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Matron Maggie Sloan was a force of nature who could silence a doctor or nurse with one withering stare at Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, but Joan Sydney, the brilliant woman who played her, was witty and generous in real life.
Joan’s good friend and co-star on A Country Practice, Shane Porteous, 80, opened up exclusively to Woman’s Day about working with the “extraordinary actor” on the legendary show, before he turned his hand to writing and also worked with Joan on Neighbours.
“I’m very sad at news of Joan’s passing,” lamented the actor, who played Dr Terence Elliott on the show that made Joan a household name in Australia after starring in 453 episodes of A Country Practice between 1983 and 1990.
“We hadn’t been in touch in the last couple of years but she was an extraordinary actor. She was never out of character. She completely put aside her own personality to play all her characters. I saw her work for Neighbours when I was writing for the show, and her work there was similar.
“She could adopt totally new personalities and you never saw glimpses of her real personality coming through. She was a remarkable actor.”
Shane says off-set, London-born Joan, who emigrated to Australia as a “10 pound Pom” in 1965 with husband Gerald and their three children, Tony, Amanda and Matthew, wasn’t that different from no-nonsense but compassionate Matron Sloan in real life.
“She was fun-loving. She had a very quick mind. She enjoyed writing, she enjoyed words, she enjoyed cryptic crosswords. She was very funny, very well-read. She read a lot of feminist novels and she was a strong feminist. I had a great deal of respect and admiration for Joan,” he says.
Home And Away star Georgie Parker, 58, who played nurse Lucy Gardiner opposite Joan on A Country Practice, posted a shot of herself in character with Matron Sloan in tribute, admitting she was in awe of the actor.
“She was one of the all-time greats, on stage and screen. Joan Sydney shared what she knew freely, and totally lived by her own rules. She was scary, generous, hugely talented, had an enormous wit and superb technique. How missed she will be,” posted Georgie on Instagram.
Jane Hall, 51, says it was an honour working with Joan on ACP when she played vet Dr Jess Morrison and also when Joan played her mum in a stage production of Secret Bridesmaids’ Business in 2000.
“I will never forget her skill, wit and dedication to getting it right,” she says.
Neighbours star Carla Bonner says it was surreal when she met Joan in the early 2000s when she started playing “my colourful Aunty Valda (Valda Sheergold) on the show”, because she had grown up watching her play Matron Sloan and was a huge fan.
“I absolutely adored her,” Carla, 49, tells Woman’s Day.
“Joan was a joy to work with – such a warm, loving and generous woman with a sharp wit and dry humour, a consummate professional, but we had such a great time, and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work alongside her.”
Neighbours star Melissa Bell, who worked with Joan on Ramsay Street and on the soap E Street, where Joan played Mary Patchett, says she was “very friendly, warm and giving” and told Melissa to always “keep striving for what you want to achieve”.
Social media lit up with tributes to Joan after her close friend, former Neighbours and Wentworth star Sally-Anne Upton broke the news that she died peacefully in Sydney on December 28, including a touching one from a nurse, who says Matron Sloan inspired her to take up the profession.
“I will be forever grateful to Joan for her portrayal of the best kind of nurses I know and love – loyal to a fault, caring, empathetic and firm but fair.”
Joan’s son Tony says at the height of his mum’s fame on A Country Practice she started wearing a wig, scarf and dark glasses when she went out to avoid being mobbed by fans and revealed that she had a “long slow exit” after being diagnosed with dementia in 2015.


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It’s a versatile cymbal and it has 158 layers, spread over two zones. About 74MB samples. The sample have been created in a room with a natural dry sound using a sE X1 large membrane microphone, AKG P170 as OH microphones and a matched pair of pair of Line Audio CM4 microphones as ambience. The recordings was done on a Behringer WING 48 ch mixing console with built in MIDAS Pro Preamps. Some gates and processing have been used with NEVE EQ’s plugins) The samples are edited and splitted using SDSE from Lustark and the final dsnd file has manually corrected all the samples that they were mapped correctly to make a smooth transition.
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← back to all news Geordie Greig will take over as new editor of the Daily Mail
Geordie Greig will be the new editor of the Daily Mail, it was announced last night.
Currently the editor of the Mail on Sunday, Mr Greig will take over when Paul Dacre steps aside from editing the daily newspaper later this year.
Lord Rothermere, the proprietor of both titles, described Mr Greig as an ‘outstanding editor.‘
He also announced the Mail’s ‘exceptional’ deputy editor Ted Verity will become the next editor of the Mail on Sunday.
Mr Dacre, who has edited the daily newspaper for 26 years, said on wednesday he would step back from day-to-day editing by his 70th birthday in November.
Mr Dacre will take on the broader challenges as chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Metro newspapers and the MailOnline and Metro.co.uk websites.
Last night Lord Rothermere, the chairman of parent company DMGT, said: “Geordie has been an outstanding editor of The Mail on Sunday, and I am delighted that he will continue the high-qiuality journalism that Paul has made his hallmark of the Daily Mail for more than 25 years.”
He added: “I am delighted that ted Verity, who has been an exceoptional deputy editor at the Daily Mail, is to become editor of The Mail on Sunday.
In his new role, Mr greig wil also have oversight of The Mail on Sunday, it was announced.


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SOUTH SALT LAKE (ABC4 News) — Wednesday, August 12, 7:45 a.m. Officials have updated the condition of a UTA officer hit by a car while trying to help a dog. Wednesday morning, ABC4 News was told the officer moved from critical to stable condition. The officer sustained head trauma.
The driver of the car who hit the officer was screened for impairment while driving. The driver has not been arrested.
A Utah Transit Authority officer was critically injured when she was struck by a vehicle in South Salt Lake Tuesday night.
South Salt Lake police said emergency crews were dispatched to the crash near 2800 South State Street around 9:40 p.m.
South Salt Lake Public Information Officer Danielle Croyle said a UTA transit officer stopped to help a family corral a loose dog that escaped from their car when she was hit by a vehicle traveling southbound on State Street.
The officer was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Utah Department of Transportation reported southbound State Street was closed at 2700 South. Croyle said crash reconstruction team members were on-site, and the road would be closed while they conduct their investigation.
The driver is cooperating with officers at the scene, police said.

