Iowa City is on a roll. Thanks in part to a $106,000 grant from The Recycling Partnership, the community rolled out new, larger recycling carts to residents in December 2018. But the story only begins there. Iowa City has seen promising increases in recycling so far, with recycling tonnage increasing 30% through the first nine months of the project. In addition, residents across Iowa City now have ample storage for their recyclables and automatic access to convenient, effective, and efficient collection services.
Part of the city’s success can be found in its adoption of single-stream recycling, meaning all materials can be mixed together in recycling bins. This, combined with the availability of the new 65-gallon recycling carts, has led to collecting an additional 60 pounds of recycling per year from the average household.
Building on these exciting increases and new participation, Iowa City continues to emphasize that recycling better is also important. Resident education continues thanks to resources provided by The Recycling Partnership.
“We are beyond pleased with Iowa City’s most recent progress,” said Rob Taylor, Director of Grants and Community Development at The Recycling Partnership. “Iowa City’s continued commitment to helping residents recycle more, better, shows that cities across our country understand the value of wasting less.”
How it all started
In late 2018, Iowa City was awarded a grant for residential recycling carts by The Recycling Partnership. Part of the All In On Recycling challenge in conjunction with the PepsiCo Foundation, the grant helped Iowa City invest in expanding recycling services to more than 16,000 households.
The work in Iowa City started with the goal of providing every eligible household with a recycling cart. From there, The Recycling Partnership partnered with the city to create a customized public education campaign designed to help Iowa City residents increase the quality and quantity of their recycling.
“The City of Iowa City has had a great experience with The Recycling Partnership,” said Jane Wilch, City of Iowa City Recycling Coordinator. “They provided flexible support for our community’s needs and ability; with their assistance, we were able to enhance the local conversation on recycling collection, particularly how to properly recycle curbside using the new carts. We really appreciate The Partnership staff’s industry expertise and ability to help us move our program forward.”
It’s not just the carts
But it’s not just the carts. Iowa City’s commitment to Reduce. Reuse. Recycle and Rethink. goes far beyond merely increasing curbside recycling. Starting in 2019, the city kicked off a comprehensive education campaign aimed at helping residents recycle better. The campaign included regular recycling tips, schedules and information shared via social media, radio, bus ads and local media.
Even with a comprehensive recycling program, Iowa City has recognized that recycling alone won’t help the city reach its ambitious goal to reduce waste reaching the landfill by 50% before 2025. Enter Rethink and Reuse.
With this ambitious goal in mind, the city set out to curb the sharp increases in trash traditionally seen in July and August due to residents moving as leases changeover. In addition to encouraging residents to recycle as much as possible, the community is encouraged to donate items that may find new life in secondhand and consignment shops.
Iowa City provides an online directory of area resale and consignment options, and the community hosts Rummage in the Ramp, the city’s late July resale event, intended to keep tons of items out of the landfill during lease turnover while fundraising for local not-for-profit organizations.
So what about Rethink? Recognizing 36% of what goes into its landfills are organics, the city is deploying organics carts to collect yard and wood wastes through curbside collection.
Why communities like Iowa City recycle
Iowa City isn’t alone in these efforts. Thanks to the efforts of The Recycling Partnerships’ All In On Recycling, movements like these are sweeping cities across the nation. The All In On Recycling challenge, in conjunction with the PepsiCo Foundation, was started to make recycling easier for 25 million families across the country by providing communities with the resources they need to help citizens recycle more and recycle better. The movement can already be seen in 1,300 U.S. communities or more than a quarter of the nation’s population.
Communities like Red Wing, MN; Vineland, NJ; Dickinson, ND and five communities in Central Ohio are also seeing upgrades to their recycling programs, including renewed efforts to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rethink. These communities join more than a thousand across the U.S. that have benefited from The Recycling Partnership’s recycling tools and education resources.
So just why have 1,300 U.S. Communities seen a renewed focus on recycling?
- Recycling supports our economy and directly employs more than 164,154 of our friends and neighbors according to a just released study by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). A connected recycling system drives a robust circular economy, one that generates $110 billion in economic activity and $12.9 billion in local, state and federal tax revenue. Without recycling, we would continue to rely on a linear economy that further depletes our planet’s natural resources.
- It helps the environment. Recycling successfully diverts hundreds of millions of pounds of recyclables from landfills and avoids millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases annually. This creates healthier air and cleaner water close to home and across the globe.
- Americans have grown to value recycling. Residents see recycling as a public service, similar to police, fire, water and trash collection and consumers want to “waste less” – a move to Reduce, which consumers also expect brands and retailers to do their part.
A November 2018 survey conducted by The Recycling Partnership of 2,000 Americans shows that:
- 73% recycle because it helps reduce landfill waste;
- 72% of consumers expect companies that sell packaged goods to make their packaging recyclable;
- And 62% expect consumer packaged goods brands to use recycled content in their packaging.
And, it’s making a difference in our environment, our communities and our world. With support from more than 46 funding partners, The Recycling Partnership has catalyzed nearly $55 million in recycling infrastructure and education to transform recycling for good.
As a result of All In On Recycling, The Recycling Partnership estimates the challenge will help the U.S. capture 1.9 million tons of quality recyclable materials over the next five years. That would equate to a total greenhouse gas avoidance of 5.5 million tons of CO2 or the equivalent of removing more than 1 million cars off the road for a year.
Iowa City is All In On Recycling
All In On Recycling was made possible in part by the PepsiCo Foundation. The industry-wide challenge will improve recycling for 25 million families across the country. But we can’t do it alone so we’re calling on business and community leaders – and you – to join us.
To join the “All In On Recycling” challenge and learn how you can help, or to become a community that benefits from the Challenge, go to allinonrecycling.com.


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Zoë Saldana is making headlines after the revelation that her husband, Marco Perego will be taking her last name. Different media publication platforms are weighing in their opinions about what they think. Regardless of what anyone thinks and to quote The Huffington Post, Zoe Saldana’s husband doesn’t “give a sheet” what people say about his decision to take the actress’ last name.
“I tried to talk him out of it. I told him, ‘If you use my name, you’re going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world’,” the star told InStyle. And she was right, that is exactly what is happening right now. There are mixed responses to his decision.
Debate.org discussed this topic to find out the opinions, surrounding this topic. “Should women take their husbands’ last names?” Responses from this website indicate that 48% ‘say yes’ to this question, while 53% of the respondents ‘say no’. Based on these statistics, it would seem that we are torn between this idea for a number of reasons.
Proponents of the idea that a woman should take her husbands last name argued that taking a mans last name, honors tradition.‘Why even get married if you are only interested in your self in the first place. When I got married to my husband, I took his name, and he did not even really expect it due to the changes in cultures.’ These are some of the questions and arguments that were raised from 48% of the respondents.
In contrast, the 58% who disagreed, argued that if someone wants to change their name, that’s their decision, and they probably have thought about it and found it to be the best option for them.
In addition, to these comments, other sources see it as moving with the times, I mean after all, we are living in a society were some women would like the same equal opportunities as men; be it in the workforce or in our households.
And lets not forget, based on online sources this man CHOSE to change his last name.
So we can all go to the market and back about whether we like it or not and what we think is appropriate, but I think the most important thing is for them to have a happy, lasting marriage that is not defined by ‘who chose to do what with their last name.’
