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From a curtailed college basketball season to a relatively nonexistent process leading into the NBA Draft, this has been anything but a normal time for players like Fatts Russell.
The University of Rhode Island guard was about to make one of the most important decisions of his life based on game tape, Zoom calls and virtual workouts. To pass up his final year of eligibility with the Rams and turn professional would have carried significant risk.
But there was something else that kept pulling Russell back toward Kingston, and it dates to a freshman year that saw him emerge as a future star. The Philadelphia native is still chasing a feeling he experienced while breaking out against Oklahoma and future lottery pick Trey Young. He has the next decade or so to collect a paycheck playing the game he loves but only one more chance to reach that particular stage.
“My ultimate goal right now is just to get back to the NCAA Tournament,” Russell said. “Ever since my freshman year I’ve just been foaming at the mouth to get the opportunity to be in that situation again.
“You’re on national TV, biggest games of your life, and you’re playing in them with your brothers. That was just an amazing feeling my freshman year. I’m just itching to get that feeling back.”
So, there it is. Russell has some personal goals in mind as well – several URI career milestones within reach, Atlantic 10 Player of the Year honors and All-American status are chief among them. But leading the Rams back to March Madness for the third time in five years sits atop the list.
“Once it’s professional, it’s strictly business,” Russell said. “Everything about the basketball situation is business. You’re getting paid a number and they expect you to do certain things.”
Russell declared for the draft in late March but retained his eligibility. The coronavirus pandemic swallowed society in the interim, with an American death toll approaching 100,000 and the economy ground to a halt. There was very little opportunity for Russell to showcase his talents to potential employers.
“I talked to a couple teams,” Russell said. “Other than that, it was just a slow period. They communicated a lot with my coaches and everybody close to my family.”
Russell is one of just three players returning to the Rams next season who saw the floor in 2019-20. The state of the URI roster forced some frank conversations between Russell and coach David Cox about the expectations for the program in the near future. The postponement of a possible one-time transfer exception granted by the NCAA would have prevented Russell from going elsewhere and playing immediately.
“I was talking with Coach Cox and he knew there were a lot of changes going on,” Russell said. “He just wanted me to feel comfortable and know that we could still win at Rhode Island. That was big for me.”
Legacy was something that came into clearer focus for Russell during those discussions. He’s within striking distance of the all-time Rams top five in scoring, assists and games played. Russell is 49 steals away from passing Keith Cothran and becoming the program leader.
“That was a big part of my decision,” Russell said. “You don’t want to go somewhere else and just be another player.”
Russell’s improvements from sophomore to junior year were significant. His shooting from 3-point range (22.3% to 35.7%) and the foul line (73.7% to 82.4%) was considerably better, and he piled up 15 games of 20 points or more. Selections to the midseason watch lists for both the Naismith Trophy and Naismith Defensive Player of the Year spoke to his impact on a national scale.
“We’re young and, on top of that, we’re strangers in a sense,” Russell said. “Leadership definitely is going to take this team over the hump and I feel like it’s going to take me over the hump as well.”
Russell has been able to keep pace with his normal offseason workouts despite being home for the better part of the last two months. He’s expecting to return to campus when allowed by URI staff. The NCAA has sanctioned voluntary offseason workouts for all Division I athletes beginning on June 1.
“I’m in great shape right now,” Russell said. “It really hasn’t affected getting in gyms for me.”
Game nights at the Ryan Center could look a little different for Russell’s final season. Social distancing measures imposed by Gov. Gina Raimondo and adopted by the state’s larger venues could see doors closed to fans. Potentially lessened environment aside, Russell is no less eager to take the floor with the Rams for one last year.
“I just thought about it and I felt like Rhody was home for me,” Russell said. “I didn’t want to leave.”
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Pastor Philip Waldvogel has brought his family and members of his church to Jennings Hall for the past two decades. Singers sing and musicians play, Pastor Philip plays his tuba. The spirit of Christmas flows throughout the audience as they listen to carols of Christmas.
This Pastor Waldvogel also visited Cooper Park Houses during their Christmas celebration. In addition to caroling there, he helped serve food, and donated prizes for the raffle. One prize was an air fryer.


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Student Withdrawals And Treatment Of Title IV Aid
Treatment of Title IV Funds When a Student Withdraws
The Return of Title IV Funds procedure shall apply to all students who withdraw, drop out, or are involuntarily removed from Wayne Community College (WCC) and receive financial aid from Title IV funds. The term “Title IV Funds” refers to the federal financial aid programs authorized under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (as amended) and includes the following programs at WCC:
- Federal Pell Grants
- Federal SEOG
- Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grants
Students who are dropped or withdrawn from all classes before completing more than 60% of an enrollment term will have their aid eligibility recalculated based on the percent of the term completed. For example, a student who withdraws completing only 30% of the term will have “earned” only 30% of any Title IV aid received. The remaining 70% must be returned by the school and/or the student. WCC encourages you to read this procedure carefully. If you are thinking about withdrawing from all classes, you should contact the WCC Financial Aid & Veteran Services Office to see how your withdrawal will impact your financial aid. It can negatively affect your overall academic progress, AND it may create a debt to WCC, the Department of Education, or both that you are responsible for paying! Once you have completed more than 60% of the enrollment term, you earn all assistance that you were scheduled to receive for that period. You are also exempted if you complete and earn credits in a module or combination of modules that include 49% or more of the number of days in the payment period OR complete coursework and earned credit equal to or greater than six credit hours.
As WCC is an institution that requires attendance keeping for all courses, a student’s withdrawal date is the last day of attendance in a class regardless of whether the withdrawal is official or unofficial.
Refunds due on all institutional charges, including tuition and fees, will be calculated using the state refund procedure published in the WCC Catalog.
Calculating the Return of Title IV Aid
Title IV aid is earned in a prorated manner on a per-day basis. The percentage of Title IV aid earned is calculated by dividing the number of days completed by the student by the total number of days in the semester/term, less any applicable breaks. The percent of the term completed shall be the percentage of Title IV aid earned by the student. If you withdraw from or cease attending all coursework on or before 60% of the period, WCC is required to return any portion of your federal financial aid that is unearned. Unearned aid being returned from with institution will be returned to the Department of Education within 45 days of the date the institution determines you have withdrawn.
The total number of calendar days in a term of enrollment shall exclude any scheduled breaks of more than five days. For purposes of the 49% calculation, you take the total number of calendar days in a term of enrollment and exclude any breaks between modules to determine if the student completed 50% of the term.
As a result of this calculation, federal funds may not cover all unpaid school charges due to WCC upon your withdrawal. Any debt created by WCC returning a portion of your aid to the federal programs is due and payable by you. Unpaid debts to WCC will prevent you from receiving an official academic transcript and registering for more coursework at WCC until the debt is paid in full.
If you did not receive all of the funds you earned, you could be due a post-withdrawal disbursement. WCC will automatically use all or a portion of your post-withdrawal disbursement of grant funds for tuition, fees, and other institutional charges. We need your permission to use the post-withdrawal grant disbursement for all additional school charges. If you do not give your permission, you will be offered the funds. However, it may be in your best interest to allow WCC to keep the funds to reduce your debt at the school. Any funds you are due will be refunded to you within 14 days of completing the Return to Title IV Calculation.
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Unearned Title IV aid shall be returned to the following programs in the following order:
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- Other Title IV grant programs
Any amount of unearned grant funds that you must return is called an overpayment. You do not have to repay a grant overpayment if the original amount of the overpayment is $50 or less. You must make arrangements with the school or the Department of Education to return the unearned grant funds. Failure to repay the balance created at WCC by a Return to Title IV calculation could result in a hold being placed on your account, preventing you from registering for classes or obtaining an official college transcript. If you owe an overpayment to the Department of Education, failure to resolve the overpayment will result in a denial of Federal Student Aid at all institutions until resolved. An overpayment owed to the Department of Education can, in most cases, be paid at WCC.
Unofficial Withdrawal Procedure for Federal Student Aid
As a student, when you stop attending all classes for 14 calendar days within the semester without following the official procedures for withdrawal, your aid could also be processed as a Return to Title IV aid. Instructors will contact you if you have not attended for more than 14 days to confirm whether you plan to return. If you do not intend to return or do not return as planned, the instructor will have you withdrawn from the class. If you do not have any remaining courses you are attending, a Return of Title IV funds will be processed. The withdrawal date used is the last day of attendance.
Failure to complete courses may also significantly impact your financial aid status. When you fail to earn any credit for a semester, you may be defined as “unofficially withdrawn” for Title IV purposes. At the end of each term, if you have not earned at least one credit, the Financial Aid and Veteran Services Office will review your record for the last date of attendance. If you did not attend through the end of the semester, a Return of Title IV calculation would be completed using the last day of recorded attendance. As an “unofficially withdrawn” student, you will be billed for resulting institutional charges and repayments of Federal Student Aid.

