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Earlier this month, PrinterPrezz and its subsidiary Vertex Manufacturing announced that they were rebranding to Zeda, Inc. as part of their corporate bio growth strategy. The company represents the strengths of both Silicon Valley-based PrinterPrezz and Ohio’s Vertex Manufacturing, and their combined focus on its “customer first, product after” approach. Zeda uses 3D printing and nanotechnology to develop solutions for the medical industry, as well as the aerospace, space, and defense sector, with an overall goal of improving lives by investing in state-of-the art technologies and ideas, and innovative companies. Today, the company announced the deployment of the first of eight FormUp 350 laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) 3D printers from AddUp Inc., in order to support its continued growth in the medical and aerospace industries.
“We are pleased to be adding AddUp’s tools to our portfolio of advanced manufacturing technologies. AddUp has demonstrated a set of capabilities that enable us to address unique design and application challenges faced by our growing base of aerospace, space, and defense customers,” stated Greg Morris, once the Vertex Manufacturing CEO and now Zeda’s Chief Technology Officer.
The FormUp 350 is a modular system, with up to four 500 W lasers (each with a 3-axis optical chain), a bidirectional coating system that AddUp says enables 40% faster powder spreading cycles, and the Autonomous Powder Module, developed in partnership with AVO for a continuous powder supply. With a 350 x 350 x 350 mm build volume, it’s smaller than the production-grade FormUp 350 Evolution, but was designed to be scalable, with over 25 possible options. This first of a planned eight placements of the FormUp 350 was deployed at Zeda this month, and will be qualified to support critical defense and aerospace manufacturing, 3D printing parts using Inconel 718.
Right after announcing its rebrand, Zeda shared that it had closed a $52 million Series B financing round, bringing its total capital raised to $68 million. The company, which is based in California, is using the funds to speed up its geographic footprint and medical product expansion in the U.S. and Asia, including a new 75,000 square foot advanced manufacturing facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. You might remember that AddUp, the North American subsidiary of AddUp SAS, also operates out of Cincinnati, in a production facility and technical services center with a dedicated AM workspace for both DED and LPBF printers, an applications training facility, metallurgical lab, post-process machining department, and more.
More and more, we’re seeing that my home state of Ohio represents what AddUp calls “a high-growth manufacturing environment for additive manufacturing.” We’ve got America Makes in Youngstown; Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Fairborn, which houses both the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC); the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI); AddUp and GE Additive in the Cincinnati area, and on and on. The Ohio State University Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) even has an install base of FormUp 350 3D printers. With all this in mind, it’s no coincidence that the Biden Administration chose to announce the AM Forward Program in Cincinnati last year. This new federal program is already making a positive impact on the national 3D printing market.
Zeda’s new advanced manufacturing facility will offer the necessary space to grow the company’s production capacity with 30 additional 3D printing systems, as well as factory space to implement over 100 tools as the business continues to grow. The company leverages experience in 3D printing aerospace parts, and process knowledge from the semiconductor industry, to offer high-quality, cost-effective AM for critical applications. Additionally, Zeda determined “unique capabilities” that are enabled with AddUp’s FormUp 350 PBF 3D printer, which will help expand the use of 3D printing in several key industries, such as regulated sectors like aerospace and defense.
“The success that Greg Morris achieved in pioneering the use of additive manufacturing in regulated industries combined with the novel approaches being introduced by the extended Zeda team represent a critical service for our customers. We couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to collaborate with such a veteran team in delivering high-value metal components to industry using our factory proven solutions,” said Rush LaSelle, AddUp’s CEO.
This is obviously very exciting news for AddUp, as it’s still considered a smaller player in the metal AM space. The first FormUp 350 has already been installed at Zeda’s new advanced manufacturing facility, with eight more to be deployed in the coming months. More is soon to come on this developing story, so stay tuned!

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Instant way to be powerfully centred in the midst of events
Watching the DVD of Down with Love the other day – brilliant sets and wardrobe – a parody retro pointing back to about 1966 according to my own naked eye, though might have been ’67 – and it afforded the most wonderfully stylized glimpse to the world before mobile telephony (and internet). Glorious scenes of people doing things people do – walking, talking, working, shirking and all the rest and not a single one talking on a mobile or thumbing plastic to send a message.
And it certainly didn’t look as if anyone was feeling deprived or bereft of instant communication.
And yes I know it was just a movie but I was there in the pre-cell phone days myself – I remember them well. I remember the stress of being late for a date and not being able to let them know and I may be biased in this but am sure, it was less stress than the stress of being constantly available and even more crucially being expected to be constantly available.
I remember those times waiting on a corner for a friend I’d arranged to meet, who was late and having to use telepathic power to discern when they’d be arriving, without then having recourse to the distraction of being able to message or call other people or do emails or whatever else on screen to pass the time. And it was good.
Obviously I’m not saying let’s go Luddite and throw the technology away – heaven forbid – we’d most likely all go deranged from culture shock, or reality shock. But I do suggest – and I often do this myself – switching the little f*cker off for an hour or so every now and then and watching what happens in the distraction-less silence.
Meanwhile it always pays to have a fast way to centre yourself in the midst of a mad, mad world, so how about this wee nugget, culled from the ancient Taoist pantheon, millennia before normal fixed line phones, let alone smart ones, when presumably the world was mad anyway hence why they developed the techniques, so I guess what the hell: stretch your right hand round behind you and press your forefinger lightly onto the tip of your tail bone, the tip of your coccyx to be official about it and as you lightly press, be aware of a fine feeling travelling up your spine and all about from there. Remember the sensation and as you go about your business henceforth, as you work, rest and play your way through today and beyond dear reader, keep at least a quarter of a thought on the tip of your coccyx all the time.
Increase this to a whole thought whenever feeling scattered or in danger of same.
This will keep you eminently centred, which in turn will completely alter your experience of reality from deep within.
I wish you unshakable centre and a marvellous day and/or night ahead.

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Brookhaven: Borough council, 7 p.m., municipal center, 2 Cambridge Road.
Chadds Ford: Board of supervisors workshop meeting, 3:30 p.m., municipal building, 10 Ring Road.
Chester Heights: Council, 7 p.m., borough office, 222 Llewelyn Road.
Collingdale: Council, 7:30 p.m., municipal building, 800 MacDade Blvd.
Colwyn: Property maintenance, 7 p.m.; Parks and recreation, 6 p.m., borough hall, 211 Spruce St.
Concord: Senior citizens, noon, Concord Senior Center.
Eddystone: Workshop meeting, 7 p.m., borough hall, 1300 E 12th Street.
Haverford: Board of commissioners, public hearing, 7:30 p.m., 2325 Darby Road.
Lansdowne: Finance and administration committee, 7 p.m., borough hall, 12 E. Baltimore Ave.
Marcus Hook: Council, 7 p.m., municipal building, 10th and Green Streets.
Media: Historical Architectural Review Board, 7:30 p.m., municipal building, 301 North Jackson St.
Newtown: Municipal authority, 7:30 p.m., municipal building, 209 Bishop Hollow Road.
Norwood: Recreation board, 7:30 p.m., municipal building, 10 W. Cleveland Ave.
Rutledge: Council, 7:30 p.m., 212 Unity Terrace.
Swarthmore: Work sessions, 7:30 p.m., borough hall, 121 Park Avenue.
Tinicum: Recreation board, 7 p.m., municipal building, 629 N. Governor Printz Blvd.
Yeadon: Council workshop, 7:30 p.m., borough hall, Church Lane and Baily Road.


I'm sure I read somewhere that the term 'pikey' originates from 'turnpike sailors' (turnpikes being toll roads in the ?19th century), reflecting the itinerant nature of the lifestyle. May be wrong though.
This is actually quite an important issue as if the concourses are this easy to access, then what about the other club offices etc that are at the stadium, with presumably more valuable/sensitive items at risk...
Ignoring the fence - which will need its own solution - surely every other potential entry route should have a decent level of barrier in place to make it not possible to enter with such ease??
I was going to dismiss the 'terror' element, as it's not like we get any big teams like Manchester City playing here is it??
today's Oxford Mail ( printed version) a few pages in (I read today's OM newspaper before heading off working ) Strangely had a piece at the top of the page about the various 'issues' .... including buses refusing to pick up passengers at an Oxford park n ride... caused by encampments of 'travellers' currently in various Oxford Park n Ride car parks. Yet NO mention of those in the breeze block car park whatsoever????
Directly below the 'pikey' piece, the main story on the same page is about Farrs catering being broken into. .... Strangely no mention of the breeze block ' travelers' encampment, wondering if they've ( been) moved on? .... Do Oxford Mail/ Newsquest employ or commission Investigative Journalists these days?.... probably not as the 'coincidental' arrival of travellers at the breeze block car park and Farrs outlets , inside the breeze block (apparently Firoka / Stadco employ security - at a guess from Scum owner Power's security firm???, whoever they are, the security firm, they seem 'a bit rubbish' with 3 break-ins in 7 days at the same location, ALL on their watch appears to border on incompetence to me. Law of the land says innocent until proven guilty, however, wherever travelers/ pikeys pitch up, inevitably burglaries, thefts, criminal damage, public order incidents and large accumulation of mess n rubbish in the vicinity always rises considerably.
Yet in the Oxford Mail there's no 'link' made between the two stories that are on the same page! Strange that is, IMO


