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Over the past decades, due to a high number of cancer survivors, the demands for fertility preservation have been raised dramatically, and this might come from recent progress in the cancer prognosis and diagnosis procedures. For those who are involved in cancer diseases, there are multiple options regarding their fertility preservation which can be selected based on patient’s age, the risk of gonadal involvement, the time available and the type of cancer with different advantages and disadvantages. Among all possible options, embryo cryopreservation for females and semen freezing for males are the most applicable method, however other options such as gonadal tissue cryopreservation, and oocyte cryopreservation are other promising options which would be considered if the partner was not available. As conclusion, this is noteworthy that women with cancer must benefit from adequate consultations regarding their possible fertility preservation options and immediate correct consultations definitely can help families to make their mind to choose best available options.
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Orange juice. There is perhaps not a single culture in the world that does not know orange juice. On restaurant and hotel breakfast menus, the words “fresh orange juice,” three simple words, call to mind quality, purity and pleasure. Juice is to breakfast what a good pillow is to a restful night; it cradles and restores.
Carrot juice. Ha! yes, an acquired taste I suppose, but consider this: If you eat one carrot, your body will absorb approximately 1% of its beta-carotene content. Drink it, thanks to the marvelous invention known as an electric juicer, and you are now pouring into your temple nearly 100% of the beta-carotene. How is that possible? That is because by removing the pulp, a juicer in effect removes the indigestible fiber that slows digestion, so your digestive system can focus entirely on the nutrients in the juice. According to the Department of Agriculture, 90 percent of the antioxidant in fruit is in the juice.
Notice that “indigestible” does not mean “bad.” In fact, these fibers are an essential part of nutrition. They help regulate sugar, for example, but juicing, in addition to eating whole, raw fruits and vegetables, provides a nutritional advantage. One cup of carrot juice is equivalent to four raw carrots.
Nutritionists implore, “Eat a variety of foods for good health.” We often forget that variety also applies to format. Shredded carrot on a salad adds color for visual pleasure and flavor for eating enjoyment. A carrot juice offers an entirely different experience. The same is true of any number of fruit or vegetable you might fancy.
Note that, due to pasteurization, most commercial juices do not actually provide the nutritional benefits of freshly extracted juice. Manufacturers re-introduce some vitamins artificially in order to enhance the nutritional value. That fresh carrot juice is sounding more appealing by the minute, isn’t it?
Who figured this out initially? Who was the first human to drink the juices from a fruit and to notice the immediate sensation of vigor? Think back several centuries, way back to some time between 150 B.C. and 70 A.D. This is the period historians and archaeologists attribute to the writing of what we commonly refer to as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Apparently, this is the oldest document we know at this time to include reference to the practice of extracting juice from fruit and possible from vegetables as well. Indeed, the document describes how an ancient Israel desert tribe, the Essenes, pounded pomegranates and figs into a mash. They believed that consuming the juices to provide strength.
Today’s mainstream agriculture favors producing a finite number of consistently reliable and profitable crops over the variety grown by farmers of centuries past. Add to this the depleted quality of soil, again due to practices, and the conventional harvest simply does not supply the full array of vitamins and minerals available to earlier generations. We may transform produce into hundreds of new expressions, each with its own label and packaging, but this does not constitute pure variety. In fact, it is estimated that the average American actually consumes less than 20 types of foods.
Enter Raw-foodist emeritus number one, Dr. Normal Walker, born in England in 1886, inventor of the first juice extractor. As a young man, Walker developed an illness that caused him to feel exhausted. Already a proponent of the health benefits of proper diet, he adopted a life-long habit of eating mainly what he called “living foods.” Upon recovering, he dedicated his life to the study of nutrition and authored several books on healthy living.
In 1910, he established the Norwalk Laboratory of Nutritional Chemistry and Scientific Research in New York, where he studied the therapeutic value of fresh juices. In 1930, he developed the first Triturator Juicer. This specific type of juicer relies on the action of twin gears that crush the fruits and vegetables. A hydraulic or vise-press component then extracts the juice from the pulp. A Cider Press is a type of Triturator Juicer.
There are two other types of juicers. First, the centrifugal juicer. A very high-speed revolving motion forces the fruit or vegetable that is inserted in the device against a cutting disk or against the walls of a grating basket. This breaks down the fiber and separates it from the juice. The third type is a masticating juicer. The Squeezo Strainer and wheatgrass juicers are masticating juicers. they use a revolving screw-shaped scroll to chew the fiber by forcing it against a sieve or against the walls of a funnel-shaped sleeve.
How does that carrot juice sound now that we have covered history and a few technicalities? I thought so. I could use some refreshment myself.
The Best Carrot Juice You Will Ever Taste (or Carrot Etcetera or V-8, only better!)
2 1/2 lbs carrots
1 beet, including greens
1 Granny Smith or other sour apple
1 stalk celery
1 generous handful parsley
1 generous handful spinach
1 green pepper
1 slice ginger
Wash and cut produce into pieces of the proper size for processing with your juicer. Begin processing carrots and other produce alternately so that you are using carrots to push leafy and softer fiber into the juicer. This recipe makes about a quart.
Reserve the pulp for use in recipes. Read The Many Uses for Juicer Pulp & a Seinfeld Clip for suggestions.
Also Read: Random Eats & Sweets – Recipe # 32 & Recipe # 45

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After a hopefully refreshing and enriching bye week, the Miami Dolphins are set to square off against the Buffalo Bills in Week 7. The Bills' trip to Miami marks the Fins' first divisional game of the season, and it's beginning to look like a must-win.
The Dolphins skidded into the bye week on a two-game losing streak after winning their first three. Battered, beaten and dejected, Miami entered its off week with a stormy cloud over its head, accompanied by doubt from disappointed fans.
Miami must come out and beat Buffalo to regain its momentum. The Dolphins are still (in this writer's opinion) capable of being a good team this year that finds their way into the playoffs. However, a loss to a wounded Buffalo team that's missing its starting quarterback would send Miami crashing down to Earth and lead us to question the makeup of this team.
On paper, the Dolphins appear to be the superior squad. To prove that they are, they'll have to win three crucial matchups on Sunday.