What are your thoughts, should it be socially accepted for men to take up their girls’ last name or is that just crossing the line a bit?

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Sometimes I am inclined to acquiesce to the requests.
I posted pictures of this, and people requested the recipe.
Sometimes I am inclined to acquiesce to the requests.
For Peggy, Mary and Carol, my high school friends,
We are on vacation and it is hotter than Hades in Oklahoma.
In such cases, ice cream sandwiches make a perfectly acceptable supper.
I love vacation. Happy Wednesday.
August 20, 2014
Ice Cream soothes the savage beasts. OK, I am the savage this evening, every little thing is making me a bit crazy. My craziness amplifies the children's savageness. Finally we fall on the couch spent after the verbal eruption from me, the tears from the youngest and the harrumphing from the teenager.
Forget about dinner, let's just have some ice cream.
August 5, 2014
This is me ... I had to try one burger joint while on vacation. I think it is actually required by law after the many months I spent on the Thursday Burger Challenge.
Handsome Chris suggested the S&B as it was fairly new and untested by either of us. We got there early on Saturday and had no trouble getting seated quickly. The waiter was funny and professional. I dig that duality in a waiter.
The menu at S&B was equal parts conventional - fries and onion rings - and a bit outsider - sweet potato fries and spicy cheese curds. Nothing too avante garde, but pushing the boundaries. A game H.C. and I play is "Homemade or Product". We concluded that the cheese curds and the onion rings were homemade while the french fries and sweet potato fries were product. No matter, we ate them all.
A very cool thing at S&Bs is the ability to order most every burger as a slider. We were able to try four different sliders, each distinctive but two were our favorites.
The Theta and the Frenchman. Highly recommended!
1) The Bleu: A bacon-wrapped burger stuffed with bleu cheese & topped with grilled red onions & balsamic bleu cheese dressing.
2) The Theta: Mayo, smoked pecan theta sauce, pickles & sharp Cheddar.
3) The Frenchman: Mushrooms, Swiss, fried onions & French onion sauce.
4) Honestly, please forgive me, I cannot recall what the fourth one was! I am looking at the menu and understanding H.C's tastes I think it was the Guerra. Or maybe the Fatty. Definitely not the King made with peanut butter (hello Elvis!).
H.C. ordered his medium rare - which I have never done. I have, however, eaten steak tartar so I followed his expert lead with medium rare. Excellent choice for these small burgers; super moist and oozing juice.
Last vacation supper - last chance to order dessert. This is the Hot Mess pie. Chocolate flourless pie, almost like a Southern Chess Pie, topped with caramel and bacon. Served warm with a side of vanilla ice cream. H.C. protested that after all the sliders and the fried side dishes he had no room for dessert. Only in the name of taste testing and writing did he concede to a few bites. Thank you my love.
July 12, 2014
I love all frozen confections, regardless of the label. Ice cream, Gelato sorbet, Granita. I find it the most refreshing thing to eat on a hot summer day - heck, I will substitute ice cream for lunch or supper any day of the week.
Growing up, my dad was an ice cream consumer extraordinaire. Every night, winter or summer, he would have ice cream for dessert. I am particularly fascinated by his Neapolitan ice cream. How chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice cream when packaged together is christened with the name meaning "from Naples Italy" I will never fully understand. As I got older, I loved the dish of spumoni ice cream, with its cherries and pistachios, often served at the end of Italian meals. I still am a fan of American style ice cream with chunky additions of fruits, nuts, and chocolate.
Then there are the memories of summers at my grandmother's in Kansas City. She had a porch that traversed the front of her house and at least once each visit my cousins and I would spend an afternoon hand cranking the old wooden ice cream maker, packed around the edges with ice and rock salt. There is nothing quite as tasty as ice cream you created yourself.
Another favorite memory of frozen milk, cream and sugar is from the Maison Berthillon on the Ile St. Louis in Paris. I stayed in a nearby hotel in 2004, I was eight weeks pregnant with my daughter, terribly morning sick, and their world renowned Gelato soothed my tender stomach.
I will say, being pampered with this delicious confection in utero perhaps predisposed my daughter to her princess tendencies.
The lovely French counter girls smiled at my attempts to order in their language, correcting my pronunciation until my 'poire' was to her ear's satisfaction before serving me.
Oh my, it was so delicious. Three primary differences between ice cream and Gelato are that Gelato has a lower milk fat percentage, it has a lower percentage of whipped air, and is served at a higher temperature than ice cream - resulting in a softer, semi-frozen state. If you have never eaten Gelato, Google Gelato and promise you till try some this summer.
Traditional Granita, often called Italian Ice is a summer favorite in my hometown. Oh so tart and refreshing. I love it in lemon.
Zammuto's is a Rockford IL tradition. Opened by a wonderful Sicilian family in 1925, it is still in operation! The current owners serve a delicious Southern soul food menu AND the Zammuto's original recipe Granitas! Granita is traditionally made from sugar, water and flavoring. The Sicilian Granita has a coarser grain than a smoother, commercial product. (Though not as rough as a Hawaiian shaved ice).
Last but most certainly not least there is Ice Cream.
A rule I have for family vacations is that we must eat ice cream at least once a day. As always, we seek out the locally owned establishments with the homemade creamy delicious ice creams we love.
Once a week, we travel north to visit the Dairyhaus in Rockton Illinois. Oh - their ice cream is so decadently good. Yes, this is a meal substitute. Home made on site, even the waffle cones are cooked fresh daily. This is a tiny ice cream parlor, so expect to eat outside on one of the many picnic tables. I love the 'wedding cake' flavor while my daughter always chooses 'blue moon'. Sundaes, banana splits, and root beer floats are all part of this true Americana ice cream experience.
As summer is fast approaching have I triggered you taste buds? How do you like your ice cream?

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Methods: In a multicenter study, swabs for culture were obtained from the anterior nares of 219 patients with S. aureus bacteremia. A total of 723 isolates were collected and genotyped. In a second study, 1640 S. aureus isolates from nasal swabs were collected over a period of five years and then compared with isolates from the blood of patients who subsequently had S. aureus bacteremia.
Results: In the multicenter study of S. aureus bacteremia, the blood isolates were identical to those from the anterior nares in 180 of 219 patients (82.2 percent). In the second study, 14 of 1278 patients who had nasal colonization with S. aureus subsequently had S. aureus bacteremia. In 12 of these 14 patients (86 percent), the isolates obtained from the nares were clonally identical to the isolates obtained from blood 1 day to 14 months later.
Conclusions: A substantial proportion of cases of S. aureus bacteremia appear to be of endogenous origin since they originate from colonies in the nasal mucosa. These results provide support for strategies to prevent systemic S. aureus infections by eliminating nasal carriage of S. aureus.

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But wage The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council. Swedish Sweden: ex post evaluation, not ex ante evaluation Correct to budget large surpluses for the next few years. For example it is not clear whether the surplus target has been reached or not. Furthermore, the calculations are based on a brighter economic trend than other Kingdom of Sweden 11 1/8 % Bonds with warrants Due 2015. $ A negative Net borrowing requirement is equivalent with a budget balance surplus. surplus translation in English-Swedish dictionary. in dictionary English Swedish.
