The 20-year-old’s contract at the DW Stadium is set to expire this summer, however the youngster has been offered fresh terms to extend his stay at the League One champions, with a view to being part of Leam Richardson’s senior squad next season in the Championship.
That deal could be scuppered though as there are reportedly plenty of teams north of the border interested in signing Robinson, and due to cross-border compensation rules, Wigan would get little in the way of money for his signature.
Quiz: Are these 20 Wigan Athletic transfer facts true or false?
A Scotland under-18 and under-19 international, Robinson has played 26 league games for Wigan in his young career, having moved to the club’s academy in 2018 from Wrexham.
The majority of his senior appearances came in the 2020-21 campaign, where for the most part the Latics were in administration and couldn’t sign players, allowing Robinson to feature 25 times in the third tier.
Robinson however was restricted to just 10 appearances this past season, with all-but one of them coming in cup competitions.
Having already been exposed to a large amount of senior football in the season before last, Robinson probably believes he is deserving of starting more games – and it’s doubtful he’ll get that at Wigan next season.
Therefore, he has a choice to make – he can renew his contract at the DW Stadium and perhaps secure a loan deal, or he can take a chance on himself, move to Scotland and potentially feature regularly for a club in the Premiership.
Robinson is still early in his career, but he will not want to see it stall by playing just cup matches and in the under-23’s for the next year or two.
You cannot beat senior football and that’s what Robinson – and perhaps his agent – will be thinking, so a move away this summer cannot be ruled out.


Underneath we’ll get into a portion of the arrangements On How To Use VoWiFi Huawei Mate 20 / 20 Pro / 20 RS Porsche Design.
The Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 RS Porsche Design and Huawei Mate 20 X are Android smartphones, designed and marketed by Huawei. They are all apart of the Huawei Mate series.
The Huawei Mate 20 smartphone is powered by the Kirin 980 processor, which is packed with either 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage or 6GB RAM and 128GB storage; the storage can be expanded by up to 256GB using Huawei’s new Nano Memory card format. It is powered by a 4,000mAh battery, and Huawei’s SuperCharge tech feature.
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is rated IP68 water and dust resistance. The regular Huawei Mate 20 is IP53-rated, so it is not so much water resistant like the pro.
The Huawei Mate 20 smartphone has glass on the back and the front with an aluminum frame.The phone is available in three colors, Midnight Blue, Twilight and Black. However the Huawei Mate 20 X is only available in Midnight Blue and Phantom Silver.
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro has a similar design and is available in the same colors as the Huawei Mate 20 in addition to Emerald Green and Pink Gold.
The Huawei Mate 20 RS Porsche Design looks almost identical to the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, but the back is a bit different.
The Huawei Mate 20/Pro/RS Porsche Design/X runs on EMUI 9.0 based on Android Pie.
The chipset of the Huawei Mate 20 and the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is the HiSilicon Kirin 980 (7 nm). Both phones utilize the Mali-G76 MP10 GPU.
All four Huawei smartphones have a triple-camera set up on the back:
Mate 20 camera features a 12 MP, f/1.8, 27mm (wide), 1/2.3. 16 MP, f/2.2, 17mm (ultrawide) 8 MP, f/2.4, 52mm (telephoto)
Mate 20 Pro , Mate 20 X and Mate 20 RS Porsche Design features a 40 MP, f/1.8, 27mm (wide), 1/1.7. 20 MP, f/2.2, 16mm (ultrawide) 8 MP, f/2.4, 80mm (telephoto)
Panorama, HDR and Leica Optics, dual-LED dual tone flash.
24 MP, F/2.0, 26mm (wide)
How To Use VoWiFi Huawei Mate 20 / 20 Pro / 20 RS Porsche Design:
You can use VoWi-Fi to make voice and video calls in any location that has a Wi-Fi network, even when there is no mobile network reception.
This feature must be supported by your carrier. Contact your carrier for more information, including fees and charges.
Open Dialer, go to > Settings > Wi-Fi calling, enable Wi-Fi calling. Touch Mode and follow the onscreen instructions to set the preferred network.
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Research team creates new possibilities for medicine and materials sciences
Bacteria modifying the properties of cellulose
Cellulose produced by plants and bacteria is the most important material of biological origin on the planet. Acting as the main component in plant cell walls, cellulose gives plants their strength and flexibility. Wood, cotton and linen are made up almost exclusively of this material.
Now, the research team headed up by Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge, of the Humboldt-University of Berlin (HU) and her colleague, Prof. Dr. Lynette Cegelski, from Stanford University (California) has discovered that bacteria can not only produce cellulose, but can also chemically modify it using enzymes. The discovery of this process opens up entirely new prospects: in the fight against diseases, for example. Pathogens such as salmonella modify cellulose in order to bind onto biofilms. Through this mechanism, they can protect themselves from antibiotics and the immune system, and cause chronic infections.
Using targeted molecular design of enzymes, a diverse range of cellulose variants could be created in the future, with material properties that would have been completely inconceivable until now.
The detailed research results were published in the specialist journal, Science.
Thongsomboon, W., Serra, D.O Thongsomboon, W., Serra, D.O., Possling, A., Hadjineophytou, C., Hengge*, R., Cegelski,* L. (2018): Phosphoethanolamine cellulose: A naturally produced chemically modified cellulose. Science, 19 January 2018
*both of the final two authors cited are corresponding authors
Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge
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Humboldt-Universität of Berlin
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IC 10004A-EDF60 by Edifier International Limited for Headphones with BT function
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If you're recently married, add the IRS to the list of recipients of your name and address change information. If you changed your name, start the name-change process with the Social Security Administration. The updated information will flow from Social Security to the IRS, so you will not have to inform them separately. If you try to file your return under your new name, without having changed it with Social Security, the IRS will likely have a number of questions for you, and it may hold up any anticipated refund.
As part of the name-change process, remember to fill out any employer-required paperwork. You may need to change the amount of taxes you have taken out of your pay, and you will want to be sure your employer is paying any taxes on your behalf under the correct name and marital status.