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This study examines the relationship of serum total tau, neurofilament light (NFL), ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) with neurocognitive performance in service members and veterans with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Service members (n = 488) with a history of uncomplicated mild (n = 172), complicated mild, moderate, severe, or penetrating TBI (sTBI; n = 126), injured controls (n = 116), and non-injured controls (n = 74) prospectively enrolled from Military Treatment Facilities. Participants completed a blood draw and neuropsychological assessment a year or more post-injury. Six neuropsychological composite scores and presence/absence of mild neurocognitive disorder (MNCD) were evaluated. Within each group, stepwise hierarchical regression models were conducted.
Within the sTBI group, increased serum UCH-L1 was related to worse immediate memory and delayed memory (R2Δ = .065–.084, ps < .05) performance, while increased GFAP was related to worse perceptual reasoning (R2Δ = .030, p = .036). Unexpectedly, within injured controls, UCH-L1 and GFAP were inversely related to working memory (R2Δ = .052–.071, ps < .05), and NFL was related to executive functioning (R2Δ = .039, p = .021) and MNCD (Exp(B) = 1.119, p = .029).
Results suggest GFAP and UCH-L1 could play a role in predicting poor cognitive outcome following complicated mild and more severe TBI. Further investigation of blood biomarkers and cognition is warranted.

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Talbots expands to Mexico
Talbots expands to Mexico: A major strategic alliance between Liverpool, Mexico’s top department store, and KnitWell Group, Talbots’ parent company, was recently announced. As a result of this partnership, the world has never seen the legendary American clothing label Talbots before in Mexico.
Launching this month in and around Mexico City, ten Talbots’shop in shop’ locations within Liverpool stores are part of this relationship. Since Talbots products have never been sold outside of North America, this expansion is a watershed moment.
Dresses, sportswear, and classic favorites like the Chatham pant and the Charming cardigan will be available in each of these Talbots departments within Liverpool locations. To appeal to Mexican consumers, the presentation will feature Talbots’ distinctive prints in vivid hues.
The cooperation was enthusiastically welcomed by Deirdre FitzGerald, President of International for KnitWell Group, who highlighted the opportunity for growth through global expansion. She praised Mexico as a powerful market that is well-versed in the Talbots name and praised Liverpool as an important ally in capitalizing on this new potential.
Renowned clothing labels like Talbots, Ann Taylor, and Loft are part of KnitWell Group, which was founded in August by the New York-based investment firm Sycamore Partners. They share services and oversee the plus-size women’s clothing company Lane Bryant, which has yearly sales of more than $3 billion.
The collaboration with KnitWell Group to bring Talbots to the Mexican market specifically for Liverpool clients was enthusiastically embraced by Daniela Hernandez, Liverpool’s Commercial Buying Director. She drew attention to the fact that Talbots shares Liverpool’s dedication to providing clients with first-rate goods and services.
In short, the partnership between KnitWell Group and Liverpool is a calculated step toward increasing Talbots’ global visibility and giving customers in Mexico access to the label’s classic, elegant clothing.

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Yoriko`s book has been a work in progress for some time. She wanted to impart a memorable message so decided on the idea of keeping in good enough shape to sprint at 105 like Japanese legend Miyazaki san.
The book will be ready next week. In keeping with the them there will be 105 pages and the book will cost $1.05 to download. Here is what one will look like. What do you think?
The idea is to get interactivity going by having readers tweet and pin posts from each page and use the hashtag. When they do they will be invited to a Facebook group where they can ask questions to Yoriko.
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Advanced demographics and analytics hub Rentrak has partnered with Targeted Victory, a leading in the online ad space, to target voters based on their television viewing habits. Through the agreement Rentrak's television voter viewing data will be layered into the Targeted Victory Audience Exchange database.
"In 2014, over 50% of likely voters are screen agnostic, and campaigns can't be certain where they're watching video. Through our partnership with Rentrak, the right messaging lands on every screen - reaching even the most elusive audiences," said Michael Beach, co-founder of Targeted Victory.
The data can be used to better track voters based on their viewing habits, and matching those habits to voter registration files and segments while still keeping private information private.
"More often than not, the modern voter can be found consuming digital and broadcast media interchangeably, if not at the same time - and modern campaigns need the flexibility and sophisticated targeting to respond to these habits. This partnership is a terrific step, and we're excited to put it to work for forward-thinking campaigns in the upcoming cycle" said Chris Wilson, President of National Television at Rentrak.
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After its first Total Tech Summit, Ingram Micro is building its client base and is making big plans for its return to the event.
Entering into last year’s Total Tech Summit, Ingram Micro did not know what to expect. After the company’s first experience there, the team is looking forward to returning to the event with an ambitious game plan in mind.
Ingram Micro is a distributor delivering a full spectrum of global technology and supply chain services to businesses around the world. The company represents approximately 1,700 suppliers, including names like Apple, Microsoft and Samsung, and serves more than 200,000 customers in approximately 160 countries.
Despite the massive reach of the business, company leaders wanted to continue to grow its brand recognition and expand its customer base. So, they turned to the Total Tech Summit, purchasing a package that included two boardroom presentations and one-on-one meetings.
“We’ve done one-on-one meetings in the past at other events and this was the first and only event we’ve ever been to where every single person showed up,” says Ingram Micro senior marketing services manager Donna Suen.
Suen says she was pleased with the quality of meetings she and her team had in not only the one-on-one meetings, but also their two boardroom presentations, which were aided by guest data profiles that are provided to each sponsoring company, featuring details about each meeting attendee such as their company’s annual revenue, its number of employees and the technologies it uses.
Because of those profiles, Suen says the Ingram Micro team was able to tweak its presentations to specially tailor them for each audience group. She believes that approach helped them better connect with those guests, and has led to them creating several new accounts they didn’t have before the event. Since then, the company has closed one contract and has maintained contact with several others with deals in the pipeline.
“We had a rep from ProAV and one from Physical Security, so depending on that customer profile, we aligned them with the correct rep,” says Suen. “So, that definitely helped us.”
After the success of their inaugural Total Tech Summit, the Ingram team is gearing up for next year with bigger plans in mind. Now that the company has a better understanding of the event, Suen and her team are looking to impress the attendees even more.
“A lot people weren’t sure what Ingram Micro is, so we are thinking of bringing in some of our vendor partners that are differentiators,” says Suen. “We are hoping to tell the full solutions story with some of our key partners.”
Even on its own last year, the Ingram Micro team found great value in the event and is making it a priority on its calendar.
“It’s actually one of our top events for the year,” Suen says. “I don’t even have to say anything to the sales reps and they push for the event. So, that’s always a good sign.”