Jonathan Martin, LT vs. Mario Williams, DE
Whoever wins this matchup stands a good chance of winning the game. Scoff at first, but consider the Dolphins' protection woes after five games. They've allowed 24 sacks, which puts them at third most in the league. There's a good chance they'd still be leading that category had they played last weekend.
Meanwhile, Mario Williams is third in the league with eight sacks so far. Jonathan Martin alone has allowed six sacks. When Martin took over at left tackle following Jake Long's injury last year, the young tackle struggled against talented pass-rushers.
Williams holds a plus-1.5 pass-rush grade from Pro Football Focus (subscription required). Meanwhile, Martin holds a plus-2.8 pass-block grade, despite his six sacks.
Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill has looked like an improved and mature player this year, but the offensive line hasn't done him any favors. While not every hit he's taken has been on the line, the majority have been.
It's a problem when the guy whom a franchise is banking for the next decade is getting clobbered all game.
The Bills haven't been great against the pass this year, either. At 22nd in the league, they've given up 270.8 yards per game.
Tannehill is averaging just over that (276) per game. However, it hasn't always been enough to win, as shown by the Fins' last two games. In both those games, pressure was an issue.
Look no further than Miami's final drive against the Baltimore Ravens. Tannehill and company nearly mounted their second game-winning drive this year, but a sack on the final series pushed back Caleb Sturgis' field-goal attempt. The rookie missed his first kick as the Dolphins sunk.
With a pass-rush threat like Williams on the opposing side, it's easy to envision a similarly disastrous outcome this week if Miami isn't careful. If the Dolphins can't keep Williams out of the backfield and off Tannehill, they could find themselves on the wrong side of an upset.
Paul Soliai, DT vs. C.J. Spiller, RB and Fred Jackson, RB
The Bills come into Sunday's contest sporting the league's third-best running game. Running backs C.J. Spiller and Fred Jackson and quarterback E.J. Manuel average a combined 148.8 yards per game on the ground.
What has been a three-headed attack is now reduced to just two, but the remaining duo can still do plenty of damage.
Spiller leads the two in yards with 351, but Jackson's right behind him with 344. Jackson also has a better average per carry (4.6 to 4.2) and more touchdowns (four to one) than Spiller. Both backs have strong numbers all around, which makes the task of focusing on one nearly impossible.
The onus lies with Miami's entire front seven to slow Buffalo's running attack, but one player in particular will dictate how well the team does.
Paul Soliai is the Dolphins' 344-lb. road block in the middle of the field. He holds a plus-6.8 run-defense grade from Pro Football Focus, which is the highest on the team by far.
The Dolphins have been good against the run for most of the season (certainly not great, though), but they've allowed runners like Jacquizz Rodgers and Ray Rice to gouge them for big days. With their starting quarterback out, the Bills will likely lean on their running game to establish an offensive rhythm.
If Miami can stop Buffalo's ground attack, it stands a greater chance at pulverizing an already weakened pass game.
Lamar Miller, RB Vs. Kyle Williams, DT
The running game will be equally important for Miami on Sunday. While Buffalo doesn't have a smothering secondary (22nd in the NFL), Miami will need to establish a ground attack anyway.
This matchup is somewhat unique in that it isn't as crucial to the outcome as the others are. Miami has the potential to win this game through the air. However, the Dolphins' running game has oscillated between barely effective and nonexistent through five games.
In Week 7, Miami must come out and set the tone for its ground game for the rest of the season.
The Dolphins are starved for offensive balance. A respectable running game could take pressure off Tannehill while keeping the Dolphins multidimensional.
That starts with Lamar Miller. The second-year player still shares carries with Daniel Thomas, but you get the sense that he's only one big game away from establishing himself as the feature back.
A lot of that stems from offensive coordinator Mike Sherman's inability to stick to the running game. That must change in Week 7. However, that doesn't mean it will be easy. While Buffalo ranks 28th in run defense, it has a potent run defender in Kyle Williams.
The big man has a plus-7.4 run-defense grade from Pro Football Focus. PFF also has him down as recording 12 tackles and 14 stops that constitute an offensive failure. Simply put, teams don't have much success running the ball directly at Williams.
The Dolphins will want to get a push up front to keep him away from Miller as much as possible, although the runner will have to do his part as well to find open lanes and avoid blown plays.
If Miami can establish a threatening ground game against Buffalo, the offense could start to click more consistently.

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As Variety writes, nothing can stop Chita Rivera! That was the message of the evening at Monday’s Roundabout Theatre Company Gala, which carried the moniker, “Paint the Town.” The celebration, held at New York City’s famous Ziegfeld Ballroom, celebrated three-time Tony recipient Chita Rivera. Following opening remarks by Danny Burstein, artistic director and CEO of Roundabout Theater Todd Haimes took the stage and joked about the “rough two years” everyone has been through – especially when it comes to theater. With that, he passed the mic to a video message from Lin Manuel Miranda, who went on to introduce Helen Mirren. Fresh off her SAG honor, Mirren was eager to present The Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre. The complete article on the evening can be read over at Variety. Pictures from the event have been added to the photo gallery.
Photo Gallery – Public Appearaces – 2022 – Roundabout Theatre Gala Honoring Chita Rivera

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Zydus files IND application for dyslipidemia compound
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Zydus Cadilahas filed an IND for a lipid lowering molecule with the Drugs Controller General of India. The company claims that the new compound, ZYT1, may provide an alternative to statins or be an add-on to statin therapy. In preclinical studies, ZYT1 has shown a beneficial effect on LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides, compared with the effects seen with statins. When combined with statins, ZYT1 has shown a "pronounced effect" in lowering LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides and has a very high margin of safety, Zydus said. The company now has six compounds in various stages of clinical development, with two candidates in advanced Phase II. The company's R&D is focused on the metabolic, cardiovascular and inflammation segments.

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AYALA-LED AC Energy Philippines, Inc. ended the year on a high note amid the sustained positive investor sentiments and following the company’s infusion of capital in its subsidiary to acquire potential project sites.
AYALA-led AC Energy Philippines, Inc. has subscribed to the shares of Buendia Christiana Holdings, Corp. (BCHC) worth P350 million, which the subsidiary will use to acquire potential project sites.