Officially, the new BMW M3 and M4 make 473 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque. (The upgraded Opposition types make 503 hp and 479 lb-ft.) But early chassis dyno final results reveal that BMW may possibly be seriously underrating its most up-to-date activity types.
The folks at Illinois aftermarket store IND Distribution got their palms on a non-Competitors M4 coupe and threw it on the dyno to see how the genuine-earth numbers look at to BMW’s statements. What they found was remarkable: 465 hp and 409 lb-ft at the wheels, according to a Dynojet 424 dyno.
As in-depth in a put up on IND Distribution’s Facebook web page, if you suppose a typical 15-p.c drivetrain reduction, those at-the-wheel numbers equate to close to 547 hp and 480 lb-ft of torque at the crank—in other phrases, an further 64 hp and 74 lb-ft in excess of BMW’s manufacturing facility claims. And that’s on an M4 that hasn’t even done its complete split-in, that means these numbers could go even greater at the time the automobile has a pair thousand miles on the clock.
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It sounds like BMW is critically underrating the new M3 and M4. That wouldn’t be a massive surprise: German automakers in unique are infamous for publishing worst-circumstance-scenario quantities. They do this in element to make positive consumers get what they have been promised, even in significantly less-than-excellent situations. But they also know it can be tremendous outstanding when a vehicle with “only” 473 hp places up numbers you’d hope from a considerably far more strong equipment.
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The Delaware Department of Education proposed an amendment to the high school health standards currently under consideration by the State Board of Education to add CPR and AED instruction to the standards. As excited as the American Heart Association is by this development, that enthusiasm is blunted by a lingering concern. We asked the board and the department to make clear that the instruction be based on the scientific community’s evidence-based, consensus guidelines and that students use “psychomotor learning” as the basis for the standard. That remains unresolved.
Simply put, students need to push on a mannequin to really learn CPR, even “hands-only” CPR. Period. CPR at its essence is a physical act and a physical skill which can’t be adequately learned by anything other than getting down and pushing on a chest (hopefully a mannequin’s chest).
If you know a teacher, a school official, or your elected representative, tell them to talk to the board of education and the Secretary of Ed. and ask them to modify the proposed amendment to clarify that CPR instruction be based on “psychomotor learning”. When we’re working to prepare a generation of life-savers nothing substitutes for “psychomotor learning” when it comes to CPR. Just ask a parent of a child who has been saved! They’ll tell you.
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The Town of Auburn has cancelled its 2021 Summer in the Park Concert Series and its 2021 Independence Day Celebration events due to Covid-19 and associated state Covid orders, the Town announced on Tuesday.
“While these signature events are wonderful community activities, the state orders related to Covid restrictions – including gatherings limitations, facial coverings and social distancing requirements – severely limit the types of activities we can hold and ensure the health and safety of attendees, guests, employees, performers, vendors and volunteers ” said Town Manager Julie Jacobson in a statement.
In all cases, Jacobson noted the challenges with planning and organizing large scale events like Independence Day and Summer in the Park. Town staff and volunteers spend months planning and preparing for the Independence Day celebration; fireworks usually must be booked a year ahead of time. Lining up vendors, performers, staff, shuttles and other logistics months ahead of time when guidance, regulations and restrictions are changing – sometimes weekly – is a nearly impossible task. Further, requirements such as masks, distancing or sanitation require resources the Town just does not have.
“The concert series and Independence Day events typically attract large crowds which make it difficult if not impossible to adhere to Covid requirements and protocols and ensure the health and safety of attendees.”
The Town also will not be holding its Summer Recreation Camps for 2021 due to strict requirements imposed on summer camp operators.
“These extensive requirements (i.e. staffing criteria, health and safety protocols) will be extremely difficult to implement. The health and safety of our campers and employees is paramount so we have made this difficult but necessary decision” Jacobson added.
The Town also put a pause on organizing any town-sponsored recreational sports activities such as their adult soccer and basketball leagues. These sports are still classified as moderate or high risk activities by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and/or the CDC.
Non-town sponsored non-municipal organized sports leagues can utilize Town fields by applying for a permit through the DPW and complying with all requirements pertaining to the permit. The youth sports leagues in Auburn are all independent (non-municipal) organizations: Auburn Little League; United Soccer of Auburn; Auburn-Worcester Youth Lacrosse; Auburn Youth Basketball; Auburn Fastpitch League (softball); and Auburn Youth Football and Cheer all operate as independent non-profit organizations.
The general public can utilize parks and fields without a permit, but cannot secure a reserved time slot without a permit. The public must comply with all Covid protocols and state orders including health and safety protocols, gathering limits, social distancing, and face coverings.
Added Jacobson, “We are working to provide new or continue to provide no-contact, low risk outdoor activities for our residents…We thank you for your understanding of the measures that we are taking to ensure the health and safety of our residents, employees and visitors.”


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Foreign Institutional Investors held 36.90 per cent stake in SKS during the July-September quarter, and raised it to 38.36 at the end of December 31, as per the latest information available with the stock exchanges.
This was the second quarterly increase in FII holding in SKS. FIIs have been raising their exposure in the Hyderabad- based firm in the past few quarters, after it hit a record low of 8.33 per cent during the April-June quarter of 2012.
There was 47 per cent surge in SKS share price between October and December, while the BSE benchmark index Sensex grew by just 1.82 per cent during the period.
The stock had taken a major beating since its listing in August 2010 at a price of over Rs 1,000 per share. There had been a major policy clamp down on micro finance institutions following a spate of suicides by small borrowers amid allegations of strong-arm recovery tactics adopted by them.
SKS stock is currently trading at Rs 175 level per share at the stock exchanges. The company's scrip touched its 52-week high of Rs 209.85 on December 24 last year.
The company had debuted on the bourses after sale of shares in Initial Public Offer at a price of Rs 985 apiece.
Analysts believes that various steps taken by SKS including appointment of marketing strategist Jack Trout for its re-branding and repositioning work has helped FIIs to rush towards it.
Besides, the micro finance firm has successfully been able to transfer its debt to securitisation and that has helped the cash flows for the company.
SKS plans to raise up to Rs 400 crore through issuance of shares to institutional investors route in the next fiscal by diluting a maximum of 20 per cent stake.
For the quarter ended December, SKS reported nearly 19-fold jump in net profit to Rs 21.4 crore after business outside Andhra Pradesh increased.
Total income of the company rose to Rs 133.32 crore during the quarter from Rs 85.06 crore in the year-ago period.
The company had guided a net profit of Rs 125 crore for the fiscal ending March 2015.
The number of FIIs in SKS stood at 53 in October-December quarter, as against 48 at the end of the preceding three months.
However, domestic institutional investors' stake in SKS declined to 5.02 per cent for the quarter ended December 31, 2013, from 5.13 per cent in the preceding three months.

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As the 61st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony gets underway, the Recording Academy has already handed out a few of the gilded trophies.
In addition to awarding Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s joint album EVERYTHING IS LOVEwith the Best Urban Contemporary Album trophy, the Recording Academy has announced Kendrick Lamar, Future, Jay Rock, James Blake and Anderson .Paak have tied in the Best Rap Performance category.
“Congrats Best Rap Performance winner (TIE) – ‘King’s Dead’ @kendricklamar, @jayrock, @1future & @jamesblake AND ‘Bubblin’ @AndersonPaak #GRAMMYs,” the Grammy’s official Twitter account tweeted.
Congrats Best Rap Performance winner (TIE) – "King's Dead" @kendricklamar, @jayrock, @1future & @jamesblake AND "Bubblin" @AndersonPaak#GRAMMYs
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 10, 2019
This isn’t the first time two artists have won in the same category — and likely won’t be the last. According to a 2018 article from Parade, there have been 21 ties since 1959.
One of the most recent was in 2016 in the Classic Solo Vocal Album category. However, it’s the first time two Hip Hop artists have tied in a category.
Revisit the Grammy-winning songs below.