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Background: Vascular endothelial dysfunction may predict future atherosclerosis. Hence, an antihypertensive agent that reverses endothelial dysfunction and lowers blood pressure might improve the prognosis of patients with hypertension. We hypothesized that nebivolol, a vasodilating β-blocker, could improve endothelial dysfunction. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the effects of nebivolol and atenolol on endothelial function. Methods and results: Twelve hypertensive patients with a mean ambulatory blood pressure of 154±7/97±10 mmHg were randomized after a 2-week placebo run-in period (baseline) in a double-blind, crossover fashion to 8-week treatment periods with either 5 mg of nebivolol with 2.5 mg of bendrofluazide or 50 mg of atenolol with 2.5 mg of bendrofluazide. Forearm venous occlusion plethysmography and intra-arterial infusions of acetylcholine and N G-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) were used to assess stimulated and basal endothelium-dependent nitric oxide release, respectively. Sodium nitroprusside was used as an endothelium-independent control. Nebivolol/bendrofluazide and atenolol/bendrofluazide each lowered the clinic blood pressure to the same extent (132±7/82±6 and 132±9/83±8 mmHg, respectively; p<0.001 from baseline). The vasodilatory response to acetylcholine was significantly increased with nebivolol/bendrofluazide (maximum percentage change in forearm blood flow [mean ± SEM], 435±27%, p<0.001) but not with. atenolol/ bendrofluazide. Similarly, the endothelium-dependent vasoconstrictive response to L-NMMA was significantly improved only with nebivolol treatment (percentage change in forearm blood flow, -54±5 %; p<0.001). The response to sodium nitroprusside was not different between treatments, suggesting that the endothelium-independent pathway was unaffected. Conclusions: Nebivolol/bendrofluazide increased both stimulated and basal endothelial nitric oxide release, whereas for the same degree of blood pressure control, atenolol/bendrofluazide had no effect on nitric oxide bioactivity. Thus, nebivolol may offer additional vascular protection in treating hypertension.
|Translated title of the contribution||Nebivolol normalizes the endothelial function in essential hypertension. Results of a randomized, double-blind study with crossover design|
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|Publication status||Published - Jan 2004|
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London's first pure electric 'emission free' buses hit the streets
Should the performance and reliability of these buses meet London's challenging requirements, this could be a very important step towards adopting this new clean technology in the Capital.
- Buses deliver significant air quality benefits due to zero tail pipe emissions
- Potential 75 per cent running cost saving compared to a diesel single deck bus
An exciting new era of emission free bus travel was unveiled today, as Transport for London (TfL) and bus operator Go-Ahead London began a trial of the Capital's first electric buses.
Routes 507 and 521 will trial the new buses as the technology is particularly suitable for busy short commuter services which operate between Victoria, Waterloo and London Bridge stations.
The electric buses have zero tail pipe emissions, resulting in lower carbon emissions.
The trial will help TfL develop plans for greater use of electric buses in central London in the future, supporting the Mayor's vision of a central London Ultra Low Emission Zone.
The 12-metre single deck buses were built by Chinese manufacturer BYD Auto Ltd.
They will become a familiar sight to passengers on routes 507 and 521 when they enter passenger service tomorrow (Thursday 19 December).
Matthew Pencharz, Senior Environment and Energy Advisor to the Mayor of London, said: 'Electric buses could help deliver the cleaner and greener bus fleet we need to cut carbon emissions and improve air quality.
'If these prove successful we plan to see more introduced over the next few years to run alongside the hybrid and hydrogen bus technology that is already tackling air pollution and carbon emissions across the Capital.'
Mike Weston, TfL's Director of Buses, said: 'We will be closely monitoring the performance of these vehicles while they are being trialled here in London.
'Should the performance and reliability of these buses meet London's challenging requirements, this could be a very important step towards adopting this new clean technology in the Capital.'
John Trayner, Managing Director of Go-Ahead London, said: 'We are delighted to be partnering TFL and BYD on this exciting new project to run the first electric buses on London's streets.'
Isbrand Ho, Managing Director of BYD Europe, said today 'We are convinced that widespread adoption of the BYD ebus could have a dramatic effect on lowering pollution levels in major cities so this development in London, one of the world's top cities, is of tremendous importance.
'We look forward to a long and positive relationship with Transport for London and Go-Ahead London and to further deliveries of our market leading products in London and other UK cities.'
The trial will be used to establish whether the technology can stand up to the rigours of operating in an intense urban environment such as London.
The manufacturer's tests demonstrated a potential running cost saving of around 75 per cent compared to a diesel bus.
The buses take around four to five hours to fully charge overnight and should have a range of 250km, which would be sufficient to operate these buses for a full day on these routes without the need to recharge.
In addition to the two buses in this trial, six additional electric buses will be introduced into the TfL fleet in early 2014.
Four of the buses were secured with funding from the Department of Transport (DfT) Green Bus Fund with a further two funded from TfL's technology demonstration budget.
The electric bus trial is one of the many measures the Mayor has introduced to make London's bus fleet more environmentally friendly, including the operation of zero emission hydrogen buses on Route RV1 between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway and delivering Europe's largest hybrid bus fleet.
Around 600 hybrid buses now operate on the capital's roads, including the New Routemasters, with more being introduced in a rolling programme.
By 2016 there will be more than 1,700 hybrid buses in service on London's streets representing 20 per cent of the total bus fleet.
Notes to editors:
- BYD Auto Ltd is part of BYD, one of the world's largest makers of rechargeable batteries
- Route 507 connects Waterloo Station and Victoria Station via Lambeth Bridge and Horseferry Road
- Route 521 connects London Bridge Station and Waterloo Station via Monument, Cannon Street, St Paul's, Chancery Lane, Holborn, and Aldwych London Underground Stations
- TfL is well past the half-way mark in an extensive retrofit programme of 900 older buses which involves fitting them with an innovative system called Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR), reducing emissions of harmful oxides of nitrogen (NOx) by up to 88 per cent. To date, 580 buses have had this equipment fitted with the remainder due to be completed by March 2014
- More electric buses are anticipated to follow as London is engaged in a partnership funding bid with seven other cities in Europe to trial a range of pure electric and hybrid vehicle technologies and charging techniques
Trial electric buses to operate on busy central London commuter routes.


Born without arms: inspirational mother and son live life to the full
Linda Bannon and her son Timmy suffer from Holt Oram - a rare genetic condition due to which they were born without arms. Despite their condition they live a happy life in a non-modified home. Amazingly, they do everything with their feet and Timmy is a young sports star excelling in swimming and taekwondo. Linda is also studying to become a motivational speaker despite working through the day as a kindergarten teacher. We have been invited to spend two days with them as they go about their hectic lives.
Videographer / Director: Laurentiu Garofeanu, Producer: Dan Howlett, Editor: Ian Phillips.
I'm sure this is a moment that goalkeeper would like back! His attempt at clearing the ball ends up turning into a bizarre own goal. From a recent match featuring NCAA teams Nazarene and Oklahoma Baptist.
Quirky, the blind kitten, has quite the experience after stepping foot onto a tile floor for the first time. He's adorable! Even though there's no sound, this moment will bring a smile to your face.
Andy Miller spotted this moment of child genius while enjoying the snow on a place called Rocket Hill in Hutchinson, Minnesota. In a video he called “The coolest kids on the hill”, Miller shows the kids riding in a homemade rocket down the hill. Credit: YouTube/Andy Miller.