Compare Government Budget Value by Country Surplus for Swedish central government in November 2020 Swedish central government payments resulted in a surplus of SEK 40.4 billion in November. The Debt Office's forecast was a surplus of SEK Stockholm (AFP) - Sweden's left-wing government said Tuesday it wants to scrap the country's budget-surplus target, aiming to axe a policy that critics consider outdated. The goal -- to maintain a The statistic shows Sweden's budget balance in relation to GDP between 2015 and 2018, with projections up until 2025. A positive value indicates a budget surplus, a negative value indicates a Sweden Government Budget Government Budget is an itemized accounting of the payments received by government (taxes and other fees) and the payments made by government (purchases and transfer payments).
In other words, when the medium-term aggregate expenditure ceilings are set, they are supposed to be consistent with the 1 percent over-the-cycle budget surplus … Sweden's left-wing government wants to scrap the country's budget-surplus target, aiming to axe a policy that critics consider outdated. The goal - to maintain a surplus of 1.0 per cent of GDP 2020-01-27 Sweden's left-wing government said Tuesday it wants to scrap the country's budget-surplus target, aiming to axe a policy that critics consider outdated. After Sweden earned a reputation of solid fiscal management, the ruling coalition said it was time to reconsider the surplus target.
It means the public sector income must exceed expenses by one per cent of the GDP In 2018, the headline budget balance reached a surplus of 0.9% of GDP. According to the Convergence Programme, the surplus of the general government budget balance is set to decrease to 0.6% of GDP in 2019 and 0.7% in 2020, before climbing to 1.1% in 2021 and 1.9% by 2022. 1998-08-13 You will be connected to thelocal.se in just a moment. Learn about Project Shield 2012-01-10 Under the approach which has operated in Sweden to date, the 1 percent budget surplus target has been applied ex ante, but has not been binding ex post.
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2021-02-28 The Swedish budget surplus came in line with official forecast in April, the National Debt Office reported Monday. The central government payments showed a surplus of SEK 14.5 billion compared to the Debt Office's forecast of SEK 14 billion.
ABSTRACTFrom the mid-1990s until the 2008 financial crisis, two countries, each with different political, administrative and capitalist traditions, embarked on a radical macroeconomic policy experiment. Australia and Sweden took earlier New Public Management reforms to an ideological extreme, and pursued a profit-like goal for the public sector, in promising and delivering annual budget surpluses.
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The Dover Lightweight Sweater is a great seasonal sweater for those cooler mornings and evenings. You can easily mix this into your wardrobe as a year round sweater! Features lightweight knit fabric, long sleeves and rolled neck and hem.
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As legendary as she is and as powerful as her music has become, Shirley Caesar remains humble and candid about her journey.
Appearing on Good Day LA this month, the "No Charge" and "He's Working It Out For You" singer spoke about her voice, the anointing, preaching and singing and even admitted that she learned how to "yodel" and piece words together quickly from Sam Cooke and other soulful singers.
"My voice has always been bigger than me," Caesar told Good Day LA. "Singing and preaching goes together like ham and eggs."
In addition to speaking about her album, Shirley Caesar just happened to be in the studio when "American Idol" top 10 performer Curtis Finch Jr. was there. Having an amazing opportunity to meet her and discuss her impact on Gospel music and his life, Finch sat down with Shirley Caesar on-air…
Watch the full interview from Good Day LA below (if video is not working, click here)

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Spirit Lake Presbyterian Church Services are broadcast at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday over 88.1 radio and are livestreamed on the church’s Facebook page. The Rev. Dick Poppen speaks at 9:30 a.m. Sundays over KWAT radio.
On Dec. 20, the church held the children’s Christmas program virtually, with each family sharing Christmas greetings.
Last Monday evening, Dianne, Daron, Derek and Brian Larson and some other Larson elves, along with Cork and Illdena Poppen, made popcorn balls to be given to visitors at the Christmas Eve observance at Spirit Lake.
This week brought special blessings at my door when a beautiful, floral centerpiece was delivered from one we hold dear. This bond was made many years ago and still holds true today. Later, our doorbell rang, and a neighbor, masked with gift in hand wished us a Merry Christmas. What a joy — a box of chocolates. ‘Tis the season of good cheer, and to all Happy New Year.


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Thanks to a level of uncertainty that resulted from the global challenges of 2020, there is no doubting the fact that digital marketing is one of the ways to increase your business' success.
In looking at how digital marketing trends can work in the new year, Forbes shared some thoughts from different leaders in the field.
1. There will be more virtual events
Quoting Teddy Heidt, founder of The Gauge Collective, Forbes advises the diversification of social media activities so as to be able to connect easily and engage with more users.
It advises further on the need to feed one's social media profile enough to enrich user experience.
2. More attractions to online activities
Jannika Bock, director of client solutions at Google, says because COVID-19 has changed human activities, many consumers are now home more than before.
As a result of this, people now easily focus on online materials and contents to stay entertained and informed.
More people are embracing the internet resulting in a prediction that online videos will drive over 80% of consumer internet traffic in 2022.
She advises that to be successful in the new year, brands must tap into the online video trend to make it easy for them to engage their consumers.
3. Time spent online increases
More people are joining social media platforms. The time spent online would continue to increase and this has become obvious with video channels on Youtube.
Growth Quarters says: "If internet use remains at these levels throughout 2021, the world’s internet users will spend almost 12 trillion hours online this year, which translates to more than 1.3 billion years of combined human time."
The report notes further: "Almost seven hours per day using the internet across all devices, equating to more than 48 hours per week online – that’s 2 full days out of every seven."
4. Keeping data private will become a priority
With an increase in the focus on the internet, 2021 will have more consumers demanding or requiring that their data be kept private. More brands would be encouraged or motivated to protect the privacy of their targets.
Quoting Matt Brittin, president of EMEA Business and Operations, Google, Thinkwithgoogle, says: "The industry is adapting to meet people’s needs, and in 2021 the conversation surrounding data ethics will turn into action for many brands. The entire digital ecosystem only functions if people can trust it."
5. Social media use won't be just for fun anymore, it will become a channel for purchases
The average belief that social media platforms are channels for fun and entertainment is changing fast.
They are becoming sources of purchases. Forbes quotes Massimiliano Tirocchi, CMO and co-founder of Shapermint, as saying social media platforms, including Facebook, are increasingly creating ease for consumers to discover and make a purchase.
In 2021, retail brands are expected to adapt to the Facebook example of keeping consumers entertained while seamlessly creating the platform for purchases.
6. Only trusted brands will have a better advantage
There's good news for major brands in 2021. Big brands will be the major attractions for informed buyers.
Thus, in the new year growing brands need to work hard to be trusted. They have to make feedback more important.
7. The big tech breakup
Analysts saw this coming, especially with the special focus on activities of social media by lawmakers across the world.
However, lawmakers across the globe are indicating that this year could possibly be the 'big showdown'.
But this begs the questions: Will Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Alibaba beat them to it?
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Russia’s “Loose Nukes”
The continuing threat to American security
For all the renewed debate about national missile defense--the "Star Wars" program, and the threat of attack by rogue nuclear states like North Korea--there is one real, irreducible strategic danger in the post-Cold War world that continues to be widely ignored: Russia's nuclear arsenal. Russia still has 7,000 active nuclear warheads armed, mounted on missiles, and capable of arriving at targets in the United States less than an hour after the decision to launch. Were a dozen or a hundred of these weapons to be triggered, millions of Americans would die instantly. Incredible, unimaginable, a Cold War anachronism--yes. But this physical reality about the world of today and tomorrow cannot be denied. As surely as during the Cold War, this superpower arsenal creates for the United States a highest-priority, enduring interest in Russia: namely, that these weapons are not used against Americans or our allies.