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Point guard Kyrie Irving admitted that the Mavs’ win over the Nets in Brooklyn on Tuesday was special. Irving scored a game-high 36 points, spending time signing autographs and greeting fans.
“Just like any other basketball game, but it felt like I was home tonight,” Irving said.
- Not to be forgotten was the amazing performance of guard Luka Doncic, who erupted for 35 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists. Doncic quickly shed a mask he was wearing to protect a nasal bruise to boot.
- Irving is second to Vince Carter in Nets franchise history with his 14 40-point games. He returned from a six-game absence with a sprained thumb for Monday’s victory at Philadelphia.
Durant, 35, scored 28 in the win, behind only shooting guard Devin Booker, who had 32.
“They just forget me for a split-second, then I’m in the middle of the paint, and it’s on me to finish,” Durant said of the play. “I’m glad I didn’t pull up for a floater or a mid-range.”
Added coach Frank Vogel: “When it’s time to attack the rim, he tears that thing down.”
- The Suns are said to be interested in Hornets power forward P.J. Washington and small forward Miles Bridges ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline, as well as Nets forward Royce O’Neale, among others.
The Jazz have now rallied from a second-half deficit to win in two straight games. On Tuesday, that win came against the Thunder, with Lauri Markkanen leading the way with 33 points.
“I think we’ve been playing our game,” Markkanen told reporters. “Moving the ball. Moving without the ball. Getting good looks. Obviously, the percentages go up when you get good shots.”
- Utah is now 20-1 on the season when leading to start the fourth quarter.


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o Identification of the online test as either an objective or projective test. Discuss your opinion regarding the accuracy of this objective or projective type of test, and the test’s accuracy regarding your personality.


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We booked a cheap break as it was my fiances birthday and could believe how good this hotel was for the money. We would go back at any time of year now. The casino is just around the corner and the marina a short walk in the other direction. Beautiful clean place and the people are very friendly and helpful.
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What we know is to respect everything Usen created and to be grateful to everythin he provided; that was our civilization.
Since the creation of Mother Earth and all life, there was a love, respect and a reverence for our creator, Usen. There was innocence amongst the people who were free in spirit, thoughts, words and every day living. They lived almost every moment in spirituality and everything was in balance and that was harmony.
The spirituality of prayer was unimaginable and that this world will never know again.
Never know what it was like then, our Apache livelihood that was our civilization, and the dominant society came in and broke up that life, but we will never return to that life again. Some have tried the other way of life that was taught by the dominent society and some adapted to that life buth others will never try. So, we must preserve what is left in our God given religion to assure that our children will touch a dream of a world that once was, and to begin today with what God blessed us with. That is a day of healing." Marion Boni February 17, 2009
"Young Lady -Do I assilimilate? What do I teach my son when I am confused and frustrated? My grandmother and her mother before were placed in a land with boundaries. Do I accept the changes of this world, this land and instill the values, ideals and spirituality with Usen. I am confused with what I should believe between teachings of Usen and Christianity, what do I teach my son? .......this is why I seill see the world as my mother and grandmother....never changing...." Cassie Hunter February 17, 2009
"Life as a prisoner at old San Carlos is a life of uncertainty, you were still held in bondage by the military. Being told when to eat, where to live, and left us with no instructions for survival. Me, as a man, how do I rase my children in a world of time? Just imagine you being held captive. I changed from what I was and can't go back to who I was. And as a father asked "Dad what do we do?" and you can't go forward, can't take a step and nowhere to turn. Serving and forced to deny our way of life of singing and praying. How a life on uncertainty affects the life of one, and no other time were we blessed by our creator...life, as to once again survive a holocaust......surviving or denying our way of life, being constrained, yet again we survived through that......"
Jeremy Dude February 17, 2009
Good Morning. My name is Naelyn Pike. I am 9 years old and the daughter of Vanessa and Willie Pike. I am very honored to be here today and be a part of this special occassion.
What I have learned during the course of the Geronimo Project was that We were a Society that had Respect for Life. We went through a time of war, through prison confinement, and now we live a continuing life of uncertainty.
But Today, you have brought healing through our oldest prayers with our oldest songs that always connect us to the greatest gift Usen has give the world. That gift is Life and the Spirit to enjoy all the creations on Mother Earth. Our prayers and songs which connect us are found no where else in the World.
I will no longer be a vcictim to the Disaster that existed here. I will heal along with many others, and will push to regain our identity and work to restore our People's religion.
Butlet me remind you, I and others can not do this without you. For you must teach us by telling us the truth, just as you did today, so that we, today and tomorrow's generation, can begin to see the passage to our future.
We must protect all Usen's creations as did our ancestors. So, I ask each of you today to join us in the healing so that we may change tomorrow. Help me to give the opportunity to let my little sisters and those yet to be born a chance to enjoy all that was created.
Usen, thank you for this special day, by bringing us all together, I ask you to bless each and everyone of us as well as those who carry heavy hearts, for we are all victims of the past. Let us leave this special place with the love of our Great grandmothers and grandfathers wishes, to be the Proudest people and Help the resto of the World to understand all Usen's creations for We must save the Spirit of Mother Earth. Naelyn Pike Febnruary 17, 2009

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UP Cong Worker Puts up Poster With Rs 5L Reward 'to Find Prashant Kishor'
A poster appeared outside the Congress party office in Lucknow announcing a reward of Rs 5 lakh to the person who can find poll strategist Prashant Kishor and bring him before party workers.
New Delhi: A poster appeared outside the Congress party office in Lucknow announcing a reward of Rs 5 lakh to the person who can find poll strategist Prashant Kishor and bring him before party workers.
Congress state president Raj Babbar, who saw the poster just before entering the office, asked party workers to immediately remove it.
Following reports that he had been suspended for the act, Singh denied them and told CNN-News18 that he had not been suspended.
“For the last one year, we have been made to work like fools…without asking any questions. We were told to work as he (Kishor) wanted us to but without any ifs and buts. We did so thinking that probably it was best for the revival of the party. But now we need answers,” he said.
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Fikri Arifin hasn’t owned and wore these jeans for no more than nine months and they’ve already faded to a surprising state. With only one sea wash, the heavyweight, unsanforized Sage Highlander’s have lost plenty of indigo, so much so that one might assume they’ve been worn for a much longer period of time.
No matter though, they’re still an impressive sight to be seen. Stacked honeycombs speak to how much wear Fikri puts into his Highlanders, while the deep, uneven lap fades and whiskers are further evidence to the rigours of life in the tropical heat of Indonesia.
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- Fabric: 100% unsanforized deep indigo selvedge denim
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RazorEngine is A top of the line templating system built on Microsoft’s Razor, a simple programming syntax for embedding server-side code in Web pages .
RazorEngine puts some order in Microsoft’s new addition to the .NET stack, the Razor programming language.Razor is a special markup which developers can use with their ASP.NET code and mix it inside HTML pages.When the user requests a page with Razor code on it, this code is interpreted first by the server and the results of the Razor-described operations are embedded with the rest of the HMTL code.After and only after the Razor code has been compiled, the final HTML page is sent to the user.The RazorEngine is a tool that takes advantage of this Web-friendly technology introduced in ASP.NET, providing developers with a Razor-powered template engine that they can use to build more controllable Web pages.There’s support for sub-templating and dependency injection, and RazorEngine can also handle parallel template execution and template isolation.
This is changelog for RazorEngine version 3.7.2 / 4.1.6-beta1 :
You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: github.com


