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How to Prepare for the Tricky Tax Seasons of 2018-19
Americans should check their withholding levels to make sure they won’t owe taxes or overpay, says Senior CFP Board Ambassador Jill Schlesinger, CFP®
This year and next year, tax time will be even trickier than usual as Americans adjust to the changes from the recently enacted tax law, including adjusting their withholding, according to Senior CFP Board Ambassador Jill Schlesinger, CFP®.
The IRS expects more than 155 million returns to be filed this year, of which more than 70 percent should receive a refund. The filing deadline is delayed. Procrastinators should mark April 17, rather than April 15, as their drop-dead date. The IRS typically audits less than 1 percent of individual tax returns.
Although the IRS has already begun accepting electronic and paper tax returns, paper filers will find that the agency begins processing paper returns later. Choosing e-file and direct deposit for refunds remains the fastest and safest way to file.
Americans will feel most of the changes stemming from the tax overhaul next year, in the 2019 tax season, Schlesinger said. But there are a few items people should be aware of:
- The IRS has created new withholding tables, but the recommended amounts may not be enough to cover many taxpayers, especially those in high tax states who could lose certain deductions. To be safe, at least for the first year of the new law, Americans may want to assume their tax liability will be at least the same as this year. Taxpayers can work with the human resources department at their employer to set their withholding levels.
- The new law allows people who itemize to deduct qualified medical and dental expenses that exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). That’s a lower threshold than the previous 10 percent. The level returns to 10 percent beginning Jan. 1, 2019.
- The new law repealed the individual mandate to carry health insurance. But taxpayers still need to provide proof of coverage for 2017 this year. Those who don’t have it will pay the penalty, which is the higher of 2.5 percent of your AGI, or $695 per adult and $347.50 per child, up to a maximum of $2,085.
A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional can help Americans’ prepare their taxes, manage inevitable changes in tax law and develop strategies to minimize taxes over time.
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A Healthy Start by Kim Roberts is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in getting babies and young children off to a great start in life - a mine of information on what children need to flourish, from pregnancy to starting school.
Easy-to-understand guide to the specific dietary needs of the under-5s to achieve a healthy balanced diet, including how to gradually move towards a diet in line with the Eatwell Guidance for children over 5 and for adults.
HENRY the bear and his friends love playing together- and discover how to have a happy, healthy lifestyle in this series for young children (and their parents!).
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Treatment & Detox Guide
Russian President Dmitry Medvedvev on Friday gave his officials three months to enact tough restrictions to try and curb alcohol abuse. Last month, Medvedev described alcoholism as a “national disaster”, which undermines public health and hampers the economy, urging the public to unite in fighting against it. Russia has one of the world’s highest per-capita….
As people age, they may tend to mix alcohol with prescription drugs. Disaster can ensue. Research suggests alcoholism among the elderly may not be diagnosed or is simply overlooked. Todd Wagner, clinical director at Blue Mountain Counseling in Dayton, said alcoholism among seniors is a growing problem, often going unnoticed. Maybe providers aren’t asking seniors….
Jennifer Vanlieu was addicted to heroin and painkillers for some time before she found a methadone clinic that could help her beat the drug addiction and hopefully get her life back on track. What she didn’t know was that her decision to use methadone as a means of transitioning from being addicted to heroin to….
For many years people, treatment professionals, family members and the like have all believed that in order for an alcoholic to recover from the alcoholism they have to WANT to recover. It’s been believed that you can’t help an alcoholic until they are ready to accept the help – right? This statement couldn’t be further from the….
Alcohol-related deaths among First Nations in B.C. are a staggering five times higher than for other British Columbians, says a prominent First Nations doctor, who argues aboriginal leaders need to start working on an alcohol strategy to save lives. Dr. Evan Adams, aboriginal health physician adviser in the office of the Provincial Health Officer, believes….

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Welcome to Braggsville / T. Geronimo Johnson.
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
354 pages ; 24 cm
"From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold it 'Til it Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment--a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer."-- Provided by publisher.
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ZF Student Systems in Solihull, United Kingdom
Division A - Engineering - Steering
The exciting placement role is to work in the EPS sensor integration team responsible for developing steering sensor sub-systems within the ZF Steering Organization.
Work with Engineering teams, suppliers, Quality, Production and project teams to deliver the sub-system to meet ZF and customer requirements. You will gain experience of the technical content of projects, including design, specification and adherence to timing to achieve performance criteria.
Support the following activities:
CATIA design work
Validation management and reporting
ZF change management
Work with other undergraduate Engineers to manage, develop and deliver the annual student project – normally unveiled in a site-wide presentation or open day.
Work with ZF colleagues around the world – this placement may provide the opportunity to visit steering sites outside of the UK.
Enthusiastic about mechatronic product design and the automotive industry
Creative and able to connect theoretical principles to practical solutions
Self-confident: A good communicator who thrives in a team environment
Well organized with strong self-management abilities
Required Education and Experience
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The narrative of two Bugatti Chirons, intricately customized to reflect the unique personalities and passions of their owners, unfolds as a tale of boundless creativity and devotion. The Bugatti brand, synonymous with limitless possibilities, offers customers the opportunity to manifest their creative visions even beyond the initial purchase.
The story begins with a husband and wife, avid Bugatti enthusiasts, embarking on a shared journey to celebrate their passion for hyper sports cars. Opting for the ultimate Grand Tourisme, the Chiron Super Sport, they found a canvas for personal expression. The wife, inspired by the timeless Veyron L’Or Blanc, collaborated with Bugatti Sur Mesure designers to bring her vision to life. The result was a hand-painted masterpiece named ‘L’aura,’ radiating energy with a vibrant combination of Rosso Efesto and Arancia Mira in a design known as “Vagues de Lumière.”
The intricate process of creating this bespoke paint scheme, involving meticulous hand-painting of millimeter-perfect lines, showcased the individuality of each Bugatti. The husband, captivated by the transformation of his wife’s car, decided to embark on a parallel journey. His car, named ‘Coup de Foudre,’ underwent a seven-month transformation, matching the aesthetic of his wife’s Chiron. The Bugatti Customer Service team undertook the challenging task of changing the visible carbon fiber finish and applying light-sculpted lines in French Racing Blue, resulting in a car that felt entirely refreshed and brand new.
The commitment of Bugatti’s Customer Service team to perfection was evident in the precision required to align carbon fiber panels and apply the intricate stripes. Each cutout, inspired by the French Racing Blue contrast color, took weeks of meticulous adjustment, and the final result was a unique manifestation of artistic flair. The finishing touch involved hand-painting the name ‘Coup de Foudre’ beneath the rear wing, on door sills, and on the center console.
Of course, like any Bugatti Chiron, there’s a substantial price to pay for owning such unique automotive creations, to the tune of nearly $4 million each, which these fine examples cost and will inevitably retain such a value for many years to come.
Frederic Stocks, Head of the Aftersales Workshop, acknowledged the technical challenges of this transformation, highlighting the unparalleled experience and knowledge of the Bugatti Aftersales team. The resulting bespoke Chiron Super Sport, reflecting the convergence of customer vision and Bugatti creativity, stands as a testament to the brand’s commitment to unparalleled personalization.
Hendrik Malinowski, Managing Director at Bugatti Automobiles, emphasized the uniqueness of Bugatti’s approach to customization, where each expert’s individual style and the customer’s vision merge to create entirely distinctive cars. The narrative of these two Chirons, distinct in their journeys yet united by the savoir-faire of Bugatti, pays homage to the innovative and beautiful Veyron L’Or Blanc, a timeless inspiration that continues to drive the brand’s pursuit of excellence.