A considered, rational choice by the Russians to launch nuclear weapons against the United States is, of course, highly improbable, since that would be the equivalent of choosing national suicide. But other risks abound. Accidental launch, unauthorized launch, misperceptions, or unanticipated consequences that led to a launch could all result in Russian warheads destroying this country. These were the fuses President John F. Kennedy saw so vividly at the nuclear brink during the Cuban missile crisis. Current conditions in Russia greatly magnify risks of accidental launch. That country's satellite warning systems are deteriorating rapidly, as are its ground-based radar warning systems; command, control, and communications systems for deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs); electronic locking devices; rocket launchers--even the warheads themselves. As former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and Brookings Institution fellow Bruce Blair (a one-time air force missile-launch officer) have argued, these developments "increase the risk that Russian commanders might receive false signals of an attack and launch their missiles on an unsuspecting United States."
Add to this picture 5,000 tactical nuclear weapons: many lacking any locking device to prevent their unauthorized use and some stored at bases where a colonel with the cooperation of two lieutenants could "privatize" a dozen warheads and transfer them to world markets to convert into cash. Remember that an additional 12,000 nuclear weapons exist in various storage facilities across Russia, many in buildings with no protection other than guards whose salaries are frequently delayed for months.
Beyond assembled weapons, there are approximately 70,000 nuclear weapons-equivalents in stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. A softball-sized chunk of this fissile material would provide Iran or a bin Laden terrorist group with the critical ingredient from which a crude nuclear device could be assembled. There are also biological weapons, chemical weapons, and thousands of ICBMs--and a deep pool of know-how for producing missiles and other weapons. In sum: the overriding reason Russia's nuclear arsenal should matter most to American security appears vividly as one considers the danger of "loose nukes."
Terrorists or rogue states could surreptitiously deliver one or a half-dozen nuclear weapons to attack American troops abroad or cities at home. One backpack-sized nuclear weapon in that van parked outside the Oklahoma City Federal Office Building would have caused not just the building but the city itself to disappear. One such nuclear device in the van that was used by terrorists to attack the World Trade Center would have caused Lower Manhattan to disappear. Russia could become a convenience store for weapons unless the United States takes vigorous steps to help consolidate and secure these vulnerable nuclear stockpiles. Here as elsewhere in a nonproliferation strategy, the surest defense is to stop proliferation at the source.
As the most open society in the world, this country will remain the most vulnerable to attacks, especially by weapons delivered surreptitiously--in the cargo holds of ships, in trucks and rail cars, even in express packages. In the real world of the next quarter-century, dreams of an invulnerable America are fantasy--whether Ronald Reagan's vision of a Star Wars shield that would "render nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" or UN resolutions to "eliminate all nuclear weapons from earth." Anyone who doubts that terrorists could smuggle a nuclear warhead into New York City should note that they could always wrap it in a bale of marijuana.
In 1991, then Senator Nunn and Senator Richard Lugar initiated a modest, bipartisan, $400-million-a-year program of investment in securing Russian nuclear weapons and materials. Together with a contract for purchase of weapons-usable, highly enriched uranium extracted from dismantled Russian warheads, these "cooperative threat reduction" programs have helped motivate Russian measures in what is so far a promising effort.
To the best of American intelligence's knowledge, no nuclear weapons have yet--despite many attempts--been stolen, sold, or found outside Russia's borders. Although careful security analysts rightly worry about what we do not know, we are certain that no such weapons have been used. Conditions in Russia today, however, do not insure continued success. Repeated nonpayment of wages to guards who control weapons and weapons-usable materials, and the deterioration of all technical systems, combine with corruption and criminalization to magnify the risks of failure.
Although the Nunn-Lugar program has stimulated and facilitated Russian actions that have secured nuclear weapons and materials against theft or loss, the $400 million it provides annually amounts to less than 5 percent of Western expenditures on Russia--and less than one-quarter of 1 percent of the U.S. defense budget. As Nunn and I summarized the matter in a recent essay, despite a decade of progress, Russia's economic collapse and loss of government control have made the risks of "loose nukes" greater than when the United States began offering assistance.
The president who takes office in January, Democrat or Republican, should give the highest priority to securing Russian nuclear weapons, weapons-usable nuclear material, and other weapons of mass destruction. This should become the north star of American policy. What specific actions should this policy include?
Buy and remove all the nuclear-weapons material Russia is prepared to sell. In addition to the already scheduled highly enriched uranium (HEU) purchases, the U.S. government should buy all available Russian HEU, which, when blended with low-enriched uranium, becomes proliferation resistant and commercially valuable. Under the current agreement, less than half of Russia's HEU would be blended over the next 20 years. Plutonium should also be purchased, but that will require more substantial public subsidies because it has no current commercial use.
Remove potential bomb material from the most vulnerable sites in Russia. Caches of highly enriched uranium and plutonium, sufficient for making dozens of bombs, still can be found at many facilities across that country. As part of a renewed "buy and secure" campaign, potential bomb material should be consolidated in central, more secure, storage facilities.
Accelerate the blending down of highly enriched uranium. The United States should provide the capital investment and financial incentives for Russia to blend down all excess HEU in the next four years. For an investment of approximately $500 million, we could get all of the excess Russian HEU blended to nonweapons-usable forms--within Vladimir Putin's first term.
These steps represent the components of a minimalist strategy to secure Russian nuclear material. Even stronger measures are possible. Matthew Bunn, assistant director of the Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, proposes a more robust agenda for action--ranging from securing nuclear materials without regard to cost constraints, to reemploying Russian scientists and technicians--in a report entitled The Next Wave: Urgently Needed New Steps to Control Warheads and Fissile Material.
Fortunately, today we do not have Cuban missile crises that force citizens to experience existentially the fear of nuclear danger. But that, unfortunately, leads many to imagine that these weapons have somehow disappeared. Kennedy and Khrushchev might have had difficulty imagining that 38 years after their historic confrontation, the greatest threat to their countries' security would not be a calculated missile strike by an ideological foe, but instead Russia's loose nuclear weapons, materials, and know-how. Continuing debate about missile defense should remind all Americans of the continued presence and threat of nuclear weapons, and should prompt policymakers to think carefully about the greatest danger of all.


Texas House Passes Public Education Requirements Bill
After roughly 9 hours of debate, Texas House lawmakers passed a bill that would change the requirements high students must meet in order to graduate. The House voted 145 to 2 in favor of the legislation authored by Republican State Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock.
Lawmakers debated amendments, and amendments to amendments, on the House floor Tuesday, as they decided the public education reform bill they’d send on to the Senate.
State Rep. Aycock, author of House Bill 5, is the Killeen Republican who chairs the House public education committee. Among other things, his bill would reduce the number of STAAR exams given to high school students from 15 to 5. It would also allow them to choose a path to college or one to a vocational career.