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Disney unveils Studios logo to replace Disney-MGM
Written by Robert Niles
Here is the new logo for Disney's Hollywood Studios, which on Jan. 1 become the new name for the current Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at Walt Disney World. Disney released the logo to the media today.Tweet
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I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around The LOtR card game. I tried playing a game while watching the official tutorial videos but it was too much. Will try again on a day I haven't worked so I'm less brain dead. Seems like a cool game though. I was starting to get it in a broad sense.
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Book Review: Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory, Lola Sheppard and Mason White. (Barcelona: Actar, 2017).
Review by, Rafico Ruiz (University of Alberta)
At 6:45 pm on Wednesday, October, 31st, 2018, the residents of Churchill, a town on the western edge of Hudson’s Bay, in the Canadian province of Manitoba, heard an unfamiliar sound—the drawn outcry of a locomotive. The arrival of the locomotive and caboose marked the first rail traffic to enter the town since May 2017. During that spring, severe flooding washed away southern parts of the line that connect Churchill to the rest of the province, as well as the national rail network that provides the town’s supply of marginally affordable essentials, from canned goods to building equipment. Without freight line access, Churchill had become reliant on a summer shipping window and costly air cargo. The tourists that would routinely roll into town to photograph polar bears from the safe remove of observation buses were now absent. For the roughly one thousand residents of the town, life had begun to feel untenable in its unaffordability. Hundreds merely packed up and left. While a public-private partnership resolved the contested ownership of the line, the situation in many respects also had the effect of shifting Churchill’s infrastructural condition to a more northerly latitude. For those seventeen months, Churchill experienced the day to day realities of places such as Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, or Igloolik—places where Nunavummiut contend with the economics of distance from southern governed logistics and supplies.
The situation in Churchill echoes the infrastructural and postcolonial politics implied in the very title of Lola Sheppard and Mason White’s Many Norths: Spatial Practices in a Polar Territory—there are, indeed, many norths, and for Qablunaat ‘the north’ itself is an orientation that largely involves the bridging of all manner of distances—whether infrastructural, ethical, cultural, or political. Sheppard and White’s volume, organized around five thematic sections, Urbanism, Architecture, Mobility, Monitoring, and Resources, is an effort, as they describe, at situating the Arctic as an open-ended process that is the outcome of contested spatial practices. Their overarching goal is to visualize patterns and techniques, from the architectural to ecological scale, that have gone into shaping Canada’s northern territories, as well as Nunavik (in northern Quebec) and Nunatsiavut (in northern Labrador)—lands that have been guided by Inuit social practices that cast a long shadow over the arrival of colonial claims to their environment.
Many Norths is, in many respects, a difficult book to define. It is equal parts design compendium, mapping practice, documentary repository, and more, with all of these facets held together by the authors’ careful attention to the book’s own spatial and readerly architecture. If a single, defining dimension emerges from its collection of textual and visual material it revolves around an effort to ‘visualize,’ to deploy the term’s most capacious spatial, temporal, and political purview, the spatial practices that have defined, and may continue to define, forms of settlement across the Canadian Arctic. “By ‘spatial practice,’” Sheppard and White write, “we mean the negotiation of environment for survival or opportunity via tactical, spatially based interventions, at any scale regardless of economy.” (9) They see it as a practice that can operate at the scale of the hamlet in Nunavut, made manifest through the tools and techniques, from ski-doos to sub-sea ice mussel gathering, that Nunavummiut mobilize to be a part of their land, or at the scale of the territory, with ice roads built and maintained by the mining industry serving as exemplars of capitalism’s capacity to sustain infrastructure where it is otherwise scarce and costly.
Sheppard and White comprehensively track across the entirety of the Canadian Arctic, and signal how it is a region defined by forms of mobility that are set apart from “the east-west infrastructural continuum that is vital to the cost-effective movement of people, goods, and resources, and the provision of services within southern Canada.” (11) One of their tasks is to take readers into the practices that emerge, by dint of necessity, historical dispossession, and southern neglect, at the infrastructural margins of the Canadian nation-state. While they frame their project in a more documentary vein, giving voice, largely through transcribed interviews, to northerners who work in the oil and gas industry, as well as architects, local hunters, and others, a notable undercurrent that runs throughout the volume is their marking of the absencing of Indigenous northerners as independent agents capable of their own “spatial practices.” They note how a “northern vernacular has failed to materialize, one that simultaneously responds to the unique climatic, logistic, and socio-cultural realities of the North and the diverse peoples who live there.” (33) While they don’t hold up the consolidation of a northern vernacular as a marker of Indigenous ownership of infrastructural capacity and independence, they do see it as a case of failed recognition of the specificities that define Indigenous communities that have thrived in situ for generations that exceed the state- and corporate-led development projects of the twentieth century. They very subtly hold up the declaration on Inuvik’s dedication plaque as an instance of this tension between southern infrastructure and northern realities: “This was the first community north of the Arctic Circle built to provide the normal facilities of a Canadian town.” (33)
While infrastructure and territory-scale design have emerged as touchstones in architectural scholarship over roughly the last decade (see Allen and McQaude, 2011; Belanger, 2017; Easterling, 2014), Sheppard and White distinguish themselves from many of these approaches by attending to the complex interminglings that define the situatedness of each northern locale they work across. They tie together, equally across their visual treatments of particular spatial dynamics at play in a community such as Inuvik, and the five chapter-length texts that accompany each section, how seasonality, mobility, and Indigenous conceptions of placemaking take precedence over the capital-intensive and largely southern modes of extraction that have come to define Qablunaat imaginaries of these (often somewhat conveniently pluralized) “many norths” of economic opportunity. “Two temporalities of mobility operate in the Canadian North,” Sheppard and White write, “regional trails, the collective memory of which extend back for generations, and engineered systems that chart new routes to facilitate expedient, large-scale movement of people and goods.” (210)
What careful readers of Many Norths might come away with is a sort of infrastructural attunement that can reach across the divide that both sets Qablunaat apart from and inevitably, logistically, links them together with Indigenous residents of Canada’s northern territories. Sheppard and White document the spatial practices that emerge when the material, cultural, and political hubris contained in southern steel, pipes, and cement all fail and get bent into different shapes through coming into contact with permafrost or the expectations of community food sharing. “In most parts of the world, technology manages to trump distance, geography, climate, and even the seasons. Most people are unaccustomed to infrastructure that is only intermittently available, or that operates in concert with the environment.” (220) While Many Norths does not fully engage with the horizons presented by decolonial thought and practices, it does offer its own understanding of a relational process that works through how southern materials, infrastructures, logistics, and expectations have all both come to be present in but not fully defining of particular northern Indigenous communities. It echoes historical geographer Emilie Cameron’s call for a redrawing of the epistemic accountability and ethical circle that southern Canadians, in particular, can begin to inhabit—a Qablunaaq worldview that is increasingly, and worryingly, encroaching on the Arctic refuges that persist in the face of climate change and the resource expansion of the oil and gas industry.[i]And yet, as Cameron also notes, this worldview is an open relation that can be subject to the site-specific attunements offered by Many Norths:
It seems to me, then, that the question being asked of mineral development in Nunavut today is not so much whether it should be wholeheartedly celebrated because Inuit are running the corporations and institutions that endorse it, or rejected because it represents the intensification of capitalist relations in the North, but rather whether the relations that Inuit might forge with copper or other metals through the development of mines will, indeed, support and sustain life, and if so, what kind of life, for whom, and on whose terms? (Cameron, 110)
For Qablunaat, for me, it is the copper that remains and that gets taken up into the devices of our collective digital lives. For Nunavummiut, for Gwich’in, for Dene, amongst all the others, it is the day to day business of living on their lands that persists. “Resource extraction has been seen as key to Canada’s North,” Sheppard and White write, “for its capacity to generate primary and secondary economies, but more importantly because it offers a catalyst for political devolution and autonomy.” (393) Indigenous lands are indeed infrastructural, whether in the ‘markless’ spatial practices of their generational hunting (399) or in the subsurface rights and capital that accrues to territorial governments by enabling mining operations. Many North documents how this processual relation unfolds, binding together all scales, and lifeworlds, of the Canadian Arctic—wage labour and permanent settlement, hunting practices and food sharing; a myriad of lives to be lived.
To close, it is worth noting that the train that pulled into Churchill on that final day of October was made up of just a locomotive and a caboose. This is a train that marks the bare infrastructure that inheres when the environmental constraints of northern environments meet the exigencies of the international logistics industry (higher weight capacity freight trains will begin to operate in spring, 2019, when the newly opened section of track sits on more firmly shored up ground). As Many Northsteaches us, southern infrastructures emerge into seasonal northern locales and relations, and that is where the stakes of living on the land become apparent.
[i]In response to the US Department of Interior’s Notice of Intent to expedite the leasing, exploration, and development of oil and gas deposits within the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a June 2018 grassroots campaign, “Scholars for Defending the Arctic Refuge,” has mobilized hundreds of signatories, including prominent activists of the Gwich’in Nation from Alaska and Canada, to resist the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed opening of the Refuge to energy extraction. Over the next few years, the Refuge will figure as a symbolic and material site that will articulate where and under what conditions ecological zones can be set apart from extractivist practices.
Stan Allen and Marc McQuade. Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)
Pierre Belanger, Landscape as Infrastructure(New York: Routledge, 2017)
Emilie Cameron, Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic(Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014).
Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space(London: Verso, 2014).