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Richie with a shaved head, geeking out over electronic production. Richie with a quiff waving from the terrace at Weekend in Berlin, at the peak of the hype around Minus. Richie throwing a curve ball to all his techno fans by playing disco-afrobeat track “Yé ké yé ké” by Mory Kanté. Richie, but also Plastikman, who made history with the massive “Spastik”.
Richie with Alva Noto for the Container project. Richie and his passion for sake, to the point that he produced his own. Richie and technology during his live sets where he’s surrounded by electronic machines and is filmed live. Richie and emerging design. Richie tonight. Richie, I think I’ve seen every version of you.
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Ilyushin Il-114 short-haul plane.Vladimir Astapkovich / RIA Novosti
Ilyushin Il-114 short-haul planes will be produced in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Nov. 9.
"Orders have been given to develop a short-haul plane on the basis of the Il-114. Production will be launched in Nizhny Novgorod, " Rogozin tweeted.
Until 2012 Ilyushin Il-114 planes had been produced at the Tashkent Aircraft Plant. In all, 17 planes were built, and seven of them are still in use by Uzbekistan Airways.
About 320 Ilyushin Il-114 planes are expected to be sold in the period from 2019 to 2030. Peak output of 24 planes per year may be reached in 2025. The delivery of the prototype is due in 2018-2019, and 24 planes of the kind will be supplied to customers by 2025 (an approximate unit cost is 960 million rubles including VAT in 2014 prices).
The Ilyushin Il-114 can take aboard up to 64 passengers. It is propelled by two TV7-117S (SM) engines, each with 2,500 horsepower. The maximal takeoff weight is 23.5 tonnes, and the maximum commercial payload is 6,500 kilograms (the commercial payload is 1,500 kilograms tops with a full fuel tank). Its cruising speed is 500 kilometers per hour, its maximum flight altitude is 7,600 meters, and its flight range is 1,000 kilometers with 64 passengers onboard and 4,800 kilometers with a 1,500-kilogram payload.
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The Mr Bridger Ecru, Honey & Chocolate Long Sleeve Archive Dagger Collar Knit
Stunning archive inspired knitwear from Mr Bridger.
An ecru full button through long sleeve polo knit, with a dagger collar, contrast gold and brown detailing, with two functional pockets.
The garment also features colour matched buttons and a small hidden under collar button loop fastening. The back waistband is ribbed for an improved fit, meaning the garment will sit nicely when worn unfastened.
This design was based on an unlabelled original 60's piece of knitwear.
Wash Care: 30 degree cold wash
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Qld domestic violence report unveiled
Too often people's reaction to domestic violence is to ask: "Why doesn't she leave?"
But Dame Quentin Bryce says an ambitious report she's overseen for the Queensland Government responds with: "Why should she have to leave her home and not the perpetrator?"
The report - Not Now, Not Ever: Putting an End to Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland - was handed to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Saturday.
It lists 140 recommendations, including trialling GPS monitoring of high-risk perpetrators and introducing a special domestic violence court, to help put an end to the social problem.
But Dame Quentin, who chaired the Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence that completed the report, says central to the 359-page document is a focus on supporting victims and holding offenders to account for their actions.
She says society and victims themselves often, incorrectly, feel the onus is on victims to stop the violence.
"We recommend ... conditions that require a perpetrator to leave the home to keep the victim safe," Dame Quentin said.
"We recommend wider use of perpetrator intervention programs, stronger penalties for offences that relate to a domestic and family violence incident.
"Perpetrators must be held to account."
Dame Quentin said the report is made up of the stories of victims who have experienced domestic violence, giving rise to calls for a new criminal offence - non-lethal strangulation.
"Strangulation is often a precursor to domestic homicide and a clear indication of escalation of violence," she said.
Ms Palaszczuk said the government would consider the reports recommendations "over the coming months", but welcomed recommendations that called for tougher penalties, a special domestic violence court and the consideration of offenders' track records when sentencing them for domestic violence offences.
"This is an issue that knows no bounds," she said.
"It happens in all parts of Queensland, but we need to address it as a community.
"We need to stand up and say no to domestic violence."
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If you want to quit smoking, you already know to stay away from smokers. In fact, now there’s proof that even looking at people smoking can keep you from quitting.
A new study published this year in a medical trade magazine called Psychopharmacology looks at what happens when ex-smokers even look at photographs of someone smoking.
The study’s researchers did brain scans of smokers after they were shown a photograph of other people smoking. The brain scans were done either 24 hours before they quit or 24 hours after they quit.
What the brain scans showed was increased activity in those parts of the brain that make us crave things – like a cigarette if we’re addicted to them.
So if you’re trying to quit, don’t be around smoking. Don’t even look at pictures. But that’s not always possible. So you’re going to also have to re-train your brain not to respond. It’s like breaking any bad habit. Use your willpower. Use your intelligence. Know that it takes time for cravings to go away.
To help yourself, stay away from drinking coffee if you have always had a cup of coffee with a cigarette. Drink tea, or drink a cola. Chew carrots. Keep a drinking straw at your desk and “inhale” if you must. It’s harmless, and it can wean you from nicotine.
I quit, and I’m no superwoman. I just did it. You can, too!
Visit the Web site of www.dovelinpublishing.com for more tips on how to quit.

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The natural choice Greenvale AP has a long and successful history and the promise of an even brighter future, as Angus Armstrong reveals With many years experience, Greenvale AP is one of the largest handlers of potatoes in the UK, supplying fresh potatoes, processing potatoes and seed to all sectors
A box of luxury Combining a significant presence in the European market with detailed knowledge of local needs, Aviko is one of the top four market leaders in the potato processing industry Billing itself as the only European alternative for a complete range of potato products, Aviko is committed to
Hot potato Evolving relationships with its customers has led innovation and investment by Hoff Norske Potetindustrier The roots of Hoff Norske Potetindustrier go back almost 130 years – to 1879, to be precise. It was in that year that Distillery Association began its business as a distiller of potato-based alcohol.

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After a long illness, Josep Tarragó Colominas, who was the founder and CEO of IRTA from 1985 to 2008, has died in Barcelona at the age of 68.
Josep developed different activities in the private sector (U.S. Feed Grains Council, State Sugar Council of the Dominican Republic) and in academia (Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Agriculture School in Barcelona). He held various positions in the administration of IRTA (General Director and General Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries) and, since its creation in 1985, he was the CEO of IRTA up to the year 2008.
In 2009 the Catalan government awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi in recognition of his work of modernisation of the Catalan primary sector and for his efforts to place IRTA at the highest international standards.
IRTA is a research institute owned by the Government of Catalonia and part of the Department of Agriculture.


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Theseus service break is over
Theseus has been reopened after the service break. You can again submit your electronic UAS theses or other e-publications.
Uploading the publication is now more simple. The data entry sheet has been revised, e.g. education disciplines are now general, compiled of the discipline classification by the Statistics Finland and Oppiportti. This makes searches easier and the view more consistent. You can write down you own degree program in a separate free-text field.
Entering the keywords is also different. Theseus suggests authorized subject headings when you start writing the keyword.
If there are any questions, please turn to your own library staff. We can be reached by e-mail thesis [at] tuni.fi (thesis[at]tuni[dot]fi), phone or chat, and of course at the library service desk.