AYALA-led AC Energy Philippines, Inc. (ACEN) has approved a total of P10.81 billion in funding for a solar energy project and a wind farm, the firm told the local bourse on Thursday.
AC Energy Philippines, Inc. said on Friday that it had received confirmation from the securities regulator that the Ayala Corp. unit’s proposed stock rights offering is exempt from the registration requirement of the securities code.
FINANCIERS of renewables are able to limit their financial risks, because they can invest in smaller amounts on those projects, the head of one of the fastest growing Philippine energy companies said on Monday.
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. plans to sell its investments in coal-fired power plant projects in Bataan and Lanao del Norte in line with its goal to generate more than half of its energy output from renewables by 2025.
AYALA-LED AC Energy Philippines, Inc. will need up to $2 billion to exceed its 2025 target 5-gigawatt of installed energy capacity, which will also see the completion of its corporate transformation and restructuring, its top official said on Thursday.
AC ENERGY, Inc. has called on investors on Wednesday to tap into the Ayala-led company’s senior green bonds under its recently upsized $2-billion medium-term note program.
THE board of AC Energy Philippines, Inc. has approved the proposal of Singapore-based GIC Private Limited’s affilate Arran Investment Pte Ltd. to invest around P20 billion in the Ayala-led company for a 17.5% ownership stake, it disclosed on Thursday.
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. and its partner are expanding their network in India with another solar farm in the pipeline.
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. and its partner in Australia have tapped a Spanish-listed contractor to build their large-scale renewables project.
AN affiliate of Ayala Corp. sold its material stake in an Australian energy firm, which might be delisted from the stock market soon.
AYALA-LED AC Energy Philippines, Inc. (ACEPH) is set to partner with the Philippine energy unit of Japan-based Marubeni Corp. to build a diesel-fired plant in Rizal.
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. is building what is touted to be the largest wind farm in Vietnam, raising its overall renewables capacity to 1,200 megawatts (MW).
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. over the weekend submitted its environmental management plan to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), listing its actions in addressing the impact of the oil spill that happened in Iloilo City earlier in the month.
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. (AC Energy) upsized its senior green bonds offering under its $1-billion medium-term note program by $60 million, expecting it to boost its clean energy investments amid a grueling business environment.
AN AFFILIATE of Ayala-led AC Energy, Inc. and Spanish distribution utility Iberdrola, S.A. are now in a bidding war to take over an Australian energy company after both firms have raised their offer prices.
AN affiliate company of AC Energy, Inc. has raised its stake in an Australia-listed energy firm, which it is planning to take over.
A COMPANY controlled by AC Energy, Inc. has offered A$777 million to take over an Australia-listed renewable energy firm in a deal that could further boost the Ayala group’s clean energy capacity.
THE Asian unit of global investment firm ThomasLloyd Group has bought P2.78 billion shares of a subsidiary owned by Ayala-led AC Energy Philippines, Inc.
THE Philippine unit of Ayala-led AC Energy, Inc. saw its attributable income in the first quarter went up to P306.94 million, compared to a loss of P145.27 million in the same quarter in 2019, on the back of after-tax income growth with a spike in electricity sales revenue.
AYALA’S energy arm on Wednesday said it had raised over P64 million to provide assistance to health workers, as well as communities and its own employees who were affected by the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
AC Energy, Inc. and its partner The Blue Circle Pte. Ltd. have ordered eight of the new 5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines from a unit of General Electric Co. (GE) to power the second phase of the firms’ $80-million wind farm in Vietnam.
AYALA-LED AC Energy Philippines, Inc. (ACEPH) on Tuesday announced that it has finished its purchase of controlling stakes in two Negros Occidental solar farms within its target date.
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. said on Monday that its “attributable” capacity in both operating and under-construction power plant projects had jumped past 1.8 gigawatts (GW) in 2019, reaching more than a third of its target in the next five years.
AC Energy Philippines, Inc. is subscribing to the shares of Giga Ace 1, Inc. to allow the subsidiary to fund its acquisition of the ownership interest of an equity fund in a wind farm in Ilocos Norte.
AYALA-LED AC Energy Philippines, Inc. said on Wednesday that it had received the decision of the antitrust watchdog clearing its acquisition of the shares of a company with an energy project in Ilocos Norte.
AC Energy Philippines, Inc. is investing up to P1.86 billion in a company that is developing a 120-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Laguna, the Ayalas’ energy arm in the country told the stock exchange on Tuesday.
AC Energy Philippines, Inc. targets to build around 1,300 megawatts (MW) of power generation plants by end-2020, or about three times the size of the company’s installed capacity before the Ayalas’ energy arm bought the former Phinma Energy Corp. last year.
AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. has valued its senior perpetual fixed-for-life green bond issuance at $400 million with a fixed coupon of 5.65% with no step-up and no reset, its listed unit said on Wednesday.
AC Energy, Inc. has named the financial institutions that will be involved in its proposed three-year green notes offering, which is subject to market conditions, its parent company Ayala Corp. said on Monday.
AC ENERGY Philippines, Inc. is buying the stake of an equity investment fund in their 81-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, the listed company told the stock exchange on Monday.
AC Energy, Inc. has signed a shareholders’ agreement with its Vietnamese partner in wind energy development, initially committing to build 40 megawatts (MW) at a cost of around $92 million for completion in the first half of 2020 its parent firm said on Monday.
AC ENERGY, Inc. targets to launch in the next two months the mandatory tender offer to the minority shareholders of Phinma Energy Corp. to complete its acquisition of the company, its top official said.
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Nintendo is hoping that the launch of Super Mario 3D Land will cause popularity of the Nintendo 3DS to become “explosively widespread”.
Furthermore, Iwata says that he hopes that the game’s success will dispel reports suggesting that the era of game-dedicated devices such as the 3DS and upcoming PlayStation Vita is coming to an end.
“After the launch of “Super Mario 3D Land,” we would like the Nintendo 3DS to become explosively widespread and sweep away some reports that game-dedicated devices are coming to an end,” said Iwata speaking to investors this week.
Super Mario 3D Land is hitting all regions this month but will be on UK shelves on November 18.
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Opposition boycotts Lok Sabha over Centre’s refusal to withdraw farm bills
New Delhi, Sep 22: Opposition parties led by Congress boycott the remaining sittings of the monsoon session of Parliament, protesting against the manner in which two agri marketing Bills were passed in the Rajya Sabha.
Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said all opposition parties are boycotting Parliament in solidarity with the Rajya Sabha members who were suspended on Monday.
"You have compelled us to do so," he said.
Opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, BSP and TRS, walked out of the Lok Sabha.
Chowdhury did not specify for how long the boycott would continue.
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The OneWheel Plus XR, the latest electric ridable device from Californian company Future Motion, looks a bit like an electric skateboard, but has just one large rubber wheel in the middle. It was on display this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This version has a range of 12 to 18 miles on a full charge. The original idea behind the device was to bring the feeling of snowboarding to the streets. The $1,799 device will be available for order worldwide this year.
The parenting website BabyCenter published its list of most popular baby names for 2017. Many of the top names from 2016 have returned to the list. See if your baby's (or future baby's) name cracked the top 5.
Matthew McConaughey was in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, on Saturday, November 4, to help the Wild Turkey Distillery dish out 4,500 frozen turkeys to local families. McConaughey, who turned 48 on November 4, helped distribute the turkeys, which were donated by Butterball, along with 250 other volunteers, according to local media. This video of McConaughey, who is the distiller’s acting creative director, giving one resident a frozen turkey was shared by Yelp Lexington.
The Walden Grove High School PAC dance team performed a Wizard of Oz routine with current music mixed in at the school's homecoming assembly in Sahuarita, Arizona. A video of the performance posted to YouTube on Sept. 29 has been viewed more than 1.2 million times.
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talkSPORT host Andy Jacobs has slated ‘clueless’ Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri in his latest scathing rant, branding his tactics: ‘the definition of madness’.
The Blues fan was spitting feathers again on air after watching his beloved side suffer an embarrassing 4-0 defeat to Bournemouth.
It was the club’s heaviest Premier League loss since 1996, and Sarri was so annoyed with his players that he locked them in the dressing room for an hour-long inquest after the final whistle.
Jacobs has already laid into the Italian coach this season, branding him ‘absolutely hopeless’ and accusing him of ‘wasting players’ following their London derby defeat to Arsenal earlier in January.
But Wednesday night’s drubbing at the Vitality Stadium appears to be the last straw for the Hawksbee and Jacobs host, who said Sam Allardyce and Dave Bassett could get more out of this group of players.
He also slammed the manager’s predictable tactics as well as the role he gives fellow Italian Jorginho, who he also wasn’t very complementary about, and said Chelsea won’t finish in the top-four with Sarri in charge.
“The fans are very unhappy and I’m very unhappy – it’s an unacceptable result,” said the talkSPORT host.
“We lost 3-0 to Bournemouth last year, so we’re going backwards in that sense. Bournemouth of course are on a fine run of form, they’ve only lost the last 11 out of 14!
“They had nothing to beat. Chelsea have got one plan and every single team that play Chelsea either work it out at the start or by half-time – that if you mark Jorginho, that’s the end of Chelsea’s game plan.
“Gemma Collins is more mobile than Jorginho – she’d do a better job!”
Andy was of course cheekily referencing the reality TV star’s Dancing on Ice face-plant last weekend, which went viral online. Just in case you haven’t seen it…
“Sarri fascinates me,” he continued.
“It’s the definition of madness to keep doing the same thing that is utterly not working and expect it to produce different results. It’s crazy, it’s never going to happen.
“I reckon Sam Allardyce would get more out of these players than Maurizio Sarri.
“But then I think Dave Bassett or even me would get more out of them.
“They’re not going to finish in the top four with this bloke.
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“I just don’t think he’s got a clue. He said yesterday, ‘I didn’t see the signal of my work’. Neither did anyone else! We haven’t for weeks! He admits he may not be up to the job – you clearly aren’t!
“Last night they were playing against a packed defence and he had the most negative midfield. Kante is a wonderful player, but he is not better than Loftus-Cheek or Barkley in that position, he just isn’t.
“I don’t really know what Kovacic does. He’s alright box-to-box but as soon as he gets near the area he’s absolutely hopeless.
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“I wouldn’t have started with Higuain last night. Why put a lot of pressure on this player?
“Giroud is playing well and Hazard likes playing with him, so have Higuain on the bench, get in front and then bring him on, ease him in. Why put all the pressure on Higuain straight away?
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Major weather events can shock an ecosystem, but they are also part of Earth’s natural cycle, and many species are adept at recovering from an environmental shake up.
Scientists now say that if fish larvae were lost, they could just sniff their way back home, following the smell of the coral reefs.
A new report published in Nature Climate Change indicates that the impacts of more acidic oceans will vary from one species to the next.
A new computer simulation conducted at the University of Bristol (UB) and University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has revealed the epic, ocean-spanning journeys traveled by millimetre-sized coral larvae through the world's seas.
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Corals can survive the early stages of their development even under the tough conditions that rising carbon emissions will impose on them says a new study from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
Starfish have a feeding method that is unlike any other. To eat, the echinoderm ejects its stomach from its own body -- placing it over the digestible parts of its prey, typically a mussel or clam.
The crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a species of starfish that is classified within the Acanthasteridae family. This species has a large range that extends from the Red Sea to the African coasts in the east and from the Indian Ocean to the western coasts of Central America. It prefers a habitat in coral reefs, which can be harmed if population numbers are too high. Damage occurs when filamentous algae covers bare skeletons of coral and the starfish move in to feed, stripping...
Coral reefs are submerged structures consisting of calcium carbonate secreted by corals. Coral reefs are colonies of small animals found in marine waters that enclose few nutrients. The majority of coral reefs are constructed from stony corals, which then consist of polyps that come together in groups. The polyps are like small sea anemones, to which they are very closely related. Unlike the sea anemones, coral polyps secrete hard carbonate exoskeletons which provide support and protections...
Knotted Fan Coral, (Melithaea ochracea), is a species of colonial soft coral that is found in tree-like fans on shallow reefs in the South China Sea between Taiwan and Indonesia, including Singapore and Malaysia. In Taiwan, it is the most widespread coral in its family Gorgonacea. It is found on the higher parts of reef fronts where its numerous small polyps can feed at water flow rates varying from 1.6 to 16 inches per second. This species usually grow to about 8 inches in length, with...