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TIKTOK sensation Addison Rae shot to fame making dance videos on the app.
The influencer has gone on to star in TV and film and is one of the most followed celebrities on TikTok.
What is Addison Rae's height?
Addison Rae stands at 5 feet and 6 inches.
The influencer has often been photographed wearing heels and platform shoes, seemingly appearing taller than what she really is.
Addison hails from Lafayette, Louisiana and got her start as a dancer in competitions across the country.
How old is Addison Rae and what's her net worth?
The 20-year-old joined TikTok in 2019 and began uploading dance videos to popular songs.
Addison has been part of the TikTok collaborative group The Hype House since 2019, alongside other app users.
Her net worth is approximately $5million and is expected to continue to grow over 2021.
She is now so popular on TikTok that she earns almost $70,000 per social media post and up to $80,000 per month from her YouTube channel that has over 4.7million subscribers.
She has endorsed brands like Chantilly Boutique, FashionNova, Uptown, Cheapskate, and McCary's Jewelers.
Addison also has her own merchandise, selling products such as hoodies, t-shirts, and accessories.
Who is Addison Rae dating?
Rumors have been circulating that Addison and singer Omer Fedi are an item.
The pair stirred rumors after Addison posted a video of two shadows, (presumably her and Omer) to her Instagram stories.
He seemingly confirmed that he was the mystery man in the video by reposting the video to his Instagram story.
In June 2021, the pair were also spotted at Machine Gun Kelly’s pop-up concert and Omer has posted photos of the TikTok star to his story that were quickly deleted.
He has been receiving criticism about the relationship, one Twitter user said "he isn’t exactly a looker", others have compared him to an "off-brand 6ix9ine" and even said that he is a "downgrade" from Addison’s ex Bryce Hall.
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Eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice Addison liking - and then unliking - a tweet hitting back at Omer’s critics.
Besides the video, neither one has confirmed or denied the romance.
This comes after Addison’s messy split from Bryce Hall, where she publicly implied that he cheated on her.

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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A police chase ended in a crash in Dayton early Monday morning.
Police say the chase began around 3:30 a.m. Monday when officers spotted a vehicle reported stolen on Sunday night.
According to police, the victim said someone stole his car at gunpoint at the Shell gas station on Gettysburg Avenue near Third Street just after 9 p.m. Sunday.
Officers spotted that vehicle and tried to pull it over Monday morning. The vehicle took off, leading officers on a short pursuit.
Police say speeds reached 70 miles per hour before the vehicle lost control and crashed into a vacant building near the intersection of N. Main Street and Marathon Avenue just after 3:30 a.m. Monday.
Officers took a juvenile male into custody without incident. Police say the teen wasn’t injured in the crash.
Police have not said what he might be charged with.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office assisted Dayton Police during the pursuit.
The incident is under investigation.

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A boundless queen; with untamed capacity!
A woman of great generosity;
Giving me all that time is godly empathy!
I can’t imagine your ability
If you would want any man, you will have him in a jiffy!
Now you have me hooked without telling me so!
Now you have me glued without me knowing so!
Now you are making me drool without a piece of meat in my jaw!
I guess when I’ll get you in my jaw; my taste buds will go ballistic!
I won’t be able to swallow you;
I would prefer you stay within the reach of my tasting tongue.
I would taste you every minute! ! ! ! ! !
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Why Do Americans Drive Automatic—But Most of Europe Drives Manual? Jen McCaffery. Why Europeans like manual transmissions. In addition, driving a car with manual transmission forces people to be more engaged with their car and what’s going on around them.
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What are semi-automatic cars? If you like the best of both worlds, then a semi-automatic gearbox (sometimes known as an automated manual or clutchless manual transmission) might be more up your street. With semi-automatic transmission, drivers can switch gears in the same way a manual user would but without using a clutch.
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Driving an automatic car is a quite different from driving a manual one, and there are pros and cons to both. We run through, in simple steps, how to drive an automatic and look at why you might want to, instead of opting for a manual.
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Four beautifully arranged and beautifully photographed violins grace the cover of the latest Blazin’ Fiddles album SIX, which could either be a reference to the fact that this is the band’s sixth release to date or perhaps to the fact that there are six members in the band. Taking the traditional music of the Highlands and islands as their starting point, Blazin’ Fiddles play each set of tunes with authority, vigour and not least, a palpable sense of fun. Scottish fiddle music is one of the few genres of music where you feel there’s just as much fun being had whether there’s an audience around or not. It’s there in the interaction between the instruments but also in the eyes of the players and the frequent smiles of acknowledgement during those special moments when it all works out so perfectly well.
The four fiddle players who form the front line of this outfit, Allan Henderson, Bruce MacGregor, Iain MacFarlane and Jenna Reid, share an understanding of the music with the ability to shape it into an instantly accessible and cohesive whole, drawing from the traditions of the Highlands and surrounding islands, Ireland, Cape Breton, Scandinavia, Bulgaria and Quebec. Anna Massie and Angus Lyon complete the line up on guitar and piano respectively, with Anna throwing in a bit of additional fiddle to boot. Highly inventive in places, the contemporary arrangements maintain a traditional feel, largely due to the prominent role of the piano, especially on the opening set The Lads Like Beer and Colgrave Soond, which bring to mind Andy Stewart’s Scotch Corner-era country dances.
Sadly, since recording this album, Allan Henderson and Iain MacFarlane have left the band and have been replaced by two other outstanding musicians, Rua Macmillan and Kristan Harvey, who join the ranks of what is steadily being recognised as one of the most important and hottest contemporary folk music bands in Scotland today.


Item #: 1002-391 -- A 19th Century Mexican Dagger with Boot Pommel -- $650.00
An interesting 19th century Mexican dagger with long, slender spear-point double-edged blade with carved initials at either side of the ricasso, "J. R." Rudimentary copper lozenge-shaped guard. Horn grip in three sections, the pommel carved in the form of a cowboy boot and capped with a copper heel. Overall GC; a fine relic of the American/Mexican Southwest. Fine condition; the blade mottled with light scattered pitting, the extreme tip very slightly rolled. Overall 37.5 cm., blade 27 cm.


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‘EXHIBITIONISM: The Rolling Stones’ is the first international exhibition of the world's most iconic rock band, taking place at The Saatchi Gallery in London this summer. In celebration of the exhibition, British luxury luggage and leather brand Globe-Trotter presents four new designs inspired by the The Rolling Stones.
The Rolling Stones capsule collection comprises:
9" headphone case (includes luggage tag and guitar strap)
12" record case (includes luggage tag and guitar strap)
21" trolley case (includes luggage tag)
Leather luggage tag
Handcrafted in Hertfordshire from Globe-Trotter’s iconic vulcanised fibreboard, each item in the capsule collection features the iconic Rolling Stones lips and tongue emblem.
The collection will be available from Monday, 4th April at the Saatchi Gallery shop, online at globe-trotter.com and in the Globe-Trotter London flagship store at 35 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JD.

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In vitro antiviral Activity of Rubia cordifolia aerial part extract against rotavirus. - GreenMedInfo Summary
In vitro Antiviral Activity of Rubia cordifolia Aerial Part Extract against Rotavirus.
Front Pharmacol. 2016 ;7:308. Epub 2016 Sep 13. PMID: 27679574
The root of Rubia cordifolia has been used traditionally as a hemostatic agent, while the aerial part of the plant consisting of leaf and stem is known to exhibit anti-diarrheal properties and has been widely used as a remedy in many parts of China. As rotavirus is one of the most commonly associated diarrhea-causing pathogen, this study aims to investigate the anti-rotaviral effect of R. cordifolia aerial part (RCAP). The cytotoxicity of RCAP toward MA-104 cells was evaluated using the WST-8 assay. Colloidal gold method and real time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay were used to confirm the findings of the antiviral assay. Then, 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining method was subsequently used to investigate the mode of death among the cells. And the representative components of aqueous extract were isolated and identified. It was shown that both the viability of MA-104 cells and the viral load were reduced with increasing concentration of the extract. DAPI staining showed that virus-induced apoptosis was the cause of the low cell viability and viral load, an effect which was accelerated with incubation in the aqueous herbal extract. The major compounds postulated to exhibit this activity were isolated from the aqueous herbal extract and identified to be compounds Xanthopurpurin and Vanillic Acid. This study showed that RCAP extract effectively inhibited rotavirus multiplication by promoting virus-induced apoptosis in MA-104 cells.