Shore Conference Boys Lacrosse Scoreboard for Monday, May 9
Monday, May 9
Shore Conference Tournament - Preliminary Round
17-Brick Memorial 11, 16-Barnegat 4
Senior midfielder Dan Aulisi scored four goals and added one assist and senior attackman Dylan Rinyak delivered two goals and three assists as the Mustangs (11-3) avenged a prior loss to the Bengals (9-6) to advance in the Shore Conference Tournament.
Barnegat had defeated Brick Memorial, 10-9, on April 11.
Matt Cohrs also scored twice for Brick Memorial, which increased its program-record winning streak to eight games. Henry Lindquist had a goal and two assists, Aiden McBride had a goal and an assist, and Rob Beshears scored once. Defenseman Chase DeVeau had two assists plus a game-high 15 ground balls. Senior goalie Paul Mazzeo made 15 saves.
Bryan Snowden scored twice and Lucas Holland made 11 saves for Barnegat. Luke Tortorici had a goal and an assist, Bobby Sawicki scored once, and Kurt Bonin had two assists.
Brick Memorial will play at top-seeded Rumson-Fair Haven on Tuesday.
Shore Conference Tournament - Round of 16
2-Manasquan 17, 15-St. Rose 2
Junior attackman James Farinacci tallied a career-high seven goals and added three assists for a career-high 10 points as the Warriors (12-3) coasted past the Purple Roses (9-6) and into the SCT quarterfinals.
Junior attackman Matt Porazzo added two goals and three assists and senior midfielder Robert Pendergist totaled two goals and two assists. Brody Muly also scored twice, Blake Gorski had a goal and two assists, Dan Hyland supplied a goal and an assist, and Joe Franklin and Joseph Carabetta each scored once. Freshman Brandon Kunz dished out two assists and senior FOGO Max Pauwels had a perfect 19-for-19 day at the face-off X. Carter Groezinbger (3 saves), Spencer Muly (1 save), and Nick Bounassi (2 saves) all saw time in goal.
Dan Bair and John Harold scored goals for St. Rose and Cameron McManus made two saves.
Manasquan will host Howell on Thursday in the SCT quarterfinals.
3-Wall 17, 14-Point Boro 0
Junior attackman John McCurry set a career-high with nine goals and added one assist for his third 10-point game of the season to lead the Crimson Knights (13-2) past the Panthers (11-4) and into the SCT quarterfinals.
Senior middie Matt Dollive added four goals and one assist, sophomore middie Shea Brennan scored twice, and junior attackman Eugene Haghighi and freshman attackman Owen Moore had one goal each. Jack Meyer had two assists and Brody Schwinn, Connor Moore, and Will Madden had one assist each. Junior LSM Dominick Giglio picked up a game-high 12 ground balls and senior goalie Aiden Kessler made seven saves.
Matt Azzarano made 12 saves for Point Boro.
Wall will host Shore Regional on Thursday in the SCT quarterfinals.
6-Shore 13, 11-Red Bank Catholic 3
Senior attackman Carson Cooke scored four goals and senior midfielder Jamie Mazzacco sank three goals and assisted on two more as the Blue Devils (10-2) started fast and never let up on their way to a victory over the Caseys (11-6) in the first round of the SCT.
Shore led 3-0 after the first quarter and led 7-1 at halftime. The two teams played last week with Shore eking out a 12-10 victory.
Sophomore middie Sam Madalone added two goals and two assists, sophomore attackman Carson Spallone scored twice, and sophomore middie Andrew Decker scored once. Tucker Malfa went 9-for-10 at the face-off X and Brendan O'Brien went 6-for-10 at the X. Junior goalie Walker Hunter had another strong game and finished with 14 saves.
Christian Schrader made 22 saves for RBC, which received one goal each from Sam Fertal, Connor McGee, and Jackson Lu and three assists from Torin Harmon.
Shore will play at third-seeded Wall on Thursday in the SCT quarterfinals.
7-Howell 8, 10-Middletown South 7
Senior midfielder Doug MacKenzie provided four goals and one assist and senior goalie Colin Fay made eight saves as the Rebels (12-4) won a dogfight with the division-rival Eagles (9-5) to advance to the SCT quarterfinals.
Middletown South led 2-1 at halftime before Howell surged ahead over the final two quarters.
Junior attackman Nate Lorenzo and senior attackman Vin Burns had a goal and an assist each, and senior middie CJ Calafiore and sophomore middie Ian McDow each scored once.
Howell will play at second-seeded Manasquan on Thursday.
St. John Vianney 8, Lacey 5
Senior midfielder John Dodaro had two goals and one assist and won 8 of 11 face-offs for Lacey. Gaetano Dimiele scored twice, Matt VanNortwick scored once, and Chad Moore made 10 saves.
St. John Vianney improved to 6-9 on the season while Lacey fell to 7-8.
Ocean 6, Brick 3
Senior midfielder Brent Shaflin and junior midfielder Joey Constandi each scored twice and junior goalie Blaine Grayson made 14 saves to lead the Spartans (4-12) to a victory over the Dragons (2-12).
Shaflin also had an assist while senior attackman Michael Terry had a game-high four points with a goal and three assists. Christian Revolinskhy scored once and Brian Gibbons had one assist.
Justin Schlaefer had two goals and one assist and Jason Glandorf made nine saves for Brick. Nick Wharton scored once and Riley Bell collected a game-high 16 ground balls.
Toms River South 10, Freehold Township 6
Shane Toal, Corey Kaiser, Brady Derome, and Aidan Vicidomini all had multi-point games to lead the Indians (6-6) to a win over the Patriots (3-12).
Toal had a game-high five points on two goals and three assists and Kaiser had two goals and two assists. Derome notched a hat trick and Vicidomini had a goal and assist and also set a program record for face-off win percentage by going 19-for-20 at the face-off X. Ethan Godlesky and Billy Rutledge added one goal each and Jake Hull had a huge game with 20 saves.
Ian Fallon had three goals and one assist and Jaden Buckley scored twice to lead the way for Freehold Township. Nick Carnevale added a goal and an assist and Connor Brown made eight saves.
Central 6, Neptune 5
Grant Paczkowski and Dominick Fraulo each tallied a goal and an assist and Brady Etzkorn made 12 saves as the Golden Eagles rallied from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the Scarlet Fliers and earn their first victory of the season.
Stefano Babino, Maxx Agnello, Casey Etzkorn, and Nicholas Campanella added one goal each for Central (1-13).
Michael Loff and Ryan Podlaski each scored twice, Myles McGovern scored once, and Laens Bastain made 11 saves for Neptune (1-13).
Jackson Liberty 10, Colts Neck 9
Sophomore attackman Paul Capozzi scored four goals and added one assist and sophomore goalie Matthew LaBianca made 10 saves to lead the Lions (6-10) past the Cougars (5-10) in a one-goal game.
Peter Abline tallied two goals and one assist and Reese Stewart added a goal and two assists. Sam Matthies and Matthew Raimondi had one goal each and Connor D'Andrea won 15 of 23 at the face-off X.
Sean Perkinson scored five goals and Dan O'Keefe made 15 saves for Colts Neck, which scored three times in the fourth quarter to almost rally for the win. Henry Shell scored twice, Jack Dodd had a goal and an assist, and Thomas Halmi scored once while also picking up a game-high seven ground balls.
J.P. Stevens 15, Long Branch 10
Jacob Juliano and Flavio Marques each sank four goals and assisted on another and Luis Rojas made 18 saves for the Green Wave (1-15) in a high-scoring loss to J.P. Stevens (2-7).
Ka'von Williams scored once for Long Branch.