"I want to give the flexibility without forcing up or forcing down," Rep. Aycock said. "I want them to have the ability if they want to become…the one everyone’s talking about is welders, which we need thousands of. The technical skills folks, I don’t want to tell them that that’s not OK. I want them to make a conscious decision to head that way in life."
Democratic State Rep. Mark Strama of Austin says standardized testing should be addressed. But not by reducing the number of exams because, he says, that will raise the stakes even higher on the remaining tests. Strama says he also worries about giving kids paths other than ones that would make them college ready.
"We ought to start kids off with the expectation that they can achieve anything," Rep. Strama said. "And when we have high expectations for kids there’s a lot more likelihood of them rising to meet those expectations. And not all of them will but more of them will if we have high expectations for them than if we don’t."
Strama voted against the bill. Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner, however, supported it.
"I think the bill will be better than the status quo," Rep. Turner said. "Certainly there are a lot of students who don’t want to take all those exams and end of course exams and teachers are teaching to the exams so we’ve substantially reduced the number of exams on this bill. I think on balance that’s a good thing."
Lawmakers passed dozens of amendments. Among them a report that must be made for the governor, lieutenant governor and Legislature on how this bill affects graduation rates and college completion, among other data. Another amendment requires schools to inform parents if their child changes his or her college plans.
The amended bill goes next to the Senate for a vote.


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It’s not an accident that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and President Donald Trump are friends. Both tend to be contemptuous of the conventions that normally govern the behavior of public figures. Christie has never shrunk from berating reporters or citizens alike in ways that most politicians would never dare. As for Trump, we all know he is bound by no constraints in his dealings, whether in public or private.
Trump is still getting away with the sort of behavior that most people label misconduct but his base cheers or tolerates. Indeed, while his offensive tweets about Mika Brzezinski have, like his “Access Hollywood” tape boasts about sexually harassing women, have earned him bipartisan condemnations and media overkill, they don’t appear to have influenced that solid 35-40 percent of the electorate to abandon him.
But Christie’s ability to rise above controversy is at an end. Therein hangs a lesson for all politicians about the difference between populism and arrogance. Voters will often forgive or even cheer high-handedness and abusive behavior from their leaders so long as they feel they are standing up for them. But they will never forgive those who treat the perks of public office as something to which they are entitled.
‘Beachgate’ Is Christie’s Coup de Grace
Christie never learned that some rules of politics cannot be transgressed. No one minds much when a billionaire enjoys his own money in even a flamboyant manner. But no one likes it when politicians even of relatively modest means shove their perks in voters’ faces.
If “Bridgegate” fatally wounded Christie’s once promising hopes for the presidency, then “Beachgate” — which broke over the holiday weekend — is the coup de grace for his political career. With only months left in his term as governor, Christie was already at historic lows in the polls. But one shudders to think to what levels they will sink in the wake of the publications of pictures showing him using a state beach that was closed to the public as the result of a government shutdown.
Leaving aside the question of who deserves the blame for the shutdown — which belongs as much to the stubbornness of the Democratic-controlled legislature as to Christie’s unwillingness to compromise — the optics were atrocious. They were compounded when Christie was caught lying about using the beach when the press asked about it. Nor will anyone accept his dismissal of complaints in which he told frustrated citizens who were locked out of the state’s prime recreational attraction on a holiday weekend that if they wanted to enjoy a state park as if it were a private beach, they should run for governor.
Why Do Voters Like It Some Times and Not Others?
This is far from the first time Christie has behaved in this manner. From refusing to rush home from a Florida vacation to deal with a snow emergency in his first term to his insistence on staying in New Hampshire to campaign for president during a flood, Christie never thought he ought to be seen doing his job when others were in distress.
Nor did he refrain from using the private benefits of public office in ways that demonstrated his contempt for public opinion. His use of a state helicopter to attend his son’s baseball game (“coptergate”) as well as his willingness to accept expensive gifts from wealthy friends both domestic (like Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys) or foreign (King Abdullah of Jordan) all showed a level of Olympian level of contempt for public sensibilities.
But we’re forgetting that Christie’s popularity in his first term was based in no small measure on some of the same qualities that did him in later on. Videos of his town hall question and answer sessions made him a YouTube star and a potential presidential candidate in 2012. Conservatives loved when he told off annoying journalists or silenced tough questioners like public school teachers because he was showing he wasn’t bound by the rules that normally restrict the way politicians act and speak.
Trump has profited from that same factor, which enabled him to survive a host of gaffes that would probably have sunk a conventional candidate. But if Trump’s supporters still cheer when he breaks the rules others dare not transgress, in large measure it’s because they think he’s doing it for them. Many Republicans and Independents felt that way about Christie too when he was challenging public-sector unions and entrenched state interests that were pushing New Jersey toward bankruptcy, just as they have threatened many other states and municipalities. That’s what enabled him to not only become a national figure but also win a landslide re-election in an otherwise solidly Democratic state.
But there is a fine distinction to be made between that sort of populist appeal and appearing as if you are out for yourself. As much as Trump’s liberal critics snipe about his tax returns and imply that he and his relations are in politics to turn a profit, few among his supporters buy that charge. They think he’s too rich to be bought and has insufficient motivation to put his company’s bottom line above the public good. That’s why he can continue to live like a billionaire while flouting notions of common decency on Twitter and still appearing like an everyman to his fans.
Acting Brazenly for Me Is Fine. Not For Yourself
But Christie, who does not posses great wealth, has suffered a historic collapse of popularity in large measure because his iconoclasm is not as prominent as a belief that he is primarily interested in taking advantage of the perks of the governorship.
Christie managed to avoid being thrown in the dock for the traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge his staff created in a bizarre attempt to exact revenge on a political rival. But the fact that he wasn’t prosecuted for “Bridgegate” along with some of his closest aides didn’t limit the political damage, because it appeared to be in character for a man who already had a reputation as a bully.
It’s easy to believe someone who thinks he has the right to intimidate questioners at town halls and journalists would think nothing of using crippling rush hour bridge traffic to send a message to someone. That he now gets caught using a public beach when everyone else is shut out and says “too bad” is all part of the same picture.
The examples Trump and Christie have set may be hard to match even for someone with their outsize personalities. But any aspiring office seeker who thinks he or she can play the plainspoken truth-teller card must also remember why Trump hasn’t yet lost his core support.
You can get away with just about anything if voters think you’re doing it for them. But once they think you’re just another pol on the make, you’re finished. That more than anything else is why Christie’s political obituary is already written even before he’s left his state-financed homes.

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The media has gone into a frenzy over Google’s latest facial recognition patent that shows an algorithm can track you across social media and gather your personal details. We thought, we’d dive further into what other patents Google has applied for in facial recognition tehnology in 2018. What we discovered was an eye opener (pun intended).
Google is only the 3rd largest applicant with IBM and Samsung leading the patents race in facial recognition. As of 10th Aug, 2018, 1292 patents have been granted in 2018 on Facial recognition. Of those, IBM received 53. Here is the summary comparison of leading companies in facial recognition patents in 2018.
IBM has always been at the forefront of innovation. Let’s go back about a quarter of a century, when IBM invented its first general-purpose computer for business. It built complex software programs that helped in launching Apollo missions, putting the first man on the moon. It’s chess playing computer, Deep Blue, back in 1997, beat Garry Kasparov, in a traditional chess match (the first time a computer beat a world champion). Its researchers are known for winning Nobel Prizes.