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Throughout the first two years of Trump's so-called presidency, media and print outlets (including CNN and the New York Times) focused attention on interviewing focus groups and voter panels of "Trump voters" as if they should have been put on a pedestal.
Many of these panels disintegrated into conspiracy theories ie: like the one about "Charlottesville being a false flag operation."
Key said, "I think people who want to derail our president. There were buses coming in with lots of young people -- protesters coming off the same bus with some wearing Black Lives Matter and some wearing KKK shirts. They were brought in to cause a controversy."
Camerota, "Where are you getting your evidence?"
Key, "A lot of it on Facebook."
"You saw something on Facebook."
Another Trump agreed and said, "Yes." He discussed an Antifa ad on Craigslist.
Camerota, "And you trust Facebook more than news organizations?
"Oh, yes, live video from people who shot it, that were present, yes."
Camerota, " You trust your Facebook feed even though you don't know the origin --
"They are our friends."
Later in the program CNN found the Facebook video they were touting "as proof of a conspiracy" and he was a guy in a car telling Facebook that he heard about a bus -- yada, yada.
The cable news networks helped elevate uninformed conspiracy nuts throughout Trump's entire presidency.
The NY Times also interviewed Tea Party panels when they were formed during President Obama's first term in 2009 and helped them as well.
These same media outlets ignored Hillary Clinton voters entirely, even though the former Secretary of State actually won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.
Democratic voters are repeatedly treated as insignificant, as if they're "stories" aren't "American."
Why are Trump voters more special than the rest of Americans? They aren't, but they are Republicans and get exalted by the media time and time again.
This type of kowtowing to a subset of voters is dangerous for our democracy. Treating one side as more legitimate because more "interesting" has allowed wingnut propaganda and conspiracies to explode... with the help of the outgoing so-called president, Fox News, and Trump's flying monkeys.
What's next? CNN holds a QAnon voter panel?
President-elect Joe Biden right now has eclipsed the vote totals of a challenger against a sitting president by beating Ronald Reagan's mark from 1980.
Biden already has almost five million more votes than Trump nationally and that lead will only expand as all the votes are counted.
My question is will they take time to obsessively interview Joe Biden voters?
Will Joe Biden voters be treated with the same respect by the media as people believing insane Facebook conspiracy theories?

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The global economy's cyclical upswing strengthened considerably during of household debt in the short and long run, bis working papers,. This paper aims to study the global economy first and then the innovation literature review comes as well 2 the global economy as an emerging phenomenon. Journal of global economics discusses the latest research innovations and important developments in this field. Winners and losers in the global economy - volume 54 issue 2 - ethan b national bureau of economic research working paper 5253.
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Digital Transformation Skills Monitor
With the Digital Transformation Skills Monitor, we aim to provide professionals with insight into their essential digital transformation skills and suggest concrete training courses to further develop of these skills.
One of the results is the model below (best visible in another browser tab). Other results will be shown when ready.
01 October 2021 - 01 September 2023
- Based on a systematic literature review, a framework of essential digital transformation skills has been developed.
- This framework is operationalized in a self-assessment, as part of the Digital Transformation Skills monitor.
- The self-assessment is piloted within various institutes in the HU among lecturers.
- An online platform will be developed on which the self-assessment and appropriate professionalization offer will be made available, with specific attention to the user experience.
Relevance and impact of the project
As a result of continuous technological developments, it is important that professionals are prepared to work in a dynamic (digital) work environment and develop a mindset of continuous education in the field of digital transformations. The Digital Transformation Skills Monitor aims to contribute to this.
Collaboration with knowledge partners
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Elkay Drain Fitting - This offset drain creates an additional 12-3/4" of knee clearance for sinks without garbage disposals. ($60)
Elkay Gourmet (Lustertone) Stainless Steel Single Bowl Undermount Sink - The center rear drain position installed together with an offset drain provide additional knee clearance. The Perfect Drain is an edgeless drain that eliminates the accumulation of crumbs and gunk. Undermount, 23-1/2" x 18-1/4" x 5-3/8". ($575, sink & drain only)
Rachiele custom-made apron front stainless steel sink with offset drain - Similar to the ever-popular custom sink seen in my Magnolia Mid-Mod and Pioneer Square projects, Rachiele sinks are available in standard brushed or rustic matte stainless steel with the option to add a hammered texture to the apron only or to the entire sink. The sinks can also be made with "signature ledges" which allow you to set cutting boards onto the ledges for ultimate flexibility. For those who desire a garbage disposal, a custom sink will allow you to place the disposal as close to the rear wall as and far out of the knee space as possible. Apron-front, custom-sized. (Price varies.)
Moen 1800 Series - The rear corner drain is helpful when a garbage disposal is desired. Undermount, 23" x 18" x 5-1/2". ($300)
Kohler Vault - Clean lines and square corners coordinate with modern architecture. The super-slim edge can be top-mounted or under-mounted. At 6-5/16" deep, this sink basin is deeper than the Moen and Elkay options. Use in combination an offset drain for maximum knee clearance. Dual-mount, 25" x 22" x 6-5/16". ($500, sink only)
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We are currently corresponding with the governments of Virginia and Maryland to enable people who are obedient to the Biblical prohibition regarding the number of the beast to obtain driver’s licenses. Both states are violating the U.S, and their state constitutions, as well as statutes protecting religion. Maryland is refusing to allow anyone to get a driver’s license unless they obtain a SSN. Virginia is allowing the unnumbered to get driver’s licenses but is refusing to allow it for those who have been numbered against their will or have repented of their getting a number.
We are also corresponding with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Treasury Department that has unlawfully mandated every financial institution to deny banking to those who will not apply for a SSN.
Stand by for updates.
- On March 15, 2017, continuing a 21-year battle, David Alan Carmichael applied to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for a Virginia Driver’s License requesting a religious accommodation the he be allowed a license without the record identifying him with a SSN. The DMV denied the request saying that David’s unnumbered children were free to get driver’s licenses but he could not. Arbitrarily believing “David” has been “issued” a SSN, they say in so many words that, ‘anyone’ for whose name the SSA issues a number to the SSA records must make that number an element of their identity in order to have a Virginia Driver’s license. Therefore, anyone who does not embrace the SSN, notwithstanding the prohibitions of religion, can be jailed for using an automobile. The DMV actors continue to site a petty ordinance as being supreme law, while wantonly ignoring statutory and constitutional positive law mandating the protection of religion over petty ordinances.
- This is a mechanism for a last attempt at a political solution to obviously unlawful conduct of the Virginia government. Their conduct is literally anti-Christ.
- Aug2017 FOIA Response - Implementation of Gender Identity Change Without Statutory Authority-(pdf)