Leaf Plate Montipora, (Montipora capricornis), also known as Vase Coral, Cap Coral, or simply Montipora, is a species of stony coral found in the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is also found in reefs in the Red Sea. It usually inhabits the top half of the reef where photosynthesis can occur. It branches out from the foundation into an area with adequate sunlight. This species forms flat, plating colonies. The colonies expand by adding to their foundations and further spreading out....
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Video: Storm the size of Kansas forms in minutesMay 18, 2017 Updated: May 18, 2017 3:01pm
One of the newest satellites available to the NOAA captured an incredible time-lapse video of storms bombarding the Central U.S. last night.
The Associated Press reported storms hit Wisconsin and Oklahoma, killing two people and injuring dozens more. According to the National Weather Service, two supercells formed in the Texas Panhandle Tuesday and then moved into Oklahoma.
From orbit, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 or GOES-16 recorded those storms with its infrared instruments.
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The burger: When the new Saints ballpark opens across Broadway Street from his Heartland Restaurant & Farm Direct Market in 2015, chef Lenny Russo is going be ready. Burger-wise, anyway.
Russo didn’t serve a burger at the original Mac-Groveland incarnation of his local-local-local restaurant. “We couldn’t bring in the whole animal – because we didn’t have the room – consequently, we didn’t have the byproduct,” he said. Translation: Heartland 1.0 lacked have the physcial resources to deal with the hefty shoulder clods that Russo prefers to funnel into his burger.
That all changed when the restaurant relocated to spacious new Lowertown digs in 2011. The trade-up afforded Russo all kinds of fun-and-games opportunities.
Including a burger, ground fresh from that muscular shoulder meat. It's sourced from seemingly every top-flight restaurant’s go-to heritage breed grass-fed beef supplier, and a familiar name to Burger Friday readers (I swear, there's no kickback involved). Yes, I'm talking about Peterson Limousin Farms in Osceola, Wis. Or, in Russo-speak, “Andy and Wayne Peterson,” a knee-jerk familiarity that's natural to this most farm-focused of chefs.
Once again, the Petersons' product is of such superior quality that it requires almost nothing to catapult it into hamburger fabulousness. Sometimes the meat is so lean that Russo grinds a bit of the animal’s fat back into it. Seasonings are simple, just a splash of Worcestershire sauce and a bit of salt and pepper before the patty hits the charbroiler grill. Lightly charred and cooked to a fragrant, deeply pink medium-rare, it’s the kind of patty that runs appetite-inducing juices from the very first bite.
Another chief asset is the burger's first-rate bun. It's baked on the premises, naturally, by the talented Ben Buirge, a deeply golden beauty that's just barely toasted on the grill. It's one of those rare burger buns that couples milky softness with an inner strength, one that stands up to the patty’s prodigious juiciness. If they're available for sale for the home-cooking crowd in the restaurant's Farm Direct Market, I haven't seen them. Here's hoping they are. Perhaps Russo could sell them alongside the exceptional cinnamon-packed breakfast rolls that I can’t seem to stop consuming.
Russo knows that a great patty and an equally top-notch bun don't require investing in a lot of embellishment. Restraint would be the word that best describes the modest garnish roster. Tender lettuce, a tomato slice possessing more flavor than a late-November tomato should have, and a couple super-tangy bread-and-butter pickle slices. That's it. And it works.
Actually, there's one more item: two (house-made, naturally) condiments. There's a gutsy mustard, but it's upstaged by an ever-changing ketchup formula, made using “whatever fruit we happen to have in the house,” said Russo. “Sometimes we’ll add peppers, which technically are also a fruit. We’re always doing something wacky.” Whatever the combo, it's a welcome break from the universality that is Heinz. We would expect no less from Heartland.
Fries: Included, and made from potatoes Russo taps in southeastern Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin. The crew hand-cuts them, stores them in the freezer and pulls them out when needed, and they're terrific, twinkling with coarse salt and brimming with unadulterated potato goodness.
The kitchen serves them by the generous handful, pairing them with wide, shallow trays filled with ketchup and mustard. What a great idea: the tray's surface area -- much larger than the standard mini-ramiken or stainless steel portion cup -- means you can drag those long fries through a pool of sauce, really bathing a significant percentage of each fried potato in a maximum amount of that excellent ketchup. Genius.
Celebrate: Ok, so he's not including a burger on his three fixed-price ($75) four-course New Year's Eve dinners -- one beef-pork-duck, another featuring freshwater fish, the third vegetarian -- but consider reserving a table in Russo's serene, loft-like dining room for your ringing-in-the-new-year venue.
Price: $14. Dinner only, bar only.
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At some point during the ten seasons of Top Chef, the annual Restaurant Wars episode became an even bigger deal than the finale. The appeal of the challenge is obvious. Not only does the task force our chefs to step out of their comfortable roles at the midway point of the season to complete the seemingly insurmountable task of building a restaurant from the ground up in a day, but it’s also one that’s rife with the type of explosive drama reality show producers crave. Orders need to be placed! Flatware need to be classy! Padma’s cleavage must be acknowledged the second she walks in the door!
You have to assume local chef Sara Johannes wanted more fireworks in her mostly stagnant season of Top Chef, but I can’t imagine she wanted to make the impression she made on tonight’s episode, which unfortunately saw her exit. This was cringe TV at its worst (best?), an hour of television that made me wince on more than one occasion.
Things just didn’t go well for Sara’s team from the start. Based on names alone (Nina, Shirley, Carlos, Justin), the team appeared poised for victory from the beginning, but quickly became derailed over a lack of commitment on their restaurant’s theme. Naming themselves Found, the team’s idea was to center their menu on “Modern America,” an all-encompassing melting pot that would effectively allow each chef to stay within their chosen style of cooking. The other team took a more direct approach with Fin, a seafood restaurant that was unified by both style and flavor profiles. Travis is praised as the best front of the house person in Restaurant Wars history, while Nicholas wins for combining black drum and oxtail. That's hardly the story in this episode, however, but congrats to them both.
I have no idea why Sara decided to be such a martyr in this challenge, but I was practically screaming at my TV when she volunteered to not only take the front of the house position, but to also make a dessert. Restaurant Wars is never an easy challenge. There’s absolutely no need to make it as hard on yourself as possible.