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The Nyack Parks Conservancy is again bringing swinging sounds to the banks of the Hudson River with their Music on the Hudson Concert Series this summer.
Concerts are Tuesdays at 7-9pm.
Location: Memorial Park, lower level, on the Hudson River
All concerts are free to the public and are for all ages. Bring a blanket, chairs and a picnic dinner and enjoy live music under the stars. Concessions and food will be available for purchase!
2022 Summer Concert Lineup:
July 5th – Sign of the 4
July 12th – Bulletproof Heart
July 19th – The Very Bad Ideas
July 26th – Fat Boi’s Brass Band
August 2nd – Dead Meat
August 9th – The Peek ‘80s New Wave Dance Party
Additional information about concerts, including weather updates, is available on the Park Conservancy’s Facebook page.
Music on the Hudson is a production of the Nyack Park Conservancy. Visit them online at nyackparks.org for more information and to support their important fundraising efforts.


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Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.— Kurt Cobain
Unbelievable Birds Chirping quotations
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible;
it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping birds hidden in the almond trees, the almonds still green and thriving in the foliage.
But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!
The whole of existence is dancing, except man.
The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind.
The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.
What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast.
Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.
There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds chirping in the woods. The war seemed like something in a faraway land that had nothing to do with us. We sang songs as we hiked up the hill, sometimes imitating the birds we heard. Except for the fact that the war was still going on, it was a perfect morning.
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush.
They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.
Often sit alone happy happy Thoughts somewhat far gone gone Clouds circle mountain soft soft Wind through valley swish swish Ape in tree bounce bounce Bird in forest chirp chirp Time turns hair gray gray Winter is here sad sad
Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight.
I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.
Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.


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Surprisingly, over 75% of all dogs and cats have periodontal disease by the age of 3 years old. Early disease is usually not easily detectable without examining the mouth, but signs of more advanced dental disease are bad breath(halitosis), excessive salivation, painful chewing, and tooth loss. These problems are often identified during your pet’s yearly checkup. Young animals often do not require professional cleanings. However, older animals, and animals with a predisposition to bacteria accumulation in the mouth, require more frequent cleanings.
Periodontal disease begins with bacteria combining with sugars from food to form plaque on the teeth. Next, minerals in the saliva attach to the plaque to form tartar, a harder substance that bonds to the teeth. The bacteria work their way under the gums and cause gingivitis — which is inflammation of the gums. This is when pain can start to develop in your pets mouth. Once under the gum line, bacteria destroy the ligaments around the tooth that attach the teeth to bone, leading to tooth loss. This condition is known as periodontal disease. The bacteria associated with periodontal disease can also gain access to the bloodstream to infect the heart, kidneys, and liver.
A professional veterinary dental cleaning is the only way to remove formed tartar from the teeth and under the gumline to protect your pet’s oral health. With a professional dental cleaning and appropriate home care, gingivitis is usually reversible. Periodontal disease, however, is not reversible. Regular veterinary cleanings can significantly help to slow down the deterioration of ligament loss. Maintaining a consistent home dental care program can also help keep your pet’s mouth healthy and increase the times between dental cleanings.
What Happens During a Dental Cleaning?
During a dental cleaning (prophylaxis), plaque and tartar are removed from a pet’s teeth via an ultrasonic scaling device. During this cleaning, the entire mouth (tongue, gums, lips, and teeth) is assessed for additional disease. In most cases, X-rays of the teeth are taken to look for any dental disease hidden beneath the gum surface missed through visual assessment. A complete dental cleaning can ONLY be accomplished while the pet is under general anesthesia. Anesthesia prevents your pet from feeling pain during the dental procedure and allows your veterinarian to fully inspect the teeth. During anesthesia, a soft plastic tube is inserted into the trachea to support the patient’s breathing and prevent aspiration of bacteria that are released during scaling.A professional dental cleaning at Blue Lake Animal Care Center include the following:
- Ultrasonic scaling of plaque and tartar from all teeth(all sides) as well us under the gums
- Probing dental spaces to assess for deeper disease
- Polishing out enamel scratches and defects that may allow bacteria to adhere
- Dental radiographs (X-rays) to evaluate problems below the gum line.
- Extraction of fractured/ infected teeth
- Inspection of the entire mouth for tumors, infections, trauma, etc.
How Do I Know if My Pet Needs a Dental?
Regular inspection of your pet’s mouth is critical in catching dental disease early. Tartar may appear as a tan-colored covering on the teeth. Redness or bleeding along the gumline may indicate dental disease. If you notice any of these signs in your pet, schedule an appointment with us.
- Abnormal odor in mouth
- Teeth chattering, sometimes associated with eating
- Loose or missing teeth
- Difficulty chewing
- Blood in water bowl
- Pawing at face or mouth
What Are the Benefits of a Dental Cleaning?
A professional dental cleaning removes not only the visible plaque and tartar on the teeth surfaces but also the bacteria under the gums. This eliminates potential sources of infection to the mouth and other organs and protects your pet from pain and tooth loss.
What Can I Do Myself to Keep My Pet’s Teeth Clean?
After a dental cleaning is performed, keep your pet’s teeth clean to increase the intervals needed between dental cleanings. We may recommend a plaque prevention product — a substance that you apply to your pet’s teeth and gums. The product adheres to the teeth surface to create a barrier that prevents plaque from forming. We have had significant success with regular use of Oravet chews. These are tasty daily treats that disperse a barrier called delmopinol in the mouth. This acts as a short-term sealant, keeping food particles from adhering, while the sticky substances help pull plaque off teeth.
Also, just like us, daily tooth brushing can help remove food particles from your pet’s teeth. You can use a child’s toothbrush or purchase a pet-specific brush. Human toothpastes should not be used because they contain ingredients that should not be swallowed by pets. Your dog or cat may actually like the taste as well, as they are available in flavors such as chicken, seafood, and beef. Several dental diets and treats can also help to minimize plaque and tartar. The diets provide a more friction on the tooth surface when chewed, and compress instead of crumble when chewed to increase surface contact with the teeth.
Ask the staff at Blue Lake Animal Care Center which options are appropriate for your pet. For more information about the benefits of oral care in pets, and why virtually every veterinary dentist and professional organization discourages dental cleanings without anesthesia , visit : http://avdc.org/dentalscaling.html

