact volume at the end of the public path and making it a reference sign, not only for the town of Petriolo, but also for those passing along the road below it. With this objective in mind, the location and the shape of the volumes, together with the homogeneous treatment of the exposed brick surfaces, make the school complex recognizable, creating an immediate perceptive relationship to the historic portion of the village and giving it a precise identity, something a public place should always have.
The design explores themes already developed in previous projects by the studio, regarding the conformation of the spaces for teaching and the role of the school as a civic center, also open to the external community.
The project is funded by the Miur and will be implemented by 2022.
Studio Contini (Marco Contini e Sara Chiari)
Francesco D’Ercoli: structures
Michele Marconi: structures
Cesare Ascani: systems
Cinzia Ottavi: geology


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Sustainability and nature lie at the heart of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The exhibition The Butterfly Affect explores artistic practices that investigate the field of botany and explore the political, social and economic contradictions of our societies.
Curated by Irene Calderoni and Bernardo Follini, the group show interrogates the relationship between human and plant bodies, revealing their close interconnection, and challenging the paradigms established by colonial extractivism and medical taxonomy.
Spanning video, sculpture, installation and painting, the exhibition looks at plants and herbal knowledge as a terrain of conflict between powers and subjectivities, but also practices of care, pleasure and ecology.
Artists will include Patricia Domínguez, Sharona Franklin, Ja’Tovia Gary, Lungiswa Gqunta, Sebastiano Impellizzeri, Isaac Julien, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jumana Manna, Jota Mombaça, Zoe Williams and Rachel Youn.
The artists traverse the natural sciences, with a particular interest in botany, as terrains of conflict governed by dynamics of exploitation and oppression. The themes of vulnerability and health and explored starting from herbal knowledge, bringing out the processes of medicalization of the body and stigmatization of illness.
Affection and relationships are expanded in a trans-human perspective that blurs the boundaries between sexual bodies and vegetable bodies. Finally, ecological destruction is read in connection to the trauma engraved on the bodies of different communities, allowing the artists to imagine spaces for new practices of collective healing.
Press release from Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

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La música de Melt-Banana es considerada noise rock, pero se pueden apreciar . - Fetch. 1. Aqui los enlaces de MELT-BANANA. Melt-Banana - Fetch () [MP3 VBR kbit/s] zip/rar DOWNLOAD. DOWNLOAD - istrionbox.comad/ Kostenlose Download Info für das Experimental rock Female Vocal Noise rock album Melt-Banana - Fetch () das istrionbox.com file Format.
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Fetch, the newest release from Melt-Banana, has made a number of year-end lists for best albums of Rolling Stone magazine ranked it. google "blogspot + artist name + album name" >I don't Ive been getting into Melt Banana for a while now. >> Melt Banana - Fetch (). Melt-Banana “Fetch”. (A-Zap) These noisy veterans successfully combine hardcore, ambient, electro, glitch rock, prog, metal, glam and. From the whip-like crack of Yako's signature staccato vocals and impossible-to- memorize lyrics to the relentless overdrive tempo of their one-of-a-kind.


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Dr. Schaffner is passionate about practicing medicine and creating healing spaces. She is the Clinic Director of Sophia Health Institute; the clinic she co-created with her mentor Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt in Woodinville, Washington. She actively sees patients at Sophia Health Institute and through her practices Marin Naturopathic Medicine in California, as well as Bella Fiore Organic Med Spa & Klinik in Seattle, Washington.
Along with practicing medicine in clinics she has co-created or owns, Dr. Schaffner has built partnerships and working relationships with practitioners who are committed to treating persistent Lyme disease all over the world. Through these connections she has established a unique set of skills and knowledge to serve her patients.
With her diverse skill set, Dr. Schaffner seeks to improve access, outcomes, and speed of recovery for patients struggling with chronic illness wherever they may be.


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VIDEO: JEFF LOOMIS + JOE NURRE REHEARSING ANOTHER NEW LOOMIS TUNE, “MERCURIAL”
“Mercurial,” Jeff Loomis’ collaboration with former Megadeth guitarist/current Japanese person Marty Friedman, hasn’t been officially released yet, but here’s the next best thing — video of Loomis rehearsing the song with Joe Nurre, who will be the co-guitarist in his touring band when he hits the road later this month as part of a MetalSucks-sponsored tour with Protest the Hero, Periphery, The Safety Fire, and Today I Caught the Plague. It’s another great track from Loomis’ forthcoming Plains of Oblivion, so Friedman or no, you oughta check this out:
Plains of Oblivion comes out April 10 on Century. Get dates for that upcoming tour here.
Thanks: Alan Keller, Jr.