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Outgoing FCA boss puts Alfa, Maserati and Jeep at forefront of group’s five-year plan
A range of electric Maseratis, an Alfa Romeo supercar, massive expansion for Jeep and a substantial, £8 billion push towards electrification and autonomous models are Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ major ambitions for the next five years.
For Fiat cars, Chrysler and Dodge, however, the ambitions are modest, although Fiat will offer an electric 500.
To understand why FCA will concentrate mainly on its Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ram brands, you need to follow the money, the markets and the barrage of impending regulations.
Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ram are expected to account for 80% of FCA’s revenue by 2022
These four brands generate 65% of FCA’s revenue and are expected to account for 80% by 2022. Of the four, three have a global presence and three are premium, with their potential margins big enough to cover the cost of meeting future regulations.
Reducing CO2 emissions and developing fully electric cars are the most expensive of these regulatory challenges. Also needed are autonomous vehicles (that technology currently adds £22,000 to the price of a car, according chief technology officer Harald Wester) and an increase in vehicle connectivity.
The most striking market development of the past decade is the exponential shift to SUVs and crossovers, which has helped propel Jeep sales from a few hundred thousand units to more than 1.9 million.
That growth, and the rise of Ram pick-up trucks, has enabled the company to eliminate long-standing debt.
US truck maker Ram, spun out of Dodge in 2009, is also a major profit driver and increasingly operating in concert with Fiat Professional, Fiat’s van division. Combined, they are the second-biggest makers of commercial vehicles in the world.
Jeep, Ram and Fiat Professional dwarf Alfa Romeo and Maserati, but FCA sees these two Italian premium brands as the future of car making.
The target for Alfa Romeo is once again 400,000 sales annually – a previously missed target, with FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne admitting to poor execution of the previous plan despite the excellent Giulia and Stelvio. Key to this goal are smaller and larger SUVs bookending the Stelvio, a new GTV coupé and an 8C supercar halo model.
Despite flat-lining sales, albeit at a much higher level since the launch of the Ghibli and Levante, Maserati is being built up to compete with Tesla and Porsche.
The new plug-in hybrid and fully electric versions of the Alfieri coupé and cabriolet supercar will spearhead the marque’s leap towards a sub-brand of all-electric models called Blue, along with the next-generation Quattroporte and Levante.
A smaller Maserati SUV (likely based on the Stelvio) is also due, along with a major refresh for the Ghibli, eight plug-in hybrids and level three autonomy for all models by 2022.
The goal is to generate global sales of 100,000 and a 15% margin by that year.
It’s ironic that the ‘F’ and ‘C’ of FCA are now the lesser brands. Like Dodge, neither Fiat nor Chrysler received its own presentation at the group’s Capital Markets Day, prompting many to question their long-term future.
The FCA line was that the event focused on its global brands. Fiat will remain centred on Europe and South America, while Chrysler and Dodge are North American only.
An electric 500 and a 500 Giardiniera estate are planned for the European market, on the basis that the 500’s premium pricing can accommodate the extra cost of electrified technology. There will also be new Fiat crossovers for South America.
Chrysler will essentially become a brand focused on MPVs and ride-sharing – a new deal with self-driving company Waymo for 62,000 Pacifica MPVs points to this future.
The five-year plan unveiled a fortnight ago is the last to be led by Marchionne, who was appointed boss of a near-bankrupt Fiat in 2004. But it was the takeover of Chrysler in 2009, together with the spinning out of Ferrari, that has underpinned the survival of the group – and has seen FCA’s value rise from around $5bn (£3.73bn) in 2004 to more than $70bn (£52.3bn) today.


Thousands of families have received emergency food aid through the first stage of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) response to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
With vast areas of devastation along the trail of the typhoon, estimates indicate that over a million people are yet to be reached.
Fritz Neuberg from ADRA Germany noted after the food distribution in the north of Cebu Island, “An elderly man came to me. ‘Thank you very much,’ he said in broken English, ‘Thank you!’ Four times he came to me. Repeatedly he expressed his appreciation for ADRA’s work. ‘Thank you!’”
Government estimates of the number of people affected by the November 8 super-storm have been revised up to 13.2 million with over 4.4 million people displaced. Two weeks after the typhoon hit, critical needs continue to be food, safe drinking water, basic shelter and sanitation.
ADRA is in close consultation with the United Nations and other aid agencies to ensure survivors are reached quickly with life-saving supplies. With vast areas of devastation along the trail of the typhoon, estimates indicate that over a million people are yet to be reached.
Thousands of families have received emergency food aid through the first stage of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) response.
“Portable water purification systems have been deployed and the distribution of water has commenced in Capiz Province,” said Beryl Hartmann, Humanitarian coordinator for ADRA Australia. “One unit will provide 15,000 litres of purified water per day for surrounding communities and the district hospital.”
The next phase of ADRA’s response will see the distribution of larger food packs, shelter kits and hygiene kits to prevent the spread of disease.
Adventist churches across Australia are invited to participate in a special offering this weekend to ensure food, water, hygiene and shelter packs can be rapidly delivered to survivors. Tax-deductible donations can be given online at <egiving.org.au> or <www.adra.org.au>, or by calling 1800 242 372.


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Numerical simulation of multicomponent adsorption (such as in foam-forming surfactants, lignosulfonate, polymer/surfactants, etc.) is still at an early stage. Mathematical models of multicomponent adsorption and desorption in a surfactant/rock system have not yet been well developed. In this paper, a mathematical model for multicomponent adsorption, based on surface excess theory, is presented. The mathematical model is validated through more than 30 experimental runs under a wide range of operating conditions. Several multicomponent mixtures were used in the experimental runs to observe the effects of surfactant concentration, chemical slug size, flow rate, rock properties, salinity of the surfactant solution, and temperature. With the application of lignosulfonate as a sacrificial adsorbate, the amount of surfactant adsorption can be reduced significantly. Polymersurfactant solution flooding system is a economical way to increase the efficiency of chemical injection. Polymer has beneficial effects on surfactant adsorption though polymer itself still has strong adsorption at the solid/liquid interface relative to surfactant. Numerical simulation results showed excellent agreement with experimental data.
The phenomenon of adsorption and desorption at solid/liquid interface is of major importance in the process of enhanced oil recovery with the application of surfactant. More recently, foam-forming surfactants have been used in remediating contaminated soils foam-forming surfactants have been used in petroleum industry for enhanced oil recovery. Some simulation research had been made with regards to the processes of surfactant flooding. The behavior of surfactant under various conditions had been studied by different researchers. Adsorption is one of the main mechanisms for surfactant loss in any process that uses surfactants. Laboratory study and field tests indicated that surfactant loss by adsorption could be significantly reduced reflushing lignosulfonate as a sacrificial adsorbate. Different mechanisms of surfactant adsorption have been recognized and adsorption modeling were made with good results
Surfactant adsorption at the solid/liquid interface can be modeled with either a Langmuir-type model or a surface excess model. The Langmuir equation was used in simulating adsorption and desorption of some chemical floodings in enhanced oil recovery. For a thermodynamically consistent study, the surface excess theory is more suitable to model surfactant adsorption and desorption at the solid/liquid interface.


With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, it’s no surprise that smart homes are becoming the norm for homeowners around the world. A smart home employs the latest technology to create a highly connected living experience, enhancing the overall convenience, comfort, and security of the residents. Let’s explore the latest technology that is transforming homes into smart havens of the future.
One of the key components of a smart home is the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT refers to the network of interconnected devices and appliances that communicate with each other and the homeowners, offering unprecedented control and automation. From controlling lighting, temperature, and security systems remotely to receiving notifications and updates from various devices, IoT has revolutionized the way we interact with our homes.
Imagine waking up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee and the soothing sound of your favorite music. With voice-activated personal assistants like Amazon Echo or Google Home, this dream can become a reality. These devices use artificial intelligence to understand and respond to voice commands, allowing you to control various smart devices in your home without even lifting a finger.
Beyond just controlling basic home features, smart homes of the future are focusing on energy efficiency. Today’s smart thermostats, for example, can learn and adapt to your preferences, automatically adjusting the temperature based on your daily routines. This not only saves you money on energy bills but also reduces your carbon footprint. Smart lighting systems also play a significant role in energy conservation by automatically turning off lights in unoccupied rooms or adjusting the brightness based on the time of day.
Safety and security are paramount when it comes to smart homes. Advanced security systems equipped with motion detectors, facial recognition, and smart locks ensure that your home is well-protected. Smart cameras allow homeowners to monitor their property remotely and receive notifications in case of any suspicious activity. Additionally, smart smoke detectors and leak detectors can alert you instantly in case of potential hazards, allowing you to take immediate action to mitigate risks.
Entertainment plays a crucial role in a smart home as well. High-tech home theaters equipped with state-of-the-art audio and video systems, immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences, and voice-activated media controls offer unparalleled relaxation and enjoyment. Gaming enthusiasts can indulge in virtual gaming experiences with enhanced graphics and interactivity.
For those who strive for a healthier lifestyle, smart homes of the future have a lot to offer as well. Smart refrigerators can detect when your groceries are running low and place an order for you through your favorite grocery delivery service. Smart appliances, such as ovens and blenders, can provide guided cooking instructions and nutritional suggestions. Fitness enthusiasts can benefit from smart workout equipment that tracks their progress and provides real-time feedback.
The possibilities of smart homes in the future are virtually limitless. As technology continues to evolve, we can expect even more integration and automation. It’s important to note that with the benefits of a smart home come concerns about privacy and data security. As homeowners embrace the convenience and comfort of smart homes, it’s crucial to stay informed and take necessary precautions to safeguard personal information.
In conclusion, smart homes of the future promise a connected living experience like never before. With the latest technology, homeowners have the power to control and automate various aspects of their homes, from lighting and temperature to security and entertainment. As we move forward, it will be fascinating to witness how smart homes continue to evolve and transform our living spaces.