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As hospitals focus on taking care of COVID-19 patients, the American Hospital Association is stepping up its advocacy for hospitals, fighting on their behalf for everything from PPE to reimbursement for uninsured patients. AHA’s Policy Director, Akin Demehin, dives into the top issues facing U.S. hospital administrators as they scramble to adjust their businesses to meet the unprecedented demands of the pandemic.
Besides the obvious concerns related to the direct delivery of care to a surge of very sick patients, hospitals are worried about cash flow, having enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line clinicians, and the challenges of rolling out massive telehealth and remote monitoring programs to care for non-COVID patients at-home.
As the pandemic wears on, and the evolution of hospitals continues, the way these institutions function as part of the U.S. healthcare system will likely be forever changed. We learn what’s important to the AHA — and its 5,000 hospitals and healthcare system members — as they redefine their role in the healthcare system of the future in real-time.
Out this week is the AHA (or more precisely their SHSMD division’s) Futurescan publication. This year it’s edited by futurist Ian Morrison @seccurve and it features a bevvy of forecasting articles including one called “Flipping the Stack: Can New Technology Drive Health Care’s Future?” by Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt (i.e. me)
To take a look at the listing and perhaps even buy a PDF or hard copy (yes, it’s not free, remember that whole capitalism thing, but it’s the cheapest thing you’ll ever get from a hospital!) follow this link — Matthew Holt
Over the past decade, I’ve seen a number of studies asking people whom they trust among various health care stakeholders. Nurses, pharmacists, and doctors always come out at the top. Beyond that:
·Trust of hospitals tends to be high (60–80%)
·Trust of health plans is at the bottom of the heap (10–20%)
Is this written in stone for the future? I don’t think so…and the dynamics for change are in motion. Please read on.
Here’s the emerging picture I’m seeing:
·Hospitals are dragging their feet in connecting you with your electronic health information.
·Health plans are highly motivated to connect you with your health information.
Hospitals Keeping You from Your Health Records
Yesterday the American Hospital Association released a 68 page letter commenting on proposed regs for Meaningful Use Stage 2. Putting aside my usual analytic tendencies, I’ll simply describe the letter as whiny, snivelly, “can’t do”, mean, and thick-headed.
In May 2008, when the Roper poll asked a random sample of Americans “If your medical records and personal health information, such as test results and doctor’s instructions, were available to you online, how likely do you think you would be to access those records and information?” Sixty-five percent said they were somewhat, very, or extremely likely to access their records. In the February 2009 stimulus bill, Congress asked the Health IT Policy Committee “to facilitate secure access by an individual to such individual’s protected health information” and “… to facilitate secure access to patient information by a family member, caregiver, or guardian acting on behalf of a patient…”
CMS now proposes that in 2014, hospitals receiving the billions of dollars of Stage 2 federal EHR incentive payments must provide patients with electronic access to their hospital discharge information within 36 hours of leaving the hospital. CMS is not only asking hospitals to give patients reasonable access to their own current and actionable health information, but it’s also trying to help patients and families address the wasteful and dangerous rates of hospital readmission and failures in continuity of care that haunt American healthcare. But the American Hospital Association is arguing that “Establishing a web portal or other mechanism to provide patients online access to this magnitude of data is unrealistic and premature.”
The Federal Trade Commission recently held a day-long workshop focusing on Accountable Care Organizations. ACOs will vertically integrate hospitals and doctors and, in the process, achieve what previous incarnations of vertical integration could not. Let’s forget about whether ACOs will actually fulfill the dream of efficient healthcare delivery and focus on the FTC angle – will the creation of ACOs require the creation of provider market power and should he FTC therefore look the other way?
Many health economists have documented the perils of provider market power. Some of my own research has been instrumental in turning the tide against providers, whose monopolizing tendencies used to get a free pass from the courts. But as policy makers move ACOs to the fore, providers are hoping to sweep antitrust under the rug.
The latest salvo comes from the AHA, which last week released a study challenging two recent studies of hospital market power and then strains to connect their findings to ACOs. The AHA report goes a bit overboard in its criticism of these studies. One study consists of little more than anecdotes and should not be criticized for being anything else. The other study is more complex and the criticism is equally complex, mostly along the lines of “if you had measured things slightly differently, your results would have been slightly different.” The AHA report would have readers believe that these two studies represent the entire body of knowledge about hospital mergers. Having summarily dismissed them, the argument against FTC enforcement would seem complete.


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Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/25/2017 -- The Asia Pacific coating resins market features a largely fragmented vendor landscape, wherein the leading eight companies collectively accounted for a nearly 59% of the overall market in 2014, says a recent report by Transparency Market Research. The report states that the market chiefly constitutes medium- and large-scale coating resin manufacturers. The intense level of competition and low profit margins make the market a difficult one to venture for small-scale companies.
While low profit margins constitutes a major threat, opportunities abound in green technologies as several countries in the region already have or are under the process of instigating strict environment protection rules and regulations, making the growth prospects of harmful emission producing products bleak. As such, waterborne technologies and product innovation could be the key to reinstating command over the market in the near future.
Transparency Market Research estimates that the global coating resins market will exhibit a 5.9% CAGR from 2015 to 2023, rising from an opportunity of US$4.3 bn in 2014 to US$7.2 bn by 2023.
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Of the key end users of coating resins, the building and construction industry is the primary consumer of coating resins in Asia Pacific and is likely to remain the key contributor of revenue to the overall market over the forecast period as well. In 2014, the sector accounted for a massive 38.2% of the Asia Pacific coating resins market in terms of volume. The automotive industry, standing next to the building and construction sector in terms of consumption of coating resins, is also expected to remain a key consumer over the forecast period as sales of consumer vehicles soar in emerging economies in the region.
From a geographical standpoint, the market in China is presently the dominant contributor of revenue to the Asia Pacific coating resins market. The country held a massive 59.5% of the overall market in 2014 and is likely to continue its bullish run in the Asia Pacific coating resins market, in terms of both manufacturing and consumption capacity over the report's forecast period as well.
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Mounting Rise in Construction Activities to Foster Growth Prospects
Mounting rise in construction activities, especially in the region's several rapidly urbanizing and developing economies, is expected to emerge as one of key factors driving the demand for coating resins in the next few years. Other factors complementing this trend, such as the rising disposable incomes of the population and the rising population in urban settings, and hence the added need for new construction projects, will also contribute to the increased demand for coating resins market in the region. The Asia Pacific coating resins market will also benefit from the thriving automotive industry in the region, an industry that is one of the key consumers of a variety of coating resins.
Fluctuating Costs of Raw Material Could Hamper Market Growth
The market's future growth prospects could be hindered to an extent owing to the fluctuating costs of conventional raw materials, most of which are derived from petrochemicals. The high demand for most of these raw materials across a number of industries does not only threaten the stability of costs, it also reflects on their supply. Moreover, stringent emission reduction norms could hamper the uptake of a variety of polluting products in the near future.
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This paper presents the actual and calculated performance data for UST’s SagFighter.™
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A voltage sag is the drop below 90% of the RMS voltage on a power system for a duration of time ranging from a cycle of the AC voltage to a minute. They are far more common than interruptions, and can damage many types of industrial equipment and processes. A voltage sag lasting only 100 milliseconds can cause a shut-down of equipment in a manufacturing process leading to hours of down time and lost revenue.


An Illinois man was arrested Sunday in Cedar Lake for driving 153 mph in a 60-mph zone.
At 5:30 p.m., a Griffith officer in full uniform in his squad car was on his way to work near 155th Avenue and U.S. Highway 41 when he observed a 2006 Pontiac GTO traveling at a high rate of speed in the opposite direction, police said.
He activated his radar and clocked the man — identified as Alexander Kemp, 22, of Midlothian, Illinois — going 93 mph over the speed limit. He pursued the driver, as the vehicle increased its distance from the officer. The vehicle eventually slowed down and pulled over.
The officer took Kemp into custody on a reckless driving charge. Asked why he was driving so fast, Kemp reportedly responded, "I just got it out of the shop." Three females — ages 20, 15 and 12, all from Cedar Lake — were passengers in the vehicle.
Kemp was taken to the Griffith Police Department, booked for reckless driving — a class A misdemeanor — and taken to Lake County Jail.


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Losing the Community Shield is easy to dismiss, but Pep Guardila has work to do after Manchester City and Erling Haaland were undone by Liverpool.
Sound the alarms and paint a red cross on the main entrance to The Etihad Stadium; Erling Haaland is a disastrous signing for Manchester City and may single-handedly crash the entire Abu Dhabi project into the sea. Liverpool will win the Premier League by 20 points, with a display of football so sparkling that Merseyside will be granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
Or, in other words, the Premier League is (almost) back, and it doesn’t feel as though much has changed, even if quite a lot actually has.
Like a lot of trophies these days, whether the Community Shield is a ‘glorified pre-season friendly’ or a piece of ‘major silverware’ does have a tendency to depend on whether you’ve won it or not.
But if we strip away the meta-meaning of such a match, the message sent from The King Power Stadium was loud and clear: on the basis of the available evidence, Liverpool look considerably better prepared for the new Premier League season than Manchester City.
In a sense, this shouldn’t be surprising. Both of these clubs have made significant changes to their attacking structures for the new season, but have gone about it in subtly different ways. Liverpool brought Luis Diaz in at the end of the January transfer window and then strengthened further with the acquisition of Darwin Nunez, while Sadio Mane left for Bayern Munich. Evolution over revolution? Probably, and the memories of Nunez being castigated as ‘the new Andy Carroll’ after a miss in their friendly – and there was no doubt whatsoever that this match was a ‘friendly’ – against Manchester United already seem long-forgotten.
Manchester City have followed a different tack. It’s been clear all summer that they are rebuilding the way in which they attack. Not only has football’s Ivan Drago arrived from a remote log cabin in Siberia, but Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling have departed for Arsenal and Chelsea respectively.
A False Nine has been replaced by Definitely A Number Nine, and it’s somewhat inevitable that changing the system in this way will take time to bed in.
And while Guardiola may not be overly concerned about this all clicking into place in the end, it is equally true that the new Premier League season starts in less than a week’s time and that, in a league in which more than 90 points is the minimum requirement to have a chance of winning the title – as has been the case over three of the last four seasons – points dropped in August count just as much as points dropped in April or May.
But there can be no sugar-coating that Haaland’s performance against Liverpool was pretty abject. There is, due to his size alone, something distinctly lumbering about his gait, but at The King Power Stadium he seemed to be playing a different game to the rest of his team, and the figures very much speak for themselves; 16 touches all evening, no headers or interceptions won, seven completed passes.
These figures would be pretty poor in any professional team. In the case of Manchester City, the possession boa constrictors of the Premier League, they have an almost other-worldly look about them.
And in a moment of visual metaphor so perfect as to be agonising, in stoppage-time at the end of a match that was by this time, whether it meant anything or not, already lost, Haaland spurned a chance to at least undo some of the damage done to his reputation by the previous 90-and-a-bit minutes by driving the ball wildly at the crossbar from five yards out with Liverpool’s goalkeeper Adrian prostrate on the ground and the goal at his mercy. Converting this chance wouldn’t have completely undone the 90 minutes that preceded it, but it might have settled a few nerves at least.
Manchester City have got plenty of insulation against panic. Julian Alvarez didn’t suffer like Haaland did against Liverpool. He came on, scored a goal and looked like a reasonable fit for Pep’s jigsaw. That, Pep may have reflected after the game, is what a debut for one of his teams should look like.
And the truth remains that if he can combine a system that fits that the way that Haaland plays with one that works for Alvarez, Manchester City still have frightening attacking capability and can score goals from all over the pitch. They had seven players reach double figures in all competitions last season, and only two of those have left the club.
But repeating the mantra that ‘this is only a glorified friendly’ is only going to get anybody so far, because the bottom line about Erling Haaland’s performance for Manchester City in the Community Shield is that, while it’s completely fair to not consider this match to be of any great consequence, this lack of consequence doesn’t render what everybody witnessed irrelevant.
Haaland is a fantastic player. There’s nothing new in saying that. He’s only just turned 22 years old, and has years to perfect his game. And it should be remembered that Liverpool are not like most of the other teams that he will be playing against this season. He will find other Premier League defences to be more forgiving.
There’s clearly work to do. Players can be a bad fit for a team or a system, and the very first issue that Pep Guardiola now has to identify is whether this is just a matter of ‘bedding in’ or whether this performance was a sign of a broader incompatibility between player and team.
How much should those systems be bent to fit the strengths of one player? How much can that player be brought into what Pep already has planned? These questions may come to determine the first few weeks of the Premier League season, and consequently the ultimate destination of this season’s league title.
The article Man City need Haaland patience they may not be granted by Liverpool in title race appeared first on Football365.com.