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1) Upgraded MK-67 with two dust caps with 2" crayford focuser
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Reminder: There are 108 days until the Iowa caucuses and 382 days until the 2020 presidential election. 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said this week that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is likely being groomed by Moscow as a third-party candidate for the 2020 race. In an interview on the podcast of former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, Clinton expressed her concerns about possible Russian interference in 2020.
Chicago's mayor said Friday that the city's top police officer told her he'd had "a couple of drinks with dinner" before he fell asleep at a stop sign while driving home, an incident that the chief contends was related to a change in his blood pressure medication. Superintendent Eddie Johnson didn't mention having anything to drink when he spoke to reporters Thursday night, and the department spokesman said officers who responded to a 911 call reporting a man asleep in a car at a stop sign didn't observe any signs of impairment. Mayor Lori Lightfoot told the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday that she agreed with Eddie Johnson's decision to request an internal affairs investigation of the Thursday incident to assure the public he's not trying to hide anything about his actions.
Donald Trump has misspelled his defence secretary's name while discussing his controversial decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria. The US president tried to quote Mark Esper in a tweet, but instead he referred to him as “Mark Esperanto”. Mr Esper was sworn into the role in July 2019, after the defence secretary post remained vacant for seven months.
Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Saturday that President Trump called him to express his "solidarity" following an attempt to arrest a drug kingpin's son that prompted a wave of violence in the city of Culiacan.
Facebook/#WeWantNaama, Mark Thiessen/APImages A 26-year-old American-Israeli woman who was arrested at a Moscow airport with nine and a half grams of marijuana in April was sentenced on Friday to seven and a half years of prison in Russia on drug smuggling charges. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu has argued for Naama Issachar's release, but her case is tied up in an ongoing diplomatic dispute between Russia, Israel, and the US. Russia is attempting to secure the release of an IT specialist, Aleksey Burkov, who was wanted in the US on charges of hacking and credit card fraud and was approved for extradition to the US by Israel's Supreme Court in August after his arrest in an Israeli airp...
India said on Sunday two soldiers and a civilian were killed in cross-border shelling with Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region, while Islamabad said six died on its side, making it one of the deadliest days since New Delhi revoked Kashmir's special status in August. Three Indian civilians were injured and some buildings and vehicles destroyed because of several hours of heavy shelling by both sides in the Tanghdar region in northern Kashmir late on Saturday night, a senior police official said. Pakistan said 6 of its civilians were killed and 8 wounded in the clash.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, the fun-lovin' astrophysicist and TV personality, has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct by four women—one of whom, Thchiya Amet El Maat, alleged that he drugged and raped her while the two were graduate students at the University of Texas in 1984. Bill Maher, the boundary-pushing comedian, has branded the #MeToo movement “scary” and aspects of it “#MeCarthyism” whilst downplaying women's accounts of inappropriate touching at the hands of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and the allegations against former congressman Al Franken. On Friday night, Maher welcomed pal Tyson to his long-running HBO program Real Time.
At least four people were killed and nearly 50 injured Sunday after police fired on thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims protesting a Facebook post by a Hindu who allegedly defamed the Prophet Mohammed, officials said. Mob attacks over Facebook posts perceived to be blasphemous have emerged as a major headache for security forces in Bangladesh, where Muslims make up some 90 percent of the country's 168 million people. Some 20,000 Muslims demonstrated at a prayer ground in Borhanuddin town on the country's largest island of Bhola to call for the execution of the young Hindu man, who was arrested Saturday over charges of inciting religious tension.
Police and protesters exchanged tear gas and petrol bombs in Hong Kong on Sunday amid anger over an attack on a leading activist by men allegedly linked to triad gangsters. Clashes broke out as tens of thousands took to the streets for an unsanctioned anti-government march, many also defying a face mask ban introduced in a bid to curb the protests. Tensions ran high after Jimmy Sham, the leader the Civil Human Rights Front which called the march, was attacked earlier in the week by a group of men wielding metal poles and hammers.
If you're on the hunt for a classic American muscle car fresh off a rotisserie restoration, this 1972 Dodge Challenger Rallye should be of interest. After all, muscle cars are supposed to be all about offering monumental power. Now that you know this is a proper performance vehicle, you can concentrate on how this Dodge looks.
Opposition groups called Saturday for more protests to demand that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández be removed from office after his younger brother was convicted of drug trafficking in a New York court. Thousands of Hondurans protested into the early hours of the morning after Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernández was convicted Friday in what U.S. prosecutors described as a conspiracy that relied on "state-sponsored drug trafficking." Protesters blocked key roads in half of the country's 18 provinces, setting barricades ablaze, while some took advantage of the disturbances to loot stores.
In a letter to CNN sent Friday, Trump lawyer Charles Harder threatened to sue the network for apparently launching "unfair, unfounded, unethical and unlawful attacks" on Trump, especially in the era of impeachment. Trump is seeking monetary damages under the Lanham Act because CNN allegedly "misrepresented" the "trademark" that is Trump's name, and at least one lawyer seems to think it's ridiculous. In the letter, Trump's legal team takes aim at CNN's claim that its reporters are "truth seekers" and outlines other times when CNN basically said it's relaying facts.
Nuclear powers rarely go to war with each other, but that doesn't mean they don't threaten to do so. Long-range heavy bombers are some of the best forces for crisis stability, Morgan wrote in a 2013 study for the U.S. Air Force. On the other hand, the U.S. Navy's submarine-launched cruise missiles are less effective — even counterproductive — for crisis stability … because they're invisible most of the time.
Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took place. Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly halfway between the United States and Japan, a research vessel is launching underwater robots miles into the abyss to look for warships from the famed Battle of Midway. Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the Petrel to one sunken warship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.
Kaleb James Cole, the 24-year-old leader of Atomwaffen Division's Washington State Cell stripped of his firearms by a “red-flag law” late last month, was deported and banned for life from Canada earlier this year, according to court records, which also showed that he had been previously interrogated by American border agents about his extremist views. Cole, a National Socialist black metal enthusiast who goes by the alias “Khimaere,” was first identified as a member of Atomwaffen Division in a 2018 ProPublica investigation. Atomwaffen Division is an underground neo-Nazi guerrilla organization which had 23 chapters throughout the United States as of mid-2018.
Natalia Tunikova's partner pushed her towards the open balcony in their high-rise Moscow flat, before punching her to the floor. Cases like Tunikova's are ever more widely reported in Russia, leading to a public outcry in a country that has no specific law on domestic violence and where feminist movements like #MeToo had little impact. This summer, a case against three teenage sisters who killed their father after what lawyers say was years of beatings and sexual abuse made national and global headlines.
Boeing Co's board of directors and top executives from its airplanes division and supply chain were due to meet on Sunday in San Antonio, Texas, two days after the U.S. planemaker was plunged into a fresh crisis over its banned 737 MAX jet. The meeting comes as pressure mounts on the world's largest planemaker not only from investigations into the 737 MAX following two deadly crashes, but also from the financial burden caused by the jet's safety ban and continued high production. Several industry sources said there was speculation inside the company of significant job cuts as Boeing, unable to deliver 737 MAX planes to customers, continues to drain cash.
LOUISVILLE – Sen. Mitch McConnell has published a stern rebuke of the Trump administration's decision to pull military forces out of Syria, saying the decision "will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies and weaken important alliances." In a Washington Post op-ed published Friday afternoon, and later provided to the Courier Journal, McConnell, R-Ky. the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria "a grave strategic mistake."
China should put the brakes on its lending in the South Pacific to avoid lumping economically vulnerable nations with unsustainable debt, according to a report released by an Australian think tank. The sheer scale of China's lending and its lack of strong institutional mechanisms to protect the debt sustainability of borrowing countries poses clear risks,” the Lowy Institute said in a report released Monday. China cannot remain a major lender in the Pacific at the same scale as in the past without fueling significant” dangers, it said.
Spiking drinks with cocaine, shooting Iraqi civilians, strangling a Green Beret: The Navy SEAL teams have been rocked by one high-profile scandal after another in recent months, and the leader of the elite commando force, Rear Adm. Collin P. Green, has vowed to clean house. Green has come down hard on misconduct, fired two key leaders and made an unusually public admission that the Navy's secretive warrior caste has an “ethics problem.” At the same time, though, he has steered wide of the SEAL at the center of one of the grimmest episodes, Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who was charged with shooting civilians, murdering a captive Islamic State fighter with a knife, and threatening to kill witnesses. Gallagher was acquitted of murder charges this summer, but evidence that he had engaged in a range of other misconduct, including theft and drug use, had come to light during the investigation.
Key point: Russia wanted to be able to spy on America and gain an advantage in case of war. On December 10, 2018, two Russian Tu-160 supersonic bombers with huge condor-like swing-wings swooped down to land at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela. Over the next few days the huge, pointy-nosed bombers flew two ten-hour patrols over the Caribbean, at times escorted by Venezuelan F-16 and Su-30MK2 multirole jets, then flew back to Russia on Dec. 14.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under the current plan all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent its resurgence. Speaking to reporters traveling with him to the Middle East, Esper did not rule out the idea that U.S. forces would conduct counterterrorism missions from Iraq into Syria. Esper said he has spoken to his Iraqi counterpart about the plan to shift the more than 700 troops leaving Syria into western Iraq.
Michigan farmers were the victims of pumpkin and apple heist earlier this month. In the span of just one week in early October, two farms lost thousands of dollars in produce and law enforcement are surprised by just how much has been stolen. In early October, thieves plucked and stole 180 bushels of apples — some “right off the trees” from Spicer Orchards, a Genesee County farm, The Detroit News reported.
On October 6, the New York Times ran a piece broadcasting the striking claims made by the economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in the new book The Triumph of Injustice. Per Saez and Zucman, while the rich have been pulling in more and more of the nation's income — grabbing about a fifth of it now, double what they got a few decades back — they're paying lower and lower tax rates. Indeed, in 2018, the richest 400 Americans paid the lowest overall tax rate (including state, local, and federal taxes) of any income group.


October 12, 2005
USI completes fall with fourth place showing at North Alabama Classic
FLORENCE, Ala. – The University of Southern Indiana men's golf team completed the fall portion of the 2005-06 campaign with a fourth place showing in the University of North Alabama Classic at the Blackberry Trail Golf Course in Florence, Alabama. USI shot a two-round 593 (298-295) and tied a season-best with a 295-round on the second day.
North Alabama won the team title with a two-round 549 (272-277), 27 stroke under par.


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Welcome to the February 2018 edition of the Baker McKenzie Ukraine Healthcare Newsletter. This is your regular digest of legal developments affecting the life science and healthcare industries in Ukraine.
This edition covers the renewal of the right of the State Service of Ukraine on Pharmaceuticals and Control of Narcotics to carry out scheduled inspections of business entities, the extended list of pharmaceuticals and medical devices exempt from VAT and the abolishment of sanitary and epidemiological control for imported medical devices. More details on these developments affecting the Ukrainian life science and healthcare industries are provided below.
In this issue:
- Healthcare system reform
- State control over business activities
- Licensing conditions
- Medical devices