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Dr. Robert Brooks is an internist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is affiliated with Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System. He received his medical degree from University of North Carolina School of Medicine and has been in practice for 18 years. He is one of 55 doctors at Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System who specialize in Internal Medicine.
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Prepare to have your hair blown back. Bill Gates just made Twitter history by exploding from zero to 25,000 followers in four hours with no formal announcement.
Even better, he did it with no help from the Suggested User List.
If you ever had any doubt at all about how quickly things can spread on Twitter, let this lay it to rest. Welcome to Twitter Bill, welcome to the Wild West of the internet. As a side note, you can follow me here on Twitter, Mr. Gates. Go on Bill, make my week.
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The Blurb: Juliette Taylor walked away from her career as a supermodel twenty-five years ago. Now approaching fifty – an emotionally complex milestone -- she co-owns a beauty supply company that makes skincare products for salons and spas. Her niche is pampering Christian women who usually spend more time caring for others than for themselves under the slogan: Isn’t it time someone took care of YOU for a change?
When Juliette arrives at the Palm Grotto Spa to host a spiritual retreat, she runs into an old modeling colleague, Raven, who had always been disliked in the industry for many reasons. She isn’t there for the retreat; in fact, her presence at the spa is somewhat mysterious. Not long after Raven makes a cryptic threat to Juliette, the unsympathetic back-then beauty is found dead, poisoned by something in the green clay of a chai soy wrap. The following morning, a banner for the retreat has been unceremoniously altered: It’s your turn to be nurtured, to be restored . . . to be murdered.
Suspicion is directed at Juliette who has history with Raven and certainly knows how to use beauty products. But for murder?! Now she must find the real killer before the police really take care of her.
For more information click on the book cover to the publisher’s page for the book. B&H Books, August 2012.
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Leaders and representatives from across political parties met Tuesday for a round-table conference to discuss 'People's Progressive Agenda for India' (PPA).
The PPA builds on the Common Minimum Programme of 2004 in collaboration with an independent organisation - Samruddha Bharat Foundation- to reassert the fundamental principle of one person-one vote, one vote one value and to reclaim constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and rights, as well as a life of dignity and security, a statement issued by the foundation said.
The meeting, held at the Constitution Club here, saw participation from 12 parties including the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Loktantrik Janata Dal(LJD), Communist Party of India (CPI), Samajwadi Party and Swabhimani Paksha, it said.
The PPA aimed to address the needs and aspirations of the vulnerable and marginalised sections like scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, other backward classes and overcome divisive politics that attempts to pit caste against caste, class against class, and community against community, the statement said.
(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)


Ward County commissioners approved selling two homes located within the city of Minot during their regular meeting Tuesday. Both sales must be accepted by the potential buyers.
A home located at 814-2nd Ave. NE is to be offered to the city for one dollar. The property was flooded in 2011. It is listed among the properties facing demolition by the city to make room for possible dike expansion. The First District Health Unit had designated the home as a hazard and requested that the county take action to remedy the situation. According to Ward County Engineer Dana Larsen, the flood-damaged home was irreparable and no cleaning of the home had occurred following the flood.
The county had received two bids on a second city residence, this one located near Roosevelt Elementary at 621 7th Ave. NE. The county obtained ownership of the property due to non-payment of taxes. The home is abandoned, in disrepair and the lot is overgrown with weeds and trees.
The sale of this home at 621 7th Ave. NE, near Roosevelt Elementary, was approved by Ward County commissioners during their meeting Tuesday. Two bids had been received on the abandoned property.
Commissioners accepted a $7,500 bid on the property provided the buyer agrees to clean up the lot and remove the home by Oct. 31. The bidder had earlier indicated his intention to demolish the home and replace it with a manufactured home approved by the city. According to Mike Vendsel, director of tax equalization, the lot is valued at $8,500.


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"I promised that. And what I have promised, I deliver." Bernhard wahler gave this promise to karl hannwacker, who had procured a threshing machine for the 1200th anniversary of ebenhausen in 1988 and donated it to the village or to the town of schlockenau. The carnival club, which is dedicated to the preservation of the local history and customs, was the.
When karl hannwacker fell seriously ill a few years ago, bernhard wahler promised him that he would continue to take care of the threshing machine grief. This was housed in a hall on leitenweg. But this building was getting more and more outdated and finally had to be demolished.
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Activator Method Technique is a safe and scientifically proven method that has been used on patients of all ages since the 1960's. Dr. Tammy's objective is to restore spinal balance in a gentle, effective manner using the Activator Adjusting Instrument. By analyzing leg length inequality, body mechanics, and testing neurological reflexes, Dr. Tammy is able to assist people suffering from a variety of conditions such as neck pain, low back pain, whiplash, headaches, knee and foot pain, sciatica, disc problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder pain, and sacroiliac pain.
Sacral Occipital Technique
SOT (Sacral Occipital Technique) is also a comprehensive and gentle technique that has been mastered since the early 1900's. This method of chiropractic focuses on the relationship between the Sacrum (base of the spine) and the Occiput (base of the skull). The spine is designed not only holds our body upright but it creates anchor points at the sacrum and skull for various tissues and it also protects our delicate nervous system. When the sacrum is out of balance it has the same effect on the occiput and visa versa. Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (CSF) is a nutrient rich fluid that is naturally pumped throughout the spinal canal, the brain, and the nervous system. It acts as the circulatory system for the brain and spinal cord. Hence, when there is dysfunction in the sacrum and occiput the CSF will not flowing optimally. The nervous system controls our entire body and can only function normally when our structures are balanced.
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NRT (Nutrition Response Testing) is a clinically proven, non-invasive system of analyzing the body to determine the underlying cause of ill or non-optimum health. Through its neurological reflexes, your body tells us what and how your nervous system is functioning. The nervous systems responsibility is to regulate the body's functions for each and every organ, gland, joint, and muscles and will naturally provide all of the feedback needed to design a proper individualized treatment plan for you. The procedure is simple and direct. To detect disruption in the energy flows between parts and organs of the body, the analysis involves contacting your extended arm or leg with one hand and a specific reflex area with the other hand. If the tested reflex is stressed your nervous system will respond by causing your arm or leg to go weak or to drop. Once the underlying stress is corrected, the weak muscle response will no longer occur. There are no lab fees, no huge expensive machines, no drugs, and no surgery! NRT, along with an analysis of your daily food intake, will give you the tools to begin to feel better and enjoy your life as it was intended, as healthy as possible!


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YouTube is Lowering it Monetization Eligibility Requirements to 500 Subscribers
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YouTube, a Google-owned video sharing platform is bringing down it monetization’s eligibility requirements to 500 subscribers and 3000 watch hours for creator to make money through their Contents.
Furthermore, YouTube is also expanding its shopping affiliate program to U.S.-based creators who are part of YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) and have more than 20,000 subscribers.
Previously, YPP eligibility requirements are 1000 subscribers and either 4,000 watch hours in the past year, or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days.
Now, the Google-owned video sharing platform has announced new conditions to be eligible for the partner program are, and they are:
- Having 500 subscribers;
- 3 public uploads in the last 90 days;
- and either 3,000 watch hours in the past year or 3 million Shorts views in the last 90 days.
Hence, any content creators that meets the new eligibility criteria will be able to apply and take part in the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) and get access to tipping tools like Super Thanks, Super Chat, and Super Stickers, subscription tools like channel memberships, and the ability to promote their own merch with YouTube Shopping.
However, according to a report by Techcrunch, this new conditions are applicable content creators in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Taiwan, and South Korea. It will later roll it out to other countries where YPP is available e.g, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.