text: When I think of Descendants of the Sun, the first thing that comes to mind is cheese! This show is extra cheesy, and honestly I love cheese! Unfortunately, I am juga kinda lactose intolerant, so after eatingai a certain amount of cheese I am left with regrets, and a stomach ache. That"s exactly how I felt after watchinew york the terakhir episode. *Cue the rage of a thousand fans* I think the biggest problem I had with this show is that it tried to mix in three genrpita pengukur without a coherent konspirasi to bringi it all together. It"s part rom-com, part military drama, and part hospital sitcom. The love story is probably maafkan saya maktape most orang exmengutip about the show, the military scentape are a cool merencanakan bonus, and the hospital sitcom keeps things from getting too heavy and depressing. Unfortunately, because the script is so weak, I was too disconnected to keep carinew york about the show, and it started to akan very boring. I kept watchinew york for one reason only Songi Joongai Ki.Song Joongai Ki is oddly cast in a lot of ways. He has a super baby face, and boyish charm, but still managed to be a believable soldier. I would easily perbandingan his character/actingai 10. Not only did I develop a 16 ilustrasi crush on him, but I really cared about his assignments. The show would have been a juta timpita more enjoyable for me if they hanya let his story be the center, or rather, the bromance between Shi Jin, and Dae Yeong. Dari mereka relationship was my favorite part of the show. Their characters didn"t have much depth individually, but their bromance was solid.Tdi sini is tambahan great chemistry between Song Joongai Ki, and Songai Hye Kyo, but not much to dari mereka overall story. Every momenpen with them is exactly the same - they flirt, they separate, she gets mad, he"s extra charming, they flirt again. Early on, I really started to dislinanti Dr. Kangai Mo Yeon, which made it hard to sympathize with her anger at him. Eventually I started to lisetelah her a little more, but no matter how cute their flirty scenes, or how strangely amusinew york their brink of death datingi was, milik mereka cerita is still repetitive, which gets old quick. The 2nd leads tambahan had a romance, that had a few more obstacltape thrown anda way (parents, distance, alpaling dying), but was hanya as repetitive - fight, confess, spontaneous affection, fight. It"s liusai each cerita hanya filmemerintah in the same blanks for each episode. It was actually the older minor characters who had the paling interestinew york love story. I thought Seo Jeongai Yeon and Lee Seungai Jun were really cute, and deserve an honorable mention. The supportingai cast was pretty good. Some dulu much better than others, and some menjadi alpaling completely useless (the head of the hospital... That ditzy doctor... Ugh). I had to bringai the actinew york down to an 8 because of that, but the cast is really the only good thing this show has goingai for it.maafkan saya was the point of this drama? At first it seemed linanti a way to show how hard it can be to date a soldier, but because the show didn"t bawa pulang itaku seriously, it was hard for me to take that too seriously, even with that emotionally manipulative 15th episode. The conflicts at the hospital menjadi ridiculous, and mostly filler. The best episodpita took place when the medical staff went overseas to Urk, but once that was over, the show seemed to have no clue apa to do. Did they run out of travel budget, so they decided to just wingi it for the last episodes? Even in Urk, the plot was super predictable, and totally unrealistic, but it was still very entertainingi (yummy Cheese!!!). When they returned, my feelings about the show went downhill, and I was no longer exdikutip about watchinew york the next episode. Kemudian suddenly things got very serious out of nowhere, only to end with the silliest (and worst) terakhir episode I"ve ever seen in any dlama (ytape THE worst!). I wonder if episode 15 was the original ending, and then it was changed last minute to avoid a backlash. That"s the only thingi I can think of as an explanation for why it was so bad.The music? meh. The scenery? epic. The bahasa inggris spoken? decent. The shirtless men running? Daebak.Would I rewatch? Not unless someone makpita an edited version of only scenpita with Sonew york Joonew york Ki.Overall It"s like they roldisutradarai a kdrama dice and hanya threw stuff in at random to get people hooked, kemudian they hanya focdigunakan on all the ways they can successfully incorpoperbandingan product placement. Maybe that was the real point, to see how many ads they mungkin sneak into a drama.Even though there were moments I really enjoyed, I can"t recommend this drama, especially after sittingai through that ending. I wish they cut it down to 10 episodes, removingi all the unnecessary fluff, and sneaky ads (subway, hyundai, mausai up, coffee, snacks, hiraja equipments, travel apps... Umm... Except for the self drivinew york car, because that scene was actually cool ) kemudian maybe it would be a drama worthy of all the hype.Or maybe you can treat my tinjauan linanti lactaid. Now that you know what to expect, maybe you can better digest all the cheese this show has to offer.


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Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman recently circulated a memo laying out a new policy for turning over so-called Brady material. Courtesy photo.
Just weeks before voters will elect his replacement and after more than two decades in office, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman circulated a memo laying out a new policy for how prosecutors should turn over so-called Brady material.
In an internal memo obtained by the Reformer, Freeman laid out a new policy for adhering to a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case called Brady v. Maryland, in which the court ruled prosecutors must hand over evidence that’s favorable to the defense. For example, evidence that a police officer has lied in court or has a history of brutalizing citizens.
Freeman wrote in the memo that the new policy was prompted by “recent reports,” including the Minnesota Department of Human Rights report released in April which said his prosecutors do not turn over Brady material, despite a constitutional requirement to do so. The Reformer and KSTP have written about the issue since then.
The MDHR report found “systemic failure” in the way Minneapolis police misconduct is shared with prosecutors, saying Minneapolis officials have not been turning over Brady material for police officers called as trial witnesses.
Freeman wrote that his office has been working on the issue for “many years” and considered the report’s findings when developing the policy.
Freeman’s new policy still doesn’t call for a compilation of law enforcement officers with credibility issues. Defense attorneys want a list of officers with a history of misconduct and lying in court, sometimes called a Brady list. Instead, Freeman intends to continue to review incidents case-by-case, relying on police discipline records. Freeman wrote that it’s his office’s job to “always do the right thing,” and he expects the same from “any and all criminal justice partners with whom we work,” i.e., police departments.
Critics say continuing the current approach relying on police discipline records is problematic because a broad range of Minneapolis police misconduct does not result in official discipline, but instead leads to “coaching.” The city doesn’t consider misconduct complaints that result in coaching a public record, so those sustained complaints aren’t disclosed to defendants or prosecutors.
The two candidates vying to replace Freeman have said they would change how problematic officers are tracked.
Mary Moriarty, the former chief public defender in Hennepin County, told KSTP she would create a Brady list. Former judge and prosecutor Martha Holton-Dimick said she’s considering it.
Freeman wrote in the memo that the office is “in a unique position” to flag and report police misconduct, and he’ll require attorneys to take immediate action when they detect possible misconduct during their review of written reports, body-worn camera videos, surveillance videos or any other materials that are part of a case. Attorneys, paralegals, law clerks and support staff will be required to report “concerning conduct” — such as dishonesty, mishandling evidence, and excessive force — to their manager.
If misconduct occurs, it must be reported to deputy county attorneys and the office “Brady team” to review and determine whether to flag incidents in their system. Then it will be reported to the police chief of the department where the misconduct occurred.
Dan Mabley, a former judge-turned-chief deputy of the criminal division, has led a committee in Freeman’s office that determines what is Brady material.
If police misconduct is found, Freeman said, prosecutors can decline to press charges, dismiss cases outright or agree to the reversal of appealed cases.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 1972 case, Giglio v. United States, that if police or prosecutors have information that shows a witness may be untruthful or biased, they must disclose that to the defense. As part of their introduction to the office, all new prosecutors will be trained on their ethical obligations, including the disclosure of Brady and Giglio information, and trained at least annually after that, Freeman said.
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Law enforcement agencies must notify the office when they have an officer with possible Brady or Giglio issues, Freeman wrote.
“If the information is even potentially exculpatory, mitigating, or relevant to the witness’s credibility, the information is disclosed to the defense,” Freeman wrote.
Freeman wrote that his office has changed its practices in two important ways: There’s now an expectation that law enforcement agencies disclose any disciplinary information “proactively and voluntarily.” And, the office has adopted a pre-trial practice of asking officers about Giglio information — which the office was working to update before the state report was issued.
Former Hennepin County public defender Abigail Cerra said she commends Freeman for taking up the issue, but she sees “glaring holes” in the policy he outlined. For example, she said it’s too late in the process to look into Brady issues when an officer is subpoenaed; Brady issues should be considered when the office is charging cases, or at least before the pre-trial hearing.
Cerra said it’d be much more efficient to just check a Brady list at the beginning of a case.
The state human rights report specifically said Freeman’s office is only turning over Brady material for officers listed on witness lists, but if a case doesn’t make it that far because of a plea bargain, the defense may never know about Brady issues.
The state report also said the office leaves “problem officers” off witness lists, so defense attorneys don’t know about them until a trial approaches, and most cases don’t go to trial. That apparently won’t change.
“You’re creating an environment in which people are pleading guilty to cases that should’ve been dismissed entirely,” Cerra said. “That’s a huge problem.”
Also, she said, the memo says nothing about rectifying past cases with Brady violations. Past convictions should be reviewed, she said.
The memo doesn’t identify the gaps in the system that led, for example, to Brady material not being turned over in cases such as Jaleel Stallings’. Eric Rice, who was Stallings’ attorney, was not given any disciplinary records of the officers involved in shooting less-lethal rubber bullets at citizens five days after George Floyd’s police killing. Stallings shot back in self-defense and then was beaten by police. Last year, he was acquitted by a jury of eight charges, including attempted murder.
Rice said it’s hard to find accurate information about the office’s compliance with Brady. He’s filed public records requests seeking that information. The county attorney’s office, he said, should be transparent about what prompted Freeman to announce “elementary procedural requirements.”
“This is basically adopting what should’ve been adopted (59) years ago when Brady was made the law of the land,” Rice said.
The day before the memo was released, Rice received a response to his records request that was “insultingly minimal,” he said.
“Why do we need to play games to figure out what’s going on?” he said. “This is about (whether) we can trust the results coming out of that office.”
Cerra said prosecutors have been disbarred for less: The Carlton County attorney was disbarred in 2020 for failing to disclose police misconduct, leading to the dismissal of 19 pending cases and tossing of eight convictions.
The state report described systemic violations that have been going on for a longer period of time than those in Carlton County, she said.
Freeman said in the memo that the MDHR report raised “multiple troubling instances” in which people of color were disparately affected by Minneapolis police.
“Seeing these many instances summarized in one report was shocking,” he wrote. “The findings put a bright light on the very real racial inequities and injustices that exist in the City of Minneapolis, and those problems cannot be lightly set aside. Real change is necessary.”
Senior Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Max Page said the memo was written because “these areas of law and legal precedent continue to develop,” and the office wants to comply with the law.
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The application of crop models towards improved local scale prediction and precision management requires the identification and description of the major factors influencing model performance. Such efforts are particularly important for dryland areas which face rapid population growth and increasing constraints on water supplies. In this study, a global sensitivity analysis on crop yield and transpiration was performed for 49 parameters in the FAO-AquaCrop model (version 6.0) across three dryland farming areas with different climatic conditions. The Morris screening method and the variance-based Extended Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (EFAST) method were used to evaluate the parameter sensitivities of several staple crops (maize, soybean or winter wheat) under dry, normal and wet scenarios. Results suggest that parameter sensitivities vary with the target model output (e.g., yield, transpiration) and the wetness condition. By synthesizing parameter sensitivities under different scenarios, the key parameters affecting model performance under both high and low water stress were identified for the three crops. Overall, factors relevant to root development tended to have large impacts under high water stress, while those controlling maximum canopy cover and senescence were more influential under low water stress. Parameter sensitivities were also shown to be stage-dependent from a day-by-day analysis of canopy cover and biomass simulations. Subsequent comparison with AquaCrop version 5.0 suggests that AquaCrop version 6.0 is less sensitive to uncertainties in soil properties.
Bibliographical noteKAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-11-21
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2017-CRG6
Acknowledgements: This work was partly funded through the ‘A new paradigm in precision agriculture: assimilation of ultra-fine resolution data into a crop-yield forecasting model’ project, supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, grant number OSR-2017-CRG6, and through the ‘Building REsearch Capacity for sustainable water and food security In drylands of sub-saharan Africa (BRECcIA)’ project, which is supported by UK Research and Innovation as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund, grant number NE/P021093/1. Matthew McCabe was funded by KAUST. G. De Lannoy was funded by EU project SHui GA 773903. The authors thank Dr. Francesca Pianosi from University of Bristol for her help in performing the sensitivity analysis.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Soil Science
- Agronomy and Crop Science