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The main draw at the WTA Korean Open started without any upsets in Seoul on Monday as all of the top seeds in action progressed with little difficulty.
Although a total of eight matches were played at the Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center, only three lasted longer than two sets.
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, the second seed, advanced to round two after she fought back from a set down against Kristyna Pliskova
The match last 128 minutes, with Schmiedlova eventually triumphing 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 after defending six break points in the last two sets.
Meanwhile, fifth seed Mona Barthel had a slightly smoother passage to the second round and won in straight sets after 94 minutes.
The German eliminated South Korea’s Jang Su Jeong, racing to a 6-0 win in the first set in 23 minutes before battling it out for 71 minutes to win the second set 7-6(7-2).
Up next for Barthel is unseeded Columbian Mariana Duque-Marino, who progressed at the expense of Kiki Bertens.
Duque-Marino won 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 after a 128-minute long back-and-forth battle with the Dutchwoman.
Magdalena Rybarikova also sealed a spot in round two after Klara Koukalova retired from their match with the Rybarikova leading by a set and a game.
Meanwhile, eighth seed Alison van Uytvanck won 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-2) against Andreea Mitu in a 119-minute match, seventh seed Julia Georges beat Spain’s Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino 6-1, 6-4 and Slovenia’s Polona Hercog won 6-1, 6-3 against Lauren Davis.

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The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to end all oil drilling in LA and ban new wells, a historic move in a city that was once built by the booming petroleum industry and resulted from decades of environmental degradation. Consequences have to be faced.
In a 12-0 vote, the council approved a new ordinance that immediately bans new oil and gas extraction and requires that all existing oil and gas extraction sites cease production within 20 years.
The move has been opposed by the oil industry, whose leaders have warned city officials that phasing out would hurt the city’s finances and make LA more dependent on foreign oil.
According to the city’s Department of Planning, Los Angeles has 26 oil and gas fields and more than 5,000 oil and gas wells. Some wells are active, while others are inactive.
Many wells are found in the Wilmington and Seaport areas, but also operate in Downtown, West Los Angeles, South Los Angeles and the northwest San Fernando Valley, according to the city’s planning department.
oil wells Known to emit potential carcinogens Studies have found that exposure to pollutants, including benzene and formaldehyde, and living near wells have been linked to health problems including respiratory problems and premature birth.
MAP: View oil wells in your neighborhood
Environmental justice activists allege that low-income communities of color are particularly affected by wells and related health problems.
Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling, or STAND-LA, a group of community groups that helped lead the legislation, said in a statement Friday that “Blacks, Latinx, and other communities of color are currently at risk of polluting in South LA and Wilmington.” Those living near oil wells and derricks will finally breathe easy.
Nevertheless, STAND-LA members left Friday’s city council meeting and a subsequent news conference with several council members saying they could not support “business as usual”, while Gil Cedillo And Kevin de Leon, who is facing calls to resign after his role in the 2021 incendiary closed-door talks, remains on the council.
“Our city and this council must prepare themselves for the anti-blackness that created the policies that allowed oil drilling in the first neighborhood and that fostered an environment where racism and corruption are so rampant among council members. example,” the group said.
A 2018 City Comptroller report citing state data showed that 77% of active and inactive wells in the city are operated by six companies: Warren E&P; Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas LLC; tidelands oil production; Southern California Gas; Pacific Coast Energy; and Bray Cannon Oil.
In an October letter to city officials, the California Independent Petroleum Association, a trade group representing more than 300 independent crude oil and natural gas producers, disputed claims of “harmful health effects” from oil and gas drilling and production operations.
The group also said that the loss of oil production in the city would lead to more oil imports through the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
“The South Coast Air Quality Management District has identified oil tankers as one of the major sources of air pollution in the LA Basin,” the group wrote.
The group also pointed to a June 2020 study by Capital Matrix Consulting, which estimated that the oil and gas industry brings in about $250 million to the city’s general fund.
The city commissioner’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the $250 million figure.
James Watt, Warren’s chairman and chief executive, said Friday that his company intends to use “all available legal resources” in response to the new city regulations.
“Our operations are a model for urban oil and gas operations,” said Watt, who described the pollution from Warren’s operations as “comparable to a fast-food restaurant.”
He also stated that Warren converted its operations to use electricity instead of diesel power and that the company has invested over $400 million in its operations.
Council President Paul Krekorian on Friday described the ordinance as a “monumental step” in the city’s history and its relationship with oil.
He noted that City Hall is adorned with art celebrating the petroleum industry, a business that helped spur L.A.’s growth in the early 20th century and later provided jobs for veterans after World War II.
“This may be the most important step toward environmental justice that this council has taken in recent memory,” Krekorian said.
The city is conducting studies to determine when oil companies operating in Los Angeles will be able to recoup their investments from wells and drill sites. If that period is less than 20 years, those companies may have to close operations sooner.
There are two drill sites that sit on city properties: Rancho Park in Cheviot Hills and O’Melveney Park in Granada Hills, said Erica Bleither, petroleum administrator for the city. Oil companies rent property from the city.
The city also charges royalties from wells that are on or near city properties.

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As the American Chemical Society kicks off its 2014 International Elastomer Conference today in Nashville, Tennessee, Nanotronics Imaging has brought to the world of research its latest computer-controlled microscope, the nSPEC® 3D. And this microscope is unlike any that I, and probably you, have ever seen. Though it makes use of advanced technology for very practical research purposes, the nSPEC® 3D also brings a unique aesthetic approach to the design and creation of laboratory equipment.
Nanotronics is in the business of making high tech microscopes with high-resolution cameras, a wide range of lighting capabilities, and automated hardware for rapid scanning. Their devices have been designed for analyzing series of samples quickly in order to save researchers time, whether it be processing tissues in medical research or analyzing water samples for possible contaminants. Their newest microscope takes their imaging technology to the next dimension, giving users the ability to capture nanoscale 3D images.
From a technical perspective, the nSPEC® 3D is interesting, in that it uses high quality optical lenses in conjunction with pattern recognition algorithms and artificial intelligence to create nanoscale 3D images. Using their computer software, the microscope can produce quantitative results and classify structures with, according to the company, “a single mouse click or gesture.” Recognizing the importance of imminently ubiquitous technologies, like gesture-enabled interfaces, Nanotronics has its sights on the future, which may be why they’ve designed the nSPEC® 3D to look so unique, with its custom, 3D printed hardware. The hood on the nSPEC® 3D was designed by renowned 3D printing designer Francis Bitonti, along with artist Mari Kussman, yielding a microscope with custom parts only made possible with 3D printing.
The nSPEC® 3D was originally designed for imaging a high number of complex materials in a factory setting, previously unable to repeatably create and automatically interpret 3D topography maps. Nanotronics CEO, Matthew Putman, explains that their latest device will change the way that 3D images are captured in a wide variety of fields, saying, “Our solution will allow a host of industries, including industrial materials, semiconductors, and even biopharmaceuticals, to access sophisticated imaging that can improve their ability to produce and manipulate advanced materials quickly and efficiently.”
One company, Flow Polymers, has already begun using the nSPEC® 3D in their business as a manufacturer of proprietary and custom chemical dispersions, process aids, and homogenizing agents. Flow Polymers’ materials have been used for the manufacturing of tires, auto parts, industrial products, wires, cables, and plastics and the company’s CEO, Michael Ivany, believes that the nSPEC® 3D has only improved their work, “For three decades, Flow Polymers has produced additives and rubber chemical dispersions to improve mix quality and compound properties,” said Michael Ivany, CEO of Flow Polymers. “We are excited by Nanotronics Imaging’s development of the nSPEC® 3D, as this instrument has the potential to help the industry optimize product performance, service life and uniformity. Until now we have not been able to identify an instrument that could adequately quantify the quality of mix.”
Nanotronics Imaging currently holds, what sounds like, an exciting booth at the conference, where they’ll be using the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion to give attendees a fully-enclosed 3D view of 3D nanoscale landscapes captured by the nSPEC® 3D that can manipulated through the Leap Motion’s gesture control. If you’re lucky enough to be at the event, stop by Booth #503 over the next two days and see how Nanotronics is revolutionizing microscopy and imaging.