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Unique Cultures in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
There are a variety of cultures in this world and each culture is unique. Usually when one was born and raised in a certain culture, that person may adapt to that culture for a period of time. It is sometimes difficult to look into someone else’s culture, and understand their culture. Sometimes one must keep an open mind, study the culture, or live in another culture to understand the culture. When reading “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy, and “Things Fall Apart“, by Chinua Achebe one must look beyond their culture to understand how others live in a different culture. When I read Roy’s novel, I did not get a great understanding of the novel, because it was difficult to follow. I did not know a lot about the culture before I read novel. Both text discusses a particular cultural group, and as the narrator tells the story the narrator intertwines the cultural elements with the actual story being told. The differences between the text were the way the text was structured, and how the stories were told. Also, both texts contained different religions practiced by the particular cultural group.
In “The God of Small Things“, and “Things Fall Apart” both consist a particular cultural groups. In “The God of Small Things“, the people in the story were Pakistan Indian. The way Roy described the setting in the story, and how the people looked gave an idea of where the story took place. Plus she also mentioned some cities that are in India. Roy described the rivers as being unclean, but people would cleanse themselves in the river. The women wore saris. The immediate families and extended families seemed to live together also. In “The God of Small Things”, the mother, children, aunt and uncle lived together. In “The God of Small Things” the characters were Rahel and Estha, who were fraternal twins. The twin’s mother, Baby Kochamma, Kochu Maria, and Chacko lived together. This family stuck together through good and bad times throughout this book. If something happened to one of the family members, the whole family was there for each other for love and support.
For example, the twin’s mother left their father, because he was an abusive alcoholic. She took her twins with her to live with Baby Kochamma and Chacko. Together they raised the twins.
In “Things Fall Apart“, the characters were of an African clan. The clan consists of husbands with wives. The men had children from each wife. Women and daughter would serve the father food, and whatever he ordered them to do. The sons would not do much service. They would listen to the father tell them stories, to teach the sons how to be a strong man when they grow up. The men would teach the sons that women were not intelligent.
For example, in “Things Fall Apart“, the characters were Okwonkwo, his wives and children. There were also some other members of the clan in the story. Okwonkwo was...


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Office Depot's largest shareholder – at 14.8 percent – asked the board to immediately seek OfficeMax's approval to sell the company's half of Office Depot de Mexico.
On Feb. 15, Boca Raton-based Office Depot received an offer from joint venture partner Grupo Gigante to purchase the Depot's half of the Mexican unit for $690.5 million. Under the agreement with OfficeMax, the office supply retailer has to receive the approval of its merger partner to sell the unit.
Gigante's offer expires Thursday.
The office supply retailer entered into the joint venture with Grupo Gigante in 1994 and has since expanded to 200 stores. The duo also operates in Colombia and Central America and may be valued at $700 million.
If Office Depot company does sell its half of Office Depot de Mexico, it would be the second time in recent months that the company has moved to shed its international ventures. In December, the company said it would sell its Hungary business.
Shares of Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) were up 3 cents, or 0.63 percent, to $4.01 in Wednesday afternoon trading. The stock was trading at a volume of 3.7 million shares, down from its three-month average of 9.7 million shares. ODP reached its 52-week high of $6.10 earlier this month after the company announced its merger with OfficeMax (NYSE: OMX).
Shaun Bevan is the digital producer for the South Florida Business Journal. Stay on top of the latest business news with our free daily newsletter. Click here to subscribe.
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Boeing is close to announcing a new aircraft to succeed the 757 jetliner that ceased production almost a decade ago, according to central Asian carrier Air Astana, which is keen to purchase the plane.
The airline's talks with Boeing at the International Air Transport Association annual meeting in Doha earlier this month suggest the model will be built, Air Astana President Peter Foster said this week in an interview in London.
Boeing is gauging the appetite of airlines for a new medium-size jet for transcontinental travel within the United States, executives said at the Singapore Air Show in February. A plane seating 180 people in two classes able to fly as many as 9 hours also would meet requirements from Almaty, Kazakhstan-based Air Astana on so-called long, thin routes, Foster said.
"They made absolutely clear that this is now firming up and that they'll be making an announcement soon," Foster said of the Doha discussions. "That for us is very interesting."
The new aircraft would help fill the gap in Chicago-based Boeing's roster of new jets between the largest 737 Max, set to debut late this decade, and the smallest 787 Dreamliner. Airbus Group has been gaining sales in the transcontinental segment with its long-range A321, and could make further headway if executives move forward with plans to outfit its medium-range A330 with more fuel-efficient engines.
"We continue to watch trends and speak to our customers to determine what the market will require in the years to come," Doug Alder, a Boeing spokesman, said Friday in an email. "Today, we're very focused on our current development programs: the 777X, the 737 Max and the 787-10."
Air Astana, which is 49 percent owned by British defense company BAE Systems, has issued a request for proposals for 11 stopgap jets to replace five 757s and a handful of other aging planes, with Airbus's re-engined A321neo emerging as the best prospect for the niche, Foster said.
Air Astana is seeking deliveries starting in 2017, with the planes on eight-year leases expiring from about the time that a 757 successor would become available in 2024 or 2025, the executive said. Discussions are under way with lessors including AerCap Holdings and Air Lease Corp., and an A321 order probably will be announced as soon as October, he said.
While Boeing delivered the last single-aisle 757 in 2005, the jet remains popular with carriers such as Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. for a range that's unmatched by any narrow- body jet currently manufactured.
Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney said in May that Boeing was contemplating a new aircraft with comparable capabilities, though saw no immediate need to produce the plane.
Boeing's design would meld features from the single-aisle 737 Max, which seats as many as 192 people, and the twin-aisle 787-8, with a capacity for 242 travelers, McNerney said. The planemaker used a similar approach when it developed the 757 jointly with the larger 767 in the 1980s.
Air Astana has just taken delivery of a third Boeing 767 that may be the last passenger variant off the assembly line, according to Foster, a former CEO of Royal Brunei Airlines and senior executive at Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
The Kazakhstan airline also has orders for three 787 Dreamliners for delivery in 2017 and 2019 that will be used on U.S. routes, Foster said.
Founded in 2002 as part of a planned BAE deal to sell radar equipment to the Kazakh government, Air Astana has expanded to offer 60 services, 38 of them international.