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HAPPY — Margaret Murdock, 79, of Happy died Wednesday, March 7, 2012, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in United Methodist Church of Happy with the Rev. Tom Stribling, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Happy Cemetery in Happy. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
Margaret Murdock was born Feb. 11, 1933, in Silverton to G.S. and Vergie Hodges Harris. She married Alfred Ray Murdock. She owned Al’s Restaurant in Happy for more than 30 years and then owned restaurants in Amarillo, Dimmitt and Tucumcari. She was an excellent cook and loved to play bingo.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1999; and a daughter, Tanya McCarley, in 2000.
Survivors include a daughter, Karen Hargrave and husband Mark of Happy; six grandsons; and 11 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Happy Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 216, Happy, TX 79042.
Sign the online guest book at www.brooksfuneral.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, March 8, 2012


Dizzee Rascal, Ellie Goulding, Pixies, Elbow + more TBA.
If partying in a vast Cornish eco-park to big-name bands sounds like a laugh, hoof it down to the Eden Project for its annual Eden Sessions shows. Each night of the Sessions will feature one main act rocking the gargantuan venue's ample greenery back into the ground and a range of support acts warming up the crowd in the daytime. The line-up so far includes grime-pop scamp Dizzee Rascal, delicate disco-pop singer Ellie Goulding, US alt rock legends Pixies and Mancunian festival favourites Elbow. Support acts and further dates with big-name artists are still to come, but we can say one thing for sure: ecology has never been this much fun.


The Thanos Elruss Tank with Hypervelocity Cannon set contains one model consisting of five parts (hull, turret, hypervelocity cannon and a pair of side sponsons). The base is NOT included.
The model is cast from resin (tank hull) and white metal (turret, cannon and sponsons) and is supplied unassembled and unpainted.
The model is made in 6mm scale (1:260) and its dimensions are:
hull length - 25mm
hull width without sponsons - 16,5mm
height to the turret roof - 14mm


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By Amanda Retzer
Haven is "marvelous" says Zagat, rating the cuisine "excellent" (25) and applauding the use of "artisanal and organic ingredients in delicious new ways."
Why we love it
- "Praised as a pioneer in the eat-local movement" (Zagat)
- Houston Press Critic's Pick
- One of Texas Monthly's 10 Where to Eat Now restaurants in 2011
- Placed in the Top 20 Best New Restaurants in the nation by Esquire Magazine (2010)
- Chef Randy Evans was named 2012 Chef of the Year at the Houston Culinary Awards
Oct. 27, 2013 - Jan. 26, 2014; brunch Sundays only and lunch Monday-Friday
Haven, A Seasonal Kitchen
2502 Algerian Way
Houston, TX 77098
- $29 for $50 worth of food from the full Sunday brunch menu
Entree choices such as 44 Farms chicken-fried steak, served open-faced on jalapeño cheese Texas toast and wild LA catfish with cheese grits, poached egg and roasted tomato-marigold hollandaise
Sides such as fried green tomatoes and house-made tater tots
Or visit on a weekday and get the same deal for $50 worth of food from the full lunch menu
Prefer an evening out at Haven? Click here
to get a four-course seasonal tasting menu or six-course dinner on the kitchen line and served by the chef, starting at $79 for two.
The fine print
Valid only on Sundays during merchant's operating brunch hours or Monday-Friday during merchant's operating lunch hours. Valid on food only. Reservations required; subject to availability. Valid for two diners only. Please tip on the full value of the check; 18%-20% is customary for good service.
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Illinois Author John M. McNamara announces the publication of his 6th work of fiction, the novel Madonna.
In this novel, Mary Cottle struggles day-to-day as a widow and the single mother of a 43-year-old son with special needs. She wanders the streets of her town, scavenging abandoned “treasures” that she then sells to an antiques dealer and friend, Karl. From this meager income, she provides a meager life for her son, Jimmy. He is a simple man, but one day he confronts his mother with the revelation that he has a girlfriend…a woman who works nights with him cleaning offices. Dread overcomes Mary. She has feared this day for years and despite all the time she has had to prepare for it, when considering what to do about her son’s announcement, she flounders. At times Jimmy behaves no better than a child; Mary frets about how to dissuade him from this entanglement as she would in denying him a shiny toy. But her son surprises her….and assists Mary in surprising herself.
Mary wistfully considers how her deceased husband would manage their son’s desires. Her friendship with Karl blossoms beyond what she ever could have anticipated. She ritually visits the neighborhood tavern, spars with the bartender, sips Scotch for breakfast and predicts his fortune while gazing at a small crystal ball. And then there is the girl…Connie…bent on complicating her life. Mary abandons caution and reacts to Jimmy’s news recklessly, oblivious to the consequences. Her decisions snowball, appropriately she feels, as a winter storm assaults the town in drifts and frigid temperatures. Unexpected events unfold and Mary’s reticence to allow Jimmy the things he has always coveted begins to melt. She spies a light at the end of her tunnel and charges headlong toward it. Never having believed she deserved a happy ending to her life, Mary casts aside her fears and lunges toward one.
Author: John M. McNamara
Published: September 2013
About the Author
John M. McNamara's short fiction has been published in Crosscurrents, Old Hickory Review, The Piedmont Literary Review, Minotaur, Snapdragon, Four Quarters, FlashFiction, Quick Fiction, Bear River Review, Inside Running and Chicago Literati.
In the summer of 1999, he was awarded a professional artist residency at the OxBow Summer Arts Program for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Saugatuck, Michigan. He lives in Downers Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife.
He is the author of the novels Madonna, The Dreams of Teddy Schreck, Harmony House, A Final Reflection, A Life Without Grace, and Hunter's War, A Novella, and Selected Short Stories. All available from Amazon.com.
John M. McNamara