Coming back to 2018, IBM unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer with AI capabilities, and beat the Wall Street expectations by making $20 billion in revenue in Q3 2018 last month, with market capitalization worth $132.14 billion as of August 9, 2018. Its patents are a major part of why it continues to be valuable highly.
IBM continues to come up with cutting-edge innovations and to protect these proprietary inventions, it applies for patent grants. United States is the largest consumer market in the world, so patenting the technologies that the companies come out with is a standard way to attain competitive advantage.
|As per the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Patent is an exclusive right to invention and “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States”.
As always, IBM has applied for patents for a wide spectrum of technologies this year from Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, to Quantum Computing. Today we focus on IBM’s patents in facial recognition field in 2018.
Four IBM facial recognition innovations patented in 2018
Facial recognition is a technology which identifies and verifies a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source and IBM seems quite invested in it.
Controlling privacy in a face recognition application
Date of patent: January 2, 2018
Filed: December 15, 2015
Features: IBM has patented for a face-recognition application titled “Controlling privacy in a face recognition application”. Face recognition technologies can be used on mobile phones and wearable devices which may hamper the user privacy. This happens when a “sensor” mobile user identifies a “target” mobile user without his or her consent. The present mobile device manufacturers don’t provide the privacy mechanisms for addressing this issue. This is the major reason why IBM has patented this technology.
|Editor’s Note: This looks like an answer to the concerns raised over Google’s recent social media profiling facial recognition patent.
How it works?
It consists of a privacy control system, which is implemented using a cloud computing node. The system uses a camera to find out information about the people, by using a face recognition service deployed in the cloud. As per the patent application “the face recognition service may have access to a face database, privacy database, and a profile database”.
The facial database consists of one or more facial signatures of one or more users. The privacy database includes privacy preferences of target users. Privacy preferences will be provided by the target user and stored in the privacy database.The profile database contains information about the target user such as name, age, gender, and location.
It works by receiving an input which includes a face recognition query and a digital image of a face. The privacy control system then detects a facial signature from the digital image. The target user associated with the facial signature is identified, and profile of the target user is extracted. It then checks the privacy preferences of the user. If there are no privacy preferences set, then it transmits the profile to the sensor user. But, if there are privacy preferences then the censored profile of the user is generated omitting out the private elements in the profile.
There are no announcements, as for now, regarding when this technology will hit the market.
Evaluating an impact of a user’s content utilized in a social network
Date of patent: January 30, 2018
Filed: April 11, 2015
Features: IBM has patented for an application titled “Evaluating an impact of a user’s content utilized in a social network”. With so much data floating around on social network websites, it is quite common for the content of a document (e.g., e-mail message, a post, a word processing document, a presentation) to be reused, without the knowledge of an original author.
Because of this, the original author of the content may not receive any credit, which creates less motivation for the users to post their original content in a social network. This is why IBM has decided to patent for this application.
As per the patent application, the method/system/product “comprises detecting content in a document posted on a social network environment being reused by a second user. The method further comprises identifying an author of the content. The method additionally comprises incrementing a first counter keeping track of a number of times the content has been adopted in derivative works”. There’s a processor, which generates an “impact score” which represents the author’s ability to influence other users to adopt the content. This is based on the number of times the content has been adopted in the derivative works. Also, “the method comprises providing social credit to the author of the content using the impact score”.
|Editor’s Note: This is particularly interesting to us as IBM, unlike other tech giants, doesn’t own a popular social network or media product. (Google has Google+, Microsoft has LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are social, even Amazon has stakes in a media entity in the form of Washington Post).
No information is present about when or if this system will be used among social network sites.
Spoof detection for facial recognition
Date of patent: February 20, 2018
Filed: December 10, 2015
Features: IBM patented an application named “Spoof detection for facial recognition”. It provides a method to determine whether the image is authentic or not. As per the patent “A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source.”
|Editor’s Note: This seems to have a direct impact on the work around tackling deepFakes, which incidentally is something DARPA is very keen on. Could IBM be vying for a long term contract with the government?
How it works?
The patent consists of a system that helps detect “if a face in a facial recognition authentication system is a three-dimensional structure based on multiple selected images from the input video”.
There are four or more two-dimensional feature points which are located via an image processing device connected to the camera. Here the two-dimensional feature points do not lie on the same two-dimensional plane. The patent reads that “one or more additional images of the user’s face can be received with the camera; and, the at least four two-dimensional feature points can be located on each additional image with the image processor. The image processor can identify displacements between the two-dimensional feature points on the additional image and the two-dimensional feature points on the first image for each additional image”
There is also a processor connected to the image processing device that helps figure out whether the displacements conform to a three-dimensional surface model. The processor can then determine whether to authenticate the user depending on whether the displacements conform to the three-dimensional surface model.
Facial feature location using symmetry line
Date of patent: June 5, 2018
Filed: July 20, 2015
Features: IBM patented for an application titled “Facial feature location using symmetry line”.
As per the patent, “In many image processing applications, identifying facial features of the subject may be desired. Currently, location of facial features require a search in four dimensions using local templates that match the target features. Such a search tends to be complex and prone to errors because it has to locate both (x, y) coordinates, scale parameter and rotation parameter”.
The application consists of a computer-implemented method that obtains an image of the subject’s face. After that it automatically detects a symmetry line of the face in the image, where the symmetry line intersects at least a mouth region of the face. It then automatically locates a facial feature of the face using the symmetry line.
There’s also a computerised apparatus with a processor which performs the steps of obtaining an image of a subject’s face and helps locate the facial feature.
|Editor’s note: Atleast, this patent makes direct sense to us. IBM is majorly focusing on bring AI to healthcare. A patent like this can find a lot of use in not just diagnostics and patient care, but also in cutting edge areas like robotics enabled surgeries.
IBM is continually working on new technologies to provide the world with groundbreaking innovations. Its big investments in facial recognition technology speaks volumes about how IBM is well-versed with its endless possibilities. With the facial recognition technological progress, come the privacy fears. But, IBM’s facial recognition application patent has got it covered as it lets the users set privacy preferences. This can be a great benchmark for IBM as no many existing applications are currently doing it.
The social credit score evaluating app can really help bring the voice back to the users interested in posting content on social media platforms. The spoof detection application will help maintain authenticity by detecting forged images. Lastly, the facial feature detection can act as a great additional feature for image processing applications.
IBM has been heavily investing in facial recognition technology. There are no guarantees by IBM as to whether these patents will ever make it to practical applications, but it does say a lot about how IBM thinks about the technology.


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Put all of your trust and confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. He calls those who are not ready. He chooses those who are not what the world expects. He justifies, purifies, and refines those who are the least likely to succeed. He uses your weakness to display His strength and power, to transfer those in darkness into His light.
Though outwardly you may appear insignificant. But you are not. Inwardly, you have been made powerful through Christ. He does not let you go unprepared or unequipped, not for a moment. He prepares those He has chosen and sends those He has prepared.
I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that was not called by my name. Isaiah 65:1
If it wasn’t for the amazing forgiveness and blood of Jesus Christ, His mercy and grace, you would have never made it. But it is because of Him and Him alone that you will triumph for the Kingdom of God. For His Kingdom in Glory. The God who can never lie is trustworthy.