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New guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) scrambling to add explanatory information to filing statements, Bloomberg reported on Friday (April 23).
Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp, a SPAC from venture capitalist investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is one of the filings this week that included the new SEC accounting guidance.
Vertiv Holdings, FG New America Acquisition Corp.,Altimar Acquisition Corp. and Mallard Acquisition Corp. all tweaked messaging to include a statement that investors should not rely on previously audited financial statements, Bloomberg reported.
The SEC guidance calls for reclassification of SPAC warrants as liabilities instead of equity. Warrants give investors the opportunity to buy shares at a later date for a specified price. The guidance isn’t law and doesn’t affect operations in and of itself. However, if the guidance does become law, companies will have to restate their financial results to properly account for warrants.
The SEC said at the end of March that a crackdown on SPACs was imminent. SPACs, also called blank-check companies, are structured to offer startups a way to go public with less regulatory oversight than an initial public offering (IPO).
Over 500 pre-deal blank check deals are trading on U.S. exchanges and some 58 companies at a minimum have merged with SPACs. Most have had to take a look at previous financial statements to evaluate if the accounting differences warranted financial restatements.
Matthew Tuttle, chief investment officer of Tuttle Capital Management, told Bloomberg the SEC guidance is a “pain in the butt” but sees it as just a “speed bump.”
“The full intent of the SEC might’ve been to just slow things down a bit,” he said, per the news outlet. Tuttle also runs a SPAC ETF.
The SPAC boom in the first quarter of this year has had $1.3 trillion in deals on the table, more than any other first quarter since 1980. In the first three months of this year, SPACs notched over $83.4 billion more than in all of 2020.
On Tuesday (April 20), London hedge fund Marshall Wace warned investors that SPACs could end up delivering less-than-optimal returns. Of the blank check firms that started trading in March, 14 of the 15 closed $10 below IPO prices.
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Brett Gardner’s Absence Has Hurt the Yankees
By Matt Hunter
Brett Gardner is one of the best players on the New York Yankees. In fact, I would argue that he is the second best position player on the Yanks, behind only Robinson Cano. He is better than Alex Rodriguez. He is better than Derek Jeter. He is better than Nick Swisher and Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson. Before the year started, if I could pick one batter whose absence would hurt the Yankees the most if injured – other than Cano – I would pick Gardner. Surprised? Think I’m crazy? I’m not. Brett Gardner’s absence from the Yankees this season has hurt the team more than most people know, and is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, reasons for their struggles right now.
Between 2010 and 2011, Brett Gardner was worth about 11.3 wins more than a replacement level player (according to FanGraphs). That’s 13th among all major league batters.
13th. As in, there were only 12 position players that were more valuable than Brett Gardner during that time. He was more valuable than Dustin Pedroia, Carlos Gonzalez, Granderson, Ryan Zimmerman, Justin Upton, Matt Kemp, and the list goes on.
How has he been so valuable yet flown so under the radar? Well, two of the things he does best are not exactly the most appreciated skills among mainstream fans and writers; he gets on base and he plays excellent defense.
Brett Gardner is sorely missed by the Yankees, especially right now. (Image: Joy R. Absalon-US PRESSWIRE)
The first of those skills is especially under-appreciated in Gardner’s case because he gets on base via the walk rather than the hit. While he only had a .267 batting average between 2011 and 2012, he had a .364 on-base percentage. This isn’t elite by any means, but it’s enough that his truly elite speed can be put to good use. Gardner stole an average of 48 bases during that time frame, which essentially turned 48 singles into doubles. For a guy with Gardner’s speed, getting on base is everything, and though he doesn’t get a lot of hits, he has the patience to get on base through other means.
Of course, what separates Gardner from the field is his absolutely spectacular defense. Between ’10 and ’11, Gardner had an unbelievable 50.7 UZR. This means that Gardner saved just over 25 runs per season more than the average left fielder, which translates to about 2.5 wins. Yes, in each of the 2010 and 2011 seasons, the Yankees won about two and a half games more than they would have with an average fielding left fielder. That’s pretty remarkable.
Unfortunately, Brett Gardner was not able to bring this electric speed and defense to the Yankees this year after what seemed at the time like a minor elbow injury that just never went away. While this was disappointing to many fans, Gardner’s absence has probably not received as much attention as an injury to someone like Teixeira, A-Rod, or Jeter would. But it should have. If Gardner had been playing this whole time, the Yankees would probably be a solid 5 or 6 games ahead.
If you don’t believe me, consider the value that the Yankees have gotten from their left fielders this year, and how much more value they would have gotten from Gardner. Unfortunately, the former information isn’t easy to get, but I can estimate. The main left-fielders for the Yankees have been Raul Ibanez, Andruw Jones, and Ichiro Suzuki. Ibanez has played about half of his time in left field, meaning he has added, generously, about 0.3 wins as a left fielder. Jones has also played about half his time in left field, so let’s add, again generously, about 0.4 wins. Ichiro again has played half in left field, but has added basically no value to the team regardless of position. However, let’s add 0.1 WAR for him, and 0.2 WAR for the various other pieces that have manned the position for the Yankees this season.
Overall, that takes us to 1 WAR for Yankees left fielders this season, and again I’m being generous. Really, these guys are all pretty close to replacement level players already, and are being paid as such. But what about Gardner? How much more would he have been worth?
Well, using that same time frame between 2011 and 2012, Gardner was worth an average of 5.6 WAR. Of course, his UZR during that time was so ridiculous that we have to regress it a little bit towards the mean. His offensive capability is also probably closer to 2011 than 2012. All in all, I think it would be fair to project a minimum of 4.0 WAR for Gardner if he had played this year, but probably more than that.
Spectacular fielding sets Gardner apart from his peers. (Image: Joe Nicholson-US PRESSWIRE)
That means that if Gardner had played this year instead of Ibanez/Jones/Ichiro, the Yankees probably would have won a minimum of three more games, which would give them a solid four-game lead over the Baltimore Orioles instead of a meager one-game lead. And that’s taking the most conservative stance possible. More likely is that Gardner would have added closer to five wins, and possibly six, putting the Yankees ahead of the Orioles by a large 6 or 7 game margin.
That isn’t all. With Gardner in left, the Yankees would have had much more flexibility in the field. They probably could have rested the regulars more often, possibly prevented injuries in the home stretch, like those to A-Rod and Teixeira. Similarly, if they had a big lead in September, they would have more freedom to rest the team for the playoffs without the Orioles and Rays breathing down their backs.
Brett Gardner is one of the most underrated players in the game, especially considering the fact that he plays in the spotlight of New York. His injury this year has been absolutely devastating, and could cost the Yankees the season if the last few weeks don’t turn out well. He’s one of the few players on the Yanks that is young, cost-controlled, and extremely valuable. The Yankees need him back.
Stats courtesy of Fangraphs.com.