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Newborn dropped off at local fire station
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (WSVN) -- A South Florida fire department made a surprising discovery at its doorstep.
According to firefighters, on Thursday, a woman knocked on the door of the fire station with a baby boy in her arms. She dropped off the child in a car seat and left.
The woman utilized Florida's Safe Haven law, which allows new mothers to drop off babies up to seven days old, no questions asked. "The program is working, it always has worked," said Coral Springs Fire Department Captain Mike Moser. "I was told that this was the 187th baby that was dropped off here in the State of Florida with the Safe Haven program. Obviously, it's much better than the alternative."
The child was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation but appears to be just fine.
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Hedda Bolgar dies at 103; renowned psychoanalyst
Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud’s lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103.
Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social calendar full until shortly before her death on Monday, said Allen Yasser, her longtime friend and colleague.
“It took me a month to get a dinner date with her, and we were virtually family,” said Yasser, a psychologist and psychoanalyst.
Bolgar died at her Los Angeles home, an elegant, flower-filled house in Brentwood where she saw patients and hosted monthly professional gatherings.
When Bolgar was 95, she helped organize a three-day conference called “The Uprooted Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Living in an Unsafe World.”
At 102, she gave a lecture on “Dogma and Flexibility in Psychoanalytic Technique” before the New Center for Psychoanalysis, a Los Angeles group that offers advanced education to therapists.
At 103, she gave a seminar on trauma in her home.
A few weeks later, she had a friend call her patients to schedule additional appointments. Her only regret about old age, she said recently, was feeling obliged not to accept new clients — “except for very brief consultations.”
“You live with that,” she told psychologist Michael Diamond. “It isn’t tragic — it just is!”
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, on Aug. 19, 1909, Bolgar was the only child of Elek Bolgar, a Hungarian historian and diplomat, and Elza Stern, a reporter who was one of the few women to cover World War I.
“I wasn’t supposed to be scared of anything,” Bolgar once told psychoanalyst Nancy Caro Hollander, who collaborated with her on the “Uprooted Mind” conference and later wrote a book partly based on it. “I was raised not to be frightened.”
When Bolgar was 9, her Marxist parents upset her by canceling her birthday party so they could take part in a civil uprising in Hungary.
“I’m so sorry,” she recalled her father saying. “I wish you’d have told me, and we would have postponed the revolution.”
As a young woman, Bolgar studied at the University of Vienna. She wanted to be a journalist but wound up fascinated by psychology. Even at Freud’s own institution, however, the only class in psychotherapy was an offering from the urology department.
“Why? Because it seemed there was somebody in the medical school who thought that male impotence might have something to do with the human mind,” she later told Diamond in “A Centenarian’s Retrospective on Psychoanalysis.”
Bolgar earned her doctorate in 1934.
Always outspoken, she wrote magazine articles denouncing the Nazis. On the day in 1938 that Hitler strutted into Vienna, she fled, squeezing out of dangerous jams by emulating her father and “assuming a cool, disdainful demeanor with those in power.”
Settling in the U.S., she trained at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and taught at the University of Chicago. Her husband, economist Herbert Bekker, joined her in the U.S. in 1940 and the two moved to Los Angeles in 1956. He died in 1973.
Bolgar was chief of psychology at Mt. Sinai Hospital (now Cedars-Sinai Medical Center). She helped found the California School of Professional Psychology, the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies and the Wright Institute Los Angeles, a postgraduate training center and clinic.
Yasser, who was one of her Wright co-founders in 1974, is now its director.
“She could infuse people with optimism,” he said. “That’s a big part of how she was able to be instrumental in the founding of three institutions that are still going.”
Bolgar’s own optimism was profound.
In “The Beauty of Aging,” a documentary about remarkable older women, she told filmmaker Laurie Schur about someone asking her what time of life she liked best.
“I said ‘now,’ ” she replied.
Bolgar was deeply engaged in social causes. Like her mother, she was an ardent feminist. She was concerned about what she saw as the erosion of civil liberties after 9/11 and urged her fellow analysts to consider the psychological effects of government policies. When she spoke at a psychoanalytic meeting about nuclear proliferation, a colleague who was a former U.S. soldier responded that the bombing of Hiroshima may have saved his life.
“He found it hard to feel too worried and critical about the bomb,” she later said. “So I talked to him about denial.”
While Bolgar was avid about politics, she also could plunge herself into a world of wonder.
Her Christmas parties were legendary. She had no children but plenty of people thought of her as a mother and converged on her house in December, friends said.
“It was like being in Central Europe at the turn of the century,” said Yasser, who celebrated 35 Christmases with her. “She’d set up candles and play beautiful music, and she’d just sit there and watch the tree, and go off somewhere.”
“Especially as she got older,” he said, “she used to measure her time in Christmases.”
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A political action committee that supports legislation to make it easier for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to sue their abusers has endorsed Jeff Toback in the Democratic primary for state Assembly in the vacant 20th District.
The Fighting for Children PAC announced Monday that it would back Toback, a former Nassau County legislator, over Long Beach City Councilman Anthony Eramo in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary.
“We are always seeking out strong political allies like Jeff Toback who are committed to reforming the state’s statute of limitations when it comes to child sex abuse to better protect the children of New York,” said PAC founder Gary Greenberg, himself a victim of sexual abuse.
The Child Victims Act would eliminate criminal and civil statutes of limitations for sexual abuse against minors. The bill also would give adult victims one year in which they can sue their abusers and any institutions that may have facilitated the abuse. The bill stalled last session in the Republican-controlled Senate.
In New York, most abuse victims are prohibited from pressing charges in criminal or civil court after their 23rd birthday. Greenberg cited research showing that it takes an average of 21 years for victims to disclose their abuse.
“If public safety is a government’s most important job, then protecting our most vulnerable citizens, our children, takes a back seat to nothing,” said Toback. “When it becomes law, the Child Victims Act will allow victims of sexual abuse to pursue civil remedies against their attackers. I look forward to working hard for its passage.”
Eramo also supports the legislation, according to spokesman Matthew Rey, and if elected would work as “a consensus builder who will get results on this and other issues.”
Greenberg, a New York investor, formed the PAC to replace state lawmakers opposed to reforming the statute of limitations. He has invested $100,000 from his retirement funds into the committee and raised $7,500 more. His goal is to raise $200,000.
The PAC also has endorsed five Long Island Democratic State Senate candidates, including Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach), who vacated the 20th Assembly seat after winning election to the Senate in April.
Fighting for Children is also backing Peter Magistrale in the 2nd District; Suffolk County Water Authority Chairman Jim Gaughran in the 5th District; Adam Haber in the 7th District and Ryan Cronin in the 6th District.


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Global law firm Linklaters has embarked on a major IT standardisation project.
The firm is upgrading from Microsoft NT4 and Office 97 to Exchange 2000, Office 2000 and Active Directory supported by systems management technology.
The move follows the decision to merge two separate entities, Linklaters and Alliance, into one company.
While return on investment is hard to measure, Tim Warburton, technical architect for the project at Linklaters, said the firm could not have completed the merger without the move and would have needed to recruit 20 more IT support staff.
"It is an infrastructure upgrade that is providing a platform for us going forward," he said. "Active Directory and Systems Management Server 2003 are a very good match and will help us manage our growing number of remote workers."
Active Directory and Exchange are being piloted by 350 users in Linklaters' New York and Sao Paulo offices.
The pilot began in December 2002 and includes Wap and personal digital assistant services provided via Mobile Information Server 2002; Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 SP1 for managing its server environment; and Software Update Services to deploy patches on its servers.
Linklaters aims to complete the roll-out of the new system to support its 6,500 users across 31 offices in 22 countries by May.


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June 30, 2015
Sustainable transformation begins in cities — This was emphasized during the 6th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation held on 8-10 June. The event was organized by ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability — a CDIA Regional Partner Organization (RPO), and hosted by the City of Bonn, Germany. On Day 2, the opening plenary focused on climate financing where CDIA was invited to speak in a panel. CDIA, represented by Joy Bailey, Regional Networking Specialist (photo), presented its tools, particularly the Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) and Linking to Finance.
June 24, 2015
Last week, 15-17 June, CDIA, represented by Brian Capati, Infrastructure Engineer and Rohit Sanyal Nag, Financial Specialist, held Kick-off Meetings for the Pre-Feasibility Studies (PFS) on Integrated Wastewater Management of Baguio City and San Fernando City, La Union, in Northern Philippines.
June 18, 2015
On 10 June at the World Cities Summit Young Leaders Symposium in New York, two calls for collaboration for government sector leaders to join projects on the sustainable development of cities were announced. The first call, “Knowledge Project on Smart Financing for Smart Cities,” was made by the Centre for Liveable Cities in Singapore and a Young Leader, Joris van Etten, Program Coordinator of CDIA.
June 16, 2015
Now on its 5th year of recognizing the potentials of young bloods in the field of urban development, CDIA welcomes its 2015 Young Asian Professionals (YAPs), Ms. Ritu Thakur and Mr. Umair Ahmed from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives in India and the Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) in Pakistan, respectively.
June 16, 2015
CDIA is deploying a team of international and local planners, architects and economists to help the Yangon City Development Committee and the Yangon Heritage Trust define an investment programme for a comprehensive heritage-led regeneration initiative in selected pilot areas in the city’s historic core. Click here for more information.
June 11, 2015
CDIA and the Cities Alliance are currently planning a joint study on ‘Supporting Cities to Address Institutional Bottlenecks for Inclusive Local Economic Development’. The study aims to identify key institutional policy and infrastructure investment bottlenecks that hinder inclusive local economic development. The consultant should elaborate opportunities and entry points for Cities Alliance and CDIA to provide support to cities in addressing those bottlenecks. Click here for further information and application requirements.
The applicant should send a tender notice including:
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Please send your application to Ms. Christine Mayr at email@example.com The deadline for applications is 26 June 2015.
June 10, 2015
The Asian urban population is growing fast, creating a great demand for infrastructure and services in cities — creating huge financial needs on governments and administrations tend to look to the private sector to participate in infrastructure investments by developing Public Private Partnerships or PPPs. CDIA is helping cities acquire PPP knowledge by building a curriculum on PPP to facilitate the interaction between the public and private sectors. Watch the video.
June 3, 2015
Evidence on Demand, which supports the professional development of Climate, Environment, Infrastructure and Livelihoods Advisers in the UK Department for International Development (DFID), has developed a Topic Guide which provides a framework for understanding the underlying issues and challenges of sub-national finance. The guide aims to assist the development of business cases to address the issues and challenges in developing policy, building institutional capacity, and designing mechanisms that will enhance sub-national financing of infrastructure and services in developing countries.
June 3, 2015
What is private finance? Where and how does it connect with climate change mitigation and adaptation? And how can it be mobilized by public actors? Find the answers to these questions by reading the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) publication: Demystifying Private Climate Financing.
May 14, 2015
For the first time, CDIA, represented by its Program Coordinator Joris van Etten, participated in the Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank. The Meeting had a varied program which resulted in a number of concrete steps toward greater international partnerships.