He will give you peace and rest throughout the battle if you depend on Him, in every attack and wave of conflict that the devil sends your way. Your confidence does not lay in the skills of your hands or in the intelligence of your mind. Real power and wisdom only come from Him.
It is in your weaknesses that hold the secret weapon. When you turn it over to God and He produces strength that will confound the wise. The weapon that will cause demons to flee and evil foundations to crumble. That weapon is the Holy Spirit of the Lord working through His humble servants.
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Trust the Lord. You will never look back and regret it.


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We are shortly moving house and our new house is set well back but quite close to a busy main road. I'm worried about Tinkerbell's safety although at the moment she doesn't venture out of the back garden where we currently live and is more concerned about being with us than roaming. She does like to go outside though so I'm not sure whether to trust that she will be OK or to keep her in. I don't think my husband would be that happy with fencing in the garden so I think it would either have to be that she was kept in or let out like now under supervision (I always shut her in when we are not at home anyway). Many thanks for your advice, Louise
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My cats are all perfectly happy being indoor only kitties. I take Chelsea out only on my deck for a little sunshine but as long as they have a window to look out of, the rest are all very happy with that. Indoor cats live healthier longer lives. Since she has been let out, it might take a while for her to get used to it but she will get used to it. Our friend Izzie here on Catster lost his kitty brother Ernie to a car last Summer and the family is still heartbroken so Izzie's Mom will be sure to tell you how important it is to keep Tinkerbell in now that you live on a busy street. All it takes is a second when she decides to chase something.
Chelsea answered on 6/1/09. Helpful? / 1
If you are near a busy road it'd be very risky to let her out as cats are not smart when it comes to traffic and sooner or later she'll stray down by the road.
You could build a "catio" a fenced in patio area where she could go outside but not stray. Lots of people have done this and if you google Catio you can find examples to look at.
You could also get a cat harness and see if she'll accept that. If she will then you can take her out for walks on the harness. I haven't had much luck with my cats and a harness but its worth a try.
When I moved from the UK to the US my cats, who'd been used to going outside, had to become indoor cats for a couple of years while I was in an appartment complex. They did fine as inside cats and I just had to be careful going in and out.
Strangelove (1988-2006) answered on 6/1/09. Helpful? / 0
I would also look at the Catio, Or find another house. Hee hee, when we were looking for a house the realestate agent kept showing us places close to roads. Meow, Hisssss we changed agents. We found the purrfect home for us and the cats. But if I had no choice, I think the catio idea would be the next best thing. I'd hate to loose any of them.
Raza answered on 6/1/09. Helpful? / 0
I had a cat who made himself an outdoor kitty. He'd bolt out the door so fast I couldn't catch him. I thought he stayed around our property as well until a lady on the other side of our developement told me he'd visted them at their garage sale. I knew then it was only a matter of time until Ernie got hit by a car, and he did last August. I still miss him terribly. Outdoor cats have short lives, usually about 3 to 5 years. Honestly, when you let Tink out, you don't really know if you'll ever see her again. It's difficult to make an outdoor cat an indoor one, but keep in mind that if you try, you're doing it for her own good. Fences don't keep cats in like they do dogs. You may want to try a leash/harness if she likes to stay with you. Ernie liked to hunt so that wouldn't have worked for him. It will give Tink her "fix" for outdoors and she would be safe with you.
Izadore (Izzie) answered on 6/2/09. Helpful? / 1

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Vroom Vroom, we are excited to announce the INO of a cool gaming project — Monster Racing League! The INO will start on July 1st, at 12:00 UTC.
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Assemble your team of monsters, unlock their special abilities, and race them to earn rewards, upgrades, and new vehicles. Breed monsters together to create the ultimate Monster Racing League champion.
Monster Racing League Gameplay
Rather than creating a DeFi system and trying to iterate our way to a fun game, the project’s team created a game, which is fun to play at first, then integrate the blockchain into it.
Everyone, including newcomers, will have an opportunity to win. The game is focused on skill and strategy, so you’ll have a chance to win no matter what monster you have.
Monsters are divided into tribes. Born to race, each monster is visually unique and has its own strengths and weaknesses that will affect how it performs in races and how it can be bred. Loyal to their tribe above all else, monsters can unlock special abilities unique to their tribe.
And there’ll always be multiple ways to win. With a large array of monsters, tracks, abilities, and boost cards to choose from and combine, you’ll be free to create your own strategies and winning combinations.
The Liquidifty users will be able to get an NFT container during the INO, the price of the container is $200 USD. Containers are the key to everything you need to play Monster Racing League.
So, all containers receive one Origin Monster with unique traits and rarity and will be needed to play the game. Each monster comes with its own car, which apparently you can change using a vehicle cosmetic.
Players can equip three abilities before the race begins and use them at the opportune moments during the race to disrupt opponents and give themselves an advantage in the race. All containers receive 1–2 tribe abilities.
Each container has an opportunity to receive one of twenty ultra-rare tracks which earn passive rewards from races. Then, there are Boosters. Boosters are a consumable that gives you an edge in the race. They boost speed, increase handling, power up abilities with more range or damage or shorten cooldown times. All containers receive a pack of 20, 50, or 100 boost cards.
All containers receive a custom vehicle cosmetic with varying levels of rarity. Will you get 1 of only 95 epic cosmetics? or maybe even 1 of only 5 legendary vehicle cosmetics!
- NFT containers have everything you need to start playing;
- NFTs have wide utility in the game;
- Additional earning options through Breeding, Renting the assets to other players, Play-to-Earn rewards.
Stay tuned for the updates and more events by the Liquidifty team
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I too, had a bit of a wait like you and also have not cried yet. I sometimes think that in a way I have had so long to prepare myself that it took away the edge. Told since May 2nd it would be nothing only to be told Aug 11th it was.
I almost feel detached from it? yet i know if it was my son or husband I would be a devastated, quivering wreck! Quite bizarre, but i know where you are coming from.
Good luck with it all. Be thinking of you. I had my SN surgery and wide local excision on Wed 31st, waiting til 8th Sept now...tick tock.. lol.
Take care xx
hello.. glad your operation is over, i was a little swollen for a few days after surgery, but if its not gone down over the weekend get your doctor to have a look just to make sure everythings settling properly.. xx
Thanks for the replys. I had my surgery yesterday and it wasnt as bad as i expected, im a little tender on my left side but not in much pain really. I do feel like i have a small balloon under my arm which i assume is just swelling, hoping this is normal?
my injections done after I was asleep. And so's you don't worry, I'm still faintly blue around my eight weeks later. Apparently some folks lose the blue dye quickly, others it can take months. And you'll probably find you have some pretty bruising. But it wasn't very painful.
Thanks for all your kind words of support.It is so reassuring to know that I am not alone. Whilst my husband and friends and family are being very supportive it is great to have the opportunity to speak to ladies who are on the same emotional rollercoaster.
I think I will feel much better when I get the lymph results and the results of last week's WLE and get a treatment plan. However there has been so much information to take in over the last few weeks and I keep asking the same questions over again.
Claire, good luck with your surgery. Mine was on the 23 August despite looking a bit blue for a few hours (that's the dye they inject and it does fade pretty quick) and being a bit sore it was ok.
I think you probably mean grade 3, not stage 3 (grade is type of cells, stage is more complex and they don't know this till they have sorted out nodes)
I am a grade 3/stage 2 person, and still around 7 years post diagnosis - there are lost of other long terms survivors on this forum.