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With a background in welding and an eye for quality, Welch Trailers was founded in 1987 with a simple goal: To build quality trailers that people can afford. I feel there is a market for trailers at a fair price.
Everywhere else in the country trailer dealers buy their trailers from the manufacturer and then mark the price up 10-15% If they want to make more money, they just need to sell more trailers. Meanwhile, here in New England the trailer dealers buy from the manufacturer and mark the prices up 30-50%. And if they want to make more money, they just mark their prices up even higher.
If you buy a Welch Trailer it will cut out the middle man because we manufacture them right here on site. If you buy one of the brands that we sell, then it will still be discounted because we only mark our trailers up 10-15%.Type your paragraph here.

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A little fun-night in Washington and President Obama thanked lawmakers who “took a break from their exhausting schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight.”
In the basement ballroom of the Washington Hilton, more than 2,000 politicians, celebrities, journalists and hangers-on gathered for the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. The arrangements created a muddled tableau of elites from different industries, with Kate Hudson paired with Colin Powell and Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, and her attorney seated at the table with Fox News pundits.
“It’s great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificent Hilton ballroom,” Obama said, “or what Mitt Romney would call ‘a little fixer-upper.'”
President Obama also remembered Republican criticism of him for eating dog meat while a boy in Indonesia. “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?” Mr. Obama asked and answered – “A pit bull is delicious.” Dear Sarah Palin – here you have it – and remember that your candidate for Presidency traveled in a car with his dog strapped in a cage to the roof top. What about strapping Bo to the top of US One and sprint him out of China?
President Obama teased Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was photographed dancing and drinking a beer at a club during a visit to Colombia. “She won’t stop drunk-texting me from Cartagena,” he said. He also said that he had to leave early because “I have to get the Secret Service home in time for their new curfew.”
The President was followed by Mr. Jimmy Kimmel as official entertainer at last night’s White House Press dinner who said that “I do have a lot of jokes about the Secret Service,” – “You know, I told them – for $800 – I wouldn’t tell them – but they only offered 30.”
Last night’s dinner was also a commemoration at another level – just think – last year the dinner played a cameo role in the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. When the President showed up at the dinner a year ago, Mr. Obama had just given the order for the helicopter incursion into Pakistan to burst into a compound where the Al Qaeda leader was suspected of living, but the President smiled and joked his way through that dinner, and a ballroom full of journalists had no clue what was about to happen. One Bravo! or rise-a-glass! – for this President.
“Last year at this time — in fact, on this very weekend — we finally delivered justice to one of the world’s most notorious individuals,” Obama said during his after-dinner speech, seeming to allude to the killing of Osama bin Laden. But then a photo of an orange-faced Donald Trump — who spent much of last spring questioning Obama’s citizenship — flashed on giant screens in the ballroom. Punch line delivered.
and something else – an opinion piece in the New York Times makes it crystal clear – “THE president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades.” So what are the Republicans hollering about?
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Warrior in Chief
By PETER L. BERGEN, Published: April 28, 2012
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The president used the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech as an occasion to articulate his philosophy of war. He made it very clear that his opposition to the Iraq war didn’t mean that he embraced pacifism — not at all.
“I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people,” the president told the Nobel committee — and the world. “For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler’s armies. Negotiations cannot convince Al Qaeda’s leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism — it is a recognition of history, the imperfections of man, and the limits of reason.”
Mr. Obama’s readiness to use force — and his military record — have won him little support from the right. Despite countervailing evidence, most conservatives view the president as some kind of peacenik. From both the right and left, there has been a continuing, dramatic cognitive disconnect between Mr. Obama’s record and the public perception of his leadership: despite his demonstrated willingness to use force, neither side regards him as the warrior president he is.
But Mr. Obama decimated Al Qaeda’s leadership. He overthrew the Libyan dictator. He ramped up drone attacks in Pakistan, waged effective covert wars in Yemen and Somalia and authorized a threefold increase in the number of American troops in Afghanistan. He became the first president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and played an operational role in Al Qaeda, and was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen. And, of course, Mr. Obama ordered and oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.


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One in five people may suffer from hearing loss. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that many more are at risk of permanent hearing damage, with more than a billion students putting their hearing in danger because of unsafe listening practices.
To raise awareness about this invisible epidemic, World Hearing Day was started by the WHO in 2015. Untreated hearing problems have a gradual but far-reaching influence on someone’s social, emotional and vocational well-being. They are even associated with an increase in depression, hospitalisations and cognitive decline in older adults. In fact, the number one risk factor for dementia that can be influenced in mid-life stages is hearing loss.
With World Hearing Day on 3 March, here are three ways to take care of your hearing (and your brain).
1. Follow safe listening practices to avoid hearing loss
The old adage that prevention is better than cure is even truer in the case of hearing loss, since there is no cure. The most common form of hearing loss – sensorineural – is due to permanent damage to the delicate hearing organ and cannot be reversed.
The ubiquitous nature of personal digital technologies and their use as listening devices is posing a real risk to the hearing of young adults around the world. For example, a recent study found that one in seven children between nine and 11 years of age already has early signs of noise-induced hearing loss that may have lifelong consequences.
The WHO has recommended safe listening strategies that are simple to implement and encourage enjoyment of your listening activities in a responsible way. Firstly, keep the volume down, preferably at below 60% of the maximum, and use carefully fitted earphones and, if possible, noise-cancelling headphones. Secondly, protect your ears from loud sounds by wearing earplugs or moving away from sources of sound such as loudspeakers. Thirdly, limit your time engaged in noisy activities, including daily use of personal audio devices, and take short listening breaks.
2. Get regular hearing check-ups
Interestingly, it is often a spouse or children of persons with hearing loss who first notice a hearing problem. The first signs usually include difficulty following conversation in noisy places like restaurants and turning the TV’s volume up. Since more effort is required by persons with hearing loss in conversations and meetings, they often struggle with fatigue. Tinnitus, or a ringing sensation in the ears, is another common symptom of a hearing problem.
Audiologists are professionals dedicated to hearing care and can provide a hearing check-up if there are any concerns. As a collaborating centre of the World Health Organization, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology has dedicated efforts to make hearing check-ups widely accessible. The national hearing test of South Africa, hearZA, was developed here in partnership with the hearX group. The free app, available on iOS and Android stores, gives a quick two-minute hearing screening test. If a hearing problem is identified users can connect directly with the nearest audiologist. This year UP is supporting World Hearing Day by launching a self-test kiosk in the library to allow students and staff to check their own hearing regularly.
3. Get treated as soon as possible
When it comes to doing something about a hearing problem, sooner is always better than later. Increasingly, research is pointing to the close link between hearing and brain health, suggesting that the more hearing you have the better it is for your brain. Fortunately, we live in a day and age where advances in technology are not only making hearing aids incredibly small but also incredibly powerful to restore much of the lost hearing sensitivity. With the right support, hearing aids can ensure persons with hearing loss don’t have to miss out.
The 2020 World Hearing Day theme is: Hearing for life. Don’t let hearing loss limit you. Because it doesn't have to.
*De Wet Swanepoel is Professor in Audiology at the University of Pretoria, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Audiology, and co-founder of the hearX group. His work capitalises on information and communication technologies to explore, develop and evaluate innovative solutions and service-delivery models to improve ear and hearing care.
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New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 58th Field Conference, Geology of the Jemez Mountains Region II, pp. (opens as a PDF) Terminus Ante Quem Dating of the Depopulation of Jemez Ancestral Villages — Josh Farella and Thomas W. Allen 2016 Multiscale perspectives of fire, climate and humans in western North America and the Jemez Mountains, USA.These fifteen prayers are known as the Prayers of St. The prayers themselves are a very tender meditation on Christ's passion and death. Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373), who was the foundress of the Brigittines (see entry in Catholic Encyclopedia). Numerous editions of these prayers beloved by many have appeared over the centuries with considerable variation in the texts and even in the order of the prayers.Swetnam The Long-Term Context for Human–Fire Relationships on the Jemez Plateau—Christopher I. The Jemez FHi RE Project: An Introduction — Christopher I. Swetnam National Science Foundation GEO-1114898 Summaries of papers presented at the 2015 Society for American Archaeology Conferences on t DAR What is the Wildland-Urban Interface? Program) Fire Adds Richness to the Land: Ethnographic Knowledge about Forests and Fire — Benrita “Mae” Burnette, Ronnie Cachini, T. Welch Hopi Tribe Pueblo of Jemez Pueblo of Zuni White Mountain Apache Tribe The Hemish Footprint — Paul Tosa and Barry Price Steinbrecher Walatowa Vistor Center (Jemez Pueblo) Price Steinbrecher, Barry 2015 The Geography of Heritage: Comparing Archaeological Culture Areas and Contemporary Cultural Landscapes. Jemez Archaeology and History — Matthew Liebmann and Chris Toya Liebmann, Matthew 2012 Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th-Century New Mexico. The High-Elevation Archaeological Record of the Valles Caldera — Anastasia Steffen Valles Caldera National Preserve Parmenter, Robert R., Anastasia Steffen, and Craig D.Roos Modeling Ancient Land Use and Resilient Forests in the Jemez Mountains—Rachel Loehman Lessons from Four Centuries of Local Management for Contemporary Fire Challenges—Thomas W. Roos FHi RE Outreach: Learning about Forest Fires Then and Now—Sara Chavarria Beyond Community Consent: Toward Sovereignty-Driven Academic Research—Francis Vigil and John R. Allen 2007 An Overview of the Valles Caldera National Preserve: The Natural and Cultural Resources.An example is in the language dating method known as linguistic palaeontology. Swetnam Modeling Jemez Population—Matthew Liebmann Through Fire and Water: Ancestral Jemez Water Management—Michael Aiuvalasit Tree-Ring Records of Forests, People, and Fire in the Jemez Mountains—Thomas W. Any references specifically called out in an article are given below. Koyiyumptewa, Octavius Seowtewa, Paul Tosa, and John R..action_button.action_button:active.action_button:hover.action_button:focus.action_button:hover.action_button:focus .count.action_button:hover .count.action_button:focus .count:before.action_button:hover .count:before.u-margin-left--sm.u-flex.u-flex-auto.u-flex-none.bullet. Error Banner.fade_out.modal_overlay.modal_overlay .modal_wrapper.modal_overlay [email protected](max-width:630px)@media(max-width:630px).modal_overlay .modal_fixed_close.modal_overlay .modal_fixed_close:before.modal_overlay .modal_fixed_close:before.modal_overlay .modal_fixed_close:before.modal_overlay .modal_fixed_close:hover:before. The first strategy: one can determine the terminus post quem (time after which) by establishing the last independently-datable event to which the text refers, and the terminus ante quem (time before which) be looking at its first attestation in external evidence, such as manuscripts or quotations.This typically yields a range of dates, and thus often constitutes just an initial framing of the investigation; usually one or both of the other two strategies will be necessary to arrive at a date within the identified range.