Nearly three decades in the making, Gordon River Greenway to open Thursday
After nearly three decades of dreams and planning, the Gordon River Greenway — two miles of winding trails, boardwalks, bridges and streams connecting Golden Gate Parkway to central Naples — will officially open to the public Thursday.
The Naples City Council, Collier County commissioners and others involved in the 27-year project will gather at 8:30 a.m. Thursday for a ribbon-cutting at the kayak launch, located at 1590 Goodlette-Frank Rd., the east end of the joint parking lot between Naples Zoo and the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
“It’s been quite an effort for a quarter of a century,” said Scott Cameron, a former Southwest Florida Land Preservation Trust president who helped get it started in 1987. “It’s been a great collaborative effort between people who really cared. We’ve had fabulous board members over the years.”
The first section of the Greenway opened in 1992, a 1½-mile paved loop trail adjacent to the Naples Municipal Airport and along the eastern edge of the Gordon River.
Two years later, the trust received $50,000 from the City Council and Collier commissioners to pay for engineering and design costs. Since then, the trust raised hundreds of thousands from private donors and grants, while the council and commission approved millions more.
In 2004, when the zoo’s fate was uncertain, 73 percent of county residents voted for a $40 million bond referendum to purchase 166½ acres owned by the Fleischmann family, the land under the zoo and undeveloped property, including wetland habitats along the river.
The next year, county commissioners approved spending $47 million to save the zoo in a deal that allowed some of the Fleischmann property to be sold to developers.
“It is truly, truly beautiful,” Cameron said of the Greenway. “This is going to be something for all ages.”
The public can access the Greenway at parking areas off Golden Gate Parkway, just east of Goodlette-Frank Road, and the zoo and conservancy lot. Its southern end, which includes parking, will be at Naples Municipal Airport — until Naples’ proposed $15 million Baker Park, on Riverside Circle, is built. However, those on canoes and kayaks can paddle farther south along the Gordon River, into Naples Bay.
The Greenway was envisioned as part of a north-south system of trails extending through the county. It will weave through mangroves and other plants native to Florida and feature 12-foot-wide pathways and 10-foot-wide elevated boardwalks.
It’s designed for walkers, hikers, joggers and bicyclists, with wildlife viewing stations, decorative bridges, benches, educational signs, restrooms and other amenities. Its rear entrance will be at the zoo and conservancy.
The trails along the river and Golden Gate Canal were designed for birders, nature photographers, artists, environmental enthusiasts and tourists. The trails are wide enough for parents pushing baby carriages, dog walkers, people in wheelchairs, inline skaters and skateboarders.
For those too busy at work during the day, the Greenway’s lighted trails will be open until 10 p.m.
Cameron credited Southwest Florida Land Trust Executive Director Ellie Krier with bringing together the parties involved in the process — the county, Conservation Collier, the county parks department, the city of Naples and its parks department, the Naples Airport Authority, the Naples Zoo and the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
“One of the best things I did was urging the board to hire Ellie Krier as executive director,” he said, adding that Krier was able to reach a consensus with everyone involved, despite different views.
One of the main benefits is that the Greenway connects several attractions in Naples, including the airport, the newly renamed Fred W. Coyle Freedom Park on Golden Gate Parkway, the zoo and conservancy.
“The zoo’s main mission is to connect our visitors, and especially children, with animals and wild places to help foster a greater understanding and appreciation for nature as a whole,” said Jack Mulvena, the zoo’s president. “For these families to now have ready access to the Greenway’s beautiful and natural hiking and biking trails, and to kayaking the Gordon River, will certainly help connect — or in some cases reconnect — families and children with the importance and wonder of nature exploration.”
“At a time when so many of us feel that our children and grandchildren are losing their connectivity with nature, the Greenway will provide another wonderful opportunity for encouraging nature play and exploration,” he added.
Rob Moher, president and CEO of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, was thrilled the Greenway was opening after years of work, including the conservancy’s successful legal battles with developers that helped increase the Greenway land.
“This is sort of an emerald necklace around the city of Naples,” Moher said. “Our mission is to protect land, water and wildlife and here we have an opportunity … right in the middle of the city. … It will help increase traffic and awareness of the conservancy. All the hard efforts really put together a Greenway for the public to enjoy nature.”