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This news from the House of Mouse, by way of Angelina Jolie, is going to please a lot of people as the Oscar Winning star has been speaking about her return to acting and one role she is keen to reprise – Maleficent.
Last week, screenwriter Jez Butterworth (Cruella, Edge of Tomorrow) was brought on to re-write the script for the film and now Jolie has seemingly given the clearest indication yet that she is set to put on the horns once more. Speaking at the Telluride Film Festival (via Deadline), Jolie responded to questions about the film, briefly saying:
“I am now the breadwinner for the family, so it’s time… We have been working on the script and this is going to be a really strong sequel.”
Released 2014, Maleficent was one of the first live-action remakes/reboots of Disney’s classic films, this one retelling the story of Sleeping Beauty but from the point of view of Maleficent, the film’s villain. The film went on to gross an impressive $758.5 million worldwide and co-starred Elle Fanning (The Beguiled) as Beauty as well as Sharlto Copley (Chappie) and Sam Riley (Free Fire).
Jolie is at Telluride to promote her new film, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, her new film as a director which tells the story of a young girl in the midst of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in 1975. The film debuts on Netflix on September 15th.


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Entering the buy-to-let property market can be an excellent financial opportunity, however if you...
Entering the buy-to-let property market can be an excellent financial opportunity, however if you aren’t careful and you don’t seek the right advice, you may be running the risk of making some all-too-common mistakes.
As a leading letting agency in Sutton Coldfield, at Belvoir we want to make sure that your experience as a landlord is as positive as possible, so here are a few of the more common mistakes that are made by new landlords (and how you can avoid them).
Not Screening Applicants
Your prospective tenants must be trustworthy individuals of good character, as well as having the ability afford rent payments each month and have a good credit rating.
When your tenants apply to rent your property, they will typically give you contact information for two or more references. You must ensure that you check the references provided by all of your applicants, as if you fail to do this you could be missing out on vital information that could influence your decision.
If you are going it alone without the assistance of a letting agency, you must make sure that you have consistent criteria for selecting your tenants and always contact their references.
Not Researching Thoroughly
When you become a landlord, you need to know your market. If is important that you are aware of how the rental market is behaving in your area, what you can expect in terms of rental yield and what kind of tenants you would like to rent your property.
If you do not research the market properly, you will not have an accurate idea of who you should be aiming your property at or how much you should be charging for rent, which could lead to your property remaining on the market for a prolonged period of time.
By hiring a letting agent, you can have access to more accurate information about the rental market and be more assured that you are marketing your property appropriately.
Not Seeking Professional Advice
The property market can be very difficult to understand, and the most common mistakes made by new landlords are made by those who do not have access to professional advice.
By hiring a letting agency to manage your property, you can rest assured knowing every step of the process is taken care of, from placing the property on the rental market to regular property inspections.
Belvoir is a leading letting agency in the UK, and we can help you to successfully market your rental property in Sutton Coldfield. For more information, contact us today on 0121 321 3388.

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The official social media pages for Deadpool, have all posted congratulation to Wonder Woman for surpassing it at the domestic box office, by sharing a photo of Deadpool wearing the Wonder Woman symbol as a necklace and his hands out in the shape of a heart.
As of this weekend Wonder Woman has grossed $368 million at the domestic box office in 38 days, beating out Deadpool total gross domestically of $363 million in 128 days. With the way Wonder Woman is pacing at box office as a whole, it’s also looking like it’ll beat out Deadpool in the worldwide box office as well.
— Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) July 11, 2017
Even Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins responded to the nice gesture through her official Twitter account:
— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) July 11, 2017
- First Sneak Peek To Zack Snyder’s Justice League Released - June 22, 2020
- Warner Bros. To Host The First DC FanDome on August 22nd - June 16, 2020
- Pete Davidson Talks Very Little On His Character In The Suicide Squad - June 15, 2020


The R-package ppstat implements methods for point process statistics for multivariate point processes (that is, marked point processes) on the line. The package is still under development. Version 0.8 is available from CRAN. The development version is available from R-Forge. The package is based on another R-package processdata. This package implements a data structure for storing point process and general stochastic process data. It includes various plotting and subsetting facilities. The ppstat package implements a framework termed generalized linear point process models where the model is specified in terms of a (non-linear) transformation of a linear combination of predictor processes. The package supports a specification of such models via a formula, which can be used to express a number of different transformations and filters of the basic processes that enter into the predictor. The data structure supports observations of one or several independent point processes, whose intensity can be given in terms of its own internal history as well as additional covariate processes. The package was originally developed for point process modeling of genome features. However, there is nothing in the package that is specific to genomic modeling. Indeed, that package implements models that have been used to model such diverse things as financial trade times and neuron spike times.
Keywords for this software
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- Kallah-Dagadu, G.; Nkansah, B. K.; Howard, N. K.: Flexible statistical modelling of the occurrences of transcription factor binding sites along a DNA sequence (2018)
- Ana Cebrián; Jesús Abaurrea; Jesús Asín: NHPoisson: An R Package for Fitting and Validating Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes (2015) not zbMATH
- Hansen, Niels Richard: Nonparametric likelihood based estimation of linear filters for point processes (2015)