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...and they lived happily ever after. The End.
I throw the leather bound book across the room and sigh. This is one princess that will never live happily ever after.
A single tear runs down my cheek and I catch it on my fingertip; I watch as my magick crystallizes the tear, turning it into a faerie stone and I tuck the stone away with the rest of the collection. For the past fourteen years, to celebrate my birthday I allow myself a single tear to honor the memory of Nicholas, my childhood best friend, my prince charming.
“Lana, get dressed,” my roommate Annabelle says as she storms into our apartment, “you’re going out tonight.”
On a normal night, I would argue and stay home with a new book. But tonight is different; it is a historical event for Elementals like us. The mortal beings of the Earthly Realm take this phenomenon for granted, but to us, we need the power that will be released on this special night.
Tonight, Friday the 13th, there is a full moon. It has been fourteen years since this last occurred, and it will be another thirty-five before it will happen again.
I have remained in the mortal world too long without returning to my homeland, the Faerie Kingdom of Aleiwen. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to return home and claim my birthright. So I need to replenish my magick when I can; the faerie light in me is fading, leaving nothing more than an empty shell. I need the magickal powers that will be released tonight during the Witching Hour in order to survive. My greatest chance to absorb the power released tonight is to be near other Elementals.
Taking a deep breath to clear my mind and steady my racing heart, I hurry and get ready to leave. The insistent sound of a car horn breaks the peaceful silence. Annabelle must already be in the car. With a quick glance in the mirror, I grab my stuff and head out the door.
Staring out the window of Annabelle’s custom candy apple red Fiat, I watch the safety of our apartment building blur to nothing more than a tiny object in the distance.
I roll down the window, close my eyes, and take a deep breath. The sweet salt water wafting off the ocean tickles my nose, and the shrieking of the seagulls pierce my eardrums.
My fingers fiddle with the hem of my shirt and a small smile spreads on my face as I gaze out into the distance and think about the time Annabelle and I first met.
The night I met Annabelle, the setting sun shimmered off the blue ocean much like it is doing now. We met a few weeks after I transferred to the All-Girl Year Round Boarding school. My father sent me away, to hide me from my step-mother, the Wicked Faerie, after her hideous beast attacked Nicholas. Father feared for my life, so I have been banished to the Earthly Realm, to walk among the mortals until the beast is slain.
Annabelle and I met while I was exploring the harbor. Being an Earth Elemental, I had only read stories about Water Elementals like Annabelle, so meeting a siren in person was a fairytale come true. Over the years we became close friends, but since we were the only Elementals in the Boarding School ours has been a friendship built out of convenience, more than true friendship.
“I know what you’re thinking, but you can’t hide in your room your entire life,” Annabelle chastises me in her typical way. “Do you want to be like Rapunzel, locked away in a tower waiting for your prince charming to come?” She steps on the gas, jolting me forward into the dashboard emphasizing her point.
Yes. Life in the mortal world and life without Nicholas–hiding away seems perfect.
Fourteen years ago tonight, he was taken from me by the Wicked Faerie. Her jealousy and twisted love affair with my father created a demonic hatred of me. That night still haunts my every waking hour.
Nicholas and I were watching the sunset before he headed home after my birthday party. He gave me the sweetest kiss goodnight and promised a special surprise in the morning.
But as the full moon climbed overhead, nightmarish screams were heard from the forest path that led to his house. The next morning Nicholas’s clothing was found shredded to pieces and he hasn’t been seen since
“There it is!” Annabelle exclaims, her enchanting voice pulling me from my dreadful thoughts, and she points to an old brick textile factory across the street.
A worn and cracked sign reading, Logan’s, is dangling by one chain in the upper left corner, a street lamp flickering overhead. An oversized red metal door is propped open, with a burly man sitting on a stool controlling the line of people waiting to enter.
“Where did you hear about this place?” I whisper. Studying the people in line, there is a mixture of mortals and Elementals. It always fascinates me that mortals have no idea we exist, but we live amongst them in secrecy.
“Lana, if you ever actually went out, you’d know all the Elementals hang out here with the mortals,” she says with her usual air of disdain.
I hope she means only Water Elementals hang out here. Sirens, Water Goblins, and Mer-people, over the years I have learned to feel safe and comfortable around. But my own people, the Earth Elementals, I do not. The last message I received from Father said the Wicked Faerie has spies in the Earthly Realm, so I prefer to stay away from other Faeries, Trolls, and Gnomes.
Around the corner from the entrance, Annabelle swerves into a parking space, kicking up the gravel. As we get out, we see the mortals are none the wiser as they shamelessly flirt with the Water and Earth Elementals in line. Great. This place is crawling with Earth Elementals. I keep my head down as we hurry to wait in line with all the other loud and obnoxious clubbers.
In the shadows near the entrance, a pair of sapphire blue eyes catch my attention but are gone before I blink. The intensity of the moment sends chills up my spine and the feeling lingers as we continue to wait.
Reaching the red door, smoke bellows out into the cool night air causing a spastic cough.
“If you can’t take it, leave,” the burly bouncer looks at me and grunts.
Covering my mouth I mumble, “I’m fine.”
His eyes narrow and he fixes me with a fiery stare. “Are you lost sugar?”
“She’s with me,” Annabelle grabs my arm, pulling me into the club and away from the eerie bouncer.
“What was that about?” I ask Annabelle, who is already rushing to the bar.
Shrugging, Annabelle says, “Come on, let’s get a drink.”
The crowd parts for Annabelle, but they quickly close behind her and I’m left staggering through sweaty bodies of people shimmying their way to the dance floor.
Shaking my head in her wake, sirens always have a certain air about them.