I’ve written before that Sara’s sleepy yet direct approach can come off as slightly condescending, but dealing with Justin (who also volunteered for his role as Found’s executive chef) in a productive way couldn’t have been a walk in the park. Justin showed a petulant side during last episode’s judging panel, and it’s an attitude he’s now made his calling card. From tantrums over Nina buying the wrong plates to his sharp words to Carlos at Whole Foods (apparently they went shopping before solidifying their menu? Why?), Justin was in bad spirits the entire episode, an attitude that surely contributed to the chaos in the kitchen. At one point Sara rightfully points out that they don’t have a big enough coffee maker to serve 120 people and his retort was to say “Can we be positive?” in the least positive way possible.
But Sara’s just as guilty, if not more, for Found’s failures. It’s expected that there will be some backlog in the kitchen and some unwanted waiting time for the VERY IMPORTANT Chase Sapphire Preferred diners, but Found didn’t even seem to have a shell of an ordering system in place. Meals went out in random segments, wrong plates went to the wrong people, and Sara apparently broke a dining taboo by issuing a “verbal fire” for the judge’s appetizers instead of submitting a formal ticket.
The judges were impatient, especially Padma, who was absolutely dismayed by Sara’s very strange choice of not formally introducing or explaining the dishes. She offers no details for three of the dishes, is prompted by Padma to explain one, and then remembers to explain her own, a choice that struck Padma as conceited. Sara was clearly frazzled despite her icy demeanor (and killer blue dress with matching head scarf), but all of this was truly bizarre to behold.
Found had a few good dishes (Shirley’s poached cobia and Nina’s pork tenderloin drew judges’ praise, as usual) but the rest of the restaurant was dragged through the mud. Carlos’ fish wasn’t cut properly, Sara’s nectarine brown butter cake was missing its crucial mascarpone ingredient (the emulsion broke due to the kitchen’s high heat) and Justin revolting-looking rabbit drew an audible laugh from Tom Colicchio.
I didn’t expect Sara to survive this week due to how weird the vibe was at Found, which is why I actually wanted this to be a double elimination. Sara and Justin both let their sides of the restaurant down, while also delivering subpar dishes. Executive chefs often go down with their sinking ships. That wasn’t the case here, but I at least hope Justin’s stock is severely diminished after his display in this week’s challenge. 95% of the viewing public blamed the loss on Sara’s attitude (more of that bossy bitch narrative I can’t for the life of me grasp), but Justin was the one who had a clear lack of faith in his team from the onset and was a bit too eager to blame them for their loss in front of guest judge David Chang.
Unfortunately, Sara wasn’t able to defeat Louis in Bravo.com’s Last Chance Kitchen tonight, which means her Top Chef career is officially over. Sara might have gone home in pretty mortifying fashion, but at least she did it on an episode where she got to show off a Twin Cities area code t-shirt, proudly emblazoned with both “612” and “651.” Minnesota is still proud.
Yes, the recipes are the major component of our annual Holiday Cookie Contest.
But we also appreciate the stories behind each recipe. Here are some tales, culled from the 300-plus entries in our 2013 competition, that captured our attention.
“For me, these recipes are home. I sat in my mom’s kitchen last night typing up this recipe, asking her to interpret parts where old spills and stains had made it too hard to read. She told me how these were the first cookies her mom made each Christmas season. How the flavor reminded her of her own mom’s kitchen.” -- Elisabeth Johnson of St. Paul
“I knew they were a hit when my mother-in-law brought back the empty Ziploc bag and asked for a refill." -- Kim Carroll of Hastings
“Everything is in sync when I’m in a kitchen.” -- Chuck Minni of Farmington
“It is not Christmas unless we make these cookies.” -- Mary Ann Kjos
“The attached is a family favorite. It is scrawled on a recipe card. Is it from a friend? The paper or a magazine? Its origin is unknown.” -- Roberta Swanson of Minneapolis
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“Although I am only 13 years old, I feel like I am very experienced. Ever since I was little I would help my mother bake cookies and desserts. Now that I am older I bake things of my own. Someday I might even want to set up my own bakery and sell my baked goods. It will take a lot of work but with strong will and perseverance I know I can do it.” -- Holly Anderson of Farmington
“I’m not sure where I found this recipe. The card that the recipe is written on is quite worn. However, our family of four children, their spouses and 15 grandchildren prefer this cookie over many of the other cookie recipes that I make. Just this past week a teenager from the church I attend asked me to make a batch for the young people’s get together they were having, after the Friday night football game.” -- Ruth Nystrom of Worthington, Minn.
“One year I ran out of time to make them for Christmas Eve and they were crushed. I’ll never forget the looks of disappointment on their faces. I now make sure that I take the time to make these cookies so I can give them this little Christmas treat that they so look forward to.” -- Rita Strafelda of Cottage Grove
“I didn’t have a grandmother who taught me baking and spent time with me to build memories in the kitchen. My baking skills are self-taught and through perseverance I have reaped the fruits of my labors.” -- Libby Bourgeois of Elk River
“My paternal grandmother was a “champion of cookies” in my family growing up. Each year our family gift was a turkey roaster filled with various holiday cookies that she would bake. The roaster was tied with scraps of cloth to keep it shut. I aspired as a young wife and mother to bake as well as she did. I don’t use my turkey roaster, but all year long, I save up Kemp’s ice cream pails to use to put my cookies in to give to family and friends.” -- Kristine Runck of New Ulm, Minn.
“My mom made these every Christmas . . . a nice variation from all those sugar cookies.” -- Kathy Papousek of Robbinsdale
“I challenge you to take time out of your busy schedules and enjoy the simple things in life. Get off the couch and put away the electronic devices. I can guarantee that you won’t have any regrets.” -- Patsy Athman of Pierz, Minn.
“As a young bride, I loved visiting my mother-in-law at Christmas and peeking into those vintage tins to discover beautiful cookies filled with rich flavors. Our family recently packed up her home in preparation for her next stage in life. Mom has Alzheimer’s now, so her home is no longer filled with the fragrances of her baking. Looking through her kitchen items, I found her index card notebook filled with her favorite recipes. How I remember consulting these handwritten notes, so precious now, because Mom no longer remembers these special recipes.” -- Linda Hansen of Albertville, Minn.