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UPDATED, JULY 26, 4:15 P.M.: Another day, another federal judge Queen of the Birthers Orly Taitz has managed to piss off.
The latest is District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who wrote of the Laguna Niguel dentist/lawyer/real-estate saleswoman–in a ruling dated Monday–“Plaintiff is either toying with the Court or displaying her own stupidity.”
The stupidity stems from Taitz's case alleging President Barack Obama is using someone else's Social Security number (no doubt part of his debt-ceiling-busting scheme to bring down the whole system!).
Taitz has drawn Lamberth's wrath for failing to adhere to the court's order that she only include in her funny papers that last four digits of the Social Security number, as opposed to the whole thing. Despite repeated warnings, Taitz ain't getting it (which, as many have claimed, may be the crux of her obsession).
When Taitz admitted to making the error once but blaming subsequent fuck-ups on the court clerk, Lamberth shot back, “After making the somewhat hysterical claim in her motion for
reconsideration that there may be 'an employee in this court, who is
intentionally sabotaging' her, plaintiff engaged the Court's Courtroom
Deputy Clerk in a lengthy, accusatory conversation. There is no logical explanation she can provide as to
why she is now wasting the Court's time, as well as staff's time, with
these improper redactions.”
Maybe Lamberth is the crazy one for expecting logic from Orly. Because, as Marty Wisckol notes in the Orange County Register, Taitz has compiled something of a fuming federal judge list that includes:
- Clay D. Land, who wrote that a Taitz filing was
“breathtaking in its arrogance and borders on delusional. She expresses
no contrition or regret regarding her misconduct. To the contrary, she
continues her baseless attacks on the Court….” Land sanctioned her $20,000 for misconduct, a sum collected last month after a lien was put on her house;
- David O. Carter, who in rejecting her Obama birthplace case in 2009 wrote, “Plaintiffs' request, asking this Court to sweep away the votes of over 69 million Americans with the stroke of a pen and order a new
election during which the country would be in a state of turmoil,
ignores the Constitution's processes and separation of powers that were
developed by the founders”;
- Andrew Guilford, who, as the original post indicates, Taitz accuses of being part of a bizarre conspiracy with other birther lawyers trying to shut down her Social Security case.
Keep going, Orly; five more and you can field a judicial softball team.
ORIGINAL POST, JULY 15, 3:15 P.M.: Orly Taitz has, of course, taken on President of the United States of America Barack Hussein Obama, former foe for the GOP nomination for California Secretary of State Damon Dunn and even folks who are not African-American.
now, the Queen of the Birthers is squaring off against other
birthers–and asking the media and still other birthers to help her.
See if you can make it through the opening of this post on the Laguna Niguel dentist/lawyer/real-estate saleswoman's website without pausing for a breath:
I need as many media outlets as possible covering, what is going on
in the courtroom of judge Andrew Guilford, Central District of CA, Santa
Ana (same district, where judge Carter is working), where I,
investigator Sankey, database companies Choice Point, Lexis Nexis,
Intelius (all the companies, that supplied me with Obama's social
security numbers) and even Oracle are being harassed with a bogus law
suit brought by Philip Berg and his local CA counsel Gary Kreep, (both
of whom claim to be on our side) whose lead plaintiff is Lisa Rene
Richardson Liberi, convicted in 2008 in CA of 10 felony counts of
forgery and grand theft.
Taitz goes on to lay out a conspiracy involving the filing of suit accusing her of libel, defamation and assault that, she says, includes Berg's assistant Liberi trying to pass herself off as another person and Liberi's fears that Orly will hire a hit man to kill Berg and kidnap the children of former web
master Lisa Ostella for replacing the PayPal account on Tatiz's account with her own.
Um . . . wow!
"Now, instead of working on removing usurper Obama from
office, I need to waste an enormous amount of time dealing with a new
avalanche of garbage,” Taitz tsk-tsks.
As she fights this in Guilford's court, she has asked her supporters to contact U.S. Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas) of the House Committee on the
Judiciary to include her plight in their investigation of Obama's Department of Justice.
She also wants her birther pals to contact the district attorney in Philadelphia, the attorney general in Pennsylvania, the Inspector
General of DoJ and others to "demand answers as to why clear evidence of obstruction of justice,
spoliation of evidence, tampering with evidence [and] fraud on the court [wer[were] committed by the employees of the court and officers of the court.”
Her plea was quickly answered by organizers of something known as The Birther Summit, “an event presently being planned for the voice of the people to be
united into a single unavoidable chorus requiring our officials to do
the jobs for which they were elected, and fully investigate Barack
Obama's eligibility, based upon the sparse documentation he has
provided.” It's set for March 28-30, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
Taitz's site includes a “Birther Summit Statement on Unity and Support” that includes the following:
our unequivocal support for the efforts of Orly Taitz, Esq. While
individuals are entitled to their personal opinions about anybody, we,
as a movement, recognize Orly Taitz as an American patriot who continues
to fight tirelessly for the cause of justice, and for that, we offer
her not only our support, but also our undying gratitude.
Moreover, we are aware of certain lawyers who, for purposes of
financial gain, or motivations of self promotion, have filed various
legal actions against Dr. Taitz, and the Birther Summit categorically
condemns those actions. Regardless of past involvement to promote the
eligibility movement, those individuals, through their present
litigation against Dr. Taitz, are not only a detriment to our cause, but
also to the public perception of our cause.
As Taitz seeks media attention to what's going on in Guilford's Santa Ana courtroom, she's releasing the hounds on the media attention she received Wednesday from Ed Brayton, a journalist, commentator and speaker who co-founded and is president of Michigan Citizens for Science, a contributor to The Bard, Skeptic and Reports
of the National Center for Science Education and a fellow with the Center for
Independent Media and a participant in the Center for Independent Media New
On his Dispatches from the Culture Wars blog, Brayton posted "Tea Party Nation Goes Full Birther” that accuses Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips with buying what Tatiz is selling when it comes to Obama's presidential eligibility.
The last line, after Phillips is quoted as saying Taitz needs to be considered one of the nation's greatest lawyers if she wins her so-far tossed or ignored cases against Obama, has Brayton writing, "The day that Orly Taitz is considered one of the great lawyers of
this country is the day that Sirhan Sirhan wins the Congressional Medal
That was enough to set off Orly, who called on her minions to make Brayton's life hell.

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You won’t get a birthday card from Uncle Sam, but the IRS is keen to know when you turn age 70½. That's when it mandates you begin taking required minimum distributions (RMDs) from your tax-deferred accounts such as your 403(b) plan, 457 plan or traditional individual retirement account (IRA).
The required beginning date (RBD) is April 1 of the year after you turn 70½. If you fail to take IRS-specified amount out of your retirement account (based on IRS life expectancy tables), you’ll also likely be socked with a 50% excess accumulation tax. That means you may have to pay 50% of the amount that should have been withdrawn, but wasn't.
When it’s time to take your RMD, see IRS Publication 590: "Individual Retirement Arrangements".

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13-Day Andean Highlights Trip to Machu Picchu + Flights
Valencia Travel •
- A 13-Day Trip to Peru ($1,899 to $2,199 per Person), Including:
- Round-Trip International Flights from Miami to Lima
- Domestic Flight from Lima to Arequipa and from Cusco to Lima
- Ground Transportation Between Airport, Accommodations, and City Stops via Bus; Boat Transportation on Lake Titicaca; and Train Transportation between Cusco and Machu Picchu
- Double-Occupancy Accommodations for Nine Nights in a Casa Andina Classic or Similar Property in Lima, Arequipa, Chivay, Puno, Cusco, and Aguas Calientes; and One Night in a Home Stay in Luquina
- Ten Breakfasts, Two Lunches, and One Dinner
- City Tour of Lima, Hike to Cruz del Condor, Traditional Andean Party, Walking Tour of Cusco, Walking Tour of Machu Picchu
- Airline Taxes and Fuel Surcharges, Hotel Fees, and Entrance and Admission Fees
- Priced per Person Based on Double Occupancy (See Fine Print)
From big cities to small lakeside villages and cloud-shrouded ruins, this itinerary reveals the very best of Peru.
The scenes of Peru are every bit as magical as you'd imagine: Vine-draped ruins of mysterious civilizations sitting atop the world; vast mountain lakes unfurling under an endless sky; historic cities packed with colonial charm; and snow-capped Andean peaks. The attraction that put Peru on the tourism map, the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu, rises above the clouds on a jungle-covered mountain. It stuns with precisely cut walls, terraces, and ramps—not to mention dizzying views of mountain spires in every direction.
But that's not all that Peru has to offer: In the capital, Lima, there are enough world-class museums, ocean-view parks, pre-Inca ruins, and trendy restaurants to keep you busy for days. The highland city of Cusco was once the capital of the Inca Empire, and many of the 16th-century Spanish churches and palaces were built on still-visible Inca foundations. Today, the city is full of markets where Quechua-speaking vendors offer exquisite handicrafts.
Arequipa, in the middle of Peru's canyon country, is a fiery city, known for the towering, snow-capped volcano looming over town; its distinctive 17th-century architecture, which harnessed local volcanic rock to craft stunning monasteries, arches, and cathedrals; and its perpetual sunshine. Nearby, boats built with reeds glide along the surface of Lake Titicaca, just as they have for centuries. You'll see the very best Peru has to offer with this 13-day tour from Valencia Travel Cusco.
day 1: Board your overnight flight from Miami International Airport to Lima, Peru.
day 2: After your arrival at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport, a representative from Valencia Travel Cusco will pick you up and take you to your hotel. In the afternoon, you'll take a city tour and see the Huaca Pucllana pyramid, colonial palaces, the ancient artifacts at the Central Bank Museums, and more.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Miraflores San Antonio or similar.
day 3: Ride to the airport and board your domestic flight to Arequipa's Rodríguez Ballón International Airport. Check in at your hotel, then spend the afternoon walking around the city and snapping pictures of its unique architecture. We recommend visiting the Santa Catalina Monastery.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Arequipa or similar. Breakfast provided.
day 4: Take a four-hour bus ride through the Andes to Chivay, where you'll settle in at your hotel in the beautiful Colca Canyon.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Colca or similar. Breakfast provided.
day 5: Enjoy breakfast before departing for Cruz del Condor, one of the best places in the world to spot Andean condors in flight. Head back to Chivay, then ride to Puno to stay for the night.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Puno Tikarani or similar. Breakfast provided.
day 6: After breakfast, take a boat ride to the Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca, built by their residents using reeds and grasses. In the afternoon, you'll continue on to the Chucuito Peninsula. You'll get to experience a traditional way of life on Lake Titicaca and participate in activities like farming and fishing. You will spend the night in the home of one of the community's families, enjoying the rare opportunity to learn about their culture firsthand.
Overnight in a home in the village of Luquina. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided.
day 7: After breakfast, say goodbye to your host family and board another boat, which will sail for about an hour to Taquile Island. This traditional Quechua-speaking community is home to ancient agricultural terraces and some ruins that date back to the pre-Inca times. Enjoy views of Lake Titicaca while walking on the island's narrow paths. Afterward, you'll board a boat back to Puno.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Puno Tikarani or similar. Breakfast provided.
day 8: Ride a bus to Cusco; along the way, you'll make stops in the traditional highland communities of Pukara, La Raya, Raqchi, and Andahuyalillas.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Cusco Plaza or similar. Breakfast and a buffet lunch provided.
day 9: On a walking tour of Cusco, you'll see the Main Plaza, Plaza Nazarenas, the colorful San Blas neighborhood, the San Pedro local market, and more.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Cusco Plaza or similar. Breakfast provided.
day 10: Take a midday train through the Sacred Valley of the Incas to Aguas Calientes, where natural springs and botanical gardens make for picturesque surroundings.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Machu Picchu or similar. Breakfast provided.
day 11: Eat breakfast, then ride a bus to Machu Picchu to see the sunrise. Then, enjoy a guided walking tour with the group before heading off to explore the city on your own. Take care to catch your train back to Cusco for the night.
Overnight at Casa Andina Classic Cusco Plaza or similar. Breakfast included.
day 12: After breakfast, ride from your hotel to Cusco's Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to board a flight back to Lima. From there, transfer to your international return flight to Miami.
day 13: Bid a fond farewell to Peru as you arrive back in the United States.
Miami (MIA) departures:
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Wednesday 8 February 2012, 4.15PM to 17:45
Speaker(s): Dr. Giancarlo Manzi, University of Milan
We consider the biases that can arise in bias elicitation when expert assessors make random errors. We illustrate the phenomenon for two sources of bias: that due to omitting important variables in a least squares regression and that which arises in adjusting relative risks for treatment effects using an elicitation scale. Results show that, even when assessors' elicitations of bias have desirable properties (such as unbiasedness and independence), the nonlinear nature of biases can lead to elicitations of bias that are, themselves, biased. We show the corrections which can be made to remove this bias and discuss the implications for the applied literature which employs these methods.
Location: ARRC Auditorium