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On February 23, Tiger Woods underwent emergency surgery after a car crash in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California (via CNN). Although details are scarce at this point, Woods will likely have a long road of recovery ahead of him. One thing we do know is that we can expect his mother, Kultida, to be by Tiger’s side every step of the way — as she’s been his whole life.
Kultida Woods was born in Thailand but has spent the majority of her life in America. “I[‘ve] live[d] in [the] U.S. 40 years now, in Thailand for only 25,” Kultida told ESPN in 2009. “In that way, I’m more American than Thai.” Still, she shared that Thailand is the place she feels most at home and she makes frequent trips back, often doing philanthropic work.
Kultida also told ESPN that she and her son are cut from the same cloth. She described them both as “loners” who don’t waste time with people they don’t like. “I am independent and strong-willed. That way, you survive,” said Kultida. “When I was a girl, my mother would always be worried, ‘What will people say?’ And even then, I would think, ‘I don’t give a damn.'” She added that she instilled in her son the importance of being happy in himself.
Tiger and Kultida Woods have had their differences
Although Kultida is her son’s biggest supporter, she isn’t afraid to give him tough love. According to The Daily Beast, she was furious with Tiger when she learned that he had been unfaithful to his wife, Elin Nordegren. The pair split in 2010, shortly after his infidelities became known to his family and the public.
The issue hit close to her heart because Tiger’s own father, the late Earl Woods, repeatedly cheated on Kultida and she shared a close relationship with her daughter-in-law, Nordegren. A source told The Daily Beast that she was “hurt, angry, and disappointed” by her son’s actions and “want[ed] to know how he could do this to his family.”
However, Tiger and Kultida have managed to rebuild and maintain a strong relationship. In 2019, she shared an emotional hug with her son when he won The Masters (via SB Nation). Tiger Woods also embraced his son, Charlie, that day in the exact same spot where he’d hugged his own father 22 years prior. “It’s been 22 years. Life goes on,” he said of the parallel. “But there’s been one continuity through it all — my mom was there.”
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If readers wonder whether I only work on more expensive hi-fi equipment, not at all. Liquid Audio cares for all hi-fi stereo gear including budget hi-fi, from 1970 onwards. If it’s hi-fi, I’ll look at it.
It’s true that many of my posts focus on rare and desirable hi-fi equipment. People like reading about that gear and I certainly enjoy working on it.… Read more
Monster receivers – if you follow my site you’ll know I love them, kind of. Nothing screams statement hi-fi gear louder than the classic monster receivers of the 70’s and 80’s and this Marantz 2330 is up there with the best of them.
The Marantz 2330 is a heavy receiver, actually very heavy for its moderate size – it’s dense.… Read more
Check out this video I made showing before and after overhauling this incredible, super-rare Marantz 2330 receiver.
First part of the video shows me opening the Marantz 2330 up for the first time and discovering the terrible state she was in. Second part shows after the overhaul I’ve just finished.
A full article on the Marantz 2330 will drop in the next few days, but can you believe people started offering to buy this baby as soon as I posted the video!… Read more
I’ve been very busy repairing and restoring this stunning Marantz PM-8 integrated amplifier. In my opinion, this is one of the best integrated amplifiers from the golden era of the 70’s and 80’s.
More photos and details of the Marantz PM-8 restoration soon. You can find my article about the exploded filter capacitors, here!
In the meantime, here’s a video summary of the testing and setup of bias, DC offset and power supply voltage.… Read more
Just a short post here while I am in the middle of repairing / restoring an absolutely massive Marantz PM-8 integrated amplifier.
These main filter capacitors sit in the power supply and do all the ‘heavy lifting’ required to make the power supply smooth and quiet. All four 15,000uF capacitors have literally spewed their contents all over the insides of this beautiful amplifier.… Read more
I am very excited to present this absolutely stunning, completely overhauled and restored Marantz 1152DC integrated amplifier for sale. I’m asking just $1295! UPDATE – SOLD!
This 1152DC would suit a collector or vintage audio lover, it’s easily the nicest example I’ve seen. The Marantz 1152DC is a legendary Marantz integrated amplifier. It’s a rare and collectible model, thanks to its unique look, great sound and famous Marantz battleship-like construction.… Read more
In this second of two articles on the Marantz SC-80 preamplifier and SM-80 power amplifier, we look at the SM-80 power amplifier. Specifically I detail the work required to restore this amplifier back to full working condition. The earlier article looks at work done to matching Marantz SC-80 preamplifier.
The Marantz SM-80 stereo power amplifier is a reasonably powerful, well-made, mid-range consumer amplifier from around 1990.… Read more

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This article is part of our College Basketball Waiver Wire series.
The season is a month old, more or less. What do we know? Duke deserves their hype. Gonzaga is the beast in the West. Kentucky has not come together quite as well as we would have thought. Kansas has an excellent offense, but they have not been able to hold opponents down. The same could be said for Nevada to a lesser extent. Tennessee and Auburn are very good SEC teams. North Carolina is also adept at scoring. Very little of this is a surprise.
Perhaps the biggest surprise thus far has been the Michigan Wolverines. This team made the NCAA Championship game last year as a No. 3 seed, but lost their leading scorer Mo Wagner to the NBA. They have not missed a beat with freshman Ignas Brazdeikis moving right in. The Wolverine defense is incredible, as has shut down the Tar Heels and Purdue in consecutive games. Earlier in the season, they shut down Villanova. Look out, Big 10!
Wynston Tabbs, guard, Boston College Eagles
The Eagles seemed to be set at guard with Ky Bowman and Jordan Chatman. It appears they need a third wheel with the 6-foot-2 freshman finding room to operate. Tabbs is coming off a 28-point game against Sacred Heart in which he aped Bowman with seven rebounds and five assists. The junior guard is not a bad player to imitate. Tabbs has scored 15 points or more in five of his seven games, and has an interesting week facing Providence and


Maddux looks to win his first game in 2 1/2 months against a team he’s never had much luck against on Monday when the San Diego Padres open a three-game series versus the Diamondbacks.
Since earning his 350th career victory on May 10, Maddux (3-8, 4.18 ERA) is 0-5 with a 4.54 ERA in his last 14 starts.
He’s been hit hard in a few of those outings, but in nine of those starts he’s given up two earned runs or less. A hapless offense and inconsistent bullpen have been the reason for his winless drought.
The Padres (41-65) have scored the second-fewest runs in the majors (403), and Maddux’s 3.74 run support average since May 15 is the fifth-worst in the NL in that span.
On Wednesday at Cincinnati, the right-hander allowed three runs - two earned - and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings and left with a 3-2 lead, but San Diego went on to lose 9-5.
“I appreciate the fact that I’m still playing,” the 42-year-old pitcher said. “I appreciate the fact that I still play good enough to win. I haven’t won, but I feel like I’ve been playing (good). And I do appreciate that.”
While Maddux has been pitching decent, including a 2.94 ERA in eight home starts during his skid, he has had no luck against Arizona (53-51) in his career.
The four-time Cy Young Award winner is 2-11 with a 5.29 ERA in 19 starts versus the Diamondbacks, his worst record and ERA against any NL opponent. In his only start of 2008 against Arizona on April 18, Maddux was tagged for a season-high nine runs and career high-tying 13 hits in seven innings of a 9-0 loss.
The Diamondbacks are coming off a three-game sweep at San Francisco, capped by Sunday’s 7-2 victory. Arizona has won five of six and owns a one-game lead over the second-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the division.
Conor Jackson has been a big part of the Diamondbacks’ recent surge, as he’s batting .514 (19-for-37) with four home runs, eight RBIs and 13 runs in nine games since the All-Star break. He went 3-for-4 with a solo homer and three runs on Sunday, but is 1-for-21 (.048) in his last five games versus San Diego.
Micah Owings (6-8, 5.40) returns to Arizona’s rotation Monday for the first time in nearly three weeks.
Owings got off to a solid start to the year, going 5-1 with a 3.81 ERA in his first eight starts, but went 1-7 with a 6.92 ERA in his next nine and had been demoted to the bullpen. In his last relief appearance on Wednesday, the right-hander yielded five runs, two hits, three walks and retired just one batter in Arizona’s 10-6 loss to the Chicago Cubs.
Despite that rough outing, Owings is set to make his first start since July 9.
“We saw Micah have a great second half last year after a little bit of a lull similar to this season, and we expect him to pick it up,” Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin told the team’s official Web site.
In his only start of the season against the Padres on April 26, Owings gave up five runs and five hits in five innings of an 8-7, 13-inning loss. He is 0-1 with a 5.14 ERA in four career starts versus them.
San Diego defeated Pittsburgh 3-1 on Sunday for its third straight victory after losing 22 of its previous 28 games. This is the Padres’ longest winning streak since a season-best five-game run June 4-8.