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Menstruation is the most normal thing in the world and at the same time a major problem. This is due, on the one hand, to the fact that the subject is still heavily tabooed and, on the other, to the inadequate supply situation for millions of women and girls worldwide. In addition to hygiene products such as sanitary towels and tampons, women and girls also need toilets and washing facilities to be able to take good care of themselves during menstruation. All of this is lacking in sufficient quantities in many places around the world.
Warda Abdi Mohamed is one of the few female youths who are able to attend secondary grades in our Somali project area. School is the most important place for the 17-year-old on her way to a good education. But time and again she has been absent from class because she was afraid of the looks and remarks of others while she was menstruating. That is over now. Thanks to arche noVa, our local partner organization PAH was able to distribute washable sanitary towels to Warda and her classmates. Well supplied, they now go to class every day.
Somalia: absenteeism and school dropout from menstrual age onwards
Particularly fatal: In many regions of the world, schoolgirls do not go to school during their menstruation. Unesco estimates that every tenth lesson in African countries is not attended because of the period. This was also the case for 17-year-old Warda Abdi Mohamed, who attends the Jowhar Bille School in our project area in Somalia. Like many of her classmates, her family does not have enough income to afford sufficient hygiene items. Often, sanitary towels are not even available on the local market, so the girls have to make do with scraps of cloth and other unsafe materials.
"I was absent from class at least five days a month because I was afraid of being ashamed or embarrassed," she tells our local partner organization PAH. School principal Mohamed Abdi Osman confirms that many girls have a high number of absences. As soon as they reach menstruation age, the majority of girls even drop out of school altogether. Thus, of the already comparatively few girls who attend secondary school in Somalia, only a fraction achieve the desired degree and thus the chance of a successful career and a good income.
Thanks to arche noVa, the situation and the future prospects for Warda and her classmates have improved significantly. During the last school year, 150 hygiene kits, each containing five washable sanitary napkins and one set of underwear, were distributed to the schoolgirls. "The sanitary napkins I received have boosted my self-esteem and made me more determined to study and achieve my goals in life," Warda says.
Uganda: Periods are also a man's business
Menstruation is strongly tabooed in many places. Women and girls are stigmatized and considered unclean during their period. For example, they are not allowed to touch other people, fetch water or prepare food. In other places, they are even expelled from the house by their families. "Do not enter" is also said in our project area in Uganda, if women or girls want to go by boat during their menstruation, the most important means of transport at Lake Victoria. In order to break such and other disadvantageous "traditions", arche noVa focuses on education, knowledge transfer, exchange and capacity building. In Uganda, our local partner organization KWDT regularly conducts workshops with village communities in the project area, for example in the village of Mbeya, where the topic of menstruation was openly discussed for the first time thanks to our project.
"The women reported that until now they had always regarded their periods as something purely personal and private, and were particularly careful not to let anyone know about it. But after the training, they realized that they do not have to hide their washed reusable sanitary napkins and are allowed to talk openly about their needs," reports Juliet Muthiani from the arche noVa East Africa regional office. In the workshops, there are always important "aha" moments for everyone involved - including the men. As elsewhere, they initially showed little interest in Mbeya. However, when it became clear that the poor infrastructure and the unresolved disposal issue posed a health hazard for everyone in the village, the men also became aware. It became clear to all that used disposable sanitary towels had no place in the lake, in the garden or in public, where they could also fall into the hands of children playing.
This realization motivated the men to take the issue seriously and support the creation of a pit for disposal. Interest was piqued and further challenges were discussed. The men wanted to know what menstrual hygiene products are used, where they come from and how much they cost. A lively exchange about very practical and medical issues related to menstruation began. Some women reported health problems. Many men then agreed to help women who are weakened during their menstruation with cooking or fetching water and to further question the taboos surrounding the topic.
"We're seeing red" is our motto on the topic of menstruation. Because arche noVa looks closely when women and girls are badly cared for and discriminated against during their period. At the same time, we call on all decision-makers to do more. The world needs an investment initiative in the field of water, sanitation and hygiene to enable good and sustainable development for all together.
Kenya: Toilets and water are elementary.
When it comes to menstrual hygiene, access to sanitary facilities and clean water are elementary for women and girls. Only in this way they can regulate their menstruation in dignity and protect themselves against diseases and infections. arche noVa builds latrines, washing facilities and water systems in project communities and at schools, where there is no or only insufficient water and sanitation supply. One example is our project in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. At St. Juliet School, arche noVa has built a new WASH building. It secures the water supply and offers privacy thanks to gender-separated toilets. In addition, an incinerator was built especially for menstrual waste.
Syria: Menstruation does not pause in disaster
Women and girls are generally particularly vulnerable in crisis areas. The issue of menstruation further exacerbates their situation, because hygiene articles, access to water and toilets are then particularly limited or non-existent. Many girls and women then have no choice but to catch their bleeding with scraps of cloth, dirty cloths or leaves.
With this, they risk severe infections. In addition, there is the lack of privacy and infrastructure in emergency shelters, tent cities or unsafe places of refuge. arche noVa therefore includes menstrual hygiene in the emergency aid. For example, our distributions in the Syrian earthquake zone regularly include sanitary napkins.
arche noVa is campaigning for menstruation worldwide.
Our vision is a world without hardship, in which people can live self-determined and in dignity. For arche noVa, the topic of menstrual hygiene is absolutely part of this. Because no society can afford to keep half of the people small. Projects that empower girls and women are a particularly effective way to positive development for all.
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Menstrual Hygiene Day - Everyone can contribute
Menstrual Hygiene Day takes place on May 28. It draws attention to the needs of 1.9 billion people around the world who menstruate each month. It aims to shake up and break the silence on the topic. Anyone and everyone can participate and contribute to it,
arche noVa also gives the topic the space appropriate to the global dimension of the challenge, not least in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), for example in the project day on development cooperation and humanitarian aid..


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"An Evening of Story & Song with Sam Robbins"
10/22/2022 5:00:00 PM
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Join us for a evening with Nashville-based musician Sam Robbins, whose music evokes classic ‘70s singer/songwriters like James Taylor and Neil Young, adds a modern, upbeat edge to the storyteller troubadour persona.