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Food safety put on new czar’s plate
Bowing to growing nationwide concern, the Food and Drug Administration named a food safety czar Tuesday and pledged to develop “a visionary strategy for food safety and defense” that takes into account increasing U.S. dependence on food imports in a global economy.
The development came as the agency said its investigation of contaminated pet food ingredients from China had expanded to include feed eaten by millions of chickens that most likely already have been consumed in the U.S.
Meanwhile, a former FDA commissioner pronounced the food safety system “broken,” and leading Democrats in Congress moved Tuesday to authorize federal regulators to monitor food imports more closely.
Appointed food safety czar was Dr. David Acheson, chief medical officer of the FDA’s food division, who oversaw last year’s investigation into tainted spinach from California.
Though he acknowledged that the issues raised by the pet food recall were serious, Acheson said the risk to people remained low.
“We do not believe there is any significant threat to human health,” Acheson said.
Although chickens were fed contaminated food, the additive used in the feed would have been diluted many times over before the birds reached dinner tables around the country, he explained.
The promise of a new food safety strategy recalls an earlier FDA effort in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to improve protection of food imports. Known as the Import Strategic Plan, it ultimately was abandoned because of tight federal budgets and a lack of official will. Currently, the FDA inspects only about 1% of food imports under its jurisdiction, which includes bulk ingredients, fresh fruits and vegetables, and many grocery items.
The safety plan also will address problems in domestic production, such as last year’s E. coli outbreak linked to California-grown spinach.
Consumer advocates said they were skeptical that creating a safety czar and a new food strategy would make much difference without much more money and stronger enforcement powers for the FDA. For example, the agency cannot require foreign producers to adhere to U.S. safety standards.
Imported pet food ingredients contaminated with melamine, a chemical used to make plastics, are believed to have killed at least 1,950 cats and 2,200 dogs, according to consumer reports submitted to the FDA. Veterinary experts say the toll could be as high as 7,000. More than 150 different brands of pet food have been recalled.
Some of the tainted protein concentrate in the pet food also found its way into commercial feed for hogs and chickens destined for human consumption.
“The real issue is not melamine, but the fact that this problem exposes such a huge gap in consumer protection,” said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington. “It’s not this event, but the next event that people should be concerned about.”
Critics of the government’s food safety system received unequivocal support from a former FDA commissioner who served in Republican and Democratic administrations.
“Simply put, our food safety system in this country is broken,” Dr. David Kessler told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “The fact is that food safety has been a second-tier priority within the FDA.”
Kessler served under former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Now the medical school dean at UC San Francisco, Kessler said responsibility for food safety is “fragmented” among three FDA branches. It is also divided between the FDA and Department of Agriculture: the USDA takes responsibility for meat and poultry, and the FDA for most other foods. Traditionally, the USDA has had a bigger budget and more expansive enforcement authority.
Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, the current FDA commissioner, took issue with Kessler.
“I disagree that the food safety system is broken,” he told the panel. He added that “we will never have a 100% fail-safe” system.
Prominent Democrats on Capitol Hill are seeking broader powers and more funding for the FDA. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) want to attach an amendment to a fast-moving bill that aims to improve the FDA’s drug safety system.
Durbin and DeLauro ultimately want to create a single food safety agency for the whole government, bringing together components from the FDA and USDA. Their amendment -- seen as a modest first step -- would set up a computerized reporting system for contaminants in imported products as well as an early-warning network for pet food problems.
Durbin, the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat, separately has asked for a $183-million increase next year in the FDA’s food safety budget, bringing it to $650 million.
Prospects for the legislation are unclear, but DeLauro said she and Durbin believed the public would strongly support their efforts.
“What we are trying to do is move immediately to seize the momentum,” she said. “If we wait for [human] fatalities, then it will be after the fact. This is about prevention.”
The pet food investigation has revealed intricacies of the nation’s food production system and the extent to which imported ingredients have become integral.
Chilean grapes and English cheeses are readily identifiable on store shelves, but ingredients such as wheat gluten from China are invisible to consumers. It turns out they are also difficult for regulators to track.
The FDA said Tuesday that contaminated wheat gluten -- used to add protein to foods -- found its way in February into chicken feed used at nearly 40 Indiana farms.
About 2.5 million to 3 million broiler chickens raised on those farms already have been slaughtered and most likely have been consumed. Another 100,000 breeder chickens are being set aside and will be euthanized.
Acheson, the new food safety czar, said the principal goal of the new safety strategy would be to enable the FDA to prevent crises instead of reacting to them.
Such an approach has already shown success in controlling pathogens in ground beef, chicken and seafood.
“The goal is to develop a strategic way of thinking, moving into the future,” said Acheson, an infectious-disease specialist who has done extensive research on food-borne illnesses.
But advocates say that an adequate budget and legal authority are still needed to carry out such strategies.
“The idea that some visionary process years away is the answer is a little unrealistic,” said William Hubbard, a former FDA associate commissioner who is lobbying for a big boost in the agency’s budget. “The thing the agency needs right now, this year, is an immediate infusion of new resources to deal with this crisis. Without that, anything else is just rhetoric.”


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Police have made one arrest in relation to the murder, but they are still looking for Christian Corona, age 23.
Police in Maywood are looking for a guy wanted in connection with the murder of a student at Proviso East, age 17.
According to Maywood police, Dyron Underwood was slain on September 16 in the western suburb.
Rigoberto Estrella, 32, was apprehended on September 30 after being recognised as the driver of the car used in the murder.
Christian Corona, 23, is still wanted by the authorities, according to the police.
The West Side of Chicago and the western suburbs of Melrose Park and Maywood are frequented by Corona, also known as “Bless.”
Calling Maywood Police is open to anyone with information.


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Although obesity has been linked to health problems such as hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, experts notice that among people suffering from the same ailments, those who are overweight tend to outlive those who are thin.
In the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers in Hong Kong reported that elderly, obese people tend to be better protected from tuberculosis than slim people.
Edited to add: Folks, if only there weren’t time-traveling tubercular chicken workershere illegally from Latin America, we might still have Keats and Rodgers. I demand you demand that your congresspeople address the problem of illegal time-traveling tubercular chicken workers. After all, what good’s a wall going to do if illegal immigrants can just travel back to 1490, emigrate to what will be Georgia, and then time-travel forward, killing off beloved poets and country music singers in their wake?
Edited again to add: The last edit makes me laugh until Diet Dr Pepper threatens to come out my nose. I acknowledge that it’s probably not that funny in real life.

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'We don't want them to get used to a certain daddy!' Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson and husband Carl discuss same-sex parenting and surrogates as they introduce their precious twins
They announced the arrival of twins through a surrogate in May, becoming parents to a baby girl Phoebe and boy Chase.
And Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson and husband Carl Hyland introduced their adorable new arrivals to the world in a festive OK! magazine shoot this week, as they reveal the struggles they have overcome in a bid to become parents.
Posing with their bundles of joy in festive baby-grows, the couple appeared the picture of parental bliss as they chatted about their new family ahead of their first Christmas together.
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Happy family: Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson and husband Carl Hyland introduced their adorable twins Phoebe and Chase to the world in a festive shoot for OK! magazine
Kieron and Carl revealed that the couple struggle with the day-to-day runnings of parenthood, due to the social viewpoints still surrounding male same-sex parenting.
Carl said: 'The world’s changing and I’m sure the processes will change to go with that, but it’s just still a little stuck behind.’
Kieron, who has played Ste Hay in Hollyoaks since 2006, added: ‘This is nothing to do with same-sex parents but for dads in general.
'We’ve been to places where the changing facilities were only in the ladies’ toilets and they get a bit freaked out about what to do in that situation. But if it’s any dad out with their baby, the baby is still going to need changing at some point.’
Soap star: Kieron has played Ste Hay on Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks since 2006, and also starred in a documentary Raised by Queers about same-sex parenting
Proud parents: Kieron and Carl married in 2015, and welcomed their baby twins in May of this year
Kieron and Carl also revealed that they have taken to fatherhood like ducks to water, and there are new joys everyday in raising Chase and Phoebe.
‘We don’t give the babies a cot on a particular side of the bed. We swap them each night so the baby doesn’t get used to a certain daddy,' Kieron said.
'Every day they do something that makes you smile!’ Carl added.
Last Christmas the couple announced they were expecting twins in an adorable festive video, opening a present with a card that read 'Twins coming 2017.'
Thrilled: Kieron revealed the names of his bundles of joy in a sweet snap of their hospital bands, as he and Carl welcomed their children through a surrogate in May
Get them watching early: Kieron also recently shared an adorable snap of Phoebe and Chase watching their dad in action on Hollyoaks
Christmas spirit: Kieron's was full interview was in the latest issue of OK! magazine out now
The couple's baby joy came just 10 months after Kieron revealed they had been struggling to conceive a baby through IVF.
Speaking at the time, he told The Mirror: 'We were hoping to have a baby this year. Unfortunately, like anyone who is trying for a baby through IVF - whether they are gay couples or not - it is a lottery.
'We have tried it four times, with the same surrogate mum, and we have fallen into that 30% bracket of it not working.
'But we have not given up the fight and are still continuing. We are going to keep trying until it is successful.'
Read the full story in this week's OK! Magazine - out today
Making progress: Kieron and Carl revealed the day-to-day struggles they suffer in raising their twins, and how the social view towards two father parenting needs to change
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British-born, Finland-based musician Mat "Kvohst" McNerney is best known for his rapturous post-punk outfit Grave Pleasures, a.k.a. the band formerly known as Beastmilk. But the man is hard to pin down. He is also part of the grim occult-metal duo the Deathtrip, has made guest appearances with synthwave favorites Carpenter Brut and Behemoth frontman Adam Nergal Darski's blues project Me and That Man, and cut his teeth in Norwegian black-metal bands Code and Dødheimsgard.
And then there's Hexvessel. Formed in 2009, the self-described "psychedelic forest folk-rock" collective is part King Crimson, part Nick Cave, part Dead Can Dance. The group's captivating new album, Kindred — due out April 17th via Svart Records and available for pre-order now — also evokes Led Zeppelin's more hippie-ish digressions to no small degree. But judge it for yourself: Hexvessel have teamed with Revolver today to give you the early listen below.
"Kindred is for and about the community that celebrates nature mysticism," McNerney tells us of the new album. "Re-enchantment of the old, ancient and timeless ways that are still present in everything we do today, and will continue to evolve and exist long after all modern bastard religions are dead. This is not about romanticizing the past, but about a vision of the future.
"I quote Hesse: 'We marked men represented Nature's determination to create something new, individual, and forward-looking, the others lived in the determination to stay the same. For them mankind — which they loved as much as we did — was a fully formed entity that had to be preserved and protected. For us mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren't written down anywhere.'"