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New Delhi: Have you taken the Bat Balance Challenge yet? Indian cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress wife Anushka Sharma recently dropped a video on social media and their fans can’t keep calm.
Anushka Sharma’s caption reads: I had fun doing the TakaTak #BatBalance challenge with @virat.kohli! You too show us your skills by participating in the #BatBalance challenge on the @mxtakatak app now
This happens to be a promotional paid partnership video for an entertainment app.
Anushka and daughter Vamika accompanied Virat Kohli to England, where the team lost the World Test Championship finals against New Zealand in Southampton recently. Team India will now take on hosts England in the five-match Test series which is scheduled to begin on August 4, 2021.
On the work front, Anushka Sharma was last seen in Aanand L Rai’s Zero, opposite Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif. She is currently producing late Irrfan Khan’s son Babil’s debut film ‘Qala’. It will be streamed on Netflix.
Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma kickstarted a fundraiser for coronavirus patients and collected a huge sum for the needy in times of pandemic.

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A new World Record thank you deviantArt!
The One Million Masterpiece has officially taken the world record for the most artists creating a single artwork, meaning that it has officially become the world's largest artistic collaboration.
The previous record was set in Brenham, Texas , where 25,297 people contributed to a painting titled A Little Dab of Texas. While the previous record was set over 3 years and 7 months, the One Million Masterpiece members have achieved the record in just 11 months.
The new world record will be announced on Monday 09 July, however as the single largest contributor to the project, the deviantArt community deserve a special thank-you. Over 18,000 deviantArt members have taken part in the project, helping to raise many thousands of pounds for global causes and becoming world record breakers in the process.
The 25,298th member to join the project was Geraldine Tough from Crayford in London. Geraldine heard about the pro


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To protect breastfeeding from the commercial influence of baby food and feeding bottle companies , BPNI monitors companies compliance with “Infant Milk Substitutes,Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution)Act 1992 and Amendment Act 2003 (IMS Act). BPNI is notified in the Gazette of India as a child welfare NGO to initiate action under section 21(1) of the IMSAct for officially monitoring and implementing IMS Act since 1995.
IMS Bare Act and Essentials Documents
- The infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992
- The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Act, 2003
- The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles And Infant Food (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Rules, 1993
- The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles And Infant Food (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Rules, 2003
- Notification on enforcement of the IMS Act Amendment Act - 2003
- Government of India Gazette notification to authorises BPNI to monitor the IMS Act and make a comolaint - 1995
- Haryana Government order Gazette, dated the 4th April, 2006
- Indian Standard - Plastics Feeding Bottles (First Revision) -20 Feb2014
Achievement of IMS Act
- Baby Food Product a Multi Billion Industry, theindiasaga.com/, May 23, 2016
- Indian Journal of Pediatrics violates law protecting breastfeeding, OneWorld South Asia, May 20, 2016
- Apologies mail by S. Mahendra Boopatjy, Assistant manager, British Life Science Pvt Ltd regarding withdrawal or to block circulation of advertisement of LF 100 in Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Vol-83, February, 2016
- E-mail communication from Mr. Rajiv Dhir, Marketing Head of Indian Journal of Paediatrics stating that they have blocked February issue in which LF 100 advertisement is published and withdrawn contract with British Biologicals Pvt. Ltd.
- International conference continued without acceptance sponsorship from company Organising committee refused to take sponsorship from MEDELA and STERIFED, 10 -11th April, 2015 Pune .
- Secret meeting of doctors sponsored by Nestle got leaked out. The Secretary, IAP Gorakhpur resigned from his post, 25th August , 2012, Gorakhpur
- National Neonatology Forum Decline Sponsorship by Abbott, 16-19th December, 2011, Chennai.
- 16th Annual Conference of Indian Society for parental and enteral nutrition (ISPEN), sponsored by Nestle Nutrition Institute was cancelled by the organisers after letter issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 10-12th December, 2010, Chandigarh.
Affirmative Steps by Professional Organization
Milestone Case: Nestlé India Limited charged by the trial court
- Bhupender Singh, Metropolitan Magistrate, Rohini Court , Delhi, charge Nestle India ltd , 17th March, 2012
- Association for consumer action on safety and health vs Nestle India Ltd. 1st December, 2011
- Association for consumer action on safety and health vs Nestle India Ltd. 4th February, 2012
- Statement of Dr. Arun Gupta, Association of consumer vs Nestle India Ltd, 13th, Ocotber, 2006
- High court for Lower court case. 18th November,1998
- Criminal complains in lower court, 30th, November, 1994


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National Australia Bank Ltd's
chairman said on Tuesday he regretted the board's
failure to step in after the lender took three years to agree a
refund for thousands of pension fund investors charged fees for
advice they never received.
Mexico's incoming finance
minister on Monday said he will push for a larger primary budget
surplus next year as he sought to shore up investor confidence
after the main stock index fell to its lowest level since 2014.
Carlos Ghosn, the former chairman
of Nissan Motor Co, shifted personal investment losses
incurred during the 2008 financial crisis to the automaker to
avoid millions of dollars in losses himself, the Asahi Shimbun
reported on Tuesday.
Australia's banking regulator on Tuesday
proposed extending the deadline for implementing new capital
rules on some loans to Jan. 1, 2022, after lenders raised
concerns about the impact on their competitiveness against
Australian shares inched up on Tuesday as
developments in the U.S.-China trade dispute favoured caution,
but heavyweight BHP lent some support after announcing it had
found new mineral deposits in South Australia.


By Kabeer Yousuf — MUSCAT: Jan 17 – The price of fish across the country has skyrocketed, thanks to short supply in the market. With many varieties of fish in short supply, buyers have had to pay double the price at the central fish market in Muttrah. For instance, 1 kg of kingfish, which cost RO 2 earlier, is now sold at RO 4-4.5; shrimp costs RO 4.5 (RO 2 to RO 3) and 1 kg of tuna RO 4 to RO 4.5 (RO 1.7). One needs to shell out RO 3 to RO 3.5 for a kg of Doversole, which was earlier RO 1 to RO 1.5. Fish such as mackerel, barracuda, sardines and red snapper are available only in small quantities.
“Fish prices are rising steeply both at the Muttrah market and supermarkets,” said Hameed Moosa, a resident of Muscat. When asked about the short supply, an official at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries attributed it to increasing exports. “There’s a scarcity of certain kind of fish in the market due to increasing exports, with GCC being a major importer,” the official said. Omani fish is exported to a large number of countries, including Asian, European and far-eastern countries, and the demand is rising steadily.
According to the official figures, 127,090 tonnes of fish were harvested in 2016 as against 124,404 tonnes in the previous year. “Majority of the catch is sent out of the country,” said the official. “We have taken several steps to overcome scarcity, including instructing suppliers to ensure a major portion of the catch for local consumption and the remainder for exports,” the official said. On the price issue, she said it could be because of two factors: fuel price hike and lack of sufficient stock in the market. Some vendors said the weather was playing spoilsport, affecting the catch.
“Some fishermen are reluctant to venture out into the sea due to cold weather, especially during mornings and evenings, and lack of availability of certain varieties of fish,” said Nabil, a fisherman. This, he said, was one of the reasons for the high price and low supply. Nabil also said the Muttrah market was receiving only 12 tonnes of fish from Seeb, Salalah and other places as against 50 tonnes earlier.