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It was a poignant sight on a day filled with fireworks, fun and a celebration of American resilience.
To those who knew the situation, it was a sight some thought they might never see again.
In this year’s “4 on the 4th” Road Race in Keene, amongst the hundreds of runners and walkers making the trek 2 miles out and back to Railroad Square, one man was traveling the course a different way.
That was John Lucey, a well-known member of the Keene running community who hadn’t been seen in a race in nearly three years. Sitting in a wheelchair, Lucey was pushed across the course by his friends Bill James and Brad Smedley, with many in the crowd happy to see his return.
Lucey, 64, couldn’t run the race himself — having lost nearly all use of his legs after a blood clot in his leg traveled up to his heart, causing it to stop — but he was still fully engrossed in the unified spirit of the event, clapping for his fellow runners and cheering them on as they passed.
“It wasn’t like I was running, but it was as close as I could get to it,” Lucey said. “To get out there and to be part of it and to feel the feelings that you get when you’re out running again was really good.”
A Holyoke, Mass., native, Lucey began running competitively at Holyoke High School when he was 14, and he proved to have a knack for it. He won a Western Massachusetts title in the mile in track and field his senior year, and after moving to Keene around 1980, quickly became one of the mainstays of the running community, taking part in many local races and even some big-name marathons, like Boston.
He was one of the original members of the Scores Running Club, which Smedley co-founded in 2015, and he even became the club treasurer.
But everything changed on July 12, 2016.
“Complete and total surprise, because he went from an elite runner to we didn’t know if he was gonna even make it,” said Lucey’s wife, Audrey, of the blood clot. “They flew him to Dartmouth [Hitchcock] in the helicopter, they put him in a coma; we didn’t know what was gonna happen, and when he came out of it we didn’t know if he was ever going to be able to walk.”
John survived, but some of the nerves in his legs died due to lack of circulation and he has since used a wheelchair. He’s recovered to the point where he can take a few steps without the chair, but he and Audrey have also worked hard to adjust their day-to-day lives to deal with this new reality.
“It was really devastating,” John said. “[Running] was such a major part of my life.”
This is where James stepped in.
James — who became friends with John just after he lost use of his legs, after his wife, Sally, befriended Audrey — had heard about a friend of his from the Philadelphia area, Jim Price, pushing his daughter, Megan, in a wheelchair in road races.
“As time went on and we were having conversations about running, John would engage in those conversations,” James said. “It was just one of those things — the timing was such of talking with Audrey and saying, ‘Would he be willing to allow me to push him in the race?’ ”
John was hesitant at first, but two weeks before the race he decided to give it a try.
So, almost three years to the day his world fell apart, John returned to the racing world he once thought he had to leave behind.
He sat in a special type of running chair made specifically for people like John by Team Hoyt, which the Luceys rented from Northeast Passage at the University of N.H. Team Hoyt originated as a father-son duo from Holland, Mass., with the father, Dick Hoyt, competing in races with his son, Rick, who has cerebral palsy.
“I saw the Hoyts at my first half-marathon, the Quechee Gorge Half-Marathon in Quechee, Vt.,” Smedley said. “It runs around a common, so kind of an out-and-back loop piece, and I saw them coming towards me and I thought, ‘Whatever pain I’m feeling, it ain’t the same.’ ”
As James pushed John down the street, while also trading off with Smedley from time to time, John got to see that he had been missing more than just the physical act of racing. He wasn’t able to run anymore, but he could still chat with old friends, cheer on his fellow runners and take in the atmosphere.
The return meant a little something different to everyone involved.
To Smedley, who had known John for a long time, seeing him back on the track again — running or not — was like a breath of fresh air.
“I felt it in my chest for sure. A lot of people did,” Smedley said. “Everybody knows John in the running community here, so I think a lot of people were just excited to see him out there.”
To Audrey, it was a bittersweet moment, a culmination of all the struggles they had gone through together over the past three years.
“We were all really emotional, just because we were so happy that he finally said, ‘Yeah, I want to go out again and do something,’ ” Audrey said. “For the last three years, he’s just been saying no. He’s been kind of depressed, so it just kind of is a sign to me that he’s coming to terms with things and we’re both kind of accepting, ‘this is our lifestyle, so now what can we do?’ ”
And for James, pushing John felt like one of the most meaningful things he had ever done.
He said: “Just incredibly rewarding to know that this was hopefully a step, and I think it is, a step in the direction of John re-engaging with something that he loved so much, even though it’s obviously on a different plane than it used to be.”
Now encouraged by his first return race, John joined his friends at the Scores Running Club Tuesday for the group’s weekly run around the city. Once again, Smedley said, people were happy to see John back, with locals smiling and waving from their cars as they passed.
This time around, it was Smedley who pushed John, and he said he and James are far from John’s only options for assistance.
“They’ll line up to push him,” Smedley said. “If someone else wants to push him, if I’m not here some nights, someone will push him for sure.”
John said he plans to participate in other races in the future, noting that he’ll pick a reasonable distance for the person volunteering to push him.
James said he hopes other handicapped people find inspiration in John’s story and get on the track.
“I think the answer is yes, it would,” James said. “Maybe the possibility exists that there would be a division in races for this sort of thing. There is a division [in the Boston Marathon] for a limited number of people pushing other people in racing chairs. There’s nothing to say we can’t do that around here.”
John added: “Take advantage of any opportunities you have to get physical. That’s what I would say. Every time you don’t do anything that day, you lose it, so it’s great to get out there and do anything physical and regain some of the joy that you get from physical exercise.”


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Polish Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court Decision To Suspend Mining In Turow
The Turow lignite mine is an important producer of electric energy in Poland. Credit: Anna Uciechowska, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Warsaw/Prague, July 19 (CTK) – Czech representatives of Greenpeace and lawyers from the Frank Bold group have criticised yesterday’s verdict from the Polish Supreme Administrative Court which overturned the Warsaw Administrative Court’s previous decision to suspend the permit for further mining at the Turow lignite mine after 2026.
The Warsaw court suspended the mining permit at the end of May, pending a full review of the lawsuit, but the Supreme Administrative Court annulled this decision, according to reports from the PAP Polish news agency, citing the court spokesman.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who vowed during a visit to Turow in June that Poland would not close the mine, and would do everything it could to keep it running until 2044, described the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court as a “great victory” for the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which is seeking a third consecutive term in office in parliamentary elections in the autumn.
The Turow lignite mine, located close to the borders with the Czech Republic and Germany, supplies coal mainly to the nearby Turow plant, which is an important producer of electric energy in Poland. Environmentalists say the mining threatens the environment, mainly the groundwater around the mine.
The Czech and Polish prime ministers signed a bilateral agreement to address the impact of mining in Turow in February 2022. The countries agreed on 45 million euros in compensation for the damage caused by the mining in Turow and a five-year supervision conducted by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The Czech Republic then withdrew the lawsuit it had filed over the matter with the CJEU.
The PGE Group, which owns both the Turow mine and the power plant, plans to continue and gradually extend the mining until 2044 to 30 square km along the road from the Saxon town of Zittau to Bogatynia in Poland. Poland gave the go-ahead to the mining extension regardless of the objections of the neighbouring countries. In February, the Polish Environment Ministry issued the respective permit.
A lawsuit filed by the Frank Bold Foundation, Greenpeace, and the Eko-unia environmental association against the authorities’ decision concerning the impacts of further mining is to be heard by the Warsaw Administrative Court at the end of August, PAP reported.
Regardless of that set date, the Supreme Administrative Court received three appeals against the Warsaw court’s decision, from the director of the state environmental protection office, from PGE and from the public prosecutor’s office. They argued that the Warsaw court had failed to clarify what specific steps and circumstances threatened to cause serious and even irreparable damage to the environment.
The lawsuits were examined by Malgorzata Maternak-Kubiak, a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court, who justified her decision by saying that the lower-level court should have considered the issue not only from the perspective of the environmentalist complainants, but also from the broadly understood public interest and the interests of the parties involved in the dispute.
Czech environmentalists from Greenpeace have criticised the decision.
“It’s always sad when a court defends the fossil fuel industry rather than justice and the laws of a given country,” said Lukas Hrabek, a spokesman for Greenpeace Czech Republic.
Petra Kalenska, a lawyer for Frank Bold, said she considered the verdict problematic because mining in the Turow mine must have a valid EIA (environmental impact assessment) decision, and there is no way to circumvent this requirement.
Greenpeace climate and energy campaign coordinator Anna Meres told Reuters that the final verdict in the case was yet to come. “Today’s verdict is not the end of the Turow mine case,” she said.
According to the Polish government, the mine and the adjacent power plant cover 8% of the country’s electricity consumption. German and Czech environmentalists oppose the continuation of mining beyond 2026, saying the activity threatens the environment, which the Polish government denies, according to the Gazeta news server.


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Shares of electric vehicles leader Tesla (TSLA 1.11%) broke a three-day losing streak on Monday, bouncing back a respectable 2.3% as of 12:05 p.m. ET.
The company announced today that it will resume production at its Shanghai gigafactory as early as tomorrow at levels prior to the recent COVID-19 lockdowns there.
If you recall, earlier this month, Tesla’s production numbers on electric vehicles in China fell as low as 200 cars per day, as measures imposed by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19 dried up the supply of auto parts to Tesla’s factory. By today, according to a report by Reuters, the company said it’s got production back up to 1,000 units per day — and occasionally more — but that still works out to an annual production rate of maybe 365,000 units, which is well below the factory’s rated capacity.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that Reuters reports that Tesla now thinks it will be able to get its production capacity back up to its target of 2,600 units per day — and that will work out to roughly 949,000 cars per year.
As I pointed out last week, 949,000 will be a magic number for Tesla. It will mean that at just one single factory — Gigafactory Shanghai — Tesla will be producing more cars in a year than all of its factories worldwide produced in 2021. It will put the company back on track toward its goal of producing 1.5 million electric cars per year.
And Tesla could be back on that track by as early as tomorrow. Even if coronavirus complications prevent Tesla from hitting its 1.5 million-car target this year, just knowing the company has reached its goal of producing 1.5 million cars per year will be reason to celebrate.


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