All the best, and keep posting.
hello claire... sorry 2 hear your now a member of our gang.. the one no one wants to join,, but we are all there for eachother ..well your pre op.. dont worry its routine.. blood tests weight etc. nothing at all to worry about.. tomorrow , you will be admitted to the ward then you will be taken to nuclear medicine, where they will give you a small injection in to the nipple,this is radioactive material, dont worry you wont start glowing green .. this is done because the blue dye they inject during surgery had to travel in to your lymph glands under your arm and the radioactive stuff leads the way.. after about 45 mins you will be put on a type of mri machine, this is to check that your glands are now radioactive in preperation for the dye.. it sounds like your having a sentinal node biopsy.. if so when your asleep they will remove any glands that turn blue.. in my case it was the sentinal node pluss 3 others.. they will also remove any offending tissue in the breast at the same time.. bit uncomfortable afterwards, but not agony , and i went home the same evening.. hope this explains everything.. try not to worry you will be just fine xxx angie
Welcome to the forums, you've come to the right place for support as the users of this site have a wealth of experience and knowledge between them.
Whilst waiting for replies you may find it useful to contact our free helpline on 0808 800 6000, opening hours are Monday to Friday 9.00 – 5.00 and Saturday 9.00 – 2.00.
Forgive me ive lurked at little but this is my first post. Big hug to all going through this, it seems there is a lot of support and love on here.
I was diagnosed with BC Tues 16th august. I had some tearful dark days and telling family n friends was just so hard but ive just about got to grips with it in my head and trying to remain strong and positive.
I am scheduled for a lumpectomy on thursday morning, my tumour is in my left breast and is quite small 1.8x1.5mm and am told it has been caught quite early and lymph nodes are not involved so a few positives to focus on but still upsetting all the same.
I have my pre op this afternoon and was wondering what to expect, not really been told much and tried to get hold of my breastcare nurse but wasnt able to (admittedly i only tried a couple of times so not really her fault) Could any of you lovely ladies advise what to expect. Also ive been told i am having a dye/tracer injected to find the first few lymph nodes to take them out as an extra precaution, when will this get put in, it says in the book up 5-6 hours before, my surgery admission is 7.30 tomorrow morning does this mean i will be injected then have to wait around for hours or will they do it today at pre op?
Any help would be appreciated x
Sorry to hear you have to join us - but you're in the right place for support and advice.
I'm 33 too and was diagnosed at the end of May. I'm currently 6 of 8 treatments through chemo and then have surgery and then rads (and then Herceptin and Tamoxifen!). There are lots of us girls in their 20s and 30s on the forum - and you'd be shocked at the number of misdiagnoses and number of times young women were sent away because of their age. I also went on a BCC Younger Women's Forum that held seminars from everything including infertility, menopausal symptoms, body image, coping strategies, reconstruction, diet, exercise, different treatments etc etc. The most useful element for me, however, was meeting similar aged girls in the same boat. Although I have great friends - they don't really understand, so I have certainly felt less isolated ever since and have kept in touch with a few who I see regularly. I would highly recommend it. Where are you based?
Cancer is scary. BUT from what I've read mucinous IDC is one of the easiest forms to treat. So that's good news. You will feel more in control once you hear back about your lymph nodes and have a clear plan of action from your oncologist and a treatment plan.
With regards crying - everyone reacts differently. I was a mess at the beginning. But much more positive now, despite my onc being very pessimistic!
Let us know how you get on and if you have any questions at all.
I found my lump in May, had it out in june and am just on my last week of radiotherapy. So far i have not cried once, very odd. I went into this little bubble as if i was walking round in a different dimension to everyone else. It was surreal. It was a form of denial but not self induced, just the way I am made. I still thought about it 24/7.
My mind eventually sorted itself out and i now have long periods where life is back to normal and I no longer feel as if I have been hit by a sledge hammer and I would think once i stop going to the hospital every day it will fade away.
There are so many different ways our brains react and everyone of them is normal. It is still bound to be a huge shock. Once you get your results and the treatment is planned you should start to come back down to earth. Until then take care of yourself, dont try to worry about how you feel and please come back and tell us how you are getting on.
So sorry you find yourself in this situation, along with so many other lovely folks on this site, which gives us all fantastic support and understanding from each other.
Like yourself I have been recently diagnosed with BC,had surgery, and am currently waiting for results (7th Sept) to see if it has spread to the lymph. Also,I, like yourself have not shed a tear so far. Maybe because my 20 year old daughter insisted on being there when I got my initial biopsy results,.. and when I told my 21 year old son who broke down (he lost his closest friend to lieukemia last year), I had to be strong again.My way of dealing with this is to read many of the threads on here which contain some brilliant info that the NHS seem to omit to tell you, ( like for example prescription exemption for 5 years).To me the more knowledge and understanding I have of this situation the stronger I feel about it.However everyone is different and that's what this site is about, there is always someone around on here to give you a cyberhug if you just want to rant or moan or cry.
Wishing you all the best with your treatment with love and a hug, Jude
Hello Lizzy, so sorry you have to join us 😞 I'm a grade 3 girl too - lots of us on this site.
What is a normal response in all this? Whatever is right for you is right, whatever response you have is natural and normal.
I'm somewhat older than you though still offically 'young' in bc terms and also fit (evidently 'very fit') healthy blah blah blah. Cancer has no prejudices and no favourites, it just strikes where it will when it feels like it - my onc stressed that most cancer is 'random'.
I am still waiting for the reality to fully sink in a year down the line, I have never had the floods of tears or bouts of anger etc, but it's not denial it's just the way I'm wired. For other people other reactions are just as valid.
One (of the many) things I've learned over the last year is to be a little more gnetle with myself and to accept I react the way I do because I'm me.
I don't think you're in denial, just totally shell-shocked - and why wouldn't you be?
You can, and will, get through this - however it turns out.
Sending you a cyber-hug because we can all use them.
Firstly, welcome to the forums, I am sure some of the other users will be a long soon to support you.
I'm sorry to read of your diagnosis, the first few weeks are always difficult when coming to terms with things and getting to grips with your treatment plans, etc.
I've given here the link to our Resource Pack for those people newly diagnosed. The pack is filled with information to help you better understand your diagnosis, test results and the various treatments available.
http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/heal ... tionId/82/
Also, do give the helpline a ring if you need any further support or information. They're on 0808 800 6000. Open 9-5 Monday to Friday and 9-2 Saturday.
Best wishes Sam, BCC Facilitator
Hi, I am new to forums and new to breast cancer. I first found my lump back in January but my GP said that it was nothing to worry about and to come back in 3 months. I stupidly put it off and didn’t go back to my GP until June. Everyone at the breast clinic kept saying that it was probably nothing as I am only 33, an athlete and have no family history. After god knows how many scans, biopsies and surgery to remove what I presumed would be a benign lump I was finally diagnosed with BC on 11 August. Unfortunately it turned out to be a stage 3 invasive mucinous carcinoma with DCIS. I am still feeling completely overwhelmed and shell shocked. I had a wider local excision last week and sentinel node biopsy and am waiting for the results. I haven’t broken down in tears yet though and am wondering whether I am just in denial, shock or whether this is normal?


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