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Monday evening during the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety meeting, Police Chief Dave Bacon asked for approval to offer conditional employment to a candidate.
The chief said Kenton Lovely currently lives in Ohio but is from originally this area. He has a criminal justice background. In Ohio, he’s been work criminal justice and law enforcement. Bacon said he is a qualified applicant and has received an offer from a local department although the Plymouth Police Department was his first choice.
Board member Bill Walters asked about academy training and Chief Bacon said he’s done some in Ohio so they might be able to seek a waiver on a portion of the training here. If not, he will have to complete the entire training course at the police academy.
The Board of Public Works and Safety unanimously approved the request to offer conditional employment to Kenton Lovely.


(By Darious Kapembwa in Sfax, Tunisia)
NKANA are on the verge of making history in Tunisia this evening when they face three-time champions CS Sfaxien in a CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinal last leg match in Sfax. The Zambian giants enjoy a slender 2-1 first leg win they collected in Kitwe on April 7 in their debut last eight appearance in the Confederation Cup.
Nkana assistant coach Manfred Chabinga said there was a lot at stake and described the match as a national assignment.
“What I say is [that] the boys look sharp, we told them ‘we shouldn’t disappoint the Zambian soccer fans, we are the only club representing the country’; Zesco are out and Nkana is going for the semifinals. They shouldn’t lose hope but they should believe in the team,” Chabinga said.
Chabinga added that it was also important to fly the COSAFA flag with the region’s two remaining sides in continental football both enjoying first leg success in their respective quarterfinal games last weekend against North African opposition.
Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa beat record eight-time Africa champions Al Ahly of Egypt 5-0 in their first leg CAF Champions League quarterfinal match on April 6.
Meanwhile, Nkana heads into the last leg without strikers Walter Bwalya and Fred Tshimenga, who have three and four continental goals respectively.
“If you remember a year ago, Walter Bwalya wasn’t playing when other clubs protested over his nationality, but we were winning without him, Sutra (Tshimenga) was injured also at the same time and we were winning. We will come up with a strategy so that we qualify to the semifinals,” Chabinga said.
“Here it is not about the striking force; it is about qualifying to the semifinals. Look at how far we have come from in this competition.”
The bench has also taken a bold decision to drop experienced goalkeeper Allan Chibwe from the trip after some poor displays and replaced him with Kelvin Malunga, who was in goals in the first leg.
“Moses Mapulanga wanted to go back to Nakambala but we had to talk to him and assured him that football is about competition, if you don’t have competitors you won’t be a good goalkeeper. So he started working hard. Same thing applied to Kelvin Malunga, we told him not to be discouraged when people doubted him because football is about time but now things have changed,” Chabinga said.
The winner over both legs will play either Kenyan side Gor Mahia or RS Berkane of Morocco in the two-legged semifinals at the end of April.


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By Johnbosco Tugume
The Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has urged parents to embrace the ongoing mass immunization against Measles, Rubella and Polio by having their children immunized. Ssekandi made the remarks as he launched the exercise in Hoima on Wednesday morning.
The Vice President is representing the President at World Food Day commemoration at the Bulindi Zonal Agricultural Research Dev't Centre in Kyabigambire Subcounty. He observed that it’s the parent’s role and responsibility to ensure that their children below 15 years are immunized in the ongoing campaign so as to build their immunity against the three diseases.
The five day national immunization campaign started on Tuesday, October 15. It will run up to Sunday October 20. Meanwhile the Ministry of Health has allayed parents’ fears that the Measles and Rubella vaccine is not safe for their children. Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng says the vaccines have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and are therefore safe, free and effective. “We appeal to all parents, caretakers and guardians, to take all your children below 15 years of age for immunization against Measles, Rubella and Polio during this mass immunization exercise,” Dr Aceng said in a statement on Tuesday.
According to the Ministry Uganda is set to immunize more than 18 million children against measles and rubella, which amounts to 43% of the country’s population. Among them, 8.2 million children younger than 9 months, or 20.5% of the population, will also receive the oral polio vaccine. Dr Jospeh Ruyonga, the Hoima district health officer says the district targets to vaccinated 230,000 children during the five day drive. He says 161,000 of the children will be vaccinated against measles and Rubella while 76,000 will be vaccinated against polio.
Uganda has in the recent past experienced Measles and Rubella outbreak in over 60 districts upon which background Ministry of Health together with partners decided to launch the immunization campaign. The five-day mass immunization campaign, funded by the Government of Uganda, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI), the Vaccine Alliance; the United Nations Children’s Fund; and the World Health Organization (WHO); intends to tackle these three public health challenges.
The campaign, to be conducted in schools for the first three days and in communities for the last two days, targets all children younger than 15 years, whether previously immunized or not, in order to interrupt the circulation of these diseases. The campaign will be a Launchpad to introduce the measles-rubella vaccine into the country’s routine immunization schedule.
“This campaign does NOT replace the routine immunization schedule. Parents, caregivers and all concerned must ensure that all children receive and complete all the vaccines specified on our immunization schedule after the campaign,” Minister Aceng emphasizes.


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- Arbitral Award
- ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris 8874
SERVICE CONTRACT - BETWEEN A UNITED KINGDOM COMPANY AND A BELORUSSIAN COMPANY
ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL AUTHORIZED BY PARTIES TO ACT AS AMIABLE COMPOSITEUR
INTEREST RATE - REFERENCE TO UNIDROIT PRINCIPLES WITHOUT FURTHER EXPLANATION
A United Kingdom and a Belorussian company entered into an advertisement contract. A dispute arose because of an alleged failure by the Belorussian company to pay the contract price. The contract authorised the Arbitral Tribunal to act as amiable compositeur and to decide the dispute according to principles of equity.
In deciding in favour of Claimant, the Arbitral Tribunal remarked that the contractually agreed rate of interest of 1.4 % per month was excessively high. It decided instead to apply the rate usually put in practice in these matters, and concluded in the case at hand for the application of the United States prime rate. In doing so, it referred without further explanation to the UNIDROIT Principles in general.
The payment of interest, in case of delay, is contractual (Art. 1.2 of the Contract) and has been accepted, as such, by both parties.
The existence of such an increased amount, in the case of delays in settling payments, is above discussion: it is a cornerstone of economic and commercial relations. Therefore, the principle of Respondent having to pay not only the contractual amount of [...] but interest, based on time elapsed since the agreed initial date of payment, cannot be discussed and must be reaffirmed [...].
The rate of interest is determined by the Contract. Therefore it is considered as accepted by both parties. However, with the powers of amiable compositeur, I wish to make the following remarks:
Respondent's situation, since the fire, is difficult and mutual understanding should lead to take it into account. They certainly have improperly dealt with the consequences of the event and they will have to fulfil their contractual engagements, which they did not formally propose to resiliate [sic]. Later, this silence to the legitimate questions raised by Claimant is surely not acceptable in the spirit of good commercial relations. But they were and probably still! are confronted with a major accident with important direct and secondary effects.
They warned even if the manner was neither formal nor strictly rightful their counterpart, which acknowledged the new situation. Respondent even showed what can be interpreted as a token of good faith in offering [...] as an indemnity.
The contractual interest rate is fixed at a level which is considerably higher than the rates which are usually put in practice in these matters, such as the US Prime Rate, recommended by the Principles of Unidroit.
In deciding a case " according to the principles of equity ", my view is that the initial contractual interest rate, if applied to the considered amount and period of time, would be disproportionate with the economic and commercial conditions of this case. I therefore substitute the US Prime Rate to the initial contractual rate of 1.4 % per month, for the delayed payment owed to Claimant by Respondent.}}
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- ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall 1999, 82-83}}