“My mom taught me many things which I am so thankful for and baking is one of them.” -- Liz McPherson of Apple Valley
“I love baking Christmas cookies, boxing them in tins and delivering them. It gives me an opportunity in an otherwise hectic life to connect with people who are important to me.” -- Jeanine Clapsaddle
“Every year I come up with a new holiday cookie to try. I love the adventure of trying something new.” -- Candace Freeman of Melrose, Minn.
“The role these cookies play in my holiday baking is they are a stalwart of my annual cookie baking open house. It’s an open house so guests can drop in or out and do as much baking as they want or just sit around and watch the rest of us; those who are there at the end get to take home a plate or two with all the varieties. I like this better than a cookie exchange because a big part of the fun is just hanging out together baking.” -- Margaret Lund
“Thirty years ago, the love of my life wasn’t the man I married . . . it was his mother. She was the warmest and kindest human being I have ever met. Carol was a down-to-earth cook with ancestors from Germany and Holland and she had recipes galore. One of my all-time-favorite recipes from Carol is ‘German Butter Cookies,’ a simple, elegant and delicious cookie that everyone loves. Enjoy.” -- Jeryl Mitchell of Rochester, Minn.
“Being Jewish we didn’t celebrate Christmas but my mother I loved bonding over Christmas cookie baking. My mother is in her tenth decade and this year we will continue ‘our’ Christmas tradition . . .I can’t wait.” -- Stephanie Wolkin of White Bear Lake
We're announcing the winner -- and four delicious finalists -- in our 11th-annual Taste Holiday Cookie Contest in Thursday's Taste (you can get a sneak-peek here on Wednesday afternoon).
In the meantime, another holiday cookie contest – this time in Cook’s Country magazine – has yielded a Minnesota winner.
She’s Karen Cope of Minneapolis, and her recipe, Dulce de Leche and Cinnamon Sandwich Cookies (pictured, above in a Cook's Country photo), presides over five other highly bake-able finalists, including Black Cherry-Chocolate Linzertorte Cookies, Pretzel-Potato Chip Cookies with Caramel Frosting and Hazelnut Espresso Truffle Cookies. Cope won $1,000 for her efforts, along with a brush with fame, although it sounds as if she's no stranger to the baking spotlight.
“Recently, Cope has gone from strength to strength in the kitchen,” wrote the magazine’s editors. “She told us that four other items that she baked won blue ribbons of the Minnesota State Fair this past summer.”
DULCE DE LECHE AND CINNAMON SANDWICH COOKIES
Makes about 2 dozen sandwich cookies.
Note: Dulce de lece (or cajeta, pictured, above) is a South American caramel made with sugar slowly cooked with cow’s milk or goat’s milk and can be found in the international or baking aisles of the supermarket.
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. ground anise
1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 c. sugar, plus ½ c. for rolling cookies
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tbsp. unsalted butter
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
½ tsp. ground anise
1 ½ c. dulce de leche
To prepare cookies: Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and anise.
In a bowl of an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat butter and 1 cup sugar until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until combined. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture in 3 additions until just combined, scraping down bowl as needed.
In a shallow dish, combine cinnamon and remaining ½ cup sugar and set aside. Working with 2 teaspoons dough at a time, roll into balls and space them 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake until edges are firm, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven and cool 2 minutes, place cookies in cinnamon sugar and turn to coat evenly. Transfer cookies to a wire rack and cool completely, about 30 minutes.
To prepare filling: In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Whisk in cinnamon and anise and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in dulce de lece. Spread 1 ½ teaspoons filling on bottoms (flat sides) of half of cookies. Top with flat sides of remaining cookies to form sandwiches. Cookies can be stored at room temperature for up to 3 days.
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Groeneveld Alquerque Super Tournament request 2. april 2006, 03:00:03
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When the running tournaments are over
I find it nice idea,when a tournament will be hold,where all or allmost all of the ranked players will appear,
the 28 players with a rating an let's say 36 with a provisional rating
do you find this a good idea,
and are you free,just
drop a note,to say you will enter
and top 28 players,do specially....
how more of you will enter,how greater the tournament
Up until now I've only ever played tablut on here. The addition of alquerque piqued my interest, but unfortunately the forward-only movement rule put me off--I might as well play draughts (or checkers, to those of you who prefer American English).
Now I've got a real alquerque board to play on, so I've got interested in the game again. I will, however, wait patiently until the time when Fencer creates an Alfonso variant, before I join in. I say patiently, as I've already mentioned elsewhere the possibility of more tafl variants to complement tablut :-)
I think, that even with the present rules there is still the possibility to draw if both players are equal in pieces and none of them want to attack (or to make a senseless attack). If one of the players has an advantage in material after the middle game, he should IMHO win. It means: There would be probably more draws with the Alfonso's rules. There is a lot of draws in chess or checkers - so what? Playes who can't or don't want to see a draw and want to play forever to make their opponent tired are not worth playing with. :-)
If i can suggest one thing Fencer don't implement those variants... One has the problem of making impossible the task of one coulor the other if one player wants to stuck the game, the game could last forever, and the win will become for tireness not for strategy...
I know i'm not the majority of the players and I'm just a pawn but please reconsider, now you have one game that nobody (in his sense) wants to play don't transform in 2 variants that no one wants to play it ...
just my 2 cents of course...
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Mohammed V International Airport, like other airports and international ports, is witnessing a tightening of precautionary preventive measures in order to early detect any incoming infection of the Coronavirus, especially among passengers coming from China.
Thus, as soon as a plane arrived from Beijing yesterday evening at Mohammed V Airport, health authorities began their strict measures to contain any epidemiological and viral case potentially entering through this major border point.
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In a statement to the press, the chief physician at Mohamed V Airport, Mohamed Massif, said, “The emergency plan approved at Mohamed V Airport is part of the national plan for surveillance and proactive response to all public health emergencies.” He pointed out that this plan consists of several stages for travelers Coming from endemic areas.
He explained that the first stage takes place before the plane arrives at the airport, during which the suspected cases are isolated by the flight crew, the control tower is notified, and the so-called health portion of the general approval of the plane, which is delivered to the health police upon arrival, is filled out.