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British manufacturers are failing to capitalise fully on the weak value of the pound as factory growth lags behind continental nations led by Germany.
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers’ index of UK factory output fell to 51.3 last month, just above the 50 reading that marks the divide between expansion and contraction.
It was the lowest reading since September 2009, the index having fallen by ten points in only four months. The Markit manufacturing PMI index for the eurozone also fell, touching 52.0 compared with 54.6 in May.
Northern European countries put in a more robust performance than Britain, despite burdens imposed on their exporters by the high value of the euro.
Germany’s reading was 54.6, with Austria, France and the Netherlands also above the 52…


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Listen to the Smartphone Photography Club podcast
I am very excited at the start of 2021 to introduce you to the brand new Smartphone Photography Club Podcast. As a mad podcast consumer myself, I have wanted to create one myself for over a year now!
Smartphones have made photography more accessible than ever. You are invited into the Smartphone Photography Club to be part of our education community. If you are a photo enthusiast wanting to become more creative and confident using your existing mobile device, this is the podcast for you.
Released twice a week, I will also regularly share a video version on Smartphone Photography Training YouTube channel to allow you to visually see what it is that I am waffling on about! I do often end up on tangents - I make no apologies. It is fun and I have a great time making the episodes.
Occasionally, I share my Lives inside the Smartphone Photography Club Facebook group as podcast episodes.
Do you want to help?
Subscribing and leaving a review on your favourite podcast platform will help tremendously to become discovered. It will also help create topics for future episodes.
Please email me if you leave a review, so I can reward you with a special discount or gift!
If you have topic ideas or guest ideas for future interviews, let me know.


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Dragon’s Guardian by Ava Richardson
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Only a fearless hero can bond with a dragon…
After three unsuccessful terms at Alveria’s Dragon Akademy, seventeen-year-old tamer trainee, Mari Asadottier, has one last chance to bond with a dragon. If she fails, her dream of joining the Dragon Guard will be over for good.
Normal life is impossible for Prince Kai Afkarr-Younger who has been stuck in his dragon form for two years. Unable to shift, he fears he will lose control of his magic as his draconian instincts grow more powerful.
When a sickness is spreads through the land and new monsters terrorize Alveria, Mari and Kai might be the only people who can stop it. But Mari’s hiding a secret connection to the beasts, and it may already be too late. Can they form a bond and stop Alveria from falling into chaos?


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A Healthy New York
New York City has some of the best hospitals and doctors in the world. But the pandemic laid bare where we still fall short of ensuring that all New Yorkers can live long and healthy lives. And the impact was felt disproportionately in Black and Brown communities, highlighting how much we’re failing these New Yorkers.
While the immediate concern must be ensuring the widespread and equitable distribution of vaccines and protecting those who haven’t yet received them - especially the most vulnerable among us - we need to also ensure that the infrastructure we build to accomplish this can be translated into a long-term shift in the way that we provide care for all New Yorkers.
This involves ensuring primary care for everyone, while also focusing on prevention at least as much as treatment. It means helping the most vulnerable among us with mental health and substance misuse treatments. It’s making our City healthier to live in by focusing on air and water quality, and by increasing the ability to walk and ride a bike to get around.
We need to ensure that the Mayor’s office is taking advice and working alongside public health officials to accomplish these goals, and that we’re using data to identify vulnerable populations that aren’t being correctly served.
And, as we just learned, we need to start preparing immediately for the next pandemic, as we can’t be caught off guard again.
Public health experts will be central to the Yang administration. We will lead the nation in COVID-19 recovery, but also confront the issues of mental health, depression, and drug dependency in new and innovative ways.
Again, we have some of the best doctors in the world, and some of the best hospitals. It’s time to ensure that every New Yorker also has the best access to healthcare.


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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday defeated Central Punjab by a margin of 29-runs in the National T20 Cup at Multan Stadium.
Punjab's chase of 178 runs went in vain as the side were all out for 149 in 19.2 overs. The side's opener Kamral Akmal scored 47 off 37 balls with four fours and six while Abdullah Shafique scored 43 in 37 balls.
Asif Afridi, Arshad Iqbal, Junaid Khan and Wahab Riaz got two wickets each.
Earlier, opener Fakhar Zaman guided Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to 178/7 in 20 overs. He scored 66 off 42 balls, powered by two fours and five sixes.
Zaman and captain Mohammad Rizwan (23) provided a good start after winning the toss. Mohammad Hafeez made 17 in 14 balls. Shoaib Malik remained not out on 27.
Medium-pacer Ahmed Bashir dismissed three KP batters for 32 runs. Zafar Gohar, Qasim Akram, Ehsan Adil, and Usman Qadir took a wicket each.


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Tired of lugging around a wallet bulging with a dozen or more credit cards? So was economist Melvin Salveson, who helped perfect the billing system for MasterCard. But his new wrinkle on plastic spending promises to help consumers leave home without it. According to Salveson, his OneCard will substitute for a wallet full of other cards.
The key is that consumers will be able to list all the accounts they normally pay by credit -- doctor visits, gas fill-ups, department stores -- with Salveson, and Salveson will sign up the outlets. He plans to do this by offering free computer equipment to stores and charging low processing fees.
Salveson already has spent more than $1.5 million to launch the OneCard, which he expects to be available this spring. His first goal is to sign up a third of California's 19 million spenders at $18 a card.


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The Bark’s new winter issue is a must read—Search and Rescue in the aftermath of 9/11, noted author Donald McCaig’s natural history of dogs, touching stories by esteemed author Alistair MacLeod, ex-New Yorker staffers Maeve Brennan and Brenda Peterson, and a glowing cover by artist Lauri Luck. This standout issue also features new essays by author/media critic Jon Katz, humorist Cynthia Heimel and NPR host Daniel Pinkwater, holistic health remedies, doggie paint-by-numbers and—as a special treat—free colorful Holiday postcards and gift tags designed by our award-winning illustrators. The set of 6 cards were commissioned exclusively for The Bark and are instant collectibles.
APPEARING IN THIS ISSUE:
Dogs and Us Donald McCaig tackles the history of our evolving relationship—from working dogs to the show ring.
Alpha Schmalpha? Rolling over the myths of dominance hierarchies. by Patricia McConnell, Ph. D.
Search and Rescue at Ground Zero Dogs learning new signals, inspiring many. by Heather Houlahan
Postcards from Home Reflections on the 9/11 aftermath: New York by Elizabeth Hess; Washington by Kathleen Phalen
Dogs of Ancient Rome A tour of the British Museum’s canine sculptures and mosaics. by Susie Green
[Holistic Health] Herbs and Ear Problems Nature’s soothing herbal remedies. by Randy Kidd, D.V.M.
[Products] From halters to harnesses—choosing “training” collars. The pros and cons in selecting a collar that’s right for your dog. by Denise Herman
[Research] Treating Canine Hypothyroidism New developments in this most common hormonal disorder. by Barry Kipperman, D.V.M.
[Exhibits] Paint By Numbers From kitsch to classic—the How-To craze and its most popular subject. by Alice Jurow
[Legal Matters] Vet Malpractice Complaints Precautions and recourse regarding healthcare damages. by Matt Krasnowski
[Safety] Holistic First-Aid Kits Are you prepared for an emergency? Is your dog? by CJ Puotinen
The Children Are Quiet When They Are Away Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker story about the longings of her beloved dog Bluebell.
Winter Dog Award-winning Canadian author Alistair MacLeod’s harrowing story about boyhood lessons learned on the ice.
Rex in the City Rex shows his true color in the days following the WTC tragedy. by Lee Forgotson
Tom and Penny Senior citizen, senior dog—comforting each other in their golden years. by Jon Katz
Domestic Happiness with Dogs Adventures in the wilds of New York with a young Siberian husky. by Brenda Peterson
Bobby, My Brother A preview from Daniel Pinkwater’s new book, Uncle Boris in the Yukon.
Fostering for the Dogoholic Taking in dogs and preparing them for a new life. by Cynthia Heimel