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24 Jan 2023
IBME DPhil student Romain Guyon awarded 2022 Michelson Prize
Prizes support early-career researchers working to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases
The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and The Human Immunome Project today announced the recipients of the 2022 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants. The $150,000 Michelson Prizes are awarded annually to support early-career researchers working to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases.
Romain Guyon (Institute of Biomedical Engineering and the Jenner Institute) is one of four researchers who were selected by a distinguished committee of internationally recognized scientists and who represent the next generation of innovators in human immunology and vaccine research. Their proposals were chosen based on their innovation and potential impact, which aim to significantly accelerate scientific discoveries for global health challenges.
Single-dose immunization could provide an effective solution to improving global vaccination coverage and easing the logistical and cost burdens during outbreaks
“It is inspiring to see so many young scientists with a passion for innovation and courage to think creatively,” says Dr. Wayne Koff, president and CEO of the Human Immunome Project. “I look forward to seeing how their research contributes to our understanding of the human immune system – and helps further our mission to develop the first AI model of the human immunome, transforming the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases for everyone.”
Romain is finishing his DPhil in Clinical Medicine, based between the Jenner Institute (with Dr Anita Milicic and Professor Adrian Hill) and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME), where he works with Professor Eleanor Stride in the BUBBL Group. He was awarded the Michelson Prize for the proposal ‘Demonstration of new single-dose vaccine technology towards a first-in-man clinical application.’ Single-dose immunization could provide an effective solution to improving global vaccination coverage and easing the logistical and cost burdens during outbreaks.
During his DPhil, Romain developed a single dose vaccine technology using microfluidic techniques, with the objective to encapsulate booster vaccine doses that release later in the body. Having filled a patent on the technology and demonstrated its ability to delay the delivery of the malaria candidate vaccine R21 in a mouse model, Romain is now aiming to apply the technology to post-exposure rabies vaccine as a postdoctoral researcher, with the support of the Michelson Prize.
He says of the prize, “I am very grateful to the Michelson Medical Research Foundation for this wonderful opportunity to establish my independency as an early career researcher and drive forward an ambitious research project, with the potential to transform future vaccination strategies.”

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Received: 18 May 2022
Accepted: 21 September 2022
First Online: 27 September 2022
: The present study was carried out in accordance to the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. This investigation was also approved by the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (with ethics number: IR.TUMS.MEDICINE.REC.1400.1515). All of the study participants signed a written consent form related to this study. Each individual was informed completely regarding the study protocol and provided a written and informed consent form before taking part in the study. Literate family members of illiterate participants provided informed consent for the study and this method is approved by the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.'
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“An extraordinary first novel, comic and poignant” — John Robinson, Outside Left.
“True greatness. A murky, pungent, beautiful tale. I ❤ Mister Bob.” — Fliss Kitson, The Nightingales.
Defeated. Balding. Pungent. Mister Bob is troubled and cuts a pitiable figure in his job on long-distance trains.
His road to salvation starts in a most unlikely place: a bathtub.
Ride the rails with Mister Bob in Rub-A-Dub-Dub, through an underworld of private squalor, public shame and sublime bodily landscapes.
The first bit of press for the novel comes from John Robinson at OutsideLeft.
“Two Men in a Tub” is a lovely interview about the novel with my friend Reggie Chamberlain-King for PopMatters.
Here’s a bit about the book taken from a longer video interview with GingerBeardMark:
And someone on Goodreads was no fan of my existential slapstick.
The cover art was commissioned from Thomas “Mac” MacGregor who also painted the famous cowboy image for The Stand comedy clubs. I used to marvel at his portraits on display in the Edinburgh club when I was 15 years old; at 40 I’m chuffed to have his work on my first novel. It gives me one of those “full circle” feelings. The title of the piece is “R. Forrester,” which is Mister Bob’s real name.


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It is quite difficult for us modern folk living in the 20th & 21st centuries to imagine the hardships that people used to endure in previous centuries. Not least of these hardships was the need to transport their dead to the nearest consecrated ground. Obviously this only affected isolated rural communities such as some of those found in the Lake District. There are actually quite a few corpse roads dotted about Lakeland, the two most well know being Burnmoor and this one known as the Old Corpse Road.
The last occasion when the route was used for this purpose was in 1736. Sadly however, the village of Mardale Green was flooded in the 1930's to allow the valley to be turned into a reservoir. The irony is that the bodies in Mardale Green were then exhumed and reburied at Shap with their ancestors.


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Greenspace and mental wellbeing
A new study called, A spatial analysis of proximate greenspace and mental wellbeing in London, published in Applied Geography provides compelling evidence of how urban greenspaces improve mental health. Using data from 25,518 people the researchers found that Londoners living within 300m of greenspace had significantly better mental health. The study showed the close proximity to greenspace was more important to good mental wellbeing than other factors including, income, employment and general health.
It has been long understood and widely accepted that greenspace in urban areas is beneficial to mental health but this is the first study to demonstrate how much greenspace is needed and how close it needs to be to people’s homes to make a difference. The study found that there is a strong relationship between the proximity of greenspace around an individual’s home and their feelings of life satisfaction, happiness and self worth. Greenspace within 300m of a home had the greatest influence on mental wellbeing.


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The government in its Economic Survey on Thursday (July 4) acknowledged what the tech giants have always known and built their business models on: Data, is the new gold. The difference being that this commodity, unlike conventional gold, is available in plenty to all but whose potential has remained completely unrecognised.
So what does data do, and how is it helpful for Governance ?
The Economic Survey itself gives the answer. “A district education officer can make better decisions if he knows, for each school in his district, attendance rates of students and teachers, average test scores and status of school toilets. Similarly, parents can make better decisions about which school to send their children to if they know the average absenteeism rate of teachers in their village and can compare the rate to that in the neighboring village. A multitude of scenarios exist in which harnessing the marginal unit of data can lead to sharp increases in public welfare.” What this shows is it exponentially improves governance and delivery of government services.
Tech activists and NGOs have been calling for digital data to be treated as a public good because of the exponential value that it provides by supplementing scarce national statistics and helping in times of emergencies. The ‘responsible data’ movement has evolved to discuss guidelines and frameworks that will sometime in the future establish ethical principles for data sharing. However, this movement is not gaining traction with those who hold the highest-value data, particularly mobile network operators and global web 2.0 firms who are proving reluctant to make data collected in low- and middle-income countries accessible through intermediaries (infomediaries).
Also read: Union Budget: Key takeaways from Economic Survey 2019
A large part of the technology and necessary data was created by all of us — “crowd sourced” — and logically one could conclude that this should belong to the ‘crowd’ and hence a public good. The underlying infrastructure that all these companies rely on was created collectively (via taxes and the auction of bandwidth that built the internet), and it also leverages the network effects that are produced together by crowd. There is indeed no reason why the public’s data should not be owned by a public repository that sells the data to Google’ and Facebook’s of the world , rather than vice versa, which is what the present scenario is. But the key issue here is not just sending a portion of the profits from “data” back to citizens but also allow them to shape the digital economy in ways that satisfies public needs. Using big data and AI to improve the services provided by the welfare state—from health care to education to affordable housing.
“As people shift their day-to-day activities online, they leave digital footprints of these activities. Put differently, people produce data about themselves and store this data on public and private servers, every day, of their own accord. Data that would have involved a laborious survey to gather a few decades ago is today accumulating online at a near-zero cost, although it is scattered across sources”
The Chapter 4 of the Economic Survey (volume 1) tabled at the parliament today talks about Data as a public Good, the chapter starts with a quote of the former Chinese premier who arguably is credited with changing the direction of the Chinese Economy, Deng Xiaoping — “Cross the river by feeling the stones.”
The survey also goes on to point the fact that in the present Indian context not everyone participates in the digital economy. A majority of the poor still have no digital footprint. Among those who do, the range of activities undertaken online is quite limited. However, the cost of gathering data is still much lower than it was a few decades ago. Even if a door-to-door survey is the only way to gather a certain kind of data, we now have in our hands technologies to log data online in real time, circumventing an otherwise laborious paper-based survey followed by a tedious data entry process that was followed earlier.
Together, the advancements in gathering, storing, processing and dissemination have lowered the marginal cost of data to unfathomable levels. Consequently, the marginal benefit of data (which is clearly more than the marginal cost of obtaining and storing data) is higher than ever.
Also read: Economic Survey bats for higher retirement age; women to benefit
In other words the Economic survey emphasizes the fact that many in the tech industry always knew which is the idea that “data” with the right set of analytical tools is indeed money, and what oil did to the 20th century economic advancement would now be done by data. But in the Indian context the Government does indeed maintains data about its citizens however most of the data is dispersed across different registries maintained by different ministries and infact impenetrable silos.
This is why every time a citizen has to access a new service, they are asked to collect all the documents to prove their identity and prove their claim on the process and newer and newer identity cards get issued by the various departments and ministries of the government. What the government has not considered when it comes to collecting various data is whether these datasets are interoperable. The economic survey does recognizes the problem that government data collection in India is extremely decentralized, thus there is a need to integrate data collection and storage across ministries and agencies.
“If the information embedded in these datasets is utilised together, data offers potential to reduce targeting error in welfare schemes. For example, consider a hypothetical individual who is affluent enough to own a car but is able to avail BPL welfare schemes, though unwarranted. When datasets are unconnected, the vehicle registry does not speak to, say, the public distribution system registry. Consequently, the public distribution system continues to subsidise this individual erroneously. However, if the two datasets are integrated, such inclusion error can be minimised, saving valuable Government resources. In the same way, exclusion errors can be rectified,” the survey notes.
But does the government have access to the cutting edge machine learning tools and technology(AI) that are available to silicon valley and other places based private players who by the virtue of being early movers in the space are now eons ahead when it comes to leveraging data for social good ? That is a question for which we need to seek an honest answer.
So to come back to the question should Data be a public good or privately owned the answer would be to quote Deng Xiaoping yet again “It does not matter if it is a Black Cat or a White cat as long as it does its job of catching mice”!