As for the second stage, it starts after arrival, where a special position is designated for this plane so that it does not mix with other travelers, and the decision is taken to drop the passengers, where they are all without exception to measure the temperature in the first stage by means of the infrared thermometer, and in the second stage By thermal camera.
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I love making Christmas cards almost as much as I love Christmas.
I’ve been itching to use the Festive Flurry stamp set, and the matching framelits, of course. Last night, I was torn between making a card using Daydream Medallions, which I’ve been neglecting lately, and making a card using the Festive Flurry set. So I grabbed both to see if any of the snowflakes would fit inside the big medallion. And then I had visions of that big medallion being embossed in silver or gold, and I got excited, and embossing powder was flying everywhere. Then I just couldn’t stop embossing, as you can see. I embossed the big medallion in silver on Whisper White and cut it out with the coordinating Floral Frames framelit, then embossed the medium-sized snowflake in white on Coastal Cabana, then the small one in silver on Whisper White again. And then it looked a little unfinished, so I had to add one of the Frosted Finishes embellishments. But it looked a little funky since the snowflake has a 6-point center, and the Frosted Finishes are 5-point… So I added a little 7/8″ scalloped circle. Then I was happy.
I added a strip of Winter Frost designer series paper to my card, embossed the sentiment and underlined it with a strip of rhinestones, and attached my big decoration.
The big decoration, by the way, would make a fun Christmas ornament. Make two of them and glue them together back-to-back with a loop of the 1/8″ silver ribbon between the layers, and you have an easy decoration with a lot of wow.
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Make America Great Again (Democractic Stump Speech)
Make America Great Again. Make. America. Great. Again.
Just four words. Heck, they even fit on a baseball cap.
But they tell you everything you need to know about Donald Trump.
He believes that at some point we stopped being great. That we lost our way. And that the road back is to take our population back to the 1800s and our economy back to the 1960s.
Well, I don’t know about you, but when I tell my kids about America I don’t tell a story about a nation that lurches backwards. And it sure isn’t the story that I want to tell to my grandkids.
Instead I want to tell the story of a nation that since its beginning has had an identity, a destiny, a dream. A dream that has called us to constantly seek new terrain, uncaring of the obstacles before us; confident that we can succeed regardless of what we encounter.
It is dream of freedom and economic prosperity backed by an awesome military force to protect it that has only ever marched forward.
That is the story of Thomas Jefferson’s independence. Of Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. And of John F. Kennedy’s aiming for the moon.
Those were dreams. Those were destinies.
And compared with their bright light Mr. Trump’s conception of greatness is small and it is dark. It is putting up walls and separating families. It is a dream filled with fear and disconnection. With division and hatred.
When have those feelings ever defined America?
The Civil Rights Act did not aim to divide. The New Deal didn’t speak to fear. They were born out of unity and hope. They were big ideas worthy of this proud nation.
Now, there is a choice coming this November. When we get to decide the dream that we want for this nation. What her destiny will be.
My choice is not to step backwards but to move forwards. To look ahead and find those ideas that our grandchildren will learn about in school. Ideas that will inspire at home and abroad.
Ideas like extending gay rights, transgender rights. Continuing the long war against racial divide that we began so long ago but have failed to conclude. Building on our ideas of freedom and not settling until we have full equality and true liberty.
My choice is improving access to healthcare so our people are healthy and ready to work. It is providing the best education for our children so they can succeed against their competitors abroad. It is recognizing that our economy has evolved and our strength is no longer in the steel mill but in Silicon Valley.
My choice is to protect our people. To reduce the number that die at the end of a firearm whether held by a civilian, a police officer or our enemies abroad. It is understanding that the responsibility of the world’s strongest military is to know when and how to fight. But that when we make that decision that we are able to deploy an arsenal that will end any threat that we encounter.
My choice is to take the ideas that have defined us and use them to walk bravely into our future.
Our destiny is to lead the free world, to be the light in the dark, the dream that all other nations chase.
I will not accept that we ever stopped being great. That we need a failed business man to restore a dream that our founding fathers gave to us.
I instead believe that we are still great, we have always been great and we will always be great.
God bless you. And God bless these United States of America.


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I had the pleasure of working for Todd Meier for a number of years and no doubt in my mind that he would make a great mayor for the people of Addison.
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Coronavirus cases among children and teenagers are surging in California, up 150% last month, a rate that outpaces COVID-19 cases overall and establishes minors as a small but growing share of the state’s COVID-19 cases.
Newsom said his administration has fixed a public health computer database failure that distorted test results across the state and raised doubts about actions taken to stem the spread of coronavirus.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s economic task force has operated almost entirely behind closed doors, and those appointed were not required to submit state government financial disclosure forms listing their assets and business interests, which would show potential conflicts.
The union representing Los Angeles police officers is criticizing Mayor Eric Garcetti’s plan to shut off water and power at “party houses,” saying officers should be focused on the rising number of shootings instead.
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President Trump said the Secret Service shot a ‘suspect’ outside the White House on Monday. The incident forced the president to abruptly leave his own news conference before returning.
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Seattle’s police chief says she will retire as the City Council approves a plan for the department to lose as many as 100 officers.
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Pittsburgh Dog Training offers a wide variety of all breed dog obedience training and related services to Pittsburgh and all surrounding areas.
The types of training are as follows:
- Puppy, basic, advanced, and competitive obedience dog training
- Problem behaviors, and aggression management
- Tracking and scent work
- Schutzhund/IPO training and titling
- Personal protection evaluating and training
- Private Lessons
- Board and train
- Show dog training and conditioning
- Pet sitting and dog walking to some locations
& many other more specific dog training scenarios
We offer lessons at our location(we are now located in Hanover Township, PA Beaver County) just west of the PIT airport near Raccoon State Park.
We also offer in home lessons to certain locations.
We have some people who prefer us to train their dogs, We do this by doing a 4-6 week boarding and training program. Or for those of you who don’t want to send the dog away for that long, but still want us to do the training, give us a call or e-mail as we have an option for you as well.
We try to find a program to fit everyone’s needs!
Contact us for more details, pricing, and scheduling

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