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Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro 5G review: Flagship specs at a good price, but plenty of missing features Review
The Mi 10T Pro 5G is the latest high-end handset from Xiaomi. It’s an impressive 5G phone with some attractive features, including a 144Hz display, very good performance, a strong reading mode and super-fast charging of its 5,000mAh battery, alongside a competitive price of €599 (UK price TBA).
This is a big phone, with a 6.67-inch display sitting in a body that measures 165.1mm tall and 76.4mm wide. It is 9.33mm thick and weighs 218g. I found it tricky to manage one-handed, because of its size and also because of the shiny, slippery back of my Cosmic Black review unit. This is super-reflective, and seems to absorb rather than reflect light. To its credit the back resisted fingerprints very well. Don’t even think of resting it on your sofa arm, though: in my experience, its favourite pastime in that location was to fall to the floor. There are also Lunar Silver and Aurora Blue variants.
The other really notable point about the chassis is the significantly raised lozenge that houses the rear cameras. This sits over to the left side, which means that the handset bobbles about on a surface when the screen is tapped. This is frustrating: such a severely protruding backplate is better located centrally from the standpoint of desk-based use.
The Mi 10T Pro 5G uses Gorilla Glass 5 front and back, and the frame is aluminium so there’s plenty of built-in protection. However, there’s no formal IP rating, which might deter some users.
There’s a single speaker at the bottom, with a second one above the screen doing double-duty with its in-call speaker role. Between them they deliver relatively rich sound for a handset, and while the quality is, as usual, lacking in bass tones, there’s minimal distortion at top volume.
The bottom edge also houses the USB-C port and the SIM slot, which caters for two SIMs. The power button on the right edge incorporates a fingerprint reader, which, while not as upmarket as an in-screen sensor, works just fine. The volume rocker sits just above the power button and has a firm, slightly clicky, action. It feels well made, adding to the overall sense of quality in this mid-priced phone.
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The left edge is clear of any buttons or connectors, while the top has an IR blaster, which works in conjunction with the preinstalled Mi Remote app to manage devices with IR remote controls. This comes pre-populated with data for a huge range of brands, some of which will be completely useless to a UK audience, but you’ll find the UK high-street brands here too. Adding a remote via Mi Remote is a straightforward process.
The 6.67-inch screen has minimal side bezels and a very small upper bezel, but a noticeable bottom bezel of around 4mm. This results in a screen-to-body ratio of 85.1%. There’s a punch-hole in the upper left corner of the screen for the selfie camera that’s about as minimal as possible. The 2,400-by-1,080 pixel screen is IPS LCD rather than AMOLED, so it lacks some vibrancy, but brightness goes to a maximum of 650 nits. You can pick a colour scheme selecting between presets of Auto, Saturated or Original Colour, or make advanced settings for yourself; you can also fiddle with the colour temperature, opting for Default, Warm, Cool or Custom.
There’s also a reading mode, which regular readers of my reviews will know is something I look for on a handset, as I regularly use my phone to read ebooks. In this case there are two options: Classic, which reduces blue light; and Paper, which can itself be set to either present a black-and-white mode or ‘light colours’ — a somewhat washed-out mode which is rather good to use. For fun you can set a screen texture that adds a sort of stippled, paper-like background effect, whose degree you can set with a slider. The options are fine as far as they go, but it doesn’t seem to be possible to have a preset so that a reading mode kicks in when a particular app is launched. Unless I am missing something, this is a bit of an own-goal: OnePlus has offered reading-mode presets on its handsets for several years, for example.
One of the standout features of the Mi 10T Pro is the screen’s 144Hz refresh rate, which beats all-comers for the moment. You can switch between 144Hz, 90Hz and 60Hz manually in Settings, and the handset employs Smart AdaptiveSync, which will switch the refresh rate automatically depending on what you’re doing. So, for example, gaming can get the full 144Hz experience, but streaming video might not go above 60Hz. I left the higher rate enabled during testing and, not surprisingly, found the screen to be a fast responder, scrolling through content and screens of web pages very smoothly.
The Settings screen is clear that lower refresh rates are less power hungry, but leaving the higher setting on still delivered pretty good battery test results. The 5,000mAh battery kept the handset going for an impressive 22 hours and 2 minutes under the PCMark for Android Work 2.0 battery life test, and when I asked it to play YouTube video full-screen for three hours without a break it lost just 12% from a full charge.
The battery benefits from fast charging too, thanks to 33W wired charging in combination with ‘parallel’ charging’, which is something we are going to see more of. Basically the battery charges in two ‘tracks’ simultaneously, so that it can fill more quickly. Xiaomi quotes an hour for a full charge to 100% which seemed a fair estimate in my experience. There’s no wireless charging.
The Mi 10T Pro runs Android 10, putting it just behind the Android curve — although Android 11 is barely in the wild at the time of writing. Android is augmented with Xiaomi’s MIUI 12 overlay, which adds settings and other tweaks, including a new Control Centre which, if enabled in Settings, will appear when you swipe downwards on the right side of the screen, delivering shortcuts to a range of basic system settings. Swiping downwards on the left edge brings up notifications.
There is 128GB of storage, of which 14.8GB is used out of the box, leaving 109.6GB free. You can’t expand on this with MicroSD.
The Mi 10T Pro runs on Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 865 chipset with 8GB of RAM, and it turned in predictably strong Geekbench 5 CPU benchmarks: 913 (single core) and 3395 (multi core). I last saw multi core scores over 3000 from the £1,099 Sony Xperia 1 II (3362), £569 Realme X50 Pro 5G (3235) and £799 OnePlus 8 Pro (3375) (prices are for comparable RAM/storage configurations).
The main camera at the back has a 108MP sensor and a wide-angle f/1.69 lens. There is also a 13MP ultra-wide angle f/2.4 camera with a 123° field of view and a 5MP f2/4 macro camera with autofocus. The in-screen selfie camera is a 20MP f/2.2 unit. I found the main and macro cameras the most rewarding. You can use up to 30x digital zoom with the main camera, but even at 5x zoom images are somewhat grainy. If you like this phone, don’t need the 144Hz screen refresh, but want better zoom features, check out the similar Mi 10 Pro model, which has 108MP wide-angle, 12MP telephoto (2x optical zoom), 8MP telephoto (10x hybrid zoom) and 20MP ultra wide-angle cameras.
Xiaomi’s Mi 10T Pro 5G is yet another handset that proves you don’t have to pay premium prices to get top-end features. The screen’s 144Hz refresh rate is the headline feature, but there are other plus points, including a top-end chipset, a 108MP main camera, good battery life, a well-made chassis, good audio, and a MIUI 12 overlay that offers plenty of opportunities to tweak and personalise without being too pushy.
There’s stiff competition around this mid-range price point, though, and if you have an interest in Xiaomi handsets you might be advised to see what the upcoming Mi Note 11 brings to the table. The Mi Note 10 I reviewed at the tail end of last year certainly suggests that the next version should be worth waiting for.
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Who had Frosty the Snowman played by Jason Momoa on their 2020 bingo card? The Game of Thrones and Aquaman hunk has boarded Warner Bros.’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the children’s
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Frosty the Snowman has been a great song for decades now and one that you’re bound to hear dozens of times in a week if not more from kids as they anticipate the coming of Christmas in so many Jul 01, 2020 · In a strange bit of casting news, Deadline is reporting that Jason Momoa will tackle his coolest role to date, Frosty The Snowman. The Aquaman actor will voice the iconic animated character in a Jul 01, 2020 · If you’ve ever wanted to hear Frosty the Snowman growl the words “My man!” boy, are you in luck.. In news that we can safely say nobody saw coming, Jason Momoa will voice the classic holiday