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VIDEO: The Ball Scene Goes Mainstream in the Trailer for Season Two of POSE
FX has released a new teaser trailer for the second season of FX's Pose, which highlights transgender life in 1990s New York City.
Watch the trailer below!
Season two of Pose flashes forward in time to 1990. On the heels of the ballroom community establishing itself in Pop culture and going mainstream, the House of Evangelista is forced to reevaluate their goals. Meanwhile, the AIDS crisis worsens and the reaction from a group of activists reaches a fever pitch.
Making television history, Pose features the largest cast of transgender actors in series regular roles, including MJ Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Hailie Sahar and Angelica Ross, who co-star alongside Tony Award® winner and Golden Globe® nominee Billy Porter, Ryan Jamaal Swain, Angel Bismark Curiel, and Dyllón Burnside. Sandra Bernhard and Charlayne Woodard round out the ensemble. The Golden Globe-nominated drama also features the largest recurring cast of LGBTQ actors ever for a scripted series.
Pose was co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, who executive produce alongside Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Sherry Marsh. Janet Mock is a co-executive producer, and Our Lady J is a supervising producer. Lou Eyrich, Tanase Popa and Erica Kay also serve as producers. The ten-episode second season is produced by FOX 21 Television Studios and FX Productions.
The second season of Pose will be released on June 11.


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Gosh, do I have a lot of movies I need to see.
I was just reminded on Twitter today to watch Bad Day at Black Rock, a well-regarded picture with one of my least-favorite actors in it: Spencer Tracy. I’m told he was good in the film, and that intrigues me. But what interests me more is how many flicks I’ve never viewed.
I’ve either got a lot to enjoy from a cinematic perspective in the future or a tremendous number of gaps in my celluloid resume.
Sometimes I wish I’d seen all the movies ever made … or at least all the ones worth seeing. That would make conversing about them a lot easier, and I wouldn’t have to display my ignorance like a light bulb in a dark room.
On the other hand, it might be a good thing that I haven’t experienced certain pictures yet. Perhaps I’ll enjoy them more when I do. Still, I have to wonder if I can count flicks that I’ve “partially” watched. Like 8 1/2, which I have never been able to get through. I can still talk about them with authority, right?
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A woman, who has just learned she has less than six months to live, told the High Court she had been 'ecstatic' to get the all-clear from her Cervical-Check smear test.
However, she did not know at the time that an allegedly fatal mistake had been made, the court was told.
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The terminally ill 41-year-old, who is not being named, said she was later 'devastated' to hear she had cervical cancer.
She claims her cancer could have been cured if she had been given the correct diagnosis following her smear in February 2012.
She was diagnosed with having invasive cervical cancer in April of the following year.
Hers is the latest CervicalCheck case to come before the court, following high-profile cases taken by Vicky Phelan, the late Emma Mhic Mhathuna and Ruth Morrissey.
Her senior counsel Patrick Treacy said she had met a member of her medical team on Wednesday, who had told her that her cancer was no longer in remission and had spread to her liver. Mr Treacy said they had discussed this development with cervical cancer expert Professor John Shepherd, who believed the plaintiff now had between three and six months to live.
The plaintiff claims that if she had been correctly diagnosed in February 2012, following a smear test she underwent as part of the national screening programme, she could have undergone a radical hysterectomy, which would have cured the cancer.
Instead, she underwent the hysterectomy over a year later, as well as further treatment for her cancer, which has aggressively recurred.
Giving evidence about the 2012 smear, she said: 'I was ecstatic to get the all-clear. It was such a weight off my shoulders.' She said she had been told to have a repeat smear test after six months, but she was experiencing bleeding and was waiting for it to stop before having a smear.
She said when the tumour was discovered in 2013, she was devastated and said she wanted to fight the cancer as hard as she could.
'Fear, determination and anger were my feelings,' she said.
She said she heard of the Vicky Phelan case in April 2018, but did not think it had anything to do with her.
She said that in May of that year, she was told of the error which had been made in the 2012 test. 'It was like being slapped. I was in shock. My husband was angry,' she said. 'It felt like my world was falling in on me.' Responding to an allegation from Clinical Pathology Laboratories Inc (CPL) that she had not looked after her health, she said: 'I don't understand how they can say I am at fault.
'I could not have fought harder if I tried. It's vile, absolutely vile.' Mr Treacy asked again yesterday for the defendants in the case, the HSE, Medlab Pathology Ltd, Sonic Healthcare (Ireland) Ltd and CPL, to admit negligence.
He has told the court that none of the defendants had a single expert witness to rebuff her negligence claim regarding the reading of the slide.
Yet, he said, the gravely ill woman still had to prove her case against three different legal teams and six senior counsel representing the defendants.
Mr Treacy has said that Medlab had admitted in an internal review in September 2014 that a failure to detect her cancer in February 2012 was a 'miss'. The court has heard that CPL, from Austin, Texas, USA, had screened the slide and the reports were given to the woman's clinician by Medlab and Sonic Healthcare, both of Sandyford Business Park, Co. Dublin.
The two firms were described as a 'clearing house' for the results. The HSE is alleged to be vicariously liable, as it set up and oversaw the national screening service.
However, Patrick Hanratty SC, for the HSE, said it could not admit negligence on behalf of the laboratories.
David Holland SC, for Medlab and Sonic, said his clients had never handled or analysed the slide in question, but had just passed on the results, so they could not admit negligence either.
Michael Howard SC, for CPL, said his client would not be furnishing reports to contradict the plaintiff's claim for negligence, but would be contesting the cause of the cancer and continue its allegation of contributory negligence.
The case continues before Judge Kevin Cross.


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Anti-pipeline protestors took to the streets in both downtown Toronto and Ottawa this afternoon, bringing traffic to a halt. In Toronto, the major artery of Bloor Street was blocked. While in Ottawa, protestors stopped traffic in Byward Market.
Protests and blockades opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline have entered their 12th day, bringing traffic and the nation’s economy to a standstill.
The scene in Toronto is intense, with thousands marching.
“Obviously we’re a country of the rule of law and we need to make sure that those laws are followed,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said about the protests on Monday. “We are going to continue to focus on resolving this situation quickly and peacefully.”
Nationwide protests that claim to be in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en have exploded after RCMP arrested pipeline protestors on Wet’suwet’en territory. Protests have already effectively shut down VIA Rail and CN Rail and at least two US border crossings.
The Wet’suwet’en Tribal Council supports the pipeline project.